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2025-04-16fs: ensure that *path_locked*() helpers leave passed path pristineChristian Brauner
The functions currently leaving dangling pointers in the passed-in path leading to hard to debug bugs in the long run. Ensure that the path is left in pristine state just like we do in e.g., path_parentat() and other helpers. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250414-rennt-wimmeln-f186c3a780f1@brauner Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-04-15fs: add kern_path_locked_negative()Christian Brauner
The audit code relies on the fact that kern_path_locked() returned a path even for a negative dentry. If it doesn't find a valid dentry it immediately calls: audit_find_parent(d_backing_inode(parent_path.dentry)); which assumes that parent_path.dentry is still valid. But it isn't since kern_path_locked() has been changed to path_put() also for a negative dentry. Fix this by adding a helper that implements the required audit semantics and allows us to fix the immediate bleeding. We can find a unified solution for this afterwards. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250414-rennt-wimmeln-f186c3a780f1@brauner Fixes: 1c3cb50b58c3 ("VFS: change kern_path_locked() and user_path_locked_at() to never return negative dentry") Reported-and-tested-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-04-11fs: Fix filename init after recent refactoringSong Liu
getname_flags() should save __user pointer "filename" in filename->uptr. However, this logic is broken by a recent refactoring. Fix it by passing __user pointer filename to helper initname(). Fixes: 611851010c74 ("fs: dedup handling of struct filename init and refcounts bumps") Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250409220534.3635801-1-song@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-03-24Merge tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.file' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull vfs file handling updates from Christian Brauner: "This contains performance improvements for struct file's new refcount mechanism and various other performance work: - The stock kernel transitioning the file to no refs held penalizes the caller with an extra atomic to block any increments. For cases where the file is highly likely to be going away this is easily avoidable. Add file_ref_put_close() to better handle the common case where closing a file descriptor also operates on the last reference and build fput_close_sync() and fput_close() on top of it. This brings about 1% performance improvement by eliding one atomic in the common case. - Predict no error in close() since the vast majority of the time system call returns 0. - Reduce the work done in fdget_pos() by predicting that the file was found and by explicitly comparing the reference count to one and ignoring the dead zone" * tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.file' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: fs: reduce work in fdget_pos() fs: use fput_close() in path_openat() fs: use fput_close() in filp_close() fs: use fput_close_sync() in close() file: add fput and file_ref_put routines optimized for use when closing a fd fs: predict no error in close()
2025-03-24Merge tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.async.dir' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull vfs async dir updates from Christian Brauner: "This contains cleanups that fell out of the work from async directory handling: - Change kern_path_locked() and user_path_locked_at() to never return a negative dentry. This simplifies the usability of these helpers in various places - Drop d_exact_alias() from the remaining place in NFS where it is still used. This also allows us to drop the d_exact_alias() helper completely - Drop an unnecessary call to fh_update() from nfsd_create_locked() - Change i_op->mkdir() to return a struct dentry Change vfs_mkdir() to return a dentry provided by the filesystems which is hashed and positive. This allows us to reduce the number of cases where the resulting dentry is not positive to very few cases. The code in these places becomes simpler and easier to understand. - Repack DENTRY_* and LOOKUP_* flags" * tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.async.dir' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: doc: fix inline emphasis warning VFS: Change vfs_mkdir() to return the dentry. nfs: change mkdir inode_operation to return alternate dentry if needed. fuse: return correct dentry for ->mkdir ceph: return the correct dentry on mkdir hostfs: store inode in dentry after mkdir if possible. Change inode_operations.mkdir to return struct dentry * nfsd: drop fh_update() from S_IFDIR branch of nfsd_create_locked() nfs/vfs: discard d_exact_alias() VFS: add common error checks to lookup_one_qstr_excl() VFS: change kern_path_locked() and user_path_locked_at() to never return negative dentry VFS: repack LOOKUP_ bit flags. VFS: repack DENTRY_ flags.
2025-03-24Merge tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner: "Features: - Add CONFIG_DEBUG_VFS infrastucture: - Catch invalid modes in open - Use the new debug macros in inode_set_cached_link() - Use debug-only asserts around fd allocation and install - Place f_ref to 3rd cache line in struct file to resolve false sharing Cleanups: - Start using anon_inode_getfile_fmode() helper in various places - Don't take f_lock during SEEK_CUR if exclusion is guaranteed by f_pos_lock - Add unlikely() to kcmp() - Remove legacy ->remount_fs method from ecryptfs after port to the new mount api - Remove invalidate_inodes() in favour of evict_inodes() - Simplify ep_busy_loopER by removing unused argument - Avoid mmap sem relocks when coredumping with many missing pages - Inline getname() - Inline new_inode_pseudo() and de-staticize alloc_inode() - Dodge an atomic in putname if ref == 1 - Consistently deref the files table with rcu_dereference_raw() - Dedup handling of struct filename init and refcounts bumps - Use wq_has_sleeper() in end_dir_add() - Drop the lock trip around I_NEW wake up in evict() - Load the ->i_sb pointer once in inode_sb_list_{add,del} - Predict not reaching the limit in alloc_empty_file() - Tidy up do_sys_openat2() with likely/unlikely - Call inode_sb_list_add() outside of inode hash lock - Sort out fd allocation vs dup2 race commentary - Turn page_offset() into a wrapper around folio_pos() - Remove locking in exportfs around ->get_parent() call - try_lookup_one_len() does not need any locks in autofs - Fix return type of several functions from long to int in open - Fix return type of several functions from long to int in ioctls Fixes: - Fix watch queue accounting mismatch" * tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (30 commits) fs: sort out fd allocation vs dup2 race commentary, take 2 fs: call inode_sb_list_add() outside of inode hash lock fs: tidy up do_sys_openat2() with likely/unlikely fs: predict not reaching the limit in alloc_empty_file() fs: load the ->i_sb pointer once in inode_sb_list_{add,del} fs: drop the lock trip around I_NEW wake up in evict() fs: use wq_has_sleeper() in end_dir_add() VFS/autofs: try_lookup_one_len() does not need any locks fs: dedup handling of struct filename init and refcounts bumps fs: consistently deref the files table with rcu_dereference_raw() exportfs: remove locking around ->get_parent() call. fs: use debug-only asserts around fd allocation and install fs: dodge an atomic in putname if ref == 1 vfs: Remove invalidate_inodes() ecryptfs: remove NULL remount_fs from super_operations watch_queue: fix pipe accounting mismatch fs: place f_ref to 3rd cache line in struct file to resolve false sharing epoll: simplify ep_busy_loop by removing always 0 argument fs: Turn page_offset() into a wrapper around folio_pos() kcmp: improve performance adding an unlikely hint to task comparisons ...
2025-03-18VFS/autofs: try_lookup_one_len() does not need any locksNeilBrown
try_lookup_one_len() is identical to lookup_one_unlocked() except that it doesn't include the call to lookup_slow(). The latter doesn't need the inode to be locked, so the former cannot either. So fix the documentation, remove the WARN_ON and fix the only caller to not take the lock. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/174190517441.9342.5956460781380903128@noble.neil.brown.name Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-03-18fs: dedup handling of struct filename init and refcounts bumpsMateusz Guzik
No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250313142744.1323281-1-mjguzik@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-03-12fs: dodge an atomic in putname if ref == 1Mateusz Guzik
While the structure is refcounted, the only consumer incrementing it is audit and even then the atomic operation is only needed when it interacts with io_uring. If putname spots a count of 1, there is no legitimate way for anyone to bump it. If audit is disabled, the count is guaranteed to be 1, which consistently elides the atomic for all path lookups. If audit is enabled, it still manages to elide the last decrement. Note the patch does not do anything to prevent audit from suffering atomics. See [1] and [2] for a different approach. Benchmarked on Sapphire Rapids issuing access() (ops/s): before: 5106246 after: 5269678 (+3%) Link 1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20250307161155.760949-1-mjguzik@gmail.com/ Link 2: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20250307164216.GI2023217@ZenIV/ Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250311181804.1165758-1-mjguzik@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-03-05fs: use fput_close() in path_openat()Mateusz Guzik
This bumps failing open rate by 1.7% on Sapphire Rapids by avoiding one atomic. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250305123644.554845-5-mjguzik@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-03-05VFS: Change vfs_mkdir() to return the dentry.NeilBrown
vfs_mkdir() does not guarantee to leave the child dentry hashed or make it positive on success, and in many such cases the filesystem had to use a different dentry which it can now return. This patch changes vfs_mkdir() to return the dentry provided by the filesystems which is hashed and positive when provided. This reduces the number of cases where the resulting dentry is not positive to a handful which don't deserve extra efforts. The only callers of vfs_mkdir() which are interested in the resulting inode are in-kernel filesystem clients: cachefiles, nfsd, smb/server. The only filesystems that don't reliably provide the inode are: - kernfs, tracefs which these clients are unlikely to be interested in - cifs in some configurations would need to do a lookup to find the created inode, but doesn't. cifs cannot be exported via NFS, is unlikely to be used by cachefiles, and smb/server only has a soft requirement for the inode, so this is unlikely to be a problem in practice. - hostfs, nfs, cifs may need to do a lookup (rarely for NFS) and it is possible for a race to make that lookup fail. Actual failure is unlikely and providing callers handle negative dentries graceful they will fail-safe. So this patch removes the lookup code in nfsd and smb/server and adjusts them to fail safe if a negative dentry is provided: - cache-files already fails safe by restarting the task from the top - it still does with this change, though it no longer calls cachefiles_put_directory() as that will crash if the dentry is negative. - nfsd reports "Server-fault" which it what it used to do if the lookup failed. This will never happen on any file-systems that it can actually export, so this is of no consequence. I removed the fh_update() call as that is not needed and out-of-place. A subsequent nfsd_create_setattr() call will call fh_update() when needed. - smb/server only wants the inode to call ksmbd_smb_inherit_owner() which updates ->i_uid (without calling notify_change() or similar) which can be safely skipping on cifs (I hope). If a different dentry is returned, the first one is put. If necessary the fact that it is new can be determined by comparing pointers. A new dentry will certainly have a new pointer (as the old is put after the new is obtained). Similarly if an error is returned (via ERR_PTR()) the original dentry is put. Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250227013949.536172-7-neilb@suse.de Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-02-27Change inode_operations.mkdir to return struct dentry *NeilBrown
Some filesystems, such as NFS, cifs, ceph, and fuse, do not have complete control of sequencing on the actual filesystem (e.g. on a different server) and may find that the inode created for a mkdir request already exists in the icache and dcache by the time the mkdir request returns. For example, if the filesystem is mounted twice the directory could be visible on the other mount before it is on the original mount, and a pair of name_to_handle_at(), open_by_handle_at() calls could instantiate the directory inode with an IS_ROOT() dentry before the first mkdir returns. This means that the dentry passed to ->mkdir() may not be the one that is associated with the inode after the ->mkdir() completes. Some callers need to interact with the inode after the ->mkdir completes and they currently need to perform a lookup in the (rare) case that the dentry is no longer hashed. This lookup-after-mkdir requires that the directory remains locked to avoid races. Planned future patches to lock the dentry rather than the directory will mean that this lookup cannot be performed atomically with the mkdir. To remove this barrier, this patch changes ->mkdir to return the resulting dentry if it is different from the one passed in. Possible returns are: NULL - the directory was created and no other dentry was used ERR_PTR() - an error occurred non-NULL - this other dentry was spliced in This patch only changes file-systems to return "ERR_PTR(err)" instead of "err" or equivalent transformations. Subsequent patches will make further changes to some file-systems to return a correct dentry. Not all filesystems reliably result in a positive hashed dentry: - NFS, cifs, hostfs will sometimes need to perform a lookup of the name to get inode information. Races could result in this returning something different. Note that this lookup is non-atomic which is what we are trying to avoid. Placing the lookup in filesystem code means it only happens when the filesystem has no other option. - kernfs and tracefs leave the dentry negative and the ->revalidate operation ensures that lookup will be called to correctly populate the dentry. This could be fixed but I don't think it is important to any of the users of vfs_mkdir() which look at the dentry. The recommendation to use d_drop();d_splice_alias() is ugly but fits with current practice. A planned future patch will change this. Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250227013949.536172-2-neilb@suse.de Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-02-21vfs: inline getname()Mateusz Guzik
It is merely a trivial wrapper around getname_flags which adds a zeroed argument, no point paying for an extra call. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250206000105.432528-1-mjguzik@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-02-21vfs: catch invalid modes in may_open()Mateusz Guzik
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250209185523.745956-3-mjguzik@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-02-20fuse: don't truncate cached, mutated symlinkMiklos Szeredi
Fuse allows the value of a symlink to change and this property is exploited by some filesystems (e.g. CVMFS). It has been observed, that sometimes after changing the symlink contents, the value is truncated to the old size. This is caused by fuse_getattr() racing with fuse_reverse_inval_inode(). fuse_reverse_inval_inode() updates the fuse_inode's attr_version, which results in fuse_change_attributes() exiting before updating the cached attributes This is okay, as the cached attributes remain invalid and the next call to fuse_change_attributes() will likely update the inode with the correct values. The reason this causes problems is that cached symlinks will be returned through page_get_link(), which truncates the symlink to inode->i_size. This is correct for filesystems that don't mutate symlinks, but in this case it causes bad behavior. The solution is to just remove this truncation. This can cause a regression in a filesystem that relies on supplying a symlink larger than the file size, but this is unlikely. If that happens we'd need to make this behavior conditional. Reported-by: Laura Promberger <laura.promberger@cern.ch> Tested-by: Sam Lewis <samclewis@google.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250220100258.793363-1-mszeredi@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Bernd Schubert <bschubert@ddn.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-02-19VFS: add common error checks to lookup_one_qstr_excl()NeilBrown
Callers of lookup_one_qstr_excl() often check if the result is negative or positive. These changes can easily be moved into lookup_one_qstr_excl() by checking the lookup flags: LOOKUP_CREATE means it is NOT an error if the name doesn't exist. LOOKUP_EXCL means it IS an error if the name DOES exist. This patch adds these checks, then removes error checks from callers, and ensures that appropriate flags are passed. This subtly changes the meaning of LOOKUP_EXCL. Previously it could only accompany LOOKUP_CREATE. Now it can accompany LOOKUP_RENAME_TARGET as well. A couple of small changes are needed to accommodate this. The NFS change is functionally a no-op but ensures nfs_is_exclusive_create() does exactly what the name says. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250217003020.3170652-3-neilb@suse.de Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-02-19VFS: change kern_path_locked() and user_path_locked_at() to never return ↵NeilBrown
negative dentry No callers of kern_path_locked() or user_path_locked_at() want a negative dentry. So change them to return -ENOENT instead. This simplifies callers. This results in a subtle change to bcachefs in that an ioctl will now return -ENOENT in preference to -EXDEV. I believe this restores the behaviour to what it was prior to Commit bbe6a7c899e7 ("bch2_ioctl_subvolume_destroy(): fix locking") Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250217003020.3170652-2-neilb@suse.de Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-01-30Merge tag 'pull-revalidate' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull vfs d_revalidate updates from Al Viro: "Provide stable parent and name to ->d_revalidate() instances Most of the filesystem methods where we care about dentry name and parent have their stability guaranteed by the callers; ->d_revalidate() is the major exception. It's easy enough for callers to supply stable values for expected name and expected parent of the dentry being validated. That kills quite a bit of boilerplate in ->d_revalidate() instances, along with a bunch of races where they used to access ->d_name without sufficient precautions" * tag 'pull-revalidate' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: 9p: fix ->rename_sem exclusion orangefs_d_revalidate(): use stable parent inode and name passed by caller ocfs2_dentry_revalidate(): use stable parent inode and name passed by caller nfs: fix ->d_revalidate() UAF on ->d_name accesses nfs{,4}_lookup_validate(): use stable parent inode passed by caller gfs2_drevalidate(): use stable parent inode and name passed by caller fuse_dentry_revalidate(): use stable parent inode and name passed by caller vfat_revalidate{,_ci}(): use stable parent inode passed by caller exfat_d_revalidate(): use stable parent inode passed by caller fscrypt_d_revalidate(): use stable parent inode passed by caller ceph_d_revalidate(): propagate stable name down into request encoding ceph_d_revalidate(): use stable parent inode passed by caller afs_d_revalidate(): use stable name and parent inode passed by caller Pass parent directory inode and expected name to ->d_revalidate() generic_ci_d_compare(): use shortname_storage ext4 fast_commit: make use of name_snapshot primitives dissolve external_name.u into separate members make take_dentry_name_snapshot() lockless dcache: back inline names with a struct-wrapped array of unsigned long make sure that DNAME_INLINE_LEN is a multiple of word size
2025-01-28treewide: const qualify ctl_tables where applicableJoel Granados
Add the const qualifier to all the ctl_tables in the tree except for watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl, memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls, loadpin_sysctl_table and the ones calling register_net_sysctl (./net, drivers/inifiniband dirs). These are special cases as they use a registration function with a non-const qualified ctl_table argument or modify the arrays before passing them on to the registration function. Constifying ctl_table structs will prevent the modification of proc_handler function pointers as the arrays would reside in .rodata. This is made possible after commit 78eb4ea25cd5 ("sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers") constified all the proc_handlers. Created this by running an spatch followed by a sed command: Spatch: virtual patch @ depends on !(file in "net") disable optional_qualifier @ identifier table_name != { watchdog_hardlockup_sysctl, iwcm_ctl_table, ucma_ctl_table, memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls, loadpin_sysctl_table }; @@ + const struct ctl_table table_name [] = { ... }; sed: sed --in-place \ -e "s/struct ctl_table .table = &uts_kern/const struct ctl_table *table = \&uts_kern/" \ kernel/utsname_sysctl.c Reviewed-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> # for kernel/trace/ Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> # SCSI Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> # xfs Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Acked-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Bill O'Donnell <bodonnel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com> Acked-by: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
2025-01-27Pass parent directory inode and expected name to ->d_revalidate()Al Viro
->d_revalidate() often needs to access dentry parent and name; that has to be done carefully, since the locking environment varies from caller to caller. We are not guaranteed that dentry in question will not be moved right under us - not unless the filesystem is such that nothing on it ever gets renamed. It can be dealt with, but that results in boilerplate code that isn't even needed - the callers normally have just found the dentry via dcache lookup and want to verify that it's in the right place; they already have the values of ->d_parent and ->d_name stable. There is a couple of exceptions (overlayfs and, to less extent, ecryptfs), but for the majority of calls that song and dance is not needed at all. It's easier to make ecryptfs and overlayfs find and pass those values if there's a ->d_revalidate() instance to be called, rather than doing that in the instances. This commit only changes the calling conventions; making use of supplied values is left to followups. NOTE: some instances need more than just the parent - things like CIFS may need to build an entire path from filesystem root, so they need more precautions than the usual boilerplate. This series doesn't do anything to that need - these filesystems have to keep their locking mechanisms (rename_lock loops, use of dentry_path_raw(), private rwsem a-la v9fs). One thing to keep in mind when using name is that name->name will normally point into the pathname being resolved; the filename in question occupies name->len bytes starting at name->name, and there is NUL somewhere after it, but it the next byte might very well be '/' rather than '\0'. Do not ignore name->len. Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <gabriel@krisman.be> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2024-12-22vfs: support caching symlink lengths in inodesMateusz Guzik
When utilized it dodges strlen() in vfs_readlink(), giving about 1.5% speed up when issuing readlink on /initrd.img on ext4. Filesystems opt in by calling inode_set_cached_link() when creating an inode. The size is stored in a new union utilizing the same space as i_devices, thus avoiding growing the struct or taking up any more space. Churn-wise the current readlink_copy() helper is patched to accept the size instead of calculating it. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241120112037.822078-2-mjguzik@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-11-18Merge tag 'pull-xattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfsLinus Torvalds
Pull xattr updates from Al Viro: "Sanitize xattr and io_uring interactions with it, add *xattrat() syscalls, sanitize struct filename handling in there" * tag 'pull-xattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: xattr: remove redundant check on variable err fs/xattr: add *at family syscalls new helpers: file_removexattr(), filename_removexattr() new helpers: file_listxattr(), filename_listxattr() replace do_getxattr() with saner helpers. replace do_setxattr() with saner helpers. new helper: import_xattr_name() fs: rename struct xattr_ctx to kernel_xattr_ctx xattr: switch to CLASS(fd) io_[gs]etxattr_prep(): just use getname() io_uring: IORING_OP_F[GS]ETXATTR is fine with REQ_F_FIXED_FILE getname_maybe_null() - the third variant of pathname copy-in teach filename_lookup() to treat NULL filename as ""
2024-11-18Merge tag 'pull-fd' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfsLinus Torvalds
Pull 'struct fd' class updates from Al Viro: "The bulk of struct fd memory safety stuff Making sure that struct fd instances are destroyed in the same scope where they'd been created, getting rid of reassignments and passing them by reference, converting to CLASS(fd{,_pos,_raw}). We are getting very close to having the memory safety of that stuff trivial to verify" * tag 'pull-fd' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (28 commits) deal with the last remaing boolean uses of fd_file() css_set_fork(): switch to CLASS(fd_raw, ...) memcg_write_event_control(): switch to CLASS(fd) assorted variants of irqfd setup: convert to CLASS(fd) do_pollfd(): convert to CLASS(fd) convert do_select() convert vfs_dedupe_file_range(). convert cifs_ioctl_copychunk() convert media_request_get_by_fd() convert spu_run(2) switch spufs_calls_{get,put}() to CLASS() use convert cachestat(2) convert do_preadv()/do_pwritev() fdget(), more trivial conversions fdget(), trivial conversions privcmd_ioeventfd_assign(): don't open-code eventfd_ctx_fdget() o2hb_region_dev_store(): avoid goto around fdget()/fdput() introduce "fd_pos" class, convert fdget_pos() users to it. fdget_raw() users: switch to CLASS(fd_raw) convert vmsplice() to CLASS(fd) ...
2024-11-03fdget_raw() users: switch to CLASS(fd_raw)Al Viro
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2024-11-01fs: optimize acl_permission_check()Linus Torvalds
generic_permission() turned out to be costlier than expected. The reason is that acl_permission_check() performs owner checks that involve costly pointer dereferences. There's already code that skips expensive group checks if the group and other permission bits are the same wrt to the mask that is checked. This logic can be extended to also shortcut permission checking in acl_permission_check(). If the inode doesn't have POSIX ACLs than ownership doesn't matter. If there are no missing UGO permissions the permission check can be shortcut. Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wgXEoAOFRkDg+grxs+p1U+QjWXLixRGmYEfd=vG+OBuFw@mail.gmail.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-10-19getname_maybe_null() - the third variant of pathname copy-inAl Viro
Semantics used by statx(2) (and later *xattrat(2)): without AT_EMPTY_PATH it's standard getname() (i.e. ERR_PTR(-ENOENT) on empty string, ERR_PTR(-EFAULT) on NULL), with AT_EMPTY_PATH both empty string and NULL are accepted. Calling conventions: getname_maybe_null(user_pointer, flags) returns * pointer to struct filename when non-empty string had been successfully read * ERR_PTR(...) on error * NULL if an empty string or NULL pointer had been given with AT_EMPTY_PATH in the flags argument. It tries to avoid allocation in the last case; it's not always able to do so, in which case the temporary struct filename instance is freed and NULL returned anyway. Fast path is inlined. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2024-10-19teach filename_lookup() to treat NULL filename as ""Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2024-09-23Merge tag 'pull-stable-struct_fd' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull 'struct fd' updates from Al Viro: "Just the 'struct fd' layout change, with conversion to accessor helpers" * tag 'pull-stable-struct_fd' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: add struct fd constructors, get rid of __to_fd() struct fd: representation change introduce fd_file(), convert all accessors to it.
2024-09-16Merge tag 'vfs-6.12.folio' of ↵Linus Torvalds
gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull vfs folio updates from Christian Brauner: "This contains work to port write_begin and write_end to rely on folios for various filesystems. This converts ocfs2, vboxfs, orangefs, jffs2, hostfs, fuse, f2fs, ecryptfs, ntfs3, nilfs2, reiserfs, minixfs, qnx6, sysv, ufs, and squashfs. After this series lands a bunch of the filesystems in this list do not mention struct page anymore" * tag 'vfs-6.12.folio' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (61 commits) Squashfs: Ensure all readahead pages have been used Squashfs: Rewrite and update squashfs_readahead_fragment() to not use page->index Squashfs: Update squashfs_readpage_block() to not use page->index Squashfs: Update squashfs_readahead() to not use page->index Squashfs: Update page_actor to not use page->index jffs2: Use a folio in jffs2_garbage_collect_dnode() jffs2: Convert jffs2_do_readpage_nolock to take a folio buffer: Convert __block_write_begin() to take a folio ocfs2: Convert ocfs2_write_zero_page to use a folio fs: Convert aops->write_begin to take a folio fs: Convert aops->write_end to take a folio vboxsf: Use a folio in vboxsf_write_end() orangefs: Convert orangefs_write_begin() to use a folio orangefs: Convert orangefs_write_end() to use a folio jffs2: Convert jffs2_write_begin() to use a folio jffs2: Convert jffs2_write_end() to use a folio hostfs: Convert hostfs_write_end() to use a folio fuse: Convert fuse_write_begin() to use a folio fuse: Convert fuse_write_end() to use a folio f2fs: Convert f2fs_write_begin() to use a folio ...
2024-08-30fs: rearrange general fastpath check now that O_CREAT uses itChristian Brauner
If we find a positive dentry we can now simply try and open it. All prelimiary checks are already done with or without O_CREAT. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-08-30fs: remove audit dummy context checkChristian Brauner
Now that we audit later during lookup_open() we can remove the audit dummy context check. This simplifies things a lot. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-08-30fs: pull up trailing slashes check for O_CREATChristian Brauner
Perform the check for trailing slashes right in the fastpath check and don't bother with any additional work. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-08-30fs: move audit parent inodeChristian Brauner
During O_CREAT we unconditionally audit the parent inode. This makes it difficult to support a fastpath for O_CREAT when the file already exists because we have to drop out of RCU lookup needlessly. We worked around this by checking whether audit was actually active but that's also suboptimal. Instead, move the audit of the parent inode down into lookup_open() at a point where it's mostly certain that the file needs to be created. This also reduced the inconsistency that currently exists: while audit on the parent is done independent of whether or no the file already existed an audit on the file is only performed if it has been created. By moving the audit down a bit we emit the audit a little later but it will allow us to simplify the fastpath for O_CREAT significantly. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-08-30fs: try an opportunistic lookup for O_CREAT opens tooJeff Layton
Today, when opening a file we'll typically do a fast lookup, but if O_CREAT is set, the kernel always takes the exclusive inode lock. I assume this was done with the expectation that O_CREAT means that we always expect to do the create, but that's often not the case. Many programs set O_CREAT even in scenarios where the file already exists. This patch rearranges the pathwalk-for-open code to also attempt a fast_lookup in certain O_CREAT cases. If a positive dentry is found, the inode_lock can be avoided altogether, and if auditing isn't enabled, it can stay in rcuwalk mode for the last step_into. One notable exception that is hopefully temporary: if we're doing an rcuwalk and auditing is enabled, skip the lookup_fast. Legitimizing the dentry in that case is more expensive than taking the i_rwsem for now. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240807-openfast-v3-1-040d132d2559@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-08-30fs: add a kerneldoc header over lookup_fastJeff Layton
The lookup_fast helper in fs/namei.c has some subtlety in how dentries are returned. Document them. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240802-openfast-v1-2-a1cff2a33063@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-08-12introduce fd_file(), convert all accessors to it.Al Viro
For any changes of struct fd representation we need to turn existing accesses to fields into calls of wrappers. Accesses to struct fd::flags are very few (3 in linux/file.h, 1 in net/socket.c, 3 in fs/overlayfs/file.c and 3 more in explicit initializers). Those can be dealt with in the commit converting to new layout; accesses to struct fd::file are too many for that. This commit converts (almost) all of f.file to fd_file(f). It's not entirely mechanical ('file' is used as a member name more than just in struct fd) and it does not even attempt to distinguish the uses in pointer context from those in boolean context; the latter will be eventually turned into a separate helper (fd_empty()). NOTE: mass conversion to fd_empty(), tempting as it might be, is a bad idea; better do that piecewise in commit that convert from fdget...() to CLASS(...). [conflicts in fs/fhandle.c, kernel/bpf/syscall.c, mm/memcontrol.c caught by git; fs/stat.c one got caught by git grep] [fs/xattr.c conflict] Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2024-08-07fs: Convert aops->write_begin to take a folioMatthew Wilcox (Oracle)
Convert all callers from working on a page to working on one page of a folio (support for working on an entire folio can come later). Removes a lot of folio->page->folio conversions. Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-08-07fs: Convert aops->write_end to take a folioMatthew Wilcox (Oracle)
Most callers have a folio, and most implementations operate on a folio, so remove the conversion from folio->page->folio to fit through this interface. Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-07-24vfs: correct the comments of vfs_*() helpersCongjie Zhou
correct the comments of vfs_*() helpers in fs/namei.c, including: 1. vfs_create() 2. vfs_mknod() 3. vfs_mkdir() 4. vfs_rmdir() 5. vfs_symlink() All of them come from the same commit: 6521f8917082 "namei: prepare for idmapped mounts" The @dentry is actually the dentry of child directory rather than base directory(parent directory), and thus the @dir has to be modified due to the change of @dentry. Signed-off-by: Congjie Zhou <zcjie0802@qq.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/tencent_2FCF6CC9E10DC8A27AE58A5A0FE4FCE96D0A@qq.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-07-15Merge tag 'vfs-6.11.misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner: "Features: - Support passing NULL along AT_EMPTY_PATH for statx(). NULL paths with any flag value other than AT_EMPTY_PATH go the usual route and end up with -EFAULT to retain compatibility (Rust is abusing calls of the sort to detect availability of statx) This avoids path lookup code, lockref management, memory allocation and in case of NULL path userspace memory access (which can be quite expensive with SMAP on x86_64) - Don't block i_writecount during exec. Remove the deny_write_access() mechanism for executables - Relax open_by_handle_at() permissions in specific cases where we can prove that the caller had sufficient privileges to open a file - Switch timespec64 fields in struct inode to discrete integers freeing up 4 bytes Fixes: - Fix false positive circular locking warning in hfsplus - Initialize hfs_inode_info after hfs_alloc_inode() in hfs - Avoid accidental overflows in vfs_fallocate() - Don't interrupt fallocate with EINTR in tmpfs to avoid constantly restarting shmem_fallocate() - Add missing quote in comment in fs/readdir Cleanups: - Don't assign and test in an if statement in mqueue. Move the assignment out of the if statement - Reflow the logic in may_create_in_sticky() - Remove the usage of the deprecated ida_simple_xx() API from procfs - Reject FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE_EXCL requets that depend on the new mount api early - Rename variables in copy_tree() to make it easier to understand - Replace WARN(down_read_trylock, ...) abuse with proper asserts in various places in the VFS - Get rid of user_path_at_empty() and drop the empty argument from getname_flags() - Check for error while copying and no path in one branch in getname_flags() - Avoid redundant smp_mb() for THP handling in do_dentry_open() - Rename parent_ino to d_parent_ino and make it use RCU - Remove unused header include in fs/readdir - Export in_group_capable() helper and switch f2fs and fuse over to it instead of open-coding the logic in both places" * tag 'vfs-6.11.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (27 commits) ipc: mqueue: remove assignment from IS_ERR argument vfs: rename parent_ino to d_parent_ino and make it use RCU vfs: support statx(..., NULL, AT_EMPTY_PATH, ...) stat: use vfs_empty_path() helper fs: new helper vfs_empty_path() fs: reflow may_create_in_sticky() vfs: remove redundant smp_mb for thp handling in do_dentry_open fuse: Use in_group_or_capable() helper f2fs: Use in_group_or_capable() helper fs: Export in_group_or_capable() vfs: reorder checks in may_create_in_sticky hfs: fix to initialize fields of hfs_inode_info after hfs_alloc_inode() proc: Remove usage of the deprecated ida_simple_xx() API hfsplus: fix to avoid false alarm of circular locking Improve readability of copy_tree vfs: shave a branch in getname_flags vfs: retire user_path_at_empty and drop empty arg from getname_flags vfs: stop using user_path_at_empty in do_readlinkat tmpfs: don't interrupt fallocate with EINTR fs: don't block i_writecount during exec ...
2024-07-15Merge branch 'link_path_walk'Linus Torvalds
This is the last - for now - of the "look, we generated some questionable code for basic pathname lookup operations" set of branches. This is mainly just re-organizing the name hashing code in link_path_walk(), mostly by improving the calling conventions to the inlined helper functions and moving some of the code around to allow for more straightforward code generation. The profiles - and the generated code - look much more palatable to me now. * link_path_walk: vfs: link_path_walk: move more of the name hashing into hash_name() vfs: link_path_walk: improve may_lookup() code generation vfs: link_path_walk: do '.' and '..' detection while hashing vfs: link_path_walk: clarify and improve name hashing interface vfs: link_path_walk: simplify name hash flow
2024-07-07vfs: link_path_walk: move more of the name hashing into hash_name()Linus Torvalds
This avoids having to return the length of the component entirely by just doing all of the name processing in hash_name(). We can just return the end of the path component, and a flag for the DOT and DOTDOT cases. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2024-07-07vfs: link_path_walk: improve may_lookup() code generationLinus Torvalds
Instead of having separate calls to 'inode_permission()' depending on whether we're in RCU lookup or not, just share the first call. Note that the initial "conditional" on LOOKUP_RCU really turns into just a "convert the LOOKUP_RCU bit in the nameidata into the MAY_NOT_BLOCK bit in the argument", which is just a trivial bitwise and and shift operation. So the initial conditional goes away entirely, and then the likely case is that it will succeed independently of us being in RCU lookup or not, and the possible "we may need to fall out of RCU and redo it all" fixups that are needed afterwards all go in the unlikely path. [ This also marks 'nd' restrict, because that means that the compiler can know that there is no other alias, and can cache the LOOKUP_RCU value over the call to inode_permission(). ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2024-06-27fs: reflow may_create_in_sticky()Christian Brauner
This function is so messy and hard to read, let's reflow it to make it more readable. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240621-affekt-denkzettel-3c115f68355a@brauner Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-06-25vfs: reorder checks in may_create_in_stickyMateusz Guzik
The routine is called for all directories on file creation and weirdly postpones the check if the dir is sticky to begin with. Instead it first checks fifos and regular files (in that order), while avoidably pulling globals. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240620120359.151258-1-mjguzik@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-06-21vfs: shave a branch in getname_flagsMateusz Guzik
Check for an error while copying and no path in one branch. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240604155257.109500-4-mjguzik@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-06-19vfs: link_path_walk: do '.' and '..' detection while hashingLinus Torvalds
Instead of loading the name again to detect '.' and '..', just use the fact that we already had the masked last word available when as we created the name hash. Which is exactly what we'd then test for. Dealing with big-endian word ordering needs a bit of care, particularly since we have the byte-at-a-time loop as a fallback that doesn't do BE word loads. But not a big deal. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2024-06-19vfs: link_path_walk: clarify and improve name hashing interfaceLinus Torvalds
Now that we clearly only care about the length of the name we just parsed, we can simplify and clarify the interface to "name_hash()", and move the actual nd->last field setting in there. That makes everything simpler, and this way don't mix the hash and the length together only to then immediately unmix them again. We still eventually want the combined mixed "hashlen" for when we look things up in the dentry cache, but inside link_path_walk() it's simpler and clearer to just deal with the path component length. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2024-06-19vfs: link_path_walk: simplify name hash flowLinus Torvalds
This is one of those hot functions in path walking, and it's doing things in just the wrong order that causes slightly unnecessary extra work. Move the name pointer update and the setting of 'nd->last' up a bit, so that the (unlikely) filesystem-specific hashing can run on them in place, instead of having to set up a copy on the stack and copy things back and forth. Because even when the hashing is not run, it causes the stack frame of the function to be bigger to hold the unnecessary temporary copy. This also means that we never then reference the full "hashlen" field after calculating it, and can clarify the code with just using the length part. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2024-06-18vfs: generate FS_CREATE before FS_OPEN when ->atomic_open used.NeilBrown
When a file is opened and created with open(..., O_CREAT) we get both the CREATE and OPEN fsnotify events and would expect them in that order. For most filesystems we get them in that order because open_last_lookups() calls fsnofify_create() and then do_open() (from path_openat()) calls vfs_open()->do_dentry_open() which calls fsnotify_open(). However when ->atomic_open is used, the do_dentry_open() -> fsnotify_open() call happens from finish_open() which is called from the ->atomic_open handler in lookup_open() which is called *before* open_last_lookups() calls fsnotify_create. So we get the "open" notification before "create" - which is backwards. ltp testcase inotify02 tests this and reports the inconsistency. This patch lifts the fsnotify_open() call out of do_dentry_open() and places it higher up the call stack. There are three callers of do_dentry_open(). For vfs_open() and kernel_file_open() the fsnotify_open() is placed directly in that caller so there should be no behavioural change. For finish_open() there are two cases: - finish_open is used in ->atomic_open handlers. For these we add a call to fsnotify_open() at open_last_lookups() if FMODE_OPENED is set - which means do_dentry_open() has been called. - finish_open is used in ->tmpfile() handlers. For these a similar call to fsnotify_open() is added to vfs_tmpfile() With this patch NFSv3 is restored to its previous behaviour (before ->atomic_open support was added) of generating CREATE notifications before OPEN, and NFSv4 now has that same correct ordering that is has not had before. I haven't tested other filesystems. Fixes: 7c6c5249f061 ("NFS: add atomic_open for NFSv3 to handle O_TRUNC correctly.") Reported-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/01c3bf2e-eb1f-4b7f-a54f-d2a05dd3d8c8@arm.com Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/171817619547.14261.975798725161704336@noble.neil.brown.name Fixes: 7b8c9d7bb457 ("fsnotify: move fsnotify_open() hook into do_dentry_open()") Tested-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240617162303.1596-2-jack@suse.cz Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>