When vfs_mkdir() fails, the error code is not extracted from the
returned error pointer. This causes mkdir_error to be reached with
ret=0, which leads to returning ERR_PTR(0) (NULL) instead of a
proper error pointer.
Fix this by extracting the error code from the error pointer when
vfs_mkdir() fails.
Fixes: 406fad7698 ("cachefiles: Fix oops in vfs_mkdir from cachefiles_get_directory")
Signed-off-by: Hongling Zeng <zenghongling@kylinos.cn>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260513103406.202320-1-zenghongling@kylinos.cn
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Pull vfs i_ino updates from Christian Brauner:
"For historical reasons, the inode->i_ino field is an unsigned long,
which means that it's 32 bits on 32 bit architectures. This has caused
a number of filesystems to implement hacks to hash a 64-bit identifier
into a 32-bit field, and deprives us of a universal identifier field
for an inode.
This changes the inode->i_ino field from an unsigned long to a u64.
This shouldn't make any material difference on 64-bit hosts, but
32-bit hosts will see struct inode grow by at least 4 bytes. This
could have effects on slabcache sizes and field alignment.
The bulk of the changes are to format strings and tracepoints, since
the kernel itself doesn't care that much about the i_ino field. The
first patch changes some vfs function arguments, so check that one out
carefully.
With this change, we may be able to shrink some inode structures. For
instance, struct nfs_inode has a fileid field that holds the 64-bit
inode number. With this set of changes, that field could be
eliminated. I'd rather leave that sort of cleanups for later just to
keep this simple"
* tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.kino' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
nilfs2: fix 64-bit division operations in nilfs_bmap_find_target_in_group()
EVM: add comment describing why ino field is still unsigned long
vfs: remove externs from fs.h on functions modified by i_ino widening
treewide: fix missed i_ino format specifier conversions
ext4: fix signed format specifier in ext4_load_inode trace event
treewide: change inode->i_ino from unsigned long to u64
nilfs2: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
f2fs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
ext4: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
zonefs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
hugetlbfs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
ext2: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
cachefiles: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
vfs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
net: change sock.sk_ino and sock_i_ino() to u64
audit: widen ino fields to u64
vfs: widen inode hash/lookup functions to u64
Pull vfs directory updates from Christian Brauner:
"Recently 'start_creating', 'start_removing', 'start_renaming' and
related interfaces were added which combine the locking and the
lookup.
At that time many callers were changed to use the new interfaces.
However there are still an assortment of places out side of the core
vfs where the directory is locked explictly, whether with inode_lock()
or lock_rename() or similar. These were missed in the first pass for
an assortment of uninteresting reasons.
This addresses the remaining places where explicit locking is used,
and changes them to use the new interfaces, or otherwise removes the
explicit locking.
The biggest changes are in overlayfs. The other changes are quite
simple, though maybe the cachefiles changes is the least simple of
those"
* tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.directory' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
VFS: unexport lock_rename(), lock_rename_child(), unlock_rename()
ovl: remove ovl_lock_rename_workdir()
ovl: use is_subdir() for testing if one thing is a subdir of another
ovl: change ovl_create_real() to get a new lock when re-opening created file.
ovl: pass name buffer to ovl_start_creating_temp()
cachefiles: change cachefiles_bury_object to use start_renaming_dentry()
ovl: Simplify ovl_lookup_real_one()
VFS: make lookup_one_qstr_excl() static.
nfsd: switch purge_old() to use start_removing_noperm()
selinux: Use simple_start_creating() / simple_done_creating()
Apparmor: Use simple_start_creating() / simple_done_creating()
libfs: change simple_done_creating() to use end_creating()
VFS: move the start_dirop() kerndoc comment to before start_dirop()
fs/proc: Don't lock root inode when creating "self" and "thread-self"
VFS: note error returns in documentation for various lookup functions
The patch mentioned below changed cachefiles_bury_object() to expect 2
references to the 'rep' dentry. Three of the callers were changed to
use start_removing_dentry() which takes an extra reference so in those
cases the call gets the expected references.
However there is another call to cachefiles_bury_object() in
cachefiles_cull() which did not need to be changed to use
start_removing_dentry() and so was not properly considered.
It still passed the dentry with just one reference so the net result is
that a reference is lost.
To meet the expectations of cachefiles_bury_object(), cachefiles_cull()
must take an extra reference before the call. It will be dropped by
cachefiles_bury_object().
Reported-by: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
Fixes: 7bb1eb45e4 ("VFS: introduce start_removing_dentry()")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/177456350181.1851489.16359967086642190170@noble.neil.brown.name
Acked-by: Paulo Alcantara (Red Hat) <pc@manguebit.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Rather then using lock_rename() and lookup_one() etc we can use
the new start_renaming_dentry(). This is part of centralising dir
locking and lookup so that locking rules can be changed.
Some error check are removed as not necessary. Checks for rep being a
non-dir or IS_DEADDIR and the check that ->graveyard is still a
directory only provide slightly more informative errors and have been
dropped.
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260224222542.3458677-11-neilb@ownmail.net
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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>
This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines. I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.
Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script. I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.
So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.
The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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>
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>
Pull directory locking updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains the work to add centralized APIs for directory locking
operations.
This series is part of a larger effort to change directory operation
locking to allow multiple concurrent operations in a directory. The
ultimate goal is to lock the target dentry(s) rather than the whole
parent directory.
To help with changing the locking protocol, this series centralizes
locking and lookup in new helper functions. The helpers establish a
pattern where it is the dentry that is being locked and unlocked
(currently the lock is held on dentry->d_parent->d_inode, but that can
change in the future).
This also changes vfs_mkdir() to unlock the parent on failure, as well
as dput()ing the dentry. This allows end_creating() to only require
the target dentry (which may be IS_ERR() after vfs_mkdir()), not the
parent"
* tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.directory.locking' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
nfsd: fix end_creating() conversion
VFS: introduce end_creating_keep()
VFS: change vfs_mkdir() to unlock on failure.
ecryptfs: use new start_creating/start_removing APIs
Add start_renaming_two_dentries()
VFS/ovl/smb: introduce start_renaming_dentry()
VFS/nfsd/ovl: introduce start_renaming() and end_renaming()
VFS: add start_creating_killable() and start_removing_killable()
VFS: introduce start_removing_dentry()
smb/server: use end_removing_noperm for for target of smb2_create_link()
VFS: introduce start_creating_noperm() and start_removing_noperm()
VFS/nfsd/cachefiles/ovl: introduce start_removing() and end_removing()
VFS/nfsd/cachefiles/ovl: add start_creating() and end_creating()
VFS: tidy up do_unlinkat()
VFS: introduce start_dirop() and end_dirop()
debugfs: rename end_creating() to debugfs_end_creating()
vfs_mkdir() already drops the reference to the dentry on failure but it
leaves the parent locked.
This complicates end_creating() which needs to unlock the parent even
though the dentry is no longer available.
If we change vfs_mkdir() to unlock on failure as well as releasing the
dentry, we can remove the "parent" arg from end_creating() and simplify
the rules for calling it.
Note that cachefiles_get_directory() can choose to substitute an error
instead of actually calling vfs_mkdir(), for fault injection. In that
case it needs to call end_creating(), just as vfs_mkdir() now does on
error.
ovl_create_real() will now unlock on error. So the conditional
end_creating() after the call is removed, and end_creating() is called
internally on error.
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Tested-by: syzbot@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251113002050.676694-15-neilb@ownmail.net
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
start_removing_dentry() is similar to start_removing() but instead of
providing a name for lookup, the target dentry is given.
start_removing_dentry() checks that the dentry is still hashed and in
the parent, and if so it locks and increases the refcount so that
end_removing() can be used to finish the operation.
This is used in cachefiles, overlayfs, smb/server, and apparmor.
There will be other users including ecryptfs.
As start_removing_dentry() takes an extra reference to the dentry (to be
put by end_removing()), there is no need to explicitly take an extra
reference to stop d_delete() from using dentry_unlink_inode() to negate
the dentry - as in cachefiles_delete_object(), and ksmbd_vfs_unlink().
cachefiles_bury_object() now gets an extra ref to the victim, which is
drops. As it includes the needed end_removing() calls, the caller
doesn't need them.
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251113002050.676694-9-neilb@ownmail.net
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
start_removing() is similar to start_creating() but will only return a
positive dentry with the expectation that it will be removed. This is
used by nfsd, cachefiles, and overlayfs. They are changed to also use
end_removing() to terminate the action begun by start_removing(). This
is a simple alias for end_dirop().
Apart from changes to the error paths, as we no longer need to unlock on
a lookup error, an effect on callers is that they don't need to test if
the found dentry is positive or negative - they can be sure it is
positive.
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251113002050.676694-6-neilb@ownmail.net
Tested-by: syzbot@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
start_creating() is similar to simple_start_creating() but is not so
simple.
It takes a qstr for the name, includes permission checking, and does NOT
report an error if the name already exists, returning a positive dentry
instead.
This is currently used by nfsd, cachefiles, and overlayfs.
end_creating() is called after the dentry has been used.
end_creating() drops the reference to the dentry as it is generally no
longer needed. This is exactly the first section of end_creating_path()
so that function is changed to call the new end_creating()
These calls help encapsulate locking rules so that directory locking can
be changed.
Occasionally this change means that the parent lock is held for a
shorter period of time, for example in cachefiles_commit_tmpfile().
As this function now unlocks after an unlink and before the following
lookup, it is possible that the lookup could again find a positive
dentry, so a while loop is introduced there.
In overlayfs the ovl_lookup_temp() function has ovl_tempname()
split out to be used in ovl_start_creating_temp(). The other use
of ovl_lookup_temp() is preparing for a rename. When rename handling
is updated, ovl_lookup_temp() will be removed.
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251113002050.676694-5-neilb@ownmail.net
Tested-by: syzbot@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
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>
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>
Pull misc VFS updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains the usual selections of misc updates for this cycle.
Features:
- Add ext4 IOCB_DONTCACHE support
This refactors the address_space_operations write_begin() and
write_end() callbacks to take const struct kiocb * as their first
argument, allowing IOCB flags such as IOCB_DONTCACHE to propagate
to the filesystem's buffered I/O path.
Ext4 is updated to implement handling of the IOCB_DONTCACHE flag
and advertises support via the FOP_DONTCACHE file operation flag.
Additionally, the i915 driver's shmem write paths are updated to
bypass the legacy write_begin/write_end interface in favor of
directly calling write_iter() with a constructed synchronous kiocb.
Another i915 change replaces a manual write loop with
kernel_write() during GEM shmem object creation.
Cleanups:
- don't duplicate vfs_open() in kernel_file_open()
- proc_fd_getattr(): don't bother with S_ISDIR() check
- fs/ecryptfs: replace snprintf with sysfs_emit in show function
- vfs: Remove unnecessary list_for_each_entry_safe() from
evict_inodes()
- filelock: add new locks_wake_up_waiter() helper
- fs: Remove three arguments from block_write_end()
- VFS: change old_dir and new_dir in struct renamedata to dentrys
- netfs: Remove unused declaration netfs_queue_write_request()
Fixes:
- eventpoll: Fix semi-unbounded recursion
- eventpoll: fix sphinx documentation build warning
- fs/read_write: Fix spelling typo
- fs: annotate data race between poll_schedule_timeout() and
pollwake()
- fs/pipe: set FMODE_NOWAIT in create_pipe_files()
- docs/vfs: update references to i_mutex to i_rwsem
- fs/buffer: remove comment about hard sectorsize
- fs/buffer: remove the min and max limit checks in __getblk_slow()
- fs/libfs: don't assume blocksize <= PAGE_SIZE in
generic_check_addressable
- fs_context: fix parameter name in infofc() macro
- fs: Prevent file descriptor table allocations exceeding INT_MAX"
* tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (24 commits)
netfs: Remove unused declaration netfs_queue_write_request()
eventpoll: fix sphinx documentation build warning
ext4: support uncached buffered I/O
mm/pagemap: add write_begin_get_folio() helper function
fs: change write_begin/write_end interface to take struct kiocb *
drm/i915: Refactor shmem_pwrite() to use kiocb and write_iter
drm/i915: Use kernel_write() in shmem object create
eventpoll: Fix semi-unbounded recursion
vfs: Remove unnecessary list_for_each_entry_safe() from evict_inodes()
fs/libfs: don't assume blocksize <= PAGE_SIZE in generic_check_addressable
fs/buffer: remove the min and max limit checks in __getblk_slow()
fs: Prevent file descriptor table allocations exceeding INT_MAX
fs: Remove three arguments from block_write_end()
fs/ecryptfs: replace snprintf with sysfs_emit in show function
fs: annotate suspected data race between poll_schedule_timeout() and pollwake()
docs/vfs: update references to i_mutex to i_rwsem
fs/buffer: remove comment about hard sectorsize
fs_context: fix parameter name in infofc() macro
VFS: change old_dir and new_dir in struct renamedata to dentrys
proc_fd_getattr(): don't bother with S_ISDIR() check
...
In __cachefiles_write(), if the return value of the write operation > 0, it
is set to 0. This makes it impossible to distinguish scenarios where a
partial write has occurred, and will affect the outer calling functions:
1) cachefiles_write_complete() will call "term_func" such as
netfs_write_subrequest_terminated(). When "ret" in __cachefiles_write()
is used as the "transferred_or_error" of this function, it can not
distinguish the amount of data written, makes the WARN meaningless.
2) cachefiles_ondemand_fd_write_iter() can only assume all writes were
successful by default when "ret" is 0, and unconditionally return the full
length specified by user space.
Fix it by modifying "ret" to reflect the actual number of bytes written.
Furthermore, returning a value greater than 0 from __cachefiles_write()
does not affect other call paths, such as cachefiles_issue_write() and
fscache_write().
Fixes: 047487c947 ("cachefiles: Implement the I/O routines")
Signed-off-by: Zizhi Wo <wozizhi@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250703024418.2809353-1-wozizhi@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
all users of 'struct renamedata' have the dentry for the old and new
directories, and often have no use for the inode except to store it in
the renamedata.
This patch changes struct renamedata to hold the dentry, rather than
the inode, for the old and new directories, and changes callers to
match. The names are also changed from a _dir suffix to _parent. This
is consistent with other usage in namei.c and elsewhere.
This results in the removal of several local variables and several
dereferences of ->d_inode at the cost of adding ->d_inode dereferences
to vfs_rename().
Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Reviewed-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/174977089072.608730.4244531834577097454@noble.neil.brown.name
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Pull netfs updates from Christian Brauner:
- The main API document has been extensively updated/rewritten
- Fix an oops in write-retry due to mis-resetting the I/O iterator
- Fix the recording of transferred bytes for short DIO reads
- Fix a request's work item to not require a reference, thereby
avoiding the need to get rid of it in BH/IRQ context
- Fix waiting and waking to be consistent about the waitqueue used
- Remove NETFS_SREQ_SEEK_DATA_READ, NETFS_INVALID_WRITE,
NETFS_ICTX_WRITETHROUGH, NETFS_READ_HOLE_CLEAR,
NETFS_RREQ_DONT_UNLOCK_FOLIOS, and NETFS_RREQ_BLOCKED
- Reorder structs to eliminate holes
- Remove netfs_io_request::ractl
- Only provide proc_link field if CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
- Remove folio_queue::marks3
- Fix undifferentiation of DIO reads from unbuffered reads
* tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.netfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
netfs: Fix undifferentiation of DIO reads from unbuffered reads
netfs: Fix wait/wake to be consistent about the waitqueue used
netfs: Fix the request's work item to not require a ref
netfs: Fix setting of transferred bytes with short DIO reads
netfs: Fix oops in write-retry from mis-resetting the subreq iterator
fs/netfs: remove unused flag NETFS_RREQ_BLOCKED
fs/netfs: remove unused flag NETFS_RREQ_DONT_UNLOCK_FOLIOS
folio_queue: remove unused field `marks3`
fs/netfs: declare field `proc_link` only if CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
fs/netfs: remove `netfs_io_request.ractl`
fs/netfs: reorder struct fields to eliminate holes
fs/netfs: remove unused enum choice NETFS_READ_HOLE_CLEAR
fs/netfs: remove unused flag NETFS_ICTX_WRITETHROUGH
fs/netfs: remove unused source NETFS_INVALID_WRITE
fs/netfs: remove unused flag NETFS_SREQ_SEEK_DATA_READ
Pull vfs directory lookup updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains cleanups for the lookup_one*() family of helpers.
We expose a set of functions with names containing "lookup_one_len"
and others without the "_len". This difference has nothing to do with
"len". It's rater a historical accident that can be confusing.
The functions without "_len" take a "mnt_idmap" pointer. This is found
in the "vfsmount" and that is an important question when choosing
which to use: do you have a vfsmount, or are you "inside" the
filesystem. A related question is "is permission checking relevant
here?".
nfsd and cachefiles *do* have a vfsmount but *don't* use the non-_len
functions. They pass nop_mnt_idmap and refuse to work on filesystems
which have any other idmap.
This work changes nfsd and cachefile to use the lookup_one family of
functions and to explictily pass &nop_mnt_idmap which is consistent
with all other vfs interfaces used where &nop_mnt_idmap is explicitly
passed.
The remaining uses of the "_one" functions do not require permission
checks so these are renamed to be "_noperm" and the permission
checking is removed.
This series also changes these lookup function to take a qstr instead
of separate name and len. In many cases this simplifies the call"
* tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.async.dir' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
VFS: change lookup_one_common and lookup_noperm_common to take a qstr
Use try_lookup_noperm() instead of d_hash_and_lookup() outside of VFS
VFS: rename lookup_one_len family to lookup_noperm and remove permission check
cachefiles: Use lookup_one() rather than lookup_one_len()
nfsd: Use lookup_one() rather than lookup_one_len()
VFS: improve interface for lookup_one functions
When the netfs_io_request struct's work item is queued, it must be supplied
with a ref to the work item struct to prevent it being deallocated whilst
on the queue or whilst it is being processed. This is tricky to manage as
we have to get a ref before we try and queue it and then we may find it's
already queued and is thus already holding a ref - in which case we have to
try and get rid of the ref again.
The problem comes if we're in BH or IRQ context and need to drop the ref:
if netfs_put_request() reduces the count to 0, we have to do the cleanup -
but the cleanup may need to wait.
Fix this by adding a new work item to the request, ->cleanup_work, and
dispatching that when the refcount hits zero. That can then synchronously
cancel any outstanding work on the main work item before doing the cleanup.
Adding a new work item also deals with another problem upstream where it's
sometimes changing the work func in the put function and requeuing it -
which has occasionally in the past caused the cleanup to happen
incorrectly.
As a bonus, this allows us to get rid of the 'was_async' parameter from a
bunch of functions. This indicated whether the put function might not be
permitted to sleep.
Fixes: 3d3c950467 ("netfs: Provide readahead and readpage netfs helpers")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250519090707.2848510-4-dhowells@redhat.com
cc: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
All of these cases are perfectly valid and good traditional C, but hit
by the "you're not NUL-terminating your byte array" warning.
And none of the cases want any terminating NUL character.
Mark them __nonstring to shut up gcc-15 (and in the case of the ak8974
magnetometer driver, I just removed the explicit array size and let gcc
expand the 3-byte and 6-byte arrays by one extra byte, because it was
the simpler change).
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
cachefiles uses some VFS interfaces (such as vfs_mkdir) which take an
explicit mnt_idmap, and it passes &nop_mnt_idmap as cachefiles doesn't
yet support idmapped mounts.
It also uses the lookup_one_len() family of functions which implicitly
use &nop_mnt_idmap. This mixture of implicit and explicit could be
confusing. When we eventually update cachefiles to support idmap mounts it
would be best if all places which need an idmap determined from the
mount point were similar and easily found.
So this patch changes cachefiles to use lookup_one(), lookup_one_unlocked(),
and lookup_one_positive_unlocked(), passing &nop_mnt_idmap.
This has the benefit of removing the remaining user of the
lookup_one_len functions where permission checking is actually needed.
Other callers don't care about permission checking and using these
function only where permission checking is needed is a valuable
simplification.
This requires passing the name in a qstr. This is easily done with
QSTR() as the name is always nul terminated, and often strlen is used
anyway. ->d_name_len is removed as no longer useful.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250319031545.2999807-4-neil@brown.name
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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