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Message-ID: <Zxa0K-4mhSI91S-w@telecaster.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 13:06:03 -0700
From: Omar Sandoval <osandov@...ndov.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@...ewreck.org>,
Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@...mhuis.info>,
Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@...nel.org>,
Christian Schoenebeck <linux_oss@...debyte.com>,
v9fs@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
regressions@...ts.linux.dev, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>,
Pedro Falcato <pedro.falcato@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 9p: Avoid creating multiple slab caches with the same
name
On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 11:57:38AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 at 11:37, Omar Sandoval <osandov@...ndov.com> wrote:
> >
> > FYI, drgn's CI started getting EIO errors from
> > getdents("/sys/kernel/slab") that I bisected to this patch. The problem
> > is that dev_name can be an arbitrary string. In my case, it is
> > "/dev/root". This trips verify_dirent_name(), which fails if a filename
> > contains a slash.
>
> Bah. Does something silly like this fix it:
>
> --- a/net/9p/client.c
> +++ b/net/9p/client.c
> @@ -977,6 +977,7 @@ static int p9_client_version(struct p9_client *c)
> struct p9_client *p9_client_create(const char *dev_name, char *options)
> {
> int err;
> + static atomic_t seqno = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
> struct p9_client *clnt;
> char *client_id;
> char *cache_name;
> @@ -1036,7 +1037,8 @@ struct p9_client *p9_client_create(const char
> *dev_name, char *options)
> if (err)
> goto close_trans;
>
> - cache_name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "9p-fcall-cache-%s", dev_name);
> + cache_name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL,
> + "9p-fcall-cache-%d", atomic_inc_return(&seqno));
> if (!cache_name) {
> err = -ENOMEM;
> goto close_trans;
>
> (whitespace-damaged, but you get the idea)
Yup, that works here.
Tested-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@...com>
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