On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 3:02 PM Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu 16-05-19 13:44:51, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> > On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 1:35 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 01:26:33PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> > > > This will allow generating fsnotify delete events after the
> > > > fsnotify_nameremove() hook is removed from d_delete().
> > > >
> > > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > > fs/debugfs/inode.c | 20 ++++----------------
> > > > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/fs/debugfs/inode.c b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
> > > > index acef14ad53db..bc96198df1d4 100644
> > > > --- a/fs/debugfs/inode.c
> > > > +++ b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
> > > > @@ -617,13 +617,10 @@ struct dentry *debugfs_create_symlink(const char *name, struct dentry *parent,
> > > > }
> > > > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(debugfs_create_symlink);
> > > >
> > > > -static void __debugfs_remove_file(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *parent)
> > > > +static void __debugfs_file_removed(struct dentry *dentry)
> > > > {
> > > > struct debugfs_fsdata *fsd;
> > > >
> > > > - simple_unlink(d_inode(parent), dentry);
> > > > - d_delete(dentry);
> > >
> > > What happened to this call? Why no unlinking anymore?
> > >
> > > > -
> > > > /*
> > > > * Paired with the closing smp_mb() implied by a successful
> > > > * cmpxchg() in debugfs_file_get(): either
> > > > @@ -643,18 +640,9 @@ static int __debugfs_remove(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *parent)
> > > > int ret = 0;
> > > >
> > > > if (simple_positive(dentry)) {
> > > > - dget(dentry);
> > > > - if (!d_is_reg(dentry)) {
> > > > - if (d_is_dir(dentry))
> > > > - ret = simple_rmdir(d_inode(parent), dentry);
> > > > - else
> > > > - simple_unlink(d_inode(parent), dentry);
> > > > - if (!ret)
> > > > - d_delete(dentry);
> > > > - } else {
> > > > - __debugfs_remove_file(dentry, parent);
> > > > - }
> > > > - dput(dentry);
> > > > + ret = simple_remove(d_inode(parent), dentry);
> > > > + if (d_is_reg(dentry))
> > >
> > > Can't dentry be gone here? This doesn't seem to match the same pattern
> > > as before.
> > >
> > > What am I missing?
> > >
> >
> > The grammatical change __debugfs_remove_file() => __debugfs_file_removed()
> > After change, the helper only does the post delete stuff.
> > simple_unlink() is now done inside simple_remove().
> > This debugfs patch depends on a patch that adds the simple_remove() helper.
> > sorry for not mentioning this explicitly.
>
> Right. But Greg is right that simple_remove() may have dropped last dentry
> reference and thus you now pass freed dentry to d_is_reg() and
> __debugfs_file_removed()?
>
It seem so. Good spotting!
Thanks,
Amir.
