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<title>eventfs: Update all the eventfs_inodes from the events descriptor</title>
<updated>2024-06-21T12:40:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
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<published>2024-05-23T05:14:28+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 340f0c7067a95281ad13734f8225f49c6cf52067 ]

The change to update the permissions of the eventfs_inode had the
misconception that using the tracefs_inode would find all the
eventfs_inodes that have been updated and reset them on remount.
The problem with this approach is that the eventfs_inodes are freed when
they are no longer used (basically the reason the eventfs system exists).
When they are freed, the updated eventfs_inodes are not reset on a remount
because their tracefs_inodes have been freed.

Instead, since the events directory eventfs_inode always has a
tracefs_inode pointing to it (it is not freed when finished), and the
events directory has a link to all its children, have the
eventfs_remount() function only operate on the events eventfs_inode and
have it descend into its children updating their uid and gids.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAK7LNARXgaWw3kH9JgrnH4vK6fr8LDkNKf3wq8NhMWJrVwJyVQ@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240523051539.754424703@goodmis.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Fixes: baa23a8d4360d ("tracefs: Reset permissions on remount if permissions are options")
Reported-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 340f0c7067a95281ad13734f8225f49c6cf52067 ]

The change to update the permissions of the eventfs_inode had the
misconception that using the tracefs_inode would find all the
eventfs_inodes that have been updated and reset them on remount.
The problem with this approach is that the eventfs_inodes are freed when
they are no longer used (basically the reason the eventfs system exists).
When they are freed, the updated eventfs_inodes are not reset on a remount
because their tracefs_inodes have been freed.

Instead, since the events directory eventfs_inode always has a
tracefs_inode pointing to it (it is not freed when finished), and the
events directory has a link to all its children, have the
eventfs_remount() function only operate on the events eventfs_inode and
have it descend into its children updating their uid and gids.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAK7LNARXgaWw3kH9JgrnH4vK6fr8LDkNKf3wq8NhMWJrVwJyVQ@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240523051539.754424703@goodmis.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Fixes: baa23a8d4360d ("tracefs: Reset permissions on remount if permissions are options")
Reported-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracefs: Clear EVENT_INODE flag in tracefs_drop_inode()</title>
<updated>2024-06-16T11:51:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-23T05:14:29+00:00</published>
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commit 0bcfd9aa4dafa03b88d68bf66b694df2a3e76cf3 upstream.

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 &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: baa23a8d4360d ("tracefs: Reset permissions on remount if permissions are options")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 0bcfd9aa4dafa03b88d68bf66b694df2a3e76cf3 upstream.

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 &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: baa23a8d4360d ("tracefs: Reset permissions on remount if permissions are options")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>eventfs: Keep the directories from having the same inode number as files</title>
<updated>2024-06-16T11:51:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-23T05:14:26+00:00</published>
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commit 8898e7f288c47d450a3cf1511c791a03550c0789 upstream.

The directories require unique inode numbers but all the eventfs files
have the same inode number. Prevent the directories from having the same
inode numbers as the files as that can confuse some tooling.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240523051539.428826685@goodmis.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 834bf76add3e6 ("eventfs: Save directory inodes in the eventfs_inode structure")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 8898e7f288c47d450a3cf1511c791a03550c0789 upstream.

The directories require unique inode numbers but all the eventfs files
have the same inode number. Prevent the directories from having the same
inode numbers as the files as that can confuse some tooling.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240523051539.428826685@goodmis.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 834bf76add3e6 ("eventfs: Save directory inodes in the eventfs_inode structure")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>eventfs: Fix a possible null pointer dereference in eventfs_find_events()</title>
<updated>2024-06-16T11:51:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hao Ge</name>
<email>gehao@kylinos.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-13T05:33:38+00:00</published>
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commit d4e9a968738bf66d3bb852dd5588d4c7afd6d7f4 upstream.

In function eventfs_find_events,there is a potential null pointer
that may be caused by calling update_events_attr which will perform
some operations on the members of the ei struct when ei is NULL.

Hence,When ei-&gt;is_freed is set,return NULL directly.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240513053338.63017-1-hao.ge@linux.dev

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 8186fff7ab64 ("tracefs/eventfs: Use root and instance inodes as default ownership")
Signed-off-by: Hao Ge &lt;gehao@kylinos.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit d4e9a968738bf66d3bb852dd5588d4c7afd6d7f4 upstream.

In function eventfs_find_events,there is a potential null pointer
that may be caused by calling update_events_attr which will perform
some operations on the members of the ei struct when ei is NULL.

Hence,When ei-&gt;is_freed is set,return NULL directly.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240513053338.63017-1-hao.ge@linux.dev

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 8186fff7ab64 ("tracefs/eventfs: Use root and instance inodes as default ownership")
Signed-off-by: Hao Ge &lt;gehao@kylinos.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>eventfs: Have "events" directory get permissions from its parent</title>
<updated>2024-05-04T08:25:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-02T20:08:27+00:00</published>
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The events directory gets its permissions from the root inode. But this
can cause an inconsistency if the instances directory changes its
permissions, as the permissions of the created directories under it should
inherit the permissions of the instances directory when directories under
it are created.

Currently the behavior is:

 # cd /sys/kernel/tracing
 # chgrp 1002 instances
 # mkdir instances/foo
 # ls -l instances/foo
[..]
 -r--r-----  1 root lkp  0 May  1 18:55 buffer_total_size_kb
 -rw-r-----  1 root lkp  0 May  1 18:55 current_tracer
 -rw-r-----  1 root lkp  0 May  1 18:55 error_log
 drwxr-xr-x  1 root root 0 May  1 18:55 events
 --w-------  1 root lkp  0 May  1 18:55 free_buffer
 drwxr-x---  2 root lkp  0 May  1 18:55 options
 drwxr-x--- 10 root lkp  0 May  1 18:55 per_cpu
 -rw-r-----  1 root lkp  0 May  1 18:55 set_event

All the files and directories under "foo" has the "lkp" group except the
"events" directory. That's because its getting its default value from the
mount point instead of its parent.

Have the "events" directory make its default value based on its parent's
permissions. That now gives:

 # ls -l instances/foo
[..]
 -rw-r-----  1 root lkp 0 May  1 21:16 buffer_subbuf_size_kb
 -r--r-----  1 root lkp 0 May  1 21:16 buffer_total_size_kb
 -rw-r-----  1 root lkp 0 May  1 21:16 current_tracer
 -rw-r-----  1 root lkp 0 May  1 21:16 error_log
 drwxr-xr-x  1 root lkp 0 May  1 21:16 events
 --w-------  1 root lkp 0 May  1 21:16 free_buffer
 drwxr-x---  2 root lkp 0 May  1 21:16 options
 drwxr-x--- 10 root lkp 0 May  1 21:16 per_cpu
 -rw-r-----  1 root lkp 0 May  1 21:16 set_event

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240502200906.161887248@goodmis.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Fixes: 8186fff7ab649 ("tracefs/eventfs: Use root and instance inodes as default ownership")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The events directory gets its permissions from the root inode. But this
can cause an inconsistency if the instances directory changes its
permissions, as the permissions of the created directories under it should
inherit the permissions of the instances directory when directories under
it are created.

Currently the behavior is:

 # cd /sys/kernel/tracing
 # chgrp 1002 instances
 # mkdir instances/foo
 # ls -l instances/foo
[..]
 -r--r-----  1 root lkp  0 May  1 18:55 buffer_total_size_kb
 -rw-r-----  1 root lkp  0 May  1 18:55 current_tracer
 -rw-r-----  1 root lkp  0 May  1 18:55 error_log
 drwxr-xr-x  1 root root 0 May  1 18:55 events
 --w-------  1 root lkp  0 May  1 18:55 free_buffer
 drwxr-x---  2 root lkp  0 May  1 18:55 options
 drwxr-x--- 10 root lkp  0 May  1 18:55 per_cpu
 -rw-r-----  1 root lkp  0 May  1 18:55 set_event

All the files and directories under "foo" has the "lkp" group except the
"events" directory. That's because its getting its default value from the
mount point instead of its parent.

Have the "events" directory make its default value based on its parent's
permissions. That now gives:

 # ls -l instances/foo
[..]
 -rw-r-----  1 root lkp 0 May  1 21:16 buffer_subbuf_size_kb
 -r--r-----  1 root lkp 0 May  1 21:16 buffer_total_size_kb
 -rw-r-----  1 root lkp 0 May  1 21:16 current_tracer
 -rw-r-----  1 root lkp 0 May  1 21:16 error_log
 drwxr-xr-x  1 root lkp 0 May  1 21:16 events
 --w-------  1 root lkp 0 May  1 21:16 free_buffer
 drwxr-x---  2 root lkp 0 May  1 21:16 options
 drwxr-x--- 10 root lkp 0 May  1 21:16 per_cpu
 -rw-r-----  1 root lkp 0 May  1 21:16 set_event

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240502200906.161887248@goodmis.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Fixes: 8186fff7ab649 ("tracefs/eventfs: Use root and instance inodes as default ownership")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>eventfs: Do not treat events directory different than other directories</title>
<updated>2024-05-04T08:25:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-02T20:08:26+00:00</published>
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Treat the events directory the same as other directories when it comes to
permissions. The events directory was considered different because it's
dentry is persistent, whereas the other directory dentries are created
when accessed. But the way tracefs now does its ownership by using the
root dentry's permissions as the default permissions, the events directory
can get out of sync when a remount is performed setting the group and user
permissions.

Remove the special case for the events directory on setting the
attributes. This allows the updates caused by remount to work properly as
well as simplifies the code.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240502200906.002923579@goodmis.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Fixes: 8186fff7ab649 ("tracefs/eventfs: Use root and instance inodes as default ownership")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Treat the events directory the same as other directories when it comes to
permissions. The events directory was considered different because it's
dentry is persistent, whereas the other directory dentries are created
when accessed. But the way tracefs now does its ownership by using the
root dentry's permissions as the default permissions, the events directory
can get out of sync when a remount is performed setting the group and user
permissions.

Remove the special case for the events directory on setting the
attributes. This allows the updates caused by remount to work properly as
well as simplifies the code.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240502200906.002923579@goodmis.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Fixes: 8186fff7ab649 ("tracefs/eventfs: Use root and instance inodes as default ownership")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>eventfs: Do not differentiate the toplevel events directory</title>
<updated>2024-05-04T08:25:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-02T20:08:25+00:00</published>
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The toplevel events directory is really no different than the events
directory of instances. Having the two be different caused
inconsistencies and made it harder to fix the permissions bugs.

Make all events directories act the same.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240502200905.846448710@goodmis.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Fixes: 8186fff7ab649 ("tracefs/eventfs: Use root and instance inodes as default ownership")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The toplevel events directory is really no different than the events
directory of instances. Having the two be different caused
inconsistencies and made it harder to fix the permissions bugs.

Make all events directories act the same.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240502200905.846448710@goodmis.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Fixes: 8186fff7ab649 ("tracefs/eventfs: Use root and instance inodes as default ownership")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>tracefs: Still use mount point as default permissions for instances</title>
<updated>2024-05-04T08:25:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-02T20:08:24+00:00</published>
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If the instances directory's permissions were never change, then have it
and its children use the mount point permissions as the default.

Currently, the permissions of instance directories are determined by the
instance directory's permissions itself. But if the tracefs file system is
remounted and changes the permissions, the instance directory and its
children should use the new permission.

But because both the instance directory and its children use the instance
directory's inode for permissions, it misses the update.

To demonstrate this:

  # cd /sys/kernel/tracing/
  # mkdir instances/foo
  # ls -ld instances/foo
 drwxr-x--- 5 root root 0 May  1 19:07 instances/foo
  # ls -ld instances
 drwxr-x--- 3 root root 0 May  1 18:57 instances
  # ls -ld current_tracer
 -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 May  1 18:57 current_tracer

  # mount -o remount,gid=1002 .
  # ls -ld instances
 drwxr-x--- 3 root root 0 May  1 18:57 instances
  # ls -ld instances/foo/
 drwxr-x--- 5 root root 0 May  1 19:07 instances/foo/
  # ls -ld current_tracer
 -rw-r----- 1 root lkp 0 May  1 18:57 current_tracer

Notice that changing the group id to that of "lkp" did not affect the
instances directory nor its children. It should have been:

  # ls -ld current_tracer
 -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 May  1 19:19 current_tracer
  # ls -ld instances/foo/
 drwxr-x--- 5 root root 0 May  1 19:25 instances/foo/
  # ls -ld instances
 drwxr-x--- 3 root root 0 May  1 19:19 instances

  # mount -o remount,gid=1002 .
  # ls -ld current_tracer
 -rw-r----- 1 root lkp 0 May  1 19:19 current_tracer
  # ls -ld instances
 drwxr-x--- 3 root lkp 0 May  1 19:19 instances
  # ls -ld instances/foo/
 drwxr-x--- 5 root lkp 0 May  1 19:25 instances/foo/

Where all files were updated by the remount gid update.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240502200905.686838327@goodmis.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Fixes: 8186fff7ab649 ("tracefs/eventfs: Use root and instance inodes as default ownership")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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If the instances directory's permissions were never change, then have it
and its children use the mount point permissions as the default.

Currently, the permissions of instance directories are determined by the
instance directory's permissions itself. But if the tracefs file system is
remounted and changes the permissions, the instance directory and its
children should use the new permission.

But because both the instance directory and its children use the instance
directory's inode for permissions, it misses the update.

To demonstrate this:

  # cd /sys/kernel/tracing/
  # mkdir instances/foo
  # ls -ld instances/foo
 drwxr-x--- 5 root root 0 May  1 19:07 instances/foo
  # ls -ld instances
 drwxr-x--- 3 root root 0 May  1 18:57 instances
  # ls -ld current_tracer
 -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 May  1 18:57 current_tracer

  # mount -o remount,gid=1002 .
  # ls -ld instances
 drwxr-x--- 3 root root 0 May  1 18:57 instances
  # ls -ld instances/foo/
 drwxr-x--- 5 root root 0 May  1 19:07 instances/foo/
  # ls -ld current_tracer
 -rw-r----- 1 root lkp 0 May  1 18:57 current_tracer

Notice that changing the group id to that of "lkp" did not affect the
instances directory nor its children. It should have been:

  # ls -ld current_tracer
 -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 May  1 19:19 current_tracer
  # ls -ld instances/foo/
 drwxr-x--- 5 root root 0 May  1 19:25 instances/foo/
  # ls -ld instances
 drwxr-x--- 3 root root 0 May  1 19:19 instances

  # mount -o remount,gid=1002 .
  # ls -ld current_tracer
 -rw-r----- 1 root lkp 0 May  1 19:19 current_tracer
  # ls -ld instances
 drwxr-x--- 3 root lkp 0 May  1 19:19 instances
  # ls -ld instances/foo/
 drwxr-x--- 5 root lkp 0 May  1 19:25 instances/foo/

Where all files were updated by the remount gid update.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240502200905.686838327@goodmis.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Fixes: 8186fff7ab649 ("tracefs/eventfs: Use root and instance inodes as default ownership")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tracefs: Reset permissions on remount if permissions are options</title>
<updated>2024-05-04T08:25:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-02T20:08:23+00:00</published>
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There's an inconsistency with the way permissions are handled in tracefs.
Because the permissions are generated when accessed, they default to the
root inode's permission if they were never set by the user. If the user
sets the permissions, then a flag is set and the permissions are saved via
the inode (for tracefs files) or an internal attribute field (for
eventfs).

But if a remount happens that specify the permissions, all the files that
were not changed by the user gets updated, but the ones that were are not.
If the user were to remount the file system with a given permission, then
all files and directories within that file system should be updated.

This can cause security issues if a file's permission was updated but the
admin forgot about it. They could incorrectly think that remounting with
permissions set would update all files, but miss some.

For example:

 # cd /sys/kernel/tracing
 # chgrp 1002 current_tracer
 # ls -l
[..]
 -rw-r-----  1 root root 0 May  1 21:25 buffer_size_kb
 -rw-r-----  1 root root 0 May  1 21:25 buffer_subbuf_size_kb
 -r--r-----  1 root root 0 May  1 21:25 buffer_total_size_kb
 -rw-r-----  1 root lkp  0 May  1 21:25 current_tracer
 -rw-r-----  1 root root 0 May  1 21:25 dynamic_events
 -r--r-----  1 root root 0 May  1 21:25 dyn_ftrace_total_info
 -r--r-----  1 root root 0 May  1 21:25 enabled_functions

Where current_tracer now has group "lkp".

 # mount -o remount,gid=1001 .
 # ls -l
 -rw-r-----  1 root tracing 0 May  1 21:25 buffer_size_kb
 -rw-r-----  1 root tracing 0 May  1 21:25 buffer_subbuf_size_kb
 -r--r-----  1 root tracing 0 May  1 21:25 buffer_total_size_kb
 -rw-r-----  1 root lkp     0 May  1 21:25 current_tracer
 -rw-r-----  1 root tracing 0 May  1 21:25 dynamic_events
 -r--r-----  1 root tracing 0 May  1 21:25 dyn_ftrace_total_info
 -r--r-----  1 root tracing 0 May  1 21:25 enabled_functions

Everything changed but the "current_tracer".

Add a new link list that keeps track of all the tracefs_inodes which has
the permission flags that tell if the file/dir should use the root inode's
permission or not. Then on remount, clear all the flags so that the
default behavior of using the root inode's permission is done for all
files and directories.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240502200905.529542160@goodmis.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Fixes: 8186fff7ab649 ("tracefs/eventfs: Use root and instance inodes as default ownership")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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There's an inconsistency with the way permissions are handled in tracefs.
Because the permissions are generated when accessed, they default to the
root inode's permission if they were never set by the user. If the user
sets the permissions, then a flag is set and the permissions are saved via
the inode (for tracefs files) or an internal attribute field (for
eventfs).

But if a remount happens that specify the permissions, all the files that
were not changed by the user gets updated, but the ones that were are not.
If the user were to remount the file system with a given permission, then
all files and directories within that file system should be updated.

This can cause security issues if a file's permission was updated but the
admin forgot about it. They could incorrectly think that remounting with
permissions set would update all files, but miss some.

For example:

 # cd /sys/kernel/tracing
 # chgrp 1002 current_tracer
 # ls -l
[..]
 -rw-r-----  1 root root 0 May  1 21:25 buffer_size_kb
 -rw-r-----  1 root root 0 May  1 21:25 buffer_subbuf_size_kb
 -r--r-----  1 root root 0 May  1 21:25 buffer_total_size_kb
 -rw-r-----  1 root lkp  0 May  1 21:25 current_tracer
 -rw-r-----  1 root root 0 May  1 21:25 dynamic_events
 -r--r-----  1 root root 0 May  1 21:25 dyn_ftrace_total_info
 -r--r-----  1 root root 0 May  1 21:25 enabled_functions

Where current_tracer now has group "lkp".

 # mount -o remount,gid=1001 .
 # ls -l
 -rw-r-----  1 root tracing 0 May  1 21:25 buffer_size_kb
 -rw-r-----  1 root tracing 0 May  1 21:25 buffer_subbuf_size_kb
 -r--r-----  1 root tracing 0 May  1 21:25 buffer_total_size_kb
 -rw-r-----  1 root lkp     0 May  1 21:25 current_tracer
 -rw-r-----  1 root tracing 0 May  1 21:25 dynamic_events
 -r--r-----  1 root tracing 0 May  1 21:25 dyn_ftrace_total_info
 -r--r-----  1 root tracing 0 May  1 21:25 enabled_functions

Everything changed but the "current_tracer".

Add a new link list that keeps track of all the tracefs_inodes which has
the permission flags that tell if the file/dir should use the root inode's
permission or not. Then on remount, clear all the flags so that the
default behavior of using the root inode's permission is done for all
files and directories.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240502200905.529542160@goodmis.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Fixes: 8186fff7ab649 ("tracefs/eventfs: Use root and instance inodes as default ownership")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>eventfs: Free all of the eventfs_inode after RCU</title>
<updated>2024-05-04T08:25:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-02T20:08:22+00:00</published>
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The freeing of eventfs_inode via a kfree_rcu() callback. But the content
of the eventfs_inode was being freed after the last kref. This is
dangerous, as changes are being made that can access the content of an
eventfs_inode from an RCU loop.

Instead of using kfree_rcu() use call_rcu() that calls a function to do
all the freeing of the eventfs_inode after a RCU grace period has expired.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240502200905.370261163@goodmis.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Fixes: 43aa6f97c2d03 ("eventfs: Get rid of dentry pointers without refcounts")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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The freeing of eventfs_inode via a kfree_rcu() callback. But the content
of the eventfs_inode was being freed after the last kref. This is
dangerous, as changes are being made that can access the content of an
eventfs_inode from an RCU loop.

Instead of using kfree_rcu() use call_rcu() that calls a function to do
all the freeing of the eventfs_inode after a RCU grace period has expired.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240502200905.370261163@goodmis.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Fixes: 43aa6f97c2d03 ("eventfs: Get rid of dentry pointers without refcounts")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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