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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-08-17 09:15:52 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-08-17 09:15:52 -0700 |
| commit | cd051cfe1e35a471fc2cdf6d32fae6ee23305ecb (patch) | |
| tree | b54ff317457566bb10bd8e2e8345a440907ef7da /include/uapi/linux | |
| parent | d31a688a49a82a48e0434aee9d851e094270a6ee (diff) | |
| parent | 1d38e750a389e919c1608dbc61cd5c93cd4915dc (diff) | |
Merge tag 'vfs-7.3-rc1.failfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull failfs filesystem from Christian Brauner:
"Add failfs and expose a FD_FAILFS_ROOT sentinel.
This allows userspace to shed their filesystem state completely. A
process with its root or working directory in failfs must anchor every
path lookup at an explicit file descriptor. Absolute paths, absolute
symlinks and AT_FDCWD-relative lookups simply fail.
Failfs is the counterpart to nullfs. nullfs says adds a permanently
empty, immutable directory whose lookups fail with ENOENT but which
can be opened, read, stat'd and mounted upon. Failfs on the other hand
fails every operation. The root cannot be opened at all. A single
instance is mounted during early boot via kern_mount(), which makes it
logically distinct from every mount namespace.
This is accompanied by a new fchroot() system call which makes
chrooting via a file descriptor a first class concept. It's possible
to chroot into failfs as an unprivileged user provided the task has no
new privileges set"
* tag 'vfs-7.3-rc1.failfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
Documentation: add failfs documentation
selftests/filesystems: add failfs selftests
arch: hookup fchroot() system call
fs: support FD_FAILFS_ROOT in fchroot()
fs: add fchroot()
fs: support FD_FAILFS_ROOT in fchdir()
fs: add failfs
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/magic.h | 1 |
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h b/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h index aadfbf6e0cb3..e43e3de3e9ee 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h @@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ struct delegation { #define FD_PIDFS_ROOT -10002 /* Root of the pidfs filesystem */ #define FD_NSFS_ROOT -10003 /* Root of the nsfs filesystem */ +#define FD_FAILFS_ROOT -10004 /* Root of the failfs filesystem */ #define FD_INVALID -10009 /* Invalid file descriptor: -10000 - EBADF = -10009 */ /* Generic flags for the *at(2) family of syscalls. */ diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/magic.h b/include/uapi/linux/magic.h index 4f2da935a76c..fd5f0e95648e 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/magic.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/magic.h @@ -105,5 +105,6 @@ #define PID_FS_MAGIC 0x50494446 /* "PIDF" */ #define GUEST_MEMFD_MAGIC 0x474d454d /* "GMEM" */ #define NULL_FS_MAGIC 0x4E554C4C /* "NULL" */ +#define FAIL_FS_MAGIC 0x4641494C /* "FAIL" */ #endif /* __LINUX_MAGIC_H__ */ |