kernel/linux.git/fs/namei.c, branch v6.6.148

VFS/audit: introduce kern_path_parent() for audit

2026-08-03T09:15:33+00:00

[ Upstream commit 76a53de6f7ff0641570364234fb4489f4d4fc8e9 ] audit_alloc_mark() and audit_get_nd() both need to perform a path lookup getting the parent dentry (which must exist) and the final target (following a LAST_NORM name) which sometimes doesn't need to exist. They don't need the parent to be locked, but use kern_path_locked() or kern_path_locked_negative() anyway. This is somewhat misleading to the casual reader. This patch introduces a more targeted function, kern_path_parent(), which returns not holding locks. On success the "path" will be set to the parent, which must be found, and the return value is the dentry of the target, which might be negative. This will clear the way to rename kern_path_locked() which is otherwise only used to prepare for removing something. It also allows us to remove kern_path_locked_negative(), which is transformed into the new kern_path_parent(). Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Stable-dep-of: 81905b5acbe7 ("audit: fix recursive locking deadlock in audit_dupe_exe()") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fs: refuse O_TMPFILE creation with an unmapped fsuid or fsgid

2026-07-24T14:03:25+00:00

[ Upstream commit 539dce1144651f7976fa418e618b0b574bf15eeb ] vfs_tmpfile() never checked that the caller's fsuid and fsgid map into the filesystem. On an idmapped mount whose idmapping does not cover the caller's fs{u,g}id, the ->tmpfile() instance initializes the new inode through inode_init_owner(), where mapped_fsuid()/mapped_fsgid() return INVALID_UID/INVALID_GID, and the tmpfile ends up owned by (uid_t)-1. Every other creation path already refuses this: may_o_create() (O_CREAT) and may_create_dentry() (mkdir, mknod, symlink, link) bail out with -EOVERFLOW via fsuidgid_has_mapping() precisely so that an object cannot be created with an owner the filesystem cannot represent. An O_TMPFILE is no exception: it is created I_LINKABLE and linkat(2) can splice it into the namespace afterwards, so the same guarantee must hold. Add the missing fsuidgid_has_mapping() check to vfs_tmpfile(). On a non-idmapped mount the caller's fs{u,g}id always map in the superblock's user namespace, so this is a no-op there and only takes effect on an idmapped mount that does not map the caller. It applies to every filesystem that sets FS_ALLOW_IDMAP and implements ->tmpfile() (tmpfs, ext4, btrfs, xfs, f2fs, ...), and to overlayfs, whose upper-layer tmpfile creation funnels through vfs_tmpfile() via backing_tmpfile_open(). Fixes: 8e5389132ab4 ("fs: introduce fsuidgid_has_mapping() helper") Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260615-work-idmapped-tmpfile-v1-1-754a94d81f83@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

openat2: don't trigger automounts with RESOLVE_NO_XDEV

2025-10-19T14:30:51+00:00

commit 042a60680de43175eb4df0977ff04a4eba9da082 upstream. openat2 had a bug: if we pass RESOLVE_NO_XDEV, then openat2 doesn't traverse through automounts, but may still trigger them. (See the link for full bug report with reproducer.) This commit fixes this bug. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20250817075252.4137628-1-safinaskar@zohomail.com/ Fixes: fddb5d430ad9fa91b49b1 ("open: introduce openat2(2) syscall") Reviewed-by: Aleksa Sarai Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Askar Safin Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250825181233.2464822-5-safinaskar@zohomail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fuse: don't truncate cached, mutated symlink

2025-03-22T19:50:44+00:00

[ Upstream commit b4c173dfbb6c78568578ff18f9e8822d7bd0e31b ] Fuse allows the value of a symlink to change and this property is exploited by some filesystems (e.g. CVMFS). It has been observed, that sometimes after changing the symlink contents, the value is truncated to the old size. This is caused by fuse_getattr() racing with fuse_reverse_inval_inode(). fuse_reverse_inval_inode() updates the fuse_inode's attr_version, which results in fuse_change_attributes() exiting before updating the cached attributes This is okay, as the cached attributes remain invalid and the next call to fuse_change_attributes() will likely update the inode with the correct values. The reason this causes problems is that cached symlinks will be returned through page_get_link(), which truncates the symlink to inode->i_size. This is correct for filesystems that don't mutate symlinks, but in this case it causes bad behavior. The solution is to just remove this truncation. This can cause a regression in a filesystem that relies on supplying a symlink larger than the file size, but this is unlikely. If that happens we'd need to make this behavior conditional. Reported-by: Laura Promberger Tested-by: Sam Lewis Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250220100258.793363-1-mszeredi@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Bernd Schubert Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

fs: Create a generic is_dot_dotdot() utility

2024-10-04T14:29:48+00:00

commit 42c3732fa8073717dd7d924472f1c0bc5b452fdc upstream. De-duplicate the same functionality in several places by hoisting the is_dot_dotdot() utility function into linux/fs.h. Suggested-by: Amir Goldstein Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein Acked-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

rename(): fix the locking of subdirectories

2024-02-01T00:18:57+00:00

commit 22e111ed6c83dcde3037fc81176012721bc34c0b upstream. We should never lock two subdirectories without having taken ->s_vfs_rename_mutex; inode pointer order or not, the "order" proposed in 28eceeda130f "fs: Lock moved directories" is not transitive, with the usual consequences. The rationale for locking renamed subdirectory in all cases was the possibility of race between rename modifying .. in a subdirectory to reflect the new parent and another thread modifying the same subdirectory. For a lot of filesystems that's not a problem, but for some it can lead to trouble (e.g. the case when short directory contents is kept in the inode, but creating a file in it might push it across the size limit and copy its contents into separate data block(s)). However, we need that only in case when the parent does change - otherwise ->rename() doesn't need to do anything with .. entry in the first place. Some instances are lazy and do a tautological update anyway, but it's really not hard to avoid. Amended locking rules for rename(): find the parent(s) of source and target if source and target have the same parent lock the common parent else lock ->s_vfs_rename_mutex lock both parents, in ancestor-first order; if neither is an ancestor of another, lock the parent of source first. find the source and target. if source and target have the same parent if operation is an overwriting rename of a subdirectory lock the target subdirectory else if source is a subdirectory lock the source if target is a subdirectory lock the target lock non-directories involved, in inode pointer order if both source and target are such. That way we are guaranteed that parents are locked (for obvious reasons), that any renamed non-directory is locked (nfsd relies upon that), that any victim is locked (emptiness check needs that, among other things) and subdirectory that changes parent is locked (needed to protect the update of .. entries). We are also guaranteed that any operation locking more than one directory either takes ->s_vfs_rename_mutex or locks a parent followed by its child. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 28eceeda130f "fs: Lock moved directories" Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

audit,io_uring: io_uring openat triggers audit reference count underflow

2023-10-13T16:34:46+00:00

An io_uring openat operation can update an audit reference count from multiple threads resulting in the call trace below. A call to io_uring_submit() with a single openat op with a flag of IOSQE_ASYNC results in the following reference count updates. These first part of the system call performs two increments that do not race. do_syscall_64() __do_sys_io_uring_enter() io_submit_sqes() io_openat_prep() __io_openat_prep() getname() getname_flags() /* update 1 (increment) */ __audit_getname() /* update 2 (increment) */ The openat op is queued to an io_uring worker thread which starts the opportunity for a race. The system call exit performs one decrement. do_syscall_64() syscall_exit_to_user_mode() syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare() __audit_syscall_exit() audit_reset_context() putname() /* update 3 (decrement) */ The io_uring worker thread performs one increment and two decrements. These updates can race with the system call decrement. io_wqe_worker() io_worker_handle_work() io_wq_submit_work() io_issue_sqe() io_openat() io_openat2() do_filp_open() path_openat() __audit_inode() /* update 4 (increment) */ putname() /* update 5 (decrement) */ __audit_uring_exit() audit_reset_context() putname() /* update 6 (decrement) */ The fix is to change the refcnt member of struct audit_names from int to atomic_t. kernel BUG at fs/namei.c:262! Call Trace: ... ? putname+0x68/0x70 audit_reset_context.part.0.constprop.0+0xe1/0x300 __audit_uring_exit+0xda/0x1c0 io_issue_sqe+0x1f3/0x450 ? lock_timer_base+0x3b/0xd0 io_wq_submit_work+0x8d/0x2b0 ? __try_to_del_timer_sync+0x67/0xa0 io_worker_handle_work+0x17c/0x2b0 io_wqe_worker+0x10a/0x350 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/MW2PR2101MB1033FFF044A258F84AEAA584F1C9A@MW2PR2101MB1033.namprd21.prod.outlook.com/ Fixes: 5bd2182d58e9 ("audit,io_uring,io-wq: add some basic audit support to io_uring") Signed-off-by: Dan Clash Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231012215518.GA4048@linuxonhyperv3.guj3yctzbm1etfxqx2vob5hsef.xx.internal.cloudapp.net Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

fs: Fix kernel-doc warnings

2023-08-19T10:12:12+00:00

These have a variety of causes and a corresponding variety of solutions. Signed-off-by: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" Message-Id: <20230818200824.2720007-1-willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

fs: Fix error checking for d_hash_and_lookup()

2023-07-14T15:01:23+00:00

The d_hash_and_lookup() function returns error pointers or NULL. Most incorrect error checks were fixed, but the one in int path_pts() was forgotten. Fixes: eedf265aa003 ("devpts: Make each mount of devpts an independent filesystem.") Signed-off-by: Wang Ming Message-Id: <20230713120555.7025-1-machel@vivo.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

fs: no need to check source

2023-07-04T08:20:29+00:00

The @source inode must be valid. It is even checked via IS_SWAPFILE() above making it pretty clear. So no need to check it when we unlock. What doesn't need to exist is the @target inode. The lock_two_inodes() helper currently swaps the @inode1 and @inode2 arguments if @inode1 is NULL to have consistent lock class usage. However, we know that at least for vfs_rename() that @inode1 is @source and thus is never NULL as per above. We also know that @source is a different inode than @target as that is checked right at the beginning of vfs_rename(). So we know that @source is valid and locked and that @target is locked. So drop the check whether @source is non-NULL. Fixes: 28eceeda130f ("fs: Lock moved directories") Reported-by: kernel test robot Reported-by: Dan Carpenter Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202307030026.9sE2pk2x-lkp@intel.com Message-Id: <20230703-vfs-rename-source-v1-1-37eebb29b65b@kernel.org> [brauner: use commit message from patch I sent concurrently] Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner