This may run from a kernel thread via device_add_disk(). So this could
also use __fput_sync() if we were worried about EBUSY. But when it is
called from a kernel thread it's always BLK_OPEN_READ so EBUSY can't
really happen even if we do BLK_OPEN_RESTRICT_WRITES or BLK_OPEN_EXCL.
Otherwise it's called from an ioctl on the block device which is only
called from userspace and can rely on task work.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240123-vfs-bdev-file-v2-3-adbd023e19cc@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Add two new helpers to allow opening block devices as files.
This is not the final infrastructure. This still opens the block device
before opening a struct a file. Until we have removed all references to
struct bdev_handle we can't switch the order:
* Introduce blk_to_file_flags() to translate from block specific to
flags usable to pen a new file.
* Introduce bdev_file_open_by_{dev,path}().
* Introduce temporary sb_bdev_handle() helper to retrieve a struct
bdev_handle from a block device file and update places that directly
reference struct bdev_handle to rely on it.
* Don't count block device openes against the number of open files. A
bdev_file_open_by_{dev,path}() file is never installed into any
file descriptor table.
One idea that came to mind was to use kernel_tmpfile_open() which
would require us to pass a path and it would then call do_dentry_open()
going through the regular fops->open::blkdev_open() path. But then we're
back to the problem of routing block specific flags such as
BLK_OPEN_RESTRICT_WRITES through the open path and would have to waste
FMODE_* flags every time we add a new one. With this we can avoid using
a flag bit and we have more leeway in how we open block devices from
bdev_open_by_{dev,path}().
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240123-vfs-bdev-file-v2-1-adbd023e19cc@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
In order to add a helper to open files that aren't accounted split
alloc_file() and parts of alloc_file_pseudo() into helpers. One to
prepare a path, another one to setup the file.
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240129160241.GA2793@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
When unpacking the initramfs or when mounting block devices we need to
ensure that any delayed fput() finished to prevent spurious errors.
The init process can be a proper kernel thread or a user mode helper.
In the latter case PF_KTHREAD isn't set. So we need to do both
flush_delayed_work() and task_work_run().
Since we'll port block device opening and closing to regular file open
and closing we need to ensure the same as for the initramfs. So just
make that a little helper.
Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Tested-by: Srikanth Aithal <sraithal@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CA+G9fYttTwsbFuVq10igbSvP5xC6bf_XijM=mpUqrJV=uvUirQ@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
