Replace simple_strtoul() with the recommended kstrtoint() for parsing
the 'devtmpfs.mount=' boot parameter. Unlike simple_strtoul(), which
returns an unsigned long, kstrtoint() converts the string directly to
int and avoids implicit casting.
Check the return value of kstrtoint() and reject invalid values. This
adds error handling while preserving behavior for existing values, and
removes use of the deprecated simple_strtoul() helper. The current code
silently sets 'mount_dev = 0' if parsing fails, instead of leaving the
default value (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT)) unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251220125930.76836-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull persistent dentry infrastructure and conversion from Al Viro:
"Some filesystems use a kinda-sorta controlled dentry refcount leak to
pin dentries of created objects in dcache (and undo it when removing
those). A reference is grabbed and not released, but it's not actually
_stored_ anywhere.
That works, but it's hard to follow and verify; among other things, we
have no way to tell _which_ of the increments is intended to be an
unpaired one. Worse, on removal we need to decide whether the
reference had already been dropped, which can be non-trivial if that
removal is on umount and we need to figure out if this dentry is
pinned due to e.g. unlink() not done. Usually that is handled by using
kill_litter_super() as ->kill_sb(), but there are open-coded special
cases of the same (consider e.g. /proc/self).
Things get simpler if we introduce a new dentry flag
(DCACHE_PERSISTENT) marking those "leaked" dentries. Having it set
claims responsibility for +1 in refcount.
The end result this series is aiming for:
- get these unbalanced dget() and dput() replaced with new primitives
that would, in addition to adjusting refcount, set and clear
persistency flag.
- instead of having kill_litter_super() mess with removing the
remaining "leaked" references (e.g. for all tmpfs files that hadn't
been removed prior to umount), have the regular
shrink_dcache_for_umount() strip DCACHE_PERSISTENT of all dentries,
dropping the corresponding reference if it had been set. After that
kill_litter_super() becomes an equivalent of kill_anon_super().
Doing that in a single step is not feasible - it would affect too many
places in too many filesystems. It has to be split into a series.
This work has really started early in 2024; quite a few preliminary
pieces have already gone into mainline. This chunk is finally getting
to the meat of that stuff - infrastructure and most of the conversions
to it.
Some pieces are still sitting in the local branches, but the bulk of
that stuff is here"
* tag 'pull-persistency' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (54 commits)
d_make_discardable(): warn if given a non-persistent dentry
kill securityfs_recursive_remove()
convert securityfs
get rid of kill_litter_super()
convert rust_binderfs
convert nfsctl
convert rpc_pipefs
convert hypfs
hypfs: swich hypfs_create_u64() to returning int
hypfs: switch hypfs_create_str() to returning int
hypfs: don't pin dentries twice
convert gadgetfs
gadgetfs: switch to simple_remove_by_name()
convert functionfs
functionfs: switch to simple_remove_by_name()
functionfs: fix the open/removal races
functionfs: need to cancel ->reset_work in ->kill_sb()
functionfs: don't bother with ffs->ref in ffs_data_{opened,closed}()
functionfs: don't abuse ffs_data_closed() on fs shutdown
convert selinuxfs
...
Quite a bit is already done by infrastructure changes (simple_link(),
simple_unlink()) - all that is left is replacing d_instantiate() +
pinning dget() (in ->symlink() and ->mknod()) with d_make_persistent(),
and, in case of shmem, using simple_unlink() and simple_link() in
->unlink() and ->link() resp., instead of open-coding those there.
Since d_make_persistent() accepts (and hashes) unhashed ones, shmem
situation gets simpler - we no longer care whether ->lookup() has hashed
the sucker.
With that done, we don't need kill_litter_super() for these filesystems
anymore - by the umount time all remaining dentries will be marked
persistent and kill_litter_super() will boil down to call of
kill_anon_super().
The same goes for devtmpfs and rootfs - they are handled by
ramfs or by shmem, depending upon config.
NB: strictly speaking, both devtmpfs and rootfs ought to use
ramfs_kill_sb() if they end up using ramfs; that's a separate
story and the only impact of "just use kill_{litter,anon}_super()"
is that we fail to free their sb->s_fs_info... on reboot.
That's orthogonal to the changes in this series - kill_litter_super()
is identical to kill_anon_super() for those at this point.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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>
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>
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>
kern_path_locked() is now only used to prepare for removing an object
from the filesystem (and that is the only credible reason for wanting a
positive locked dentry). Thus it corresponds to kern_path_create() and
so should have a corresponding name.
Unfortunately the name "kern_path_create" is somewhat misleading as it
doesn't actually create anything. The recently added
simple_start_creating() provides a better pattern I believe. The
"start" can be matched with "end" to bracket the creating or removing.
So this patch changes names:
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
and also introduces end_removing_path() which is identical to
end_creating_path().
__start_removing_path (which was __kern_path_locked) is enhanced to
call mnt_want_write() for consistency with the start_creating_path().
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
The recent move of the bdev_statx call to the low-level vfs_getattr_nosec
helper caused it being used by devtmpfs, which leads to deadlocks in
md teardown due to the block device lookup and put interfering with the
unusual lifetime rules in md.
But as handle_remove only works on inodes created and owned by devtmpfs
itself there is no need to use vfs_getattr_nosec vs simply reading the
mode from the inode directly. Switch to that to avoid the bdev lookup
or any other unintentional side effect.
Reported-by: Shin'ichiro Kawasaki <shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com>
Reported-by: Xiao Ni <xni@redhat.com>
Fixes: 777d0961ff ("fs: move the bdex_statx call to vfs_getattr_nosec")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250423045941.1667425-1-hch@lst.de
Tested-by: Shin'ichiro Kawasaki <shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com>
Tested-by: Xiao Ni <xni@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Ayush Jain <Ayush.jain3@amd.com>
Tested-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Pull vfs async dir updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains cleanups that fell out of the work from async directory
handling:
- Change kern_path_locked() and user_path_locked_at() to never return
a negative dentry. This simplifies the usability of these helpers
in various places
- Drop d_exact_alias() from the remaining place in NFS where it is
still used. This also allows us to drop the d_exact_alias() helper
completely
- Drop an unnecessary call to fh_update() from nfsd_create_locked()
- Change i_op->mkdir() to return a struct dentry
Change vfs_mkdir() to return a dentry provided by the filesystems
which is hashed and positive. This allows us to reduce the number
of cases where the resulting dentry is not positive to very few
cases. The code in these places becomes simpler and easier to
understand.
- Repack DENTRY_* and LOOKUP_* flags"
* tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.async.dir' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
doc: fix inline emphasis warning
VFS: Change vfs_mkdir() to return the dentry.
nfs: change mkdir inode_operation to return alternate dentry if needed.
fuse: return correct dentry for ->mkdir
ceph: return the correct dentry on mkdir
hostfs: store inode in dentry after mkdir if possible.
Change inode_operations.mkdir to return struct dentry *
nfsd: drop fh_update() from S_IFDIR branch of nfsd_create_locked()
nfs/vfs: discard d_exact_alias()
VFS: add common error checks to lookup_one_qstr_excl()
VFS: change kern_path_locked() and user_path_locked_at() to never return negative dentry
VFS: repack LOOKUP_ bit flags.
VFS: repack DENTRY_ flags.
vfs_mkdir() does not guarantee to leave the child dentry hashed or make
it positive on success, and in many such cases the filesystem had to use
a different dentry which it can now return.
This patch changes vfs_mkdir() to return the dentry provided by the
filesystems which is hashed and positive when provided. This reduces
the number of cases where the resulting dentry is not positive to a
handful which don't deserve extra efforts.
The only callers of vfs_mkdir() which are interested in the resulting
inode are in-kernel filesystem clients: cachefiles, nfsd, smb/server.
The only filesystems that don't reliably provide the inode are:
- kernfs, tracefs which these clients are unlikely to be interested in
- cifs in some configurations would need to do a lookup to find the
created inode, but doesn't. cifs cannot be exported via NFS, is
unlikely to be used by cachefiles, and smb/server only has a soft
requirement for the inode, so this is unlikely to be a problem in
practice.
- hostfs, nfs, cifs may need to do a lookup (rarely for NFS) and it is
possible for a race to make that lookup fail. Actual failure
is unlikely and providing callers handle negative dentries graceful
they will fail-safe.
So this patch removes the lookup code in nfsd and smb/server and adjusts
them to fail safe if a negative dentry is provided:
- cache-files already fails safe by restarting the task from the
top - it still does with this change, though it no longer calls
cachefiles_put_directory() as that will crash if the dentry is
negative.
- nfsd reports "Server-fault" which it what it used to do if the lookup
failed. This will never happen on any file-systems that it can actually
export, so this is of no consequence. I removed the fh_update()
call as that is not needed and out-of-place. A subsequent
nfsd_create_setattr() call will call fh_update() when needed.
- smb/server only wants the inode to call ksmbd_smb_inherit_owner()
which updates ->i_uid (without calling notify_change() or similar)
which can be safely skipping on cifs (I hope).
If a different dentry is returned, the first one is put. If necessary
the fact that it is new can be determined by comparing pointers. A new
dentry will certainly have a new pointer (as the old is put after the
new is obtained).
Similarly if an error is returned (via ERR_PTR()) the original dentry is
put.
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250227013949.536172-7-neilb@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
No callers of kern_path_locked() or user_path_locked_at() want a
negative dentry. So change them to return -ENOENT instead. This
simplifies callers.
This results in a subtle change to bcachefs in that an ioctl will now
return -ENOENT in preference to -EXDEV. I believe this restores the
behaviour to what it was prior to
Commit bbe6a7c899 ("bch2_ioctl_subvolume_destroy(): fix locking")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250217003020.3170652-2-neilb@suse.de
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
To finalize mount API conversion, remove the ->mount op from the public
instance in favor of ->get_tree etc. Copy most ops from the underlying
ops vector (whether it's shmem or ramfs) and substitute our own
->get_tree which simply takes an extra reference on the existing internal
mount as before.
Thanks to Al for the fs_context_for_reconfigure() idea.
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250205213931.74614-4-sandeen@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
When a dev_t is set in a struct device, an symlink in /sys/dev/ is
created for it either under /sys/dev/block/ or /sys/dev/char/ depending
on the device type.
The logic to determine this would trigger off of the class of the
object, and the kobj_type set in that location. But it turns out that
this deep nesting isn't needed at all, as it's either a choice of block
or "everything else" which is a char device. So make the logic a lot
more simple and obvious, and remove the incorrect comments in the code
that tried to document something that was not happening at all (it is
impossible to set class->dev_kobj to NULL as the class core prevented
that from happening.
This removes the only place that class->dev_kobj was being used, so
after this, it can be removed entirely.
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230331093318.82288-4-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the large set of driver core changes for 6.3-rc1.
There's a lot of changes this development cycle, most of the work
falls into two different categories:
- fw_devlink fixes and updates. This has gone through numerous review
cycles and lots of review and testing by lots of different devices.
Hopefully all should be good now, and Saravana will be keeping a
watch for any potential regression on odd embedded systems.
- driver core changes to work to make struct bus_type able to be
moved into read-only memory (i.e. const) The recent work with Rust
has pointed out a number of areas in the driver core where we are
passing around and working with structures that really do not have
to be dynamic at all, and they should be able to be read-only
making things safer overall. This is the contuation of that work
(started last release with kobject changes) in moving struct
bus_type to be constant. We didn't quite make it for this release,
but the remaining patches will be finished up for the release after
this one, but the groundwork has been laid for this effort.
Other than that we have in here:
- debugfs memory leak fixes in some subsystems
- error path cleanups and fixes for some never-able-to-be-hit
codepaths.
- cacheinfo rework and fixes
- Other tiny fixes, full details are in the shortlog
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
problems"
[ Geert Uytterhoeven points out that that last sentence isn't true, and
that there's a pending report that has a fix that is queued up - Linus ]
* tag 'driver-core-6.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (124 commits)
debugfs: drop inline constant formatting for ERR_PTR(-ERROR)
OPP: fix error checking in opp_migrate_dentry()
debugfs: update comment of debugfs_rename()
i3c: fix device.h kernel-doc warnings
dma-mapping: no need to pass a bus_type into get_arch_dma_ops()
driver core: class: move EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() lines to the correct place
Revert "driver core: add error handling for devtmpfs_create_node()"
Revert "devtmpfs: add debug info to handle()"
Revert "devtmpfs: remove return value of devtmpfs_delete_node()"
driver core: cpu: don't hand-override the uevent bus_type callback.
devtmpfs: remove return value of devtmpfs_delete_node()
devtmpfs: add debug info to handle()
driver core: add error handling for devtmpfs_create_node()
driver core: bus: update my copyright notice
driver core: bus: add bus_get_dev_root() function
driver core: bus: constify bus_unregister()
driver core: bus: constify some internal functions
driver core: bus: constify bus_get_kset()
driver core: bus: constify bus_register/unregister_notifier()
driver core: remove private pointer from struct bus_type
...
Convert to struct mnt_idmap.
Last cycle we merged the necessary infrastructure in
256c8aed2b ("fs: introduce dedicated idmap type for mounts").
This is just the conversion to struct mnt_idmap.
Currently we still pass around the plain namespace that was attached to a
mount. This is in general pretty convenient but it makes it easy to
conflate namespaces that are relevant on the filesystem with namespaces
that are relevent on the mount level. Especially for non-vfs developers
without detailed knowledge in this area this can be a potential source for
bugs.
Once the conversion to struct mnt_idmap is done all helpers down to the
really low-level helpers will take a struct mnt_idmap argument instead of
two namespace arguments. This way it becomes impossible to conflate the two
eliminating the possibility of any bugs. All of the vfs and all filesystems
only operate on struct mnt_idmap.
Acked-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
When the devtmpfs fails to mount, a dangling pointer still remains in
global. Specifically, the err variable is passed by a pointer to the
devtmpfsd. When the devtmpfsd exits, it sets the error and completes the
setup_done. In this situation, the thread pointer is not set to null.
After the devtmpfsd exited, the devtmpfs can wakes up the destroyed
devtmpfsd thread by wake_up_process if a device change event comes.
Signed-off-by: Yangxi Xiang <xyangxi5@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220627120409.11174-1-xyangxi5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the set of driver core changes for 5.18-rc1.
Not much here, primarily it was a bunch of cleanups and small updates:
- kobj_type cleanups for default_groups
- documentation updates
- firmware loader minor changes
- component common helper added and take advantage of it in many
drivers (the largest part of this pull request).
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
problems"
* tag 'driver-core-5.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (54 commits)
Documentation: update stable review cycle documentation
drivers/base/dd.c : Remove the initial value of the global variable
Documentation: update stable tree link
Documentation: add link to stable release candidate tree
devres: fix typos in comments
Documentation: add note block surrounding security patch note
samples/kobject: Use sysfs_emit instead of sprintf
base: soc: Make soc_device_match() simpler and easier to read
driver core: dd: fix return value of __setup handler
driver core: Refactor sysfs and drv/bus remove hooks
driver core: Refactor multiple copies of device cleanup
scripts: get_abi.pl: Fix typo in help message
kernfs: fix typos in comments
kernfs: remove unneeded #if 0 guard
ALSA: hda/realtek: Make use of the helper component_compare_dev_name
video: omapfb: dss: Make use of the helper component_compare_dev
power: supply: ab8500: Make use of the helper component_compare_dev
ASoC: codecs: wcd938x: Make use of the helper component_compare/release_of
iommu/mediatek: Make use of the helper component_compare/release_of
drm: of: Make use of the helper component_release_of
...
The internal_fs_type is mounted via vfs_kernel_mount() and is never
registered as a filesystem, thus specifying the parameters is redundant
as those params will not be validated by fs_validate_description().
Both {shmem,ramfs}_fs_parameters are anyway validated when those
respective filesystems are first registered, so there is no reason to
pass them to devtmpfs too, drop them.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Iliopoulos <ailiop@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220119220248.32225-1-ailiop@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
