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Linus Torvalds 99c001cb61 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/202401291043.e62e89dc-oliver.sang@intel.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240131185512.638645365@goodmis.org

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ajay Kaher <ajay.kaher@broadcom.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fixes: c1504e5102 ("eventfs: Implement eventfs dir creation functions")
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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arch powerpc fixes for 6.8 #2 2024-01-21 11:04:29 -08:00
block for-6.8/block-2024-01-18 2024-01-18 18:22:40 -08:00
certs This update includes the following changes: 2023-11-02 16:15:30 -10:00
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README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

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.

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.