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<title>vfs: use RCU in ilookup</title>
<updated>2024-10-10T10:03:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mateusz Guzik</name>
<email>mjguzik@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2024-07-15T07:13:24+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 122381a46954ad592ee93d7da2bef5074b396247 ]

A soft lockup in ilookup was reported when stress-testing a 512-way
system [1] (see [2] for full context) and it was verified that not
taking the lock shifts issues back to mm.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/56865e57-c250-44da-9713-cf1404595bcc@amd.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/d2841226-e27b-4d3d-a578-63587a3aa4f3@amd.com/

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mjguzik@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240715071324.265879-1-mjguzik@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 122381a46954ad592ee93d7da2bef5074b396247 ]

A soft lockup in ilookup was reported when stress-testing a 512-way
system [1] (see [2] for full context) and it was verified that not
taking the lock shifts issues back to mm.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/56865e57-c250-44da-9713-cf1404595bcc@amd.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/d2841226-e27b-4d3d-a578-63587a3aa4f3@amd.com/

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mjguzik@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240715071324.265879-1-mjguzik@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs/inode: Prevent dump_mapping() accessing invalid dentry.d_name.name</title>
<updated>2024-10-10T10:03:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Li Zhijian</name>
<email>lizhijian@fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-26T05:55:03+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 7f7b850689ac06a62befe26e1fd1806799e7f152 ]

It's observed that a crash occurs during hot-remove a memory device,
in which user is accessing the hugetlb. See calltrace as following:

------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 14045 at arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1278 do_user_addr_fault+0x2a0/0x790
Modules linked in: kmem device_dax cxl_mem cxl_pmem cxl_port cxl_pci dax_hmem dax_pmem nd_pmem cxl_acpi nd_btt cxl_core crc32c_intel nvme virtiofs fuse nvme_core nfit libnvdimm dm_multipath scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_emc s
mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod
CPU: 1 PID: 14045 Comm: daxctl Not tainted 6.10.0-rc2-lizhijian+ #492
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:do_user_addr_fault+0x2a0/0x790
Code: 48 8b 00 a8 04 0f 84 b5 fe ff ff e9 1c ff ff ff 4c 89 e9 4c 89 e2 be 01 00 00 00 bf 02 00 00 00 e8 b5 ef 24 00 e9 42 fe ff ff &lt;0f&gt; 0b 48 83 c4 08 4c 89 ea 48 89 ee 4c 89 e7 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41
RSP: 0000:ffffc90000a575f0 EFLAGS: 00010046
RAX: ffff88800c303600 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: ffffffff82504162 RDI: ffffffff824b2c36
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffc90000a57658
R13: 0000000000001000 R14: ffff88800bc2e040 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  00007f51cb57d880(0000) GS:ffff88807fd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000001000 CR3: 00000000072e2004 CR4: 00000000001706f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 ? __warn+0x8d/0x190
 ? do_user_addr_fault+0x2a0/0x790
 ? report_bug+0x1c3/0x1d0
 ? handle_bug+0x3c/0x70
 ? exc_invalid_op+0x14/0x70
 ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20
 ? do_user_addr_fault+0x2a0/0x790
 ? exc_page_fault+0x31/0x200
 exc_page_fault+0x68/0x200
&lt;...snip...&gt;
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000000001000
 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
 PGD 800000000ad92067 P4D 800000000ad92067 PUD 7677067 PMD 0
 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
 ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
 BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000000001000
 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
 PGD 800000000ad92067 P4D 800000000ad92067 PUD 7677067 PMD 0
 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
 CPU: 1 PID: 14045 Comm: daxctl Kdump: loaded Tainted: G        W          6.10.0-rc2-lizhijian+ #492
 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
 RIP: 0010:dentry_name+0x1f4/0x440
&lt;...snip...&gt;
? dentry_name+0x2fa/0x440
vsnprintf+0x1f3/0x4f0
vprintk_store+0x23a/0x540
vprintk_emit+0x6d/0x330
_printk+0x58/0x80
dump_mapping+0x10b/0x1a0
? __pfx_free_object_rcu+0x10/0x10
__dump_page+0x26b/0x3e0
? vprintk_emit+0xe0/0x330
? _printk+0x58/0x80
? dump_page+0x17/0x50
dump_page+0x17/0x50
do_migrate_range+0x2f7/0x7f0
? do_migrate_range+0x42/0x7f0
? offline_pages+0x2f4/0x8c0
offline_pages+0x60a/0x8c0
memory_subsys_offline+0x9f/0x1c0
? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0x77/0x100
? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x38/0x60
device_offline+0xe3/0x110
state_store+0x6e/0xc0
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x143/0x200
vfs_write+0x39f/0x560
ksys_write+0x65/0xf0
do_syscall_64+0x62/0x130

Previously, some sanity check have been done in dump_mapping() before
the print facility parsing '%pd' though, it's still possible to run into
an invalid dentry.d_name.name.

Since dump_mapping() only needs to dump the filename only, retrieve it
by itself in a safer way to prevent an unnecessary crash.

Note that either retrieving the filename with '%pd' or
strncpy_from_kernel_nofault(), the filename could be unreliable.

Signed-off-by: Li Zhijian &lt;lizhijian@fujitsu.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240826055503.1522320-1-lizhijian@fujitsu.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 7f7b850689ac06a62befe26e1fd1806799e7f152 ]

It's observed that a crash occurs during hot-remove a memory device,
in which user is accessing the hugetlb. See calltrace as following:

------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 14045 at arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1278 do_user_addr_fault+0x2a0/0x790
Modules linked in: kmem device_dax cxl_mem cxl_pmem cxl_port cxl_pci dax_hmem dax_pmem nd_pmem cxl_acpi nd_btt cxl_core crc32c_intel nvme virtiofs fuse nvme_core nfit libnvdimm dm_multipath scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_emc s
mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod
CPU: 1 PID: 14045 Comm: daxctl Not tainted 6.10.0-rc2-lizhijian+ #492
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:do_user_addr_fault+0x2a0/0x790
Code: 48 8b 00 a8 04 0f 84 b5 fe ff ff e9 1c ff ff ff 4c 89 e9 4c 89 e2 be 01 00 00 00 bf 02 00 00 00 e8 b5 ef 24 00 e9 42 fe ff ff &lt;0f&gt; 0b 48 83 c4 08 4c 89 ea 48 89 ee 4c 89 e7 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41
RSP: 0000:ffffc90000a575f0 EFLAGS: 00010046
RAX: ffff88800c303600 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: ffffffff82504162 RDI: ffffffff824b2c36
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffc90000a57658
R13: 0000000000001000 R14: ffff88800bc2e040 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  00007f51cb57d880(0000) GS:ffff88807fd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000001000 CR3: 00000000072e2004 CR4: 00000000001706f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 ? __warn+0x8d/0x190
 ? do_user_addr_fault+0x2a0/0x790
 ? report_bug+0x1c3/0x1d0
 ? handle_bug+0x3c/0x70
 ? exc_invalid_op+0x14/0x70
 ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20
 ? do_user_addr_fault+0x2a0/0x790
 ? exc_page_fault+0x31/0x200
 exc_page_fault+0x68/0x200
&lt;...snip...&gt;
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000000001000
 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
 PGD 800000000ad92067 P4D 800000000ad92067 PUD 7677067 PMD 0
 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
 ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
 BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000000001000
 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
 PGD 800000000ad92067 P4D 800000000ad92067 PUD 7677067 PMD 0
 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
 CPU: 1 PID: 14045 Comm: daxctl Kdump: loaded Tainted: G        W          6.10.0-rc2-lizhijian+ #492
 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
 RIP: 0010:dentry_name+0x1f4/0x440
&lt;...snip...&gt;
? dentry_name+0x2fa/0x440
vsnprintf+0x1f3/0x4f0
vprintk_store+0x23a/0x540
vprintk_emit+0x6d/0x330
_printk+0x58/0x80
dump_mapping+0x10b/0x1a0
? __pfx_free_object_rcu+0x10/0x10
__dump_page+0x26b/0x3e0
? vprintk_emit+0xe0/0x330
? _printk+0x58/0x80
? dump_page+0x17/0x50
dump_page+0x17/0x50
do_migrate_range+0x2f7/0x7f0
? do_migrate_range+0x42/0x7f0
? offline_pages+0x2f4/0x8c0
offline_pages+0x60a/0x8c0
memory_subsys_offline+0x9f/0x1c0
? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0x77/0x100
? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x38/0x60
device_offline+0xe3/0x110
state_store+0x6e/0xc0
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x143/0x200
vfs_write+0x39f/0x560
ksys_write+0x65/0xf0
do_syscall_64+0x62/0x130

Previously, some sanity check have been done in dump_mapping() before
the print facility parsing '%pd' though, it's still possible to run into
an invalid dentry.d_name.name.

Since dump_mapping() only needs to dump the filename only, retrieve it
by itself in a safer way to prevent an unnecessary crash.

Note that either retrieving the filename with '%pd' or
strncpy_from_kernel_nofault(), the filename could be unreliable.

Signed-off-by: Li Zhijian &lt;lizhijian@fujitsu.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240826055503.1522320-1-lizhijian@fujitsu.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: fix race between evice_inodes() and find_inode()&amp;iput()</title>
<updated>2024-10-04T14:38:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Julian Sun</name>
<email>sunjunchao2870@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-23T13:07:30+00:00</published>
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commit 88b1afbf0f6b221f6c5bb66cc80cd3b38d696687 upstream.

Hi, all

Recently I noticed a bug[1] in btrfs, after digged it into
and I believe it'a race in vfs.

Let's assume there's a inode (ie ino 261) with i_count 1 is
called by iput(), and there's a concurrent thread calling
generic_shutdown_super().

cpu0:                              cpu1:
iput() // i_count is 1
  -&gt;spin_lock(inode)
  -&gt;dec i_count to 0
  -&gt;iput_final()                    generic_shutdown_super()
    -&gt;__inode_add_lru()               -&gt;evict_inodes()
      // cause some reason[2]           -&gt;if (atomic_read(inode-&gt;i_count)) continue;
      // return before                  // inode 261 passed the above check
      // list_lru_add_obj()             // and then schedule out
   -&gt;spin_unlock()
// note here: the inode 261
// was still at sb list and hash list,
// and I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE was not been set

btrfs_iget()
  // after some function calls
  -&gt;find_inode()
    // found the above inode 261
    -&gt;spin_lock(inode)
   // check I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE
   // and passed
      -&gt;__iget()
    -&gt;spin_unlock(inode)                // schedule back
                                        -&gt;spin_lock(inode)
                                        // check (I_NEW|I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE) flags,
                                        // passed and set I_FREEING
iput()                                  -&gt;spin_unlock(inode)
  -&gt;spin_lock(inode)			  -&gt;evict()
  // dec i_count to 0
  -&gt;iput_final()
    -&gt;spin_unlock()
    -&gt;evict()

Now, we have two threads simultaneously evicting
the same inode, which may trigger the BUG(inode-&gt;i_state &amp; I_CLEAR)
statement both within clear_inode() and iput().

To fix the bug, recheck the inode-&gt;i_count after holding i_lock.
Because in the most scenarios, the first check is valid, and
the overhead of spin_lock() can be reduced.

If there is any misunderstanding, please let me know, thanks.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/000000000000eabe1d0619c48986@google.com/
[2]: The reason might be 1. SB_ACTIVE was removed or 2. mapping_shrinkable()
return false when I reproduced the bug.

Reported-by: syzbot+67ba3c42bcbb4665d3ad@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=67ba3c42bcbb4665d3ad
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 63997e98a3be ("split invalidate_inodes()")
Signed-off-by: Julian Sun &lt;sunjunchao2870@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240823130730.658881-1-sunjunchao2870@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 88b1afbf0f6b221f6c5bb66cc80cd3b38d696687 upstream.

Hi, all

Recently I noticed a bug[1] in btrfs, after digged it into
and I believe it'a race in vfs.

Let's assume there's a inode (ie ino 261) with i_count 1 is
called by iput(), and there's a concurrent thread calling
generic_shutdown_super().

cpu0:                              cpu1:
iput() // i_count is 1
  -&gt;spin_lock(inode)
  -&gt;dec i_count to 0
  -&gt;iput_final()                    generic_shutdown_super()
    -&gt;__inode_add_lru()               -&gt;evict_inodes()
      // cause some reason[2]           -&gt;if (atomic_read(inode-&gt;i_count)) continue;
      // return before                  // inode 261 passed the above check
      // list_lru_add_obj()             // and then schedule out
   -&gt;spin_unlock()
// note here: the inode 261
// was still at sb list and hash list,
// and I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE was not been set

btrfs_iget()
  // after some function calls
  -&gt;find_inode()
    // found the above inode 261
    -&gt;spin_lock(inode)
   // check I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE
   // and passed
      -&gt;__iget()
    -&gt;spin_unlock(inode)                // schedule back
                                        -&gt;spin_lock(inode)
                                        // check (I_NEW|I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE) flags,
                                        // passed and set I_FREEING
iput()                                  -&gt;spin_unlock(inode)
  -&gt;spin_lock(inode)			  -&gt;evict()
  // dec i_count to 0
  -&gt;iput_final()
    -&gt;spin_unlock()
    -&gt;evict()

Now, we have two threads simultaneously evicting
the same inode, which may trigger the BUG(inode-&gt;i_state &amp; I_CLEAR)
statement both within clear_inode() and iput().

To fix the bug, recheck the inode-&gt;i_count after holding i_lock.
Because in the most scenarios, the first check is valid, and
the overhead of spin_lock() can be reduced.

If there is any misunderstanding, please let me know, thanks.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/000000000000eabe1d0619c48986@google.com/
[2]: The reason might be 1. SB_ACTIVE was removed or 2. mapping_shrinkable()
return false when I reproduced the bug.

Reported-by: syzbot+67ba3c42bcbb4665d3ad@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=67ba3c42bcbb4665d3ad
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 63997e98a3be ("split invalidate_inodes()")
Signed-off-by: Julian Sun &lt;sunjunchao2870@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240823130730.658881-1-sunjunchao2870@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: Don't evict inode under the inode lru traversing context</title>
<updated>2024-08-13T11:52:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhihao Cheng</name>
<email>chengzhihao1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-09T03:16:28+00:00</published>
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The inode reclaiming process(See function prune_icache_sb) collects all
reclaimable inodes and mark them with I_FREEING flag at first, at that
time, other processes will be stuck if they try getting these inodes
(See function find_inode_fast), then the reclaiming process destroy the
inodes by function dispose_list(). Some filesystems(eg. ext4 with
ea_inode feature, ubifs with xattr) may do inode lookup in the inode
evicting callback function, if the inode lookup is operated under the
inode lru traversing context, deadlock problems may happen.

Case 1: In function ext4_evict_inode(), the ea inode lookup could happen
        if ea_inode feature is enabled, the lookup process will be stuck
	under the evicting context like this:

 1. File A has inode i_reg and an ea inode i_ea
 2. getfattr(A, xattr_buf) // i_ea is added into lru // lru-&gt;i_ea
 3. Then, following three processes running like this:

    PA                              PB
 echo 2 &gt; /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
  shrink_slab
   prune_dcache_sb
   // i_reg is added into lru, lru-&gt;i_ea-&gt;i_reg
   prune_icache_sb
    list_lru_walk_one
     inode_lru_isolate
      i_ea-&gt;i_state |= I_FREEING // set inode state
     inode_lru_isolate
      __iget(i_reg)
      spin_unlock(&amp;i_reg-&gt;i_lock)
      spin_unlock(lru_lock)
                                     rm file A
                                      i_reg-&gt;nlink = 0
      iput(i_reg) // i_reg-&gt;nlink is 0, do evict
       ext4_evict_inode
        ext4_xattr_delete_inode
         ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all
          ext4_xattr_inode_iget
           ext4_iget(i_ea-&gt;i_ino)
            iget_locked
             find_inode_fast
              __wait_on_freeing_inode(i_ea) ----→ AA deadlock
    dispose_list // cannot be executed by prune_icache_sb
     wake_up_bit(&amp;i_ea-&gt;i_state)

Case 2: In deleted inode writing function ubifs_jnl_write_inode(), file
        deleting process holds BASEHD's wbuf-&gt;io_mutex while getting the
	xattr inode, which could race with inode reclaiming process(The
        reclaiming process could try locking BASEHD's wbuf-&gt;io_mutex in
	inode evicting function), then an ABBA deadlock problem would
	happen as following:

 1. File A has inode ia and a xattr(with inode ixa), regular file B has
    inode ib and a xattr.
 2. getfattr(A, xattr_buf) // ixa is added into lru // lru-&gt;ixa
 3. Then, following three processes running like this:

        PA                PB                        PC
                echo 2 &gt; /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
                 shrink_slab
                  prune_dcache_sb
                  // ib and ia are added into lru, lru-&gt;ixa-&gt;ib-&gt;ia
                  prune_icache_sb
                   list_lru_walk_one
                    inode_lru_isolate
                     ixa-&gt;i_state |= I_FREEING // set inode state
                    inode_lru_isolate
                     __iget(ib)
                     spin_unlock(&amp;ib-&gt;i_lock)
                     spin_unlock(lru_lock)
                                                   rm file B
                                                    ib-&gt;nlink = 0
 rm file A
  iput(ia)
   ubifs_evict_inode(ia)
    ubifs_jnl_delete_inode(ia)
     ubifs_jnl_write_inode(ia)
      make_reservation(BASEHD) // Lock wbuf-&gt;io_mutex
      ubifs_iget(ixa-&gt;i_ino)
       iget_locked
        find_inode_fast
         __wait_on_freeing_inode(ixa)
          |          iput(ib) // ib-&gt;nlink is 0, do evict
          |           ubifs_evict_inode
          |            ubifs_jnl_delete_inode(ib)
          ↓             ubifs_jnl_write_inode
     ABBA deadlock ←-----make_reservation(BASEHD)
                   dispose_list // cannot be executed by prune_icache_sb
                    wake_up_bit(&amp;ixa-&gt;i_state)

Fix the possible deadlock by using new inode state flag I_LRU_ISOLATING
to pin the inode in memory while inode_lru_isolate() reclaims its pages
instead of using ordinary inode reference. This way inode deletion
cannot be triggered from inode_lru_isolate() thus avoiding the deadlock.
evict() is made to wait for I_LRU_ISOLATING to be cleared before
proceeding with inode cleanup.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/37c29c42-7685-d1f0-067d-63582ffac405@huaweicloud.com/
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219022
Fixes: e50e5129f384 ("ext4: xattr-in-inode support")
Fixes: 7959cf3a7506 ("ubifs: journal: Handle xattrs like files")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Zhihao Cheng &lt;chengzhihao1@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240809031628.1069873-1-chengzhihao@huaweicloud.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Suggested-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Suggested-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mjguzik@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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The inode reclaiming process(See function prune_icache_sb) collects all
reclaimable inodes and mark them with I_FREEING flag at first, at that
time, other processes will be stuck if they try getting these inodes
(See function find_inode_fast), then the reclaiming process destroy the
inodes by function dispose_list(). Some filesystems(eg. ext4 with
ea_inode feature, ubifs with xattr) may do inode lookup in the inode
evicting callback function, if the inode lookup is operated under the
inode lru traversing context, deadlock problems may happen.

Case 1: In function ext4_evict_inode(), the ea inode lookup could happen
        if ea_inode feature is enabled, the lookup process will be stuck
	under the evicting context like this:

 1. File A has inode i_reg and an ea inode i_ea
 2. getfattr(A, xattr_buf) // i_ea is added into lru // lru-&gt;i_ea
 3. Then, following three processes running like this:

    PA                              PB
 echo 2 &gt; /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
  shrink_slab
   prune_dcache_sb
   // i_reg is added into lru, lru-&gt;i_ea-&gt;i_reg
   prune_icache_sb
    list_lru_walk_one
     inode_lru_isolate
      i_ea-&gt;i_state |= I_FREEING // set inode state
     inode_lru_isolate
      __iget(i_reg)
      spin_unlock(&amp;i_reg-&gt;i_lock)
      spin_unlock(lru_lock)
                                     rm file A
                                      i_reg-&gt;nlink = 0
      iput(i_reg) // i_reg-&gt;nlink is 0, do evict
       ext4_evict_inode
        ext4_xattr_delete_inode
         ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all
          ext4_xattr_inode_iget
           ext4_iget(i_ea-&gt;i_ino)
            iget_locked
             find_inode_fast
              __wait_on_freeing_inode(i_ea) ----→ AA deadlock
    dispose_list // cannot be executed by prune_icache_sb
     wake_up_bit(&amp;i_ea-&gt;i_state)

Case 2: In deleted inode writing function ubifs_jnl_write_inode(), file
        deleting process holds BASEHD's wbuf-&gt;io_mutex while getting the
	xattr inode, which could race with inode reclaiming process(The
        reclaiming process could try locking BASEHD's wbuf-&gt;io_mutex in
	inode evicting function), then an ABBA deadlock problem would
	happen as following:

 1. File A has inode ia and a xattr(with inode ixa), regular file B has
    inode ib and a xattr.
 2. getfattr(A, xattr_buf) // ixa is added into lru // lru-&gt;ixa
 3. Then, following three processes running like this:

        PA                PB                        PC
                echo 2 &gt; /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
                 shrink_slab
                  prune_dcache_sb
                  // ib and ia are added into lru, lru-&gt;ixa-&gt;ib-&gt;ia
                  prune_icache_sb
                   list_lru_walk_one
                    inode_lru_isolate
                     ixa-&gt;i_state |= I_FREEING // set inode state
                    inode_lru_isolate
                     __iget(ib)
                     spin_unlock(&amp;ib-&gt;i_lock)
                     spin_unlock(lru_lock)
                                                   rm file B
                                                    ib-&gt;nlink = 0
 rm file A
  iput(ia)
   ubifs_evict_inode(ia)
    ubifs_jnl_delete_inode(ia)
     ubifs_jnl_write_inode(ia)
      make_reservation(BASEHD) // Lock wbuf-&gt;io_mutex
      ubifs_iget(ixa-&gt;i_ino)
       iget_locked
        find_inode_fast
         __wait_on_freeing_inode(ixa)
          |          iput(ib) // ib-&gt;nlink is 0, do evict
          |           ubifs_evict_inode
          |            ubifs_jnl_delete_inode(ib)
          ↓             ubifs_jnl_write_inode
     ABBA deadlock ←-----make_reservation(BASEHD)
                   dispose_list // cannot be executed by prune_icache_sb
                    wake_up_bit(&amp;ixa-&gt;i_state)

Fix the possible deadlock by using new inode state flag I_LRU_ISOLATING
to pin the inode in memory while inode_lru_isolate() reclaims its pages
instead of using ordinary inode reference. This way inode deletion
cannot be triggered from inode_lru_isolate() thus avoiding the deadlock.
evict() is made to wait for I_LRU_ISOLATING to be cleared before
proceeding with inode cleanup.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/37c29c42-7685-d1f0-067d-63582ffac405@huaweicloud.com/
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219022
Fixes: e50e5129f384 ("ext4: xattr-in-inode support")
Fixes: 7959cf3a7506 ("ubifs: journal: Handle xattrs like files")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Zhihao Cheng &lt;chengzhihao1@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240809031628.1069873-1-chengzhihao@huaweicloud.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Suggested-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Suggested-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mjguzik@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers</title>
<updated>2024-07-24T18:59:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Granados</name>
<email>j.granados@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-24T18:59:29+00:00</published>
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const qualify the struct ctl_table argument in the proc_handler function
signatures. This is a prerequisite to moving the static ctl_table
structs into .rodata data which will ensure that proc_handler function
pointers cannot be modified.

This patch has been generated by the following coccinelle script:

```
  virtual patch

  @r1@
  identifier ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  identifier func !~ "appldata_(timer|interval)_handler|sched_(rt|rr)_handler|rds_tcp_skbuf_handler|proc_sctp_do_(hmac_alg|rto_min|rto_max|udp_port|alpha_beta|auth|probe_interval)";
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);

  @r2@
  identifier func, ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
  { ... }

  @r3@
  identifier func;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *
  + const struct ctl_table *
    ,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);

  @r4@
  identifier func, ctl;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);

  @r5@
  identifier func, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *
  + const struct ctl_table *
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);

```

* Code formatting was adjusted in xfs_sysctl.c to comply with code
  conventions. The xfs_stats_clear_proc_handler,
  xfs_panic_mask_proc_handler and xfs_deprecated_dointvec_minmax where
  adjusted.

* The ctl_table argument in proc_watchdog_common was const qualified.
  This is called from a proc_handler itself and is calling back into
  another proc_handler, making it necessary to change it as part of the
  proc_handler migration.

Co-developed-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Co-developed-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
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const qualify the struct ctl_table argument in the proc_handler function
signatures. This is a prerequisite to moving the static ctl_table
structs into .rodata data which will ensure that proc_handler function
pointers cannot be modified.

This patch has been generated by the following coccinelle script:

```
  virtual patch

  @r1@
  identifier ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  identifier func !~ "appldata_(timer|interval)_handler|sched_(rt|rr)_handler|rds_tcp_skbuf_handler|proc_sctp_do_(hmac_alg|rto_min|rto_max|udp_port|alpha_beta|auth|probe_interval)";
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);

  @r2@
  identifier func, ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
  { ... }

  @r3@
  identifier func;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *
  + const struct ctl_table *
    ,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);

  @r4@
  identifier func, ctl;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);

  @r5@
  identifier func, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *
  + const struct ctl_table *
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);

```

* Code formatting was adjusted in xfs_sysctl.c to comply with code
  conventions. The xfs_stats_clear_proc_handler,
  xfs_panic_mask_proc_handler and xfs_deprecated_dointvec_minmax where
  adjusted.

* The ctl_table argument in proc_watchdog_common was const qualified.
  This is called from a proc_handler itself and is calling back into
  another proc_handler, making it necessary to change it as part of the
  proc_handler migration.

Co-developed-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Co-developed-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>inode: clarify what's locked</title>
<updated>2024-07-24T09:11:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-24T08:50:33+00:00</published>
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In __wait_on_freeing_inode() we warn in case the inode_hash_lock is held
but the inode is unhashed. We then release the inode_lock. So using
"locked" as parameter name is confusing. Use is_inode_hash_locked as
parameter name instead.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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In __wait_on_freeing_inode() we warn in case the inode_hash_lock is held
but the inode is unhashed. We then release the inode_lock. So using
"locked" as parameter name is confusing. Use is_inode_hash_locked as
parameter name instead.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: handle __wait_on_freeing_inode() and evict() race</title>
<updated>2024-07-24T08:52:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mateusz Guzik</name>
<email>mjguzik@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-18T15:18:37+00:00</published>
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Lockless hash lookup can find and lock the inode after it gets the
I_FREEING flag set, at which point it blocks waiting for teardown in
evict() to finish.

However, the flag is still set even after evict() wakes up all waiters.

This results in a race where if the inode lock is taken late enough, it
can happen after both hash removal and wakeups, meaning there is nobody
to wake the racing thread up.

This worked prior to RCU-based lookup because the entire ordeal was
synchronized with the inode hash lock.

Since unhashing requires the inode lock, we can safely check whether it
happened after acquiring it.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/v9fs/20240717102458.649b60be@kernel.org/
Reported-by: Dominique Martinet &lt;asmadeus@codewreck.org&gt;
Fixes: 7180f8d91fcb ("vfs: add rcu-based find_inode variants for iget ops")
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mjguzik@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240718151838.611807-1-mjguzik@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Lockless hash lookup can find and lock the inode after it gets the
I_FREEING flag set, at which point it blocks waiting for teardown in
evict() to finish.

However, the flag is still set even after evict() wakes up all waiters.

This results in a race where if the inode lock is taken late enough, it
can happen after both hash removal and wakeups, meaning there is nobody
to wake the racing thread up.

This worked prior to RCU-based lookup because the entire ordeal was
synchronized with the inode hash lock.

Since unhashing requires the inode lock, we can safely check whether it
happened after acquiring it.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/v9fs/20240717102458.649b60be@kernel.org/
Reported-by: Dominique Martinet &lt;asmadeus@codewreck.org&gt;
Fixes: 7180f8d91fcb ("vfs: add rcu-based find_inode variants for iget ops")
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mjguzik@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240718151838.611807-1-mjguzik@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.11.inode' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2024-07-15T18:39:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-15T18:39:44+00:00</published>
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<id>2aae1d67fd1d9070f8f23a6e7d9a7a093cf35fbb</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull vfs inode / dentry updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains smaller performance improvements to inodes and dentries:

  inode:

   - Add rcu based inode lookup variants.

     They avoid one inode hash lock acquire in the common case thereby
     significantly reducing contention. We already support RCU-based
     operations but didn't take advantage of them during inode
     insertion.

     Callers of iget_locked() get the improvement without any code
     changes. Callers that need a custom callback can switch to
     iget5_locked_rcu() as e.g., did btrfs.

     With 20 threads each walking a dedicated 1000 dirs * 1000 files
     directory tree to stat(2) on a 32 core + 24GB ram vm:

        before: 3.54s user 892.30s system 1966% cpu 45.549 total
        after:  3.28s user 738.66s system 1955% cpu 37.932 total (-16.7%)

     Long-term we should pick up the effort to introduce more
     fine-grained locking and possibly improve on the currently used
     hash implementation.

   - Start zeroing i_state in inode_init_always() instead of doing it in
     individual filesystems.

     This allows us to remove an unneeded lock acquire in new_inode()
     and not burden individual filesystems with this.

  dcache:

   - Move d_lockref out of the area used by RCU lookup to avoid
     cacheline ping poing because the embedded name is sharing a
     cacheline with d_lockref.

   - Fix dentry size on 32bit with CONFIG_SMP=y so it does actually end
     up with 128 bytes in total"

* tag 'vfs-6.11.inode' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  fs: fix dentry size
  vfs: move d_lockref out of the area used by RCU lookup
  bcachefs: remove now spurious i_state initialization
  xfs: remove now spurious i_state initialization in xfs_inode_alloc
  vfs: partially sanitize i_state zeroing on inode creation
  xfs: preserve i_state around inode_init_always in xfs_reinit_inode
  btrfs: use iget5_locked_rcu
  vfs: add rcu-based find_inode variants for iget ops
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull vfs inode / dentry updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains smaller performance improvements to inodes and dentries:

  inode:

   - Add rcu based inode lookup variants.

     They avoid one inode hash lock acquire in the common case thereby
     significantly reducing contention. We already support RCU-based
     operations but didn't take advantage of them during inode
     insertion.

     Callers of iget_locked() get the improvement without any code
     changes. Callers that need a custom callback can switch to
     iget5_locked_rcu() as e.g., did btrfs.

     With 20 threads each walking a dedicated 1000 dirs * 1000 files
     directory tree to stat(2) on a 32 core + 24GB ram vm:

        before: 3.54s user 892.30s system 1966% cpu 45.549 total
        after:  3.28s user 738.66s system 1955% cpu 37.932 total (-16.7%)

     Long-term we should pick up the effort to introduce more
     fine-grained locking and possibly improve on the currently used
     hash implementation.

   - Start zeroing i_state in inode_init_always() instead of doing it in
     individual filesystems.

     This allows us to remove an unneeded lock acquire in new_inode()
     and not burden individual filesystems with this.

  dcache:

   - Move d_lockref out of the area used by RCU lookup to avoid
     cacheline ping poing because the embedded name is sharing a
     cacheline with d_lockref.

   - Fix dentry size on 32bit with CONFIG_SMP=y so it does actually end
     up with 128 bytes in total"

* tag 'vfs-6.11.inode' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  fs: fix dentry size
  vfs: move d_lockref out of the area used by RCU lookup
  bcachefs: remove now spurious i_state initialization
  xfs: remove now spurious i_state initialization in xfs_inode_alloc
  vfs: partially sanitize i_state zeroing on inode creation
  xfs: preserve i_state around inode_init_always in xfs_reinit_inode
  btrfs: use iget5_locked_rcu
  vfs: add rcu-based find_inode variants for iget ops
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: Export in_group_or_capable()</title>
<updated>2024-06-25T09:15:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Youling Tang</name>
<email>tangyouling@kylinos.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-20T03:23:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9b6a14f08b4875aa22ea0b5bc35042e2580b311b'/>
<id>9b6a14f08b4875aa22ea0b5bc35042e2580b311b</id>
<content type='text'>
Export in_group_or_capable() as a VFS helper function.

Signed-off-by: Youling Tang &lt;tangyouling@kylinos.cn&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240620032335.147136-1-youling.tang@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Export in_group_or_capable() as a VFS helper function.

Signed-off-by: Youling Tang &lt;tangyouling@kylinos.cn&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240620032335.147136-1-youling.tang@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: partially sanitize i_state zeroing on inode creation</title>
<updated>2024-06-13T11:40:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mateusz Guzik</name>
<email>mjguzik@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-11T12:06:24+00:00</published>
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new_inode used to have the following:
	spin_lock(&amp;inode_lock);
	inodes_stat.nr_inodes++;
	list_add(&amp;inode-&gt;i_list, &amp;inode_in_use);
	list_add(&amp;inode-&gt;i_sb_list, &amp;sb-&gt;s_inodes);
	inode-&gt;i_ino = ++last_ino;
	inode-&gt;i_state = 0;
	spin_unlock(&amp;inode_lock);

over time things disappeared, got moved around or got replaced (global
inode lock with a per-inode lock), eventually this got reduced to:
	spin_lock(&amp;inode-&gt;i_lock);
	inode-&gt;i_state = 0;
	spin_unlock(&amp;inode-&gt;i_lock);

But the lock acquire here does not synchronize against anyone.

Additionally iget5_locked performs i_state = 0 assignment without any
locks to begin with, the two combined look confusing at best.

It looks like the current state is a leftover which was not cleaned up.

Ideally it would be an invariant that i_state == 0 to begin with, but
achieving that would require dealing with all filesystem alloc handlers
one by one.

In the meantime drop the misleading locking and move i_state zeroing to
inode_init_always so that others don't need to deal with it by hand.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mjguzik@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240611120626.513952-3-mjguzik@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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new_inode used to have the following:
	spin_lock(&amp;inode_lock);
	inodes_stat.nr_inodes++;
	list_add(&amp;inode-&gt;i_list, &amp;inode_in_use);
	list_add(&amp;inode-&gt;i_sb_list, &amp;sb-&gt;s_inodes);
	inode-&gt;i_ino = ++last_ino;
	inode-&gt;i_state = 0;
	spin_unlock(&amp;inode_lock);

over time things disappeared, got moved around or got replaced (global
inode lock with a per-inode lock), eventually this got reduced to:
	spin_lock(&amp;inode-&gt;i_lock);
	inode-&gt;i_state = 0;
	spin_unlock(&amp;inode-&gt;i_lock);

But the lock acquire here does not synchronize against anyone.

Additionally iget5_locked performs i_state = 0 assignment without any
locks to begin with, the two combined look confusing at best.

It looks like the current state is a leftover which was not cleaned up.

Ideally it would be an invariant that i_state == 0 to begin with, but
achieving that would require dealing with all filesystem alloc handlers
one by one.

In the meantime drop the misleading locking and move i_state zeroing to
inode_init_always so that others don't need to deal with it by hand.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mjguzik@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240611120626.513952-3-mjguzik@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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