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<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>
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<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;
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<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;
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</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;
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</entry>
<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;
</pre>
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</entry>
<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;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<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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<title>eventfs/tracing: Add callback for release of an eventfs_inode</title>
<updated>2024-05-04T08:25:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-02T13:03:15+00:00</published>
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Synthetic events create and destroy tracefs files when they are created
and removed. The tracing subsystem has its own file descriptor
representing the state of the events attached to the tracefs files.
There's a race between the eventfs files and this file descriptor of the
tracing system where the following can cause an issue:

With two scripts 'A' and 'B' doing:

  Script 'A':
    echo "hello int aaa" &gt; /sys/kernel/tracing/synthetic_events
    while :
    do
      echo 0 &gt; /sys/kernel/tracing/events/synthetic/hello/enable
    done

  Script 'B':
    echo &gt; /sys/kernel/tracing/synthetic_events

Script 'A' creates a synthetic event "hello" and then just writes zero
into its enable file.

Script 'B' removes all synthetic events (including the newly created
"hello" event).

What happens is that the opening of the "enable" file has:

 {
	struct trace_event_file *file = inode-&gt;i_private;
	int ret;

	ret = tracing_check_open_get_tr(file-&gt;tr);
 [..]

But deleting the events frees the "file" descriptor, and a "use after
free" happens with the dereference at "file-&gt;tr".

The file descriptor does have a reference counter, but there needs to be a
way to decrement it from the eventfs when the eventfs_inode is removed
that represents this file descriptor.

Add an optional "release" callback to the eventfs_entry array structure,
that gets called when the eventfs file is about to be removed. This allows
for the creating on the eventfs file to increment the tracing file
descriptor ref counter. When the eventfs file is deleted, it can call the
release function that will call the put function for the tracing file
descriptor.

This will protect the tracing file from being freed while a eventfs file
that references it is being opened.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240426073410.17154-1-Tze-nan.Wu@mediatek.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240502090315.448cba46@gandalf.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Fixes: 5790b1fb3d672 ("eventfs: Remove eventfs_file and just use eventfs_inode")
Reported-by: Tze-nan wu &lt;Tze-nan.Wu@mediatek.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tze-nan Wu (吳澤南) &lt;Tze-nan.Wu@mediatek.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Synthetic events create and destroy tracefs files when they are created
and removed. The tracing subsystem has its own file descriptor
representing the state of the events attached to the tracefs files.
There's a race between the eventfs files and this file descriptor of the
tracing system where the following can cause an issue:

With two scripts 'A' and 'B' doing:

  Script 'A':
    echo "hello int aaa" &gt; /sys/kernel/tracing/synthetic_events
    while :
    do
      echo 0 &gt; /sys/kernel/tracing/events/synthetic/hello/enable
    done

  Script 'B':
    echo &gt; /sys/kernel/tracing/synthetic_events

Script 'A' creates a synthetic event "hello" and then just writes zero
into its enable file.

Script 'B' removes all synthetic events (including the newly created
"hello" event).

What happens is that the opening of the "enable" file has:

 {
	struct trace_event_file *file = inode-&gt;i_private;
	int ret;

	ret = tracing_check_open_get_tr(file-&gt;tr);
 [..]

But deleting the events frees the "file" descriptor, and a "use after
free" happens with the dereference at "file-&gt;tr".

The file descriptor does have a reference counter, but there needs to be a
way to decrement it from the eventfs when the eventfs_inode is removed
that represents this file descriptor.

Add an optional "release" callback to the eventfs_entry array structure,
that gets called when the eventfs file is about to be removed. This allows
for the creating on the eventfs file to increment the tracing file
descriptor ref counter. When the eventfs file is deleted, it can call the
release function that will call the put function for the tracing file
descriptor.

This will protect the tracing file from being freed while a eventfs file
that references it is being opened.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240426073410.17154-1-Tze-nan.Wu@mediatek.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240502090315.448cba46@gandalf.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Fixes: 5790b1fb3d672 ("eventfs: Remove eventfs_file and just use eventfs_inode")
Reported-by: Tze-nan wu &lt;Tze-nan.Wu@mediatek.com&gt;
Tested-by: Tze-nan Wu (吳澤南) &lt;Tze-nan.Wu@mediatek.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>eventfs: Fix kernel-doc comments to functions</title>
<updated>2024-04-11T21:42:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yang Li</name>
<email>yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-22T06:26:04+00:00</published>
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This commit fix kernel-doc style comments with complete parameter
descriptions for the lookup_file(),lookup_dir_entry() and
lookup_file_dentry().

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240322062604.28862-1-yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com

Signed-off-by: Yang Li &lt;yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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This commit fix kernel-doc style comments with complete parameter
descriptions for the lookup_file(),lookup_dir_entry() and
lookup_file_dentry().

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240322062604.28862-1-yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com

Signed-off-by: Yang Li &lt;yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>eventfs: Create eventfs_root_inode to store dentry</title>
<updated>2024-03-17T11:58:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-01T15:34:52+00:00</published>
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Only the root "events" directory stores a dentry. There's no reason to
hold a dentry pointer for every eventfs_inode as it is never set except
for the root "events" eventfs_inode.

Create a eventfs_root_inode structure that holds the events_dir dentry.
The "events" eventfs_inode *is* special, let it have its own descriptor.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240201161617.658992558@goodmis.org

Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Ajay Kaher &lt;ajay.kaher@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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Only the root "events" directory stores a dentry. There's no reason to
hold a dentry pointer for every eventfs_inode as it is never set except
for the root "events" eventfs_inode.

Create a eventfs_root_inode structure that holds the events_dir dentry.
The "events" eventfs_inode *is* special, let it have its own descriptor.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240201161617.658992558@goodmis.org

Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Ajay Kaher &lt;ajay.kaher@broadcom.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>eventfs: Add WARN_ON_ONCE() to checks in eventfs_root_lookup()</title>
<updated>2024-03-17T11:58:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-01T17:33:46+00:00</published>
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There's a couple of if statements in eventfs_root_lookup() that should
never be true. Instead of removing them, add WARN_ON_ONCE() around them.

  One is a tracefs_inode not being for eventfs.

  The other is a child being freed but still on the parent's children
  list. When a child is freed, it is removed from the list under the
  same mutex that is held during the iteration.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240201002719.GS2087318@ZenIV/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240201123346.724afa46@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ajay Kaher &lt;ajay.kaher@broadcom.com&gt;
Reported-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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There's a couple of if statements in eventfs_root_lookup() that should
never be true. Instead of removing them, add WARN_ON_ONCE() around them.

  One is a tracefs_inode not being for eventfs.

  The other is a child being freed but still on the parent's children
  list. When a child is freed, it is removed from the list under the
  same mutex that is held during the iteration.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240201002719.GS2087318@ZenIV/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240201123346.724afa46@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ajay Kaher &lt;ajay.kaher@broadcom.com&gt;
Reported-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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