On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 01:19:59AM -0400, Erez Zadok wrote:
> VFS: move BUG_ON test for symlink nd->depth after current->link_count test
>
> This solves a serious VFS-level bug in nested_symlink (which was rewritten
> from
> do_follow_link), and follows the order of depth tests that existed before.
> The bug triggers a BUG_ON in fs/namei.c:1381, when running racer with
> symlink and rename ops.
Racer has nothing to do with that; just a deeply nested symlink in the middle
of pathname will do.
> - BUG_ON(nd->depth >= MAX_NESTED_LINKS);
> if (unlikely(current->link_count >= MAX_NESTED_LINKS)) {
> path_put_conditional(path, nd);
> path_put(&nd->path);
> return -ELOOP;
> }
> + BUG_ON(nd->depth >= MAX_NESTED_LINKS);
ACK (and AFAICS Linus has already applied that).
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