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Commit 0bcfd9aa authored by Steven Rostedt (Google)'s avatar Steven Rostedt (Google)
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tracefs: Clear EVENT_INODE flag in tracefs_drop_inode()

When the inode is being dropped from the dentry, the TRACEFS_EVENT_INODE
flag needs to be cleared to prevent a remount from calling
eventfs_remount() on the tracefs_inode private data. There's a race
between the inode is dropped (and the dentry freed) to where the inode is
actually freed. If a remount happens between the two, the eventfs_inode
could be accessed after it is freed (only the dentry keeps a ref count on
it).

Currently the TRACEFS_EVENT_INODE flag is cleared from the dentry iput()
function. But this is incorrect, as it is possible that the inode has
another reference to it. The flag should only be cleared when the inode is
really being dropped and has no more references. That happens in the
drop_inode callback of the inode, as that gets called when the last
reference of the inode is released.

Remove the tracefs_d_iput() function and move its logic to the more
appropriate tracefs_drop_inode() callback function.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240523051539.908205106@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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Fixes: baa23a8d

 ("tracefs: Reset permissions on remount if permissions are options")
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
parent 340f0c70
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