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<title>Merge tag 'v6.6-vfs.fchmodat2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2023-08-28T18:25:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2023-08-28T18:25:27+00:00</published>
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Pull fchmodat2 system call from Christian Brauner:
 "This adds the fchmodat2() system call. It is a revised version of the
  fchmodat() system call, adding a missing flag argument. Support for
  both AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW and AT_EMPTY_PATH are included.

  Adding this system call revision has been a longstanding request but
  so far has always fallen through the cracks. While the kernel
  implementation of fchmodat() does not have a flag argument the libc
  provided POSIX-compliant fchmodat(3) version does. Both glibc and musl
  have to implement a workaround in order to support AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW
  (see [1] and [2]).

  The workaround is brittle because it relies not just on O_PATH and
  O_NOFOLLOW semantics and procfs magic links but also on our rather
  inconsistent symlink semantics.

  This gives userspace a proper fchmodat2() system call that libcs can
  use to properly implement fchmodat(3) and allows them to get rid of
  their hacks. In this case it will immediately benefit them as the
  current workaround is already defunct because of aformentioned
  inconsistencies.

  In addition to AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW, give userspace the ability to use
  AT_EMPTY_PATH with fchmodat2(). This is already possible with
  fchownat() so there's no reason to not also support it for
  fchmodat2().

  The implementation is simple and comes with selftests. Implementation
  of the system call and wiring up the system call are done as separate
  patches even though they could arguably be one patch. But in case
  there are merge conflicts from other system call additions it can be
  beneficial to have separate patches"

Link: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/fchmodat.c;h=17eca54051ee28ba1ec3f9aed170a62630959143;hb=a492b1e5ef7ab50c6fdd4e4e9879ea5569ab0a6c#l35 [1]
Link: https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/stat/fchmodat.c?id=718f363bc2067b6487900eddc9180c84e7739f80#n28 [2]

* tag 'v6.6-vfs.fchmodat2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  selftests: fchmodat2: remove duplicate unneeded defines
  fchmodat2: add support for AT_EMPTY_PATH
  selftests: Add fchmodat2 selftest
  arch: Register fchmodat2, usually as syscall 452
  fs: Add fchmodat2()
  Non-functional cleanup of a "__user * filename"
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Pull fchmodat2 system call from Christian Brauner:
 "This adds the fchmodat2() system call. It is a revised version of the
  fchmodat() system call, adding a missing flag argument. Support for
  both AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW and AT_EMPTY_PATH are included.

  Adding this system call revision has been a longstanding request but
  so far has always fallen through the cracks. While the kernel
  implementation of fchmodat() does not have a flag argument the libc
  provided POSIX-compliant fchmodat(3) version does. Both glibc and musl
  have to implement a workaround in order to support AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW
  (see [1] and [2]).

  The workaround is brittle because it relies not just on O_PATH and
  O_NOFOLLOW semantics and procfs magic links but also on our rather
  inconsistent symlink semantics.

  This gives userspace a proper fchmodat2() system call that libcs can
  use to properly implement fchmodat(3) and allows them to get rid of
  their hacks. In this case it will immediately benefit them as the
  current workaround is already defunct because of aformentioned
  inconsistencies.

  In addition to AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW, give userspace the ability to use
  AT_EMPTY_PATH with fchmodat2(). This is already possible with
  fchownat() so there's no reason to not also support it for
  fchmodat2().

  The implementation is simple and comes with selftests. Implementation
  of the system call and wiring up the system call are done as separate
  patches even though they could arguably be one patch. But in case
  there are merge conflicts from other system call additions it can be
  beneficial to have separate patches"

Link: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/fchmodat.c;h=17eca54051ee28ba1ec3f9aed170a62630959143;hb=a492b1e5ef7ab50c6fdd4e4e9879ea5569ab0a6c#l35 [1]
Link: https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/stat/fchmodat.c?id=718f363bc2067b6487900eddc9180c84e7739f80#n28 [2]

* tag 'v6.6-vfs.fchmodat2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  selftests: fchmodat2: remove duplicate unneeded defines
  fchmodat2: add support for AT_EMPTY_PATH
  selftests: Add fchmodat2 selftest
  arch: Register fchmodat2, usually as syscall 452
  fs: Add fchmodat2()
  Non-functional cleanup of a "__user * filename"
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'v6.6-vfs.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2023-08-28T17:17:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-28T17:17:14+00:00</published>
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the usual miscellaneous features, cleanups, and fixes
  for vfs and individual filesystems.

  Features:

   - Block mode changes on symlinks and rectify our broken semantics

   - Report file modifications via fsnotify() for splice

   - Allow specifying an explicit timeout for the "rootwait" kernel
     command line option. This allows to timeout and reboot instead of
     always waiting indefinitely for the root device to show up

   - Use synchronous fput for the close system call

  Cleanups:

   - Get rid of open-coded lockdep workarounds for async io submitters
     and replace it all with a single consolidated helper

   - Simplify epoll allocation helper

   - Convert simple_write_begin and simple_write_end to use a folio

   - Convert page_cache_pipe_buf_confirm() to use a folio

   - Simplify __range_close to avoid pointless locking

   - Disable per-cpu buffer head cache for isolated cpus

   - Port ecryptfs to kmap_local_page() api

   - Remove redundant initialization of pointer buf in pipe code

   - Unexport the d_genocide() function which is only used within core
     vfs

   - Replace printk(KERN_ERR) and WARN_ON() with WARN()

  Fixes:

   - Fix various kernel-doc issues

   - Fix refcount underflow for eventfds when used as EFD_SEMAPHORE

   - Fix a mainly theoretical issue in devpts

   - Check the return value of __getblk() in reiserfs

   - Fix a racy assert in i_readcount_dec

   - Fix integer conversion issues in various functions

   - Fix LSM security context handling during automounts that prevented
     NFS superblock sharing"

* tag 'v6.6-vfs.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (39 commits)
  cachefiles: use kiocb_{start,end}_write() helpers
  ovl: use kiocb_{start,end}_write() helpers
  aio: use kiocb_{start,end}_write() helpers
  io_uring: use kiocb_{start,end}_write() helpers
  fs: create kiocb_{start,end}_write() helpers
  fs: add kerneldoc to file_{start,end}_write() helpers
  io_uring: rename kiocb_end_write() local helper
  splice: Convert page_cache_pipe_buf_confirm() to use a folio
  libfs: Convert simple_write_begin and simple_write_end to use a folio
  fs/dcache: Replace printk and WARN_ON by WARN
  fs/pipe: remove redundant initialization of pointer buf
  fs: Fix kernel-doc warnings
  devpts: Fix kernel-doc warnings
  doc: idmappings: fix an error and rephrase a paragraph
  init: Add support for rootwait timeout parameter
  vfs: fix up the assert in i_readcount_dec
  fs: Fix one kernel-doc comment
  docs: filesystems: idmappings: clarify from where idmappings are taken
  fs/buffer.c: disable per-CPU buffer_head cache for isolated CPUs
  vfs, security: Fix automount superblock LSM init problem, preventing NFS sb sharing
  ...
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the usual miscellaneous features, cleanups, and fixes
  for vfs and individual filesystems.

  Features:

   - Block mode changes on symlinks and rectify our broken semantics

   - Report file modifications via fsnotify() for splice

   - Allow specifying an explicit timeout for the "rootwait" kernel
     command line option. This allows to timeout and reboot instead of
     always waiting indefinitely for the root device to show up

   - Use synchronous fput for the close system call

  Cleanups:

   - Get rid of open-coded lockdep workarounds for async io submitters
     and replace it all with a single consolidated helper

   - Simplify epoll allocation helper

   - Convert simple_write_begin and simple_write_end to use a folio

   - Convert page_cache_pipe_buf_confirm() to use a folio

   - Simplify __range_close to avoid pointless locking

   - Disable per-cpu buffer head cache for isolated cpus

   - Port ecryptfs to kmap_local_page() api

   - Remove redundant initialization of pointer buf in pipe code

   - Unexport the d_genocide() function which is only used within core
     vfs

   - Replace printk(KERN_ERR) and WARN_ON() with WARN()

  Fixes:

   - Fix various kernel-doc issues

   - Fix refcount underflow for eventfds when used as EFD_SEMAPHORE

   - Fix a mainly theoretical issue in devpts

   - Check the return value of __getblk() in reiserfs

   - Fix a racy assert in i_readcount_dec

   - Fix integer conversion issues in various functions

   - Fix LSM security context handling during automounts that prevented
     NFS superblock sharing"

* tag 'v6.6-vfs.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (39 commits)
  cachefiles: use kiocb_{start,end}_write() helpers
  ovl: use kiocb_{start,end}_write() helpers
  aio: use kiocb_{start,end}_write() helpers
  io_uring: use kiocb_{start,end}_write() helpers
  fs: create kiocb_{start,end}_write() helpers
  fs: add kerneldoc to file_{start,end}_write() helpers
  io_uring: rename kiocb_end_write() local helper
  splice: Convert page_cache_pipe_buf_confirm() to use a folio
  libfs: Convert simple_write_begin and simple_write_end to use a folio
  fs/dcache: Replace printk and WARN_ON by WARN
  fs/pipe: remove redundant initialization of pointer buf
  fs: Fix kernel-doc warnings
  devpts: Fix kernel-doc warnings
  doc: idmappings: fix an error and rephrase a paragraph
  init: Add support for rootwait timeout parameter
  vfs: fix up the assert in i_readcount_dec
  fs: Fix one kernel-doc comment
  docs: filesystems: idmappings: clarify from where idmappings are taken
  fs/buffer.c: disable per-CPU buffer_head cache for isolated CPUs
  vfs, security: Fix automount superblock LSM init problem, preventing NFS sb sharing
  ...
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<entry>
<title>fs: Fix kernel-doc warnings</title>
<updated>2023-08-19T10:12:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-18T20:08:24+00:00</published>
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These have a variety of causes and a corresponding variety of solutions.

Signed-off-by: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20230818200824.2720007-1-willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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These have a variety of causes and a corresponding variety of solutions.

Signed-off-by: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20230818200824.2720007-1-willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs: use __fput_sync in close(2)</title>
<updated>2023-08-08T17:36:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-08T17:26:35+00:00</published>
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close(2) is a special case which guarantees a shallow kernel stack,
making delegation to task_work machinery unnecessary. Said delegation is
problematic as it involves atomic ops and interrupt masking trips, none
of which are cheap on x86-64. Forcing close(2) to do it looks like an
oversight in the original work.

Moreover presence of CONFIG_RSEQ adds an additional overhead as fput()
-&gt; task_work_add(..., TWA_RESUME) -&gt; set_notify_resume() makes the
thread returning to userspace land in resume_user_mode_work(), where
rseq_handle_notify_resume takes a SMAP round-trip if rseq is enabled for
the thread (and it is by default with contemporary glibc).

Sample result when benchmarking open1_processes -t 1 from will-it-scale
(that's an open + close loop) + tmpfs on /tmp, running on the Sapphire
Rapid CPU (ops/s):
stock+RSEQ:     1329857
stock-RSEQ:     1421667 (+7%)
patched:        1523521 (+14.5% / +7%) (with / without rseq)

Patched result is the same regardless of rseq as the codepath is avoided.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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close(2) is a special case which guarantees a shallow kernel stack,
making delegation to task_work machinery unnecessary. Said delegation is
problematic as it involves atomic ops and interrupt masking trips, none
of which are cheap on x86-64. Forcing close(2) to do it looks like an
oversight in the original work.

Moreover presence of CONFIG_RSEQ adds an additional overhead as fput()
-&gt; task_work_add(..., TWA_RESUME) -&gt; set_notify_resume() makes the
thread returning to userspace land in resume_user_mode_work(), where
rseq_handle_notify_resume takes a SMAP round-trip if rseq is enabled for
the thread (and it is by default with contemporary glibc).

Sample result when benchmarking open1_processes -t 1 from will-it-scale
(that's an open + close loop) + tmpfs on /tmp, running on the Sapphire
Rapid CPU (ops/s):
stock+RSEQ:     1329857
stock-RSEQ:     1421667 (+7%)
patched:        1523521 (+14.5% / +7%) (with / without rseq)

Patched result is the same regardless of rseq as the codepath is avoided.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>open: make RESOLVE_CACHED correctly test for O_TMPFILE</title>
<updated>2023-08-06T13:08:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aleksa Sarai</name>
<email>cyphar@cyphar.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-05T16:11:58+00:00</published>
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O_TMPFILE is actually __O_TMPFILE|O_DIRECTORY. This means that the old
fast-path check for RESOLVE_CACHED would reject all users passing
O_DIRECTORY with -EAGAIN, when in fact the intended test was to check
for __O_TMPFILE.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.12+
Fixes: 99668f618062 ("fs: expose LOOKUP_CACHED through openat2() RESOLVE_CACHED")
Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai &lt;cyphar@cyphar.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20230806-resolve_cached-o_tmpfile-v1-1-7ba16308465e@cyphar.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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O_TMPFILE is actually __O_TMPFILE|O_DIRECTORY. This means that the old
fast-path check for RESOLVE_CACHED would reject all users passing
O_DIRECTORY with -EAGAIN, when in fact the intended test was to check
for __O_TMPFILE.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.12+
Fixes: 99668f618062 ("fs: expose LOOKUP_CACHED through openat2() RESOLVE_CACHED")
Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai &lt;cyphar@cyphar.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20230806-resolve_cached-o_tmpfile-v1-1-7ba16308465e@cyphar.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fchmodat2: add support for AT_EMPTY_PATH</title>
<updated>2023-07-28T14:43:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aleksa Sarai</name>
<email>cyphar@cyphar.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-28T11:58:26+00:00</published>
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This allows userspace to avoid going through /proc/self/fd when dealing
with all types of file descriptors for chmod(), and makes fchmodat2() a
proper superset of all other chmod syscalls.

The primary difference between fchmodat2(AT_EMPTY_PATH) and fchmod() is
that fchmod() doesn't operate on O_PATH file descriptors by design. To
quote open(2):

&gt; O_PATH (since Linux 2.6.39)
&gt; [...]
&gt; The file itself is not opened, and other file operations (e.g.,
&gt; read(2), write(2), fchmod(2), fchown(2), fgetxattr(2), ioctl(2),
&gt; mmap(2)) fail with the error EBADF.

However, procfs has allowed userspace to do this operation ever since
the introduction of O_PATH through magic-links, so adding this feature
is only an improvement for programs that have to mess around with
/proc/self/fd/$n today to get this behaviour. In addition,
fchownat(AT_EMPTY_PATH) has existed since the introduction of O_PATH and
allows chown() operations directly on O_PATH descriptors.

Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai &lt;cyphar@cyphar.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexey Gladkov &lt;legion@kernel.org&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20230728-fchmodat2-at_empty_path-v1-1-f3add31d3516@cyphar.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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This allows userspace to avoid going through /proc/self/fd when dealing
with all types of file descriptors for chmod(), and makes fchmodat2() a
proper superset of all other chmod syscalls.

The primary difference between fchmodat2(AT_EMPTY_PATH) and fchmod() is
that fchmod() doesn't operate on O_PATH file descriptors by design. To
quote open(2):

&gt; O_PATH (since Linux 2.6.39)
&gt; [...]
&gt; The file itself is not opened, and other file operations (e.g.,
&gt; read(2), write(2), fchmod(2), fchown(2), fgetxattr(2), ioctl(2),
&gt; mmap(2)) fail with the error EBADF.

However, procfs has allowed userspace to do this operation ever since
the introduction of O_PATH through magic-links, so adding this feature
is only an improvement for programs that have to mess around with
/proc/self/fd/$n today to get this behaviour. In addition,
fchownat(AT_EMPTY_PATH) has existed since the introduction of O_PATH and
allows chown() operations directly on O_PATH descriptors.

Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai &lt;cyphar@cyphar.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alexey Gladkov &lt;legion@kernel.org&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20230728-fchmodat2-at_empty_path-v1-1-f3add31d3516@cyphar.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>fs: Add fchmodat2()</title>
<updated>2023-07-27T10:24:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Gladkov</name>
<email>legion@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-11T16:16:04+00:00</published>
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On the userspace side fchmodat(3) is implemented as a wrapper
function which implements the POSIX-specified interface. This
interface differs from the underlying kernel system call, which does not
have a flags argument. Most implementations require procfs [1][2].

There doesn't appear to be a good userspace workaround for this issue
but the implementation in the kernel is pretty straight-forward.

The new fchmodat2() syscall allows to pass the AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW flag,
unlike existing fchmodat.

[1] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/fchmodat.c;h=17eca54051ee28ba1ec3f9aed170a62630959143;hb=a492b1e5ef7ab50c6fdd4e4e9879ea5569ab0a6c#l35
[2] https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/stat/fchmodat.c?id=718f363bc2067b6487900eddc9180c84e7739f80#n28

Co-developed-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@sifive.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@sifive.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov &lt;legion@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;f2a846ef495943c5d101011eebcf01179d0c7b61.1689092120.git.legion@kernel.org&gt;
[brauner: pre reviews, do flag conversion in do_fchmodat() directly]
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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On the userspace side fchmodat(3) is implemented as a wrapper
function which implements the POSIX-specified interface. This
interface differs from the underlying kernel system call, which does not
have a flags argument. Most implementations require procfs [1][2].

There doesn't appear to be a good userspace workaround for this issue
but the implementation in the kernel is pretty straight-forward.

The new fchmodat2() syscall allows to pass the AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW flag,
unlike existing fchmodat.

[1] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/fchmodat.c;h=17eca54051ee28ba1ec3f9aed170a62630959143;hb=a492b1e5ef7ab50c6fdd4e4e9879ea5569ab0a6c#l35
[2] https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/stat/fchmodat.c?id=718f363bc2067b6487900eddc9180c84e7739f80#n28

Co-developed-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@sifive.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@sifive.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov &lt;legion@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;f2a846ef495943c5d101011eebcf01179d0c7b61.1689092120.git.legion@kernel.org&gt;
[brauner: pre reviews, do flag conversion in do_fchmodat() directly]
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'fsnotify_for_v6.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs</title>
<updated>2023-06-29T20:31:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-29T20:31:44+00:00</published>
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Pull fsnotify updates from Jan Kara:

 - Support for fanotify events returning file handles for filesystems
   not exportable via NFS

 - Improved error handling exportfs functions

 - Add missing FS_OPEN events when unusual open helpers are used

* tag 'fsnotify_for_v6.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
  fsnotify: move fsnotify_open() hook into do_dentry_open()
  exportfs: check for error return value from exportfs_encode_*()
  fanotify: support reporting non-decodeable file handles
  exportfs: allow exporting non-decodeable file handles to userspace
  exportfs: add explicit flag to request non-decodeable file handles
  exportfs: change connectable argument to bit flags
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Pull fsnotify updates from Jan Kara:

 - Support for fanotify events returning file handles for filesystems
   not exportable via NFS

 - Improved error handling exportfs functions

 - Add missing FS_OPEN events when unusual open helpers are used

* tag 'fsnotify_for_v6.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
  fsnotify: move fsnotify_open() hook into do_dentry_open()
  exportfs: check for error return value from exportfs_encode_*()
  fanotify: support reporting non-decodeable file handles
  exportfs: allow exporting non-decodeable file handles to userspace
  exportfs: add explicit flag to request non-decodeable file handles
  exportfs: change connectable argument to bit flags
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'v6.5/vfs.file' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2023-06-26T17:14:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-26T17:14:36+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs file handling updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains Amir's work to fix a long-standing problem where an
  unprivileged overlayfs mount can be used to avoid fanotify permission
  events that were requested for an inode or superblock on the
  underlying filesystem.

  Some background about files opened in overlayfs. If a file is opened
  in overlayfs @file-&gt;f_path will refer to a "fake" path. What this
  means is that while @file-&gt;f_inode will refer to inode of the
  underlying layer, @file-&gt;f_path refers to an overlayfs
  {dentry,vfsmount} pair. The reasons for doing this are out of scope
  here but it is the reason why the vfs has been providing the
  open_with_fake_path() helper for overlayfs for very long time now. So
  nothing new here.

  This is for sure not very elegant and everyone including the overlayfs
  maintainers agree. Improving this significantly would involve more
  fragile and potentially rather invasive changes.

  In various codepaths access to the path of the underlying filesystem
  is needed for such hybrid file. The best example is fsnotify where
  this becomes security relevant. Passing the overlayfs
  @file-&gt;f_path-&gt;dentry will cause fsnotify to skip generating fsnotify
  events registered on the underlying inode or superblock.

  To fix this we extend the vfs provided open_with_fake_path() concept
  for overlayfs to create a backing file container that holds the real
  path and to expose a helper that can be used by relevant callers to
  get access to the path of the underlying filesystem through the new
  file_real_path() helper. This pattern is similar to what we do in
  d_real() and d_real_inode().

  The first beneficiary is fsnotify and fixes the security sensitive
  problem mentioned above.

  There's a couple of nice cleanups included as well.

  Over time, the old open_with_fake_path() helper added specifically for
  overlayfs a long time ago started to get used in other places such as
  cachefiles. Even though cachefiles have nothing to do with hybrid
  files.

  The only reason cachefiles used that concept was that files opened
  with open_with_fake_path() aren't charged against the caller's open
  file limit by raising FMODE_NOACCOUNT. It's just mere coincidence that
  both overlayfs and cachefiles need to ensure to not overcharge the
  caller for their internal open calls.

  So this work disentangles FMODE_NOACCOUNT use cases and backing file
  use-cases by adding the FMODE_BACKING flag which indicates that the
  file can be used to retrieve the backing file of another filesystem.
  (Fyi, Jens will be sending you a really nice cleanup from Christoph
  that gets rid of 3 FMODE_* flags otherwise this would be the last
  fmode_t bit we'd be using.)

  So now overlayfs becomes the sole user of the renamed
  open_with_fake_path() helper which is now named backing_file_open().
  For internal kernel users such as cachefiles that are only interested
  in FMODE_NOACCOUNT but not in FMODE_BACKING we add a new
  kernel_file_open() helper which opens a file without being charged
  against the caller's open file limit. All new helpers are properly
  documented and clearly annotated to mention their special uses.

  We also rename vfs_tmpfile_open() to kernel_tmpfile_open() to clearly
  distinguish it from vfs_tmpfile() and align it the other kernel_*()
  internal helpers"

* tag 'v6.5/vfs.file' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  ovl: enable fsnotify events on underlying real files
  fs: use backing_file container for internal files with "fake" f_path
  fs: move kmem_cache_zalloc() into alloc_empty_file*() helpers
  fs: use a helper for opening kernel internal files
  fs: rename {vfs,kernel}_tmpfile_open()
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Pull vfs file handling updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains Amir's work to fix a long-standing problem where an
  unprivileged overlayfs mount can be used to avoid fanotify permission
  events that were requested for an inode or superblock on the
  underlying filesystem.

  Some background about files opened in overlayfs. If a file is opened
  in overlayfs @file-&gt;f_path will refer to a "fake" path. What this
  means is that while @file-&gt;f_inode will refer to inode of the
  underlying layer, @file-&gt;f_path refers to an overlayfs
  {dentry,vfsmount} pair. The reasons for doing this are out of scope
  here but it is the reason why the vfs has been providing the
  open_with_fake_path() helper for overlayfs for very long time now. So
  nothing new here.

  This is for sure not very elegant and everyone including the overlayfs
  maintainers agree. Improving this significantly would involve more
  fragile and potentially rather invasive changes.

  In various codepaths access to the path of the underlying filesystem
  is needed for such hybrid file. The best example is fsnotify where
  this becomes security relevant. Passing the overlayfs
  @file-&gt;f_path-&gt;dentry will cause fsnotify to skip generating fsnotify
  events registered on the underlying inode or superblock.

  To fix this we extend the vfs provided open_with_fake_path() concept
  for overlayfs to create a backing file container that holds the real
  path and to expose a helper that can be used by relevant callers to
  get access to the path of the underlying filesystem through the new
  file_real_path() helper. This pattern is similar to what we do in
  d_real() and d_real_inode().

  The first beneficiary is fsnotify and fixes the security sensitive
  problem mentioned above.

  There's a couple of nice cleanups included as well.

  Over time, the old open_with_fake_path() helper added specifically for
  overlayfs a long time ago started to get used in other places such as
  cachefiles. Even though cachefiles have nothing to do with hybrid
  files.

  The only reason cachefiles used that concept was that files opened
  with open_with_fake_path() aren't charged against the caller's open
  file limit by raising FMODE_NOACCOUNT. It's just mere coincidence that
  both overlayfs and cachefiles need to ensure to not overcharge the
  caller for their internal open calls.

  So this work disentangles FMODE_NOACCOUNT use cases and backing file
  use-cases by adding the FMODE_BACKING flag which indicates that the
  file can be used to retrieve the backing file of another filesystem.
  (Fyi, Jens will be sending you a really nice cleanup from Christoph
  that gets rid of 3 FMODE_* flags otherwise this would be the last
  fmode_t bit we'd be using.)

  So now overlayfs becomes the sole user of the renamed
  open_with_fake_path() helper which is now named backing_file_open().
  For internal kernel users such as cachefiles that are only interested
  in FMODE_NOACCOUNT but not in FMODE_BACKING we add a new
  kernel_file_open() helper which opens a file without being charged
  against the caller's open file limit. All new helpers are properly
  documented and clearly annotated to mention their special uses.

  We also rename vfs_tmpfile_open() to kernel_tmpfile_open() to clearly
  distinguish it from vfs_tmpfile() and align it the other kernel_*()
  internal helpers"

* tag 'v6.5/vfs.file' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  ovl: enable fsnotify events on underlying real files
  fs: use backing_file container for internal files with "fake" f_path
  fs: move kmem_cache_zalloc() into alloc_empty_file*() helpers
  fs: use a helper for opening kernel internal files
  fs: rename {vfs,kernel}_tmpfile_open()
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<entry>
<title>fs: use backing_file container for internal files with "fake" f_path</title>
<updated>2023-06-19T16:16:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Amir Goldstein</name>
<email>amir73il@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-15T11:22:28+00:00</published>
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Overlayfs uses open_with_fake_path() to allocate internal kernel files,
with a "fake" path - whose f_path is not on the same fs as f_inode.

Allocate a container struct backing_file for those internal files, that
is used to hold the "fake" ovl path along with the real path.

backing_file_real_path() can be used to access the stored real path.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20230615112229.2143178-5-amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Overlayfs uses open_with_fake_path() to allocate internal kernel files,
with a "fake" path - whose f_path is not on the same fs as f_inode.

Allocate a container struct backing_file for those internal files, that
is used to hold the "fake" ovl path along with the real path.

backing_file_real_path() can be used to access the stored real path.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20230615112229.2143178-5-amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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