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<updated>2025-11-10T05:19:43+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>fs/proc: fix uaf in proc_readdir_de()</title>
<updated>2025-11-10T05:19:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wei Yang</name>
<email>albinwyang@tencent.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-25T02:42:33+00:00</published>
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Pde is erased from subdir rbtree through rb_erase(), but not set the node
to EMPTY, which may result in uaf access.  We should use RB_CLEAR_NODE()
set the erased node to EMPTY, then pde_subdir_next() will return NULL to
avoid uaf access.

We found an uaf issue while using stress-ng testing, need to run testcase
getdent and tun in the same time.  The steps of the issue is as follows:

1) use getdent to traverse dir /proc/pid/net/dev_snmp6/, and current
   pde is tun3;

2) in the [time windows] unregister netdevice tun3 and tun2, and erase
   them from rbtree.  erase tun3 first, and then erase tun2.  the
   pde(tun2) will be released to slab;

3) continue to getdent process, then pde_subdir_next() will return
   pde(tun2) which is released, it will case uaf access.

CPU 0                                      |    CPU 1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
traverse dir /proc/pid/net/dev_snmp6/      |   unregister_netdevice(tun-&gt;dev)   //tun3 tun2
sys_getdents64()                           |
  iterate_dir()                            |
    proc_readdir()                         |
      proc_readdir_de()                    |     snmp6_unregister_dev()
        pde_get(de);                       |       proc_remove()
        read_unlock(&amp;proc_subdir_lock);    |         remove_proc_subtree()
                                           |           write_lock(&amp;proc_subdir_lock);
        [time window]                      |           rb_erase(&amp;root-&gt;subdir_node, &amp;parent-&gt;subdir);
                                           |           write_unlock(&amp;proc_subdir_lock);
        read_lock(&amp;proc_subdir_lock);      |
        next = pde_subdir_next(de);        |
        pde_put(de);                       |
        de = next;    //UAF                |

rbtree of dev_snmp6
                        |
                    pde(tun3)
                     /    \
                  NULL  pde(tun2)

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251025024233.158363-1-albin_yang@163.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang &lt;albinwyang@tencent.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: wangzijie &lt;wangzijie1@honor.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>proc: fix type confusion in pde_set_flags()</title>
<updated>2025-09-09T06:45:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>wangzijie</name>
<email>wangzijie1@honor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-04T13:57:15+00:00</published>
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Commit 2ce3d282bd50 ("proc: fix missing pde_set_flags() for net proc
files") missed a key part in the definition of proc_dir_entry:

union {
	const struct proc_ops *proc_ops;
	const struct file_operations *proc_dir_ops;
};

So dereference of -&gt;proc_ops assumes it is a proc_ops structure results in
type confusion and make NULL check for 'proc_ops' not work for proc dir.

Add !S_ISDIR(dp-&gt;mode) test before calling pde_set_flags() to fix it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250904135715.3972782-1-wangzijie1@honor.com
Fixes: 2ce3d282bd50 ("proc: fix missing pde_set_flags() for net proc files")
Signed-off-by: wangzijie &lt;wangzijie1@honor.com&gt;
Reported-by: Brad Spengler &lt;spender@grsecurity.net&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250903065758.3678537-1-wangzijie1@honor.com/
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jirislaby@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>proc: fix missing pde_set_flags() for net proc files</title>
<updated>2025-08-28T05:45:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>wangzijie</name>
<email>wangzijie1@honor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-18T12:31:02+00:00</published>
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To avoid potential UAF issues during module removal races, we use
pde_set_flags() to save proc_ops flags in PDE itself before
proc_register(), and then use pde_has_proc_*() helpers instead of directly
dereferencing pde-&gt;proc_ops-&gt;*.

However, the pde_set_flags() call was missing when creating net related
proc files.  This omission caused incorrect behavior which FMODE_LSEEK was
being cleared inappropriately in proc_reg_open() for net proc files.  Lars
reported it in this link[1].

Fix this by ensuring pde_set_flags() is called when register proc entry,
and add NULL check for proc_ops in pde_set_flags().

[wangzijie1@honor.com: stash pde-&gt;proc_ops in a local const variable, per Christian]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250821105806.1453833-1-wangzijie1@honor.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250818123102.959595-1-wangzijie1@honor.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250815195616.64497967@chagall.paradoxon.rec/ [1]
Fixes: ff7ec8dc1b64 ("proc: use the same treatment to check proc_lseek as ones for proc_read_iter et.al")
Signed-off-by: wangzijie &lt;wangzijie1@honor.com&gt;
Reported-by: Lars Wendler &lt;polynomial-c@gmx.de&gt;
Tested-by: Stefano Brivio &lt;sbrivio@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Petr Vaněk &lt;pv@excello.cz&gt;
Tested by: Lars Wendler &lt;polynomial-c@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "Edgecombe, Rick P" &lt;rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jirislaby@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;k.shutemov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: wangzijie &lt;wangzijie1@honor.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-07-30-15-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-07-31T21:57:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-31T21:57:54+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "As usual, many cleanups. The below blurbiage describes 42 patchsets.
  21 of those are partially or fully cleanup work. "cleans up",
  "cleanup", "maintainability", "rationalizes", etc.

  I never knew the MM code was so dirty.

  "mm: ksm: prevent KSM from breaking merging of new VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     addresses an issue with KSM's PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE mode: newly
     mapped VMAs were not eligible for merging with existing adjacent
     VMAs.

  "mm/damon: introduce DAMON_STAT for simple and practical access monitoring" (SeongJae Park)
     adds a new kernel module which simplifies the setup and usage of
     DAMON in production environments.

  "stop passing a writeback_control to swap/shmem writeout" (Christoph Hellwig)
     is a cleanup to the writeback code which removes a couple of
     pointers from struct writeback_control.

  "drivers/base/node.c: optimization and cleanups" (Donet Tom)
     contains largely uncorrelated cleanups to the NUMA node setup and
     management code.

  "mm: userfaultfd: assorted fixes and cleanups" (Tal Zussman)
     does some maintenance work on the userfaultfd code.

  "Readahead tweaks for larger folios" (Ryan Roberts)
     implements some tuneups for pagecache readahead when it is reading
     into order&gt;0 folios.

  "selftests/mm: Tweaks to the cow test" (Mark Brown)
     provides some cleanups and consistency improvements to the
     selftests code.

  "Optimize mremap() for large folios" (Dev Jain)
     does that. A 37% reduction in execution time was measured in a
     memset+mremap+munmap microbenchmark.

  "Remove zero_user()" (Matthew Wilcox)
     expunges zero_user() in favor of the more modern memzero_page().

  "mm/huge_memory: vmf_insert_folio_*() and vmf_insert_pfn_pud() fixes" (David Hildenbrand)
     addresses some warts which David noticed in the huge page code.
     These were not known to be causing any issues at this time.

  "mm/damon: use alloc_migrate_target() for DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD" (SeongJae Park)
     provides some cleanup and consolidation work in DAMON.

  "use vm_flags_t consistently" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     uses vm_flags_t in places where we were inappropriately using other
     types.

  "mm/memfd: Reserve hugetlb folios before allocation" (Vivek Kasireddy)
     increases the reliability of large page allocation in the memfd
     code.

  "mm: Remove pXX_devmap page table bit and pfn_t type" (Alistair Popple)
     removes several now-unneeded PFN_* flags.

  "mm/damon: decouple sysfs from core" (SeongJae Park)
     implememnts some cleanup and maintainability work in the DAMON
     sysfs layer.

  "madvise cleanup" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     does quite a lot of cleanup/maintenance work in the madvise() code.

  "madvise anon_name cleanups" (Vlastimil Babka)
     provides additional cleanups on top or Lorenzo's effort.

  "Implement numa node notifier" (Oscar Salvador)
     creates a standalone notifier for NUMA node memory state changes.
     Previously these were lumped under the more general memory
     on/offline notifier.

  "Make MIGRATE_ISOLATE a standalone bit" (Zi Yan)
     cleans up the pageblock isolation code and fixes a potential issue
     which doesn't seem to cause any problems in practice.

  "selftests/damon: add python and drgn based DAMON sysfs functionality tests" (SeongJae Park)
     adds additional drgn- and python-based DAMON selftests which are
     more comprehensive than the existing selftest suite.

  "Misc rework on hugetlb faulting path" (Oscar Salvador)
     fixes a rather obscure deadlock in the hugetlb fault code and
     follows that fix with a series of cleanups.

  "cma: factor out allocation logic from __cma_declare_contiguous_nid" (Mike Rapoport)
     rationalizes and cleans up the highmem-specific code in the CMA
     allocator.

  "mm/migration: rework movable_ops page migration (part 1)" (David Hildenbrand)
     provides cleanups and future-preparedness to the migration code.

  "mm/damon: add trace events for auto-tuned monitoring intervals and DAMOS quota" (SeongJae Park)
     adds some tracepoints to some DAMON auto-tuning code.

  "mm/damon: fix misc bugs in DAMON modules" (SeongJae Park)
     does that.

  "mm/damon: misc cleanups" (SeongJae Park)
     also does what it claims.

  "mm: folio_pte_batch() improvements" (David Hildenbrand)
     cleans up the large folio PTE batching code.

  "mm/damon/vaddr: Allow interleaving in migrate_{hot,cold} actions" (SeongJae Park)
     facilitates dynamic alteration of DAMON's inter-node allocation
     policy.

  "Remove unmap_and_put_page()" (Vishal Moola)
     provides a couple of page-&gt;folio conversions.

  "mm: per-node proactive reclaim" (Davidlohr Bueso)
     implements a per-node control of proactive reclaim - beyond the
     current memcg-based implementation.

  "mm/damon: remove damon_callback" (SeongJae Park)
     replaces the damon_callback interface with a more general and
     powerful damon_call()+damos_walk() interface.

  "mm/mremap: permit mremap() move of multiple VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     implements a number of mremap cleanups (of course) in preparation
     for adding new mremap() functionality: newly permit the remapping
     of multiple VMAs when the user is specifying MREMAP_FIXED. It still
     excludes some specialized situations where this cannot be performed
     reliably.

  "drop hugetlb_free_pgd_range()" (Anthony Yznaga)
     switches some sparc hugetlb code over to the generic version and
     removes the thus-unneeded hugetlb_free_pgd_range().

  "mm/damon/sysfs: support periodic and automated stats update" (SeongJae Park)
     augments the present userspace-requested update of DAMON sysfs
     monitoring files. Automatic update is now provided, along with a
     tunable to control the update interval.

  "Some randome fixes and cleanups to swapfile" (Kemeng Shi)
     does what is claims.

  "mm: introduce snapshot_page" (Luiz Capitulino and David Hildenbrand)
     provides (and uses) a means by which debug-style functions can grab
     a copy of a pageframe and inspect it locklessly without tripping
     over the races inherent in operating on the live pageframe
     directly.

  "use per-vma locks for /proc/pid/maps reads" (Suren Baghdasaryan)
     addresses the large contention issues which can be triggered by
     reads from that procfs file. Latencies are reduced by more than
     half in some situations. The series also introduces several new
     selftests for the /proc/pid/maps interface.

  "__folio_split() clean up" (Zi Yan)
     cleans up __folio_split()!

  "Optimize mprotect() for large folios" (Dev Jain)
     provides some quite large (&gt;3x) speedups to mprotect() when dealing
     with large folios.

  "selftests/mm: reuse FORCE_READ to replace "asm volatile("" : "+r" (XXX));" and some cleanup" (wang lian)
     does some cleanup work in the selftests code.

  "tools/testing: expand mremap testing" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     extends the mremap() selftest in several ways, including adding
     more checking of Lorenzo's recently added "permit mremap() move of
     multiple VMAs" feature.

  "selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test all parameters" (SeongJae Park)
     extends the DAMON sysfs interface selftest so that it tests all
     possible user-requested parameters. Rather than the present minimal
     subset"

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-07-30-15-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (370 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add missing headers to mempory policy &amp; migration section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing file to cgroup section
  MAINTAINERS: add MM MISC section, add missing files to MISC and CORE
  MAINTAINERS: add missing zsmalloc file
  MAINTAINERS: add missing files to page alloc section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing shrinker files
  MAINTAINERS: move memremap.[ch] to hotplug section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing mm_slot.h file THP section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing interval_tree.c to memory mapping section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing percpu-internal.h file to per-cpu section
  mm/page_alloc: remove trace_mm_alloc_contig_migrate_range_info()
  selftests/damon: introduce _common.sh to host shared function
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test runtime reduction of DAMON parameters
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test non-default parameters runtime commit
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMON context commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize monitoring attributes commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS schemes commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS filters commitment
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS scheme commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS destinations commitment
  ...
</content>
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<entry>
<title>proc: use the same treatment to check proc_lseek as ones for proc_read_iter et.al</title>
<updated>2025-07-10T05:42:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>wangzijie</name>
<email>wangzijie1@honor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-07T02:13:53+00:00</published>
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Check pde-&gt;proc_ops-&gt;proc_lseek directly may cause UAF in rmmod scenario. 
It's a gap in proc_reg_open() after commit 654b33ada4ab("proc: fix UAF in
proc_get_inode()").  Followed by AI Viro's suggestion, fix it in same
manner.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250607021353.1127963-1-wangzijie1@honor.com
Fixes: 3f61631d47f1 ("take care to handle NULL -&gt;proc_lseek()")
Signed-off-by: wangzijie &lt;wangzijie1@honor.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "Edgecombe, Rick P" &lt;rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shuemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>switch procfs from d_set_d_op() to d_splice_alias_ops()</title>
<updated>2025-06-11T02:13:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-24T18:08:52+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>procfs: kill -&gt;proc_dops</title>
<updated>2025-06-11T02:08:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-22T21:04:47+00:00</published>
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It has two possible values - one for "forced lookup" entries, another
for the normal ones.  We'd be better off with that as an explicit
flag anyway and in addition to that it opens some fun possibilities
with -&gt;d_op and -&gt;d_flags handling.

[moved PROC_ENTRY_FORCE_LOOKUP to include/linux/proc_fs.h, switched it
to an unused bit - there was a conflict]

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>proc: fix UAF in proc_get_inode()</title>
<updated>2025-03-17T00:40:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ye Bin</name>
<email>yebin10@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-01T12:06:24+00:00</published>
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Fix race between rmmod and /proc/XXX's inode instantiation.

The bug is that pde-&gt;proc_ops don't belong to /proc, it belongs to a
module, therefore dereferencing it after /proc entry has been registered
is a bug unless use_pde/unuse_pde() pair has been used.

use_pde/unuse_pde can be avoided (2 atomic ops!) because pde-&gt;proc_ops
never changes so information necessary for inode instantiation can be
saved _before_ proc_register() in PDE itself and used later, avoiding
pde-&gt;proc_ops-&gt;...  dereference.

      rmmod                         lookup
sys_delete_module
                         proc_lookup_de
			   pde_get(de);
			   proc_get_inode(dir-&gt;i_sb, de);
  mod-&gt;exit()
    proc_remove
      remove_proc_subtree
       proc_entry_rundown(de);
  free_module(mod);

                               if (S_ISREG(inode-&gt;i_mode))
	                         if (de-&gt;proc_ops-&gt;proc_read_iter)
                           --&gt; As module is already freed, will trigger UAF

BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffbfff80a702b
PGD 817fc4067 P4D 817fc4067 PUD 817fc0067 PMD 102ef4067 PTE 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI
CPU: 26 UID: 0 PID: 2667 Comm: ls Tainted: G
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
RIP: 0010:proc_get_inode+0x302/0x6e0
RSP: 0018:ffff88811c837998 EFLAGS: 00010a06
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffffffffc0538140 RCX: 0000000000000007
RDX: 1ffffffff80a702b RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffffffffc0538158
RBP: ffff8881299a6000 R08: 0000000067bbe1e5 R09: 1ffff11023906f20
R10: ffffffffb560ca07 R11: ffffffffb2b43a58 R12: ffff888105bb78f0
R13: ffff888100518048 R14: ffff8881299a6004 R15: 0000000000000001
FS:  00007f95b9686840(0000) GS:ffff8883af100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: fffffbfff80a702b CR3: 0000000117dd2000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 proc_lookup_de+0x11f/0x2e0
 __lookup_slow+0x188/0x350
 walk_component+0x2ab/0x4f0
 path_lookupat+0x120/0x660
 filename_lookup+0x1ce/0x560
 vfs_statx+0xac/0x150
 __do_sys_newstat+0x96/0x110
 do_syscall_64+0x5f/0x170
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

[adobriyan@gmail.com: don't do 2 atomic ops on the common path]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/3d25ded0-1739-447e-812b-e34da7990dcf@p183
Fixes: 778f3dd5a13c ("Fix procfs compat_ioctl regression")
Signed-off-by: Ye Bin &lt;yebin10@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Pass parent directory inode and expected name to -&gt;d_revalidate()</title>
<updated>2025-01-28T00:25:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-08T05:28:51+00:00</published>
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<id>urn:sha1:5be1fa8abd7b049f51e6e98e75a37eef5ae2c296</id>
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-&gt;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 -&gt;d_parent and -&gt;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 -&gt;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-&gt;name will normally
point into the pathname being resolved; the filename in question occupies
name-&gt;len bytes starting at name-&gt;name, and there is NUL somewhere after it,
but it the next byte might very well be '/' rather than '\0'.  Do not
ignore name-&gt;len.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi &lt;gabriel@krisman.be&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>proc: fold kmalloc() + strcpy() into kmemdup()</title>
<updated>2024-09-09T08:51:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-08T09:27:45+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
strcpy() will recalculate string length second time which is
unnecessary in this case.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/90af27c1-0b86-47a6-a6c8-61a58b8aa747@p183
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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