From: Greg KH <[email protected]>

3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>

commit a2140fc0cb0325bb6384e788edd27b9a568714e2 upstream.

Refcounting of fsnotify_mark in audit tree is broken.  E.g:

                              refcount
create_chunk
  alloc_chunk                 1
  fsnotify_add_mark           2

untag_chunk
  fsnotify_get_mark           3
  fsnotify_destroy_mark
    audit_tree_freeing_mark   2
  fsnotify_put_mark           1
  fsnotify_put_mark           0
  via destroy_list
    fsnotify_mark_destroy    -1

This was reported by various people as triggering Oops when stopping auditd.

We could just remove the put_mark from audit_tree_freeing_mark() but that would
break freeing via inode destruction.  So this patch simply omits a put_mark
after calling destroy_mark or adds a get_mark before.

The additional get_mark is necessary where there's no other put_mark after
fsnotify_destroy_mark() since it assumes that the caller is holding a reference
(or the inode is keeping the mark pinned, not the case here AFAICS).

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Valentin Avram <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Peter Moody <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Eric Paris <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 kernel/audit_tree.c |    5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/audit_tree.c
+++ b/kernel/audit_tree.c
@@ -256,7 +256,6 @@ static void untag_chunk(struct node *p)
                spin_unlock(&hash_lock);
                spin_unlock(&entry->lock);
                fsnotify_destroy_mark(entry);
-               fsnotify_put_mark(entry);
                goto out;
        }
 
@@ -299,7 +298,6 @@ static void untag_chunk(struct node *p)
        spin_unlock(&hash_lock);
        spin_unlock(&entry->lock);
        fsnotify_destroy_mark(entry);
-       fsnotify_put_mark(entry);
        goto out;
 
 Fallback:
@@ -338,6 +336,7 @@ static int create_chunk(struct inode *in
                spin_unlock(&hash_lock);
                chunk->dead = 1;
                spin_unlock(&entry->lock);
+               fsnotify_get_mark(entry);
                fsnotify_destroy_mark(entry);
                fsnotify_put_mark(entry);
                return 0;
@@ -418,6 +417,7 @@ static int tag_chunk(struct inode *inode
                spin_unlock(&chunk_entry->lock);
                spin_unlock(&old_entry->lock);
 
+               fsnotify_get_mark(chunk_entry);
                fsnotify_destroy_mark(chunk_entry);
 
                fsnotify_put_mark(chunk_entry);
@@ -451,7 +451,6 @@ static int tag_chunk(struct inode *inode
        spin_unlock(&old_entry->lock);
        fsnotify_destroy_mark(old_entry);
        fsnotify_put_mark(old_entry); /* pair to fsnotify_find mark_entry */
-       fsnotify_put_mark(old_entry); /* and kill it */
        return 0;
 }
 


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