Make sure nd->path.mnt and nd->path.dentry are always valid pointers
Initialize them in set_nameidata() and make sure that terminate_walk() clears them
once the pointers become potentially invalid (i.e. we leave RCU mode or drop them
in non-RCU one). Currently we have "path_init() always initializes them and nobody
accesses them outside of path_init()/terminate_walk() segments", which is asking
for trouble.
With that change we would have nd->path.{mnt,dentry}
1) always valid - NULL or pointing to currently allocated objects.
2) non-NULL while we are successfully walking
3) NULL when we are not walking at all
4) contributing to refcounts whenever non-NULL outside of RCU mode.
Fixes: 6c6ec2b0a3e0 ("fs: add support for LOOKUP_CACHED")
Reported-by: syzbot+c88a7030da47945a3cc3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Tested-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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