vfs: fix dentry RCU to refcounting possibly sleeping dput()

This is the fix that the last two commits indirectly led up to - making
sure that we don't call dput() in a bad context on the dentries we've
looked up in RCU mode after the sequence count validation fails.

This basically expands d_rcu_to_refcount() into the callers, and then
fixes the callers to delay the dput() in the failure case until _after_
we've dropped all locks and are no longer in an RCU-locked region.

The case of 'complete_walk()' was trivial, since its failure case did
the unlock_rcu_walk() directly after the call to d_rcu_to_refcount(),
and as such that is just a pure expansion of the function with a trivial
movement of the resulting dput() to after 'unlock_rcu_walk()'.

In contrast, the unlazy_walk() case was much more complicated, because
not only does convert two different dentries from RCU to be reference
counted, but it used to not call unlock_rcu_walk() at all, and instead
just returned an error and let the caller clean everything up in
"terminate_walk()".

Happily, one of the dentries in question (called "parent" inside
unlazy_walk()) is the dentry of "nd->path", which terminate_walk() wants
a refcount to anyway for the non-RCU case.

So what the new and improved unlazy_walk() does is to first turn that
dentry into a refcounted one, and once that is set up, the error cases
can continue to use the terminate_walk() helper for cleanup, but for the
non-RCU case. Which makes it possible to drop out of RCU mode if we
actually hit the sequence number failure case.

Acked-by: Al Viro <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[e-mail]>

fs/namei.c

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 	br_read_unlock(&vfsmount_lock);
 }
 
-/*
- * When we move over from the RCU domain to properly refcounted
- * long-lived dentries, we need to check the sequence numbers
- * we got before lookup very carefully.
- *
- * We cannot blindly increment a dentry refcount - even if it
- * is not locked - if it is zero, because it may have gone
- * through the final d_kill() logic already.
- *
- * So for a zero refcount, we need to get the spinlock (which is
- * safe even for a dead dentry because the de-allocation is
- * RCU-delayed), and check the sequence count under the lock.
- *
- * Once we have checked the sequence count, we know it is live,
- * and since we hold the spinlock it cannot die from under us.
- *
- * In contrast, if the reference count wasn't zero, we can just
- * increment the lockref without having to take the spinlock.
- * Even if the sequence number ends up being stale, we haven't
- * gone through the final dput() and killed the dentry yet.
- */
-static inline int d_rcu_to_refcount(struct dentry *dentry, seqcount_t *validate, unsigned seq)
-{
-	if (likely(lockref_get_not_dead(&dentry->d_lockref))) {
-		if (!read_seqcount_retry(validate, seq))
-				return 0;
-		dput(dentry);
-	}
-	return -ECHILD;
-}
-
 /**
  * unlazy_walk - try to switch to ref-walk mode.
  * @nd: nameidata pathwalk data
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 {
 	struct fs_struct *fs = current->fs;
 	struct dentry *parent = nd->path.dentry;
-	int want_root = 0;
 
 	BUG_ON(!(nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU));
-	if (nd->root.mnt && !(nd->flags & LOOKUP_ROOT)) {
-		want_root = 1;
-		spin_lock(&fs->lock);
-		if (nd->root.mnt != fs->root.mnt ||
-				nd->root.dentry != fs->root.dentry)
-			goto err_root;
-	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Get a reference to the parent first: we're
+	 * going to make "path_put(nd->path)" valid in
+	 * non-RCU context for "terminate_walk()".
+	 *
+	 * If this doesn't work, return immediately with
+	 * RCU walking still active (and then we will do
+	 * the RCU walk cleanup in terminate_walk()).
+	 */
+	if (!lockref_get_not_dead(&parent->d_lockref))
+		return -ECHILD;
+
+	/*
+	 * After the mntget(), we terminate_walk() will do
+	 * the right thing for non-RCU mode, and all our
+	 * subsequent exit cases should unlock_rcu_walk()
+	 * before returning.
+	 */
+	mntget(nd->path.mnt);
+	nd->flags &= ~LOOKUP_RCU;
 
 	/*
 	 * For a negative lookup, the lookup sequence point is the parents
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 	 * be valid if the child sequence number is still valid.
 	 */
 	if (!dentry) {
-		if (d_rcu_to_refcount(parent, &parent->d_seq, nd->seq) < 0)
-			goto err_root;
+		if (read_seqcount_retry(&parent->d_seq, nd->seq))
+			goto out;
 		BUG_ON(nd->inode != parent->d_inode);
 	} else {
-		if (d_rcu_to_refcount(dentry, &dentry->d_seq, nd->seq) < 0)
-			goto err_root;
-		if (d_rcu_to_refcount(parent, &dentry->d_seq, nd->seq) < 0)
-			goto err_parent;
+		if (!lockref_get_not_dead(&dentry->d_lockref))
+			goto out;
+		if (read_seqcount_retry(&dentry->d_seq, nd->seq))
+			goto drop_dentry;
 	}
-	if (want_root) {
+
+	/*
+	 * Sequence counts matched. Now make sure that the root is
+	 * still valid and get it if required.
+	 */
+	if (nd->root.mnt && !(nd->flags & LOOKUP_ROOT)) {
+		spin_lock(&fs->lock);
+		if (nd->root.mnt != fs->root.mnt || nd->root.dentry != fs->root.dentry)
+			goto unlock_and_drop_dentry;
 		path_get(&nd->root);
 		spin_unlock(&fs->lock);
 	}
-	mntget(nd->path.mnt);
 
 	unlock_rcu_walk();
-	nd->flags &= ~LOOKUP_RCU;
 	return 0;
 
-err_parent:
+unlock_and_drop_dentry:
+	spin_unlock(&fs->lock);
+drop_dentry:
+	unlock_rcu_walk();
 	dput(dentry);
-err_root:
-	if (want_root)
-		spin_unlock(&fs->lock);
+	return -ECHILD;
+out:
+	unlock_rcu_walk();
 	return -ECHILD;
 }
 
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 		if (!(nd->flags & LOOKUP_ROOT))
 			nd->root.mnt = NULL;
 
-		if (d_rcu_to_refcount(dentry, &dentry->d_seq, nd->seq) < 0) {
+		if (unlikely(!lockref_get_not_dead(&dentry->d_lockref))) {
 			unlock_rcu_walk();
+			return -ECHILD;
+		}
+		if (read_seqcount_retry(&dentry->d_seq, nd->seq)) {
+			unlock_rcu_walk();
+			dput(dentry);
 			return -ECHILD;
 		}
 		mntget(nd->path.mnt);