From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@kernel.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
Subject: [for-linus][PATCH 1/2] eventfs: Use list_add_tail_rcu() for SRCU-protected children list
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:11:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260420181220.197994575@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20260420181151.771404678@kernel.org
From: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
Commit d2603279c7d6 ("eventfs: Use list_del_rcu() for SRCU protected
list variable") converted the removal side to pair with the
list_for_each_entry_srcu() walker in eventfs_iterate(). The insertion
in eventfs_create_dir() was left as a plain list_add_tail(), which on
weakly-ordered architectures can expose a new entry to the SRCU reader
before its list pointers and fields are observable.
Use list_add_tail_rcu() so the publication pairs with the existing
list_del_rcu() and list_for_each_entry_srcu().
Fixes: 43aa6f97c2d0 ("eventfs: Get rid of dentry pointers without refcounts")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260418152251.199343-1-devnexen@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
fs/tracefs/event_inode.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
index 81df94038f2e..8dd554508828 100644
--- a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
+++ b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
@@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ struct eventfs_inode *eventfs_create_dir(const char *name, struct eventfs_inode
scoped_guard(mutex, &eventfs_mutex) {
if (!parent->is_freed)
- list_add_tail(&ei->list, &parent->children);
+ list_add_tail_rcu(&ei->list, &parent->children);
}
/* Was the parent freed? */
if (list_empty(&ei->list)) {
--
2.51.0
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2026-04-20 18:11 [for-linus][PATCH 0/2] tracefs: Fixes for 7.1 Steven Rostedt
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