Commit 2c340cba authored by Al Viro's avatar Al Viro Committed by popcornmix
Browse files

RCU pathwalk breakage when running into a symlink overmounting something



[ Upstream commit 3cab989a ]

Calling unlazy_walk() in walk_component() and do_last() when we find
a symlink that needs to be followed doesn't acquire a reference to vfsmount.
That's fine when the symlink is on the same vfsmount as the parent directory
(which is almost always the case), but it's not always true - one _can_
manage to bind a symlink on top of something.  And in such cases we end up
with excessive mntput().

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # since 2.6.39
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
parent 35ed9685
Loading
Loading
Loading
Loading
0% Loading or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Please to comment