kernfs: invoke dir_ops while holding active ref of the target node

kernfs_dir_ops are currently being invoked without any active
reference, which makes it tricky for the invoked operations to
determine whether the objects associated those nodes are safe to
access and will remain that way for the duration of such operations.

kernfs already has active_ref mechanism to deal with this which makes
the removal of a given node the synchronization point for gating the
file operations.  There's no reason for dir_ops to be any different.
Update the dir_ops handling so that active_ref is held while the
dir_ops are executing.  This guarantees that while a dir_ops is
executing the target nodes stay alive.

As kernfs_dir_ops doesn't have any in-kernel user at this point, this
doesn't affect anybody.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/kernfs.h b/include/linux/kernfs.h
index 02ac33435808..58a131ddc6a3 100644
--- a/include/linux/kernfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/kernfs.h
@@ -111,7 +111,8 @@ struct kernfs_node {
  * kernfs_dir_ops may be specified on kernfs_create_root() to support
  * directory manipulation syscalls.  These optional callbacks are invoked
  * on the matching syscalls and can perform any kernfs operations which
- * don't necessarily have to be the exact operation requested.
+ * don't necessarily have to be the exact operation requested.  An active
+ * reference is held for each kernfs_node parameter.
  */
 struct kernfs_dir_ops {
 	int (*mkdir)(struct kernfs_node *parent, const char *name,