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

[Jan Kara]

On Tue 11-06-24 14:06:24, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
> 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>

Just one nit below:

> 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);

This would be more logical above where inode content is initialized (and
less errorprone just in case security_inode_alloc() grows dependency on
i_state value) - like just after:

	inode->i_flags = 0;

With that fixed feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

								Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR