eventfs: Remember what dentries were created on dir open
Using the following code with libtracefs: int dfd; // create the directory events/kprobes/kp1 tracefs_kprobe_raw(NULL, "kp1", "schedule_timeout", "time=$arg1"); // Open the kprobes directory dfd = tracefs_instance_file_open(NULL, "events/kprobes", O_RDONLY); // Do a lookup of the kprobes/kp1 directory (by looking at enable) tracefs_file_exists(NULL, "events/kprobes/kp1/enable"); // Now create a new entry in the kprobes directory tracefs_kprobe_raw(NULL, "kp2", "schedule_hrtimeout", "expires=$arg1"); // Do another lookup to create the dentries tracefs_file_exists(NULL, "events/kprobes/kp2/enable")) // Close the directory close(dfd); What happened above, the first open (dfd) will call dcache_dir_open_wrapper() that will create the dentries and up their ref counts. Now the creation of "kp2" will add another dentry within the kprobes directory. Upon the close of dfd, eventfs_release() will now do a dput for all the entries in kprobes. But this is where the problem lies. The open only upped the dentry of kp1 and not kp2. Now the close is decrementing both kp1 and kp2, which causes kp2 to get a negative count. Doing a "trace-cmd reset" which deletes all the kprobes cause the kernel to crash! (due to the messed up accounting of the ref counts). To solve this, save all the dentries that are opened in the dcache_dir_open_wrapper() into an array, and use this array to know what dentries to do a dput on in eventfs_release(). Since the dcache_dir_open_wrapper() calls dcache_dir_open() which uses the file->private_data, we need to also add a wrapper around dcache_readdir() that uses the cursor assigned to the file->private_data. This is because the dentries need to also be saved in the file->private_data. To do this create the structure: struct dentry_list { void *cursor; struct dentry **dentries; }; Which will hold both the cursor and the dentries. Some shuffling around is needed to make sure that dcache_dir_open() and dcache_readdir() only see the cursor. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230919211804.230edf1e@gandalf.local.home/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230922163446.1431d4fa@gandalf.local.home Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Ajay Kaher <akaher@vmware.com> Fixes: 63940449 ("eventfs: Implement eventfs lookup, read, open functions") Reported-by: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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