releases/6.7.6/tracefs-avoid-using-the-ei-dentry-pointer-unnecessarily.patch

From SRS0=eEWY=JP=rostedt.homelinux.com=rostedt@kernel.org Tue Feb  6 12:35:32 2024
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2024 06:32:13 -0500
Subject: tracefs: Avoid using the ei->dentry pointer unnecessarily
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>, Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>, Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>, Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>, Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>, Ajay Kaher <ajay.kaher@broadcom.com>
Message-ID: <20240206113400.525587454@rostedt.homelinux.com>

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

commit 99c001cb617df409dac275a059d6c3f187a2da7a upstream.

The eventfs_find_events() code tries to walk up the tree to find the
event directory that a dentry belongs to, in order to then find the
eventfs inode that is associated with that event directory.

However, it uses an odd combination of walking the dentry parent,
looking up the eventfs inode associated with that, and then looking up
the dentry from there.  Repeat.

But the code shouldn't have back-pointers to dentries in the first
place, and it should just walk the dentry parenthood chain directly.

Similarly, 'set_top_events_ownership()' looks up the dentry from the
eventfs inode, but the only reason it wants a dentry is to look up the
superblock in order to look up the root dentry.

But it already has the real filesystem inode, which has that same
superblock pointer.  So just pass in the superblock pointer using the
information that's already there, instead of looking up extraneous data
that is irrelevant.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/202401291043.e62e89dc-oliver.sang@intel.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240131185512.638645365@goodmis.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ajay Kaher <ajay.kaher@broadcom.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fixes: c1504e510238 ("eventfs: Implement eventfs dir creation functions")
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 fs/tracefs/event_inode.c |   26 ++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
+++ b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
@@ -156,33 +156,30 @@ static int eventfs_set_attr(struct mnt_i
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static void update_top_events_attr(struct eventfs_inode *ei, struct dentry *dentry)
+static void update_top_events_attr(struct eventfs_inode *ei, struct super_block *sb)
 {
-	struct inode *inode;
+	struct inode *root;
 
 	/* Only update if the "events" was on the top level */
 	if (!ei || !(ei->attr.mode & EVENTFS_TOPLEVEL))
 		return;
 
 	/* Get the tracefs root inode. */
-	inode = d_inode(dentry->d_sb->s_root);
-	ei->attr.uid = inode->i_uid;
-	ei->attr.gid = inode->i_gid;
+	root = d_inode(sb->s_root);
+	ei->attr.uid = root->i_uid;
+	ei->attr.gid = root->i_gid;
 }
 
 static void set_top_events_ownership(struct inode *inode)
 {
 	struct tracefs_inode *ti = get_tracefs(inode);
 	struct eventfs_inode *ei = ti->private;
-	struct dentry *dentry;
 
 	/* The top events directory doesn't get automatically updated */
 	if (!ei || !ei->is_events || !(ei->attr.mode & EVENTFS_TOPLEVEL))
 		return;
 
-	dentry = ei->dentry;
-
-	update_top_events_attr(ei, dentry);
+	update_top_events_attr(ei, inode->i_sb);
 
 	if (!(ei->attr.mode & EVENTFS_SAVE_UID))
 		inode->i_uid = ei->attr.uid;
@@ -235,8 +232,10 @@ static struct eventfs_inode *eventfs_fin
 
 	mutex_lock(&eventfs_mutex);
 	do {
-		/* The parent always has an ei, except for events itself */
-		ei = dentry->d_parent->d_fsdata;
+		// The parent is stable because we do not do renames
+		dentry = dentry->d_parent;
+		// ... and directories always have d_fsdata
+		ei = dentry->d_fsdata;
 
 		/*
 		 * If the ei is being freed, the ownership of the children
@@ -246,12 +245,11 @@ static struct eventfs_inode *eventfs_fin
 			ei = NULL;
 			break;
 		}
-
-		dentry = ei->dentry;
+		// Walk upwards until you find the events inode
 	} while (!ei->is_events);
 	mutex_unlock(&eventfs_mutex);
 
-	update_top_events_attr(ei, dentry);
+	update_top_events_attr(ei, dentry->d_sb);
 
 	return ei;
 }