[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 04/13] audit_get_nd(): don't unlock parent too early

Sasha Levin sashal at kernel.org
Fri Nov 22 19:49:49 UTC 2019


From: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>

[ Upstream commit 69924b89687a2923e88cc42144aea27868913d0e ]

if the child has been negative and just went positive
under us, we want coherent d_is_positive() and ->d_inode.
Don't unlock the parent until we'd done that work...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal at kernel.org>
---
 kernel/audit_watch.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/audit_watch.c b/kernel/audit_watch.c
index f036b6ada6efc..712469a3103ac 100644
--- a/kernel/audit_watch.c
+++ b/kernel/audit_watch.c
@@ -365,12 +365,12 @@ static int audit_get_nd(struct audit_watch *watch, struct path *parent)
 	struct dentry *d = kern_path_locked(watch->path, parent);
 	if (IS_ERR(d))
 		return PTR_ERR(d);
-	inode_unlock(d_backing_inode(parent->dentry));
 	if (d_is_positive(d)) {
 		/* update watch filter fields */
 		watch->dev = d->d_sb->s_dev;
 		watch->ino = d_backing_inode(d)->i_ino;
 	}
+	inode_unlock(d_backing_inode(parent->dentry));
 	dput(d);
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.20.1





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