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The eventfs inodes and directories are allocated when referenced. But this leaves the issue of keeping consistent inode numbers and the number is only saved in the inode structure itself. When the inode is no longer referenced, it can be freed. When the file that the inode was representing is referenced again, the inode is once again created, but the inode number needs to be the same as it was before. Just making the inode numbers the same for all files is fine, but that does not work with directories. The find command will check for loops via the inode number and having the same inode number for directories triggers: # find /sys/kernel/tracing find: File system loop detected; '/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/initcall/initcall_finish' is part of the same file system loop as '/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/initcall'. [..] Linus pointed out that the eventfs_inode structure ends with a single 32bit int, and on 64 bit machines, there's likely a 4 byte hole due to alignment. We can use this hole to store the inode number for the eventfs_inode. All directories in eventfs are represented by an eventfs_inode and that data structure can hold its inode number. That last int was also purposely placed at the end of the structure to prevent holes from within. Now that there's a 4 byte number to hold the inode, both the inode number and the last integer can be moved up in the structure for better cache locality, where the llist and rcu fields can be moved to the end as they are only used when the eventfs_inode is being deleted. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMuHMdXKiorg-jiuKoZpfZyDJ3Ynrfb8=X+c7x0Eewxn-YRdCA@mail.gmail.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240122152748.46897388@gandalf.local.home Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Fixes: 53c41052ba31 ("eventfs: Have the inodes all for files and directories all be the same") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.