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<title>pidfs: remove config option</title>
<updated>2024-03-13T19:53:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2024-03-12T09:39:44+00:00</published>
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As Linus suggested this enables pidfs unconditionally. A key property to
retain is the ability to compare pidfds by inode number (cf. [1]).
That's extremely helpful just as comparing namespace file descriptors by
inode number is. They are used in a variety of scenarios where they need
to be compared, e.g., when receiving a pidfd via SO_PEERPIDFD from a
socket to trivially authenticate a the sender and various other
use-cases.

For 64bit systems this is pretty trivial to do. For 32bit it's slightly
more annoying as we discussed but we simply add a dumb ida based
allocator that gets used on 32bit. This gives the same guarantees about
inode numbers on 64bit without any overflow risk. Practically, we'll
never run into overflow issues because we're constrained by the number
of processes that can exist on 32bit and by the number of open files
that can exist on a 32bit system. On 64bit none of this matters and
things are very simple.

If 32bit also needs the uniqueness guarantee they can simply parse the
contents of /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/fd/&lt;nr&gt;. The uniqueness guarantees have a
variety of use-cases. One of the most obvious ones is that they will
make pidfiles (or "pidfdfiles", I guess) reliable as the unique
identifier can be placed into there that won't be reycled. Also a
frequent request.

Note, I took the chance and simplified path_from_stashed() even further.
Instead of passing the inode number explicitly to path_from_stashed() we
let the filesystem handle that internally. So path_from_stashed() ends
up even simpler than it is now. This is also a good solution allowing
the cleanup code to be clean and consistent between 32bit and 64bit. The
cleanup path in prepare_anon_dentry() is also switched around so we put
the inode before the dentry allocation. This means we only have to call
the cleanup handler for the filesystem's inode data once and can rely
-&gt;evict_inode() otherwise.

Aside from having to have a bit of extra code for 32bit it actually ends
up a nice cleanup for path_from_stashed() imho.

Tested on both 32 and 64bit including error injection.

Link: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/31713 [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240312-dingo-sehnlich-b3ecc35c6de7@brauner
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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As Linus suggested this enables pidfs unconditionally. A key property to
retain is the ability to compare pidfds by inode number (cf. [1]).
That's extremely helpful just as comparing namespace file descriptors by
inode number is. They are used in a variety of scenarios where they need
to be compared, e.g., when receiving a pidfd via SO_PEERPIDFD from a
socket to trivially authenticate a the sender and various other
use-cases.

For 64bit systems this is pretty trivial to do. For 32bit it's slightly
more annoying as we discussed but we simply add a dumb ida based
allocator that gets used on 32bit. This gives the same guarantees about
inode numbers on 64bit without any overflow risk. Practically, we'll
never run into overflow issues because we're constrained by the number
of processes that can exist on 32bit and by the number of open files
that can exist on a 32bit system. On 64bit none of this matters and
things are very simple.

If 32bit also needs the uniqueness guarantee they can simply parse the
contents of /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/fd/&lt;nr&gt;. The uniqueness guarantees have a
variety of use-cases. One of the most obvious ones is that they will
make pidfiles (or "pidfdfiles", I guess) reliable as the unique
identifier can be placed into there that won't be reycled. Also a
frequent request.

Note, I took the chance and simplified path_from_stashed() even further.
Instead of passing the inode number explicitly to path_from_stashed() we
let the filesystem handle that internally. So path_from_stashed() ends
up even simpler than it is now. This is also a good solution allowing
the cleanup code to be clean and consistent between 32bit and 64bit. The
cleanup path in prepare_anon_dentry() is also switched around so we put
the inode before the dentry allocation. This means we only have to call
the cleanup handler for the filesystem's inode data once and can rely
-&gt;evict_inode() otherwise.

Aside from having to have a bit of extra code for 32bit it actually ends
up a nice cleanup for path_from_stashed() imho.

Tested on both 32 and 64bit including error injection.

Link: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/31713 [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240312-dingo-sehnlich-b3ecc35c6de7@brauner
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.9.file' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2024-03-11T17:37:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-11T17:37:45+00:00</published>
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Pull file locking updates from Christian Brauner:
 "A few years ago struct file_lock_context was added to allow for
  separate lists to track different types of file locks instead of using
  a singly-linked list for all of them.

  Now leases no longer need to be tracked using struct file_lock.
  However, a lot of the infrastructure is identical for leases and locks
  so separating them isn't trivial.

  This splits a group of fields used by both file locks and leases into
  a new struct file_lock_core. The new core struct is embedded in struct
  file_lock. Coccinelle was used to convert a lot of the callers to deal
  with the move, with the remaining 25% or so converted by hand.

  Afterwards several internal functions in fs/locks.c are made to work
  with struct file_lock_core. Ultimately this allows to split struct
  file_lock into struct file_lock and struct file_lease. The file lease
  APIs are then converted to take struct file_lease"

* tag 'vfs-6.9.file' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (51 commits)
  filelock: fix deadlock detection in POSIX locking
  filelock: always define for_each_file_lock()
  smb: remove redundant check
  filelock: don't do security checks on nfsd setlease calls
  filelock: split leases out of struct file_lock
  filelock: remove temporary compatibility macros
  smb/server: adapt to breakup of struct file_lock
  smb/client: adapt to breakup of struct file_lock
  ocfs2: adapt to breakup of struct file_lock
  nfsd: adapt to breakup of struct file_lock
  nfs: adapt to breakup of struct file_lock
  lockd: adapt to breakup of struct file_lock
  fuse: adapt to breakup of struct file_lock
  gfs2: adapt to breakup of struct file_lock
  dlm: adapt to breakup of struct file_lock
  ceph: adapt to breakup of struct file_lock
  afs: adapt to breakup of struct file_lock
  9p: adapt to breakup of struct file_lock
  filelock: convert seqfile handling to use file_lock_core
  filelock: convert locks_translate_pid to take file_lock_core
  ...
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Pull file locking updates from Christian Brauner:
 "A few years ago struct file_lock_context was added to allow for
  separate lists to track different types of file locks instead of using
  a singly-linked list for all of them.

  Now leases no longer need to be tracked using struct file_lock.
  However, a lot of the infrastructure is identical for leases and locks
  so separating them isn't trivial.

  This splits a group of fields used by both file locks and leases into
  a new struct file_lock_core. The new core struct is embedded in struct
  file_lock. Coccinelle was used to convert a lot of the callers to deal
  with the move, with the remaining 25% or so converted by hand.

  Afterwards several internal functions in fs/locks.c are made to work
  with struct file_lock_core. Ultimately this allows to split struct
  file_lock into struct file_lock and struct file_lease. The file lease
  APIs are then converted to take struct file_lease"

* tag 'vfs-6.9.file' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (51 commits)
  filelock: fix deadlock detection in POSIX locking
  filelock: always define for_each_file_lock()
  smb: remove redundant check
  filelock: don't do security checks on nfsd setlease calls
  filelock: split leases out of struct file_lock
  filelock: remove temporary compatibility macros
  smb/server: adapt to breakup of struct file_lock
  smb/client: adapt to breakup of struct file_lock
  ocfs2: adapt to breakup of struct file_lock
  nfsd: adapt to breakup of struct file_lock
  nfs: adapt to breakup of struct file_lock
  lockd: adapt to breakup of struct file_lock
  fuse: adapt to breakup of struct file_lock
  gfs2: adapt to breakup of struct file_lock
  dlm: adapt to breakup of struct file_lock
  ceph: adapt to breakup of struct file_lock
  afs: adapt to breakup of struct file_lock
  9p: adapt to breakup of struct file_lock
  filelock: convert seqfile handling to use file_lock_core
  filelock: convert locks_translate_pid to take file_lock_core
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.9.pidfd' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2024-03-11T17:21:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-11T17:21:06+00:00</published>
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Pull pdfd updates from Christian Brauner:

 - Until now pidfds could only be created for thread-group leaders but
   not for threads. There was no technical reason for this. We simply
   had no users that needed support for this. Now we do have users that
   need support for this.

   This introduces a new PIDFD_THREAD flag for pidfd_open(). If that
   flag is set pidfd_open() creates a pidfd that refers to a specific
   thread.

   In addition, we now allow clone() and clone3() to be called with
   CLONE_PIDFD | CLONE_THREAD which wasn't possible before.

   A pidfd that refers to an individual thread differs from a pidfd that
   refers to a thread-group leader:

    (1) Pidfds are pollable. A task may poll a pidfd and get notified
        when the task has exited.

        For thread-group leader pidfds the polling task is woken if the
        thread-group is empty. In other words, if the thread-group
        leader task exits when there are still threads alive in its
        thread-group the polling task will not be woken when the
        thread-group leader exits but rather when the last thread in the
        thread-group exits.

        For thread-specific pidfds the polling task is woken if the
        thread exits.

    (2) Passing a thread-group leader pidfd to pidfd_send_signal() will
        generate thread-group directed signals like kill(2) does.

        Passing a thread-specific pidfd to pidfd_send_signal() will
        generate thread-specific signals like tgkill(2) does.

        The default scope of the signal is thus determined by the type
        of the pidfd.

        Since use-cases exist where the default scope of the provided
        pidfd needs to be overriden the following flags are added to
        pidfd_send_signal():

         - PIDFD_SIGNAL_THREAD
           Send a thread-specific signal.

         - PIDFD_SIGNAL_THREAD_GROUP
           Send a thread-group directed signal.

         - PIDFD_SIGNAL_PROCESS_GROUP
           Send a process-group directed signal.

        The scope change will only work if the struct pid is actually
        used for this scope.

        For example, in order to send a thread-group directed signal the
        provided pidfd must be used as a thread-group leader and
        similarly for PIDFD_SIGNAL_PROCESS_GROUP the struct pid must be
        used as a process group leader.

 - Move pidfds from the anonymous inode infrastructure to a tiny pseudo
   filesystem. This will unblock further work that we weren't able to do
   simply because of the very justified limitations of anonymous inodes.
   Moving pidfds to a tiny pseudo filesystem allows for statx on pidfds
   to become useful for the first time. They can now be compared by
   inode number which are unique for the system lifetime.

   Instead of stashing struct pid in file-&gt;private_data we can now stash
   it in inode-&gt;i_private. This makes it possible to introduce concepts
   that operate on a process once all file descriptors have been closed.
   A concrete example is kill-on-last-close. Another side-effect is that
   file-&gt;private_data is now freed up for per-file options for pidfds.

   Now, each struct pid will refer to a different inode but the same
   struct pid will refer to the same inode if it's opened multiple
   times. In contrast to now where each struct pid refers to the same
   inode.

   The tiny pseudo filesystem is not visible anywhere in userspace
   exactly like e.g., pipefs and sockfs. There's no lookup, there's no
   complex inode operations, nothing. Dentries and inodes are always
   deleted when the last pidfd is closed.

   We allocate a new inode and dentry for each struct pid and we reuse
   that inode and dentry for all pidfds that refer to the same struct
   pid. The code is entirely optional and fairly small. If it's not
   selected we fallback to anonymous inodes. Heavily inspired by nsfs.

   The dentry and inode allocation mechanism is moved into generic
   infrastructure that is now shared between nsfs and pidfs. The
   path_from_stashed() helper must be provided with a stashing location,
   an inode number, a mount, and the private data that is supposed to be
   used and it will provide a path that can be passed to dentry_open().

   The helper will try retrieve an existing dentry from the provided
   stashing location. If a valid dentry is found it is reused. If not a
   new one is allocated and we try to stash it in the provided location.
   If this fails we retry until we either find an existing dentry or the
   newly allocated dentry could be stashed. Subsequent openers of the
   same namespace or task are then able to reuse it.

 - Currently it is only possible to get notified when a task has exited,
   i.e., become a zombie and userspace gets notified with EPOLLIN. We
   now also support waiting until the task has been reaped, notifying
   userspace with EPOLLHUP.

 - Ensure that ESRCH is reported for getfd if a task is exiting instead
   of the confusing EBADF.

 - Various smaller cleanups to pidfd functions.

* tag 'vfs-6.9.pidfd' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (23 commits)
  libfs: improve path_from_stashed()
  libfs: add stashed_dentry_prune()
  libfs: improve path_from_stashed() helper
  pidfs: convert to path_from_stashed() helper
  nsfs: convert to path_from_stashed() helper
  libfs: add path_from_stashed()
  pidfd: add pidfs
  pidfd: move struct pidfd_fops
  pidfd: allow to override signal scope in pidfd_send_signal()
  pidfd: change pidfd_send_signal() to respect PIDFD_THREAD
  signal: fill in si_code in prepare_kill_siginfo()
  selftests: add ESRCH tests for pidfd_getfd()
  pidfd: getfd should always report ESRCH if a task is exiting
  pidfd: clone: allow CLONE_THREAD | CLONE_PIDFD together
  pidfd: exit: kill the no longer used thread_group_exited()
  pidfd: change do_notify_pidfd() to use __wake_up(poll_to_key(EPOLLIN))
  pid: kill the obsolete PIDTYPE_PID code in transfer_pid()
  pidfd: kill the no longer needed do_notify_pidfd() in de_thread()
  pidfd_poll: report POLLHUP when pid_task() == NULL
  pidfd: implement PIDFD_THREAD flag for pidfd_open()
  ...
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Pull pdfd updates from Christian Brauner:

 - Until now pidfds could only be created for thread-group leaders but
   not for threads. There was no technical reason for this. We simply
   had no users that needed support for this. Now we do have users that
   need support for this.

   This introduces a new PIDFD_THREAD flag for pidfd_open(). If that
   flag is set pidfd_open() creates a pidfd that refers to a specific
   thread.

   In addition, we now allow clone() and clone3() to be called with
   CLONE_PIDFD | CLONE_THREAD which wasn't possible before.

   A pidfd that refers to an individual thread differs from a pidfd that
   refers to a thread-group leader:

    (1) Pidfds are pollable. A task may poll a pidfd and get notified
        when the task has exited.

        For thread-group leader pidfds the polling task is woken if the
        thread-group is empty. In other words, if the thread-group
        leader task exits when there are still threads alive in its
        thread-group the polling task will not be woken when the
        thread-group leader exits but rather when the last thread in the
        thread-group exits.

        For thread-specific pidfds the polling task is woken if the
        thread exits.

    (2) Passing a thread-group leader pidfd to pidfd_send_signal() will
        generate thread-group directed signals like kill(2) does.

        Passing a thread-specific pidfd to pidfd_send_signal() will
        generate thread-specific signals like tgkill(2) does.

        The default scope of the signal is thus determined by the type
        of the pidfd.

        Since use-cases exist where the default scope of the provided
        pidfd needs to be overriden the following flags are added to
        pidfd_send_signal():

         - PIDFD_SIGNAL_THREAD
           Send a thread-specific signal.

         - PIDFD_SIGNAL_THREAD_GROUP
           Send a thread-group directed signal.

         - PIDFD_SIGNAL_PROCESS_GROUP
           Send a process-group directed signal.

        The scope change will only work if the struct pid is actually
        used for this scope.

        For example, in order to send a thread-group directed signal the
        provided pidfd must be used as a thread-group leader and
        similarly for PIDFD_SIGNAL_PROCESS_GROUP the struct pid must be
        used as a process group leader.

 - Move pidfds from the anonymous inode infrastructure to a tiny pseudo
   filesystem. This will unblock further work that we weren't able to do
   simply because of the very justified limitations of anonymous inodes.
   Moving pidfds to a tiny pseudo filesystem allows for statx on pidfds
   to become useful for the first time. They can now be compared by
   inode number which are unique for the system lifetime.

   Instead of stashing struct pid in file-&gt;private_data we can now stash
   it in inode-&gt;i_private. This makes it possible to introduce concepts
   that operate on a process once all file descriptors have been closed.
   A concrete example is kill-on-last-close. Another side-effect is that
   file-&gt;private_data is now freed up for per-file options for pidfds.

   Now, each struct pid will refer to a different inode but the same
   struct pid will refer to the same inode if it's opened multiple
   times. In contrast to now where each struct pid refers to the same
   inode.

   The tiny pseudo filesystem is not visible anywhere in userspace
   exactly like e.g., pipefs and sockfs. There's no lookup, there's no
   complex inode operations, nothing. Dentries and inodes are always
   deleted when the last pidfd is closed.

   We allocate a new inode and dentry for each struct pid and we reuse
   that inode and dentry for all pidfds that refer to the same struct
   pid. The code is entirely optional and fairly small. If it's not
   selected we fallback to anonymous inodes. Heavily inspired by nsfs.

   The dentry and inode allocation mechanism is moved into generic
   infrastructure that is now shared between nsfs and pidfs. The
   path_from_stashed() helper must be provided with a stashing location,
   an inode number, a mount, and the private data that is supposed to be
   used and it will provide a path that can be passed to dentry_open().

   The helper will try retrieve an existing dentry from the provided
   stashing location. If a valid dentry is found it is reused. If not a
   new one is allocated and we try to stash it in the provided location.
   If this fails we retry until we either find an existing dentry or the
   newly allocated dentry could be stashed. Subsequent openers of the
   same namespace or task are then able to reuse it.

 - Currently it is only possible to get notified when a task has exited,
   i.e., become a zombie and userspace gets notified with EPOLLIN. We
   now also support waiting until the task has been reaped, notifying
   userspace with EPOLLHUP.

 - Ensure that ESRCH is reported for getfd if a task is exiting instead
   of the confusing EBADF.

 - Various smaller cleanups to pidfd functions.

* tag 'vfs-6.9.pidfd' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (23 commits)
  libfs: improve path_from_stashed()
  libfs: add stashed_dentry_prune()
  libfs: improve path_from_stashed() helper
  pidfs: convert to path_from_stashed() helper
  nsfs: convert to path_from_stashed() helper
  libfs: add path_from_stashed()
  pidfd: add pidfs
  pidfd: move struct pidfd_fops
  pidfd: allow to override signal scope in pidfd_send_signal()
  pidfd: change pidfd_send_signal() to respect PIDFD_THREAD
  signal: fill in si_code in prepare_kill_siginfo()
  selftests: add ESRCH tests for pidfd_getfd()
  pidfd: getfd should always report ESRCH if a task is exiting
  pidfd: clone: allow CLONE_THREAD | CLONE_PIDFD together
  pidfd: exit: kill the no longer used thread_group_exited()
  pidfd: change do_notify_pidfd() to use __wake_up(poll_to_key(EPOLLIN))
  pid: kill the obsolete PIDTYPE_PID code in transfer_pid()
  pidfd: kill the no longer needed do_notify_pidfd() in de_thread()
  pidfd_poll: report POLLHUP when pid_task() == NULL
  pidfd: implement PIDFD_THREAD flag for pidfd_open()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-next-6.9' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/krisman/unicode into vfs.misc</title>
<updated>2024-03-07T10:55:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-07T10:55:41+00:00</published>
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Merge case-insensitive updates from Gabriel Krisman Bertazi:

- Patch case-insensitive lookup by trying the case-exact comparison
  first, before falling back to costly utf8 casefolded comparison.

- Fix to forbid using a case-insensitive directory as part of an
  overlayfs mount.

- Patchset to ensure d_op are set at d_alloc time for fscrypt and
  casefold volumes, ensuring filesystem dentries will all have the
  correct ops, whether they come from a lookup or not.

* tag 'for-next-6.9' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/krisman/unicode:
  libfs: Drop generic_set_encrypted_ci_d_ops
  ubifs: Configure dentry operations at dentry-creation time
  f2fs: Configure dentry operations at dentry-creation time
  ext4: Configure dentry operations at dentry-creation time
  libfs: Add helper to choose dentry operations at mount-time
  libfs: Merge encrypted_ci_dentry_ops and ci_dentry_ops
  fscrypt: Drop d_revalidate once the key is added
  fscrypt: Drop d_revalidate for valid dentries during lookup
  fscrypt: Factor out a helper to configure the lookup dentry
  ovl: Always reject mounting over case-insensitive directories
  libfs: Attempt exact-match comparison first during casefolded lookup

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Merge case-insensitive updates from Gabriel Krisman Bertazi:

- Patch case-insensitive lookup by trying the case-exact comparison
  first, before falling back to costly utf8 casefolded comparison.

- Fix to forbid using a case-insensitive directory as part of an
  overlayfs mount.

- Patchset to ensure d_op are set at d_alloc time for fscrypt and
  casefold volumes, ensuring filesystem dentries will all have the
  correct ops, whether they come from a lookup or not.

* tag 'for-next-6.9' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/krisman/unicode:
  libfs: Drop generic_set_encrypted_ci_d_ops
  ubifs: Configure dentry operations at dentry-creation time
  f2fs: Configure dentry operations at dentry-creation time
  ext4: Configure dentry operations at dentry-creation time
  libfs: Add helper to choose dentry operations at mount-time
  libfs: Merge encrypted_ci_dentry_ops and ci_dentry_ops
  fscrypt: Drop d_revalidate once the key is added
  fscrypt: Drop d_revalidate for valid dentries during lookup
  fscrypt: Factor out a helper to configure the lookup dentry
  ovl: Always reject mounting over case-insensitive directories
  libfs: Attempt exact-match comparison first during casefolded lookup

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>libfs: improve path_from_stashed()</title>
<updated>2024-03-01T21:31:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-01T09:26:03+00:00</published>
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Right now we pass a bunch of info that is fs specific which doesn't make
a lot of sense and it bleeds fs sepcific details into the generic
helper. nsfs and pidfs have slightly different needs when initializing
inodes. Add simple operations that are stashed in sb-&gt;s_fs_info that
both can implement. This also allows us to get rid of cleaning up
references in the caller. All in all path_from_stashed() becomes way
simpler.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Right now we pass a bunch of info that is fs specific which doesn't make
a lot of sense and it bleeds fs sepcific details into the generic
helper. nsfs and pidfs have slightly different needs when initializing
inodes. Add simple operations that are stashed in sb-&gt;s_fs_info that
both can implement. This also allows us to get rid of cleaning up
references in the caller. All in all path_from_stashed() becomes way
simpler.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>libfs: add stashed_dentry_prune()</title>
<updated>2024-03-01T11:26:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-21T08:59:51+00:00</published>
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Both pidfs and nsfs use a memory location to stash a dentry for reuse by
concurrent openers. Right now two custom
dentry-&gt;d_prune::{ns,pidfs}_prune_dentry() methods are needed that do
the same thing. The only thing that differs is that they need to get to
the memory location to store or retrieve the dentry from differently.
Fix that by remember the stashing location for the dentry in
dentry-&gt;d_fsdata which allows us to retrieve it in dentry-&gt;d_prune. That
in turn makes it possible to add a common helper that pidfs and nsfs can
both use.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wg8cHY=i3m6RnXQ2Y2W8psicKWQEZq1=94ivUiviM-0OA@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Both pidfs and nsfs use a memory location to stash a dentry for reuse by
concurrent openers. Right now two custom
dentry-&gt;d_prune::{ns,pidfs}_prune_dentry() methods are needed that do
the same thing. The only thing that differs is that they need to get to
the memory location to store or retrieve the dentry from differently.
Fix that by remember the stashing location for the dentry in
dentry-&gt;d_fsdata which allows us to retrieve it in dentry-&gt;d_prune. That
in turn makes it possible to add a common helper that pidfs and nsfs can
both use.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wg8cHY=i3m6RnXQ2Y2W8psicKWQEZq1=94ivUiviM-0OA@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>libfs: improve path_from_stashed() helper</title>
<updated>2024-03-01T11:26:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-18T13:52:24+00:00</published>
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In earlier patches we moved both nsfs and pidfs to path_from_stashed().
The helper currently tries to add and stash a new dentry if a reusable
dentry couldn't be found and returns EAGAIN if it lost the race to stash
the dentry. The caller can use EAGAIN to retry.

The helper and the two filesystems be written in a way that makes
returning EAGAIN unnecessary. To do this we need to change the
dentry-&gt;d_prune() implementation of nsfs and pidfs to not simply replace
the stashed dentry with NULL but to use a cmpxchg() and only replace
their own dentry.

Then path_from_stashed() can then be changed to not just stash a new
dentry when no dentry is currently stashed but also when an already dead
dentry is stashed. If another task managed to install a dentry in the
meantime it can simply be reused. Pack that into a loop and call it a
day.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgtLF5Z5=15-LKAczWm=-tUjHO+Bpf7WjBG+UU3s=fEQw@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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In earlier patches we moved both nsfs and pidfs to path_from_stashed().
The helper currently tries to add and stash a new dentry if a reusable
dentry couldn't be found and returns EAGAIN if it lost the race to stash
the dentry. The caller can use EAGAIN to retry.

The helper and the two filesystems be written in a way that makes
returning EAGAIN unnecessary. To do this we need to change the
dentry-&gt;d_prune() implementation of nsfs and pidfs to not simply replace
the stashed dentry with NULL but to use a cmpxchg() and only replace
their own dentry.

Then path_from_stashed() can then be changed to not just stash a new
dentry when no dentry is currently stashed but also when an already dead
dentry is stashed. If another task managed to install a dentry in the
meantime it can simply be reused. Pack that into a loop and call it a
day.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgtLF5Z5=15-LKAczWm=-tUjHO+Bpf7WjBG+UU3s=fEQw@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>pidfs: convert to path_from_stashed() helper</title>
<updated>2024-03-01T11:24:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-19T15:30:57+00:00</published>
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Moving pidfds from the anonymous inode infrastructure to a separate tiny
in-kernel filesystem similar to sockfs, pipefs, and anon_inodefs causes
selinux denials and thus various userspace components that make heavy
use of pidfds to fail as pidfds used anon_inode_getfile() which aren't
subject to any LSM hooks. But dentry_open() is and that would cause
regressions.

The failures that are seen are selinux denials. But the core failure is
dbus-broker. That cascades into other services failing that depend on
dbus-broker. For example, when dbus-broker fails to start polkit and all
the others won't be able to work because they depend on dbus-broker.

The reason for dbus-broker failing is because it doesn't handle failures
for SO_PEERPIDFD correctly. Last kernel release we introduced
SO_PEERPIDFD (and SCM_PIDFD). SO_PEERPIDFD allows dbus-broker and polkit
and others to receive a pidfd for the peer of an AF_UNIX socket. This is
the first time in the history of Linux that we can safely authenticate
clients in a race-free manner.

dbus-broker immediately made use of this but messed up the error
checking. It only allowed EINVAL as a valid failure for SO_PEERPIDFD.
That's obviously problematic not just because of LSM denials but because
of seccomp denials that would prevent SO_PEERPIDFD from working; or any
other new error code from there.

So this is catching a flawed implementation in dbus-broker as well. It
has to fallback to the old pid-based authentication when SO_PEERPIDFD
doesn't work no matter the reasons otherwise it'll always risk such
failures. So overall that LSM denial should not have caused dbus-broker
to fail. It can never assume that a feature released one kernel ago like
SO_PEERPIDFD can be assumed to be available.

So, the next fix separate from the selinux policy update is to try and
fix dbus-broker at [3]. That should make it into Fedora as well. In
addition the selinux reference policy should also be updated. See [4]
for that. If Selinux is in enforcing mode in userspace and it encounters
anything that it doesn't know about it will deny it by default. And the
policy is entirely in userspace including declaring new types for stuff
like nsfs or pidfs to allow it.

For now we continue to raise S_PRIVATE on the inode if it's a pidfs
inode which means things behave exactly like before.

Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2265630
Link: https://github.com/fedora-selinux/selinux-policy/pull/2050
Link: https://github.com/bus1/dbus-broker/pull/343 [3]
Link: https://github.com/SELinuxProject/refpolicy/pull/762 [4]
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240222190334.GA412503@dev-arch.thelio-3990X
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240218-neufahrzeuge-brauhaus-fb0eb6459771@brauner
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Moving pidfds from the anonymous inode infrastructure to a separate tiny
in-kernel filesystem similar to sockfs, pipefs, and anon_inodefs causes
selinux denials and thus various userspace components that make heavy
use of pidfds to fail as pidfds used anon_inode_getfile() which aren't
subject to any LSM hooks. But dentry_open() is and that would cause
regressions.

The failures that are seen are selinux denials. But the core failure is
dbus-broker. That cascades into other services failing that depend on
dbus-broker. For example, when dbus-broker fails to start polkit and all
the others won't be able to work because they depend on dbus-broker.

The reason for dbus-broker failing is because it doesn't handle failures
for SO_PEERPIDFD correctly. Last kernel release we introduced
SO_PEERPIDFD (and SCM_PIDFD). SO_PEERPIDFD allows dbus-broker and polkit
and others to receive a pidfd for the peer of an AF_UNIX socket. This is
the first time in the history of Linux that we can safely authenticate
clients in a race-free manner.

dbus-broker immediately made use of this but messed up the error
checking. It only allowed EINVAL as a valid failure for SO_PEERPIDFD.
That's obviously problematic not just because of LSM denials but because
of seccomp denials that would prevent SO_PEERPIDFD from working; or any
other new error code from there.

So this is catching a flawed implementation in dbus-broker as well. It
has to fallback to the old pid-based authentication when SO_PEERPIDFD
doesn't work no matter the reasons otherwise it'll always risk such
failures. So overall that LSM denial should not have caused dbus-broker
to fail. It can never assume that a feature released one kernel ago like
SO_PEERPIDFD can be assumed to be available.

So, the next fix separate from the selinux policy update is to try and
fix dbus-broker at [3]. That should make it into Fedora as well. In
addition the selinux reference policy should also be updated. See [4]
for that. If Selinux is in enforcing mode in userspace and it encounters
anything that it doesn't know about it will deny it by default. And the
policy is entirely in userspace including declaring new types for stuff
like nsfs or pidfs to allow it.

For now we continue to raise S_PRIVATE on the inode if it's a pidfs
inode which means things behave exactly like before.

Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2265630
Link: https://github.com/fedora-selinux/selinux-policy/pull/2050
Link: https://github.com/bus1/dbus-broker/pull/343 [3]
Link: https://github.com/SELinuxProject/refpolicy/pull/762 [4]
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240222190334.GA412503@dev-arch.thelio-3990X
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240218-neufahrzeuge-brauhaus-fb0eb6459771@brauner
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>libfs: add path_from_stashed()</title>
<updated>2024-03-01T11:23:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-18T13:50:13+00:00</published>
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Add a helper for both nsfs and pidfs to reuse an already stashed dentry
or to add and stash a new dentry.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240218-neufahrzeuge-brauhaus-fb0eb6459771@brauner
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Add a helper for both nsfs and pidfs to reuse an already stashed dentry
or to add and stash a new dentry.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240218-neufahrzeuge-brauhaus-fb0eb6459771@brauner
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>libfs: Drop generic_set_encrypted_ci_d_ops</title>
<updated>2024-02-27T21:55:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gabriel Krisman Bertazi</name>
<email>krisman@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-21T17:14:12+00:00</published>
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No filesystems depend on it anymore, and it is generally a bad idea.
Since all dentries should have the same set of dentry operations in
case-insensitive capable filesystems, it should be propagated through
-&gt;s_d_op.

Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240221171412.10710-11-krisman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi &lt;krisman@suse.de&gt;
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No filesystems depend on it anymore, and it is generally a bad idea.
Since all dentries should have the same set of dentry operations in
case-insensitive capable filesystems, it should be propagated through
-&gt;s_d_op.

Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240221171412.10710-11-krisman@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi &lt;krisman@suse.de&gt;
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