History log of /linux-master/fs/romfs/super.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 22650a99 26-Mar-2024 Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

fs,block: yield devices early

Currently a device is only really released once the umount returns to
userspace due to how file closing works. That ultimately could cause
an old umount assumption to be violated that concurrent umount and mount
don't fail. So an exclusively held device with a temporary holder should
be yielded before the filesystem is gone. Add a helper that allows
callers to do that. This also allows us to remove the two holder ops
that Linus wasn't excited about.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240326-vfs-bdev-end_holder-v1-1-20af85202918@kernel.org
Fixes: f3a608827d1f ("bdev: open block device as files") # mainline only
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>


# 8145e082 24-Feb-2024 Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>

romfs: remove SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag usage

The SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag used to be implemented in SLAB, which was
removed as of v6.8-rc1 (see [1]), so it became a dead flag since the
commit 16a1d968358a ("mm/slab: remove mm/slab.c and slab_def.h"). And
the series[1] went on to mark it obsolete explicitly to avoid confusion
for users. Here we can just remove all its users, which has no any
functional change.

Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <zhouchengming@bytedance.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240223-slab-cleanup-flags-v2-1-02f1753e8303@suse.cz [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240224135143.830142-1-chengming.zhou@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>


# f3a60882 08-Feb-2024 Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

bdev: open block device as files

Add two new helpers to allow opening block devices as files.
This is not the final infrastructure. This still opens the block device
before opening a struct a file. Until we have removed all references to
struct bdev_handle we can't switch the order:

* Introduce blk_to_file_flags() to translate from block specific to
flags usable to pen a new file.
* Introduce bdev_file_open_by_{dev,path}().
* Introduce temporary sb_bdev_handle() helper to retrieve a struct
bdev_handle from a block device file and update places that directly
reference struct bdev_handle to rely on it.
* Don't count block device openes against the number of open files. A
bdev_file_open_by_{dev,path}() file is never installed into any
file descriptor table.

One idea that came to mind was to use kernel_tmpfile_open() which
would require us to pass a path and it would then call do_dentry_open()
going through the regular fops->open::blkdev_open() path. But then we're
back to the problem of routing block specific flags such as
BLK_OPEN_RESTRICT_WRITES through the open path and would have to waste
FMODE_* flags every time we add a new one. With this we can avoid using
a flag bit and we have more leeway in how we open block devices from
bdev_open_by_{dev,path}().

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240123-vfs-bdev-file-v2-1-adbd023e19cc@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>


# f4a48bc3 27-Sep-2023 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

fs: Convert to bdev_open_by_dev()

Convert mount code to use bdev_open_by_dev() and propagate the handle
around to bdev_release().

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230927093442.25915-19-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>


# f26c93d3 04-Oct-2023 Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>

romfs: convert to new timestamp accessors

Convert to using the new inode timestamp accessor functions.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231004185347.80880-65-jlayton@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>


# 2ea6f689 02-Aug-2023 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

fs: use the super_block as holder when mounting file systems

The file system type is not a very useful holder as it doesn't allow us
to go back to the actual file system instance. Pass the super_block instead
which is useful when passed back to the file system driver.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Message-Id: <20230802154131.2221419-7-hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>


# aca740ce 24-Jul-2023 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

fs: open block device after superblock creation

Currently get_tree_bdev and mount_bdev open the block device before
committing to allocating a super block. That creates problems for
restricting the number of writers to a device, and also leads to a
unusual and not very helpful holder (the fs_type).

Reorganize the super block code to first look whether the superblock for
a particular device does already exist and open the block device only if
it doesn't.

[hch: port to before the bdev_handle changes,
duplicate the bdev read-only check from blkdev_get_by_path,
extend the fsfree_mutex coverage to protect against freezes,
fix an open bdev leak when the bdev is frozen,
use the bdev local variable more,
rename the s variable to sb to be more descriptive]
[brauner: remove references to mounts as they're mostly irrelevant]
[brauner & hch: fold fixes for romfs and cramfs for
syzbot+2faac0423fdc9692822b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com]

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Message-Id: <20230724175145.201318-1-hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>


# a5845127 05-Jul-2023 Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>

romfs: convert to ctime accessor functions

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 <jlayton@kernel.org>
Message-Id: <20230705190309.579783-71-jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>


# f91dbd02 29-Apr-2022 Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>

romfs: Convert romfs to read_folio

This is a "weak" conversion which converts straight back to using pages.
A full conversion should be performed at some point, hopefully by
someone familiar with the filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>


# fd60b288 22-Mar-2022 Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>

fs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()

The inode allocation is supposed to use alloc_inode_sb(), so convert
kmem_cache_alloc() of all filesystems to alloc_inode_sb().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220228122126.37293-5-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> [ext4]
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Cc: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
Cc: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Fam Zheng <fam.zheng@bytedance.com>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kari Argillander <kari.argillander@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Xiongchun Duan <duanxiongchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# d9bc85de 15-Oct-2020 Libing Zhou <libing.zhou@nokia-sbell.com>

ROMFS: support inode blocks calculation

When use 'stat' tool to display file status, the 'Blocks' field always in
'0', this is not good for tool 'du'(e.g.: busybox 'du'), it always output
'0' size for the files under ROMFS since such tool calculates number of
512B Blocks.

This patch calculates approx. number of 512B blocks based on inode size.

Signed-off-by: Libing Zhou <libing.zhou@nokia-sbell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200811052606.4243-1-libing.zhou@nokia-sbell.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 6d1349c7 18-Sep-2020 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

[PATCH] reduce boilerplate in fsid handling

Get rid of boilerplate in most of ->statfs()
instances...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# b9417599 25-Mar-2019 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

vfs: Convert romfs to use the new mount API

Convert the romfs filesystem to the new internal mount API as the old
one will be obsoleted and removed. This allows greater flexibility in
communication of mount parameters between userspace, the VFS and the
filesystem.

See Documentation/filesystems/mount_api.txt for more information.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 22b13969 30-Jul-2019 Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>

fs: Fill in max and min timestamps in superblock

Fill in the appropriate limits to avoid inconsistencies
in the vfs cached inode times when timestamps are
outside the permitted range.

Even though some filesystems are read-only, fill in the
timestamps to reflect the on-disk representation.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Acked-By: Tigran Aivazian <aivazian.tigran@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: aivazian.tigran@gmail.com
Cc: al@alarsen.net
Cc: coda@cs.cmu.edu
Cc: darrick.wong@oracle.com
Cc: dushistov@mail.ru
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org
Cc: hch@infradead.org
Cc: jack@suse.com
Cc: jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu
Cc: luisbg@kernel.org
Cc: nico@fluxnic.net
Cc: phillip@squashfs.org.uk
Cc: richard@nod.at
Cc: salah.triki@gmail.com
Cc: shaggy@kernel.org
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: codalist@coda.cs.cmu.edu
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Cc: jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org


# bcb8d71b 15-Apr-2019 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

romfs: convert to ->free_inode()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 8130c151 30-Apr-2018 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

romfs_lookup: switch to d_splice_alias()

... and hash negative lookups

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 1751e8a6 27-Nov-2017 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Rename superblock flags (MS_xyz -> SB_xyz)

This is a pure automated search-and-replace of the internal kernel
superblock flags.

The s_flags are now called SB_*, with the names and the values for the
moment mirroring the MS_* flags that they're equivalent to.

Note how the MS_xyz flags are the ones passed to the mount system call,
while the SB_xyz flags are what we then use in sb->s_flags.

The script to do this was:

# places to look in; re security/*: it generally should *not* be
# touched (that stuff parses mount(2) arguments directly), but
# there are two places where we really deal with superblock flags.
FILES="drivers/mtd drivers/staging/lustre fs ipc mm \
include/linux/fs.h include/uapi/linux/bfs_fs.h \
security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c security/apparmor/include/lib.h"
# the list of MS_... constants
SYMS="RDONLY NOSUID NODEV NOEXEC SYNCHRONOUS REMOUNT MANDLOCK \
DIRSYNC NOATIME NODIRATIME BIND MOVE REC VERBOSE SILENT \
POSIXACL UNBINDABLE PRIVATE SLAVE SHARED RELATIME KERNMOUNT \
I_VERSION STRICTATIME LAZYTIME SUBMOUNT NOREMOTELOCK NOSEC BORN \
ACTIVE NOUSER"

SED_PROG=
for i in $SYMS; do SED_PROG="$SED_PROG -e s/MS_$i/SB_$i/g"; done

# we want files that contain at least one of MS_...,
# with fs/namespace.c and fs/pnode.c excluded.
L=$(for i in $SYMS; do git grep -w -l MS_$i $FILES; done| sort|uniq|grep -v '^fs/namespace.c'|grep -v '^fs/pnode.c')

for f in $L; do sed -i $f $SED_PROG; done

Requested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# f598f82e 24-Jan-2017 Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>

romfs: use different way to generate fsid for BLOCK or MTD

Commit 8a59f5d25265 ("fs/romfs: return f_fsid for statfs(2)") generates
a 64bit id from sb->s_bdev->bd_dev. This is only correct when romfs is
defined with CONFIG_ROMFS_ON_BLOCK. If romfs is only defined with
CONFIG_ROMFS_ON_MTD, sb->s_bdev is NULL, referencing sb->s_bdev->bd_dev
will triger an oops.

Richard Weinberger points out that when CONFIG_ROMFS_BACKED_BY_BOTH=y,
both CONFIG_ROMFS_ON_BLOCK and CONFIG_ROMFS_ON_MTD are defined.
Therefore when calling huge_encode_dev() to generate a 64bit id, I use
the follow order to choose parameter,

- CONFIG_ROMFS_ON_BLOCK defined
use sb->s_bdev->bd_dev
- CONFIG_ROMFS_ON_BLOCK undefined and CONFIG_ROMFS_ON_MTD defined
use sb->s_dev when,
- both CONFIG_ROMFS_ON_BLOCK and CONFIG_ROMFS_ON_MTD undefined
leave id as 0

When CONFIG_ROMFS_ON_MTD is defined and sb->s_mtd is not NULL, sb->s_dev
is set to a device ID generated by MTD_BLOCK_MAJOR and mtd index,
otherwise sb->s_dev is 0.

This is a try-best effort to generate a uniq file system ID, if all the
above conditions are not meet, f_fsid of this romfs instance will be 0.
Generally only one romfs can be built on single MTD block device, this
method is enough to identify multiple romfs instances in a computer.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1482928596-115155-1-git-send-email-colyli@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Reported-by: Nong Li <nongli1031@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Nong Li <nongli1031@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# d375570f 30-Apr-2016 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

romfs, squashfs: switch to ->iterate_shared()

don't need to lock directory in ->llseek(), either

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 5d097056 14-Jan-2016 Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>

kmemcg: account certain kmem allocations to memcg

Mark those kmem allocations that are known to be easily triggered from
userspace as __GFP_ACCOUNT/SLAB_ACCOUNT, which makes them accounted to
memcg. For the list, see below:

- threadinfo
- task_struct
- task_delay_info
- pid
- cred
- mm_struct
- vm_area_struct and vm_region (nommu)
- anon_vma and anon_vma_chain
- signal_struct
- sighand_struct
- fs_struct
- files_struct
- fdtable and fdtable->full_fds_bits
- dentry and external_name
- inode for all filesystems. This is the most tedious part, because
most filesystems overwrite the alloc_inode method.

The list is far from complete, so feel free to add more objects.
Nevertheless, it should be close to "account everything" approach and
keep most workloads within bounds. Malevolent users will be able to
breach the limit, but this was possible even with the former "account
everything" approach (simply because it did not account everything in
fact).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 21fc61c7 16-Nov-2015 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

don't put symlink bodies in pagecache into highmem

kmap() in page_follow_link_light() needed to go - allowing to hold
an arbitrary number of kmaps for long is a great way to deadlocking
the system.

new helper (inode_nohighmem(inode)) needs to be used for pagecache
symlinks inodes; done for all in-tree cases. page_follow_link_light()
instrumented to yell about anything missed.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# b83ae6d4 14-Jan-2015 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

fs: remove mapping->backing_dev_info

Now that we never use the backing_dev_info pointer in struct address_space
we can simply remove it and save 4 to 8 bytes in every inode.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>


# b6d53b1b 08-Aug-2014 Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>

fs/romfs/super.c: add blank line after declarations

Fix checkpatch warning:

WARNING: Missing a blank line after declarations

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# ca9e5368 08-Aug-2014 Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>

fs/romfs/super.c: use pr_fmt in logging

- Remove "Error" in format logging (already in pr_ level)

- Use modulename in pr_fmt instead of ROMFS: in each pr_ callsites.

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 3d79d314 08-Aug-2014 Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>

fs/romfs/super.c: convert printk to pr_foo()

Use current logging functions. Coalesce formats.

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 02b9984d 13-Mar-2014 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

fs: push sync_filesystem() down to the file system's remount_fs()

Previously, the no-op "mount -o mount /dev/xxx" operation when the
file system is already mounted read-write causes an implied,
unconditional syncfs(). This seems pretty stupid, and it's certainly
documented or guaraunteed to do this, nor is it particularly useful,
except in the case where the file system was mounted rw and is getting
remounted read-only.

However, it's possible that there might be some file systems that are
actually depending on this behavior. In most file systems, it's
probably fine to only call sync_filesystem() when transitioning from
read-write to read-only, and there are some file systems where this is
not needed at all (for example, for a pseudo-filesystem or something
like romfs).

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Anders Larsen <al@alarsen.net>
Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Cc: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: samba-technical@lists.samba.org
Cc: codalist@coda.cs.cmu.edu
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: cluster-devel@redhat.com
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Cc: jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-nilfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org


# 40e2c71d 23-Jan-2014 Rui Xiang <rui.xiang@huawei.com>

romfs: fix returm err while getting inode in fill_super

Getting an inode by romfs_iget may lead to an err in fill_super, and the
err value should be return.

And it should return -ENOMEM instead while d_make_root fails, fix it too.

Signed-off-by: Rui Xiang <rui.xiang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 3903b38c 15-May-2013 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

[readdir] convert romfs

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 7f78e035 02-Mar-2013 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules.

Modify the request_module to prefix the file system type with "fs-"
and add aliases to all of the filesystems that can be built as modules
to match.

A common practice is to build all of the kernel code and leave code
that is not commonly needed as modules, with the result that many
users are exposed to any bug anywhere in the kernel.

Looking for filesystems with a fs- prefix limits the pool of possible
modules that can be loaded by mount to just filesystems trivially
making things safer with no real cost.

Using aliases means user space can control the policy of which
filesystem modules are auto-loaded by editing /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf
with blacklist and alias directives. Allowing simple, safe,
well understood work-arounds to known problematic software.

This also addresses a rare but unfortunate problem where the filesystem
name is not the same as it's module name and module auto-loading
would not work. While writing this patch I saw a handful of such
cases. The most significant being autofs that lives in the module
autofs4.

This is relevant to user namespaces because we can reach the request
module in get_fs_type() without having any special permissions, and
people get uncomfortable when a user specified string (in this case
the filesystem type) goes all of the way to request_module.

After having looked at this issue I don't think there is any
particular reason to perform any filtering or permission checks beyond
making it clear in the module request that we want a filesystem
module. The common pattern in the kernel is to call request_module()
without regards to the users permissions. In general all a filesystem
module does once loaded is call register_filesystem() and go to sleep.
Which means there is not much attack surface exposed by loading a
filesytem module unless the filesystem is mounted. In a user
namespace filesystems are not mounted unless .fs_flags = FS_USERNS_MOUNT,
which most filesystems do not set today.

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>


# 496ad9aa 23-Jan-2013 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

new helper: file_inode(file)

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 8c0a8537 25-Sep-2012 Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>

fs: push rcu_barrier() from deactivate_locked_super() to filesystems

There's no reason to call rcu_barrier() on every
deactivate_locked_super(). We only need to make sure that all delayed rcu
free inodes are flushed before we destroy related cache.

Removing rcu_barrier() from deactivate_locked_super() affects some fast
paths. E.g. on my machine exit_group() of a last process in IPC
namespace takes 0.07538s. rcu_barrier() takes 0.05188s of that time.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 00cd8dd3 10-Jun-2012 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

stop passing nameidata to ->lookup()

Just the flags; only NFS cares even about that, but there are
legitimate uses for such argument. And getting rid of that
completely would require splitting ->lookup() into a couple
of methods (at least), so let's leave that alone for now...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 48fde701 08-Jan-2012 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

switch open-coded instances of d_make_root() to new helper

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 6b520e05 12-Dec-2011 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

vfs: fix the stupidity with i_dentry in inode destructors

Seeing that just about every destructor got that INIT_LIST_HEAD() copied into
it, there is no point whatsoever keeping this INIT_LIST_HEAD in inode_init_once();
the cost of taking it into inode_init_always() will be negligible for pipes
and sockets and negative for everything else. Not to mention the removal of
boilerplate code from ->destroy_inode() instances...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# bfe86848 28-Oct-2011 Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>

filesystems: add set_nlink()

Replace remaining direct i_nlink updates with a new set_nlink()
updater function.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>


# fa0d7e3d 06-Jan-2011 Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>

fs: icache RCU free inodes

RCU free the struct inode. This will allow:

- Subsequent store-free path walking patch. The inode must be consulted for
permissions when walking, so an RCU inode reference is a must.
- sb_inode_list_lock to be moved inside i_lock because sb list walkers who want
to take i_lock no longer need to take sb_inode_list_lock to walk the list in
the first place. This will simplify and optimize locking.
- Could remove some nested trylock loops in dcache code
- Could potentially simplify things a bit in VM land. Do not need to take the
page lock to follow page->mapping.

The downsides of this is the performance cost of using RCU. In a simple
creat/unlink microbenchmark, performance drops by about 10% due to inability to
reuse cache-hot slab objects. As iterations increase and RCU freeing starts
kicking over, this increases to about 20%.

In cases where inode lifetimes are longer (ie. many inodes may be allocated
during the average life span of a single inode), a lot of this cache reuse is
not applicable, so the regression caused by this patch is smaller.

The cache-hot regression could largely be avoided by using SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU,
however this adds some complexity to list walking and store-free path walking,
so I prefer to implement this at a later date, if it is shown to be a win in
real situations. I haven't found a regression in any non-micro benchmark so I
doubt it will be a problem.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>


# 848b83a5 24-Jul-2010 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

convert get_sb_mtd() users to ->mount()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 6038f373 15-Aug-2010 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

llseek: automatically add .llseek fop

All file_operations should get a .llseek operation so we can make
nonseekable_open the default for future file operations without a
.llseek pointer.

The three cases that we can automatically detect are no_llseek, seq_lseek
and default_llseek. For cases where we can we can automatically prove that
the file offset is always ignored, we use noop_llseek, which maintains
the current behavior of not returning an error from a seek.

New drivers should normally not use noop_llseek but instead use no_llseek
and call nonseekable_open at open time. Existing drivers can be converted
to do the same when the maintainer knows for certain that no user code
relies on calling seek on the device file.

The generated code is often incorrectly indented and right now contains
comments that clarify for each added line why a specific variant was
chosen. In the version that gets submitted upstream, the comments will
be gone and I will manually fix the indentation, because there does not
seem to be a way to do that using coccinelle.

Some amount of new code is currently sitting in linux-next that should get
the same modifications, which I will do at the end of the merge window.

Many thanks to Julia Lawall for helping me learn to write a semantic
patch that does all this.

===== begin semantic patch =====
// This adds an llseek= method to all file operations,
// as a preparation for making no_llseek the default.
//
// The rules are
// - use no_llseek explicitly if we do nonseekable_open
// - use seq_lseek for sequential files
// - use default_llseek if we know we access f_pos
// - use noop_llseek if we know we don't access f_pos,
// but we still want to allow users to call lseek
//
@ open1 exists @
identifier nested_open;
@@
nested_open(...)
{
<+...
nonseekable_open(...)
...+>
}

@ open exists@
identifier open_f;
identifier i, f;
identifier open1.nested_open;
@@
int open_f(struct inode *i, struct file *f)
{
<+...
(
nonseekable_open(...)
|
nested_open(...)
)
...+>
}

@ read disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
<+...
(
*off = E
|
*off += E
|
func(..., off, ...)
|
E = *off
)
...+>
}

@ read_no_fpos disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}

@ write @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
<+...
(
*off = E
|
*off += E
|
func(..., off, ...)
|
E = *off
)
...+>
}

@ write_no_fpos @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}

@ fops0 @
identifier fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
};

@ has_llseek depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier llseek_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.llseek = llseek_f,
...
};

@ has_read depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.read = read_f,
...
};

@ has_write depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.write = write_f,
...
};

@ has_open depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.open = open_f,
...
};

// use no_llseek if we call nonseekable_open
////////////////////////////////////////////
@ nonseekable1 depends on !has_llseek && has_open @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier nso ~= "nonseekable_open";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .open = nso, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* nonseekable */
};

@ nonseekable2 depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open.open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .open = open_f, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* open uses nonseekable */
};

// use seq_lseek for sequential files
/////////////////////////////////////
@ seq depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier sr ~= "seq_read";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = sr, ...
+.llseek = seq_lseek, /* we have seq_read */
};

// use default_llseek if there is a readdir
///////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops1 depends on !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier readdir_e;
@@
// any other fop is used that changes pos
struct file_operations fops = {
... .readdir = readdir_e, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* readdir is present */
};

// use default_llseek if at least one of read/write touches f_pos
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops2 depends on !fops1 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read.read_f;
@@
// read fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* read accesses f_pos */
};

@ fops3 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+ .llseek = default_llseek, /* write accesses f_pos */
};

// Use noop_llseek if neither read nor write accesses f_pos
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

@ fops4 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !fops3 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.write = write_f,
.read = read_f,
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read and write both use no f_pos */
};

@ depends on has_write && !has_read && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* write uses no f_pos */
};

@ depends on has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read uses no f_pos */
};

@ depends on !has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* no read or write fn */
};
===== End semantic patch =====

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>


# 7e32b7bb 25-Jan-2010 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

fix leak in romfs_fill_super()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# a21f3c2a 23-Sep-2009 Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>

fs/romfs: correct error-handling code

romfs_iget returns an ERR_PTR value in an error case instead of NULL.

A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@match exists@
expression x, E;
statement S1, S2;
@@

x = romfs_iget(...)
... when != x = E
(
* if (x == NULL || ...) S1 else S2
|
* if (x == NULL && ...) S1 else S2
)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 88a0a53d 28-Jul-2009 Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>

fs/romfs: correct error-handling code

romfs_fill_super() assumes that romfs_iget() returns NULL when
it fails. romfs_iget() actually returns ERR_PTR(-ve) in that
case...

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 6e1d5dcc 21-Sep-2009 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>

const: mark remaining inode_operations as const

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 774e33e7 26-Apr-2009 Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>

ROMFS: romfs_dev_read() error ignored

romfs_dev_read() may return -EIO, but ret is unsigned, so the errorpath
isn't taken.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 84baf74b 23-Apr-2009 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

ROMFS: romfs_lookup() shouldn't be doing a partial name comparison

romfs_lookup() should be using a routine akin to strcmp() on the backing store,
rather than one akin to strncmp(). If it uses the latter, it's liable to match
/bin/shutdown when looking up /bin/sh.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 8a59f5d2 06-Apr-2009 Coly Li <coly.li@suse.de>

fs/romfs: return f_fsid for statfs(2)

Make romfs return f_fsid info for statfs(2).

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <coly.li@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# da4458bd 12-Feb-2009 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

NOMMU: Make it possible for RomFS to use MTD devices directly

Change RomFS so that it can use MTD devices directly - without the intercession
of the block layer - as well as using block devices.

This permits RomFS:

(1) to use the MTD direct mapping facility available under NOMMU conditions if
the underlying device is directly accessible by the CPU (including XIP);

(2) and thus to be used when the block layer is disabled.

RomFS can be configured with support just for MTD devices, just for Block
devices or for both. If RomFS is configured for both, then it will treat
mtdblock device files as MTD backing stores, not block layer backing stores.

I tested this using a CONFIG_MMU=n CONFIG_BLOCK=n kernel running on my FRV
board with a RomFS image installed on the mtdram test device. I see my test
program being run XIP:

# cat /proc/maps
...
c0c000b0-c0c01f8c r-xs 00000000 1f:00 144 /mnt/doshm
...

GDB on the kernel can be used to show that these addresses are within the
set-aside RAM space.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Bernd Schmidt <bernd.schmidt@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>