[076/212] fs, mm: fix race in unlinking swapfile

Commit Message

Andrew Morton Sept. 2, 2021, 9:53 p.m. UTC

From: Hugh Dickins <[e-mail]>
Subject: fs, mm: fix race in unlinking swapfile

We had a recurring situation in which admin procedures setting up
swapfiles would race with test preparation clearing away swapfiles; and
just occasionally that got stuck on a swapfile "(deleted)" which could
never be swapped off.  That is not supposed to be possible.

2.6.28 commit f9454548e17c ("don't unlink an active swapfile") admitted
that it was leaving a race window open: now close it.

may_delete() makes the IS_SWAPFILE check (amongst many others) before
inode_lock has been taken on target: now repeat just that simple check in
vfs_unlink() and vfs_rename(), after taking inode_lock.

Which goes most of the way to fixing the race, but swapon() must also
check after it acquires inode_lock, that the file just opened has not
already been unlinked.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[e-mail]
Fixes: f9454548e17c ("don't unlink an active swapfile")
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <[e-mail]>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[e-mail]>
---

 fs/namei.c    |    8 +++++++-
 mm/swapfile.c |    6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Patch

--- a/fs/namei.c~fs-mm-fix-race-in-unlinking-swapfile
+++ a/fs/namei.c
@@ -4024,7 +4024,9 @@  int vfs_unlink(struct user_namespace *mn
 		return -EPERM;
 
 	inode_lock(target);
-	if (is_local_mountpoint(dentry))
+	if (IS_SWAPFILE(target))
+		error = -EPERM;
+	else if (is_local_mountpoint(dentry))
 		error = -EBUSY;
 	else {
 		error = security_inode_unlink(dir, dentry);
@@ -4526,6 +4528,10 @@  int vfs_rename(struct renamedata *rd)
 	else if (target)
 		inode_lock(target);
 
+	error = -EPERM;
+	if (IS_SWAPFILE(source) || (target && IS_SWAPFILE(target)))
+		goto out;
+
 	error = -EBUSY;
 	if (is_local_mountpoint(old_dentry) || is_local_mountpoint(new_dentry))
 		goto out;
--- a/mm/swapfile.c~fs-mm-fix-race-in-unlinking-swapfile
+++ a/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -3130,6 +3130,7 @@  SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __use
 	struct filename *name;
 	struct file *swap_file = NULL;
 	struct address_space *mapping;
+	struct dentry *dentry;
 	int prio;
 	int error;
 	union swap_header *swap_header;
@@ -3173,6 +3174,7 @@  SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __use
 
 	p->swap_file = swap_file;
 	mapping = swap_file->f_mapping;
+	dentry = swap_file->f_path.dentry;
 	inode = mapping->host;
 
 	error = claim_swapfile(p, inode);
@@ -3180,6 +3182,10 @@  SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __use
 		goto bad_swap;
 
 	inode_lock(inode);
+	if (d_unlinked(dentry) || cant_mount(dentry)) {
+		error = -ENOENT;
+		goto bad_swap_unlock_inode;
+	}
 	if (IS_SWAPFILE(inode)) {
 		error = -EBUSY;
 		goto bad_swap_unlock_inode;