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2025-10-06Merge tag 'nfsd-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cel/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull nfsd updates from Chuck Lever: "Mike Snitzer has prototyped a mechanism for disabling I/O caching in NFSD. This is introduced in v6.18 as an experimental feature. This enables scaling NFSD in /both/ directions: - NFS service can be supported on systems with small memory footprints, such as low-cost cloud instances - Large NFS workloads will be less likely to force the eviction of server-local activity, helping it avoid thrashing Jeff Layton contributed a number of fixes to the new attribute delegation implementation (based on a pending Internet RFC) that we hope will make attribute delegation reliable enough to enable by default, as it is on the Linux NFS client. The remaining patches in this pull request are clean-ups and minor optimizations. Many thanks to the contributors, reviewers, testers, and bug reporters who participated during the v6.18 NFSD development cycle" * tag 'nfsd-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cel/linux: (42 commits) nfsd: discard nfserr_dropit SUNRPC: Make RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 select CRYPTO instead of depending on it NFSD: Add io_cache_{read,write} controls to debugfs NFSD: Do the grace period check in ->proc_layoutget nfsd: delete unnecessary NULL check in __fh_verify() NFSD: Allow layoutcommit during grace period NFSD: Disallow layoutget during grace period sunrpc: fix "occurence"->"occurrence" nfsd: Don't force CRYPTO_LIB_SHA256 to be built-in nfsd: nfserr_jukebox in nlm_fopen should lead to a retry NFSD: Reduce DRC bucket size NFSD: Delay adding new entries to LRU SUNRPC: Move the svc_rpcb_cleanup() call sites NFS: Remove rpcbind cleanup for NFSv4.0 callback nfsd: unregister with rpcbind when deleting a transport NFSD: Drop redundant conversion to bool sunrpc: eliminate return pointer in svc_tcp_sendmsg() sunrpc: fix pr_notice in svc_tcp_sendto() to show correct length nfsd: decouple the xprtsec policy check from check_nfsd_access() NFSD: Fix destination buffer size in nfsd4_ssc_setup_dul() ...
2025-10-03Merge tag 'pull-f_path' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull file->f_path constification from Al Viro: "Only one thing was modifying ->f_path of an opened file - acct(2). Massaging that away and constifying a bunch of struct path * arguments in functions that might be given &file->f_path ends up with the situation where we can turn ->f_path into an anon union of const struct path f_path and struct path __f_path, the latter modified only in a few places in fs/{file_table,open,namei}.c, all for struct file instances that are yet to be opened" * tag 'pull-f_path' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (23 commits) Have cc(1) catch attempts to modify ->f_path kernel/acct.c: saner struct file treatment configfs:get_target() - release path as soon as we grab configfs_item reference apparmor/af_unix: constify struct path * arguments ovl_is_real_file: constify realpath argument ovl_sync_file(): constify path argument ovl_lower_dir(): constify path argument ovl_get_verity_digest(): constify path argument ovl_validate_verity(): constify {meta,data}path arguments ovl_ensure_verity_loaded(): constify datapath argument ksmbd_vfs_set_init_posix_acl(): constify path argument ksmbd_vfs_inherit_posix_acl(): constify path argument ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_unlock(): constify path argument ksmbd_vfs_path_lookup_locked(): root_share_path can be const struct path * check_export(): constify path argument export_operations->open(): constify path argument rqst_exp_get_by_name(): constify path argument nfs: constify path argument of __vfs_getattr() bpf...d_path(): constify path argument done_path_create(): constify path argument ...
2025-10-03Merge tag 'ovl-update-6.18' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/overlayfs/vfs Pull overlayfs updates from Amir Goldstein: - Work by André Almeida to support case-insensitive overlayfs Underlying case-insensitive filesystems casefolding is per directory, but for overlayfs it is all-or-nothing. It supports layers where all directories are casefolded (with same encoding) or layers where no directories are casefolded. - A fix for a "bug" in Neil's ovl directory lock changes, which only manifested itself with casefold enabled layers which may return an unhashed negative dentry from lookup. * tag 'ovl-update-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/overlayfs/vfs: ovl: make sure that ovl_create_real() returns a hashed dentry ovl: Support mounting case-insensitive enabled layers ovl: Check for casefold consistency when creating new dentries ovl: Add S_CASEFOLD as part of the inode flag to be copied ovl: Set case-insensitive dentry operations for ovl sb ovl: Ensure that all layers have the same encoding ovl: Create ovl_casefold() to support casefolded strncmp() ovl: Prepare for mounting case-insensitive enabled layers fs: Create sb_same_encoding() helper fs: Create sb_encoding() helper
2025-10-03Merge tag 'pull-qstr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfsLinus Torvalds
Pull d_name audit update from Al Viro: "Simplifying ->d_name audits, easy part. Turn dentry->d_name into an anon union of const struct qsrt (d_name itself) and a writable alias (__d_name). With constification of some struct qstr * arguments of functions that get &dentry->d_name passed to them, that ends up with all modifications provably done only in fs/dcache.c (and a fairly small part of it). Any new places doing modifications will be easy to find - grep for __d_name will suffice" * tag 'pull-qstr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: make it easier to catch those who try to modify ->d_name generic_ci_validate_strict_name(): constify name argument afs_dir_search: constify qstr argument afs_edit_dir_{add,remove}(): constify qstr argument exfat_find(): constify qstr argument security_dentry_init_security(): constify qstr argument
2025-10-03Merge tag 'pull-mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfsLinus Torvalds
Pull vfs mount updates from Al Viro: "Several piles this cycle, this mount-related one being the largest and trickiest: - saner handling of guards in fs/namespace.c, getting rid of needlessly strong locking in some of the users - lock_mount() calling conventions change - have it set the environment for attaching to given location, storing the results in caller-supplied object, without altering the passed struct path. Make unlock_mount() called as __cleanup for those objects. It's not exactly guard(), but similar to it - MNT_WRITE_HOLD done right. mnt_hold_writers() does *not* mess with ->mnt_flags anymore, so insertion of a new mount into ->s_mounts of underlying superblock does not, in itself, expose ->mnt_flags of that mount to concurrent modifications - getting rid of pathological cases when umount() spends quadratic time removing the victims from propagation graph - part of that had been dealt with last cycle, this should finish it - a bunch of stuff constified - assorted cleanups * tag 'pull-mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (64 commits) constify {__,}mnt_is_readonly() WRITE_HOLD machinery: no need for to bump mount_lock seqcount struct mount: relocate MNT_WRITE_HOLD bit preparations to taking MNT_WRITE_HOLD out of ->mnt_flags setup_mnt(): primitive for connecting a mount to filesystem simplify the callers of mnt_unhold_writers() copy_mnt_ns(): use guards copy_mnt_ns(): use the regular mechanism for freeing empty mnt_ns on failure open_detached_copy(): separate creation of namespace into helper open_detached_copy(): don't bother with mount_lock_hash() path_has_submounts(): use guard(mount_locked_reader) fs/namespace.c: sanitize descriptions for {__,}lookup_mnt() ecryptfs: get rid of pointless mount references in ecryptfs dentries umount_tree(): take all victims out of propagation graph at once do_mount(): use __free(path_put) do_move_mount_old(): use __free(path_put) constify can_move_mount_beneath() arguments path_umount(): constify struct path argument may_copy_tree(), __do_loopback(): constify struct path argument path_mount(): constify struct path argument ...
2025-10-02Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from Kairui Song improves performance and reduces the failure rate of swap cluster allocation - "support large align and nid in Rust allocators" from Vitaly Wool permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large alignment when perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs - "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from Yueyang Pan extend DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets for virtual address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters - "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock" from Suren Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of /proc/pid/maps - "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache checking" from Kairui Song performs some cleanup in the swap code - "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David Hildenbrand provides code cleanup in the pagemap code - "add persistent huge zero folio support" from Pankaj Raghav provides a block layer speedup by optionalls making the huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount falls to zero - "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a few touchups to the recently added Kexec Handover feature - "mm: make mm->flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all arches" from Lorenzo Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To end the constant struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with 64-bit's needs - "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li cleans up some swap code - "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip unsupported tests" from Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests code - "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised" from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes to opt-out of THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other workloads on the system". It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations - "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox gets us started on the memdesc project. Please see https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc - "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from Chi Zhiling improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path - "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi Yan improves our folio splitting selftest code - "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang adds some rmap selftests - "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig removes that function and converts its two remaining callers - "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain fixes some UFFD selftests issues - "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris Burkov introduces the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these permits btrfs to account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather than to the cgroups of random inappropriate tasks - "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some pageblock handling" from Wei Yang provides some readability improvements to the page allocator code - "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae Park teaches DAMON to understand arm32 highmem - "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for vma/maple tests" from Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and deduplication under tools/testing/ - "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from Liam Howlett fixes a couple of 32-bit issues in tools/testing/radix-tree.c - "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN arch-specific initialization code into a common arch-neutral implementation - "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes zspool - an indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing (zsmalloc) - "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from Pasha Tatashin makes a couple of cleanups in the fork code - "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand makes rather a lot of adjustments at various nth_page() callsites, eventually permitting the removal of that undesirable helper function - "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from Yeoreum Yun creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that architecture's memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode KASAN is suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only - "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation" from Kefeng Wang does some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code - "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer parameters" from Max Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API functions more accurate about the constness of their arguments. This was getting in the way of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they attempt to improving their own const/non-const accuracy - "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola fixes a number of code sites which were confused over when to use free_pages() vs __free_pages() - "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice Ryhl makes the mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau and by its forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver - "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test: split_pte_mapped_thp improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and some cleanups to the thp selftesting code - "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache (phase I)" from Chris Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the path to implementing "swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation and state tracking which is expected to yield speed and space improvements. This patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit in some situations - "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes the new memdesc layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from Chunyu Hu fixes some issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code - "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from Suren Baghdasaryan addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new memory allocation profiling feature - "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few cleanups in preparation for more memdesc work - "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" from Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in furtherance of supporting arm highmem - "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix warnings" from Muhammad Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code and fixes the fallout, by removing dead code - "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM Reaper Traversal Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements in the OOM killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim threads so they can release resources - "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18" from SeongJae Park is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON - "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization check function" from SeongJae Park implement reliability and maintainability improvements to a recently-added bug fix - "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and non-idle ages" from SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to userspace clients of the DAMON_STAT information - "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse" from Dev Jain removes some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of anon VMAs. It also increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against an anon vma - "mm: do not assume file == vma->vm_file in compat_vma_mmap_prepare()" from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards removal of file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon clearing up the treatment of stacked filesystems - "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from Kiryl Shutsemau provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking of large folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate - "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters during fork" from Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats inaccuracies across forks and adds selftest code to verify these counters - "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei Yang addresses some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's mm_slot handling * tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (372 commits) mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA mm: convert folio_page() back to a macro mm/khugepaged: use start_addr/addr for improved readability hugetlbfs: skip VMAs without shareable locks in hugetlb_vmdelete_list alloc_tag: fix boot failure due to NULL pointer dereference mm: silence data-race in update_hiwater_rss mm/memory-failure: don't select MEMORY_ISOLATION mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot mm/ksm: get mm_slot by mm_slot_entry() when slot is !NULL hugetlb: increase number of reserving hugepages via cmdline selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging_pages counter mm/ksm: fix incorrect KSM counter handling in mm_struct during fork drivers/base/node: fix double free in register_one_node() mm: remove PMD alignment constraint in execmem_vmalloc() mm/memory_hotplug: fix typo 'esecially' -> 'especially' mm/rmap: improve mlock tracking for large folios mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault() mm/rmap: mlock large folios in try_to_unmap_one() mm/rmap: fix a mlock race condition in folio_referenced_one() ...
2025-09-29Merge tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.async' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull vfs async directory updates from Christian Brauner: "This contains further preparatory changes for the asynchronous directory locking scheme: - Add lookup_one_positive_killable() which allows overlayfs to perform lookup that won't block on a fatal signal - Unify the mount idmap handling in struct renamedata as a rename can only happen within a single mount - Introduce kern_path_parent() for audit which sets the path to the parent and returns a dentry for the target without holding any locks on return - Rename kern_path_locked() as it is only used to prepare for the removal of an object from the filesystem: kern_path_locked() => start_removing_path() kern_path_create() => start_creating_path() user_path_create() => start_creating_user_path() user_path_locked_at() => start_removing_user_path_at() done_path_create() => end_creating_path() NA => end_removing_path()" * tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.async' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: debugfs: rename start_creating() to debugfs_start_creating() VFS: rename kern_path_locked() and related functions. VFS/audit: introduce kern_path_parent() for audit VFS: unify old_mnt_idmap and new_mnt_idmap in renamedata VFS: discard err2 in filename_create() VFS/ovl: add lookup_one_positive_killable()
2025-09-29Merge tag 'namespace-6.18-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull namespace updates from Christian Brauner: "This contains a larger set of changes around the generic namespace infrastructure of the kernel. Each specific namespace type (net, cgroup, mnt, ...) embedds a struct ns_common which carries the reference count of the namespace and so on. We open-coded and cargo-culted so many quirks for each namespace type that it just wasn't scalable anymore. So given there's a bunch of new changes coming in that area I've started cleaning all of this up. The core change is to make it possible to correctly initialize every namespace uniformly and derive the correct initialization settings from the type of the namespace such as namespace operations, namespace type and so on. This leaves the new ns_common_init() function with a single parameter which is the specific namespace type which derives the correct parameters statically. This also means the compiler will yell as soon as someone does something remotely fishy. The ns_common_init() addition also allows us to remove ns_alloc_inum() and drops any special-casing of the initial network namespace in the network namespace initialization code that Linus complained about. Another part is reworking the reference counting. The reference counting was open-coded and copy-pasted for each namespace type even though they all followed the same rules. This also removes all open accesses to the reference count and makes it private and only uses a very small set of dedicated helpers to manipulate them just like we do for e.g., files. In addition this generalizes the mount namespace iteration infrastructure introduced a few cycles ago. As reminder, the vfs makes it possible to iterate sequentially and bidirectionally through all mount namespaces on the system or all mount namespaces that the caller holds privilege over. This allow userspace to iterate over all mounts in all mount namespaces using the listmount() and statmount() system call. Each mount namespace has a unique identifier for the lifetime of the systems that is exposed to userspace. The network namespace also has a unique identifier working exactly the same way. This extends the concept to all other namespace types. The new nstree type makes it possible to lookup namespaces purely by their identifier and to walk the namespace list sequentially and bidirectionally for all namespace types, allowing userspace to iterate through all namespaces. Looking up namespaces in the namespace tree works completely locklessly. This also means we can move the mount namespace onto the generic infrastructure and remove a bunch of code and members from struct mnt_namespace itself. There's a bunch of stuff coming on top of this in the future but for now this uses the generic namespace tree to extend a concept introduced first for pidfs a few cycles ago. For a while now we have supported pidfs file handles for pidfds. This has proven to be very useful. This extends the concept to cover namespaces as well. It is possible to encode and decode namespace file handles using the common name_to_handle_at() and open_by_handle_at() apis. As with pidfs file handles, namespace file handles are exhaustive, meaning it is not required to actually hold a reference to nsfs in able to decode aka open_by_handle_at() a namespace file handle. Instead the FD_NSFS_ROOT constant can be passed which will let the kernel grab a reference to the root of nsfs internally and thus decode the file handle. Namespaces file descriptors can already be derived from pidfds which means they aren't subject to overmount protection bugs. IOW, it's irrelevant if the caller would not have access to an appropriate /proc/<pid>/ns/ directory as they could always just derive the namespace based on a pidfd already. It has the same advantage as pidfds. It's possible to reliably and for the lifetime of the system refer to a namespace without pinning any resources and to compare them trivially. Permission checking is kept simple. If the caller is located in the namespace the file handle refers to they are able to open it otherwise they must hold privilege over the owning namespace of the relevant namespace. The namespace file handle layout is exposed as uapi and has a stable and extensible format. For now it simply contains the namespace identifier, the namespace type, and the inode number. The stable format means that userspace may construct its own namespace file handles without going through name_to_handle_at() as they are already allowed for pidfs and cgroup file handles" * tag 'namespace-6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (65 commits) ns: drop assert ns: move ns type into struct ns_common nstree: make struct ns_tree private ns: add ns_debug() ns: simplify ns_common_init() further cgroup: add missing ns_common include ns: use inode initializer for initial namespaces selftests/namespaces: verify initial namespace inode numbers ns: rename to __ns_ref nsfs: port to ns_ref_*() helpers net: port to ns_ref_*() helpers uts: port to ns_ref_*() helpers ipv4: use check_net() net: use check_net() net-sysfs: use check_net() user: port to ns_ref_*() helpers time: port to ns_ref_*() helpers pid: port to ns_ref_*() helpers ipc: port to ns_ref_*() helpers cgroup: port to ns_ref_*() helpers ...
2025-09-29Merge tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.inode' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull vfs inode updates from Christian Brauner: "This contains a series I originally wrote and that Eric brought over the finish line. It moves out the i_crypt_info and i_verity_info pointers out of 'struct inode' and into the fs-specific part of the inode. So now the few filesytems that actually make use of this pay the price in their own private inode storage instead of forcing it upon every user of struct inode. The pointer for the crypt and verity info is simply found by storing an offset to its address in struct fsverity_operations and struct fscrypt_operations. This shrinks struct inode by 16 bytes. I hope to move a lot more out of it in the future so that struct inode becomes really just about very core stuff that we need, much like struct dentry and struct file, instead of the dumping ground it has become over the years. On top of this are a various changes associated with the ongoing inode lifetime handling rework that multiple people are pushing forward: - Stop accessing inode->i_count directly in f2fs and gfs2. They simply should use the __iget() and iput() helpers - Make the i_state flags an enum - Rework the iput() logic Currently, if we are the last iput, and we have the I_DIRTY_TIME bit set, we will grab a reference on the inode again and then mark it dirty and then redo the put. This is to make sure we delay the time update for as long as possible We can rework this logic to simply dec i_count if it is not 1, and if it is do the time update while still holding the i_count reference Then we can replace the atomic_dec_and_lock with locking the ->i_lock and doing atomic_dec_and_test, since we did the atomic_add_unless above - Add an icount_read() helper and convert everyone that accesses inode->i_count directly for this purpose to use the helper - Expand dump_inode() to dump more information about an inode helping in debugging - Add some might_sleep() annotations to iput() and associated helpers" * tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.inode' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: fs: add might_sleep() annotation to iput() and more fs: expand dump_inode() inode: fix whitespace issues fs: add an icount_read helper fs: rework iput logic fs: make the i_state flags an enum fs: stop accessing ->i_count directly in f2fs and gfs2 fsverity: check IS_VERITY() in fsverity_cleanup_inode() fs: remove inode::i_verity_info btrfs: move verity info pointer to fs-specific part of inode f2fs: move verity info pointer to fs-specific part of inode ext4: move verity info pointer to fs-specific part of inode fsverity: add support for info in fs-specific part of inode fs: remove inode::i_crypt_info ceph: move crypt info pointer to fs-specific part of inode ubifs: move crypt info pointer to fs-specific part of inode f2fs: move crypt info pointer to fs-specific part of inode ext4: move crypt info pointer to fs-specific part of inode fscrypt: add support for info in fs-specific part of inode fscrypt: replace raw loads of info pointer with helper function
2025-09-29Merge tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.mount' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull vfs mount updates from Christian Brauner: "This contains some work around mount api handling: - Output the warning message for mnt_too_revealing() triggered during fsmount() to the fscontext log. This makes it possible for the mount tool to output appropriate warnings on the command line. For example, with the newest fsopen()-based mount(8) from util-linux, the error messages now look like: # mount -t proc proc /tmp mount: /tmp: fsmount() failed: VFS: Mount too revealing. dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call. - Do not consume fscontext log entries when returning -EMSGSIZE Userspace generally expects APIs that return -EMSGSIZE to allow for them to adjust their buffer size and retry the operation. However, the fscontext log would previously clear the message even in the -EMSGSIZE case. Given that it is very cheap for us to check whether the buffer is too small before we remove the message from the ring buffer, let's just do that instead. - Drop an unused argument from do_remount()" * tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: vfs: fs/namespace.c: remove ms_flags argument from do_remount selftests/filesystems: add basic fscontext log tests fscontext: do not consume log entries when returning -EMSGSIZE vfs: output mount_too_revealing() errors to fscontext docs/vfs: Remove mentions to the old mount API helpers fscontext: add custom-prefix log helpers fs: Remove mount_bdev fs: Remove mount_nodev
2025-09-29Merge tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner: "This contains the usual selections of misc updates for this cycle. Features: - Add "initramfs_options" parameter to set initramfs mount options. This allows to add specific mount options to the rootfs to e.g., limit the memory size - Add RWF_NOSIGNAL flag for pwritev2() Add RWF_NOSIGNAL flag for pwritev2. This flag prevents the SIGPIPE signal from being raised when writing on disconnected pipes or sockets. The flag is handled directly by the pipe filesystem and converted to the existing MSG_NOSIGNAL flag for sockets - Allow to pass pid namespace as procfs mount option Ever since the introduction of pid namespaces, procfs has had very implicit behaviour surrounding them (the pidns used by a procfs mount is auto-selected based on the mounting process's active pidns, and the pidns itself is basically hidden once the mount has been constructed) This implicit behaviour has historically meant that userspace was required to do some special dances in order to configure the pidns of a procfs mount as desired. Examples include: * In order to bypass the mnt_too_revealing() check, Kubernetes creates a procfs mount from an empty pidns so that user namespaced containers can be nested (without this, the nested containers would fail to mount procfs) But this requires forking off a helper process because you cannot just one-shot this using mount(2) * Container runtimes in general need to fork into a container before configuring its mounts, which can lead to security issues in the case of shared-pidns containers (a privileged process in the pidns can interact with your container runtime process) While SUID_DUMP_DISABLE and user namespaces make this less of an issue, the strict need for this due to a minor uAPI wart is kind of unfortunate Things would be much easier if there was a way for userspace to just specify the pidns they want. So this pull request contains changes to implement a new "pidns" argument which can be set using fsconfig(2): fsconfig(procfd, FSCONFIG_SET_FD, "pidns", NULL, nsfd); fsconfig(procfd, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "pidns", "/proc/self/ns/pid", 0); or classic mount(2) / mount(8): // mount -t proc -o pidns=/proc/self/ns/pid proc /tmp/proc mount("proc", "/tmp/proc", "proc", MS_..., "pidns=/proc/self/ns/pid"); Cleanups: - Remove the last references to EXPORT_OP_ASYNC_LOCK - Make file_remove_privs_flags() static - Remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN when GFP_NOWAIT is used - Use try_cmpxchg() in start_dir_add() - Use try_cmpxchg() in sb_init_done_wq() - Replace offsetof() with struct_size() in ioctl_file_dedupe_range() - Remove vfs_ioctl() export - Replace rwlock() with spinlock in epoll code as rwlock causes priority inversion on preempt rt kernels - Make ns_entries in fs/proc/namespaces const - Use a switch() statement() in init_special_inode() just like we do in may_open() - Use struct_size() in dir_add() in the initramfs code - Use str_plural() in rd_load_image() - Replace strcpy() with strscpy() in find_link() - Rename generic_delete_inode() to inode_just_drop() and generic_drop_inode() to inode_generic_drop() - Remove unused arguments from fcntl_{g,s}et_rw_hint() Fixes: - Document @name parameter for name_contains_dotdot() helper - Fix spelling mistake - Always return zero from replace_fd() instead of the file descriptor number - Limit the size for copy_file_range() in compat mode to prevent a signed overflow - Fix debugfs mount options not being applied - Verify the inode mode when loading it from disk in minixfs - Verify the inode mode when loading it from disk in cramfs - Don't trigger automounts with RESOLVE_NO_XDEV If openat2() was called with RESOLVE_NO_XDEV it didn't traverse through automounts, but could still trigger them - Add FL_RECLAIM flag to show_fl_flags() macro so it appears in tracepoints - Fix unused variable warning in rd_load_image() on s390 - Make INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME depend on BLK_DEV_INITRD - Use ns_capable_noaudit() when determining net sysctl permissions - Don't call path_put() under namespace semaphore in listmount() and statmount()" * tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (38 commits) fcntl: trim arguments listmount: don't call path_put() under namespace semaphore statmount: don't call path_put() under namespace semaphore pid: use ns_capable_noaudit() when determining net sysctl permissions fs: rename generic_delete_inode() and generic_drop_inode() init: INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME should depend on BLK_DEV_INITRD initramfs: Replace strcpy() with strscpy() in find_link() initrd: Use str_plural() in rd_load_image() initramfs: Use struct_size() helper to improve dir_add() initrd: Fix unused variable warning in rd_load_image() on s390 fs: use the switch statement in init_special_inode() fs/proc/namespaces: make ns_entries const filelock: add FL_RECLAIM to show_fl_flags() macro eventpoll: Replace rwlock with spinlock selftests/proc: add tests for new pidns APIs procfs: add "pidns" mount option pidns: move is-ancestor logic to helper openat2: don't trigger automounts with RESOLVE_NO_XDEV namei: move cross-device check to __traverse_mounts namei: remove LOOKUP_NO_XDEV check from handle_mounts ...
2025-09-27Have cc(1) catch attempts to modify ->f_pathAl Viro
There are very few places that have cause to do that - all in core VFS now, and all done to files that are not yet opened (or visible to anybody else, for that matter). Let's turn f_path into a union of struct path __f_path and const struct path f_path. It's C, not C++ - 6.5.2.3[4] in C99 and later explicitly allows that kind of type-punning. That way any attempts to bypass these checks will be either very easy to catch, or (if the bastards get sufficiently creative to make it hard to spot with grep alone) very clearly malicious - and still catchable with a bit of instrumentation for sparse. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2025-09-27Merge branches 'work.path' and 'work.mount' into work.f_pathAl Viro
2025-09-23VFS: unify old_mnt_idmap and new_mnt_idmap in renamedataNeilBrown
A rename operation can only rename within a single mount. Callers of vfs_rename() must and do ensure this is the case. So there is no point in having two mnt_idmaps in renamedata as they are always the same. Only one of them is passed to ->rename in any case. This patch replaces both with a single "mnt_idmap" and changes all callers. Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-23fs: Create sb_same_encoding() helperAndré Almeida
For cases where a file lookup can look in different filesystems (like in overlayfs), both super blocks must have the same encoding and the same flags. To help with that, create a sb_same_encoding() function. Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com> Reviewed-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <gabriel@krisman.be> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
2025-09-23fs: Create sb_encoding() helperAndré Almeida
Filesystems that need to deal with the super block encoding need to use a if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_UNICODE) around it because this struct member is not declared otherwise. In order to move this if/endif guards outside of the filesytem code and make it simpler, create a new function that returns the s_encoding member of struct super_block if Unicode is enabled, and return NULL otherwise. Suggested-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com> Reviewed-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <gabriel@krisman.be> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
2025-09-22mm: do not assume file == vma->vm_file in compat_vma_mmap_prepare()Lorenzo Stoakes
In commit bb666b7c2707 ("mm: add mmap_prepare() compatibility layer for nested file systems") we introduced the ability for stacked drivers and file systems to correctly invoke the f_op->mmap_prepare() handler from an f_op->mmap() handler via a compatibility layer implemented in compat_vma_mmap_prepare(). This populates vm_area_desc fields according to those found in the (not yet fully initialised) VMA passed to f_op->mmap(). However this function implicitly assumes that the struct file which we are operating upon is equal to vma->vm_file. This is not a safe assumption in all cases. The only really sane situation in which this matters would be something like e.g. i915_gem_dmabuf_mmap() which invokes vfs_mmap() against obj->base.filp: ret = vfs_mmap(obj->base.filp, vma); if (ret) return ret; And then sets the VMA's file to this, should the mmap operation succeed: vma_set_file(vma, obj->base.filp); That is - it is the file that is intended to back the VMA mapping. This is not an issue currently, as so far we have only implemented f_op->mmap_prepare() handlers for some file systems and internal mm uses, and the only stacked f_op->mmap() operations that can be performed upon these are those in backing_file_mmap() and coda_file_mmap(), both of which use vma->vm_file. However, moving forward, as we convert drivers to using f_op->mmap_prepare(), this will become a problem. Resolve this issue by explicitly setting desc->file to the provided file parameter and update callers accordingly. Callers are expected to read desc->file and update desc->vm_file - the former will be the file provided by the caller (if stacked, this may differ from vma->vm_file). If the caller needs to differentiate between the two they therefore now can. While we are here, also provide a variant of compat_vma_mmap_prepare() that operates against a pointer to any file_operations struct and does not assume that the file_operations struct we are interested in is file->f_op. This function is __compat_vma_mmap_prepare() and we invoke it from compat_vma_mmap_prepare() so that we share code between the two functions. This is important, because some drivers provide hooks in a separate struct, for instance struct drm_device provides an fops field for this purpose. Also update the VMA selftests accordingly. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/dd0c72df8a33e8ffaa243eeb9b01010b670610e9.1756920635.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-21vfs: add ATTR_CTIME_SET flagJeff Layton
When ATTR_ATIME_SET and ATTR_MTIME_SET are set in the ia_valid mask, the notify_change() logic takes that to mean that the request should set those values explicitly, and not override them with "now". With the advent of delegated timestamps, similar functionality is needed for the ctime. Add a ATTR_CTIME_SET flag, and use that to indicate that the ctime should be accepted as-is. Also, clean up the if statements to eliminate the extra negatives. In setattr_copy() and setattr_copy_mgtime() use inode_set_ctime_deleg() when ATTR_CTIME_SET is set, instead of basing the decision on ATTR_DELEG. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
2025-09-21fs: constify mapping related test functions for improved const-correctnessMax Kellermann
We select certain test functions which either invoke each other, functions that are already const-ified, or no further functions. It is therefore relatively trivial to const-ify them, which provides a basis for further const-ification further up the call stack. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901205021.3573313-5-max.kellermann@ionos.com Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@ionos.com> Reviewed-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: James Bottomley <james.bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Jocelyn Falempe <jfalempe@redhat.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: "Nysal Jan K.A" <nysal@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Russel King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-17preparations to taking MNT_WRITE_HOLD out of ->mnt_flagsAl Viro
We have an unpleasant wart in accessibility rules for struct mount. There are per-superblock lists of mounts, used by sb_prepare_remount_readonly() to check if any of those is currently claimed for write access and to block further attempts to get write access on those until we are done. As soon as it is attached to a filesystem, mount becomes reachable via that list. Only sb_prepare_remount_readonly() traverses it and it only accesses a few members of struct mount. Unfortunately, ->mnt_flags is one of those and it is modified - MNT_WRITE_HOLD set and then cleared. It is done under mount_lock, so from the locking rules POV everything's fine. However, it has easily overlooked implications - once mount has been attached to a filesystem, it has to be treated as globally visible. In particular, initializing ->mnt_flags *must* be done either prior to that point or under mount_lock. All other members are still private at that point. Life gets simpler if we move that bit (and that's *all* that can get touched by access via this list) out of ->mnt_flags. It's not even hard to do - currently the list is implemented as list_head one, anchored in super_block->s_mounts and linked via mount->mnt_instance. As the first step, switch it to hlist-like open-coded structure - address of the first mount in the set is stored in ->s_mounts and ->mnt_instance replaced with ->mnt_next_for_sb and ->mnt_pprev_for_sb - the former either NULL or pointing to the next mount in set, the latter - address of either ->s_mounts or ->mnt_next_for_sb in the previous element of the set. In the next commit we'll steal the LSB of ->mnt_pprev_for_sb as replacement for MNT_WRITE_HOLD. Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2025-09-15backing_file_user_path(): constify struct path *Al Viro
Callers never use the resulting pointer to modify the struct path it points to (nor should they). Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2025-09-15generic_ci_validate_strict_name(): constify name argumentAl Viro
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2025-09-15fs: rename generic_delete_inode() and generic_drop_inode()Mateusz Guzik
generic_delete_inode() is rather misleading for what the routine is doing. inode_just_drop() should be much clearer. The new naming is inconsistent with generic_drop_inode(), so rename that one as well with inode_ as the suffix. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-15pidfs: validate extensible ioctlsChristian Brauner
Validate extensible ioctls stricter than we do now. Reviewed-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-01fs: remove vfs_ioctl exportGreg Kroah-Hartman
vfs_ioctl() is no longer called by anything outside of fs/ioctl.c, so remove the global symbol and export as it is not needed. Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/2025083038-carving-amuck-a4ae@gregkh Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-01fs: add an icount_read helperJosef Bacik
Instead of doing direct access to ->i_count, add a helper to handle this. This will make it easier to convert i_count to a refcount later. Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/9bc62a84c6b9d6337781203f60837bd98fbc4a96.1756222464.git.josef@toxicpanda.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-08-29Add RWF_NOSIGNAL flag for pwritev2Lauri Vasama
For a user mode library to avoid generating SIGPIPE signals (e.g. because this behaviour is not portable across operating systems) is cumbersome. It is generally bad form to change the process-wide signal mask in a library, so a local solution is needed instead. For I/O performed directly using system calls (synchronous or readiness based asynchronous) this currently involves applying a thread-specific signal mask before the operation and reverting it afterwards. This can be avoided when it is known that the file descriptor refers to neither a pipe nor a socket, but a conservative implementation must always apply the mask. This incurs the cost of two additional system calls. In the case of sockets, the existing MSG_NOSIGNAL flag can be used with send. For asynchronous I/O performed using io_uring, currently the only option (apart from MSG_NOSIGNAL for sockets), is to mask SIGPIPE entirely in the call to io_uring_enter. Thankfully io_uring_enter takes a signal mask, so only a single syscall is needed. However, copying the signal mask on every call incurs a non-zero performance penalty. Furthermore, this mask applies to all completions, meaning that if the non-signaling behaviour is desired only for some subset of operations, the desired signals must be raised manually from user-mode depending on the completed operation. Add RWF_NOSIGNAL flag for pwritev2. This flag prevents the SIGPIPE signal from being raised when writing on disconnected pipes or sockets. The flag is handled directly by the pipe filesystem and converted to the existing MSG_NOSIGNAL flag for sockets. Signed-off-by: Lauri Vasama <git@vasama.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250827133901.1820771-1-git@vasama.org Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-08-29fs: make the i_state flags an enumJosef Bacik
Adjusting i_state flags always means updating the values manually. Bring these forward into the 2020's and make a nice clean macro for defining the i_state values as an enum, providing __ variants for the cases where we need the bit position instead of the actual value, and leaving the actual NAME as the 1U << bit value. Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/0da9348da6ece0dce12fccec07b1dd2b8e4cfdab.1756222464.git.josef@toxicpanda.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-08-21fs: remove inode::i_verity_infoEric Biggers
Now that all fsverity-capable filesystems store the pointer to fsverity_info in the filesystem-specific part of the inode structure, inode::i_verity_info is no longer needed. Update fsverity_info_addr() to no longer support the fallback to inode::i_verity_info. Finally, remove inode::i_verity_info itself, and move the forward declaration of struct fsverity_info from fs.h (which no longer needs it) to fsverity.h. The end result of the migration to the filesystem-specific pointer is memory savings on CONFIG_FS_VERITY=y kernels for all filesystems that don't support fsverity. Specifically, their in-memory inodes are now smaller by the size of a pointer: either 4 or 8 bytes. Co-developed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250810075706.172910-13-ebiggers@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-08-21fs: remove inode::i_crypt_infoEric Biggers
Now that all fscrypt-capable filesystems store the pointer to fscrypt_inode_info in the filesystem-specific part of the inode structure, inode::i_crypt_info is no longer needed. Update fscrypt_inode_info_addr() to no longer support the fallback to inode::i_crypt_info. Finally, remove inode::i_crypt_info itself along with the now-unnecessary forward declaration of fscrypt_inode_info. The end result of the migration to the filesystem-specific pointer is memory savings on CONFIG_FS_ENCRYPTION=y kernels for all filesystems that don't support fscrypt. Specifically, their in-memory inodes are now smaller by the size of a pointer: either 4 or 8 bytes. Co-developed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250810075706.172910-8-ebiggers@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-08-20fs: add a FMODE_ flag to indicate IOCB_HAS_METADATA availabilityChristoph Hellwig
Currently the kernel will happily route io_uring requests with metadata to file operations that don't support it. Add a FMODE_ flag to guard that. Fixes: 4de2ce04c862 ("fs: introduce IOCB_HAS_METADATA for metadata") Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250819082517.2038819-2-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-08-11fs: Remove mount_bdevPedro Falcato
mount_bdev has no in-tree users ever since f2fs adopted the new mount API. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250723132156.225410-3-pfalcato@suse.de Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-08-11fs: Remove mount_nodevPedro Falcato
mount_nodev has had no in-tree users since cc0876f817d6 ("vfs: Convert devpts to use the new mount API"). Remove it. Signed-off-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250723132156.225410-2-pfalcato@suse.de Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-08-11fs: document 'name' parameter for name_contains_dotdot()Kriish Sharma
The kernel-doc for name_contains_dotdot() was missing the @name parameter description, leading to a warning during make htmldocs. Add the missing documentation to resolve this warning. Signed-off-by: Kriish Sharma <kriish.sharma2006@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250730201853.8436-1-kriish.sharma2006@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-08-11fs: mark file_remove_privs_flags staticChristoph Hellwig
file_remove_privs_flags is only used inside of inode.c, mark it static. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250724074854.3316911-1-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-07-31Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-07-30-15-25' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: "As usual, many cleanups. The below blurbiage describes 42 patchsets. 21 of those are partially or fully cleanup work. "cleans up", "cleanup", "maintainability", "rationalizes", etc. I never knew the MM code was so dirty. "mm: ksm: prevent KSM from breaking merging of new VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes) addresses an issue with KSM's PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE mode: newly mapped VMAs were not eligible for merging with existing adjacent VMAs. "mm/damon: introduce DAMON_STAT for simple and practical access monitoring" (SeongJae Park) adds a new kernel module which simplifies the setup and usage of DAMON in production environments. "stop passing a writeback_control to swap/shmem writeout" (Christoph Hellwig) is a cleanup to the writeback code which removes a couple of pointers from struct writeback_control. "drivers/base/node.c: optimization and cleanups" (Donet Tom) contains largely uncorrelated cleanups to the NUMA node setup and management code. "mm: userfaultfd: assorted fixes and cleanups" (Tal Zussman) does some maintenance work on the userfaultfd code. "Readahead tweaks for larger folios" (Ryan Roberts) implements some tuneups for pagecache readahead when it is reading into order>0 folios. "selftests/mm: Tweaks to the cow test" (Mark Brown) provides some cleanups and consistency improvements to the selftests code. "Optimize mremap() for large folios" (Dev Jain) does that. A 37% reduction in execution time was measured in a memset+mremap+munmap microbenchmark. "Remove zero_user()" (Matthew Wilcox) expunges zero_user() in favor of the more modern memzero_page(). "mm/huge_memory: vmf_insert_folio_*() and vmf_insert_pfn_pud() fixes" (David Hildenbrand) addresses some warts which David noticed in the huge page code. These were not known to be causing any issues at this time. "mm/damon: use alloc_migrate_target() for DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD" (SeongJae Park) provides some cleanup and consolidation work in DAMON. "use vm_flags_t consistently" (Lorenzo Stoakes) uses vm_flags_t in places where we were inappropriately using other types. "mm/memfd: Reserve hugetlb folios before allocation" (Vivek Kasireddy) increases the reliability of large page allocation in the memfd code. "mm: Remove pXX_devmap page table bit and pfn_t type" (Alistair Popple) removes several now-unneeded PFN_* flags. "mm/damon: decouple sysfs from core" (SeongJae Park) implememnts some cleanup and maintainability work in the DAMON sysfs layer. "madvise cleanup" (Lorenzo Stoakes) does quite a lot of cleanup/maintenance work in the madvise() code. "madvise anon_name cleanups" (Vlastimil Babka) provides additional cleanups on top or Lorenzo's effort. "Implement numa node notifier" (Oscar Salvador) creates a standalone notifier for NUMA node memory state changes. Previously these were lumped under the more general memory on/offline notifier. "Make MIGRATE_ISOLATE a standalone bit" (Zi Yan) cleans up the pageblock isolation code and fixes a potential issue which doesn't seem to cause any problems in practice. "selftests/damon: add python and drgn based DAMON sysfs functionality tests" (SeongJae Park) adds additional drgn- and python-based DAMON selftests which are more comprehensive than the existing selftest suite. "Misc rework on hugetlb faulting path" (Oscar Salvador) fixes a rather obscure deadlock in the hugetlb fault code and follows that fix with a series of cleanups. "cma: factor out allocation logic from __cma_declare_contiguous_nid" (Mike Rapoport) rationalizes and cleans up the highmem-specific code in the CMA allocator. "mm/migration: rework movable_ops page migration (part 1)" (David Hildenbrand) provides cleanups and future-preparedness to the migration code. "mm/damon: add trace events for auto-tuned monitoring intervals and DAMOS quota" (SeongJae Park) adds some tracepoints to some DAMON auto-tuning code. "mm/damon: fix misc bugs in DAMON modules" (SeongJae Park) does that. "mm/damon: misc cleanups" (SeongJae Park) also does what it claims. "mm: folio_pte_batch() improvements" (David Hildenbrand) cleans up the large folio PTE batching code. "mm/damon/vaddr: Allow interleaving in migrate_{hot,cold} actions" (SeongJae Park) facilitates dynamic alteration of DAMON's inter-node allocation policy. "Remove unmap_and_put_page()" (Vishal Moola) provides a couple of page->folio conversions. "mm: per-node proactive reclaim" (Davidlohr Bueso) implements a per-node control of proactive reclaim - beyond the current memcg-based implementation. "mm/damon: remove damon_callback" (SeongJae Park) replaces the damon_callback interface with a more general and powerful damon_call()+damos_walk() interface. "mm/mremap: permit mremap() move of multiple VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes) implements a number of mremap cleanups (of course) in preparation for adding new mremap() functionality: newly permit the remapping of multiple VMAs when the user is specifying MREMAP_FIXED. It still excludes some specialized situations where this cannot be performed reliably. "drop hugetlb_free_pgd_range()" (Anthony Yznaga) switches some sparc hugetlb code over to the generic version and removes the thus-unneeded hugetlb_free_pgd_range(). "mm/damon/sysfs: support periodic and automated stats update" (SeongJae Park) augments the present userspace-requested update of DAMON sysfs monitoring files. Automatic update is now provided, along with a tunable to control the update interval. "Some randome fixes and cleanups to swapfile" (Kemeng Shi) does what is claims. "mm: introduce snapshot_page" (Luiz Capitulino and David Hildenbrand) provides (and uses) a means by which debug-style functions can grab a copy of a pageframe and inspect it locklessly without tripping over the races inherent in operating on the live pageframe directly. "use per-vma locks for /proc/pid/maps reads" (Suren Baghdasaryan) addresses the large contention issues which can be triggered by reads from that procfs file. Latencies are reduced by more than half in some situations. The series also introduces several new selftests for the /proc/pid/maps interface. "__folio_split() clean up" (Zi Yan) cleans up __folio_split()! "Optimize mprotect() for large folios" (Dev Jain) provides some quite large (>3x) speedups to mprotect() when dealing with large folios. "selftests/mm: reuse FORCE_READ to replace "asm volatile("" : "+r" (XXX));" and some cleanup" (wang lian) does some cleanup work in the selftests code. "tools/testing: expand mremap testing" (Lorenzo Stoakes) extends the mremap() selftest in several ways, including adding more checking of Lorenzo's recently added "permit mremap() move of multiple VMAs" feature. "selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test all parameters" (SeongJae Park) extends the DAMON sysfs interface selftest so that it tests all possible user-requested parameters. Rather than the present minimal subset" * tag 'mm-stable-2025-07-30-15-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (370 commits) MAINTAINERS: add missing headers to mempory policy & migration section MAINTAINERS: add missing file to cgroup section MAINTAINERS: add MM MISC section, add missing files to MISC and CORE MAINTAINERS: add missing zsmalloc file MAINTAINERS: add missing files to page alloc section MAINTAINERS: add missing shrinker files MAINTAINERS: move memremap.[ch] to hotplug section MAINTAINERS: add missing mm_slot.h file THP section MAINTAINERS: add missing interval_tree.c to memory mapping section MAINTAINERS: add missing percpu-internal.h file to per-cpu section mm/page_alloc: remove trace_mm_alloc_contig_migrate_range_info() selftests/damon: introduce _common.sh to host shared function selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test runtime reduction of DAMON parameters selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test non-default parameters runtime commit selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMON context commit assertion selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize monitoring attributes commit assertion selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS schemes commit assertion selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS filters commitment selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS scheme commit assertion selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS destinations commitment ...
2025-07-31Merge tag 'fsnotify_for_v6.17-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs Pull fsnotify updates from Jan Kara: "A couple of small improvements for fsnotify subsystem. The most interesting is probably Amir's change modifying the meaning of fsnotify fmode bits (and I spell it out specifically because I know you care about those). There's no change for the common cases of no fsnotify watches or no permission event watches. But when there are permission watches (either for open or for pre-content events) but no FAN_ACCESS_PERM watch (which nobody uses in practice) we are now able optimize away unnecessary cache loads from the read path" * tag 'fsnotify_for_v6.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs: fsnotify: optimize FMODE_NONOTIFY_PERM for the common cases fsnotify: merge file_set_fsnotify_mode_from_watchers() with open perm hook samples: fix building fs-monitor on musl systems fanotify: sanitize handle_type values when reporting fid
2025-07-28Merge tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.super' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull superblock callback update from Christian Brauner: "Currently all filesystems which implement super_operations::shutdown() can not afford losing a device. Thus fs_bdev_mark_dead() will just call the ->shutdown() callback for the involved filesystem. But it will no longer be the case, as multi-device filesystems like btrfs can handle certain device loss without the need to shutdown the whole filesystem. To allow those multi-device filesystems to be integrated to use fs_holder_ops: - Add a new super_operations::remove_bdev() callback - Try ->remove_bdev() callback first inside fs_bdev_mark_dead(). If the callback returned 0, meaning the fs can handling the device loss, then exit without doing anything else. If there is no such callback or the callback returned non-zero value, continue to shutdown the filesystem as usual. This means the new remove_bdev() should only do the check on whether the operation can continue, and if so do the fs specific handlings. The shutdown handling should still be handled by the existing ->shutdown() callback. For all existing filesystems with shutdown callback, there is no change to the code nor behavior. Btrfs is going to implement both the ->remove_bdev() and ->shutdown() callbacks soon" * tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: fs: add a new remove_bdev() callback
2025-07-28Merge tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.fileattr' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull fileattr updates from Christian Brauner: "This introduces the new file_getattr() and file_setattr() system calls after lengthy discussions. Both system calls serve as successors and extensible companions to the FS_IOC_FSGETXATTR and FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR system calls which have started to show their age in addition to being named in a way that makes it easy to conflate them with extended attribute related operations. These syscalls allow userspace to set filesystem inode attributes on special files. One of the usage examples is the XFS quota projects. XFS has project quotas which could be attached to a directory. All new inodes in these directories inherit project ID set on parent directory. The project is created from userspace by opening and calling FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR on each inode. This is not possible for special files such as FIFO, SOCK, BLK etc. Therefore, some inodes are left with empty project ID. Those inodes then are not shown in the quota accounting but still exist in the directory. This is not critical but in the case when special files are created in the directory with already existing project quota, these new inodes inherit extended attributes. This creates a mix of special files with and without attributes. Moreover, special files with attributes don't have a possibility to become clear or change the attributes. This, in turn, prevents userspace from re-creating quota project on these existing files. In addition, these new system calls allow the implementation of additional attributes that we couldn't or didn't want to fit into the legacy ioctls anymore" * tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.fileattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: fs: tighten a sanity check in file_attr_to_fileattr() tree-wide: s/struct fileattr/struct file_kattr/g fs: introduce file_getattr and file_setattr syscalls fs: prepare for extending file_get/setattr() fs: make vfs_fileattr_[get|set] return -EOPNOTSUPP selinux: implement inode_file_[g|s]etattr hooks lsm: introduce new hooks for setting/getting inode fsxattr fs: split fileattr related helpers into separate file
2025-07-28Merge tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.mmap_prepare' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull mmap_prepare updates from Christian Brauner: "Last cycle we introduce f_op->mmap_prepare() in c84bf6dd2b83 ("mm: introduce new .mmap_prepare() file callback"). This is preferred to the existing f_op->mmap() hook as it does require a VMA to be established yet, thus allowing the mmap logic to invoke this hook far, far earlier, prior to inserting a VMA into the virtual address space, or performing any other heavy handed operations. This allows for much simpler unwinding on error, and for there to be a single attempt at merging a VMA rather than having to possibly reattempt a merge based on potentially altered VMA state. Far more importantly, it prevents inappropriate manipulation of incompletely initialised VMA state, which is something that has been the cause of bugs and complexity in the past. The intent is to gradually deprecate f_op->mmap, and in that vein this series coverts the majority of file systems to using f_op->mmap_prepare. Prerequisite steps are taken - firstly ensuring all checks for mmap capabilities use the file_has_valid_mmap_hooks() helper rather than directly checking for f_op->mmap (which is now not a valid check) and secondly updating daxdev_mapping_supported() to not require a VMA parameter to allow ext4 and xfs to be converted. Commit bb666b7c2707 ("mm: add mmap_prepare() compatibility layer for nested file systems") handles the nasty edge-case of nested file systems like overlayfs, which introduces a compatibility shim to allow f_op->mmap_prepare() to be invoked from an f_op->mmap() callback. This allows for nested filesystems to continue to function correctly with all file systems regardless of which callback is used. Once we finally convert all file systems, this shim can be removed. As a result, ecryptfs, fuse, and overlayfs remain unaltered so they can nest all other file systems. We additionally do not update resctl - as this requires an update to remap_pfn_range() (or an alternative to it) which we defer to a later series, equally we do not update cramfs which needs a mixed mapping insertion with the same issue, nor do we update procfs, hugetlbfs, syfs or kernfs all of which require VMAs for internal state and hooks. We shall return to all of these later" * tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.mmap_prepare' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: doc: update porting, vfs documentation to describe mmap_prepare() fs: replace mmap hook with .mmap_prepare for simple mappings fs: convert most other generic_file_*mmap() users to .mmap_prepare() fs: convert simple use of generic_file_*_mmap() to .mmap_prepare() mm/filemap: introduce generic_file_*_mmap_prepare() helpers fs/xfs: transition from deprecated .mmap hook to .mmap_prepare fs/ext4: transition from deprecated .mmap hook to .mmap_prepare fs/dax: make it possible to check dev dax support without a VMA fs: consistently use can_mmap_file() helper mm/nommu: use file_has_valid_mmap_hooks() helper mm: rename call_mmap/mmap_prepare to vfs_mmap/mmap_prepare
2025-07-28Merge tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.ovl' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull overlayfs updates from Christian Brauner: "This contains overlayfs updates for this cycle. The changes for overlayfs in here are primarily focussed on preparing for some proposed changes to directory locking. Overlayfs currently will sometimes lock a directory on the upper filesystem and do a few different things while holding the lock. This is incompatible with the new potential scheme. This series narrows the region of code protected by the directory lock, taking it multiple times when necessary. This theoretically opens up the possibilty of other changes happening on the upper filesytem between the unlock and the lock. To some extent the patches guard against that by checking the dentries still have the expect parent after retaking the lock. In general, concurrent changes to the upper and lower filesystems aren't supported properly anyway" * tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.ovl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (25 commits) ovl: properly print correct variable ovl: rename ovl_cleanup_unlocked() to ovl_cleanup() ovl: change ovl_create_real() to receive dentry parent ovl: narrow locking in ovl_check_rename_whiteout() ovl: narrow locking in ovl_whiteout() ovl: change ovl_cleanup_and_whiteout() to take rename lock as needed ovl: narrow locking on ovl_remove_and_whiteout() ovl: change ovl_workdir_cleanup() to take dir lock as needed. ovl: narrow locking in ovl_workdir_cleanup_recurse() ovl: narrow locking in ovl_indexdir_cleanup() ovl: narrow locking in ovl_workdir_create() ovl: narrow locking in ovl_cleanup_index() ovl: narrow locking in ovl_cleanup_whiteouts() ovl: narrow locking in ovl_rename() ovl: simplify gotos in ovl_rename() ovl: narrow locking in ovl_create_over_whiteout() ovl: narrow locking in ovl_clear_empty() ovl: narrow locking in ovl_create_upper() ovl: narrow the locked region in ovl_copy_up_workdir() ovl: Call ovl_create_temp() without lock held. ...
2025-07-28Merge tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.coredump' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull coredump updates from Christian Brauner: "This contains an extension to the coredump socket and a proper rework of the coredump code. - This extends the coredump socket to allow the coredump server to tell the kernel how to process individual coredumps. This allows for fine-grained coredump management. Userspace can decide to just let the kernel write out the coredump, or generate the coredump itself, or just reject it. * COREDUMP_KERNEL The kernel will write the coredump data to the socket. * COREDUMP_USERSPACE The kernel will not write coredump data but will indicate to the parent that a coredump has been generated. This is used when userspace generates its own coredumps. * COREDUMP_REJECT The kernel will skip generating a coredump for this task. * COREDUMP_WAIT The kernel will prevent the task from exiting until the coredump server has shutdown the socket connection. The flexible coredump socket can be enabled by using the "@@" prefix instead of the single "@" prefix for the regular coredump socket: @@/run/systemd/coredump.socket - Cleanup the coredump code properly while we have to touch it anyway. Split out each coredump mode in a separate helper so it's easy to grasp what is going on and make the code easier to follow. The core coredump function should now be very trivial to follow" * tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.coredump' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (31 commits) cleanup: add a scoped version of CLASS() coredump: add coredump_skip() helper coredump: avoid pointless variable coredump: order auto cleanup variables at the top coredump: add coredump_cleanup() coredump: auto cleanup prepare_creds() cred: add auto cleanup method coredump: directly return coredump: auto cleanup argv coredump: add coredump_write() coredump: use a single helper for the socket coredump: move pipe specific file check into coredump_pipe() coredump: split pipe coredumping into coredump_pipe() coredump: move core_pipe_count to global variable coredump: prepare to simplify exit paths coredump: split file coredumping into coredump_file() coredump: rename do_coredump() to vfs_coredump() selftests/coredump: make sure invalid paths are rejected coredump: validate socket path in coredump_parse() coredump: don't allow ".." in coredump socket path ...
2025-07-28Merge tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull misc VFS updates from Christian Brauner: "This contains the usual selections of misc updates for this cycle. Features: - Add ext4 IOCB_DONTCACHE support This refactors the address_space_operations write_begin() and write_end() callbacks to take const struct kiocb * as their first argument, allowing IOCB flags such as IOCB_DONTCACHE to propagate to the filesystem's buffered I/O path. Ext4 is updated to implement handling of the IOCB_DONTCACHE flag and advertises support via the FOP_DONTCACHE file operation flag. Additionally, the i915 driver's shmem write paths are updated to bypass the legacy write_begin/write_end interface in favor of directly calling write_iter() with a constructed synchronous kiocb. Another i915 change replaces a manual write loop with kernel_write() during GEM shmem object creation. Cleanups: - don't duplicate vfs_open() in kernel_file_open() - proc_fd_getattr(): don't bother with S_ISDIR() check - fs/ecryptfs: replace snprintf with sysfs_emit in show function - vfs: Remove unnecessary list_for_each_entry_safe() from evict_inodes() - filelock: add new locks_wake_up_waiter() helper - fs: Remove three arguments from block_write_end() - VFS: change old_dir and new_dir in struct renamedata to dentrys - netfs: Remove unused declaration netfs_queue_write_request() Fixes: - eventpoll: Fix semi-unbounded recursion - eventpoll: fix sphinx documentation build warning - fs/read_write: Fix spelling typo - fs: annotate data race between poll_schedule_timeout() and pollwake() - fs/pipe: set FMODE_NOWAIT in create_pipe_files() - docs/vfs: update references to i_mutex to i_rwsem - fs/buffer: remove comment about hard sectorsize - fs/buffer: remove the min and max limit checks in __getblk_slow() - fs/libfs: don't assume blocksize <= PAGE_SIZE in generic_check_addressable - fs_context: fix parameter name in infofc() macro - fs: Prevent file descriptor table allocations exceeding INT_MAX" * tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (24 commits) netfs: Remove unused declaration netfs_queue_write_request() eventpoll: fix sphinx documentation build warning ext4: support uncached buffered I/O mm/pagemap: add write_begin_get_folio() helper function fs: change write_begin/write_end interface to take struct kiocb * drm/i915: Refactor shmem_pwrite() to use kiocb and write_iter drm/i915: Use kernel_write() in shmem object create eventpoll: Fix semi-unbounded recursion vfs: Remove unnecessary list_for_each_entry_safe() from evict_inodes() fs/libfs: don't assume blocksize <= PAGE_SIZE in generic_check_addressable fs/buffer: remove the min and max limit checks in __getblk_slow() fs: Prevent file descriptor table allocations exceeding INT_MAX fs: Remove three arguments from block_write_end() fs/ecryptfs: replace snprintf with sysfs_emit in show function fs: annotate suspected data race between poll_schedule_timeout() and pollwake() docs/vfs: update references to i_mutex to i_rwsem fs/buffer: remove comment about hard sectorsize fs_context: fix parameter name in infofc() macro VFS: change old_dir and new_dir in struct renamedata to dentrys proc_fd_getattr(): don't bother with S_ISDIR() check ...
2025-07-28Merge tag 'pull-rpc_pipefs' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull rpc_pipefs updates from Al Viro: "Massage rpc_pipefs to use saner primitives and clean up the APIs provided to the rest of the kernel" * tag 'pull-rpc_pipefs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: rpc_create_client_dir(): return 0 or -E... rpc_create_client_dir(): don't bother with rpc_populate() rpc_new_dir(): the last argument is always NULL rpc_pipe: expand the calls of rpc_mkdir_populate() rpc_gssd_dummy_populate(): don't bother with rpc_populate() rpc_mkpipe_dentry(): switch to simple_start_creating() rpc_pipe: saner primitive for creating regular files rpc_pipe: saner primitive for creating subdirectories rpc_pipe: don't overdo directory locking rpc_mkpipe_dentry(): saner calling conventions rpc_unlink(): saner calling conventions rpc_populate(): lift cleanup into callers rpc_unlink(): use simple_recursive_removal() rpc_{rmdir_,}depopulate(): use simple_recursive_removal() instead rpc_pipe: clean failure exits in fill_super new helper: simple_start_creating()
2025-07-28Merge tag 'pull-simple_recursive_removal' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull simple_recursive_removal() update from Al Viro: "Removing subtrees of kernel filesystems is done in quite a few places; unfortunately, it's easy to get wrong. A number of open-coded attempts are out there, with varying amount of bogosities. simple_recursive_removal() had been introduced for doing that with all precautions needed; it does an equivalent of rm -rf, with sufficient locking, eviction of anything mounted on top of the subtree, etc. This series converts a bunch of open-coded instances to using that" * tag 'pull-simple_recursive_removal' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: functionfs, gadgetfs: use simple_recursive_removal() kill binderfs_remove_file() fuse_ctl: use simple_recursive_removal() pstore: switch to locked_recursive_removal() binfmt_misc: switch to locked_recursive_removal() spufs: switch to locked_recursive_removal() add locked_recursive_removal() better lockdep annotations for simple_recursive_removal() simple_recursive_removal(): saner interaction with fsnotify
2025-07-28Merge tag 'pull-dcache' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull dentry d_flags updates from Al Viro: "The current exclusion rules for dentry->d_flags stores are rather unpleasant. The basic rules are simple: - stores to dentry->d_flags are OK under dentry->d_lock - stores to dentry->d_flags are OK in the dentry constructor, before becomes potentially visible to other threads Unfortunately, there's a couple of exceptions to that, and that's where the headache comes from. The main PITA comes from d_set_d_op(); that primitive sets ->d_op of dentry and adjusts the flags that correspond to presence of individual methods. It's very easy to misuse; existing uses _are_ safe, but proof of correctness is brittle. Use in __d_alloc() is safe (we are within a constructor), but we might as well precalculate the initial value of 'd_flags' when we set the default ->d_op for given superblock and set 'd_flags' directly instead of messing with that helper. The reasons why other uses are safe are bloody convoluted; I'm not going to reproduce it here. See [1] for gory details, if you care. The critical part is using d_set_d_op() only just prior to d_splice_alias(), which makes a combination of d_splice_alias() with setting ->d_op, etc a natural replacement primitive. Better yet, if we go that way, it's easy to take setting ->d_op and modifying 'd_flags' under ->d_lock, which eliminates the headache as far as 'd_flags' exclusion rules are concerned. Other exceptions are minor and easy to deal with. What this series does: - d_set_d_op() is no longer available; instead a new primitive (d_splice_alias_ops()) is provided, equivalent to combination of d_set_d_op() and d_splice_alias(). - new field of struct super_block - 's_d_flags'. This sets the default value of 'd_flags' to be used when allocating dentries on this filesystem. - new primitive for setting 's_d_op': set_default_d_op(). This replaces stores to 's_d_op' at mount time. All in-tree filesystems converted; out-of-tree ones will get caught by the compiler ('s_d_op' is renamed, so stores to it will be caught). 's_d_flags' is set by the same primitive to match the 's_d_op'. - a lot of filesystems had sb->s_d_op->d_delete equal to always_delete_dentry; that is equivalent to setting DCACHE_DONTCACHE in 'd_flags', so such filesystems can bloody well set that bit in 's_d_flags' and drop 'd_delete()' from dentry_operations. In quite a few cases that results in empty dentry_operations, which means that we can get rid of those. - kill simple_dentry_operations - not needed anymore - massage d_alloc_parallel() to get rid of the other exception wrt 'd_flags' stores - we can set DCACHE_PAR_LOOKUP as soon as we allocate the new dentry; no need to delay that until we commit to using the sucker. As the result, 'd_flags' stores are all either under ->d_lock or done before the dentry becomes visible in any shared data structures" Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250224010624.GT1977892@ZenIV/ [1] * tag 'pull-dcache' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (21 commits) configfs: use DCACHE_DONTCACHE debugfs: use DCACHE_DONTCACHE efivarfs: use DCACHE_DONTCACHE instead of always_delete_dentry() 9p: don't bother with always_delete_dentry ramfs, hugetlbfs, mqueue: set DCACHE_DONTCACHE kill simple_dentry_operations devpts, sunrpc, hostfs: don't bother with ->d_op shmem: no dentry retention past the refcount reaching zero d_alloc_parallel(): set DCACHE_PAR_LOOKUP earlier make d_set_d_op() static simple_lookup(): just set DCACHE_DONTCACHE tracefs: Add d_delete to remove negative dentries set_default_d_op(): calculate the matching value for ->d_flags correct the set of flags forbidden at d_set_d_op() time split d_flags calculation out of d_set_d_op() new helper: set_default_d_op() fuse: no need for special dentry_operations for root dentry switch procfs from d_set_d_op() to d_splice_alias_ops() new helper: d_splice_alias_ops() procfs: kill ->proc_dops ...
2025-07-28fsnotify: optimize FMODE_NONOTIFY_PERM for the common casesAmir Goldstein
The most unlikely watched permission event is FAN_ACCESS_PERM, because at the time that it was introduced there were no evictable ignore mark, so subscribing to FAN_ACCESS_PERM would have incured a very high overhead. Yet, when we set the fmode to FMODE_NOTIFY_HSM(), we never skip trying to send FAN_ACCESS_PERM, which is almost always a waste of cycles. We got to this logic because of bundling FAN_OPEN*_PERM and FAN_ACCESS_PERM in the same category and because FAN_OPEN_PERM is a commonly used event. By open coding fsnotify_open_perm() in fsnotify_open_perm_and_set_mode(), we no longer need to regard FAN_OPEN*_PERM when calculating fmode. This leaves the case of having pre-content events and not having any other permission event in the object masks a more likely case than the other way around. Rework the fmode macros and code so that their meaning now refers only to hooks on an already open file: - FMODE_NOTIFY_NONE() skip all events - FMODE_NOTIFY_ACCESS_PERM() send all permission events including FAN_ACCESS_PERM - FMODE_NOTIFY_HSM() send pre-content permission events Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250708143641.418603-3-amir73il@gmail.com
2025-07-18fs: constify file ptr in backing_file accessor helpersAmir Goldstein
Add internal helper backing_file_set_user_path() for the only two cases that need to modify backing_file fields. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250607115304.2521155-2-amir73il@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-07-16fs: change write_begin/write_end interface to take struct kiocb *Taotao Chen
Change the address_space_operations callbacks write_begin() and write_end() to take struct kiocb * as the first argument instead of struct file *. Update all affected function prototypes, implementations, call sites, and related documentation across VFS, filesystems, and block layer. Part of a series refactoring address_space_operations write_begin and write_end callbacks to use struct kiocb for passing write context and flags. Signed-off-by: Taotao Chen <chentaotao@didiglobal.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250716093559.217344-4-chentaotao@didiglobal.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-07-15fs: add a new remove_bdev() callbackQu Wenruo
Currently all filesystems which implement super_operations::shutdown() can not afford losing a device. Thus fs_bdev_mark_dead() will just call the ->shutdown() callback for the involved filesystem. But it will no longer be the case, as multi-device filesystems like btrfs and bcachefs can handle certain device loss without the need to shutdown the whole filesystem. To allow those multi-device filesystems to be integrated to use fs_holder_ops: - Add a new super_operations::remove_bdev() callback - Try ->remove_bdev() callback first inside fs_bdev_mark_dead() If the callback returned 0, meaning the fs can handling the device loss, then exit without doing anything else. If there is no such callback or the callback returned non-zero value, continue to shutdown the filesystem as usual. This means the new remove_bdev() should only do the check on whether the operation can continue, and if so do the fs specific handlings. The shutdown handling should still be handled by the existing ->shutdown() callback. For all existing filesystems with shutdown callback, there is no change to the code nor behavior. Btrfs is going to implement both the ->remove_bdev() and ->shutdown() callbacks soon. Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/09909fcff7f2763cc037fec97ac2482bdc0a12cb.1752470276.git.wqu@suse.com Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>