[PATCH 07/10] pstore: Refactor pstorefs record list removal

From: Kees Cook
Date: Wed May 06 2020 - 11:22:20 EST


The "unlink" handling should perform list removal (which can also make
sure records don't get double-erased), and the "evict" handling should
be responsible only for memory freeing.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/pstore/inode.c | 19 +++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/pstore/inode.c b/fs/pstore/inode.c
index 92ebcc75434f..5f08b21b7a46 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/inode.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/inode.c
@@ -177,10 +177,21 @@ static int pstore_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
{
struct pstore_private *p = d_inode(dentry)->i_private;
struct pstore_record *record = p->record;
+ int rc = 0;

if (!record->psi->erase)
return -EPERM;

+ /* Make sure we can't race while removing this file. */
+ mutex_lock(&records_list_lock);
+ if (!list_empty(&p->list))
+ list_del_init(&p->list);
+ else
+ rc = -ENOENT;
+ mutex_unlock(&records_list_lock);
+ if (rc)
+ return rc;
+
mutex_lock(&record->psi->read_mutex);
record->psi->erase(record);
mutex_unlock(&record->psi->read_mutex);
@@ -193,12 +204,7 @@ static void pstore_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
struct pstore_private *p = inode->i_private;

clear_inode(inode);
- if (p) {
- mutex_lock(&records_list_lock);
- list_del(&p->list);
- mutex_unlock(&records_list_lock);
- free_pstore_private(p);
- }
+ free_pstore_private(p);
}

static const struct inode_operations pstore_dir_inode_operations = {
@@ -417,6 +423,7 @@ static void pstore_kill_sb(struct super_block *sb)
{
kill_litter_super(sb);
pstore_sb = NULL;
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&records_list);
}

static struct file_system_type pstore_fs_type = {
--
2.20.1