kernel.git/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst, branch linux-6.4.y

fs: rename current get acl method

2022-10-20T08:13:27Z

The current way of setting and getting posix acls through the generic xattr interface is error prone and type unsafe. The vfs needs to interpret and fixup posix acls before storing or reporting it to userspace. Various hacks exist to make this work. The code is hard to understand and difficult to maintain in it's current form. Instead of making this work by hacking posix acls through xattr handlers we are building a dedicated posix acl api around the get and set inode operations. This removes a lot of hackiness and makes the codepaths easier to maintain. A lot of background can be found in [1]. The current inode operation for getting posix acls takes an inode argument but various filesystems (e.g., 9p, cifs, overlayfs) need access to the dentry. In contrast to the ->set_acl() inode operation we cannot simply extend ->get_acl() to take a dentry argument. The ->get_acl() inode operation is called from: acl_permission_check() -> check_acl() -> get_acl() which is part of generic_permission() which in turn is part of inode_permission(). Both generic_permission() and inode_permission() are called in the ->permission() handler of various filesystems (e.g., overlayfs). So simply passing a dentry argument to ->get_acl() would amount to also having to pass a dentry argument to ->permission(). We should avoid this unnecessary change. So instead of extending the existing inode operation rename it from ->get_acl() to ->get_inode_acl() and add a ->get_acl() method later that passes a dentry argument and which filesystems that need access to the dentry can implement instead of ->get_inode_acl(). Filesystems like cifs which allow setting and getting posix acls but not using them for permission checking during lookup can simply not implement ->get_inode_acl(). This is intended to be a non-functional change. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220801145520.1532837-1-brauner@kernel.org [1] Suggested-by/Inspired-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft)

Merge tag 'pull-tmpfile' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2022-10-11T02:45:17Z

Pull vfs tmpfile updates from Al Viro: "Miklos' ->tmpfile() signature change; pass an unopened struct file to it, let it open the damn thing. Allows to add tmpfile support to FUSE" * tag 'pull-tmpfile' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: fuse: implement ->tmpfile() vfs: open inside ->tmpfile() vfs: move open right after ->tmpfile() vfs: make vfs_tmpfile() static ovl: use vfs_tmpfile_open() helper cachefiles: use vfs_tmpfile_open() helper cachefiles: only pass inode to *mark_inode_inuse() helpers cachefiles: tmpfile error handling cleanup hugetlbfs: cleanup mknod and tmpfile vfs: add vfs_tmpfile_open() helper

vfs: open inside ->tmpfile()

2022-09-24T05:00:00Z

This is in preparation for adding tmpfile support to fuse, which requires that the tmpfile creation and opening are done as a single operation. Replace the 'struct dentry *' argument of i_op->tmpfile with 'struct file *'. Call finish_open_simple() as the last thing in ->tmpfile() instances (may be omitted in the error case). Change d_tmpfile() argument to 'struct file *' as well to make callers more readable. Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi

Change calling conventions for filldir_t

2022-08-17T21:25:04Z

filldir_t instances (directory iterators callbacks) used to return 0 for "OK, keep going" or -E... for "stop". Note that it's *NOT* how the error values are reported - the rules for those are callback-dependent and ->iterate{,_shared}() instances only care about zero vs. non-zero (look at emit_dir() and friends). So let's just return bool ("should we keep going?") - it's less confusing that way. The choice between "true means keep going" and "true means stop" is bikesheddable; we have two groups of callbacks - do something for everything in directory, until we run into problem and find an entry in directory and do something to it. The former tended to use 0/-E... conventions - -E on failure. The latter tended to use 0/1, 1 being "stop, we are done". The callers treated anything non-zero as "stop", ignoring which non-zero value did they get. "true means stop" would be more natural for the second group; "true means keep going" - for the first one. I tried both variants and the things like if allocation failed something = -ENOMEM; return true; just looked unnatural and asking for trouble. [folded suggestion from Matthew Wilcox ] Acked-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs: remove no_llseek

2022-07-16T13:19:47Z

Now that all callers of ->llseek are going through vfs_llseek(), we don't gain anything by keeping no_llseek around. Nothing actually calls it and setting ->llseek to no_lseek is completely equivalent to leaving it NULL. Longer term (== by the end of merge window) we want to remove all such intializations. To simplify the merge window this commit does *not* touch initializers - it only defines no_llseek as NULL (and simplifies the tests on file opening). At -rc1 we'll need do a mechanical removal of no_llseek - git grep -l -w no_llseek | grep -v porting.rst | while read i; do sed -i '/\/d' $i done would do it. Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld Signed-off-by: Al Viro

namei: Merge page_symlink() and __page_symlink()

2022-05-08T18:28:18Z

There are no callers of __page_symlink() left, so we can remove that entry point. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner

fs: introduce alloc_inode_sb() to allocate filesystems specific inode

2022-03-22T22:57:03Z

The allocated inode cache is supposed to be added to its memcg list_lru which should be allocated as well in advance. That can be done by kmem_cache_alloc_lru() which allocates object and list_lru. The file systems is main user of it. So introduce alloc_inode_sb() to allocate file system specific inodes and set up the inode reclaim context properly. The file system is supposed to use alloc_inode_sb() to allocate inodes. In later patches, we will convert all users to the new API. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220228122126.37293-4-songmuchun@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Muchun Song Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin Cc: Alex Shi Cc: Anna Schumaker Cc: Chao Yu Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Fam Zheng Cc: Jaegeuk Kim Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Kari Argillander Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Qi Zheng Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Theodore Ts'o Cc: Trond Myklebust Cc: Vladimir Davydov Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Wei Yang Cc: Xiongchun Duan Cc: Yang Shi Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'work.namei' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2021-07-03T18:41:14Z

Pull vfs name lookup updates from Al Viro: "Small namei.c patch series, mostly to simplify the rules for nameidata state. It's actually from the previous cycle - but I didn't post it for review in time... Changes visible outside of fs/namei.c: file_open_root() calling conventions change, some freed bits in LOOKUP_... space" * 'work.namei' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: namei: make sure nd->depth is always valid teach set_nameidata() to handle setting the root as well take LOOKUP_{ROOT,ROOT_GRABBED,JUMPED} out of LOOKUP_... space switch file_open_root() to struct path

iov_iter: replace iov_iter_copy_from_user_atomic() with iterator-advancing variant

2021-06-10T15:45:14Z

Replacement is called copy_page_from_iter_atomic(); unlike the old primitive the callers do *not* need to do iov_iter_advance() after it. In case when they end up consuming less than they'd been given they need to do iov_iter_revert() on everything they had not consumed. That, however, needs to be done only on slow paths. All in-tree callers converted. And that kills the last user of iterate_all_kinds() Signed-off-by: Al Viro

switch file_open_root() to struct path

2021-04-07T17:56:43Z

... and provide file_open_root_mnt(), using the root of given mount. Signed-off-by: Al Viro