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Message-ID: <20240807114948.6d57af23@gandalf.local.home>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2024 11:49:48 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Mathias Krause <minipli@...ecurity.net>, Masami Hiramatsu
<mhiramat@...nel.org>, Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
Ajay Kaher <ajay.kaher@...adcom.com>, linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ilkka Naulapää
<digirigawa@...il.com>, Brad Spengler <spender@...ecurity.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] tracefs: Don't overlay 'struct inode'
On Wed, 7 Aug 2024 14:44:53 +0100
Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 07, 2024 at 09:35:45AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> > Perhaps:
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/tracefs/internal.h b/fs/tracefs/internal.h
> > index f704d8348357..ab6d6c3d835d 100644
> > --- a/fs/tracefs/internal.h
> > +++ b/fs/tracefs/internal.h
> > @@ -10,12 +10,12 @@ enum {
> > };
> >
> > struct tracefs_inode {
> > + struct inode vfs_inode;
> > + /* The below gets initialized with memset_after(ti, 0, vfs_inode) */
> > union {
> > - struct inode vfs_inode;
> > + struct list_head list;
> > struct rcu_head rcu;
> > };
> > - /* The below gets initialized with memset_after(ti, 0, vfs_inode) */
> > - struct list_head list;
> > unsigned long flags;
> > void *private;
> > };
>
> Your current variant gives you an RCU-delayed call of
> tracefs_free_inode(), which schedules an RCU-delayed call of
> tracefs_free_inode_rcu().
>
> Do you really need that double RCU delay to start with?
> Because if you do not, just do that list_del_rcu() in ->destroy_inode()
> (which is called without an RCU delay) and have kmem_cache_free()
> in ->free_inode() (which is called *with* RCU delay started after
> the call of ->destroy_inode()).
Thanks, I didn't know about these.
So I could use destroy_inode() for the removing of the link list, and then
free_inode to free it. Something like:
diff --git a/fs/tracefs/inode.c b/fs/tracefs/inode.c
index 1028ab6d9a74..ae2cb2221acd 100644
--- a/fs/tracefs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/tracefs/inode.c
@@ -53,15 +53,14 @@ static struct inode *tracefs_alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb)
return &ti->vfs_inode;
}
-static void tracefs_free_inode_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu)
+static void tracefs_free_inode(struct inode *inode)
{
- struct tracefs_inode *ti;
+ struct tracefs_inode *ti = get_tracefs(inode);
- ti = container_of(rcu, struct tracefs_inode, rcu);
kmem_cache_free(tracefs_inode_cachep, ti);
}
-static void tracefs_free_inode(struct inode *inode)
+static void tracefs_destroy_inode(struct inode *inode)
{
struct tracefs_inode *ti = get_tracefs(inode);
unsigned long flags;
@@ -69,8 +68,6 @@ static void tracefs_free_inode(struct inode *inode)
spin_lock_irqsave(&tracefs_inode_lock, flags);
list_del_rcu(&ti->list);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tracefs_inode_lock, flags);
-
- call_rcu(&ti->rcu, tracefs_free_inode_rcu);
}
static ssize_t default_read_file(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
@@ -437,6 +434,7 @@ static int tracefs_drop_inode(struct inode *inode)
static const struct super_operations tracefs_super_operations = {
.alloc_inode = tracefs_alloc_inode,
.free_inode = tracefs_free_inode,
+ .destroy_inode = tracefs_destroy_inode,
.drop_inode = tracefs_drop_inode,
.statfs = simple_statfs,
.show_options = tracefs_show_options,
diff --git a/fs/tracefs/internal.h b/fs/tracefs/internal.h
index f704d8348357..d83c2a25f288 100644
--- a/fs/tracefs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/tracefs/internal.h
@@ -10,10 +10,7 @@ enum {
};
struct tracefs_inode {
- union {
- struct inode vfs_inode;
- struct rcu_head rcu;
- };
+ struct inode vfs_inode;
/* The below gets initialized with memset_after(ti, 0, vfs_inode) */
struct list_head list;
unsigned long flags;
I'll run this under some more tests and see if it doesn't crash.
I'll apply the first patch of this series too, and then probably use this
one.
-- Steve
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