[Virtio-fs] [PATCH v2 3/7] fuse: Fix infinite loop in sget_fc()

[Max Reitz]

On 04.06.21 18:11, Greg Kurz wrote:
> We don't set the SB_BORN flag on submounts. This is wrong as these
> superblocks are then considered as partially constructed or dying
> in the rest of the code and can break some assumptions.
>
> One such case is when you have a virtiofs filesystem with submounts
> and you try to mount it again : virtio_fs_get_tree() tries to obtain
> a superblock with sget_fc(). The logic in sget_fc() is to loop until
> it has either found an existing matching superblock with SB_BORN set
> or to create a brand new one. It is assumed that a superblock without
> SB_BORN is transient and the loop is restarted. Forgetting to set
> SB_BORN on submounts hence causes sget_fc() to retry forever.
>
> Setting SB_BORN requires special care, i.e. a write barrier for
> super_cache_count() which can check SB_BORN without taking any lock.
> We should call vfs_get_tree() to deal with that but this requires
> to have a proper ->get_tree() implementation for submounts, which
> is a bigger piece of work. Go for a simple bug fix in the meatime.
>
> Fixes: bf109c64040f ("fuse: implement crossmounts")
> Cc: mreitz at redhat.com
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org # v5.10+
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug at kaod.org>
> ---
>   fs/fuse/dir.c | 11 +++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz at redhat.com>