Pull driver core updates from Danilo Krummrich:
"debugfs:
- Fix NULL pointer dereference in debugfs_create_str()
- Fix misplaced EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for debugfs_create_str()
- Fix soundwire debugfs NULL pointer dereference from uninitialized
firmware_file
device property:
- Make fwnode flags modifications thread safe; widen the field to
unsigned long and use set_bit() / clear_bit() based accessors
- Document how to check for the property presence
devres:
- Separate struct devres_node from its "subclasses" (struct devres,
struct devres_group); give struct devres_node its own release and
free callbacks for per-type dispatch
- Introduce struct devres_action for devres actions, avoiding the
ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN alignment overhead of struct devres
- Export struct devres_node and its init/add/remove/dbginfo
primitives for use by Rust Devres<T>
- Fix missing node debug info in devm_krealloc()
- Use guard(spinlock_irqsave) where applicable; consolidate unlock
paths in devres_release_group()
driver_override:
- Convert PCI, WMI, vdpa, s390/cio, s390/ap, and fsl-mc to the
generic driver_override infrastructure, replacing per-bus
driver_override strings, sysfs attributes, and match logic; fixes a
potential UAF from unsynchronized access to driver_override in bus
match() callbacks
- Simplify __device_set_driver_override() logic
kernfs:
- Send IN_DELETE_SELF and IN_IGNORED inotify events on kernfs file
and directory removal
- Add corresponding selftests for memcg
platform:
- Allow attaching software nodes when creating platform devices via a
new 'swnode' field in struct platform_device_info
- Add kerneldoc for struct platform_device_info
software node:
- Move software node initialization from postcore_initcall() to
driver_init(), making it available early in the boot process
- Move kernel_kobj initialization (ksysfs_init) earlier to support
the above
- Remove software_node_exit(); dead code in a built-in unit
SoC:
- Introduce of_machine_read_compatible() and of_machine_read_model()
OF helpers and export soc_attr_read_machine() to replace direct
accesses to of_root from SoC drivers; also enables
CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST coverage for these drivers
sysfs:
- Constify attribute group array pointers to
'const struct attribute_group *const *' in sysfs functions,
device_add_groups() / device_remove_groups(), and struct class
Rust:
- Devres:
- Embed struct devres_node directly in Devres<T> instead of going
through devm_add_action(), avoiding the extra allocation and the
unnecessary ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN alignment
- I/O:
- Turn IoCapable from a marker trait into a functional trait
carrying the raw I/O accessor implementation (io_read /
io_write), providing working defaults for the per-type Io
methods
- Add RelaxedMmio wrapper type, making relaxed accessors usable in
code generic over the Io trait
- Remove overloaded per-type Io methods and per-backend macros
from Mmio and PCI ConfigSpace
- I/O (Register):
- Add IoLoc trait and generic read/write/update methods to the Io
trait, making I/O operations parameterizable by typed locations
- Add register! macro for defining hardware register types with
typed bitfield accessors backed by Bounded values; supports
direct, relative, and array register addressing
- Add write_reg() / try_write_reg() and LocatedRegister trait
- Update PCI sample driver to demonstrate the register! macro
Example:
```
register! {
/// UART control register.
CTRL(u32) @ 0x18 {
/// Receiver enable.
19:19 rx_enable => bool;
/// Parity configuration.
14:13 parity ?=> Parity;
}
/// FIFO watermark and counter register.
WATER(u32) @ 0x2c {
/// Number of datawords in the receive FIFO.
26:24 rx_count;
/// RX interrupt threshold.
17:16 rx_water;
}
}
impl WATER {
fn rx_above_watermark(&self) -> bool {
self.rx_count() > self.rx_water()
}
}
fn init(bar: &pci::Bar<BAR0_SIZE>) {
let water = WATER::zeroed()
.with_const_rx_water::<1>(); // > 3 would not compile
bar.write_reg(water);
let ctrl = CTRL::zeroed()
.with_parity(Parity::Even)
.with_rx_enable(true);
bar.write_reg(ctrl);
}
fn handle_rx(bar: &pci::Bar<BAR0_SIZE>) {
if bar.read(WATER).rx_above_watermark() {
// drain the FIFO
}
}
fn set_parity(bar: &pci::Bar<BAR0_SIZE>, parity: Parity) {
bar.update(CTRL, |r| r.with_parity(parity));
}
```
- IRQ:
- Move 'static bounds from where clauses to trait declarations for
IRQ handler traits
- Misc:
- Enable the generic_arg_infer Rust feature
- Extend Bounded with shift operations, single-bit bool
conversion, and const get()
Misc:
- Make deferred_probe_timeout default a Kconfig option
- Drop auxiliary_dev_pm_ops; the PM core falls back to driver PM
callbacks when no bus type PM ops are set
- Add conditional guard support for device_lock()
- Add ksysfs.c to the DRIVER CORE MAINTAINERS entry
- Fix kernel-doc warnings in base.h
- Fix stale reference to memory_block_add_nid() in documentation"
* tag 'driver-core-7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/driver-core/driver-core: (67 commits)
bus: fsl-mc: use generic driver_override infrastructure
s390/ap: use generic driver_override infrastructure
s390/cio: use generic driver_override infrastructure
vdpa: use generic driver_override infrastructure
platform/wmi: use generic driver_override infrastructure
PCI: use generic driver_override infrastructure
driver core: make software nodes available earlier
software node: remove software_node_exit()
kernel: ksysfs: initialize kernel_kobj earlier
MAINTAINERS: add ksysfs.c to the DRIVER CORE entry
drivers/base/memory: fix stale reference to memory_block_add_nid()
device property: Document how to check for the property presence
soundwire: debugfs: initialize firmware_file to empty string
debugfs: fix placement of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for debugfs_create_str()
debugfs: check for NULL pointer in debugfs_create_str()
driver core: Make deferred_probe_timeout default a Kconfig option
driver core: simplify __device_set_driver_override() clearing logic
driver core: auxiliary bus: Drop auxiliary_dev_pm_ops
device property: Make modifications of fwnode "flags" thread safe
rust: devres: embed struct devres_node directly
...
If a directory is already in the process of removal its i_nlink count
becomes irrelevant because its contents are also about to be removed and
any pending filesystem operations on it or its contents will soon start
to fail. So we can avoid setting it for directories already flagged for
removal.
This avoids a race in the next patch, which adds clearing of the i_nlink
count for kernfs nodes being removed to support inotify delete events.
Use protection from the kernfs_iattr_rwsem to avoid adding more
contention to the kernfs_rwsem for calls to kernfs_refresh_inode.
Signed-off-by: T.J. Mercier <tjmercier@google.com>
Tested-by: syzbot@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260225223404.783173-2-tjmercier@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Adapt kernfs to use the rhashtable-based xattr path and switch from an
embedded struct to pointer-based lazy allocation.
Change kernfs_iattrs.xattrs from embedded 'struct simple_xattrs' to a
pointer 'struct simple_xattrs *', initialized to NULL (zeroed by
kmem_cache_zalloc). Since kernfs_iattrs is already lazily allocated
itself, this adds a second level of lazy allocation specifically for
the xattr store.
The xattr store is allocated on first setxattr. Read paths
check for NULL and return -ENODATA or empty list.
Replaced xattr entries are freed via simple_xattr_free_rcu() to allow
concurrent RCU readers to finish.
The cleanup paths in kernfs_free_rcu() and __kernfs_new_node() error
handling conditionally free the xattr store only when allocated.
As Jan noted in [1]:
> This is a slight change in the lifetime rules because previously kernfs
> xattrs could be safely accessed only under RCU but after this change you
> have to hold inode reference *and* RCU to safely access them. I don't think
> anybody would be accessing xattrs without holding inode reference so this
> should be safe [...].
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260216-work-xattr-socket-v1-4-c2efa4f74cb7@kernel.org
Link:
https://lore.kernel.org/3cnmtqmakpbb2uwhenrj7kdqu3uefykiykjllgfbtpkiwhaa4s@sghkevv7jned [1]
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Userspace doesn't expect a failure to list extended attributes:
$ ls -lA /sys/
ls: /sys/: No data available
ls: /sys/kernel: No data available
ls: /sys/power: No data available
ls: /sys/class: No data available
ls: /sys/devices: No data available
ls: /sys/dev: No data available
ls: /sys/hypervisor: No data available
ls: /sys/fs: No data available
ls: /sys/bus: No data available
ls: /sys/firmware: No data available
ls: /sys/block: No data available
ls: /sys/module: No data available
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 block
drwxr-xr-x 52 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 bus
drwxr-xr-x 88 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 class
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 dev
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 devices
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 firmware
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 fs
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jul 2 09:43 hypervisor
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 kernel
drwxr-xr-x 251 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 module
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Jul 2 09:43 power
Fix it by simply reporting success when no extended attributes are
available instead of reporting ENODATA.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/78b13bcdae82ade95e88f315682966051f461dde.camel@linaro.org
Fixes: d1f4e90260 ("kernfs: remove iattr_mutex") # mainline only
Reported-by: André Draszik <andre.draszik@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250819-ahndung-abgaben-524a535f8101@brauner
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Pull vfs inode time accessor updates from Christian Brauner:
"This finishes the conversion of all inode time fields to accessor
functions as discussed on list. Changing timestamps manually as we
used to do before is error prone. Using accessors function makes this
robust.
It does not contain the switch of the time fields to discrete 64 bit
integers to replace struct timespec and free up space in struct inode.
But after this, the switch can be trivially made and the patch should
only affect the vfs if we decide to do it"
* tag 'vfs-6.7.ctime' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (86 commits)
fs: rename inode i_atime and i_mtime fields
security: convert to new timestamp accessors
selinux: convert to new timestamp accessors
apparmor: convert to new timestamp accessors
sunrpc: convert to new timestamp accessors
mm: convert to new timestamp accessors
bpf: convert to new timestamp accessors
ipc: convert to new timestamp accessors
linux: convert to new timestamp accessors
zonefs: convert to new timestamp accessors
xfs: convert to new timestamp accessors
vboxsf: convert to new timestamp accessors
ufs: convert to new timestamp accessors
udf: convert to new timestamp accessors
ubifs: convert to new timestamp accessors
tracefs: convert to new timestamp accessors
sysv: convert to new timestamp accessors
squashfs: convert to new timestamp accessors
server: convert to new timestamp accessors
client: convert to new timestamp accessors
...
Pull libfs and tmpfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"This cycle saw a lot of work for tmpfs that required changes to the
vfs layer. Andrew, Hugh, and I decided to take tmpfs through vfs this
cycle. Things will go back to mm next cycle.
Features
========
- By far the biggest work is the quota support for tmpfs. New tmpfs
quota infrastructure is added to support it and a new QFMT_SHMEM
uapi option is exposed.
This offers user and group quotas to tmpfs (project quotas will be
added later). Similar to other filesystems tmpfs quota are not
supported within user namespaces yet.
- Add support for user xattrs. While tmpfs already supports security
xattrs (security.*) and POSIX ACLs for a long time it lacked
support for user xattrs (user.*). With this pull request tmpfs will
be able to support a limited number of user xattrs.
This is accompanied by a fix (see below) to limit persistent simple
xattr allocations.
- Add support for stable directory offsets. Currently tmpfs relies on
the libfs provided cursor-based mechanism for readdir. This causes
issues when a tmpfs filesystem is exported via NFS.
NFS clients do not open directories. Instead, each server-side
readdir operation opens the directory, reads it, and then closes
it. Since the cursor state for that directory is associated with
the opened file it is discarded after each readdir operation. Such
directory offsets are not just cached by NFS clients but also
various userspace libraries based on these clients.
As it stands there is no way to invalidate the caches when
directory offsets have changed and the whole application depends on
unchanging directory offsets.
At LSFMM we discussed how to solve this problem and decided to
support stable directory offsets. libfs now allows filesystems like
tmpfs to use an xarrary to map a directory offset to a dentry. This
mechanism is currently only used by tmpfs but can be supported by
others as well.
Fixes
=====
- Change persistent simple xattrs allocations in libfs from
GFP_KERNEL to GPF_KERNEL_ACCOUNT so they're subject to memory
cgroup limits. Since this is a change to libfs it affects both
tmpfs and kernfs.
- Correctly verify {g,u}id mount options.
A new filesystem context is created via fsopen() which records the
namespace that becomes the owning namespace of the superblock when
fsconfig(FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE) is called for filesystems that are
mountable in namespaces. However, fsconfig() calls can occur in a
namespace different from the namespace where fsopen() has been
called.
Currently, when fsconfig() is called to set {g,u}id mount options
the requested {g,u}id is mapped into a k{g,u}id according to the
namespace where fsconfig() was called from. The resulting k{g,u}id
is not guaranteed to be resolvable in the namespace of the
filesystem (the one that fsopen() was called in).
This means it's possible for an unprivileged user to create files
owned by any group in a tmpfs mount since it's possible to set the
setid bits on the tmpfs directory.
The contract for {g,u}id mount options and {g,u}id values in
general set from userspace has always been that they are translated
according to the caller's idmapping. In so far, tmpfs has been
doing the correct thing. But since tmpfs is mountable in
unprivileged contexts it is also necessary to verify that the
resulting {k,g}uid is representable in the namespace of the
superblock to avoid such bugs.
The new mount api's cross-namespace delegation abilities are
already widely used. Having talked to a bunch of userspace this is
the most faithful solution with minimal regression risks"
* tag 'v6.6-vfs.tmpfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
tmpfs,xattr: GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT for simple xattrs
mm: invalidation check mapping before folio_contains
tmpfs: trivial support for direct IO
tmpfs,xattr: enable limited user extended attributes
tmpfs: track free_ispace instead of free_inodes
xattr: simple_xattr_set() return old_xattr to be freed
tmpfs: verify {g,u}id mount options correctly
shmem: move spinlock into shmem_recalc_inode() to fix quota support
libfs: Remove parent dentry locking in offset_iterate_dir()
libfs: Add a lock class for the offset map's xa_lock
shmem: stable directory offsets
shmem: Refactor shmem_symlink()
libfs: Add directory operations for stable offsets
shmem: fix quota lock nesting in huge hole handling
shmem: Add default quota limit mount options
shmem: quota support
shmem: prepare shmem quota infrastructure
quota: Check presence of quota operation structures instead of ->quota_read and ->quota_write callbacks
shmem: make shmem_get_inode() return ERR_PTR instead of NULL
shmem: make shmem_inode_acct_block() return error
tmpfs wants to support limited user extended attributes, but kernfs
(or cgroupfs, the only kernfs with KERNFS_ROOT_SUPPORT_USER_XATTR)
already supports user extended attributes through simple xattrs: but
limited by a policy (128KiB per inode) too liberal to be used on tmpfs.
To allow a different limiting policy for tmpfs, without affecting the
policy for kernfs, change simple_xattr_set() to return the replaced or
removed xattr (if any), leaving the caller to update their accounting
then free the xattr (by simple_xattr_free(), renamed from the static
free_simple_xattr()).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <158c6585-2aa7-d4aa-90ff-f7c3f8fe407c@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
generic_fillattr just fills in the entire stat struct indiscriminately
today, copying data from the inode. There is at least one attribute
(STATX_CHANGE_COOKIE) that can have side effects when it is reported,
and we're looking at adding more with the addition of multigrain
timestamps.
Add a request_mask argument to generic_fillattr and have most callers
just pass in the value that is passed to getattr. Have other callers
(e.g. ksmbd) just pass in STATX_BASIC_STATS. Also move the setting of
STATX_CHANGE_COOKIE into generic_fillattr.
Acked-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Xiubo Li <xiubli@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: "Paulo Alcantara (SUSE)" <pc@manguebit.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Message-Id: <20230807-mgctime-v7-2-d1dec143a704@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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>
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>
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>
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>
Fix kernel-doc warnings. Many of these are about a function's
return value, so use the kernel-doc Return: format to fix those
Use % prefix on numeric constant values.
dir.c: fix typos/spellos
file.c fix typo: s/taret/target/
Fix all of these kernel-doc warnings:
dir.c:305: warning: missing initial short description on line:
* kernfs_name_hash
dir.c:137: warning: No description found for return value of 'kernfs_path_from_node_locked'
dir.c:196: warning: No description found for return value of 'kernfs_name'
dir.c:224: warning: No description found for return value of 'kernfs_path_from_node'
dir.c:292: warning: No description found for return value of 'kernfs_get_parent'
dir.c:312: warning: No description found for return value of 'kernfs_name_hash'
dir.c:404: warning: No description found for return value of 'kernfs_unlink_sibling'
dir.c:588: warning: No description found for return value of 'kernfs_node_from_dentry'
dir.c:806: warning: No description found for return value of 'kernfs_find_ns'
dir.c:879: warning: No description found for return value of 'kernfs_find_and_get_ns'
dir.c:904: warning: No description found for return value of 'kernfs_walk_and_get_ns'
dir.c:927: warning: No description found for return value of 'kernfs_create_root'
dir.c:996: warning: No description found for return value of 'kernfs_root_to_node'
dir.c:1016: warning: No description found for return value of 'kernfs_create_dir_ns'
dir.c:1048: warning: No description found for return value of 'kernfs_create_empty_dir'
dir.c:1306: warning: No description found for return value of 'kernfs_next_descendant_post'
dir.c:1568: warning: No description found for return value of 'kernfs_remove_self'
dir.c:1630: warning: No description found for return value of 'kernfs_remove_by_name_ns'
dir.c:1667: warning: No description found for return value of 'kernfs_rename_ns'
file.c:66: warning: No description found for return value of 'of_on'
file.c:88: warning: No description found for return value of 'kernfs_deref_open_node_locked'
file.c:1036: warning: No description found for return value of '__kernfs_create_file'
inode.c💯 warning: No description found for return value of 'kernfs_setattr'
mount.c:160: warning: No description found for return value of 'kernfs_root_from_sb'
mount.c:198: warning: No description found for return value of 'kernfs_node_dentry'
mount.c:302: warning: No description found for return value of 'kernfs_super_ns'
mount.c:318: warning: No description found for return value of 'kernfs_get_tree'
symlink.c:28: warning: No description found for return value of 'kernfs_create_link'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221112031456.22980-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The kernfs write lock is held when the kernfs node inode attributes
are updated. Therefore, when either kernfs_iop_getattr() or
kernfs_iop_permission() are called the kernfs node inode attributes
won't change.
Consequently concurrent kernfs_refresh_inode() calls always copy the
same values from the kernfs node.
So there's no need to take the inode i_lock to get consistent values
for generic_fillattr() and generic_permission(), the kernfs read lock
is sufficient.
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/166606036215.13363.1288735296954908554.stgit@donald.themaw.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The kernfs implementation has big lock granularity(kernfs_rwsem) so
every kernfs-based(e.g., sysfs, cgroup) fs are able to compete the
lock. It makes trouble for some cases to wait the global lock
for a long time even though they are totally independent contexts
each other.
A general example is process A goes under direct reclaim with holding
the lock when it accessed the file in sysfs and process B is waiting
the lock with exclusive mode and then process C is waiting the lock
until process B could finish the job after it gets the lock from
process A.
This patch switches the global kernfs_rwsem to per-fs lock, which
put the rwsem into kernfs_root.
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211118230008.2679780-1-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The inode operations .permission() and .getattr() use the kernfs node
write lock but all that's needed is the read lock to protect against
partial updates of these kernfs node fields which are all done under
the write lock.
And .permission() is called frequently during path walks and can cause
quite a bit of contention between kernfs node operations and path
walks when the number of concurrent walks is high.
To change kernfs_iop_getattr() and kernfs_iop_permission() to take
the rw sem read lock instead of the write lock an additional lock is
needed to protect against multiple processes concurrently updating
the inode attributes and link count in kernfs_refresh_inode().
The inode i_lock seems like the sensible thing to use to protect these
inode attribute updates so use it in kernfs_refresh_inode().
The last hunk in the patch, applied to kernfs_fill_super(), is possibly
not needed but taking the lock was present originally. I prefer to
continue to take it to protect against a partial update of the source
kernfs fields during the call to kernfs_refresh_inode() made by
kernfs_get_inode().
Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/162642771474.63632.16295959115893904470.stgit@web.messagingengine.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
