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With structure layout randomization enabled for 'struct inode' we need to
avoid overlapping any of the RCU-used / initialized-only-once members,
e.g. i_lru or i_sb_list to not corrupt related list traversals when making
use of the rcu_head.
For an unlucky structure layout of 'struct inode' we may end up with the
following splat when running the ftrace selftests:
[<...>] list_del corruption, ffff888103ee2cb0->next (tracefs_inode_cache+0x0/0x4e0 [slab object]) is NULL (prev is tracefs_inode_cache+0x78/0x4e0 [slab object])
[<...>] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[<...>] kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:54!
[<...>] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
[<...>] CPU: 3 PID: 2550 Comm: mount Tainted: G N 6.8.12-grsec+ #122 ed2f536ca62f28b087b90e3cc906a8d25b3ddc65
[<...>] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-2 04/01/2014
[<...>] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff84656018>] __list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0x138/0x3e0
[<...>] Code: 48 b8 99 fb 65 f2 ff ff ff ff e9 03 5c d9 fc cc 48 b8 99 fb 65 f2 ff ff ff ff e9 33 5a d9 fc cc 48 b8 99 fb 65 f2 ff ff ff ff <0f> 0b 4c 89 e9 48 89 ea 48 89 ee 48 c7 c7 60 8f dd 89 31 c0 e8 2f
[<...>] RSP: 0018:fffffe80416afaf0 EFLAGS: 00010283
[<...>] RAX: 0000000000000098 RBX: ffff888103ee2cb0 RCX: 0000000000000000
[<...>] RDX: ffffffff84655fe8 RSI: ffffffff89dd8b60 RDI: 0000000000000001
[<...>] RBP: ffff888103ee2cb0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: fffffbd0082d5f25
[<...>] R10: fffffe80416af92f R11: 0000000000000001 R12: fdf99c16731d9b6d
[<...>] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff88819ad4b8b8 R15: 0000000000000000
[<...>] RBX: tracefs_inode_cache+0x0/0x4e0 [slab object]
[<...>] RDX: __list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0x108/0x3e0
[<...>] RSI: __func__.47+0x4340/0x4400
[<...>] RBP: tracefs_inode_cache+0x0/0x4e0 [slab object]
[<...>] RSP: process kstack fffffe80416afaf0+0x7af0/0x8000 [mount 2550 2550]
[<...>] R09: kasan shadow of process kstack fffffe80416af928+0x7928/0x8000 [mount 2550 2550]
[<...>] R10: process kstack fffffe80416af92f+0x792f/0x8000 [mount 2550 2550]
[<...>] R14: tracefs_inode_cache+0x78/0x4e0 [slab object]
[<...>] FS: 00006dcb380c1840(0000) GS:ffff8881e0600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[<...>] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[<...>] CR2: 000076ab72b30e84 CR3: 000000000b088004 CR4: 0000000000360ef0 shadow CR4: 0000000000360ef0
[<...>] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[<...>] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[<...>] ASID: 0003
[<...>] Stack:
[<...>] ffffffff818a2315 00000000f5c856ee ffffffff896f1840 ffff888103ee2cb0
[<...>] ffff88812b6b9750 0000000079d714b6 fffffbfff1e9280b ffffffff8f49405f
[<...>] 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 ffff888104457280 ffffffff8248b392
[<...>] Call Trace:
[<...>] <TASK>
[<...>] [<ffffffff818a2315>] ? lock_release+0x175/0x380 fffffe80416afaf0
[<...>] [<ffffffff8248b392>] list_lru_del+0x152/0x740 fffffe80416afb48
[<...>] [<ffffffff8248ba93>] list_lru_del_obj+0x113/0x280 fffffe80416afb88
[<...>] [<ffffffff8940fd19>] ? _atomic_dec_and_lock+0x119/0x200 fffffe80416afb90
[<...>] [<ffffffff8295b244>] iput_final+0x1c4/0x9a0 fffffe80416afbb8
[<...>] [<ffffffff8293a52b>] dentry_unlink_inode+0x44b/0xaa0 fffffe80416afbf8
[<...>] [<ffffffff8293fefc>] __dentry_kill+0x23c/0xf00 fffffe80416afc40
[<...>] [<ffffffff8953a85f>] ? __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x1f/0xa0 fffffe80416afc48
[<...>] [<ffffffff82949ce5>] ? shrink_dentry_list+0x1c5/0x760 fffffe80416afc70
[<...>] [<ffffffff82949b71>] ? shrink_dentry_list+0x51/0x760 fffffe80416afc78
[<...>] [<ffffffff82949da8>] shrink_dentry_list+0x288/0x760 fffffe80416afc80
[<...>] [<ffffffff8294ae75>] shrink_dcache_sb+0x155/0x420 fffffe80416afcc8
[<...>] [<ffffffff8953a7c3>] ? debug_smp_processor_id+0x23/0xa0 fffffe80416afce0
[<...>] [<ffffffff8294ad20>] ? do_one_tree+0x140/0x140 fffffe80416afcf8
[<...>] [<ffffffff82997349>] ? do_remount+0x329/0xa00 fffffe80416afd18
[<...>] [<ffffffff83ebf7a1>] ? security_sb_remount+0x81/0x1c0 fffffe80416afd38
[<...>] [<ffffffff82892096>] reconfigure_super+0x856/0x14e0 fffffe80416afd70
[<...>] [<ffffffff815d1327>] ? ns_capable_common+0xe7/0x2a0 fffffe80416afd90
[<...>] [<ffffffff82997436>] do_remount+0x416/0xa00 fffffe80416afdd0
[<...>] [<ffffffff829b2ba4>] path_mount+0x5c4/0x900 fffffe80416afe28
[<...>] [<ffffffff829b25e0>] ? finish_automount+0x13a0/0x13a0 fffffe80416afe60
[<...>] [<ffffffff82903812>] ? user_path_at_empty+0xb2/0x140 fffffe80416afe88
[<...>] [<ffffffff829b2ff5>] do_mount+0x115/0x1c0 fffffe80416afeb8
[<...>] [<ffffffff829b2ee0>] ? path_mount+0x900/0x900 fffffe80416afed8
[<...>] [<ffffffff8272461c>] ? __kasan_check_write+0x1c/0xa0 fffffe80416afee0
[<...>] [<ffffffff829b31cf>] __do_sys_mount+0x12f/0x280 fffffe80416aff30
[<...>] [<ffffffff829b36cd>] __x64_sys_mount+0xcd/0x2e0 fffffe80416aff70
[<...>] [<ffffffff819f8818>] ? syscall_trace_enter+0x218/0x380 fffffe80416aff88
[<...>] [<ffffffff8111655e>] x64_sys_call+0x5d5e/0x6720 fffffe80416affa8
[<...>] [<ffffffff8952756d>] do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x3c0 fffffe80416affb8
[<...>] [<ffffffff8100119b>] entry_SYSCALL_64_safe_stack+0x4c/0x87 fffffe80416affe8
[<...>] </TASK>
[<...>] <PTREGS>
[<...>] RIP: 0033:[<00006dcb382ff66a>] vm_area_struct[mount 2550 2550 file 6dcb38225000-6dcb3837e000 22 55(read|exec|mayread|mayexec)]+0x0/0xb8 [userland map]
[<...>] Code: 48 8b 0d 29 18 0d 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 49 89 ca b8 a5 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d f6 17 0d 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48
[<...>] RSP: 002b:0000763d68192558 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000000a5
[<...>] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00006dcb38433264 RCX: 00006dcb382ff66a
[<...>] RDX: 000017c3e0d11210 RSI: 000017c3e0d1a5a0 RDI: 000017c3e0d1ae70
[<...>] RBP: 000017c3e0d10fb0 R08: 000017c3e0d11260 R09: 00006dcb383d1be0
[<...>] R10: 000000000020002e R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
[<...>] R13: 000017c3e0d1ae70 R14: 000017c3e0d11210 R15: 000017c3e0d10fb0
[<...>] RBX: vm_area_struct[mount 2550 2550 file 6dcb38433000-6dcb38434000 5b 100033(read|write|mayread|maywrite|account)]+0x0/0xb8 [userland map]
[<...>] RCX: vm_area_struct[mount 2550 2550 file 6dcb38225000-6dcb3837e000 22 55(read|exec|mayread|mayexec)]+0x0/0xb8 [userland map]
[<...>] RDX: vm_area_struct[mount 2550 2550 anon 17c3e0d0f000-17c3e0d31000 17c3e0d0f 100033(read|write|mayread|maywrite|account)]+0x0/0xb8 [userland map]
[<...>] RSI: vm_area_struct[mount 2550 2550 anon 17c3e0d0f000-17c3e0d31000 17c3e0d0f 100033(read|write|mayread|maywrite|account)]+0x0/0xb8 [userland map]
[<...>] RDI: vm_area_struct[mount 2550 2550 anon 17c3e0d0f000-17c3e0d31000 17c3e0d0f 100033(read|write|mayread|maywrite|account)]+0x0/0xb8 [userland map]
[<...>] RBP: vm_area_struct[mount 2550 2550 anon 17c3e0d0f000-17c3e0d31000 17c3e0d0f 100033(read|write|mayread|maywrite|account)]+0x0/0xb8 [userland map]
[<...>] RSP: vm_area_struct[mount 2550 2550 anon 763d68173000-763d68195000 7ffffffdd 100133(read|write|mayread|maywrite|growsdown|account)]+0x0/0xb8 [userland map]
[<...>] R08: vm_area_struct[mount 2550 2550 anon 17c3e0d0f000-17c3e0d31000 17c3e0d0f 100033(read|write|mayread|maywrite|account)]+0x0/0xb8 [userland map]
[<...>] R09: vm_area_struct[mount 2550 2550 file 6dcb383d1000-6dcb383d3000 1cd 100033(read|write|mayread|maywrite|account)]+0x0/0xb8 [userland map]
[<...>] R13: vm_area_struct[mount 2550 2550 anon 17c3e0d0f000-17c3e0d31000 17c3e0d0f 100033(read|write|mayread|maywrite|account)]+0x0/0xb8 [userland map]
[<...>] R14: vm_area_struct[mount 2550 2550 anon 17c3e0d0f000-17c3e0d31000 17c3e0d0f 100033(read|write|mayread|maywrite|account)]+0x0/0xb8 [userland map]
[<...>] R15: vm_area_struct[mount 2550 2550 anon 17c3e0d0f000-17c3e0d31000 17c3e0d0f 100033(read|write|mayread|maywrite|account)]+0x0/0xb8 [userland map]
[<...>] </PTREGS>
[<...>] Modules linked in:
[<...>] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
The list debug message as well as RBX's symbolic value point out that the
object in question was allocated from 'tracefs_inode_cache' and that the
list's '->next' member is at offset 0. Dumping the layout of the relevant
parts of 'struct tracefs_inode' gives the following:
struct tracefs_inode {
union {
struct inode {
struct list_head {
struct list_head * next; /* 0 8 */
struct list_head * prev; /* 8 8 */
} i_lru;
[...]
} vfs_inode;
struct callback_head {
void (*func)(struct callback_head *); /* 0 8 */
struct callback_head * next; /* 8 8 */
} rcu;
};
[...]
};
Above shows that 'vfs_inode.i_lru' overlaps with 'rcu' which will
destroy the 'i_lru' list as soon as the 'rcu' member gets used, e.g. in
call_rcu() or later when calling the RCU callback. This will disturb
concurrent list traversals as well as object reuse which assumes these
list heads will keep their integrity.
For reproduction, the following diff manually overlays 'i_lru' with
'rcu' as, otherwise, one would require some good portion of luck for
gambling an unlucky RANDSTRUCT seed:
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -629,6 +629,7 @@ struct inode {
umode_t i_mode;
unsigned short i_opflags;
kuid_t i_uid;
+ struct list_head i_lru; /* inode LRU list */
kgid_t i_gid;
unsigned int i_flags;
@@ -690,7 +691,6 @@ struct inode {
u16 i_wb_frn_avg_time;
u16 i_wb_frn_history;
#endif
- struct list_head i_lru; /* inode LRU list */
struct list_head i_sb_list;
struct list_head i_wb_list; /* backing dev writeback list */
union {
The tracefs inode does not need to supply its own RCU delayed destruction
of its inode. The inode code itself offers both a "destroy_inode()"
callback that gets called when the last reference of the inode is
released, and the "free_inode()" which is called after a RCU
synchronization period from the "destroy_inode()".
The tracefs code can unlink the inode from its list in the destroy_inode()
callback, and the simply free it from the free_inode() callback. This
should provide the same protection.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240807115143.45927-3-minipli@grsecurity.net/
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Ajay Kaher <ajay.kaher@broadcom.com>
Cc: Ilkka =?utf-8?b?TmF1bGFww6TDpA==?= <digirigawa@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20240807185402.61410544@gandalf.local.home
Fixes: baa23a8d4360 ("tracefs: Reset permissions on remount if permissions are options")
Reported-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@grsecurity.net>
Reported-by: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>
Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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To mirror the SRCU lock held in eventfs_iterate() when iterating over
eventfs inodes, use call_srcu() to free them too.
This was accidentally(?) degraded to RCU in commit 43aa6f97c2d0
("eventfs: Get rid of dentry pointers without refcounts").
Cc: Ajay Kaher <ajay.kaher@broadcom.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20240723210755.8970-1-minipli@grsecurity.net
Fixes: 43aa6f97c2d0 ("eventfs: Get rid of dentry pointers without refcounts")
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@grsecurity.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Commit 77a06c33a22d ("eventfs: Test for ei->is_freed when accessing
ei->dentry") added another check, testing if the parent was freed after
we released the mutex. If so, the function returns NULL. However, all
callers expect it to either return a valid pointer or an error pointer,
at least since commit 5264a2f4bb3b ("tracing: Fix a NULL vs IS_ERR() bug
in event_subsystem_dir()"). Returning NULL will therefore fail the error
condition check in the caller.
Fix this by substituting the NULL return value with a fitting error
pointer.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 77a06c33a22d ("eventfs: Test for ei->is_freed when accessing ei->dentry")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20240723122522.2724-1-minipli@grsecurity.net
Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Ajay Kaher <ajay.kaher@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@grsecurity.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The leading comment above alloc_inode_sb() is pretty explicit about it:
/*
* This must be used for allocating filesystems specific inodes to set
* up the inode reclaim context correctly.
*/
Switch tracefs over to alloc_inode_sb() to make sure inodes are properly
linked.
Cc: Ajay Kaher <ajay.kaher@broadcom.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20240807115143.45927-2-minipli@grsecurity.net
Fixes: ba37ff75e04b ("eventfs: Implement tracefs_inode_cache")
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@grsecurity.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Convert to new uid/gid option parsing helpers
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6c9b0b16-e61b-4dfc-852d-e2eb5bb11b82@redhat.com
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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The top "events" directory has a static inode (it's created when it is and
removed when the directory is removed). There's no need to use the events
ei->attr to determine its permissions. But it is used for saving the
permissions of the "events" directory for when it is created, as that is
needed for the default permissions for the files and directories
underneath it.
For example:
# cd /sys/kernel/tracing
# mkdir instances/foo
# chown 1001 instances/foo/events
The files under instances/foo/events should still have the same owner as
instances/foo (which the instances/foo/events ei->attr will hold), but the
events directory now has owner 1001.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240522165032.104981011@goodmis.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The permissions being set during the creation of the inodes was updating
eventfs_inode attributes as well. Those attributes should only be touched
by the setattr or remount operations, not during the creation of inodes.
The eventfs_inode attributes should only be used to set the inodes and
should not be modified during the inode creation.
Simplify the code and fix the situation by:
1) Removing the eventfs_find_events() and doing a simple lookup for
the events descriptor in eventfs_get_inode()
2) Remove update_events_attr() as the attributes should only be used
to update the inode and should not be modified here.
3) Add update_inode_attr() that uses the attributes to determine what
the inode permissions should be.
4) As the parent_inode of the eventfs_root_inode structure is no longer
needed, remove it.
Now on creation, the inode gets the proper permissions without causing
side effects to the ei->attr field.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240522165031.944088388@goodmis.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Now that inodes have their permissions updated on remount, the only other
places to update the inode permissions are when they are created and in
the setattr callback. The getattr and permission callbacks are not needed
as the inodes should already be set at their proper settings.
Remove the callbacks, as it not only simplifies the code, but also allows
more flexibility to fix the inconsistencies with various corner cases
(like changing the permission of an instance directory).
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240522165031.782066021@goodmis.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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To simplify the code, create a eventfs_get_inode() that is used when an
eventfs file or directory is created. Have the internal tracefs_inode
updated the appropriate flags in this function and update the inode's
mode as well.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240522165031.624864160@goodmis.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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When the inode is being dropped from the dentry, the TRACEFS_EVENT_INODE
flag needs to be cleared to prevent a remount from calling
eventfs_remount() on the tracefs_inode private data. There's a race
between the inode is dropped (and the dentry freed) to where the inode is
actually freed. If a remount happens between the two, the eventfs_inode
could be accessed after it is freed (only the dentry keeps a ref count on
it).
Currently the TRACEFS_EVENT_INODE flag is cleared from the dentry iput()
function. But this is incorrect, as it is possible that the inode has
another reference to it. The flag should only be cleared when the inode is
really being dropped and has no more references. That happens in the
drop_inode callback of the inode, as that gets called when the last
reference of the inode is released.
Remove the tracefs_d_iput() function and move its logic to the more
appropriate tracefs_drop_inode() callback function.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240523051539.908205106@goodmis.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Fixes: baa23a8d4360d ("tracefs: Reset permissions on remount if permissions are options")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The change to update the permissions of the eventfs_inode had the
misconception that using the tracefs_inode would find all the
eventfs_inodes that have been updated and reset them on remount.
The problem with this approach is that the eventfs_inodes are freed when
they are no longer used (basically the reason the eventfs system exists).
When they are freed, the updated eventfs_inodes are not reset on a remount
because their tracefs_inodes have been freed.
Instead, since the events directory eventfs_inode always has a
tracefs_inode pointing to it (it is not freed when finished), and the
events directory has a link to all its children, have the
eventfs_remount() function only operate on the events eventfs_inode and
have it descend into its children updating their uid and gids.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAK7LNARXgaWw3kH9JgrnH4vK6fr8LDkNKf3wq8NhMWJrVwJyVQ@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240523051539.754424703@goodmis.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fixes: baa23a8d4360d ("tracefs: Reset permissions on remount if permissions are options")
Reported-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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When a remount happens, if a gid or uid is specified update the inodes to
have the same gid and uid. This will allow the simplification of the
permissions logic for the dynamically created files and directories.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240523051539.592429986@goodmis.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Fixes: baa23a8d4360d ("tracefs: Reset permissions on remount if permissions are options")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The directories require unique inode numbers but all the eventfs files
have the same inode number. Prevent the directories from having the same
inode numbers as the files as that can confuse some tooling.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240523051539.428826685@goodmis.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Fixes: 834bf76add3e6 ("eventfs: Save directory inodes in the eventfs_inode structure")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
- Remove unused ftrace_direct_funcs variables
- Fix a possible NULL pointer dereference race in eventfs
- Update do_div() usage in trace event benchmark test
- Speedup direct function registration with asynchronous RCU callback.
The synchronization was done in the registration code and this caused
delays when registering direct callbacks. Move the freeing to a
call_rcu() that will prevent delaying of the registering.
- Replace simple_strtoul() usage with kstrtoul()
* tag 'trace-v6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
eventfs: Fix a possible null pointer dereference in eventfs_find_events()
ftrace: Fix possible use-after-free issue in ftrace_location()
ftrace: Remove unused global 'ftrace_direct_func_count'
ftrace: Remove unused list 'ftrace_direct_funcs'
tracing: Improve benchmark test performance by using do_div()
ftrace: Use asynchronous grace period for register_ftrace_direct()
ftrace: Replaces simple_strtoul in ftrace
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In function eventfs_find_events,there is a potential null pointer
that may be caused by calling update_events_attr which will perform
some operations on the members of the ei struct when ei is NULL.
Hence,When ei->is_freed is set,return NULL directly.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240513053338.63017-1-hao.ge@linux.dev
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 8186fff7ab64 ("tracefs/eventfs: Use root and instance inodes as default ownership")
Signed-off-by: Hao Ge <gehao@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull vfs mount API conversions from Christian Brauner:
"This converts qnx6, minix, debugfs, tracefs, freevxfs, and openpromfs
to the new mount api, further reducing the number of filesystems
relying on the legacy mount api"
* tag 'vfs-6.10.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
minix: convert minix to use the new mount api
vfs: Convert tracefs to use the new mount API
vfs: Convert debugfs to use the new mount API
openpromfs: finish conversion to the new mount API
freevxfs: Convert freevxfs to the new mount API.
qnx6: convert qnx6 to use the new mount api
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The events directory gets its permissions from the root inode. But this
can cause an inconsistency if the instances directory changes its
permissions, as the permissions of the created directories under it should
inherit the permissions of the instances directory when directories under
it are created.
Currently the behavior is:
# cd /sys/kernel/tracing
# chgrp 1002 instances
# mkdir instances/foo
# ls -l instances/foo
[..]
-r--r----- 1 root lkp 0 May 1 18:55 buffer_total_size_kb
-rw-r----- 1 root lkp 0 May 1 18:55 current_tracer
-rw-r----- 1 root lkp 0 May 1 18:55 error_log
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 May 1 18:55 events
--w------- 1 root lkp 0 May 1 18:55 free_buffer
drwxr-x--- 2 root lkp 0 May 1 18:55 options
drwxr-x--- 10 root lkp 0 May 1 18:55 per_cpu
-rw-r----- 1 root lkp 0 May 1 18:55 set_event
All the files and directories under "foo" has the "lkp" group except the
"events" directory. That's because its getting its default value from the
mount point instead of its parent.
Have the "events" directory make its default value based on its parent's
permissions. That now gives:
# ls -l instances/foo
[..]
-rw-r----- 1 root lkp 0 May 1 21:16 buffer_subbuf_size_kb
-r--r----- 1 root lkp 0 May 1 21:16 buffer_total_size_kb
-rw-r----- 1 root lkp 0 May 1 21:16 current_tracer
-rw-r----- 1 root lkp 0 May 1 21:16 error_log
drwxr-xr-x 1 root lkp 0 May 1 21:16 events
--w------- 1 root lkp 0 May 1 21:16 free_buffer
drwxr-x--- 2 root lkp 0 May 1 21:16 options
drwxr-x--- 10 root lkp 0 May 1 21:16 per_cpu
-rw-r----- 1 root lkp 0 May 1 21:16 set_event
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240502200906.161887248@goodmis.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fixes: 8186fff7ab649 ("tracefs/eventfs: Use root and instance inodes as default ownership")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Treat the events directory the same as other directories when it comes to
permissions. The events directory was considered different because it's
dentry is persistent, whereas the other directory dentries are created
when accessed. But the way tracefs now does its ownership by using the
root dentry's permissions as the default permissions, the events directory
can get out of sync when a remount is performed setting the group and user
permissions.
Remove the special case for the events directory on setting the
attributes. This allows the updates caused by remount to work properly as
well as simplifies the code.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240502200906.002923579@goodmis.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fixes: 8186fff7ab649 ("tracefs/eventfs: Use root and instance inodes as default ownership")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The toplevel events directory is really no different than the events
directory of instances. Having the two be different caused
inconsistencies and made it harder to fix the permissions bugs.
Make all events directories act the same.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240502200905.846448710@goodmis.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fixes: 8186fff7ab649 ("tracefs/eventfs: Use root and instance inodes as default ownership")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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If the instances directory's permissions were never change, then have it
and its children use the mount point permissions as the default.
Currently, the permissions of instance directories are determined by the
instance directory's permissions itself. But if the tracefs file system is
remounted and changes the permissions, the instance directory and its
children should use the new permission.
But because both the instance directory and its children use the instance
directory's inode for permissions, it misses the update.
To demonstrate this:
# cd /sys/kernel/tracing/
# mkdir instances/foo
# ls -ld instances/foo
drwxr-x--- 5 root root 0 May 1 19:07 instances/foo
# ls -ld instances
drwxr-x--- 3 root root 0 May 1 18:57 instances
# ls -ld current_tracer
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 May 1 18:57 current_tracer
# mount -o remount,gid=1002 .
# ls -ld instances
drwxr-x--- 3 root root 0 May 1 18:57 instances
# ls -ld instances/foo/
drwxr-x--- 5 root root 0 May 1 19:07 instances/foo/
# ls -ld current_tracer
-rw-r----- 1 root lkp 0 May 1 18:57 current_tracer
Notice that changing the group id to that of "lkp" did not affect the
instances directory nor its children. It should have been:
# ls -ld current_tracer
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 May 1 19:19 current_tracer
# ls -ld instances/foo/
drwxr-x--- 5 root root 0 May 1 19:25 instances/foo/
# ls -ld instances
drwxr-x--- 3 root root 0 May 1 19:19 instances
# mount -o remount,gid=1002 .
# ls -ld current_tracer
-rw-r----- 1 root lkp 0 May 1 19:19 current_tracer
# ls -ld instances
drwxr-x--- 3 root lkp 0 May 1 19:19 instances
# ls -ld instances/foo/
drwxr-x--- 5 root lkp 0 May 1 19:25 instances/foo/
Where all files were updated by the remount gid update.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240502200905.686838327@goodmis.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fixes: 8186fff7ab649 ("tracefs/eventfs: Use root and instance inodes as default ownership")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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There's an inconsistency with the way permissions are handled in tracefs.
Because the permissions are generated when accessed, they default to the
root inode's permission if they were never set by the user. If the user
sets the permissions, then a flag is set and the permissions are saved via
the inode (for tracefs files) or an internal attribute field (for
eventfs).
But if a remount happens that specify the permissions, all the files that
were not changed by the user gets updated, but the ones that were are not.
If the user were to remount the file system with a given permission, then
all files and directories within that file system should be updated.
This can cause security issues if a file's permission was updated but the
admin forgot about it. They could incorrectly think that remounting with
permissions set would update all files, but miss some.
For example:
# cd /sys/kernel/tracing
# chgrp 1002 current_tracer
# ls -l
[..]
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 May 1 21:25 buffer_size_kb
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 May 1 21:25 buffer_subbuf_size_kb
-r--r----- 1 root root 0 May 1 21:25 buffer_total_size_kb
-rw-r----- 1 root lkp 0 May 1 21:25 current_tracer
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 May 1 21:25 dynamic_events
-r--r----- 1 root root 0 May 1 21:25 dyn_ftrace_total_info
-r--r----- 1 root root 0 May 1 21:25 enabled_functions
Where current_tracer now has group "lkp".
# mount -o remount,gid=1001 .
# ls -l
-rw-r----- 1 root tracing 0 May 1 21:25 buffer_size_kb
-rw-r----- 1 root tracing 0 May 1 21:25 buffer_subbuf_size_kb
-r--r----- 1 root tracing 0 May 1 21:25 buffer_total_size_kb
-rw-r----- 1 root lkp 0 May 1 21:25 current_tracer
-rw-r----- 1 root tracing 0 May 1 21:25 dynamic_events
-r--r----- 1 root tracing 0 May 1 21:25 dyn_ftrace_total_info
-r--r----- 1 root tracing 0 May 1 21:25 enabled_functions
Everything changed but the "current_tracer".
Add a new link list that keeps track of all the tracefs_inodes which has
the permission flags that tell if the file/dir should use the root inode's
permission or not. Then on remount, clear all the flags so that the
default behavior of using the root inode's permission is done for all
files and directories.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240502200905.529542160@goodmis.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fixes: 8186fff7ab649 ("tracefs/eventfs: Use root and instance inodes as default ownership")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The freeing of eventfs_inode via a kfree_rcu() callback. But the content
of the eventfs_inode was being freed after the last kref. This is
dangerous, as changes are being made that can access the content of an
eventfs_inode from an RCU loop.
Instead of using kfree_rcu() use call_rcu() that calls a function to do
all the freeing of the eventfs_inode after a RCU grace period has expired.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240502200905.370261163@goodmis.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fixes: 43aa6f97c2d03 ("eventfs: Get rid of dentry pointers without refcounts")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Synthetic events create and destroy tracefs files when they are created
and removed. The tracing subsystem has its own file descriptor
representing the state of the events attached to the tracefs files.
There's a race between the eventfs files and this file descriptor of the
tracing system where the following can cause an issue:
With two scripts 'A' and 'B' doing:
Script 'A':
echo "hello int aaa" > /sys/kernel/tracing/synthetic_events
while :
do
echo 0 > /sys/kernel/tracing/events/synthetic/hello/enable
done
Script 'B':
echo > /sys/kernel/tracing/synthetic_events
Script 'A' creates a synthetic event "hello" and then just writes zero
into its enable file.
Script 'B' removes all synthetic events (including the newly created
"hello" event).
What happens is that the opening of the "enable" file has:
{
struct trace_event_file *file = inode->i_private;
int ret;
ret = tracing_check_open_get_tr(file->tr);
[..]
But deleting the events frees the "file" descriptor, and a "use after
free" happens with the dereference at "file->tr".
The file descriptor does have a reference counter, but there needs to be a
way to decrement it from the eventfs when the eventfs_inode is removed
that represents this file descriptor.
Add an optional "release" callback to the eventfs_entry array structure,
that gets called when the eventfs file is about to be removed. This allows
for the creating on the eventfs file to increment the tracing file
descriptor ref counter. When the eventfs file is deleted, it can call the
release function that will call the put function for the tracing file
descriptor.
This will protect the tracing file from being freed while a eventfs file
that references it is being opened.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240426073410.17154-1-Tze-nan.Wu@mediatek.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240502090315.448cba46@gandalf.local.home
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Fixes: 5790b1fb3d672 ("eventfs: Remove eventfs_file and just use eventfs_inode")
Reported-by: Tze-nan wu <Tze-nan.Wu@mediatek.com>
Tested-by: Tze-nan Wu (吳澤南) <Tze-nan.Wu@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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This commit fix kernel-doc style comments with complete parameter
descriptions for the lookup_file(),lookup_dir_entry() and
lookup_file_dentry().
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240322062604.28862-1-yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Yang Li <yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Convert the tracefs filesystem to the new internal mount API as the old
one will be obsoleted and removed. This allows greater flexibility in
communication of mount parameters between userspace, the VFS and the
filesystem.
See Documentation/filesystems/mount_api.txt for more information.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Co-developed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
[sandeen: forward port to modern kernel, fix remounting]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/536e99d3-345c-448b-adee-a21389d7ab4b@redhat.com
cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Only the root "events" directory stores a dentry. There's no reason to
hold a dentry pointer for every eventfs_inode as it is never set except
for the root "events" eventfs_inode.
Create a eventfs_root_inode structure that holds the events_dir dentry.
The "events" eventfs_inode *is* special, let it have its own descriptor.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240201161617.658992558@goodmis.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ajay Kaher <ajay.kaher@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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There's a couple of if statements in eventfs_root_lookup() that should
never be true. Instead of removing them, add WARN_ON_ONCE() around them.
One is a tracefs_inode not being for eventfs.
The other is a child being freed but still on the parent's children
list. When a child is freed, it is removed from the list under the
same mutex that is held during the iteration.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240201002719.GS2087318@ZenIV/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240201123346.724afa46@gandalf.local.home
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Ajay Kaher <ajay.kaher@broadcom.com>
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Yes, yes, I know the slab people were planning on going slow and letting
every subsystem fight this thing on their own. But let's just rip off
the band-aid and get it over and done with. I don't want to see a
number of unnecessary pull requests just to get rid of a flag that no
longer has any meaning.
This was mainly done with a couple of 'sed' scripts and then some manual
cleanup of the end result.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wji0u+OOtmAOD-5JV3SXcRJF___k_+8XNKmak0yd5vW1Q@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The directory link count in eventfs was somewhat bogus. It was only being
updated when a directory child was being looked up and not on creation.
One solution would be to update in get_attr() the link count by iterating
the ei->children list and then adding 2. But that could slow down simple
stat() calls, especially if it's done on all directories in eventfs.
Another solution would be to add a parent pointer to the eventfs_inode
and keep track of the number of sub directories it has on creation. But
this adds overhead for something not really worthwhile.
The solution decided upon is to keep all directory links in eventfs as 1.
This tells user space not to rely on the hard links of directories. Which
in this case it shouldn't.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240201002719.GS2087318@ZenIV/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240201161617.339968298@goodmis.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ajay Kaher <ajay.kaher@broadcom.com>
Fixes: c1504e510238 ("eventfs: Implement eventfs dir creation functions")
Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The dentries and inodes are created when referenced in the lookup code.
There's no reason to call fsnotify_*() functions when they are created by
a reference. It doesn't make any sense.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240201002719.GS2087318@ZenIV/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240201161617.166973329@goodmis.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ajay Kaher <ajay.kaher@broadcom.com>
Fixes: a376007917776 ("eventfs: Implement functions to create files and dirs when accessed");
Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Some of the eventfs_inode structure has holes in it. Rework the structure
to be a bit more condensed, and also remove the no longer used llist
field.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240201161617.002321438@goodmis.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ajay Kaher <ajay.kaher@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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There should never be a case where an evenfs_inode is being freed without
is_freed being set. Add a WARN_ON_ONCE() if it ever happens. That would
mean there was one too many put_ei()s.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240201161616.843551963@goodmis.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ajay Kaher <ajay.kaher@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The eventfs inode had pointers to dentries (and child dentries) without
actually holding a refcount on said pointer. That is fundamentally
broken, and while eventfs tried to then maintain coherence with dentries
going away by hooking into the '.d_iput' callback, that doesn't actually
work since it's not ordered wrt lookups.
There were two reasonms why eventfs tried to keep a pointer to a dentry:
- the creation of a 'events' directory would actually have a stable
dentry pointer that it created with tracefs_start_creating().
And it needed that dentry when tearing it all down again in
eventfs_remove_events_dir().
This use is actually ok, because the special top-level events
directory dentries are actually stable, not just a temporary cache of
the eventfs data structures.
- the 'eventfs_inode' (aka ei) needs to stay around as long as there
are dentries that refer to it.
It then used these dentry pointers as a replacement for doing
reference counting: it would try to make sure that there was only
ever one dentry associated with an event_ |
