[patch] vfs: fix lookup on deleted directory

Lookup can install a child dentry for a deleted directory.  This keeps
the directory dentry alive, and the inode pinned in the cache and on
disk, even after all external references have gone away.

This isn't a big problem normally, since memory pressure or umount
will clear out the directory dentry and its children, releasing the
inode.  But for UBIFS this causes problems because its orphan area can
overflow.

Fix this by returning ENOENT for all lookups on a S_DEAD directory
before creating a child dentry.

Thanks to Zoltan Sogor for noticing this while testing UBIFS, and
Artem for the excellent analysis of the problem and testing.

Reported-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Tested-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 01e67dddcc3d2033a2038c37f9f791ba0921a781..3b26a240ade94689cf4f8407dbd31d587185da9f 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -519,7 +519,14 @@ static struct dentry * real_lookup(struct dentry * parent, struct qstr * name, s
         */
        result = d_lookup(parent, name);
        if (!result) {
-               struct dentry * dentry = d_alloc(parent, name);
+               struct dentry *dentry;
+
+               /* Don't create child dentry for a dead directory. */
+               result = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
+               if (IS_DEADDIR(dir))
+                       goto out_unlock;
+
+               dentry = d_alloc(parent, name);
                result = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
                if (dentry) {
                        result = dir->i_op->lookup(dir, dentry, nd);
@@ -528,6 +535,7 @@ static struct dentry * real_lookup(struct dentry * parent, struct qstr * name, s
                        else
                                result = dentry;
                }
+out_unlock:
                mutex_unlock(&dir->i_mutex);
                return result;
        }
@@ -1317,7 +1325,14 @@ static struct dentry *__lookup_hash(struct qstr *name,
 
        dentry = cached_lookup(base, name, nd);
        if (!dentry) {
-               struct dentry *new = d_alloc(base, name);
+               struct dentry *new;
+
+               /* Don't create child dentry for a dead directory. */
+               dentry = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
+               if (IS_DEADDIR(inode))
+                       goto out;
+
+               new = d_alloc(base, name);
                dentry = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
                if (!new)
                        goto out;