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<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-05-26T16:33:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-26T16:33:44+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs freezing updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains various filesystem freezing related work for this cycle:

   - Allow the power subsystem to support filesystem freeze for suspend
     and hibernate.

     Now all the pieces are in place to actually allow the power
     subsystem to freeze/thaw filesystems during suspend/resume.
     Filesystems are only frozen and thawed if the power subsystem does
     actually own the freeze.

     If the filesystem is already frozen by the time we've frozen all
     userspace processes we don't care to freeze it again. That's
     userspace's job once the process resumes. We only actually freeze
     filesystems if we absolutely have to and we ignore other failures
     to freeze.

     We could bubble up errors and fail suspend/resume if the error
     isn't EBUSY (aka it's already frozen) but I don't think that this
     is worth it. Filesystem freezing during suspend/resume is
     best-effort. If the user has 500 ext4 filesystems mounted and 4
     fail to freeze for whatever reason then we simply skip them.

     What we have now is already a big improvement and let's see how we
     fare with it before making our lives even harder (and uglier) than
     we have to.

   - Allow efivars to support freeze and thaw

     Allow efivarfs to partake to resync variable state during system
     hibernation and suspend. Add freeze/thaw support.

     This is a pretty straightforward implementation. We simply add
     regular freeze/thaw support for both userspace and the kernel.
     efivars is the first pseudofilesystem that adds support for
     filesystem freezing and thawing.

     The simplicity comes from the fact that we simply always resync
     variable state after efivarfs has been frozen. It doesn't matter
     whether that's because of suspend, userspace initiated freeze or
     hibernation. Efivars is simple enough that it doesn't matter that
     we walk all dentries. There are no directories and there aren't
     insane amounts of entries and both freeze/thaw are already
     heavy-handed operations. If userspace initiated a freeze/thaw cycle
     they would need CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the initial user namespace (as
     that's where efivarfs is mounted) so it can't be triggered by
     random userspace. IOW, we really really don't care"

* tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  f2fs: fix freezing filesystem during resize
  kernfs: add warning about implementing freeze/thaw
  efivarfs: support freeze/thaw
  power: freeze filesystems during suspend/resume
  libfs: export find_next_child()
  super: add filesystem freezing helpers for suspend and hibernate
  gfs2: pass through holder from the VFS for freeze/thaw
  super: use common iterator (Part 2)
  super: use a common iterator (Part 1)
  super: skip dying superblocks early
  super: simplify user_get_super()
  super: remove pointless s_root checks
  fs: allow all writers to be frozen
  locking/percpu-rwsem: add freezable alternative to down_read
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Pull vfs freezing updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains various filesystem freezing related work for this cycle:

   - Allow the power subsystem to support filesystem freeze for suspend
     and hibernate.

     Now all the pieces are in place to actually allow the power
     subsystem to freeze/thaw filesystems during suspend/resume.
     Filesystems are only frozen and thawed if the power subsystem does
     actually own the freeze.

     If the filesystem is already frozen by the time we've frozen all
     userspace processes we don't care to freeze it again. That's
     userspace's job once the process resumes. We only actually freeze
     filesystems if we absolutely have to and we ignore other failures
     to freeze.

     We could bubble up errors and fail suspend/resume if the error
     isn't EBUSY (aka it's already frozen) but I don't think that this
     is worth it. Filesystem freezing during suspend/resume is
     best-effort. If the user has 500 ext4 filesystems mounted and 4
     fail to freeze for whatever reason then we simply skip them.

     What we have now is already a big improvement and let's see how we
     fare with it before making our lives even harder (and uglier) than
     we have to.

   - Allow efivars to support freeze and thaw

     Allow efivarfs to partake to resync variable state during system
     hibernation and suspend. Add freeze/thaw support.

     This is a pretty straightforward implementation. We simply add
     regular freeze/thaw support for both userspace and the kernel.
     efivars is the first pseudofilesystem that adds support for
     filesystem freezing and thawing.

     The simplicity comes from the fact that we simply always resync
     variable state after efivarfs has been frozen. It doesn't matter
     whether that's because of suspend, userspace initiated freeze or
     hibernation. Efivars is simple enough that it doesn't matter that
     we walk all dentries. There are no directories and there aren't
     insane amounts of entries and both freeze/thaw are already
     heavy-handed operations. If userspace initiated a freeze/thaw cycle
     they would need CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the initial user namespace (as
     that's where efivarfs is mounted) so it can't be triggered by
     random userspace. IOW, we really really don't care"

* tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  f2fs: fix freezing filesystem during resize
  kernfs: add warning about implementing freeze/thaw
  efivarfs: support freeze/thaw
  power: freeze filesystems during suspend/resume
  libfs: export find_next_child()
  super: add filesystem freezing helpers for suspend and hibernate
  gfs2: pass through holder from the VFS for freeze/thaw
  super: use common iterator (Part 2)
  super: use a common iterator (Part 1)
  super: skip dying superblocks early
  super: simplify user_get_super()
  super: remove pointless s_root checks
  fs: allow all writers to be frozen
  locking/percpu-rwsem: add freezable alternative to down_read
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-05-26T16:02:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-26T16:02:39+00:00</published>
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the usual selections of misc updates for this cycle.

  Features:

   - Use folios for symlinks in the page cache

     FUSE already uses folios for its symlinks. Mirror that conversion
     in the generic code and the NFS code. That lets us get rid of a few
     folio-&gt;page-&gt;folio conversions in this path, and some of the few
     remaining users of read_cache_page() / read_mapping_page()

   - Try and make a few filesystem operations killable on the VFS
     inode-&gt;i_mutex level

   - Add sysctl vfs_cache_pressure_denom for bulk file operations

     Some workloads need to preserve more dentries than we currently
     allow through out sysctl interface

     A HDFS servers with 12 HDDs per server, on a HDFS datanode startup
     involves scanning all files and caching their metadata (including
     dentries and inodes) in memory. Each HDD contains approximately 2
     million files, resulting in a total of ~20 million cached dentries
     after initialization

     To minimize dentry reclamation, they set vfs_cache_pressure to 1.
     Despite this configuration, memory pressure conditions can still
     trigger reclamation of up to 50% of cached dentries, reducing the
     cache from 20 million to approximately 10 million entries. During
     the subsequent cache rebuild period, any HDFS datanode restart
     operation incurs substantial latency penalties until full cache
     recovery completes

     To maintain service stability, more dentries need to be preserved
     during memory reclamation. The current minimum reclaim ratio (1/100
     of total dentries) remains too aggressive for such workload. This
     patch introduces vfs_cache_pressure_denom for more granular cache
     pressure control

     The configuration [vfs_cache_pressure=1,
     vfs_cache_pressure_denom=10000] effectively maintains the full 20
     million dentry cache under memory pressure, preventing datanode
     restart performance degradation

   - Avoid some jumps in inode_permission() using likely()/unlikely()

   - Avid a memory access which is most likely a cache miss when
     descending into devcgroup_inode_permission()

   - Add fastpath predicts for stat() and fdput()

   - Anonymous inodes currently don't come with a proper mode causing
     issues in the kernel when we want to add useful VFS debug assert.
     Fix that by giving them a proper mode and masking it off when we
     report it to userspace which relies on them not having any mode

   - Anonymous inodes currently allow to change inode attributes because
     the VFS falls back to simple_setattr() if i_op-&gt;setattr isn't
     implemented. This means the ownership and mode for every single
     user of anon_inode_inode can be changed. Block that as it's either
     useless or actively harmful. If specific ownership is needed the
     respective subsystem should allocate anonymous inodes from their
     own private superblock

   - Raise SB_I_NODEV and SB_I_NOEXEC on the anonymous inode superblock

   - Add proper tests for anonymous inode behavior

   - Make it easy to detect proper anonymous inodes and to ensure that
     we can detect them in codepaths such as readahead()

  Cleanups:

   - Port pidfs to the new anon_inode_{g,s}etattr() helpers

   - Try to remove the uselib() system call

   - Add unlikely branch hint return path for poll

   - Add unlikely branch hint on return path for core_sys_select

   - Don't allow signals to interrupt getdents copying for fuse

   - Provide a size hint to dir_context for during readdir()

   - Use writeback_iter directly in mpage_writepages

   - Update compression and mtime descriptions in initramfs
     documentation

   - Update main netfs API document

   - Remove useless plus one in super_cache_scan()

   - Remove unnecessary NULL-check guards during setns()

   - Add separate separate {get,put}_cgroup_ns no-op cases

  Fixes:

   - Fix typo in root= kernel parameter description

   - Use KERN_INFO for infof()|info_plog()|infofc()

   - Correct comments of fs_validate_description()

   - Mark an unlikely if condition with unlikely() in
     vfs_parse_monolithic_sep()

   - Delete macro fsparam_u32hex()

   - Remove unused and problematic validate_constant_table()

   - Fix potential unsigned integer underflow in fs_name()

   - Make file-nr output the total allocated file handles"

* tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (43 commits)
  fs: Pass a folio to page_put_link()
  nfs: Use a folio in nfs_get_link()
  fs: Convert __page_get_link() to use a folio
  fs/read_write: make default_llseek() killable
  fs/open: make do_truncate() killable
  fs/open: make chmod_common() and chown_common() killable
  include/linux/fs.h: add inode_lock_killable()
  readdir: supply dir_context.count as readdir buffer size hint
  vfs: Add sysctl vfs_cache_pressure_denom for bulk file operations
  fuse: don't allow signals to interrupt getdents copying
  Documentation: fix typo in root= kernel parameter description
  include/cgroup: separate {get,put}_cgroup_ns no-op case
  kernel/nsproxy: remove unnecessary guards
  fs: use writeback_iter directly in mpage_writepages
  fs: remove useless plus one in super_cache_scan()
  fs: add S_ANON_INODE
  fs: remove uselib() system call
  device_cgroup: avoid access to -&gt;i_rdev in the common case in devcgroup_inode_permission()
  fs/fs_parse: Remove unused and problematic validate_constant_table()
  fs: touch up predicts in inode_permission()
  ...
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the usual selections of misc updates for this cycle.

  Features:

   - Use folios for symlinks in the page cache

     FUSE already uses folios for its symlinks. Mirror that conversion
     in the generic code and the NFS code. That lets us get rid of a few
     folio-&gt;page-&gt;folio conversions in this path, and some of the few
     remaining users of read_cache_page() / read_mapping_page()

   - Try and make a few filesystem operations killable on the VFS
     inode-&gt;i_mutex level

   - Add sysctl vfs_cache_pressure_denom for bulk file operations

     Some workloads need to preserve more dentries than we currently
     allow through out sysctl interface

     A HDFS servers with 12 HDDs per server, on a HDFS datanode startup
     involves scanning all files and caching their metadata (including
     dentries and inodes) in memory. Each HDD contains approximately 2
     million files, resulting in a total of ~20 million cached dentries
     after initialization

     To minimize dentry reclamation, they set vfs_cache_pressure to 1.
     Despite this configuration, memory pressure conditions can still
     trigger reclamation of up to 50% of cached dentries, reducing the
     cache from 20 million to approximately 10 million entries. During
     the subsequent cache rebuild period, any HDFS datanode restart
     operation incurs substantial latency penalties until full cache
     recovery completes

     To maintain service stability, more dentries need to be preserved
     during memory reclamation. The current minimum reclaim ratio (1/100
     of total dentries) remains too aggressive for such workload. This
     patch introduces vfs_cache_pressure_denom for more granular cache
     pressure control

     The configuration [vfs_cache_pressure=1,
     vfs_cache_pressure_denom=10000] effectively maintains the full 20
     million dentry cache under memory pressure, preventing datanode
     restart performance degradation

   - Avoid some jumps in inode_permission() using likely()/unlikely()

   - Avid a memory access which is most likely a cache miss when
     descending into devcgroup_inode_permission()

   - Add fastpath predicts for stat() and fdput()

   - Anonymous inodes currently don't come with a proper mode causing
     issues in the kernel when we want to add useful VFS debug assert.
     Fix that by giving them a proper mode and masking it off when we
     report it to userspace which relies on them not having any mode

   - Anonymous inodes currently allow to change inode attributes because
     the VFS falls back to simple_setattr() if i_op-&gt;setattr isn't
     implemented. This means the ownership and mode for every single
     user of anon_inode_inode can be changed. Block that as it's either
     useless or actively harmful. If specific ownership is needed the
     respective subsystem should allocate anonymous inodes from their
     own private superblock

   - Raise SB_I_NODEV and SB_I_NOEXEC on the anonymous inode superblock

   - Add proper tests for anonymous inode behavior

   - Make it easy to detect proper anonymous inodes and to ensure that
     we can detect them in codepaths such as readahead()

  Cleanups:

   - Port pidfs to the new anon_inode_{g,s}etattr() helpers

   - Try to remove the uselib() system call

   - Add unlikely branch hint return path for poll

   - Add unlikely branch hint on return path for core_sys_select

   - Don't allow signals to interrupt getdents copying for fuse

   - Provide a size hint to dir_context for during readdir()

   - Use writeback_iter directly in mpage_writepages

   - Update compression and mtime descriptions in initramfs
     documentation

   - Update main netfs API document

   - Remove useless plus one in super_cache_scan()

   - Remove unnecessary NULL-check guards during setns()

   - Add separate separate {get,put}_cgroup_ns no-op cases

  Fixes:

   - Fix typo in root= kernel parameter description

   - Use KERN_INFO for infof()|info_plog()|infofc()

   - Correct comments of fs_validate_description()

   - Mark an unlikely if condition with unlikely() in
     vfs_parse_monolithic_sep()

   - Delete macro fsparam_u32hex()

   - Remove unused and problematic validate_constant_table()

   - Fix potential unsigned integer underflow in fs_name()

   - Make file-nr output the total allocated file handles"

* tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (43 commits)
  fs: Pass a folio to page_put_link()
  nfs: Use a folio in nfs_get_link()
  fs: Convert __page_get_link() to use a folio
  fs/read_write: make default_llseek() killable
  fs/open: make do_truncate() killable
  fs/open: make chmod_common() and chown_common() killable
  include/linux/fs.h: add inode_lock_killable()
  readdir: supply dir_context.count as readdir buffer size hint
  vfs: Add sysctl vfs_cache_pressure_denom for bulk file operations
  fuse: don't allow signals to interrupt getdents copying
  Documentation: fix typo in root= kernel parameter description
  include/cgroup: separate {get,put}_cgroup_ns no-op case
  kernel/nsproxy: remove unnecessary guards
  fs: use writeback_iter directly in mpage_writepages
  fs: remove useless plus one in super_cache_scan()
  fs: add S_ANON_INODE
  fs: remove uselib() system call
  device_cgroup: avoid access to -&gt;i_rdev in the common case in devcgroup_inode_permission()
  fs/fs_parse: Remove unused and problematic validate_constant_table()
  fs: touch up predicts in inode_permission()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>libfs: export find_next_child()</title>
<updated>2025-05-09T10:41:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-31T12:42:11+00:00</published>
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Export find_next_child() so it can be used by efivarfs.
Keep it internal for now. There's no reason to advertise this
kernel-wide.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250331-work-freeze-v1-1-6dfbe8253b9f@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Export find_next_child() so it can be used by efivarfs.
Keep it internal for now. There's no reason to advertise this
kernel-wide.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250331-work-freeze-v1-1-6dfbe8253b9f@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Use try_lookup_noperm() instead of d_hash_and_lookup() outside of VFS</title>
<updated>2025-04-08T09:24:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-19T03:01:36+00:00</published>
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try_lookup_noperm() and d_hash_and_lookup() are nearly identical.  The
former does some validation of the name where the latter doesn't.
Outside of the VFS that validation is likely valuable, and having only
one exported function for this task is certainly a good idea.

So make d_hash_and_lookup() local to VFS files and change all other
callers to try_lookup_noperm().  Note that the arguments are swapped.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250319031545.2999807-6-neil@brown.name
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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try_lookup_noperm() and d_hash_and_lookup() are nearly identical.  The
former does some validation of the name where the latter doesn't.
Outside of the VFS that validation is likely valuable, and having only
one exported function for this task is certainly a good idea.

So make d_hash_and_lookup() local to VFS files and change all other
callers to try_lookup_noperm().  Note that the arguments are swapped.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250319031545.2999807-6-neil@brown.name
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>anon_inode: explicitly block -&gt;setattr()</title>
<updated>2025-04-07T14:18:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-07T09:54:17+00:00</published>
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It is currently possible to change the mode and owner of the single
anonymous inode in the kernel:

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
        int ret, sfd;
        sigset_t mask;
        struct signalfd_siginfo fdsi;

        sigemptyset(&amp;mask);
        sigaddset(&amp;mask, SIGINT);
        sigaddset(&amp;mask, SIGQUIT);

        ret = sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &amp;mask, NULL);
        if (ret &lt; 0)
                _exit(1);

        sfd = signalfd(-1, &amp;mask, 0);
        if (sfd &lt; 0)
                _exit(2);

        ret = fchown(sfd, 5555, 5555);
        if (ret &lt; 0)
                _exit(3);

        ret = fchmod(sfd, 0777);
        if (ret &lt; 0)
                _exit(3);

        _exit(4);
}

This is a bug. It's not really a meaningful one because anonymous inodes
don't really figure into path lookup and they cannot be reopened via
/proc/&lt;pid&gt;/fd/&lt;nr&gt; and can't be used for lookup itself. So they can
only ever serve as direct references.

But it is still completely bogus to allow the mode and ownership or any
of the properties of the anonymous inode to be changed. Block this!

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250407-work-anon_inode-v1-3-53a44c20d44e@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # all LTS kernels
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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It is currently possible to change the mode and owner of the single
anonymous inode in the kernel:

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
        int ret, sfd;
        sigset_t mask;
        struct signalfd_siginfo fdsi;

        sigemptyset(&amp;mask);
        sigaddset(&amp;mask, SIGINT);
        sigaddset(&amp;mask, SIGQUIT);

        ret = sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, &amp;mask, NULL);
        if (ret &lt; 0)
                _exit(1);

        sfd = signalfd(-1, &amp;mask, 0);
        if (sfd &lt; 0)
                _exit(2);

        ret = fchown(sfd, 5555, 5555);
        if (ret &lt; 0)
                _exit(3);

        ret = fchmod(sfd, 0777);
        if (ret &lt; 0)
                _exit(3);

        _exit(4);
}

This is a bug. It's not really a meaningful one because anonymous inodes
don't really figure into path lookup and they cannot be reopened via
/proc/&lt;pid&gt;/fd/&lt;nr&gt; and can't be used for lookup itself. So they can
only ever serve as direct references.

But it is still completely bogus to allow the mode and ownership or any
of the properties of the anonymous inode to be changed. Block this!

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250407-work-anon_inode-v1-3-53a44c20d44e@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # all LTS kernels
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>anon_inode: use a proper mode internally</title>
<updated>2025-04-07T14:18:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-07T09:54:15+00:00</published>
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This allows the VFS to not trip over anonymous inodes and we can add
asserts based on the mode into the vfs. When we report it to userspace
we can simply hide the mode to avoid regressions. I've audited all
direct callers of alloc_anon_inode() and only secretmen overrides i_mode
and i_op inode operations but it already uses a regular file.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250407-work-anon_inode-v1-1-53a44c20d44e@kernel.org
Fixes: af153bb63a336 ("vfs: catch invalid modes in may_open()")
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # all LTS kernels
Reported-by: syzbot+5d8e79d323a13aa0b248@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/67ed3fb3.050a0220.14623d.0009.GAE@google.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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This allows the VFS to not trip over anonymous inodes and we can add
asserts based on the mode into the vfs. When we report it to userspace
we can simply hide the mode to avoid regressions. I've audited all
direct callers of alloc_anon_inode() and only secretmen overrides i_mode
and i_op inode operations but it already uses a regular file.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250407-work-anon_inode-v1-1-53a44c20d44e@kernel.org
Fixes: af153bb63a336 ("vfs: catch invalid modes in may_open()")
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # all LTS kernels
Reported-by: syzbot+5d8e79d323a13aa0b248@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/67ed3fb3.050a0220.14623d.0009.GAE@google.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.file' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-03-24T20:19:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-24T20:19:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=912b82dc0b27abc407c831e74fbcbdebfe19997b'/>
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Pull vfs file handling updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains performance improvements for struct file's new refcount
  mechanism and various other performance work:

   - The stock kernel transitioning the file to no refs held penalizes
     the caller with an extra atomic to block any increments. For cases
     where the file is highly likely to be going away this is easily
     avoidable.

     Add file_ref_put_close() to better handle the common case where
     closing a file descriptor also operates on the last reference and
     build fput_close_sync() and fput_close() on top of it. This brings
     about 1% performance improvement by eliding one atomic in the
     common case.

   - Predict no error in close() since the vast majority of the time
     system call returns 0.

   - Reduce the work done in fdget_pos() by predicting that the file was
     found and by explicitly comparing the reference count to one and
     ignoring the dead zone"

* tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.file' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  fs: reduce work in fdget_pos()
  fs: use fput_close() in path_openat()
  fs: use fput_close() in filp_close()
  fs: use fput_close_sync() in close()
  file: add fput and file_ref_put routines optimized for use when closing a fd
  fs: predict no error in close()
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Pull vfs file handling updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains performance improvements for struct file's new refcount
  mechanism and various other performance work:

   - The stock kernel transitioning the file to no refs held penalizes
     the caller with an extra atomic to block any increments. For cases
     where the file is highly likely to be going away this is easily
     avoidable.

     Add file_ref_put_close() to better handle the common case where
     closing a file descriptor also operates on the last reference and
     build fput_close_sync() and fput_close() on top of it. This brings
     about 1% performance improvement by eliding one atomic in the
     common case.

   - Predict no error in close() since the vast majority of the time
     system call returns 0.

   - Reduce the work done in fdget_pos() by predicting that the file was
     found and by explicitly comparing the reference count to one and
     ignoring the dead zone"

* tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.file' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  fs: reduce work in fdget_pos()
  fs: use fput_close() in path_openat()
  fs: use fput_close() in filp_close()
  fs: use fput_close_sync() in close()
  file: add fput and file_ref_put routines optimized for use when closing a fd
  fs: predict no error in close()
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.pidfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-03-24T17:16:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-24T17:16:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=df00ded23a6b4df888237333b1f86067d24113b2'/>
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Pull vfs pidfs updates from Christian Brauner:

 - Allow retrieving exit information after a process has been reaped
   through pidfds via the new PIDFD_INTO_EXIT extension for the
   PIDFD_GET_INFO ioctl. Various tools need access to information about
   a process/task even after it has already been reaped.

   Pidfd polling allows waiting on either task exit or for a task to
   have been reaped. The contract for PIDFD_INFO_EXIT is simply that
   EPOLLHUP must be observed before exit information can be retrieved,
   i.e., exit information is only provided once the task has been reaped
   and then can be retrieved as long as the pidfd is open.

 - Add PIDFD_SELF_{THREAD,THREAD_GROUP} sentinels allowing userspace to
   forgo allocating a file descriptor for their own process. This is
   useful in scenarios where users want to act on their own process
   through pidfds and is akin to AT_FDCWD.

 - Improve premature thread-group leader and subthread exec behavior
   when polling on pidfds:

   (1) During a multi-threaded exec by a subthread, i.e.,
       non-thread-group leader thread, all other threads in the
       thread-group including the thread-group leader are killed and the
       struct pid of the thread-group leader will be taken over by the
       subthread that called exec. IOW, two tasks change their TIDs.

   (2) A premature thread-group leader exit means that the thread-group
       leader exited before all of the other subthreads in the
       thread-group have exited.

   Both cases lead to inconsistencies for pidfd polling with
   PIDFD_THREAD. Any caller that holds a PIDFD_THREAD pidfd to the
   current thread-group leader may or may not see an exit notification
   on the file descriptor depending on when poll is performed. If the
   poll is performed before the exec of the subthread has concluded an
   exit notification is generated for the old thread-group leader. If
   the poll is performed after the exec of the subthread has concluded
   no exit notification is generated for the old thread-group leader.

   The correct behavior is to simply not generate an exit notification
   on the struct pid of a subhthread exec because the struct pid is
   taken over by the subthread and thus remains alive.

   But this is difficult to handle because a thread-group may exit
   premature as mentioned in (2). In that case an exit notification is
   reliably generated but the subthreads may continue to run for an
   indeterminate amount of time and thus also may exec at some point.

   After this pull no exit notifications will be generated for a
   PIDFD_THREAD pidfd for a thread-group leader until all subthreads
   have been reaped. If a subthread should exec before no exit
   notification will be generated until that task exits or it creates
   subthreads and repeates the cycle.

   This means an exit notification indicates the ability for the father
   to reap the child.

* tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.pidfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (25 commits)
  selftests/pidfd: third test for multi-threaded exec polling
  selftests/pidfd: second test for multi-threaded exec polling
  selftests/pidfd: first test for multi-threaded exec polling
  pidfs: improve multi-threaded exec and premature thread-group leader exit polling
  pidfs: ensure that PIDFS_INFO_EXIT is available
  selftests/pidfd: add seventh PIDFD_INFO_EXIT selftest
  selftests/pidfd: add sixth PIDFD_INFO_EXIT selftest
  selftests/pidfd: add fifth PIDFD_INFO_EXIT selftest
  selftests/pidfd: add fourth PIDFD_INFO_EXIT selftest
  selftests/pidfd: add third PIDFD_INFO_EXIT selftest
  selftests/pidfd: add second PIDFD_INFO_EXIT selftest
  selftests/pidfd: add first PIDFD_INFO_EXIT selftest
  selftests/pidfd: expand common pidfd header
  pidfs/selftests: ensure correct headers for ioctl handling
  selftests/pidfd: fix header inclusion
  pidfs: allow to retrieve exit information
  pidfs: record exit code and cgroupid at exit
  pidfs: use private inode slab cache
  pidfs: move setting flags into pidfs_alloc_file()
  pidfd: rely on automatic cleanup in __pidfd_prepare()
  ...
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Pull vfs pidfs updates from Christian Brauner:

 - Allow retrieving exit information after a process has been reaped
   through pidfds via the new PIDFD_INTO_EXIT extension for the
   PIDFD_GET_INFO ioctl. Various tools need access to information about
   a process/task even after it has already been reaped.

   Pidfd polling allows waiting on either task exit or for a task to
   have been reaped. The contract for PIDFD_INFO_EXIT is simply that
   EPOLLHUP must be observed before exit information can be retrieved,
   i.e., exit information is only provided once the task has been reaped
   and then can be retrieved as long as the pidfd is open.

 - Add PIDFD_SELF_{THREAD,THREAD_GROUP} sentinels allowing userspace to
   forgo allocating a file descriptor for their own process. This is
   useful in scenarios where users want to act on their own process
   through pidfds and is akin to AT_FDCWD.

 - Improve premature thread-group leader and subthread exec behavior
   when polling on pidfds:

   (1) During a multi-threaded exec by a subthread, i.e.,
       non-thread-group leader thread, all other threads in the
       thread-group including the thread-group leader are killed and the
       struct pid of the thread-group leader will be taken over by the
       subthread that called exec. IOW, two tasks change their TIDs.

   (2) A premature thread-group leader exit means that the thread-group
       leader exited before all of the other subthreads in the
       thread-group have exited.

   Both cases lead to inconsistencies for pidfd polling with
   PIDFD_THREAD. Any caller that holds a PIDFD_THREAD pidfd to the
   current thread-group leader may or may not see an exit notification
   on the file descriptor depending on when poll is performed. If the
   poll is performed before the exec of the subthread has concluded an
   exit notification is generated for the old thread-group leader. If
   the poll is performed after the exec of the subthread has concluded
   no exit notification is generated for the old thread-group leader.

   The correct behavior is to simply not generate an exit notification
   on the struct pid of a subhthread exec because the struct pid is
   taken over by the subthread and thus remains alive.

   But this is difficult to handle because a thread-group may exit
   premature as mentioned in (2). In that case an exit notification is
   reliably generated but the subthreads may continue to run for an
   indeterminate amount of time and thus also may exec at some point.

   After this pull no exit notifications will be generated for a
   PIDFD_THREAD pidfd for a thread-group leader until all subthreads
   have been reaped. If a subthread should exec before no exit
   notification will be generated until that task exits or it creates
   subthreads and repeates the cycle.

   This means an exit notification indicates the ability for the father
   to reap the child.

* tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.pidfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (25 commits)
  selftests/pidfd: third test for multi-threaded exec polling
  selftests/pidfd: second test for multi-threaded exec polling
  selftests/pidfd: first test for multi-threaded exec polling
  pidfs: improve multi-threaded exec and premature thread-group leader exit polling
  pidfs: ensure that PIDFS_INFO_EXIT is available
  selftests/pidfd: add seventh PIDFD_INFO_EXIT selftest
  selftests/pidfd: add sixth PIDFD_INFO_EXIT selftest
  selftests/pidfd: add fifth PIDFD_INFO_EXIT selftest
  selftests/pidfd: add fourth PIDFD_INFO_EXIT selftest
  selftests/pidfd: add third PIDFD_INFO_EXIT selftest
  selftests/pidfd: add second PIDFD_INFO_EXIT selftest
  selftests/pidfd: add first PIDFD_INFO_EXIT selftest
  selftests/pidfd: expand common pidfd header
  pidfs/selftests: ensure correct headers for ioctl handling
  selftests/pidfd: fix header inclusion
  pidfs: allow to retrieve exit information
  pidfs: record exit code and cgroupid at exit
  pidfs: use private inode slab cache
  pidfs: move setting flags into pidfs_alloc_file()
  pidfd: rely on automatic cleanup in __pidfd_prepare()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-03-24T16:34:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-24T16:34:10+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=fd101da676362aaa051b4f5d8a941bd308603041'/>
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Pull vfs mount updates from Christian Brauner:

 - Mount notifications

   The day has come where we finally provide a new api to listen for
   mount topology changes outside of /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/mountinfo. A mount
   namespace file descriptor can be supplied and registered with
   fanotify to listen for mount topology changes.

   Currently notifications for mount, umount and moving mounts are
   generated. The generated notification record contains the unique
   mount id of the mount.

   The listmount() and statmount() api can be used to query detailed
   information about the mount using the received unique mount id.

   This allows userspace to figure out exactly how the mount topology
   changed without having to generating diffs of /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/mountinfo
   in userspace.

 - Support O_PATH file descriptors with FSCONFIG_SET_FD in the new mount
   api

 - Support detached mounts in overlayfs

   Since last cycle we support specifying overlayfs layers via file
   descriptors. However, we don't allow detached mounts which means
   userspace cannot user file descriptors received via
   open_tree(OPEN_TREE_CLONE) and fsmount() directly. They have to
   attach them to a mount namespace via move_mount() first.

   This is cumbersome and means they have to undo mounts via umount().
   Allow them to directly use detached mounts.

 - Allow to retrieve idmappings with statmount

   Currently it isn't possible to figure out what idmapping has been
   attached to an idmapped mount. Add an extension to statmount() which
   allows to read the idmapping from the mount.

 - Allow creating idmapped mounts from mounts that are already idmapped

   So far it isn't possible to allow the creation of idmapped mounts
   from already idmapped mounts as this has significant lifetime
   implications. Make the creation of idmapped mounts atomic by allow to
   pass struct mount_attr together with the open_tree_attr() system call
   allowing to solve these issues without complicating VFS lookup in any
   way.

   The system call has in general the benefit that creating a detached
   mount and applying mount attributes to it becomes an atomic operation
   for userspace.

 - Add a way to query statmount() for supported options

   Allow userspace to query which mount information can be retrieved
   through statmount().

 - Allow superblock owners to force unmount

* tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (21 commits)
  umount: Allow superblock owners to force umount
  selftests: add tests for mount notification
  selinux: add FILE__WATCH_MOUNTNS
  samples/vfs: fix printf format string for size_t
  fs: allow changing idmappings
  fs: add kflags member to struct mount_kattr
  fs: add open_tree_attr()
  fs: add copy_mount_setattr() helper
  fs: add vfs_open_tree() helper
  statmount: add a new supported_mask field
  samples/vfs: add STATMOUNT_MNT_{G,U}IDMAP
  selftests: add tests for using detached mount with overlayfs
  samples/vfs: check whether flag was raised
  statmount: allow to retrieve idmappings
  uidgid: add map_id_range_up()
  fs: allow detached mounts in clone_private_mount()
  selftests/overlayfs: test specifying layers as O_PATH file descriptors
  fs: support O_PATH fds with FSCONFIG_SET_FD
  vfs: add notifications for mount attach and detach
  fanotify: notify on mount attach and detach
  ...
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Pull vfs mount updates from Christian Brauner:

 - Mount notifications

   The day has come where we finally provide a new api to listen for
   mount topology changes outside of /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/mountinfo. A mount
   namespace file descriptor can be supplied and registered with
   fanotify to listen for mount topology changes.

   Currently notifications for mount, umount and moving mounts are
   generated. The generated notification record contains the unique
   mount id of the mount.

   The listmount() and statmount() api can be used to query detailed
   information about the mount using the received unique mount id.

   This allows userspace to figure out exactly how the mount topology
   changed without having to generating diffs of /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/mountinfo
   in userspace.

 - Support O_PATH file descriptors with FSCONFIG_SET_FD in the new mount
   api

 - Support detached mounts in overlayfs

   Since last cycle we support specifying overlayfs layers via file
   descriptors. However, we don't allow detached mounts which means
   userspace cannot user file descriptors received via
   open_tree(OPEN_TREE_CLONE) and fsmount() directly. They have to
   attach them to a mount namespace via move_mount() first.

   This is cumbersome and means they have to undo mounts via umount().
   Allow them to directly use detached mounts.

 - Allow to retrieve idmappings with statmount

   Currently it isn't possible to figure out what idmapping has been
   attached to an idmapped mount. Add an extension to statmount() which
   allows to read the idmapping from the mount.

 - Allow creating idmapped mounts from mounts that are already idmapped

   So far it isn't possible to allow the creation of idmapped mounts
   from already idmapped mounts as this has significant lifetime
   implications. Make the creation of idmapped mounts atomic by allow to
   pass struct mount_attr together with the open_tree_attr() system call
   allowing to solve these issues without complicating VFS lookup in any
   way.

   The system call has in general the benefit that creating a detached
   mount and applying mount attributes to it becomes an atomic operation
   for userspace.

 - Add a way to query statmount() for supported options

   Allow userspace to query which mount information can be retrieved
   through statmount().

 - Allow superblock owners to force unmount

* tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (21 commits)
  umount: Allow superblock owners to force umount
  selftests: add tests for mount notification
  selinux: add FILE__WATCH_MOUNTNS
  samples/vfs: fix printf format string for size_t
  fs: allow changing idmappings
  fs: add kflags member to struct mount_kattr
  fs: add open_tree_attr()
  fs: add copy_mount_setattr() helper
  fs: add vfs_open_tree() helper
  statmount: add a new supported_mask field
  samples/vfs: add STATMOUNT_MNT_{G,U}IDMAP
  selftests: add tests for using detached mount with overlayfs
  samples/vfs: check whether flag was raised
  statmount: allow to retrieve idmappings
  uidgid: add map_id_range_up()
  fs: allow detached mounts in clone_private_mount()
  selftests/overlayfs: test specifying layers as O_PATH file descriptors
  fs: support O_PATH fds with FSCONFIG_SET_FD
  vfs: add notifications for mount attach and detach
  fanotify: notify on mount attach and detach
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: Remove invalidate_inodes()</title>
<updated>2025-03-08T11:19:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-07T14:43:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=93fd0d46cbf7bc35a3a912c913b4f074955119c7'/>
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The function can be replaced by evict_inodes. The only difference is
that evict_inodes() skips the inodes with positive refcount without
touching -&gt;i_lock, but they are equivalent as evict_inodes() repeats the
refcount check after having grabbed -&gt;i_lock.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250307144318.28120-2-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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The function can be replaced by evict_inodes. The only difference is
that evict_inodes() skips the inodes with positive refcount without
touching -&gt;i_lock, but they are equivalent as evict_inodes() repeats the
refcount check after having grabbed -&gt;i_lock.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250307144318.28120-2-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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