From patchwork Tue Mar 15 23:30:59 2016 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Kamal Mostafa X-Patchwork-Id: 598050 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from huckleberry.canonical.com (huckleberry.canonical.com [91.189.94.19]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3qPrbS6W6nz9sBM; Wed, 16 Mar 2016 10:36:04 +1100 (AEDT) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=huckleberry.canonical.com) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1afyVN-0008Qp-Vr; Tue, 15 Mar 2016 23:36:01 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1afySY-0006sH-0V for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Tue, 15 Mar 2016 23:33:06 +0000 Received: from 1.general.kamal.us.vpn ([10.172.68.52] helo=fourier) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1afySX-0001Zi-Ib; Tue, 15 Mar 2016 23:33:05 +0000 Received: from kamal by fourier with local (Exim 4.86) (envelope-from ) id 1afySU-00068P-TJ; Tue, 15 Mar 2016 16:33:02 -0700 From: Kamal Mostafa To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: [PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 65/98] ovl: fix getcwd() failure after unsuccessful rmdir Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 16:30:59 -0700 Message-Id: <1458084692-23100-66-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.0 In-Reply-To: <1458084692-23100-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> References: <1458084692-23100-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 4.2 Cc: Kamal Mostafa , Rui Wang , Miklos Szeredi X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com 4.2.8-ckt6 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ---8<------------------------------------------------------------ From: Rui Wang commit ce9113bbcbf45a57c082d6603b9a9f342be3ef74 upstream. ovl_remove_upper() should do d_drop() only after it successfully removes the dir, otherwise a subsequent getcwd() system call will fail, breaking userspace programs. This is to fix: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110491 Signed-off-by: Rui Wang Reviewed-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- fs/overlayfs/dir.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c index 692ceda..36d6a5b 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c @@ -618,7 +618,8 @@ static int ovl_remove_upper(struct dentry *dentry, bool is_dir) * sole user of this dentry. Too tricky... Just unhash for * now. */ - d_drop(dentry); + if (!err) + d_drop(dentry); mutex_unlock(&dir->i_mutex); return err;