linux-kernel - [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 05/73] fast_dput(): handle underflows gracefully

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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 10:01:19 -0500
From: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.6 05/73] fast_dput(): handle underflows gracefully

From: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>

[ Upstream commit 504e08cebe1d4e1efe25f915234f646e74a364a8 ]

If refcount is less than 1, we should just warn, unlock dentry and
return true, so that the caller doesn't try to do anything else.

Taking care of that leaves the rest of "lockref_put_return() has
failed" case equivalent to "decrement refcount and rejoin the
normal slow path after the point where we grab ->d_lock".

NOTE: lockref_put_return() is strictly a fastpath thing - unlike
the rest of lockref primitives, it does not contain a fallback.
Caller (and it looks like fast_dput() is the only legitimate one
in the entire kernel) has to do that itself.  Reasons for
lockref_put_return() failures:
	* ->d_lock held by somebody
	* refcount <= 0
	* ... or an architecture not supporting lockref use of
cmpxchg - sparc, anything non-SMP, config with spinlock debugging...

We could add a fallback, but it would be a clumsy API - we'd have
to distinguish between:
	(1) refcount > 1 - decremented, lock not held on return
	(2) refcount < 1 - left alone, probably no sense to hold the lock
	(3) refcount is 1, no cmphxcg - decremented, lock held on return
	(4) refcount is 1, cmphxcg supported - decremented, lock *NOT* held
	    on return.
We want to return with no lock held in case (4); that's the whole point of that
thing.  We very much do not want to have the fallback in case (3) return without
a lock, since the caller might have to retake it in that case.
So it wouldn't be more convenient than doing the fallback in the caller and
it would be very easy to screw up, especially since the test coverage would
suck - no way to test (3) and (4) on the same kernel build.

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 fs/dcache.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 25ac74d30bff..9ae808fba517 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -787,12 +787,12 @@ static inline bool fast_dput(struct dentry *dentry)
 	 */
 	if (unlikely(ret < 0)) {
 		spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
-		if (dentry->d_lockref.count > 1) {
-			dentry->d_lockref.count--;
+		if (WARN_ON_ONCE(dentry->d_lockref.count <= 0)) {
 			spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
 			return true;
 		}
-		return false;
+		dentry->d_lockref.count--;
+		goto locked;
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -850,6 +850,7 @@ static inline bool fast_dput(struct dentry *dentry)
 	 * else could have killed it and marked it dead. Either way, we
 	 * don't need to do anything else.
 	 */
+locked:
 	if (dentry->d_lockref.count) {
 		spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
 		return true;
-- 
2.43.0