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2026-06-29ovl: allow idmapping overlay mountsChristian Brauner
Now that every overlay inode operation honors the overlay mount idmap, allow the merged overlay mount itself to be idmapped by setting FS_ALLOW_IDMAP on ovl_fs_type. mount_setattr(MOUNT_ATTR_IDMAP) can then apply an idmapping to an overlay mount, exposing the merged tree under a different ownership view. The composition is clean because overlayfs already normalizes every underlying id through the relevant layer idmap when it copies attributes into the overlay inode (ovl_copyattr()); the overlay inode's i_{u,g}id are thus "overlay-final" ids. The overlay mount idmap composes on top of that pivot: it is applied to (getattr) and removed from (setattr, create) those ids at the overlay-inode boundary - permission, getattr, setattr, ACL owner checks and inode_init_owner() - while the underlying layers keep being accessed with the mounter's credentials through their own, possibly idmapped, mounts. The mount idmap therefore only changes how the caller sees the overlay inode and never widens the mounter's access to the layers. This is deliberately the final code patch of the series: only once every operation honors the mount idmap is it safe to make overlay mounts idmappable. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260615-work-idmapped-overlayfs-v1-6-7381632aa402@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-04-13Merge tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.directory' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull vfs directory updates from Christian Brauner: "Recently 'start_creating', 'start_removing', 'start_renaming' and related interfaces were added which combine the locking and the lookup. At that time many callers were changed to use the new interfaces. However there are still an assortment of places out side of the core vfs where the directory is locked explictly, whether with inode_lock() or lock_rename() or similar. These were missed in the first pass for an assortment of uninteresting reasons. This addresses the remaining places where explicit locking is used, and changes them to use the new interfaces, or otherwise removes the explicit locking. The biggest changes are in overlayfs. The other changes are quite simple, though maybe the cachefiles changes is the least simple of those" * tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.directory' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: VFS: unexport lock_rename(), lock_rename_child(), unlock_rename() ovl: remove ovl_lock_rename_workdir() ovl: use is_subdir() for testing if one thing is a subdir of another ovl: change ovl_create_real() to get a new lock when re-opening created file. ovl: pass name buffer to ovl_start_creating_temp() cachefiles: change cachefiles_bury_object to use start_renaming_dentry() ovl: Simplify ovl_lookup_real_one() VFS: make lookup_one_qstr_excl() static. nfsd: switch purge_old() to use start_removing_noperm() selinux: Use simple_start_creating() / simple_done_creating() Apparmor: Use simple_start_creating() / simple_done_creating() libfs: change simple_done_creating() to use end_creating() VFS: move the start_dirop() kerndoc comment to before start_dirop() fs/proc: Don't lock root inode when creating "self" and "thread-self" VFS: note error returns in documentation for various lookup functions
2026-03-27ovl: make fsync after metadata copy-up opt-in mount optionFei Lv
Commit 7d6899fb69d25 ("ovl: fsync after metadata copy-up") was done to fix durability of overlayfs copy up on an upper filesystem which does not enforce ordering on storing of metadata changes (e.g. ubifs). In an earlier revision of the regressing commit by Lei Lv, the metadata fsync behavior was opt-in via a new "fsync=strict" mount option. We were hoping that the opt-in mount option could be avoided, so the change was only made to depend on metacopy=off, in the hope of not hurting performance of metadata heavy workloads, which are more likely to be using metacopy=on. This hope was proven wrong by a performance regression report from Google COS workload after upgrade to kernel 6.12. This is an adaptation of Lei's original "fsync=strict" mount option to the existing upstream code. The new mount option is mutually exclusive with the "volatile" mount option, so the latter is now an alias to the "fsync=volatile" mount option. Reported-by: Chenglong Tang <chenglongtang@google.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-unionfs/CAOdxtTadAFH01Vui1FvWfcmQ8jH1O45owTzUcpYbNvBxnLeM7Q@mail.gmail.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-unionfs/CAOQ4uxgKC1SgjMWre=fUb00v8rxtd6sQi-S+dxR8oDzAuiGu8g@mail.gmail.com/ Fixes: 7d6899fb69d25 ("ovl: fsync after metadata copy-up") Depends: 50e638beb67e0 ("ovl: Use str_on_off() helper in ovl_show_options()") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.12+ Signed-off-by: Fei Lv <feilv@asrmicro.com> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
2026-03-09ovl: use is_subdir() for testing if one thing is a subdir of anotherNeilBrown
Rather than using lock_rename(), use the more obvious is_subdir() for ensuring that neither upper nor workdir contain the other. Also be explicit in the comment that the two directories cannot be the same. As this is a point-it-time sanity check and does not provide any on-going guarantees, the removal of locking does not introduce any interesting races. Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260224222542.3458677-14-neilb@ownmail.net Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-03-09ovl: change ovl_create_real() to get a new lock when re-opening created file.NeilBrown
When ovl_create_real() is used to create a file on the upper filesystem it needs to return the resulting dentry - positive and hashed. It is usually the case the that dentry passed to the create function (e.g. vfs_create()) will be suitable but this is not guaranteed. The filesystem may unhash that dentry forcing a repeat lookup next time the name is wanted. So ovl_create_real() must be (and is) aware of this and prepared to perform that lookup to get a hash positive dentry. This is currently done under that same directory lock that provided exclusion for the create. Proposed changes to locking will make this not possible - as the name, rather than the directory, will be locked. The new APIs provided for lookup and locking do not and cannot support this pattern. The lock isn't needed. ovl_create_real() can drop the lock and then get a new lock for the lookup - then check that the lookup returned the correct inode. In a well-behaved configuration where the upper filesystem is not being modified by a third party, this will always work reliably, and if there are separate modification it will fail cleanly. So change ovl_create_real() to drop the lock and call ovl_start_creating_upper() to find the correct dentry. Note that start_creating doesn't fail if the name already exists. The lookup previously used the name from newdentry which was guaranteed to be stable because the parent directory was locked. As we now drop the lock we lose that guarantee. As newdentry is unhashed it is unlikely for the name to change, but safest not to depend on that. So the expected name is now passed in to ovl_create_real() and that is used. This removes the only remaining use of ovl_lookup_upper, so it is removed. Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260224222542.3458677-13-neilb@ownmail.net Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-02-21Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argumentLinus Torvalds
This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\<k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' | xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/' to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL argument to just drop that argument. Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered: they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically. For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate conversion. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2026-02-21treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar typesKees Cook
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
2026-02-06ovl: relax requirement for uuid=off,index=onAmir Goldstein
uuid=off,index=on required that all upper/lower directories are on the same filesystem. Relax the requirement so that only all the lower directories need to be on the same filesystem. Reported-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260114-tonyk-get_disk_uuid-v1-3-e6a319e25d57@igalia.com/ Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
2025-12-05Merge tag 'fuse-update-6.19' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse Pull fuse updates from Miklos Szeredi: - Add mechanism for cleaning out unused, stale dentries; controlled via a module option (Luis Henriques) - Fix various bugs - Cleanups * tag 'fuse-update-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse: fuse: Uninitialized variable in fuse_epoch_work() fuse: fix io-uring list corruption for terminated non-committed requests fuse: signal that a fuse inode should exhibit local fs behaviors fuse: Always flush the page cache before FOPEN_DIRECT_IO write fuse: Invalidate the page cache after FOPEN_DIRECT_IO write fuse: rename 'namelen' to 'namesize' fuse: use strscpy instead of strcpy fuse: refactor fuse_conn_put() to remove negative logic. fuse: new work queue to invalidate dentries from old epochs fuse: new work queue to periodically invalidate expired dentries dcache: export shrink_dentry_list() and add new helper d_dispose_if_unused() fuse: add WARN_ON and comment for RCU revalidate fuse: Fix whitespace for fuse_uring_args_to_ring() comment fuse: missing copy_finish in fuse-over-io-uring argument copies fuse: fix readahead reclaim deadlock
2025-11-19ovl: port ovl_fill_super() to cred guardChristian Brauner
Use the scoped ovl cred guard. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251117-work-ovl-cred-guard-v4-41-b31603935724@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-19ovl: refactor ovl_fill_super()Christian Brauner
Split the core into a separate helper in preparation of converting the caller to the scoped ovl cred guard. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251117-work-ovl-cred-guard-v4-40-b31603935724@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-14VFS: introduce end_creating_keep()NeilBrown
Occasionally the caller of end_creating() wants to keep using the dentry. Rather then requiring them to dget() the dentry (when not an error) before calling end_creating(), provide end_creating_keep() which does this. cachefiles and overlayfs make use of this. Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251113002050.676694-16-neilb@ownmail.net Tested-by: syzbot@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-14VFS: change vfs_mkdir() to unlock on failure.NeilBrown
vfs_mkdir() already drops the reference to the dentry on failure but it leaves the parent locked. This complicates end_creating() which needs to unlock the parent even though the dentry is no longer available. If we change vfs_mkdir() to unlock on failure as well as releasing the dentry, we can remove the "parent" arg from end_creating() and simplify the rules for calling it. Note that cachefiles_get_directory() can choose to substitute an error instead of actually calling vfs_mkdir(), for fault injection. In that case it needs to call end_creating(), just as vfs_mkdir() now does on error. ovl_create_real() will now unlock on error. So the conditional end_creating() after the call is removed, and end_creating() is called internally on error. Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Tested-by: syzbot@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251113002050.676694-15-neilb@ownmail.net Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-14VFS/ovl/smb: introduce start_renaming_dentry()NeilBrown
Several callers perform a rename on a dentry they already have, and only require lookup for the target name. This includes smb/server and a few different places in overlayfs. start_renaming_dentry() performs the required lookup and takes the required lock using lock_rename_child() It is used in three places in overlayfs and in ksmbd_vfs_rename(). In the ksmbd case, the parent of the source is not important - the source must be renamed from wherever it is. So start_renaming_dentry() allows rd->old_parent to be NULL and only checks it if it is non-NULL. On success rd->old_parent will be the parent of old_dentry with an extra reference taken. Other start_renaming function also now take the extra reference and end_renaming() now drops this reference as well. ovl_lookup_temp(), ovl_parent_lock(), and ovl_parent_unlock() are all removed as they are no longer needed. OVL_TEMPNAME_SIZE and ovl_tempname() are now declared in overlayfs.h so that ovl_check_rename_whiteout() can access them. ovl_copy_up_workdir() now always cleans up on error. Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251113002050.676694-12-neilb@ownmail.net Tested-by: syzbot@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-14VFS/nfsd/cachefiles/ovl: add start_creating() and end_creating()NeilBrown
start_creating() is similar to simple_start_creating() but is not so simple. It takes a qstr for the name, includes permission checking, and does NOT report an error if the name already exists, returning a positive dentry instead. This is currently used by nfsd, cachefiles, and overlayfs. end_creating() is called after the dentry has been used. end_creating() drops the reference to the dentry as it is generally no longer needed. This is exactly the first section of end_creating_path() so that function is changed to call the new end_creating() These calls help encapsulate locking rules so that directory locking can be changed. Occasionally this change means that the parent lock is held for a shorter period of time, for example in cachefiles_commit_tmpfile(). As this function now unlocks after an unlink and before the following lookup, it is possible that the lookup could again find a positive dentry, so a while loop is introduced there. In overlayfs the ovl_lookup_temp() function has ovl_tempname() split out to be used in ovl_start_creating_temp(). The other use of ovl_lookup_temp() is preparing for a rename. When rename handling is updated, ovl_lookup_temp() will be removed. Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251113002050.676694-5-neilb@ownmail.net Tested-by: syzbot@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-12fuse: add WARN_ON and comment for RCU revalidateMiklos Szeredi
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
2025-10-03Merge tag 'pull-f_path' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull file->f_path constification from Al Viro: "Only one thing was modifying ->f_path of an opened file - acct(2). Massaging that away and constifying a bunch of struct path * arguments in functions that might be given &file->f_path ends up with the situation where we can turn ->f_path into an anon union of const struct path f_path and struct path __f_path, the latter modified only in a few places in fs/{file_table,open,namei}.c, all for struct file instances that are yet to be opened" * tag 'pull-f_path' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (23 commits) Have cc(1) catch attempts to modify ->f_path kernel/acct.c: saner struct file treatment configfs:get_target() - release path as soon as we grab configfs_item reference apparmor/af_unix: constify struct path * arguments ovl_is_real_file: constify realpath argument ovl_sync_file(): constify path argument ovl_lower_dir(): constify path argument ovl_get_verity_digest(): constify path argument ovl_validate_verity(): constify {meta,data}path arguments ovl_ensure_verity_loaded(): constify datapath argument ksmbd_vfs_set_init_posix_acl(): constify path argument ksmbd_vfs_inherit_posix_acl(): constify path argument ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_unlock(): constify path argument ksmbd_vfs_path_lookup_locked(): root_share_path can be const struct path * check_export(): constify path argument export_operations->open(): constify path argument rqst_exp_get_by_name(): constify path argument nfs: constify path argument of __vfs_getattr() bpf...d_path(): constify path argument done_path_create(): constify path argument ...
2025-10-03Merge tag 'ovl-update-6.18' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/overlayfs/vfs Pull overlayfs updates from Amir Goldstein: - Work by André Almeida to support case-insensitive overlayfs Underlying case-insensitive filesystems casefolding is per directory, but for overlayfs it is all-or-nothing. It supports layers where all directories are casefolded (with same encoding) or layers where no directories are casefolded. - A fix for a "bug" in Neil's ovl directory lock changes, which only manifested itself with casefold enabled layers which may return an unhashed negative dentry from lookup. * tag 'ovl-update-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/overlayfs/vfs: ovl: make sure that ovl_create_real() returns a hashed dentry ovl: Support mounting case-insensitive enabled layers ovl: Check for casefold consistency when creating new dentries ovl: Add S_CASEFOLD as part of the inode flag to be copied ovl: Set case-insensitive dentry operations for ovl sb ovl: Ensure that all layers have the same encoding ovl: Create ovl_casefold() to support casefolded strncmp() ovl: Prepare for mounting case-insensitive enabled layers fs: Create sb_same_encoding() helper fs: Create sb_encoding() helper
2025-09-23ovl: Add S_CASEFOLD as part of the inode flag to be copiedAndré Almeida
To keep ovl's inodes consistent with their real inodes, create a new mask for inode file attributes that needs to be copied. Add the S_CASEFOLD flag as part of the flags that need to be copied along with the other file attributes. Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
2025-09-23ovl: Set case-insensitive dentry operations for ovl sbAndré Almeida
For filesystems with encoding (i.e. with case-insensitive support), set the dentry operations for the super block as ovl_dentry_ci_operations. Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
2025-09-23ovl: Ensure that all layers have the same encodingAndré Almeida
When merging layers from different filesystems with casefold enabled, all layers should use the same encoding version and have the same flags to avoid any kind of incompatibility issues. Also, set the encoding and the encoding flags for the ovl super block as the same as used by the first valid layer. Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
2025-09-15ovl_lower_dir(): constify path argumentAl Viro
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2025-09-15fs: rename generic_delete_inode() and generic_drop_inode()Mateusz Guzik
generic_delete_inode() is rather misleading for what the routine is doing. inode_just_drop() should be much clearer. The new naming is inconsistent with generic_drop_inode(), so rename that one as well with inode_ as the suffix. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-07-28Merge tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.ovl' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull overlayfs updates from Christian Brauner: "This contains overlayfs updates for this cycle. The changes for overlayfs in here are primarily focussed on preparing for some proposed changes to directory locking. Overlayfs currently will sometimes lock a directory on the upper filesystem and do a few different things while holding the lock. This is incompatible with the new potential scheme. This series narrows the region of code protected by the directory lock, taking it multiple times when necessary. This theoretically opens up the possibilty of other changes happening on the upper filesytem between the unlock and the lock. To some extent the patches guard against that by checking the dentries still have the expect parent after retaking the lock. In general, concurrent changes to the upper and lower filesystems aren't supported properly anyway" * tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.ovl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (25 commits) ovl: properly print correct variable ovl: rename ovl_cleanup_unlocked() to ovl_cleanup() ovl: change ovl_create_real() to receive dentry parent ovl: narrow locking in ovl_check_rename_whiteout() ovl: narrow locking in ovl_whiteout() ovl: change ovl_cleanup_and_whiteout() to take rename lock as needed ovl: narrow locking on ovl_remove_and_whiteout() ovl: change ovl_workdir_cleanup() to take dir lock as needed. ovl: narrow locking in ovl_workdir_cleanup_recurse() ovl: narrow locking in ovl_indexdir_cleanup() ovl: narrow locking in ovl_workdir_create() ovl: narrow locking in ovl_cleanup_index() ovl: narrow locking in ovl_cleanup_whiteouts() ovl: narrow locking in ovl_rename() ovl: simplify gotos in ovl_rename() ovl: narrow locking in ovl_create_over_whiteout() ovl: narrow locking in ovl_clear_empty() ovl: narrow locking in ovl_create_upper() ovl: narrow the locked region in ovl_copy_up_workdir() ovl: Call ovl_create_temp() without lock held. ...
2025-07-28Merge tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull misc VFS updates from Christian Brauner: "This contains the usual selections of misc updates for this cycle. Features: - Add ext4 IOCB_DONTCACHE support This refactors the address_space_operations write_begin() and write_end() callbacks to take const struct kiocb * as their first argument, allowing IOCB flags such as IOCB_DONTCACHE to propagate to the filesystem's buffered I/O path. Ext4 is updated to implement handling of the IOCB_DONTCACHE flag and advertises support via the FOP_DONTCACHE file operation flag. Additionally, the i915 driver's shmem write paths are updated to bypass the legacy write_begin/write_end interface in favor of directly calling write_iter() with a constructed synchronous kiocb. Another i915 change replaces a manual write loop with kernel_write() during GEM shmem object creation. Cleanups: - don't duplicate vfs_open() in kernel_file_open() - proc_fd_getattr(): don't bother with S_ISDIR() check - fs/ecryptfs: replace snprintf with sysfs_emit in show function - vfs: Remove unnecessary list_for_each_entry_safe() from evict_inodes() - filelock: add new locks_wake_up_waiter() helper - fs: Remove three arguments from block_write_end() - VFS: change old_dir and new_dir in struct renamedata to dentrys - netfs: Remove unused declaration netfs_queue_write_request() Fixes: - eventpoll: Fix semi-unbounded recursion - eventpoll: fix sphinx documentation build warning - fs/read_write: Fix spelling typo - fs: annotate data race between poll_schedule_timeout() and pollwake() - fs/pipe: set FMODE_NOWAIT in create_pipe_files() - docs/vfs: update references to i_mutex to i_rwsem - fs/buffer: remove comment about hard sectorsize - fs/buffer: remove the min and max limit checks in __getblk_slow() - fs/libfs: don't assume blocksize <= PAGE_SIZE in generic_check_addressable - fs_context: fix parameter name in infofc() macro - fs: Prevent file descriptor table allocations exceeding INT_MAX" * tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (24 commits) netfs: Remove unused declaration netfs_queue_write_request() eventpoll: fix sphinx documentation build warning ext4: support uncached buffered I/O mm/pagemap: add write_begin_get_folio() helper function fs: change write_begin/write_end interface to take struct kiocb * drm/i915: Refactor shmem_pwrite() to use kiocb and write_iter drm/i915: Use kernel_write() in shmem object create eventpoll: Fix semi-unbounded recursion vfs: Remove unnecessary list_for_each_entry_safe() from evict_inodes() fs/libfs: don't assume blocksize <= PAGE_SIZE in generic_check_addressable fs/buffer: remove the min and max limit checks in __getblk_slow() fs: Prevent file descriptor table allocations exceeding INT_MAX fs: Remove three arguments from block_write_end() fs/ecryptfs: replace snprintf with sysfs_emit in show function fs: annotate suspected data race between poll_schedule_timeout() and pollwake() docs/vfs: update references to i_mutex to i_rwsem fs/buffer: remove comment about hard sectorsize fs_context: fix parameter name in infofc() macro VFS: change old_dir and new_dir in struct renamedata to dentrys proc_fd_getattr(): don't bother with S_ISDIR() check ...
2025-07-18ovl: rename ovl_cleanup_unlocked() to ovl_cleanup()NeilBrown
The only remaining user of ovl_cleanup() is ovl_cleanup_locked(), so we no longer need both. This patch renames ovl_cleanup() to ovl_cleanup_locked() and makes it static. ovl_cleanup_unlocked() is renamed to ovl_cleanup(). Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250716004725.1206467-22-neil@brown.name Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-07-18ovl: change ovl_create_real() to receive dentry parentNeilBrown
Instead of passing an inode *dir, pass a dentry *parent. This makes the calling slightly cleaner. Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250716004725.1206467-21-neil@brown.name Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-07-18ovl: narrow locking in ovl_check_rename_whiteout()NeilBrown
ovl_check_rename_whiteout() now only holds the directory lock when needed, and takes it again if necessary. This makes way for future changes where locks are taken on individual dentries rather than the whole directory. Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250716004725.1206467-20-neil@brown.name Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-07-18ovl: change ovl_workdir_cleanup() to take dir lock as needed.NeilBrown
Rather than calling ovl_workdir_cleanup() with the dir already locked, change it to take the dir lock only when needed. Also change ovl_workdir_cleanup() to take a dentry for the parent rather than an inode. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250716004725.1206467-16-neil@brown.name Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-07-18ovl: narrow locking in ovl_workdir_create()NeilBrown
In ovl_workdir_create() don't hold the dir lock for the whole time, but only take it when needed. It now gets taken separately for ovl_workdir_cleanup(). A subsequent patch will move the locking into that function. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250716004725.1206467-13-neil@brown.name Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-07-18ovl: Call ovl_create_temp() without lock held.NeilBrown
ovl currently locks a directory or two and then performs multiple actions in one or both directories. This is incompatible with proposed changes which will lock just the dentry of objects being acted on. This patch moves calls to ovl_create_temp() out of the locked regions and has it take and release the relevant lock itself. The lock that was taken before this function was called is now taken after. This means that any code between where the lock was taken and ovl_create_temp() is now unlocked. This necessitates the use of ovl_cleanup_unlocked() and the creation of ovl_lookup_upper_unlocked(). These will be used more widely in future patches. Now that the file is created before the lock is taken for rename, we need to ensure the parent wasn't changed before the lock was gained. ovl_lock_rename_workdir() is changed to optionally receive the dentries that will be involved in the rename. If either is present but has the wrong parent, an error is returned. Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250716004725.1206467-4-neil@brown.name Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-06-16VFS: change old_dir and new_dir in struct renamedata to dentrysNeilBrown
all users of 'struct renamedata' have the dentry for the old and new directories, and often have no use for the inode except to store it in the renamedata. This patch changes struct renamedata to hold the dentry, rather than the inode, for the old and new directories, and changes callers to match. The names are also changed from a _dir suffix to _parent. This is consistent with other usage in namei.c and elsewhere. This results in the removal of several local variables and several dereferences of ->d_inode at the cost of adding ->d_inode dereferences to vfs_rename(). Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Reviewed-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/174977089072.608730.4244531834577097454@noble.neil.brown.name Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-06-10new helper: set_default_d_op()Al Viro
... to be used instead of manually assigning to ->s_d_op. All in-tree filesystem converted (and field itself is renamed, so any out-of-tree ones in need of conversion will be caught by compiler). Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2025-04-07ovl: don't allow datadir onlyMiklos Szeredi
In theory overlayfs could support upper layer directly referring to a data layer, but there's no current use case for this. Originally, when data-only layers were introduced, this wasn't allowed, only introduced by the "datadir+" feature, but without actually handling this case, resulting in an Oops. Fix by disallowing datadir without lowerdir. Reported-by: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@redhat.com> Fixes: 24e16e385f22 ("ovl: add support for appending lowerdirs one by one") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v6.7 Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
2025-03-24Merge tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.async.dir' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs 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.
2025-03-05VFS: Change vfs_mkdir() to return the dentry.NeilBrown
vfs_mkdir() does not guarantee to leave the child dentry hashed or make it positive on success, and in many such cases the filesystem had to use a different dentry which it can now return. This patch changes vfs_mkdir() to return the dentry provided by the filesystems which is hashed and positive when provided. This reduces the number of cases where the resulting dentry is not positive to a handful which don't deserve extra efforts. The only callers of vfs_mkdir() which are interested in the resulting inode are in-kernel filesystem clients: cachefiles, nfsd, smb/server. The only filesystems that don't reliably provide the inode are: - kernfs, tracefs which these clients are unlikely to be interested in - cifs in some configurations would need to do a lookup to find the created inode, but doesn't. cifs cannot be exported via NFS, is unlikely to be used by cachefiles, and smb/server only has a soft requirement for the inode, so this is unlikely to be a problem in practice. - hostfs, nfs, cifs may need to do a lookup (rarely for NFS) and it is possible for a race to make that lookup fail. Actual failure is unlikely and providing callers handle negative dentries graceful they will fail-safe. So this patch removes the lookup code in nfsd and smb/server and adjusts them to fail safe if a negative dentry is provided: - cache-files already fails safe by restarting the task from the top - it still does with this change, though it no longer calls cachefiles_put_directory() as that will crash if the dentry is negative. - nfsd reports "Server-fault" which it what it used to do if the lookup failed. This will never happen on any file-systems that it can actually export, so this is of no consequence. I removed the fh_update() call as that is not needed and out-of-place. A subsequent nfsd_create_setattr() call will call fh_update() when needed. - smb/server only wants the inode to call ksmbd_smb_inherit_owner() which updates ->i_uid (without calling notify_change() or similar) which can be safely skipping on cifs (I hope). If a different dentry is returned, the first one is put. If necessary the fact that it is new can be determined by comparing pointers. A new dentry will certainly have a new pointer (as the old is put after the new is obtained). Similarly if an error is returned (via ERR_PTR()) the original dentry is put. Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250227013949.536172-7-neilb@suse.de Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-02-19ovl: allow to specify override credentialsChristian Brauner
Currently overlayfs uses the mounter's credentials for it's override_creds() calls. That provides a consistent permission model. This patches allows a caller to instruct overlayfs to use its credentials instead. The caller must be located in the same user namespace hierarchy as the user namespace the overlayfs instance will be mounted in. This provides a consistent and simple security model. With this it is possible to e.g., mount an overlayfs instance where the mounter must have CAP_SYS_ADMIN but the credentials used for override_creds() have dropped CAP_SYS_ADMIN. It also allows the usage of custom fs{g,u}id different from the callers and other tweaks. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250219-work-overlayfs-v3-1-46af55e4ceda@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-01-27Pass parent directory inode and expected name to ->d_revalidate()Al Viro
->d_revalidate() often needs to access dentry parent and name; that has to be done carefully, since the locking environment varies from caller to caller. We are not guaranteed that dentry in question will not be moved right under us - not unless the filesystem is such that nothing on it ever gets renamed. It can be dealt with, but that results in boilerplate code that isn't even needed - the callers normally have just found the dentry via dcache lookup and want to verify that it's in the right place; they already have the values of ->d_parent and ->d_name stable. There is a couple of exceptions (overlayfs and, to less extent, ecryptfs), but for the majority of calls that song and dance is not needed at all. It's easier to make ecryptfs and overlayfs find and pass those values if there's a ->d_revalidate() instance to be called, rather than doing that in the instances. This commit only changes the calling conventions; making use of supplied values is left to followups. NOTE: some instances need more than just the parent - things like CIFS may need to build an entire path from filesystem root, so they need more precautions than the usual boilerplate. This series doesn't do anything to that need - these filesystems have to keep their locking mechanisms (rename_lock loops, use of dentry_path_raw(), private rwsem a-la v9fs). One thing to keep in mind when using name is that name->name will normally point into the pathname being resolved; the filename in question occupies name->len bytes starting at name->name, and there is NUL somewhere after it, but it the next byte might very well be '/' rather than '\0'. Do not ignore name->len. Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <gabriel@krisman.be> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2024-08-29ovl: don't set the superblock's errseq_t manuallyHaifeng Xu
Since commit 5679897eb104 ("vfs: make sync_filesystem return errors from ->sync_fs"), the return value from sync_fs callback can be seen in sync_filesystem(). Thus the errseq_set opreation can be removed here. Depends-on: commit 5679897eb104 ("vfs: make sync_filesystem return errors from ->sync_fs") Signed-off-by: Haifeng Xu <haifeng.xu@shopee.com> Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
2024-04-09fs: Rename SB_I_EVM_UNSUPPORTED to SB_I_EVM_HMAC_UNSUPPORTEDStefan Berger
Now that EVM supports RSA signatures for previously completely unsupported filesystems rename the flag SB_I_EVM_UNSUPPORTED to SB_I_EVM_HMAC_UNSUPPORTED to reflect that only HMAC is not supported. Suggested-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
2024-03-12mm, slab: remove last vestiges of SLAB_MEM_SPREADLinus Torvalds
Yes, yes, I know the slab people were planning on going slow and letting every subsystem fight this thing on their own. But let's just rip off the band-aid and get it over and done with. I don't want to see a number of unnecessary pull requests just to get rid of a flag that no longer has any meaning. This was mainly done with a couple of 'sed' scripts and then some manual cleanup of the end result. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wji0u+OOtmAOD-5JV3SXcRJF___k_+8XNKmak0yd5vW1Q@mail.gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2024-03-11Merge tag 'vfs-6.9.misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner: "Misc features, cleanups, and fixes for vfs and individual filesystems. Features: - Support idmapped mounts for hugetlbfs. - Add RWF_NOAPPEND flag for pwritev2(). This allows us to fix a bug where the passed offset is ignored if the file is O_APPEND. The new flag allows a caller to enforce that the offset is honored to conform to posix even if the file was opened in append mode. - Move i_mmap_rwsem in struct address_space to avoid false sharing between i_mmap and i_mmap_rwsem. - Convert efs, qnx4, and coda to use the new mount api. - Add a generic is_dot_dotdot() helper that's used by various filesystems and the VFS code instead of open-coding it multiple times. - Recently we've added stable offsets which allows stable ordering when iterating directories exported through NFS on e.g., tmpfs filesystems. Originally an xarray was used for the offset map but that caused slab fragmentation issues over time. This switches the offset map to the maple tree which has a dense mode that handles this scenario a lot better. Includes tests. - Finally merge the case-insensitive improvement series Gabriel has been working on for a long time. This cleanly propagates case insensitive operations through ->s_d_op which in turn allows us to remove the quite ugly generic_set_encrypted_ci_d_ops() operations. It also improves performance by trying a case-sensitive comparison first and then fallback to case-insensitive lookup if that fails. This also fixes a bug where overlayfs would be able to be mounted over a case insensitive directory which would lead to all sort of odd behaviors. Cleanups: - Make file_dentry() a simple accessor now that ->d_real() is simplified because of the backing file work we did the last two cycles. - Use the dedicated file_mnt_idmap helper in ntfs3. - Use smp_load_acquire/store_release() in the i_size_read/write helpers and thus remove the hack to handle i_size reads in the filemap code. - The SLAB_MEM_SPREAD is a nop now. Remove it from various places in fs/ - It's no longer necessary to perform a second built-in initramfs unpack call because we retain the contents of the previous extraction. Remove it. - Now that we have removed various allocators kfree_rcu() always works with kmem caches and kmalloc(). So simplify various places that only use an rcu callback in order to handle the kmem cache case. - Convert the pipe code to use a lockdep comparison function instead of open-coding the nesting making lockdep validation easier. - Move code into fs-writeback.c that was located in a header but can be made static as it's only used in that one file. - Rewrite the alignment checking iterators for iovec and bvec to be easier to read, and also significantly more compact in terms of generated code. This saves 270 bytes of text on x86-64 (with clang-18) and 224 bytes on arm64 (with gcc-13). In profiles it also saves a bit of time for the same workload. - Switch various places to use KMEM_CACHE instead of kmem_cache_create(). - Use inode_set_ctime_to_ts() in inode_set_ctime_current() - Use kzalloc() in name_to_handle_at() to avoid kernel infoleak. - Various smaller cleanups for eventfds. Fixes: - Fix various comments and typos, and unneeded initializations. - Fix stack allocation hack for clang in the select code. - Improve dump_mapping() debug code on a best-effort basis. - Fix build errors in various selftests. - Avoid wrap-around instrumentation in various places. - Don't allow user namespaces without an idmapping to be used for idmapped mounts. - Fix sysv sb_read() call. - Fix fallback implementation of the get_name() export operation" * tag 'vfs-6.9.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (70 commits) hugetlbfs: support idmapped mounts qnx4: convert qnx4 to use the new mount api fs: use inode_set_ctime_to_ts to set inode ctime to current time libfs: Drop generic_set_encrypted_ci_d_ops ubifs: Configure dentry operations at dentry-creation time f2fs: Configure dentry operations at dentry-creation time ext4: Configure dentry operations at dentry-creation time libfs: Add helper to choose dentry operations at mount-time libfs: Merge encrypted_ci_dentry_ops and ci_dentry_ops fscrypt: Drop d_revalidate once the key is added fscrypt: Drop d_revalidate for valid dentries during lookup fscrypt: Factor out a helper to configure the lookup dentry ovl: Always reject mounting over case-insensitive directories libfs: Attempt exact-match comparison first during casefolded lookup efs: remove SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag usage jfs: remove SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag usage minix: remove SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag usage openpromfs: remove SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag usage proc: remove SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag usage qnx6: remove SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag usage ...
2024-02-06fs: remove the inode argument to ->d_real() methodAmir Goldstein
The only remaining user of ->d_real() method is d_real_inode(), which passed NULL inode argument to get the real data dentry. There are no longer any users that call ->d_real() with a non-NULL inode argument for getting a detry from a specific underlying layer. Remove the inode argument of the method and replace it with an integer 'type' argument, to allow callers to request the real metadata dentry instead of the real data dentry. All the current users of d_real_inode() (e.g. uprobe) continue to get the real data inode. Caller that need to get the real metadata inode (e.g. IMA/EVM) can use d_inode(d_real(dentry, D_REAL_METADATA)). Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240202110132.1584111-3-amir73il@gmail.com Tested-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-01-23ovl: mark xwhiteouts directory with overlay.opaque='x'Amir Goldstein
An opaque directory cannot have xwhiteouts, so instead of marking an xwhiteouts directory with a new xattr, overload overlay.opaque xattr for marking both opaque dir ('y') and xwhiteouts dir ('x'). This is more efficient as the overlay.opaque xattr is checked during lookup of directory anyway. This also prevents unnecessary checking the xattr when reading a directory without xwhiteouts, i.e. most of the time. Note that the xwhiteouts marker is not checked on the upper layer and on the last layer in lowerstack, where xwhiteouts are not expected. Fixes: bc8df7a3dc03 ("ovl: Add an alternative type of whiteout") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v6.7 Reviewed-by: Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com> Tested-by: Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
2024-01-11Merge tag 'pull-rename' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull rename updates from Al Viro: "Fix directory locking scheme on rename This was broken in 6.5; we really can't lock two unrelated directories without holding ->s_vfs_rename_mutex first and in case of same-parent rename of a subdirectory 6.5 ends up doing just that" * tag 'pull-rename' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: rename(): avoid a deadlock in the case of parents having no common ancestor kill lock_two_inodes() rename(): fix the locking of subdirectories f2fs: Avoid reading renamed directory if parent does not change ext4: don't access the source subdirectory content on same-directory rename ext2: Avoid reading renamed directory if parent does not change udf_rename(): only access the child content on cross-directory rename ocfs2: Avoid touching renamed directory if parent does not change reiserfs: Avoid touching renamed directory if parent does not change
2024-01-10Merge tag 'ovl-update-6.8' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/overlayfs/vfs Pull overlayfs updates from Amir Goldstein: "This is a very small update with no bug fixes and no new features. The larger update of overlayfs for this cycle, the re-factoring of overlayfs code into generic backing_file helpers, was already merged via Christian. Summary: - Simplify/clarify some code No bug fixes here, just some changes following questions from Al about overlayfs code that could be a little more simple to follow. - Overlayfs documentation style fixes Mainly fixes for ReST formatting suggested by documentation developers" * tag 'ovl-update-6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/overlayfs/vfs: overlayfs.rst: fix ReST formatting overlayfs.rst: use consistent feature names ovl: initialize ovl_copy_up_ctx.destname inside ovl_do_copy_up() ovl: remove redundant ofs->indexdir member
2024-01-09Merge tag 'integrity-v6.8' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/linux-integrity Pull integrity updates from Mimi Zohar: - Add a new IMA/EVM maintainer and reviewer - Disable EVM on overlayfs The EVM HMAC and the original file signatures contain filesystem specific metadata (e.g. i_ino, i_generation and s_uuid), preventing the security.evm xattr from directly being copied up to the overlay. Further before calculating and writing out the overlay file's EVM HMAC, EVM must first verify the existing backing file's 'security.evm' value. For now until a solution is developed, disable EVM on overlayfs. - One bug fix and two cleanups * tag 'integrity-v6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/linux-integrity: overlay: disable EVM evm: add support to disable EVM on unsupported filesystems evm: don't copy up 'security.evm' xattr MAINTAINERS: Add Eric Snowberg as a reviewer to IMA MAINTAINERS: Add Roberto Sassu as co-maintainer to IMA and EVM KEYS: encrypted: Add check for strsep ima: Remove EXPERIMENTAL from Kconfig ima: Reword IMA_KEYRINGS_PERMIT_SIGNED_BY_BUILTIN_OR_SECONDARY
2023-12-23fs: factor out backing_file_{read,write}_iter() helpersAmir Goldstein
Overlayfs submits files io to backing files on other filesystems. Factor out some common helpers to perform io to backing files, into fs/backing-file.c. Suggested-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAJfpeguhmZbjP3JLqtUy0AdWaHOkAPWeP827BBWwRFEAUgnUcQ@mail.gmail.com Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
2023-12-20overlay: disable EVMMimi Zohar
Until a complete solution is developed, update 'sb->s_iflags' to disable EVM. Acked-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
2023-11-25rename(): avoid a deadlock in the case of parents having no common ancestorAl Viro
... and fix the directory locking documentation and proof of correctness. Holding ->s_vfs_rename_mutex *almost* prevents ->d_parent changes; the case where we really don't want it is splicing the root of disconnected tree to somewhere. In other words, ->s_vfs_rename_mutex is sufficient to stabilize "X is an ancestor of Y" only if X and Y are already in the same tree. Otherwise it can go from false to true, and one can construct a deadlock on that. Make lock_two_directories() report an error in such case and update the callers of lock_rename()/lock_rename_child() to handle such errors. And yes, such conditions are not impossible to create ;-/ Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>