folio_wait_stable waits for writeback to finish before modifying the contents of a folio again, e.g. to support check summing of the data in the block integrity code. Currently this behavior is controlled by the SB_I_STABLE_WRITES flag on the super_block, which means it is uniform for the entire file system. This is wrong for the block device pseudofs which is shared by all block devices, or file systems that can use multiple devices like XFS witht the RT subvolume or btrfs (although btrfs currently reimplements folio_wait_stable anyway). Add a per-address_space AS_STABLE_WRITES flag to control the behavior in a more fine grained way. The existing SB_I_STABLE_WRITES is kept to initialize AS_STABLE_WRITES to the existing default which covers most cases. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231025141020.192413-2-hch@lst.de Tested-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"As usual, lots of singleton and doubleton patches all over the tree
and there's little I can say which isn't in the individual changelogs.
The lengthier patch series are
- 'kdump: use generic functions to simplify crashkernel reservation
in arch', from Baoquan He. This is mainly cleanups and
consolidation of the 'crashkernel=' kernel parameter handling
- After much discussion, David Laight's 'minmax: Relax type checks in
min() and max()' is here. Hopefully reduces some typecasting and
the use of min_t() and max_t()
- A group of patches from Oleg Nesterov which clean up and slightly
fix our handling of reads from /proc/PID/task/... and which remove
task_struct.thread_group"
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-11-02-14-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (64 commits)
scripts/gdb/vmalloc: disable on no-MMU
scripts/gdb: fix usage of MOD_TEXT not defined when CONFIG_MODULES=n
.mailmap: add address mapping for Tomeu Vizoso
mailmap: update email address for Claudiu Beznea
tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh: lower the ptrace permissions
.mailmap: map Benjamin Poirier's address
scripts/gdb: add lx_current support for riscv
ocfs2: fix a spelling typo in comment
proc: test ProtectionKey in proc-empty-vm test
proc: fix proc-empty-vm test with vsyscall
fs/proc/base.c: remove unneeded semicolon
do_io_accounting: use sig->stats_lock
do_io_accounting: use __for_each_thread()
ocfs2: replace BUG_ON() at ocfs2_num_free_extents() with ocfs2_error()
ocfs2: fix a typo in a comment
scripts/show_delta: add __main__ judgement before main code
treewide: mark stuff as __ro_after_init
fs: ocfs2: check status values
proc: test /proc/${pid}/statm
compiler.h: move __is_constexpr() to compiler.h
...
Pull vfs inode time accessor updates from Christian Brauner: "This finishes the conversion of all inode time fields to accessor functions as discussed on list. Changing timestamps manually as we used to do before is error prone. Using accessors function makes this robust. It does not contain the switch of the time fields to discrete 64 bit integers to replace struct timespec and free up space in struct inode. But after this, the switch can be trivially made and the patch should only affect the vfs if we decide to do it" * tag 'vfs-6.7.ctime' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (86 commits) fs: rename inode i_atime and i_mtime fields security: convert to new timestamp accessors selinux: convert to new timestamp accessors apparmor: convert to new timestamp accessors sunrpc: convert to new timestamp accessors mm: convert to new timestamp accessors bpf: convert to new timestamp accessors ipc: convert to new timestamp accessors linux: convert to new timestamp accessors zonefs: convert to new timestamp accessors xfs: convert to new timestamp accessors vboxsf: convert to new timestamp accessors ufs: convert to new timestamp accessors udf: convert to new timestamp accessors ubifs: convert to new timestamp accessors tracefs: convert to new timestamp accessors sysv: convert to new timestamp accessors squashfs: convert to new timestamp accessors server: convert to new timestamp accessors client: convert to new timestamp accessors ...
Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains the usual miscellaneous features, cleanups, and fixes
for vfs and individual fses.
Features:
- Rename and export helpers that get write access to a mount. They
are used in overlayfs to get write access to the upper mount.
- Print the pretty name of the root device on boot failure. This
helps in scenarios where we would usually only print
"unknown-block(1,2)".
- Add an internal SB_I_NOUMASK flag. This is another part in the
endless POSIX ACL saga in a way.
When POSIX ACLs are enabled via SB_POSIXACL the vfs cannot strip
the umask because if the relevant inode has POSIX ACLs set it might
take the umask from there. But if the inode doesn't have any POSIX
ACLs set then we apply the umask in the filesytem itself. So we end
up with:
(1) no SB_POSIXACL -> strip umask in vfs
(2) SB_POSIXACL -> strip umask in filesystem
The umask semantics associated with SB_POSIXACL allowed filesystems
that don't even support POSIX ACLs at all to raise SB_POSIXACL
purely to avoid umask stripping. That specifically means NFS v4 and
Overlayfs. NFS v4 does it because it delegates this to the server
and Overlayfs because it needs to delegate umask stripping to the
upper filesystem, i.e., the filesystem used as the writable layer.
This went so far that SB_POSIXACL is raised eve on kernels that
don't even have POSIX ACL support at all.
Stop this blatant abuse and add SB_I_NOUMASK which is an internal
superblock flag that filesystems can raise to opt out of umask
handling. That should really only be the two mentioned above. It's
not that we want any filesystems to do this. Ideally we have all
umask handling always in the vfs.
- Make overlayfs use SB_I_NOUMASK too.
- Now that we have SB_I_NOUMASK, stop checking for SB_POSIXACL in
IS_POSIXACL() if the kernel doesn't have support for it. This is a
very old patch but it's only possible to do this now with the wider
cleanup that was done.
- Follow-up work on fake path handling from last cycle. Citing mostly
from Amir:
When overlayfs was first merged, overlayfs files of regular files
and directories, the ones that are installed in file table, had a
"fake" path, namely, f_path is the overlayfs path and f_inode is
the "real" inode on the underlying filesystem.
In v6.5, we took another small step by introducing of the
backing_file container and the file_real_path() helper. This change
allowed vfs and filesystem code to get the "real" path of an
overlayfs backing file. With this change, we were able to make
fsnotify work correctly and report events on the "real" filesystem
objects that were accessed via overlayfs.
This method works fine, but it still leaves the vfs vulnerable to
new code that is not aware of files with fake path. A recent
example is commit db1d1e8b9867 ("IMA: use vfs_getattr_nosec to get
the i_version"). This commit uses direct referencing to f_path in
IMA code that otherwise uses file_inode() and file_dentry() to
reference the filesystem objects that it is measuring.
This contains work to switch things around: instead of having
filesystem code opt-in to get the "real" path, have generic code
opt-in for the "fake" path in the few places that it is needed.
Is it far more likely that new filesystems code that does not use
the file_dentry() and file_real_path() helpers will end up causing
crashes or averting LSM/audit rules if we keep the "fake" path
exposed by default.
This change already makes file_dentry() moot, but for now we did
not change this helper just added a WARN_ON() in ovl_d_real() to
catch if we have made any wrong assumptions.
After the dust settles on this change, we can make file_dentry() a
plain accessor and we can drop the inode argument to ->d_real().
- Switch struct file to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU. This looks like a small
change but it really isn't and I would like to see everyone on
their tippie toes for any possible bugs from this work.
Essentially we've been doing most of what SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU for
files since a very long time because of the nasty interactions
between the SCM_RIGHTS file descriptor garbage collection. So
extending it makes a lot of sense but it is a subtle change. There
are almost no places that fiddle with file rcu semantics directly
and the ones that did mess around with struct file internal under
rcu have been made to stop doing that because it really was always
dodgy.
I forgot to put in the link tag for this change and the discussion
in the commit so adding it into the merge message:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230926162228.68666-1-mjguzik@gmail.com
Cleanups:
- Various smaller pipe cleanups including the removal of a spin lock
that was only used to protect against writes without pipe_lock()
from O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE aka watch queues. As that was never
implemented remove the additional locking from pipe_write().
- Annotate struct watch_filter with the new __counted_by attribute.
- Clarify do_unlinkat() cleanup so that it doesn't look like an extra
iput() is done that would cause issues.
- Simplify file cleanup when the file has never been opened.
- Use module helper instead of open-coding it.
- Predict error unlikely for stale retry.
- Use WRITE_ONCE() for mount expiry field instead of just commenting
that one hopes the compiler doesn't get smart.
Fixes:
- Fix readahead on block devices.
- Fix writeback when layztime is enabled and inodes whose timestamp
is the only thing that changed reside on wb->b_dirty_time. This
caused excessively large zombie memory cgroup when lazytime was
enabled as such inodes weren't handled fast enough.
- Convert BUG_ON() to WARN_ON_ONCE() in open_last_lookups()"
* tag 'vfs-6.7.misc' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (26 commits)
file, i915: fix file reference for mmap_singleton()
vfs: Convert BUG_ON to WARN_ON_ONCE in open_last_lookups
writeback, cgroup: switch inodes with dirty timestamps to release dying cgwbs
chardev: Simplify usage of try_module_get()
ovl: rely on SB_I_NOUMASK
fs: fix umask on NFS with CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL=n
fs: store real path instead of fake path in backing file f_path
fs: create helper file_user_path() for user displayed mapped file path
fs: get mnt_writers count for an open backing file's real path
vfs: stop counting on gcc not messing with mnt_expiry_mark if not asked
vfs: predict the error in retry_estale as unlikely
backing file: free directly
vfs: fix readahead(2) on block devices
io_uring: use files_lookup_fd_locked()
file: convert to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU
vfs: shave work on failed file open
fs: simplify misleading code to remove ambiguity regarding ihold()/iput()
watch_queue: Annotate struct watch_filter with __counted_by
fs/pipe: use spinlock in pipe_read() only if there is a watch_queue
fs/pipe: remove unnecessary spinlock from pipe_write()
...
__read_mostly predates __ro_after_init. Many variables which are marked __read_mostly should have been __ro_after_init from day 1. Also, mark some stuff as "const" and "__init" while I'm at it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: revert sysctl_nr_open_min, sysctl_nr_open_max changes due to arm warning] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4f6bb9c0-abba-4ee4-a7aa-89265e886817@p183 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Convert the core vfs code to use the new timestamp accessor functions. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231004185239.80830-2-jlayton@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
This reverts commit ffb6cf19e06334062744b7e3493f71e500964f8e. Users reported regressions due to enabling multi-grained timestamps unconditionally. As no clear consensus on a solution has come up and the discussion has gone back to the drawing board revert the infrastructure changes for. If it isn't code that's here to stay, make it go away. Message-ID: <20230920-keine-eile-c9755b5825db@brauner> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Before exporting these helpers to modules, make their names more
meaningful.
The names mnt_{get,put)_write_access*() were chosen, because they rhyme
with the inode {get,put)_write_access() helpers, which have a very close
meaning for the inode object.
Suggested-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230817-anfechtbar-ruhelosigkeit-8c6cca8443fc@brauner/
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20230908132900.2983519-2-amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Pull superblock updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains the super rework that was ready for this cycle. The
first part changes the order of how we open block devices and allocate
superblocks, contains various cleanups, simplifications, and a new
mechanism to wait on superblock state changes.
This unblocks work to ultimately limit the number of writers to a
block device. Jan has already scheduled follow-up work that will be
ready for v6.7 and allows us to restrict the number of writers to a
given block device. That series builds on this work right here.
The second part contains filesystem freezing updates.
Overview:
The generic superblock changes are rougly organized as follows
(ignoring additional minor cleanups):
(1) Removal of the bd_super member from struct block_device.
This was a very odd back pointer to struct super_block with
unclear rules. For all relevant places we have other means to get
the same information so just get rid of this.
(2) Simplify rules for superblock cleanup.
Roughly, everything that is allocated during fs_context
initialization and that's stored in fs_context->s_fs_info needs
to be cleaned up by the fs_context->free() implementation before
the superblock allocation function has been called successfully.
After sget_fc() returned fs_context->s_fs_info has been
transferred to sb->s_fs_info at which point sb->kill_sb() if
fully responsible for cleanup. Adhering to these rules means that
cleanup of sb->s_fs_info in fill_super() is to be avoided as it's
brittle and inconsistent.
Cleanup shouldn't be duplicated between sb->put_super() as
sb->put_super() is only called if sb->s_root has been set aka
when the filesystem has been successfully born (SB_BORN). That
complexity should be avoided.
This also means that block devices are to be closed in
sb->kill_sb() instead of sb->put_super(). More details in the
lower section.
(3) Make it possible to lookup or create a superblock before opening
block devices
There's a subtle dependency on (2) as some filesystems did rely
on fill_super() to be called in order to correctly clean up
sb->s_fs_info. All these filesystems have been fixed.
(4) Switch most filesystem to follow the same logic as the generic
mount code now does as outlined in (3).
(5) Use the superblock as the holder of the block device. We can now
easily go back from block device to owning superblock.
(6) Export and extend the generic fs_holder_ops and use them as
holder ops everywhere and remove the filesystem specific holder
ops.
(7) Call from the block layer up into the filesystem layer when the
block device is removed, allowing to shut down the filesystem
without risk of deadlocks.
(8) Get rid of get_super().
We can now easily go back from the block device to owning
superblock and can call up from the block layer into the
filesystem layer when the device is removed. So no need to wade
through all registered superblock to find the owning superblock
anymore"
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230824-prall-intakt-95dbffdee4a0@brauner/
* tag 'v6.6-vfs.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (47 commits)
super: use higher-level helper for {freeze,thaw}
super: wait until we passed kill super
super: wait for nascent superblocks
super: make locking naming consistent
super: use locking helpers
fs: simplify invalidate_inodes
fs: remove get_super
block: call into the file system for ioctl BLKFLSBUF
block: call into the file system for bdev_mark_dead
block: consolidate __invalidate_device and fsync_bdev
block: drop the "busy inodes on changed media" log message
dasd: also call __invalidate_device when setting the device offline
amiflop: don't call fsync_bdev in FDFMTBEG
floppy: call disk_force_media_change when changing the format
block: simplify the disk_force_media_change interface
nbd: call blk_mark_disk_dead in nbd_clear_sock_ioctl
xfs use fs_holder_ops for the log and RT devices
xfs: drop s_umount over opening the log and RT devices
ext4: use fs_holder_ops for the log device
ext4: drop s_umount over opening the log device
...
Pull vfs timestamp updates from Christian Brauner:
"This adds VFS support for multi-grain timestamps and converts tmpfs,
xfs, ext4, and btrfs to use them. This carries acks from all relevant
filesystems.
The VFS always uses coarse-grained timestamps when updating the ctime
and mtime after a change. This has the benefit of allowing filesystems
to optimize away a lot of metadata updates, down to around 1 per
jiffy, even when a file is under heavy writes.
Unfortunately, this has always been an issue when we're exporting via
NFSv3, which relies on timestamps to validate caches. A lot of changes
can happen in a jiffy, so timestamps aren't sufficient to help the
client decide to invalidate the cache.
Even with NFSv4, a lot of exported filesystems don't properly support
a change attribute and are subject to the same problems with timestamp
granularity. Other applications have similar issues with timestamps
(e.g., backup applications).
If we were to always use fine-grained timestamps, that would improve
the situation, but that becomes rather expensive, as the underlying
filesystem would have to log a lot more metadata updates.
This introduces fine-grained timestamps that are used when they are
actively queried.
This uses the 31st bit of the ctime tv_nsec field to indicate that
something has queried the inode for the mtime or ctime. When this flag
is set, on the next mtime or ctime update, the kernel will fetch a
fine-grained timestamp instead of the usual coarse-grained one.
As POSIX generally mandates that when the mtime changes, the ctime
must also change the kernel always stores normalized ctime values, so
only the first 30 bits of the tv_nsec field are ever used.
Filesytems can opt into this behavior by setting the FS_MGTIME flag in
the fstype. Filesystems that don't set this flag will continue to use
coarse-grained timestamps.
Various preparatory changes, fixes and cleanups are included:
- Fixup all relevant places where POSIX requires updating ctime
together with mtime. This is a wide-range of places and all
maintainers provided necessary Acks.
- Add new accessors for inode->i_ctime directly and change all
callers to rely on them. Plain accesses to inode->i_ctime are now
gone and it is accordingly rename to inode->__i_ctime and commented
as requiring accessors.
- Extend generic_fillattr() to pass in a request mask mirroring in a
sense the statx() uapi. This allows callers to pass in a request
mask to only get a subset of attributes filled in.
- Rework timestamp updates so it's possible to drop the @now
parameter the update_time() inode operation and associated helpers.
- Add inode_update_timestamps() and convert all filesystems to it
removing a bunch of open-coding"
* tag 'v6.6-vfs.ctime' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (107 commits)
btrfs: convert to multigrain timestamps
ext4: switch to multigrain timestamps
xfs: switch to multigrain timestamps
tmpfs: add support for multigrain timestamps
fs: add infrastructure for multigrain timestamps
fs: drop the timespec64 argument from update_time
xfs: have xfs_vn_update_time gets its own timestamp
fat: make fat_update_time get its own timestamp
fat: remove i_version handling from fat_update_time
ubifs: have ubifs_update_time use inode_update_timestamps
btrfs: have it use inode_update_timestamps
fs: drop the timespec64 arg from generic_update_time
fs: pass the request_mask to generic_fillattr
fs: remove silly warning from current_time
gfs2: fix timestamp handling on quota inodes
fs: rename i_ctime field to __i_ctime
selinux: convert to ctime accessor functions
security: convert to ctime accessor functions
apparmor: convert to ctime accessor functions
sunrpc: convert to ctime accessor functions
...