[PATCH] reiserfs: fix xattr root locking/refcount bug

[Jeff Mahoney]

 The listxattr() and getxattr() operations are only protected by a read
 lock. As a result, if either of these operations run in parallel, a race
 condition exists where the xattr_root will end up being cached twice,
 which results in the leaking of a reference and a BUG() on umount.

 This patch refactors get_xa_root(), __get_xa_root(), and
 create_xa_root(), into one get_xa_root() function that takes
 the appropriate locking around the entire critical section.

 Changes from initial version:
 With the previous version, established file systems worked, but freshly
 created file systems would fail to mount due to a circular dependency
 with the privroot. New inodes created in directories without I_PRIVATE
 will inherit the parent's default ACL. When creating the privroot,
 we'd get -EOPNOTSUPP due to the privroot not existing while looking up
 the default ACL. The old get_xa_dir() only checked for a negative
 dentry and returned -ENODATA. This version treats a missing privroot
 as -ENODATA. This is safe since xattrs are disabled automatically in
 reiserfs_xattr_init() when the privroot can't be created or found.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>

---
 fs/reiserfs/xattr.c |   92 +++++++++++++---------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c	2007-04-21 10:15:00.000000000 -0400
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c	2007-04-21 11:21:02.000000000 -0400
@@ -54,82 +54,48 @@
 static struct reiserfs_xattr_handler *find_xattr_handler_prefix(const char
 								*prefix);
 
-static struct dentry *create_xa_root(struct super_block *sb)
+/* Returns the dentry referring to the root of the extended attribute
+ * directory tree. If it has already been retrieved, it is used. If it
+ * hasn't been created and the flags indicate creation is allowed, we
+ * attempt to create it. On error, we return a pointer-encoded error.
+ */
+static struct dentry *get_xa_root(struct super_block *sb, int flags)
 {
 	struct dentry *privroot = dget(REISERFS_SB(sb)->priv_root);
 	struct dentry *xaroot;
 
 	/* This needs to be created at mount-time */
 	if (!privroot)
-		return ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP);
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENODATA);
 
-	xaroot = lookup_one_len(XAROOT_NAME, privroot, strlen(XAROOT_NAME));
-	if (IS_ERR(xaroot)) {
+	mutex_lock(&privroot->d_inode->i_mutex);
+	if (REISERFS_SB(sb)->xattr_root) {
+		xaroot = dget(REISERFS_SB(sb)->xattr_root);
 		goto out;
-	} else if (!xaroot->d_inode) {
-		int err;
-		mutex_lock(&privroot->d_inode->i_mutex);
-		err =
-		    privroot->d_inode->i_op->mkdir(privroot->d_inode, xaroot,
-						   0700);
-		mutex_unlock(&privroot->d_inode->i_mutex);
-
-		if (err) {
-			dput(xaroot);
-			dput(privroot);
-			return ERR_PTR(err);
-		}
-		REISERFS_SB(sb)->xattr_root = dget(xaroot);
 	}
 
-      out:
-	dput(privroot);
-	return xaroot;
-}
-
-/* This will return a dentry, or error, refering to the xa root directory.
- * If the xa root doesn't exist yet, the dentry will be returned without
- * an associated inode. This dentry can be used with ->mkdir to create
- * the xa directory. */
-static struct dentry *__get_xa_root(struct super_block *s)
-{
-	struct dentry *privroot = dget(REISERFS_SB(s)->priv_root);
-	struct dentry *xaroot = NULL;
-
-	if (IS_ERR(privroot) || !privroot)
-		return privroot;
-
 	xaroot = lookup_one_len(XAROOT_NAME, privroot, strlen(XAROOT_NAME));
 	if (IS_ERR(xaroot)) {
 		goto out;
 	} else if (!xaroot->d_inode) {
-		dput(xaroot);
-		xaroot = NULL;
-		goto out;
+		int err = -ENODATA;
+		if (flags == 0 || flags & XATTR_CREATE)
+			err = privroot->d_inode->i_op->mkdir(privroot->d_inode,
+			                                     xaroot, 0700);
+		if (err) {
+			dput(xaroot);
+			xaroot = ERR_PTR(err);
+			goto out;
+		}
 	}
-
-	REISERFS_SB(s)->xattr_root = dget(xaroot);
+	REISERFS_SB(sb)->xattr_root = dget(xaroot);
 
       out:
+	mutex_unlock(&privroot->d_inode->i_mutex);
 	dput(privroot);
 	return xaroot;
 }
 
-/* Returns the dentry (or NULL) referring to the root of the extended
- * attribute directory tree. If it has already been retrieved, it is used.
- * Otherwise, we attempt to retrieve it from disk. It may also return
- * a pointer-encoded error.
- */
-static inline struct dentry *get_xa_root(struct super_block *s)
-{
-	struct dentry *dentry = dget(REISERFS_SB(s)->xattr_root);
-
-	if (!dentry)
-		dentry = __get_xa_root(s);
-
-	return dentry;
-}
-
 /* Opens the directory corresponding to the inode's extended attribute store.
  * If flags allow, the tree to the directory may be created. If creation is
  * prohibited, -ENODATA is returned. */
@@ -138,21 +104,11 @@ static struct dentry *open_xa_dir(const 
 	struct dentry *xaroot, *xadir;
 	char namebuf[17];
 
-	xaroot = get_xa_root(inode->i_sb);
-	if (IS_ERR(xaroot)) {
+	xaroot = get_xa_root(inode->i_sb, flags);
+	if (IS_ERR(xaroot))
 		return xaroot;
-	} else if (!xaroot) {
-		if (flags == 0 || flags & XATTR_CREATE) {
-			xaroot = create_xa_root(inode->i_sb);
-			if (IS_ERR(xaroot))
-				return xaroot;
-		}
-		if (!xaroot)
-			return ERR_PTR(-ENODATA);
-	}
 
 	/* ok, we have xaroot open */
-
 	snprintf(namebuf, sizeof(namebuf), "%X.%X",
 		 le32_to_cpu(INODE_PKEY(inode)->k_objectid),
 		 inode->i_generation);
@@ -821,7 +777,7 @@ int reiserfs_delete_xattrs(struct inode 
 
 	/* Leftovers besides . and .. -- that's not good. */
 	if (dir->d_inode->i_nlink <= 2) {
-		root = get_xa_root(inode->i_sb);
+		root = get_xa_root(inode->i_sb, XATTR_REPLACE);
 		reiserfs_write_lock_xattrs(inode->i_sb);
 		err = vfs_rmdir(root->d_inode, dir);
 		reiserfs_write_unlock_xattrs(inode->i_sb);

-- 
Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs

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