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2025-11-12fs: speed up path lookup with cheaper handling of MAY_EXECMateusz Guzik
The generic inode_permission() routine does work which is known to be of no significance for lookup. There are checks for MAY_WRITE, while the requested permission is MAY_EXEC. Additionally devcgroup_inode_permission() is called to check for devices, but it is an invariant the inode is a directory. Absent a ->permission func, execution lands in generic_permission() which checks upfront if the requested permission is granted for everyone. We can elide the branches which are guaranteed to be false and cut straight to the check if everyone happens to be allowed MAY_EXEC on the inode (which holds true most of the time). Moreover, filesystems which provide their own ->permission routine can take advantage of the optimization by setting the IOP_FASTPERM_MAY_EXEC flag on their inodes, which they can legitimately do if their MAY_EXEC handling matches generic_permission(). As a simple benchmark, as part of compilation gcc issues access(2) on numerous long paths, for example /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/12/crtendS.o Issuing access(2) on it in a loop on ext4 on Sapphire Rapids (ops/s): before: 3797556 after: 3987789 (+5%) Note: this depends on the not-yet-landed ext4 patch to mark inodes with cache_no_acl() Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251107142149.989998-2-mjguzik@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-12fs: add iput_not_last()Mateusz Guzik
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251105212025.807549-1-mjguzik@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-12power: always freeze efivarfsChristian Brauner
The efivarfs filesystems must always be frozen and thawed to resync variable state. Make it so. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251105-vorbild-zutreffen-fe00d1dd98db@brauner Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-12vfs: make vfs_symlink break delegations on parent dirJeff Layton
In order to add directory delegation support, we must break delegations on the parent on any change to the directory. Add a delegated_inode parameter to vfs_symlink() and have it break the delegation. do_symlinkat() can then wait on the delegation break before proceeding. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251111-dir-deleg-ro-v6-12-52f3feebb2f2@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-12vfs: make vfs_mknod break delegations on parent directoryJeff Layton
In order to add directory delegation support, we need to break delegations on the parent whenever there is going to be a change in the directory. Add a new delegated_inode pointer to vfs_mknod() and have the appropriate callers wait when there is an outstanding delegation. All other callers just set the pointer to NULL. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251111-dir-deleg-ro-v6-11-52f3feebb2f2@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-12vfs: make vfs_create break delegations on parent directoryJeff Layton
In order to add directory delegation support, we need to break delegations on the parent whenever there is going to be a change in the directory. Add a delegated_inode parameter to vfs_create. Most callers are converted to pass in NULL, but do_mknodat() is changed to wait for a delegation break if there is one. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251111-dir-deleg-ro-v6-10-52f3feebb2f2@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-12vfs: clean up argument list for vfs_create()Jeff Layton
As Neil points out: "I would be in favour of dropping the "dir" arg because it is always d_inode(dentry->d_parent) which is stable." ...and... "Also *every* caller of vfs_create() passes ".excl = true". So maybe we don't need that arg at all." Drop both arguments from vfs_create() and fix up the callers. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251111-dir-deleg-ro-v6-9-52f3feebb2f2@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-12vfs: allow rmdir to wait for delegation break on parentJeff Layton
In order to add directory delegation support, we need to break delegations on the parent whenever there is going to be a change in the directory. Add a delegated_inode struct to vfs_rmdir() and populate that pointer with the parent inode if it's non-NULL. Most existing in-kernel callers pass in a NULL pointer. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251111-dir-deleg-ro-v6-7-52f3feebb2f2@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-12vfs: allow mkdir to wait for delegation break on parentJeff Layton
In order to add directory delegation support, we need to break delegations on the parent whenever there is going to be a change in the directory. Add a new delegated_inode parameter to vfs_mkdir. All of the existing callers set that to NULL for now, except for do_mkdirat which will properly block until the lease is gone. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251111-dir-deleg-ro-v6-6-52f3feebb2f2@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-12filelock: add struct delegated_inodeJeff Layton
The current API requires a pointer to an inode pointer. It's easy for callers to get this wrong. Add a new delegated_inode structure and use that to pass back any inode that needs to be waited on. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251111-dir-deleg-ro-v6-3-52f3feebb2f2@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-11fs: move inode fields used during fast path lookup closer togetherMateusz Guzik
This should avoid *some* cache misses. Successful path lookup is guaranteed to load at least ->i_mode, ->i_opflags and ->i_acl. At the same time the common case will avoid looking at more fields. struct inode is not guaranteed to have any particular alignment, notably ext4 has it only aligned to 8 bytes meaning nearby fields might happen to be on the same or only adjacent cache lines depending on luck (or no luck). According to pahole: umode_t i_mode; /* 0 2 */ short unsigned int i_opflags; /* 2 2 */ kuid_t i_uid; /* 4 4 */ kgid_t i_gid; /* 8 4 */ unsigned int i_flags; /* 12 4 */ struct posix_acl * i_acl; /* 16 8 */ struct posix_acl * i_default_acl; /* 24 8 */ ->i_acl is unnecessarily separated by 8 bytes from the other fields. With struct inode being offset 48 bytes into the cacheline this means an avoidable miss. Note it will still be there for the 56 byte case. New layout: umode_t i_mode; /* 0 2 */ short unsigned int i_opflags; /* 2 2 */ unsigned int i_flags; /* 4 4 */ struct posix_acl * i_acl; /* 8 8 */ struct posix_acl * i_default_acl; /* 16 8 */ kuid_t i_uid; /* 24 4 */ kgid_t i_gid; /* 28 4 */ I verified with pahole there are no size or hole changes. This is stopgap until someone(tm) sanitizes the layout in the first place, allocation methods aside. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251109121931.1285366-1-mjguzik@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-05fs: inline current_umask() and move it to fs_struct.hMateusz Guzik
There is no good reason to have this as a func call, other than avoiding the churn of adding fs_struct.h as needed. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251104170448.630414-1-mjguzik@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-05fs: add fs/super.h headerChristian Brauner
Split out super block associated functions into a separate header. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251104-work-fs-header-v1-3-fb39a2efe39e@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-05fs: add fs/super_types.h headerChristian Brauner
Split out super block associated structures into a separate header. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251104-work-fs-header-v1-2-fb39a2efe39e@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-05block: add __must_check attribute to sb_min_blocksize()Yongpeng Yang
When sb_min_blocksize() returns 0 and the return value is not checked, it may lead to a situation where sb->s_blocksize is 0 when accessing the filesystem super block. After commit a64e5a596067bd ("bdev: add back PAGE_SIZE block size validation for sb_set_blocksize()"), this becomes more likely to happen when the block device’s logical_block_size is larger than PAGE_SIZE and the filesystem is unformatted. Add the __must_check attribute to ensure callers always check the return value. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.15 Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Yongpeng Yang <yangyongpeng@xiaomi.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251104125009.2111925-6-yangyongpeng.storage@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-05fs: rename fs_types.h to fs_dirent.hChristian Brauner
We will split out a bunch of types into a separate header. So free up the appropriate name for it. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251104-work-fs-header-v1-1-fb39a2efe39e@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-10-29writeback: allow the file system to override MIN_WRITEBACK_PAGESChristoph Hellwig
The relatively low minimal writeback size of 4MiB means that written back inodes on rotational media are switched a lot. Besides introducing additional seeks, this also can lead to extreme file fragmentation on zoned devices when a lot of files are cached relative to the available writeback bandwidth. Add a superblock field that allows the file system to override the default size. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251017034611.651385-3-hch@lst.de Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-10-29mm: rename filemap_fdatawrite_range_kick to filemap_flush_rangeChristoph Hellwig
Rename filemap_fdatawrite_range_kick to filemap_flush_range because it is the ranged version of filemap_flush. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251024080431.324236-11-hch@lst.de Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-10-20fs: make plain ->i_state access fail to compileMateusz Guzik
... to make sure all accesses are properly validated. Merely renaming the var to __i_state still lets the compiler make the following suggestion: error: 'struct inode' has no member named 'i_state'; did you mean '__i_state'? Unfortunately some people will add the __'s and call it a day. In order to make it harder to mess up in this way, hide it behind a struct. The resulting error message should be convincing in terms of checking what to do: error: invalid operands to binary & (have 'struct inode_state_flags' and 'int') Of course people determined to do a plain access can still do it, but nothing can be done for that case. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-10-20Manual conversion to use ->i_state accessors of all places not covered by ↵Mateusz Guzik
coccinelle Nothing to look at apart from iput_final(). Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-10-20fs: provide accessors for ->i_stateMateusz Guzik
Open-coded accesses prevent asserting they are done correctly. One obvious aspect is locking, but significantly more can checked. For example it can be detected when the code is clearing flags which are already missing, or is setting flags when it is illegal (e.g., I_FREEING when ->i_count > 0). In order to keep things manageable this patchset merely gets the thing off the ground with only lockdep checks baked in. Current consumers can be trivially converted. Suppose flags I_A and I_B are to be handled. If ->i_lock is held, then: state = inode->i_state => state = inode_state_read(inode) inode->i_state |= (I_A | I_B) => inode_state_set(inode, I_A | I_B) inode->i_state &= ~(I_A | I_B) => inode_state_clear(inode, I_A | I_B) inode->i_state = I_A | I_B => inode_state_assign(inode, I_A | I_B) If ->i_lock is not held or only held conditionally: state = inode->i_state => state = inode_state_read_once(inode) inode->i_state |= (I_A | I_B) => inode_state_set_raw(inode, I_A | I_B) inode->i_state &= ~(I_A | I_B) => inode_state_clear_raw(inode, I_A | I_B) inode->i_state = I_A | I_B => inode_state_assign_raw(inode, I_A | I_B) The "_once" vs "_raw" discrepancy stems from the read variant differing by READ_ONCE as opposed to just lockdep checks. Finally, if you want to atomically clear flags and set new ones, the following: state = inode->i_state; state &= ~I_A; state |= I_B; inode->i_state = state; turns into: inode_state_replace(inode, I_A, I_B); Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-10-20fs: move wait_on_inode() from writeback.h to fs.hMateusz Guzik
The only consumer outside of fs/inode.c is gfs2 and it already includes fs.h in the relevant file. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-10-20fs: assert ->i_lock held in __iget()Mateusz Guzik
Also remove the now redundant comment. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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>