tracefs: Avoid using the ei->dentry pointer unnecessarily
commit 99c001cb 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: c1504e51 ("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>
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