kernel/linux.git/fs/kernfs, branch v7.0.11

kernfs: make directory seek namespace-aware

2026-04-09T12:36:52+00:00

The rbtree backing kernfs directories is ordered by (hash, ns_id, name) but kernfs_dir_pos() only searches by hash when seeking to a position during readdir. When two nodes from different namespaces share the same hash value, the binary search can land on a node in the wrong namespace. The subsequent skip-forward loop walks rb_next() and may overshoot the correct node, silently dropping an entry from the readdir results. With the recent switch from raw namespace pointers to public namespace ids as hash seeds, computing hash collisions became an offline operation. An unprivileged user could unshare into a new network namespace, create a single interface whose name-hash collides with a target entry in init_net, and cause a victim's seekdir/readdir on /sys/class/net to miss that entry. Fix this by extending the rbtree search in kernfs_dir_pos() to also compare namespace ids when hashes match. Since the rbtree is already ordered by (hash, ns_id, name), this makes the seek land directly in the correct namespace's range, eliminating the wrong-namespace overshoot. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

kernfs: use namespace id instead of pointer for hashing and comparison

2026-04-09T12:36:52+00:00

kernfs uses the namespace tag as both a hash seed (via init_name_hash()) and a comparison key in the rbtree. The resulting hash values are exposed to userspace through directory seek positions (ctx->pos), and the raw pointer comparisons in kernfs_name_compare() encode kernel pointer ordering into the rbtree layout. This constitutes a KASLR information leak since the hash and ordering derived from kernel pointers can be observed from userspace. Fix this by using the 64-bit namespace id (ns_common::ns_id) instead of the raw pointer value for both hashing and comparison. The namespace id is a stable, non-secret identifier that is already exposed to userspace through other interfaces (e.g., /proc/pid/ns/, ioctl NS_GET_NSID). Introduce kernfs_ns_id() as a helper that extracts the namespace id from a potentially-NULL ns_common pointer, returning 0 for the no-namespace case. All namespace equality checks in the directory iteration and dentry revalidation paths are also switched from pointer comparison to ns_id comparison for consistency. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

kernfs: pass struct ns_common instead of const void * for namespace tags

2026-04-09T12:36:52+00:00

kernfs has historically used const void * to pass around namespace tags used for directory-level namespace filtering. The only current user of this is sysfs network namespace tagging where struct net pointers are cast to void *. Replace all const void * namespace parameters with const struct ns_common * throughout the kernfs, sysfs, and kobject namespace layers. This includes the kobj_ns_type_operations callbacks, kobject_namespace(), and all sysfs/kernfs APIs that accept or return namespace tags. Passing struct ns_common is needed because various codepaths require access to the underlying namespace. A struct ns_common can always be converted back to the concrete namespace type (e.g., struct net) via container_of() or to_ns_common() in the reverse direction. This is a preparatory change for switching to ns_id-based directory iteration to prevent a KASLR pointer leak through the current use of raw namespace pointers as hash seeds and comparison keys. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

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

fs/kernfs: null-ptr deref in simple_xattrs_free()

2025-12-23T15:14:43+00:00

There exists a null pointer dereference in simple_xattrs_free() as part of the __kernfs_new_node() routine. Within __kernfs_new_node(), err_out4 calls simple_xattr_free(), but kn->iattr may be NULL if __kernfs_setattr() was never called. As a result, the first argument to simple_xattrs_free() may be NULL + 0x38, and no NULL check is done internally, causing an incorrect pointer dereference. Add a check to ensure kn->iattr is not NULL, meaning __kernfs_setattr() has been called and kn->iattr is allocated. Note that struct kernfs_node kn is allocated with kmem_cache_zalloc, so we can assume kn->iattr will be NULL if not allocated. An alternative fix could be to not call simple_xattrs_free() at all. As was previously discussed during the initial patch, simple_xattrs_free() is not strictly needed and is included to be consistent with kernfs_free_rcu(), which also helps the function maintain correctness if changes are made in __kernfs_new_node(). Reported-by: syzbot+6aaf7f48ae034ab0ea97@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=6aaf7f48ae034ab0ea97 Fixes: 382b1e8f30f7 ("kernfs: fix memory leak of kernfs_iattrs in __kernfs_new_node") Signed-off-by: Will Rosenberg Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251217060107.4171558-1-whrosenb@asu.edu Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'driver-core-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/driver-core/driver-core

2025-12-06T05:29:02+00:00

Pull driver core updates from Danilo Krummrich: "Arch Topology: - Move parse_acpi_topology() from arm64 to common code for reuse in RISC-V CPU: - Expose housekeeping CPUs through /sys/devices/system/cpu/housekeeping - Print a newline (or 0x0A) instead of '(null)' reading /sys/devices/system/cpu/nohz_full when nohz_full= is not set debugfs - Remove (broken) 'no-mount' mode - Remove redundant access mode checks in debugfs_get_tree() and debugfs_create_*() functions Devres: - Remove unused devm_free_percpu() helper - Move devm_alloc_percpu() from device.h to devres.h Firmware Loader: - Replace simple_strtol() with kstrtoint() - Do not call cancel_store() when no upload is in progress kernfs: - Increase struct super_block::maxbytes to MAX_LFS_FILESIZE - Fix a missing unwind path in __kernfs_new_node() Misc: - Increase the name size in struct auxiliary_device_id to 40 characters - Replace system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq and add WQ_PERCPU to alloc_workqueue() Platform: - Replace ERR_PTR() with IOMEM_ERR_PTR() in platform ioremap functions Rust: - Auxiliary: - Unregister auxiliary device on parent device unbind - Move parent() to impl Device; implement device context aware parent() for Device - Illustrate how to safely obtain a driver's device private data when calling from an auxiliary driver into the parant device driver - DebugFs: - Implement support for binary large objects - Device: - Let probe() return the driver's device private data as pinned initializer, i.e. impl PinInit - Implement safe accessor for a driver's device private data for Device (returned reference can't out-live driver binding and guarantees the correct private data type) - Implement AsBusDevice trait, to be used by class device abstractions to derive the bus device type of the parent device - DMA: - Store raw pointer of allocation as NonNull - Use start_ptr() and start_ptr_mut() to inherit correct mutability of self - FS: - Add file::Offset type alias - I2C: - Add abstractions for I2C device / driver infrastructure - Implement abstractions for manual I2C device registrations - I/O: - Use "kernel vertical" style for imports - Define ResourceSize as resource_size_t - Move ResourceSize to top-level I/O module - Add type alias for phys_addr_t - Implement Rust version of read_poll_timeout_atomic() - PCI: - Use "kernel vertical" style for imports - Move I/O and IRQ infrastructure to separate files - Add support for PCI interrupt vectors - Implement TryInto> for IrqVector<'a> to convert an IrqVector bound to specific pci::Device into an IrqRequest bound to the same pci::Device's parent Device - Leverage pin_init_scope() to get rid of redundant Result in IRQ methods - PinInit: - Add {pin_}init_scope() to execute code before creating an initializer - Platform: - Leverage pin_init_scope() to get rid of redundant Result in IRQ methods - Timekeeping: - Implement abstraction of udelay() - Uaccess: - Implement read_slice_partial() and read_slice_file() for UserSliceReader - Implement write_slice_partial() and write_slice_file() for UserSliceWriter sysfs: - Prepare the constification of struct attribute" * tag 'driver-core-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/driver-core/driver-core: (75 commits) rust: pci: fix build failure when CONFIG_PCI_MSI is disabled debugfs: Fix default access mode config check debugfs: Remove broken no-mount mode debugfs: Remove redundant access mode checks driver core: Check drivers_autoprobe for all added devices driver core: WQ_PERCPU added to alloc_workqueue users driver core: replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq tick/nohz: Expose housekeeping CPUs in sysfs tick/nohz: avoid showing '(null)' if nohz_full= not set sysfs/cpu: Use DEVICE_ATTR_RO for nohz_full attribute kernfs: fix memory leak of kernfs_iattrs in __kernfs_new_node fs/kernfs: raise sb->maxbytes to MAX_LFS_FILESIZE mod_devicetable: Bump auxiliary_device_id name size sysfs: simplify attribute definition macros samples/kobject: constify 'struct foo_attribute' samples/kobject: add is_visible() callback to attribute group sysfs: attribute_group: enable const variants of is_visible() sysfs: introduce __SYSFS_FUNCTION_ALTERNATIVE() sysfs: transparently handle const pointers in ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS() sysfs: attribute_group: allow registration of const attribute ...

kernfs: fix memory leak of kernfs_iattrs in __kernfs_new_node

2025-11-26T14:19:11+00:00

There exists a memory leak of kernfs_iattrs contained as an element of kernfs_node allocated in __kernfs_new_node(). __kernfs_setattr() allocates kernfs_iattrs as a sub-object, and the LSM security check incorrectly errors out and does not free the kernfs_iattrs sub-object. Make an additional error out case that properly frees kernfs_iattrs if security_kernfs_init_security() fails. Fixes: e19dfdc83b60 ("kernfs: initialize security of newly created nodes") Co-developed-by: Oliver Rosenberg Signed-off-by: Oliver Rosenberg Signed-off-by: Will Rosenberg Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251125151332.2010687-1-whrosenb@asu.edu Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fs/kernfs: raise sb->maxbytes to MAX_LFS_FILESIZE

2025-11-26T14:18:13+00:00

On an ARM64 A1 system, it's possible to have physical memory span up to the 64T boundary, like below $ lsmem -b -r -n -o range,size 0x0000000080000000-0x00000000bfffffff 1073741824 0x0000080000000000-0x000008007fffffff 2147483648 0x00000800c0000000-0x0000087fffffffff 546534588416 0x0000400000000000-0x00004000bfffffff 3221225472 0x0000400100000000-0x0000407fffffffff 545460846592 So it's time to extend /sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap to be able to account for >2G number of pages, by raising the kernfs file size limit. Signed-off-by: Jane Chu Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251111202606.1505437-1-jane.chu@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Coccinelle-based conversion to use ->i_state accessors

2025-10-20T18:22:26+00:00

All places were patched by coccinelle with the default expecting that ->i_lock is held, afterwards entries got fixed up by hand to use unlocked variants as needed. The script: @@ expression inode, flags; @@ - inode->i_state & flags + inode_state_read(inode) & flags @@ expression inode, flags; @@ - inode->i_state &= ~flags + inode_state_clear(inode, flags) @@ expression inode, flag1, flag2; @@ - inode->i_state &= ~flag1 & ~flag2 + inode_state_clear(inode, flag1 | flag2) @@ expression inode, flags; @@ - inode->i_state |= flags + inode_state_set(inode, flags) @@ expression inode, flags; @@ - inode->i_state = flags + inode_state_assign(inode, flags) @@ expression inode, flags; @@ - flags = inode->i_state + flags = inode_state_read(inode) @@ expression inode, flags; @@ - READ_ONCE(inode->i_state) & flags + inode_state_read(inode) & flags Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner