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A KMSAN warning is reported by Alexander Potapenko:
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in kernfs_dop_revalidate+0x61f/0x840
fs/kernfs/dir.c:1053
kernfs_dop_revalidate+0x61f/0x840 fs/kernfs/dir.c:1053
d_revalidate fs/namei.c:854
lookup_dcache fs/namei.c:1522
__lookup_hash+0x3a6/0x590 fs/namei.c:1543
filename_create+0x312/0x7c0 fs/namei.c:3657
do_mkdirat+0x103/0x930 fs/namei.c:3900
__do_sys_mkdir fs/namei.c:3931
__se_sys_mkdir fs/namei.c:3929
__x64_sys_mkdir+0xda/0x120 fs/namei.c:3929
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51
It seems a positive dentry in kernfs becomes a negative dentry directly
through d_delete() in vfs_rmdir(). dentry->d_time is uninitialized
when accessing it in kernfs_dop_revalidate(), because it is only
initialized when created as negative dentry in kernfs_iop_lookup().
The problem can be reproduced by the following command:
cd /sys/fs/cgroup/pids && mkdir hi && stat hi && rmdir hi && stat hi
A simple fixes seems to be initializing d->d_time for positive dentry
in kernfs_iop_lookup() as well. The downside is the negative dentry
will be revalidated again after it becomes negative in d_delete(),
because the revison of its parent must have been increased due to
its removal.
Alternative solution is implement .d_iput for kernfs, and assign d_time
for the newly-generated negative dentry in it. But we may need to
take kernfs_rwsem to protect again the concurrent kernfs_link_sibling()
on the parent directory, it is a little over-killing. Now the simple
fix is chosen.
Link: https://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=163249838610499
Fixes:
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| certs | ||
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| Documentation | ||
| drivers | ||
| fs | ||
| include | ||
| init | ||
| ipc | ||
| kernel | ||
| lib | ||
| LICENSES | ||
| mm | ||
| net | ||
| samples | ||
| scripts | ||
| security | ||
| sound | ||
| tools | ||
| usr | ||
| virt | ||
| .clang-format | ||
| .cocciconfig | ||
| .get_maintainer.ignore | ||
| .gitattributes | ||
| .gitignore | ||
| .mailmap | ||
| COPYING | ||
| CREDITS | ||
| Kbuild | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| MAINTAINERS | ||
| Makefile | ||
| README | ||
Linux kernel
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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.