Re: [PATCH] fscrypt: clear keyring before calling key_put()

[Eric Biggers]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2024 at 10:16:19AM +0000, Luis Henriques wrote:
> Now that the key quotas are handled immediately on key_put() instead of
> being postponed to the key management garbage collection worker, a call to
> keyring_clear() is all that is required in fscrypt_put_master_key() so that
> the keyring clean-up is also done synchronously.  This patch should fix the
> fstest generic/581 flakiness.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> Hi!
> 
> I know that patch "keys: update key quotas in key_put()" isn't yet merged
> but since David and Jarkko seem to be OK with it, it doesn't hurt to send
> this follow-up patch immediately.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Luis
> 
>  fs/crypto/keyring.c | 7 +++++--
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/crypto/keyring.c b/fs/crypto/keyring.c
> index 0edf0b58daa7..dfdaae16b83a 100644
> --- a/fs/crypto/keyring.c
> +++ b/fs/crypto/keyring.c
> @@ -74,8 +74,11 @@ void fscrypt_put_master_key(struct fscrypt_master_key *mk)
>  	 * that concurrent keyring lookups can no longer find it.
>  	 */
>  	WARN_ON_ONCE(refcount_read(&mk->mk_active_refs) != 0);
> -	key_put(mk->mk_users);
> -	mk->mk_users = NULL;
> +	if (mk->mk_users) {
> +		keyring_clear(mk->mk_users);
> +		key_put(mk->mk_users);
> +		mk->mk_users = NULL;
> +	}
>  	call_rcu(&mk->mk_rcu_head, fscrypt_free_master_key);

Applied, thanks.  I added a comment above the call to keyring_clear() to explain
why it's there:

        /* Clear the keyring so the quota gets released right away. */

- Eric