kernel: make groups_sort calling a responsibility group_info allocators

In testing, we found that nfsd threads may call set_groups in parallel
for the same entry cached in auth.unix.gid, racing in the call of
groups_sort, corrupting the groups for that entry and leading to
permission denials for the client.

This patch:
 - Make groups_sort globally visible.
 - Move the call to groups_sort to the modifiers of group_info
 - Remove the call to groups_sort from set_groups

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171211151420.18655-1-thiago.becker@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thiago Rafael Becker <thiago.becker@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Acked-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/auth.c b/fs/nfsd/auth.c
index 697f8ae7792d..f650e475d8f0 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/auth.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/auth.c
@@ -60,6 +60,9 @@ int nfsd_setuser(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_export *exp)
 				gi->gid[i] = exp->ex_anon_gid;
 			else
 				gi->gid[i] = rqgi->gid[i];
+
+			/* Each thread allocates its own gi, no race */
+			groups_sort(gi);
 		}
 	} else {
 		gi = get_group_info(rqgi);