fs: fix do_lookup false negative

fs: fix do_lookup false negative

In do_lookup, if we initially find no dentry, we take the directory i_mutex and
re-check the lookup. If we find a dentry there, then we revalidate it if
needed. However if that revalidate asks for the dentry to be invalidated, we
return -ENOENT from do_lookup. What should happen instead is an attempt to
allocate and lookup a new dentry.

This is probably not noticed because it is rare. It is only reached if a
concurrent create races in first (in which case, the dentry probably won't be
invalidated anyway), or if the racy __d_lookup has failed due to a
false-negative (which is very rare).

Fix this by removing code and have it use the normal reval path.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 17ea76b..c2742b7 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -709,6 +709,7 @@ static int do_lookup(struct nameidata *nd, struct qstr *name,
 	dentry = __d_lookup(nd->path.dentry, name);
 	if (!dentry)
 		goto need_lookup;
+found:
 	if (dentry->d_op && dentry->d_op->d_revalidate)
 		goto need_revalidate;
 done:
@@ -766,14 +767,7 @@ out_unlock:
 	 * we waited on the semaphore. Need to revalidate.
 	 */
 	mutex_unlock(&dir->i_mutex);
-	if (dentry->d_op && dentry->d_op->d_revalidate) {
-		dentry = do_revalidate(dentry, nd);
-		if (!dentry)
-			dentry = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
-	}
-	if (IS_ERR(dentry))
-		goto fail;
-	goto done;
+	goto found;
 
 need_revalidate:
 	dentry = do_revalidate(dentry, nd);