linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v13 0/9] ref_tracker: add ability to register a debugfs file for a ref_tracker

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20250603192949.3a7fc085@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2025 19:29:49 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, "David S. Miller"
 <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni
 <pabeni@...hat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, Maarten Lankhorst
 <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>, Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
 Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>, David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
 Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
 Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@...ux.intel.com>, Rodrigo Vivi
 <rodrigo.vivi@...el.com>, Tvrtko Ursulin <tursulin@...ulin.net>, Krzysztof
 Karas <krzysztof.karas@...el.com>, Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>,
 Qasim Ijaz <qasdev00@...il.com>, Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
 Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
 intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org, Thomas Weißschuh
 <thomas.weissschuh@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 0/9] ref_tracker: add ability to register a debugfs
 file for a ref_tracker_dir

On Tue, 03 Jun 2025 07:27:11 -0400 Jeff Layton wrote:
> For those just joining in, this series adds a new top-level
> "ref_tracker" debugfs directory, and has each ref_tracker_dir register a
> file in there as part of its initialization. It also adds the ability to
> register a symlink with a more human-usable name that points to the
> file, and does some general cleanup of how the ref_tracker object names
> are handled.
> 
> This reposting is mostly to address Krzysztof's comments. I've dropped
> the i915 patch, and rebased the rest of the series on top.
> 
> Note that I still see debugfs: warnings in the i915 driver even when we
> gate the registration of the debugfs file on the classname pointer being
> NULL. Here is a CI report from v12:
> 
>     https://intel-gfx-ci.01.org/tree/drm-tip/Patchwork_148490v8/bat-arls-6/igt@i915_selftest@live@workarounds.html
> 
> I think the i915 driver is doing something it shouldn't with these
> objects. They seem to be initialized more than once, which could lead
> to leaked ref_tracker objects. It would be good for one of the i915
> maintainers to comment on whether this is a real problem.

I still see the fs crashes:
https://netdev-3.bots.linux.dev/vmksft-packetdrill-dbg/results/149560/2-tcp-slow-start-slow-start-app-limited-pkt/stderr
I'll hide this series from patchwork for now. We will pull from Linus
on Thu, I'll reactivate it and let's see if the problem was already
fixed.