kernel/linux.git/fs/init.c, branch v6.19.11

vfs: make vfs_symlink break delegations on parent dir

2025-11-12T08:38:36+00:00

In order to add directory delegation support, we must break delegations on the parent on any change to the directory. Add a delegated_inode parameter to vfs_symlink() and have it break the delegation. do_symlinkat() can then wait on the delegation break before proceeding. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251111-dir-deleg-ro-v6-12-52f3feebb2f2@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

vfs: make vfs_mknod break delegations on parent directory

2025-11-12T08:38:36+00:00

In order to add directory delegation support, we need to break delegations on the parent whenever there is going to be a change in the directory. Add a new delegated_inode pointer to vfs_mknod() and have the appropriate callers wait when there is an outstanding delegation. All other callers just set the pointer to NULL. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251111-dir-deleg-ro-v6-11-52f3feebb2f2@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

vfs: allow mkdir to wait for delegation break on parent

2025-11-12T08:38:35+00:00

In order to add directory delegation support, we need to break delegations on the parent whenever there is going to be a change in the directory. Add a new delegated_inode parameter to vfs_mkdir. All of the existing callers set that to NULL for now, except for do_mkdirat which will properly block until the lease is gone. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251111-dir-deleg-ro-v6-6-52f3feebb2f2@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

VFS: rename kern_path_locked() and related functions.

2025-09-23T10:37:36+00:00

kern_path_locked() is now only used to prepare for removing an object from the filesystem (and that is the only credible reason for wanting a positive locked dentry). Thus it corresponds to kern_path_create() and so should have a corresponding name. Unfortunately the name "kern_path_create" is somewhat misleading as it doesn't actually create anything. The recently added simple_start_creating() provides a better pattern I believe. The "start" can be matched with "end" to bracket the creating or removing. So this patch changes names: kern_path_locked -> start_removing_path kern_path_create -> start_creating_path user_path_create -> start_creating_user_path user_path_locked_at -> start_removing_user_path_at done_path_create -> end_creating_path and also introduces end_removing_path() which is identical to end_creating_path(). __start_removing_path (which was __kern_path_locked) is enhanced to call mnt_want_write() for consistency with the start_creating_path(). Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

VFS: Change vfs_mkdir() to return the dentry.

2025-03-05T10:52:50+00:00

vfs_mkdir() does not guarantee to leave the child dentry hashed or make it positive on success, and in many such cases the filesystem had to use a different dentry which it can now return. This patch changes vfs_mkdir() to return the dentry provided by the filesystems which is hashed and positive when provided. This reduces the number of cases where the resulting dentry is not positive to a handful which don't deserve extra efforts. The only callers of vfs_mkdir() which are interested in the resulting inode are in-kernel filesystem clients: cachefiles, nfsd, smb/server. The only filesystems that don't reliably provide the inode are: - kernfs, tracefs which these clients are unlikely to be interested in - cifs in some configurations would need to do a lookup to find the created inode, but doesn't. cifs cannot be exported via NFS, is unlikely to be used by cachefiles, and smb/server only has a soft requirement for the inode, so this is unlikely to be a problem in practice. - hostfs, nfs, cifs may need to do a lookup (rarely for NFS) and it is possible for a race to make that lookup fail. Actual failure is unlikely and providing callers handle negative dentries graceful they will fail-safe. So this patch removes the lookup code in nfsd and smb/server and adjusts them to fail safe if a negative dentry is provided: - cache-files already fails safe by restarting the task from the top - it still does with this change, though it no longer calls cachefiles_put_directory() as that will crash if the dentry is negative. - nfsd reports "Server-fault" which it what it used to do if the lookup failed. This will never happen on any file-systems that it can actually export, so this is of no consequence. I removed the fh_update() call as that is not needed and out-of-place. A subsequent nfsd_create_setattr() call will call fh_update() when needed. - smb/server only wants the inode to call ksmbd_smb_inherit_owner() which updates ->i_uid (without calling notify_change() or similar) which can be safely skipping on cifs (I hope). If a different dentry is returned, the first one is put. If necessary the fact that it is new can be determined by comparing pointers. A new dentry will certainly have a new pointer (as the old is put after the new is obtained). Similarly if an error is returned (via ERR_PTR()) the original dentry is put. Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250227013949.536172-7-neilb@suse.de Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

fs: add a new SB_I_NOUMASK flag

2023-10-19T09:02:47+00:00

SB_POSIXACL must be set when a filesystem supports POSIX ACLs, but NFSv4 also sets this flag to prevent the VFS from applying the umask on newly-created files. NFSv4 doesn't support POSIX ACLs however, which causes confusion when other subsystems try to test for them. Add a new SB_I_NOUMASK flag that allows filesystems to opt-in to umask stripping without advertising support for POSIX ACLs. Set the new flag on NFSv4 instead of SB_POSIXACL. Also, move mode_strip_umask to namei.h and convert init_mknod and init_mkdir to use it. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Message-Id: <20230911-acl-fix-v3-1-b25315333f6c@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

fs: port ->permission() to pass mnt_idmap

2023-01-19T08:24:28+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: port vfs_*() helpers to struct mnt_idmap

2023-01-18T16:51:45+00:00

init: handle idmapped mounts

2021-01-24T13:27:19+00:00

Enable the init helpers to handle idmapped mounts by passing down the mount's user namespace. If the initial user namespace is passed nothing changes so non-idmapped mounts will see identical behavior as before. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-21-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

namei: prepare for idmapped mounts

2021-01-24T13:27:18+00:00

The various vfs_*() helpers are called by filesystems or by the vfs itself to perform core operations such as create, link, mkdir, mknod, rename, rmdir, tmpfile and unlink. Enable them to handle idmapped mounts. If the inode is accessed through an idmapped mount map it into the mount's user namespace and pass it down. Afterwards the checks and operations are identical to non-idmapped mounts. If the initial user namespace is passed nothing changes so non-idmapped mounts will see identical behavior as before. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-15-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