[PATCH] tracefs/eventfs: Free top level files on removal

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Thu Sep 07 2023 - 17:58:49 EST


From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

When an instance is removed, the top level files of the eventfs directory
are not cleaned up. Call the eventfs_remove() on each of the entries to
free them.

This was found via kmemleak:

unreferenced object 0xffff8881047c1280 (size 96):
comm "mkdir", pid 924, jiffies 4294906489 (age 2013.077s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
18 31 ed 03 81 88 ff ff 00 31 09 24 81 88 ff ff .1.......1.$....
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 98 19 7c 04 81 88 ff ff ..........|.....
backtrace:
[<000000000fa46b4d>] kmalloc_trace+0x2a/0xa0
[<00000000e729cd0c>] eventfs_prepare_ef.constprop.0+0x3a/0x160
[<000000009032e6a8>] eventfs_add_events_file+0xa0/0x160
[<00000000fe968442>] create_event_toplevel_files+0x6f/0x130
[<00000000e364d173>] event_trace_add_tracer+0x14/0x140
[<00000000411840fa>] trace_array_create_dir+0x52/0xf0
[<00000000967804fa>] trace_array_create+0x208/0x370
[<00000000da505565>] instance_mkdir+0x6b/0xb0
[<00000000dc1215af>] tracefs_syscall_mkdir+0x5b/0x90
[<00000000a8aca289>] vfs_mkdir+0x272/0x380
[<000000007709b242>] do_mkdirat+0xfc/0x1d0
[<00000000c0b6d219>] __x64_sys_mkdir+0x78/0xa0
[<0000000097b5dd4b>] do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90
[<00000000a3f00cfa>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
unreferenced object 0xffff888103ed3118 (size 8):
comm "mkdir", pid 924, jiffies 4294906489 (age 2013.077s)
hex dump (first 8 bytes):
65 6e 61 62 6c 65 00 00 enable..
backtrace:
[<0000000010f75127>] __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x51/0x160
[<000000004b3eca91>] kstrdup+0x34/0x60
[<0000000050074d7a>] eventfs_prepare_ef.constprop.0+0x53/0x160
[<000000009032e6a8>] eventfs_add_events_file+0xa0/0x160
[<00000000fe968442>] create_event_toplevel_files+0x6f/0x130
[<00000000e364d173>] event_trace_add_tracer+0x14/0x140
[<00000000411840fa>] trace_array_create_dir+0x52/0xf0
[<00000000967804fa>] trace_array_create+0x208/0x370
[<00000000da505565>] instance_mkdir+0x6b/0xb0
[<00000000dc1215af>] tracefs_syscall_mkdir+0x5b/0x90
[<00000000a8aca289>] vfs_mkdir+0x272/0x380
[<000000007709b242>] do_mkdirat+0xfc/0x1d0
[<00000000c0b6d219>] __x64_sys_mkdir+0x78/0xa0
[<0000000097b5dd4b>] do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90
[<00000000a3f00cfa>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8

Fixes: 5bdcd5f5331a2 eventfs: ("Implement removal of meta data from eventfs")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---

This is on top of:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230907024710.866917011@xxxxxxxxxxx/

fs/tracefs/event_inode.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
index 609ccb5b7cfc..f168aca45458 100644
--- a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
+++ b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
@@ -195,17 +195,39 @@ void eventfs_set_ef_status_free(struct tracefs_inode *ti, struct dentry *dentry)
{
struct tracefs_inode *ti_parent;
struct eventfs_inode *ei;
- struct eventfs_file *ef;
-
- mutex_lock(&eventfs_mutex);
+ struct eventfs_file *ef, *tmp;

/* The top level events directory may be freed by this */
if (unlikely(ti->flags & TRACEFS_EVENT_TOP_INODE)) {
+ LIST_HEAD(ef_del_list);
+
+ mutex_lock(&eventfs_mutex);
+
ei = ti->private;
+
+ /* Record all the top level files */
+ list_for_each_entry_srcu(ef, &ei->e_top_files, list,
+ lockdep_is_held(&eventfs_mutex)) {
+ list_add_tail(&ef->del_list, &ef_del_list);
+ }
+
+ /* Nothing should access this, but just in case! */
+ ti->private = NULL;
+
+ mutex_unlock(&eventfs_mutex);
+
+ /* Now safely free the top level files and their children */
+ list_for_each_entry_safe(ef, tmp, &ef_del_list, del_list) {
+ list_del(&ef->del_list);
+ eventfs_remove(ef);
+ }
+
kfree(ei);
- goto out;
+ return;
}

+ mutex_lock(&eventfs_mutex);
+
ti_parent = get_tracefs(dentry->d_parent->d_inode);
if (!ti_parent || !(ti_parent->flags & TRACEFS_EVENT_INODE))
goto out;
--
2.40.1