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Linus Torvalds 1b5dd29869 vfs-6.19-rc1.fd_prepare.fs
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.fd_prepare.fs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

Pull fd prepare updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This adds the FD_ADD() and FD_PREPARE() primitive. They simplify the
  common pattern of get_unused_fd_flags() + create file + fd_install()
  that is used extensively throughout the kernel and currently requires
  cumbersome cleanup paths.

  FD_ADD() - For simple cases where a file is installed immediately:

      fd = FD_ADD(O_CLOEXEC, vfio_device_open_file(device));
      if (fd < 0)
          vfio_device_put_registration(device);
      return fd;

  FD_PREPARE() - For cases requiring access to the fd or file, or
  additional work before publishing:

      FD_PREPARE(fdf, O_CLOEXEC, sync_file->file);
      if (fdf.err) {
          fput(sync_file->file);
          return fdf.err;
      }

      data.fence = fd_prepare_fd(fdf);
      if (copy_to_user((void __user *)arg, &data, sizeof(data)))
          return -EFAULT;

      return fd_publish(fdf);

  The primitives are centered around struct fd_prepare. FD_PREPARE()
  encapsulates all allocation and cleanup logic and must be followed by
  a call to fd_publish() which associates the fd with the file and
  installs it into the caller's fdtable. If fd_publish() isn't called,
  both are deallocated automatically. FD_ADD() is a shorthand that does
  fd_publish() immediately and never exposes the struct to the caller.

  I've implemented this in a way that it's compatible with the cleanup
  infrastructure while also being usable separately. IOW, it's centered
  around struct fd_prepare which is aliased to class_fd_prepare_t and so
  we can make use of all the basica guard infrastructure"

* tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.fd_prepare.fs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (42 commits)
  io_uring: convert io_create_mock_file() to FD_PREPARE()
  file: convert replace_fd() to FD_PREPARE()
  vfio: convert vfio_group_ioctl_get_device_fd() to FD_ADD()
  tty: convert ptm_open_peer() to FD_ADD()
  ntsync: convert ntsync_obj_get_fd() to FD_PREPARE()
  media: convert media_request_alloc() to FD_PREPARE()
  hv: convert mshv_ioctl_create_partition() to FD_ADD()
  gpio: convert linehandle_create() to FD_PREPARE()
  pseries: port papr_rtas_setup_file_interface() to FD_ADD()
  pseries: convert papr_platform_dump_create_handle() to FD_ADD()
  spufs: convert spufs_gang_open() to FD_PREPARE()
  papr-hvpipe: convert papr_hvpipe_dev_create_handle() to FD_PREPARE()
  spufs: convert spufs_context_open() to FD_PREPARE()
  net/socket: convert __sys_accept4_file() to FD_ADD()
  net/socket: convert sock_map_fd() to FD_ADD()
  net/kcm: convert kcm_ioctl() to FD_PREPARE()
  net/handshake: convert handshake_nl_accept_doit() to FD_PREPARE()
  secretmem: convert memfd_secret() to FD_ADD()
  memfd: convert memfd_create() to FD_ADD()
  bpf: convert bpf_token_create() to FD_PREPARE()
  ...
2025-12-01 17:32:07 -08:00
Linus Torvalds ffbf700df2 vfs-6.19-rc1.autofs
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.autofs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

Pull autofs update from Christian Brauner:
 "Prevent futile mount triggers in private mount namespaces.

  Fix a problematic loop in autofs when a mount namespace contains
  autofs mounts that are propagation private and there is no
  namespace-specific automount daemon to handle possible automounting.

  Previously, attempted path resolution would loop until MAXSYMLINKS was
  reached before failing, causing significant noise in the log.

 The fix adds a check in autofs ->d_automount() so that the VFS can
 immediately return EPERM in this case. Since the mount is propagation
 private, EPERM is the most appropriate error code"

* tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.autofs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  autofs: dont trigger mount if it cant succeed
2025-12-01 16:38:21 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 415d34b92c namespace-6.19-rc1
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Merge tag 'namespace-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

Pull namespace updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains substantial namespace infrastructure changes including a new
  system call, active reference counting, and extensive header cleanups.
  The branch depends on the shared kbuild branch for -fms-extensions support.

  Features:

   - listns() system call

     Add a new listns() system call that allows userspace to iterate
     through namespaces in the system. This provides a programmatic
     interface to discover and inspect namespaces, addressing
     longstanding limitations:

     Currently, there is no direct way for userspace to enumerate
     namespaces. Applications must resort to scanning /proc/*/ns/ across
     all processes, which is:
      - Inefficient - requires iterating over all processes
      - Incomplete - misses namespaces not attached to any running
        process but kept alive by file descriptors, bind mounts, or
        parent references
      - Permission-heavy - requires access to /proc for many processes
      - No ordering or ownership information
      - No filtering per namespace type

     The listns() system call solves these problems:

       ssize_t listns(const struct ns_id_req *req, u64 *ns_ids,
                      size_t nr_ns_ids, unsigned int flags);

       struct ns_id_req {
             __u32 size;
             __u32 spare;
             __u64 ns_id;
             struct /* listns */ {
                     __u32 ns_type;
                     __u32 spare2;
                     __u64 user_ns_id;
             };
       };

     Features include:
      - Pagination support for large namespace sets
      - Filtering by namespace type (MNT_NS, NET_NS, USER_NS, etc.)
      - Filtering by owning user namespace
      - Permission checks respecting namespace isolation

   - Active Reference Counting

     Introduce an active reference count that tracks namespace
     visibility to userspace. A namespace is visible in the following
     cases:
      - The namespace is in use by a task
      - The namespace is persisted through a VFS object (namespace file
        descriptor or bind-mount)
      - The namespace is a hierarchical type and is the parent of child
        namespaces

     The active reference count does not regulate lifetime (that's still
     done by the normal reference count) - it only regulates visibility
     to namespace file handles and listns().

     This prevents resurrection of namespaces that are pinned only for
     internal kernel reasons (e.g., user namespaces held by
     file->f_cred, lazy TLB references on idle CPUs, etc.) which should
     not be accessible via (1)-(3).

   - Unified Namespace Tree

     Introduce a unified tree structure for all namespaces with:
      - Fixed IDs assigned to initial namespaces
      - Lookup based solely on inode number
      - Maintained list of owned namespaces per user namespace
      - Simplified rbtree comparison helpers

   Cleanups

    - Header Reorganization:
      - Move namespace types into separate header (ns_common_types.h)
      - Decouple nstree from ns_common header
      - Move nstree types into separate header
      - Switch to new ns_tree_{node,root} structures with helper functions
      - Use guards for ns_tree_lock

   - Initial Namespace Reference Count Optimization
      - Make all reference counts on initial namespaces a nop to avoid
        pointless cacheline ping-pong for namespaces that can never go
        away
      - Drop custom reference count initialization for initial namespaces
      - Add NS_COMMON_INIT() macro and use it for all namespaces
      - pid: rely on common reference count behavior

   - Miscellaneous Cleanups
      - Rename exit_task_namespaces() to exit_nsproxy_namespaces()
      - Rename is_initial_namespace() and make argument const
      - Use boolean to indicate anonymous mount namespace
      - Simplify owner list iteration in nstree
      - nsfs: raise SB_I_NODEV, SB_I_NOEXEC, and DCACHE_DONTCACHE explicitly
      - nsfs: use inode_just_drop()
      - pidfs: raise DCACHE_DONTCACHE explicitly
      - pidfs: simplify PIDFD_GET__NAMESPACE ioctls
      - libfs: allow to specify s_d_flags
      - cgroup: add cgroup namespace to tree after owner is set
      - nsproxy: fix free_nsproxy() and simplify create_new_namespaces()

  Fixes:

   - setns(pidfd, ...) race condition

     Fix a subtle race when using pidfds with setns(). When the target
     task exits after prepare_nsset() but before commit_nsset(), the
     namespace's active reference count might have been dropped. If
     setns() then installs the namespaces, it would bump the active
     reference count from zero without taking the required reference on
     the owner namespace, leading to underflow when later decremented.

     The fix resurrects the ownership chain if necessary - if the caller
     succeeded in grabbing passive references, the setns() should
     succeed even if the target task exits or gets reaped.

   - Return EFAULT on put_user() error instead of success

   - Make sure references are dropped outside of RCU lock (some
     namespaces like mount namespace sleep when putting the last
     reference)

   - Don't skip active reference count initialization for network
     namespace

   - Add asserts for active refcount underflow

   - Add asserts for initial namespace reference counts (both passive
     and active)

   - ipc: enable is_ns_init_id() assertions

   - Fix kernel-doc comments for internal nstree functions

   - Selftests
      - 15 active reference count tests
      - 9 listns() functionality tests
      - 7 listns() permission tests
      - 12 inactive namespace resurrection tests
      - 3 threaded active reference count tests
      - commit_creds() active reference tests
      - Pagination and stress tests
      - EFAULT handling test
      - nsid tests fixes"

* tag 'namespace-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (103 commits)
  pidfs: simplify PIDFD_GET_<type>_NAMESPACE ioctls
  nstree: fix kernel-doc comments for internal functions
  nsproxy: fix free_nsproxy() and simplify create_new_namespaces()
  selftests/namespaces: fix nsid tests
  ns: drop custom reference count initialization for initial namespaces
  pid: rely on common reference count behavior
  ns: add asserts for initial namespace active reference counts
  ns: add asserts for initial namespace reference counts
  ns: make all reference counts on initial namespace a nop
  ipc: enable is_ns_init_id() assertions
  fs: use boolean to indicate anonymous mount namespace
  ns: rename is_initial_namespace()
  ns: make is_initial_namespace() argument const
  nstree: use guards for ns_tree_lock
  nstree: simplify owner list iteration
  nstree: switch to new structures
  nstree: add helper to operate on struct ns_tree_{node,root}
  nstree: move nstree types into separate header
  nstree: decouple from ns_common header
  ns: move namespace types into separate header
  ...
2025-12-01 09:47:41 -08:00
Linus Torvalds b04b2e7a61 vfs-6.19-rc1.misc
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "Features:

   - Cheaper MAY_EXEC handling for path lookup. This elides MAY_WRITE
     permission checks during path lookup and adds the
     IOP_FASTPERM_MAY_EXEC flag so filesystems like btrfs can avoid
     expensive permission work.

   - Hide dentry_cache behind runtime const machinery.

   - Add German Maglione as virtiofs co-maintainer.

  Cleanups:

   - Tidy up and inline step_into() and walk_component() for improved
     code generation.

   - Re-enable IOCB_NOWAIT writes to files. This refactors file
     timestamp update logic, fixing a layering bypass in btrfs when
     updating timestamps on device files and improving FMODE_NOCMTIME
     handling in VFS now that nfsd started using it.

   - Path lookup optimizations extracting slowpaths into dedicated
     routines and adding branch prediction hints for mntput_no_expire(),
     fd_install(), lookup_slow(), and various other hot paths.

   - Enable clang's -fms-extensions flag, requiring a JFS rename to
     avoid conflicts.

   - Remove spurious exports in fs/file_attr.c.

   - Stop duplicating union pipe_index declaration. This depends on the
     shared kbuild branch that brings in -fms-extensions support which
     is merged into this branch.

   - Use MD5 library instead of crypto_shash in ecryptfs.

   - Use largest_zero_folio() in iomap_dio_zero().

   - Replace simple_strtol/strtoul with kstrtoint/kstrtouint in init and
     initrd code.

   - Various typo fixes.

  Fixes:

   - Fix emergency sync for btrfs. Btrfs requires an explicit sync_fs()
     call with wait == 1 to commit super blocks. The emergency sync path
     never passed this, leaving btrfs data uncommitted during emergency
     sync.

   - Use local kmap in watch_queue's post_one_notification().

   - Add hint prints in sb_set_blocksize() for LBS dependency on THP"

* tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (35 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add German Maglione as virtiofs co-maintainer
  fs: inline step_into() and walk_component()
  fs: tidy up step_into() & friends before inlining
  orangefs: use inode_update_timestamps directly
  btrfs: fix the comment on btrfs_update_time
  btrfs: use vfs_utimes to update file timestamps
  fs: export vfs_utimes
  fs: lift the FMODE_NOCMTIME check into file_update_time_flags
  fs: refactor file timestamp update logic
  include/linux/fs.h: trivial fix: regualr -> regular
  fs/splice.c: trivial fix: pipes -> pipe's
  fs: mark lookup_slow() as noinline
  fs: add predicts based on nd->depth
  fs: move mntput_no_expire() slowpath into a dedicated routine
  fs: remove spurious exports in fs/file_attr.c
  watch_queue: Use local kmap in post_one_notification()
  fs: touch up predicts in path lookup
  fs: move fd_install() slowpath into a dedicated routine and provide commentary
  fs: hide dentry_cache behind runtime const machinery
  fs: touch predicts in do_dentry_open()
  ...
2025-12-01 08:44:26 -08:00
Christian Brauner 05885f4165
namespace: convert fsmount() to FD_PREPARE()
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> says:

A variant of the fix sent in [1] was squashed into this commit.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251128035149.392402-1-kartikey406@gmail.com [1]
Reported-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+94048264da5715c251f9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Tested-by: syzbot+94048264da5715c251f9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=94048264da5715c251f9
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251123-work-fd-prepare-v4-7-b6efa1706cfd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-28 12:42:31 +01:00
Christian Brauner 416b0d1659
namespace: convert open_tree_attr() to FD_PREPARE()
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251123-work-fd-prepare-v4-6-b6efa1706cfd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-28 12:42:31 +01:00
Christian Brauner 542a406543
namespace: convert open_tree() to FD_ADD()
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251123-work-fd-prepare-v4-5-b6efa1706cfd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-28 12:42:31 +01:00
Andrei Vagin 7b6dcd9bfd
fs/namespace: fix reference leak in grab_requested_mnt_ns
lookup_mnt_ns() already takes a reference on mnt_ns.
grab_requested_mnt_ns() doesn't need to take an extra reference.

Fixes: 78f0e33cd6 ("fs/namespace: correctly handle errors returned by grab_requested_mnt_ns")
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251122071953.3053755-1-avagin@google.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-25 09:34:56 +01:00
Mateusz Guzik bfef6e1f34
fs: move mntput_no_expire() slowpath into a dedicated routine
In the stock variant the compiler spills several registers on the stack
and employs stack smashing protection, adding even more code + a branch
on exit..

The actual fast path is small enough that the compiler inlines it for
all callers -- the symbol is no longer emitted.

Forcing noinline on it just for code-measurement purposes shows the fast
path dropping from 111 to 39 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251114201803.2183505-1-mjguzik@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-19 14:49:28 +01:00
Ian Kent 922a6f34c1
autofs: dont trigger mount if it cant succeed
If a mount namespace contains autofs mounts, and they are propagation
private, and there is no namespace specific automount daemon to handle
possible automounting then attempted path resolution will loop until
MAXSYMLINKS is reached before failing causing quite a bit of noise in
the log.

Add a check for this in autofs ->d_automount() so that the VFS can
immediately return an error in this case. Since the mount is propagation
private an EPERM return seems most appropriate.

Suggested by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251118024631.10854-2-raven@themaw.net
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-19 11:14:02 +01:00
Andrei Vagin 78f0e33cd6
fs/namespace: correctly handle errors returned by grab_requested_mnt_ns
grab_requested_mnt_ns was changed to return error codes on failure, but
its callers were not updated to check for error pointers, still checking
only for a NULL return value.

This commit updates the callers to use IS_ERR() or IS_ERR_OR_NULL() and
PTR_ERR() to correctly check for and propagate errors.

This also makes sure that the logic actually works and mount namespace
file descriptors can be used to refere to mounts.

Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> says:

Rework the patch to be more ergonomic and in line with our overall error
handling patterns.

Fixes: 7b9d14af87 ("fs: allow mount namespace fd")
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251111062815.2546189-1-avagin@google.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-12 10:42:49 +01:00
Christian Brauner c2bbd2db52
ns: drop custom reference count initialization for initial namespaces
Initial namespaces don't modify their reference count anymore.
They remain fixed at one so drop the custom refcount initializations.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251110-work-namespace-nstree-fixes-v1-16-e8a9264e0fb9@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-11 10:01:32 +01:00
Christian Brauner d9a44089ac
fs: use boolean to indicate anonymous mount namespace
Stop playing games with the namespace id and use a boolean instead:

* This will remove the special-casing we need to do everywhere for mount
  namespaces.

* It will allow us to use asserts on the namespace id for initial
  namespaces everywhere.

* It will allow us to put anonymous mount namespaces on the namespaces
  trees in the future and thus make them available to statmount() and
  listmount().

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251110-work-namespace-nstree-fixes-v1-10-e8a9264e0fb9@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-11 10:01:31 +01:00
Christian Brauner a657bc8a75
nstree: switch to new structures
Switch the nstree management to the new combined structures.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251110-work-namespace-nstree-fixes-v1-5-e8a9264e0fb9@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-11 10:01:30 +01:00
Christian Brauner 3760342fd6
nstree: assign fixed ids to the initial namespaces
The initial set of namespace comes with fixed inode numbers making it
easy for userspace to identify them solely based on that information.
This has long preceeded anything here.

Similarly, let's assign fixed namespace ids for the initial namespaces.

Kill the cookie and use a sequentially increasing number. This has the
nice side-effect that the owning user namespace will always have a
namespace id that is smaller than any of it's descendant namespaces.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251029-work-namespace-nstree-listns-v4-15-2e6f823ebdc0@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-03 17:41:17 +01:00
Christian Brauner 0b1765830c
ns: use NS_COMMON_INIT() for all namespaces
Now that we have a common initializer use it for all static namespaces.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-03 17:41:16 +01:00
Andy Shevchenko 9db8d46712
mnt: Remove dead code which might prevent from building
Clang, in particular, is not happy about dead code:

fs/namespace.c:135:37: error: unused function 'node_to_mnt_ns' [-Werror,-Wunused-function]
  135 | static inline struct mnt_namespace *node_to_mnt_ns(const struct rb_node *node)
      |                                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.

Remove a leftover from the previous cleanup.

Fixes: 7d7d164989 ("mnt: support ns lookup")
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251024132336.1666382-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-10-29 15:57:24 +01:00
Zhen Ni 0778ac7df5
fs: Fix uninitialized 'offp' in statmount_string()
In statmount_string(), most flags assign an output offset pointer (offp)
which is later updated with the string offset. However, the
STATMOUNT_MNT_UIDMAP and STATMOUNT_MNT_GIDMAP cases directly set the
struct fields instead of using offp. This leaves offp uninitialized,
leading to a possible uninitialized dereference when *offp is updated.

Fix it by assigning offp for UIDMAP and GIDMAP as well, keeping the code
path consistent.

Fixes: 37c4a9590e ("statmount: allow to retrieve idmappings")
Fixes: e52e97f09f ("statmount: let unset strings be empty")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Zhen Ni <zhen.ni@easystack.cn>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251013114151.664341-1-zhen.ni@easystack.cn
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-10-21 14:21:46 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 51e9889ab1 vfs_parse_fs_string() stuff
change on vfs_parse_fs_string() calling conventions - get rid of
 the length argument (almost all callers pass strlen() of the
 string argument there), add vfs_parse_fs_qstr() for the cases
 that do want separate length
 
 Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Merge tag 'pull-fs_context' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

Pull fs_context updates from Al Viro:
 "Change vfs_parse_fs_string() calling conventions

  Get rid of the length argument (almost all callers pass strlen() of
  the string argument there), add vfs_parse_fs_qstr() for the cases that
  do want separate length"

* tag 'pull-fs_context' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  do_nfs4_mount(): switch to vfs_parse_fs_string()
  change the calling conventions for vfs_parse_fs_string()
2025-10-03 10:51:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds e64aeecbbb mount-related stuff for this cycle
* saner handling of guards in fs/namespace.c, getting
 rid of needlessly strong locking in some of the users.
 
 	* lock_mount() calling conventions change - have it set
 the environment for attaching to given location, storing the
 results in caller-supplied object, without altering the passed
 struct path.  Make unlock_mount() called as __cleanup for those
 objects.  It's not exactly guard(), but similar to it.
 
 	* MNT_WRITE_HOLD done right - mnt_hold_writers() does *not*
 mess with ->mnt_flags anymore, so insertion of a new mount into
 ->s_mounts of underlying superblock does not, in itself, expose
 ->mnt_flags of that mount to concurrent modifications.
 
 	* getting rid of pathological cases when umount() spends
 quadratic time removing the victims from propagation graph -
 part of that had been dealt with last cycle, this should finish
 it.
 
 	* a bunch of stuff constified.
 
 	* assorted cleanups.
 
 Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Merge tag 'pull-mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

Pull vfs mount updates from Al Viro:
 "Several piles this cycle, this mount-related one being the largest and
  trickiest:

   - saner handling of guards in fs/namespace.c, getting rid of
     needlessly strong locking in some of the users

   - lock_mount() calling conventions change - have it set the
     environment for attaching to given location, storing the results in
     caller-supplied object, without altering the passed struct path.

     Make unlock_mount() called as __cleanup for those objects. It's not
     exactly guard(), but similar to it

   - MNT_WRITE_HOLD done right.

     mnt_hold_writers() does *not* mess with ->mnt_flags anymore, so
     insertion of a new mount into ->s_mounts of underlying superblock
     does not, in itself, expose ->mnt_flags of that mount to concurrent
     modifications

   - getting rid of pathological cases when umount() spends quadratic
     time removing the victims from propagation graph - part of that had
     been dealt with last cycle, this should finish it

   - a bunch of stuff constified

   - assorted cleanups

* tag 'pull-mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (64 commits)
  constify {__,}mnt_is_readonly()
  WRITE_HOLD machinery: no need for to bump mount_lock seqcount
  struct mount: relocate MNT_WRITE_HOLD bit
  preparations to taking MNT_WRITE_HOLD out of ->mnt_flags
  setup_mnt(): primitive for connecting a mount to filesystem
  simplify the callers of mnt_unhold_writers()
  copy_mnt_ns(): use guards
  copy_mnt_ns(): use the regular mechanism for freeing empty mnt_ns on failure
  open_detached_copy(): separate creation of namespace into helper
  open_detached_copy(): don't bother with mount_lock_hash()
  path_has_submounts(): use guard(mount_locked_reader)
  fs/namespace.c: sanitize descriptions for {__,}lookup_mnt()
  ecryptfs: get rid of pointless mount references in ecryptfs dentries
  umount_tree(): take all victims out of propagation graph at once
  do_mount(): use __free(path_put)
  do_move_mount_old(): use __free(path_put)
  constify can_move_mount_beneath() arguments
  path_umount(): constify struct path argument
  may_copy_tree(), __do_loopback(): constify struct path argument
  path_mount(): constify struct path argument
  ...
2025-10-03 10:19:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 18b19abc37 namespace-6.18-rc1
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Merge tag 'namespace-6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

Pull namespace updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains a larger set of changes around the generic namespace
  infrastructure of the kernel.

  Each specific namespace type (net, cgroup, mnt, ...) embedds a struct
  ns_common which carries the reference count of the namespace and so
  on.

  We open-coded and cargo-culted so many quirks for each namespace type
  that it just wasn't scalable anymore. So given there's a bunch of new
  changes coming in that area I've started cleaning all of this up.

  The core change is to make it possible to correctly initialize every
  namespace uniformly and derive the correct initialization settings
  from the type of the namespace such as namespace operations, namespace
  type and so on. This leaves the new ns_common_init() function with a
  single parameter which is the specific namespace type which derives
  the correct parameters statically. This also means the compiler will
  yell as soon as someone does something remotely fishy.

  The ns_common_init() addition also allows us to remove ns_alloc_inum()
  and drops any special-casing of the initial network namespace in the
  network namespace initialization code that Linus complained about.

  Another part is reworking the reference counting. The reference
  counting was open-coded and copy-pasted for each namespace type even
  though they all followed the same rules. This also removes all open
  accesses to the reference count and makes it private and only uses a
  very small set of dedicated helpers to manipulate them just like we do
  for e.g., files.

  In addition this generalizes the mount namespace iteration
  infrastructure introduced a few cycles ago. As reminder, the vfs makes
  it possible to iterate sequentially and bidirectionally through all
  mount namespaces on the system or all mount namespaces that the caller
  holds privilege over. This allow userspace to iterate over all mounts
  in all mount namespaces using the listmount() and statmount() system
  call.

  Each mount namespace has a unique identifier for the lifetime of the
  systems that is exposed to userspace. The network namespace also has a
  unique identifier working exactly the same way. This extends the
  concept to all other namespace types.

  The new nstree type makes it possible to lookup namespaces purely by
  their identifier and to walk the namespace list sequentially and
  bidirectionally for all namespace types, allowing userspace to iterate
  through all namespaces. Looking up namespaces in the namespace tree
  works completely locklessly.

  This also means we can move the mount namespace onto the generic
  infrastructure and remove a bunch of code and members from struct
  mnt_namespace itself.

  There's a bunch of stuff coming on top of this in the future but for
  now this uses the generic namespace tree to extend a concept
  introduced first for pidfs a few cycles ago. For a while now we have
  supported pidfs file handles for pidfds. This has proven to be very
  useful.

  This extends the concept to cover namespaces as well. It is possible
  to encode and decode namespace file handles using the common
  name_to_handle_at() and open_by_handle_at() apis.

  As with pidfs file handles, namespace file handles are exhaustive,
  meaning it is not required to actually hold a reference to nsfs in
  able to decode aka open_by_handle_at() a namespace file handle.
  Instead the FD_NSFS_ROOT constant can be passed which will let the
  kernel grab a reference to the root of nsfs internally and thus decode
  the file handle.

  Namespaces file descriptors can already be derived from pidfds which
  means they aren't subject to overmount protection bugs. IOW, it's
  irrelevant if the caller would not have access to an appropriate
  /proc/<pid>/ns/ directory as they could always just derive the
  namespace based on a pidfd already.

  It has the same advantage as pidfds. It's possible to reliably and for
  the lifetime of the system refer to a namespace without pinning any
  resources and to compare them trivially.

  Permission checking is kept simple. If the caller is located in the
  namespace the file handle refers to they are able to open it otherwise
  they must hold privilege over the owning namespace of the relevant
  namespace.

  The namespace file handle layout is exposed as uapi and has a stable
  and extensible format. For now it simply contains the namespace
  identifier, the namespace type, and the inode number. The stable
  format means that userspace may construct its own namespace file
  handles without going through name_to_handle_at() as they are already
  allowed for pidfs and cgroup file handles"

* tag 'namespace-6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (65 commits)
  ns: drop assert
  ns: move ns type into struct ns_common
  nstree: make struct ns_tree private
  ns: add ns_debug()
  ns: simplify ns_common_init() further
  cgroup: add missing ns_common include
  ns: use inode initializer for initial namespaces
  selftests/namespaces: verify initial namespace inode numbers
  ns: rename to __ns_ref
  nsfs: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
  net: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
  uts: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
  ipv4: use check_net()
  net: use check_net()
  net-sysfs: use check_net()
  user: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
  time: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
  pid: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
  ipc: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
  cgroup: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
  ...
2025-09-29 11:20:29 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 722df25ddf kernel-6.18-rc1.clone3
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Merge tag 'kernel-6.18-rc1.clone3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

Pull copy_process updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the changes to enable support for clone3() on nios2
  which apparently is still a thing.

  The more exciting part of this is that it cleans up the inconsistency
  in how the 64-bit flag argument is passed from copy_process() into the
  various other copy_*() helpers"

[ Fixed up rv ltl_monitor 32-bit support as per Sasha Levin in the merge ]

* tag 'kernel-6.18-rc1.clone3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  nios2: implement architecture-specific portion of sys_clone3
  arch: copy_thread: pass clone_flags as u64
  copy_process: pass clone_flags as u64 across calltree
  copy_sighand: Handle architectures where sizeof(unsigned long) < sizeof(u64)
2025-09-29 10:36:50 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 3a2a5b278f vfs-6.18-rc1.mount
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

Pull vfs mount updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains some work around mount api handling:

   - Output the warning message for mnt_too_revealing() triggered during
     fsmount() to the fscontext log. This makes it possible for the
     mount tool to output appropriate warnings on the command line.

     For example, with the newest fsopen()-based mount(8) from
     util-linux, the error messages now look like:

       # mount -t proc proc /tmp
       mount: /tmp: fsmount() failed: VFS: Mount too revealing.
              dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.

   - Do not consume fscontext log entries when returning -EMSGSIZE

     Userspace generally expects APIs that return -EMSGSIZE to allow for
     them to adjust their buffer size and retry the operation.

     However, the fscontext log would previously clear the message even
     in the -EMSGSIZE case.

     Given that it is very cheap for us to check whether the buffer is
     too small before we remove the message from the ring buffer, let's
     just do that instead.

   - Drop an unused argument from do_remount()"

* tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  vfs: fs/namespace.c: remove ms_flags argument from do_remount
  selftests/filesystems: add basic fscontext log tests
  fscontext: do not consume log entries when returning -EMSGSIZE
  vfs: output mount_too_revealing() errors to fscontext
  docs/vfs: Remove mentions to the old mount API helpers
  fscontext: add custom-prefix log helpers
  fs: Remove mount_bdev
  fs: Remove mount_nodev
2025-09-29 09:32:34 -07:00
Christian Brauner 6c7ca6a02f mount: handle NULL values in mnt_ns_release()
When calling in listmount() mnt_ns_release() may be passed a NULL
pointer. Handle that case gracefully.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-29 09:08:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds b7ce6fa90f vfs-6.18-rc1.misc
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the usual selections of misc updates for this cycle.

  Features:

   - Add "initramfs_options" parameter to set initramfs mount options.
     This allows to add specific mount options to the rootfs to e.g.,
     limit the memory size

   - Add RWF_NOSIGNAL flag for pwritev2()

     Add RWF_NOSIGNAL flag for pwritev2. This flag prevents the SIGPIPE
     signal from being raised when writing on disconnected pipes or
     sockets. The flag is handled directly by the pipe filesystem and
     converted to the existing MSG_NOSIGNAL flag for sockets

   - Allow to pass pid namespace as procfs mount option

     Ever since the introduction of pid namespaces, procfs has had very
     implicit behaviour surrounding them (the pidns used by a procfs
     mount is auto-selected based on the mounting process's active
     pidns, and the pidns itself is basically hidden once the mount has
     been constructed)

     This implicit behaviour has historically meant that userspace was
     required to do some special dances in order to configure the pidns
     of a procfs mount as desired. Examples include:

     * In order to bypass the mnt_too_revealing() check, Kubernetes
       creates a procfs mount from an empty pidns so that user
       namespaced containers can be nested (without this, the nested
       containers would fail to mount procfs)

       But this requires forking off a helper process because you cannot
       just one-shot this using mount(2)

     * Container runtimes in general need to fork into a container
       before configuring its mounts, which can lead to security issues
       in the case of shared-pidns containers (a privileged process in
       the pidns can interact with your container runtime process)

       While SUID_DUMP_DISABLE and user namespaces make this less of an
       issue, the strict need for this due to a minor uAPI wart is kind
       of unfortunate

       Things would be much easier if there was a way for userspace to
       just specify the pidns they want. So this pull request contains
       changes to implement a new "pidns" argument which can be set
       using fsconfig(2):

           fsconfig(procfd, FSCONFIG_SET_FD, "pidns", NULL, nsfd);
           fsconfig(procfd, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "pidns", "/proc/self/ns/pid", 0);

       or classic mount(2) / mount(8):

           // mount -t proc -o pidns=/proc/self/ns/pid proc /tmp/proc
           mount("proc", "/tmp/proc", "proc", MS_..., "pidns=/proc/self/ns/pid");

  Cleanups:

   - Remove the last references to EXPORT_OP_ASYNC_LOCK

   - Make file_remove_privs_flags() static

   - Remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN when GFP_NOWAIT is used

   - Use try_cmpxchg() in start_dir_add()

   - Use try_cmpxchg() in sb_init_done_wq()

   - Replace offsetof() with struct_size() in ioctl_file_dedupe_range()

   - Remove vfs_ioctl() export

   - Replace rwlock() with spinlock in epoll code as rwlock causes
     priority inversion on preempt rt kernels

   - Make ns_entries in fs/proc/namespaces const

   - Use a switch() statement() in init_special_inode() just like we do
     in may_open()

   - Use struct_size() in dir_add() in the initramfs code

   - Use str_plural() in rd_load_image()

   - Replace strcpy() with strscpy() in find_link()

   - Rename generic_delete_inode() to inode_just_drop() and
     generic_drop_inode() to inode_generic_drop()

   - Remove unused arguments from fcntl_{g,s}et_rw_hint()

  Fixes:

   - Document @name parameter for name_contains_dotdot() helper

   - Fix spelling mistake

   - Always return zero from replace_fd() instead of the file descriptor
     number

   - Limit the size for copy_file_range() in compat mode to prevent a
     signed overflow

   - Fix debugfs mount options not being applied

   - Verify the inode mode when loading it from disk in minixfs

   - Verify the inode mode when loading it from disk in cramfs

   - Don't trigger automounts with RESOLVE_NO_XDEV

     If openat2() was called with RESOLVE_NO_XDEV it didn't traverse
     through automounts, but could still trigger them

   - Add FL_RECLAIM flag to show_fl_flags() macro so it appears in
     tracepoints

   - Fix unused variable warning in rd_load_image() on s390

   - Make INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME depend on BLK_DEV_INITRD

   - Use ns_capable_noaudit() when determining net sysctl permissions

   - Don't call path_put() under namespace semaphore in listmount() and
     statmount()"

* tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (38 commits)
  fcntl: trim arguments
  listmount: don't call path_put() under namespace semaphore
  statmount: don't call path_put() under namespace semaphore
  pid: use ns_capable_noaudit() when determining net sysctl permissions
  fs: rename generic_delete_inode() and generic_drop_inode()
  init: INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME should depend on BLK_DEV_INITRD
  initramfs: Replace strcpy() with strscpy() in find_link()
  initrd: Use str_plural() in rd_load_image()
  initramfs: Use struct_size() helper to improve dir_add()
  initrd: Fix unused variable warning in rd_load_image() on s390
  fs: use the switch statement in init_special_inode()
  fs/proc/namespaces: make ns_entries const
  filelock: add FL_RECLAIM to show_fl_flags() macro
  eventpoll: Replace rwlock with spinlock
  selftests/proc: add tests for new pidns APIs
  procfs: add "pidns" mount option
  pidns: move is-ancestor logic to helper
  openat2: don't trigger automounts with RESOLVE_NO_XDEV
  namei: move cross-device check to __traverse_mounts
  namei: remove LOOKUP_NO_XDEV check from handle_mounts
  ...
2025-09-29 09:03:07 -07:00
Christian Brauner c1f86d0ac3
listmount: don't call path_put() under namespace semaphore
Massage listmount() and make sure we don't call path_put() under the
namespace semaphore. If we put the last reference we're fscked.

Fixes: b4c2bea8ce ("add listmount(2) syscall")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.8+
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-26 10:20:29 +02:00
Christian Brauner e8c84e2082
statmount: don't call path_put() under namespace semaphore
Massage statmount() and make sure we don't call path_put() under the
namespace semaphore. If we put the last reference we're fscked.

Fixes: 46eae99ef7 ("add statmount(2) syscall")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.8+
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-26 10:16:06 +02:00
Christian Brauner 4055526d35
ns: move ns type into struct ns_common
It's misplaced in struct proc_ns_operations and ns->ops might be NULL if
the namespace is compiled out but we still want to know the type of the
namespace for the initial namespace struct.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-25 09:23:54 +02:00
Christian Brauner d7610cb745 ns: simplify ns_common_init() further
Simply derive the ns operations from the namespace type.

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-22 14:47:10 +02:00
Christian Brauner 7cf7303211
ns: use inode initializer for initial namespaces
Just use the common helper we have.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-19 16:22:38 +02:00
Christian Brauner 024596a4e2
ns: rename to __ns_ref
Make it easier to grep and rename to ns_count.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-19 16:22:38 +02:00
Christian Brauner 2e9e697227
mnt: port to ns_ref_*() helpers
Stop accessing ns.count directly.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-19 16:22:36 +02:00
Christian Brauner be5f21d398
ns: add ns_common_free()
And drop ns_free_inum(). Anything common that can be wasted centrally
should be wasted in the new common helper.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-19 16:22:36 +02:00
Christian Brauner 5612ff3ec5
nscommon: simplify initialization
There's a lot of information that namespace implementers don't need to
know about at all. Encapsulate this all in the initialization helper.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-19 14:26:19 +02:00
Christian Brauner 86cdbae5c6
mnt: simplify ns_common_init() handling
Assign the reserved MNT_NS_ANON_INO sentinel to anonymous mount
namespaces and cleanup the initial mount ns allocation. This is just a
preparatory patch and the ns->inum check in ns_common_init() will be
dropped in the next patch.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-19 14:26:18 +02:00
Christian Brauner b2a0b19208
mnt: expose pointer to init_mnt_ns
There's various scenarios where we need to know whether we are in the
initial set of namespaces or not to e.g., shortcut permission checking.
All namespaces expose that information. Let's do that too.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-19 14:26:18 +02:00
Christian Brauner 7d7d164989
mnt: support ns lookup
Move the mount namespace to the generic ns lookup infrastructure.
This allows us to drop a bunch of members from struct mnt_namespace.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-19 14:26:15 +02:00
Christian Brauner 7914f15c5e
Merge branch 'no-rebase-mnt_ns_tree_remove'
Bring in the fix for removing a mount namespace from the mount namespace
rbtree and list.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-19 14:26:14 +02:00
Christian Brauner 96ece8eb67
mnt: use ns_common_init()
Don't cargo-cult the same thing over and over.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-19 14:26:13 +02:00
Al Viro a797652486 constify {__,}mnt_is_readonly()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2025-09-17 15:58:29 -04:00
Al Viro 1e414adf03 WRITE_HOLD machinery: no need for to bump mount_lock seqcount
... neither for insertion into the list of instances, nor for
mnt_{un,}hold_writers(), nor for mnt_get_write_access() deciding
to be nice to RT during a busy-wait loop - all of that only needs
the spinlock side of mount_lock.

IOW, it's mount_locked_reader, not mount_writer.

Clarify the comment re locking rules for mnt_unhold_writers() - it's
not just that mount_lock needs to be held when calling that, it must
have been held all along since the matching mnt_hold_writers().

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2025-09-17 15:58:29 -04:00
Al Viro 3371fa2f27 struct mount: relocate MNT_WRITE_HOLD bit
... from ->mnt_flags to LSB of ->mnt_pprev_for_sb.

This is safe - we always set and clear it within the same mount_lock
scope, so we won't interfere with list operations - traversals are
always forward, so they don't even look at ->mnt_prev_for_sb and
both insertions and removals are in mount_lock scopes of their own,
so that bit will be clear in *all* mount instances during those.

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2025-09-17 15:58:29 -04:00
Al Viro 09a1b33c08 preparations to taking MNT_WRITE_HOLD out of ->mnt_flags
We have an unpleasant wart in accessibility rules for struct mount.  There
are per-superblock lists of mounts, used by sb_prepare_remount_readonly()
to check if any of those is currently claimed for write access and to
block further attempts to get write access on those until we are done.

As soon as it is attached to a filesystem, mount becomes reachable
via that list.  Only sb_prepare_remount_readonly() traverses it and
it only accesses a few members of struct mount.  Unfortunately,
->mnt_flags is one of those and it is modified - MNT_WRITE_HOLD set
and then cleared.  It is done under mount_lock, so from the locking
rules POV everything's fine.

However, it has easily overlooked implications - once mount has been
attached to a filesystem, it has to be treated as globally visible.
In particular, initializing ->mnt_flags *must* be done either prior
to that point or under mount_lock.  All other members are still
private at that point.

Life gets simpler if we move that bit (and that's *all* that can get
touched by access via this list) out of ->mnt_flags.  It's not even
hard to do - currently the list is implemented as list_head one,
anchored in super_block->s_mounts and linked via mount->mnt_instance.

As the first step, switch it to hlist-like open-coded structure -
address of the first mount in the set is stored in ->s_mounts
and ->mnt_instance replaced with ->mnt_next_for_sb and ->mnt_pprev_for_sb -
the former either NULL or pointing to the next mount in set, the
latter - address of either ->s_mounts or ->mnt_next_for_sb in the
previous element of the set.

In the next commit we'll steal the LSB of ->mnt_pprev_for_sb as
replacement for MNT_WRITE_HOLD.

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2025-09-17 15:58:29 -04:00
Al Viro 5d132cfafb setup_mnt(): primitive for connecting a mount to filesystem
Take the identical logics in vfs_create_mount() and clone_mnt() into
a new helper that takes an empty struct mount and attaches it to
given dentry (sub)tree.

Should be called once in the lifetime of every mount, prior to making
it visible in any data structures.

After that point ->mnt_root and ->mnt_sb never change; ->mnt_root
is a counting reference to dentry and ->mnt_sb - an active reference
to superblock.

Mount remains associated with that dentry tree all the way until
the call of cleanup_mnt(), when the refcount eventually drops
to zero.

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2025-09-17 15:58:28 -04:00
Al Viro 7f954a6f49 simplify the callers of mnt_unhold_writers()
The logics in cleanup on failure in mount_setattr_prepare() is simplified
by having the mnt_hold_writers() failure followed by advancing m to the
next node in the tree before leaving the loop.

And since all calls are preceded by the same check that flag has been set
and the function is inlined, let's just shift the check into it.

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2025-09-17 15:58:28 -04:00
Al Viro d7b7253a0a copy_mnt_ns(): use guards
* mntput() of rootmnt and pwdmnt done via __free(mntput)
* mnt_ns_tree_add() can be done within namespace_excl scope.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2025-09-17 15:58:28 -04:00
Al Viro 7bb4c851dc copy_mnt_ns(): use the regular mechanism for freeing empty mnt_ns on failure
Now that free_mnt_ns() works prior to mnt_ns_tree_add(), there's no need for
an open-coded analogue free_mnt_ns() there - yes, we do avoid one call_rcu()
use per failing call of clone() or unshare(), if they fail due to OOM in that
particular spot, but it's not really worth bothering.

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2025-09-17 15:58:28 -04:00
Al Viro 1b966c4471 Merge branch 'no-rebase-mnt_ns_tree_remove' into work.mount 2025-09-17 15:58:06 -04:00
Al Viro 38f4885088 mnt_ns_tree_remove(): DTRT if mnt_ns had never been added to mnt_ns_list
Actual removal is done under the lock, but for checking if need to bother
the lockless RB_EMPTY_NODE() is safe - either that namespace had never
been added to mnt_ns_tree, in which case the the node will stay empty, or
whoever had allocated it has called mnt_ns_tree_add() and it has already
run to completion.  After that point RB_EMPTY_NODE() will become false and
will remain false, no matter what we do with other nodes in the tree.

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2025-09-16 00:33:37 -04:00
Al Viro 57a7b5b0b6 open_detached_copy(): separate creation of namespace into helper
... and convert the helper to use of a guard(namespace_excl)

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2025-09-15 21:26:44 -04:00