A KMSAN warning is reported by Alexander Potapenko: BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in kernfs_dop_revalidate+0x61f/0x840 fs/kernfs/dir.c:1053 kernfs_dop_revalidate+0x61f/0x840 fs/kernfs/dir.c:1053 d_revalidate fs/namei.c:854 lookup_dcache fs/namei.c:1522 __lookup_hash+0x3a6/0x590 fs/namei.c:1543 filename_create+0x312/0x7c0 fs/namei.c:3657 do_mkdirat+0x103/0x930 fs/namei.c:3900 __do_sys_mkdir fs/namei.c:3931 __se_sys_mkdir fs/namei.c:3929 __x64_sys_mkdir+0xda/0x120 fs/namei.c:3929 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 It seems a positive dentry in kernfs becomes a negative dentry directly through d_delete() in vfs_rmdir(). dentry->d_time is uninitialized when accessing it in kernfs_dop_revalidate(), because it is only initialized when created as negative dentry in kernfs_iop_lookup(). The problem can be reproduced by the following command: cd /sys/fs/cgroup/pids && mkdir hi && stat hi && rmdir hi && stat hi A simple fixes seems to be initializing d->d_time for positive dentry in kernfs_iop_lookup() as well. The downside is the negative dentry will be revalidated again after it becomes negative in d_delete(), because the revison of its parent must have been increased due to its removal. Alternative solution is implement .d_iput for kernfs, and assign d_time for the newly-generated negative dentry in it. But we may need to take kernfs_rwsem to protect again the concurrent kernfs_link_sibling() on the parent directory, it is a little over-killing. Now the simple fix is chosen. Link: https://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=163249838610499 Fixes: c7e7c04274b1 ("kernfs: use VFS negative dentry caching") Reported-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hou Tao <houtao1@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/kernfs/dir.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/kernfs/dir.c b/fs/kernfs/dir.c index 0c7f1558f489..f7618ba5b3b2 100644 --- a/fs/kernfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/kernfs/dir.c @@ -1140,8 +1140,13 @@ static struct dentry *kernfs_iop_lookup(struct inode *dir, if (!inode) inode = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); } - /* Needed only for negative dentry validation */ - if (!inode) + /* + * Needed for negative dentry validation. + * The negative dentry can be created in kernfs_iop_lookup() + * or transforms from positive dentry in dentry_unlink_inode() + * called from vfs_rmdir(). + */ + if (!IS_ERR(inode)) kernfs_set_rev(parent, dentry); up_read(&kernfs_rwsem); -- 2.29.2
