Re: [PATCH] tracefs: Annotate tracefs_ops with __ro_after_init

From: Kees Cook
Date: Tue Jul 24 2018 - 18:07:22 EST


Adding Steven (maintainer) and Al (fs) to CC...

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 1:02 PM, Zubin Mithra <zsm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> tracefs_ops is initialized inside tracefs_create_instance_dir and not
> modified after. tracefs_create_instance_dir allows for initialization
> only once, and is called from create_trace_instances(marked __init),
> which is called from tracer_init_tracefs(marked __init).
>
> Signed-off-by: Zubin Mithra <zsm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Who's tree should this go through?

Thanks!

-Kees

> ---
> fs/tracefs/inode.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/tracefs/inode.c b/fs/tracefs/inode.c
> index bea8ad876bf9..20e965873f27 100644
> --- a/fs/tracefs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/tracefs/inode.c
> @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ static const struct file_operations tracefs_file_operations = {
> static struct tracefs_dir_ops {
> int (*mkdir)(const char *name);
> int (*rmdir)(const char *name);
> -} tracefs_ops;
> +} tracefs_ops __ro_after_init;
>
> static char *get_dname(struct dentry *dentry)
> {
> --
> 2.18.0.233.g985f88cf7e-goog
>



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Kees Cook
Pixel Security