[PATCH 5.6 117/118] fsnotify: replace inode pointer with an object id

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed May 13 2020 - 05:56:11 EST


From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit dfc2d2594e4a79204a3967585245f00644b8f838 ]

The event inode field is used only for comparison in queue merges and
cannot be dereferenced after handle_event(), because it does not hold a
refcount on the inode.

Replace it with an abstract id to do the same thing.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200319151022.31456-8-amir73il@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c | 4 ++--
fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c | 4 ++--
fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c | 2 +-
include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h | 7 +++----
4 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c
index 5778d1347b351..14d0ac4664595 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ static bool should_merge(struct fsnotify_event *old_fsn,
old = FANOTIFY_E(old_fsn);
new = FANOTIFY_E(new_fsn);

- if (old_fsn->inode != new_fsn->inode || old->pid != new->pid ||
+ if (old_fsn->objectid != new_fsn->objectid || old->pid != new->pid ||
old->fh_type != new->fh_type || old->fh_len != new->fh_len)
return false;

@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ struct fanotify_event *fanotify_alloc_event(struct fsnotify_group *group,
if (!event)
goto out;
init: __maybe_unused
- fsnotify_init_event(&event->fse, inode);
+ fsnotify_init_event(&event->fse, (unsigned long)inode);
event->mask = mask;
if (FAN_GROUP_FLAG(group, FAN_REPORT_TID))
event->pid = get_pid(task_pid(current));
diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c
index d510223d302ca..589dee9629938 100644
--- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c
+++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ static bool event_compare(struct fsnotify_event *old_fsn,
if (old->mask & FS_IN_IGNORED)
return false;
if ((old->mask == new->mask) &&
- (old_fsn->inode == new_fsn->inode) &&
+ (old_fsn->objectid == new_fsn->objectid) &&
(old->name_len == new->name_len) &&
(!old->name_len || !strcmp(old->name, new->name)))
return true;
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ int inotify_handle_event(struct fsnotify_group *group,
mask &= ~IN_ISDIR;

fsn_event = &event->fse;
- fsnotify_init_event(fsn_event, inode);
+ fsnotify_init_event(fsn_event, (unsigned long)inode);
event->mask = mask;
event->wd = i_mark->wd;
event->sync_cookie = cookie;
diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
index 107537a543fd8..81ffc8629fc4b 100644
--- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
@@ -635,7 +635,7 @@ static struct fsnotify_group *inotify_new_group(unsigned int max_events)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
}
group->overflow_event = &oevent->fse;
- fsnotify_init_event(group->overflow_event, NULL);
+ fsnotify_init_event(group->overflow_event, 0);
oevent->mask = FS_Q_OVERFLOW;
oevent->wd = -1;
oevent->sync_cookie = 0;
diff --git a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
index 1915bdba2fad9..64cfb5446f4d4 100644
--- a/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
+++ b/include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h
@@ -133,8 +133,7 @@ struct fsnotify_ops {
*/
struct fsnotify_event {
struct list_head list;
- /* inode may ONLY be dereferenced during handle_event(). */
- struct inode *inode; /* either the inode the event happened to or its parent */
+ unsigned long objectid; /* identifier for queue merges */
};

/*
@@ -500,10 +499,10 @@ extern void fsnotify_finish_user_wait(struct fsnotify_iter_info *iter_info);
extern bool fsnotify_prepare_user_wait(struct fsnotify_iter_info *iter_info);

static inline void fsnotify_init_event(struct fsnotify_event *event,
- struct inode *inode)
+ unsigned long objectid)
{
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&event->list);
- event->inode = inode;
+ event->objectid = objectid;
}

#else
--
2.20.1