linux/security/smack
Eric Biggers e5bfad3d7a
smack: use GFP_NOFS while holding inode_smack::smk_lock
inode_smack::smk_lock is taken during smack_d_instantiate(), which is
called during a filesystem transaction when creating a file on ext4.
Therefore to avoid a deadlock, all code that takes this lock must use
GFP_NOFS, to prevent memory reclaim from waiting for the filesystem
transaction to complete.

Reported-by: syzbot+0eefc1e06a77d327a056@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
2019-09-04 09:37:07 -07:00
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Kconfig treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
Makefile treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
smack_access.c smack: use GFP_NOFS while holding inode_smack::smk_lock 2019-09-04 09:37:07 -07:00
smack_lsm.c smack: use GFP_NOFS while holding inode_smack::smk_lock 2019-09-04 09:37:07 -07:00
smack_netfilter.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500 2019-06-19 17:09:55 +02:00
smack.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 372 2019-06-05 17:37:10 +02:00
smackfs.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 372 2019-06-05 17:37:10 +02:00