starfive-tech/linux.git/include/linux/fs.h, branch visionfive_v1_5.13

drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good

2021-05-07T07:26:34+00:00

Patch series "drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good". Exploring /dev/kmem and /dev/mem in the context of memory hot(un)plug and memory ballooning, I started questioning the existence of /dev/kmem. Comparing it with the /proc/kcore implementation, it does not seem to be able to deal with things like a) Pages unmapped from the direct mapping (e.g., to be used by secretmem) -> kern_addr_valid(). virt_addr_valid() is not sufficient. b) Special cases like gart aperture memory that is not to be touched -> mem_pfn_is_ram() Unless I am missing something, it's at least broken in some cases and might fault/crash the machine. Looks like its existence has been questioned before in 2005 and 2010 [1], after ~11 additional years, it might make sense to revive the discussion. CONFIG_DEVKMEM is only enabled in a single defconfig (on purpose or by mistake?). All distributions disable it: in Ubuntu it has been disabled for more than 10 years, in Debian since 2.6.31, in Fedora at least starting with FC3, in RHEL starting with RHEL4, in SUSE starting from 15sp2, and OpenSUSE has it disabled as well. 1) /dev/kmem was popular for rootkits [2] before it got disabled basically everywhere. Ubuntu documents [3] "There is no modern user of /dev/kmem any more beyond attackers using it to load kernel rootkits.". RHEL documents in a BZ [5] "it served no practical purpose other than to serve as a potential security problem or to enable binary module drivers to access structures/functions they shouldn't be touching" 2) /proc/kcore is a decent interface to have a controlled way to read kernel memory for debugging puposes. (will need some extensions to deal with memory offlining/unplug, memory ballooning, and poisoned pages, though) 3) It might be useful for corner case debugging [1]. KDB/KGDB might be a better fit, especially, to write random memory; harder to shoot yourself into the foot. 4) "Kernel Memory Editor" [4] hasn't seen any updates since 2000 and seems to be incompatible with 64bit [1]. For educational purposes, /proc/kcore might be used to monitor value updates -- or older kernels can be used. 5) It's broken on arm64, and therefore, completely disabled there. Looks like it's essentially unused and has been replaced by better suited interfaces for individual tasks (/proc/kcore, KDB/KGDB). Let's just remove it. [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/147901/ [2] https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10505 [3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features#A.2Fdev.2Fkmem_disabled [4] https://sourceforge.net/projects/kme/ [5] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=154796 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210324102351.6932-1-david@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210324102351.6932-2-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Kees Cook Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: "Alexander A. Klimov" Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Alexandre Belloni Cc: Andrew Lunn Cc: Andrey Zhizhikin Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Brian Cain Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: Chris Zankel Cc: Corentin Labbe Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Gerald Schaefer Cc: Greentime Hu Cc: Gregory Clement Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Hillf Danton Cc: huang ying Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: James Troup Cc: Jiaxun Yang Cc: Jonas Bonn Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Kairui Song Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski Cc: Kuninori Morimoto Cc: Liviu Dudau Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi Cc: Luc Van Oostenryck Cc: Luis Chamberlain Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Mikulas Patocka Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Niklas Schnelle Cc: Oleksiy Avramchenko Cc: openrisc@lists.librecores.org Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: "Pavel Machek (CIP)" Cc: Pavel Machek Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" Cc: Pierre Morel Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Rich Felker Cc: Robert Richter Cc: Rob Herring Cc: Russell King Cc: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: Sebastian Hesselbarth Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Cc: Stafford Horne Cc: Stefan Kristiansson Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Sudeep Holla Cc: Theodore Dubois Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Viresh Kumar Cc: William Cohen Cc: Xiaoming Ni Cc: Yoshinori Sato Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: remove nrexceptional from inode

2021-05-05T18:27:20+00:00

We no longer track anything in nrexceptional, so remove it, saving 8 bytes per inode. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201026151849.24232-5-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Tested-by: Vishal Verma Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: provide filemap_range_needs_writeback() helper

2021-04-30T18:20:36+00:00

Patch series "Improve IOCB_NOWAIT O_DIRECT reads", v3. An internal workload complained because it was using too much CPU, and when I took a look, we had a lot of io_uring workers going to town. For an async buffered read like workload, I am normally expecting _zero_ offloads to a worker thread, but this one had tons of them. I'd drop caches and things would look good again, but then a minute later we'd regress back to using workers. Turns out that every minute something was reading parts of the device, which would add page cache for that inode. I put patches like these in for our kernel, and the problem was solved. Don't -EAGAIN IOCB_NOWAIT dio reads just because we have page cache entries for the given range. This causes unnecessary work from the callers side, when the IO could have been issued totally fine without blocking on writeback when there is none. This patch (of 3): For O_DIRECT reads/writes, we check if we need to issue a call to filemap_write_and_wait_range() to issue and/or wait for writeback for any page in the given range. The existing mechanism just checks for a page in the range, which is suboptimal for IOCB_NOWAIT as we'll fallback to the slow path (and needing retry) if there's just a clean page cache page in the range. Provide filemap_range_needs_writeback() which tries a little harder to check if we actually need to issue and/or wait for writeback in the range. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210224164455.1096727-1-axboe@kernel.dk Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210224164455.1096727-2-axboe@kernel.dk Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'netfs-lib-20210426' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs

2021-04-27T20:08:12+00:00

Pull network filesystem helper library updates from David Howells: "Here's a set of patches for 5.13 to begin the process of overhauling the local caching API for network filesystems. This set consists of two parts: (1) Add a helper library to handle the new VM readahead interface. This is intended to be used unconditionally by the filesystem (whether or not caching is enabled) and provides a common framework for doing caching, transparent huge pages and, in the future, possibly fscrypt and read bandwidth maximisation. It also allows the netfs and the cache to align, expand and slice up a read request from the VM in various ways; the netfs need only provide a function to read a stretch of data to the pagecache and the helper takes care of the rest. (2) Add an alternative fscache/cachfiles I/O API that uses the kiocb facility to do async DIO to transfer data to/from the netfs's pages, rather than using readpage with wait queue snooping on one side and vfs_write() on the other. It also uses less memory, since it doesn't do buffered I/O on the backing file. Note that this uses SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA to locate the data available to be read from the cache. Whilst this is an improvement from the bmap interface, it still has a problem with regard to a modern extent-based filesystem inserting or removing bridging blocks of zeros. Fixing that requires a much greater overhaul. This is a step towards overhauling the fscache API. The change is opt-in on the part of the network filesystem. A netfs should not try to mix the old and the new API because of conflicting ways of handling pages and the PG_fscache page flag and because it would be mixing DIO with buffered I/O. Further, the helper library can't be used with the old API. This does not change any of the fscache cookie handling APIs or the way invalidation is done at this time. In the near term, I intend to deprecate and remove the old I/O API (fscache_allocate_page{,s}(), fscache_read_or_alloc_page{,s}(), fscache_write_page() and fscache_uncache_page()) and eventually replace most of fscache/cachefiles with something simpler and easier to follow. This patchset contains the following parts: - Some helper patches, including provision of an ITER_XARRAY iov iterator and a function to do readahead expansion. - Patches to add the netfs helper library. - A patch to add the fscache/cachefiles kiocb API. - A pair of patches to fix some review issues in the ITER_XARRAY and read helpers as spotted by Al and Willy. Jeff Layton has patches to add support in Ceph for this that he intends for this merge window. I have a set of patches to support AFS that I will post a separate pull request for. With this, AFS without a cache passes all expected xfstests; with a cache, there's an extra failure, but that's also there before these patches. Fixing that probably requires a greater overhaul. Ceph also passes the expected tests. I also have patches in a separate branch to tidy up the handling of PG_fscache/PG_private_2 and their contribution to page refcounting in the core kernel here, but I haven't included them in this set and will route them separately" Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/3779937.1619478404@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ * tag 'netfs-lib-20210426' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs: netfs: Miscellaneous fixes iov_iter: Four fixes for ITER_XARRAY fscache, cachefiles: Add alternate API to use kiocb for read/write to cache netfs: Add a tracepoint to log failures that would be otherwise unseen netfs: Define an interface to talk to a cache netfs: Add write_begin helper netfs: Gather stats netfs: Add tracepoints netfs: Provide readahead and readpage netfs helpers netfs, mm: Add set/end/wait_on_page_fscache() aliases netfs, mm: Move PG_fscache helper funcs to linux/netfs.h netfs: Documentation for helper library netfs: Make a netfs helper module mm: Implement readahead_control pageset expansion mm/readahead: Handle ractl nr_pages being modified fs: Document file_ra_state mm/filemap: Pass the file_ra_state in the ractl mm: Add set/end/wait functions for PG_private_2 iov_iter: Add ITER_XARRAY

Merge tag 'fs.idmapped.helpers.v5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux

2021-04-27T19:49:42+00:00

Pull fs mapping helper updates from Christian Brauner: "This adds kernel-doc to all new idmapping helpers and improves their naming which was triggered by a discussion with some fs developers. Some of the names are based on suggestions by Vivek and Al. Also remove the open-coded permission checking in a few places with simple helpers. Overall this should lead to more clarity and make it easier to maintain" * tag 'fs.idmapped.helpers.v5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux: fs: introduce two inode i_{u,g}id initialization helpers fs: introduce fsuidgid_has_mapping() helper fs: document and rename fsid helpers fs: document mapping helpers

Merge tag 'fs.idmapped.docs.v5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux

2021-04-27T19:42:03+00:00

Pull fs helper kernel-doc updates from Christian Brauner: "In the last cycles we forgot to update the kernel-docs in some places that were changed during the idmapped mount work. Lukas and Randy took the chance to not just fixup those places but also fixup and expand kernel-docs for some additional helpers. No functional changes" * tag 'fs.idmapped.docs.v5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux: fs: update kernel-doc for vfs_rename() fs: turn some comments into kernel-doc xattr: fix kernel-doc for mnt_userns and vfs xattr helpers namei: fix kernel-doc for struct renamedata and more libfs: fix kernel-doc for mnt_userns

Merge branch 'miklos.fileattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2021-04-27T18:18:24+00:00

Pull fileattr conversion updates from Miklos Szeredi via Al Viro: "This splits the handling of FS_IOC_[GS]ETFLAGS from ->ioctl() into a separate method. The interface is reasonably uniform across the filesystems that support it and gives nice boilerplate removal" * 'miklos.fileattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (23 commits) ovl: remove unneeded ioctls fuse: convert to fileattr fuse: add internal open/release helpers fuse: unsigned open flags fuse: move ioctl to separate source file vfs: remove unused ioctl helpers ubifs: convert to fileattr reiserfs: convert to fileattr ocfs2: convert to fileattr nilfs2: convert to fileattr jfs: convert to fileattr hfsplus: convert to fileattr efivars: convert to fileattr xfs: convert to fileattr orangefs: convert to fileattr gfs2: convert to fileattr f2fs: convert to fileattr ext4: convert to fileattr ext2: convert to fileattr btrfs: convert to fileattr ...

fs: Document file_ra_state

2021-04-23T08:28:43+00:00

Turn the comments into kernel-doc and improve the wording slightly. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Signed-off-by: David Howells Tested-by: Jeff Layton Tested-by: Dave Wysochanski Tested-By: Marc Dionne Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210407201857.3582797-3-willy@infradead.org/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/161789068619.6155.1397999970593531574.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v6

vfs: remove unused ioctl helpers

2021-04-12T13:04:30+00:00

Remove vfs_ioc_setflags_prepare(), vfs_ioc_fssetxattr_check() and simple_fill_fsxattr(), which are no longer used. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong

vfs: add fileattr ops

2021-04-12T13:04:23+00:00

There's a substantial amount of boilerplate in filesystems handling FS_IOC_[GS]ETFLAGS/ FS_IOC_FS[GS]ETXATTR ioctls. Also due to userspace buffers being involved in the ioctl API this is difficult to stack, as shown by overlayfs issues related to these ioctls. Introduce a new internal API named "fileattr" (fsxattr can be confused with xattr, xflags is inappropriate, since this is more than just flags). There's significant overlap between flags and xflags and this API handles the conversions automatically, so filesystems may choose which one to use. In ->fileattr_get() a hint is provided to the filesystem whether flags or xattr are being requested by userspace, but in this series this hint is ignored by all filesystems, since generating all the attributes is cheap. If a filesystem doesn't implemement the fileattr API, just fall back to f_op->ioctl(). When all filesystems are converted, the fallback can be removed. 32bit compat ioctls are now handled by the generic code as well. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi