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<title>nfsd: auth: Fix gid sorting when rootsquash enabled</title>
<updated>2018-03-03T15:50:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Hutchings</name>
<email>ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-22T20:11:06+00:00</published>
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commit 1995266727fa8143897e89b55f5d3c79aa828420 upstream.

Commit bdcf0a423ea1 ("kernel: make groups_sort calling a responsibility
group_info allocators") appears to break nfsd rootsquash in a pretty
major way.

It adds a call to groups_sort() inside the loop that copies/squashes
gids, which means the valid gids are sorted along with the following
garbage.  The net result is that the highest numbered valid gids are
replaced with any lower-valued garbage gids, possibly including 0.

We should sort only once, after filling in all the gids.

Fixes: bdcf0a423ea1 ("kernel: make groups_sort calling a responsibility ...")
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 1995266727fa8143897e89b55f5d3c79aa828420 upstream.

Commit bdcf0a423ea1 ("kernel: make groups_sort calling a responsibility
group_info allocators") appears to break nfsd rootsquash in a pretty
major way.

It adds a call to groups_sort() inside the loop that copies/squashes
gids, which means the valid gids are sorted along with the following
garbage.  The net result is that the highest numbered valid gids are
replaced with any lower-valued garbage gids, possibly including 0.

We should sort only once, after filling in all the gids.

Fixes: bdcf0a423ea1 ("kernel: make groups_sort calling a responsibility ...")
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kernel: make groups_sort calling a responsibility group_info allocators</title>
<updated>2018-03-03T15:50:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thiago Rafael Becker</name>
<email>thiago.becker@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-14T23:33:12+00:00</published>
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commit bdcf0a423ea1c40bbb40e7ee483b50fc8aa3d758 upstream.

In testing, we found that nfsd threads may call set_groups in parallel
for the same entry cached in auth.unix.gid, racing in the call of
groups_sort, corrupting the groups for that entry and leading to
permission denials for the client.

This patch:
 - Make groups_sort globally visible.
 - Move the call to groups_sort to the modifiers of group_info
 - Remove the call to groups_sort from set_groups

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171211151420.18655-1-thiago.becker@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thiago Rafael Becker &lt;thiago.becker@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: "J. Bruce Fields" &lt;bfields@fieldses.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Drop change in gss_rpc_xdr.c
 - Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit bdcf0a423ea1c40bbb40e7ee483b50fc8aa3d758 upstream.

In testing, we found that nfsd threads may call set_groups in parallel
for the same entry cached in auth.unix.gid, racing in the call of
groups_sort, corrupting the groups for that entry and leading to
permission denials for the client.

This patch:
 - Make groups_sort globally visible.
 - Move the call to groups_sort to the modifiers of group_info
 - Remove the call to groups_sort from set_groups

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171211151420.18655-1-thiago.becker@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thiago Rafael Becker &lt;thiago.becker@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: "J. Bruce Fields" &lt;bfields@fieldses.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Drop change in gss_rpc_xdr.c
 - Adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: fix crash when a directory's i_size is too small</title>
<updated>2018-03-03T15:50:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chandan Rajendra</name>
<email>chandan@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-11T20:00:57+00:00</published>
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commit 9d5afec6b8bd46d6ed821aa1579634437f58ef1f upstream.

On a ppc64 machine, when mounting a fuzzed ext2 image (generated by
fsfuzzer) the following call trace is seen,

VFS: brelse: Trying to free free buffer
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 6913 at /root/repos/linux/fs/buffer.c:1165 .__brelse.part.6+0x24/0x40
.__brelse.part.6+0x20/0x40 (unreliable)
.ext4_find_entry+0x384/0x4f0
.ext4_lookup+0x84/0x250
.lookup_slow+0xdc/0x230
.walk_component+0x268/0x400
.path_lookupat+0xec/0x2d0
.filename_lookup+0x9c/0x1d0
.vfs_statx+0x98/0x140
.SyS_newfstatat+0x48/0x80
system_call+0x58/0x6c

This happens because the directory that ext4_find_entry() looks up has
inode-&gt;i_size that is less than the block size of the filesystem. This
causes 'nblocks' to have a value of zero. ext4_bread_batch() ends up not
reading any of the directory file's blocks. This renders the entries in
bh_use[] array to continue to have garbage data. buffer_uptodate() on
bh_use[0] can then return a zero value upon which brelse() function is
invoked.

This commit fixes the bug by returning -ENOENT when the directory file
has no associated blocks.

Reported-by: Abdul Haleem &lt;abdhalee@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chandan Rajendra &lt;chandan@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 9d5afec6b8bd46d6ed821aa1579634437f58ef1f upstream.

On a ppc64 machine, when mounting a fuzzed ext2 image (generated by
fsfuzzer) the following call trace is seen,

VFS: brelse: Trying to free free buffer
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 6913 at /root/repos/linux/fs/buffer.c:1165 .__brelse.part.6+0x24/0x40
.__brelse.part.6+0x20/0x40 (unreliable)
.ext4_find_entry+0x384/0x4f0
.ext4_lookup+0x84/0x250
.lookup_slow+0xdc/0x230
.walk_component+0x268/0x400
.path_lookupat+0xec/0x2d0
.filename_lookup+0x9c/0x1d0
.vfs_statx+0x98/0x140
.SyS_newfstatat+0x48/0x80
system_call+0x58/0x6c

This happens because the directory that ext4_find_entry() looks up has
inode-&gt;i_size that is less than the block size of the filesystem. This
causes 'nblocks' to have a value of zero. ext4_bread_batch() ends up not
reading any of the directory file's blocks. This renders the entries in
bh_use[] array to continue to have garbage data. buffer_uptodate() on
bh_use[0] can then return a zero value upon which brelse() function is
invoked.

This commit fixes the bug by returning -ENOENT when the directory file
has no associated blocks.

Reported-by: Abdul Haleem &lt;abdhalee@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chandan Rajendra &lt;chandan@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>btrfs: Fix possible off-by-one in btrfs_search_path_in_tree</title>
<updated>2018-03-03T15:50:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nikolay Borisov</name>
<email>nborisov@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-01T09:19:42+00:00</published>
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commit c8bcbfbd239ed60a6562964b58034ac8a25f4c31 upstream.

The name char array passed to btrfs_search_path_in_tree is of size
BTRFS_INO_LOOKUP_PATH_MAX (4080). So the actual accessible char indexes
are in the range of [0, 4079]. Currently the code uses the define but this
represents an off-by-one.

Implications:

Size of btrfs_ioctl_ino_lookup_args is 4096, so the new byte will be
written to extra space, not some padding that could be provided by the
allocator.

btrfs-progs store the arguments on stack, but kernel does own copy of
the ioctl buffer and the off-by-one overwrite does not affect userspace,
but the ending 0 might be lost.

Kernel ioctl buffer is allocated dynamically so we're overwriting
somebody else's memory, and the ioctl is privileged if args.objectid is
not 256. Which is in most cases, but resolving a subvolume stored in
another directory will trigger that path.

Before this patch the buffer was one byte larger, but then the -1 was
not added.

Fixes: ac8e9819d71f907 ("Btrfs: add search and inode lookup ioctls")
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov &lt;nborisov@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
[ added implications ]
Signed-off-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit c8bcbfbd239ed60a6562964b58034ac8a25f4c31 upstream.

The name char array passed to btrfs_search_path_in_tree is of size
BTRFS_INO_LOOKUP_PATH_MAX (4080). So the actual accessible char indexes
are in the range of [0, 4079]. Currently the code uses the define but this
represents an off-by-one.

Implications:

Size of btrfs_ioctl_ino_lookup_args is 4096, so the new byte will be
written to extra space, not some padding that could be provided by the
allocator.

btrfs-progs store the arguments on stack, but kernel does own copy of
the ioctl buffer and the off-by-one overwrite does not affect userspace,
but the ending 0 might be lost.

Kernel ioctl buffer is allocated dynamically so we're overwriting
somebody else's memory, and the ioctl is privileged if args.objectid is
not 256. Which is in most cases, but resolving a subvolume stored in
another directory will trigger that path.

Before this patch the buffer was one byte larger, but then the -1 was
not added.

Fixes: ac8e9819d71f907 ("Btrfs: add search and inode lookup ioctls")
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov &lt;nborisov@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
[ added implications ]
Signed-off-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>btrfs: clear space cache inode generation always</title>
<updated>2018-03-03T15:50:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josef Bacik</name>
<email>jbacik@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-17T19:50:46+00:00</published>
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commit 8e138e0d92c6c9d3d481674fb14e3439b495be37 upstream.

We discovered a box that had double allocations, and suspected the space
cache may be to blame.  While auditing the write out path I noticed that
if we've already setup the space cache we will just carry on.  This
means that any error we hit after cache_save_setup before we go to
actually write the cache out we won't reset the inode generation, so
whatever was already written will be considered correct, except it'll be
stale.  Fix this by _always_ resetting the generation on the block group
inode, this way we only ever have valid or invalid cache.

With this patch I was no longer able to reproduce cache corruption with
dm-log-writes and my bpf error injection tool.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 8e138e0d92c6c9d3d481674fb14e3439b495be37 upstream.

We discovered a box that had double allocations, and suspected the space
cache may be to blame.  While auditing the write out path I noticed that
if we've already setup the space cache we will just carry on.  This
means that any error we hit after cache_save_setup before we go to
actually write the cache out we won't reset the inode generation, so
whatever was already written will be considered correct, except it'll be
stale.  Fix this by _always_ resetting the generation on the block group
inode, this way we only ever have valid or invalid cache.

With this patch I was no longer able to reproduce cache corruption with
dm-log-writes and my bpf error injection tool.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik &lt;jbacik@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>nilfs2: fix race condition that causes file system corruption</title>
<updated>2018-02-13T18:32:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andreas Rohner</name>
<email>andreas.rohner@gmx.net</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-17T23:29:35+00:00</published>
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commit 31ccb1f7ba3cfe29631587d451cf5bb8ab593550 upstream.

There is a race condition between nilfs_dirty_inode() and
nilfs_set_file_dirty().

When a file is opened, nilfs_dirty_inode() is called to update the
access timestamp in the inode.  It calls __nilfs_mark_inode_dirty() in a
separate transaction.  __nilfs_mark_inode_dirty() caches the ifile
buffer_head in the i_bh field of the inode info structure and marks it
as dirty.

After some data was written to the file in another transaction, the
function nilfs_set_file_dirty() is called, which adds the inode to the
ns_dirty_files list.

Then the segment construction calls nilfs_segctor_collect_dirty_files(),
which goes through the ns_dirty_files list and checks the i_bh field.
If there is a cached buffer_head in i_bh it is not marked as dirty
again.

Since nilfs_dirty_inode() and nilfs_set_file_dirty() use separate
transactions, it is possible that a segment construction that writes out
the ifile occurs in-between the two.  If this happens the inode is not
on the ns_dirty_files list, but its ifile block is still marked as dirty
and written out.

In the next segment construction, the data for the file is written out
and nilfs_bmap_propagate() updates the b-tree.  Eventually the bmap root
is written into the i_bh block, which is not dirty, because it was
written out in another segment construction.

As a result the bmap update can be lost, which leads to file system
corruption.  Either the virtual block address points to an unallocated
DAT block, or the DAT entry will be reused for something different.

The error can remain undetected for a long time.  A typical error
message would be one of the "bad btree" errors or a warning that a DAT
entry could not be found.

This bug can be reproduced reliably by a simple benchmark that creates
and overwrites millions of 4k files.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509367935-3086-2-git-send-email-konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Andreas Rohner &lt;andreas.rohner@gmx.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Tested-by: Andreas Rohner &lt;andreas.rohner@gmx.net&gt;
Tested-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 31ccb1f7ba3cfe29631587d451cf5bb8ab593550 upstream.

There is a race condition between nilfs_dirty_inode() and
nilfs_set_file_dirty().

When a file is opened, nilfs_dirty_inode() is called to update the
access timestamp in the inode.  It calls __nilfs_mark_inode_dirty() in a
separate transaction.  __nilfs_mark_inode_dirty() caches the ifile
buffer_head in the i_bh field of the inode info structure and marks it
as dirty.

After some data was written to the file in another transaction, the
function nilfs_set_file_dirty() is called, which adds the inode to the
ns_dirty_files list.

Then the segment construction calls nilfs_segctor_collect_dirty_files(),
which goes through the ns_dirty_files list and checks the i_bh field.
If there is a cached buffer_head in i_bh it is not marked as dirty
again.

Since nilfs_dirty_inode() and nilfs_set_file_dirty() use separate
transactions, it is possible that a segment construction that writes out
the ifile occurs in-between the two.  If this happens the inode is not
on the ns_dirty_files list, but its ifile block is still marked as dirty
and written out.

In the next segment construction, the data for the file is written out
and nilfs_bmap_propagate() updates the b-tree.  Eventually the bmap root
is written into the i_bh block, which is not dirty, because it was
written out in another segment construction.

As a result the bmap update can be lost, which leads to file system
corruption.  Either the virtual block address points to an unallocated
DAT block, or the DAT entry will be reused for something different.

The error can remain undetected for a long time.  A typical error
message would be one of the "bad btree" errors or a warning that a DAT
entry could not be found.

This bug can be reproduced reliably by a simple benchmark that creates
and overwrites millions of 4k files.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509367935-3086-2-git-send-email-konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp
Signed-off-by: Andreas Rohner &lt;andreas.rohner@gmx.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Tested-by: Andreas Rohner &lt;andreas.rohner@gmx.net&gt;
Tested-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>autofs: fix careless error in recent commit</title>
<updated>2018-02-13T18:32:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-14T23:32:38+00:00</published>
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commit 302ec300ef8a545a7fc7f667e5fd743b091c2eeb upstream.

Commit ecc0c469f277 ("autofs: don't fail mount for transient error") was
meant to replace an 'if' with a 'switch', but instead added the 'switch'
leaving the case in place.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87zi6wstmw.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name
Fixes: ecc0c469f277 ("autofs: don't fail mount for transient error")
Reported-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: autofs4_write() doesn't take an autofs_sb_info
 pointer]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 302ec300ef8a545a7fc7f667e5fd743b091c2eeb upstream.

Commit ecc0c469f277 ("autofs: don't fail mount for transient error") was
meant to replace an 'if' with a 'switch', but instead added the 'switch'
leaving the case in place.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87zi6wstmw.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name
Fixes: ecc0c469f277 ("autofs: don't fail mount for transient error")
Reported-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: autofs4_write() doesn't take an autofs_sb_info
 pointer]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<title>autofs: don't fail mount for transient error</title>
<updated>2018-02-13T18:32:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-17T23:29:13+00:00</published>
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commit ecc0c469f27765ed1e2b967be0aa17cee1a60b76 upstream.

Currently if the autofs kernel module gets an error when writing to the
pipe which links to the daemon, then it marks the whole moutpoint as
catatonic, and it will stop working.

It is possible that the error is transient.  This can happen if the
daemon is slow and more than 16 requests queue up.  If a subsequent
process tries to queue a request, and is then signalled, the write to
the pipe will return -ERESTARTSYS and autofs will take that as total
failure.

So change the code to assess -ERESTARTSYS and -ENOMEM as transient
failures which only abort the current request, not the whole mountpoint.

It isn't a crash or a data corruption, but having autofs mountpoints
suddenly stop working is rather inconvenient.

Ian said:

: And given the problems with a half dozen (or so) user space applications
: consuming large amounts of CPU under heavy mount and umount activity this
: could happen more easily than we expect.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87y3norvgp.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: autofs4_write() doesn't take an autofs_sb_info
 pointer]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit ecc0c469f27765ed1e2b967be0aa17cee1a60b76 upstream.

Currently if the autofs kernel module gets an error when writing to the
pipe which links to the daemon, then it marks the whole moutpoint as
catatonic, and it will stop working.

It is possible that the error is transient.  This can happen if the
daemon is slow and more than 16 requests queue up.  If a subsequent
process tries to queue a request, and is then signalled, the write to
the pipe will return -ERESTARTSYS and autofs will take that as total
failure.

So change the code to assess -ERESTARTSYS and -ENOMEM as transient
failures which only abort the current request, not the whole mountpoint.

It isn't a crash or a data corruption, but having autofs mountpoints
suddenly stop working is rather inconvenient.

Ian said:

: And given the problems with a half dozen (or so) user space applications
: consuming large amounts of CPU under heavy mount and umount activity this
: could happen more easily than we expect.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87y3norvgp.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: autofs4_write() doesn't take an autofs_sb_info
 pointer]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>autofs4: catatonic_mode vs. notify_daemon race</title>
<updated>2018-02-13T18:32:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-11T03:24:48+00:00</published>
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commit 8753333266be67ff3a984ac1f6566d31c260bee4 upstream.

we need to hold -&gt;wq_mutex while we are forming the packet to send,
lest we have autofs4_catatonic_mode() setting wq-&gt;name.name to NULL
just as autofs4_notify_daemon() decides to memcpy() from it...

We do have check for catatonic mode immediately after that (under
-&gt;wq_mutex, as it ought to be) and packet won't be actually sent,
but it'll be too late for us if we oops on that memcpy() from NULL...

Fix is obvious - just extend the area covered by -&gt;wq_mutex over
that switch and check whether it's catatonic *before* doing anything
else.

Acked-by: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 8753333266be67ff3a984ac1f6566d31c260bee4 upstream.

we need to hold -&gt;wq_mutex while we are forming the packet to send,
lest we have autofs4_catatonic_mode() setting wq-&gt;name.name to NULL
just as autofs4_notify_daemon() decides to memcpy() from it...

We do have check for catatonic mode immediately after that (under
-&gt;wq_mutex, as it ought to be) and packet won't be actually sent,
but it'll be too late for us if we oops on that memcpy() from NULL...

Fix is obvious - just extend the area covered by -&gt;wq_mutex over
that switch and check whether it's catatonic *before* doing anything
else.

Acked-by: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>autofs4: autofs4_wait() vs. autofs4_catatonic_mode() race</title>
<updated>2018-02-13T18:32:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-01-11T03:20:12+00:00</published>
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commit 4041bcdc7bef06a2fb29c57394c713a74bd13b08 upstream.

We need to recheck -&gt;catatonic after autofs4_wait() got -&gt;wq_mutex
for good, or we might end up with wq inserted into queue after
autofs4_catatonic_mode() had done its thing.  It will stick there
forever, since there won't be anything to clear its -&gt;name.name.

A bit of a complication: validate_request() drops and regains -&gt;wq_mutex.
It actually ends up the most convenient place to stick the check into...

Acked-by: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 4041bcdc7bef06a2fb29c57394c713a74bd13b08 upstream.

We need to recheck -&gt;catatonic after autofs4_wait() got -&gt;wq_mutex
for good, or we might end up with wq inserted into queue after
autofs4_catatonic_mode() had done its thing.  It will stick there
forever, since there won't be anything to clear its -&gt;name.name.

A bit of a complication: validate_request() drops and regains -&gt;wq_mutex.
It actually ends up the most convenient place to stick the check into...

Acked-by: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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