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Varad Gautam 1c2123ff43 fs/devpts: always delete dcache dentry-s in dput() 
commit 73052b0daee0b750b39af18460dfec683e4f5887 upstream.

d_delete only unhashes an entry if it is reached with
dentry->d_lockref.count != 1. Prior to commit 8ead9dd547 ("devpts:
more pty driver interface cleanups"), d_delete was called on a dentry
from devpts_pty_kill with two references held, which would trigger the
unhashing, and the subsequent dputs would release it.

Commit 8ead9dd547 reworked devpts_pty_kill to stop acquiring the second
reference from d_find_alias, and the d_delete call left the dentries
still on the hashed list without actually ever being dropped from dcache
before explicit cleanup. This causes the number of negative dentries for
devpts to pile up, and an `ls /dev/pts` invocation can take seconds to
return.

Provide always_delete_dentry() from simple_dentry_operations
as .d_delete for devpts, to make the dentry be dropped from dcache.

Without this cleanup, the number of dentries in /dev/pts/ can be grown
arbitrarily as:

`python -c 'import pty; pty.spawn(["ls", "/dev/pts"])'`

A systemtap probe on dcache_readdir to count d_subdirs shows this count
to increase with each pty spawn invocation above:

probe kernel.function("dcache_readdir") {
    subdirs = &@cast($file->f_path->dentry, "dentry")->d_subdirs;
    p = subdirs;
    p = @cast(p, "list_head")->next;
    i = 0
    while (p != subdirs) {
      p = @cast(p, "list_head")->next;
      i = i+1;
    }
    printf("number of dentries: %d\n", i);
}

Fixes: 8ead9dd547 ("devpts: more pty driver interface cleanups")
Signed-off-by: Varad Gautam <vrd@amazon.de>
Reported-by: Zheng Wang <wanz@amazon.de>
Reported-by: Brandon Schwartz <bsschwar@amazon.de>
Root-caused-by: Maximilian Heyne <mheyne@amazon.de>
Root-caused-by: Nicolas Pernas Maradei <npernas@amazon.de>
CC: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
CC: Maximilian Heyne <mheyne@amazon.de>
CC: Stefan Nuernberger <snu@amazon.de>
CC: Amit Shah <aams@amazon.de>
CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
CC: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
CC: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
CC: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
CC: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
CC: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.9+
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-03-23 20:09:59 +01:00
arch s390/setup: fix early warning messages 2019-03-23 20:09:58 +01:00
block blk-mq: insert rq with DONTPREP to hctx dispatch list when requeue 2019-03-23 20:09:45 +01:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto crypto: testmgr - skip crc32c context test for ahash algorithms 2019-03-23 20:09:55 +01:00
Documentation clocksource/drivers/arch_timer: Workaround for Allwinner A64 timer instability 2019-03-23 20:09:58 +01:00
drivers scsi: qla2xxx: Fix LUN discovery if loop id is not assigned yet by firmware 2019-03-23 20:09:59 +01:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs fs/devpts: always delete dcache dentry-s in dput() 2019-03-23 20:09:59 +01:00
include phonet: fix building with clang 2019-03-23 20:09:51 +01:00
init Revert "mm: use early_pfn_to_nid in page_ext_init" 2019-03-23 20:09:46 +01:00
ipc ipc/shm.c: use ERR_CAST() for shm_lock() error return 2018-10-05 16:32:04 -07:00
kernel tracing/perf: Use strndup_user() instead of buggy open-coded version 2019-03-23 20:09:56 +01:00
lib assoc_array: Fix shortcut creation 2019-03-23 20:09:48 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Remove CC-BY-SA-4.0 license text 2018-10-18 11:28:50 +02:00
mm tmpfs: fix uninitialized return value in shmem_link 2019-03-23 20:09:52 +01:00
net netfilter: ipt_CLUSTERIP: fix warning unused variable cn 2019-03-23 20:09:57 +01:00
samples samples: mei: use /dev/mei0 instead of /dev/mei 2019-02-15 08:10:11 +01:00
scripts kallsyms: Handle too long symbols in kallsyms.c 2019-03-23 20:09:47 +01:00
security keys: Fix dependency loop between construction record and auth key 2019-03-23 20:09:48 +01:00
sound ASoC: topology: free created components in tplg load error 2019-03-23 20:09:50 +01:00
tools selftests: fib_tests: sleep after changing carrier. again. 2019-03-23 20:09:52 +01:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Always initialize the group of private IRQs 2019-03-23 20:09:43 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Set IndentWrappedFunctionNames false 2018-08-01 18:38:51 +02:00
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.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap libnvdimm-for-4.19_misc 2018-08-25 18:13:10 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS 9p: remove Ron Minnich from MAINTAINERS 2018-08-17 16:20:26 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Add Sasha as a stable branch maintainer 2018-12-01 09:37:25 +01:00
Makefile Linux 4.19.30 2019-03-19 13:12:42 +01:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.