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2026-08-17Merge tag 'vfs-7.3-rc1.misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-6/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner: "Bigger cleanups: - The lockref dead-count handling is tidied up. The open-coded check for a count below zero as the dead marker relies on information the caller should not have. - make put_mnt_ns() leave mounts connected. Destroying a mount namespace disconnected its mounts from their mount points. So a file descriptor still open on the parent of a mount point could be used to peek under it. Locked mounts were already kept connected to prevent exactly that. But a mount is only locked when its tree is copied across a user namespace boundary. So a mount namespace set up by a privileged component had no locked mounts and its mounts were disconnected. Passing UMOUNT_CONNECTED keeps every mount connected and prevents that bug. - vfs_prepare_mode() passes S_IFDIR for directories. I meant to fix that ago but didn't get to it. So now someone finally did it. This kills the exception where the mode could be 0 when a directory was created whereas every other creation operation passed it explicitly already. - move long delayed work for ufs, jffs2, hfsplus, hfs and affs from the per-cpu system_long_wq to the new unbound system_dfl_long_wq. None of that work relies on per-cpu state and the work item is enqueued with queue_delayed_work() whose timer is global anyway. So it may as well benefit from scheduler task placement. Smaller fixes and cleanups: - unlock_buffer() and journal_end_buffer_io_sync() use clear_and_wake_up_bit() - the pipe page pools are unified into a single per-pipe pool and the extra wake_up(rd_wait) is limited to EPOLLET consumers - eventpoll now computes its timer slack lazily in ep_poll() - shrink_dcache_for_umount() keeps making progress on busy roots - excess xarray nodes are freed in clear_inode() - romfs detects hard link cycles - the user path of nested backing files is fixed - pidfd holds exec_update_lock around the namespace ioctl - non-memcg-aware nr_cached_objects is skipped during memcg slab shrink - iomap_write_iter() always returns status - mangle_path() is renamed to seq_mangle_path() - inode timestamp accessors are annotated - new regression test for pipe->poll_usage. - a few documentation, kernel-doc and selftest fixes" * tag 'vfs-7.3-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (67 commits) selftests/namespaces: Fix racy pipe handshake in timens and pidns_separate selftests/epoll: add a regression test for pipe->poll_usage pipe: only enable the extra wake_up(rd_wait) for EPOLLET consumers pidfd: hold exec_update_lock around namespace ioctl fs: fix user path of nested backing files fs: remove stale inode_insert5() kernel-doc parameter fs: fix switch/case indentation in sysfs() syscall fs: document semantics of kstat::{uid,gid} fields dcache: keep shrink_dcache_for_umount() making progress on busy roots seq_file: rename mangle_path to seq_mangle_path nstree: add/fix struct ns_id_req kernel-doc member fields dcache: use lockref routines for dead count checks lockref: tidy up dead count handling initramfs: fix typo in reserve_initrd_mem comment fs/pipe: unify the page pools into a single per-pipe pool fs: annotate inode timestamp accessors eventpoll: compute timer slack lazily in ep_poll() selftests/filesystems: add mntns cleanup test put_mnt_ns(): leave mounts connected affs: Move long delayed work on system_dfl_long_wq ...
2026-08-17Merge tag 'vfs-7.3-rc1.lookup' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-106/+245
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull vfs lookup updates from Christian Brauner: "This refactors lookup_open() and adds vfs_lookup_open() for nfsd. mnt_want_write() and parent locking are moved into lookup_open() itself. audit_inode_child() is also now called in lookup_open() on failure. That is the calling convention in vfs_create() and vfs_mkdir(), but lookup_open() made no such call when atomic_open() should have created a file and did not. And neither did the regular ->create() path fwiw. This also contains work to remove the unneeded excl argument from the ->create() inode op" * tag 'vfs-7.3-rc1.lookup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: fs/namei.c: fix coding style in atomic_open() and lookup_open() fs/namei.c: fix kerneldoc of atomic_open() and vfs_lookup_open() fs/namei.c: update stale comments in lookup_open() Remove excl arg to ->create inode_operation fs/namei.c: update kerneldoc of atomic_open() vfs: call audit_inode_child() in lookup_open() on failure vfs: move create error && negative dentry case in lookup_open() up VFS: add vfs_lookup_open() for nfsd VFS: move delegated_inode retry loop into lookup_open() VFS: move mnt_want_write() and locking into lookup_open()
2026-07-31fs/namei.c: fix coding style in atomic_open() and lookup_open()Christian Brauner1-3/+8
Commit 4886c80eef20 ("vfs: call audit_inode_child() in lookup_open() on failure") indented a continuation line with spaces, left three declarations without a following blank line and used a trailing */ on the last line of a block comment. Clean all of that up, no functional change. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260731-work-lookup-fixes-v1-3-2412b85cf65c@kernel.org Fixes: 4886c80eef20 ("vfs: call audit_inode_child() in lookup_open() on failure") Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-07-31fs/namei.c: fix kerneldoc of atomic_open() and vfs_lookup_open()Christian Brauner1-5/+7
Commit ba0e87026613 ("fs/namei.c: update kerneldoc of atomic_open()") turned the comment above atomic_open() into kerneldoc, but wrote the return description as running text. kernel-doc only recognises a return section introduced by "Return:" or "Returns:", so this added a warning under W=1: fs/namei.c:4362 No description found for return value of 'atomic_open' Give it the missing colon. The summary line also has to stand on its own line, so move the "from a negative dentry" part into the body, where it can say that the caller has to hand over a negative dentry. Also add the "to" missing from vfs_lookup_open()'s description. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260731-work-lookup-fixes-v1-2-2412b85cf65c@kernel.org Fixes: ba0e87026613 ("fs/namei.c: update kerneldoc of atomic_open()") Fixes: 536227b814bd ("VFS: add vfs_lookup_open() for nfsd") Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-07-31fs/namei.c: update stale comments in lookup_open()Christian Brauner1-11/+9
Commit ddb6e6c72a0a ("VFS: move mnt_want_write() and locking into lookup_open()") moved the parent inode locking into lookup_open(), but left the comment claiming the caller has to take it. A caller following that comment now deadlocks, and the series added a second caller. Describe what the function actually does. While at it drop the claim that it returns 0 on success and updates @path, wrong ever since lookup_open() started returning a dentry in v5.7, and fix the reference to lookup_open() in a comment that now sits inside lookup_open() itself. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260731-work-lookup-fixes-v1-1-2412b85cf65c@kernel.org Fixes: ddb6e6c72a0a ("VFS: move mnt_want_write() and locking into lookup_open()") Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-07-31Remove excl arg to ->create inode_operationNeilBrown1-3/+2
The only time that 'false' is passed as the 'excl' arg to the ->create inode_operation is in lookup_open() when ->atomic_open is not provided by the parent directory. *all* directory inode_operations which do not have ->atomic_open completely ignore the 'excl' arg. Therefore we don't need the 'excl' arg. Those few ->create operations which pay attention to the arg are only ever called with a value of 'true'. We remove that arg and change all ->create operations to behave as those thhe arg were 'true'. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/178290671516.27465.15984496764174914338@noble.neil.brown.name Reviewed-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-07-30fs/namei.c: update kerneldoc of atomic_open()Jori Koolstra1-9/+17
The comments above atomic_open() contain several errors: - atomic_open() does not return 0 if successful - @path is not updated Fix those and be more explicit about when FMODE_OPENED and FMODE_CREATED are set. Change to a full kerneldoc. Signed-off-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260710164233.827744-4-jkoolstra@xs4all.nl Reviewed-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-07-30vfs: call audit_inode_child() in lookup_open() on failureJori Koolstra1-36/+56
audit_inode_child() is called in may_create_dentry() so that failed filesystem operations still register an audit entry. On success, the entry is overwritten when, for instance, fsnotify_create() is called. This is the calling convention in vfs_create() and vfs_mkdir(). In lookup_open(), however, when atomic_open() should have created a file but didn't, no call to audit_inode_child() is made. The same is true for the regular ->create() path. Fix the calling of audit_inode_child() in lookup_open() to match the vfs_create() path. For the ->atomic_open() filesystems this logic has been pushed into atomic_open(). This function is also reordered a bit to make the case distinction of the possible returns from ->atomic_open() more explicit (i.e. finish_open() or finish_no_open()). When retrying delegation breaking, audit_inode_child() could be called more than once, but this is OK because those entries are reused. Signed-off-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260710164233.827744-3-jkoolstra@xs4all.nl Acked-by: Paul Moore (audit) <paul@paul-moore.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-07-30vfs: move create error && negative dentry case in lookup_open() upJori Koolstra1-4/+5
O_CREAT is stripped when create_error is set in lookup_open(), so when lookup does not return an inode, the case if (!dentry->d_inode && (open_flag & O_CREAT)) is always skipped. We can get rid of this cognitive step by handling the error case first. Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Signed-off-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260710164233.827744-2-jkoolstra@xs4all.nl Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-07-23VFS: add vfs_lookup_open() for nfsdNeilBrown1-0/+96
vfs_lookup_open() is a limited version of lookup_open() which is exported for nfsd to use - to replace dentry_create(). It is limited in that no filename is given (thus no auditing) and no LOOKUP_ flags are passed. A few "intent" LOOKUP flags are deduced from the open flags. If a non-regular file is found and appropriate error is returned and no file is opened. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260714230534.776886-4-neilb@ownmail.net Reviewed-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-07-23VFS: move delegated_inode retry loop into lookup_open()NeilBrown1-19/+24
By moving this retry into lookup_open() we no longer need to pass around the delegated_inode pointer. Various variable assignments need to be moved out of the declaration block so that they can be repeated after the "goto retry". Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260714230534.776886-3-neilb@ownmail.net Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-07-23VFS: move mnt_want_write() and locking into lookup_open()NeilBrown1-36/+41
The mnt_want_write() call and the parent inode locking in open_last_lookups() are only needed for lookup_open(). So we can move them and all the got_write handling into lookup_open(). Note that we need to also check create_error when determining whether to unlock shared or not, as O_CREAT can be cleared, but create_error is only set of O_CREAT was set. The fsnotify calls come too as they must be in the locked region. Also use the existing dir_inode uniformly for dir->d_inode. This is a step towards exporting an better "open/create" interface to nfsd. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260714230534.776886-2-neilb@ownmail.net Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-07-01fs: refuse O_TMPFILE creation with an unmapped fsuid or fsgidChristian Brauner1-0/+4
vfs_tmpfile() never checked that the caller's fsuid and fsgid map into the filesystem. On an idmapped mount whose idmapping does not cover the caller's fs{u,g}id, the ->tmpfile() instance initializes the new inode through inode_init_owner(), where mapped_fsuid()/mapped_fsgid() return INVALID_UID/INVALID_GID, and the tmpfile ends up owned by (uid_t)-1. Every other creation path already refuses this: may_o_create() (O_CREAT) and may_create_dentry() (mkdir, mknod, symlink, link) bail out with -EOVERFLOW via fsuidgid_has_mapping() precisely so that an object cannot be created with an owner the filesystem cannot represent. An O_TMPFILE is no exception: it is created I_LINKABLE and linkat(2) can splice it into the namespace afterwards, so the same guarantee must hold. Add the missing fsuidgid_has_mapping() check to vfs_tmpfile(). On a non-idmapped mount the caller's fs{u,g}id always map in the superblock's user namespace, so this is a no-op there and only takes effect on an idmapped mount that does not map the caller. It applies to every filesystem that sets FS_ALLOW_IDMAP and implements ->tmpfile() (tmpfs, ext4, btrfs, xfs, f2fs, ...), and to overlayfs, whose upper-layer tmpfile creation funnels through vfs_tmpfile() via backing_tmpfile_open(). Fixes: 8e5389132ab4 ("fs: introduce fsuidgid_has_mapping() helper") Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260615-work-idmapped-tmpfile-v1-1-754a94d81f83@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-07-01vfs: pass S_IFDIR mode to vfs_prepare_mode()Jori Koolstra1-6/+1
There is a comment in vfs_prepare_mode() that says: Note that it's currently valid for @type to be 0 if a directory is created. Filesystems raise that flag individually and we need to check whether each filesystem can deal with receiving S_IFDIR from the vfs before we enforce a non-zero type. It is safe to do this clean-up except that three filesystems (fuse, cifs, and coda) forward the mkdir @mode unchanged to something outside the kernel. Mask S_IFDIR back out in coda_mkdir(), fuse_mkdir() and cifs_mkdir() so that what is sent outside the kernel is unchanged. Their maintainers can drop the mask once they have confirmed it is safe. Assisted-by: LLM Signed-off-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260630105400.68459-2-jkoolstra@xs4all.nl Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-06-15Merge tag 'pull-dcache' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-4/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull dcache updates from Al Viro: - d_alloc_parallel() API change (Neil's with my changes) - NORCU fixes - Reorganization and simplification of dentry eviction logic - Simplifying rcu_read_lock() scopes in fs/dcache.c - Secondary roots work - getting rid of NFS fake root dentries and dealing with remaining shrink_dcache_for_umount() and shrink_dentry_list() races - making cursors NORCU (surprisingly easy) * tag 'pull-dcache' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (22 commits) make cursors NORCU nfs: get rid of fake root dentries wind ->s_roots via ->d_sib instead of ->d_hash shrink_dentry_tree(): unify the calls of shrink_dentry_list() shrinking rcu_read_lock() scope in d_alloc_parallel() d_walk(): shrink rcu_read_lock() scope document dentry_kill() adjust calling conventions of lock_for_kill(), fold __dentry_kill() into dentry_kill() Document rcu_read_lock() use in select_collect2() Shift rcu_read_{,un}lock() inside fast_dput() simplify safety for lock_for_kill() slowpath fold lock_for_kill() and __dentry_kill() into common helper fold lock_for_kill() into shrink_kill() shrink_dentry_list(): start with removing from shrink list d_prune_aliases(): make sure to skip NORCU aliases kill d_dispose_if_unused() make to_shrink_list() return whether it has moved dentry to list select_collect(): ignore dentries on shrink lists if they have positive refcounts find_acceptable_alias(): skip NORCU aliases with zero refcount fix a race between d_find_any_alias() and final dput() of NORCU dentries ...
2026-06-15Merge tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-20/+5
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner: "Features: - Reduce pipe->mutex contention by pre-allocating pages outside the lock in anon_pipe_write(). anon_pipe_write() called alloc_page() once per page while holding pipe->mutex. The allocation can sleep doing direct reclaim and runs memcg charging, which extends the critical section and stalls any concurrent reader on the same mutex. Now up to 8 pages are pre-allocated before the mutex is taken, leftovers are recycled into the per-pipe tmp_page[] cache before unlock, and any remainder is released after unlock, keeping the allocator out of the critical section on both sides. On a writers x readers sweep with 64KB writes against a 1 MB pipe throughput improves 6-28% and average write latency drops 5-22%; under memory pressure - when the cost of holding the mutex across reclaim is highest - throughput improves 21-48% and latency drops 17-33%. The microbenchmark is added to selftests. - uaccess/sockptr: fix the ignored_trailing logic in copy_struct_to_user() to behave as documented and the usize check in copy_struct_from_sockptr() for user pointers, and add copy_struct_{from,to}_bounce_buffer() and copy_struct_to_sockptr() helpers for upcoming users (IPPROTO_SMBDIRECT, IPPROTO_QUIC). - bpf: add a sleepable bpf_real_inode() kfunc that resolves the real inode backing a dentry via d_real_inode(). On overlayfs the inode attached to the dentry doesn't carry the underlying device information; this is used by the filesystem restriction BPF program that was merged into systemd. - docs: add guidelines for submitting new filesystems, motivated by the maintenance burden abandoned and untestable filesystems impose on VFS developers, blocking infrastructure work like folio conversions and iomap migration. Fixes: - libfs: set SB_I_NOEXEC and SB_I_NODEV by default in init_pseudo() and drop the now-redundant assignments in callers. This began as a one-line dma-buf fix for a path_noexec() warning; a pseudo filesystem has no reason not to set SB_I_NOEXEC. All init_pseudo() callers were audited: the only visible effect is on dma-buf where SB_I_NOEXEC silences the warning. - Handle set_blocksize() failures in legacy filesystems (bfs, hpfs, qnx4, jfs, befs, affs, isofs, minix, ntfs3, omfs). Mounting a device with a sector size > PAGE_SIZE crashed roughly half of them; the rest had the same missing error handling pattern. Plus a follow-up releasing the superblock buffer_head when setting the minix v3 block size fails. - mount: honour SB_NOUSER in the new mount API. - fs/fcntl: fix a SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order in fasync signaling by switching the process-group paths of send_sigio() and send_sigurg() from read_lock(&tasklist_lock) to RCU, matching the single-PID path. - vfs: add an FS_USERNS_DELEGATABLE flag and set it for NFS, fixing delegated NFS mounts (fsopen() in a container with the mount performed by a privileged daemon) that broke when non-init s_user_ns was tied to FS_USERNS_MOUNT. - selftests/namespaces: fix a hang in nsid_test where an unreaped grandchild kept the TAP pipe write-end open, a waitpid(-1) race in listns_efault_test, and a false FAIL on kernels without listns() where the tests should SKIP. - filelock: fix the break_lease() stub signature for CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING=n. - init/initramfs_test: wait for the async initramfs unpacking before running; the test and do_populate_rootfs() share the parser state. - fs/coredump: reduce redundant log noise in validate_coredump_safety(). - iomap: pass the correct length to fserror_report_io() in __iomap_write_begin(). - backing-file: fix the backing_file_open() kerneldoc. Cleanups: - initramfs: refactor the cpio hex header parsing to use hex2bin() instead of the hand-rolled simple_strntoul() which is reverted, and extend the initramfs KUnit tests to cover header fields with 0x prefixes. - Replace __get_free_pages() and friends with kmalloc()/kzalloc() across quota, proc, ocfs2/dlm, nilfs2, nfs, nfsd, libfs, jfs, jbd2, isofs, fuse, select, namespace, configfs, binfmt_misc, bfs, and the do_mounts init code - part of the larger work of replacing page allocator calls with kmalloc(). - Use clear_and_wake_up_bit() in unlock_buffer() and journal_end_buffer_io_sync() instead of open-coding the sequence. - Drop unused VFS exports: unexport drop_super_exclusive(), remove start_removing_user_path_at(), and fold __start_removing_path() into start_removing_path(). - fs/read_write: narrow the __kernel_write() export with EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_MODULES(). - vfs: uapi: retire octal and hex constants in favor of (1 << n) for the O_ flags. Finding a free bit for a new flag across the architectures was needlessly hard with the mixed bases. - dcache: add extra sanity checks of dead dentries in dentry_free() via a new DENTRY_WARN_ONCE() that also prints d_flags. - iov_iter: use kmemdup_array() in dup_iter() to harden the allocation against multiplication overflow. - fs/pipe: write to ->poll_usage only once. - vfs: remove an always-taken if-branch in find_next_fd(). - dcache: use kmalloc_flex() for struct external_name in __d_alloc(). - namei: use QSTR() instead of QSTR_INIT() in path_pts(). - sync_file_range: delete dead S_ISLNK code. - Comment fixes: retire a stale comment in fget_task_next() and fix assorted spelling mistakes" * tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (73 commits) backing-file: fix backing_file_open() kerneldoc parameter iomap: pass the correct len to fserror_report_io in __iomap_write_begin vfs: add FS_USERNS_DELEGATABLE flag and set it for NFS filelock: fix break_lease() stub signature for CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING=n vfs: uapi: retire octal and hex numbers in favor of (1 << n) for O_ flags bpf: add bpf_real_inode() kfunc fs/read_write: Do not export __kernel_write() to the entire world libfs: drop redundant SB_I_NOEXEC/SB_I_NODEV in init_pseudo() callers libfs: set SB_I_NOEXEC and SB_I_NODEV by default in init_pseudo() mount: honour SB_NOUSER in the new mount API fs/fcntl: fix SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order in fasync signaling selftests/pipe: add pipe_bench microbenchmark fs/pipe: pre-allocate pages outside pipe->mutex in anon_pipe_write fs: retire stale comment in fget_task_next() fs: fix spelling mistakes in comment bfs: replace get_zeroed_page() with kzalloc() binfmt_misc: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc() configfs: replace __get_free_pages() with kzalloc() fs/namespace: use __getname() to allocate mntpath buffer fs/select: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc() ...
2026-06-15Merge tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.openat2' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-14/+34
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull openat2 updates from Christian Brauner: "Features: - Add O_EMPTYPATH to openat(2)/openat2(2). To get an operable file descriptor from an O_PATH file descriptor it is possible to use openat(fd, ".", O_DIRECTORY) for directories, but other file types require going through open("/proc/<pid>/fd/<nr>") and thus depend on a functioning procfs. With O_EMPTYPATH an empty path string is accepted and LOOKUP_EMPTY is set at path resolution time, allowing to reopen the file behind the file descriptor directly. Selftests are included. - Add an OPENAT2_REGULAR flag for openat2(2) which refuses to open anything but regular files with the new EFTYPE error code. This implements the "ability to only open regular files" feature requested by userspace via uapi-group.org and protects services from being redirected to fifos, device nodes, and friends. All atomic_open implementations were audited for OPENAT2_REGULAR handling. Explicit checks were added to ceph, gfs2, nfs (v4), and cifs/smb - these are the filesystems whose atomic_open can encounter an existing non-regular file and would otherwise call finish_open() on it or return a misleading error code. The remaining implementations (9p, fuse, vboxsf, nfs v2/v3) only call finish_open() on freshly created files and use finish_no_open() for lookup hits, letting the VFS catch non-regular files via the do_open() safety net. Cleanups: - Migrate the openat2 selftests to the kselftest harness and move them under selftests/filesystems/. The tests were written in the early days of selftests' TAP support and the modern kselftest harness is much easier to follow and maintain. The contents of the tests are unchanged and the new emptypath tests are ported on top. - Make the LAST_XXX last-type constants private to fs/namei.c. The only user outside of fs/namei.c was ksmbd which only needs to know whether the last component is a regular one, so vfs_path_parent_lookup() now performs the LAST_NORM check internally. The ints are replaced with a dedicated enum last_type" * tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.openat2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: vfs: replace ints with enum last_type for LAST_XXX vfs: make LAST_XXX private to fs/namei.c selftests: openat2: port emptypath_test to kselftest harness kselftest/openat2: test for OPENAT2_REGULAR flag openat2: new OPENAT2_REGULAR flag support openat2: introduce EFTYPE error code selftest: add tests for O_EMPTYPATH vfs: add O_EMPTYPATH to openat(2)/openat2(2) selftests: openat2: migrate to kselftest harness selftests: openat2: switch from custom ARRAY_LEN to ARRAY_SIZE selftests: openat2: move helpers to header selftests: move openat2 tests to selftests/filesystems/
2026-06-15Merge tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.directory.delegations' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-14/+17
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull vfs directory delegations from Christian Brauner: "This contains the VFS prerequisites for supporting directory delegations in nfsd via CB_NOTIFY callbacks. The filelock core gains support for ignoring delegation breaks for directory change events together with an inode_lease_ignore_mask() helper, and fsnotify gains fsnotify_modify_mark_mask() and a FSNOTIFY_EVENT_RENAME data type. With this in place nfsd can request delegations on directories and set up inotify watches to trigger sending CB_NOTIFY events to clients instead of having every directory change break the delegation. New tracepoints are added to fsnotify() and to the start of break_lease(), and trace_break_lease_block() is passed the currently blocking lease instead of the new one. A follow-up fix moves the LEASE_BREAK_* flags out of #ifdef CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING to fix the build for CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING=n configurations" * tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.directory.delegations' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: filelock: move LEASE_BREAK_* flags out of #ifdef CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING fsnotify: add FSNOTIFY_EVENT_RENAME data type fsnotify: add fsnotify_modify_mark_mask() fsnotify: new tracepoint in fsnotify() filelock: add an inode_lease_ignore_mask helper filelock: add a tracepoint to start of break_lease() filelock: add support for ignoring deleg breaks for dir change events filelock: pass current blocking lease to trace_break_lease_block() rather than "new_fl"
2026-06-05VFS: use wait_var_event for waiting in d_alloc_parallel()NeilBrown1-4/+2
Parallel lookup starts with a call of d_alloc_parallel(). That primitive either returns a matching hashed dentry or allocates a new one in the in-lookup state and returns it to the caller. Once the caller is done with lookup, it indicates so either by call of d_{splice_alias,add}() or by call of d_done_lookup(); at that point dentry leaves the in-lookup state. If d_alloc_parallel() finds a matching in-lookup dentry, it must wait for that dentry to leave the in-lookup state, one way or another. Currently by supplying wait_queue_head to d_alloc_parallel(). If d_alloc_parallel() creates a new in-lookup dentry, the address of that wait_queue_head is stored in ->d_wait of new dentry and stays there while it's in the in-lookup; subsequent d_alloc_parallel() will wait on the queue found in the matching in-lookup dentry. Transition out of in-lookup state wakes waiters on that queue (if any). That works, but the calling conventions are inconvenient - the caller must supply wait_queue_head and make sure that it survives at least until the new in-lookup dentry leaves the in-lookup state. That amounts to boilerplate in the d_alloc_parallel() callers that are followed by a call of d_lookup_done() in the same function; in cases like nfs asynchronous unlink it gets worse than that. This patch changes d_alloc_parallel() to use wake_up_var_locked() to wake up waiters, and wait_var_event_spinlock() to wait. dentry->d_lock is used for synchronisation as it is already held and the relevant times. That eliminates the need of caller-supplied wait_queue_head, simplifying the calling conventions. Better yet, we only need one bit of information stored in dentry itself: whether there are any waiters to be woken up, and that can be easily stored in ->d_flags; ->d_wait goes away. The reason we need that bit (DCACHE_LOOKUP_WAITERS) is that with wait_var machinery the queues are shared with all kinds of stuff and there's no way tell if any of the waiters have anything to do with our dentry; most of the time none of them will be relevant, so we need to avoid the pointless wakeups. Another benefit of the new scheme comes from the fact that wakeups have to be done outside of write-side critical areas of ->i_dir_seq; with the old scheme we need to carry the value picked from ->d_wait from __d_lookup_unhash() to the place where we actually wake the waiters up. Now we can just leave DCACHE_LOOKUP_WAITERS in ->d_flags until we get to doing wakeups - that's done within the same ->d_lock scope, so we are fine; new bit is accessed only under ->d_lock and it's seen only on dentries with DCACHE_PAR_LOOKUP in ->d_flags. __d_lookup_unhash() no longer needs to re-init ->d_lru. That was previously shared (in a union) with ->d_wait but ->d_wait is now gone so it no longer corrupts ->d_lru. Co-developed-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> # saner handling of flags Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2026-05-29vfs: replace ints with enum last_type for LAST_XXXJori Koolstra1-12/+16
Several functions in namei.c take an "int *type" parameter, such as filename_parentat(). To know what values this can take you have to find the anonymous struct that defines the LAST_XXX values. Define an enum last_type to make this type explicit. Signed-off-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528175854.57626-2-jkoolstra@xs4all.nl Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-05-29vfs: make LAST_XXX private to fs/namei.cJori Koolstra1-4/+16
The only user of LAST_XXX outside of fs/namei.c is fs/smb/server/vfs.c; ksmbd_vfs_path_lookup() calls vfs_path_parent_lookup() and expects a LAST_NORM last type (or it will be ENOENT). ksmbd_vfs_rename() also calls vfs_path_parent_lookup() but forgets the LAST_NORM check. It does not really make sense to have vfs_path_parent_lookup() expose the last_type because it is only needed to ensure it is LAST_NORM. So let's do this check in vfs_path_parent_lookup() instead and keep the LAST_XXX internal to fs/namei.c. This changes the ENOENT errno in ksmbd_vfs_path_lookup() to EINVAL, which matches better with how this is handled by callers of filename_parentat(). Signed-off-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528175854.57626-1-jkoolstra@xs4all.nl Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-05-28VFS: fix possible failure to unlock in nfsd4_create_file()NeilBrown1-0/+10
atomic_create() in fs/namei.c drops the reference to the dentry when it returns an error. This behaviour was imported into dentry_create() so that it will drop the reference if an error is returned from atomic_create(), though not if vfs_create() returns an error (in the case where ->atomic_create is not supported). The caller - nfsd4_create_file() - is made aware of this by checking path->dentry, which will either be a counted reference to a dentry, or an error pointer. However the change to use start_creating()/end_creating() (which landed shortly before the dentry_create() change landed, though was likely developed around the same time) means that nfsd4_create_file() *needs* a valid dentry so that it can unlock the parent. The net result is that if NFSD exports a filesystem which uses ->atomic_create, and if a call to ->atomic_create returns an error, then nfsd4_create_file() will pass an error pointer to end_creating() and the parent will not be unlocked. Fix this by changing dentry_create() to make sure path->dentry is always a valid dentry, never an error-pointer. The actual error is already returned a different way. Note that if ->atomic_create() returns a different dentry (which may not be possible in practice) we are guaranteed (because it is only ever provided by d_spliace_alias()) that it will have the same d_parent and so it will have the same effect when passed to end_creating(). Fixes: 64a989dbd144 ("VFS/knfsd: Teach dentry_create() to use atomic_open()") Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/177969022571.3379282.16448744624428323496@noble.neil.brown.name Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@hammerspace.com> Reviewed-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-05-21openat2: new OPENAT2_REGULAR flag supportDorjoy Chowdhury1-0/+4
This flag indicates the path should be opened if it's a regular file. This is useful to write secure programs that want to avoid being tricked into opening device nodes with special semantics while thinking they operate on regular files. This is a requested feature from the uapi-group[1]. The previously introduced EFTYPE error code is returned when the path doesn't refer to a regular file. For example, if openat2 is called on path /dev/null with OPENAT2_REGULAR in the flag param, it will return -EFTYPE. When used in combination with O_CREAT, either the regular file is created, or if the path already exists, it is opened if it's a regular file. Otherwise, -EFTYPE is returned. When OPENAT2_REGULAR is combined with O_DIRECTORY, -EINVAL is returned as it doesn't make sense to open a path that is both a directory and a regular file. The UAPI bit lives in the upper 32 bits of open_how::flags (((__u64)1 << 32)) so that open(2) and openat(2) -- whose @flags argument is a C int -- cannot physically express it. This is a structural guarantee, not a runtime mask: the bit is unrepresentable in 32 bits. Because the rest of the VFS open path narrows to 32 bits in several places (op->open_flag, f->f_flags, the unsigned open_flag argument of i_op->atomic_open()), build_open_flags() translates OPENAT2_REGULAR into a kernel-internal lower-32-bit carrier __O_REGULAR (bit 4, unused as an O_* on every architecture) before the assignment to op->open_flag. __O_REGULAR then rides through the existing channels exactly like __FMODE_EXEC. do_dentry_open() strips it so it cannot leak back to userspace via fcntl(F_GETFL). Four BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG() invariants in build_open_flags() prevent any future bit collision or accidental low-32 redefinition: - VALID_OPEN_FLAGS fits in 32 bits. - OPENAT2_REGULAR lives in the upper 32 bits. - OPENAT2_REGULAR does not alias any open()/openat() flag. - __O_REGULAR does not alias any user-visible flag. [1]: https://uapi-group.org/kernel-features/#ability-to-only-open-regular-files Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> says: Move OPENAT2_REGULAR to the upper 32 bits of open_how::flags with a kernel-internal __O_REGULAR carrier so that open(2)/openat(2) cannot encode the flag; add BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG() invariants and register __O_REGULAR in the fcntl_init() allocation-uniqueness BUILD_BUG_ON() (bit count 21 -> 22). Signed-off-by: Dorjoy Chowdhury <dorjoychy111@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260328172314.45807-2-dorjoychy111@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Aleksa Sarai <aleksa@amutable.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-05-21namei: use QSTR() instead of QSTR_INIT() in path_ptsThorsten Blum1-2/+1
Drop the hard-coded length argument and use the simpler QSTR(). Inline the code and drop the local variable. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260505114242.158883-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-05-21fs: fold __start_removing_path into start_removing_pathChristoph Hellwig1-9/+4
Only one caller left, and simplified this way. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260511072239.2456725-4-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-05-21fs: remove start_removing_user_path_atChristoph Hellwig1-9/+0
This function is entirely unused, remove it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260511072239.2456725-3-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-05-15filelock: add support for ignoring deleg breaks for dir change eventsJeff Layton1-14/+17
If a NFS client requests a directory delegation with a notification bitmask covering directory change events, the server shouldn't recall the delegation. Instead the client will be notified of the change after the fact. Add support for ignoring lease breaks on directory changes. Add a new flags parameter to try_break_deleg() and teach __break_lease how to ignore certain types of delegation break events. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260428-dir-deleg-v3-2-5a0780ba9def@kernel.org Acked-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-04-13Merge tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
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 ...
2026-04-13Merge tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.directory' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-24/+46
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull vfs directory updates from Christian Brauner: "Recently 'start_creating', 'start_removing', 'start_renaming' and related interfaces were added which combine the locking and the lookup. At that time many callers were changed to use the new interfaces. However there are still an assortment of places out side of the core vfs where the directory is locked explictly, whether with inode_lock() or lock_rename() or similar. These were missed in the first pass for an assortment of uninteresting reasons. This addresses the remaining places where explicit locking is used, and changes them to use the new interfaces, or otherwise removes the explicit locking. The biggest changes are in overlayfs. The other changes are quite simple, though maybe the cachefiles changes is the least simple of those" * tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.directory' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: VFS: unexport lock_rename(), lock_rename_child(), unlock_rename() ovl: remove ovl_lock_rename_workdir() ovl: use is_subdir() for testing if one thing is a subdir of another ovl: change ovl_create_real() to get a new lock when re-opening created file. ovl: pass name buffer to ovl_start_creating_temp() cachefiles: change cachefiles_bury_object to use start_renaming_dentry() ovl: Simplify ovl_lookup_real_one() VFS: make lookup_one_qstr_excl() static. nfsd: switch purge_old() to use start_removing_noperm() selinux: Use simple_start_creating() / simple_done_creating() Apparmor: Use simple_start_creating() / simple_done_creating() libfs: change simple_done_creating() to use end_creating() VFS: move the start_dirop() kerndoc comment to before start_dirop() fs/proc: Don't lock root inode when creating "self" and "thread-self" VFS: note error returns in documentation for various lookup functions
2026-03-31fs: write a better comment in step_into() concerning .mnt assignmentMateusz Guzik1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260328175841.3390950-1-mjguzik@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-03-19vfs: fix docstring of hash_name()Jori Koolstra1-2/+8
The docstring of hash_name() is falsely reporting that it returns the component length, whereas it returns a pointer to the terminating '/' or NUL character in the pathname being resolved. Signed-off-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260318203953.5770-1-jkoolstra@xs4all.nl Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-03-09VFS: unexport lock_rename(), lock_rename_child(), unlock_rename()NeilBrown1-6/+3
These three function are now only used in namei.c, so they don't need to be exported. Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260224222542.3458677-16-neilb@ownmail.net Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-03-06VFS: make lookup_one_qstr_excl() static.NeilBrown1-3/+2
lookup_one_qstr_excl() is no longer used outside of namei.c, so make it static. Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260224222542.3458677-9-neilb@ownmail.net Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-03-06VFS: move the start_dirop() kerndoc comment to before start_dirop()NeilBrown1-14/+13
This kerneldoc comment was always meant for start_dirop(), not for __start_dirop() which is a static function and doesn't need documentation. It was in the wrong place and was then incorrectly renamed (instead of moved) and useless "documentation" was added for "@state" was provided. This patch reverts the name, removes the mention of @state, and moves the comment to where it belongs. Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260224222542.3458677-4-neilb@ownmail.net Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-03-06VFS: note error returns in documentation for various lookup functionsNeilBrown1-1/+28
Darrick recently noted that try_lookup_noperm() is documented as "Look up a dentry by name in the dcache, returning NULL if it does not currently exist." but it can in fact return an error. So update the documentation for that and related functions. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260218234917.GA6490@frogsfrogsfrogs/ Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260224222542.3458677-2-neilb@ownmail.net Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-02-21treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar typesKees Cook1-2/+2
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
2026-02-16Merge tag 'vfs-7.0-rc1.misc.2' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
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 Torvalds1-199/+221
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 Torvalds1-5/+3
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 ...
2026-02-09Merge tag 'vfs-7.0-rc1.atomic_open' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-7/+73
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull vfs atomic_open updates from Christian Brauner: "Allow knfsd to use atomic_open() While knfsd offers combined exclusive create and open results to clients, on some filesystems those results are not atomic. The separate vfs_create() + vfs_open() sequence in dentry_create() can produce races and unexpected errors. For example, open O_CREAT with mode 0 will succeed in creating the file but return -EACCES from vfs_open(). Additionally, network filesystems benefit from reducing remote round-trip operations by using a single atomic_open() call. Teach dentry_create() -- whose sole caller is knfsd -- to use atomic_open() for filesystems that support it" * tag 'vfs-7.0-rc1.atomic_open' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: fs/namei: fix kernel-doc markup for dentry_create VFS/knfsd: Teach dentry_create() to use atomic_open() VFS: Prepare atomic_open() for dentry_create() VFS: move dentry_create() from fs/open.c to fs/namei.c
2026-02-09Merge tag 'vfs-7.0-rc1.btrfs' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-17/+19
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull vfs updates for btrfs from Christian Brauner: "This contains some changes for btrfs that are taken to the vfs tree to stop duplicating VFS code for subvolume/snapshot dentry Btrfs has carried private copies of the VFS may_delete() and may_create() functions in fs/btrfs/ioctl.c for permission checks during subvolume creation and snapshot destruction. These copies have drifted out of sync with the VFS originals — btrfs_may_delete() is missing the uid/gid validity check and btrfs_may_create() is missing the audit_inode_child() call. Export the VFS functions as may_{create,delete}_dentry() and switch btrfs to use them, removing ~70 lines of duplicated code" * tag 'vfs-7.0-rc1.btrfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: btrfs: use may_create_dentry() in btrfs_mksubvol() btrfs: use may_delete_dentry() in btrfs_ioctl_snap_destroy() fs: export may_create() as may_create_dentry() fs: export may_delete() as may_delete_dentry()
2026-01-29fs: add helpers name_is_dot{,dot,_dotdot}Amir Goldstein1-1/+1
Rename the helper is_dot_dotdot() into the name_ namespace and add complementary helpers to check for dot and dotdot names individually. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260128132406.23768-3-amir73il@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-01-20fs/namei: fix kernel-doc markup for dentry_createJay Winston1-2/+2
O_ is interpreted as a broken hyperlink target. Escape _ with a backslash. The asterisk in "struct file *" is interpreted as an opening emphasis string that never closes. Replace double quotes with rST backticks. Change "a ERR_PTR" to "an ERR_PTR". Signed-off-by: Jay Winston <jaybenjaminwinston@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260118110401.2651-1-jaybenjaminwinston@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-01-16namei.c: switch user pathname imports to CLASS(filename{,_flags})Al Viro1-15/+6
filename_flags is used by user_path_at(). I suspect that mixing LOOKUP_EMPTY with real lookup flags had been a mistake all along; the former belongs to pathname import, the latter - to pathwalk. Right now none of the remaining in-tree callers of user_path_at() are getting LOOKUP_EMPTY in flags, so user_path_at() could probably be switched to CLASS(filename)... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2026-01-16namei.c: convert getname_kernel() callers to CLASS(filename_kernel)Al Viro1-26/+10
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2026-01-16non-consuming variants of do_{unlinkat,rmdir}()Al Viro1-12/+11
similar to previous commit; replacements are filename_{unlinkat,rmdir}() Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2026-01-16non-consuming variant of do_mknodat()Al Viro1-9/+8
similar to previous commit; replacement is filename_mknodat() Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2026-01-16non-consuming variant of do_mkdirat()Al Viro1-7/+6
similar to previous commit; replacement is filename_mkdirat() Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2026-01-16non-consuming variant of do_symlinkat()Al Viro1-12/+11
similar to previous commit; replacement is filename_symlinkat() Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2026-01-16non-consuming variant of do_linkat()Al Viro1-15/+12
similar to previous commit; replacement is filename_linkat() Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>