eCryptfs: fix dentry handling on create error, unlink, and inode destroy

This patch corrects some erroneous dentry handling in eCryptfs.

If there is a problem creating the lower file, then there is nothing that
the persistent lower file can do to really help us.  This patch makes a
vfs_create() failure in the lower filesystem always lead to an
unconditional do_create failure in eCryptfs.

Under certain sequences of operations, the eCryptfs dentry can remain in
the dcache after an unlink.  This patch calls d_drop() on the eCryptfs
dentry to correct this.

eCryptfs has no business calling d_delete() directly on a lower
filesystem's dentry.  This patch removes the call to d_delete() on the
lower persistent file's dentry in ecryptfs_destroy_inode().

(Thanks to David Kleikamp, Eric Sandeen, and Jeff Moyer for helping
identify and resolve this issue)

Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Michael Halcrow
2008-01-08 15:33:02 -08:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent c51b1a160b
commit caeeeecfda
2 changed files with 4 additions and 17 deletions

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@@ -86,7 +86,6 @@ static void ecryptfs_destroy_inode(struct inode *inode)
fput(inode_info->lower_file);
inode_info->lower_file = NULL;
d_drop(lower_dentry);
d_delete(lower_dentry);
}
}
mutex_unlock(&inode_info->lower_file_mutex);