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2026-04-21Merge tag 'pull-dcache-busy-wait' of ↵Linus Torvalds-31/+98
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 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
2026-04-14vfs: get rid of BUG_ON() in d_mark_tmpfile_name()Paulo Alcantara-5/+9
Do proper error handling in d_mark_tmpfile_name() by returning errors rather than using BUG_ON()'s. Adjust caller to check for errors from d_mark_tmpfile_name() as well as clean it up for using return value from scnprintf() in QSTR_LEN() to make it more obvious where the tmpfile name's length is coming from. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgerpUKCDhdzKH0FEdLyfhj3doc9t+kO9Yb6rSsTp7hdQ@mail.gmail.com Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara (Red Hat) <pc@manguebit.org> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> CC: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
2026-04-13Merge tag 'v7.1-rc1-part1-smb3-client-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds-0/+19
git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6 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 ...
2026-04-13Merge tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds-2/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner: "Features: - coredump: add tracepoint for coredump events - fs: hide file and bfile caches behind runtime const machinery Fixes: - fix architecture-specific compat_ftruncate64 implementations - dcache: Limit the minimal number of bucket to two - fs/omfs: reject s_sys_blocksize smaller than OMFS_DIR_START - fs/mbcache: cancel shrink work before destroying the cache - dcache: permit dynamic_dname()s up to NAME_MAX Cleanups: - remove or unexport unused fs_context infrastructure - trivial ->setattr cleanups - selftests/filesystems: Assume that TIOCGPTPEER is defined - writeback: fix kernel-doc function name mismatch for wb_put_many() - autofs: replace manual symlink buffer allocation in autofs_dir_symlink - init/initramfs.c: trivial fix: FSM -> Finite-state machine - fs: remove stale and duplicate forward declarations - readdir: Introduce dirent_size() - fs: Replace user_access_{begin/end} by scoped user access - kernel: acct: fix duplicate word in comment - fs: write a better comment in step_into() concerning .mnt assignment - fs: attr: fix comment formatting and spelling issues" * tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (28 commits) dcache: permit dynamic_dname()s up to NAME_MAX fs: attr: fix comment formatting and spelling issues fs: hide file and bfile caches behind runtime const machinery fs: write a better comment in step_into() concerning .mnt assignment proc: rename proc_notify_change to proc_setattr proc: rename proc_setattr to proc_nochmod_setattr affs: rename affs_notify_change to affs_setattr adfs: rename adfs_notify_change to adfs_setattr hfs: update comments on hfs_inode_setattr kernel: acct: fix duplicate word in comment fs: Replace user_access_{begin/end} by scoped user access readdir: Introduce dirent_size() coredump: add tracepoint for coredump events fs: remove do_sys_truncate fs: pass on FTRUNCATE_* flags to do_truncate fs: fix archiecture-specific compat_ftruncate64 fs: remove stale and duplicate forward declarations init/initramfs.c: trivial fix: FSM -> Finite-state machine autofs: replace manual symlink buffer allocation in autofs_dir_symlink fs/mbcache: cancel shrink work before destroying the cache ...
2026-04-10vfs: introduce d_mark_tmpfile_name()Paulo Alcantara-0/+19
CIFS requires O_TMPFILE dentries to have names of newly created delete-on-close files in the server so it can build full pathnames from the root of the share when performing operations on them. Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara (Red Hat) <pc@manguebit.org> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
2026-04-04get rid of busy-waiting in shrink_dcache_tree()Al Viro-6/+73
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>
2026-04-02dcache.c: more idiomatic "positives are not allowed" sanity checksAl Viro-5/+5
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>
2026-04-02struct dentry: make ->d_u anonymousAl Viro-24/+24
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>
2026-04-02for_each_alias(): helper macro for iterating through dentries of given inodeAl Viro-3/+3
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>
2026-03-06treewide: change inode->i_ino from unsigned long to u64Jeff Layton-2/+2
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>
2026-02-19dcache: Limit the minimal number of bucket to twoZhihao Cheng-2/+2
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>
2026-02-16Merge tag 'vfs-7.0-rc1.misc.2' of ↵Linus Torvalds-5/+5
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs 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)
2026-02-09Merge tag 'pull-filename' of ↵Linus Torvalds-7/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 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) ...
2026-02-09Merge tag 'vfs-7.0-rc1.misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds-4/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs 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 ...
2026-01-29fs: dcache: fix typo in enum d_walk_ret commentChelsy Ratnawat-5/+5
Fix minor spelling and indentation errors in the documentation comments. Signed-off-by: Chelsy Ratnawat <chelsyratnawat2001@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260128143150.3674284-1-chelsyratnawat2001@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-01-16vfs: document d_dispose_if_unused()Miklos Szeredi-0/+10
Add a warning about the danger of using this function without proper locking preventing eviction. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260114145344.468856-7-mszeredi@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-01-13struct filename: use names_cachep only for getname() and friendsAl Viro-7/+1
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>
2025-12-24dcache: Replace simple_strtoul with kstrtoul in set_dhash_entriesThorsten Blum-4/+1
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>
2025-12-05Merge tag 'fuse-update-6.19' of ↵Linus Torvalds-6/+12
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse 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
2025-12-05Merge tag 'pull-persistency' of ↵Linus Torvalds-39/+72
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 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 ...
2025-12-01Merge tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.inode' of ↵Linus Torvalds-13/+16
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs 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 ...
2025-11-28dcache: touch up predicts in __d_lookup_rcu()Mateusz Guzik-3/+12
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: 2e321806b681b192 ("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>
2025-11-25fs: rework I_NEW handling to operate without fencesMateusz Guzik-10/+0
In the inode hash code grab the state while ->i_lock is held. If found to be set, synchronize the sleep once more with the lock held. In the real world the flag is not set most of the time. Apart from being simpler to reason about, it comes with a minor speed up as now clearing the flag does not require the smp_mb() fence. While here rename wait_on_inode() to wait_on_new_inode() to line it up with __wait_on_freeing_inode(). Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> says: As per the discussion in [1] I folded in the diff sent in [2]. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/69238e4d.a70a0220.d98e3.006e.GAE@google.com [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/c2kpawomkbvtahjm7y5mposbhckb7wxthi3iqy5yr22ggpucrm@ufvxwy233qxo [2] Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251010221737.1403539-1-mjguzik@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-17d_make_discardable(): warn if given a non-persistent dentryAl Viro-8/+1
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>
2025-11-17get rid of kill_litter_super()Al Viro-21/+0
Not used anymore. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2025-11-16primitives for maintaining persisitencyAl Viro-15/+59
* d_make_persistent(dentry, inode) - bump refcount, mark persistent and make hashed positive. Return value is a borrowed reference to dentry; it can be used until something removes persistency (at the very least, until the parent gets unlocked, but some filesystems may have stronger exclusion). * d_make_discardable() - remove persistency mark and drop reference. d_make_persistent() is similar to combination of d_instantiate(), dget() and setting flag. The only difference is that unlike d_instantiate() it accepts hashed and unhashed negatives alike. It is always called in strong locking environment (parent held exclusive, or, in some cases, dentry coming from d_alloc_name()); if we ever start using it with parent held only shared and dentry coming from d_alloc_parallel(), we'll need to copy the in-lookup logics from __d_add(). d_make_discardable() is eqiuvalent to combination of removing flag and dput(); since flag removal requires ->d_lock, there's no point trying to avoid taking that for refcount decrement as fast_dput() does. The slow path of dput() has been taken into a helper and reused in d_make_discardable() instead. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2025-11-16introduce a flag for explicitly marking persistently pinned dentriesAl Viro-5/+22
Some filesystems use a kinda-sorta controlled dentry refcount leak to pin dentries of created objects in dcache (and undo it when removing those). 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. Here we * introduce the new flag * teach shrink_dcache_for_umount() to handle it (i.e. remove and drop refcount on anything that survives to umount with that flag still set) * teach kill_litter_super() that anything with that flag does *not* need to be unpinned. Next commits will add primitives for maintaing that flag and convert the common helpers to those. After that - a long series of per-filesystem patches converting to those primitives. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2025-11-12fs: hide dentry_cache behind runtime const machineryMateusz Guzik-2/+4
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251105153622.758836-1-mjguzik@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-12dcache: export shrink_dentry_list() and add new helper d_dispose_if_unused()Luis Henriques-6/+12
Add and export a new helper d_dispose_if_unused() which is simply a wrapper around to_shrink_list(), to add an entry to a dispose list if it's not used anymore. Also export shrink_dentry_list() to kill all dentries in a dispose list. Suggested-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis@igalia.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
2025-10-20Coccinelle-based conversion to use ->i_state accessorsMateusz Guzik-4/+4
All places were patched by coccinelle with the default expecting that ->i_lock is held, afterwards entries got fixed up by hand to use unlocked variants as needed. The script: @@ expression inode, flags; @@ - inode->i_state & flags + inode_state_read(inode) & flags @@ expression inode, flags; @@ - inode->i_state &= ~flags + inode_state_clear(inode, flags) @@ expression inode, flag1, flag2; @@ - inode->i_state &= ~flag1 & ~flag2 + inode_state_clear(inode, flag1 | flag2) @@ expression inode, flags; @@ - inode->i_state |= flags + inode_state_set(inode, flags) @@ expression inode, flags; @@ - inode->i_state = flags + inode_state_assign(inode, flags) @@ expression inode, flags; @@ - flags = inode->i_state + flags = inode_state_read(inode) @@ expression inode, flags; @@ - READ_ONCE(inode->i_state) & flags + inode_state_read(inode) & flags Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-10-20fs: add missing fences to I_NEW handlingMateusz Guzik-0/+4
Suppose there are 2 CPUs racing inode hash lookup func (say ilookup5()) and unlock_new_inode(). In principle the latter can clear the I_NEW flag before prior stores into the inode were made visible. The former can in turn observe I_NEW is cleared and proceed to use the inode, while possibly reading from not-yet-published areas. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-10-07vfs: Don't leak disconnected dentries on umountJan Kara-0/+2
When user calls open_by_handle_at() on some inode that is not cached, we will create disconnected dentry for it. If such dentry is a directory, exportfs_decode_fh_raw() will then try to connect this dentry to the dentry tree through reconnect_path(). It may happen for various reasons (such as corrupted fs or race with rename) that the call to lookup_one_unlocked() in reconnect_one() will fail to find the dentry we are trying to reconnect and instead create a new dentry under the parent. Now this dentry will not be marked as disconnected although the parent still may well be disconnected (at least in case this inconsistency happened because the fs is corrupted and .. doesn't point to the real parent directory). This creates inconsistency in disconnected flags but AFAICS it was mostly harmless. At least until commit f1ee616214cb ("VFS: don't keep disconnected dentries on d_anon") which removed adding of most disconnected dentries to sb->s_anon list. Thus after this commit cleanup of disconnected dentries implicitely relies on the fact that dput() will immediately reclaim such dentries. However when some leaf dentry isn't marked as disconnected, as in the scenario described above, the reclaim doesn't happen and the dentries are "leaked". Memory reclaim can eventually reclaim them but otherwise they stay in memory and if umount comes first, we hit infamous "Busy inodes after unmount" bug. Make sure all dentries created under a disconnected parent are marked as disconnected as well. Reported-by: syzbot+1d79ebe5383fc016cf07@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Fixes: f1ee616214cb ("VFS: don't keep disconnected dentries on d_anon") CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-10-03Merge tag 'pull-qstr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfsLinus Torvalds-13/+13
Pull d_name audit update from Al Viro: "Simplifying ->d_name audits, easy part. Turn dentry->d_name into an anon union of const struct qsrt (d_name itself) and a writable alias (__d_name). With constification of some struct qstr * arguments of functions that get &dentry->d_name passed to them, that ends up with all modifications provably done only in fs/dcache.c (and a fairly small part of it). Any new places doing modifications will be easy to find - grep for __d_name will suffice" * tag 'pull-qstr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: make it easier to catch those who try to modify ->d_name generic_ci_validate_strict_name(): constify name argument afs_dir_search: constify qstr argument afs_edit_dir_{add,remove}(): constify qstr argument exfat_find(): constify qstr argument security_dentry_init_security(): constify qstr argument
2025-10-03Merge tag 'pull-mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfsLinus Torvalds-2/+2
Pull vfs mount updates from Al Viro: "Several piles this cycle, this mount-related one being the largest and trickiest: - saner handling of guards in fs/namespace.c, getting rid of needlessly strong locking in some of the users - lock_mount() calling conventions change - have it set the environment for attaching to given location, storing the results in caller-supplied object, without altering the passed struct path. Make unlock_mount() called as __cleanup for those objects. It's not exactly guard(), but similar to it - MNT_WRITE_HOLD done right. mnt_hold_writers() does *not* mess with ->mnt_flags anymore, so insertion of a new mount into ->s_mounts of underlying superblock does not, in itself, expose ->mnt_flags of that mount to concurrent modifications - getting rid of pathological cases when umount() spends quadratic time removing the victims from propagation graph - part of that had been dealt with last cycle, this should finish it - a bunch of stuff constified - assorted cleanups * tag 'pull-mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (64 commits) constify {__,}mnt_is_readonly() WRITE_HOLD machinery: no need for to bump mount_lock seqcount struct mount: relocate MNT_WRITE_HOLD bit preparations to taking MNT_WRITE_HOLD out of ->mnt_flags setup_mnt(): primitive for connecting a mount to filesystem simplify the callers of mnt_unhold_writers() copy_mnt_ns(): use guards copy_mnt_ns(): use the regular mechanism for freeing empty mnt_ns on failure open_detached_copy(): separate creation of namespace into helper open_detached_copy(): don't bother with mount_lock_hash() path_has_submounts(): use guard(mount_locked_reader) fs/namespace.c: sanitize descriptions for {__,}lookup_mnt() ecryptfs: get rid of pointless mount references in ecryptfs dentries umount_tree(): take all victims out of propagation graph at once do_mount(): use __free(path_put) do_move_mount_old(): use __free(path_put) constify can_move_mount_beneath() arguments path_umount(): constify struct path argument may_copy_tree(), __do_loopback(): constify struct path argument path_mount(): constify struct path argument ...
2025-09-29Merge tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.afs' of ↵Linus Torvalds-0/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull afs updates from Christian Brauner: "This contains the change to enable afs to support RENAME_NOREPLACE and RENAME_EXCHANGE if the server supports it" * tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.afs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: afs: Add support for RENAME_NOREPLACE and RENAME_EXCHANGE
2025-09-25afs: Add support for RENAME_NOREPLACE and RENAME_EXCHANGEDavid Howells-0/+1
Add support for RENAME_NOREPLACE and RENAME_EXCHANGE, if the server supports them. The default is translated to YFS.Rename_Replace, falling back to YFS.Rename; RENAME_NOREPLACE is translated to YFS.Rename_NoReplace and RENAME_EXCHANGE to YFS.Rename_Exchange, both of which fall back to reporting EINVAL. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/740476.1758718189@warthog.procyon.org.uk cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com> cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org> cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-15path_has_submounts(): use guard(mount_locked_reader)Al Viro-2/+2
Needed there since the callback passed to d_walk() (path_check_mount()) is using __path_is_mountpoint(), which uses __lookup_mnt(). Has to be taken in the caller - d_walk() might take rename_lock spinlock component and that nests inside mount_lock. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2025-09-15make it easier to catch those who try to modify ->d_nameAl Viro-13/+13
Turn d_name into an anon union of const struct qstr d_name with struct qstr __d_name. Very few places need to modify it (all in fs/dcache.c); those are switched to use of ->__d_name. Note that ->d_name can actually change under you unless you have the right locking environment; this const just prohibits accidentally doing stores without being easily spotted. Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2025-08-25fs: Use try_cmpxchg() in start_dir_add()Uros Bizjak-2/+2
Use try_cmpxchg() instead of cmpxchg(*ptr, old, new) == old. The x86 CMPXCHG instruction returns success in the ZF flag, so this change saves a compare after CMPXCHG (and related move instruction in front of CMPXCHG). Note that the value from *ptr should be read using READ_ONCE() to prevent the compiler from merging, refetching or reordering the read. No functional change intended. Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250811125308.616717-1-ubizjak@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-07-28Merge tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds-5/+5
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull misc VFS updates from Christian Brauner: "This contains the usual selections of misc updates for this cycle. Features: - Add ext4 IOCB_DONTCACHE support This refactors the address_space_operations write_begin() and write_end() callbacks to take const struct kiocb * as their first argument, allowing IOCB flags such as IOCB_DONTCACHE to propagate to the filesystem's buffered I/O path. Ext4 is updated to implement handling of the IOCB_DONTCACHE flag and advertises support via the FOP_DONTCACHE file operation flag. Additionally, the i915 driver's shmem write paths are updated to bypass the legacy write_begin/write_end interface in favor of directly calling write_iter() with a constructed synchronous kiocb. Another i915 change replaces a manual write loop with kernel_write() during GEM shmem object creation. Cleanups: - don't duplicate vfs_open() in kernel_file_open() - proc_fd_getattr(): don't bother with S_ISDIR() check - fs/ecryptfs: replace snprintf with sysfs_emit in show function - vfs: Remove unnecessary list_for_each_entry_safe() from evict_inodes() - filelock: add new locks_wake_up_waiter() helper - fs: Remove three arguments from block_write_end() - VFS: change old_dir and new_dir in struct renamedata to dentrys - netfs: Remove unused declaration netfs_queue_write_request() Fixes: - eventpoll: Fix semi-unbounded recursion - eventpoll: fix sphinx documentation build warning - fs/read_write: Fix spelling typo - fs: annotate data race between poll_schedule_timeout() and pollwake() - fs/pipe: set FMODE_NOWAIT in create_pipe_files() - docs/vfs: update references to i_mutex to i_rwsem - fs/buffer: remove comment about hard sectorsize - fs/buffer: remove the min and max limit checks in __getblk_slow() - fs/libfs: don't assume blocksize <= PAGE_SIZE in generic_check_addressable - fs_context: fix parameter name in infofc() macro - fs: Prevent file descriptor table allocations exceeding INT_MAX" * tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (24 commits) netfs: Remove unused declaration netfs_queue_write_request() eventpoll: fix sphinx documentation build warning ext4: support uncached buffered I/O mm/pagemap: add write_begin_get_folio() helper function fs: change write_begin/write_end interface to take struct kiocb * drm/i915: Refactor shmem_pwrite() to use kiocb and write_iter drm/i915: Use kernel_write() in shmem object create eventpoll: Fix semi-unbounded recursion vfs: Remove unnecessary list_for_each_entry_safe() from evict_inodes() fs/libfs: don't assume blocksize <= PAGE_SIZE in generic_check_addressable fs/buffer: remove the min and max limit checks in __getblk_slow() fs: Prevent file descriptor table allocations exceeding INT_MAX fs: Remove three arguments from block_write_end() fs/ecryptfs: replace snprintf with sysfs_emit in show function fs: annotate suspected data race between poll_schedule_timeout() and pollwake() docs/vfs: update references to i_mutex to i_rwsem fs/buffer: remove comment about hard sectorsize fs_context: fix parameter name in infofc() macro VFS: change old_dir and new_dir in struct renamedata to dentrys proc_fd_getattr(): don't bother with S_ISDIR() check ...
2025-06-23docs/vfs: update references to i_mutex to i_rwsemJunxuan Liao-5/+5
VFS has switched to i_rwsem for ten years now (9902af79c01a: parallel lookups actual switch to rwsem), but the VFS documentation and comments still has references to i_mutex. Signed-off-by: Junxuan Liao <ljx@cs.wisc.edu> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/72223729-5471-474a-af3c-f366691fba82@cs.wisc.edu Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-06-11d_alloc_parallel(): set DCACHE_PAR_LOOKUP earlierAl Viro-3/+7
Do that before new dentry is visible anywhere. It does create a new possible state for dentries present in ->d_children/->d_sib - DCACHE_PAR_LOOKUP present, negative, unhashed, not in in-lookup hash chains, refcount positive. Those are going to be skipped by all tree-walkers (both d_walk() callbacks in fs/dcache.c and explicit loops over children/sibling lists elsewhere) and dput() is fine with those. NOTE: dropping the final reference to a "normal" in-lookup dentry (in in-lookup hash) is a bug - somebody must've forgotten to call d_lookup_done() on it and bad things will happen. With those it's OK; if/when we get around to making __dentry_kill() complain about such breakage, remember that predicate to check should *not* be just d_in_lookup(victim) but rather a combination of that with !hlist_bl_unhashed(&victim->d_u.d_in_lookup_hash). Might be worth considering later... Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2025-06-11make d_set_d_op() staticAl Viro-3/+3
Convert the last user (d_alloc_pseudo()) and be done with that. Any out-of-tree filesystem using it should switch to d_splice_alias_ops() or, better yet, check whether it really needs to have ->d_op vary among its dentries. Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2025-06-11set_default_d_op(): calculate the matching value for ->d_flagsAl Viro-2/+4
... and store it in ->s_d_flags, to be used by __d_alloc() Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2025-06-11correct the set of flags forbidden at d_set_d_op() timeAl Viro-1/+2
DCACHE_OP_PRUNE in ->d_flags at the time of d_set_d_op() should've been treated the same as any other DCACHE_OP_... - we forgot to adjust that WARN_ON() when DCACHE_OP_PRUNE had been introduced... Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2025-06-10split d_flags calculation out of d_set_d_op()Al Viro-23/+30
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2025-06-10new helper: set_default_d_op()Al Viro-2/+8
... to be used instead of manually assigning to ->s_d_op. All in-tree filesystem converted (and field itself is renamed, so any out-of-tree ones in need of conversion will be caught by compiler). Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2025-06-10new helper: d_splice_alias_ops()Al Viro-27/+36
Uses of d_set_d_op() on live dentry can be very dangerous; it is going to be withdrawn and replaced with saner things. The best way for a filesystem is to have the default dentry_operations set at mount time and be done with that - __d_alloc() will use that. Currently there are two cases when d_set_d_op() is used on a live dentry - one is procfs, which has several genuinely different dentry_operations instances (different ->d_revalidate(), etc.) and another is simple_lookup(), where we would be better off without overriding ->d_op. For procfs we have d_set_d_op() calls followed by d_splice_alias(); provide a new helper (d_splice_alias_ops(inode, dentry, d_ops)) that would combine those two, and do the d_set_d_op() part while under ->d_lock. That eliminates one of the places where ->d_flags had been modified without holding ->d_lock; current behaviour is not racy, but the reasons for that are far too brittle. Better move to uniform locking rules and simpler proof of correctness... The next commit will convert procfs to use of that helper; it is not exported and won't be until somebody comes up with convincing modular user for it. Again, the best approach is to have default ->d_op and let __d_alloc() do the right thing; filesystem _may_ need non-uniform ->d_op (procfs does), but there'd better be good reasons for that. Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2025-06-08d_set_mounted(): we don't need to bump seqcount component of rename_lockAl Viro-2/+2
IOW, read_seqlock_excl() is sufficient there; no need to bother with write_seqlock() (forcing all rename_lock readers into retry). That leaves rename_lock taken for write only when we want to change someone's parent or name. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2025-05-26Merge tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds-1/+10
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner: "This contains the usual selections of misc updates for this cycle. Features: - Use folios for symlinks in the page cache FUSE already uses folios for its symlinks. Mirror that conversion in the generic code and the NFS code. That lets us get rid of a few folio->page->folio conversions in this path, and some of the few remaining users of read_cache_page() / read_mapping_page() - Try and make a few filesystem operations killable on the VFS inode->i_mutex level - Add sysctl vfs_cache_pressure_denom for bulk file operations Some workloads need to preserve more dentries than we currently allow through out sysctl interface A HDFS servers with 12 HDDs per server, on a HDFS datanode startup involves scanning all files and caching their metadata (including dentries and inodes) in memory. Each HDD contains approximately 2 million files, resulting in a total of ~20 million cached dentries after initialization To minimize dentry reclamation, they set vfs_cache_pressure to 1. Despite this configuration, memory pressure conditions can still trigger reclamation of up to 50% of cached dentries, reducing the cache from 20 million to approximately 10 million entries. During the subsequent cache rebuild period, any HDFS datanode restart operation incurs substantial latency penalties until full cache recovery completes To maintain service stability, more dentries need to be preserved during memory reclamation. The current minimum reclaim ratio (1/100 of total dentries) remains too aggressive for such workload. This patch introduces vfs_cache_pressure_denom for more granular cache pressure control The configuration [vfs_cache_pressure=1, vfs_cache_pressure_denom=10000] effectively maintains the full 20 million dentry cache under memory pressure, preventing datanode restart performance degradation - Avoid some jumps in inode_permission() using likely()/unlikely() - Avid a memory access which is most likely a cache miss when descending into devcgroup_inode_permission() - Add fastpath predicts for stat() and fdput() - Anonymous inodes currently don't come with a proper mode causing issues in the kernel when we want to add useful VFS debug assert. Fix that by giving them a proper mode and masking it off when we report it to userspace which relies on them not having any mode - Anonymous inodes currently allow to change inode attributes because the VFS falls back to simple_setattr() if i_op->setattr isn't implemented. This means the ownership and mode for every single user of anon_inode_inode can be changed. Block that as it's either useless or actively harmful. If specific ownership is needed the respective subsystem should allocate anonymous inodes from their own private superblock - Raise SB_I_NODEV and SB_I_NOEXEC on the anonymous inode superblock - Add proper tests for anonymous inode behavior - Make it easy to detect proper anonymous inodes and to ensure that we can detect them in codepaths such as readahead() Cleanups: - Port pidfs to the new anon_inode_{g,s}etattr() helpers - Try to remove the uselib() system call - Add unlikely branch hint return path for poll - Add unlikely branch hint on return path for core_sys_select - Don't allow signals to interrupt getdents copying for fuse - Provide a size hint to dir_context for during readdir() - Use writeback_iter directly in mpage_writepages - Update compression and mtime descriptions in initramfs documentation - Update main netfs API document - Remove useless plus one in super_cache_scan() - Remove unnecessary NULL-check guards during setns() - Add separate separate {get,put}_cgroup_ns no-op cases Fixes: - Fix typo in root= kernel parameter description - Use KERN_INFO for infof()|info_plog()|infofc() - Correct comments of fs_validate_description() - Mark an unlikely if condition with unlikely() in vfs_parse_monolithic_sep() - Delete macro fsparam_u32hex() - Remove unused and problematic validate_constant_table() - Fix potential unsigned integer underflow in fs_name() - Make file-nr output the total allocated file handles" * tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (43 commits) fs: Pass a folio to page_put_link() nfs: Use a folio in nfs_get_link() fs: Convert __page_get_link() to use a folio fs/read_write: make default_llseek() killable fs/open: make do_truncate() killable fs/open: make chmod_common() and chown_common() killable include/linux/fs.h: add inode_lock_killable() readdir: supply dir_context.count as readdir buffer size hint vfs: Add sysctl vfs_cache_pressure_denom for bulk file operations fuse: don't allow signals to interrupt getdents copying Documentation: fix typo in root= kernel parameter description include/cgroup: separate {get,put}_cgroup_ns no-op case kernel/nsproxy: remove unnecessary guards fs: use writeback_iter directly in mpage_writepages fs: remove useless plus one in super_cache_scan() fs: add S_ANON_INODE fs: remove uselib() system call device_cgroup: avoid access to ->i_rdev in the common case in devcgroup_inode_permission() fs/fs_parse: Remove unused and problematic validate_constant_table() fs: touch up predicts in inode_permission() ...