Thread (39 messages) 39 messages, 5 authors, 2019-07-31

Re: [PATCH V36 27/29] tracefs: Restrict tracefs when the kernel is locked down

From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Date: 2019-07-25 02:23:59
Also in: linux-api, lkml

On Thu, 18 Jul 2019 12:44:13 -0700
Matthew Garrett [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
@@ -387,6 +412,7 @@ struct dentry *tracefs_create_file(const char *name, umode_t mode,
 				   struct dentry *parent, void *data,
 				   const struct file_operations *fops)
 {
+	struct file_operations *proxy_fops;
 	struct dentry *dentry;
 	struct inode *inode;
 
@@ -402,8 +428,18 @@ struct dentry *tracefs_create_file(const char *name, umode_t mode,
 	if (unlikely(!inode))
 		return failed_creating(dentry);
 
+	proxy_fops = kzalloc(sizeof(struct file_operations), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!proxy_fops)
I believe we need "iput(inode);" here. Or move the allocation before
the inode allocation and free it on inode failure.

-- Steve
+		return failed_creating(dentry);
+
+	if (!fops)
+		fops = &tracefs_file_operations;
+
+	dentry->d_fsdata = (void *)fops;
+	memcpy(proxy_fops, fops, sizeof(*proxy_fops));
+	proxy_fops->open = default_open_file;
 	inode->i_mode = mode;
-	inode->i_fop = fops ? fops : &tracefs_file_operations;
+	inode->i_fop = proxy_fops;
 	inode->i_private = data;
 	d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
 	fsnotify_create(dentry->d_parent->d_inode, dentry);
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