Re: [linus:master] [eventfs] 852e46e239: BUG:unable_to_handle_page_fault_for_address

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 11:54:56 -0800
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If you do run the full tracefs tests on the whole series, and there
> are no other major problems, I'll happily take it all for 6.8. And
> yes, even mark it for stable. I think the other bugs are much harder
> to hit, but I do think they exist. And code deletion is always good.
> 
> So give it the full test attention, and *if* it all still looks good
> and there are no new subtle issues that crop up, let's just put this
> saga behind us asap.

BTW, I ran my full test suite on your patches with the below updates and it
all passed. Note, I did not run the "bisectable" portion of my test. That
is, the part that runs tests on each patch in the series. Because I know
that fails. I just ran the tests on the last applied patch.

I can break up and clean up the patches so that they are bisectable, and if
that passes the bisectable portion of my tests, I can still send them to
you for 6.8. I think this does fix a lot of hidden bugs, and would like all
this to go back to 6.6 when the eventfs was first introduced.

-- Steve

diff --git a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
index acdc797bd9c0..31cbe38739fa 100644
--- a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
+++ b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ static void release_ei(struct kref *ref)
 {
 	struct eventfs_inode *ei = container_of(ref, struct eventfs_inode, kref);
 	kfree(ei->entry_attrs);
-	kfree(ei);
+	kfree_const(ei->name);
+	kfree_rcu(ei, rcu);
 }
 
 static inline void put_ei(struct eventfs_inode *ei)
@@ -348,8 +349,7 @@ static struct dentry *lookup_file(struct eventfs_inode *parent_ei,
 	inode->i_ino = EVENTFS_FILE_INODE_INO;
 
 	ti = get_tracefs(inode);
-	ti->flags = TRACEFS_EVENT_INODE;
-	ti->private = NULL;			// Directories have 'ei', files not
+	ti->flags |= TRACEFS_EVENT_INODE;
 
 	// Files have their parent's ei as their fsdata
 	dentry->d_fsdata = get_ei(parent_ei);
@@ -388,7 +388,8 @@ static struct dentry *lookup_dir_entry(struct dentry *dentry,
 	inode->i_ino = eventfs_dir_ino(ei);
 
 	ti = get_tracefs(inode);
-	ti->flags = TRACEFS_EVENT_INODE;
+	ti->flags |= TRACEFS_EVENT_INODE;
+	/* Only directories have ti->private set to an ei, not files */
 	ti->private = ei;
 
 	dentry->d_fsdata = get_ei(ei);
@@ -402,17 +403,20 @@ static struct dentry *lookup_dir_entry(struct dentry *dentry,
 
 static inline struct eventfs_inode *alloc_ei(const char *name)
 {
-	int namesize = strlen(name) + 1;
-	struct eventfs_inode *ei = kzalloc(sizeof(*ei) + namesize, GFP_KERNEL);
+	struct eventfs_inode *ei = kzalloc(sizeof(*ei), GFP_KERNEL);
 
-	if (ei) {
-		memcpy((char *)ei->name, name, namesize);
-		kref_init(&ei->kref);
+	if (!ei)
+		return NULL;
+
+	ei->name = kstrdup_const(name, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!ei->name) {
+		kfree(ei);
+		return NULL;
 	}
+	kref_init(&ei->kref);
 	return ei;
 }
 
-
 /**
  * eventfs_d_release - dentry is going away
  * @dentry: dentry which has the reference to remove.
@@ -750,7 +754,7 @@ struct eventfs_inode *eventfs_create_events_dir(const char *name, struct dentry
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ei->list);
 
 	ti = get_tracefs(inode);
-	ti->flags = TRACEFS_EVENT_INODE | TRACEFS_EVENT_TOP_INODE;
+	ti->flags |= TRACEFS_EVENT_INODE | TRACEFS_EVENT_TOP_INODE;
 	ti->private = ei;
 
 	inode->i_mode = S_IFDIR | S_IRWXU | S_IRUGO | S_IXUGO;
@@ -847,5 +851,6 @@ void eventfs_remove_events_dir(struct eventfs_inode *ei)
 	 * sticks around while the other ei->dentry are created
 	 * and destroyed dynamically.
 	 */
+	d_invalidate(dentry);
 	dput(dentry);
 }
diff --git a/fs/tracefs/inode.c b/fs/tracefs/inode.c
index 64122787e5d0..cf90ea86baf8 100644
--- a/fs/tracefs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/tracefs/inode.c
@@ -38,8 +38,6 @@ static struct inode *tracefs_alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb)
 	if (!ti)
 		return NULL;
 
-	ti->flags = 0;
-
 	return &ti->vfs_inode;
 }
 
@@ -506,75 +504,6 @@ struct dentry *tracefs_end_creating(struct dentry *dentry)
 	return dentry;
 }
 
-/**
- * eventfs_start_creating - start the process of creating a dentry
- * @name: Name of the file created for the dentry
- * @parent: The parent dentry where this dentry will be created
- *
- * This is a simple helper function for the dynamically created eventfs
- * files. When the directory of the eventfs files are accessed, their
- * dentries are created on the fly. This function is used to start that
- * process.
- */
-struct dentry *eventfs_start_creating(const char *name, struct dentry *parent)
-{
-	struct dentry *dentry;
-	int error;
-
-	/* Must always have a parent. */
-	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!parent))
-		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
-
-	error = simple_pin_fs(&trace_fs_type, &tracefs_mount,
-			      &tracefs_mount_count);
-	if (error)
-		return ERR_PTR(error);
-
-	if (unlikely(IS_DEADDIR(parent->d_inode)))
-		dentry = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
-	else
-		dentry = lookup_one_len(name, parent, strlen(name));
-
-	if (!IS_ERR(dentry) && dentry->d_inode) {
-		dput(dentry);
-		dentry = ERR_PTR(-EEXIST);
-	}
-
-	if (IS_ERR(dentry))
-		simple_release_fs(&tracefs_mount, &tracefs_mount_count);
-
-	return dentry;
-}
-
-/**
- * eventfs_failed_creating - clean up a failed eventfs dentry creation
- * @dentry: The dentry to clean up
- *
- * If after calling eventfs_start_creating(), a failure is detected, the
- * resources created by eventfs_start_creating() needs to be cleaned up. In
- * that case, this function should be called to perform that clean up.
- */
-struct dentry *eventfs_failed_creating(struct dentry *dentry)
-{
-	dput(dentry);
-	simple_release_fs(&tracefs_mount, &tracefs_mount_count);
-	return NULL;
-}
-
-/**
- * eventfs_end_creating - Finish the process of creating a eventfs dentry
- * @dentry: The dentry that has successfully been created.
- *
- * This function is currently just a place holder to match
- * eventfs_start_creating(). In case any synchronization needs to be added,
- * this function will be used to implement that without having to modify
- * the callers of eventfs_start_creating().
- */
-struct dentry *eventfs_end_creating(struct dentry *dentry)
-{
-	return dentry;
-}
-
 /* Find the inode that this will use for default */
 static struct inode *instance_inode(struct dentry *parent, struct inode *inode)
 {
@@ -788,6 +717,7 @@ static void init_once(void *foo)
 {
 	struct tracefs_inode *ti = (struct tracefs_inode *) foo;
 
+	memset(ti, 0, sizeof(*ti));
 	inode_init_once(&ti->vfs_inode);
 }
 
diff --git a/fs/tracefs/internal.h b/fs/tracefs/internal.h
index d4194466b643..ca1ccc86986f 100644
--- a/fs/tracefs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/tracefs/internal.h
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ struct eventfs_inode {
 	struct kref			kref;
 	struct list_head		list;
 	const struct eventfs_entry	*entries;
+	const char			*name;
 	struct list_head		children;
 	struct dentry			*events_dir;
 	struct eventfs_attr		*entry_attrs;
@@ -64,7 +65,6 @@ struct eventfs_inode {
 		struct llist_node	llist;
 		struct rcu_head		rcu;
 	};
-	const char name[];
 };
 
 static inline struct tracefs_inode *get_tracefs(const struct inode *inode)
@@ -76,9 +76,6 @@ struct dentry *tracefs_start_creating(const char *name, struct dentry *parent);
 struct dentry *tracefs_end_creating(struct dentry *dentry);
 struct dentry *tracefs_failed_creating(struct dentry *dentry);
 struct inode *tracefs_get_inode(struct super_block *sb);
-struct dentry *eventfs_start_creating(const char *name, struct dentry *parent);
-struct dentry *eventfs_failed_creating(struct dentry *dentry);
-struct dentry *eventfs_end_creating(struct dentry *dentry);
 
 void eventfs_d_release(struct dentry *dentry);