Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 3 authors, 2021-09-30

[PATCH] nfsd: fix error handling of register_pernet_subsys() in init_nfsd()

From: Ho, Patrick <hidden>
Date: 2021-09-30 03:48:49
Also in: stable
Subsystem: filesystems (vfs and infrastructure), kernel nfsd, sunrpc, and lockd servers, the rest · Maintainers: Alexander Viro, Christian Brauner, Chuck Lever, Jeff Layton, Linus Torvalds

From 7417896fcc7aea645fa0b89f39fa55979251dca3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Patrick Ho <redacted>
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 02:56:26 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] nfsd: fix error handling of register_pernet_subsys() in
 init_nfsd()

init_nfsd() should not unregister pernet subsys if the register fails
but should instead unwind from the last successful operation which is
register_filesystem().

Unregistering a failed register_pernet_subsys() call can result in
a kernel GPF as revealed by programmatically injecting an error in
register_pernet_subsys().

Verified the fix handled failure gracefully with no lingering nfsd
entry in /proc/filesystems.  This change was introduced by the commit
bd5ae9288d64 ("nfsd: register pernet ops last, unregister first"),
the original error handling logic was correct.

Fixes: bd5ae9288d64 ("nfsd: register pernet ops last, unregister first")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Patrick Ho <redacted>
---
 fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
index c2c3d9077dc5..09ae1a0873d0 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
@@ -1545,7 +1545,7 @@ static int __init init_nfsd(void)
 		goto out_free_all;
 	return 0;
 out_free_all:
-	unregister_pernet_subsys(&nfsd_net_ops);
+	unregister_filesystem(&nfsd_fs_type);
 out_free_exports:
 	remove_proc_entry("fs/nfs/exports", NULL);
 	remove_proc_entry("fs/nfs", NULL);
-- 
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