FAILED: patch "[PATCH] tracefs: Fix default permissions not being applied on initial" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 6.12-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.12.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x e8368d1f4bedbb0cce4cfe33a1d2664bb0fd4f27
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026051232-congress-babble-1c1d@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.12.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From e8368d1f4bedbb0cce4cfe33a1d2664bb0fd4f27 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2026 14:47:47 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] tracefs: Fix default permissions not being applied on initial
 mount

Commit e4d32142d1de ("tracing: Fix tracefs mount options") moved the
option application from tracefs_fill_super() to tracefs_reconfigure()
called from tracefs_get_tree(). This fixed mount options being ignored
on user-space mounts when the superblock already exists, but introduced
a regression for the initial kernel-internal mount.

On the first mount (via simple_pin_fs during init), sget_fc() transfers
fc->s_fs_info to sb->s_fs_info and sets fc->s_fs_info to NULL. When
tracefs_get_tree() then calls tracefs_reconfigure(), it sees a NULL
fc->s_fs_info and returns early without applying any options. The root
inode keeps mode 0755 from simple_fill_super() instead of the intended
TRACEFS_DEFAULT_MODE (0700).

Furthermore, even on subsequent user-space mounts without an explicit
mode= option, tracefs_apply_options(sb, true) gates the mode behind
fsi->opts & BIT(Opt_mode), which is unset for the defaults. So the
mode is never corrected unless the user explicitly passes mode=0700.

Restore the tracefs_apply_options(sb, false) call in tracefs_fill_super()
to apply default permissions on initial superblock creation, matching
what debugfs does in debugfs_fill_super().

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: e4d32142d1de ("tracing: Fix tracefs mount options")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260404134747.98867-1-devnexen@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

diff --git a/fs/tracefs/inode.c b/fs/tracefs/inode.c
index fa4c7e6aa5ff..5602baf980f6 100644
--- a/fs/tracefs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/tracefs/inode.c
@@ -468,6 +468,7 @@ static int tracefs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, struct fs_context *fc)
 		return err;
 
 	sb->s_op = &tracefs_super_operations;
+	tracefs_apply_options(sb, false);
 	set_default_d_op(sb, &tracefs_dentry_operations);
 
 	return 0;