kernel/linux.git/fs/hostfs/hostfs.h, branch linux-7.1.y

um/hostfs: define HOSTFS_ATTR_* via asm-offsets

2025-10-27T14:07:43+00:00

The HOSTFS_ATTR_* values were meant to be standalone for communication between hostfs's kernel and user code parts. However, it's easy to forget that HOSTFS_ATTR_* should be used even on the kernel side, and that wasn't consistently done. As a result, the values need to match ATTR_* values, which is not useful to maintain by hand. Instead, generate them via asm-offsets like other constants that UML needs in user-side code that aren't otherwise available in any header files that can be included there. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Reviewed-by: Hongbo Li Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251007071452.367989-3-johannes@sipsolutions.net Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

um: hostfs: avoid issues on inode number reuse by host

2025-03-18T10:04:13+00:00

Some file systems (e.g. ext4) may reuse inode numbers once the inode is not in use anymore. Usually hostfs will keep an FD open for each inode, but this is not always the case. In the case of sockets, this cannot even be done properly. As such, the following sequence of events was possible: * application creates and deletes a socket * hostfs creates/deletes the socket on the host * inode is still in the hostfs cache * hostfs creates a new file * ext4 on the outside reuses the inode number * hostfs finds the socket inode for the newly created file * application receives -ENXIO when opening the file As mentioned, this can only happen if the deleted file is a special file that is never opened on the host (i.e. no .open fop). As such, to prevent issues, it is sufficient to check that the inode has the expected type. That said, also add a check for the inode birth time, just to be on the safe side. Fixes: 74ce793bcbde ("hostfs: Fix ephemeral inodes") Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg Reviewed-by: Mickaël Salaün Tested-by: Mickaël Salaün Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250214092822.1241575-1-benjamin@sipsolutions.net Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

hostfs: fix dev_t handling

2024-07-03T10:23:50+00:00

dev_t is a kernel type and may have different definitions in kernel and userspace. On 32-bit x86 this currently makes the stat structure being 4 bytes longer in the user code, causing stack corruption. However, this is (potentially) not the only problem, since dev_t is a different type on user/kernel side, so we don't know that the major/minor encoding isn't also different. Decode/encode it instead to address both problems. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 74ce793bcbde ("hostfs: Fix ephemeral inodes") Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240702092440.acc960585dd5.Id0767e12f562a69c6cd3c3262dc3d765db350cf6@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

hostfs: Fix ephemeral inodes

2023-06-12T19:26:19+00:00

hostfs creates a new inode for each opened or created file, which created useless inode allocations and forbade identifying a host file with a kernel inode. Fix this uncommon filesystem behavior by tying kernel inodes to host file's inode and device IDs. Even if the host filesystem inodes may be recycled, this cannot happen while a file referencing it is opened, which is the case with hostfs. It should be noted that hostfs inode IDs may not be unique for the same hostfs superblock because multiple host's (backed) superblocks may be used. Delete inodes when dropping them to force backed host's file descriptors closing. This enables to entirely remove ARCH_EPHEMERAL_INODES, and then makes Landlock fully supported by UML. This is very useful for testing changes. These changes also factor out and simplify some helpers thanks to the new hostfs_inode_update() and the hostfs_iget() revamp: read_name(), hostfs_create(), hostfs_lookup(), hostfs_mknod(), and hostfs_fill_sb_common(). A following commit with new Landlock tests check this new hostfs inode consistency. Cc: Anton Ivanov Cc: Johannes Berg Acked-by: Richard Weinberger Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230612191430.339153-2-mic@digikod.net Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün

hostfs: pass 64-bit timestamps to/from user space

2019-12-18T17:07:32+00:00

The use of 'struct timespec' is deprecated in the kernel, so we want to avoid the conversions from/to the proper timespec64 structure. On the user space side, we have a 'struct timespec' that is defined by the C library and that will be incompatible with the kernel's view on 32-bit architectures once they move to a 64-bit time_t, breaking the shared binary layout of hostfs_iattr and hostfs_stat. This changes the two structures to use a new hostfs_timespec structure with fixed 64-bit seconds/nanoseconds for passing the timestamps between hostfs_kern.c and hostfs_user.c. With a new enough user space side, this will allow timestamps beyond year 2038. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

hostfs: fix mismatch between link_file definition and declaration

2019-05-07T21:18:28+00:00

The function link_file declaration in the header file has the order of the two arguments (from, to) swapped when compared to the definition arguments of (to, from). Fix this by swapping them around to match the definition. This error predates the git history, so no idea when this error was introduced. Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger

vfs: discard ATTR_ATTR_FLAG

2018-08-17T23:20:28+00:00

This flag was introduce in 2.1.37pre1 and the only place it was tested was removed in 2.1.43pre1. The flag was never set. Let's discard it properly. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/877en0hewz.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

hostfs: rename do_rmdir() to hostfs_do_rmdir()

2018-04-02T18:15:53+00:00

do_rmdir() is used in the VFS layer at fs/namei.c, so use a different name in hostfs. Cc: Jeff Dike Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Acked-by: Richard Weinberger Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

um: hostfs: Reduce number of syscalls in readdir

2015-04-13T19:01:07+00:00

Currently hostfs issues every time a seekdir(), in fact it has to do this only upon the first call. Also telldir() can be omitted as we can obtain the directory offset from readdir(). Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger