A dentry leak may be caused when a lookup cookie and a cull are concurrent:
P1 | P2
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cachefiles_lookup_cookie
cachefiles_look_up_object
lookup_one_positive_unlocked
// get dentry
cachefiles_cull
inode->i_flags |= S_KERNEL_FILE;
cachefiles_open_file
cachefiles_mark_inode_in_use
__cachefiles_mark_inode_in_use
can_use = false
if (!(inode->i_flags & S_KERNEL_FILE))
can_use = true
return false
return false
// Returns an error but doesn't put dentry
After that the following WARNING will be triggered when the backend folder
is umounted:
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BUG: Dentry 000000008ad87947{i=7a,n=Dx_1_1.img} still in use (1) [unmount of ext4 sda]
WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 359261 at fs/dcache.c:1767 umount_check+0x5d/0x70
CPU: 4 PID: 359261 Comm: umount Not tainted 6.6.0-dirty #25
RIP: 0010:umount_check+0x5d/0x70
Call Trace:
<TASK>
d_walk+0xda/0x2b0
do_one_tree+0x20/0x40
shrink_dcache_for_umount+0x2c/0x90
generic_shutdown_super+0x20/0x160
kill_block_super+0x1a/0x40
ext4_kill_sb+0x22/0x40
deactivate_locked_super+0x35/0x80
cleanup_mnt+0x104/0x160
==================================================================
Whether cachefiles_open_file() returns true or false, the reference count
obtained by lookup_positive_unlocked() in cachefiles_look_up_object()
should be released.
Therefore release that reference count in cachefiles_look_up_object() to
fix the above issue and simplify the code.
Fixes: 1f08c925e7 ("cachefiles: Implement backing file wrangling")
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240829083409.3788142-1-libaokun@huaweicloud.com
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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