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<title>ceph: only d_add() negative dentries when they are unhashed</title>
<updated>2026-05-17T15:13:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Max Kellermann</name>
<email>max.kellermann@ionos.com</email>
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<published>2026-05-09T14:22:16+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 803447f93d75ab6e40c85e6d12b5630d281d70d6 ]

Ceph can call d_add(dentry, NULL) on a negative dentry that is already
present in the primary dcache hash.

In the current VFS that is not safe.  d_add() goes through __d_add()
to __d_rehash(), which unconditionally reinserts dentry-&gt;d_hash into
the hlist_bl bucket.  If the dentry is already hashed, reinserting the
same node can corrupt the bucket, including creating a self-loop.
Once that happens, __d_lookup() can spin forever in the hlist_bl walk,
typically looping only on the d_name.hash mismatch check and
eventually triggering RCU stall reports like this one:

 rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU
 rcu:         87-....: (2100 ticks this GP) idle=3a4c/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=25003319/25003319 fqs=829
 rcu:         (t=2101 jiffies g=79058445 q=698988 ncpus=192)
 CPU: 87 UID: 2952868916 PID: 3933303 Comm: php-cgi8.3 Not tainted 6.18.17-i1-amd #950 NONE
 Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R7615/0G9DHV, BIOS 1.6.6 09/22/2023
 RIP: 0010:__d_lookup+0x46/0xb0
 Code: c1 e8 07 48 8d 04 c2 48 8b 00 49 89 fc 49 89 f5 48 89 c3 48 83 e3 fe 48 83 f8 01 77 0f eb 2d 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 8b 1b 48 85 db &lt;74&gt; 20 39 6b 18 75 f3 48 8d 7b 78 e8 ba 85 d0 00 4c 39 63 10 74 1f
 RSP: 0018:ff745a70c8253898 EFLAGS: 00000282
 RAX: ff26e470054cb208 RBX: ff26e470054cb208 RCX: 000000006e958966
 RDX: ff26e48267340000 RSI: ff745a70c82539b0 RDI: ff26e458f74655c0
 RBP: 000000006e958966 R08: 0000000000000180 R09: 9cd08d909b919a89
 R10: ff26e458f74655c0 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ff26e458f74655c0
 R13: ff745a70c82539b0 R14: d0d0d0d0d0d0d0d0 R15: 2f2f2f2f2f2f2f2f
 FS:  00007f5770896980(0000) GS:ff26e482c5d88000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 00007f5764de50c0 CR3: 000000a72abb5001 CR4: 0000000000771ef0
 PKRU: 55555554
 Call Trace:
  &lt;TASK&gt;
  lookup_fast+0x9f/0x100
  walk_component+0x1f/0x150
  link_path_walk+0x20e/0x3d0
  path_lookupat+0x68/0x180
  filename_lookup+0xdc/0x1e0
  vfs_statx+0x6c/0x140
  vfs_fstatat+0x67/0xa0
  __do_sys_newfstatat+0x24/0x60
  do_syscall_64+0x6a/0x230
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

This is reachable with reused cached negative dentries.  A Ceph lookup
or atomic_open can be handed a negative dentry that is already hashed,
and fs/ceph/dir.c then hits one of two paths that incorrectly assume
"negative" also means "unhashed":

  - ceph_finish_lookup():
      MDS reply is -ENOENT with no trace
      -&gt; d_add(dentry, NULL)

  - ceph_lookup():
      local ENOENT fast path for a complete directory with shared caps
      -&gt; d_add(dentry, NULL)

Both paths can therefore re-add an already-hashed negative dentry.

Ceph already uses the correct pattern elsewhere: ceph_fill_trace() only
calls d_add(dn, NULL) for a negative null-dentry reply when d_unhashed(dn)
is true.

Fix both fs/ceph/dir.c sites the same way: only call d_add() for a
negative dentry when it is actually unhashed.  If the negative dentry
is already hashed, leave it in place and reuse it as-is.

This preserves the existing behavior for unhashed dentries while
avoiding d_hash list corruption for reused hashed negatives.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 2817b000b02c ("ceph: directory operations")
Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann &lt;max.kellermann@ionos.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko &lt;Slava.Dubeyko@ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@gmail.com&gt;
[ kept existing dout() debug call instead of upstream's doutc() form when adding the d_unhashed() guard around d_add() ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ceph: fix i_nlink underrun during async unlink</title>
<updated>2026-03-25T10:05:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Max Kellermann</name>
<email>max.kellermann@ionos.com</email>
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<published>2025-09-05T21:15:30+00:00</published>
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commit ce0123cbb4a40a2f1bbb815f292b26e96088639f upstream.

During async unlink, we drop the `i_nlink` counter before we receive
the completion (that will eventually update the `i_nlink`) because "we
assume that the unlink will succeed".  That is not a bad idea, but it
races against deletions by other clients (or against the completion of
our own unlink) and can lead to an underrun which emits a WARNING like
this one:

 WARNING: CPU: 85 PID: 25093 at fs/inode.c:407 drop_nlink+0x50/0x68
 Modules linked in:
 CPU: 85 UID: 3221252029 PID: 25093 Comm: php-cgi8.1 Not tainted 6.14.11-cm4all1-ampere #655
 Hardware name: Supermicro ARS-110M-NR/R12SPD-A, BIOS 1.1b 10/17/2023
 pstate: 60400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
 pc : drop_nlink+0x50/0x68
 lr : ceph_unlink+0x6c4/0x720
 sp : ffff80012173bc90
 x29: ffff80012173bc90 x28: ffff086d0a45aaf8 x27: ffff0871d0eb5680
 x26: ffff087f2a64a718 x25: 0000020000000180 x24: 0000000061c88647
 x23: 0000000000000002 x22: ffff07ff9236d800 x21: 0000000000001203
 x20: ffff07ff9237b000 x19: ffff088b8296afc0 x18: 00000000f3c93365
 x17: 0000000000070000 x16: ffff08faffcbdfe8 x15: ffff08faffcbdfec
 x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 45445f65645f3037 x12: 34385f6369706f74
 x11: 0000a2653104bb20 x10: ffffd85f26d73290 x9 : ffffd85f25664f94
 x8 : 00000000000000c0 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000002
 x5 : 0000000000000081 x4 : 0000000000000481 x3 : 0000000000000000
 x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffff08727d3f91e8
 Call trace:
  drop_nlink+0x50/0x68 (P)
  vfs_unlink+0xb0/0x2e8
  do_unlinkat+0x204/0x288
  __arm64_sys_unlinkat+0x3c/0x80
  invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x54/0xe8
  do_el0_svc+0xa4/0xc8
  el0_svc+0x18/0x58
  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x104/0x130
  el0t_64_sync+0x154/0x158

In ceph_unlink(), a call to ceph_mdsc_submit_request() submits the
CEPH_MDS_OP_UNLINK to the MDS, but does not wait for completion.

Meanwhile, between this call and the following drop_nlink() call, a
worker thread may process a CEPH_CAP_OP_IMPORT, CEPH_CAP_OP_GRANT or
just a CEPH_MSG_CLIENT_REPLY (the latter of which could be our own
completion).  These will lead to a set_nlink() call, updating the
`i_nlink` counter to the value received from the MDS.  If that new
`i_nlink` value happens to be zero, it is illegal to decrement it
further.  But that is exactly what ceph_unlink() will do then.

The WARNING can be reproduced this way:

1. Force async unlink; only the async code path is affected.  Having
   no real clue about Ceph internals, I was unable to find out why the
   MDS wouldn't give me the "Fxr" capabilities, so I patched
   get_caps_for_async_unlink() to always succeed.

   (Note that the WARNING dump above was found on an unpatched kernel,
   without this kludge - this is not a theoretical bug.)

2. Add a sleep call after ceph_mdsc_submit_request() so the unlink
   completion gets handled by a worker thread before drop_nlink() is
   called.  This guarantees that the `i_nlink` is already zero before
   drop_nlink() runs.

The solution is to skip the counter decrement when it is already zero,
but doing so without a lock is still racy (TOCTOU).  Since
ceph_fill_inode() and handle_cap_grant() both hold the
`ceph_inode_info.i_ceph_lock` spinlock while set_nlink() runs, this
seems like the proper lock to protect the `i_nlink` updates.

I found prior art in NFS and SMB (using `inode.i_lock`) and AFS (using
`afs_vnode.cb_lock`).  All three have the zero check as well.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 2ccb45462aea ("ceph: perform asynchronous unlink if we have sufficient caps")
Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann &lt;max.kellermann@ionos.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko &lt;Slava.Dubeyko@ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>ceph: refactor wake_up_bit() pattern of calling</title>
<updated>2025-11-24T09:29:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Viacheslav Dubeyko</name>
<email>Slava.Dubeyko@ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-08T19:20:57+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 53db6f25ee47cb1265141d31562604e56146919a ]

The wake_up_bit() is called in ceph_async_unlink_cb(),
wake_async_create_waiters(), and ceph_finish_async_create().
It makes sense to switch on clear_bit() function, because
it makes the code much cleaner and easier to understand.
More important rework is the adding of smp_mb__after_atomic()
memory barrier after the bit modification and before
wake_up_bit() call. It can prevent potential race condition
of accessing the modified bit in other threads. Luckily,
clear_and_wake_up_bit() already implements the required
functionality pattern:

static inline void clear_and_wake_up_bit(int bit, unsigned long *word)
{
	clear_bit_unlock(bit, word);
	/* See wake_up_bit() for which memory barrier you need to use. */
	smp_mb__after_atomic();
	wake_up_bit(word, bit);
}

Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko &lt;Slava.Dubeyko@ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alex Markuze &lt;amarkuze@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ceph: rename _to_client() to _to_fs_client()</title>
<updated>2024-04-27T15:11:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xiubo Li</name>
<email>xiubli@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-12T02:50:38+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 5995d90d2d19f337df6a50bcf4699ef053214dac ]

We need to covert the inode to ceph_client in the following commit,
and will add one new helper for that, here we rename the old helper
to _fs_client().

Link: https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/61590
Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li &lt;xiubli@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Patrick Donnelly &lt;pdonnell@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Milind Changire &lt;mchangir@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@gmail.com&gt;
Stable-dep-of: b372e96bd0a3 ("ceph: redirty page before returning AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ceph: pass the mdsc to several helpers</title>
<updated>2024-04-27T15:11:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Xiubo Li</name>
<email>xiubli@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-09T07:15:47+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 197b7d792d6aead2e30d4b2c054ffabae2ed73dc ]

We will use the 'mdsc' to get the global_id in the following commits.

Link: https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/61590
Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li &lt;xiubli@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Patrick Donnelly &lt;pdonnell@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Milind Changire &lt;mchangir@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@gmail.com&gt;
Stable-dep-of: b372e96bd0a3 ("ceph: redirty page before returning AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ceph: switch ceph_lookup/atomic_open() to use new fscrypt helper</title>
<updated>2023-08-24T09:24:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luís Henriques</name>
<email>lhenriques@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-16T18:14:12+00:00</published>
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Instead of setting the no-key dentry, use the new
fscrypt_prepare_lookup_partial() helper.  We still need to mark the
directory as incomplete if the directory was just unlocked.

In ceph_atomic_open() this fixes a bug where a dentry is incorrectly
set with DCACHE_NOKEY_NAME when 'dir' has been evicted but the key is
still available (for example, where there's a drop_caches).

Signed-off-by: Luís Henriques &lt;lhenriques@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Xiubo Li &lt;xiubli@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Milind Changire &lt;mchangir@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@gmail.com&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>ceph: prevent snapshot creation in encrypted locked directories</title>
<updated>2023-08-24T09:24:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luís Henriques</name>
<email>lhenriques@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-25T13:31:31+00:00</published>
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With snapshot names encryption we can not allow snapshots to be created in
locked directories because the names wouldn't be encrypted.  This patch
forces the directory to be unlocked to allow a snapshot to be created.

Signed-off-by: Luís Henriques &lt;lhenriques@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Xiubo Li &lt;xiubli@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Milind Changire &lt;mchangir@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@gmail.com&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>ceph: size handling in MClientRequest, cap updates and inode traces</title>
<updated>2023-08-24T09:24:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-25T13:31:06+00:00</published>
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For encrypted inodes, transmit a rounded-up size to the MDS as the
normal file size and send the real inode size in fscrypt_file field.
Also, fix up creates and truncates to also transmit fscrypt_file.

When we get an inode trace from the MDS, grab the fscrypt_file field if
the inode is encrypted, and use it to populate the i_size field instead
of the regular inode size field.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Xiubo Li &lt;xiubli@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Luís Henriques &lt;lhenriques@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Milind Changire &lt;mchangir@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@gmail.com&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>ceph: mark directory as non-complete after loading key</title>
<updated>2023-08-24T09:24:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luís Henriques</name>
<email>lhenriques@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-29T10:39:49+00:00</published>
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When setting a directory's crypt context, ceph_dir_clear_complete()
needs to be called otherwise if it was complete before, any existing
(old) dentry will still be valid.

This patch adds a wrapper around __fscrypt_prepare_readdir() which will
ensure a directory is marked as non-complete if key status changes.

[ xiubli: revise commit title per Milind ]

Signed-off-by: Luís Henriques &lt;lhenriques@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Xiubo Li &lt;xiubli@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Milind Changire &lt;mchangir@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@gmail.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ceph: add some fscrypt guardrails</title>
<updated>2023-08-24T09:24:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-01T18:40:51+00:00</published>
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Add the appropriate calls into fscrypt for various actions, including
link, rename, setattr, and the open codepaths.

Disable fallocate for encrypted inodes -- hopefully, just for now.

If we have an encrypted inode, then the client will need to re-encrypt
the contents of the new object. Disable copy offload to or from
encrypted inodes.

Set i_blkbits to crypto block size for encrypted inodes -- some of the
underlying infrastructure for fscrypt relies on i_blkbits being aligned
to crypto blocksize.

Report STATX_ATTR_ENCRYPTED on encrypted inodes.

[ lhenriques: forbid encryption with striped layouts ]

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Xiubo Li &lt;xiubli@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-and-tested-by: Luís Henriques &lt;lhenriques@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Milind Changire &lt;mchangir@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@gmail.com&gt;
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