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Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 14:47:48 -0800
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
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"Dmitry V . Levin" <ldv@...linux.org>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 07/11] proc: flush task dcache entries from all procfs instances
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 2:23 PM Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> I'd been thinking of ->d_fsdata pointing to a structure with list_head
> and a (non-counting) task_struct pointer for those guys. Allocated
> on lookup, of course (as well as readdir ;-/) and put on the list
> at the same time.
Hmm. That smells like potentially a lot of small allocations, and
making readdir() even nastier.
Do we really want to create the dentries at readdir time? We do now
(with proc_fill_cache()) but do we actually _need_ to?
I guess a lot of readdir users end up doing a stat on it immediately
afterwards. I think right now we do it to get the inode number, and
maybe that is a basic requirement (even if I don't think it's really
stable - an inode could be evicted and then the ino changes, no?)
Ho humm. This all doesn't make me happy. But I guess the proof is in
the pudding - and if you come up with a good patch, I won't complain.
Linus
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