[PATCH v2 2/4] vfs: partially sanitize i_state zeroing on inode creation

[Mateusz Guzik]

new_inode used to have the following:
	spin_lock(&inode_lock);
	inodes_stat.nr_inodes++;
	list_add(&inode->i_list, &inode_in_use);
	list_add(&inode->i_sb_list, &sb->s_inodes);
	inode->i_ino = ++last_ino;
	inode->i_state = 0;
	spin_unlock(&inode_lock);

over time things disappeared, got moved around or got replaced (global
inode lock with a per-inode lock), eventually this got reduced to:
	spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
	inode->i_state = 0;
	spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);

But the lock acquire here does not synchronize against anyone.

Additionally iget5_locked performs i_state = 0 assignment without any
locks to begin with, the two combined look confusing at best.

It looks like the current state is a leftover which was not cleaned up.

Ideally it would be an invariant that i_state == 0 to begin with, but
achieving that would require dealing with all filesystem alloc handlers
one by one.

In the meantime drop the misleading locking and move i_state zeroing to
inode_init_always so that others don't need to deal with it by hand.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/inode.c | 13 +++----------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 3a4c67bfe085..8f05d79de01d 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -231,6 +231,8 @@ int inode_init_always(struct super_block *sb, struct inode *inode)
 
 	if (unlikely(security_inode_alloc(inode)))
 		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	inode->i_state = 0;
 	this_cpu_inc(nr_inodes);
 
 	return 0;
@@ -1023,14 +1025,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_next_ino);
  */
 struct inode *new_inode_pseudo(struct super_block *sb)
 {
-	struct inode *inode = alloc_inode(sb);
-
-	if (inode) {
-		spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
-		inode->i_state = 0;
-		spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
-	}
-	return inode;
+	return alloc_inode(sb);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -1254,7 +1249,6 @@ struct inode *iget5_locked(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long hashval,
 		struct inode *new = alloc_inode(sb);
 
 		if (new) {
-			new->i_state = 0;
 			inode = inode_insert5(new, hashval, test, set, data);
 			if (unlikely(inode != new))
 				destroy_inode(new);
@@ -1285,7 +1279,6 @@ struct inode *iget5_locked_rcu(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long hashval,
 		struct inode *new = alloc_inode(sb);
 
 		if (new) {
-			new->i_state = 0;
 			inode = inode_insert5(new, hashval, test, set, data);
 			if (unlikely(inode != new))
 				destroy_inode(new);
-- 
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