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authorBeau Belgrave <[email protected]>2023-12-10 21:35:34 +0000
committerSteven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]>2023-12-12 19:00:37 -0500
commit5eaf7f0589c0d88178f0fbeebe0e0b7108258707 (patch)
treeddfe90eaf9354cbca70612c11b407e00553037de
parentb55b0a0d7c4aa2dac3579aa7e6802d1f57445096 (diff)
eventfs: Fix events beyond NAME_MAX blocking tasks
Eventfs uses simple_lookup(), however, it will fail if the name of the entry is beyond NAME_MAX length. When this error is encountered, eventfs still tries to create dentries instead of skipping the dentry creation. When the dentry is attempted to be created in this state d_wait_lookup() will loop forever, waiting for the lookup to be removed. Fix eventfs to return the error in simple_lookup() back to the caller instead of continuing to try to create the dentry. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/[email protected] Fixes: 63940449555e ("eventfs: Implement eventfs lookup, read, open functions") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/[email protected]/ Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r--fs/tracefs/event_inode.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
index 0b90869fd805..43e237864a42 100644
--- a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
+++ b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
@@ -546,6 +546,8 @@ static struct dentry *eventfs_root_lookup(struct inode *dir,
if (strcmp(ei_child->name, name) != 0)
continue;
ret = simple_lookup(dir, dentry, flags);
+ if (IS_ERR(ret))
+ goto out;
create_dir_dentry(ei, ei_child, ei_dentry, true);
created = true;
break;
@@ -568,6 +570,8 @@ static struct dentry *eventfs_root_lookup(struct inode *dir,
if (r <= 0)
continue;
ret = simple_lookup(dir, dentry, flags);
+ if (IS_ERR(ret))
+ goto out;
create_file_dentry(ei, i, ei_dentry, name, mode, cdata,
fops, true);
break;