Pull sysctl updates from Joel Granados:

 - Move vm_table members out of kernel/sysctl.c

   All vm_table array members have moved to their respective subsystems
   leading to the removal of vm_table from kernel/sysctl.c. This
   increases modularity by placing the ctl_tables closer to where they
   are actually used and at the same time reducing the chances of merge
   conflicts in kernel/sysctl.c.

 - ctl_table range fixes

   Replace the proc_handler function that checks variable ranges in
   coredump_sysctls and vdso_table with the one that actually uses the
   extra{1,2} pointers as min/max values. This tightens the range of the
   values that users can pass into the kernel effectively preventing
   {under,over}flows.

 - Misc fixes

   Correct grammar errors and typos in test messages. Update sysctl
   files in MAINTAINERS. Constified and removed array size in
   declaration for alignment_tbl

* tag 'sysctl-6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl: (22 commits)
  selftests/sysctl: fix wording of help messages
  selftests: fix spelling/grammar errors in sysctl/sysctl.sh
  MAINTAINERS: Update sysctl file list in MAINTAINERS
  sysctl: Fix underflow value setting risk in vm_table
  coredump: Fixes core_pipe_limit sysctl proc_handler
  sysctl: remove unneeded include
  sysctl: remove the vm_table
  sh: vdso: move the sysctl to arch/sh/kernel/vsyscall/vsyscall.c
  x86: vdso: move the sysctl to arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32-setup.c
  fs: dcache: move the sysctl to fs/dcache.c
  sunrpc: simplify rpcauth_cache_shrink_count()
  fs: drop_caches: move sysctl to fs/drop_caches.c
  fs: fs-writeback: move sysctl to fs/fs-writeback.c
  mm: nommu: move sysctl to mm/nommu.c
  security: min_addr: move sysctl to security/min_addr.c
  mm: mmap: move sysctl to mm/mmap.c
  mm: util: move sysctls to mm/util.c
  mm: vmscan: move vmscan sysctls to mm/vmscan.c
  mm: swap: move sysctl to mm/swap.c
  mm: filemap: move sysctl to mm/filemap.c
  ...

Pull vfs async dir updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains cleanups that fell out of the work from async directory
  handling:

   - Change kern_path_locked() and user_path_locked_at() to never return
     a negative dentry. This simplifies the usability of these helpers
     in various places

   - Drop d_exact_alias() from the remaining place in NFS where it is
     still used. This also allows us to drop the d_exact_alias() helper
     completely

   - Drop an unnecessary call to fh_update() from nfsd_create_locked()

   - Change i_op->mkdir() to return a struct dentry

     Change vfs_mkdir() to return a dentry provided by the filesystems
     which is hashed and positive. This allows us to reduce the number
     of cases where the resulting dentry is not positive to very few
     cases. The code in these places becomes simpler and easier to
     understand.

   - Repack DENTRY_* and LOOKUP_* flags"

* tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.async.dir' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  doc: fix inline emphasis warning
  VFS: Change vfs_mkdir() to return the dentry.
  nfs: change mkdir inode_operation to return alternate dentry if needed.
  fuse: return correct dentry for ->mkdir
  ceph: return the correct dentry on mkdir
  hostfs: store inode in dentry after mkdir if possible.
  Change inode_operations.mkdir to return struct dentry *
  nfsd: drop fh_update() from S_IFDIR branch of nfsd_create_locked()
  nfs/vfs: discard d_exact_alias()
  VFS: add common error checks to lookup_one_qstr_excl()
  VFS: change kern_path_locked() and user_path_locked_at() to never return negative dentry
  VFS: repack LOOKUP_ bit flags.
  VFS: repack DENTRY_ flags.

Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "Features:

   - Add CONFIG_DEBUG_VFS infrastucture:
      - Catch invalid modes in open
      - Use the new debug macros in inode_set_cached_link()
      - Use debug-only asserts around fd allocation and install

   - Place f_ref to 3rd cache line in struct file to resolve false
     sharing

Cleanups:

   - Start using anon_inode_getfile_fmode() helper in various places

   - Don't take f_lock during SEEK_CUR if exclusion is guaranteed by
     f_pos_lock

   - Add unlikely() to kcmp()

   - Remove legacy ->remount_fs method from ecryptfs after port to the
     new mount api

   - Remove invalidate_inodes() in favour of evict_inodes()

   - Simplify ep_busy_loopER by removing unused argument

   - Avoid mmap sem relocks when coredumping with many missing pages

   - Inline getname()

   - Inline new_inode_pseudo() and de-staticize alloc_inode()

   - Dodge an atomic in putname if ref == 1

   - Consistently deref the files table with rcu_dereference_raw()

   - Dedup handling of struct filename init and refcounts bumps

   - Use wq_has_sleeper() in end_dir_add()

   - Drop the lock trip around I_NEW wake up in evict()

   - Load the ->i_sb pointer once in inode_sb_list_{add,del}

   - Predict not reaching the limit in alloc_empty_file()

   - Tidy up do_sys_openat2() with likely/unlikely

   - Call inode_sb_list_add() outside of inode hash lock

   - Sort out fd allocation vs dup2 race commentary

   - Turn page_offset() into a wrapper around folio_pos()

   - Remove locking in exportfs around ->get_parent() call

   - try_lookup_one_len() does not need any locks in autofs

   - Fix return type of several functions from long to int in open

   - Fix return type of several functions from long to int in ioctls

  Fixes:

   - Fix watch queue accounting mismatch"

* tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (30 commits)
  fs: sort out fd allocation vs dup2 race commentary, take 2
  fs: call inode_sb_list_add() outside of inode hash lock
  fs: tidy up do_sys_openat2() with likely/unlikely
  fs: predict not reaching the limit in alloc_empty_file()
  fs: load the ->i_sb pointer once in inode_sb_list_{add,del}
  fs: drop the lock trip around I_NEW wake up in evict()
  fs: use wq_has_sleeper() in end_dir_add()
  VFS/autofs: try_lookup_one_len() does not need any locks
  fs: dedup handling of struct filename init and refcounts bumps
  fs: consistently deref the files table with rcu_dereference_raw()
  exportfs: remove locking around ->get_parent() call.
  fs: use debug-only asserts around fd allocation and install
  fs: dodge an atomic in putname if ref == 1
  vfs: Remove invalidate_inodes()
  ecryptfs: remove NULL remount_fs from super_operations
  watch_queue: fix pipe accounting mismatch
  fs: place f_ref to 3rd cache line in struct file to resolve false sharing
  epoll: simplify ep_busy_loop by removing always 0 argument
  fs: Turn page_offset() into a wrapper around folio_pos()
  kcmp: improve performance adding an unlikely hint to task comparisons
  ...

The routine is used a lot, while the wakeup almost never has anyone to
deal with.

wake_up_all() takes an irq-protected spinlock, wq_has_sleeper() "only"
contains a full fence -- not free by any means, but still cheaper.

Sample result tracing waiters using a custom probe during -j 20 kernel
build (0 - no waiters, 1 - waiters):

@[
    wakeprobe+5
    __wake_up_common+63
    __wake_up+54
    __d_add+234
    d_splice_alias+146
    ext4_lookup+439
    path_openat+1746
    do_filp_open+195
    do_sys_openat2+153
    __x64_sys_openat+86
    do_syscall_64+82
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+118
]:
[0, 1)             13999 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@|
[1, ...)               1 |                                                    |

Only 1 call out of 14000 with this backtrace had waiters.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250316232421.1642758-1-mjguzik@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

d_exact_alias() is a descendent of d_add_unique() which was introduced
20 years ago mostly likely to work around problems with NFS servers of
the time.  It is now not used in several situations were it was
originally needed and there have been no reports of problems -
presumably the old NFS servers have been improved.  This only place it
is now use is in NFSv4 code and the old problematic servers are thought
to have been v2/v3 only.

There is no clear benefit in reusing a unhashed() dentry which happens
to have the same name as the dentry we are adding.

So this patch removes d_exact_alias() and the one place that it is used.

Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250226062135.2043651-2-neilb@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

Pull vfs fixes from Christian Brauner:

 - Fix fsnotify FMODE_NONOTIFY* handling.

   This also disables fsnotify on all pseudo files by default apart from
   very select exceptions. This carries a regression risk so we need to
   watch out and adapt accordingly. However, it is overall a significant
   improvement over the current status quo where every rando file can
   get fsnotify enabled.

 - Cleanup and simplify lockref_init() after recent lockref changes.

 - Fix vboxfs build with gcc-15.

 - Add an assert into inode_set_cached_link() to catch corrupt links.

 - Allow users to also use an empty string check to detect whether a
   given mount option string was empty or not.

 - Fix how security options were appended to statmount()'s ->mnt_opt
   field.

 - Fix statmount() selftests to always check the returned mask.

 - Fix uninitialized value in vfs_statx_path().

 - Fix pidfs_ioctl() sanity checks to guard against ioctl() overloading
   and preserve extensibility.

* tag 'vfs-6.14-rc2.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  vfs: sanity check the length passed to inode_set_cached_link()
  pidfs: improve ioctl handling
  fsnotify: disable pre-content and permission events by default
  selftests: always check mask returned by statmount(2)
  fsnotify: disable notification by default for all pseudo files
  fs: fix adding security options to statmount.mnt_opt
  fsnotify: use accessor to set FMODE_NONOTIFY_*
  lockref: remove count argument of lockref_init
  gfs2: switch to lockref_init(..., 1)
  gfs2: use lockref_init for gl_lockref
  statmount: let unset strings be empty
  vboxsf: fix building with GCC 15
  fs/stat.c: avoid harmless garbage value problem in vfs_statx_path()

The sysctl_vfs_cache_pressure belongs to fs/dcache.c, move it to
fs/dcache.c from kernel/sysctl.c. As a part of fs/dcache.c cleaning,
sysctl_vfs_cache_pressure is changed to a static variable, and change
the inline-type function vfs_pressure_ratio() to out-of-inline type,
export vfs_pressure_ratio() with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL to be used by other
files. Move the unneeded include(linux/dcache.h).

Signed-off-by: Kaixiong Yu <yukaixiong@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>

All users of lockref_init() now initialize the count to 1, so hardcode
that and remove the count argument.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250130135624.1899988-4-agruenba@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

Pull d_revalidate fix from Al Viro:
 "Fix a braino in d_revalidate series: check ->d_op for NULL"

* tag 'pull-fix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  fix braino in "9p: fix ->rename_sem exclusion"

->d_op can bloody well be NULL

Fucked-up-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Fixes: 30d61efe118c "9p: fix ->rename_sem exclusion"
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>