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<title>configfs: fix a deadlock in configfs_symlink()</title>
<updated>2019-12-10T18:01:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-03T15:51:18+00:00</published>
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commit 351e5d869e5ac10cb40c78b5f2d7dfc816ad4587 upstream.

Configfs abuses symlink(2).  Unlike the normal filesystems, it
wants the target resolved at symlink(2) time, like link(2) would've
done.  The problem is that -&gt;symlink() is called with the parent
directory locked exclusive, so resolving the target inside the
-&gt;symlink() is easily deadlocked.

Short of really ugly games in sys_symlink() itself, all we can
do is to unlock the parent before resolving the target and
relock it after.  However, that invalidates the checks done
by the caller of -&gt;symlink(), so we have to
	* check that dentry is still where it used to be
(it couldn't have been moved, but it could've been unhashed)
	* recheck that it's still negative (somebody else
might've successfully created a symlink with the same name
while we were looking the target up)
	* recheck the permissions on the parent directory.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: open-code inode_{,un}lock()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 351e5d869e5ac10cb40c78b5f2d7dfc816ad4587 upstream.

Configfs abuses symlink(2).  Unlike the normal filesystems, it
wants the target resolved at symlink(2) time, like link(2) would've
done.  The problem is that -&gt;symlink() is called with the parent
directory locked exclusive, so resolving the target inside the
-&gt;symlink() is easily deadlocked.

Short of really ugly games in sys_symlink() itself, all we can
do is to unlock the parent before resolving the target and
relock it after.  However, that invalidates the checks done
by the caller of -&gt;symlink(), so we have to
	* check that dentry is still where it used to be
(it couldn't have been moved, but it could've been unhashed)
	* recheck that it's still negative (somebody else
might've successfully created a symlink with the same name
while we were looking the target up)
	* recheck the permissions on the parent directory.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: open-code inode_{,un}lock()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>configfs: Fix use-after-free when accessing sd-&gt;s_dentry</title>
<updated>2019-10-05T15:19:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sahitya Tummala</name>
<email>stummala@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-03T11:18:15+00:00</published>
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commit f6122ed2a4f9c9c1c073ddf6308d1b2ac10e0781 upstream.

In the vfs_statx() context, during path lookup, the dentry gets
added to sd-&gt;s_dentry via configfs_attach_attr(). In the end,
vfs_statx() kills the dentry by calling path_put(), which invokes
configfs_d_iput(). Ideally, this dentry must be removed from
sd-&gt;s_dentry but it doesn't if the sd-&gt;s_count &gt;= 3. As a result,
sd-&gt;s_dentry is holding reference to a stale dentry pointer whose
memory is already freed up. This results in use-after-free issue,
when this stale sd-&gt;s_dentry is accessed later in
configfs_readdir() path.

This issue can be easily reproduced, by running the LTP test case -
sh fs_racer_file_list.sh /config
(https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/blob/master/testcases/kernel/fs/racer/fs_racer_file_list.sh)

Fixes: 76ae281f6307 ('configfs: fix race between dentry put and lookup')
Signed-off-by: Sahitya Tummala &lt;stummala@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit f6122ed2a4f9c9c1c073ddf6308d1b2ac10e0781 upstream.

In the vfs_statx() context, during path lookup, the dentry gets
added to sd-&gt;s_dentry via configfs_attach_attr(). In the end,
vfs_statx() kills the dentry by calling path_put(), which invokes
configfs_d_iput(). Ideally, this dentry must be removed from
sd-&gt;s_dentry but it doesn't if the sd-&gt;s_count &gt;= 3. As a result,
sd-&gt;s_dentry is holding reference to a stale dentry pointer whose
memory is already freed up. This results in use-after-free issue,
when this stale sd-&gt;s_dentry is accessed later in
configfs_readdir() path.

This issue can be easily reproduced, by running the LTP test case -
sh fs_racer_file_list.sh /config
(https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/blob/master/testcases/kernel/fs/racer/fs_racer_file_list.sh)

Fixes: 76ae281f6307 ('configfs: fix race between dentry put and lookup')
Signed-off-by: Sahitya Tummala &lt;stummala@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>configfs: Fix race between create_link and configfs_rmdir</title>
<updated>2017-09-15T17:30:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicholas Bellinger</name>
<email>nab@linux-iscsi.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-08T04:51:54+00:00</published>
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commit ba80aa909c99802c428682c352b0ee0baac0acd3 upstream.

This patch closes a long standing race in configfs between
the creation of a new symlink in create_link(), while the
symlink target's config_item is being concurrently removed
via configfs_rmdir().

This can happen because the symlink target's reference
is obtained by config_item_get() in create_link() before
the CONFIGFS_USET_DROPPING bit set by configfs_detach_prep()
during configfs_rmdir() shutdown is actually checked..

This originally manifested itself on ppc64 on v4.8.y under
heavy load using ibmvscsi target ports with Novalink API:

[ 7877.289863] rpadlpar_io: slot U8247.22L.212A91A-V1-C8 added
[ 7879.893760] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 7879.893768] WARNING: CPU: 15 PID: 17585 at ./include/linux/kref.h:46 config_item_get+0x7c/0x90 [configfs]
[ 7879.893811] CPU: 15 PID: 17585 Comm: targetcli Tainted: G           O 4.8.17-customv2.22 #12
[ 7879.893812] task: c00000018a0d3400 task.stack: c0000001f3b40000
[ 7879.893813] NIP: d000000002c664ec LR: d000000002c60980 CTR: c000000000b70870
[ 7879.893814] REGS: c0000001f3b43810 TRAP: 0700   Tainted: G O     (4.8.17-customv2.22)
[ 7879.893815] MSR: 8000000000029033 &lt;SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE&gt;  CR: 28222242  XER: 00000000
[ 7879.893820] CFAR: d000000002c664bc SOFTE: 1
                GPR00: d000000002c60980 c0000001f3b43a90 d000000002c70908 c0000000fbc06820
                GPR04: c0000001ef1bd900 0000000000000004 0000000000000001 0000000000000000
                GPR08: 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 d000000002c69560 d000000002c66d80
                GPR12: c000000000b70870 c00000000e798700 c0000001f3b43ca0 c0000001d4949d40
                GPR16: c00000014637e1c0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 c0000000f2392940
                GPR20: c0000001f3b43b98 0000000000000041 0000000000600000 0000000000000000
                GPR24: fffffffffffff000 0000000000000000 d000000002c60be0 c0000001f1dac490
                GPR28: 0000000000000004 0000000000000000 c0000001ef1bd900 c0000000f2392940
[ 7879.893839] NIP [d000000002c664ec] config_item_get+0x7c/0x90 [configfs]
[ 7879.893841] LR [d000000002c60980] check_perm+0x80/0x2e0 [configfs]
[ 7879.893842] Call Trace:
[ 7879.893844] [c0000001f3b43ac0] [d000000002c60980] check_perm+0x80/0x2e0 [configfs]
[ 7879.893847] [c0000001f3b43b10] [c000000000329770] do_dentry_open+0x2c0/0x460
[ 7879.893849] [c0000001f3b43b70] [c000000000344480] path_openat+0x210/0x1490
[ 7879.893851] [c0000001f3b43c80] [c00000000034708c] do_filp_open+0xfc/0x170
[ 7879.893853] [c0000001f3b43db0] [c00000000032b5bc] do_sys_open+0x1cc/0x390
[ 7879.893856] [c0000001f3b43e30] [c000000000009584] system_call+0x38/0xec
[ 7879.893856] Instruction dump:
[ 7879.893858] 409d0014 38210030 e8010010 7c0803a6 4e800020 3d220000 e94981e0 892a0000
[ 7879.893861] 2f890000 409effe0 39200001 992a0000 &lt;0fe00000&gt; 4bffffd0 60000000 60000000
[ 7879.893866] ---[ end trace 14078f0b3b5ad0aa ]---

To close this race, go ahead and obtain the symlink's target
config_item reference only after the existing CONFIGFS_USET_DROPPING
check succeeds.

This way, if configfs_rmdir() wins create_link() will return -ENONET,
and if create_link() wins configfs_rmdir() will return -EBUSY.

Reported-by: Bryant G. Ly &lt;bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Bryant G. Ly &lt;bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit ba80aa909c99802c428682c352b0ee0baac0acd3 upstream.

This patch closes a long standing race in configfs between
the creation of a new symlink in create_link(), while the
symlink target's config_item is being concurrently removed
via configfs_rmdir().

This can happen because the symlink target's reference
is obtained by config_item_get() in create_link() before
the CONFIGFS_USET_DROPPING bit set by configfs_detach_prep()
during configfs_rmdir() shutdown is actually checked..

This originally manifested itself on ppc64 on v4.8.y under
heavy load using ibmvscsi target ports with Novalink API:

[ 7877.289863] rpadlpar_io: slot U8247.22L.212A91A-V1-C8 added
[ 7879.893760] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 7879.893768] WARNING: CPU: 15 PID: 17585 at ./include/linux/kref.h:46 config_item_get+0x7c/0x90 [configfs]
[ 7879.893811] CPU: 15 PID: 17585 Comm: targetcli Tainted: G           O 4.8.17-customv2.22 #12
[ 7879.893812] task: c00000018a0d3400 task.stack: c0000001f3b40000
[ 7879.893813] NIP: d000000002c664ec LR: d000000002c60980 CTR: c000000000b70870
[ 7879.893814] REGS: c0000001f3b43810 TRAP: 0700   Tainted: G O     (4.8.17-customv2.22)
[ 7879.893815] MSR: 8000000000029033 &lt;SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE&gt;  CR: 28222242  XER: 00000000
[ 7879.893820] CFAR: d000000002c664bc SOFTE: 1
                GPR00: d000000002c60980 c0000001f3b43a90 d000000002c70908 c0000000fbc06820
                GPR04: c0000001ef1bd900 0000000000000004 0000000000000001 0000000000000000
                GPR08: 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 d000000002c69560 d000000002c66d80
                GPR12: c000000000b70870 c00000000e798700 c0000001f3b43ca0 c0000001d4949d40
                GPR16: c00000014637e1c0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 c0000000f2392940
                GPR20: c0000001f3b43b98 0000000000000041 0000000000600000 0000000000000000
                GPR24: fffffffffffff000 0000000000000000 d000000002c60be0 c0000001f1dac490
                GPR28: 0000000000000004 0000000000000000 c0000001ef1bd900 c0000000f2392940
[ 7879.893839] NIP [d000000002c664ec] config_item_get+0x7c/0x90 [configfs]
[ 7879.893841] LR [d000000002c60980] check_perm+0x80/0x2e0 [configfs]
[ 7879.893842] Call Trace:
[ 7879.893844] [c0000001f3b43ac0] [d000000002c60980] check_perm+0x80/0x2e0 [configfs]
[ 7879.893847] [c0000001f3b43b10] [c000000000329770] do_dentry_open+0x2c0/0x460
[ 7879.893849] [c0000001f3b43b70] [c000000000344480] path_openat+0x210/0x1490
[ 7879.893851] [c0000001f3b43c80] [c00000000034708c] do_filp_open+0xfc/0x170
[ 7879.893853] [c0000001f3b43db0] [c00000000032b5bc] do_sys_open+0x1cc/0x390
[ 7879.893856] [c0000001f3b43e30] [c000000000009584] system_call+0x38/0xec
[ 7879.893856] Instruction dump:
[ 7879.893858] 409d0014 38210030 e8010010 7c0803a6 4e800020 3d220000 e94981e0 892a0000
[ 7879.893861] 2f890000 409effe0 39200001 992a0000 &lt;0fe00000&gt; 4bffffd0 60000000 60000000
[ 7879.893866] ---[ end trace 14078f0b3b5ad0aa ]---

To close this race, go ahead and obtain the symlink's target
config_item reference only after the existing CONFIGFS_USET_DROPPING
check succeeds.

This way, if configfs_rmdir() wins create_link() will return -ENONET,
and if create_link() wins configfs_rmdir() will return -EBUSY.

Reported-by: Bryant G. Ly &lt;bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Bryant G. Ly &lt;bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sysfs: Create mountpoints with sysfs_create_mount_point</title>
<updated>2015-08-20T17:24:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-20T16:52:30+00:00</published>
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commit f9bb48825a6b5d02f4cabcc78967c75db903dcdc upstream.

This allows for better documentation in the code and
it allows for a simpler and fully correct version of
fs_fully_visible to be written.

The mount points converted and their filesystems are:
/sys/hypervisor/s390/       s390_hypfs
/sys/kernel/config/         configfs
/sys/kernel/debug/          debugfs
/sys/firmware/efi/efivars/  efivarfs
/sys/fs/fuse/connections/   fusectl
/sys/fs/pstore/             pstore
/sys/kernel/tracing/        tracefs
/sys/fs/cgroup/             cgroup
/sys/kernel/security/       securityfs
/sys/fs/selinux/            selinuxfs
/sys/fs/smackfs/            smackfs

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee &lt;seth.forshee@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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commit f9bb48825a6b5d02f4cabcc78967c75db903dcdc upstream.

This allows for better documentation in the code and
it allows for a simpler and fully correct version of
fs_fully_visible to be written.

The mount points converted and their filesystems are:
/sys/hypervisor/s390/       s390_hypfs
/sys/kernel/config/         configfs
/sys/kernel/debug/          debugfs
/sys/firmware/efi/efivars/  efivarfs
/sys/fs/fuse/connections/   fusectl
/sys/fs/pstore/             pstore
/sys/kernel/tracing/        tracefs
/sys/fs/cgroup/             cgroup
/sys/kernel/security/       securityfs
/sys/fs/selinux/            selinuxfs
/sys/fs/smackfs/            smackfs

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee &lt;seth.forshee@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs/configfs: use pr_fmt</title>
<updated>2014-06-04T23:53:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fabian Frederick</name>
<email>fabf@skynet.be</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-04T23:05:59+00:00</published>
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Add pr_fmt based on module name.

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick &lt;fabf@skynet.be&gt;
Cc: Joel Becker &lt;jlbec@evilplan.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Add pr_fmt based on module name.

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick &lt;fabf@skynet.be&gt;
Cc: Joel Becker &lt;jlbec@evilplan.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs/configfs: convert printk to pr_foo()</title>
<updated>2014-06-04T23:53:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fabian Frederick</name>
<email>fabf@skynet.be</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-04T23:05:58+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick &lt;fabf@skynet.be&gt;
Cc: Joel Becker &lt;jlbec@evilplan.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick &lt;fabf@skynet.be&gt;
Cc: Joel Becker &lt;jlbec@evilplan.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs/configs/item.c: kernel-doc fixes + clean-up</title>
<updated>2014-06-04T23:53:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fabian Frederick</name>
<email>fabf@skynet.be</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-04T23:05:57+00:00</published>
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Fix function parameter documentation

EXPORT_SYMBOLS moved after corresponding functions

Small coding style and checkpatch warning fixes

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick &lt;fabf@skynet.be&gt;
Acked-by: Joel Becker &lt;jlbec@evilplan.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Fix function parameter documentation

EXPORT_SYMBOLS moved after corresponding functions

Small coding style and checkpatch warning fixes

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick &lt;fabf@skynet.be&gt;
Acked-by: Joel Becker &lt;jlbec@evilplan.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>configfs: fix race between dentry put and lookup</title>
<updated>2013-11-22T00:42:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junxiao Bi</name>
<email>junxiao.bi@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-21T22:31:56+00:00</published>
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A race window in configfs, it starts from one dentry is UNHASHED and end
before configfs_d_iput is called.  In this window, if a lookup happen,
since the original dentry was UNHASHED, so a new dentry will be
allocated, and then in configfs_attach_attr(), sd-&gt;s_dentry will be
updated to the new dentry.  Then in configfs_d_iput(),
BUG_ON(sd-&gt;s_dentry != dentry) will be triggered and system panic.

sys_open:                     sys_close:
 ...                           fput
                                dput
                                 dentry_kill
                                  __d_drop &lt;--- dentry unhashed here,
                                           but sd-&gt;dentry still point
                                           to this dentry.

 lookup_real
  configfs_lookup
   configfs_attach_attr---&gt; update sd-&gt;s_dentry
                            to new allocated dentry here.

                                   d_kill
                                     configfs_d_iput &lt;--- BUG_ON(sd-&gt;s_dentry != dentry)
                                                     triggered here.

To fix it, change configfs_d_iput to not update sd-&gt;s_dentry if
sd-&gt;s_count &gt; 2, that means there are another dentry is using the sd
beside the one that is going to be put.  Use configfs_dirent_lock in
configfs_attach_attr to sync with configfs_d_iput.

With the following steps, you can reproduce the bug.

1. enable ocfs2, this will mount configfs at /sys/kernel/config and
   fill configure in it.

2. run the following script.
	while [ 1 ]; do cat /sys/kernel/config/cluster/$your_cluster_name/idle_timeout_ms &gt; /dev/null; done &amp;
	while [ 1 ]; do cat /sys/kernel/config/cluster/$your_cluster_name/idle_timeout_ms &gt; /dev/null; done &amp;

Signed-off-by: Junxiao Bi &lt;junxiao.bi@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Becker &lt;jlbec@evilplan.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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A race window in configfs, it starts from one dentry is UNHASHED and end
before configfs_d_iput is called.  In this window, if a lookup happen,
since the original dentry was UNHASHED, so a new dentry will be
allocated, and then in configfs_attach_attr(), sd-&gt;s_dentry will be
updated to the new dentry.  Then in configfs_d_iput(),
BUG_ON(sd-&gt;s_dentry != dentry) will be triggered and system panic.

sys_open:                     sys_close:
 ...                           fput
                                dput
                                 dentry_kill
                                  __d_drop &lt;--- dentry unhashed here,
                                           but sd-&gt;dentry still point
                                           to this dentry.

 lookup_real
  configfs_lookup
   configfs_attach_attr---&gt; update sd-&gt;s_dentry
                            to new allocated dentry here.

                                   d_kill
                                     configfs_d_iput &lt;--- BUG_ON(sd-&gt;s_dentry != dentry)
                                                     triggered here.

To fix it, change configfs_d_iput to not update sd-&gt;s_dentry if
sd-&gt;s_count &gt; 2, that means there are another dentry is using the sd
beside the one that is going to be put.  Use configfs_dirent_lock in
configfs_attach_attr to sync with configfs_d_iput.

With the following steps, you can reproduce the bug.

1. enable ocfs2, this will mount configfs at /sys/kernel/config and
   fill configure in it.

2. run the following script.
	while [ 1 ]; do cat /sys/kernel/config/cluster/$your_cluster_name/idle_timeout_ms &gt; /dev/null; done &amp;
	while [ 1 ]; do cat /sys/kernel/config/cluster/$your_cluster_name/idle_timeout_ms &gt; /dev/null; done &amp;

Signed-off-by: Junxiao Bi &lt;junxiao.bi@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Becker &lt;jlbec@evilplan.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>consolidate simple -&gt;d_delete() instances</title>
<updated>2013-11-16T03:04:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-25T22:47:37+00:00</published>
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Rename simple_delete_dentry() to always_delete_dentry() and export it.
Export simple_dentry_operations, while we are at it, and get rid of
their duplicates

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Rename simple_delete_dentry() to always_delete_dentry() and export it.
Export simple_dentry_operations, while we are at it, and get rid of
their duplicates

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2013-07-14T18:42:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-14T18:42:26+00:00</published>
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Pull more vfs stuff from Al Viro:
 "O_TMPFILE ABI changes, Oleg's fput() series, misc cleanups, including
  making simple_lookup() usable for filesystems with non-NULL s_d_op,
  which allows us to get rid of quite a bit of ugliness"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  sunrpc: now we can just set -&gt;s_d_op
  cgroup: we can use simple_lookup() now
  efivarfs: we can use simple_lookup() now
  make simple_lookup() usable for filesystems that set -&gt;s_d_op
  configfs: don't open-code d_alloc_name()
  __rpc_lookup_create_exclusive: pass string instead of qstr
  rpc_create_*_dir: don't bother with qstr
  llist: llist_add() can use llist_add_batch()
  llist: fix/simplify llist_add() and llist_add_batch()
  fput: turn "list_head delayed_fput_list" into llist_head
  fs/file_table.c:fput(): add comment
  Safer ABI for O_TMPFILE
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Pull more vfs stuff from Al Viro:
 "O_TMPFILE ABI changes, Oleg's fput() series, misc cleanups, including
  making simple_lookup() usable for filesystems with non-NULL s_d_op,
  which allows us to get rid of quite a bit of ugliness"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  sunrpc: now we can just set -&gt;s_d_op
  cgroup: we can use simple_lookup() now
  efivarfs: we can use simple_lookup() now
  make simple_lookup() usable for filesystems that set -&gt;s_d_op
  configfs: don't open-code d_alloc_name()
  __rpc_lookup_create_exclusive: pass string instead of qstr
  rpc_create_*_dir: don't bother with qstr
  llist: llist_add() can use llist_add_batch()
  llist: fix/simplify llist_add() and llist_add_batch()
  fput: turn "list_head delayed_fput_list" into llist_head
  fs/file_table.c:fput(): add comment
  Safer ABI for O_TMPFILE
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