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From: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
To: lee@kernel.org, Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>,
	Wentao Guan <guanwentao@uniontech.com>
Subject: [STABLE v5.15.y 6/8] eventpoll: rename ep_remove_safe() back to ep_remove()
Date: Tue,  8 Sep 2026 09:51:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260908085113.3960814-6-lee@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260908085113.3960814-1-lee@kernel.org>

From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

[ Upstream commit 0bade234723e40e4937be912e105785d6a51464e ]

The current name is just confusing and doesn't clarify anything.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260423-work-epoll-uaf-v1-4-2470f9eec0f5@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
Stable-dep-of: a6dc643c6931 ("eventpoll: fix ep_remove struct eventpoll / struct file UAF")
Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
Signed-off-by: Wentao Guan <guanwentao@uniontech.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit 136e5900ea830dee549e3485c8931ec1c8f6c1b1)
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
---
 fs/eventpoll.c | 16 ++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
index cf00714afb4a..f6db6621bbee 100644
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -764,7 +764,7 @@ static bool ep_remove_epi(struct eventpoll *ep, struct epitem *epi)
 /*
  * ep_remove variant for callers owing an additional reference to the ep
  */
-static void ep_remove_safe(struct eventpoll *ep, struct epitem *epi)
+static void ep_remove(struct eventpoll *ep, struct epitem *epi)
 {
 	struct file *file = epi->ffd.file;
 
@@ -812,7 +812,7 @@ static void ep_clear_and_put(struct eventpoll *ep)
 
 	/*
 	 * Walks through the whole tree and try to free each "struct epitem".
-	 * Note that ep_remove_safe() will not remove the epitem in case of a
+	 * Note that ep_remove() will not remove the epitem in case of a
 	 * racing eventpoll_release_file(); the latter will do the removal.
 	 * At this point we are sure no poll callbacks will be lingering around.
 	 * Since we still own a reference to the eventpoll struct, the loop can't
@@ -821,7 +821,7 @@ static void ep_clear_and_put(struct eventpoll *ep)
 	for (rbp = rb_first_cached(&ep->rbr); rbp; rbp = next) {
 		next = rb_next(rbp);
 		epi = rb_entry(rbp, struct epitem, rbn);
-		ep_remove_safe(ep, epi);
+		ep_remove(ep, epi);
 		cond_resched();
 	}
 
@@ -1588,21 +1588,21 @@ static int ep_insert(struct eventpoll *ep, const struct epoll_event *event,
 		mutex_unlock(&tep->mtx);
 
 	/*
-	 * ep_remove_safe() calls in the later error paths can't lead to
+	 * ep_remove() calls in the later error paths can't lead to
 	 * ep_free() as the ep file itself still holds an ep reference.
 	 */
 	ep_get(ep);
 
 	/* now check if we've created too many backpaths */
 	if (unlikely(full_check && reverse_path_check())) {
-		ep_remove_safe(ep, epi);
+		ep_remove(ep, epi);
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
 	if (epi->event.events & EPOLLWAKEUP) {
 		error = ep_create_wakeup_source(epi);
 		if (error) {
-			ep_remove_safe(ep, epi);
+			ep_remove(ep, epi);
 			return error;
 		}
 	}
@@ -1626,7 +1626,7 @@ static int ep_insert(struct eventpoll *ep, const struct epoll_event *event,
 	 * high memory pressure.
 	 */
 	if (unlikely(!epq.epi)) {
-		ep_remove_safe(ep, epi);
+		ep_remove(ep, epi);
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 
@@ -2305,7 +2305,7 @@ int do_epoll_ctl(int epfd, int op, int fd, struct epoll_event *epds,
 			 * The eventpoll itself is still alive: the refcount
 			 * can't go to zero here.
 			 */
-			ep_remove_safe(ep, epi);
+			ep_remove(ep, epi);
 			error = 0;
 		} else {
 			error = -ENOENT;
-- 
2.55.0.979.g7e5102b832-goog


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-08  8:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-08  8:50 [STABLE v5.15.y 1/8] file: add fput() cleanup helper Lee Jones
2026-09-08  8:50 ` [STABLE v5.15.y 2/8] eventpoll: use hlist_is_singular_node() in __ep_remove() Lee Jones
2026-09-08  8:50 ` [STABLE v5.15.y 3/8] eventpoll: split __ep_remove() Lee Jones
2026-09-08  8:51 ` [STABLE v5.15.y 4/8] eventpoll: kill __ep_remove() Lee Jones
2026-09-08 22:39   ` Sasha Levin
2026-09-08  8:51 ` [STABLE v5.15.y 5/8] eventpoll: drop vestigial __ prefix from ep_remove_{file,epi}() Lee Jones
2026-09-08  8:51 ` Lee Jones [this message]
2026-09-08  8:51 ` [STABLE v5.15.y 7/8] eventpoll: move epi_fget() up Lee Jones
2026-09-08  8:51 ` [STABLE v5.15.y 8/8] eventpoll: fix ep_remove struct eventpoll / struct file UAF Lee Jones

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