[PATCH 08/10] proc: Clear the pieces of proc_inode that proc_evict_inode cares about

Wen Yang
2020-12-03T18:34:34Z

From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

[ Upstream commit 71448011ea2a1cd36d8f5cbdab0ed716c454d565 ]

This just keeps everything tidier, and allows for using flags like
SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU where slabs are not always cleared before reuse.
I don't see reuse without reinitializing happening with the proc_inode
but I had a false alarm while reworking flushing of proc dentries and
indoes when a process dies that caused me to tidy this up.

The code is a little easier to follow and reason about this
way so I figured the changes might as well be kept.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.9.x
Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wenyang@linux.alibaba.com>
---
fs/proc/inode.c | 16 +++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/inode.c b/fs/proc/inode.c
index 920c761..739fb9c 100644
--- a/fs/proc/inode.c
+++ b/fs/proc/inode.c
@@ -32,21 +32,27 @@ static void proc_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
{
struct proc_dir_entry *de;
struct ctl_table_header *head;
+ struct proc_inode *ei = PROC_I(inode);

truncate_inode_pages_final(&inode->i_data);
clear_inode(inode);

/* Stop tracking associated processes */
- put_pid(PROC_I(inode)->pid);
+ if (ei->pid) {
+ put_pid(ei->pid);
+ ei->pid = NULL;
+ }

/* Let go of any associated proc directory entry */
- de = PDE(inode);
- if (de)
+ de = ei->pde;
+ if (de) {
pde_put(de);
+ ei->pde = NULL;
+ }

- head = PROC_I(inode)->sysctl;
+ head = ei->sysctl;
if (head) {
- RCU_INIT_POINTER(PROC_I(inode)->sysctl, NULL);
+ RCU_INIT_POINTER(ei->sysctl, NULL);
proc_sys_evict_inode(inode, head);
}
}
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1.8.3.1