Re: [PATCH] vfs: avoid spurious dentry ref/unref cycle on open

Al Viro
2024-08-07T20:38:15Z

On Wed, Aug 07, 2024 at 01:43:48PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 07, 2024 at 11:50:50AM +0200, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
>
> > tripping ip:
> > vfs_tmpfile+0x162/0x230:
> > fsnotify_parent at include/linux/fsnotify.h:81
> > (inlined by) fsnotify_file at include/linux/fsnotify.h:131
> > (inlined by) fsnotify_open at include/linux/fsnotify.h:401
> > (inlined by) vfs_tmpfile at fs/namei.c:3781
>
> Try this for incremental; missed the fact that finish_open() is
> used by ->tmpfile() instances, not just ->atomic_open().
>
> Al, crawling back to sleep...

I _really_ hate ->atomic_open() calling conventions; FWIW, I suspect
that in the current form this series is OK, but only because none
of the existing instances call finish_open() on a preexisting
aliases found by d_splice_alias(). And control flow in the
instances (especially the cleanup paths) is bloody awful...

We never got it quite right, and while the previous iterations of
the calling conventions for that methods had been worse, it's still
nasty in the current form ;-/

Oh, well - review of those has been long overdue.