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<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.12.misc' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2024-09-16T06:35:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2024-09-16T06:35:09+00:00</published>
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the usual pile of misc updates:

  Features:

   - Add F_CREATED_QUERY fcntl() that allows userspace to query whether
     a file was actually created. Often userspace wants to know whether
     an O_CREATE request did actually create a file without using
     O_EXCL. The current logic is that to first attempts to open the
     file without O_CREAT | O_EXCL and if ENOENT is returned userspace
     tries again with both flags. If that succeeds all is well. If it
     now reports EEXIST it retries.

     That works fairly well but some corner cases make this more
     involved. If this operates on a dangling symlink the first openat()
     without O_CREAT | O_EXCL will return ENOENT but the second openat()
     with O_CREAT | O_EXCL will fail with EEXIST.

     The reason is that openat() without O_CREAT | O_EXCL follows the
     symlink while O_CREAT | O_EXCL doesn't for security reasons. So
     it's not something we can really change unless we add an explicit
     opt-in via O_FOLLOW which seems really ugly.

     All available workarounds are really nasty (fanotify, bpf lsm etc)
     so add a simple fcntl().

   - Try an opportunistic lookup for O_CREAT. Today, when opening a file
     we'll typically do a fast lookup, but if O_CREAT is set, the kernel
     always takes the exclusive inode lock. This was likely done with
     the expectation that O_CREAT means that we always expect to do the
     create, but that's often not the case. Many programs set O_CREAT
     even in scenarios where the file already exists (see related
     F_CREATED_QUERY patch motivation above).

     The series contained in the pr rearranges the pathwalk-for-open
     code to also attempt a fast_lookup in certain O_CREAT cases. If a
     positive dentry is found, the inode_lock can be avoided altogether
     and it can stay in rcuwalk mode for the last step_into.

   - Expose the 64 bit mount id via name_to_handle_at()

     Now that we provide a unique 64-bit mount ID interface in statx(2),
     we can now provide a race-free way for name_to_handle_at(2) to
     provide a file handle and corresponding mount without needing to
     worry about racing with /proc/mountinfo parsing or having to open a
     file just to do statx(2).

     While this is not necessary if you are using AT_EMPTY_PATH and
     don't care about an extra statx(2) call, users that pass full paths
     into name_to_handle_at(2) need to know which mount the file handle
     comes from (to make sure they don't try to open_by_handle_at a file
     handle from a different filesystem) and switching to AT_EMPTY_PATH
     would require allocating a file for every name_to_handle_at(2) call

   - Add a per dentry expire timeout to autofs

     There are two fairly well known automounter map formats, the autofs
     format and the amd format (more or less System V and Berkley).

     Some time ago Linux autofs added an amd map format parser that
     implemented a fair amount of the amd functionality. This was done
     within the autofs infrastructure and some functionality wasn't
     implemented because it either didn't make sense or required extra
     kernel changes. The idea was to restrict changes to be within the
     existing autofs functionality as much as possible and leave changes
     with a wider scope to be considered later.

     One of these changes is implementing the amd options:
      1) "unmount", expire this mount according to a timeout (same as
         the current autofs default).
      2) "nounmount", don't expire this mount (same as setting the
         autofs timeout to 0 except only for this specific mount) .
      3) "utimeout=&lt;seconds&gt;", expire this mount using the specified
         timeout (again same as setting the autofs timeout but only for
         this mount)

     To implement these options per-dentry expire timeouts need to be
     implemented for autofs indirect mounts. This is because all map
     keys (mounts) for autofs indirect mounts use an expire timeout
     stored in the autofs mount super block info. structure and all
     indirect mounts use the same expire timeout.

  Fixes:

   - Fix missing fput for FSCONFIG_SET_FD in autofs

   - Use param-&gt;file for FSCONFIG_SET_FD in coda

   - Delete the 'fs/netfs' proc subtreee when netfs module exits

   - Make sure that struct uid_gid_map fits into a single cacheline

   - Don't flush in-flight wb switches for superblocks without cgroup
     writeback

   - Correcting the idmapping mount example in the idmapping
     documentation

   - Fix a race between evice_inodes() and find_inode() and iput()

   - Refine the show_inode_state() macro definition in writeback code

   - Prevent dump_mapping() from accessing invalid dentry.d_name.name

   - Show actual source for debugfs in /proc/mounts

   - Annotate data-race of busy_poll_usecs in eventpoll

   - Don't WARN for racy path_noexec check in exec code

   - Handle OOM on mnt_warn_timestamp_expiry()

   - Fix some spelling in the iomap design documentation

   - Fix typo in procfs comment

   - Fix typo in fs/namespace.c comment

  Cleanups:

   - Add the VFS git tree to the MAINTAINERS file

   - Move FMODE_UNSIGNED_OFFSET to fop_flags freeing up another f_mode
     bit in struct file bringing us to 5 free f_mode bits

   - Remove the __I_DIO_WAKEUP bit from i_state flags as we can simplify
     the wait mechanism

   - Remove the unused path_put_init() helper

   - Replace a __u32 with u32 for s_fsnotify_mask as __u32 is uapi
     specific

   - Replace the unsigned long i_state member with a u32 i_state member
     in struct inode freeing up 4 bytes in struct inode. Instead of
     using the bit based wait apis we're now using the var event apis
     and using the individual bytes of the i_state member to wait on
     state changes

   - Explain how per-syscall AT_* flags should be allocated

   - Use in_group_or_capable() helper to simplify the posix acl mode
     update code

   - Switch to LIST_HEAD() in fsync_buffers_list() to simplify the code

   - Removed comment about d_rcu_to_refcount() as that function doesn't
     exist anymore

   - Add kernel documentation for lookup_fast()

   - Don't re-zero evenpoll fields

   - Remove outdated comment after close_fd()

   - Fix imprecise wording in comment about the pipe filesystem

   - Drop GFP_NOFAIL mode from alloc_page_buffers

   - Missing blank line warnings and struct declaration improved in
     file_table

   - Annotate struct poll_list with __counted_by()

   - Remove the unused read parameter in percpu-rwsem

   - Remove linux/prefetch.h include from direct-io code

   - Use kmemdup_array instead of kmemdup for multiple allocation in
     mnt_idmapping code

   - Remove unused mnt_cursor_del() declaration

  Performance tweaks:

   - Dodge smp_mb in break_lease and break_deleg in the common case

   - Only read fops once in fops_{get,put}()

   - Use RCU in ilookup()

   - Elide smp_mb in iversion handling in the common case

   - Drop one lock trip in evict()"

* tag 'vfs-6.12.misc' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (58 commits)
  uidgid: make sure we fit into one cacheline
  proc: Fix typo in the comment
  fs/pipe: Correct imprecise wording in comment
  fhandle: expose u64 mount id to name_to_handle_at(2)
  uapi: explain how per-syscall AT_* flags should be allocated
  fs: drop GFP_NOFAIL mode from alloc_page_buffers
  writeback: Refine the show_inode_state() macro definition
  fs/inode: Prevent dump_mapping() accessing invalid dentry.d_name.name
  mnt_idmapping: Use kmemdup_array instead of kmemdup for multiple allocation
  netfs: Delete subtree of 'fs/netfs' when netfs module exits
  fs: use LIST_HEAD() to simplify code
  inode: make i_state a u32
  inode: port __I_LRU_ISOLATING to var event
  vfs: fix race between evice_inodes() and find_inode()&amp;iput()
  inode: port __I_NEW to var event
  inode: port __I_SYNC to var event
  fs: reorder i_state bits
  fs: add i_state helpers
  MAINTAINERS: add the VFS git tree
  fs: s/__u32/u32/ for s_fsnotify_mask
  ...
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the usual pile of misc updates:

  Features:

   - Add F_CREATED_QUERY fcntl() that allows userspace to query whether
     a file was actually created. Often userspace wants to know whether
     an O_CREATE request did actually create a file without using
     O_EXCL. The current logic is that to first attempts to open the
     file without O_CREAT | O_EXCL and if ENOENT is returned userspace
     tries again with both flags. If that succeeds all is well. If it
     now reports EEXIST it retries.

     That works fairly well but some corner cases make this more
     involved. If this operates on a dangling symlink the first openat()
     without O_CREAT | O_EXCL will return ENOENT but the second openat()
     with O_CREAT | O_EXCL will fail with EEXIST.

     The reason is that openat() without O_CREAT | O_EXCL follows the
     symlink while O_CREAT | O_EXCL doesn't for security reasons. So
     it's not something we can really change unless we add an explicit
     opt-in via O_FOLLOW which seems really ugly.

     All available workarounds are really nasty (fanotify, bpf lsm etc)
     so add a simple fcntl().

   - Try an opportunistic lookup for O_CREAT. Today, when opening a file
     we'll typically do a fast lookup, but if O_CREAT is set, the kernel
     always takes the exclusive inode lock. This was likely done with
     the expectation that O_CREAT means that we always expect to do the
     create, but that's often not the case. Many programs set O_CREAT
     even in scenarios where the file already exists (see related
     F_CREATED_QUERY patch motivation above).

     The series contained in the pr rearranges the pathwalk-for-open
     code to also attempt a fast_lookup in certain O_CREAT cases. If a
     positive dentry is found, the inode_lock can be avoided altogether
     and it can stay in rcuwalk mode for the last step_into.

   - Expose the 64 bit mount id via name_to_handle_at()

     Now that we provide a unique 64-bit mount ID interface in statx(2),
     we can now provide a race-free way for name_to_handle_at(2) to
     provide a file handle and corresponding mount without needing to
     worry about racing with /proc/mountinfo parsing or having to open a
     file just to do statx(2).

     While this is not necessary if you are using AT_EMPTY_PATH and
     don't care about an extra statx(2) call, users that pass full paths
     into name_to_handle_at(2) need to know which mount the file handle
     comes from (to make sure they don't try to open_by_handle_at a file
     handle from a different filesystem) and switching to AT_EMPTY_PATH
     would require allocating a file for every name_to_handle_at(2) call

   - Add a per dentry expire timeout to autofs

     There are two fairly well known automounter map formats, the autofs
     format and the amd format (more or less System V and Berkley).

     Some time ago Linux autofs added an amd map format parser that
     implemented a fair amount of the amd functionality. This was done
     within the autofs infrastructure and some functionality wasn't
     implemented because it either didn't make sense or required extra
     kernel changes. The idea was to restrict changes to be within the
     existing autofs functionality as much as possible and leave changes
     with a wider scope to be considered later.

     One of these changes is implementing the amd options:
      1) "unmount", expire this mount according to a timeout (same as
         the current autofs default).
      2) "nounmount", don't expire this mount (same as setting the
         autofs timeout to 0 except only for this specific mount) .
      3) "utimeout=&lt;seconds&gt;", expire this mount using the specified
         timeout (again same as setting the autofs timeout but only for
         this mount)

     To implement these options per-dentry expire timeouts need to be
     implemented for autofs indirect mounts. This is because all map
     keys (mounts) for autofs indirect mounts use an expire timeout
     stored in the autofs mount super block info. structure and all
     indirect mounts use the same expire timeout.

  Fixes:

   - Fix missing fput for FSCONFIG_SET_FD in autofs

   - Use param-&gt;file for FSCONFIG_SET_FD in coda

   - Delete the 'fs/netfs' proc subtreee when netfs module exits

   - Make sure that struct uid_gid_map fits into a single cacheline

   - Don't flush in-flight wb switches for superblocks without cgroup
     writeback

   - Correcting the idmapping mount example in the idmapping
     documentation

   - Fix a race between evice_inodes() and find_inode() and iput()

   - Refine the show_inode_state() macro definition in writeback code

   - Prevent dump_mapping() from accessing invalid dentry.d_name.name

   - Show actual source for debugfs in /proc/mounts

   - Annotate data-race of busy_poll_usecs in eventpoll

   - Don't WARN for racy path_noexec check in exec code

   - Handle OOM on mnt_warn_timestamp_expiry()

   - Fix some spelling in the iomap design documentation

   - Fix typo in procfs comment

   - Fix typo in fs/namespace.c comment

  Cleanups:

   - Add the VFS git tree to the MAINTAINERS file

   - Move FMODE_UNSIGNED_OFFSET to fop_flags freeing up another f_mode
     bit in struct file bringing us to 5 free f_mode bits

   - Remove the __I_DIO_WAKEUP bit from i_state flags as we can simplify
     the wait mechanism

   - Remove the unused path_put_init() helper

   - Replace a __u32 with u32 for s_fsnotify_mask as __u32 is uapi
     specific

   - Replace the unsigned long i_state member with a u32 i_state member
     in struct inode freeing up 4 bytes in struct inode. Instead of
     using the bit based wait apis we're now using the var event apis
     and using the individual bytes of the i_state member to wait on
     state changes

   - Explain how per-syscall AT_* flags should be allocated

   - Use in_group_or_capable() helper to simplify the posix acl mode
     update code

   - Switch to LIST_HEAD() in fsync_buffers_list() to simplify the code

   - Removed comment about d_rcu_to_refcount() as that function doesn't
     exist anymore

   - Add kernel documentation for lookup_fast()

   - Don't re-zero evenpoll fields

   - Remove outdated comment after close_fd()

   - Fix imprecise wording in comment about the pipe filesystem

   - Drop GFP_NOFAIL mode from alloc_page_buffers

   - Missing blank line warnings and struct declaration improved in
     file_table

   - Annotate struct poll_list with __counted_by()

   - Remove the unused read parameter in percpu-rwsem

   - Remove linux/prefetch.h include from direct-io code

   - Use kmemdup_array instead of kmemdup for multiple allocation in
     mnt_idmapping code

   - Remove unused mnt_cursor_del() declaration

  Performance tweaks:

   - Dodge smp_mb in break_lease and break_deleg in the common case

   - Only read fops once in fops_{get,put}()

   - Use RCU in ilookup()

   - Elide smp_mb in iversion handling in the common case

   - Drop one lock trip in evict()"

* tag 'vfs-6.12.misc' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (58 commits)
  uidgid: make sure we fit into one cacheline
  proc: Fix typo in the comment
  fs/pipe: Correct imprecise wording in comment
  fhandle: expose u64 mount id to name_to_handle_at(2)
  uapi: explain how per-syscall AT_* flags should be allocated
  fs: drop GFP_NOFAIL mode from alloc_page_buffers
  writeback: Refine the show_inode_state() macro definition
  fs/inode: Prevent dump_mapping() accessing invalid dentry.d_name.name
  mnt_idmapping: Use kmemdup_array instead of kmemdup for multiple allocation
  netfs: Delete subtree of 'fs/netfs' when netfs module exits
  fs: use LIST_HEAD() to simplify code
  inode: make i_state a u32
  inode: port __I_LRU_ISOLATING to var event
  vfs: fix race between evice_inodes() and find_inode()&amp;iput()
  inode: port __I_NEW to var event
  inode: port __I_SYNC to var event
  fs: reorder i_state bits
  fs: add i_state helpers
  MAINTAINERS: add the VFS git tree
  fs: s/__u32/u32/ for s_fsnotify_mask
  ...
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<title>inode: port __I_NEW to var event</title>
<updated>2024-08-30T06:22:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-23T12:47:38+00:00</published>
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Port the __I_NEW mechanism to use the new var event mechanism.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240823-work-i_state-v3-4-5cd5fd207a57@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Port the __I_NEW mechanism to use the new var event mechanism.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240823-work-i_state-v3-4-5cd5fd207a57@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>fs: remove comment about d_rcu_to_refcount</title>
<updated>2024-08-30T06:22:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-02T21:45:02+00:00</published>
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This function no longer exists.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240802-openfast-v1-1-a1cff2a33063@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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This function no longer exists.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240802-openfast-v1-1-a1cff2a33063@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dcache: keep dentry_hashtable or d_hash_shift even when not used</title>
<updated>2024-08-30T00:25:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Brennan</name>
<email>stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-29T18:20:49+00:00</published>
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The runtime constant feature removes all the users of these variables,
allowing the compiler to optimize them away.  It's quite difficult to
extract their values from the kernel text, and the memory saved by
removing them is tiny, and it was never the point of this optimization.

Since the dentry_hashtable is a core data structure, it's valuable for
debugging tools to be able to read it easily.  For instance, scripts
built on drgn, like the dentrycache script[1], rely on it to be able to
perform diagnostics on the contents of the dcache.  Annotate it as used,
so the compiler doesn't discard it.

Link: https://github.com/oracle-samples/drgn-tools/blob/3afc56146f54d09dfd1f6d3c1b7436eda7e638be/drgn_tools/dentry.py#L325-L355 [1]
Fixes: e3c92e81711d ("runtime constants: add x86 architecture support")
Signed-off-by: Stephen Brennan &lt;stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The runtime constant feature removes all the users of these variables,
allowing the compiler to optimize them away.  It's quite difficult to
extract their values from the kernel text, and the memory saved by
removing them is tiny, and it was never the point of this optimization.

Since the dentry_hashtable is a core data structure, it's valuable for
debugging tools to be able to read it easily.  For instance, scripts
built on drgn, like the dentrycache script[1], rely on it to be able to
perform diagnostics on the contents of the dcache.  Annotate it as used,
so the compiler doesn't discard it.

Link: https://github.com/oracle-samples/drgn-tools/blob/3afc56146f54d09dfd1f6d3c1b7436eda7e638be/drgn_tools/dentry.py#L325-L355 [1]
Fixes: e3c92e81711d ("runtime constants: add x86 architecture support")
Signed-off-by: Stephen Brennan &lt;stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers</title>
<updated>2024-07-24T18:59:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Granados</name>
<email>j.granados@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-24T18:59:29+00:00</published>
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const qualify the struct ctl_table argument in the proc_handler function
signatures. This is a prerequisite to moving the static ctl_table
structs into .rodata data which will ensure that proc_handler function
pointers cannot be modified.

This patch has been generated by the following coccinelle script:

```
  virtual patch

  @r1@
  identifier ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  identifier func !~ "appldata_(timer|interval)_handler|sched_(rt|rr)_handler|rds_tcp_skbuf_handler|proc_sctp_do_(hmac_alg|rto_min|rto_max|udp_port|alpha_beta|auth|probe_interval)";
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);

  @r2@
  identifier func, ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
  { ... }

  @r3@
  identifier func;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *
  + const struct ctl_table *
    ,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);

  @r4@
  identifier func, ctl;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);

  @r5@
  identifier func, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *
  + const struct ctl_table *
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);

```

* Code formatting was adjusted in xfs_sysctl.c to comply with code
  conventions. The xfs_stats_clear_proc_handler,
  xfs_panic_mask_proc_handler and xfs_deprecated_dointvec_minmax where
  adjusted.

* The ctl_table argument in proc_watchdog_common was const qualified.
  This is called from a proc_handler itself and is calling back into
  another proc_handler, making it necessary to change it as part of the
  proc_handler migration.

Co-developed-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Co-developed-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
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const qualify the struct ctl_table argument in the proc_handler function
signatures. This is a prerequisite to moving the static ctl_table
structs into .rodata data which will ensure that proc_handler function
pointers cannot be modified.

This patch has been generated by the following coccinelle script:

```
  virtual patch

  @r1@
  identifier ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  identifier func !~ "appldata_(timer|interval)_handler|sched_(rt|rr)_handler|rds_tcp_skbuf_handler|proc_sctp_do_(hmac_alg|rto_min|rto_max|udp_port|alpha_beta|auth|probe_interval)";
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);

  @r2@
  identifier func, ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
  { ... }

  @r3@
  identifier func;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *
  + const struct ctl_table *
    ,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);

  @r4@
  identifier func, ctl;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *ctl
  + const struct ctl_table *ctl
    ,int , void *, size_t *, loff_t *);

  @r5@
  identifier func, write, buffer, lenp, ppos;
  @@

  int func(
  - struct ctl_table *
  + const struct ctl_table *
    ,int write, void *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos);

```

* Code formatting was adjusted in xfs_sysctl.c to comply with code
  conventions. The xfs_stats_clear_proc_handler,
  xfs_panic_mask_proc_handler and xfs_deprecated_dointvec_minmax where
  adjusted.

* The ctl_table argument in proc_watchdog_common was const qualified.
  This is called from a proc_handler itself and is calling back into
  another proc_handler, making it necessary to change it as part of the
  proc_handler migration.

Co-developed-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Co-developed-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.11.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2024-07-15T17:52:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-15T17:52:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=b051320d6ab8cfdd77a48ef4e563584cd7681d2d'/>
<id>b051320d6ab8cfdd77a48ef4e563584cd7681d2d</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "Features:

   - Support passing NULL along AT_EMPTY_PATH for statx().

     NULL paths with any flag value other than AT_EMPTY_PATH go the
     usual route and end up with -EFAULT to retain compatibility (Rust
     is abusing calls of the sort to detect availability of statx)

     This avoids path lookup code, lockref management, memory allocation
     and in case of NULL path userspace memory access (which can be
     quite expensive with SMAP on x86_64)

   - Don't block i_writecount during exec. Remove the
     deny_write_access() mechanism for executables

   - Relax open_by_handle_at() permissions in specific cases where we
     can prove that the caller had sufficient privileges to open a file

   - Switch timespec64 fields in struct inode to discrete integers
     freeing up 4 bytes

  Fixes:

   - Fix false positive circular locking warning in hfsplus

   - Initialize hfs_inode_info after hfs_alloc_inode() in hfs

   - Avoid accidental overflows in vfs_fallocate()

   - Don't interrupt fallocate with EINTR in tmpfs to avoid constantly
     restarting shmem_fallocate()

   - Add missing quote in comment in fs/readdir

  Cleanups:

   - Don't assign and test in an if statement in mqueue. Move the
     assignment out of the if statement

   - Reflow the logic in may_create_in_sticky()

   - Remove the usage of the deprecated ida_simple_xx() API from procfs

   - Reject FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE_EXCL requets that depend on the new
     mount api early

   - Rename variables in copy_tree() to make it easier to understand

   - Replace WARN(down_read_trylock, ...) abuse with proper asserts in
     various places in the VFS

   - Get rid of user_path_at_empty() and drop the empty argument from
     getname_flags()

   - Check for error while copying and no path in one branch in
     getname_flags()

   - Avoid redundant smp_mb() for THP handling in do_dentry_open()

   - Rename parent_ino to d_parent_ino and make it use RCU

   - Remove unused header include in fs/readdir

   - Export in_group_capable() helper and switch f2fs and fuse over to
     it instead of open-coding the logic in both places"

* tag 'vfs-6.11.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (27 commits)
  ipc: mqueue: remove assignment from IS_ERR argument
  vfs: rename parent_ino to d_parent_ino and make it use RCU
  vfs: support statx(..., NULL, AT_EMPTY_PATH, ...)
  stat: use vfs_empty_path() helper
  fs: new helper vfs_empty_path()
  fs: reflow may_create_in_sticky()
  vfs: remove redundant smp_mb for thp handling in do_dentry_open
  fuse: Use in_group_or_capable() helper
  f2fs: Use in_group_or_capable() helper
  fs: Export in_group_or_capable()
  vfs: reorder checks in may_create_in_sticky
  hfs: fix to initialize fields of hfs_inode_info after hfs_alloc_inode()
  proc: Remove usage of the deprecated ida_simple_xx() API
  hfsplus: fix to avoid false alarm of circular locking
  Improve readability of copy_tree
  vfs: shave a branch in getname_flags
  vfs: retire user_path_at_empty and drop empty arg from getname_flags
  vfs: stop using user_path_at_empty in do_readlinkat
  tmpfs: don't interrupt fallocate with EINTR
  fs: don't block i_writecount during exec
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "Features:

   - Support passing NULL along AT_EMPTY_PATH for statx().

     NULL paths with any flag value other than AT_EMPTY_PATH go the
     usual route and end up with -EFAULT to retain compatibility (Rust
     is abusing calls of the sort to detect availability of statx)

     This avoids path lookup code, lockref management, memory allocation
     and in case of NULL path userspace memory access (which can be
     quite expensive with SMAP on x86_64)

   - Don't block i_writecount during exec. Remove the
     deny_write_access() mechanism for executables

   - Relax open_by_handle_at() permissions in specific cases where we
     can prove that the caller had sufficient privileges to open a file

   - Switch timespec64 fields in struct inode to discrete integers
     freeing up 4 bytes

  Fixes:

   - Fix false positive circular locking warning in hfsplus

   - Initialize hfs_inode_info after hfs_alloc_inode() in hfs

   - Avoid accidental overflows in vfs_fallocate()

   - Don't interrupt fallocate with EINTR in tmpfs to avoid constantly
     restarting shmem_fallocate()

   - Add missing quote in comment in fs/readdir

  Cleanups:

   - Don't assign and test in an if statement in mqueue. Move the
     assignment out of the if statement

   - Reflow the logic in may_create_in_sticky()

   - Remove the usage of the deprecated ida_simple_xx() API from procfs

   - Reject FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE_EXCL requets that depend on the new
     mount api early

   - Rename variables in copy_tree() to make it easier to understand

   - Replace WARN(down_read_trylock, ...) abuse with proper asserts in
     various places in the VFS

   - Get rid of user_path_at_empty() and drop the empty argument from
     getname_flags()

   - Check for error while copying and no path in one branch in
     getname_flags()

   - Avoid redundant smp_mb() for THP handling in do_dentry_open()

   - Rename parent_ino to d_parent_ino and make it use RCU

   - Remove unused header include in fs/readdir

   - Export in_group_capable() helper and switch f2fs and fuse over to
     it instead of open-coding the logic in both places"

* tag 'vfs-6.11.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (27 commits)
  ipc: mqueue: remove assignment from IS_ERR argument
  vfs: rename parent_ino to d_parent_ino and make it use RCU
  vfs: support statx(..., NULL, AT_EMPTY_PATH, ...)
  stat: use vfs_empty_path() helper
  fs: new helper vfs_empty_path()
  fs: reflow may_create_in_sticky()
  vfs: remove redundant smp_mb for thp handling in do_dentry_open
  fuse: Use in_group_or_capable() helper
  f2fs: Use in_group_or_capable() helper
  fs: Export in_group_or_capable()
  vfs: reorder checks in may_create_in_sticky
  hfs: fix to initialize fields of hfs_inode_info after hfs_alloc_inode()
  proc: Remove usage of the deprecated ida_simple_xx() API
  hfsplus: fix to avoid false alarm of circular locking
  Improve readability of copy_tree
  vfs: shave a branch in getname_flags
  vfs: retire user_path_at_empty and drop empty arg from getname_flags
  vfs: stop using user_path_at_empty in do_readlinkat
  tmpfs: don't interrupt fallocate with EINTR
  fs: don't block i_writecount during exec
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'runtime-constants'</title>
<updated>2024-07-15T15:36:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-15T15:36:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=a5819099f601c1af5b86b1f5921a56859e45b19a'/>
<id>a5819099f601c1af5b86b1f5921a56859e45b19a</id>
<content type='text'>
Merge runtime constants infrastructure with implementations for x86 and
arm64.

This is one of four branches that came out of me looking at profiles of
my kernel build filesystem load on my 128-core Altra arm64 system, where
pathname walking and the user copies (particularly strncpy_from_user()
for fetching the pathname from user space) is very hot.

This is a very specialized "instruction alternatives" model where the
dentry hash pointer and hash count will be constants for the lifetime of
the kernel, but the allocation are not static but done early during the
kernel boot.  In order to avoid the pointer load and dynamic shift, we
just rewrite the constants in the instructions in place.

We can't use the "generic" alternative instructions infrastructure,
because different architectures do it very differently, and it's
actually simpler to just have very specific helpers, with a fallback to
the generic ("old") model of just using variables for architectures that
do not implement the runtime constant patching infrastructure.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=widPe38fUNjUOmX11ByDckaeEo9tN4Eiyke9u1SAtu9sA@mail.gmail.com/

* runtime-constants:
  arm64: add 'runtime constant' support
  runtime constants: add x86 architecture support
  runtime constants: add default dummy infrastructure
  vfs: dcache: move hashlen_hash() from callers into d_hash()
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Merge runtime constants infrastructure with implementations for x86 and
arm64.

This is one of four branches that came out of me looking at profiles of
my kernel build filesystem load on my 128-core Altra arm64 system, where
pathname walking and the user copies (particularly strncpy_from_user()
for fetching the pathname from user space) is very hot.

This is a very specialized "instruction alternatives" model where the
dentry hash pointer and hash count will be constants for the lifetime of
the kernel, but the allocation are not static but done early during the
kernel boot.  In order to avoid the pointer load and dynamic shift, we
just rewrite the constants in the instructions in place.

We can't use the "generic" alternative instructions infrastructure,
because different architectures do it very differently, and it's
actually simpler to just have very specific helpers, with a fallback to
the generic ("old") model of just using variables for architectures that
do not implement the runtime constant patching infrastructure.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=widPe38fUNjUOmX11ByDckaeEo9tN4Eiyke9u1SAtu9sA@mail.gmail.com/

* runtime-constants:
  arm64: add 'runtime constant' support
  runtime constants: add x86 architecture support
  runtime constants: add default dummy infrastructure
  vfs: dcache: move hashlen_hash() from callers into d_hash()
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.10-rc8.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2024-07-11T16:03:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-11T16:03:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=83ab4b461eb7bdf90984eb56d4954dbe11e926d4'/>
<id>83ab4b461eb7bdf90984eb56d4954dbe11e926d4</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull vfs fixes from Christian Brauner:
 "cachefiles:

   - Export an existing and add a new cachefile helper to be used in
     filesystems to fix reference count bugs

   - Use the newly added fscache_ty_get_volume() helper to get a
     reference count on an fscache_volume to handle volumes that are
     about to be removed cleanly

   - After withdrawing a fscache_cache via FSCACHE_CACHE_IS_WITHDRAWN
     wait for all ongoing cookie lookups to complete and for the object
     count to reach zero

   - Propagate errors from vfs_getxattr() to avoid an infinite loop in
     cachefiles_check_volume_xattr() because it keeps seeing ESTALE

   - Don't send new requests when an object is dropped by raising
     CACHEFILES_ONDEMAND_OJBSTATE_DROPPING

   - Cancel all requests for an object that is about to be dropped

   - Wait for the ondemand_boject_worker to finish before dropping a
     cachefiles object to prevent use-after-free

   - Use cyclic allocation for message ids to better handle id recycling

   - Add missing lock protection when iterating through the xarray when
     polling

  netfs:

   - Use standard logging helpers for debug logging

  VFS:

   - Fix potential use-after-free in file locks during
     trace_posix_lock_inode(). The tracepoint could fire while another
     task raced it and freed the lock that was requested to be traced

   - Only increment the nr_dentry_negative counter for dentries that are
     present on the superblock LRU. Currently, DCACHE_LRU_LIST list is
     used to detect this case. However, the flag is also raised in
     combination with DCACHE_SHRINK_LIST to indicate that dentry-&gt;d_lru
     is used. So checking only DCACHE_LRU_LIST will lead to wrong
     nr_dentry_negative count. Fix the check to not count dentries that
     are on a shrink related list

  Misc:

   - hfsplus: fix an uninitialized value issue in copy_name

   - minix: fix minixfs_rename with HIGHMEM. It still uses kunmap() even
     though we switched it to kmap_local_page() a while ago"

* tag 'vfs-6.10-rc8.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  minixfs: Fix minixfs_rename with HIGHMEM
  hfsplus: fix uninit-value in copy_name
  vfs: don't mod negative dentry count when on shrinker list
  filelock: fix potential use-after-free in posix_lock_inode
  cachefiles: add missing lock protection when polling
  cachefiles: cyclic allocation of msg_id to avoid reuse
  cachefiles: wait for ondemand_object_worker to finish when dropping object
  cachefiles: cancel all requests for the object that is being dropped
  cachefiles: stop sending new request when dropping object
  cachefiles: propagate errors from vfs_getxattr() to avoid infinite loop
  cachefiles: fix slab-use-after-free in cachefiles_withdraw_cookie()
  cachefiles: fix slab-use-after-free in fscache_withdraw_volume()
  netfs, fscache: export fscache_put_volume() and add fscache_try_get_volume()
  netfs: Switch debug logging to pr_debug()
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull vfs fixes from Christian Brauner:
 "cachefiles:

   - Export an existing and add a new cachefile helper to be used in
     filesystems to fix reference count bugs

   - Use the newly added fscache_ty_get_volume() helper to get a
     reference count on an fscache_volume to handle volumes that are
     about to be removed cleanly

   - After withdrawing a fscache_cache via FSCACHE_CACHE_IS_WITHDRAWN
     wait for all ongoing cookie lookups to complete and for the object
     count to reach zero

   - Propagate errors from vfs_getxattr() to avoid an infinite loop in
     cachefiles_check_volume_xattr() because it keeps seeing ESTALE

   - Don't send new requests when an object is dropped by raising
     CACHEFILES_ONDEMAND_OJBSTATE_DROPPING

   - Cancel all requests for an object that is about to be dropped

   - Wait for the ondemand_boject_worker to finish before dropping a
     cachefiles object to prevent use-after-free

   - Use cyclic allocation for message ids to better handle id recycling

   - Add missing lock protection when iterating through the xarray when
     polling

  netfs:

   - Use standard logging helpers for debug logging

  VFS:

   - Fix potential use-after-free in file locks during
     trace_posix_lock_inode(). The tracepoint could fire while another
     task raced it and freed the lock that was requested to be traced

   - Only increment the nr_dentry_negative counter for dentries that are
     present on the superblock LRU. Currently, DCACHE_LRU_LIST list is
     used to detect this case. However, the flag is also raised in
     combination with DCACHE_SHRINK_LIST to indicate that dentry-&gt;d_lru
     is used. So checking only DCACHE_LRU_LIST will lead to wrong
     nr_dentry_negative count. Fix the check to not count dentries that
     are on a shrink related list

  Misc:

   - hfsplus: fix an uninitialized value issue in copy_name

   - minix: fix minixfs_rename with HIGHMEM. It still uses kunmap() even
     though we switched it to kmap_local_page() a while ago"

* tag 'vfs-6.10-rc8.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  minixfs: Fix minixfs_rename with HIGHMEM
  hfsplus: fix uninit-value in copy_name
  vfs: don't mod negative dentry count when on shrinker list
  filelock: fix potential use-after-free in posix_lock_inode
  cachefiles: add missing lock protection when polling
  cachefiles: cyclic allocation of msg_id to avoid reuse
  cachefiles: wait for ondemand_object_worker to finish when dropping object
  cachefiles: cancel all requests for the object that is being dropped
  cachefiles: stop sending new request when dropping object
  cachefiles: propagate errors from vfs_getxattr() to avoid infinite loop
  cachefiles: fix slab-use-after-free in cachefiles_withdraw_cookie()
  cachefiles: fix slab-use-after-free in fscache_withdraw_volume()
  netfs, fscache: export fscache_put_volume() and add fscache_try_get_volume()
  netfs: Switch debug logging to pr_debug()
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: don't mod negative dentry count when on shrinker list</title>
<updated>2024-07-05T16:40:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Brian Foster</name>
<email>bfoster@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-03T12:13:01+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=aabfe57ebaa75841db47ea59091ec3c5a06d2f52'/>
<id>aabfe57ebaa75841db47ea59091ec3c5a06d2f52</id>
<content type='text'>
The nr_dentry_negative counter is intended to only account negative
dentries that are present on the superblock LRU. Therefore, the LRU
add, remove and isolate helpers modify the counter based on whether
the dentry is negative, but the shrinker list related helpers do not
modify the counter, and the paths that change a dentry between
positive and negative only do so if DCACHE_LRU_LIST is set.

The problem with this is that a dentry on a shrinker list still has
DCACHE_LRU_LIST set to indicate -&gt;d_lru is in use. The additional
DCACHE_SHRINK_LIST flag denotes whether the dentry is on LRU or a
shrink related list. Therefore if a relevant operation (i.e. unlink)
occurs while a dentry is present on a shrinker list, and the
associated codepath only checks for DCACHE_LRU_LIST, then it is
technically possible to modify the negative dentry count for a
dentry that is off the LRU. Since the shrinker list related helpers
do not modify the negative dentry count (because non-LRU dentries
should not be included in the count) when the dentry is ultimately
removed from the shrinker list, this can cause the negative dentry
count to become permanently inaccurate.

This problem can be reproduced via a heavy file create/unlink vs.
drop_caches workload. On an 80xcpu system, I start 80 tasks each
running a 1k file create/delete loop, and one task spinning on
drop_caches. After 10 minutes or so of runtime, the idle/clean cache
negative dentry count increases from somewhere in the range of 5-10
entries to several hundred (and increasingly grows beyond
nr_dentry_unused).

Tweak the logic in the paths that turn a dentry negative or positive
to filter out the case where the dentry is present on a shrink
related list. This allows the above workload to maintain an accurate
negative dentry count.

Fixes: af0c9af1b3f6 ("fs/dcache: Track &amp; report number of negative dentries")
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster &lt;bfoster@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240703121301.247680-1-bfoster@redhat.com
Acked-by: Ian Kent &lt;ikent@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The nr_dentry_negative counter is intended to only account negative
dentries that are present on the superblock LRU. Therefore, the LRU
add, remove and isolate helpers modify the counter based on whether
the dentry is negative, but the shrinker list related helpers do not
modify the counter, and the paths that change a dentry between
positive and negative only do so if DCACHE_LRU_LIST is set.

The problem with this is that a dentry on a shrinker list still has
DCACHE_LRU_LIST set to indicate -&gt;d_lru is in use. The additional
DCACHE_SHRINK_LIST flag denotes whether the dentry is on LRU or a
shrink related list. Therefore if a relevant operation (i.e. unlink)
occurs while a dentry is present on a shrinker list, and the
associated codepath only checks for DCACHE_LRU_LIST, then it is
technically possible to modify the negative dentry count for a
dentry that is off the LRU. Since the shrinker list related helpers
do not modify the negative dentry count (because non-LRU dentries
should not be included in the count) when the dentry is ultimately
removed from the shrinker list, this can cause the negative dentry
count to become permanently inaccurate.

This problem can be reproduced via a heavy file create/unlink vs.
drop_caches workload. On an 80xcpu system, I start 80 tasks each
running a 1k file create/delete loop, and one task spinning on
drop_caches. After 10 minutes or so of runtime, the idle/clean cache
negative dentry count increases from somewhere in the range of 5-10
entries to several hundred (and increasingly grows beyond
nr_dentry_unused).

Tweak the logic in the paths that turn a dentry negative or positive
to filter out the case where the dentry is present on a shrink
related list. This allows the above workload to maintain an accurate
negative dentry count.

Fixes: af0c9af1b3f6 ("fs/dcache: Track &amp; report number of negative dentries")
Signed-off-by: Brian Foster &lt;bfoster@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240703121301.247680-1-bfoster@redhat.com
Acked-by: Ian Kent &lt;ikent@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: better handle deep ancestor chains in is_subdir()</title>
<updated>2024-07-02T19:18:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-02T19:03:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=391b59b045004d5b985d033263ccba3e941a7740'/>
<id>391b59b045004d5b985d033263ccba3e941a7740</id>
<content type='text'>
Jan reported that 'cd ..' may take a long time in deep directory
hierarchies under a bind-mount. If concurrent renames happen it is
possible to livelock in is_subdir() because it will keep retrying.

Change is_subdir() from simply retrying over and over to retry once and
then acquire the rename lock to handle deep ancestor chains better. The
list of alternatives to this approach were less then pleasant. Change
the scope of rcu lock to cover the whole walk while at it.

A big thanks to Jan and Linus. Both Jan and Linus had proposed
effectively the same thing just that one version ended up being slightly
more elegant.

Reported-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Jan reported that 'cd ..' may take a long time in deep directory
hierarchies under a bind-mount. If concurrent renames happen it is
possible to livelock in is_subdir() because it will keep retrying.

Change is_subdir() from simply retrying over and over to retry once and
then acquire the rename lock to handle deep ancestor chains better. The
list of alternatives to this approach were less then pleasant. Change
the scope of rcu lock to cover the whole walk while at it.

A big thanks to Jan and Linus. Both Jan and Linus had proposed
effectively the same thing just that one version ended up being slightly
more elegant.

Reported-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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