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Linus Torvalds ef3da345cc Merge tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "Features:
   - coredump: add tracepoint for coredump events
   - fs: hide file and bfile caches behind runtime const machinery

  Fixes:
   - fix architecture-specific compat_ftruncate64 implementations
   - dcache: Limit the minimal number of bucket to two
   - fs/omfs: reject s_sys_blocksize smaller than OMFS_DIR_START
   - fs/mbcache: cancel shrink work before destroying the cache
   - dcache: permit dynamic_dname()s up to NAME_MAX

  Cleanups:
   - remove or unexport unused fs_context infrastructure
   - trivial ->setattr cleanups
   - selftests/filesystems: Assume that TIOCGPTPEER is defined
   - writeback: fix kernel-doc function name mismatch for wb_put_many()
   - autofs: replace manual symlink buffer allocation in autofs_dir_symlink
   - init/initramfs.c: trivial fix: FSM -> Finite-state machine
   - fs: remove stale and duplicate forward declarations
   - readdir: Introduce dirent_size()
   - fs: Replace user_access_{begin/end} by scoped user access
   - kernel: acct: fix duplicate word in comment
   - fs: write a better comment in step_into() concerning .mnt assignment
   - fs: attr: fix comment formatting and spelling issues"

* tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (28 commits)
  dcache: permit dynamic_dname()s up to NAME_MAX
  fs: attr: fix comment formatting and spelling issues
  fs: hide file and bfile caches behind runtime const machinery
  fs: write a better comment in step_into() concerning .mnt assignment
  proc: rename proc_notify_change to proc_setattr
  proc: rename proc_setattr to proc_nochmod_setattr
  affs: rename affs_notify_change to affs_setattr
  adfs: rename adfs_notify_change to adfs_setattr
  hfs: update comments on hfs_inode_setattr
  kernel: acct: fix duplicate word in comment
  fs: Replace user_access_{begin/end} by scoped user access
  readdir: Introduce dirent_size()
  coredump: add tracepoint for coredump events
  fs: remove do_sys_truncate
  fs: pass on FTRUNCATE_* flags to do_truncate
  fs: fix archiecture-specific compat_ftruncate64
  fs: remove stale and duplicate forward declarations
  init/initramfs.c: trivial fix: FSM -> Finite-state machine
  autofs: replace manual symlink buffer allocation in autofs_dir_symlink
  fs/mbcache: cancel shrink work before destroying the cache
  ...
2026-04-13 14:20:11 -07:00
Thorsten BlumandChristian Brauner f890944789 autofs: replace manual symlink buffer allocation in autofs_dir_symlink
The symlink name was previously duplicated using an explicit kmalloc()
followed by strcpy(), which is deprecated [1]. Replace this open-coded
string duplication with kstrdup(), which allocates and copies the
symlink name with a single helper function.

Remove the local variable 'size' and set 'i_size' directly using
strlen(cp), which is equivalent to the previous value of 'size'.

This simplifies the code, uses common string-handling helpers, and
removes the deprecated use of strcpy().

Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strcpy [1]
Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260318001219.2354-3-thorsten.blum@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-03-18 10:55:43 +01:00
Jeff LaytonandChristian Brauner 0b2600f81c treewide: change inode->i_ino from unsigned long to u64
On 32-bit architectures, unsigned long is only 32 bits wide, which
causes 64-bit inode numbers to be silently truncated. Several
filesystems (NFS, XFS, BTRFS, etc.) can generate inode numbers that
exceed 32 bits, and this truncation can lead to inode number collisions
and other subtle bugs on 32-bit systems.

Change the type of inode->i_ino from unsigned long to u64 to ensure that
inode numbers are always represented as 64-bit values regardless of
architecture. Update all format specifiers treewide from %lu/%lx to
%llu/%llx to match the new type, along with corresponding local variable
types.

This is the bulk treewide conversion. Earlier patches in this series
handled trace events separately to allow trace field reordering for
better struct packing on 32-bit.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260304-iino-u64-v3-12-2257ad83d372@kernel.org
Acked-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-03-06 14:31:28 +01:00
Linus Torvalds bf4afc53b7 Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument
This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\<k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
Kees Cook 69050f8d6d treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
2026-02-21 01:02:28 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 4b9d25b4d3 Merge tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull vfs fixes from Christian Brauner:

 - Fix a type conversion bug in the ipc subsystem

 - Fix per-dentry timeout warning in autofs

 - Drop the fd conversion from sockets

 - Move assert from iput_not_last() to iput()

 - Fix reversed check in filesystems_freeze_callback()

 - Use proper uapi types for new struct delegation definitions

* tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  vfs: use UAPI types for new struct delegation definition
  mqueue: correct the type of ro to int
  Revert "net/socket: convert sock_map_fd() to FD_ADD()"
  autofs: fix per-dentry timeout warning
  fs: assert on I_FREEING not being set in iput() and iput_not_last()
  fs: PM: Fix reverse check in filesystems_freeze_callback()
2025-12-05 15:52:30 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 7cd122b552 Merge tag 'pull-persistency' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
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
  ...
2025-12-05 14:36:21 -08:00
Ian KentandChristian Brauner b6cb3ccef6 autofs: fix per-dentry timeout warning
The check that determines if the message that warns about the per-dentry
timeout being greater than the super block timeout is not correct.

The initial value for this field is -1 and the type of the field is
unsigned long.

I could change the type to long but the message is in the wrong place
too, it should come after the timeout setting. So leave everything else
as it is and move the message and check the timeout is actually set
as an additional condition on issuing the message. Also fix the timeout
comparison.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251111060439.19593-2-raven@themaw.net
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-12-04 09:57:51 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 1b5dd29869 Merge tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.fd_prepare.fs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull fd prepare updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This adds the FD_ADD() and FD_PREPARE() primitive. They simplify the
  common pattern of get_unused_fd_flags() + create file + fd_install()
  that is used extensively throughout the kernel and currently requires
  cumbersome cleanup paths.

  FD_ADD() - For simple cases where a file is installed immediately:

      fd = FD_ADD(O_CLOEXEC, vfio_device_open_file(device));
      if (fd < 0)
          vfio_device_put_registration(device);
      return fd;

  FD_PREPARE() - For cases requiring access to the fd or file, or
  additional work before publishing:

      FD_PREPARE(fdf, O_CLOEXEC, sync_file->file);
      if (fdf.err) {
          fput(sync_file->file);
          return fdf.err;
      }

      data.fence = fd_prepare_fd(fdf);
      if (copy_to_user((void __user *)arg, &data, sizeof(data)))
          return -EFAULT;

      return fd_publish(fdf);

  The primitives are centered around struct fd_prepare. FD_PREPARE()
  encapsulates all allocation and cleanup logic and must be followed by
  a call to fd_publish() which associates the fd with the file and
  installs it into the caller's fdtable. If fd_publish() isn't called,
  both are deallocated automatically. FD_ADD() is a shorthand that does
  fd_publish() immediately and never exposes the struct to the caller.

  I've implemented this in a way that it's compatible with the cleanup
  infrastructure while also being usable separately. IOW, it's centered
  around struct fd_prepare which is aliased to class_fd_prepare_t and so
  we can make use of all the basica guard infrastructure"

* tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.fd_prepare.fs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (42 commits)
  io_uring: convert io_create_mock_file() to FD_PREPARE()
  file: convert replace_fd() to FD_PREPARE()
  vfio: convert vfio_group_ioctl_get_device_fd() to FD_ADD()
  tty: convert ptm_open_peer() to FD_ADD()
  ntsync: convert ntsync_obj_get_fd() to FD_PREPARE()
  media: convert media_request_alloc() to FD_PREPARE()
  hv: convert mshv_ioctl_create_partition() to FD_ADD()
  gpio: convert linehandle_create() to FD_PREPARE()
  pseries: port papr_rtas_setup_file_interface() to FD_ADD()
  pseries: convert papr_platform_dump_create_handle() to FD_ADD()
  spufs: convert spufs_gang_open() to FD_PREPARE()
  papr-hvpipe: convert papr_hvpipe_dev_create_handle() to FD_PREPARE()
  spufs: convert spufs_context_open() to FD_PREPARE()
  net/socket: convert __sys_accept4_file() to FD_ADD()
  net/socket: convert sock_map_fd() to FD_ADD()
  net/kcm: convert kcm_ioctl() to FD_PREPARE()
  net/handshake: convert handshake_nl_accept_doit() to FD_PREPARE()
  secretmem: convert memfd_secret() to FD_ADD()
  memfd: convert memfd_create() to FD_ADD()
  bpf: convert bpf_token_create() to FD_PREPARE()
  ...
2025-12-01 17:32:07 -08:00
Christian Brauner 0f4288410c autofs: convert autofs_dev_ioctl_open_mountpoint() to FD_ADD()
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251123-work-fd-prepare-v4-11-b6efa1706cfd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-28 12:42:32 +01:00
Ian KentandChristian Brauner 922a6f34c1 autofs: dont trigger mount if it cant succeed
If a mount namespace contains autofs mounts, and they are propagation
private, and there is no namespace specific automount daemon to handle
possible automounting then attempted path resolution will loop until
MAXSYMLINKS is reached before failing causing quite a bit of noise in
the log.

Add a check for this in autofs ->d_automount() so that the VFS can
immediately return an error in this case. Since the mount is propagation
private an EPERM return seems most appropriate.

Suggested by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251118024631.10854-2-raven@themaw.net
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-19 11:14:02 +01:00
Al Viro b85d6b2419 convert autofs
creation/removal is via normal VFS paths; make ->mkdir() and ->symlink()
use d_make_persistent(); ->rmdir() and ->unlink() - d_make_discardable()
instead of dput() and that's it.

d_make_persistent() works for unhashed just fine...

Note that only persistent dentries are ever hashed there; unusual absense
of ->d_delete() in dentry_operations is due to that - anything that has
refcount reach 0 will be unhashed there, so it won't get to checking
->d_delete anyway.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2025-11-16 01:35:05 -05:00
Al Viro 4c7d25094f autofs_{rmdir,unlink}: dentry->d_fsdata->dentry == dentry there
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2025-11-16 01:35:05 -05:00
Al Viro 05fb0e6664 new helper: set_default_d_op()
... to be used instead of manually assigning to ->s_d_op.
All in-tree filesystem converted (and field itself is renamed,
so any out-of-tree ones in need of conversion will be caught
by compiler).

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2025-06-10 22:21:16 -04:00
NeilBrownandChristian Brauner fa6fe07d15 VFS: rename lookup_one_len family to lookup_noperm and remove permission check
The lookup_one_len family of functions is (now) only used internally by
a filesystem on itself either
- in a context where permission checking is irrelevant such as by a
  virtual filesystem populating itself, or xfs accessing its ORPHANAGE
  or dquota accessing the quota file; or
- in a context where a permission check (MAY_EXEC on the parent) has just
  been performed such as a network filesystem finding in "silly-rename"
  file in the same directory.  This is also the context after the
  _parentat() functions where currently lookup_one_qstr_excl() is used.

So the permission check is pointless.

The name "one_len" is unhelpful in understanding the purpose of these
functions and should be changed.  Most of the callers pass the len as
"strlen()" so using a qstr and QSTR() can simplify the code.

This patch renames these functions (include lookup_positive_unlocked()
which is part of the family despite the name) to have a name based on
"lookup_noperm".  They are changed to receive a 'struct qstr' instead
of separate name and len.  In a few cases the use of QSTR() results in a
new call to strlen().

try_lookup_noperm() takes a pointer to a qstr instead of the whole
qstr.  This is consistent with d_hash_and_lookup() (which is nearly
identical) and useful for lookup_noperm_unlocked().

The new lookup_noperm_common() doesn't take a qstr yet.  That will be
tidied up in a subsequent patch.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250319031545.2999807-5-neil@brown.name
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-04-08 11:24:36 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 26d8e43079 Merge tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.async.dir' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
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.
2025-03-24 10:47:14 -07:00
Linus Torvalds fd101da676 Merge tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull vfs mount updates from Christian Brauner:

 - Mount notifications

   The day has come where we finally provide a new api to listen for
   mount topology changes outside of /proc/<pid>/mountinfo. A mount
   namespace file descriptor can be supplied and registered with
   fanotify to listen for mount topology changes.

   Currently notifications for mount, umount and moving mounts are
   generated. The generated notification record contains the unique
   mount id of the mount.

   The listmount() and statmount() api can be used to query detailed
   information about the mount using the received unique mount id.

   This allows userspace to figure out exactly how the mount topology
   changed without having to generating diffs of /proc/<pid>/mountinfo
   in userspace.

 - Support O_PATH file descriptors with FSCONFIG_SET_FD in the new mount
   api

 - Support detached mounts in overlayfs

   Since last cycle we support specifying overlayfs layers via file
   descriptors. However, we don't allow detached mounts which means
   userspace cannot user file descriptors received via
   open_tree(OPEN_TREE_CLONE) and fsmount() directly. They have to
   attach them to a mount namespace via move_mount() first.

   This is cumbersome and means they have to undo mounts via umount().
   Allow them to directly use detached mounts.

 - Allow to retrieve idmappings with statmount

   Currently it isn't possible to figure out what idmapping has been
   attached to an idmapped mount. Add an extension to statmount() which
   allows to read the idmapping from the mount.

 - Allow creating idmapped mounts from mounts that are already idmapped

   So far it isn't possible to allow the creation of idmapped mounts
   from already idmapped mounts as this has significant lifetime
   implications. Make the creation of idmapped mounts atomic by allow to
   pass struct mount_attr together with the open_tree_attr() system call
   allowing to solve these issues without complicating VFS lookup in any
   way.

   The system call has in general the benefit that creating a detached
   mount and applying mount attributes to it becomes an atomic operation
   for userspace.

 - Add a way to query statmount() for supported options

   Allow userspace to query which mount information can be retrieved
   through statmount().

 - Allow superblock owners to force unmount

* tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (21 commits)
  umount: Allow superblock owners to force umount
  selftests: add tests for mount notification
  selinux: add FILE__WATCH_MOUNTNS
  samples/vfs: fix printf format string for size_t
  fs: allow changing idmappings
  fs: add kflags member to struct mount_kattr
  fs: add open_tree_attr()
  fs: add copy_mount_setattr() helper
  fs: add vfs_open_tree() helper
  statmount: add a new supported_mask field
  samples/vfs: add STATMOUNT_MNT_{G,U}IDMAP
  selftests: add tests for using detached mount with overlayfs
  samples/vfs: check whether flag was raised
  statmount: allow to retrieve idmappings
  uidgid: add map_id_range_up()
  fs: allow detached mounts in clone_private_mount()
  selftests/overlayfs: test specifying layers as O_PATH file descriptors
  fs: support O_PATH fds with FSCONFIG_SET_FD
  vfs: add notifications for mount attach and detach
  fanotify: notify on mount attach and detach
  ...
2025-03-24 09:34:10 -07:00
NeilBrownandChristian Brauner 514b687111 VFS/autofs: try_lookup_one_len() does not need any locks
try_lookup_one_len() is identical to lookup_one_unlocked() except that
it doesn't include the call to lookup_slow().  The latter doesn't need
the inode to be locked, so the former cannot either.

So fix the documentation, remove the WARN_ON and fix the only caller to
not take the lock.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/174190517441.9342.5956460781380903128@noble.neil.brown.name
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-03-18 15:34:27 +01:00
NeilBrownandChristian Brauner 88d5baf690 Change inode_operations.mkdir to return struct dentry *
Some filesystems, such as NFS, cifs, ceph, and fuse, do not have
complete control of sequencing on the actual filesystem (e.g.  on a
different server) and may find that the inode created for a mkdir
request already exists in the icache and dcache by the time the mkdir
request returns.  For example, if the filesystem is mounted twice the
directory could be visible on the other mount before it is on the
original mount, and a pair of name_to_handle_at(), open_by_handle_at()
calls could instantiate the directory inode with an IS_ROOT() dentry
before the first mkdir returns.

This means that the dentry passed to ->mkdir() may not be the one that
is associated with the inode after the ->mkdir() completes.  Some
callers need to interact with the inode after the ->mkdir completes and
they currently need to perform a lookup in the (rare) case that the
dentry is no longer hashed.

This lookup-after-mkdir requires that the directory remains locked to
avoid races.  Planned future patches to lock the dentry rather than the
directory will mean that this lookup cannot be performed atomically with
the mkdir.

To remove this barrier, this patch changes ->mkdir to return the
resulting dentry if it is different from the one passed in.
Possible returns are:
  NULL - the directory was created and no other dentry was used
  ERR_PTR() - an error occurred
  non-NULL - this other dentry was spliced in

This patch only changes file-systems to return "ERR_PTR(err)" instead of
"err" or equivalent transformations.  Subsequent patches will make
further changes to some file-systems to return a correct dentry.

Not all filesystems reliably result in a positive hashed dentry:

- NFS, cifs, hostfs will sometimes need to perform a lookup of
  the name to get inode information.  Races could result in this
  returning something different. Note that this lookup is
  non-atomic which is what we are trying to avoid.  Placing the
  lookup in filesystem code means it only happens when the filesystem
  has no other option.
- kernfs and tracefs leave the dentry negative and the ->revalidate
  operation ensures that lookup will be called to correctly populate
  the dentry.  This could be fixed but I don't think it is important
  to any of the users of vfs_mkdir() which look at the dentry.

The recommendation to use
    d_drop();d_splice_alias()
is ugly but fits with current practice.  A planned future patch will
change this.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250227013949.536172-2-neilb@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-02-27 20:00:17 +01:00
Christian Brauner 0ff053b98a fs: support O_PATH fds with FSCONFIG_SET_FD
Let FSCONFIG_SET_FD handle O_PATH file descriptors. This is particularly
useful in the context of overlayfs where layers can be specified via
file descriptors instead of paths. But userspace must currently use
non-O_PATH file desriptors which is often pointless especially if
the file descriptors have been created via open_tree(OPEN_TREE_CLONE).

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250210-work-overlayfs-v2-1-ed2a949b674b@kernel.org
Fixes: a08557d19e ("ovl: specify layers via file descriptors")
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-02-12 10:02:10 +01:00
Ian KentandChristian Brauner f19910006e autofs: fix thinko in validate_dev_ioctl()
I was so sure the per-dentry expire timeout patch worked ok but my
testing was flawed.

In validate_dev_ioctl() the check for ioctl AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
should use the ioctl number not the passed in ioctl command.

Fixes: 433f9d76a0 ("autofs: add per dentry expire timeout")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # mainline only
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241027224732.5507-1-raven@themaw.net
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-10-28 13:16:56 +01:00
Ian KentandChristian Brauner 433f9d76a0 autofs: add per dentry expire timeout
Add ability to set per-dentry mount expire timeout to autofs.

There are two fairly well known automounter map formats, the autofs
format and the amd format (more or less System V and Berkley).

Some time ago Linux autofs added an amd map format parser that
implemented a fair amount of the amd functionality. This was done
within the autofs infrastructure and some functionality wasn't
implemented because it either didn't make sense or required extra
kernel changes. The idea was to restrict changes to be within the
existing autofs functionality as much as possible and leave changes
with a wider scope to be considered later.

One of these changes is implementing the amd options:
1) "unmount", expire this mount according to a timeout (same as the
   current autofs default).
2) "nounmount", don't expire this mount (same as setting the autofs
   timeout to 0 except only for this specific mount) .
3) "utimeout=<seconds>", expire this mount using the specified
   timeout (again same as setting the autofs timeout but only for
   this mount).

To implement these options per-dentry expire timeouts need to be
implemented for autofs indirect mounts. This is because all map keys
(mounts) for autofs indirect mounts use an expire timeout stored in
the autofs mount super block info. structure and all indirect mounts
use the same expire timeout.

Now I have a request to add the "nounmount" option so I need to add
the per-dentry expire handling to the kernel implementation to do this.

The implementation uses the trailing path component to identify the
mount (and is also used as the autofs map key) which is passed in the
autofs_dev_ioctl structure path field. The expire timeout is passed
in autofs_dev_ioctl timeout field (well, of the timeout union).

If the passed in timeout is equal to -1 the per-dentry timeout and
flag are cleared providing for the "unmount" option. If the timeout
is greater than or equal to 0 the timeout is set to the value and the
flag is also set. If the dentry timeout is 0 the dentry will not expire
by timeout which enables the implementation of the "nounmount" option
for the specific mount. When the dentry timeout is greater than zero it
allows for the implementation of the "utimeout=<seconds>" option.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814090231.963520-1-raven@themaw.net
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-08-30 08:22:36 +02:00
Aleksa SaraiandChristian Brauner 6a64c5220c autofs: fix missing fput for FSCONFIG_SET_FD
If you pass an fd using FSCONFIG_SET_FD, autofs_parse_fd() "steals" the
param->file and so the fs_context infrastructure will not do fput() for
us.

Fixes: e6ec453bd0 ("autofs: convert autofs to use the new mount api")
Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240731-fsconfig-fsparam_fd-fixes-v2-1-e7c472224417@cyphar.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-08-19 13:45:03 +02:00
Linus Torvalds b8fc1bd73a Merge tag 'vfs-6.11.mount.api' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull vfs mount API updates from Christian Brauner:

 - Add a generic helper to parse uid and gid mount options.

   Currently we open-code the same logic in various filesystems which is
   error prone, especially since the verification of uid and gid mount
   options is a sensitive operation in the face of idmappings.

   Add a generic helper and convert all filesystems over to it. Make
   sure that filesystems that are mountable in unprivileged containers
   verify that the specified uid and gid can be represented in the
   owning namespace of the filesystem.

 - Convert hostfs to the new mount api.

* tag 'vfs-6.11.mount.api' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  fuse: Convert to new uid/gid option parsing helpers
  fuse: verify {g,u}id mount options correctly
  fat: Convert to new uid/gid option parsing helpers
  fat: Convert to new mount api
  fat: move debug into fat_mount_options
  vboxsf: Convert to new uid/gid option parsing helpers
  tracefs: Convert to new uid/gid option parsing helpers
  smb: client: Convert to new uid/gid option parsing helpers
  tmpfs: Convert to new uid/gid option parsing helpers
  ntfs3: Convert to new uid/gid option parsing helpers
  isofs: Convert to new uid/gid option parsing helpers
  hugetlbfs: Convert to new uid/gid option parsing helpers
  ext4: Convert to new uid/gid option parsing helpers
  exfat: Convert to new uid/gid option parsing helpers
  efivarfs: Convert to new uid/gid option parsing helpers
  debugfs: Convert to new uid/gid option parsing helpers
  autofs: Convert to new uid/gid option parsing helpers
  fs_parse: add uid & gid option option parsing helpers
  hostfs: Add const qualifier to host_root in hostfs_fill_super()
  hostfs: convert hostfs to use the new mount API
2024-07-15 11:31:32 -07:00
Eric SandeenandChristian Brauner 748cddf13d autofs: Convert to new uid/gid option parsing helpers
Convert to new uid/gid option parsing helpers

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/faccdd51-07d6-413f-aa55-41bb0e7660df@redhat.com
Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-07-02 06:21:17 +02:00