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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 1/5] 9p: Fix refcounting during full path walks for fid lookups
On 2022-06-12 08:17:16, Dominique Martinet wrote:
> Tyler Hicks wrote on Thu, May 26, 2022 at 06:59:59PM -0500:
> > Decrement the refcount of the parent dentry's fid after walking
> > each path component during a full path walk for a lookup. Failure to do
> > so can lead to fids that are not clunked until the filesystem is
> > unmounted, as indicated by this warning:
> >
> > 9pnet: found fid 3 not clunked
> >
> > The improper refcounting after walking resulted in open(2) returning
> > -EIO on any directories underneath the mount point when using the virtio
> > transport. When using the fd transport, there's no apparent issue until
> > the filesytem is unmounted and the warning above is emitted to the logs.
> >
> > In some cases, the user may not yet be attached to the filesystem and a
> > new root fid, associated with the user, is created and attached to the
> > root dentry before the full path walk is performed. Increment the new
> > root fid's refcount to two in that situation so that it can be safely
> > decremented to one after it is used for the walk operation. The new fid
> > will still be attached to the root dentry when
> > v9fs_fid_lookup_with_uid() returns so a final refcount of one is
> > correct/expected.
> >
> > Fixes: 6636b6dcc3db ("9p: add refcount to p9_fid struct")
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com>
> > ---
> > fs/9p/fid.c | 17 +++++------------
> > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/9p/fid.c b/fs/9p/fid.c
> > index 79df61fe0e59..5a469b79c1ee 100644
> > --- a/fs/9p/fid.c
> > +++ b/fs/9p/fid.c
> > @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ static struct p9_fid *v9fs_fid_lookup_with_uid(struct dentry *dentry,
> > const unsigned char **wnames, *uname;
> > int i, n, l, clone, access;
> > struct v9fs_session_info *v9ses;
> > - struct p9_fid *fid, *old_fid = NULL;
> > + struct p9_fid *fid, *old_fid;
> >
> > v9ses = v9fs_dentry2v9ses(dentry);
> > access = v9ses->flags & V9FS_ACCESS_MASK;
> > @@ -194,13 +194,12 @@ static struct p9_fid *v9fs_fid_lookup_with_uid(struct dentry *dentry,
> > if (IS_ERR(fid))
> > return fid;
> >
> > + refcount_inc(&fid->count);
> > v9fs_fid_add(dentry->d_sb->s_root, fid);
> > }
> > /* If we are root ourself just return that */
> > - if (dentry->d_sb->s_root == dentry) {
> > - refcount_inc(&fid->count);
> > + if (dentry->d_sb->s_root == dentry)
> > return fid;
> > - }
> > /*
> > * Do a multipath walk with attached root.
> > * When walking parent we need to make sure we
> > @@ -212,6 +211,7 @@ static struct p9_fid *v9fs_fid_lookup_with_uid(struct dentry *dentry,
> > fid = ERR_PTR(n);
> > goto err_out;
> > }
> > + old_fid = fid;
> > clone = 1;
> > i = 0;
> > while (i < n) {
> > @@ -221,15 +221,8 @@ static struct p9_fid *v9fs_fid_lookup_with_uid(struct dentry *dentry,
> > * walk to ensure none of the patch component change
> > */
> > fid = p9_client_walk(fid, l, &wnames[i], clone);
> > + p9_client_clunk(old_fid);
>
> hmm, if we're not cloning then fid == old_fid and the refcount is not
> increased? (I think... I didn't even realize/remember that walk had a
> no-clone mode, sorry.)
>
> So we'd only need to clunk if old fid here if we're cloning (old fid is
> the initial root fid), but I'm not sure how to test this path as I
> couldn't think of any pattern that'd trigger a multi-level lookup,
> so I'm not 100% sure; I'll try a bit more.

Yes, you're correct. Nice catch!

Tyler

>
> --
> Dominique
>

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