6.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> This reverts commit 6abb8c223ce12078a0f2c129656a13338dfe960b. The eventfs was not designed properly and may have some hidden bugs in it. Linus rewrote it properly and I trust his version more than this one. Revert the backported patches for 6.6 and re-apply all the changes to make it equivalent to Linus's version. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/tracefs/inode.c | 13 +++++++++---- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/fs/tracefs/inode.c +++ b/fs/tracefs/inode.c @@ -509,15 +509,20 @@ struct dentry *eventfs_start_creating(co struct dentry *dentry; int error; - /* Must always have a parent. */ - if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!parent)) - return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); - error = simple_pin_fs(&trace_fs_type, &tracefs_mount, &tracefs_mount_count); if (error) return ERR_PTR(error); + /* + * If the parent is not specified, we create it in the root. + * We need the root dentry to do this, which is in the super + * block. A pointer to that is in the struct vfsmount that we + * have around. + */ + if (!parent) + parent = tracefs_mount->mnt_root; + if (unlikely(IS_DEADDIR(parent->d_inode))) dentry = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT); else
