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eventfs: Save directory inodes in the eventfs_inode structure

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The eventfs inodes and directories are allocated when referenced. But this
leaves the issue of keeping consistent inode numbers and the number is
only saved in the inode structure itself. When the inode is no longer
referenced, it can be freed. When the file that the inode was representing
is referenced again, the inode is once again created, but the inode number
needs to be the same as it was before.

Just making the inode numbers the same for all files is fine, but that
does not work with directories. The find command will check for loops via
the inode number and having the same inode number for directories triggers:

  # find /sys/kernel/tracing
find: File system loop detected;
'/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/initcall/initcall_finish' is part of the same file system loop as
'/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/initcall'.
[..]

Linus pointed out that the eventfs_inode structure ends with a single
32bit int, and on 64 bit machines, there's likely a 4 byte hole due to
alignment. We can use this hole to store the inode number for the
eventfs_inode. All directories in eventfs are represented by an
eventfs_inode and that data structure can hold its inode number.

That last int was also purposely placed at the end of the structure to
prevent holes from within. Now that there's a 4 byte number to hold the
inode, both the inode number and the last integer can be moved up in the
structure for better cache locality, where the llist and rcu fields can be
moved to the end as they are only used when the eventfs_inode is being
deleted.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMuHMdXKiorg-jiuKoZpfZyDJ3Ynrfb8=X+c7x0Eewxn-YRdCA@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240122152748.46897388@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Fixes: 53c41052ba ("eventfs: Have the inodes all for files and directories all be the same")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
This commit is contained in:
Steven Rostedt (Google) 2024-01-22 15:27:48 -05:00
parent 2b44760609
commit 834bf76add
2 changed files with 15 additions and 6 deletions
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fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
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@ -34,7 +34,15 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(eventfs_mutex);
/* Choose something "unique" ;-) */
#define EVENTFS_FILE_INODE_INO 0x12c4e37
#define EVENTFS_DIR_INODE_INO 0x134b2f5
/* Just try to make something consistent and unique */
static int eventfs_dir_ino(struct eventfs_inode *ei)
{
if (!ei->ino)
ei->ino = get_next_ino();
return ei->ino;
}
/*
* The eventfs_inode (ei) itself is protected by SRCU. It is released from
@ -396,7 +404,7 @@ static struct dentry *create_dir(struct eventfs_inode *ei, struct dentry *parent
inode->i_fop = &eventfs_file_operations;
/* All directories will have the same inode number */
inode->i_ino = EVENTFS_DIR_INODE_INO;
inode->i_ino = eventfs_dir_ino(ei);
ti = get_tracefs(inode);
ti->flags |= TRACEFS_EVENT_INODE;
@ -802,7 +810,7 @@ static int eventfs_iterate(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx)
name = ei_child->name;
ino = EVENTFS_DIR_INODE_INO;
ino = eventfs_dir_ino(ei_child);
if (!dir_emit(ctx, name, strlen(name), ino, DT_DIR))
goto out_dec;

7
fs/tracefs/internal.h
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@ -55,6 +55,10 @@ struct eventfs_inode {
struct eventfs_attr *entry_attrs;
struct eventfs_attr attr;
void *data;
unsigned int is_freed:1;
unsigned int is_events:1;
unsigned int nr_entries:30;
unsigned int ino;
/*
* Union - used for deletion
* @llist: for calling dput() if needed after RCU
@ -64,9 +68,6 @@ struct eventfs_inode {
struct llist_node llist;
struct rcu_head rcu;
};
unsigned int is_freed:1;
unsigned int is_events:1;
unsigned int nr_entries:30;
};
static inline struct tracefs_inode *get_tracefs(const struct inode *inode)