tracefs: Avoid using the ei->dentry pointer unnecessarily

The eventfs_find_events() code tries to walk up the tree to find the
event directory that a dentry belongs to, in order to then find the
eventfs inode that is associated with that event directory.

However, it uses an odd combination of walking the dentry parent,
looking up the eventfs inode associated with that, and then looking up
the dentry from there.  Repeat.

But the code shouldn't have back-pointers to dentries in the first
place, and it should just walk the dentry parenthood chain directly.

Similarly, 'set_top_events_ownership()' looks up the dentry from the
eventfs inode, but the only reason it wants a dentry is to look up the
superblock in order to look up the root dentry.

But it already has the real filesystem inode, which has that same
superblock pointer.  So just pass in the superblock pointer using the
information that's already there, instead of looking up extraneous data
that is irrelevant.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/[email protected]/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/[email protected]

Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Ajay Kaher <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Fixes: c1504e5 ("eventfs: Implement eventfs dir creation functions")
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <[email protected]>

Author: torvalds

fs/tracefs/event_inode.c

@@ -156,33 +156,30 @@ static int eventfs_set_attr(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct dentry *dentry,
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static void update_top_events_attr(struct eventfs_inode *ei, struct dentry *dentry)
+static void update_top_events_attr(struct eventfs_inode *ei, struct super_block *sb)
 {
-	struct inode *inode;
+	struct inode *root;
 
 	/* Only update if the "events" was on the top level */
 	if (!ei || !(ei->attr.mode & EVENTFS_TOPLEVEL))
 		return;
 
 	/* Get the tracefs root inode. */
-	inode = d_inode(dentry->d_sb->s_root);
-	ei->attr.uid = inode->i_uid;
-	ei->attr.gid = inode->i_gid;
+	root = d_inode(sb->s_root);
+	ei->attr.uid = root->i_uid;
+	ei->attr.gid = root->i_gid;
 }
 
 static void set_top_events_ownership(struct inode *inode)
 {
 	struct tracefs_inode *ti = get_tracefs(inode);
 	struct eventfs_inode *ei = ti->private;
-	struct dentry *dentry;
 
 	/* The top events directory doesn't get automatically updated */
 	if (!ei || !ei->is_events || !(ei->attr.mode & EVENTFS_TOPLEVEL))
 		return;
 
-	dentry = ei->dentry;
-
-	update_top_events_attr(ei, dentry);
+	update_top_events_attr(ei, inode->i_sb);
 
 	if (!(ei->attr.mode & EVENTFS_SAVE_UID))
 		inode->i_uid = ei->attr.uid;
@@ -235,8 +232,10 @@ static struct eventfs_inode *eventfs_find_events(struct dentry *dentry)
 
 	mutex_lock(&eventfs_mutex);
 	do {
-		/* The parent always has an ei, except for events itself */
-		ei = dentry->d_parent->d_fsdata;
+		// The parent is stable because we do not do renames
+		dentry = dentry->d_parent;
+		// ... and directories always have d_fsdata
+		ei = dentry->d_fsdata;
 
 		/*
 		 * If the ei is being freed, the ownership of the children
@@ -246,12 +245,11 @@ static struct eventfs_inode *eventfs_find_events(struct dentry *dentry)
 			ei = NULL;
 			break;
 		}
-
-		dentry = ei->dentry;
+		// Walk upwards until you find the events inode
 	} while (!ei->is_events);
 	mutex_unlock(&eventfs_mutex);
 
-	update_top_events_attr(ei, dentry);
+	update_top_events_attr(ei, dentry->d_sb);
 
 	return ei;
 }