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Message-ID: <878uufwlen.fsf@xmission.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 15:34:56 -0800
From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...hat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] sysfs_rename_link() and its usage
Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...hat.com> writes:
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 03:25:16PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> writes:
>>
>>> Hey, Veaceslav, Eric.
>
> Hi Tejun, Eric,
>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 05:35:23PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>>> >>> >>This works like a charm. However, if I want to use (obviously, with the
>>>> >>> >>symlink present):
>>>> >>> >>
>>>> >>> >>sysfs_rename_link(&(a->dev.kobj), &(b->dev.kobj), oldname, newname);
>>>> >>> >
>>>> >>> >You forgot the namespace option to this call, what kernel version are
>>>> >>> >you using here?
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> It's git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next ,
>>>> >>> 3.13-rc6 with some networking patches on top of it.
>>>
>>> Does this work on 3.12? How about Greg's driver-core-next? Do you
>>> have a minimal test case that I can use to reproduce the issue?
>
> Sorry for the latency in responses, I'll update once I'll manage to test it
> on those.
>
> ...snip...
>>> Veaceslav, please confirm whether the issue is reproducible w/ v3.12.
>>
>>Anyway since a symlink living in a different namespace from it's target
>>is just nonsense this (only compile tested) patch should fix the issue,
>>and make sysfs_rename_link usable for people without a masters degree in
>>sysfs again.
>
> It's still there :-(. I've used your patch and added my small addition[1] to
> test the sysfs_rename_link() (on top of net-next, 3.13-rc7), however the
> issue is still there:
I expect the bug is my quick patch missed testing for sysfs_ns_type to
see if we care at all about namespaces in sysfs_rename_link.
Which would make just the sysfs_rename_link bit look like.
Something like that.
Eric
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
index 3ae3f1bf1a09..8b51d1b6cc21 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
@@ -194,15 +194,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_remove_link);
* @targ: object we're pointing to.
* @old: previous name of the symlink.
* @new: new name of the symlink.
- * @new_ns: new namespace of the symlink.
- *
* A helper function for the common rename symlink idiom.
*/
-int sysfs_rename_link_ns(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *targ,
- const char *old, const char *new, const void *new_ns)
+int sysfs_rename_link(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *targ,
+ const char *old, const char *new)
{
struct sysfs_dirent *parent_sd, *sd = NULL;
- const void *old_ns = NULL;
+ const void *old_ns = NULL, *new_ns = NULL;
int result;
if (!kobj)
@@ -224,13 +222,16 @@ int sysfs_rename_link_ns(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *targ,
if (sd->s_symlink.target_sd->s_dir.kobj != targ)
goto out;
+ if (sysfs_ns_type(parent_sd))
+ new_ns = kobject_namespace(targ);
+
result = sysfs_rename(sd, parent_sd, new, new_ns);
out:
sysfs_put(sd);
return result;
}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_rename_link_ns);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_rename_link);
static int sysfs_get_target_path(struct sysfs_dirent *parent_sd,
struct sysfs_dirent *target_sd, char *path)
>
> [ 79.038340] net bond0: renaming to bondbla
> [ 79.038380] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [ 79.038411] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 5318 at fs/sysfs/dir.c:618
> sysfs_find_dirent+0x84/0x110()
> [ 79.038449] sysfs: ns invalid in 'bridge0' for 'lower_bond0'
> ...snip...
> [ 79.038877] [<ffffffff810ae826>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50
> [ 79.038903] [<ffffffff812ba890>] ? sysfs_get_dirent_ns+0x30/0x80
> [ 79.038930] [<ffffffff812b97c4>] sysfs_find_dirent+0x84/0x110
> [ 79.038957] [<ffffffff812ba89e>] sysfs_get_dirent_ns+0x3e/0x80
> [ 79.038983] [<ffffffff812baf87>] sysfs_rename_link+0x57/0xe0
> [ 79.039030] [<ffffffff81689e72>] netdev_adjacent_rename_links+0xa2/0x160
>
> The current scheme (sysfs_remove_link() + sysfs_add_link()) works perfectly
> well without any namespaces. I'll dig into it once I have some spare time,
> it's not at all critical.
>
> [1]: the patch (I've included your patch too, just in case):
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
> index 67b180d..0c9377a 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/core.c
> @@ -1825,9 +1825,8 @@ int device_rename(struct device *dev, const char *new_name)
> }
> if (dev->class) {
> - error = sysfs_rename_link_ns(&dev->class->p->subsys.kobj,
> - kobj, old_device_name,
> - new_name, kobject_namespace(kobj));
> + error = sysfs_rename_link(&dev->class->p->subsys.kobj,
> + kobj, old_device_name, new_name);
> if (error)
> goto out;
> }
> diff --git a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
> index 3ae3f1b..651444a 100644
> --- a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
> +++ b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
> @@ -194,12 +194,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_remove_link);
> * @targ: object we're pointing to.
> * @old: previous name of the symlink.
> * @new: new name of the symlink.
> - * @new_ns: new namespace of the symlink.
> - *
> * A helper function for the common rename symlink idiom.
> */
> -int sysfs_rename_link_ns(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *targ,
> - const char *old, const char *new, const void *new_ns)
> +int sysfs_rename_link(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *targ,
> + const char *old, const char *new)
> {
> struct sysfs_dirent *parent_sd, *sd = NULL;
> const void *old_ns = NULL;
> @@ -224,13 +222,13 @@ int sysfs_rename_link_ns(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *targ,
> if (sd->s_symlink.target_sd->s_dir.kobj != targ)
> goto out;
> - result = sysfs_rename(sd, parent_sd, new, new_ns);
> + result = sysfs_rename(sd, parent_sd, new, kobject_namespace(targ));
> out:
> sysfs_put(sd);
> return result;
> }
> -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_rename_link_ns);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_rename_link);
> static int sysfs_get_target_path(struct sysfs_dirent *parent_sd,
> struct sysfs_dirent *target_sd, char *path)
> diff --git a/include/linux/sysfs.h b/include/linux/sysfs.h
> index 6695040..093d992 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sysfs.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sysfs.h
> @@ -213,9 +213,8 @@ int __must_check sysfs_create_link_nowarn(struct kobject *kobj,
> const char *name);
> void sysfs_remove_link(struct kobject *kobj, const char *name);
> -int sysfs_rename_link_ns(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *target,
> - const char *old_name, const char *new_name,
> - const void *new_ns);
> +int sysfs_rename_link(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *target,
> + const char *old_name, const char *new_name);
> void sysfs_delete_link(struct kobject *dir, struct kobject *targ,
> const char *name);
> @@ -341,9 +340,8 @@ static inline void sysfs_remove_link(struct kobject *kobj, const char *name)
> {
> }
> -static inline int sysfs_rename_link_ns(struct kobject *k, struct kobject *t,
> - const char *old_name,
> - const char *new_name, const void *ns)
> +static inline int sysfs_rename_link(struct kobject *k, struct kobject *t,
> + const char *old_name, const char *new_name)
> {
> return 0;
> }
> @@ -455,12 +453,6 @@ static inline void sysfs_remove_file(struct kobject *kobj,
> return sysfs_remove_file_ns(kobj, attr, NULL);
> }
> -static inline int sysfs_rename_link(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject
> *target,
> - const char *old_name, const char *new_name)
> -{
> - return sysfs_rename_link_ns(kobj, target, old_name, new_name, NULL);
> -}
> -
> static inline struct sysfs_dirent *
> sysfs_get_dirent(struct sysfs_dirent *parent_sd, const unsigned char *name)
> {
> diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
> index 9957557..5d24d8e 100644
> --- a/net/core/dev.c
> +++ b/net/core/dev.c
> @@ -5005,19 +5005,20 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_upper_dev_unlink);
> void netdev_adjacent_rename_links(struct net_device *dev, char *oldname)
> {
> struct netdev_adjacent *iter;
> + char old_linkname[IFNAMSIZ+7], new_linkname[IFNAMSIZ+7];
> list_for_each_entry(iter, &dev->adj_list.upper, list) {
> - netdev_adjacent_sysfs_del(iter->dev, oldname,
> - &iter->dev->adj_list.lower);
> - netdev_adjacent_sysfs_add(iter->dev, dev,
> - &iter->dev->adj_list.lower);
> + sprintf(old_linkname, "lower_%s", oldname);
> + sprintf(new_linkname, "lower_%s", dev->name);
> + sysfs_rename_link(&(iter->dev->dev.kobj), &(dev->dev.kobj),
> + old_linkname, new_linkname);
> }
> list_for_each_entry(iter, &dev->adj_list.lower, list) {
> - netdev_adjacent_sysfs_del(iter->dev, oldname,
> - &iter->dev->adj_list.upper);
> - netdev_adjacent_sysfs_add(iter->dev, dev,
> - &iter->dev->adj_list.upper);
> + sprintf(old_linkname, "upper_%s", oldname);
> + sprintf(new_linkname, "upper_%s", dev->name);
> + sysfs_rename_link(&(iter->dev->dev.kobj), &(dev->dev.kobj),
> + old_linkname, new_linkname);
> }
> }
>
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