A mix of persistent and non-persistent dentries in there. Strictly speaking, no need for kill_litter_super() anyway - it pins an internal mount whenever a persistent dentry is created, so at fs shutdown time there won't be any to deal with.
However, let's make it explicit - replace d_instantiate() with d_make_persistent() + dput() (the latter in tracefs_end_creating()) for dentries we want persistent and have d_make_discardable() done either by simple_recursive_removal() (used by tracefs_remove()) or explicitly in eventfs_remove_events_dir(). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk> --- fs/tracefs/event_inode.c | 4 ++-- fs/tracefs/inode.c | 13 ++++++------- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c index 8705c77a9e75..97bb0a79b0cd 100644 --- a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c +++ b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c @@ -822,7 +822,7 @@ struct eventfs_inode *eventfs_create_events_dir(const char *name, struct dentry * something not worth much. Keeping directory links at 1 * tells userspace not to trust the link number. */ - d_instantiate(dentry, inode); + d_make_persistent(dentry, inode); /* The dentry of the "events" parent does keep track though */ inc_nlink(dentry->d_parent->d_inode); fsnotify_mkdir(dentry->d_parent->d_inode, dentry); @@ -909,5 +909,5 @@ void eventfs_remove_events_dir(struct eventfs_inode *ei) * and destroyed dynamically. */ d_invalidate(dentry); - dput(dentry); + d_make_discardable(dentry); } diff --git a/fs/tracefs/inode.c b/fs/tracefs/inode.c index 0c023941a316..d9d8932a7b9c 100644 --- a/fs/tracefs/inode.c +++ b/fs/tracefs/inode.c @@ -538,7 +538,7 @@ static struct file_system_type trace_fs_type = { .name = "tracefs", .init_fs_context = tracefs_init_fs_context, .parameters = tracefs_param_specs, - .kill_sb = kill_litter_super, + .kill_sb = kill_anon_super, }; MODULE_ALIAS_FS("tracefs"); @@ -571,16 +571,15 @@ struct dentry *tracefs_start_creating(const char *name, struct dentry *parent) struct dentry *tracefs_failed_creating(struct dentry *dentry) { - inode_unlock(d_inode(dentry->d_parent)); - dput(dentry); + simple_done_creating(dentry); simple_release_fs(&tracefs_mount, &tracefs_mount_count); return NULL; } struct dentry *tracefs_end_creating(struct dentry *dentry) { - inode_unlock(d_inode(dentry->d_parent)); - return dentry; + simple_done_creating(dentry); + return dentry; // borrowed } /* Find the inode that this will use for default */ @@ -661,7 +660,7 @@ struct dentry *tracefs_create_file(const char *name, umode_t mode, inode->i_private = data; inode->i_uid = d_inode(dentry->d_parent)->i_uid; inode->i_gid = d_inode(dentry->d_parent)->i_gid; - d_instantiate(dentry, inode); + d_make_persistent(dentry, inode); fsnotify_create(d_inode(dentry->d_parent), dentry); return tracefs_end_creating(dentry); } @@ -692,7 +691,7 @@ static struct dentry *__create_dir(const char *name, struct dentry *parent, /* directory inodes start off with i_nlink == 2 (for "." entry) */ inc_nlink(inode); - d_instantiate(dentry, inode); + d_make_persistent(dentry, inode); inc_nlink(d_inode(dentry->d_parent)); fsnotify_mkdir(d_inode(dentry->d_parent), dentry); return tracefs_end_creating(dentry); -- 2.47.3