Patch "autofs braino fix for do_last()" has been added to the 4.6-stable tree

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

autofs braino fix for do_last()

to the 4.6-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:
autofs-braino-fix-for-do_last.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.6 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: Sun, 5 Jun 2016 00:23:09 -0400
Subject: autofs braino fix for do_last()

From: Al Viro <[email protected]>

commit e6ec03a25f12b312b7e0c037fe4a6471c4ee5665 upstream.

It's an analogue of commit 7500c38a (fix the braino in "namei:
massage lookup_slow() to be usable by lookup_one_len_unlocked()"). The same problem (->lookup()-returned unhashed negative dentry just might be an autofs one with ->d_manage() that would wait until the daemon makes it positive) applies in do_last() - we need to do follow_managed() first.

Fortunately, remaining callers of follow_managed() are OK - only autofs has that weirdness (negative dentry that does not mean an instant -ENOENT)) and autofs never has its negative dentries hashed, so we can't pick one from a dcache lookup.

->d_manage() is a bloody mess ;-/

---
 fs/namei.c |    8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

@@ -3173,6 +3173,10 @@ retry_lookup:
 		got_write = false;
 	}
 
+	error = follow_managed(&path, nd);
+	if (unlikely(error < 0))
+		return error;
+
 	if (unlikely(d_is_negative(path.dentry))) {
 		path_to_nameidata(&path, nd);
 		return -ENOENT;

@@ -3188,10 +3192,6 @@ retry_lookup:
 		return -EEXIST;
 	}
 
-	error = follow_managed(&path, nd);
-	if (unlikely(error < 0))
-		return error;
-
 	seq = 0;	/* out of RCU mode, so the value doesn't matter */
 	inode = d_backing_inode(path.dentry);
 finish_lookup:

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

queue-4.6/nfsd-check-permissions-when-setting-acls.patch queue-4.6/autofs-braino-fix-for-do_last.patch queue-4.6/make-nfs_atomic_open-call-d_drop-on-all-open_context-errors.patch