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ovl: check dentry positiveness in ovl_cleanup_whiteouts()
authorKonstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Mon, 16 Nov 2015 15:44:11 +0000 (18:44 +0300)
committerSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Mon, 1 Feb 2016 16:37:35 +0000 (11:37 -0500)
commit1cbc3b7717e8a0c13ea5009b4157dfdf8f90b0b3
treeb3424e88d8e73a18c61c2389481a05bde1e74b5f
parentc8e1bebf86dff9277e21e9a2769724ca05f40c02
ovl: check dentry positiveness in ovl_cleanup_whiteouts()

[ Upstream commit 84889d49335627bc770b32787c1ef9ebad1da232 ]

This patch fixes kernel crash at removing directory which contains
whiteouts from lower layers.

Cache of directory content passed as "list" contains entries from all
layers, including whiteouts from lower layers. So, lookup in upper dir
(moved into work at this stage) will return negative entry. Plus this
cache is filled long before and we can race with external removal.

Example:
 mkdir -p lower0/dir lower1/dir upper work overlay
 touch lower0/dir/a lower0/dir/b
 mknod lower1/dir/a c 0 0
 mount -t overlay none overlay -o lowerdir=lower1:lower0,upperdir=upper,workdir=work
 rm -fr overlay/dir

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.18+
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
fs/overlayfs/readdir.c