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    fanotify: fix races when adding/removing marks · 7b18527c
    Lino Sanfilippo authored
    For both adding an event to an existing mark and destroying a mark we
    first have to find it via fsnotify_find_[inode|vfsmount]_mark().  But
    getting the mark and adding an event (or destroying it) is not done
    atomically.  This opens a race where a thread is about to destroy a mark
    while another thread still finds the same mark and adds an event to its
    mask although it will be destroyed.
    
    Another race exists concerning the excess of a groups number of marks
    limit: When a mark is added the number of group marks is checked against
    the max number of marks per group and increased afterwards.  Since check
    and increment is also not done atomically, this may result in 2 or more
    processes passing the check at the same time and increasing the number
    of group marks above the allowed limit.
    
    With this patch both races are avoided by doing the concerning
    operations with the groups mark mutex locked.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>
    Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
    Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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