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Miller" , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds Subject: [PATCH 4.19 219/247] seq_file: document how per-entry resources are managed. Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 17:13:59 +0100 Message-Id: <20210301161042.397243992@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.30.1 In-Reply-To: <20210301161031.684018251@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20210301161031.684018251@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.66 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: NeilBrown commit b3656d8227f4c45812c6b40815d8f4e446ed372a upstream. Patch series "Fix some seq_file users that were recently broken". A recent change to seq_file broke some users which were using seq_file in a non-"standard" way ... though the "standard" isn't documented, so they can be excused. The result is a possible leak - of memory in one case, of references to a 'transport' in the other. These three patches: 1/ document and explain the problem 2/ fix the problem user in x86 3/ fix the problem user in net/sctp This patch (of 3): Users of seq_file will sometimes find it convenient to take a resource, such as a lock or memory allocation, in the ->start or ->next operations. These are per-entry resources, distinct from per-session resources which are taken in ->start and released in ->stop. The preferred management of these is release the resource on the subsequent call to ->next or ->stop. However prior to Commit 1f4aace60b0e ("fs/seq_file.c: simplify seq_file iteration code and interface") it happened that ->show would always be called after ->start or ->next, and a few users chose to release the resource in ->show. This is no longer reliable. Since the mentioned commit, ->next will always come after a successful ->show (to ensure m->index is updated correctly), so the original ordering cannot be maintained. This patch updates the documentation to clearly state the required behaviour. Other patches will fix the few problematic users. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo, per Willy] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/161248518659.21478.2484341937387294998.stgit@noble1 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/161248539020.21478.3147971477400875336.stgit@noble1 Fixes: 1f4aace60b0e ("fs/seq_file.c: simplify seq_file iteration code and interface") Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Cc: Xin Long Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Vlad Yasevich Cc: Neil Horman Cc: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) --- a/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt @@ -192,6 +192,12 @@ between the calls to start() and stop(), is a reasonable thing to do. The seq_file code will also avoid taking any other locks while the iterator is active. +The iterater value returned by start() or next() is guaranteed to be +passed to a subsequent next() or stop() call. This allows resources +such as locks that were taken to be reliably released. There is *no* +guarantee that the iterator will be passed to show(), though in practice +it often will be. + Formatted output