debugfs: implement per-file removal protection

Since commit 49d200deaa68 ("debugfs: prevent access to removed files'
private data"), accesses to a file's private data are protected from
concurrent removal by covering all file_operations with a SRCU read section
and sychronizing with those before returning from debugfs_remove() by means
of synchronize_srcu().

As pointed out by Johannes Berg, there are debugfs files with forever
blocking file_operations. Their corresponding SRCU read side sections would
block any debugfs_remove() forever as well, even unrelated ones. This
results in a livelock. Because a remover can't cancel any indefinite
blocking within foreign files, this is a problem.

Resolve this by introducing support for more granular protection on a
per-file basis.

This is implemented by introducing an  'active_users' refcount_t to the
per-file struct debugfs_fsdata state. At file creation time, it is set to
one and a debugfs_remove() will drop that initial reference. The new
debugfs_file_get() and debugfs_file_put(), intended to be used in place of
former debugfs_use_file_start() and debugfs_use_file_finish(), increment
and decrement it respectively. Once the count drops to zero,
debugfs_file_put() will signal a completion which is possibly being waited
for from debugfs_remove().
Thus, as long as there is a debugfs_file_get() not yet matched by a
corresponding debugfs_file_put() around, debugfs_remove() will block.

Actual users of debugfs_use_file_start() and -finish() will get converted
to the new debugfs_file_get() and debugfs_file_put() by followup patches.

Fixes: 49d200deaa68 ("debugfs: prevent access to removed files' private data")
Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/fs/debugfs/inode.c b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
index a9c3d3e9af39..6449eb935540 100644
--- a/fs/debugfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
@@ -374,6 +374,7 @@ static struct dentry *__debugfs_create_file(const char *name, umode_t mode,
 
 	inode->i_fop = proxy_fops;
 	fsd->real_fops = real_fops;
+	refcount_set(&fsd->active_users, 1);
 	dentry->d_fsdata = fsd;
 
 	d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
@@ -631,18 +632,34 @@ struct dentry *debugfs_create_symlink(const char *name, struct dentry *parent,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(debugfs_create_symlink);
 
+static void __debugfs_remove_file(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *parent)
+{
+	struct debugfs_fsdata *fsd;
+
+	simple_unlink(d_inode(parent), dentry);
+	d_delete(dentry);
+	fsd = dentry->d_fsdata;
+	init_completion(&fsd->active_users_drained);
+	if (!refcount_dec_and_test(&fsd->active_users))
+		wait_for_completion(&fsd->active_users_drained);
+}
+
 static int __debugfs_remove(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *parent)
 {
 	int ret = 0;
 
 	if (simple_positive(dentry)) {
 		dget(dentry);
-		if (d_is_dir(dentry))
-			ret = simple_rmdir(d_inode(parent), dentry);
-		else
-			simple_unlink(d_inode(parent), dentry);
-		if (!ret)
-			d_delete(dentry);
+		if (!d_is_reg(dentry)) {
+			if (d_is_dir(dentry))
+				ret = simple_rmdir(d_inode(parent), dentry);
+			else
+				simple_unlink(d_inode(parent), dentry);
+			if (!ret)
+				d_delete(dentry);
+		} else {
+			__debugfs_remove_file(dentry, parent);
+		}
 		dput(dentry);
 	}
 	return ret;