vfs: check unlinked ancestors before mount

We check submounts before doing d_drop() on a non-empty directory dentry in
NFS (have_submounts()), but we do not exclude a racing mount.  Nor do we
prevent mounts to be added to the disconnected subtree using relative paths
after the d_drop().

This patch fixes these issues by checking for unlinked (unhashed, non-root)
ancestors before proceeding with the mount.  This is done with rename
seqlock taken for write and with ->d_lock grabbed on each ancestor in turn,
including our dentry itself.  This ensures that the only one of
check_submounts_and_drop() or has_unlinked_ancestor() can succeed.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/internal.h b/fs/internal.h
index 7c5f01cf619d..d20893795526 100644
--- a/fs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/internal.h
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ extern int invalidate_inodes(struct super_block *, bool);
  * dcache.c
  */
 extern struct dentry *__d_alloc(struct super_block *, const struct qstr *);
+extern int d_set_mounted(struct dentry *dentry);
 
 /*
  * read_write.c