kernel/linux.git/fs/configfs/inode.c, branch linux-7.1.y

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

d_make_discardable(): warn if given a non-persistent dentry

2025-11-18T04:59:27+00:00

At this point there are very few call chains that might lead to d_make_discardable() on a dentry that hadn't been made persistent: calls of simple_unlink() and simple_rmdir() in configfs and apparmorfs. Both filesystems do pin (part of) their contents in dcache, but they are currently playing very unusual games with that. Converting them to more usual patterns might be possible, but it's definitely going to be a long series of changes in both cases. For now the easiest solution is to have both stop using simple_unlink() and simple_rmdir() - that allows to make d_make_discardable() warn when given a non-persistent dentry. Rather than giving them full-blown private copies (with calls of d_make_discardable() replaced with dput()), let's pull the parts of simple_unlink() and simple_rmdir() that deal with timestamps and link counts into separate helpers (__simple_unlink() and __simple_rmdir() resp.) and have those used by configfs and apparmorfs. Signed-off-by: Al Viro

configfs: remove unused configfs_hash_and_remove

2024-11-14T06:45:19+00:00

configfs_hash_and_remove() has been unused since it was added in 2005 by commit 7063fbf22611 ("[PATCH] configfs: User-driven configuration filesystem") Remove it. Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig

configfs: convert to new timestamp accessors

2023-10-18T11:26:19+00:00

Convert to using the new inode timestamp accessor functions. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231004185347.80880-24-jlayton@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

configfs: convert to ctime accessor functions

2023-07-13T08:28:05+00:00

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 Acked-by: Joel Becker Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Message-Id: <20230705190309.579783-30-jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

fs: port ->setattr() to pass mnt_idmap

2023-01-19T08:24:02+00:00

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 Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft)

fs: move ramfs_aops to libfs

2021-06-29T17:53:48+00:00

Move the ramfs aops to libfs and reuse them for kernfs and configfs. Thosw two did not wire up ->set_page_dirty before and now get __set_page_dirty_no_writeback, which is the right one for no-writeback address_space usage. Drop the now unused exports of the libfs helpers only used for ramfs-style pagecache usage. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210614061512.3966143-3-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Cc: Al Viro Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

treewide: remove editor modelines and cruft

2021-05-07T07:26:34+00:00

The section "19) Editor modelines and other cruft" in Documentation/process/coding-style.rst clearly says, "Do not include any of these in source files." I recently receive a patch to explicitly add a new one. Let's do treewide cleanups, otherwise some people follow the existing code and attempt to upstream their favoriate editor setups. It is even nicer if scripts/checkpatch.pl can check it. If we like to impose coding style in an editor-independent manner, I think editorconfig (patch [1]) is a saner solution. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200703073143.423557-1-danny@kdrag0n.dev/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210324054457.1477489-1-masahiroy@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda [auxdisplay] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs: make helpers idmap mount aware

2021-01-24T13:27:20+00:00

Extend some inode methods with an additional user namespace argument. A filesystem that is aware of idmapped mounts will receive the user namespace the mount has been marked with. This can be used for additional permission checking and also to enable filesystems to translate between uids and gids if they need to. We have implemented all relevant helpers in earlier patches. As requested we simply extend the exisiting inode method instead of introducing new ones. This is a little more code churn but it's mostly mechanical and doesnt't leave us with additional inode methods. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-25-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: David Howells Cc: Al Viro Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner