On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 4:44 PM, Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 03:32:25PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
>> + m = mq_internal_mount();
>> + if (IS_ERR(m))
>> + return ERR_CAST(m);
>> + atomic_inc(&m->mnt_sb->s_active);
>> + down_write(&m->mnt_sb->s_umount);
>> + return dget(m->mnt_root);
>
> Note: this is stripped down mount_subtree(m, ""), of course;
> it might make sense to recognize that case and bypass the
> create_mnt_ns/vfs_path_lookup/put_mnt_ns business in
> mount_subtree() when the relative pathname is empty, replacing
> it with path.mnt = mntget(mnt); path.dentry = dget(mnt->mnt_root);
> in such case. That'd allow to simply call mount_subtree() here.
> It would work as-is, but it's ridiculously heavy for such use
> right now.
>
>> static int __init init_mqueue_fs(void)
>> {
>> + struct vfsmount *m;
>> int error;
>>
>> mqueue_inode_cachep = kmem_cache_create("mqueue_inode_cache",
>> @@ -1577,6 +1606,10 @@ static int __init init_mqueue_fs(void)
>> if (error)
>> goto out_filesystem;
>>
>> + m = kern_mount_data(&mqueue_fs_type, &init_ipc_ns);
>> + if (IS_ERR(m))
>> + goto out_filesystem;
>> + init_ipc_ns.mq_mnt = m;
>> return 0;
>>
>> out_filesystem:
>
> Unrelated issue, but register_filesystem() should be the last thing
> module_init() of a filesystem driver does. It's a separate story,
> in any case...
Giuseppe, what report is this?
If there is a reproducer, you can ask syzbot to test a patch.
