user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/dcache.h, branch v6.16.3

Merge tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.async.dir' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

2025-05-26T15:02:43Z

Pull vfs directory lookup updates from Christian Brauner: "This contains cleanups for the lookup_one*() family of helpers. We expose a set of functions with names containing "lookup_one_len" and others without the "_len". This difference has nothing to do with "len". It's rater a historical accident that can be confusing. The functions without "_len" take a "mnt_idmap" pointer. This is found in the "vfsmount" and that is an important question when choosing which to use: do you have a vfsmount, or are you "inside" the filesystem. A related question is "is permission checking relevant here?". nfsd and cachefiles *do* have a vfsmount but *don't* use the non-_len functions. They pass nop_mnt_idmap and refuse to work on filesystems which have any other idmap. This work changes nfsd and cachefile to use the lookup_one family of functions and to explictily pass &nop_mnt_idmap which is consistent with all other vfs interfaces used where &nop_mnt_idmap is explicitly passed. The remaining uses of the "_one" functions do not require permission checks so these are renamed to be "_noperm" and the permission checking is removed. This series also changes these lookup function to take a qstr instead of separate name and len. In many cases this simplifies the call" * tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.async.dir' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: VFS: change lookup_one_common and lookup_noperm_common to take a qstr Use try_lookup_noperm() instead of d_hash_and_lookup() outside of VFS VFS: rename lookup_one_len family to lookup_noperm and remove permission check cachefiles: Use lookup_one() rather than lookup_one_len() nfsd: Use lookup_one() rather than lookup_one_len() VFS: improve interface for lookup_one functions

dcache: convert dentry flag macros to enum

2025-04-11T13:24:29Z

Commit 9748cb2dc393 ("VFS: repack DENTRY_ flags.") changed the value of DCACHE_MOUNTED, which broke drgn's path_lookup() helper. drgn is forced to hard-code it because it's a macro, and macros aren't preserved in debugging information by default. Enums, on the other hand, are included in debugging information. Convert the DCACHE_* flag macros to an enum so that debugging tools like drgn and bpftrace can make use of them. Link: https://github.com/osandov/drgn/blob/2027d0fea84d74b835e77392f7040c2a333180c6/drgn/helpers/linux/fs.py#L43-L46 Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval Link: https://lore.kernel.org/177665a082f048cf536b9cd6af467b3be6b6e6ed.1744141838.git.osandov@fb.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

Use try_lookup_noperm() instead of d_hash_and_lookup() outside of VFS

2025-04-08T09:24:41Z

try_lookup_noperm() and d_hash_and_lookup() are nearly identical. The former does some validation of the name where the latter doesn't. Outside of the VFS that validation is likely valuable, and having only one exported function for this task is certainly a good idea. So make d_hash_and_lookup() local to VFS files and change all other callers to try_lookup_noperm(). Note that the arguments are swapped. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250319031545.2999807-6-neil@brown.name Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

VFS: improve interface for lookup_one functions

2025-04-07T07:25:32Z

The family of functions: lookup_one() lookup_one_unlocked() lookup_one_positive_unlocked() appear designed to be used by external clients of the filesystem rather than by filesystems acting on themselves as the lookup_one_len family are used. They are used by: btrfs/ioctl - which is a user-space interface rather than an internal activity exportfs - i.e. from nfsd or the open_by_handle_at interface overlayfs - at access the underlying filesystems smb/server - for file service They should be used by nfsd (more than just the exportfs path) and cachefs but aren't. It would help if the documentation didn't claim they should "not be called by generic code". Also the path component name is passed as "name" and "len" which are (confusingly?) separate by the "base". In some cases the len in simply "strlen" and so passing a qstr using QSTR() would make the calling clearer. Other callers do pass separate name and len which are stored in a struct. Sometimes these are already stored in a qstr, other times it easily could be. So this patch changes these three functions to receive a 'struct qstr *', and improves the documentation. QSTR_LEN() is added to make it easy to pass a QSTR containing a known len. [brauner@kernel.org: take a struct qstr pointer] Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250319031545.2999807-2-neil@brown.name Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

Merge tag 'sysctl-6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl

2025-03-27T04:02:05Z

Pull sysctl updates from Joel Granados: - Move vm_table members out of kernel/sysctl.c All vm_table array members have moved to their respective subsystems leading to the removal of vm_table from kernel/sysctl.c. This increases modularity by placing the ctl_tables closer to where they are actually used and at the same time reducing the chances of merge conflicts in kernel/sysctl.c. - ctl_table range fixes Replace the proc_handler function that checks variable ranges in coredump_sysctls and vdso_table with the one that actually uses the extra{1,2} pointers as min/max values. This tightens the range of the values that users can pass into the kernel effectively preventing {under,over}flows. - Misc fixes Correct grammar errors and typos in test messages. Update sysctl files in MAINTAINERS. Constified and removed array size in declaration for alignment_tbl * tag 'sysctl-6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl: (22 commits) selftests/sysctl: fix wording of help messages selftests: fix spelling/grammar errors in sysctl/sysctl.sh MAINTAINERS: Update sysctl file list in MAINTAINERS sysctl: Fix underflow value setting risk in vm_table coredump: Fixes core_pipe_limit sysctl proc_handler sysctl: remove unneeded include sysctl: remove the vm_table sh: vdso: move the sysctl to arch/sh/kernel/vsyscall/vsyscall.c x86: vdso: move the sysctl to arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdso32-setup.c fs: dcache: move the sysctl to fs/dcache.c sunrpc: simplify rpcauth_cache_shrink_count() fs: drop_caches: move sysctl to fs/drop_caches.c fs: fs-writeback: move sysctl to fs/fs-writeback.c mm: nommu: move sysctl to mm/nommu.c security: min_addr: move sysctl to security/min_addr.c mm: mmap: move sysctl to mm/mmap.c mm: util: move sysctls to mm/util.c mm: vmscan: move vmscan sysctls to mm/vmscan.c mm: swap: move sysctl to mm/swap.c mm: filemap: move sysctl to mm/filemap.c ...

Merge patch series "prep patches for my mkdir series"

2025-02-27T08:25:34Z

NeilBrown says: These two patches are cleanup are dependencies for my mkdir changes and subsequence directory locking changes. * patches from https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250226062135.2043651-1-neilb@suse.de: (2 commits) nfsd: drop fh_update() from S_IFDIR branch of nfsd_create_locked() nfs/vfs: discard d_exact_alias() Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250226062135.2043651-1-neilb@suse.de Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

nfs/vfs: discard d_exact_alias()

2025-02-26T08:55:18Z

d_exact_alias() is a descendent of d_add_unique() which was introduced 20 years ago mostly likely to work around problems with NFS servers of the time. It is now not used in several situations were it was originally needed and there have been no reports of problems - presumably the old NFS servers have been improved. This only place it is now use is in NFSv4 code and the old problematic servers are thought to have been v2/v3 only. There is no clear benefit in reusing a unhashed() dentry which happens to have the same name as the dentry we are adding. So this patch removes d_exact_alias() and the one place that it is used. Cc: Trond Myklebust Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250226062135.2043651-2-neilb@suse.de Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

VFS: repack DENTRY_ flags.

2025-02-10T09:41:00Z

Bits 13, 23, 24, and 27 are not used. Move all those holes to the end. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250206054504.2950516-7-neilb@suse.de Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

fs: dcache: move the sysctl to fs/dcache.c

2025-02-07T15:53:04Z

The sysctl_vfs_cache_pressure belongs to fs/dcache.c, move it to fs/dcache.c from kernel/sysctl.c. As a part of fs/dcache.c cleaning, sysctl_vfs_cache_pressure is changed to a static variable, and change the inline-type function vfs_pressure_ratio() to out-of-inline type, export vfs_pressure_ratio() with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL to be used by other files. Move the unneeded include(linux/dcache.h). Signed-off-by: Kaixiong Yu Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton Signed-off-by: Joel Granados

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

2025-02-01T23:07:56Z

Pull misc vfs cleanups from Al Viro: "Two unrelated patches - one is a removal of long-obsolete include in overlayfs (it used to need fs/internal.h, but the extern it wanted has been moved back to include/linux/namei.h) and another introduces convenience helper constructing struct qstr by a NUL-terminated string" * tag 'pull-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: add a string-to-qstr constructor fs/overlayfs/namei.c: get rid of include ../internal.h