Patch "nsfs: mark dentry with DCACHE_RCUACCESS" 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

nsfs: mark dentry with DCACHE_RCUACCESS

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:
nsfs-mark-dentry-with-dcache_rcuaccess.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: Cong Wang <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 15:11:00 -0700
Subject: nsfs: mark dentry with DCACHE_RCUACCESS

From: Cong Wang <[email protected]>

commit 073c516ff73557a8f7315066856c04b50383ac34 upstream.

Andrey reported a use-after-free in __ns_get_path():

  spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:299 [inline]
  lockref_get_not_dead+0x19/0x80 lib/lockref.c:179
  __ns_get_path+0x197/0x860 fs/nsfs.c:66
  open_related_ns+0xda/0x200 fs/nsfs.c:143
  sock_ioctl+0x39d/0x440 net/socket.c:1001
  vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:45 [inline]
  do_vfs_ioctl+0x1bf/0x1780 fs/ioctl.c:685
  SYSC_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:700 [inline]
  SyS_ioctl+0x8f/0xc0 fs/ioctl.c:691

We are under rcu read lock protection at that point:

        rcu_read_lock();
        d = atomic_long_read(&ns->stashed);
        if (!d)
                goto slow;
        dentry = (struct dentry *)d;
        if (!lockref_get_not_dead(&dentry->d_lockref))
                goto slow;
        rcu_read_unlock();

but don't use a proper RCU API on the free path, therefore a parallel __d_free() could free it at the same time. We need to mark the stashed dentry with DCACHE_RCUACCESS so that __d_free() will be called after all readers leave RCU.

---
 fs/nsfs.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ slow:
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 	}
 	d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
+	dentry->d_flags |= DCACHE_RCUACCESS;
 	dentry->d_fsdata = (void *)ns_ops;
 	d = atomic_long_cmpxchg(&ns->stashed, 0, (unsigned long)dentry);
 	if (d) {

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

queue-4.4/nsfs-mark-dentry-with-dcache_rcuaccess.patch