- The 3 patch series "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from
Kairui Song improves performance and reduces the failure rate of swap
cluster allocation.
- The 4 patch series "support large align and nid in Rust allocators"
from Vitaly Wool permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large
alignment when perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs.
- The 2 patch series "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from
Yueyang Pan extend DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets
for virtual address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters.
- The 3 patch series "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock"
from Suren Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of
/proc/pid/maps.
- The 2 patch series "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache
checking" from Kairui Song performs some cleanup in the swap code.
- The 11 patch series "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David
Hildenbrand provides code cleanup in the pagemap code.
- The 5 patch series "add persistent huge zero folio support" from
Pankaj Raghav provides a block layer speedup by optionalls making the
huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount
falls to zero.
- The 3 patch series "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a
few touchups to the recently added Kexec Handover feature.
- The 10 patch series "mm: make mm->flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all
arches" from Lorenzo Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To
end the constant struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with
64-bit's needs.
- The 2 patch series "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li
cleans up some swap code.
- The 7 patch series "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip
unsupported tests" from Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests
code.
- The 7 patch series "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide
THPs when advised" from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes
to opt-out of THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other
workloads on the system".
It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations.
- The 11 patch series "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox
gets us started on the memdesc project. Please see
https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and
https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc.
- The 3 patch series "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from
Chi Zhiling improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path.
- The 5 patch series "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi
Yan improves our folio splitting selftest code.
- The 2 patch series "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang
adds some rmap selftests.
- The 3 patch series "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig
removes that function and converts its two remaining callers.
- The 2 patch series "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain
fixes some UFFD selftests issues.
- The 3 patch series "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris
Burkov introduces the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these
permits btrfs to account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather
than to the cgroups of random inappropriate tasks.
- The 2 patch series "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some
pageblock handling" from Wei Yang provides some readability improvements
to the page allocator code.
- The 11 patch series "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae
Park teaches DAMON to understand arm32 highmem.
- The 4 patch series "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for
vma/maple tests" from Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and
deduplication under tools/testing/.
- The 2 patch series "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from
Liam Howlett fixes a couple of 32-bit issues in
tools/testing/radix-tree.c.
- The 2 patch series "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove
arch-specific implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN
arch-specific initialization code into a common arch-neutral
implementation.
- The 3 patch series "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes
zspool - an indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing
(zsmalloc).
- The 2 patch series "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from
Pasha Tatashin makes a couple of cleanups in the fork code.
- The 37 patch series "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand
makes rather a lot of adjustments at various nth_page() callsites,
eventually permitting the removal of that undesirable helper function.
- The 2 patch series "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from
Yeoreum Yun creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that
architecture's memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode
KASAN is suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only.
- The 3 patch series "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation"
from Kefeng Wang does some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code.
- The 12 patch series "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer
parameters" from Max Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API
functions more accurate about the constness of their arguments. This
was getting in the way of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they
attempt to improving their own const/non-const accuracy.
- The 7 patch series "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola
fixes a number of code sites which were confused over when to use
free_pages() vs __free_pages().
- The 3 patch series "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice
Ryhl makes the mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau
and by its forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver.
- The 2 patch series "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test:
split_pte_mapped_thp improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and
some cleanups to the thp selftesting code.
- The 14 patch series "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache
(phase I)" from Chris Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the
path to implementing "swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation
and state tracking which is expected to yield speed and space
improvements. This patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit
in some situations.
- The 3 patch series "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes
the new memdesc layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little.
- The 3 patch series "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from
Chunyu Hu fixes some issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code.
- The 2 patch series "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from
Suren Baghdasaryan addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new
memory allocation profiling feature.
- The 3 patch series "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few
cleanups in preparation for more memdesc work.
- The 2 patch series "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and
DAMON_RECLAIM" from Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in
furtherance of supporting arm highmem.
- The 2 patch series "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix
warnings" from Muhammad Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code
and fixes the fallout, by removing dead code.
- The 10 patch series "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM
Reaper Traversal Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements
in the OOM killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim
threads so they can release resources.
- The 5 patch series "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18"
from SeongJae Park is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON.
- The 7 patch series "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization
check function" from SeongJae Park implement reliability and
maintainability improvements to a recently-added bug fix.
- The 2 patch series "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and
non-idle ages" from SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to
userspace clients of the DAMON_STAT information.
- The 2 patch series "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse"
from Dev Jain removes some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of
anon VMAs. It also increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against
an anon vma.
- The 2 patch series "mm: do not assume file == vma->vm_file in
compat_vma_mmap_prepare()" from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards
removal of file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon
clearing up the treatment of stacked filesystems.
- The 6 patch series "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from
Kiryl Shutsemau provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking
of large folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate.
- The 2 patch series "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters
during fork" from Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats
inaccuracies across forks and adds selftest code to verify these
counters.
- The 2 patch series "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei
Yang addresses some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's
mm_slot handling.
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from Kairui Song improves
performance and reduces the failure rate of swap cluster allocation
- "support large align and nid in Rust allocators" from Vitaly Wool
permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large alignment when
perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs
- "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from Yueyang Pan extend
DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets for virtual
address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters
- "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock" from Suren
Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of
/proc/pid/maps
- "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache checking" from Kairui Song
performs some cleanup in the swap code
- "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David Hildenbrand provides
code cleanup in the pagemap code
- "add persistent huge zero folio support" from Pankaj Raghav provides
a block layer speedup by optionalls making the
huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount
falls to zero
- "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a few touchups to
the recently added Kexec Handover feature
- "mm: make mm->flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all arches" from Lorenzo
Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To end the constant
struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with 64-bit's
needs
- "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li cleans up some swap
code
- "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip unsupported tests" from
Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests code
- "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised"
from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes to opt-out of
THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other workloads on the
system".
It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations
- "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox gets us started on
the memdesc project. Please see
https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and
https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc
- "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from Chi Zhiling
improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path
- "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi Yan improves our
folio splitting selftest code
- "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang adds some rmap
selftests
- "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig removes that
function and converts its two remaining callers
- "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain fixes some UFFD
selftests issues
- "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris Burkov introduces
the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these permits btrfs to
account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather than to the
cgroups of random inappropriate tasks
- "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some pageblock handling" from
Wei Yang provides some readability improvements to the page allocator
code
- "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae Park teaches DAMON
to understand arm32 highmem
- "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for vma/maple tests" from
Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and deduplication under
tools/testing/
- "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from Liam Howlett fixes
a couple of 32-bit issues in tools/testing/radix-tree.c
- "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific
implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN arch-specific
initialization code into a common arch-neutral implementation
- "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes zspool - an
indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing
(zsmalloc)
- "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from Pasha Tatashin makes a
couple of cleanups in the fork code
- "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand makes rather a lot of
adjustments at various nth_page() callsites, eventually permitting
the removal of that undesirable helper function
- "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from Yeoreum Yun
creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that architecture's
memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode KASAN is
suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only
- "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation" from Kefeng Wang does
some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code
- "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer parameters" from Max
Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API functions more accurate
about the constness of their arguments. This was getting in the way
of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they attempt to improving
their own const/non-const accuracy
- "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola fixes a number of
code sites which were confused over when to use free_pages() vs
__free_pages()
- "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice Ryhl makes the
mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau and by its
forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver
- "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test: split_pte_mapped_thp
improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and some cleanups to
the thp selftesting code
- "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache (phase I)" from Chris
Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the path to implementing
"swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation and state tracking
which is expected to yield speed and space improvements. This
patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit in some situations
- "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes the new memdesc
layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little
- "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from Chunyu Hu fixes some
issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code
- "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from Suren Baghdasaryan
addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new memory
allocation profiling feature
- "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few cleanups in
preparation for more memdesc work
- "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" from
Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in furtherance of supporting
arm highmem
- "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix warnings" from Muhammad
Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code and fixes the
fallout, by removing dead code
- "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM Reaper Traversal
Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements in the OOM
killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim threads so
they can release resources
- "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18" from SeongJae Park
is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON
- "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization check function" from
SeongJae Park implement reliability and maintainability improvements
to a recently-added bug fix
- "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and non-idle ages" from
SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to userspace clients
of the DAMON_STAT information
- "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse" from Dev Jain removes
some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of anon VMAs. It also
increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against an anon vma
- "mm: do not assume file == vma->vm_file in compat_vma_mmap_prepare()"
from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards removal of
file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon clearing up
the treatment of stacked filesystems
- "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from Kiryl Shutsemau
provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking of large
folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate
- "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters during fork" from
Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats inaccuracies across
forks and adds selftest code to verify these counters
- "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei Yang addresses
some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's mm_slot handling
* tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (372 commits)
mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA
mm: convert folio_page() back to a macro
mm/khugepaged: use start_addr/addr for improved readability
hugetlbfs: skip VMAs without shareable locks in hugetlb_vmdelete_list
alloc_tag: fix boot failure due to NULL pointer dereference
mm: silence data-race in update_hiwater_rss
mm/memory-failure: don't select MEMORY_ISOLATION
mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot
mm/ksm: get mm_slot by mm_slot_entry() when slot is !NULL
hugetlb: increase number of reserving hugepages via cmdline
selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging_pages counter
mm/ksm: fix incorrect KSM counter handling in mm_struct during fork
drivers/base/node: fix double free in register_one_node()
mm: remove PMD alignment constraint in execmem_vmalloc()
mm/memory_hotplug: fix typo 'esecially' -> 'especially'
mm/rmap: improve mlock tracking for large folios
mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround
mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault()
mm/rmap: mlock large folios in try_to_unmap_one()
mm/rmap: fix a mlock race condition in folio_referenced_one()
...
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.async' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull vfs async directory updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains further preparatory changes for the asynchronous directory
locking scheme:
- Add lookup_one_positive_killable() which allows overlayfs to
perform lookup that won't block on a fatal signal
- Unify the mount idmap handling in struct renamedata as a rename can
only happen within a single mount
- Introduce kern_path_parent() for audit which sets the path to the
parent and returns a dentry for the target without holding any
locks on return
- Rename kern_path_locked() as it is only used to prepare for the
removal of an object from the filesystem:
kern_path_locked() => start_removing_path()
kern_path_create() => start_creating_path()
user_path_create() => start_creating_user_path()
user_path_locked_at() => start_removing_user_path_at()
done_path_create() => end_creating_path()
NA => end_removing_path()"
* tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.async' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
debugfs: rename start_creating() to debugfs_start_creating()
VFS: rename kern_path_locked() and related functions.
VFS/audit: introduce kern_path_parent() for audit
VFS: unify old_mnt_idmap and new_mnt_idmap in renamedata
VFS: discard err2 in filename_create()
VFS/ovl: add lookup_one_positive_killable()
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Merge tag 'namespace-6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull namespace updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains a larger set of changes around the generic namespace
infrastructure of the kernel.
Each specific namespace type (net, cgroup, mnt, ...) embedds a struct
ns_common which carries the reference count of the namespace and so
on.
We open-coded and cargo-culted so many quirks for each namespace type
that it just wasn't scalable anymore. So given there's a bunch of new
changes coming in that area I've started cleaning all of this up.
The core change is to make it possible to correctly initialize every
namespace uniformly and derive the correct initialization settings
from the type of the namespace such as namespace operations, namespace
type and so on. This leaves the new ns_common_init() function with a
single parameter which is the specific namespace type which derives
the correct parameters statically. This also means the compiler will
yell as soon as someone does something remotely fishy.
The ns_common_init() addition also allows us to remove ns_alloc_inum()
and drops any special-casing of the initial network namespace in the
network namespace initialization code that Linus complained about.
Another part is reworking the reference counting. The reference
counting was open-coded and copy-pasted for each namespace type even
though they all followed the same rules. This also removes all open
accesses to the reference count and makes it private and only uses a
very small set of dedicated helpers to manipulate them just like we do
for e.g., files.
In addition this generalizes the mount namespace iteration
infrastructure introduced a few cycles ago. As reminder, the vfs makes
it possible to iterate sequentially and bidirectionally through all
mount namespaces on the system or all mount namespaces that the caller
holds privilege over. This allow userspace to iterate over all mounts
in all mount namespaces using the listmount() and statmount() system
call.
Each mount namespace has a unique identifier for the lifetime of the
systems that is exposed to userspace. The network namespace also has a
unique identifier working exactly the same way. This extends the
concept to all other namespace types.
The new nstree type makes it possible to lookup namespaces purely by
their identifier and to walk the namespace list sequentially and
bidirectionally for all namespace types, allowing userspace to iterate
through all namespaces. Looking up namespaces in the namespace tree
works completely locklessly.
This also means we can move the mount namespace onto the generic
infrastructure and remove a bunch of code and members from struct
mnt_namespace itself.
There's a bunch of stuff coming on top of this in the future but for
now this uses the generic namespace tree to extend a concept
introduced first for pidfs a few cycles ago. For a while now we have
supported pidfs file handles for pidfds. This has proven to be very
useful.
This extends the concept to cover namespaces as well. It is possible
to encode and decode namespace file handles using the common
name_to_handle_at() and open_by_handle_at() apis.
As with pidfs file handles, namespace file handles are exhaustive,
meaning it is not required to actually hold a reference to nsfs in
able to decode aka open_by_handle_at() a namespace file handle.
Instead the FD_NSFS_ROOT constant can be passed which will let the
kernel grab a reference to the root of nsfs internally and thus decode
the file handle.
Namespaces file descriptors can already be derived from pidfds which
means they aren't subject to overmount protection bugs. IOW, it's
irrelevant if the caller would not have access to an appropriate
/proc/<pid>/ns/ directory as they could always just derive the
namespace based on a pidfd already.
It has the same advantage as pidfds. It's possible to reliably and for
the lifetime of the system refer to a namespace without pinning any
resources and to compare them trivially.
Permission checking is kept simple. If the caller is located in the
namespace the file handle refers to they are able to open it otherwise
they must hold privilege over the owning namespace of the relevant
namespace.
The namespace file handle layout is exposed as uapi and has a stable
and extensible format. For now it simply contains the namespace
identifier, the namespace type, and the inode number. The stable
format means that userspace may construct its own namespace file
handles without going through name_to_handle_at() as they are already
allowed for pidfs and cgroup file handles"
* tag 'namespace-6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (65 commits)
ns: drop assert
ns: move ns type into struct ns_common
nstree: make struct ns_tree private
ns: add ns_debug()
ns: simplify ns_common_init() further
cgroup: add missing ns_common include
ns: use inode initializer for initial namespaces
selftests/namespaces: verify initial namespace inode numbers
ns: rename to __ns_ref
nsfs: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
net: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
uts: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
ipv4: use check_net()
net: use check_net()
net-sysfs: use check_net()
user: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
time: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
pid: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
ipc: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
cgroup: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
...
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.inode' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull vfs inode updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains a series I originally wrote and that Eric brought over
the finish line. It moves out the i_crypt_info and i_verity_info
pointers out of 'struct inode' and into the fs-specific part of the
inode.
So now the few filesytems that actually make use of this pay the price
in their own private inode storage instead of forcing it upon every
user of struct inode.
The pointer for the crypt and verity info is simply found by storing
an offset to its address in struct fsverity_operations and struct
fscrypt_operations. This shrinks struct inode by 16 bytes.
I hope to move a lot more out of it in the future so that struct inode
becomes really just about very core stuff that we need, much like
struct dentry and struct file, instead of the dumping ground it has
become over the years.
On top of this are a various changes associated with the ongoing inode
lifetime handling rework that multiple people are pushing forward:
- Stop accessing inode->i_count directly in f2fs and gfs2. They
simply should use the __iget() and iput() helpers
- Make the i_state flags an enum
- Rework the iput() logic
Currently, if we are the last iput, and we have the I_DIRTY_TIME
bit set, we will grab a reference on the inode again and then mark
it dirty and then redo the put. This is to make sure we delay the
time update for as long as possible
We can rework this logic to simply dec i_count if it is not 1, and
if it is do the time update while still holding the i_count
reference
Then we can replace the atomic_dec_and_lock with locking the
->i_lock and doing atomic_dec_and_test, since we did the
atomic_add_unless above
- Add an icount_read() helper and convert everyone that accesses
inode->i_count directly for this purpose to use the helper
- Expand dump_inode() to dump more information about an inode helping
in debugging
- Add some might_sleep() annotations to iput() and associated
helpers"
* tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.inode' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
fs: add might_sleep() annotation to iput() and more
fs: expand dump_inode()
inode: fix whitespace issues
fs: add an icount_read helper
fs: rework iput logic
fs: make the i_state flags an enum
fs: stop accessing ->i_count directly in f2fs and gfs2
fsverity: check IS_VERITY() in fsverity_cleanup_inode()
fs: remove inode::i_verity_info
btrfs: move verity info pointer to fs-specific part of inode
f2fs: move verity info pointer to fs-specific part of inode
ext4: move verity info pointer to fs-specific part of inode
fsverity: add support for info in fs-specific part of inode
fs: remove inode::i_crypt_info
ceph: move crypt info pointer to fs-specific part of inode
ubifs: move crypt info pointer to fs-specific part of inode
f2fs: move crypt info pointer to fs-specific part of inode
ext4: move crypt info pointer to fs-specific part of inode
fscrypt: add support for info in fs-specific part of inode
fscrypt: replace raw loads of info pointer with helper function
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull vfs mount updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains some work around mount api handling:
- Output the warning message for mnt_too_revealing() triggered during
fsmount() to the fscontext log. This makes it possible for the
mount tool to output appropriate warnings on the command line.
For example, with the newest fsopen()-based mount(8) from
util-linux, the error messages now look like:
# mount -t proc proc /tmp
mount: /tmp: fsmount() failed: VFS: Mount too revealing.
dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.
- Do not consume fscontext log entries when returning -EMSGSIZE
Userspace generally expects APIs that return -EMSGSIZE to allow for
them to adjust their buffer size and retry the operation.
However, the fscontext log would previously clear the message even
in the -EMSGSIZE case.
Given that it is very cheap for us to check whether the buffer is
too small before we remove the message from the ring buffer, let's
just do that instead.
- Drop an unused argument from do_remount()"
* tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
vfs: fs/namespace.c: remove ms_flags argument from do_remount
selftests/filesystems: add basic fscontext log tests
fscontext: do not consume log entries when returning -EMSGSIZE
vfs: output mount_too_revealing() errors to fscontext
docs/vfs: Remove mentions to the old mount API helpers
fscontext: add custom-prefix log helpers
fs: Remove mount_bdev
fs: Remove mount_nodev
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains the usual selections of misc updates for this cycle.
Features:
- Add "initramfs_options" parameter to set initramfs mount options.
This allows to add specific mount options to the rootfs to e.g.,
limit the memory size
- Add RWF_NOSIGNAL flag for pwritev2()
Add RWF_NOSIGNAL flag for pwritev2. This flag prevents the SIGPIPE
signal from being raised when writing on disconnected pipes or
sockets. The flag is handled directly by the pipe filesystem and
converted to the existing MSG_NOSIGNAL flag for sockets
- Allow to pass pid namespace as procfs mount option
Ever since the introduction of pid namespaces, procfs has had very
implicit behaviour surrounding them (the pidns used by a procfs
mount is auto-selected based on the mounting process's active
pidns, and the pidns itself is basically hidden once the mount has
been constructed)
This implicit behaviour has historically meant that userspace was
required to do some special dances in order to configure the pidns
of a procfs mount as desired. Examples include:
* In order to bypass the mnt_too_revealing() check, Kubernetes
creates a procfs mount from an empty pidns so that user
namespaced containers can be nested (without this, the nested
containers would fail to mount procfs)
But this requires forking off a helper process because you cannot
just one-shot this using mount(2)
* Container runtimes in general need to fork into a container
before configuring its mounts, which can lead to security issues
in the case of shared-pidns containers (a privileged process in
the pidns can interact with your container runtime process)
While SUID_DUMP_DISABLE and user namespaces make this less of an
issue, the strict need for this due to a minor uAPI wart is kind
of unfortunate
Things would be much easier if there was a way for userspace to
just specify the pidns they want. So this pull request contains
changes to implement a new "pidns" argument which can be set
using fsconfig(2):
fsconfig(procfd, FSCONFIG_SET_FD, "pidns", NULL, nsfd);
fsconfig(procfd, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "pidns", "/proc/self/ns/pid", 0);
or classic mount(2) / mount(8):
// mount -t proc -o pidns=/proc/self/ns/pid proc /tmp/proc
mount("proc", "/tmp/proc", "proc", MS_..., "pidns=/proc/self/ns/pid");
Cleanups:
- Remove the last references to EXPORT_OP_ASYNC_LOCK
- Make file_remove_privs_flags() static
- Remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN when GFP_NOWAIT is used
- Use try_cmpxchg() in start_dir_add()
- Use try_cmpxchg() in sb_init_done_wq()
- Replace offsetof() with struct_size() in ioctl_file_dedupe_range()
- Remove vfs_ioctl() export
- Replace rwlock() with spinlock in epoll code as rwlock causes
priority inversion on preempt rt kernels
- Make ns_entries in fs/proc/namespaces const
- Use a switch() statement() in init_special_inode() just like we do
in may_open()
- Use struct_size() in dir_add() in the initramfs code
- Use str_plural() in rd_load_image()
- Replace strcpy() with strscpy() in find_link()
- Rename generic_delete_inode() to inode_just_drop() and
generic_drop_inode() to inode_generic_drop()
- Remove unused arguments from fcntl_{g,s}et_rw_hint()
Fixes:
- Document @name parameter for name_contains_dotdot() helper
- Fix spelling mistake
- Always return zero from replace_fd() instead of the file descriptor
number
- Limit the size for copy_file_range() in compat mode to prevent a
signed overflow
- Fix debugfs mount options not being applied
- Verify the inode mode when loading it from disk in minixfs
- Verify the inode mode when loading it from disk in cramfs
- Don't trigger automounts with RESOLVE_NO_XDEV
If openat2() was called with RESOLVE_NO_XDEV it didn't traverse
through automounts, but could still trigger them
- Add FL_RECLAIM flag to show_fl_flags() macro so it appears in
tracepoints
- Fix unused variable warning in rd_load_image() on s390
- Make INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME depend on BLK_DEV_INITRD
- Use ns_capable_noaudit() when determining net sysctl permissions
- Don't call path_put() under namespace semaphore in listmount() and
statmount()"
* tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (38 commits)
fcntl: trim arguments
listmount: don't call path_put() under namespace semaphore
statmount: don't call path_put() under namespace semaphore
pid: use ns_capable_noaudit() when determining net sysctl permissions
fs: rename generic_delete_inode() and generic_drop_inode()
init: INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME should depend on BLK_DEV_INITRD
initramfs: Replace strcpy() with strscpy() in find_link()
initrd: Use str_plural() in rd_load_image()
initramfs: Use struct_size() helper to improve dir_add()
initrd: Fix unused variable warning in rd_load_image() on s390
fs: use the switch statement in init_special_inode()
fs/proc/namespaces: make ns_entries const
filelock: add FL_RECLAIM to show_fl_flags() macro
eventpoll: Replace rwlock with spinlock
selftests/proc: add tests for new pidns APIs
procfs: add "pidns" mount option
pidns: move is-ancestor logic to helper
openat2: don't trigger automounts with RESOLVE_NO_XDEV
namei: move cross-device check to __traverse_mounts
namei: remove LOOKUP_NO_XDEV check from handle_mounts
...
A rename operation can only rename within a single mount. Callers of
vfs_rename() must and do ensure this is the case.
So there is no point in having two mnt_idmaps in renamedata as they are
always the same. Only one of them is passed to ->rename in any case.
This patch replaces both with a single "mnt_idmap" and changes all
callers.
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
In commit bb666b7c27 ("mm: add mmap_prepare() compatibility layer for
nested file systems") we introduced the ability for stacked drivers and
file systems to correctly invoke the f_op->mmap_prepare() handler from an
f_op->mmap() handler via a compatibility layer implemented in
compat_vma_mmap_prepare().
This populates vm_area_desc fields according to those found in the (not
yet fully initialised) VMA passed to f_op->mmap().
However this function implicitly assumes that the struct file which we are
operating upon is equal to vma->vm_file. This is not a safe assumption in
all cases.
The only really sane situation in which this matters would be something
like e.g. i915_gem_dmabuf_mmap() which invokes vfs_mmap() against
obj->base.filp:
ret = vfs_mmap(obj->base.filp, vma);
if (ret)
return ret;
And then sets the VMA's file to this, should the mmap operation succeed:
vma_set_file(vma, obj->base.filp);
That is - it is the file that is intended to back the VMA mapping.
This is not an issue currently, as so far we have only implemented
f_op->mmap_prepare() handlers for some file systems and internal mm uses,
and the only stacked f_op->mmap() operations that can be performed upon
these are those in backing_file_mmap() and coda_file_mmap(), both of which
use vma->vm_file.
However, moving forward, as we convert drivers to using
f_op->mmap_prepare(), this will become a problem.
Resolve this issue by explicitly setting desc->file to the provided file
parameter and update callers accordingly.
Callers are expected to read desc->file and update desc->vm_file - the
former will be the file provided by the caller (if stacked, this may
differ from vma->vm_file).
If the caller needs to differentiate between the two they therefore now
can.
While we are here, also provide a variant of compat_vma_mmap_prepare()
that operates against a pointer to any file_operations struct and does not
assume that the file_operations struct we are interested in is file->f_op.
This function is __compat_vma_mmap_prepare() and we invoke it from
compat_vma_mmap_prepare() so that we share code between the two functions.
This is important, because some drivers provide hooks in a separate
struct, for instance struct drm_device provides an fops field for this
purpose.
Also update the VMA selftests accordingly.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/dd0c72df8a33e8ffaa243eeb9b01010b670610e9.1756920635.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
We select certain test functions which either invoke each other, functions
that are already const-ified, or no further functions.
It is therefore relatively trivial to const-ify them, which provides a
basis for further const-ification further up the call stack.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901205021.3573313-5-max.kellermann@ionos.com
Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@ionos.com>
Reviewed-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <james.bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Jocelyn Falempe <jfalempe@redhat.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: "Nysal Jan K.A" <nysal@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Russel King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
generic_delete_inode() is rather misleading for what the routine is
doing. inode_just_drop() should be much clearer.
The new naming is inconsistent with generic_drop_inode(), so rename that
one as well with inode_ as the suffix.
No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Validate extensible ioctls stricter than we do now.
Reviewed-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
vfs_ioctl() is no longer called by anything outside of fs/ioctl.c, so
remove the global symbol and export as it is not needed.
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/2025083038-carving-amuck-a4ae@gregkh
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
For a user mode library to avoid generating SIGPIPE signals (e.g.
because this behaviour is not portable across operating systems) is
cumbersome. It is generally bad form to change the process-wide signal
mask in a library, so a local solution is needed instead.
For I/O performed directly using system calls (synchronous or readiness
based asynchronous) this currently involves applying a thread-specific
signal mask before the operation and reverting it afterwards. This can be
avoided when it is known that the file descriptor refers to neither a
pipe nor a socket, but a conservative implementation must always apply
the mask. This incurs the cost of two additional system calls. In the
case of sockets, the existing MSG_NOSIGNAL flag can be used with send.
For asynchronous I/O performed using io_uring, currently the only option
(apart from MSG_NOSIGNAL for sockets), is to mask SIGPIPE entirely in the
call to io_uring_enter. Thankfully io_uring_enter takes a signal mask, so
only a single syscall is needed. However, copying the signal mask on
every call incurs a non-zero performance penalty. Furthermore, this mask
applies to all completions, meaning that if the non-signaling behaviour
is desired only for some subset of operations, the desired signals must
be raised manually from user-mode depending on the completed operation.
Add RWF_NOSIGNAL flag for pwritev2. This flag prevents the SIGPIPE signal
from being raised when writing on disconnected pipes or sockets. The flag
is handled directly by the pipe filesystem and converted to the existing
MSG_NOSIGNAL flag for sockets.
Signed-off-by: Lauri Vasama <git@vasama.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250827133901.1820771-1-git@vasama.org
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Adjusting i_state flags always means updating the values manually. Bring
these forward into the 2020's and make a nice clean macro for defining
the i_state values as an enum, providing __ variants for the cases where
we need the bit position instead of the actual value, and leaving the
actual NAME as the 1U << bit value.
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/0da9348da6ece0dce12fccec07b1dd2b8e4cfdab.1756222464.git.josef@toxicpanda.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Now that all fsverity-capable filesystems store the pointer to
fsverity_info in the filesystem-specific part of the inode structure,
inode::i_verity_info is no longer needed. Update fsverity_info_addr()
to no longer support the fallback to inode::i_verity_info. Finally,
remove inode::i_verity_info itself, and move the forward declaration of
struct fsverity_info from fs.h (which no longer needs it) to fsverity.h.
The end result of the migration to the filesystem-specific pointer is
memory savings on CONFIG_FS_VERITY=y kernels for all filesystems that
don't support fsverity. Specifically, their in-memory inodes are now
smaller by the size of a pointer: either 4 or 8 bytes.
Co-developed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250810075706.172910-13-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Now that all fscrypt-capable filesystems store the pointer to
fscrypt_inode_info in the filesystem-specific part of the inode
structure, inode::i_crypt_info is no longer needed. Update
fscrypt_inode_info_addr() to no longer support the fallback to
inode::i_crypt_info. Finally, remove inode::i_crypt_info itself along
with the now-unnecessary forward declaration of fscrypt_inode_info.
The end result of the migration to the filesystem-specific pointer is
memory savings on CONFIG_FS_ENCRYPTION=y kernels for all filesystems
that don't support fscrypt. Specifically, their in-memory inodes are
now smaller by the size of a pointer: either 4 or 8 bytes.
Co-developed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250810075706.172910-8-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Currently the kernel will happily route io_uring requests with metadata
to file operations that don't support it. Add a FMODE_ flag to guard
that.
Fixes: 4de2ce04c8 ("fs: introduce IOCB_HAS_METADATA for metadata")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250819082517.2038819-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
mount_bdev has no in-tree users ever since f2fs adopted the new mount
API. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250723132156.225410-3-pfalcato@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
The kernel-doc for name_contains_dotdot() was missing the @name
parameter description, leading to a warning during make htmldocs.
Add the missing documentation to resolve this warning.
Signed-off-by: Kriish Sharma <kriish.sharma2006@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250730201853.8436-1-kriish.sharma2006@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
file_remove_privs_flags is only used inside of inode.c, mark it static.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250724074854.3316911-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
- The 4 patch series "mm: ksm: prevent KSM from breaking merging of new
VMAs" from Lorenzo Stoakes addresses an issue with KSM's
PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE mode: newly mapped VMAs were not eligible for
merging with existing adjacent VMAs.
- The 4 patch series "mm/damon: introduce DAMON_STAT for simple and
practical access monitoring" from SeongJae Park adds a new kernel module
which simplifies the setup and usage of DAMON in production
environments.
- The 6 patch series "stop passing a writeback_control to swap/shmem
writeout" from Christoph Hellwig is a cleanup to the writeback code
which removes a couple of pointers from struct writeback_control.
- The 7 patch series "drivers/base/node.c: optimization and cleanups"
from Donet Tom contains largely uncorrelated cleanups to the NUMA node
setup and management code.
- The 4 patch series "mm: userfaultfd: assorted fixes and cleanups" from
Tal Zussman does some maintenance work on the userfaultfd code.
- The 5 patch series "Readahead tweaks for larger folios" from Ryan
Roberts implements some tuneups for pagecache readahead when it is
reading into order>0 folios.
- The 4 patch series "selftests/mm: Tweaks to the cow test" from Mark
Brown provides some cleanups and consistency improvements to the
selftests code.
- The 4 patch series "Optimize mremap() for large folios" from Dev Jain
does that. A 37% reduction in execution time was measured in a
memset+mremap+munmap microbenchmark.
- The 5 patch series "Remove zero_user()" from Matthew Wilcox expunges
zero_user() in favor of the more modern memzero_page().
- The 3 patch series "mm/huge_memory: vmf_insert_folio_*() and
vmf_insert_pfn_pud() fixes" from David Hildenbrand addresses some warts
which David noticed in the huge page code. These were not known to be
causing any issues at this time.
- The 3 patch series "mm/damon: use alloc_migrate_target() for
DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD" from SeongJae Park provides some cleanup and
consolidation work in DAMON.
- The 3 patch series "use vm_flags_t consistently" from Lorenzo Stoakes
uses vm_flags_t in places where we were inappropriately using other
types.
- The 3 patch series "mm/memfd: Reserve hugetlb folios before
allocation" from Vivek Kasireddy increases the reliability of large page
allocation in the memfd code.
- The 14 patch series "mm: Remove pXX_devmap page table bit and pfn_t
type" from Alistair Popple removes several now-unneeded PFN_* flags.
- The 5 patch series "mm/damon: decouple sysfs from core" from SeongJae
Park implememnts some cleanup and maintainability work in the DAMON
sysfs layer.
- The 5 patch series "madvise cleanup" from Lorenzo Stoakes does quite a
lot of cleanup/maintenance work in the madvise() code.
- The 4 patch series "madvise anon_name cleanups" from Vlastimil Babka
provides additional cleanups on top or Lorenzo's effort.
- The 11 patch series "Implement numa node notifier" from Oscar Salvador
creates a standalone notifier for NUMA node memory state changes.
Previously these were lumped under the more general memory on/offline
notifier.
- The 6 patch series "Make MIGRATE_ISOLATE a standalone bit" from Zi Yan
cleans up the pageblock isolation code and fixes a potential issue which
doesn't seem to cause any problems in practice.
- The 5 patch series "selftests/damon: add python and drgn based DAMON
sysfs functionality tests" from SeongJae Park adds additional drgn- and
python-based DAMON selftests which are more comprehensive than the
existing selftest suite.
- The 5 patch series "Misc rework on hugetlb faulting path" from Oscar
Salvador fixes a rather obscure deadlock in the hugetlb fault code and
follows that fix with a series of cleanups.
- The 3 patch series "cma: factor out allocation logic from
__cma_declare_contiguous_nid" from Mike Rapoport rationalizes and cleans
up the highmem-specific code in the CMA allocator.
- The 28 patch series "mm/migration: rework movable_ops page migration
(part 1)" from David Hildenbrand provides cleanups and
future-preparedness to the migration code.
- The 2 patch series "mm/damon: add trace events for auto-tuned
monitoring intervals and DAMOS quota" from SeongJae Park adds some
tracepoints to some DAMON auto-tuning code.
- The 6 patch series "mm/damon: fix misc bugs in DAMON modules" from
SeongJae Park does that.
- The 6 patch series "mm/damon: misc cleanups" from SeongJae Park also
does what it claims.
- The 4 patch series "mm: folio_pte_batch() improvements" from David
Hildenbrand cleans up the large folio PTE batching code.
- The 13 patch series "mm/damon/vaddr: Allow interleaving in
migrate_{hot,cold} actions" from SeongJae Park facilitates dynamic
alteration of DAMON's inter-node allocation policy.
- The 3 patch series "Remove unmap_and_put_page()" from Vishal Moola
provides a couple of page->folio conversions.
- The 4 patch series "mm: per-node proactive reclaim" from Davidlohr
Bueso implements a per-node control of proactive reclaim - beyond the
current memcg-based implementation.
- The 14 patch series "mm/damon: remove damon_callback" from SeongJae
Park replaces the damon_callback interface with a more general and
powerful damon_call()+damos_walk() interface.
- The 10 patch series "mm/mremap: permit mremap() move of multiple VMAs"
from Lorenzo Stoakes implements a number of mremap cleanups (of course)
in preparation for adding new mremap() functionality: newly permit the
remapping of multiple VMAs when the user is specifying MREMAP_FIXED. It
still excludes some specialized situations where this cannot be
performed reliably.
- The 3 patch series "drop hugetlb_free_pgd_range()" from Anthony Yznaga
switches some sparc hugetlb code over to the generic version and removes
the thus-unneeded hugetlb_free_pgd_range().
- The 4 patch series "mm/damon/sysfs: support periodic and automated
stats update" from SeongJae Park augments the present
userspace-requested update of DAMON sysfs monitoring files. Automatic
update is now provided, along with a tunable to control the update
interval.
- The 4 patch series "Some randome fixes and cleanups to swapfile" from
Kemeng Shi does what is claims.
- The 4 patch series "mm: introduce snapshot_page" from Luiz Capitulino
and David Hildenbrand provides (and uses) a means by which debug-style
functions can grab a copy of a pageframe and inspect it locklessly
without tripping over the races inherent in operating on the live
pageframe directly.
- The 6 patch series "use per-vma locks for /proc/pid/maps reads" from
Suren Baghdasaryan addresses the large contention issues which can be
triggered by reads from that procfs file. Latencies are reduced by more
than half in some situations. The series also introduces several new
selftests for the /proc/pid/maps interface.
- The 6 patch series "__folio_split() clean up" from Zi Yan cleans up
__folio_split()!
- The 7 patch series "Optimize mprotect() for large folios" from Dev
Jain provides some quite large (>3x) speedups to mprotect() when dealing
with large folios.
- The 2 patch series "selftests/mm: reuse FORCE_READ to replace "asm
volatile("" : "+r" (XXX));" and some cleanup" from wang lian does some
cleanup work in the selftests code.
- The 3 patch series "tools/testing: expand mremap testing" from Lorenzo
Stoakes extends the mremap() selftest in several ways, including adding
more checking of Lorenzo's recently added "permit mremap() move of
multiple VMAs" feature.
- The 22 patch series "selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test all parameters"
from SeongJae Park extends the DAMON sysfs interface selftest so that it
tests all possible user-requested parameters. Rather than the present
minimal subset.
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-07-30-15-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"As usual, many cleanups. The below blurbiage describes 42 patchsets.
21 of those are partially or fully cleanup work. "cleans up",
"cleanup", "maintainability", "rationalizes", etc.
I never knew the MM code was so dirty.
"mm: ksm: prevent KSM from breaking merging of new VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
addresses an issue with KSM's PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE mode: newly
mapped VMAs were not eligible for merging with existing adjacent
VMAs.
"mm/damon: introduce DAMON_STAT for simple and practical access monitoring" (SeongJae Park)
adds a new kernel module which simplifies the setup and usage of
DAMON in production environments.
"stop passing a writeback_control to swap/shmem writeout" (Christoph Hellwig)
is a cleanup to the writeback code which removes a couple of
pointers from struct writeback_control.
"drivers/base/node.c: optimization and cleanups" (Donet Tom)
contains largely uncorrelated cleanups to the NUMA node setup and
management code.
"mm: userfaultfd: assorted fixes and cleanups" (Tal Zussman)
does some maintenance work on the userfaultfd code.
"Readahead tweaks for larger folios" (Ryan Roberts)
implements some tuneups for pagecache readahead when it is reading
into order>0 folios.
"selftests/mm: Tweaks to the cow test" (Mark Brown)
provides some cleanups and consistency improvements to the
selftests code.
"Optimize mremap() for large folios" (Dev Jain)
does that. A 37% reduction in execution time was measured in a
memset+mremap+munmap microbenchmark.
"Remove zero_user()" (Matthew Wilcox)
expunges zero_user() in favor of the more modern memzero_page().
"mm/huge_memory: vmf_insert_folio_*() and vmf_insert_pfn_pud() fixes" (David Hildenbrand)
addresses some warts which David noticed in the huge page code.
These were not known to be causing any issues at this time.
"mm/damon: use alloc_migrate_target() for DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD" (SeongJae Park)
provides some cleanup and consolidation work in DAMON.
"use vm_flags_t consistently" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
uses vm_flags_t in places where we were inappropriately using other
types.
"mm/memfd: Reserve hugetlb folios before allocation" (Vivek Kasireddy)
increases the reliability of large page allocation in the memfd
code.
"mm: Remove pXX_devmap page table bit and pfn_t type" (Alistair Popple)
removes several now-unneeded PFN_* flags.
"mm/damon: decouple sysfs from core" (SeongJae Park)
implememnts some cleanup and maintainability work in the DAMON
sysfs layer.
"madvise cleanup" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
does quite a lot of cleanup/maintenance work in the madvise() code.
"madvise anon_name cleanups" (Vlastimil Babka)
provides additional cleanups on top or Lorenzo's effort.
"Implement numa node notifier" (Oscar Salvador)
creates a standalone notifier for NUMA node memory state changes.
Previously these were lumped under the more general memory
on/offline notifier.
"Make MIGRATE_ISOLATE a standalone bit" (Zi Yan)
cleans up the pageblock isolation code and fixes a potential issue
which doesn't seem to cause any problems in practice.
"selftests/damon: add python and drgn based DAMON sysfs functionality tests" (SeongJae Park)
adds additional drgn- and python-based DAMON selftests which are
more comprehensive than the existing selftest suite.
"Misc rework on hugetlb faulting path" (Oscar Salvador)
fixes a rather obscure deadlock in the hugetlb fault code and
follows that fix with a series of cleanups.
"cma: factor out allocation logic from __cma_declare_contiguous_nid" (Mike Rapoport)
rationalizes and cleans up the highmem-specific code in the CMA
allocator.
"mm/migration: rework movable_ops page migration (part 1)" (David Hildenbrand)
provides cleanups and future-preparedness to the migration code.
"mm/damon: add trace events for auto-tuned monitoring intervals and DAMOS quota" (SeongJae Park)
adds some tracepoints to some DAMON auto-tuning code.
"mm/damon: fix misc bugs in DAMON modules" (SeongJae Park)
does that.
"mm/damon: misc cleanups" (SeongJae Park)
also does what it claims.
"mm: folio_pte_batch() improvements" (David Hildenbrand)
cleans up the large folio PTE batching code.
"mm/damon/vaddr: Allow interleaving in migrate_{hot,cold} actions" (SeongJae Park)
facilitates dynamic alteration of DAMON's inter-node allocation
policy.
"Remove unmap_and_put_page()" (Vishal Moola)
provides a couple of page->folio conversions.
"mm: per-node proactive reclaim" (Davidlohr Bueso)
implements a per-node control of proactive reclaim - beyond the
current memcg-based implementation.
"mm/damon: remove damon_callback" (SeongJae Park)
replaces the damon_callback interface with a more general and
powerful damon_call()+damos_walk() interface.
"mm/mremap: permit mremap() move of multiple VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
implements a number of mremap cleanups (of course) in preparation
for adding new mremap() functionality: newly permit the remapping
of multiple VMAs when the user is specifying MREMAP_FIXED. It still
excludes some specialized situations where this cannot be performed
reliably.
"drop hugetlb_free_pgd_range()" (Anthony Yznaga)
switches some sparc hugetlb code over to the generic version and
removes the thus-unneeded hugetlb_free_pgd_range().
"mm/damon/sysfs: support periodic and automated stats update" (SeongJae Park)
augments the present userspace-requested update of DAMON sysfs
monitoring files. Automatic update is now provided, along with a
tunable to control the update interval.
"Some randome fixes and cleanups to swapfile" (Kemeng Shi)
does what is claims.
"mm: introduce snapshot_page" (Luiz Capitulino and David Hildenbrand)
provides (and uses) a means by which debug-style functions can grab
a copy of a pageframe and inspect it locklessly without tripping
over the races inherent in operating on the live pageframe
directly.
"use per-vma locks for /proc/pid/maps reads" (Suren Baghdasaryan)
addresses the large contention issues which can be triggered by
reads from that procfs file. Latencies are reduced by more than
half in some situations. The series also introduces several new
selftests for the /proc/pid/maps interface.
"__folio_split() clean up" (Zi Yan)
cleans up __folio_split()!
"Optimize mprotect() for large folios" (Dev Jain)
provides some quite large (>3x) speedups to mprotect() when dealing
with large folios.
"selftests/mm: reuse FORCE_READ to replace "asm volatile("" : "+r" (XXX));" and some cleanup" (wang lian)
does some cleanup work in the selftests code.
"tools/testing: expand mremap testing" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
extends the mremap() selftest in several ways, including adding
more checking of Lorenzo's recently added "permit mremap() move of
multiple VMAs" feature.
"selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test all parameters" (SeongJae Park)
extends the DAMON sysfs interface selftest so that it tests all
possible user-requested parameters. Rather than the present minimal
subset"
* tag 'mm-stable-2025-07-30-15-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (370 commits)
MAINTAINERS: add missing headers to mempory policy & migration section
MAINTAINERS: add missing file to cgroup section
MAINTAINERS: add MM MISC section, add missing files to MISC and CORE
MAINTAINERS: add missing zsmalloc file
MAINTAINERS: add missing files to page alloc section
MAINTAINERS: add missing shrinker files
MAINTAINERS: move memremap.[ch] to hotplug section
MAINTAINERS: add missing mm_slot.h file THP section
MAINTAINERS: add missing interval_tree.c to memory mapping section
MAINTAINERS: add missing percpu-internal.h file to per-cpu section
mm/page_alloc: remove trace_mm_alloc_contig_migrate_range_info()
selftests/damon: introduce _common.sh to host shared function
selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test runtime reduction of DAMON parameters
selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test non-default parameters runtime commit
selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMON context commit assertion
selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize monitoring attributes commit assertion
selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS schemes commit assertion
selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS filters commitment
selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS scheme commit assertion
selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS destinations commitment
...
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Merge tag 'fsnotify_for_v6.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs
Pull fsnotify updates from Jan Kara:
"A couple of small improvements for fsnotify subsystem.
The most interesting is probably Amir's change modifying the meaning
of fsnotify fmode bits (and I spell it out specifically because I know
you care about those). There's no change for the common cases of no
fsnotify watches or no permission event watches. But when there are
permission watches (either for open or for pre-content events) but no
FAN_ACCESS_PERM watch (which nobody uses in practice) we are now able
optimize away unnecessary cache loads from the read path"
* tag 'fsnotify_for_v6.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
fsnotify: optimize FMODE_NONOTIFY_PERM for the common cases
fsnotify: merge file_set_fsnotify_mode_from_watchers() with open perm hook
samples: fix building fs-monitor on musl systems
fanotify: sanitize handle_type values when reporting fid
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull superblock callback update from Christian Brauner:
"Currently all filesystems which implement super_operations::shutdown()
can not afford losing a device.
Thus fs_bdev_mark_dead() will just call the ->shutdown() callback for
the involved filesystem.
But it will no longer be the case, as multi-device filesystems like
btrfs can handle certain device loss without the need to shutdown the
whole filesystem.
To allow those multi-device filesystems to be integrated to use
fs_holder_ops:
- Add a new super_operations::remove_bdev() callback
- Try ->remove_bdev() callback first inside fs_bdev_mark_dead().
If the callback returned 0, meaning the fs can handling the device
loss, then exit without doing anything else.
If there is no such callback or the callback returned non-zero
value, continue to shutdown the filesystem as usual.
This means the new remove_bdev() should only do the check on whether
the operation can continue, and if so do the fs specific handlings.
The shutdown handling should still be handled by the existing
->shutdown() callback.
For all existing filesystems with shutdown callback, there is no
change to the code nor behavior.
Btrfs is going to implement both the ->remove_bdev() and ->shutdown()
callbacks soon"
* tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
fs: add a new remove_bdev() callback
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.fileattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull fileattr updates from Christian Brauner:
"This introduces the new file_getattr() and file_setattr() system calls
after lengthy discussions.
Both system calls serve as successors and extensible companions to
the FS_IOC_FSGETXATTR and FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR system calls which have
started to show their age in addition to being named in a way that
makes it easy to conflate them with extended attribute related
operations.
These syscalls allow userspace to set filesystem inode attributes on
special files. One of the usage examples is the XFS quota projects.
XFS has project quotas which could be attached to a directory. All new
inodes in these directories inherit project ID set on parent
directory.
The project is created from userspace by opening and calling
FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR on each inode. This is not possible for special
files such as FIFO, SOCK, BLK etc. Therefore, some inodes are left
with empty project ID. Those inodes then are not shown in the quota
accounting but still exist in the directory. This is not critical but
in the case when special files are created in the directory with
already existing project quota, these new inodes inherit extended
attributes. This creates a mix of special files with and without
attributes. Moreover, special files with attributes don't have a
possibility to become clear or change the attributes. This, in turn,
prevents userspace from re-creating quota project on these existing
files.
In addition, these new system calls allow the implementation of
additional attributes that we couldn't or didn't want to fit into the
legacy ioctls anymore"
* tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.fileattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
fs: tighten a sanity check in file_attr_to_fileattr()
tree-wide: s/struct fileattr/struct file_kattr/g
fs: introduce file_getattr and file_setattr syscalls
fs: prepare for extending file_get/setattr()
fs: make vfs_fileattr_[get|set] return -EOPNOTSUPP
selinux: implement inode_file_[g|s]etattr hooks
lsm: introduce new hooks for setting/getting inode fsxattr
fs: split fileattr related helpers into separate file
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.mmap_prepare' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull mmap_prepare updates from Christian Brauner:
"Last cycle we introduce f_op->mmap_prepare() in c84bf6dd2b ("mm:
introduce new .mmap_prepare() file callback").
This is preferred to the existing f_op->mmap() hook as it does require
a VMA to be established yet, thus allowing the mmap logic to invoke
this hook far, far earlier, prior to inserting a VMA into the virtual
address space, or performing any other heavy handed operations.
This allows for much simpler unwinding on error, and for there to be a
single attempt at merging a VMA rather than having to possibly
reattempt a merge based on potentially altered VMA state.
Far more importantly, it prevents inappropriate manipulation of
incompletely initialised VMA state, which is something that has been
the cause of bugs and complexity in the past.
The intent is to gradually deprecate f_op->mmap, and in that vein this
series coverts the majority of file systems to using f_op->mmap_prepare.
Prerequisite steps are taken - firstly ensuring all checks for mmap
capabilities use the file_has_valid_mmap_hooks() helper rather than
directly checking for f_op->mmap (which is now not a valid check) and
secondly updating daxdev_mapping_supported() to not require a VMA
parameter to allow ext4 and xfs to be converted.
Commit bb666b7c27 ("mm: add mmap_prepare() compatibility layer for
nested file systems") handles the nasty edge-case of nested file
systems like overlayfs, which introduces a compatibility shim to allow
f_op->mmap_prepare() to be invoked from an f_op->mmap() callback.
This allows for nested filesystems to continue to function correctly
with all file systems regardless of which callback is used. Once we
finally convert all file systems, this shim can be removed.
As a result, ecryptfs, fuse, and overlayfs remain unaltered so they
can nest all other file systems.
We additionally do not update resctl - as this requires an update to
remap_pfn_range() (or an alternative to it) which we defer to a later
series, equally we do not update cramfs which needs a mixed mapping
insertion with the same issue, nor do we update procfs, hugetlbfs,
syfs or kernfs all of which require VMAs for internal state and hooks.
We shall return to all of these later"
* tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.mmap_prepare' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
doc: update porting, vfs documentation to describe mmap_prepare()
fs: replace mmap hook with .mmap_prepare for simple mappings
fs: convert most other generic_file_*mmap() users to .mmap_prepare()
fs: convert simple use of generic_file_*_mmap() to .mmap_prepare()
mm/filemap: introduce generic_file_*_mmap_prepare() helpers
fs/xfs: transition from deprecated .mmap hook to .mmap_prepare
fs/ext4: transition from deprecated .mmap hook to .mmap_prepare
fs/dax: make it possible to check dev dax support without a VMA
fs: consistently use can_mmap_file() helper
mm/nommu: use file_has_valid_mmap_hooks() helper
mm: rename call_mmap/mmap_prepare to vfs_mmap/mmap_prepare
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.ovl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull overlayfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains overlayfs updates for this cycle.
The changes for overlayfs in here are primarily focussed on preparing
for some proposed changes to directory locking.
Overlayfs currently will sometimes lock a directory on the upper
filesystem and do a few different things while holding the lock. This
is incompatible with the new potential scheme.
This series narrows the region of code protected by the directory
lock, taking it multiple times when necessary. This theoretically
opens up the possibilty of other changes happening on the upper
filesytem between the unlock and the lock. To some extent the patches
guard against that by checking the dentries still have the expect
parent after retaking the lock. In general, concurrent changes to the
upper and lower filesystems aren't supported properly anyway"
* tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.ovl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (25 commits)
ovl: properly print correct variable
ovl: rename ovl_cleanup_unlocked() to ovl_cleanup()
ovl: change ovl_create_real() to receive dentry parent
ovl: narrow locking in ovl_check_rename_whiteout()
ovl: narrow locking in ovl_whiteout()
ovl: change ovl_cleanup_and_whiteout() to take rename lock as needed
ovl: narrow locking on ovl_remove_and_whiteout()
ovl: change ovl_workdir_cleanup() to take dir lock as needed.
ovl: narrow locking in ovl_workdir_cleanup_recurse()
ovl: narrow locking in ovl_indexdir_cleanup()
ovl: narrow locking in ovl_workdir_create()
ovl: narrow locking in ovl_cleanup_index()
ovl: narrow locking in ovl_cleanup_whiteouts()
ovl: narrow locking in ovl_rename()
ovl: simplify gotos in ovl_rename()
ovl: narrow locking in ovl_create_over_whiteout()
ovl: narrow locking in ovl_clear_empty()
ovl: narrow locking in ovl_create_upper()
ovl: narrow the locked region in ovl_copy_up_workdir()
ovl: Call ovl_create_temp() without lock held.
...
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.coredump' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull coredump updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains an extension to the coredump socket and a proper rework
of the coredump code.
- This extends the coredump socket to allow the coredump server to
tell the kernel how to process individual coredumps. This allows
for fine-grained coredump management. Userspace can decide to just
let the kernel write out the coredump, or generate the coredump
itself, or just reject it.
* COREDUMP_KERNEL
The kernel will write the coredump data to the socket.
* COREDUMP_USERSPACE
The kernel will not write coredump data but will indicate to the
parent that a coredump has been generated. This is used when
userspace generates its own coredumps.
* COREDUMP_REJECT
The kernel will skip generating a coredump for this task.
* COREDUMP_WAIT
The kernel will prevent the task from exiting until the coredump
server has shutdown the socket connection.
The flexible coredump socket can be enabled by using the "@@"
prefix instead of the single "@" prefix for the regular coredump
socket:
@@/run/systemd/coredump.socket
- Cleanup the coredump code properly while we have to touch it
anyway.
Split out each coredump mode in a separate helper so it's easy to
grasp what is going on and make the code easier to follow. The core
coredump function should now be very trivial to follow"
* tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.coredump' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (31 commits)
cleanup: add a scoped version of CLASS()
coredump: add coredump_skip() helper
coredump: avoid pointless variable
coredump: order auto cleanup variables at the top
coredump: add coredump_cleanup()
coredump: auto cleanup prepare_creds()
cred: add auto cleanup method
coredump: directly return
coredump: auto cleanup argv
coredump: add coredump_write()
coredump: use a single helper for the socket
coredump: move pipe specific file check into coredump_pipe()
coredump: split pipe coredumping into coredump_pipe()
coredump: move core_pipe_count to global variable
coredump: prepare to simplify exit paths
coredump: split file coredumping into coredump_file()
coredump: rename do_coredump() to vfs_coredump()
selftests/coredump: make sure invalid paths are rejected
coredump: validate socket path in coredump_parse()
coredump: don't allow ".." in coredump socket path
...
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull misc VFS updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains the usual selections of misc updates for this cycle.
Features:
- Add ext4 IOCB_DONTCACHE support
This refactors the address_space_operations write_begin() and
write_end() callbacks to take const struct kiocb * as their first
argument, allowing IOCB flags such as IOCB_DONTCACHE to propagate
to the filesystem's buffered I/O path.
Ext4 is updated to implement handling of the IOCB_DONTCACHE flag
and advertises support via the FOP_DONTCACHE file operation flag.
Additionally, the i915 driver's shmem write paths are updated to
bypass the legacy write_begin/write_end interface in favor of
directly calling write_iter() with a constructed synchronous kiocb.
Another i915 change replaces a manual write loop with
kernel_write() during GEM shmem object creation.
Cleanups:
- don't duplicate vfs_open() in kernel_file_open()
- proc_fd_getattr(): don't bother with S_ISDIR() check
- fs/ecryptfs: replace snprintf with sysfs_emit in show function
- vfs: Remove unnecessary list_for_each_entry_safe() from
evict_inodes()
- filelock: add new locks_wake_up_waiter() helper
- fs: Remove three arguments from block_write_end()
- VFS: change old_dir and new_dir in struct renamedata to dentrys
- netfs: Remove unused declaration netfs_queue_write_request()
Fixes:
- eventpoll: Fix semi-unbounded recursion
- eventpoll: fix sphinx documentation build warning
- fs/read_write: Fix spelling typo
- fs: annotate data race between poll_schedule_timeout() and
pollwake()
- fs/pipe: set FMODE_NOWAIT in create_pipe_files()
- docs/vfs: update references to i_mutex to i_rwsem
- fs/buffer: remove comment about hard sectorsize
- fs/buffer: remove the min and max limit checks in __getblk_slow()
- fs/libfs: don't assume blocksize <= PAGE_SIZE in
generic_check_addressable
- fs_context: fix parameter name in infofc() macro
- fs: Prevent file descriptor table allocations exceeding INT_MAX"
* tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (24 commits)
netfs: Remove unused declaration netfs_queue_write_request()
eventpoll: fix sphinx documentation build warning
ext4: support uncached buffered I/O
mm/pagemap: add write_begin_get_folio() helper function
fs: change write_begin/write_end interface to take struct kiocb *
drm/i915: Refactor shmem_pwrite() to use kiocb and write_iter
drm/i915: Use kernel_write() in shmem object create
eventpoll: Fix semi-unbounded recursion
vfs: Remove unnecessary list_for_each_entry_safe() from evict_inodes()
fs/libfs: don't assume blocksize <= PAGE_SIZE in generic_check_addressable
fs/buffer: remove the min and max limit checks in __getblk_slow()
fs: Prevent file descriptor table allocations exceeding INT_MAX
fs: Remove three arguments from block_write_end()
fs/ecryptfs: replace snprintf with sysfs_emit in show function
fs: annotate suspected data race between poll_schedule_timeout() and pollwake()
docs/vfs: update references to i_mutex to i_rwsem
fs/buffer: remove comment about hard sectorsize
fs_context: fix parameter name in infofc() macro
VFS: change old_dir and new_dir in struct renamedata to dentrys
proc_fd_getattr(): don't bother with S_ISDIR() check
...
APIs provided to the rest of the kernel.
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Merge tag 'pull-rpc_pipefs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull rpc_pipefs updates from Al Viro:
"Massage rpc_pipefs to use saner primitives and clean up the APIs
provided to the rest of the kernel"
* tag 'pull-rpc_pipefs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
rpc_create_client_dir(): return 0 or -E...
rpc_create_client_dir(): don't bother with rpc_populate()
rpc_new_dir(): the last argument is always NULL
rpc_pipe: expand the calls of rpc_mkdir_populate()
rpc_gssd_dummy_populate(): don't bother with rpc_populate()
rpc_mkpipe_dentry(): switch to simple_start_creating()
rpc_pipe: saner primitive for creating regular files
rpc_pipe: saner primitive for creating subdirectories
rpc_pipe: don't overdo directory locking
rpc_mkpipe_dentry(): saner calling conventions
rpc_unlink(): saner calling conventions
rpc_populate(): lift cleanup into callers
rpc_unlink(): use simple_recursive_removal()
rpc_{rmdir_,}depopulate(): use simple_recursive_removal() instead
rpc_pipe: clean failure exits in fill_super
new helper: simple_start_creating()
places; unfortunately, it's easy to get wrong. A number of open-coded
attempts are out there, with varying amount of bogosities.
simple_recursive_removal() had been introduced for doing that with
all precautions needed; it does an equivalent of rm -rf, with sufficient
locking, eviction of anything mounted on top of the subtree, etc.
This series converts a bunch of open-coded instances to using that.
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Merge tag 'pull-simple_recursive_removal' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull simple_recursive_removal() update from Al Viro:
"Removing subtrees of kernel filesystems is done in quite a few places;
unfortunately, it's easy to get wrong. A number of open-coded attempts
are out there, with varying amount of bogosities.
simple_recursive_removal() had been introduced for doing that with all
precautions needed; it does an equivalent of rm -rf, with sufficient
locking, eviction of anything mounted on top of the subtree, etc.
This series converts a bunch of open-coded instances to using that"
* tag 'pull-simple_recursive_removal' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
functionfs, gadgetfs: use simple_recursive_removal()
kill binderfs_remove_file()
fuse_ctl: use simple_recursive_removal()
pstore: switch to locked_recursive_removal()
binfmt_misc: switch to locked_recursive_removal()
spufs: switch to locked_recursive_removal()
add locked_recursive_removal()
better lockdep annotations for simple_recursive_removal()
simple_recursive_removal(): saner interaction with fsnotify
The basic rules are simple:
* stores to dentry->d_flags are OK under dentry->d_lock.
* stores to dentry->d_flags are OK in the dentry constructor, before
becomes potentially visible to other threads.
Unfortunately, there's a couple of exceptions to that, and that's where the
headache comes from.
Main PITA comes from d_set_d_op(); that primitive sets ->d_op
of dentry and adjusts the flags that correspond to presence of individual
methods. It's very easy to misuse; existing uses _are_ safe, but proof
of correctness is brittle.
Use in __d_alloc() is safe (we are within a constructor), but we
might as well precalculate the initial value of ->d_flags when we set
the default ->d_op for given superblock and set ->d_flags directly
instead of messing with that helper.
The reasons why other uses are safe are bloody convoluted; I'm not going
to reproduce it here. See https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250224010624.GT1977892@ZenIV/
for gory details, if you care. The critical part is using d_set_d_op() only
just prior to d_splice_alias(), which makes a combination of d_splice_alias()
with setting ->d_op, etc. a natural replacement primitive. Better yet, if
we go that way, it's easy to take setting ->d_op and modifying ->d_flags
under ->d_lock, which eliminates the headache as far as ->d_flags exclusion
rules are concerned. Other exceptions are minor and easy to deal with.
What this series does:
* d_set_d_op() is no longer available; new primitive (d_splice_alias_ops())
is provided, equivalent to combination of d_set_d_op() and d_splice_alias().
* new field of struct super_block - ->s_d_flags. Default value of ->d_flags
to be used when allocating dentries on this filesystem.
* new primitive for setting ->s_d_op: set_default_d_op(). Replaces stores
to ->s_d_op at mount time. All in-tree filesystems converted; out-of-tree
ones will get caught by compiler (->s_d_op is renamed, so stores to it will
be caught). ->s_d_flags is set by the same primitive to match the ->s_d_op.
* a lot of filesystems had ->s_d_op->d_delete equal to always_delete_dentry;
that is equivalent to setting DCACHE_DONTCACHE in ->d_flags, so such filesystems
can bloody well set that bit in ->s_d_flags and drop ->d_delete() from
dentry_operations. In quite a few cases that results in empty dentry_operations,
which means that we can get rid of those.
* kill simple_dentry_operations - not needed anymore.
* massage d_alloc_parallel() to get rid of the other exception wrt ->d_flags
stores - we can set DCACHE_PAR_LOOKUP as soon as we allocate the new dentry;
no need to delay that until we commit to using the sucker.
As the result, ->d_flags stores are all either under ->d_lock or done before
the dentry becomes visible in any shared data structures.
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Merge tag 'pull-dcache' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull dentry d_flags updates from Al Viro:
"The current exclusion rules for dentry->d_flags stores are rather
unpleasant. The basic rules are simple:
- stores to dentry->d_flags are OK under dentry->d_lock
- stores to dentry->d_flags are OK in the dentry constructor, before
becomes potentially visible to other threads
Unfortunately, there's a couple of exceptions to that, and that's
where the headache comes from.
The main PITA comes from d_set_d_op(); that primitive sets ->d_op of
dentry and adjusts the flags that correspond to presence of individual
methods. It's very easy to misuse; existing uses _are_ safe, but proof
of correctness is brittle.
Use in __d_alloc() is safe (we are within a constructor), but we might
as well precalculate the initial value of 'd_flags' when we set the
default ->d_op for given superblock and set 'd_flags' directly instead
of messing with that helper.
The reasons why other uses are safe are bloody convoluted; I'm not
going to reproduce it here. See [1] for gory details, if you care. The
critical part is using d_set_d_op() only just prior to
d_splice_alias(), which makes a combination of d_splice_alias() with
setting ->d_op, etc a natural replacement primitive.
Better yet, if we go that way, it's easy to take setting ->d_op and
modifying 'd_flags' under ->d_lock, which eliminates the headache as
far as 'd_flags' exclusion rules are concerned. Other exceptions are
minor and easy to deal with.
What this series does:
- d_set_d_op() is no longer available; instead a new primitive
(d_splice_alias_ops()) is provided, equivalent to combination of
d_set_d_op() and d_splice_alias().
- new field of struct super_block - 's_d_flags'. This sets the
default value of 'd_flags' to be used when allocating dentries on
this filesystem.
- new primitive for setting 's_d_op': set_default_d_op(). This
replaces stores to 's_d_op' at mount time.
All in-tree filesystems converted; out-of-tree ones will get caught
by the compiler ('s_d_op' is renamed, so stores to it will be
caught). 's_d_flags' is set by the same primitive to match the
's_d_op'.
- a lot of filesystems had sb->s_d_op->d_delete equal to
always_delete_dentry; that is equivalent to setting
DCACHE_DONTCACHE in 'd_flags', so such filesystems can bloody well
set that bit in 's_d_flags' and drop 'd_delete()' from
dentry_operations.
In quite a few cases that results in empty dentry_operations, which
means that we can get rid of those.
- kill simple_dentry_operations - not needed anymore
- massage d_alloc_parallel() to get rid of the other exception wrt
'd_flags' stores - we can set DCACHE_PAR_LOOKUP as soon as we
allocate the new dentry; no need to delay that until we commit to
using the sucker.
As the result, 'd_flags' stores are all either under ->d_lock or done
before the dentry becomes visible in any shared data structures"
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250224010624.GT1977892@ZenIV/ [1]
* tag 'pull-dcache' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (21 commits)
configfs: use DCACHE_DONTCACHE
debugfs: use DCACHE_DONTCACHE
efivarfs: use DCACHE_DONTCACHE instead of always_delete_dentry()
9p: don't bother with always_delete_dentry
ramfs, hugetlbfs, mqueue: set DCACHE_DONTCACHE
kill simple_dentry_operations
devpts, sunrpc, hostfs: don't bother with ->d_op
shmem: no dentry retention past the refcount reaching zero
d_alloc_parallel(): set DCACHE_PAR_LOOKUP earlier
make d_set_d_op() static
simple_lookup(): just set DCACHE_DONTCACHE
tracefs: Add d_delete to remove negative dentries
set_default_d_op(): calculate the matching value for ->d_flags
correct the set of flags forbidden at d_set_d_op() time
split d_flags calculation out of d_set_d_op()
new helper: set_default_d_op()
fuse: no need for special dentry_operations for root dentry
switch procfs from d_set_d_op() to d_splice_alias_ops()
new helper: d_splice_alias_ops()
procfs: kill ->proc_dops
...
The most unlikely watched permission event is FAN_ACCESS_PERM, because
at the time that it was introduced there were no evictable ignore mark,
so subscribing to FAN_ACCESS_PERM would have incured a very high
overhead.
Yet, when we set the fmode to FMODE_NOTIFY_HSM(), we never skip trying
to send FAN_ACCESS_PERM, which is almost always a waste of cycles.
We got to this logic because of bundling FAN_OPEN*_PERM and
FAN_ACCESS_PERM in the same category and because FAN_OPEN_PERM is a
commonly used event.
By open coding fsnotify_open_perm() in fsnotify_open_perm_and_set_mode(),
we no longer need to regard FAN_OPEN*_PERM when calculating fmode.
This leaves the case of having pre-content events and not having any
other permission event in the object masks a more likely case than the
other way around.
Rework the fmode macros and code so that their meaning now refers only
to hooks on an already open file:
- FMODE_NOTIFY_NONE() skip all events
- FMODE_NOTIFY_ACCESS_PERM() send all permission events including
FAN_ACCESS_PERM
- FMODE_NOTIFY_HSM() send pre-content permission events
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250708143641.418603-3-amir73il@gmail.com
Add internal helper backing_file_set_user_path() for the only
two cases that need to modify backing_file fields.
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250607115304.2521155-2-amir73il@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Change the address_space_operations callbacks write_begin() and
write_end() to take struct kiocb * as the first argument instead of
struct file *.
Update all affected function prototypes, implementations, call sites,
and related documentation across VFS, filesystems, and block layer.
Part of a series refactoring address_space_operations write_begin and
write_end callbacks to use struct kiocb for passing write context and
flags.
Signed-off-by: Taotao Chen <chentaotao@didiglobal.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250716093559.217344-4-chentaotao@didiglobal.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Currently all filesystems which implement super_operations::shutdown()
can not afford losing a device.
Thus fs_bdev_mark_dead() will just call the ->shutdown() callback for the
involved filesystem.
But it will no longer be the case, as multi-device filesystems like
btrfs and bcachefs can handle certain device loss without the need to
shutdown the whole filesystem.
To allow those multi-device filesystems to be integrated to use
fs_holder_ops:
- Add a new super_operations::remove_bdev() callback
- Try ->remove_bdev() callback first inside fs_bdev_mark_dead()
If the callback returned 0, meaning the fs can handling the device
loss, then exit without doing anything else.
If there is no such callback or the callback returned non-zero value,
continue to shutdown the filesystem as usual.
This means the new remove_bdev() should only do the check on whether the
operation can continue, and if so do the fs specific handlings.
The shutdown handling should still be handled by the existing
->shutdown() callback.
For all existing filesystems with shutdown callback, there is no change
to the code nor behavior.
Btrfs is going to implement both the ->remove_bdev() and ->shutdown()
callbacks soon.
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/09909fcff7f2763cc037fec97ac2482bdc0a12cb.1752470276.git.wqu@suse.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
We need to be able to store the preferred folio order associated with a
readahead request in the struct file_ra_state so that we can more
accurately increase the order across subsequent readahead requests. But
struct file_ra_state is per-struct file, so we don't really want to
increase it's size.
mmap_miss is currently 32 bits but it is only counted up to 10 *
MMAP_LOTSAMISS, which is currently defined as 1000. So 16 bits should be
plenty. Redefine it to unsigned short, making room for order as unsigned
short in follow up commit.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250609092729.274960-4-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Chaitanya S Prakash <chaitanyas.prakash@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "mm: ksm: prevent KSM from breaking merging of new VMAs", v3.
When KSM-by-default is established using prctl(PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE), this
defaults all newly mapped VMAs to having VM_MERGEABLE set, and thus makes
them available to KSM for samepage merging. It also sets VM_MERGEABLE in
all existing VMAs.
However this causes an issue upon mapping of new VMAs - the initial flags
will never have VM_MERGEABLE set when attempting a merge with adjacent
VMAs (this is set later in the mmap() logic), and adjacent VMAs will
ALWAYS have VM_MERGEABLE set.
This renders all newly mapped VMAs unmergeable.
To avoid this, this series performs the check for PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE far
earlier in the mmap() logic, prior to the merge being attempted.
However we run into complexity with the depreciated .mmap() callback - if
a driver hooks this, it might change flags which adjust KSM merge
eligibility.
We have to worry about this because, while KSM is only applicable to
private mappings, this includes both anonymous and MAP_PRIVATE-mapped
file-backed mappings.
This isn't a problem for brk(), where the VMA must be anonymous. However
in mmap() we must be conservative - if the VMA is anonymous then we can
always proceed, however if not, we permit only shmem mappings (whose .mmap
hook does not affect KSM eligibility) and drivers which implement
.mmap_prepare() (invoked prior to the KSM eligibility check).
If we can't be sure of the driver changing things, then we maintain the
same behaviour of performing the KSM check later in the mmap() logic (and
thus losing new VMA mergeability).
A great many use-cases for this logic will use anonymous mappings any
rate, so this change should already cover the majority of actual KSM
use-cases.
This patch (of 4):
In subsequent commits we are going to determine KSM eligibility prior to a
VMA being constructed, at which point we will of course not yet have
access to a VMA pointer.
It is trivial to boil down the check logic to be parameterised on
mm_struct, file and VMA flags, so do so.
As a part of this change, additionally expose and use file_is_dax() to
determine whether a file is being mapped under a DAX inode.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1748537921.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/36ad13eb50cdbd8aac6dcfba22c65d5031667295.1748537921.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Xu Xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.16-rc5.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull vfs fixes from Christian Brauner:
- Fix a regression caused by the anonymous inode rework. Making them
regular files causes various places in the kernel to tip over
starting with io_uring.
Revert to the former status quo and port our assertion to be based on
checking the inode so we don't lose the valuable VFS_*_ON_*()
assertions that have already helped discover weird behavior our
outright bugs.
- Fix the the upper bound calculation in fuse_fill_write_pages()
- Fix priority inversion issues in the eventpoll code
- Make secretmen use anon_inode_make_secure_inode() to avoid bypassing
the LSM layer
- Fix a netfs hang due to missing case in final DIO read result
collection
- Fix a double put of the netfs_io_request struct
- Provide some helpers to abstract out NETFS_RREQ_IN_PROGRESS flag
wrangling
- Fix infinite looping in netfs_wait_for_pause/request()
- Fix a netfs ref leak on an extra subrequest inserted into a request's
list of subreqs
- Fix various cifs RPC callbacks to set NETFS_SREQ_NEED_RETRY if a
subrequest fails retriably
- Fix a cifs warning in the workqueue code when reconnecting a channel
- Fix the updating of i_size in netfs to avoid a race between testing
if we should have extended the file with a DIO write and changing
i_size
- Merge the places in netfs that update i_size on write
- Fix coredump socket selftests
* tag 'vfs-6.16-rc5.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
anon_inode: rework assertions
netfs: Update tracepoints in a number of ways
netfs: Renumber the NETFS_RREQ_* flags to make traces easier to read
netfs: Merge i_size update functions
netfs: Fix i_size updating
smb: client: set missing retry flag in cifs_writev_callback()
smb: client: set missing retry flag in cifs_readv_callback()
smb: client: set missing retry flag in smb2_writev_callback()
netfs: Fix ref leak on inserted extra subreq in write retry
netfs: Fix looping in wait functions
netfs: Provide helpers to perform NETFS_RREQ_IN_PROGRESS flag wangling
netfs: Fix double put of request
netfs: Fix hang due to missing case in final DIO read result collection
eventpoll: Fix priority inversion problem
fuse: fix fuse_fill_write_pages() upper bound calculation
fs: export anon_inode_make_secure_inode() and fix secretmem LSM bypass
selftests/coredump: Fix "socket_detect_userspace_client" test failure
Now that we expose struct file_attr as our uapi struct rename all the
internal struct to struct file_kattr to clearly communicate that it is a
kernel internal struct. This is similar to struct mount_{k}attr and
others.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250703-restlaufzeit-baurecht-9ed44552b481@brauner
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Set the things up for kernel-initiated creation of object in
a tree-in-dcache filesystem. With respect to locking it's
an equivalent of filename_create() - we either get a negative
dentry with locked parent, or ERR_PTR() and no locks taken.
tracefs and debugfs had that open-coded as part of their
object creation machinery; switched to calling new helper.
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
simple_recursive_removal() assumes that parent is not locked and
locks it when it finally gets to removing the victim itself.
Usually that's what we want, but there are places where the
parent is *already* locked and we need it to stay that way.
In those cases simple_recursive_removal() would, of course,
deadlock, so we have to play racy games with unlocking/relocking
the parent around the call or open-code the entire thing.
A better solution is to provide a variant that expects to
be called with the parent already locked by the caller.
Parent should be locked with I_MUTEX_PARENT, to avoid false
positives from lockdep.
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Export anon_inode_make_secure_inode() to allow KVM guest_memfd to create
anonymous inodes with proper security context. This replaces the current
pattern of calling alloc_anon_inode() followed by
inode_init_security_anon() for creating security context manually.
This change also fixes a security regression in secretmem where the
S_PRIVATE flag was not cleared after alloc_anon_inode(), causing
LSM/SELinux checks to be bypassed for secretmem file descriptors.
As guest_memfd currently resides in the KVM module, we need to export this
symbol for use outside the core kernel. In the future, guest_memfd might be
moved to core-mm, at which point the symbols no longer would have to be
exported. When/if that happens is still unclear.
Fixes: 2bfe15c526 ("mm: create security context for memfd_secret inodes")
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250620070328.803704-3-shivankg@amd.com
Acked-by: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
VFS has switched to i_rwsem for ten years now (9902af79c01a: parallel
lookups actual switch to rwsem), but the VFS documentation and comments
still has references to i_mutex.
Signed-off-by: Junxuan Liao <ljx@cs.wisc.edu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/72223729-5471-474a-af3c-f366691fba82@cs.wisc.edu
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Since commit c84bf6dd2b ("mm: introduce new .mmap_prepare() file
callback"), the f_op->mmap() hook has been deprecated in favour of
f_op->mmap_prepare().
The generic mmap handlers are very simple, so we can very easily convert
these in advance of converting file systems which use them.
This patch does so.
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/30622c1f0b98c66840bc8c02668bda276a810b70.1750099179.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Since commit c84bf6dd2b ("mm: introduce new .mmap_prepare() file
callback"), the f_op->mmap() hook has been deprecated in favour of
f_op->mmap_prepare().
Additionally, commit bb666b7c27 ("mm: add mmap_prepare() compatibility
layer for nested file systems") permits the use of the .mmap_prepare() hook
even in nested filesystems like overlayfs.
There are a number of places where we check only for f_op->mmap - this is
incorrect now mmap_prepare exists, so update all of these to use the
general helper can_mmap_file().
Most notably, this updates the elf logic to allow for the ability to
execute binaries on filesystems which have the .mmap_prepare hook, but
additionally we update nested filesystems.
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/b68145b609532e62bab603dd9686faa6562046ec.1750099179.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
The call_mmap() function violates the existing convention in
include/linux/fs.h whereby invocations of virtual file system hooks is
performed by functions prefixed with vfs_xxx().
Correct this by renaming call_mmap() to vfs_mmap(). This also avoids
confusion as to the fact that f_op->mmap_prepare may be invoked here.
Also rename __call_mmap_prepare() function to vfs_mmap_prepare() and adjust
to accept a file parameter, this is useful later for nested file systems.
Finally, fix up the VMA userland tests and ensure the mmap_prepare -> mmap
shim is implemented there.
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/8d389f4994fa736aa8f9172bef8533c10a9e9011.1750099179.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Linus Torvalds