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    vfs: make sure we don't have a stale root path if unlazy_walk() fails · d0d27277
    Linus Torvalds authored
    
    
    When I moved the RCU walk termination into unlazy_walk(), I didn't copy
    quite all of it: for the successful RCU termination we properly add the
    necessary reference counts to our temporary copy of the root path, but
    for the failure case we need to make sure that any temporary root path
    information is cleared out (since it does _not_ have the proper
    reference counts from the RCU lookup).
    
    We could clean up this mess by just always dropping the temporary root
    information, but Al points out that that would mean that a single lookup
    through symlinks could see multiple different root entries if it races
    with another thread doing chroot.  Not that I think we should really
    care (we had that before too, back before we had a copy of the root path
    in the nameidata).
    
    Al says he has a cunning plan.  In the meantime, this is the minimal fix
    for the problem, even if it's not all that pretty.
    
    Reported-by: default avatarMace Moneta <moneta.mace@gmail.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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