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2026-06-16Merge tag 'fsnotify_for_v7.2-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs Pull fsnotify updates from Jan Kara: - fanotify improvements for pidfd reporting - small cleanup in fanotify_error_event_equal * tag 'fsnotify_for_v7.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs: fanotify: allow reporting pidfds for reaped tasks fanotify: report thread pidfds for FAN_REPORT_TID fanotify: simplify fanotify_error_event_equal
2026-06-15Merge tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner: "Features: - Reduce pipe->mutex contention by pre-allocating pages outside the lock in anon_pipe_write(). anon_pipe_write() called alloc_page() once per page while holding pipe->mutex. The allocation can sleep doing direct reclaim and runs memcg charging, which extends the critical section and stalls any concurrent reader on the same mutex. Now up to 8 pages are pre-allocated before the mutex is taken, leftovers are recycled into the per-pipe tmp_page[] cache before unlock, and any remainder is released after unlock, keeping the allocator out of the critical section on both sides. On a writers x readers sweep with 64KB writes against a 1 MB pipe throughput improves 6-28% and average write latency drops 5-22%; under memory pressure - when the cost of holding the mutex across reclaim is highest - throughput improves 21-48% and latency drops 17-33%. The microbenchmark is added to selftests. - uaccess/sockptr: fix the ignored_trailing logic in copy_struct_to_user() to behave as documented and the usize check in copy_struct_from_sockptr() for user pointers, and add copy_struct_{from,to}_bounce_buffer() and copy_struct_to_sockptr() helpers for upcoming users (IPPROTO_SMBDIRECT, IPPROTO_QUIC). - bpf: add a sleepable bpf_real_inode() kfunc that resolves the real inode backing a dentry via d_real_inode(). On overlayfs the inode attached to the dentry doesn't carry the underlying device information; this is used by the filesystem restriction BPF program that was merged into systemd. - docs: add guidelines for submitting new filesystems, motivated by the maintenance burden abandoned and untestable filesystems impose on VFS developers, blocking infrastructure work like folio conversions and iomap migration. Fixes: - libfs: set SB_I_NOEXEC and SB_I_NODEV by default in init_pseudo() and drop the now-redundant assignments in callers. This began as a one-line dma-buf fix for a path_noexec() warning; a pseudo filesystem has no reason not to set SB_I_NOEXEC. All init_pseudo() callers were audited: the only visible effect is on dma-buf where SB_I_NOEXEC silences the warning. - Handle set_blocksize() failures in legacy filesystems (bfs, hpfs, qnx4, jfs, befs, affs, isofs, minix, ntfs3, omfs). Mounting a device with a sector size > PAGE_SIZE crashed roughly half of them; the rest had the same missing error handling pattern. Plus a follow-up releasing the superblock buffer_head when setting the minix v3 block size fails. - mount: honour SB_NOUSER in the new mount API. - fs/fcntl: fix a SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order in fasync signaling by switching the process-group paths of send_sigio() and send_sigurg() from read_lock(&tasklist_lock) to RCU, matching the single-PID path. - vfs: add an FS_USERNS_DELEGATABLE flag and set it for NFS, fixing delegated NFS mounts (fsopen() in a container with the mount performed by a privileged daemon) that broke when non-init s_user_ns was tied to FS_USERNS_MOUNT. - selftests/namespaces: fix a hang in nsid_test where an unreaped grandchild kept the TAP pipe write-end open, a waitpid(-1) race in listns_efault_test, and a false FAIL on kernels without listns() where the tests should SKIP. - filelock: fix the break_lease() stub signature for CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING=n. - init/initramfs_test: wait for the async initramfs unpacking before running; the test and do_populate_rootfs() share the parser state. - fs/coredump: reduce redundant log noise in validate_coredump_safety(). - iomap: pass the correct length to fserror_report_io() in __iomap_write_begin(). - backing-file: fix the backing_file_open() kerneldoc. Cleanups: - initramfs: refactor the cpio hex header parsing to use hex2bin() instead of the hand-rolled simple_strntoul() which is reverted, and extend the initramfs KUnit tests to cover header fields with 0x prefixes. - Replace __get_free_pages() and friends with kmalloc()/kzalloc() across quota, proc, ocfs2/dlm, nilfs2, nfs, nfsd, libfs, jfs, jbd2, isofs, fuse, select, namespace, configfs, binfmt_misc, bfs, and the do_mounts init code - part of the larger work of replacing page allocator calls with kmalloc(). - Use clear_and_wake_up_bit() in unlock_buffer() and journal_end_buffer_io_sync() instead of open-coding the sequence. - Drop unused VFS exports: unexport drop_super_exclusive(), remove start_removing_user_path_at(), and fold __start_removing_path() into start_removing_path(). - fs/read_write: narrow the __kernel_write() export with EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_MODULES(). - vfs: uapi: retire octal and hex constants in favor of (1 << n) for the O_ flags. Finding a free bit for a new flag across the architectures was needlessly hard with the mixed bases. - dcache: add extra sanity checks of dead dentries in dentry_free() via a new DENTRY_WARN_ONCE() that also prints d_flags. - iov_iter: use kmemdup_array() in dup_iter() to harden the allocation against multiplication overflow. - fs/pipe: write to ->poll_usage only once. - vfs: remove an always-taken if-branch in find_next_fd(). - dcache: use kmalloc_flex() for struct external_name in __d_alloc(). - namei: use QSTR() instead of QSTR_INIT() in path_pts(). - sync_file_range: delete dead S_ISLNK code. - Comment fixes: retire a stale comment in fget_task_next() and fix assorted spelling mistakes" * tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (73 commits) backing-file: fix backing_file_open() kerneldoc parameter iomap: pass the correct len to fserror_report_io in __iomap_write_begin vfs: add FS_USERNS_DELEGATABLE flag and set it for NFS filelock: fix break_lease() stub signature for CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING=n vfs: uapi: retire octal and hex numbers in favor of (1 << n) for O_ flags bpf: add bpf_real_inode() kfunc fs/read_write: Do not export __kernel_write() to the entire world libfs: drop redundant SB_I_NOEXEC/SB_I_NODEV in init_pseudo() callers libfs: set SB_I_NOEXEC and SB_I_NODEV by default in init_pseudo() mount: honour SB_NOUSER in the new mount API fs/fcntl: fix SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order in fasync signaling selftests/pipe: add pipe_bench microbenchmark fs/pipe: pre-allocate pages outside pipe->mutex in anon_pipe_write fs: retire stale comment in fget_task_next() fs: fix spelling mistakes in comment bfs: replace get_zeroed_page() with kzalloc() binfmt_misc: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc() configfs: replace __get_free_pages() with kzalloc() fs/namespace: use __getname() to allocate mntpath buffer fs/select: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc() ...
2026-06-15Merge tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.xattr' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull simple_xattr updates from Christian Brauner: "This reworks the simple xattr api to make it more efficient and easier to use for all consumers. The simple_xattr hash table moves from the inode into a per-superblock cache, removing the per-inode overhead for the common case of few or no xattrs. The interface now passes struct simple_xattrs ** so lazy allocation is handled internally instead of by every caller, kernfs xattr operations on kernfs nodes shared between multiple superblocks are properly serialized, and tmpfs constructs "security.foo" xattr names with kasprintf() instead of kmalloc() plus two memcpy()s. A follow-up fix links kernfs nodes to their parent before the LSM init hook runs: with the per-sb cache kernfs_xattr_set() computes the cache via kernfs_root(kn), which faulted on a freshly allocated node when selinux_kernfs_init_security() called into it - reproducible as a NULL pointer dereference on the first cgroup mkdir on SELinux-enabled systems. On top of this bpffs gains support for trusted.* and security.* xattrs so that user space and BPF LSM programs can attach metadata - for example a content hash or a security label - to pinned objects and directories and inspect it uniformly like on other filesystems. The store is in-memory and non-persistent, living only for the lifetime of the mount like everything else in bpffs" * tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.xattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: bpf: Add simple xattr support to bpffs kernfs: link kn to its parent before the LSM init hook simpe_xattr: use per-sb cache simple_xattr: change interface to pass struct simple_xattrs ** tmpfs: simplify constructing "security.foo" xattr names kernfs: fix xattr race condition with multiple superblocks
2026-06-10fanotify: allow reporting pidfds for reaped tasksAnonymeMeow
Fanotify used to refuse to report pidfds for reaped tasks by applying a pid_has_task() check before calling pidfd_prepare(). This prevented userspace from obtaining information about the task. Register the event pid with pidfs when creating the fanotify event if pidfd reporting was requested, so pidfd_prepare() can later create a pidfd for the reaped task. Suggested-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20260528-schmuckvoll-heilen-garen-be77b4208671@brauner/ Signed-off-by: AnonymeMeow <anonymemeow@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260607003343.425939-3-anonymemeow@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2026-06-06simpe_xattr: use per-sb cacheMiklos Szeredi
Move the hash table to the super block to remove excessive overhead in case of small number of xattrs per inode. Add linked list to the inode, used for listxattr and eviction. Listxattr uses rcu protection to iterate the list of xattrs. Before being made per-sb, lazy allocation was protected by inode lock. Now inode lock no longer provides sufficient exclusion, so use cmpxchg() to ensure atomicity. Though I haven't found a description of this pattern, after some research it seems that cmpxchg_release() and READ_ONCE() should provide the necessary memory barriers. Use simple_xattr_free_rcu() in simple_xattrs_free(). This is needed because the hash table is now shared between inodes and lookup on a different inode might be running the compare function on the just freed element within the RCU grace period. Following stats are based on slabinfo diff, after creating 100k empty files, then adding a "user.test=foo" xattr to each: v7.0 (no rhashtable): File creation: 993.40 bytes/file Xattr addition: 79.99 bytes/file v7.1-rc2 (per-inode rhashtable): File creation: 939.73 bytes/file Xattr addition: 1296.08 bytes/file v7.1-rc2 + this patch (per-sb rhashtable) File creation: 946.84 bytes/file Xattr addition: 111.86 bytes/file The overhead of a single xattr is reduced to nearly v7.0 levels. The per xattr overhead is slightly larger due to the addition of three pointers to struct simple_xattr. Fixes: b32c4a213698 ("xattr: add rhashtable-based simple_xattr infrastructure") Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260605135322.2632068-5-mszeredi@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-06-06simple_xattr: change interface to pass struct simple_xattrs **Miklos Szeredi
Change the simple_xattr API to accept pointer-to-pointer (struct simple_xattrs **) instead of pointer. This allows the functions to handle lazy allocation internally without requiring callers to use simple_xattrs_lazy_alloc(). The simple_xattr_set(), simple_xattr_set_limited() and simple_xattr_add() functions now handle allocation when xattrs is NULL. simple_xattrs_free() now also frees the xattrs structure itself and sets the pointer to NULL. This simplifies callers and removes the need for most callers to explicitly manage xattrs allocation and lifetime. In shmem_initxattrs(), the total required space for all initial xattrs (ispace) is pre-calculated and deducted from sbinfo->free_ispace. Since this patch modifies the function to add new xattrs directly to the inode's &info->xattrs list rather than using a local temporary variable, a failure means that the partially populated info->xattrs list remains attached to the inode. When the VFS caller handles the -ENOMEM error, it drops the newly created inode via iput(), shmem_free_inode() adds freed to sbinfo->free_ispace a second time, permanently inflating the tmpfs free space quota. Fix by substracting already added xattrs from ispace. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260605135322.2632068-4-mszeredi@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-06-04libfs: drop redundant SB_I_NOEXEC/SB_I_NODEV in init_pseudo() callersJohn Hubbard
init_pseudo() now sets SB_I_NOEXEC and SB_I_NODEV by default, so the per-caller assignments are redundant. Drop them. Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260604025315.245910-3-jhubbard@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-05-26exec_state: relocate dumpable informationChristian Brauner (Amutable)
The dumpable flag captured at execve() is consulted by __ptrace_may_access() and several /proc owner / visibility checks. It lives on mm_struct today, which exit_mm() clears from the task long before the task itself is reaped. exec_state is anchored to the execve() that established the current privilege domain. CLONE_VM siblings refcount-share the parent's exec_state via copy_exec_state(); non-CLONE_VM clones allocate a fresh exec_state inheriting the parent's dumpable mode and user_ns reference via task_exec_state_copy(). execve() allocates a fresh instance (via alloc_task_exec_state() in begin_new_exec()) and installs it under task_lock + exec_update_lock with task_exec_state_replace(). init_task uses a static instance. The dumpable mode now lives on task->exec_state->dumpable. task->mm->flags no longer carries dumpability; MMF_DUMPABLE_MASK is removed, but MMF_DUMPABLE_BITS is reserved so MMF_DUMP_FILTER_* bit positions remain stable for the /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter ABI. The task->user_dumpable cache bit and its assignment in exit_mm() are removed; readers go through get_dumpable(task) directly. coredump_params gains a snapshot field cprm.dumpable, populated from get_dumpable(current) at vfs_coredump() entry, replacing the previous __get_dumpable(cprm->mm_flags) consumers in fs/coredump.c and fs/pidfs.c. The user namespace recorded at execve() is consulted by __ptrace_may_access() and by /proc/PID/* owner derivation. Move the captured user_ns onto task_exec_state, which stays attached to the task past exit_mm() and across exit_files(). bprm grows a user_ns field staged in bprm_mm_init() with the caller's user_ns, narrowed by would_dump() to the closest privileged ancestor, and consumed by exec_mmap() via alloc_task_exec_state(bprm->user_ns). free_bprm() releases the staging reference. mm_struct loses ->user_ns entirely. Initializers in init-mm, efi_mm, and the implicit one in mm_init()/dup_mm()/mm_alloc() are removed; __mmdrop() drops the matching put_user_ns(). The kthread_use_mm() WARN_ON_ONCE(!mm->user_ns) is no longer meaningful and goes too. Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260520-work-task_exec_state-v3-4-69f895bc1385@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-05-26sched/coredump: introduce enum task_dumpableChristian Brauner (Amutable)
Replace the SUID_DUMP_DISABLE/USER/ROOT preprocessor constants with enum task_dumpable. Numeric values are preserved (kernel.suid_dumpable sysctl and prctl(PR_SET_DUMPABLE) ABI), so this is a pure rename with no behavioral change. Subsequent commits relocate dumpability onto a per-task structure where the enum type will allow stronger type-checking on the new API. Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (arm) <david@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260520-work-task_exec_state-v3-1-69f895bc1385@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-04-13Merge tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.pidfs' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull clone and pidfs updates from Christian Brauner: "Add three new clone3() flags for pidfd-based process lifecycle management. CLONE_AUTOREAP: CLONE_AUTOREAP makes a child process auto-reap on exit without ever becoming a zombie. This is a per-process property in contrast to the existing auto-reap mechanism via SA_NOCLDWAIT or SIG_IGN for SIGCHLD which applies to all children of a given parent. Currently the only way to automatically reap children is to set SA_NOCLDWAIT or SIG_IGN on SIGCHLD. This is a parent-scoped property affecting all children which makes it unsuitable for libraries or applications that need selective auto-reaping of specific children while still being able to wait() on others. CLONE_AUTOREAP stores an autoreap flag in the child's signal_struct. When the child exits do_notify_parent() checks this flag and causes exit_notify() to transition the task directly to EXIT_DEAD. Since the flag lives on the child it survives reparenting: if the original parent exits and the child is reparented to a subreaper or init the child still auto-reaps when it eventually exits. This is cleaner than forcing the subreaper to get SIGCHLD and then reaping it. If the parent doesn't care the subreaper won't care. If there's a subreaper that would care it would be easy enough to add a prctl() that either just turns back on SIGCHLD and turns off auto-reaping or a prctl() that just notifies the subreaper whenever a child is reparented to it. CLONE_AUTOREAP can be combined with CLONE_PIDFD to allow the parent to monitor the child's exit via poll() and retrieve exit status via PIDFD_GET_INFO. Without CLONE_PIDFD it provides a fire-and-forget pattern. No exit signal is delivered so exit_signal must be zero. CLONE_THREAD and CLONE_PARENT are rejected: CLONE_THREAD because autoreap is a process-level property, and CLONE_PARENT because an autoreap child reparented via CLONE_PARENT could become an invisible zombie under a parent that never calls wait(). The flag is not inherited by the autoreap process's own children. Each child that should be autoreaped must be explicitly created with CLONE_AUTOREAP. CLONE_NNP: CLONE_NNP sets no_new_privs on the child at clone time. Unlike prctl(PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS) which a process sets on itself, CLONE_NNP allows the parent to impose no_new_privs on the child at creation without affecting the parent's own privileges. CLONE_THREAD is rejected because threads share credentials. CLONE_NNP is useful on its own for any spawn-and-sandbox pattern but was specifically introduced to enable unprivileged usage of CLONE_PIDFD_AUTOKILL. CLONE_PIDFD_AUTOKILL: This flag ties a child's lifetime to the pidfd returned from clone3(). When the last reference to the struct file created by clone3() is closed the kernel sends SIGKILL to the child. A pidfd obtained via pidfd_open() for the same process does not keep the child alive and does not trigger autokill - only the specific struct file from clone3() has this property. This is useful for container runtimes, service managers, and sandboxed subprocess execution - any scenario where the child must die if the parent crashes or abandons the pidfd or just wants a throwaway helper process. CLONE_PIDFD_AUTOKILL requires both CLONE_PIDFD and CLONE_AUTOREAP. It requires CLONE_PIDFD because the whole point is tying the child's lifetime to the pidfd. It requires CLONE_AUTOREAP because a killed child with no one to reap it would become a zombie - the primary use case is the parent crashing or abandoning the pidfd so no one is around to call waitpid(). CLONE_THREAD is rejected because autokill targets a process not a thread. If CLONE_NNP is specified together with CLONE_PIDFD_AUTOKILL an unprivileged user may spawn a process that is autokilled. The child cannot escalate privileges via setuid/setgid exec after being spawned. If CLONE_PIDFD_AUTOKILL is specified without CLONE_NNP the caller must have have CAP_SYS_ADMIN in its user namespace" * tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.pidfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: selftests: check pidfd_info->coredump_code correctness pidfds: add coredump_code field to pidfd_info kselftest/coredump: reintroduce null pointer dereference selftests/pidfd: add CLONE_PIDFD_AUTOKILL tests selftests/pidfd: add CLONE_NNP tests selftests/pidfd: add CLONE_AUTOREAP tests pidfd: add CLONE_PIDFD_AUTOKILL clone: add CLONE_NNP clone: add CLONE_AUTOREAP
2026-04-13Merge tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.xattr' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull vfs xattr updates from Christian Brauner: "This reworks the simple_xattr infrastructure and adds support for user.* extended attributes on sockets. The simple_xattr subsystem currently uses an rbtree protected by a reader-writer spinlock. This series replaces the rbtree with an rhashtable giving O(1) average-case lookup with RCU-based lockless reads. This sped up concurrent access patterns on tmpfs quite a bit and it's an overall easy enough conversion to do and gets rid or rwlock_t. The conversion is done incrementally: a new rhashtable path is added alongside the existing rbtree, consumers are migrated one at a time (shmem, kernfs, pidfs), and then the rbtree code is removed. All three consumers switch from embedded structs to pointer-based lazy allocation so the rhashtable overhead is only paid for inodes that actually use xattrs. With this infrastructure in place the series adds support for user.* xattrs on sockets. Path-based AF_UNIX sockets inherit xattr support from the underlying filesystem (e.g. tmpfs) but sockets in sockfs - that is everything created via socket() including abstract namespace AF_UNIX sockets - had no xattr support at all. The xattr_permission() checks are reworked to allow user.* xattrs on S_IFSOCK inodes. Sockfs sockets get per-inode limits of 128 xattrs and 128KB total value size matching the limits already in use for kernfs. The practical motivation comes from several directions. systemd and GNOME are expanding their use of Varlink as an IPC mechanism. For D-Bus there are tools like dbus-monitor that can observe IPC traffic across the system but this only works because D-Bus has a central broker. For Varlink there is no broker and there is currently no way to identify which sockets speak Varlink. With user.* xattrs on sockets a service can label its socket with the IPC protocol it speaks (e.g., user.varlink=1) and an eBPF program can then selectively capture traffic on those sockets. Enumerating bound sockets via netlink combined with these xattr labels gives a way to discover all Varlink IPC entrypoints for debugging and introspection. Similarly, systemd-journald wants to use xattrs on the /dev/log socket for protocol negotiation to indicate whether RFC 5424 structured syslog is supported or whether only the legacy RFC 3164 format should be used. In containers these labels are particularly useful as high-privilege or more complicated solutions for socket identification aren't available. The series comes with comprehensive selftests covering path-based AF_UNIX sockets, sockfs socket operations, per-inode limit enforcement, and xattr operations across multiple address families (AF_INET, AF_INET6, AF_NETLINK, AF_PACKET)" * tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.xattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: selftests/xattr: test xattrs on various socket families selftests/xattr: sockfs socket xattr tests selftests/xattr: path-based AF_UNIX socket xattr tests xattr: support extended attributes on sockets xattr,net: support limited amount of extended attributes on sockfs sockets xattr: move user limits for xattrs to generic infra xattr: switch xattr_permission() to switch statement xattr: add xattr_permission_error() xattr: remove rbtree-based simple_xattr infrastructure pidfs: adapt to rhashtable-based simple_xattrs kernfs: adapt to rhashtable-based simple_xattrs with lazy allocation shmem: adapt to rhashtable-based simple_xattrs with lazy allocation xattr: add rhashtable-based simple_xattr infrastructure xattr: add rcu_head and rhash_head to struct simple_xattr
2026-03-23pidfds: add coredump_code field to pidfd_infoEmanuele Rocca
The struct pidfd_info currently exposes in a field called coredump_signal the signal number (si_signo) that triggered the dump (for example, 11 for SIGSEGV). However, it is also valuable to understand the reason why that signal was sent. This additional context is provided by the signal code (si_code), such as 2 for SEGV_ACCERR. Add a new field to struct pidfd_info called coredump_code with the value of si_code for the benefit of sysadmins who pipe core dumps to user-space programs for later analysis. The following snippet illustrates a simplified C program that consumes coredump_signal and coredump_code, and then logs core dump signals and codes to a file: int pidfd = (int)atoi(argv[1]); struct pidfd_info info = { .mask = PIDFD_INFO_EXIT | PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP, }; if (ioctl(pidfd, PIDFD_GET_INFO, &info) == 0) if (info.mask & PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP) fprintf(f, "PID=%d, si_signo: %d si_code: %d\n", info.pid, info.coredump_signal, info.coredump_code); Assuming the program is installed under /usr/local/bin/core-logger, core dump processing can be enabled by setting /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern to '|/usr/local/bin/dumpstuff %F'. systemd-coredump(8) already uses pidfds to process core dumps, and it could be extended to include the values of coredump_code too. Signed-off-by: Emanuele Rocca <emanuele.rocca@arm.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/acE52HIFivNZN3nE@NH27D9T0LF Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-03-11pidfd: add CLONE_PIDFD_AUTOKILLChristian Brauner
Add a new clone3() flag CLONE_PIDFD_AUTOKILL that ties a child's lifetime to the pidfd returned from clone3(). When the last reference to the struct file created by clone3() is closed the kernel sends SIGKILL to the child. A pidfd obtained via pidfd_open() for the same process does not keep the child alive and does not trigger autokill - only the specific struct file from clone3() has this property. This is useful for container runtimes, service managers, and sandboxed subprocess execution - any scenario where the child must die if the parent crashes or abandons the pidfd. CLONE_PIDFD_AUTOKILL requires both CLONE_PIDFD (the whole point is tying lifetime to the pidfd file) and CLONE_AUTOREAP (a killed child with no one to reap it would become a zombie). CLONE_THREAD is rejected because autokill targets a process not a thread. The clone3 pidfd is identified by the PIDFD_AUTOKILL file flag set on the struct file at clone3() time. The pidfs .release handler checks this flag and sends SIGKILL via do_send_sig_info(SIGKILL, SEND_SIG_PRIV, ...) only when it is set. Files from pidfd_open() or open_by_handle_at() are distinct struct files that do not carry this flag. dup()/fork() share the same struct file so they extend the child's lifetime until the last reference drops. CLONE_PIDFD_AUTOKILL uses a privilege model based on CLONE_NNP: without CLONE_NNP the child could escalate privileges via setuid/setgid exec after being spawned, so the caller must have CAP_SYS_ADMIN in its user namespace. With CLONE_NNP the child can never gain new privileges so unprivileged usage is allowed. This is a deliberate departure from the pdeath_signal model which is reset during secureexec and commit_creds() rendering it useless for container runtimes that need to deprivilege themselves. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260226-work-pidfs-autoreap-v5-3-d148b984a989@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-03-02pidfs: adapt to rhashtable-based simple_xattrsChristian Brauner
Adapt pidfs to use the rhashtable-based xattr path by switching from a dedicated slab cache to simple_xattrs_alloc(). Previously pidfs used a custom kmem_cache (pidfs_xattr_cachep) that allocated a struct containing an embedded simple_xattrs plus simple_xattrs_init(). Replace this with simple_xattrs_alloc() which combines kzalloc + rhashtable_init, and drop the dedicated slab cache entirely. Use simple_xattr_free_rcu() for replaced xattr entries to allow concurrent RCU readers to finish. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260216-work-xattr-socket-v1-5-c2efa4f74cb7@kernel.org Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-02-25Merge tag 'vfs-7.0-rc2.fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull vfs fixes from Christian Brauner: - Fix an uninitialized variable in file_getattr(). The flags_valid field wasn't initialized before calling vfs_fileattr_get(), triggering KMSAN uninit-value reports in fuse - Fix writeback wakeup and logging timeouts when DETECT_HUNG_TASK is not enabled. sysctl_hung_task_timeout_secs is 0 in that case causing spurious "waiting for writeback completion for more than 1 seconds" warnings - Fix a null-ptr-deref in do_statmount() when the mount is internal - Add missing kernel-doc description for the @private parameter in iomap_readahead() - Fix mount namespace creation to hold namespace_sem across the mount copy in create_new_namespace(). The previous drop-and-reacquire pattern was fragile and failed to clean up mount propagation links if the real rootfs was a shared or dependent mount - Fix /proc mount iteration where m->index wasn't updated when m->show() overflows, causing a restart to repeatedly show the same mount entry in a rapidly expanding mount table - Return EFSCORRUPTED instead of ENOSPC in minix_new_inode() when the inode number is out of range - Fix unshare(2) when CLONE_NEWNS is set and current->fs isn't shared. copy_mnt_ns() received the live fs_struct so if a subsequent namespace creation failed the rollback would leave pwd and root pointing to detached mounts. Always allocate a new fs_struct when CLONE_NEWNS is requested - fserror bug fixes: - Remove the unused fsnotify_sb_error() helper now that all callers have been converted to fserror_report_metadata - Fix a lockdep splat in fserror_report() where igrab() takes inode::i_lock which can be held in IRQ context. Replace igrab() with a direct i_count bump since filesystems should not report inodes that are about to be freed or not yet exposed - Handle error pointer in procfs for try_lookup_noperm() - Fix an integer overflow in ep_loop_check_proc() where recursive calls returning INT_MAX would overflow when +1 is added, breaking the recursion depth check - Fix a misleading break in pidfs * tag 'vfs-7.0-rc2.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: pidfs: avoid misleading break eventpoll: Fix integer overflow in ep_loop_check_proc() proc: Fix pointer error dereference fserror: fix lockdep complaint when igrabbing inode fsnotify: drop unused helper unshare: fix unshare_fs() handling minix: Correct errno in minix_new_inode namespace: fix proc mount iteration mount: hold namespace_sem across copy in create_new_namespace() iomap: Describe @private in iomap_readahead() statmount: Fix the null-ptr-deref in do_statmount() writeback: Fix wakeup and logging timeouts for !DETECT_HUNG_TASK fs: init flags_valid before calling vfs_fileattr_get
2026-02-24pidfs: avoid misleading breakChristian Brauner
The break would only break out of the scoped_guard() loop, not the switch statement. It still works correct as is ofc but let's avoid the confusion. Reported-by: David Lechner <dlechner@baylibre.com> Link:: https://lore.kernel.org/cd2153f1-098b-463c-bbc1-5c6ca9ef1f12@baylibre.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-02-16Merge tag 'vfs-7.0-rc1.misc.2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull more misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner: "Features: - Optimize close_range() from O(range size) to O(active FDs) by using find_next_bit() on the open_fds bitmap instead of linearly scanning the entire requested range. This is a significant improvement for large-range close operations on sparse file descriptor tables. - Add FS_XFLAG_VERITY file attribute for fs-verity files, retrievable via FS_IOC_FSGETXATTR and file_getattr(). The flag is read-only. Add tracepoints for fs-verity enable and verify operations, replacing the previously removed debug printk's. - Prevent nfsd from exporting special kernel filesystems like pidfs and nsfs. These filesystems have custom ->open() and ->permission() export methods that are designed for open_by_handle_at(2) only and are incompatible with nfsd. Update the exportfs documentation accordingly. Fixes: - Fix KMSAN uninit-value in ovl_fill_real() where strcmp() was used on a non-null-terminated decrypted directory entry name from fscrypt. This triggered on encrypted lower layers when the decrypted name buffer contained uninitialized tail data. The fix also adds VFS-level name_is_dot(), name_is_dotdot(), and name_is_dot_dotdot() helpers, replacing various open-coded "." and ".." checks across the tree. - Fix read-only fsflags not being reset together with xflags in vfs_fileattr_set(). Currently harmless since no read-only xflags overlap with flags, but this would cause inconsistencies for any future shared read-only flag - Return -EREMOTE instead of -ESRCH from PIDFD_GET_INFO when the target process is in a different pid namespace. This lets userspace distinguish "process exited" from "process in another namespace", matching glibc's pidfd_getpid() behavior Cleanups: - Use C-string literals in the Rust seq_file bindings, replacing the kernel::c_str!() macro (available since Rust 1.77) - Fix typo in d_walk_ret enum comment, add porting notes for the readlink_copy() calling convention change" * tag 'vfs-7.0-rc1.misc.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: fs: add porting notes about readlink_copy() pidfs: return -EREMOTE when PIDFD_GET_INFO is called on another ns nfsd: do not allow exporting of special kernel filesystems exportfs: clarify the documentation of open()/permission() expotrfs ops fsverity: add tracepoints fs: add FS_XFLAG_VERITY for fs-verity files rust: seq_file: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings fs: dcache: fix typo in enum d_walk_ret comment ovl: use name_is_dot* helpers in readdir code fs: add helpers name_is_dot{,dot,_dotdot} ovl: Fix uninit-value in ovl_fill_real fs: reset read-only fsflags together with xflags fs/file: optimize close_range() complexity from O(N) to O(Sparse)
2026-02-16Merge tag 'kernel-7.0-rc1.misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull pidfs updates from Christian Brauner: - pid: introduce task_ppid_vnr() helper - pidfs: convert rb-tree to rhashtable Mateusz reported performance penalties during task creation because pidfs uses pidmap_lock to add elements into the rbtree. Switch to an rhashtable to have separate fine-grained locking and to decouple from pidmap_lock moving all heavy manipulations outside of it Also move inode allocation outside of pidmap_lock. With this there's nothing happening for pidfs under pidmap_lock - pid: reorder fields in pid_namespace to reduce false sharing - Revert "pid: make __task_pid_nr_ns(ns => NULL) safe for zombie callers" - ipc: Add SPDX license id to mqueue.c * tag 'kernel-7.0-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: pid: introduce task_ppid_vnr() helper pidfs: implement ino allocation without the pidmap lock Revert "pid: make __task_pid_nr_ns(ns => NULL) safe for zombie callers" pid: reorder fields in pid_namespace to reduce false sharing pidfs: convert rb-tree to rhashtable ipc: Add SPDX license id to mqueue.c
2026-02-10pid: introduce task_ppid_vnr() helperOleg Nesterov
Cosmetic change. Unlike all other similar helpers task_ppid_nr_ns() doesn't have a _vnr() version; add one for consistency. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251015123633.GB9456@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-02-10pidfs: implement ino allocation without the pidmap lockMateusz Guzik
This paves the way for scalable PID allocation later. The 32 bit variant merely takes a spinlock for simplicity, the 64 bit variant uses a scalable scheme. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260120184539.1480930-1-mjguzik@gmail.com Co-developed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-02-10pidfs: convert rb-tree to rhashtableChristian Brauner
Mateusz reported performance penalties [1] during task creation because pidfs uses pidmap_lock to add elements into the rbtree. Switch to an rhashtable to have separate fine-grained locking and to decouple from pidmap_lock moving all heavy manipulations outside of it. Convert the pidfs inode-to-pid mapping from an rb-tree with seqcount protection to an rhashtable. This removes the global pidmap_lock contention from pidfs_ino_get_pid() lookups and allows the hashtable insert to happen outside the pidmap_lock. pidfs_add_pid() is split. pidfs_prepare_pid() allocates inode number and initializes pid fields and is called inside pidmap_lock. pidfs_add_pid() inserts pid into rhashtable and is called outside pidmap_lock. Insertion into the rhashtable can fail and memory allocation may happen so we need to drop the spinlock. To guard against accidently opening an already reaped task pidfs_ino_get_pid() uses additional checks beyond pid_vnr(). If pid->attr is PIDFS_PID_DEAD or NULL the pid either never had a pidfd or it already went through pidfs_exit() aka the process as already reaped. If pid->attr is valid check PIDFS_ATTR_BIT_EXIT to figure out whether the task has exited. This slightly changes visibility semantics: pidfd creation is denied after pidfs_exit() runs, which is just before the pid number is removed from the via free_pid(). That should not be an issue though. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251206131955.780557-1-mjguzik@gmail.com [1] Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260120-work-pidfs-rhashtable-v2-1-d593c4d0f576@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-02-02pidfs: return -EREMOTE when PIDFD_GET_INFO is called on another nsLuca Boccassi
Currently it is not possible to distinguish between the case where a process has already exited and the case where a process is in a different namespace, as both return -ESRCH. glibc's pidfd_getpid() procfs-based implementation returns -EREMOTE in the latter, so that distinguishing the two is possible, as the fdinfo in procfs will list '0' as the PID in that case: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pidfd_getpid.c;h=860829cf07da2267484299ccb02861822c0d07b4;hb=HEAD#l121 Change the error code so that the kernel also returns -EREMOTE in that case. Fixes: 7477d7dce48a ("pidfs: allow to retrieve exit information") Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260127225209.2293342-1-luca.boccassi@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-01-06pidfs: protect PIDFD_GET_* ioctls() via ifdefChristian Brauner
We originally protected PIDFD_GET_<ns-type>_NAMESPACE ioctls() through ifdefs and recent rework made it possible to drop them. There was an oversight though. When the relevant namespace is turned off ns->ops will be NULL so even though opening a file descriptor is perfectly legitimate it would fail during inode eviction when the file was closed. The simple fix would be to check ns->ops for NULL and continue allow to retrieve namespace fds from pidfds but we don't allow retrieving them when the relevant namespace type is turned off. So keep the simplification but add the ifdefs back in. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251222214907.GA189632@quark Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251224-ununterbrochen-gagen-ea949b83f8f2@brauner Fixes: a71e4f103aed ("pidfs: simplify PIDFD_GET_<type>_NAMESPACE ioctls") Tested-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@kernel.org> Tested-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Reported-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-12-01Merge tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.coredump' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull pidfd and coredump updates from Christian Brauner: "Features: - Expose coredump signal via pidfd Expose the signal that caused the coredump through the pidfd interface. The recent changes to rework coredump handling to rely on unix sockets are in the process of being used in systemd. The previous systemd coredump container interface requires the coredump file descriptor and basic information including the signal number to be sent to the container. This means the signal number needs to be available before sending the coredump to the container. - Add supported_mask field to pidfd Add a new supported_mask field to struct pidfd_info that indicates which information fields are supported by the running kernel. This allows userspace to detect feature availability without relying on error codes or kernel version checks. Cleanups: - Drop struct pidfs_exit_info and prepare to drop exit_info pointer, simplifying the internal publication mechanism for exit and coredump information retrievable via the pidfd ioctl - Use guard() for task_lock in pidfs - Reduce wait_pidfd lock scope - Add missing PIDFD_INFO_SIZE_VER1 constant - Add missing BUILD_BUG_ON() assert on struct pidfd_info Fixes: - Fix PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP handling Selftests: - Split out coredump socket tests and common helpers into separate files for better organization - Fix userspace coredump client detection issues - Handle edge-triggered epoll correctly - Ignore ENOSPC errors in tests - Add debug logging to coredump socket tests, socket protocol tests, and test helpers - Add tests for PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP_SIGNAL - Add tests for supported_mask field - Update pidfd header for selftests" * tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.coredump' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (23 commits) pidfs: reduce wait_pidfd lock scope selftests/coredump: add second PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP_SIGNAL test selftests/coredump: add first PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP_SIGNAL test selftests/coredump: ignore ENOSPC errors selftests/coredump: add debug logging to coredump socket protocol tests selftests/coredump: add debug logging to coredump socket tests selftests/coredump: add debug logging to test helpers selftests/coredump: handle edge-triggered epoll correctly selftests/coredump: fix userspace coredump client detection selftests/coredump: fix userspace client detection selftests/coredump: split out coredump socket tests selftests/coredump: split out common helpers selftests/pidfd: add second supported_mask test selftests/pidfd: add first supported_mask test selftests/pidfd: update pidfd header pidfs: expose coredump signal pidfs: drop struct pidfs_exit_info pidfs: prepare to drop exit_info pointer pidfd: add a new supported_mask field pidfs: add missing BUILD_BUG_ON() assert on struct pidfd_info ...
2025-11-17pidfs: simplify PIDFD_GET_<type>_NAMESPACE ioctlsChristian Brauner
We have reworked namespaces sufficiently that all this special-casing shouldn't be needed anymore Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251117-eidesstattlich-apotheke-36d2e644079f@brauner Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-05pidfs: reduce wait_pidfd lock scopeChristian Brauner
There's no need to hold the lock after we realized that pid->attr is set. We're holding a reference to struct pid so it won't go away and pidfs_exit() is called once per struct pid. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251105-work-pidfs-wait_pidfd-lock-v1-1-02638783be07@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-10-31pidfs: raise DCACHE_DONTCACHE explicitlyChristian Brauner
While pidfs dentries are never hashed and thus retain_dentry() will never consider them for placing them on the LRU it isn't great to always have to go and remember that. Raise DCACHE_DONTCACHE explicitly as a visual marker that dentries aren't kept but freed immediately instead. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251029-work-namespace-nstree-listns-v4-4-2e6f823ebdc0@kernel.org Tested-by: syzbot@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-10-30pidfs: expose coredump signalChristian Brauner
Userspace needs access to the signal that caused the coredump before the coredumping process has been reaped. Expose it as part of the coredump information in struct pidfd_info. After the process has been reaped that info is also available as part of PIDFD_INFO_EXIT's exit_code field. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251028-work-coredump-signal-v1-8-ca449b7b7aa0@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-10-30pidfs: drop struct pidfs_exit_infoChristian Brauner
This is not needed anymore now that we have the new scheme to guarantee all-or-nothing information exposure. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251028-work-coredump-signal-v1-7-ca449b7b7aa0@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-10-30pidfs: prepare to drop exit_info pointerChristian Brauner
There will likely be more info that we need to store in struct pidfs_attr. We need to make sure that some of the information such as exit info or coredump info that consists of multiple bits is either available completely or not at all, but never partially. Currently we use a pointer that we assign to. That doesn't scale. We can't waste a pointer for each mulit-part information struct we want to expose. Use a bitmask instead. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251028-work-coredump-signal-v1-6-ca449b7b7aa0@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-10-30pidfd: add a new supported_mask fieldChristian Brauner
Some of the future fields in struct pidfd_info can be optional. If the kernel has nothing to emit in that field, then it doesn't set the flag in the reply. This presents a problem: There is currently no way to know what mask flags the kernel supports since one can't always count on them being in the reply. Add a new PIDFD_INFO_SUPPORTED_MASK flag and field that the kernel can set in the reply. Userspace can use this to determine if the fields it requires from the kernel are supported. This also gives us a way to deprecate fields in the future, if that should become necessary. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251028-work-coredump-signal-v1-5-ca449b7b7aa0@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-10-30pidfs: add missing BUILD_BUG_ON() assert on struct pidfd_infoChristian Brauner
Validate that the size of struct pidfd_info is correctly updated. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251028-work-coredump-signal-v1-4-ca449b7b7aa0@kernel.org Fixes: 1d8db6fd698d ("pidfs, coredump: add PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP") Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-10-30pidfs: fix PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP handlingChristian Brauner
When PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP is requested we raise it unconditionally in the returned mask even if no coredump actually did take place. This was done because we assumed that the later check whether ->coredump_mask as non-zero detects that it is zero and then retrieves the dumpability settings from the task's mm. This has issues though becuase there are tasks that might not have any mm. Also it's just not very cleanly implemented. Fix this. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251028-work-coredump-signal-v1-2-ca449b7b7aa0@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-10-30pidfs: use guard() for task_lockChristian Brauner
Use a guard(). Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251028-work-coredump-signal-v1-1-ca449b7b7aa0@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-10-03Merge tag 'pull-f_path' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull file->f_path constification from Al Viro: "Only one thing was modifying ->f_path of an opened file - acct(2). Massaging that away and constifying a bunch of struct path * arguments in functions that might be given &file->f_path ends up with the situation where we can turn ->f_path into an anon union of const struct path f_path and struct path __f_path, the latter modified only in a few places in fs/{file_table,open,namei}.c, all for struct file instances that are yet to be opened" * tag 'pull-f_path' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (23 commits) Have cc(1) catch attempts to modify ->f_path kernel/acct.c: saner struct file treatment configfs:get_target() - release path as soon as we grab configfs_item reference apparmor/af_unix: constify struct path * arguments ovl_is_real_file: constify realpath argument ovl_sync_file(): constify path argument ovl_lower_dir(): constify path argument ovl_get_verity_digest(): constify path argument ovl_validate_verity(): constify {meta,data}path arguments ovl_ensure_verity_loaded(): constify datapath argument ksmbd_vfs_set_init_posix_acl(): constify path argument ksmbd_vfs_inherit_posix_acl(): constify path argument ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_unlock(): constify path argument ksmbd_vfs_path_lookup_locked(): root_share_path can be const struct path * check_export(): constify path argument export_operations->open(): constify path argument rqst_exp_get_by_name(): constify path argument nfs: constify path argument of __vfs_getattr() bpf...d_path(): constify path argument done_path_create(): constify path argument ...
2025-10-02Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from Kairui Song improves performance and reduces the failure rate of swap cluster allocation - "support large align and nid in Rust allocators" from Vitaly Wool permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large alignment when perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs - "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from Yueyang Pan extend DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets for virtual address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters - "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock" from Suren Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of /proc/pid/maps - "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache checking" from Kairui Song performs some cleanup in the swap code - "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David Hildenbrand provides code cleanup in the pagemap code - "add persistent huge zero folio support" from Pankaj Raghav provides a block layer speedup by optionalls making the huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount falls to zero - "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a few touchups to the recently added Kexec Handover feature - "mm: make mm->flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all arches" from Lorenzo Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To end the constant struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with 64-bit's needs - "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li cleans up some swap code - "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip unsupported tests" from Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests code - "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised" from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes to opt-out of THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other workloads on the system". It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations - "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox gets us started on the memdesc project. Please see https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc - "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from Chi Zhiling improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path - "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi Yan improves our folio splitting selftest code - "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang adds some rmap selftests - "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig removes that function and converts its two remaining callers - "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain fixes some UFFD selftests issues - "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris Burkov introduces the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these permits btrfs to account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather than to the cgroups of random inappropriate tasks - "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some pageblock handling" from Wei Yang provides some readability improvements to the page allocator code - "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae Park teaches DAMON to understand arm32 highmem - "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for vma/maple tests" from Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and deduplication under tools/testing/ - "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from Liam Howlett fixes a couple of 32-bit issues in tools/testing/radix-tree.c - "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN arch-specific initialization code into a common arch-neutral implementation - "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes zspool - an indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing (zsmalloc) - "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from Pasha Tatashin makes a couple of cleanups in the fork code - "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand makes rather a lot of adjustments at various nth_page() callsites, eventually permitting the removal of that undesirable helper function - "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from Yeoreum Yun creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that architecture's memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode KASAN is suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only - "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation" from Kefeng Wang does some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code - "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer parameters" from Max Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API functions more accurate about the constness of their arguments. This was getting in the way of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they attempt to improving their own const/non-const accuracy - "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola fixes a number of code sites which were confused over when to use free_pages() vs __free_pages() - "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice Ryhl makes the mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau and by its forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver - "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test: split_pte_mapped_thp improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and some cleanups to the thp selftesting code - "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache (phase I)" from Chris Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the path to implementing "swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation and state tracking which is expected to yield speed and space improvements. This patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit in some situations - "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes the new memdesc layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from Chunyu Hu fixes some issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code - "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from Suren Baghdasaryan addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new memory allocation profiling feature - "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few cleanups in preparation for more memdesc work - "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" from Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in furtherance of supporting arm highmem - "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix warnings" from Muhammad Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code and fixes the fallout, by removing dead code - "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM Reaper Traversal Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements in the OOM killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim threads so they can release resources - "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18" from SeongJae Park is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON - "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization check function" from SeongJae Park implement reliability and maintainability improvements to a recently-added bug fix - "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and non-idle ages" from SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to userspace clients of the DAMON_STAT information - "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse" from Dev Jain removes some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of anon VMAs. It also increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against an anon vma - "mm: do not assume file == vma->vm_file in compat_vma_mmap_prepare()" from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards removal of file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon clearing up the treatment of stacked filesystems - "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from Kiryl Shutsemau provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking of large folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate - "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters during fork" from Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats inaccuracies across forks and adds selftest code to verify these counters - "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei Yang addresses some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's mm_slot handling * tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (372 commits) mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA mm: convert folio_page() back to a macro mm/khugepaged: use start_addr/addr for improved readability hugetlbfs: skip VMAs without shareable locks in hugetlb_vmdelete_list alloc_tag: fix boot failure due to NULL pointer dereference mm: silence data-race in update_hiwater_rss mm/memory-failure: don't select MEMORY_ISOLATION mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot mm/ksm: get mm_slot by mm_slot_entry() when slot is !NULL hugetlb: increase number of reserving hugepages via cmdline selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging_pages counter mm/ksm: fix incorrect KSM counter handling in mm_struct during fork drivers/base/node: fix double free in register_one_node() mm: remove PMD alignment constraint in execmem_vmalloc() mm/memory_hotplug: fix typo 'esecially' -> 'especially' mm/rmap: improve mlock tracking for large folios mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault() mm/rmap: mlock large folios in try_to_unmap_one() mm/rmap: fix a mlock race condition in folio_referenced_one() ...
2025-09-29Merge tag 'namespace-6.18-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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 ...
2025-09-29Merge tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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 ...
2025-09-19Merge branch 'no-rebase-mnt_ns_tree_remove'Christian Brauner
Bring in the fix for removing a mount namespace from the mount namespace rbtree and list. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-15export_operations->open(): constify path argumentAl Viro
for the method and its sole instance... Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2025-09-15fs: rename generic_delete_inode() and generic_drop_inode()Mateusz Guzik
generic_delete_inode() is rather misleading for what the routine is doing. inode_just_drop() should be much clearer. The new naming is inconsistent with generic_drop_inode(), so rename that one as well with inode_ as the suffix. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-15pidfs: validate extensible ioctlsChristian Brauner
Validate extensible ioctls stricter than we do now. Reviewed-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-13mm: update coredump logic to correctly use bitmap mm flagsLorenzo Stoakes
The coredump logic is slightly different from other users in that it both stores mm flags and additionally sets and gets using masks. Since the MMF_DUMPABLE_* flags must remain as they are for uABI reasons, and of course these are within the first 32-bits of the flags, it is reasonable to provide access to these in the same fashion so this logic can all still keep working as it has been. Therefore, introduce coredump-specific helpers __mm_flags_get_dumpable() and __mm_flags_set_mask_dumpable() for this purpose, and update all core dump users of mm flags to use these. [lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com: abstract set_mask_bits() invocation to mm_types.h to satisfy ARC] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0e7ad263-1ff7-446d-81fe-97cff9c0e7ed@lucifer.local Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2a5075f7e3c5b367d988178c79a3063d12ee53a9.1755012943.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Cc: Marc Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Namhyung kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-08-15pidfs: Fix memory leak in pidfd_info()Adrian Huang (Lenovo)
After running the program 'ioctl_pidfd03' of Linux Test Project (LTP) or the program 'pidfd_info_test' in 'tools/testing/selftests/pidfd' of the kernel source, kmemleak reports the following memory leaks: # cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak unreferenced object 0xff110020e5988000 (size 8216): comm "ioctl_pidfd03", pid 10853, jiffies 4294800031 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 02 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .@.............. 00 00 00 00 af 01 00 00 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace (crc 69483047): kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x2fb/0x410 copy_process+0x178/0x1740 kernel_clone+0x99/0x3b0 __do_sys_clone3+0xbe/0x100 do_syscall_64+0x7b/0x2c0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e ... unreferenced object 0xff11002097b70000 (size 8216): comm "pidfd_info_test", pid 11840, jiffies 4294889165 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 06 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .@.............. 00 00 00 00 b5 00 00 00 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace (crc a6286bb7): kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0x2fb/0x410 copy_process+0x178/0x1740 kernel_clone+0x99/0x3b0 __do_sys_clone3+0xbe/0x100 do_syscall_64+0x7b/0x2c0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e ... The leak occurs because pidfd_info() obtains a task_struct via get_pid_task() but never calls put_task_struct() to drop the reference, leaving task->usage unbalanced. Fix the issue by adding '__free(put_task) = NULL' to the local variable 'task', ensuring that put_task_struct() is automatically invoked when the variable goes out of scope. Fixes: 7477d7dce48a ("pidfs: allow to retrieve exit information") Signed-off-by: Adrian Huang (Lenovo) <adrianhuang0701@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250814094453.15232-1-adrianhuang0701@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-07-28Merge tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.pidfs' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull pidfs updates from Christian Brauner: - persistent info Persist exit and coredump information independent of whether anyone currently holds a pidfd for the struct pid. The current scheme allocated pidfs dentries on-demand repeatedly. This scheme is reaching it's limits as it makes it impossible to pin information that needs to be available after the task has exited or coredumped and that should not be lost simply because the pidfd got closed temporarily. The next opener should still see the stashed information. This is also a prerequisite for supporting extended attributes on pidfds to allow attaching meta information to them. If someone opens a pidfd for a struct pid a pidfs dentry is allocated and stashed in pid->stashed. Once the last pidfd for the struct pid is closed the pidfs dentry is released and removed from pid->stashed. So if 10 callers create a pidfs dentry for the same struct pid sequentially, i.e., each closing the pidfd before the other creates a new one then a new pidfs dentry is allocated every time. Because multiple tasks acquiring and releasing a pidfd for the same struct pid can race with each another a task may still find a valid pidfs entry from the previous task in pid->stashed and reuse it. Or it might find a dead dentry in there and fail to reuse it and so stashes a new pidfs dentry. Multiple tasks may race to stash a new pidfs dentry but only one will succeed, the other ones will put their dentry. The current scheme aims to ensure that a pidfs dentry for a struct pid can only be created if the task is still alive or if a pidfs dentry already existed before the task was reaped and so exit information has been was stashed in the pidfs inode. That's great except that it's buggy. If a pidfs dentry is stashed in pid->stashed after pidfs_exit() but before __unhash_process() is called we will return a pidfd for a reaped task without exit information being available. The pidfds_pid_valid() check does not guard against this race as it doens't sync at all with pidfs_exit(). The pid_has_task() check might be successful simply because we're before __unhash_process() but after pidfs_exit(). Introduce a new scheme where the lifetime of information associated with a pidfs entry (coredump and exit information) isn't bound to the lifetime of the pidfs inode but the struct pid itself. The first time a pidfs dentry is allocated for a struct pid a struct pidfs_attr will be allocated which will be used to store exit and coredump information. If all pidfs for the pidfs dentry are closed the dentry and inode can be cleaned up but the struct pidfs_attr will stick until the struct pid itself is freed. This will ensure minimal memory usage while persisting relevant information. The new scheme has various advantages. First, it allows to close the race where we end up handing out a pidfd for a reaped task for which no exit information is available. Second, it minimizes memory usage. Third, it allows to remove complex lifetime tracking via dentries when registering a struct pid with pidfs. There's no need to get or put a reference. Instead, the lifetime of exit and coredump information associated with a struct pid is bound to the lifetime of struct pid itself. - extended attributes Now that we have a way to persist information for pidfs dentries we can start supporting extended attributes on pidfds. This will allow userspace to attach meta information to tasks. One natural extension would be to introduce a custom pidfs.* extended attribute space and allow for the inheritance of extended attributes across fork() and exec(). The first simple scheme will allow privileged userspace to set trusted extended attributes on pidfs inodes. - Allow autonomous pidfs file handles Various filesystems such as pidfs and drm support opening file handles without having to require a file descriptor to identify the filesystem. The filesystem are global single instances and can be trivially identified solely on the information encoded in the file handle. This makes it possible to not have to keep or acquire a sentinal file descriptor just to pass it to open_by_handle_at() to identify the filesystem. That's especially useful when such sentinel file descriptor cannot or should not be acquired. For pidfs this means a file handle can function as full replacement for storing a pid in a file. Instead a file handle can be stored and reopened purely based on the file handle. Such autonomous file handles can be opened with or without specifying a a file descriptor. If no proper file descriptor is used the FD_PIDFS_ROOT sentinel must be passed. This allows us to define further special negative fd sentinels in the future. Userspace can trivially test for support by trying to open the file handle with an invalid file descriptor. - Allow pidfds for reaped tasks with SCM_PIDFD messages This is a logical continuation of the earlier work to create pidfds for reaped tasks through the SO_PEERPIDFD socket option merged in 923ea4d4482b ("Merge patch series "net, pidfs: enable handing out pidfds for reaped sk->sk_peer_pid""). - Two minor fixes: * Fold fs_struct->{lock,seq} into a seqlock * Don't bother with path_{get,put}() in unix_open_file() * tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.pidfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (37 commits) don't bother with path_get()/path_put() in unix_open_file() fold fs_struct->{lock,seq} into a seqlock selftests: net: extend SCM_PIDFD test to cover stale pidfds af_unix: enable handing out pidfds for reaped tasks in SCM_PIDFD af_unix: stash pidfs dentry when needed af_unix/scm: fix whitespace errors af_unix: introduce and use scm_replace_pid() helper af_unix: introduce unix_skb_to_scm helper af_unix: rework unix_maybe_add_creds() to allow sleep selftests/pidfd: decode pidfd file handles withou having to specify an fd fhandle, pidfs: support open_by_handle_at() purely based on file handle uapi/fcntl: add FD_PIDFS_ROOT uapi/fcntl: add FD_INVALID fcntl/pidfd: redefine PIDFD_SELF_THREAD_GROUP uapi/fcntl: mark range as reserved fhandle: reflow get_path_anchor() pidfs: add pidfs_root_path() helper fhandle: rename to get_path_anchor() fhandle: hoist copy_from_user() above get_path_from_fd() fhandle: raise FILEID_IS_DIR in handle_type ...
2025-07-07coredump: fix PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP ioctl checkLaura Brehm
In Commit 1d8db6fd698de1f73b1a7d72aea578fdd18d9a87 ("pidfs, coredump: add PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP"), the following code was added: if (mask & PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP) { kinfo.mask |= PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP; kinfo.coredump_mask = READ_ONCE(pidfs_i(inode)->__pei.coredump_mask); } [...] if (!(kinfo.mask & PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP)) { task_lock(task); if (task->mm) kinfo.coredump_mask = pidfs_coredump_mask(task->mm->flags); task_unlock(task); } The second bit in particular looks off to me - the condition in essence checks whether PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP was **not** requested, and if so fetches the coredump_mask in kinfo, since it's checking !(kinfo.mask & PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP), which is unconditionally set in the earlier hunk. I'm tempted to assume the idea in the second hunk was to calculate the coredump mask if one was requested but fetched in the first hunk, in which case the check should be if ((kinfo.mask & PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP) && !(kinfo.coredump_mask)) which might be more legibly written as if ((mask & PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP) && !(kinfo.coredump_mask)) This could also instead be achieved by changing the first hunk to be: if (mask & PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP) { kinfo.coredump_mask = READ_ONCE(pidfs_i(inode)->__pei.coredump_mask); if (kinfo.coredump_mask) kinfo.mask |= PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP; } and the second hunk to: if ((mask & PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP) && !(kinfo.mask & PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP)) { task_lock(task); if (task->mm) { kinfo.coredump_mask = pidfs_coredump_mask(task->mm->flags); kinfo.mask |= PIDFD_INFO_COREDUMP; } task_unlock(task); } However, when looking at this, the supposition that the second hunk means to cover cases where the coredump info was requested but the first hunk failed to get it starts getting doubtful, so apologies if I'm completely off-base. This patch addresses the issue by fixing the check in the second hunk. Signed-off-by: Laura Brehm <laurabrehm@hey.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250703120244.96908-3-laurabrehm@hey.com Cc: brauner@kernel.org Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-06-24pidfs: add pidfs_root_path() helperChristian Brauner
Allow to return the root of the global pidfs filesystem. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250624-work-pidfs-fhandle-v2-4-d02a04858fe3@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-06-23pidfs: fix pidfs_free_pid()Christian Brauner
Ensure that we handle the case where task creation fails and pid->attr was never accessed at all. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-06-23pidfs: add some CONFIG_DEBUG_VFS assertsChristian Brauner
Allow to catch some obvious bugs. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250618-work-pidfs-persistent-v2-16-98f3456fd552@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-06-23pidfs: support xattrs on pidfdsChristian Brauner
Now that we have a way to persist information for pidfs dentries we can start supporting extended attributes on pidfds. This will allow userspace to attach meta information to tasks. One natural extension would be to introduce a custom pidfs.* extended attribute space and allow for the inheritance of extended attributes across fork() and exec(). The first simple scheme will allow privileged userspace to set trusted extended attributes on pidfs inodes. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250618-work-pidfs-persistent-v2-12-98f3456fd552@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>