From 5f16f3225b06242a9ee876f07c1c9b6ed36a22b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 14:43:12 -0400 Subject: ext4: atomically set inode->i_flags in ext4_set_inode_flags() Use cmpxchg() to atomically set i_flags instead of clearing out the S_IMMUTABLE, S_APPEND, etc. flags and then setting them from the EXT4_IMMUTABLE_FL, EXT4_APPEND_FL flags, since this opens up a race where an immutable file has the immutable flag cleared for a brief window of time. Reported-by: John Sullivan Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: stable@kernel.org --- fs/inode.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs/inode.c') diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c index 4bcdad3c9361..26f95ceb6250 100644 --- a/fs/inode.c +++ b/fs/inode.c @@ -1899,3 +1899,34 @@ void inode_dio_done(struct inode *inode) wake_up_bit(&inode->i_state, __I_DIO_WAKEUP); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(inode_dio_done); + +/* + * inode_set_flags - atomically set some inode flags + * + * Note: the caller should be holding i_mutex, or else be sure that + * they have exclusive access to the inode structure (i.e., while the + * inode is being instantiated). The reason for the cmpxchg() loop + * --- which wouldn't be necessary if all code paths which modify + * i_flags actually followed this rule, is that there is at least one + * code path which doesn't today --- for example, + * __generic_file_aio_write() calls file_remove_suid() without holding + * i_mutex --- so we use cmpxchg() out of an abundance of caution. + * + * In the long run, i_mutex is overkill, and we should probably look + * at using the i_lock spinlock to protect i_flags, and then make sure + * it is so documented in include/linux/fs.h and that all code follows + * the locking convention!! + */ +void inode_set_flags(struct inode *inode, unsigned int flags, + unsigned int mask) +{ + unsigned int old_flags, new_flags; + + WARN_ON_ONCE(flags & ~mask); + do { + old_flags = ACCESS_ONCE(inode->i_flags); + new_flags = (old_flags & ~mask) | flags; + } while (unlikely(cmpxchg(&inode->i_flags, old_flags, + new_flags) != old_flags)); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(inode_set_flags); -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b