Commit e97dcb0e authored Jun 02, 2008 by Casey Schaufler Committed by Linus Torvalds Jun 04, 2008

Smack: fuse mount hang fix



The d_instantiate hook for Smack can hang on the root inode of a
filesystem if the file system code has not really done all the set-up.
Fuse is known to encounter this problem.

This change detects an attempt to instantiate a root inode and addresses
it early in the processing, before any attempt is made to do something
that might hang.

Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Tested-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent 246dd412

security/smack/smack_lsm.c

+12 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1880,6 +1880,18 @@ static void smack_d_instantiate(struct dentry opt_dentry, struct inode inode)
		*/
		final = sbsp->smk_default;

		/*
		* If this is the root inode the superblock
		* may be in the process of initialization.
		* If that is the case use the root value out
		* of the superblock.
		*/
		if (opt_dentry->d_parent == opt_dentry) {
		isp->smk_inode = sbsp->smk_root;
		isp->smk_flags \|= SMK_INODE_INSTANT;
		goto unlockandout;
		}

		/*
		* This is pretty hackish.
		* Casey says that we shouldn't have to do

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