[PATCH 4.14 35/36] proc/sysctl: dont return ENOMEM on lookup when a table is unregistering

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

4.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Ivan Delalande <col...@arista.com>

commit ea5751ccd665a2fd1b24f9af81f6167f0718c5f6 upstream.

proc_sys_lookup can fail with ENOMEM instead of ENOENT when the
corresponding sysctl table is being unregistered. In our case we see
this upon opening /proc/sys/net/*/conf files while network interfaces
are being deleted, which confuses our configuration daemon.

The problem was successfully reproduced and this fix tested on v4.9.122
and v4.20-rc6.

v2: return ERR_PTRs in all cases when proc_sys_make_inode fails instead
of mixing them with NULL. Thanks Al Viro for the feedback.

Fixes: ace0c791e6c3 ("proc/sysctl: Don't grab i_lock under sysctl_lock.")
Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ivan Delalande <col...@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c |   13 ++++++-------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ static struct inode *proc_sys_make_inode
 
        inode = new_inode(sb);
        if (!inode)
-               goto out;
+               return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
        inode->i_ino = get_next_ino();
 
@@ -474,8 +474,7 @@ static struct inode *proc_sys_make_inode
        if (unlikely(head->unregistering)) {
                spin_unlock(&sysctl_lock);
                iput(inode);
-               inode = NULL;
-               goto out;
+               return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
        }
        ei->sysctl = head;
        ei->sysctl_entry = table;
@@ -500,7 +499,6 @@ static struct inode *proc_sys_make_inode
        if (root->set_ownership)
                root->set_ownership(head, table, &inode->i_uid, &inode->i_gid);
 
-out:
        return inode;
 }
 
@@ -549,10 +547,11 @@ static struct dentry *proc_sys_lookup(st
                        goto out;
        }
 
-       err = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
        inode = proc_sys_make_inode(dir->i_sb, h ? h : head, p);
-       if (!inode)
+       if (IS_ERR(inode)) {
+               err = ERR_CAST(inode);
                goto out;
+       }
 
        err = NULL;
        d_set_d_op(dentry, &proc_sys_dentry_operations);
@@ -685,7 +684,7 @@ static bool proc_sys_fill_cache(struct f
                        return false;
                if (d_in_lookup(child)) {
                        inode = proc_sys_make_inode(dir->d_sb, head, table);
-                       if (!inode) {
+                       if (IS_ERR(inode)) {
                                d_lookup_done(child);
                                dput(child);
                                return false;