[v6.6][PATCH 2/5] eventfs: Remove "is_freed" union with rcu head

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Sun Nov 05 2023 - 11:01:46 EST


From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

commit f2f496370afcbc5227d7002da28c74b91fed12ff upstream

The eventfs_inode->is_freed was a union with the rcu_head with the
assumption that when it was on the srcu list the head would contain a
pointer which would make "is_freed" true. But that was a wrong assumption
as the rcu head is a single link list where the last element is NULL.

Instead, split the nr_entries integer so that "is_freed" is one bit and
the nr_entries is the next 31 bits. As there shouldn't be more than 10
(currently there's at most 5 to 7 depending on the config), this should
not be a problem.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231101172649.049758712@xxxxxxxxxxx

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ajay Kaher <akaher@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 63940449555e7 ("eventfs: Implement eventfs lookup, read, open functions")
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/tracefs/event_inode.c | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
index 8c8d64e76103..a64d8fa39e54 100644
--- a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
+++ b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ struct eventfs_inode {
* @fop: file_operations for file or directory
* @iop: inode_operations for file or directory
* @data: something that the caller will want to get to later on
+ * @is_freed: Flag set if the eventfs is on its way to be freed
* @mode: the permission that the file or directory should have
*/
struct eventfs_file {
@@ -52,15 +53,14 @@ struct eventfs_file {
* Union - used for deletion
* @del_list: list of eventfs_file to delete
* @rcu: eventfs_file to delete in RCU
- * @is_freed: node is freed if one of the above is set
*/
union {
struct list_head del_list;
struct rcu_head rcu;
- unsigned long is_freed;
};
void *data;
- umode_t mode;
+ unsigned int is_freed:1;
+ unsigned int mode:31;
};

static DEFINE_MUTEX(eventfs_mutex);
@@ -814,6 +814,8 @@ static void eventfs_remove_rec(struct eventfs_file *ef, struct list_head *head,
}
}

+ ef->is_freed = 1;
+
list_del_rcu(&ef->list);
list_add_tail(&ef->del_list, head);
}
--
2.42.0