linux.git/fs/ramfs, branch v6.15

Change inode_operations.mkdir to return struct dentry *

2025-02-27T19:00:17+00:00

Some filesystems, such as NFS, cifs, ceph, and fuse, do not have
complete control of sequencing on the actual filesystem (e.g.  on a
different server) and may find that the inode created for a mkdir
request already exists in the icache and dcache by the time the mkdir
request returns.  For example, if the filesystem is mounted twice the
directory could be visible on the other mount before it is on the
original mount, and a pair of name_to_handle_at(), open_by_handle_at()
calls could instantiate the directory inode with an IS_ROOT() dentry
before the first mkdir returns.

This means that the dentry passed to ->mkdir() may not be the one that
is associated with the inode after the ->mkdir() completes.  Some
callers need to interact with the inode after the ->mkdir completes and
they currently need to perform a lookup in the (rare) case that the
dentry is no longer hashed.

This lookup-after-mkdir requires that the directory remains locked to
avoid races.  Planned future patches to lock the dentry rather than the
directory will mean that this lookup cannot be performed atomically with
the mkdir.

To remove this barrier, this patch changes ->mkdir to return the
resulting dentry if it is different from the one passed in.
Possible returns are:
  NULL - the directory was created and no other dentry was used
  ERR_PTR() - an error occurred
  non-NULL - this other dentry was spliced in

This patch only changes file-systems to return "ERR_PTR(err)" instead of
"err" or equivalent transformations.  Subsequent patches will make
further changes to some file-systems to return a correct dentry.

Not all filesystems reliably result in a positive hashed dentry:

- NFS, cifs, hostfs will sometimes need to perform a lookup of
  the name to get inode information.  Races could result in this
  returning something different. Note that this lookup is
  non-atomic which is what we are trying to avoid.  Placing the
  lookup in filesystem code means it only happens when the filesystem
  has no other option.
- kernfs and tracefs leave the dentry negative and the ->revalidate
  operation ensures that lookup will be called to correctly populate
  the dentry.  This could be fixed but I don't think it is important
  to any of the users of vfs_mkdir() which look at the dentry.

The recommendation to use
    d_drop();d_splice_alias()
is ugly but fits with current practice.  A planned future patch will
change this.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250227013949.536172-2-neilb@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

mm: switch mm->get_unmapped_area() to a flag

2024-04-26T03:56:25+00:00

The mm_struct contains a function pointer *get_unmapped_area(), which is
set to either arch_get_unmapped_area() or arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown()
during the initialization of the mm.

Since the function pointer only ever points to two functions that are
named the same across all arch's, a function pointer is not really
required.  In addition future changes will want to add versions of the
functions that take additional arguments.  So to save a pointers worth of
bytes in mm_struct, and prevent adding additional function pointers to
mm_struct in future changes, remove it and keep the information about
which get_unmapped_area() to use in a flag.

Add the new flag to MMF_INIT_MASK so it doesn't get clobbered on fork by
mmf_init_flags().  Most MM flags get clobbered on fork.  In the
pre-existing behavior mm->get_unmapped_area() would get copied to the new
mm in dup_mm(), so not clobbering the flag preserves the existing behavior
around inheriting the topdown-ness.

Introduce a helper, mm_get_unmapped_area(), to easily convert code that
refers to the old function pointer to instead select and call either
arch_get_unmapped_area() or arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown() based on the
flag.  Then drop the mm->get_unmapped_area() function pointer.  Leave the
get_unmapped_area() pointer in struct file_operations alone.  The main
purpose of this change is to reorganize in preparation for future changes,
but it also converts the calls of mm->get_unmapped_area() from indirect
branches into a direct ones.

The stress-ng bigheap benchmark calls realloc a lot, which calls through
get_unmapped_area() in the kernel.  On x86, the change yielded a ~1%
improvement there on a retpoline config.

In testing a few x86 configs, removing the pointer unfortunately didn't
result in any actual size reductions in the compiled layout of mm_struct. 
But depending on compiler or arch alignment requirements, the change could
shrink the size of mm_struct.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240326021656.202649-3-rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe 
Acked-by: Dave Hansen 
Acked-by: Liam R. Howlett 
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov 
Cc: Dan Williams 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V 
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) 
Cc: Christophe Leroy 
Cc: Deepak Gupta 
Cc: Guo Ren 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Mark Brown 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Naveen N. Rao 
Cc: Nicholas Piggin 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

ramfs: Initialize security of in-memory inodes

2024-01-26T17:08:16+00:00

Add a call security_inode_init_security() after ramfs_get_inode(), to let
LSMs initialize the inode security field. Skip ramfs_fill_super(), as the
initialization is done through the sb_set_mnt_opts hook.

Calling security_inode_init_security() call inside ramfs_get_inode() is
not possible since, for CONFIG_SHMEM=n, tmpfs also calls the former after
the latter.

Pass NULL as initxattrs() callback to security_inode_init_security(), since
the purpose of the call is only to initialize the in-memory inodes.

Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Acked-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu 
Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler

mm, treewide: rename MAX_ORDER to MAX_PAGE_ORDER

2024-01-08T23:27:15+00:00

commit 23baf831a32c ("mm, treewide: redefine MAX_ORDER sanely") has
changed the definition of MAX_ORDER to be inclusive.  This has caused
issues with code that was not yet upstream and depended on the previous
definition.

To draw attention to the altered meaning of the define, rename MAX_ORDER
to MAX_PAGE_ORDER.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231228144704.14033-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

ramfs: convert to new timestamp accessors

2023-10-18T12:08:26+00:00

Convert to using the new inode timestamp accessor functions.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231004185347.80880-63-jlayton@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

ramfs: convert to ctime accessor functions

2023-07-24T08:30:04+00:00

In later patches, we're going to change how the inode's ctime field is
used. Switch to using accessor functions instead of raw accesses of
inode->i_ctime.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Message-Id: <20230705190309.579783-69-jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-06-24-19-15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2023-06-28T17:28:11+00:00

Pull mm updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Yosry Ahmed brought back some cgroup v1 stats in OOM logs

 - Yosry has also eliminated cgroup's atomic rstat flushing

 - Nhat Pham adds the new cachestat() syscall. It provides userspace
   with the ability to query pagecache status - a similar concept to
   mincore() but more powerful and with improved usability

 - Mel Gorman provides more optimizations for compaction, reducing the
   prevalence of page rescanning

 - Lorenzo Stoakes has done some maintanance work on the
   get_user_pages() interface

 - Liam Howlett continues with cleanups and maintenance work to the
   maple tree code. Peng Zhang also does some work on maple tree

 - Johannes Weiner has done some cleanup work on the compaction code

 - David Hildenbrand has contributed additional selftests for
   get_user_pages()

 - Thomas Gleixner has contributed some maintenance and optimization
   work for the vmalloc code

 - Baolin Wang has provided some compaction cleanups,

 - SeongJae Park continues maintenance work on the DAMON code

 - Huang Ying has done some maintenance on the swap code's usage of
   device refcounting

 - Christoph Hellwig has some cleanups for the filemap/directio code

 - Ryan Roberts provides two patch series which yield some
   rationalization of the kernel's access to pte entries - use the
   provided APIs rather than open-coding accesses

 - Lorenzo Stoakes has some fixes to the interaction between pagecache
   and directio access to file mappings

 - John Hubbard has a series of fixes to the MM selftesting code

 - ZhangPeng continues the folio conversion campaign

 - Hugh Dickins has been working on the pagetable handling code, mainly
   with a view to reducing the load on the mmap_lock

 - Catalin Marinas has reduced the arm64 kmalloc() minimum alignment
   from 128 to 8

 - Domenico Cerasuolo has improved the zswap reclaim mechanism by
   reorganizing the LRU management

 - Matthew Wilcox provides some fixups to make gfs2 work better with the
   buffer_head code

 - Vishal Moola also has done some folio conversion work

 - Matthew Wilcox has removed the remnants of the pagevec code - their
   functionality is migrated over to struct folio_batch

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-06-24-19-15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (380 commits)
  mm/hugetlb: remove hugetlb_set_page_subpool()
  mm: nommu: correct the range of mmap_sem_read_lock in task_mem()
  hugetlb: revert use of page_cache_next_miss()
  Revert "page cache: fix page_cache_next/prev_miss off by one"
  mm/vmscan: fix root proactive reclaim unthrottling unbalanced node
  mm: memcg: rename and document global_reclaim()
  mm: kill [add|del]_page_to_lru_list()
  mm: compaction: convert to use a folio in isolate_migratepages_block()
  mm: zswap: fix double invalidate with exclusive loads
  mm: remove unnecessary pagevec includes
  mm: remove references to pagevec
  mm: rename invalidate_mapping_pagevec to mapping_try_invalidate
  mm: remove struct pagevec
  net: convert sunrpc from pagevec to folio_batch
  i915: convert i915_gpu_error to use a folio_batch
  pagevec: rename fbatch_count()
  mm: remove check_move_unevictable_pages()
  drm: convert drm_gem_put_pages() to use a folio_batch
  i915: convert shmem_sg_free_table() to use a folio_batch
  scatterlist: add sg_set_folio()
  ...

shmem: use ramfs_kill_sb() for kill_sb method of ramfs-based tmpfs

2023-06-19T23:19:04+00:00

As the ramfs-based tmpfs uses ramfs_init_fs_context() for the
init_fs_context method, which allocates fc->s_fs_info, use ramfs_kill_sb()
to free it and avoid a memory leak.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230607161523.2876433-1-roberto.sassu@huaweicloud.com
Fixes: c3b1b1cbf002 ("ramfs: add support for "mode=" mount option")
Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

splice: Use filemap_splice_read() instead of generic_file_splice_read()

2023-05-24T14:42:17+00:00

Replace pointers to generic_file_splice_read() with calls to
filemap_splice_read().

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner 
cc: Jens Axboe 
cc: Al Viro 
cc: David Hildenbrand 
cc: John Hubbard 
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230522135018.2742245-29-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

mm, treewide: redefine MAX_ORDER sanely

2023-04-06T02:42:46+00:00

MAX_ORDER currently defined as number of orders page allocator supports:
user can ask buddy allocator for page order between 0 and MAX_ORDER-1.

This definition is counter-intuitive and lead to number of bugs all over
the kernel.

Change the definition of MAX_ORDER to be inclusive: the range of orders
user can ask from buddy allocator is 0..MAX_ORDER now.

[kirill@shutemov.name: fix min() warning]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230315153800.32wib3n5rickolvh@box
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix another min_t warning]
[kirill@shutemov.name: fixups per Zi Yan]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230316232144.b7ic4cif4kjiabws@box.shutemov.name
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix underlining in docs]
  Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202303191025.VRCTk6mP-lkp@intel.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230315113133.11326-11-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Reviewed-by: Michael Ellerman 	[powerpc]
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" 
Cc: Zi Yan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton