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| author | Michal Koutný <[email protected]> | 2025-05-05 12:12:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> | 2025-05-21 12:23:13 +0000 |
| commit | 071d8e4c2a3b0999a9b822e2eb8854784a350f8a (patch) | |
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| parent | Documentation: embargoed-hardware-issues.rst: Remove myself (diff) | |
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kernfs: Relax constraint in draining guard
The active reference lifecycle provides the break/unbreak mechanism but
the active reference is not truly active after unbreak -- callers don't
use it afterwards but it's important for proper pairing of kn->active
counting. Assuming this mechanism is in place, the WARN check in
kernfs_should_drain_open_files() is too sensitive -- it may transiently
catch those (rightful) callers between
kernfs_unbreak_active_protection() and kernfs_put_active() as found out by Chen
Ridong:
kernfs_remove_by_name_ns kernfs_get_active // active=1
__kernfs_remove // active=0x80000002
kernfs_drain ...
wait_event
//waiting (active == 0x80000001)
kernfs_break_active_protection
// active = 0x80000001
// continue
kernfs_unbreak_active_protection
// active = 0x80000002
...
kernfs_should_drain_open_files
// warning occurs
kernfs_put_active
To avoid the false positives (mind panic_on_warn) remove the check altogether.
(This is meant as quick fix, I think active reference break/unbreak may be
simplified with larger rework.)
Fixes: bdb2fd7fc56e1 ("kernfs: Skip kernfs_drain_open_files() more aggressively")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/kmmrseckjctb4gxcx2rdminrjnq2b4ipf7562nvfd432ld5v5m@2byj5eedkb2o/
Cc: Chen Ridong <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Michal Koutný <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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