Patch "fix d_walk()/non-delayed __d_free() race" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

fix d_walk()/non-delayed __d_free() race

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
fix-d_walk-non-delayed-__d_free-race.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 21:26:55 -0400
Subject: fix d_walk()/non-delayed __d_free() race

From: Al Viro <[email protected]>

commit 3d56c25e3bb0726a5c5e16fc2d9e38f8ed763085 upstream.

Ascend-to-parent logics in d_walk() depends on all encountered child dentries not getting freed without an RCU delay. Unfortunately, in quite a few cases it is not true, with hard-to-hit oopsable race as the result.

Fortunately, the fix is simiple; right now the rule is "if it ever been hashed, freeing must be delayed" and changing it to "if it ever had a parent, freeing must be delayed" closes that hole and covers all cases the old rule used to cover. Moreover, pipes and sockets remain _not_ covered, so we do not introduce RCU delay in the cases which are the reason for having that delay conditional in the first place.

---
 fs/dcache.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -1618,7 +1618,7 @@ struct dentry *d_alloc(struct dentry * p
 	struct dentry *dentry = __d_alloc(parent->d_sb, name);
 	if (!dentry)
 		return NULL;
-
+	dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_RCUACCESS;
 	spin_lock(&parent->d_lock);
 	/*
 	 * don't need child lock because it is not subject

@@ -2413,7 +2413,6 @@ static void __d_rehash(struct dentry * e
 {
 	BUG_ON(!d_unhashed(entry));
 	hlist_bl_lock(b);
-	entry->d_flags |= DCACHE_RCUACCESS;
 	hlist_bl_add_head_rcu(&entry->d_hash, b);
 	hlist_bl_unlock(b);
 }

@@ -2632,6 +2631,7 @@ static void __d_move(struct dentry *dent
 	/* ... and switch them in the tree */
 	if (IS_ROOT(dentry)) {
 		/* splicing a tree */
+		dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_RCUACCESS;
 		dentry->d_parent = target->d_parent;
 		target->d_parent = target;
 		list_del_init(&target->d_child);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/fix-d_walk-non-delayed-__d_free-race.patch