From: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
To: bpf@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kernel-team@meta.com, andrii@kernel.org, eddyz87@gmail.com,
ast@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net, martin.lau@linux.dev,
viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, brauner@kernel.org, jack@suse.cz,
kpsingh@kernel.org, mattbobrowski@google.com, amir73il@gmail.com,
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, tj@kernel.org,
daan.j.demeyer@gmail.com, Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v3 bpf-next 1/4] kernfs: remove iattr_mutex
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2025 23:38:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250623063854.1896364-2-song@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250623063854.1896364-1-song@kernel.org>
From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
All allocations of struct kernfs_iattrs are serialized through a global
mutex. Simply do a racy allocation and let the first one win. I bet most
callers are under inode->i_rwsem anyway and it wouldn't be needed but
let's not require that.
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
---
fs/kernfs/inode.c | 74 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/kernfs/inode.c b/fs/kernfs/inode.c
index b83054da68b3..f4b73b9482b7 100644
--- a/fs/kernfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/kernfs/inode.c
@@ -24,45 +24,46 @@ static const struct inode_operations kernfs_iops = {
.listxattr = kernfs_iop_listxattr,
};
-static struct kernfs_iattrs *__kernfs_iattrs(struct kernfs_node *kn, int alloc)
+static struct kernfs_iattrs *__kernfs_iattrs(struct kernfs_node *kn, bool alloc)
{
- static DEFINE_MUTEX(iattr_mutex);
- struct kernfs_iattrs *ret;
+ struct kernfs_iattrs *ret __free(kfree) = NULL;
+ struct kernfs_iattrs *attr;
- mutex_lock(&iattr_mutex);
+ attr = READ_ONCE(kn->iattr);
+ if (attr || !alloc)
+ return attr;
- if (kn->iattr || !alloc)
- goto out_unlock;
-
- kn->iattr = kmem_cache_zalloc(kernfs_iattrs_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!kn->iattr)
- goto out_unlock;
+ ret = kmem_cache_zalloc(kernfs_iattrs_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!ret)
+ return NULL;
/* assign default attributes */
- kn->iattr->ia_uid = GLOBAL_ROOT_UID;
- kn->iattr->ia_gid = GLOBAL_ROOT_GID;
-
- ktime_get_real_ts64(&kn->iattr->ia_atime);
- kn->iattr->ia_mtime = kn->iattr->ia_atime;
- kn->iattr->ia_ctime = kn->iattr->ia_atime;
-
- simple_xattrs_init(&kn->iattr->xattrs);
- atomic_set(&kn->iattr->nr_user_xattrs, 0);
- atomic_set(&kn->iattr->user_xattr_size, 0);
-out_unlock:
- ret = kn->iattr;
- mutex_unlock(&iattr_mutex);
- return ret;
+ ret->ia_uid = GLOBAL_ROOT_UID;
+ ret->ia_gid = GLOBAL_ROOT_GID;
+
+ ktime_get_real_ts64(&ret->ia_atime);
+ ret->ia_mtime = ret->ia_atime;
+ ret->ia_ctime = ret->ia_atime;
+
+ simple_xattrs_init(&ret->xattrs);
+ atomic_set(&ret->nr_user_xattrs, 0);
+ atomic_set(&ret->user_xattr_size, 0);
+
+ /* If someone raced us, recognize it. */
+ if (!try_cmpxchg(&kn->iattr, &attr, ret))
+ return READ_ONCE(kn->iattr);
+
+ return no_free_ptr(ret);
}
static struct kernfs_iattrs *kernfs_iattrs(struct kernfs_node *kn)
{
- return __kernfs_iattrs(kn, 1);
+ return __kernfs_iattrs(kn, true);
}
static struct kernfs_iattrs *kernfs_iattrs_noalloc(struct kernfs_node *kn)
{
- return __kernfs_iattrs(kn, 0);
+ return __kernfs_iattrs(kn, false);
}
int __kernfs_setattr(struct kernfs_node *kn, const struct iattr *iattr)
@@ -141,9 +142,9 @@ ssize_t kernfs_iop_listxattr(struct dentry *dentry, char *buf, size_t size)
struct kernfs_node *kn = kernfs_dentry_node(dentry);
struct kernfs_iattrs *attrs;
- attrs = kernfs_iattrs(kn);
+ attrs = kernfs_iattrs_noalloc(kn);
if (!attrs)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ return -ENODATA;
return simple_xattr_list(d_inode(dentry), &attrs->xattrs, buf, size);
}
@@ -166,9 +167,10 @@ static inline void set_inode_attr(struct inode *inode,
static void kernfs_refresh_inode(struct kernfs_node *kn, struct inode *inode)
{
- struct kernfs_iattrs *attrs = kn->iattr;
+ struct kernfs_iattrs *attrs;
inode->i_mode = kn->mode;
+ attrs = kernfs_iattrs_noalloc(kn);
if (attrs)
/*
* kernfs_node has non-default attributes get them from
@@ -306,7 +308,9 @@ int kernfs_xattr_set(struct kernfs_node *kn, const char *name,
const void *value, size_t size, int flags)
{
struct simple_xattr *old_xattr;
- struct kernfs_iattrs *attrs = kernfs_iattrs(kn);
+ struct kernfs_iattrs *attrs;
+
+ attrs = kernfs_iattrs(kn);
if (!attrs)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -345,8 +349,9 @@ static int kernfs_vfs_user_xattr_add(struct kernfs_node *kn,
struct simple_xattrs *xattrs,
const void *value, size_t size, int flags)
{
- atomic_t *sz = &kn->iattr->user_xattr_size;
- atomic_t *nr = &kn->iattr->nr_user_xattrs;
+ struct kernfs_iattrs *attr = kernfs_iattrs_noalloc(kn);
+ atomic_t *sz = &attr->user_xattr_size;
+ atomic_t *nr = &attr->nr_user_xattrs;
struct simple_xattr *old_xattr;
int ret;
@@ -384,8 +389,9 @@ static int kernfs_vfs_user_xattr_rm(struct kernfs_node *kn,
struct simple_xattrs *xattrs,
const void *value, size_t size, int flags)
{
- atomic_t *sz = &kn->iattr->user_xattr_size;
- atomic_t *nr = &kn->iattr->nr_user_xattrs;
+ struct kernfs_iattrs *attr = kernfs_iattrs(kn);
+ atomic_t *sz = &attr->user_xattr_size;
+ atomic_t *nr = &attr->nr_user_xattrs;
struct simple_xattr *old_xattr;
old_xattr = simple_xattr_set(xattrs, full_name, value, size, flags);
--
2.47.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-06-23 6:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-06-23 6:38 [PATCH v3 bpf-next 0/4] Introduce bpf_cgroup_read_xattr Song Liu
2025-06-23 6:38 ` Song Liu [this message]
2025-07-02 10:47 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 1/4] kernfs: remove iattr_mutex André Draszik
2025-07-02 12:17 ` Christian Brauner
2025-07-03 6:28 ` André Draszik
2025-08-16 5:52 ` Jan Kiszka
2025-08-19 10:05 ` Christian Brauner
2025-06-23 6:38 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 2/4] bpf: Introduce bpf_cgroup_read_xattr to read xattr of cgroup's node Song Liu
2025-06-23 6:38 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 3/4] bpf: Mark cgroup_subsys_state->cgroup RCU safe Song Liu
2025-06-23 6:38 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 4/4] selftests/bpf: Add tests for bpf_cgroup_read_xattr Song Liu
2025-06-23 11:03 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 0/4] Introduce bpf_cgroup_read_xattr Christian Brauner
2025-06-27 2:14 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2025-06-27 4:04 ` Song Liu
2025-06-27 15:59 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2025-06-27 16:20 ` Song Liu
2025-07-01 8:32 ` Christian Brauner
2025-07-01 16:23 ` Song Liu
2025-07-02 12:19 ` Christian Brauner
2025-07-01 8:31 ` Christian Brauner
2025-07-01 14:51 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2025-07-02 8:37 ` Christian Brauner
2025-06-27 2:20 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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