kernel/linux.git/fs/proc/fd.c, branch v7.1-rc5

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

2026-04-13T21:20:11+00:00

Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner: "Features: - coredump: add tracepoint for coredump events - fs: hide file and bfile caches behind runtime const machinery Fixes: - fix architecture-specific compat_ftruncate64 implementations - dcache: Limit the minimal number of bucket to two - fs/omfs: reject s_sys_blocksize smaller than OMFS_DIR_START - fs/mbcache: cancel shrink work before destroying the cache - dcache: permit dynamic_dname()s up to NAME_MAX Cleanups: - remove or unexport unused fs_context infrastructure - trivial ->setattr cleanups - selftests/filesystems: Assume that TIOCGPTPEER is defined - writeback: fix kernel-doc function name mismatch for wb_put_many() - autofs: replace manual symlink buffer allocation in autofs_dir_symlink - init/initramfs.c: trivial fix: FSM -> Finite-state machine - fs: remove stale and duplicate forward declarations - readdir: Introduce dirent_size() - fs: Replace user_access_{begin/end} by scoped user access - kernel: acct: fix duplicate word in comment - fs: write a better comment in step_into() concerning .mnt assignment - fs: attr: fix comment formatting and spelling issues" * tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (28 commits) dcache: permit dynamic_dname()s up to NAME_MAX fs: attr: fix comment formatting and spelling issues fs: hide file and bfile caches behind runtime const machinery fs: write a better comment in step_into() concerning .mnt assignment proc: rename proc_notify_change to proc_setattr proc: rename proc_setattr to proc_nochmod_setattr affs: rename affs_notify_change to affs_setattr adfs: rename adfs_notify_change to adfs_setattr hfs: update comments on hfs_inode_setattr kernel: acct: fix duplicate word in comment fs: Replace user_access_{begin/end} by scoped user access readdir: Introduce dirent_size() coredump: add tracepoint for coredump events fs: remove do_sys_truncate fs: pass on FTRUNCATE_* flags to do_truncate fs: fix archiecture-specific compat_ftruncate64 fs: remove stale and duplicate forward declarations init/initramfs.c: trivial fix: FSM -> Finite-state machine autofs: replace manual symlink buffer allocation in autofs_dir_symlink fs/mbcache: cancel shrink work before destroying the cache ...

proc: rename proc_setattr to proc_nochmod_setattr

2026-03-26T14:16:54+00:00

What is currently proc_setattr is a special version added after the more general procfs ->seattr in commit 6d76fa58b050 ("Don't allow chmod() on the /proc// files"). Give it a name that reflects that to free the proc_setattr name and better describe what is doing. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260325063711.3298685-5-hch@lst.de Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

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

proc_fd_getattr(): don't bother with S_ISDIR() check

2025-06-16T14:21:07+00:00

that thing is callable only as ->i_op->getattr() instance and only for directory inodes (/proc/*/fd and /proc/*/task/*/fd) Signed-off-by: Al Viro Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250615003321.GC3011112@ZenIV Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

Pass parent directory inode and expected name to ->d_revalidate()

2025-01-28T00:25:23+00:00

->d_revalidate() often needs to access dentry parent and name; that has to be done carefully, since the locking environment varies from caller to caller. We are not guaranteed that dentry in question will not be moved right under us - not unless the filesystem is such that nothing on it ever gets renamed. It can be dealt with, but that results in boilerplate code that isn't even needed - the callers normally have just found the dentry via dcache lookup and want to verify that it's in the right place; they already have the values of ->d_parent and ->d_name stable. There is a couple of exceptions (overlayfs and, to less extent, ecryptfs), but for the majority of calls that song and dance is not needed at all. It's easier to make ecryptfs and overlayfs find and pass those values if there's a ->d_revalidate() instance to be called, rather than doing that in the instances. This commit only changes the calling conventions; making use of supplied values is left to followups. NOTE: some instances need more than just the parent - things like CIFS may need to build an entire path from filesystem root, so they need more precautions than the usual boilerplate. This series doesn't do anything to that need - these filesystems have to keep their locking mechanisms (rename_lock loops, use of dentry_path_raw(), private rwsem a-la v9fs). One thing to keep in mind when using name is that name->name will normally point into the pathname being resolved; the filename in question occupies name->len bytes starting at name->name, and there is NUL somewhere after it, but it the next byte might very well be '/' rather than '\0'. Do not ignore name->len. Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton Reviewed-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge tag 'vfs-6.13.file' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

2024-11-18T18:30:29+00:00

Pull vfs file updates from Christian Brauner: "This contains changes the changes for files for this cycle: - Introduce a new reference counting mechanism for files. As atomic_inc_not_zero() is implemented with a try_cmpxchg() loop it has O(N^2) behaviour under contention with N concurrent operations and it is in a hot path in __fget_files_rcu(). The rcuref infrastructures remedies this problem by using an unconditional increment relying on safe- and dead zones to make this work and requiring rcu protection for the data structure in question. This not just scales better it also introduces overflow protection. However, in contrast to generic rcuref, files require a memory barrier and thus cannot rely on *_relaxed() atomic operations and also require to be built on atomic_long_t as having massive amounts of reference isn't unheard of even if it is just an attack. This adds a file specific variant instead of making this a generic library. This has been tested by various people and it gives consistent improvement up to 3-5% on workloads with loads of threads. - Add a fastpath for find_next_zero_bit(). Skip 2-levels searching via find_next_zero_bit() when there is a free slot in the word that contains the next fd. This improves pts/blogbench-1.1.0 read by 8% and write by 4% on Intel ICX 160. - Conditionally clear full_fds_bits since it's very likely that a bit in full_fds_bits has been cleared during __clear_open_fds(). This improves pts/blogbench-1.1.0 read up to 13%, and write up to 5% on Intel ICX 160. - Get rid of all lookup_*_fdget_rcu() variants. They were used to lookup files without taking a reference count. That became invalid once files were switched to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU and now we're always taking a reference count. Switch to an already existing helper and remove the legacy variants. - Remove pointless includes of . - Avoid cmpxchg() in close_files() as nobody else has a reference to the files_struct at that point. - Move close_range() into fs/file.c and fold __close_range() into it. - Cleanup calling conventions of alloc_fdtable() and expand_files(). - Merge __{set,clear}_close_on_exec() into one. - Make __set_open_fd() set cloexec as well instead of doing it in two separate steps" * tag 'vfs-6.13.file' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: selftests: add file SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU recycling stressor fs: port files to file_ref fs: add file_ref expand_files(): simplify calling conventions make __set_open_fd() set cloexec state as well fs: protect backing files with rcu file.c: merge __{set,clear}_close_on_exec() alloc_fdtable(): change calling conventions. fs/file.c: add fast path in find_next_fd() fs/file.c: conditionally clear full_fds fs/file.c: remove sanity_check and add likely/unlikely in alloc_fd() move close_range(2) into fs/file.c, fold __close_range() into it close_files(): don't bother with xchg() remove pointless includes of get rid of ...lookup...fdget_rcu() family

proc: Fix W=1 build kernel-doc warning

2024-10-18T11:02:47+00:00

Building the kernel with W=1 generates the following warning: fs/proc/fd.c:81: warning: This comment starts with '/**', but isn't a kernel-doc comment. Use a normal comment for the helper function proc_fdinfo_permission(). Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241018102705.92237-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

get rid of ...lookup...fdget_rcu() family

2024-10-07T17:34:41+00:00

Once upon a time, predecessors of those used to do file lookup without bumping a refcount, provided that caller held rcu_read_lock() across the lookup and whatever it wanted to read from the struct file found. When struct file allocation switched to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU, that stopped being feasible and these primitives started to bump the file refcount for lookup result, requiring the caller to call fput() afterwards. But that turned them pointless - e.g. rcu_read_lock(); file = lookup_fdget_rcu(fd); rcu_read_unlock(); is equivalent to file = fget_raw(fd); and all callers of lookup_fdget_rcu() are of that form. Similarly, task_lookup_fdget_rcu() calls can be replaced with calling fget_task(). task_lookup_next_fdget_rcu() doesn't have direct counterparts, but its callers would be happier if we replaced it with an analogue that deals with RCU internally. Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge tag 'vfs-6.12.procfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

2024-09-16T07:36:59+00:00

Pull procfs updates from Christian Brauner: "This contains the following changes for procfs: - Add config options and parameters to block forcing memory writes. This adds a Kconfig option and boot param to allow removing the FOLL_FORCE flag from /proc//mem write calls as this can be used in various attacks. The traditional forcing behavior is kept as default because it can break GDB and some other use cases. This is the simpler version that you had requested. - Restrict overmounting of ephemeral entities. It is currently possible to mount on top of various ephemeral entities in procfs. This specifically includes magic links. To recap, magic links are links of the form /proc//fd/. They serve as references to a target file and during path lookup they cause a jump to the target path. Such magic links disappear if the corresponding file descriptor is closed. Currently it is possible to overmount such magic links. This is mostly interesting for an attacker that wants to somehow trick a process into e.g., reopening something that it didn't intend to reopen or to hide a malicious file descriptor. But also it risks leaking mounts for long-running processes. When overmounting a magic link like above, the mount will not be detached when the file descriptor is closed. Only the target mountpoint will disappear. Which has the consequence of making it impossible to unmount that mount afterwards. So the mount will stick around until the process exits and the /proc// directory is cleaned up during proc_flush_pid() when the dentries are pruned and invalidated. That in turn means it's possible for a program to accidentally leak mounts and it's also possible to make a task leak mounts without it's knowledge if the attacker just keeps overmounting things under /proc//fd/. Disallow overmounting of such ephemeral entities. - Cleanup the readdir method naming in some procfs file operations. - Replace kmalloc() and strcpy() with a simple kmemdup() call" * tag 'vfs-6.12.procfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: proc: fold kmalloc() + strcpy() into kmemdup() proc: block mounting on top of /proc//fdinfo/* proc: block mounting on top of /proc//fd/* proc: block mounting on top of /proc//map_files/* proc: add proc_splice_unmountable() proc: proc_readfdinfo() -> proc_fdinfo_iterate() proc: proc_readfd() -> proc_fd_iterate() proc: add config & param to block forcing mem writes

proc: Fix typo in the comment

2024-09-09T07:51:16+00:00

The deference here confuses me. Maybe here want to say that because show_fd_locks() does not dereference the files pointer, using the stale value of the files pointer is safe. Correctly spelled comments make it easier for the reader to understand the code. replace 'deferences' with 'dereferences' in the comment & replace 'inialized' with 'initialized' in the comment. Signed-off-by: Yan Zhen Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240909063353.2246419-1-yanzhen@vivo.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner