6.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit fc4561226feaad5fcdcb55646c348d77b8ee69c5 upstream. The eventfs directory is dynamically created via the meta data supplied by the existing trace events. All files and directories in eventfs has a parent. Do not allow NULL to be passed into eventfs_start_creating() as the parent because that should never happen. Warn if it does. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231121231112.693841807@xxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/tracefs/inode.c | 13 ++++--------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) --- a/fs/tracefs/inode.c +++ b/fs/tracefs/inode.c @@ -509,20 +509,15 @@ 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
