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<title>kernfs: link kn to its parent before the LSM init hook</title>
<updated>2026-07-24T14:19:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2026-05-26T08:57:06+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 6cccc49b027c7551ffc1d2532f2ef1922661f3da ]

After commit 12e9e3cd03b5 ("simpe_xattr: use per-sb cache"),
kernfs_xattr_set() and kernfs_xattr_get() compute the cache via
kernfs_root(kn) before any other check.  kernfs_root(kn) walks
kn-&gt;__parent first and falls back to kn-&gt;dir.root, both of which are
NULL on a freshly kmem_cache_zalloc()'d kn. kn-&gt;__parent was being set
in kernfs_new_node() after __kernfs_new_node() returned, and kn-&gt;dir.root
is set even later by kernfs_create_dir_ns() / kernfs_create_empty_dir().

The LSM kernfs_init_security hook is invoked from inside
__kernfs_new_node(), before either field has been initialized.
selinux_kernfs_init_security() ends with kernfs_xattr_set(kn,
XATTR_NAME_SELINUX, ...).  kernfs_root(kn) then returns NULL, and
&amp;((struct kernfs_root *)NULL)-&gt;xa_cache evaluates to
offsetof(struct kernfs_root, xa_cache) which faults:

  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000000e0
  RIP: 0010:simple_xattr_set+0x27/0x8b0
  Call Trace:
   kernfs_xattr_set+0x63/0xb0
   selinux_kernfs_init_security+0x13b/0x270
   security_kernfs_init_security+0x36/0xc0
   __kernfs_new_node+0x182/0x290
   kernfs_new_node+0x80/0xc0
   kernfs_create_dir_ns+0x2b/0xa0
   cgroup_create+0x116/0x380
   cgroup_mkdir+0x7c/0x1a0

Reproduces deterministically at PID 1 (systemd) on an SELinux-enabled
distro. The first cgroup mkdir under /sys/fs/cgroup with a labelled
parent panics the kernel.

The LSM hook's contract is that the kn_dir argument is the parent of
the new kn, so kn-&gt;__parent should already point at kn_dir when the
hook runs.  Move kernfs_get(parent) and rcu_assign_pointer of
kn-&gt;__parent from kernfs_new_node() into __kernfs_new_node() right
before the security hook, and unwind the parent reference on the
err_out4 path.  kernfs_root(kn) then takes its parent branch during
the hook and returns parent-&gt;dir.root, which is the correct root.

This also closes the same-shape latent bug in kernfs_xattr_get() (which
today is hidden only by kernfs_iattrs_noalloc() returning NULL on a
fresh kn).

Fixes: 12e9e3cd03b5 ("simpe_xattr: use per-sb cache")
Reported-by: Calum Mackay &lt;calum.mackay@oracle.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/5386153f-9112-4971-98fc-de90d7aae2c6@oracle.com/
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260526-ablief-demut-wehen-aef8446ef5c9@brauner
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 6cccc49b027c7551ffc1d2532f2ef1922661f3da ]

After commit 12e9e3cd03b5 ("simpe_xattr: use per-sb cache"),
kernfs_xattr_set() and kernfs_xattr_get() compute the cache via
kernfs_root(kn) before any other check.  kernfs_root(kn) walks
kn-&gt;__parent first and falls back to kn-&gt;dir.root, both of which are
NULL on a freshly kmem_cache_zalloc()'d kn. kn-&gt;__parent was being set
in kernfs_new_node() after __kernfs_new_node() returned, and kn-&gt;dir.root
is set even later by kernfs_create_dir_ns() / kernfs_create_empty_dir().

The LSM kernfs_init_security hook is invoked from inside
__kernfs_new_node(), before either field has been initialized.
selinux_kernfs_init_security() ends with kernfs_xattr_set(kn,
XATTR_NAME_SELINUX, ...).  kernfs_root(kn) then returns NULL, and
&amp;((struct kernfs_root *)NULL)-&gt;xa_cache evaluates to
offsetof(struct kernfs_root, xa_cache) which faults:

  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000000e0
  RIP: 0010:simple_xattr_set+0x27/0x8b0
  Call Trace:
   kernfs_xattr_set+0x63/0xb0
   selinux_kernfs_init_security+0x13b/0x270
   security_kernfs_init_security+0x36/0xc0
   __kernfs_new_node+0x182/0x290
   kernfs_new_node+0x80/0xc0
   kernfs_create_dir_ns+0x2b/0xa0
   cgroup_create+0x116/0x380
   cgroup_mkdir+0x7c/0x1a0

Reproduces deterministically at PID 1 (systemd) on an SELinux-enabled
distro. The first cgroup mkdir under /sys/fs/cgroup with a labelled
parent panics the kernel.

The LSM hook's contract is that the kn_dir argument is the parent of
the new kn, so kn-&gt;__parent should already point at kn_dir when the
hook runs.  Move kernfs_get(parent) and rcu_assign_pointer of
kn-&gt;__parent from kernfs_new_node() into __kernfs_new_node() right
before the security hook, and unwind the parent reference on the
err_out4 path.  kernfs_root(kn) then takes its parent branch during
the hook and returns parent-&gt;dir.root, which is the correct root.

This also closes the same-shape latent bug in kernfs_xattr_get() (which
today is hidden only by kernfs_iattrs_noalloc() returning NULL on a
fresh kn).

Fixes: 12e9e3cd03b5 ("simpe_xattr: use per-sb cache")
Reported-by: Calum Mackay &lt;calum.mackay@oracle.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/5386153f-9112-4971-98fc-de90d7aae2c6@oracle.com/
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260526-ablief-demut-wehen-aef8446ef5c9@brauner
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>simpe_xattr: use per-sb cache</title>
<updated>2026-07-24T14:19:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-05T13:53:19+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 1e7cd8a53b72a58a44c4d282aed95f6ce0e76db0 ]

Move the hash table to the super block to remove excessive overhead in case
of small number of xattrs per inode.

Add linked list to the inode, used for listxattr and eviction.  Listxattr
uses rcu protection to iterate the list of xattrs.

Before being made per-sb, lazy allocation was protected by inode lock.  Now
inode lock no longer provides sufficient exclusion, so use cmpxchg() to
ensure atomicity.

Though I haven't found a description of this pattern, after some research
it seems that cmpxchg_release() and READ_ONCE() should provide the
necessary memory barriers.

Use simple_xattr_free_rcu() in simple_xattrs_free(). This is needed because
the hash table is now shared between inodes and lookup on a different inode
might be running the compare function on the just freed element within the
RCU grace period.

Following stats are based on slabinfo diff, after creating 100k empty
files, then adding a "user.test=foo" xattr to each:

v7.0 (no rhashtable):
  File creation: 993.40 bytes/file
  Xattr addition: 79.99 bytes/file

v7.1-rc2 (per-inode rhashtable):
  File creation: 939.73 bytes/file
  Xattr addition: 1296.08 bytes/file

v7.1-rc2 + this patch (per-sb rhashtable)
  File creation: 946.84 bytes/file
  Xattr addition: 111.86 bytes/file

The overhead of a single xattr is reduced to nearly v7.0 levels.  The per
xattr overhead is slightly larger due to the addition of three pointers to
struct simple_xattr.

Fixes: b32c4a213698 ("xattr: add rhashtable-based simple_xattr infrastructure")
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260605135322.2632068-5-mszeredi@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 1e7cd8a53b72a58a44c4d282aed95f6ce0e76db0 ]

Move the hash table to the super block to remove excessive overhead in case
of small number of xattrs per inode.

Add linked list to the inode, used for listxattr and eviction.  Listxattr
uses rcu protection to iterate the list of xattrs.

Before being made per-sb, lazy allocation was protected by inode lock.  Now
inode lock no longer provides sufficient exclusion, so use cmpxchg() to
ensure atomicity.

Though I haven't found a description of this pattern, after some research
it seems that cmpxchg_release() and READ_ONCE() should provide the
necessary memory barriers.

Use simple_xattr_free_rcu() in simple_xattrs_free(). This is needed because
the hash table is now shared between inodes and lookup on a different inode
might be running the compare function on the just freed element within the
RCU grace period.

Following stats are based on slabinfo diff, after creating 100k empty
files, then adding a "user.test=foo" xattr to each:

v7.0 (no rhashtable):
  File creation: 993.40 bytes/file
  Xattr addition: 79.99 bytes/file

v7.1-rc2 (per-inode rhashtable):
  File creation: 939.73 bytes/file
  Xattr addition: 1296.08 bytes/file

v7.1-rc2 + this patch (per-sb rhashtable)
  File creation: 946.84 bytes/file
  Xattr addition: 111.86 bytes/file

The overhead of a single xattr is reduced to nearly v7.0 levels.  The per
xattr overhead is slightly larger due to the addition of three pointers to
struct simple_xattr.

Fixes: b32c4a213698 ("xattr: add rhashtable-based simple_xattr infrastructure")
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260605135322.2632068-5-mszeredi@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>simple_xattr: change interface to pass struct simple_xattrs **</title>
<updated>2026-07-24T14:19:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-05T13:53:18+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 076e5cef28e27febfc09b5f72544d2b857c75201 ]

Change the simple_xattr API to accept pointer-to-pointer (struct
simple_xattrs **) instead of pointer.  This allows the functions to handle
lazy allocation internally without requiring callers to use
simple_xattrs_lazy_alloc().

The simple_xattr_set(), simple_xattr_set_limited() and simple_xattr_add()
functions now handle allocation when xattrs is NULL.  simple_xattrs_free()
now also frees the xattrs structure itself and sets the pointer to NULL.

This simplifies callers and removes the need for most callers to explicitly
manage xattrs allocation and lifetime.

In shmem_initxattrs(), the total required space for all initial xattrs
(ispace) is pre-calculated and deducted from sbinfo-&gt;free_ispace.

Since this patch modifies the function to add new xattrs directly to the
inode's &amp;info-&gt;xattrs list rather than using a local temporary variable, a
failure means that the partially populated info-&gt;xattrs list remains
attached to the inode.

When the VFS caller handles the -ENOMEM error, it drops the newly created
inode via iput(), shmem_free_inode() adds freed to sbinfo-&gt;free_ispace a
second time, permanently inflating the tmpfs free space quota.

Fix by substracting already added xattrs from ispace.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260605135322.2632068-4-mszeredi@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 1e7cd8a53b72 ("simpe_xattr: use per-sb cache")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 076e5cef28e27febfc09b5f72544d2b857c75201 ]

Change the simple_xattr API to accept pointer-to-pointer (struct
simple_xattrs **) instead of pointer.  This allows the functions to handle
lazy allocation internally without requiring callers to use
simple_xattrs_lazy_alloc().

The simple_xattr_set(), simple_xattr_set_limited() and simple_xattr_add()
functions now handle allocation when xattrs is NULL.  simple_xattrs_free()
now also frees the xattrs structure itself and sets the pointer to NULL.

This simplifies callers and removes the need for most callers to explicitly
manage xattrs allocation and lifetime.

In shmem_initxattrs(), the total required space for all initial xattrs
(ispace) is pre-calculated and deducted from sbinfo-&gt;free_ispace.

Since this patch modifies the function to add new xattrs directly to the
inode's &amp;info-&gt;xattrs list rather than using a local temporary variable, a
failure means that the partially populated info-&gt;xattrs list remains
attached to the inode.

When the VFS caller handles the -ENOMEM error, it drops the newly created
inode via iput(), shmem_free_inode() adds freed to sbinfo-&gt;free_ispace a
second time, permanently inflating the tmpfs free space quota.

Fix by substracting already added xattrs from ispace.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260605135322.2632068-4-mszeredi@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 1e7cd8a53b72 ("simpe_xattr: use per-sb cache")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kernfs: fix xattr race condition with multiple superblocks</title>
<updated>2026-07-24T14:19:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-05T13:53:16+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 6a07814ff643b5c8e1353d8c6229f52fde205cde ]

Multiple superblocks with different namespaces can share the same
kernfs_node when kernfs_test_super() finds a matching root but
different namespace. This means multiple inodes from different
superblocks can reference the same kernfs_node-&gt;iattr-&gt;xattrs
structure.

The VFS layer only holds per-inode locks during xattr operations,
which is insufficient to serialize concurrent xattr modifications on
the shared kernfs_node. This can lead to race conditions in
simple_xattr_set() where the lookup-&gt;replace/remove sequence is not
atomic with respect to operations from other superblocks.

Fix this by protecting xattr operations with the existing hashed
kernfs_locks-&gt;open_file_mutex[] array, which is already used to
protect per-node open file data. The hashed mutex array provides
scalable per-node serialization (scaled by CPU count, up to 1024 locks
on 32+ CPU systems) with zero memory overhead.

Changes:
- Rename open_file_mutex[] to node_mutex[] to reflect dual purpose
- Add kernfs_node_lock_ptr() and kernfs_node_lock() helpers
- Protect simple_xattr_set() calls in kernfs_xattr_set() and
  kernfs_vfs_user_xattr_set() with the hashed mutex
- Update file.c to use new helpers via compatibility wrappers
- Update documentation to explain the extended lock usage

Fixes: b32c4a213698 ("xattr: add rhashtable-based simple_xattr infrastructure")
Reported-by: Sashiko &lt;sashiko-bot@kernel.org&gt;
Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260601162454.2116375-1-mszeredi%40redhat.com
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-4-5
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260605135322.2632068-2-mszeredi@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 6a07814ff643b5c8e1353d8c6229f52fde205cde ]

Multiple superblocks with different namespaces can share the same
kernfs_node when kernfs_test_super() finds a matching root but
different namespace. This means multiple inodes from different
superblocks can reference the same kernfs_node-&gt;iattr-&gt;xattrs
structure.

The VFS layer only holds per-inode locks during xattr operations,
which is insufficient to serialize concurrent xattr modifications on
the shared kernfs_node. This can lead to race conditions in
simple_xattr_set() where the lookup-&gt;replace/remove sequence is not
atomic with respect to operations from other superblocks.

Fix this by protecting xattr operations with the existing hashed
kernfs_locks-&gt;open_file_mutex[] array, which is already used to
protect per-node open file data. The hashed mutex array provides
scalable per-node serialization (scaled by CPU count, up to 1024 locks
on 32+ CPU systems) with zero memory overhead.

Changes:
- Rename open_file_mutex[] to node_mutex[] to reflect dual purpose
- Add kernfs_node_lock_ptr() and kernfs_node_lock() helpers
- Protect simple_xattr_set() calls in kernfs_xattr_set() and
  kernfs_vfs_user_xattr_set() with the hashed mutex
- Update file.c to use new helpers via compatibility wrappers
- Update documentation to explain the extended lock usage

Fixes: b32c4a213698 ("xattr: add rhashtable-based simple_xattr infrastructure")
Reported-by: Sashiko &lt;sashiko-bot@kernel.org&gt;
Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260601162454.2116375-1-mszeredi%40redhat.com
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-4-5
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260605135322.2632068-2-mszeredi@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kernfs: fix suspicious RCU usage in kernfs_put()</title>
<updated>2026-07-24T14:19:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Conor Kotwasinski</name>
<email>conorkotwasinski2024@u.northwestern.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-16T13:43:15+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 0fdde3f2aeadcf8d090ee3edee0aad73fb91f690 ]

Commit 741c10b096bc ("kernfs: Use RCU to access kernfs_node::name.")
converted the WARN_ONCE() in kernfs_put() to read kn-&gt;name and
parent-&gt;name via rcu_dereference(), but kernfs_put() has callers that
hold neither kernfs_rwsem nor the RCU read lock. The inode eviction
path driven by memory reclaim is one such case:

  kernfs_put+0x53/0x60 fs/kernfs/dir.c:602
  evict+0x3c2/0xad0 fs/inode.c:846
  iput_final fs/inode.c:1966 [inline]
  iput.part.0+0x605/0xf50 fs/inode.c:2015
  iput+0x35/0x40 fs/inode.c:1981
  dentry_unlink_inode+0x2a1/0x490 fs/dcache.c:467
  __dentry_kill+0x1d0/0x600 fs/dcache.c:670
  shrink_dentry_list+0x180/0x5e0 fs/dcache.c:1174
  prune_dcache_sb+0xea/0x150 fs/dcache.c:1256
  super_cache_scan+0x328/0x550 fs/super.c:223
  ...
  kswapd+0x556/0xba0 mm/vmscan.c:7343

lockdep complains with "suspicious RCU usage" whenever the WARN
fires from such a context.

Wrap the rcu_dereference() calls in an RCU read-side critical section.
Gate on the active-ref check so the lock is only taken when the WARN
is about to fire.

Note that this does not address the underlying imbalance in
kn-&gt;active that triggers the WARN.

Fixes: 741c10b096bc ("kernfs: Use RCU to access kernfs_node::name.")
Reported-by: syzbot+0dfe499ea713e0a15bec@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=0dfe499ea713e0a15bec
Signed-off-by: Conor Kotwasinski &lt;conorkotwasinski2024@u.northwestern.edu&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260416134315.1474726-1-conorkotwasinski2024@u.northwestern.edu
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 0fdde3f2aeadcf8d090ee3edee0aad73fb91f690 ]

Commit 741c10b096bc ("kernfs: Use RCU to access kernfs_node::name.")
converted the WARN_ONCE() in kernfs_put() to read kn-&gt;name and
parent-&gt;name via rcu_dereference(), but kernfs_put() has callers that
hold neither kernfs_rwsem nor the RCU read lock. The inode eviction
path driven by memory reclaim is one such case:

  kernfs_put+0x53/0x60 fs/kernfs/dir.c:602
  evict+0x3c2/0xad0 fs/inode.c:846
  iput_final fs/inode.c:1966 [inline]
  iput.part.0+0x605/0xf50 fs/inode.c:2015
  iput+0x35/0x40 fs/inode.c:1981
  dentry_unlink_inode+0x2a1/0x490 fs/dcache.c:467
  __dentry_kill+0x1d0/0x600 fs/dcache.c:670
  shrink_dentry_list+0x180/0x5e0 fs/dcache.c:1174
  prune_dcache_sb+0xea/0x150 fs/dcache.c:1256
  super_cache_scan+0x328/0x550 fs/super.c:223
  ...
  kswapd+0x556/0xba0 mm/vmscan.c:7343

lockdep complains with "suspicious RCU usage" whenever the WARN
fires from such a context.

Wrap the rcu_dereference() calls in an RCU read-side critical section.
Gate on the active-ref check so the lock is only taken when the WARN
is about to fire.

Note that this does not address the underlying imbalance in
kn-&gt;active that triggers the WARN.

Fixes: 741c10b096bc ("kernfs: Use RCU to access kernfs_node::name.")
Reported-by: syzbot+0dfe499ea713e0a15bec@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=0dfe499ea713e0a15bec
Signed-off-by: Conor Kotwasinski &lt;conorkotwasinski2024@u.northwestern.edu&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260416134315.1474726-1-conorkotwasinski2024@u.northwestern.edu
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'driver-core-7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/driver-core/driver-core</title>
<updated>2026-04-14T02:03:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-14T02:03:11+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4793dae01f47754e288cdbb3a22581cac2317f2b'/>
<id>4793dae01f47754e288cdbb3a22581cac2317f2b</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull driver core updates from Danilo Krummrich:
 "debugfs:
   - Fix NULL pointer dereference in debugfs_create_str()
   - Fix misplaced EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for debugfs_create_str()
   - Fix soundwire debugfs NULL pointer dereference from uninitialized
     firmware_file

  device property:
   - Make fwnode flags modifications thread safe; widen the field to
     unsigned long and use set_bit() / clear_bit() based accessors
   - Document how to check for the property presence

  devres:
   - Separate struct devres_node from its "subclasses" (struct devres,
     struct devres_group); give struct devres_node its own release and
     free callbacks for per-type dispatch
   - Introduce struct devres_action for devres actions, avoiding the
     ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN alignment overhead of struct devres
   - Export struct devres_node and its init/add/remove/dbginfo
     primitives for use by Rust Devres&lt;T&gt;
   - Fix missing node debug info in devm_krealloc()
   - Use guard(spinlock_irqsave) where applicable; consolidate unlock
     paths in devres_release_group()

  driver_override:
   - Convert PCI, WMI, vdpa, s390/cio, s390/ap, and fsl-mc to the
     generic driver_override infrastructure, replacing per-bus
     driver_override strings, sysfs attributes, and match logic; fixes a
     potential UAF from unsynchronized access to driver_override in bus
     match() callbacks
   - Simplify __device_set_driver_override() logic

  kernfs:
   - Send IN_DELETE_SELF and IN_IGNORED inotify events on kernfs file
     and directory removal
   - Add corresponding selftests for memcg

  platform:
   - Allow attaching software nodes when creating platform devices via a
     new 'swnode' field in struct platform_device_info
   - Add kerneldoc for struct platform_device_info

  software node:
   - Move software node initialization from postcore_initcall() to
     driver_init(), making it available early in the boot process
   - Move kernel_kobj initialization (ksysfs_init) earlier to support
     the above
   - Remove software_node_exit(); dead code in a built-in unit

  SoC:
   - Introduce of_machine_read_compatible() and of_machine_read_model()
     OF helpers and export soc_attr_read_machine() to replace direct
     accesses to of_root from SoC drivers; also enables
     CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST coverage for these drivers

  sysfs:
   - Constify attribute group array pointers to
     'const struct attribute_group *const *' in sysfs functions,
     device_add_groups() / device_remove_groups(), and struct class

  Rust:
   - Devres:
      - Embed struct devres_node directly in Devres&lt;T&gt; instead of going
        through devm_add_action(), avoiding the extra allocation and the
        unnecessary ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN alignment

   - I/O:
      - Turn IoCapable from a marker trait into a functional trait
        carrying the raw I/O accessor implementation (io_read /
        io_write), providing working defaults for the per-type Io
        methods
      - Add RelaxedMmio wrapper type, making relaxed accessors usable in
        code generic over the Io trait
      - Remove overloaded per-type Io methods and per-backend macros
        from Mmio and PCI ConfigSpace

   - I/O (Register):
      - Add IoLoc trait and generic read/write/update methods to the Io
        trait, making I/O operations parameterizable by typed locations
      - Add register! macro for defining hardware register types with
        typed bitfield accessors backed by Bounded values; supports
        direct, relative, and array register addressing
      - Add write_reg() / try_write_reg() and LocatedRegister trait
      - Update PCI sample driver to demonstrate the register! macro

         Example:

         ```
             register! {
                 /// UART control register.
                 CTRL(u32) @ 0x18 {
                     /// Receiver enable.
                     19:19   rx_enable =&gt; bool;
                     /// Parity configuration.
                     14:13   parity ?=&gt; Parity;
                 }

                 /// FIFO watermark and counter register.
                 WATER(u32) @ 0x2c {
                     /// Number of datawords in the receive FIFO.
                     26:24   rx_count;
                     /// RX interrupt threshold.
                     17:16   rx_water;
                 }
             }

             impl WATER {
                 fn rx_above_watermark(&amp;self) -&gt; bool {
                     self.rx_count() &gt; self.rx_water()
                 }
             }

             fn init(bar: &amp;pci::Bar&lt;BAR0_SIZE&gt;) {
                 let water = WATER::zeroed()
                     .with_const_rx_water::&lt;1&gt;(); // &gt; 3 would not compile
                 bar.write_reg(water);

                 let ctrl = CTRL::zeroed()
                     .with_parity(Parity::Even)
                     .with_rx_enable(true);
                 bar.write_reg(ctrl);
             }

             fn handle_rx(bar: &amp;pci::Bar&lt;BAR0_SIZE&gt;) {
                 if bar.read(WATER).rx_above_watermark() {
                     // drain the FIFO
                 }
             }

             fn set_parity(bar: &amp;pci::Bar&lt;BAR0_SIZE&gt;, parity: Parity) {
                 bar.update(CTRL, |r| r.with_parity(parity));
             }
         ```

   - IRQ:
      - Move 'static bounds from where clauses to trait declarations for
        IRQ handler traits

   - Misc:
      - Enable the generic_arg_infer Rust feature
      - Extend Bounded with shift operations, single-bit bool
        conversion, and const get()

  Misc:
   - Make deferred_probe_timeout default a Kconfig option
   - Drop auxiliary_dev_pm_ops; the PM core falls back to driver PM
     callbacks when no bus type PM ops are set
   - Add conditional guard support for device_lock()
   - Add ksysfs.c to the DRIVER CORE MAINTAINERS entry
   - Fix kernel-doc warnings in base.h
   - Fix stale reference to memory_block_add_nid() in documentation"

* tag 'driver-core-7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/driver-core/driver-core: (67 commits)
  bus: fsl-mc: use generic driver_override infrastructure
  s390/ap: use generic driver_override infrastructure
  s390/cio: use generic driver_override infrastructure
  vdpa: use generic driver_override infrastructure
  platform/wmi: use generic driver_override infrastructure
  PCI: use generic driver_override infrastructure
  driver core: make software nodes available earlier
  software node: remove software_node_exit()
  kernel: ksysfs: initialize kernel_kobj earlier
  MAINTAINERS: add ksysfs.c to the DRIVER CORE entry
  drivers/base/memory: fix stale reference to memory_block_add_nid()
  device property: Document how to check for the property presence
  soundwire: debugfs: initialize firmware_file to empty string
  debugfs: fix placement of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for debugfs_create_str()
  debugfs: check for NULL pointer in debugfs_create_str()
  driver core: Make deferred_probe_timeout default a Kconfig option
  driver core: simplify __device_set_driver_override() clearing logic
  driver core: auxiliary bus: Drop auxiliary_dev_pm_ops
  device property: Make modifications of fwnode "flags" thread safe
  rust: devres: embed struct devres_node directly
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull driver core updates from Danilo Krummrich:
 "debugfs:
   - Fix NULL pointer dereference in debugfs_create_str()
   - Fix misplaced EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for debugfs_create_str()
   - Fix soundwire debugfs NULL pointer dereference from uninitialized
     firmware_file

  device property:
   - Make fwnode flags modifications thread safe; widen the field to
     unsigned long and use set_bit() / clear_bit() based accessors
   - Document how to check for the property presence

  devres:
   - Separate struct devres_node from its "subclasses" (struct devres,
     struct devres_group); give struct devres_node its own release and
     free callbacks for per-type dispatch
   - Introduce struct devres_action for devres actions, avoiding the
     ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN alignment overhead of struct devres
   - Export struct devres_node and its init/add/remove/dbginfo
     primitives for use by Rust Devres&lt;T&gt;
   - Fix missing node debug info in devm_krealloc()
   - Use guard(spinlock_irqsave) where applicable; consolidate unlock
     paths in devres_release_group()

  driver_override:
   - Convert PCI, WMI, vdpa, s390/cio, s390/ap, and fsl-mc to the
     generic driver_override infrastructure, replacing per-bus
     driver_override strings, sysfs attributes, and match logic; fixes a
     potential UAF from unsynchronized access to driver_override in bus
     match() callbacks
   - Simplify __device_set_driver_override() logic

  kernfs:
   - Send IN_DELETE_SELF and IN_IGNORED inotify events on kernfs file
     and directory removal
   - Add corresponding selftests for memcg

  platform:
   - Allow attaching software nodes when creating platform devices via a
     new 'swnode' field in struct platform_device_info
   - Add kerneldoc for struct platform_device_info

  software node:
   - Move software node initialization from postcore_initcall() to
     driver_init(), making it available early in the boot process
   - Move kernel_kobj initialization (ksysfs_init) earlier to support
     the above
   - Remove software_node_exit(); dead code in a built-in unit

  SoC:
   - Introduce of_machine_read_compatible() and of_machine_read_model()
     OF helpers and export soc_attr_read_machine() to replace direct
     accesses to of_root from SoC drivers; also enables
     CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST coverage for these drivers

  sysfs:
   - Constify attribute group array pointers to
     'const struct attribute_group *const *' in sysfs functions,
     device_add_groups() / device_remove_groups(), and struct class

  Rust:
   - Devres:
      - Embed struct devres_node directly in Devres&lt;T&gt; instead of going
        through devm_add_action(), avoiding the extra allocation and the
        unnecessary ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN alignment

   - I/O:
      - Turn IoCapable from a marker trait into a functional trait
        carrying the raw I/O accessor implementation (io_read /
        io_write), providing working defaults for the per-type Io
        methods
      - Add RelaxedMmio wrapper type, making relaxed accessors usable in
        code generic over the Io trait
      - Remove overloaded per-type Io methods and per-backend macros
        from Mmio and PCI ConfigSpace

   - I/O (Register):
      - Add IoLoc trait and generic read/write/update methods to the Io
        trait, making I/O operations parameterizable by typed locations
      - Add register! macro for defining hardware register types with
        typed bitfield accessors backed by Bounded values; supports
        direct, relative, and array register addressing
      - Add write_reg() / try_write_reg() and LocatedRegister trait
      - Update PCI sample driver to demonstrate the register! macro

         Example:

         ```
             register! {
                 /// UART control register.
                 CTRL(u32) @ 0x18 {
                     /// Receiver enable.
                     19:19   rx_enable =&gt; bool;
                     /// Parity configuration.
                     14:13   parity ?=&gt; Parity;
                 }

                 /// FIFO watermark and counter register.
                 WATER(u32) @ 0x2c {
                     /// Number of datawords in the receive FIFO.
                     26:24   rx_count;
                     /// RX interrupt threshold.
                     17:16   rx_water;
                 }
             }

             impl WATER {
                 fn rx_above_watermark(&amp;self) -&gt; bool {
                     self.rx_count() &gt; self.rx_water()
                 }
             }

             fn init(bar: &amp;pci::Bar&lt;BAR0_SIZE&gt;) {
                 let water = WATER::zeroed()
                     .with_const_rx_water::&lt;1&gt;(); // &gt; 3 would not compile
                 bar.write_reg(water);

                 let ctrl = CTRL::zeroed()
                     .with_parity(Parity::Even)
                     .with_rx_enable(true);
                 bar.write_reg(ctrl);
             }

             fn handle_rx(bar: &amp;pci::Bar&lt;BAR0_SIZE&gt;) {
                 if bar.read(WATER).rx_above_watermark() {
                     // drain the FIFO
                 }
             }

             fn set_parity(bar: &amp;pci::Bar&lt;BAR0_SIZE&gt;, parity: Parity) {
                 bar.update(CTRL, |r| r.with_parity(parity));
             }
         ```

   - IRQ:
      - Move 'static bounds from where clauses to trait declarations for
        IRQ handler traits

   - Misc:
      - Enable the generic_arg_infer Rust feature
      - Extend Bounded with shift operations, single-bit bool
        conversion, and const get()

  Misc:
   - Make deferred_probe_timeout default a Kconfig option
   - Drop auxiliary_dev_pm_ops; the PM core falls back to driver PM
     callbacks when no bus type PM ops are set
   - Add conditional guard support for device_lock()
   - Add ksysfs.c to the DRIVER CORE MAINTAINERS entry
   - Fix kernel-doc warnings in base.h
   - Fix stale reference to memory_block_add_nid() in documentation"

* tag 'driver-core-7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/driver-core/driver-core: (67 commits)
  bus: fsl-mc: use generic driver_override infrastructure
  s390/ap: use generic driver_override infrastructure
  s390/cio: use generic driver_override infrastructure
  vdpa: use generic driver_override infrastructure
  platform/wmi: use generic driver_override infrastructure
  PCI: use generic driver_override infrastructure
  driver core: make software nodes available earlier
  software node: remove software_node_exit()
  kernel: ksysfs: initialize kernel_kobj earlier
  MAINTAINERS: add ksysfs.c to the DRIVER CORE entry
  drivers/base/memory: fix stale reference to memory_block_add_nid()
  device property: Document how to check for the property presence
  soundwire: debugfs: initialize firmware_file to empty string
  debugfs: fix placement of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for debugfs_create_str()
  debugfs: check for NULL pointer in debugfs_create_str()
  driver core: Make deferred_probe_timeout default a Kconfig option
  driver core: simplify __device_set_driver_override() clearing logic
  driver core: auxiliary bus: Drop auxiliary_dev_pm_ops
  device property: Make modifications of fwnode "flags" thread safe
  rust: devres: embed struct devres_node directly
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.xattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2026-04-13T17:10:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-13T17:10:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c8db08110cbeff12a1f3990a31730936b092f62b'/>
<id>c8db08110cbeff12a1f3990a31730936b092f62b</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull vfs xattr updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This reworks the simple_xattr infrastructure and adds support for
  user.* extended attributes on sockets.

  The simple_xattr subsystem currently uses an rbtree protected by a
  reader-writer spinlock. This series replaces the rbtree with an
  rhashtable giving O(1) average-case lookup with RCU-based lockless
  reads. This sped up concurrent access patterns on tmpfs quite a bit
  and it's an overall easy enough conversion to do and gets rid or
  rwlock_t.

  The conversion is done incrementally: a new rhashtable path is added
  alongside the existing rbtree, consumers are migrated one at a time
  (shmem, kernfs, pidfs), and then the rbtree code is removed. All three
  consumers switch from embedded structs to pointer-based lazy
  allocation so the rhashtable overhead is only paid for inodes that
  actually use xattrs.

  With this infrastructure in place the series adds support for user.*
  xattrs on sockets. Path-based AF_UNIX sockets inherit xattr support
  from the underlying filesystem (e.g. tmpfs) but sockets in sockfs -
  that is everything created via socket() including abstract namespace
  AF_UNIX sockets - had no xattr support at all.

  The xattr_permission() checks are reworked to allow user.* xattrs on
  S_IFSOCK inodes. Sockfs sockets get per-inode limits of 128 xattrs and
  128KB total value size matching the limits already in use for kernfs.

  The practical motivation comes from several directions. systemd and
  GNOME are expanding their use of Varlink as an IPC mechanism.

  For D-Bus there are tools like dbus-monitor that can observe IPC
  traffic across the system but this only works because D-Bus has a
  central broker.

  For Varlink there is no broker and there is currently no way to
  identify which sockets speak Varlink. With user.* xattrs on sockets a
  service can label its socket with the IPC protocol it speaks (e.g.,
  user.varlink=1) and an eBPF program can then selectively capture
  traffic on those sockets. Enumerating bound sockets via netlink
  combined with these xattr labels gives a way to discover all Varlink
  IPC entrypoints for debugging and introspection.

  Similarly, systemd-journald wants to use xattrs on the /dev/log socket
  for protocol negotiation to indicate whether RFC 5424 structured
  syslog is supported or whether only the legacy RFC 3164 format should
  be used.

  In containers these labels are particularly useful as high-privilege
  or more complicated solutions for socket identification aren't
  available.

  The series comes with comprehensive selftests covering path-based
  AF_UNIX sockets, sockfs socket operations, per-inode limit
  enforcement, and xattr operations across multiple address families
  (AF_INET, AF_INET6, AF_NETLINK, AF_PACKET)"

* tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.xattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  selftests/xattr: test xattrs on various socket families
  selftests/xattr: sockfs socket xattr tests
  selftests/xattr: path-based AF_UNIX socket xattr tests
  xattr: support extended attributes on sockets
  xattr,net: support limited amount of extended attributes on sockfs sockets
  xattr: move user limits for xattrs to generic infra
  xattr: switch xattr_permission() to switch statement
  xattr: add xattr_permission_error()
  xattr: remove rbtree-based simple_xattr infrastructure
  pidfs: adapt to rhashtable-based simple_xattrs
  kernfs: adapt to rhashtable-based simple_xattrs with lazy allocation
  shmem: adapt to rhashtable-based simple_xattrs with lazy allocation
  xattr: add rhashtable-based simple_xattr infrastructure
  xattr: add rcu_head and rhash_head to struct simple_xattr
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull vfs xattr updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This reworks the simple_xattr infrastructure and adds support for
  user.* extended attributes on sockets.

  The simple_xattr subsystem currently uses an rbtree protected by a
  reader-writer spinlock. This series replaces the rbtree with an
  rhashtable giving O(1) average-case lookup with RCU-based lockless
  reads. This sped up concurrent access patterns on tmpfs quite a bit
  and it's an overall easy enough conversion to do and gets rid or
  rwlock_t.

  The conversion is done incrementally: a new rhashtable path is added
  alongside the existing rbtree, consumers are migrated one at a time
  (shmem, kernfs, pidfs), and then the rbtree code is removed. All three
  consumers switch from embedded structs to pointer-based lazy
  allocation so the rhashtable overhead is only paid for inodes that
  actually use xattrs.

  With this infrastructure in place the series adds support for user.*
  xattrs on sockets. Path-based AF_UNIX sockets inherit xattr support
  from the underlying filesystem (e.g. tmpfs) but sockets in sockfs -
  that is everything created via socket() including abstract namespace
  AF_UNIX sockets - had no xattr support at all.

  The xattr_permission() checks are reworked to allow user.* xattrs on
  S_IFSOCK inodes. Sockfs sockets get per-inode limits of 128 xattrs and
  128KB total value size matching the limits already in use for kernfs.

  The practical motivation comes from several directions. systemd and
  GNOME are expanding their use of Varlink as an IPC mechanism.

  For D-Bus there are tools like dbus-monitor that can observe IPC
  traffic across the system but this only works because D-Bus has a
  central broker.

  For Varlink there is no broker and there is currently no way to
  identify which sockets speak Varlink. With user.* xattrs on sockets a
  service can label its socket with the IPC protocol it speaks (e.g.,
  user.varlink=1) and an eBPF program can then selectively capture
  traffic on those sockets. Enumerating bound sockets via netlink
  combined with these xattr labels gives a way to discover all Varlink
  IPC entrypoints for debugging and introspection.

  Similarly, systemd-journald wants to use xattrs on the /dev/log socket
  for protocol negotiation to indicate whether RFC 5424 structured
  syslog is supported or whether only the legacy RFC 3164 format should
  be used.

  In containers these labels are particularly useful as high-privilege
  or more complicated solutions for socket identification aren't
  available.

  The series comes with comprehensive selftests covering path-based
  AF_UNIX sockets, sockfs socket operations, per-inode limit
  enforcement, and xattr operations across multiple address families
  (AF_INET, AF_INET6, AF_NETLINK, AF_PACKET)"

* tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.xattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  selftests/xattr: test xattrs on various socket families
  selftests/xattr: sockfs socket xattr tests
  selftests/xattr: path-based AF_UNIX socket xattr tests
  xattr: support extended attributes on sockets
  xattr,net: support limited amount of extended attributes on sockfs sockets
  xattr: move user limits for xattrs to generic infra
  xattr: switch xattr_permission() to switch statement
  xattr: add xattr_permission_error()
  xattr: remove rbtree-based simple_xattr infrastructure
  pidfs: adapt to rhashtable-based simple_xattrs
  kernfs: adapt to rhashtable-based simple_xattrs with lazy allocation
  shmem: adapt to rhashtable-based simple_xattrs with lazy allocation
  xattr: add rhashtable-based simple_xattr infrastructure
  xattr: add rcu_head and rhash_head to struct simple_xattr
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernfs: make directory seek namespace-aware</title>
<updated>2026-04-09T12:36:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-02T07:12:11+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=cb76a81c7cec37bdf525164561b02665cd763421'/>
<id>cb76a81c7cec37bdf525164561b02665cd763421</id>
<content type='text'>
The rbtree backing kernfs directories is ordered by (hash, ns_id, name)
but kernfs_dir_pos() only searches by hash when seeking to a position
during readdir. When two nodes from different namespaces share the same
hash value, the binary search can land on a node in the wrong namespace.
The subsequent skip-forward loop walks rb_next() and may overshoot the
correct node, silently dropping an entry from the readdir results.

With the recent switch from raw namespace pointers to public namespace
ids as hash seeds, computing hash collisions became an offline operation.
An unprivileged user could unshare into a new network namespace, create
a single interface whose name-hash collides with a target entry in
init_net, and cause a victim's seekdir/readdir on /sys/class/net to miss
that entry.

Fix this by extending the rbtree search in kernfs_dir_pos() to also
compare namespace ids when hashes match. Since the rbtree is already
ordered by (hash, ns_id, name), this makes the seek land directly in the
correct namespace's range, eliminating the wrong-namespace overshoot.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The rbtree backing kernfs directories is ordered by (hash, ns_id, name)
but kernfs_dir_pos() only searches by hash when seeking to a position
during readdir. When two nodes from different namespaces share the same
hash value, the binary search can land on a node in the wrong namespace.
The subsequent skip-forward loop walks rb_next() and may overshoot the
correct node, silently dropping an entry from the readdir results.

With the recent switch from raw namespace pointers to public namespace
ids as hash seeds, computing hash collisions became an offline operation.
An unprivileged user could unshare into a new network namespace, create
a single interface whose name-hash collides with a target entry in
init_net, and cause a victim's seekdir/readdir on /sys/class/net to miss
that entry.

Fix this by extending the rbtree search in kernfs_dir_pos() to also
compare namespace ids when hashes match. Since the rbtree is already
ordered by (hash, ns_id, name), this makes the seek land directly in the
correct namespace's range, eliminating the wrong-namespace overshoot.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernfs: use namespace id instead of pointer for hashing and comparison</title>
<updated>2026-04-09T12:36:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-01T10:21:16+00:00</published>
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kernfs uses the namespace tag as both a hash seed (via init_name_hash())
and a comparison key in the rbtree. The resulting hash values are exposed
to userspace through directory seek positions (ctx-&gt;pos), and the raw
pointer comparisons in kernfs_name_compare() encode kernel pointer
ordering into the rbtree layout.

This constitutes a KASLR information leak since the hash and ordering
derived from kernel pointers can be observed from userspace.

Fix this by using the 64-bit namespace id (ns_common::ns_id) instead of
the raw pointer value for both hashing and comparison. The namespace id
is a stable, non-secret identifier that is already exposed to userspace
through other interfaces (e.g., /proc/pid/ns/, ioctl NS_GET_NSID).

Introduce kernfs_ns_id() as a helper that extracts the namespace id from
a potentially-NULL ns_common pointer, returning 0 for the no-namespace
case.

All namespace equality checks in the directory iteration and dentry
revalidation paths are also switched from pointer comparison to ns_id
comparison for consistency.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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kernfs uses the namespace tag as both a hash seed (via init_name_hash())
and a comparison key in the rbtree. The resulting hash values are exposed
to userspace through directory seek positions (ctx-&gt;pos), and the raw
pointer comparisons in kernfs_name_compare() encode kernel pointer
ordering into the rbtree layout.

This constitutes a KASLR information leak since the hash and ordering
derived from kernel pointers can be observed from userspace.

Fix this by using the 64-bit namespace id (ns_common::ns_id) instead of
the raw pointer value for both hashing and comparison. The namespace id
is a stable, non-secret identifier that is already exposed to userspace
through other interfaces (e.g., /proc/pid/ns/, ioctl NS_GET_NSID).

Introduce kernfs_ns_id() as a helper that extracts the namespace id from
a potentially-NULL ns_common pointer, returning 0 for the no-namespace
case.

All namespace equality checks in the directory iteration and dentry
revalidation paths are also switched from pointer comparison to ns_id
comparison for consistency.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>kernfs: pass struct ns_common instead of const void * for namespace tags</title>
<updated>2026-04-09T12:36:52+00:00</updated>
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<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
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kernfs has historically used const void * to pass around namespace tags
used for directory-level namespace filtering. The only current user of
this is sysfs network namespace tagging where struct net pointers are
cast to void *.

Replace all const void * namespace parameters with const struct
ns_common * throughout the kernfs, sysfs, and kobject namespace layers.
This includes the kobj_ns_type_operations callbacks, kobject_namespace(),
and all sysfs/kernfs APIs that accept or return namespace tags.

Passing struct ns_common is needed because various codepaths require
access to the underlying namespace. A struct ns_common can always be
converted back to the concrete namespace type (e.g., struct net) via
container_of() or to_ns_common() in the reverse direction.

This is a preparatory change for switching to ns_id-based directory
iteration to prevent a KASLR pointer leak through the current use of
raw namespace pointers as hash seeds and comparison keys.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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kernfs has historically used const void * to pass around namespace tags
used for directory-level namespace filtering. The only current user of
this is sysfs network namespace tagging where struct net pointers are
cast to void *.

Replace all const void * namespace parameters with const struct
ns_common * throughout the kernfs, sysfs, and kobject namespace layers.
This includes the kobj_ns_type_operations callbacks, kobject_namespace(),
and all sysfs/kernfs APIs that accept or return namespace tags.

Passing struct ns_common is needed because various codepaths require
access to the underlying namespace. A struct ns_common can always be
converted back to the concrete namespace type (e.g., struct net) via
container_of() or to_ns_common() in the reverse direction.

This is a preparatory change for switching to ns_id-based directory
iteration to prevent a KASLR pointer leak through the current use of
raw namespace pointers as hash seeds and comparison keys.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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