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Pull sysctl fix from Eric Biederman:
 "A rather embarassing and hard to hit bug was merged into 4.11-rc1.

  Andrei Vagin tracked this bug now and after some staring at the code
  I came up with a fix"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  proc: Fix proc_sys_prune_dcache to hold a sb reference
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torvalds committed Jul 13, 2017
2 parents edaf382 + 2fd1d2c commit 4ca6df1
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion fs/proc/internal.h
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Expand Up @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ struct proc_inode {
struct proc_dir_entry *pde;
struct ctl_table_header *sysctl;
struct ctl_table *sysctl_entry;
struct list_head sysctl_inodes;
struct hlist_node sysctl_inodes;
const struct proc_ns_operations *ns_ops;
struct inode vfs_inode;
};
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43 changes: 30 additions & 13 deletions fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
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Expand Up @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ static void init_header(struct ctl_table_header *head,
head->set = set;
head->parent = NULL;
head->node = node;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&head->inodes);
INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&head->inodes);
if (node) {
struct ctl_table *entry;
for (entry = table; entry->procname; entry++, node++)
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complete(p->unregistering);
}

/* called under sysctl_lock */
static void proc_sys_prune_dcache(struct ctl_table_header *head)
{
struct inode *inode, *prev = NULL;
struct inode *inode;
struct proc_inode *ei;
struct hlist_node *node;
struct super_block *sb;

rcu_read_lock();
list_for_each_entry_rcu(ei, &head->inodes, sysctl_inodes) {
inode = igrab(&ei->vfs_inode);
if (inode) {
rcu_read_unlock();
iput(prev);
prev = inode;
d_prune_aliases(inode);
for (;;) {
node = hlist_first_rcu(&head->inodes);
if (!node)
break;
ei = hlist_entry(node, struct proc_inode, sysctl_inodes);
spin_lock(&sysctl_lock);
hlist_del_init_rcu(&ei->sysctl_inodes);
spin_unlock(&sysctl_lock);

inode = &ei->vfs_inode;
sb = inode->i_sb;
if (!atomic_inc_not_zero(&sb->s_active))
continue;
inode = igrab(inode);
rcu_read_unlock();
if (unlikely(!inode)) {
deactivate_super(sb);
rcu_read_lock();
continue;
}

d_prune_aliases(inode);
iput(inode);
deactivate_super(sb);

rcu_read_lock();
}
rcu_read_unlock();
iput(prev);
}

/* called under sysctl_lock, will reacquire if has to wait */
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}
ei->sysctl = head;
ei->sysctl_entry = table;
list_add_rcu(&ei->sysctl_inodes, &head->inodes);
hlist_add_head_rcu(&ei->sysctl_inodes, &head->inodes);
head->count++;
spin_unlock(&sysctl_lock);

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void proc_sys_evict_inode(struct inode *inode, struct ctl_table_header *head)
{
spin_lock(&sysctl_lock);
list_del_rcu(&PROC_I(inode)->sysctl_inodes);
hlist_del_init_rcu(&PROC_I(inode)->sysctl_inodes);
if (!--head->count)
kfree_rcu(head, rcu);
spin_unlock(&sysctl_lock);
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion include/linux/sysctl.h
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Expand Up @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ struct ctl_table_header
struct ctl_table_set *set;
struct ctl_dir *parent;
struct ctl_node *node;
struct list_head inodes; /* head for proc_inode->sysctl_inodes */
struct hlist_head inodes; /* head for proc_inode->sysctl_inodes */
};

struct ctl_dir {
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