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| author | Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com> | 2010-11-18 20:52:55 -0500 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2011-03-27 12:00:46 -0700 |
| commit | 6b0b6741726daad876d5443aae2ffe4efa328f01 (patch) | |
| tree | 53d4991d6d9ce6344192580fdb6aaac211560be5 /drivers/input/input-polldev.c | |
| parent | 314cd4b8249773e4999ceae3c13796089c21e288 (diff) | |
fs: call security_d_instantiate in d_obtain_alias V2
commit 24ff6663ccfdaf088dfa7acae489cb11ed4f43c4 upstream.
While trying to track down some NFS problems with BTRFS, I kept noticing I was
getting -EACCESS for no apparent reason. Eric Paris and printk() helped me
figure out that it was SELinux that was giving me grief, with the following
denial
type=AVC msg=audit(1290013638.413:95): avc: denied { 0x800000 } for pid=1772
comm="nfsd" name="" dev=sda1 ino=256 scontext=system_u:system_r:kernel_t:s0
tcontext=system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 tclass=file
Turns out this is because in d_obtain_alias if we can't find an alias we create
one and do all the normal instantiation stuff, but we don't do the
security_d_instantiate.
Usually we are protected from getting a hashed dentry that hasn't yet run
security_d_instantiate() by the parent's i_mutex, but obviously this isn't an
option there, so in order to deal with the case that a second thread comes in
and finds our new dentry before we get to run security_d_instantiate(), we go
ahead and call it if we find a dentry already. Eric assures me that this is ok
as the code checks to see if the dentry has been initialized already so calling
security_d_instantiate() against the same dentry multiple times is ok. With
this patch I'm no longer getting errant -EACCESS values.
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/input/input-polldev.c')
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