ext4: atomically set inode->i_flags in ext4_set_inode_flags()

Use cmpxchg() to atomically set i_flags instead of clearing out the
S_IMMUTABLE, S_APPEND, etc. flags and then setting them from the
EXT4_IMMUTABLE_FL, EXT4_APPEND_FL flags, since this opens up a race
where an immutable file has the immutable flag cleared for a brief
window of time.

Reported-by: John Sullivan <jsrhbz@kanargh.force9.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index b5e182acf9b9..df067c3c6c93 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -3938,18 +3938,20 @@ int ext4_get_inode_loc(struct inode *inode, struct ext4_iloc *iloc)
 void ext4_set_inode_flags(struct inode *inode)
 {
         unsigned int flags = EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags;
+        unsigned int new_fl = 0;
 
-        inode->i_flags &= ~(S_SYNC|S_APPEND|S_IMMUTABLE|S_NOATIME|S_DIRSYNC);
         if (flags & EXT4_SYNC_FL)
-                inode->i_flags |= S_SYNC;
+                new_fl |= S_SYNC;
         if (flags & EXT4_APPEND_FL)
-                inode->i_flags |= S_APPEND;
+                new_fl |= S_APPEND;
         if (flags & EXT4_IMMUTABLE_FL)
-                inode->i_flags |= S_IMMUTABLE;
+                new_fl |= S_IMMUTABLE;
         if (flags & EXT4_NOATIME_FL)
-                inode->i_flags |= S_NOATIME;
+                new_fl |= S_NOATIME;
         if (flags & EXT4_DIRSYNC_FL)
-                inode->i_flags |= S_DIRSYNC;
+                new_fl |= S_DIRSYNC;
+        inode_set_flags(inode, new_fl,
+                        S_SYNC|S_APPEND|S_IMMUTABLE|S_NOATIME|S_DIRSYNC);
 }
 
 /* Propagate flags from i_flags to EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags */