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David Howells e6bc06faf6 cachefiles: Fix an assertion failure when trying to update a failed object 
If cachefiles gets an error other then ENOENT when trying to look up an
object in the cache (in this case, EACCES), the object state machine will
eventually transition to the DROP_OBJECT state.

This state invokes fscache_drop_object() which tries to sync the auxiliary
data with the cache (this is done lazily since commit 402cb8dda9) on an
incomplete cache object struct.

The problem comes when cachefiles_update_object_xattr() is called to
rewrite the xattr holding the data.  There's an assertion there that the
cache object points to a dentry as we're going to update its xattr.  The
assertion trips, however, as dentry didn't get set.

Fix the problem by skipping the update in cachefiles if the object doesn't
refer to a dentry.  A better way to do it could be to skip the update from
the DROP_OBJECT state handler in fscache, but that might deny the cache the
opportunity to update intermediate state.

If this error occurs, the kernel log includes lines that look like the
following:

 CacheFiles: Lookup failed error -13
 CacheFiles:
 CacheFiles: Assertion failed
 ------------[ cut here ]------------
 kernel BUG at fs/cachefiles/xattr.c:138!
 ...
 Workqueue: fscache_object fscache_object_work_func [fscache]
 RIP: 0010:cachefiles_update_object_xattr.cold.4+0x18/0x1a [cachefiles]
 ...
 Call Trace:
  cachefiles_update_object+0xdd/0x1c0 [cachefiles]
  fscache_update_aux_data+0x23/0x30 [fscache]
  fscache_drop_object+0x18e/0x1c0 [fscache]
  fscache_object_work_func+0x74/0x2b0 [fscache]
  process_one_work+0x18d/0x340
  worker_thread+0x2e/0x390
  ? pwq_unbound_release_workfn+0xd0/0xd0
  kthread+0x112/0x130
  ? kthread_bind+0x30/0x30
  ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40

Note that there are actually two issues here: (1) EACCES happened on a
cache object and (2) an oops occurred.  I think that the second is a
consequence of the first (it certainly looks like it ought to be).  This
patch only deals with the second.

Fixes: 402cb8dda9 ("fscache: Attach the index key and aux data to the cookie")
Reported-by: Zhibin Li <zhibli@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2018-11-28 13:19:20 +00:00
arch arm64 fixes: 2018-11-24 09:42:32 -08:00
block SCSI: fix queue cleanup race before queue initialization is done 2018-11-14 08:19:10 -07:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto crypto: user - Zeroize whole structure given to user space 2018-11-09 17:35:43 +08:00
Documentation XArray updates for 4.20-rc4 2018-11-24 18:44:01 -08:00
drivers Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hid/hid 2018-11-24 12:58:47 -08:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs cachefiles: Fix an assertion failure when trying to update a failed object 2018-11-28 13:19:20 +00:00
include Two dma-direct / swiotlb regressions fixes 2018-11-25 09:24:40 -08:00
init memblock: stop using implicit alignment to SMP_CACHE_BYTES 2018-10-31 08:54:16 -07:00
ipc ipc: IPCMNI limit check for semmni 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
kernel swiotlb: Skip cache maintenance on map error 2018-11-21 18:47:58 +01:00
lib XArray updates for 4.20-rc4 2018-11-24 18:44:01 -08:00
LICENSES This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
mm mm/memblock.c: fix a typo in __next_mem_pfn_range() comments 2018-11-18 10:15:10 -08:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-11-24 09:19:38 -08:00
samples VFIO updates for v4.20 2018-10-31 11:01:38 -07:00
scripts scripts/spdxcheck.py: make python3 compliant 2018-11-18 10:15:10 -08:00
security selinux/stable-4.20 PR 20181115 2018-11-15 11:26:09 -06:00
sound ALSA: hda/ca0132 - fix AE-5 pincfg 2018-11-19 12:18:43 +01:00
tools Power management fixes for 4.20-rc4 2018-11-23 10:52:57 -08:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt Revert "mm, mmu_notifier: annotate mmu notifiers with blockable invalidate callbacks" 2018-10-26 16:25:19 -07:00
.clang-format page cache: Convert find_get_pages_contig to XArray 2018-10-21 10:46:34 -04:00
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.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap mailmap: Update email for Punit Agrawal 2018-11-05 10:02:11 +00:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: change Sparse's maintainer 2018-11-25 09:17:43 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: change Sparse's maintainer 2018-11-25 09:17:43 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.20-rc4 2018-11-25 14:19:31 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.