Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "khugepaged: add mTHP collapse support" (Nico Pache)
Provide khugepaged with the capability to collapse anonymous memory
regions to mTHPs
- "Remove CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS and enable file THP for writable
files" (Zi Yan)
Remove the READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS check in file_thp_enabled(), so that
khugepaged and MADV_COLLAPSE can run on filesystems with PMD THP
pagecache support even without READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS enabled
- "make MM selftests more CI friendly" (Mike Rapoport)
General fixes and cleanups to the MM selftests. Also move more MM
selftests under the kselftest framework, making them more amenable to
ongoing CI testing
- "selftests/mm: fix failures and robustness improvements" and
"selftests/mm: assorted fixes for hmm-tests" (Sayali Patil)
Fix several issues in MM selftests which were revealed by powerpc 64k
pagesize
* tag 'mm-stable-2026-06-23-08-55' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (118 commits)
Revert "mm: limit filemap_fault readahead to VMA boundaries"
mm/vmscan: pass NULL to trace vmscan node reclaim
mm: use mapping_mapped to simplify the code
selftests/mm: fix exclusive_cow test fork() handling
selftests/mm: remove hardcoded THP sizing assumptions in hmm tests
selftests/mm: allow PUD-level entries in compound testcase of hmm tests
mm/gup_test: reject wrapped user ranges
mm/page_frag: reject invalid CPUs in page_frag_test
mm/damon/core: always put unsuccessfully committed target pids
mm: page_isolation: avoid unsafe folio reads while scanning compound pages
mm/shrinker: do not hold RCU lock in shrinker_debugfs_count_show()
selftests: mm: fix and speedup "droppable" test
mm: merge writeout into pageout
MAINTAINERS: add Hao Ge as reviewer for codetag and alloc_tag
selftests/mm: clarify alternate unmapping in compaction_test
selftests/mm: move hwpoison setup into run_test() and silence modprobe output for memory-failure category
selftests/mm: skip uffd-stress test when nr_pages_per_cpu is zero
selftests/mm: skip uffd-wp-mremap if UFFD write-protect is unsupported
selftests/mm: ensure destination is hugetlb-backed in hugetlb-mremap
selftest/mm: register existing mapping with userfaultfd in hugetlb-mremap
...
They are used by READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS to handle writes to FSes without
large folio support, so that read-only THPs created in these FSes are not
seen by the FSes when the underlying fd becomes writable. Now read-only
PMD THPs only appear in a FS with large folio support and the supported
orders include PMD_ORDER.
READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS was using mapping->nr_thps, inode->i_writecount, and
smp_mb() to prevent writes to a read-only THP and collapsing writable
folios into a THP. In collapse_file(), mapping->nr_thps is increased,
then smp_mb(), and if inode->i_writecount > 0, collapse is stopped, while
do_dentry_open() first increases inode->i_writecount, then a full memory
fence, and if mapping->nr_thps > 0, all read-only THPs are truncated.
Now this mechanism can be removed along with READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS code,
since a dirty folio check has been added after try_to_unmap() in
collapse_file() to prevent dirty folios from being collapsed as clean.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260517135416.1434539-7-ziy@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This flag indicates the path should be opened if it's a regular file.
This is useful to write secure programs that want to avoid being
tricked into opening device nodes with special semantics while thinking
they operate on regular files. This is a requested feature from the
uapi-group[1].
The previously introduced EFTYPE error code is returned when the path
doesn't refer to a regular file. For example, if openat2 is called on
path /dev/null with OPENAT2_REGULAR in the flag param, it will return
-EFTYPE.
When used in combination with O_CREAT, either the regular file is
created, or if the path already exists, it is opened if it's a regular
file. Otherwise, -EFTYPE is returned.
When OPENAT2_REGULAR is combined with O_DIRECTORY, -EINVAL is returned
as it doesn't make sense to open a path that is both a directory and a
regular file.
The UAPI bit lives in the upper 32 bits of open_how::flags
(((__u64)1 << 32)) so that open(2) and openat(2) -- whose @flags
argument is a C int -- cannot physically express it. This is a
structural guarantee, not a runtime mask: the bit is unrepresentable in
32 bits.
Because the rest of the VFS open path narrows to 32 bits in several
places (op->open_flag, f->f_flags, the unsigned open_flag argument of
i_op->atomic_open()), build_open_flags() translates OPENAT2_REGULAR
into a kernel-internal lower-32-bit carrier __O_REGULAR (bit 4, unused
as an O_* on every architecture) before the assignment to op->open_flag.
__O_REGULAR then rides through the existing channels exactly like
__FMODE_EXEC. do_dentry_open() strips it so it cannot leak back to
userspace via fcntl(F_GETFL).
Four BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG() invariants in build_open_flags() prevent any
future bit collision or accidental low-32 redefinition:
- VALID_OPEN_FLAGS fits in 32 bits.
- OPENAT2_REGULAR lives in the upper 32 bits.
- OPENAT2_REGULAR does not alias any open()/openat() flag.
- __O_REGULAR does not alias any user-visible flag.
[1]: https://uapi-group.org/kernel-features/#ability-to-only-open-regular-files
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> says:
Move OPENAT2_REGULAR to the upper 32 bits of open_how::flags with a
kernel-internal __O_REGULAR carrier so that open(2)/openat(2) cannot
encode the flag; add BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG() invariants and register
__O_REGULAR in the fcntl_init() allocation-uniqueness BUILD_BUG_ON()
(bit count 21 -> 22).
Signed-off-by: Dorjoy Chowdhury <dorjoychy111@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260328172314.45807-2-dorjoychy111@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Aleksa Sarai <aleksa@amutable.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
To get an operable version of an O_PATH file descriptor, it is possible
to use openat(fd, ".", O_DIRECTORY) for directories, but other files
currently require going through open("/proc/<pid>/fd/<nr>"), which
depends on a functioning procfs.
This patch adds the O_EMPTYPATH flag to openat(2)/openat2(2). If passed,
LOOKUP_EMPTY is set at path resolution time.
Note: This implies that you cannot rely anymore on disabling procfs from
being mounted (e.g. inside a container without procfs mounted and with
CAP_SYS_ADMIN dropped) to prevent O_PATH fds from being re-opened
read-write.
Signed-off-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260424114611.1678641-2-jkoolstra@xs4all.nl
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
The "small" argument to do_sys_ftruncate indicates if > 32-bit size
should be reject, but all the arch-specific compat ftruncate64
implementations get this wrong. Merge do_sys_ftruncate and
ksys_ftruncate, replace the integer as boolean small flag with a
descriptive one about LFS semantics, and use it correctly in the
architecture-specific ftruncate64 implementations.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Fixes: 3dd681d944 ("arm64: 32-bit (compat) applications support")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260323070205.2939118-2-hch@lst.de
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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)
...
Note that failures from filename_lookup() are final - ESTALE returned
by it means that retry had been done by filename_lookup() and it failed
there.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
It accepts ERR_PTR() for name and does the right thing in that case.
That allows to simplify the logics in callers, making them trivial
to switch to CLASS(filename).
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
"filp" thing never made sense; seeing that there are exactly 4 callers
in the entire tree (and it's neither exported nor even declared in
linux/*/*.h), there's no point keeping that ugliness.
FWIW, the 'filp' thing did originate in OSD&I; for some reason Tanenbaum
decided to call the object representing an opened file 'struct filp',
the last letter standing for 'position'. In all Unices, Linux included,
the corresponding object had always been 'struct file'...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Convert the user_path_at() call inside a retry loop into getname_flags() +
filename_lookup() + putname() and leave only filename_lookup() inside
the loop.
In this case we never pass LOOKUP_EMPTY, so getname_flags() is equivalent
to plain getname().
The things could be further simplified by use of cleanup.h stuff, but
let's not clutter the patch with that.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Convert the user_path_at() call inside a retry loop into getname_flags() +
filename_lookup() + putname() and leave only filename_lookup() inside
the loop.
In this case we never pass LOOKUP_EMPTY, so getname_flags() is equivalent
to plain getname().
The things could be further simplified by use of cleanup.h stuff, but
let's not clutter the patch with that.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Convert the user_path_at() call inside a retry loop into getname_flags() +
filename_lookup() + putname() and leave only filename_lookup() inside
the loop.
In this case we never pass LOOKUP_EMPTY, so getname_flags() is equivalent
to plain getname().
The things could be further simplified by use of cleanup.h stuff, but
let's not clutter the patch with that.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Convert the user_path_at() call inside a retry loop into getname_flags() +
filename_lookup() + putname() and leave only filename_lookup() inside
the loop.
Since we have the default logics for use of LOOKUP_EMPTY (passed iff
AT_EMPTY_PATH is present in flags), just use getname_uflags() and
don't bother with setting LOOKUP_EMPTY in lookup_flags - getname_uflags()
will pass the right thing to getname_flags() and filename_lookup()
doesn't care about LOOKUP_EMPTY at all.
The things could be further simplified by use of cleanup.h stuff, but
let's not clutter the patch with that.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Convert the user_path_at() call inside a retry loop into getname_flags() +
filename_lookup() + putname() and leave only filename_lookup() inside
the loop.
Since we have the default logics for use of LOOKUP_EMPTY (passed iff
AT_EMPTY_PATH is present in flags), just use getname_uflags() and
don't bother with setting LOOKUP_EMPTY in lookup_flags - getname_uflags()
will pass the right thing to getname_flags() and filename_lookup()
doesn't care about LOOKUP_EMPTY at all.
The things could be further simplified by use of cleanup.h stuff, but
let's not clutter the patch with that.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Convert the user_path_at() call inside a retry loop into getname_flags() +
filename_lookup() + putname() and leave only filename_lookup() inside
the loop.
Since we have the default logics for use of LOOKUP_EMPTY (passed iff
AT_EMPTY_PATH is present in flags), just use getname_uflags() and
don't bother with setting LOOKUP_EMPTY in lookup_flags - getname_uflags()
will pass the right thing to getname_flags() and filename_lookup()
doesn't care about LOOKUP_EMPTY at all.
The things could be further simplified by use of cleanup.h stuff, but
let's not clutter the patch with that.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To prepare knfsd's helper dentry_create(), move it to namei.c so that it
can access static functions within. Callers of dentry_create() can be
viewed as being mostly done with lookup, but still need to perform a few
final checks. In order to use atomic_open() we want dentry_create() to
be able to access:
- vfs_prepare_mode
- may_o_create
- atomic_open
.. all of which have static declarations.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@hammerspace.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/42deec53a50e1676e5501f8f1e17967d47b83681.1764259052.git.bcodding@hammerspace.com
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Pull fd prepare updates from Christian Brauner:
"This adds the FD_ADD() and FD_PREPARE() primitive. They simplify the
common pattern of get_unused_fd_flags() + create file + fd_install()
that is used extensively throughout the kernel and currently requires
cumbersome cleanup paths.
FD_ADD() - For simple cases where a file is installed immediately:
fd = FD_ADD(O_CLOEXEC, vfio_device_open_file(device));
if (fd < 0)
vfio_device_put_registration(device);
return fd;
FD_PREPARE() - For cases requiring access to the fd or file, or
additional work before publishing:
FD_PREPARE(fdf, O_CLOEXEC, sync_file->file);
if (fdf.err) {
fput(sync_file->file);
return fdf.err;
}
data.fence = fd_prepare_fd(fdf);
if (copy_to_user((void __user *)arg, &data, sizeof(data)))
return -EFAULT;
return fd_publish(fdf);
The primitives are centered around struct fd_prepare. FD_PREPARE()
encapsulates all allocation and cleanup logic and must be followed by
a call to fd_publish() which associates the fd with the file and
installs it into the caller's fdtable. If fd_publish() isn't called,
both are deallocated automatically. FD_ADD() is a shorthand that does
fd_publish() immediately and never exposes the struct to the caller.
I've implemented this in a way that it's compatible with the cleanup
infrastructure while also being usable separately. IOW, it's centered
around struct fd_prepare which is aliased to class_fd_prepare_t and so
we can make use of all the basica guard infrastructure"
* tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.fd_prepare.fs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (42 commits)
io_uring: convert io_create_mock_file() to FD_PREPARE()
file: convert replace_fd() to FD_PREPARE()
vfio: convert vfio_group_ioctl_get_device_fd() to FD_ADD()
tty: convert ptm_open_peer() to FD_ADD()
ntsync: convert ntsync_obj_get_fd() to FD_PREPARE()
media: convert media_request_alloc() to FD_PREPARE()
hv: convert mshv_ioctl_create_partition() to FD_ADD()
gpio: convert linehandle_create() to FD_PREPARE()
pseries: port papr_rtas_setup_file_interface() to FD_ADD()
pseries: convert papr_platform_dump_create_handle() to FD_ADD()
spufs: convert spufs_gang_open() to FD_PREPARE()
papr-hvpipe: convert papr_hvpipe_dev_create_handle() to FD_PREPARE()
spufs: convert spufs_context_open() to FD_PREPARE()
net/socket: convert __sys_accept4_file() to FD_ADD()
net/socket: convert sock_map_fd() to FD_ADD()
net/kcm: convert kcm_ioctl() to FD_PREPARE()
net/handshake: convert handshake_nl_accept_doit() to FD_PREPARE()
secretmem: convert memfd_secret() to FD_ADD()
memfd: convert memfd_create() to FD_ADD()
bpf: convert bpf_token_create() to FD_PREPARE()
...
Pull directory delegations update from Christian Brauner:
"This contains the work for recall-only directory delegations for
knfsd.
Add support for simple, recallable-only directory delegations. This
was decided at the fall NFS Bakeathon where the NFS client and server
maintainers discussed how to merge directory delegation support.
The approach starts with recallable-only delegations for several reasons:
1. RFC8881 has gaps that are being addressed in RFC8881bis. In
particular, it requires directory position information for
CB_NOTIFY callbacks, which is difficult to implement properly
under Linux. The spec is being extended to allow that information
to be omitted.
2. Client-side support for CB_NOTIFY still lags. The client side
involves heuristics about when to request a delegation.
3. Early indication shows simple, recallable-only delegations can
help performance. Anna Schumaker mentioned seeing a multi-minute
speedup in xfstests runs with them enabled.
With these changes, userspace can also request a read lease on a
directory that will be recalled on conflicting accesses. This may be
useful for applications like Samba. Users can disable leases
altogether via the fs.leases-enable sysctl if needed.
VFS changes:
- Dedicated Type for Delegations
Introduce struct delegated_inode to track inodes that may have
delegations that need to be broken. This replaces the previous
approach of passing raw inode pointers through the delegation
breaking code paths, providing better type safety and clearer
semantics for the delegation machinery.
- Break parent directory delegations in open(..., O_CREAT) codepath
- Allow mkdir to wait for delegation break on parent
- Allow rmdir to wait for delegation break on parent
- Add try_break_deleg calls for parents to vfs_link(), vfs_rename(),
and vfs_unlink()
- Make vfs_create(), vfs_mknod(), and vfs_symlink() break delegations
on parent directory
- Clean up argument list for vfs_create()
- Expose delegation support to userland
Filelock changes:
- Make lease_alloc() take a flags argument
- Rework the __break_lease API to use flags
- Add struct delegated_inode
- Push the S_ISREG check down to ->setlease handlers
- Lift the ban on directory leases in generic_setlease
NFSD changes:
- Allow filecache to hold S_IFDIR files
- Allow DELEGRETURN on directories
- Wire up GET_DIR_DELEGATION handling
Fixes:
- Fix kernel-doc warnings in __fcntl_getlease
- Add needed headers for new struct delegation definition"
* tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.directory.delegations' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
vfs: add needed headers for new struct delegation definition
filelock: __fcntl_getlease: fix kernel-doc warnings
vfs: expose delegation support to userland
nfsd: wire up GET_DIR_DELEGATION handling
nfsd: allow DELEGRETURN on directories
nfsd: allow filecache to hold S_IFDIR files
filelock: lift the ban on directory leases in generic_setlease
vfs: make vfs_symlink break delegations on parent dir
vfs: make vfs_mknod break delegations on parent directory
vfs: make vfs_create break delegations on parent directory
vfs: clean up argument list for vfs_create()
vfs: break parent dir delegations in open(..., O_CREAT) codepath
vfs: allow rmdir to wait for delegation break on parent
vfs: allow mkdir to wait for delegation break on parent
vfs: add try_break_deleg calls for parents to vfs_{link,rename,unlink}
filelock: push the S_ISREG check down to ->setlease handlers
filelock: add struct delegated_inode
filelock: rework the __break_lease API to use flags
filelock: make lease_alloc() take a flags argument
Linus Torvalds
Zi YanandAndrew Morton
Dorjoy ChowdhuryandChristian Brauner
Jori KoolstraandChristian Brauner
Christoph HellwigandChristian Brauner
Al Viro
Benjamin CoddingtonandChristian Brauner