From: Ian Kent Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:58:10 +0000 (-0800) Subject: [PATCH] autofs4: check for directory re-create in lookup X-Git-Tag: v2.6.21-rc1~18 X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c9ffec48487849bc277de662a6c29aad64653b99;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git [PATCH] autofs4: check for directory re-create in lookup This problem was identified and fixed some time ago by Jeff Moyer but it fell through the cracks somehow. It is possible that a user space application could remove and re-create a directory during a request. To avoid returning a failure from lookup incorrectly when our current dentry is unhashed we need to check if another positive, hashed dentry matching this one exists and if so return it instead of a fail. Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer Signed-off-by: Ian Kent Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/fs/autofs4/root.c b/fs/autofs4/root.c index 47adf270106..b4631046867 100644 --- a/fs/autofs4/root.c +++ b/fs/autofs4/root.c @@ -655,14 +655,29 @@ static struct dentry *autofs4_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, s /* * If this dentry is unhashed, then we shouldn't honour this - * lookup even if the dentry is positive. Returning ENOENT here - * doesn't do the right thing for all system calls, but it should - * be OK for the operations we permit from an autofs. + * lookup. Returning ENOENT here doesn't do the right thing + * for all system calls, but it should be OK for the operations + * we permit from an autofs. */ if (dentry->d_inode && d_unhashed(dentry)) { + /* + * A user space application can (and has done in the past) + * remove and re-create this directory during the callback. + * This can leave us with an unhashed dentry, but a + * successful mount! So we need to perform another + * cached lookup in case the dentry now exists. + */ + struct dentry *parent = dentry->d_parent; + struct dentry *new = d_lookup(parent, &dentry->d_name); + if (new != NULL) + dentry = new; + else + dentry = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT); + if (unhashed) dput(unhashed); - return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT); + + return dentry; } if (unhashed)