Pull vfs nullfs update from Christian Brauner:
"Add a completely catatonic minimal pseudo filesystem called "nullfs"
and make pivot_root() work in the initramfs.
Currently pivot_root() does not work on the real rootfs because it
cannot be unmounted. Userspace has to recursively delete initramfs
contents manually before continuing boot, using the fragile
switch_root sequence (overmount + chroot).
Add nullfs, a minimal immutable filesystem that serves as the true
root of the mount hierarchy. The mutable rootfs (tmpfs/ramfs) is
mounted on top of it. This allows userspace to simply:
chdir(new_root);
pivot_root(".", ".");
umount2(".", MNT_DETACH);
without the traditional switch_root workarounds. systemd already
handles this correctly. It tries pivot_root() first and falls back
to MS_MOVE only when that fails.
This also means rootfs mounts in unprivileged namespaces no longer
need MNT_LOCKED, since the immutable nullfs guarantees nothing can be
revealed by unmounting the covering mount.
nullfs is a single-instance filesystem (get_tree_single()) marked
SB_NOUSER | SB_I_NOEXEC | SB_I_NODEV with an immutable empty root
directory. This means sooner or later it can be used to overmount
other directories to hide their contents without any additional
protection needed.
We enable it unconditionally. If we see any real regression we'll
hide it behind a boot option.
nullfs has extensions beyond this in the future. It will serve as a
concept to support the creation of completely empty mount namespaces -
which is work coming up in the next cycle"
* tag 'vfs-7.0-rc1.nullfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
fs: use nullfs unconditionally as the real rootfs
docs: mention nullfs
fs: add immutable rootfs
fs: add init_pivot_root()
fs: ensure that internal tmpfs mount gets mount id zero
Remove the "nullfs_rootfs" boot parameter and simply always use nullfs.
The mutable rootfs will be mounted on top of it. Systems that don't use
pivot_root() to pivot away from the real rootfs will have an additional
mount stick around but that shouldn't be a problem at all. If it is
we'll rever this commit.
This also simplifies the boot process and removes the need for the
traditional switch_root workarounds.
Suggested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Remove linuxrc initrd code path, which was deprecated in 2020.
Initramfs and (non-initial) RAM disks (i. e. brd) still work.
Both built-in and bootloader-supplied initramfs still work.
Non-linuxrc initrd code path (i. e. using /dev/ram as final root
filesystem) still works, but I put deprecation message into it.
Also I deprecate command line parameters "noinitrd" and "ramdisk_start=".
Signed-off-by: Askar Safin <safinaskar@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119222407.3333257-3-safinaskar@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Currently pivot_root() doesn't work on the real rootfs because it
cannot be unmounted. Userspace has to do a recursive removal of the
initramfs contents manually before continuing the boot.
Really all we want from the real rootfs is to serve as the parent mount
for anything that is actually useful such as the tmpfs or ramfs for
initramfs unpacking or the rootfs itself. There's no need for the real
rootfs to actually be anything meaningful or useful. Add a immutable
rootfs called "nullfs" that can be selected via the "nullfs_rootfs"
kernel command line option.
The kernel will mount a tmpfs/ramfs on top of it, unpack the initramfs
and fire up userspace which mounts the rootfs and can then just do:
chdir(rootfs);
pivot_root(".", ".");
umount2(".", MNT_DETACH);
and be done with it. (Ofc, userspace can also choose to retain the
initramfs contents by using something like pivot_root(".", "/initramfs")
without unmounting it.)
Technically this also means that the rootfs mount in unprivileged
namespaces doesn't need to become MNT_LOCKED anymore as it's guaranteed
that the immutable rootfs remains permanently empty so there cannot be
anything revealed by unmounting the covering mount.
In the future this will also allow us to create completely empty mount
namespaces without risking to leak anything.
systemd already handles this all correctly as it tries to pivot_root()
first and falls back to MS_MOVE only when that fails.
This goes back to various discussion in previous years and a LPC 2024
presentation about this very topic.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260112-work-immutable-rootfs-v2-3-88dd1c34a204@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Pull persistent dentry infrastructure and conversion from Al Viro:
"Some filesystems use a kinda-sorta controlled dentry refcount leak to
pin dentries of created objects in dcache (and undo it when removing
those). A reference is grabbed and not released, but it's not actually
_stored_ anywhere.
That works, but it's hard to follow and verify; among other things, we
have no way to tell _which_ of the increments is intended to be an
unpaired one. Worse, on removal we need to decide whether the
reference had already been dropped, which can be non-trivial if that
removal is on umount and we need to figure out if this dentry is
pinned due to e.g. unlink() not done. Usually that is handled by using
kill_litter_super() as ->kill_sb(), but there are open-coded special
cases of the same (consider e.g. /proc/self).
Things get simpler if we introduce a new dentry flag
(DCACHE_PERSISTENT) marking those "leaked" dentries. Having it set
claims responsibility for +1 in refcount.
The end result this series is aiming for:
- get these unbalanced dget() and dput() replaced with new primitives
that would, in addition to adjusting refcount, set and clear
persistency flag.
- instead of having kill_litter_super() mess with removing the
remaining "leaked" references (e.g. for all tmpfs files that hadn't
been removed prior to umount), have the regular
shrink_dcache_for_umount() strip DCACHE_PERSISTENT of all dentries,
dropping the corresponding reference if it had been set. After that
kill_litter_super() becomes an equivalent of kill_anon_super().
Doing that in a single step is not feasible - it would affect too many
places in too many filesystems. It has to be split into a series.
This work has really started early in 2024; quite a few preliminary
pieces have already gone into mainline. This chunk is finally getting
to the meat of that stuff - infrastructure and most of the conversions
to it.
Some pieces are still sitting in the local branches, but the bulk of
that stuff is here"
* tag 'pull-persistency' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (54 commits)
d_make_discardable(): warn if given a non-persistent dentry
kill securityfs_recursive_remove()
convert securityfs
get rid of kill_litter_super()
convert rust_binderfs
convert nfsctl
convert rpc_pipefs
convert hypfs
hypfs: swich hypfs_create_u64() to returning int
hypfs: switch hypfs_create_str() to returning int
hypfs: don't pin dentries twice
convert gadgetfs
gadgetfs: switch to simple_remove_by_name()
convert functionfs
functionfs: switch to simple_remove_by_name()
functionfs: fix the open/removal races
functionfs: need to cancel ->reset_work in ->kill_sb()
functionfs: don't bother with ffs->ref in ffs_data_{opened,closed}()
functionfs: don't abuse ffs_data_closed() on fs shutdown
convert selinuxfs
...
Quite a bit is already done by infrastructure changes (simple_link(),
simple_unlink()) - all that is left is replacing d_instantiate() +
pinning dget() (in ->symlink() and ->mknod()) with d_make_persistent(),
and, in case of shmem, using simple_unlink() and simple_link() in
->unlink() and ->link() resp., instead of open-coding those there.
Since d_make_persistent() accepts (and hashes) unhashed ones, shmem
situation gets simpler - we no longer care whether ->lookup() has hashed
the sucker.
With that done, we don't need kill_litter_super() for these filesystems
anymore - by the umount time all remaining dentries will be marked
persistent and kill_litter_super() will boil down to call of
kill_anon_super().
The same goes for devtmpfs and rootfs - they are handled by
ramfs or by shmem, depending upon config.
NB: strictly speaking, both devtmpfs and rootfs ought to use
ramfs_kill_sb() if they end up using ramfs; that's a separate
story and the only impact of "just use kill_{litter,anon}_super()"
is that we fail to free their sb->s_fs_info... on reboot.
That's orthogonal to the changes in this series - kill_litter_super()
is identical to kill_anon_super() for those at this point.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Replace deprecated simple_strtoul() with kstrtouint() for better error
handling and input validation. Return 0 on parsing failure to indicate
invalid parameter, maintaining existing behavior for valid inputs.
The simple_strtoul() function is deprecated in favor of kstrtoint()
family functions which provide better error handling and are recommended
for new code and replacements.
Signed-off-by: Kaushlendra Kumar <kaushlendra.kumar@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251103080627.1844645-1-kaushlendra.kumar@intel.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
When unpacking the initramfs or when mounting block devices we need to
ensure that any delayed fput() finished to prevent spurious errors.
The init process can be a proper kernel thread or a user mode helper.
In the latter case PF_KTHREAD isn't set. So we need to do both
flush_delayed_work() and task_work_run().
Since we'll port block device opening and closing to regular file open
and closing we need to ensure the same as for the initramfs. So just
make that a little helper.
Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Tested-by: Srikanth Aithal <sraithal@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CA+G9fYttTwsbFuVq10igbSvP5xC6bf_XijM=mpUqrJV=uvUirQ@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.rst states:
If CONFIG_TMPFS is enabled, rootfs will use tmpfs instead of ramfs by
default. To force ramfs, add "rootfstype=ramfs" to the kernel command
line.
This currently does not work when root= is provided since then
saved_root_name contains a string and rootfstype= is ignored. Therefore,
ramfs is currently always chosen when root= is provided.
The current behavior for rootfs's filesystem is:
root= | rootfstype= | chosen rootfs filesystem
------------+-------------+--------------------------
unspecified | unspecified | tmpfs
unspecified | tmpfs | tmpfs
unspecified | ramfs | ramfs
provided | ignored | ramfs
rootfstype= should be respected regardless whether root= is given,
as shown below:
root= | rootfstype= | chosen rootfs filesystem
------------+-------------+--------------------------
unspecified | unspecified | tmpfs (as before)
unspecified | tmpfs | tmpfs (as before)
unspecified | ramfs | ramfs (as before)
provided | unspecified | ramfs (compatibility with before)
provided | tmpfs | tmpfs (new)
provided | ramfs | ramfs (new)
This table represents the new behavior.
Fixes: 6e19eded36 ("initmpfs: use initramfs if rootfstype= or root= specified")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/8244c75f-445e-b15b-9dbf-266e7ca666e2@landley.net/
Reviewed-and-Tested-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231120011248.396012-1-stefanb@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Given a wrong root device, current log may not give the pretty name
which is useful to locate root cause.
For example, there are 2 blk devs in a VM, /dev/vda which has 2 partitials
/dev/vda1 and /dev/vda2 and /dev/vdb which is blank. /dev/vda2 is the
right root dev. When set "root=/dev/vdb", we get error log:
[ 0.635575] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(254,16)
It's not straightforward to find out the root cause as there is lack of
the root devive name therefore hard for people to get those info from the
device number, in the example, (254,16).
It is more comprehensive way to hint the root cause if pretty name is
given here, like:
[ 0.559887] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on "/dev/vdb" or unknown-block(254,16)
Signed-off-by: Jianyong Wu <jianyong.wu@arm.com>
Message-Id: <20230907091025.3436878-1-jianyong.wu@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Add an optional timeout arg to 'rootwait' as the maximum time in
seconds to wait for the root device to show up before attempting
forced mount of the root filesystem.
Use case:
In case of device mapper usage for the rootfs (e.g. root=/dev/dm-0),
if the mapper is not able to create the virtual block for any reason
(wrong arguments, bad dm-verity signature, etc), the `rootwait` param
causes the kernel to wait forever. It may however be desirable to only
wait for a given time and then panic (force mount) to cause device reset.
This gives the bootloader a chance to detect the problem and to take some
measures, such as marking the booted partition as bad (for A/B case) or
entering a recovery mode.
In success case, mounting happens as soon as the root device is ready,
unlike the existing 'rootdelay' parameter which performs an unconditional
pause.
Signed-off-by: Loic Poulain <loic.poulain@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20230813082349.513386-1-loic.poulain@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Pull non-mm updates from Andrew Morton:
- Arnd Bergmann has fixed a bunch of -Wmissing-prototypes in top-level
directories
- Douglas Anderson has added a new "buddy" mode to the hardlockup
detector. It permits the detector to work on architectures which
cannot provide the required interrupts, by having CPUs periodically
perform checks on other CPUs
- Zhen Lei has enhanced kexec's ability to support two crash regions
- Petr Mladek has done a lot of cleanup on the hard lockup detector's
Kconfig entries
- And the usual bunch of singleton patches in various places
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-06-24-19-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (72 commits)
kernel/time/posix-stubs.c: remove duplicated include
ocfs2: remove redundant assignment to variable bit_off
watchdog/hardlockup: fix typo in config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PREFER_BUDDY
powerpc: move arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace from nmi.h to irq.h
devres: show which resource was invalid in __devm_ioremap_resource()
watchdog/hardlockup: define HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
watchdog/sparc64: define HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_SPARC64
watchdog/hardlockup: make HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG sparc64-specific
watchdog/hardlockup: declare arch_touch_nmi_watchdog() only in linux/nmi.h
watchdog/hardlockup: make the config checks more straightforward
watchdog/hardlockup: sort hardlockup detector related config values a logical way
watchdog/hardlockup: move SMP barriers from common code to buddy code
watchdog/buddy: simplify the dependency for HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PREFER_BUDDY
watchdog/buddy: don't copy the cpumask in watchdog_next_cpu()
watchdog/buddy: cleanup how watchdog_buddy_check_hardlockup() is called
watchdog/hardlockup: remove softlockup comment in touch_nmi_watchdog()
watchdog/hardlockup: in watchdog_hardlockup_check() use cpumask_copy()
watchdog/hardlockup: don't use raw_cpu_ptr() in watchdog_hardlockup_kick()
watchdog/hardlockup: HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG must implement watchdog_hardlockup_probe()
watchdog/hardlockup: keep kernel.nmi_watchdog sysctl as 0444 if probe fails
...
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
- NVMe pull request via Keith:
- Various cleanups all around (Irvin, Chaitanya, Christophe)
- Better struct packing (Christophe JAILLET)
- Reduce controller error logs for optional commands (Keith)
- Support for >=64KiB block sizes (Daniel Gomez)
- Fabrics fixes and code organization (Max, Chaitanya, Daniel
Wagner)
- bcache updates via Coly:
- Fix a race at init time (Mingzhe Zou)
- Misc fixes and cleanups (Andrea, Thomas, Zheng, Ye)
- use page pinning in the block layer for dio (David)
- convert old block dio code to page pinning (David, Christoph)
- cleanups for pktcdvd (Andy)
- cleanups for rnbd (Guoqing)
- use the unchecked __bio_add_page() for the initial single page
additions (Johannes)
- fix overflows in the Amiga partition handling code (Michael)
- improve mq-deadline zoned device support (Bart)
- keep passthrough requests out of the IO schedulers (Christoph, Ming)
- improve support for flush requests, making them less special to deal
with (Christoph)
- add bdev holder ops and shutdown methods (Christoph)
- fix the name_to_dev_t() situation and use cases (Christoph)
- decouple the block open flags from fmode_t (Christoph)
- ublk updates and cleanups, including adding user copy support (Ming)
- BFQ sanity checking (Bart)
- convert brd from radix to xarray (Pankaj)
- constify various structures (Thomas, Ivan)
- more fine grained persistent reservation ioctl capability checks
(Jingbo)
- misc fixes and cleanups (Arnd, Azeem, Demi, Ed, Hengqi, Hou, Jan,
Jordy, Li, Min, Yu, Zhong, Waiman)
* tag 'for-6.5/block-2023-06-23' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux: (266 commits)
scsi/sg: don't grab scsi host module reference
ext4: Fix warning in blkdev_put()
block: don't return -EINVAL for not found names in devt_from_devname
cdrom: Fix spectre-v1 gadget
block: Improve kernel-doc headers
blk-mq: don't insert passthrough request into sw queue
bsg: make bsg_class a static const structure
ublk: make ublk_chr_class a static const structure
aoe: make aoe_class a static const structure
block/rnbd: make all 'class' structures const
block: fix the exclusive open mask in disk_scan_partitions
block: add overflow checks for Amiga partition support
block: change all __u32 annotations to __be32 in affs_hardblocks.h
block: fix signed int overflow in Amiga partition support
block: add capacity validation in bdev_add_partition()
block: fine-granular CAP_SYS_ADMIN for Persistent Reservation
block: disallow Persistent Reservation on partitions
reiserfs: fix blkdev_put() warning from release_journal_dev()
block: fix wrong mode for blkdev_get_by_dev() from disk_scan_partitions()
block: document the holder argument to blkdev_get_by_path
...
name_to_dev_t has a very misleading name, that doesn't make clear
it should only be used by the early init code, and also has a bad
calling convention that doesn't allow returning different kinds of
errors. Rename it to early_lookup_bdev to make the use case clear,
and return an errno, where -EINVAL means the string could not be
parsed, and -ENODEV means it the string was valid, but there was
no device found for it.
Also stub out the whole call for !CONFIG_BLOCK as all the non-block
root cases are always covered in the caller.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230531125535.676098-14-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Assign a Root_Generic magic value for UBI/MTD root and handle the root
mounting in mount_root like all other root types. Besides making the
code more clear this also means that UBI/MTD root can be used together
with an initrd (not that anyone should care).
Also factor parsing of the root name into a helper now that it can
be easily done and will get more complicated with subsequent patches.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230531125535.676098-11-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
