From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33CE7C433FE for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2021 01:04:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EAF86136A for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2021 01:04:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231981AbhJDBFz (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Oct 2021 21:05:55 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:36848 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231363AbhJDBFx (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Oct 2021 21:05:53 -0400 Received: from smtp01.aussiebb.com.au (smtp01.aussiebb.com.au [IPv6:2403:5800:3:25::1001]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 77101C0613EC; Sun, 3 Oct 2021 18:04:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp01.aussiebb.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91A991002B3; Mon, 4 Oct 2021 12:04:00 +1100 (AEDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at smtp01.aussiebb.com.au Received: from smtp01.aussiebb.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp01.aussiebb.com.au [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id LF2jWtRANEnq; Mon, 4 Oct 2021 12:04:00 +1100 (AEDT) Received: by smtp01.aussiebb.com.au (Postfix, from userid 116) id 70562100291; Mon, 4 Oct 2021 12:04:00 +1100 (AEDT) Received: from mickey.themaw.net (unknown [100.72.131.210]) by smtp01.aussiebb.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70B74100278; Mon, 4 Oct 2021 12:03:58 +1100 (AEDT) Subject: [REPOST,UPDATED PATCH] kernfs: don't create a negative dentry if inactive node exists From: Ian Kent To: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Tejun Heo , Hou Tao Cc: David Howells , Miklos Szeredi , Rick Lindsley , Al Viro , Carlos Maiolino , linux-fsdevel , Kernel Mailing List Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2021 09:03:53 +0800 Message-ID: <163330943316.19450.15056895533949392922.stgit@mickey.themaw.net> User-Agent: StGit/0.23 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org It's been reported that doing stress test for module insertion and removal can result in an ENOENT from libkmod for a valid module. In kernfs_iop_lookup() a negative dentry is created if there's no kernfs node associated with the dentry or the node is inactive. But inactive kernfs nodes are meant to be invisible to the VFS and creating a negative dentry for these can have unexpected side effects when the node transitions to an active state. The point of creating negative dentries is to avoid the expensive alloc/free cycle that occurs if there are frequent lookups for kernfs attributes that don't exist. So kernfs nodes that are not yet active should not result in a negative dentry being created so when they transition to an active state VFS lookups can create an associated dentry is a natural way. It's also been reported that https://github.com/osandov/blktests.git test block/001 hangs during the test. It was suggested that recent changes to blktests might have caused it but applying this patch resolved the problem without change to blktests. Fixes: c7e7c04274b1 ("kernfs: use VFS negative dentry caching") Tested-by: Yi Zhang Signed-off-by: Ian Kent --- fs/kernfs/dir.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/kernfs/dir.c b/fs/kernfs/dir.c index ba581429bf7b..a957c944cf3a 100644 --- a/fs/kernfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/kernfs/dir.c @@ -1111,7 +1111,14 @@ static struct dentry *kernfs_iop_lookup(struct inode *dir, kn = kernfs_find_ns(parent, dentry->d_name.name, ns); /* attach dentry and inode */ - if (kn && kernfs_active(kn)) { + if (kn) { + /* Inactive nodes are invisible to the VFS so don't + * create a negative. + */ + if (!kernfs_active(kn)) { + up_read(&kernfs_rwsem); + return NULL; + } inode = kernfs_get_inode(dir->i_sb, kn); if (!inode) inode = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);