kernel/linux.git/fs/overlayfs/export.c, branch v7.1

Merge tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.kino' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

2026-04-13T19:19:01+00:00

Pull vfs i_ino updates from Christian Brauner: "For historical reasons, the inode->i_ino field is an unsigned long, which means that it's 32 bits on 32 bit architectures. This has caused a number of filesystems to implement hacks to hash a 64-bit identifier into a 32-bit field, and deprives us of a universal identifier field for an inode. This changes the inode->i_ino field from an unsigned long to a u64. This shouldn't make any material difference on 64-bit hosts, but 32-bit hosts will see struct inode grow by at least 4 bytes. This could have effects on slabcache sizes and field alignment. The bulk of the changes are to format strings and tracepoints, since the kernel itself doesn't care that much about the i_ino field. The first patch changes some vfs function arguments, so check that one out carefully. With this change, we may be able to shrink some inode structures. For instance, struct nfs_inode has a fileid field that holds the 64-bit inode number. With this set of changes, that field could be eliminated. I'd rather leave that sort of cleanups for later just to keep this simple" * tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.kino' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: nilfs2: fix 64-bit division operations in nilfs_bmap_find_target_in_group() EVM: add comment describing why ino field is still unsigned long vfs: remove externs from fs.h on functions modified by i_ino widening treewide: fix missed i_ino format specifier conversions ext4: fix signed format specifier in ext4_load_inode trace event treewide: change inode->i_ino from unsigned long to u64 nilfs2: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64 f2fs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64 ext4: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64 zonefs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64 hugetlbfs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64 ext2: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64 cachefiles: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64 vfs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64 net: change sock.sk_ino and sock_i_ino() to u64 audit: widen ino fields to u64 vfs: widen inode hash/lookup functions to u64

treewide: change inode->i_ino from unsigned long to u64

2026-03-06T13:31:28+00:00

On 32-bit architectures, unsigned long is only 32 bits wide, which causes 64-bit inode numbers to be silently truncated. Several filesystems (NFS, XFS, BTRFS, etc.) can generate inode numbers that exceed 32 bits, and this truncation can lead to inode number collisions and other subtle bugs on 32-bit systems. Change the type of inode->i_ino from unsigned long to u64 to ensure that inode numbers are always represented as 64-bit values regardless of architecture. Update all format specifiers treewide from %lu/%lx to %llu/%llx to match the new type, along with corresponding local variable types. This is the bulk treewide conversion. Earlier patches in this series handled trace events separately to allow trace field reordering for better struct packing on 32-bit. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260304-iino-u64-v3-12-2257ad83d372@kernel.org Acked-by: Damien Le Moal Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Chuck Lever Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

ovl: Simplify ovl_lookup_real_one()

2026-03-06T09:24:12+00:00

The primary purpose of this patch is to remove the locking from ovl_lookup_real_one() as part of centralising all locking of directories for name operations. The locking here isn't needed. By performing consistency tests after the lookup we can be sure that the result of the lookup was valid at least for a moment, which is all the original code promised. lookup_noperm_unlocked() is used for the lookup and it will take the lock if needed only where it is needed. Also: - don't take a reference to real->d_parent. The parent is only use for a pointer comparison, and no reference is needed for that. - Several "if" statements have a "goto" followed by "else" - the else isn't needed: the following statement can directly follow the "if" as a new statement - Use a consistent pattern of setting "err" before performing a test and possibly going to "fail". - remove the "out" label (now that we don't need to dput(parent) or unlock) and simply return from fail:. Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260224222542.3458677-10-neilb@ownmail.net Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

VFS: rename lookup_one_len family to lookup_noperm and remove permission check

2025-04-08T09:24:36+00:00

The lookup_one_len family of functions is (now) only used internally by a filesystem on itself either - in a context where permission checking is irrelevant such as by a virtual filesystem populating itself, or xfs accessing its ORPHANAGE or dquota accessing the quota file; or - in a context where a permission check (MAY_EXEC on the parent) has just been performed such as a network filesystem finding in "silly-rename" file in the same directory. This is also the context after the _parentat() functions where currently lookup_one_qstr_excl() is used. So the permission check is pointless. The name "one_len" is unhelpful in understanding the purpose of these functions and should be changed. Most of the callers pass the len as "strlen()" so using a qstr and QSTR() can simplify the code. This patch renames these functions (include lookup_positive_unlocked() which is part of the family despite the name) to have a name based on "lookup_noperm". They are changed to receive a 'struct qstr' instead of separate name and len. In a few cases the use of QSTR() results in a new call to strlen(). try_lookup_noperm() takes a pointer to a qstr instead of the whole qstr. This is consistent with d_hash_and_lookup() (which is nearly identical) and useful for lookup_noperm_unlocked(). The new lookup_noperm_common() doesn't take a qstr yet. That will be tidied up in a subsequent patch. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250319031545.2999807-5-neil@brown.name Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

ovl: support encoding fid from inode with no alias

2025-01-06T14:43:55+00:00

Dmitry Safonov reported that a WARN_ON() assertion can be trigered by userspace when calling inotify_show_fdinfo() for an overlayfs watched inode, whose dentry aliases were discarded with drop_caches. The WARN_ON() assertion in inotify_show_fdinfo() was removed, because it is possible for encoding file handle to fail for other reason, but the impact of failing to encode an overlayfs file handle goes beyond this assertion. As shown in the LTP test case mentioned in the link below, failure to encode an overlayfs file handle from a non-aliased inode also leads to failure to report an fid with FAN_DELETE_SELF fanotify events. As Dmitry notes in his analyzis of the problem, ovl_encode_fh() fails if it cannot find an alias for the inode, but this failure can be fixed. ovl_encode_fh() seldom uses the alias and in the case of non-decodable file handles, as is often the case with fanotify fid info, ovl_encode_fh() never needs to use the alias to encode a file handle. Defer finding an alias until it is actually needed so ovl_encode_fh() will not fail in the common case of FAN_DELETE_SELF fanotify events. Fixes: 16aac5ad1fa9 ("ovl: support encoding non-decodable file handles") Reported-by: Dmitry Safonov Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/CAOQ4uxiie81voLZZi2zXS1BziXZCM24nXqPAxbu8kxXCUWdwOg@mail.gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250105162404.357058-3-amir73il@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

ovl: pass realinode to ovl_encode_real_fh() instead of realdentry

2025-01-06T14:43:55+00:00

We want to be able to encode an fid from an inode with no alias. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250105162404.357058-2-amir73il@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

ovl: fix encoding fid for lower only root

2024-06-14T08:30:40+00:00

ovl_check_encode_origin() should return a positive number if the lower dentry is to be encoded, zero otherwise. If there's no upper layer at all (read-only overlay), then it obviously needs to return positive. This was broken by commit 16aac5ad1fa9 ("ovl: support encoding non-decodable file handles"), which didn't take the lower-only configuration into account. Fix by checking the no-upper-layer case up-front. Reported-and-tested-by: Youzhong Yang Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CADpNCvaBimi+zCYfRJHvCOhMih8OU0rmZkwLuh24MKKroRuT8Q@mail.gmail.com/ Fixes: 16aac5ad1fa9 ("ovl: support encoding non-decodable file handles") Cc: # v6.6 Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi

Merge tag 'pull-dcache' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2024-01-12T04:11:35+00:00

Pull dcache updates from Al Viro: "Change of locking rules for __dentry_kill(), regularized refcounting rules in that area, assorted cleanups and removal of weird corner cases (e.g. now ->d_iput() on child is always called before the parent might hit __dentry_kill(), etc)" * tag 'pull-dcache' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (40 commits) dcache: remove unnecessary NULL check in dget_dlock() kill DCACHE_MAY_FREE __d_unalias() doesn't use inode argument d_alloc_parallel(): in-lookup hash insertion doesn't need an RCU variant get rid of DCACHE_GENOCIDE d_genocide(): move the extern into fs/internal.h simple_fill_super(): don't bother with d_genocide() on failure nsfs: use d_make_root() d_alloc_pseudo(): move setting ->d_op there from the (sole) caller kill d_instantate_anon(), fold __d_instantiate_anon() into remaining caller retain_dentry(): introduce a trimmed-down lockless variant __dentry_kill(): new locking scheme d_prune_aliases(): use a shrink list switch select_collect{,2}() to use of to_shrink_list() to_shrink_list(): call only if refcount is 0 fold dentry_kill() into dput() don't try to cut corners in shrink_lock_dentry() fold the call of retain_dentry() into fast_dput() Call retain_dentry() with refcount 0 dentry_kill(): don't bother with retain_dentry() on slow path ...

ovl: remove redundant ofs->indexdir member

2023-11-20T07:49:09+00:00

When the index feature is disabled, ofs->indexdir is NULL. When the index feature is enabled, ofs->indexdir has the same value as ofs->workdir and takes an extra reference. This makes the code harder to understand when it is not always clear that ofs->indexdir in one function is the same dentry as ofs->workdir in another function. Remove this redundancy, by referencing ofs->workdir directly in index helpers and by using the ovl_indexdir() accessor in generic code. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein

ovl: stop using d_alloc_anon()/d_instantiate_anon()

2023-11-18T21:15:19+00:00

Commit f9c34674bc60 ("vfs: factor out helpers d_instantiate_anon() and d_alloc_anon()") was introduced so overlayfs could initialize a non-dir disconnected overlay dentry before overlay inode is attached to it. Since commit ("0af950f57fef ovl: move ovl_entry into ovl_inode"), all ovl_obtain_alias() can do is set DCACHE_OP_*REVALIDATE flags in ->d_flags and OVL_E_UPPER_ALIAS flag in ->d_fsdata. The DCACHE_OP_*REVALIDATE flags and OVL_E_UPPER_ALIAS flag are irrelevant for a disconnected non-dir dentry, so it is better to use d_obtain_alias() instead of open coding it. Suggested-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Al Viro