From 76a53de6f7ff0641570364234fb4489f4d4fc8e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: NeilBrown Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:29:51 +1000 Subject: VFS/audit: introduce kern_path_parent() for audit audit_alloc_mark() and audit_get_nd() both need to perform a path lookup getting the parent dentry (which must exist) and the final target (following a LAST_NORM name) which sometimes doesn't need to exist. They don't need the parent to be locked, but use kern_path_locked() or kern_path_locked_negative() anyway. This is somewhat misleading to the casual reader. This patch introduces a more targeted function, kern_path_parent(), which returns not holding locks. On success the "path" will be set to the parent, which must be found, and the return value is the dentry of the target, which might be negative. This will clear the way to rename kern_path_locked() which is otherwise only used to prepare for removing something. It also allows us to remove kern_path_locked_negative(), which is transformed into the new kern_path_parent(). Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner --- kernel/audit_fsnotify.c | 11 ++++++----- kernel/audit_watch.c | 3 +-- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/audit_fsnotify.c b/kernel/audit_fsnotify.c index c565fbf66ac8..b92805b317a2 100644 --- a/kernel/audit_fsnotify.c +++ b/kernel/audit_fsnotify.c @@ -76,17 +76,18 @@ struct audit_fsnotify_mark *audit_alloc_mark(struct audit_krule *krule, char *pa struct audit_fsnotify_mark *audit_mark; struct path path; struct dentry *dentry; - struct inode *inode; int ret; if (pathname[0] != '/' || pathname[len-1] == '/') return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); - dentry = kern_path_locked(pathname, &path); + dentry = kern_path_parent(pathname, &path); if (IS_ERR(dentry)) return ERR_CAST(dentry); /* returning an error */ - inode = path.dentry->d_inode; - inode_unlock(inode); + if (d_really_is_negative(dentry)) { + audit_mark = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT); + goto out; + } audit_mark = kzalloc(sizeof(*audit_mark), GFP_KERNEL); if (unlikely(!audit_mark)) { @@ -100,7 +101,7 @@ struct audit_fsnotify_mark *audit_alloc_mark(struct audit_krule *krule, char *pa audit_update_mark(audit_mark, dentry->d_inode); audit_mark->rule = krule; - ret = fsnotify_add_inode_mark(&audit_mark->mark, inode, 0); + ret = fsnotify_add_inode_mark(&audit_mark->mark, path.dentry->d_inode, 0); if (ret < 0) { audit_mark->path = NULL; fsnotify_put_mark(&audit_mark->mark); diff --git a/kernel/audit_watch.c b/kernel/audit_watch.c index 0ebbbe37a60f..a700e3c8925f 100644 --- a/kernel/audit_watch.c +++ b/kernel/audit_watch.c @@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ static int audit_get_nd(struct audit_watch *watch, struct path *parent) { struct dentry *d; - d = kern_path_locked_negative(watch->path, parent); + d = kern_path_parent(watch->path, parent); if (IS_ERR(d)) return PTR_ERR(d); @@ -359,7 +359,6 @@ static int audit_get_nd(struct audit_watch *watch, struct path *parent) watch->ino = d_backing_inode(d)->i_ino; } - inode_unlock(d_backing_inode(parent->dentry)); dput(d); return 0; } -- cgit v1.2.3 From 3d18f80ce181ba27f37d0ec1c550b22acb01dd49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: NeilBrown Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:29:52 +1000 Subject: VFS: rename kern_path_locked() and related functions. kern_path_locked() is now only used to prepare for removing an object from the filesystem (and that is the only credible reason for wanting a positive locked dentry). Thus it corresponds to kern_path_create() and so should have a corresponding name. Unfortunately the name "kern_path_create" is somewhat misleading as it doesn't actually create anything. The recently added simple_start_creating() provides a better pattern I believe. The "start" can be matched with "end" to bracket the creating or removing. So this patch changes names: kern_path_locked -> start_removing_path kern_path_create -> start_creating_path user_path_create -> start_creating_user_path user_path_locked_at -> start_removing_user_path_at done_path_create -> end_creating_path and also introduces end_removing_path() which is identical to end_creating_path(). __start_removing_path (which was __kern_path_locked) is enhanced to call mnt_want_write() for consistency with the start_creating_path(). Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner --- kernel/bpf/inode.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/bpf/inode.c b/kernel/bpf/inode.c index 5c2e96b19392..fadf3817a9c5 100644 --- a/kernel/bpf/inode.c +++ b/kernel/bpf/inode.c @@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ static int bpf_obj_do_pin(int path_fd, const char __user *pathname, void *raw, umode_t mode; int ret; - dentry = user_path_create(path_fd, pathname, &path, 0); + dentry = start_creating_user_path(path_fd, pathname, &path, 0); if (IS_ERR(dentry)) return PTR_ERR(dentry); @@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ static int bpf_obj_do_pin(int path_fd, const char __user *pathname, void *raw, ret = -EPERM; } out: - done_path_create(&path, dentry); + end_creating_path(&path, dentry); return ret; } -- cgit v1.2.3