[PATCH v8 07/11] proc: flush task dcache entries from all procfs instances

[Al Viro]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 04:05:15PM +0100, Alexey Gladkov wrote:
> This allows to flush dcache entries of a task on multiple procfs mounts
> per pid namespace.
> 
> The RCU lock is used because the number of reads at the task exit time
> is much larger than the number of procfs mounts.
> 
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto at kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Djalal Harouni <tixxdz at gmail.com>
> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey at gmail.com>
> ---
>  fs/proc/base.c                | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
>  fs/proc/root.c                | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  include/linux/pid_namespace.h |  2 ++
>  include/linux/proc_fs.h       |  2 ++
>  4 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
> index 4ccb280a3e79..24b7c620ded3 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/base.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/base.c
> @@ -3133,7 +3133,7 @@ static const struct inode_operations proc_tgid_base_inode_operations = {
>  	.permission	= proc_pid_permission,
>  };
>  
> -static void proc_flush_task_mnt(struct vfsmount *mnt, pid_t pid, pid_t tgid)
> +static void proc_flush_task_mnt_root(struct dentry *mnt_root, pid_t pid, pid_t tgid)
>  {
>  	struct dentry *dentry, *leader, *dir;
>  	char buf[10 + 1];
> @@ -3142,7 +3142,7 @@ static void proc_flush_task_mnt(struct vfsmount *mnt, pid_t pid, pid_t tgid)
>  	name.name = buf;
>  	name.len = snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%u", pid);
>  	/* no ->d_hash() rejects on procfs */
> -	dentry = d_hash_and_lookup(mnt->mnt_root, &name);
> +	dentry = d_hash_and_lookup(mnt_root, &name);
>  	if (dentry) {
>  		d_invalidate(dentry);
... which can block
>  		dput(dentry);
... and so can this

> +		rcu_read_lock();
> +		list_for_each_entry_rcu(fs_info, &upid->ns->proc_mounts, pidns_entry) {
> +			mnt_root = fs_info->m_super->s_root;
> +			proc_flush_task_mnt_root(mnt_root, upid->nr, tgid->numbers[i].nr);

... making that more than slightly unsafe.