This was attempted by using the dev_name in the slab cache name, but as
Omar Sandoval pointed out, that can be an arbitrary string, eg something
like "/dev/root". Which in turn trips verify_dirent_name(), which fails
if a filename contains a slash.
So just make it use a sequence counter, and make it an atomic_t to avoid
any possible races or locking issues.
Reported-and-tested-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZxafcO8KWMlXaeWE@telecaster.dhcp.thefacebook.com/
Fixes: 79efebae4afc ("9p: Avoid creating multiple slab caches with the same name")
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
Cc: Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@leemhuis.info>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
struct p9_client *p9_client_create(const char *dev_name, char *options)
{
int err;
+ static atomic_t seqno = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
struct p9_client *clnt;
char *client_id;
char *cache_name;
if (err)
goto close_trans;
- cache_name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "9p-fcall-cache-%s", dev_name);
+ cache_name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL,
+ "9p-fcall-cache-%u", atomic_inc_return(&seqno));
if (!cache_name) {
err = -ENOMEM;
goto close_trans;