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Commit bdcf0a42 authored by Thiago Rafael Becker's avatar Thiago Rafael Becker Committed by Linus Torvalds
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kernel: make groups_sort calling a responsibility group_info allocators

In testing, we found that nfsd threads may call set_groups in parallel
for the same entry cached in auth.unix.gid, racing in the call of
groups_sort, corrupting the groups for that entry and leading to
permission denials for the client.

This patch:
 - Make groups_sort globally visible.
 - Move the call to groups_sort to the modifiers of group_info
 - Remove the call to groups_sort from set_groups

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171211151420.18655-1-thiago.becker@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarThiago Rafael Becker <thiago.becker@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMatthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Acked-by: default avatar"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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