kernfs: associate a new kernfs_node with its parent on creation

Once created, a kernfs_node is always destroyed by kernfs_put().
Since ba7443bc656e ("sysfs, kernfs: implement
kernfs_create/destroy_root()"), kernfs_put() depends on kernfs_root()
to locate the ino_ida.  kernfs_root() in turn depends on
kernfs_node->parent being set for !dir nodes.  This means that
kernfs_put() of a !dir node requires its ->parent to be initialized.

This leads to oops when a newly created !dir node is destroyed without
going through kernfs_add_one() or after failing kernfs_add_one()
before ->parent is set.  kernfs_root() invoked from kernfs_put() will
try to dereference NULL parent.

Fix it by moving parent association to kernfs_new_node() from
kernfs_add_one().  kernfs_new_node() now takes @parent instead of
@root and determines the root from the parent and also sets the new
node's parent properly.  @parent parameter is removed from
kernfs_add_one().  As there's no parent when creating the root node,
__kernfs_new_node() which takes @root as before and doesn't set the
parent is used in that case.

This ensures that a kernfs_node in any stage in its life has its
parent associated and thus can be put.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/fs/kernfs/kernfs-internal.h b/fs/kernfs/kernfs-internal.h
index c6ba5bc37a98..eb536b76374a 100644
--- a/fs/kernfs/kernfs-internal.h
+++ b/fs/kernfs/kernfs-internal.h
@@ -101,11 +101,11 @@ extern const struct inode_operations kernfs_dir_iops;
 struct kernfs_node *kernfs_get_active(struct kernfs_node *kn);
 void kernfs_put_active(struct kernfs_node *kn);
 void kernfs_addrm_start(struct kernfs_addrm_cxt *acxt);
-int kernfs_add_one(struct kernfs_addrm_cxt *acxt, struct kernfs_node *kn,
-                   struct kernfs_node *parent);
+int kernfs_add_one(struct kernfs_addrm_cxt *acxt, struct kernfs_node *kn);
 void kernfs_addrm_finish(struct kernfs_addrm_cxt *acxt);
-struct kernfs_node *kernfs_new_node(struct kernfs_root *root, const char *name,
-                                    umode_t mode, unsigned flags);
+struct kernfs_node *kernfs_new_node(struct kernfs_node *parent,
+                                    const char *name, umode_t mode,
+                                    unsigned flags);
 
 /*
  * file.c