debugfs: debugfs_remove_recursive() must not rely on list_empty(d_subdirs)
authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Fri, 26 Jul 2013 15:12:56 +0000 (17:12 +0200)
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Wed, 31 Jul 2013 16:16:31 +0000 (12:16 -0400)
debugfs_remove_recursive() is wrong,

1. it wrongly assumes that !list_empty(d_subdirs) means that this
   dir should be removed.

   This is not that bad by itself, but:

2. if d_subdirs does not becomes empty after __debugfs_remove()
   it gives up and silently fails, it doesn't even try to remove
   other entries.

   However ->d_subdirs can be non-empty because it still has the
   already deleted !debugfs_positive() entries.

3. simple_release_fs() is called even if __debugfs_remove() fails.

Suppose we have

dir1/
dir2/
file2
file1

and someone opens dir1/dir2/file2.

Now, debugfs_remove_recursive(dir1/dir2) succeeds, and dir1/dir2 goes
away.

But debugfs_remove_recursive(dir1) silently fails and doesn't remove
this directory. Because it tries to delete (the already deleted)
dir1/dir2/file2 again and then fails due to "Avoid infinite loop"
logic.

Test-case:

#!/bin/sh

cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
echo 'p:probe/sigprocmask sigprocmask' >> kprobe_events
sleep 1000 < events/probe/sigprocmask/id &
echo -n >| kprobe_events

[ -d events/probe ] && echo "ERR!! failed to rm probe"

And after that it is not possible to create another probe entry.

With this patch debugfs_remove_recursive() skips !debugfs_positive()
files although this is not strictly needed. The most important change
is that it does not try to make ->d_subdirs empty, it simply scans
the whole list(s) recursively and removes as much as possible.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130726151256.GC19472@redhat.com
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
fs/debugfs/inode.c

index 4888cb3fdef76037b7af5f9db898bdcb82ce48c2..c7c83ff0f752ce6a86d6e42a420e34ed996ae8ca 100644 (file)
@@ -533,8 +533,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(debugfs_remove);
  */
 void debugfs_remove_recursive(struct dentry *dentry)
 {
-       struct dentry *child;
-       struct dentry *parent;
+       struct dentry *child, *next, *parent;
 
        if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(dentry))
                return;
@@ -544,61 +543,37 @@ void debugfs_remove_recursive(struct dentry *dentry)
                return;
 
        parent = dentry;
+ down:
        mutex_lock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex);
+       list_for_each_entry_safe(child, next, &parent->d_subdirs, d_u.d_child) {
+               if (!debugfs_positive(child))
+                       continue;
 
-       while (1) {
-               /*
-                * When all dentries under "parent" has been removed,
-                * walk up the tree until we reach our starting point.
-                */
-               if (list_empty(&parent->d_subdirs)) {
-                       mutex_unlock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex);
-                       if (parent == dentry)
-                               break;
-                       parent = parent->d_parent;
-                       mutex_lock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex);
-               }
-               child = list_entry(parent->d_subdirs.next, struct dentry,
-                               d_u.d_child);
- next_sibling:
-
-               /*
-                * If "child" isn't empty, walk down the tree and
-                * remove all its descendants first.
-                */
+               /* perhaps simple_empty(child) makes more sense */
                if (!list_empty(&child->d_subdirs)) {
                        mutex_unlock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex);
                        parent = child;
-                       mutex_lock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex);
-                       continue;
+                       goto down;
                }
-               __debugfs_remove(child, parent);
-               if (parent->d_subdirs.next == &child->d_u.d_child) {
-                       /*
-                        * Try the next sibling.
-                        */
-                       if (child->d_u.d_child.next != &parent->d_subdirs) {
-                               child = list_entry(child->d_u.d_child.next,
-                                                  struct dentry,
-                                                  d_u.d_child);
-                               goto next_sibling;
-                       }
-
-                       /*
-                        * Avoid infinite loop if we fail to remove
-                        * one dentry.
-                        */
-                       mutex_unlock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex);
-                       break;
-               }
-               simple_release_fs(&debugfs_mount, &debugfs_mount_count);
+ up:
+               if (!__debugfs_remove(child, parent))
+                       simple_release_fs(&debugfs_mount, &debugfs_mount_count);
        }
 
-       parent = dentry->d_parent;
+       mutex_unlock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex);
+       child = parent;
+       parent = parent->d_parent;
        mutex_lock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex);
-       __debugfs_remove(dentry, parent);
+
+       if (child != dentry) {
+               next = list_entry(child->d_u.d_child.next, struct dentry,
+                                       d_u.d_child);
+               goto up;
+       }
+
+       if (!__debugfs_remove(child, parent))
+               simple_release_fs(&debugfs_mount, &debugfs_mount_count);
        mutex_unlock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex);
-       simple_release_fs(&debugfs_mount, &debugfs_mount_count);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(debugfs_remove_recursive);