[PATCH] FUSE: multiple links to directory fix

From: Miklos Szeredi
Date: Thu Apr 28 2005 - 09:18:13 EST


This patch fixes a bug, that allowed multiple dentries to refer to the
same directory inode. This check was dropped from the 2.6 version
probably because I believed that d_splice_alias() will somehow do this
check (which it doesn't). Thanks to the fine folks on linux-fsdevel
reminding me of the ugly possibility of hardlinked directories.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff -rup linux-2.6.12-rc2-mm3/fs/fuse/dir.c linux-fuse/fs/fuse/dir.c
--- linux-2.6.12-rc2-mm3/fs/fuse/dir.c 2005-04-22 16:00:16.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-fuse/fs/fuse/dir.c 2005-04-28 15:32:02.000000000 +0200
@@ -703,6 +731,15 @@ static struct dentry *fuse_lookup(struct
int err = fuse_lookup_iget(dir, entry, &inode);
if (err)
return ERR_PTR(err);
+ if (inode && S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) {
+ /* Don't allow creating an alias to a directory */
+ struct dentry *alias = d_find_alias(inode);
+ if (alias && !(alias->d_flags & DCACHE_DISCONNECTED)) {
+ dput(alias);
+ iput(inode);
+ return ERR_PTR(-EIO);
+ }
+ }
return d_splice_alias(inode, entry);
}

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