Pull dcache busy loop updates from Al Viro:
"Fix livelocks in shrink_dcache_tree()
If shrink_dcache_tree() finds a dentry in the middle of being killed
by another thread, it has to wait until the victim finishes dying,
gets detached from the tree and ceases to pin its parent.
The way we used to deal with that amounted to busy-wait;
unfortunately, it's not just inefficient but can lead to reliably
reproducible hard livelocks.
Solved by having shrink_dentry_tree() attach a completion to such
dentry, with dentry_unlist() calling complete() on all objects
attached to it. With a bit of care it can be done without growing
struct dentry or adding overhead in normal case"
* tag 'pull-dcache-busy-wait' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
get rid of busy-waiting in shrink_dcache_tree()
dcache.c: more idiomatic "positives are not allowed" sanity checks
struct dentry: make ->d_u anonymous
for_each_alias(): helper macro for iterating through dentries of given inode
Pull smb client updates from Steve French:
- Fix EAs bounds check
- Fix OOB read in symlink response parsing
- Add support for creating tmpfiles
- Minor debug improvement for mount failure
- Minor crypto cleanup
- Add missing module description
- mount fix for lease vs. nolease
- Add Metze as maintainer for smbdirect
- Minor error mapping header cleanup
- Improve search speed of SMB1 maperror
- Fix potential null ptr ref in smb2 map error tests
* tag 'v7.1-rc1-part1-smb3-client-fixes' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6: (26 commits)
smb: client: allow both 'lease' and 'nolease' mount options
smb: client: get rid of d_drop()+d_add()
smb: client: set ATTR_TEMPORARY with O_TMPFILE | O_EXCL
smb: client: add support for O_TMPFILE
vfs: introduce d_mark_tmpfile_name()
MAINTAINERS: create entry for smbdirect
smb: client: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() to smb1maperror_test
smb: client: fix OOB reads parsing symlink error response
smb: client: fix off-by-8 bounds check in check_wsl_eas()
smb: client: Remove unnecessary selection of CRYPTO_ECB
smb/client: move smb2maperror declarations to smb2proto.h
smb/client: introduce KUnit tests to check DOS/SRV err mapping search
smb/client: check if SMB1 DOS/SRV error mapping arrays are sorted
smb/client: use binary search for SMB1 DOS/SRV error mapping
smb/client: autogenerate SMB1 DOS/SRV to POSIX error mapping
smb/client: annotate smberr.h with POSIX error codes
smb/client: move ERRnetlogonNotStarted to DOS error class
smb/client: introduce KUnit test to check ntstatus_to_dos_map search
smb/client: check if ntstatus_to_dos_map is sorted
smb/client: use binary search for NT status to DOS mapping
...
If shrink_dcache_tree() runs into a potential victim that is already
dying, it must wait for that dentry to go away. To avoid busy-waiting
we need some object to wait on and a way for dentry_unlist() to see that
we need to be notified.
The obvious place for the object to wait on would be on our stack frame.
We will store a pointer to that object (struct completion_list) in victim
dentry; if there's more than one thread wanting to wait for the same
dentry to finish dying, we'll have their instances linked into a list,
with reference in dentry pointing to the head of that list.
* new object - struct completion_list. A pair of struct completion and
pointer to the next instance. That's what shrink_dcache_tree() will wait
on if needed.
* add a new member (->waiters, opaque pointer to struct completion_list)
to struct dentry. It is defined for negative live dentries that are
not in-lookup ones and it will remain NULL for almost all of them.
It does not conflict with ->d_rcu (defined for killed dentries), ->d_alias
(defined for positive dentries, all live) or ->d_in_lookup_hash (defined
for in-lookup dentries, all live negative). That allows to colocate
all four members.
* make sure that all places where dentry enters the state where ->waiters
is defined (live, negative, not-in-lookup) initialize ->waiters to NULL.
* if select_collect2() runs into a dentry that is already dying, have
its caller insert a local instance of struct completion_list into the
head of the list hanging off dentry->waiters and wait for completion.
* if dentry_unlist() sees non-NULL ->waiters, have it carefully walk
through the completion_list instances in that list, calling complete()
for each.
For now struct completion_list is local to fs/dcache.c; it's obviously
dentry-agnostic, and it can be trivially lifted into linux/completion.h
if somebody finds a reason to do so...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Several functions have BUG_ON/WARN_ON sanity checks that want to verify
that dentry is not positive and instead of looking at ->d_inode (as we
do in all other places that check that) they look at ->d_alias.
Just use the normal helpers instead - that way we no longer even look
at ->d_alias for negative dentries
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Making ->d_rcu and (then) ->d_child overlapping dates back to
2006; anon unions support had been added to gcc only in 4.6
(2011) and the minimal gcc version hadn't been bumped to that
until 4.19 (2018).
These days there's no reason not to keep that union named.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Most of the places using d_alias are loops iterating through all aliases for
given inode; introduce a helper macro (for_each_alias(dentry, inode))
and convert open-coded instances of such loop to it.
They are easier to read that way and it reduces the noise on the next steps.
You _must_ hold inode->i_lock over that thing.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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>
There is an OOB read problem on dentry_hashtable when user sets
'dhash_entries=1':
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff888b30b774b0
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
RIP: 0010:__d_lookup+0x56/0x120
Call Trace:
d_lookup.cold+0x16/0x5d
lookup_dcache+0x27/0xf0
lookup_one_qstr_excl+0x2a/0x180
start_dirop+0x55/0xa0
simple_start_creating+0x8d/0xa0
debugfs_start_creating+0x8c/0x180
debugfs_create_dir+0x1d/0x1c0
pinctrl_init+0x6d/0x140
do_one_initcall+0x6d/0x3d0
kernel_init_freeable+0x39f/0x460
kernel_init+0x2a/0x260
There will be only one bucket in dentry_hashtable when dhash_entries is
set as one, and d_hash_shift is calculated as 32 by dcache_init(). Then,
following process will access more than one buckets(which memory region
is not allocated) in dentry_hashtable:
d_lookup
b = d_hash(hash)
dentry_hashtable + ((u32)hashlen >> d_hash_shift)
// The C standard defines the behavior of right shift amounts
// exceeding the bit width of the operand as undefined. The
// result of '(u32)hashlen >> d_hash_shift' becomes 'hashlen',
// so 'b' will point to an unallocated memory region.
hlist_bl_for_each_entry_rcu(b)
hlist_bl_first_rcu(head)
h->first // read OOB!
Fix it by limiting the minimal number of dentry_hashtable bucket to two,
so that 'd_hash_shift' won't exceeds the bit width of type u32.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@huawei.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260130034853.215819-1-chengzhihao1@huawei.com
Reviewed-by: Yang Erkun <yangerkun@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Pull more misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"Features:
- Optimize close_range() from O(range size) to O(active FDs) by using
find_next_bit() on the open_fds bitmap instead of linearly scanning
the entire requested range. This is a significant improvement for
large-range close operations on sparse file descriptor tables.
- Add FS_XFLAG_VERITY file attribute for fs-verity files, retrievable
via FS_IOC_FSGETXATTR and file_getattr(). The flag is read-only.
Add tracepoints for fs-verity enable and verify operations,
replacing the previously removed debug printk's.
- Prevent nfsd from exporting special kernel filesystems like pidfs
and nsfs. These filesystems have custom ->open() and ->permission()
export methods that are designed for open_by_handle_at(2) only and
are incompatible with nfsd. Update the exportfs documentation
accordingly.
Fixes:
- Fix KMSAN uninit-value in ovl_fill_real() where strcmp() was used
on a non-null-terminated decrypted directory entry name from
fscrypt. This triggered on encrypted lower layers when the
decrypted name buffer contained uninitialized tail data.
The fix also adds VFS-level name_is_dot(), name_is_dotdot(), and
name_is_dot_dotdot() helpers, replacing various open-coded "." and
".." checks across the tree.
- Fix read-only fsflags not being reset together with xflags in
vfs_fileattr_set(). Currently harmless since no read-only xflags
overlap with flags, but this would cause inconsistencies for any
future shared read-only flag
- Return -EREMOTE instead of -ESRCH from PIDFD_GET_INFO when the
target process is in a different pid namespace. This lets userspace
distinguish "process exited" from "process in another namespace",
matching glibc's pidfd_getpid() behavior
Cleanups:
- Use C-string literals in the Rust seq_file bindings, replacing the
kernel::c_str!() macro (available since Rust 1.77)
- Fix typo in d_walk_ret enum comment, add porting notes for the
readlink_copy() calling convention change"
* tag 'vfs-7.0-rc1.misc.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
fs: add porting notes about readlink_copy()
pidfs: return -EREMOTE when PIDFD_GET_INFO is called on another ns
nfsd: do not allow exporting of special kernel filesystems
exportfs: clarify the documentation of open()/permission() expotrfs ops
fsverity: add tracepoints
fs: add FS_XFLAG_VERITY for fs-verity files
rust: seq_file: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
fs: dcache: fix typo in enum d_walk_ret comment
ovl: use name_is_dot* helpers in readdir code
fs: add helpers name_is_dot{,dot,_dotdot}
ovl: Fix uninit-value in ovl_fill_real
fs: reset read-only fsflags together with xflags
fs/file: optimize close_range() complexity from O(N) to O(Sparse)
Pull vfs 'struct filename' updates from Al Viro:
"[Mostly] sanitize struct filename handling"
* tag 'pull-filename' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (68 commits)
sysfs(2): fs_index() argument is _not_ a pathname
alpha: switch osf_mount() to strndup_user()
ksmbd: use CLASS(filename_kernel)
mqueue: switch to CLASS(filename)
user_statfs(): switch to CLASS(filename)
statx: switch to CLASS(filename_maybe_null)
quotactl_block(): switch to CLASS(filename)
chroot(2): switch to CLASS(filename)
move_mount(2): switch to CLASS(filename_maybe_null)
namei.c: switch user pathname imports to CLASS(filename{,_flags})
namei.c: convert getname_kernel() callers to CLASS(filename_kernel)
do_f{chmod,chown,access}at(): use CLASS(filename_uflags)
do_readlinkat(): switch to CLASS(filename_flags)
do_sys_truncate(): switch to CLASS(filename)
do_utimes_path(): switch to CLASS(filename_uflags)
chdir(2): unspaghettify a bit...
do_fchownat(): unspaghettify a bit...
fspick(2): use CLASS(filename_flags)
name_to_handle_at(): use CLASS(filename_uflags)
vfs_open_tree(): use CLASS(filename_uflags)
...
Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains a mix of VFS cleanups, performance improvements, API
fixes, documentation, and a deprecation notice.
Scalability and performance:
- Rework pid allocation to only take pidmap_lock once instead of
twice during alloc_pid(), improving thread creation/teardown
throughput by 10-16% depending on false-sharing luck. Pad the
namespace refcount to reduce false-sharing
- Track file lock presence via a flag in ->i_opflags instead of
reading ->i_flctx, avoiding false-sharing with ->i_readcount on
open/close hot paths. Measured 4-16% improvement on 24-core
open-in-a-loop benchmarks
- Use a consume fence in locks_inode_context() to match the
store-release/load-consume idiom, eliminating a hardware fence on
some architectures
- Annotate cdev_lock with __cacheline_aligned_in_smp to prevent
false-sharing
- Remove a redundant DCACHE_MANAGED_DENTRY check in
__follow_mount_rcu() that never fires since the caller already
verifies it, eliminating a 100% mispredicted branch
- Fix a 100% mispredicted likely() in devcgroup_inode_permission()
that became wrong after a prior code reorder
Bug fixes and correctness:
- Make insert_inode_locked() wait for inode destruction instead of
skipping, fixing a corner case where two matching inodes could
exist in the hash
- Move f_mode initialization before file_ref_init() in alloc_file()
to respect the SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU ordering contract
- Add a WARN_ON_ONCE guard in try_to_free_buffers() for folios with
no buffers attached, preventing a null pointer dereference when
AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS is set but no release_folio op exists
- Fix select restart_block to store end_time as timespec64, avoiding
truncation of tv_sec on 32-bit architectures
- Make dump_inode() use get_kernel_nofault() to safely access inode
and superblock fields, matching the dump_mapping() pattern
API modernization:
- Make posix_acl_to_xattr() allocate the buffer internally since
every single caller was doing it anyway. Reduces boilerplate and
unnecessary error checking across ~15 filesystems
- Replace deprecated simple_strtoul() with kstrtoul() for the
ihash_entries, dhash_entries, mhash_entries, and mphash_entries
boot parameters, adding proper error handling
- Convert chardev code to use guard(mutex) and __free(kfree) cleanup
patterns
- Replace min_t() with min() or umin() in VFS code to avoid silently
truncating unsigned long to unsigned int
- Gate LOOKUP_RCU assertions behind CONFIG_DEBUG_VFS since callers
already check the flag
Deprecation:
- Begin deprecating legacy BSD process accounting (acct(2)). The
interface has numerous footguns and better alternatives exist
(eBPF)
Documentation:
- Fix and complete kernel-doc for struct export_operations, removing
duplicated documentation between ReST and source
- Fix kernel-doc warnings for __start_dirop() and ilookup5_nowait()
Testing:
- Add a kunit test for initramfs cpio handling of entries with
filesize > PATH_MAX
Misc:
- Add missing <linux/init_task.h> include in fs_struct.c"
* tag 'vfs-7.0-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (28 commits)
posix_acl: make posix_acl_to_xattr() alloc the buffer
fs: make insert_inode_locked() wait for inode destruction
initramfs_test: kunit test for cpio.filesize > PATH_MAX
fs: improve dump_inode() to safely access inode fields
fs: add <linux/init_task.h> for 'init_fs'
docs: exportfs: Use source code struct documentation
fs: move initializing f_mode before file_ref_init()
exportfs: Complete kernel-doc for struct export_operations
exportfs: Mark struct export_operations functions at kernel-doc
exportfs: Fix kernel-doc output for get_name()
acct(2): begin the deprecation of legacy BSD process accounting
device_cgroup: remove branch hint after code refactor
VFS: fix __start_dirop() kernel-doc warnings
fs: Describe @isnew parameter in ilookup5_nowait()
fs/namei: Remove redundant DCACHE_MANAGED_DENTRY check in __follow_mount_rcu
fs: only assert on LOOKUP_RCU when built with CONFIG_DEBUG_VFS
select: store end_time as timespec64 in restart block
chardev: Switch to guard(mutex) and __free(kfree)
namespace: Replace simple_strtoul with kstrtoul to parse boot params
dcache: Replace simple_strtoul with kstrtoul in set_dhash_entries
...
Instances of struct filename come from names_cachep (via
__getname()). That is done by getname_flags() and getname_kernel()
and these two are the main callers of __getname(). However, there are
other callers that simply want to allocate PATH_MAX bytes for uses that
have nothing to do with struct filename.
We want saner allocation rules for long pathnames, so that struct
filename would *always* come from names_cachep, with the out-of-line
pathname getting kmalloc'ed. For that we need to be able to change the
size of objects allocated by getname_flags()/getname_kernel().
That requires the rest of __getname() users to stop using
names_cachep; we could explicitly switch all of those to kmalloc(),
but that would cause quite a bit of noise. So the plan is to switch
getname_...() to new helpers and turn __getname() into a wrapper for
kmalloc(). Remaining __getname() users could be converted to explicit
kmalloc() at leisure, hopefully along with figuring out what size do
they really want - PATH_MAX is an overkill for some of them, used out
of laziness ("we have a convenient helper that does 4K allocations and
that's large enough, let's use it").
As a side benefit, names_cachep is no longer used outside
of fs/namei.c, so we can move it there and be done with that.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Replace simple_strtoul() with the recommended kstrtoul() for parsing the
'dhash_entries=' boot parameter.
Check the return value of kstrtoul() and reject invalid values. This
adds error handling while preserving behavior for existing values, and
removes use of the deprecated simple_strtoul() helper.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251216145236.44520-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Pull fuse updates from Miklos Szeredi:
- Add mechanism for cleaning out unused, stale dentries; controlled via
a module option (Luis Henriques)
- Fix various bugs
- Cleanups
* tag 'fuse-update-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
fuse: Uninitialized variable in fuse_epoch_work()
fuse: fix io-uring list corruption for terminated non-committed requests
fuse: signal that a fuse inode should exhibit local fs behaviors
fuse: Always flush the page cache before FOPEN_DIRECT_IO write
fuse: Invalidate the page cache after FOPEN_DIRECT_IO write
fuse: rename 'namelen' to 'namesize'
fuse: use strscpy instead of strcpy
fuse: refactor fuse_conn_put() to remove negative logic.
fuse: new work queue to invalidate dentries from old epochs
fuse: new work queue to periodically invalidate expired dentries
dcache: export shrink_dentry_list() and add new helper d_dispose_if_unused()
fuse: add WARN_ON and comment for RCU revalidate
fuse: Fix whitespace for fuse_uring_args_to_ring() comment
fuse: missing copy_finish in fuse-over-io-uring argument copies
fuse: fix readahead reclaim deadlock
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
...
Pull vfs inode updates from Christian Brauner:
"Features:
- Hide inode->i_state behind accessors. Open-coded accesses prevent
asserting they are done correctly. One obvious aspect is locking,
but significantly more can be 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)
- Provide accessors for ->i_state, converts all filesystems using
coccinelle and manual conversions (btrfs, ceph, smb, f2fs, gfs2,
overlayfs, nilfs2, xfs), and makes plain ->i_state access fail to
compile
- Rework I_NEW handling to operate without fences, simplifying the
code after the accessor infrastructure is in place
Cleanups:
- Move wait_on_inode() from writeback.h to fs.h
- Spell out fenced ->i_state accesses with explicit smp_wmb/smp_rmb
for clarity
- Cosmetic fixes to LRU handling
- Push list presence check into inode_io_list_del()
- Touch up predicts in __d_lookup_rcu()
- ocfs2: retire ocfs2_drop_inode() and I_WILL_FREE usage
- Assert on ->i_count in iput_final()
- Assert ->i_lock held in __iget()
Fixes:
- Add missing fences to I_NEW handling"
* tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.inode' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (22 commits)
dcache: touch up predicts in __d_lookup_rcu()
fs: push list presence check into inode_io_list_del()
fs: cosmetic fixes to lru handling
fs: rework I_NEW handling to operate without fences
fs: make plain ->i_state access fail to compile
xfs: use the new ->i_state accessors
nilfs2: use the new ->i_state accessors
overlayfs: use the new ->i_state accessors
gfs2: use the new ->i_state accessors
f2fs: use the new ->i_state accessors
smb: use the new ->i_state accessors
ceph: use the new ->i_state accessors
btrfs: use the new ->i_state accessors
Manual conversion to use ->i_state accessors of all places not covered by coccinelle
Coccinelle-based conversion to use ->i_state accessors
fs: provide accessors for ->i_state
fs: spell out fenced ->i_state accesses with explicit smp_wmb/smp_rmb
fs: move wait_on_inode() from writeback.h to fs.h
fs: add missing fences to I_NEW handling
ocfs2: retire ocfs2_drop_inode() and I_WILL_FREE usage
...
Rationale is that if the parent dentry is the same and the length is the
same, then you have to be unlucky for the name to not match.
At the same time the dentry was literally just found on the hash, so you
have to be even more unlucky to determine it is unhashed.
While here add commentary while d_unhashed() is necessary. It was
already removed once and brought back in:
2e321806b6 ("Revert "vfs: remove unnecessary d_unhashed() check from __d_lookup_rcu"")
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251127131526.4137768-1-mjguzik@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
At this point there are very few call chains that might lead to
d_make_discardable() on a dentry that hadn't been made persistent:
calls of simple_unlink() and simple_rmdir() in configfs and
apparmorfs.
Both filesystems do pin (part of) their contents in dcache, but
they are currently playing very unusual games with that. Converting
them to more usual patterns might be possible, but it's definitely
going to be a long series of changes in both cases.
For now the easiest solution is to have both stop using simple_unlink()
and simple_rmdir() - that allows to make d_make_discardable() warn
when given a non-persistent dentry.
Rather than giving them full-blown private copies (with calls of
d_make_discardable() replaced with dput()), let's pull the parts of
simple_unlink() and simple_rmdir() that deal with timestamps and link
counts into separate helpers (__simple_unlink() and __simple_rmdir()
resp.) and have those used by configfs and apparmorfs.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Linus Torvalds
Paulo AlcantaraandSteve French
Al Viro
Jeff LaytonandChristian Brauner
Zhihao ChengandChristian Brauner
Chelsy RatnawatandChristian Brauner
Miklos SzerediandChristian Brauner
Thorsten BlumandChristian Brauner
Mateusz GuzikandChristian Brauner