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<title>kernel.git/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c, branch linux-6.5.y</title>
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<updated>2023-08-06T13:08:35Z</updated>
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<title>vfs: get rid of old '-&gt;iterate' directory operation</title>
<updated>2023-08-06T13:08:35Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
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<published>2023-08-05T19:25:01Z</published>
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All users now just use '-&gt;iterate_shared()', which only takes the
directory inode lock for reading.

Filesystems that never got convered to shared mode now instead use a
wrapper that drops the lock, re-takes it in write mode, calls the old
function, and then downgrades the lock back to read mode.

This way the VFS layer and other callers no longer need to care about
filesystems that never got converted to the modern era.

The filesystems that use the new wrapper are ceph, coda, exfat, jfs,
ntfs, ocfs2, overlayfs, and vboxsf.

Honestly, several of them look like they really could just iterate their
directories in shared mode and skip the wrapper entirely, but the point
of this change is to not change semantics or fix filesystems that
haven't been fixed in the last 7+ years, but to finally get rid of the
dual iterators.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>ovl: pass ovl_fs to xino helpers</title>
<updated>2023-06-19T11:02:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Amir Goldstein</name>
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<published>2023-05-25T05:40:54Z</published>
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Internal ovl methods should use ovl_fs and not sb as much as
possible.

Use a constant_table to translate from enum xino mode to string
in preperation for new mount api option parsing.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
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<title>fs: port -&gt;permission() to pass mnt_idmap</title>
<updated>2023-01-19T08:24:28Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
</author>
<published>2023-01-13T11:49:22Z</published>
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Convert to struct mnt_idmap.

Last cycle we merged the necessary infrastructure in
256c8aed2b42 ("fs: introduce dedicated idmap type for mounts").
This is just the conversion to struct mnt_idmap.

Currently we still pass around the plain namespace that was attached to a
mount. This is in general pretty convenient but it makes it easy to
conflate namespaces that are relevant on the filesystem with namespaces
that are relevent on the mount level. Especially for non-vfs developers
without detailed knowledge in this area this can be a potential source for
bugs.

Once the conversion to struct mnt_idmap is done all helpers down to the
really low-level helpers will take a struct mnt_idmap argument instead of
two namespace arguments. This way it becomes impossible to conflate the two
eliminating the possibility of any bugs. All of the vfs and all filesystems
only operate on struct mnt_idmap.

Acked-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>ovl: use inode instead of dentry where possible</title>
<updated>2022-12-08T09:49:46Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
</author>
<published>2022-10-07T15:35:26Z</published>
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Passing dentry to some helpers is unnecessary.  Simplify these cases.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>ovl: use plain list filler in indexdir and workdir cleanup</title>
<updated>2022-12-08T09:49:46Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Amir Goldstein</name>
</author>
<published>2022-10-04T10:34:33Z</published>
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Those two cleanup routines are using the helper ovl_dir_read() with the
merge dir filler, which populates an rb tree, that is never used.

The index dir entry names all have a long (42 bytes) constant prefix, so it
is not surprising that perf top has demostrated high CPU usage by rb tree
population during cleanup of a large index dir:

      - 9.53% ovl_fill_merge
         - 78.41% ovl_cache_entry_find_link.constprop.27
            + 72.11% strncmp

Use the plain list filler that does not populate the unneeded rb tree.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'pull-path' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2022-10-07T00:31:02Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
</author>
<published>2022-10-07T00:31:02Z</published>
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Pull vfs constification updates from Al Viro:
 "whack-a-mole: constifying struct path *"

* tag 'pull-path' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  ecryptfs: constify path
  spufs: constify path
  nd_jump_link(): constify path
  audit_init_parent(): constify path
  __io_setxattr(): constify path
  do_proc_readlink(): constify path
  overlayfs: constify path
  fs/notify: constify path
  may_linkat(): constify path
  do_sys_name_to_handle(): constify path
  -&gt;getprocattr(): attribute name is const char *, TYVM...
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<title>overlayfs: constify path</title>
<updated>2022-09-01T21:38:07Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
</author>
<published>2022-08-04T17:11:15Z</published>
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Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Change calling conventions for filldir_t</title>
<updated>2022-08-17T21:25:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
</author>
<published>2022-08-16T15:57:56Z</published>
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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 -&gt;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&lt;something&gt; 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 &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;]
Acked-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>ovl: handle idmappings for layer lookup</title>
<updated>2022-04-28T14:31:12Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
</author>
<published>2022-04-04T10:51:52Z</published>
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Make the two places where lookup helpers can be called either on lower
or upper layers take the mount's idmapping into account. To this end we
pass down the mount in struct ovl_lookup_data. It can later also be used
to construct struct path for various other helpers. This is needed to
support idmapped base layers with overlay.

Cc: &lt;linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Giuseppe Scrivano &lt;gscrivan@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ovl: use ovl_lookup_upper() wrapper</title>
<updated>2022-04-28T14:31:11Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
</author>
<published>2022-04-04T10:51:49Z</published>
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Introduce ovl_lookup_upper() as a simple wrapper around lookup_one().
Make it clear in the helper's name that this only operates on the upper
layer. The wrapper will take upper layer's idmapping into account when
checking permission in lookup_one().

Cc: &lt;linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Giuseppe Scrivano &lt;gscrivan@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
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