kernel.git/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst, branch linux-rolling-stable

filelock: allow lease_managers to dictate what qualifies as a conflict

2025-12-15T14:20:33Z

Requesting a delegation on a file from the userland fcntl() interface currently succeeds when there are conflicting opens present. This is because the lease handling code ignores conflicting opens for FL_LAYOUT and FL_DELEG leases. This was a hack put in place long ago, because nfsd already checks for conflicts in its own way. The kernel needs to perform this check for userland delegations the same way it is done for leases, however. Make this dependent on the lease_manager by adding a new ->lm_open_conflict() lease_manager operation and have generic_add_lease() call that instead of check_conflicting_open(). Morph check_conflicting_open() into a ->lm_open_conflict() op that is only called for userland leases/delegations. Set the ->lm_open_conflict() operations for nfsd to trivial functions that always return 0. Reviewed-by: Chuck Lever Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251204-dir-deleg-ro-v2-2-22d37f92ce2c@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

block: switch ->getgeo() to struct gendisk

2025-08-13T06:59:29Z

Instances are happier that way and it makes more sense anyway - the only part of the result that is related to partition we are given is the start sector, and that has been filled in by the caller. Everything else is a function of the disk. Only one instance (DASD) is ever looking at anything other than bdev->bd_disk and that one is trivial to adjust. Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Acked-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.fileattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

2025-07-28T22:24:14Z

Pull fileattr updates from Christian Brauner: "This introduces the new file_getattr() and file_setattr() system calls after lengthy discussions. Both system calls serve as successors and extensible companions to the FS_IOC_FSGETXATTR and FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR system calls which have started to show their age in addition to being named in a way that makes it easy to conflate them with extended attribute related operations. These syscalls allow userspace to set filesystem inode attributes on special files. One of the usage examples is the XFS quota projects. XFS has project quotas which could be attached to a directory. All new inodes in these directories inherit project ID set on parent directory. The project is created from userspace by opening and calling FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR on each inode. This is not possible for special files such as FIFO, SOCK, BLK etc. Therefore, some inodes are left with empty project ID. Those inodes then are not shown in the quota accounting but still exist in the directory. This is not critical but in the case when special files are created in the directory with already existing project quota, these new inodes inherit extended attributes. This creates a mix of special files with and without attributes. Moreover, special files with attributes don't have a possibility to become clear or change the attributes. This, in turn, prevents userspace from re-creating quota project on these existing files. In addition, these new system calls allow the implementation of additional attributes that we couldn't or didn't want to fit into the legacy ioctls anymore" * tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.fileattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: fs: tighten a sanity check in file_attr_to_fileattr() tree-wide: s/struct fileattr/struct file_kattr/g fs: introduce file_getattr and file_setattr syscalls fs: prepare for extending file_get/setattr() fs: make vfs_fileattr_[get|set] return -EOPNOTSUPP selinux: implement inode_file_[g|s]etattr hooks lsm: introduce new hooks for setting/getting inode fsxattr fs: split fileattr related helpers into separate file

fs: change write_begin/write_end interface to take struct kiocb *

2025-07-16T12:48:18Z

Change the address_space_operations callbacks write_begin() and write_end() to take struct kiocb * as the first argument instead of struct file *. Update all affected function prototypes, implementations, call sites, and related documentation across VFS, filesystems, and block layer. Part of a series refactoring address_space_operations write_begin and write_end callbacks to use struct kiocb for passing write context and flags. Signed-off-by: Taotao Chen Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250716093559.217344-4-chentaotao@didiglobal.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

tree-wide: s/struct fileattr/struct file_kattr/g

2025-07-04T14:14:39Z

Now that we expose struct file_attr as our uapi struct rename all the internal struct to struct file_kattr to clearly communicate that it is a kernel internal struct. This is similar to struct mount_{k}attr and others. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250703-restlaufzeit-baurecht-9ed44552b481@brauner Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

fs: Remove aops->writepage

2025-04-07T07:36:50Z

All callers and implementations are now removed, so remove the operation and update the documentation to match. Signed-off-by: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250402150005.2309458-10-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

Change inode_operations.mkdir to return struct dentry *

2025-02-27T19:00:17Z

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

9p: fix ->rename_sem exclusion

2025-01-28T00:25:24Z

9p wants to be able to build a path from given dentry to fs root and keep it valid over a blocking operation. ->s_vfs_rename_mutex would be a natural candidate, but there are places where we need that and where we have no way to tell if ->s_vfs_rename_mutex is already held deeper in callchain. Moreover, it's only held for cross-directory renames; name changes within the same directory happen without it. Solution: * have d_move() done in ->rename() rather than in its caller * maintain a 9p-private rwsem (per-filesystem) * hold it exclusive over the relevant part of ->rename() * hold it shared over the places where we want the path. That almost works. FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE is enough to put all d_move() and d_exchange() calls under filesystem's control. However, there's also __d_unalias(), which isn't covered by any of that. If ->lookup() hits a directory inode with preexisting dentry elsewhere (due to e.g. rename done on server behind our back), d_splice_alias() called by ->lookup() will move/rename that alias. Add a couple of optional methods, so that __d_unalias() would do if alias->d_op->d_unalias_trylock != NULL if (!alias->d_op->d_unalias_trylock(alias)) fail (resulting in -ESTALE from lookup) __d_move(...) if alias->d_op->d_unalias_unlock != NULL alias->d_unalias_unlock(alias) where it currently does __d_move(). 9p instances do down_write_trylock() and up_write() of ->rename_mutex. Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Pass parent directory inode and expected name to ->d_revalidate()

2025-01-28T00:25:23Z

->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 Reviewed-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs: Convert aops->write_begin to take a folio

2024-08-07T09:33:21Z

Convert all callers from working on a page to working on one page of a folio (support for working on an entire folio can come later). Removes a lot of folio->page->folio conversions. Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner