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Mickaël Salaün 74ce793bcb
hostfs: Fix ephemeral inodes
hostfs creates a new inode for each opened or created file, which
created useless inode allocations and forbade identifying a host file
with a kernel inode.

Fix this uncommon filesystem behavior by tying kernel inodes to host
file's inode and device IDs.  Even if the host filesystem inodes may be
recycled, this cannot happen while a file referencing it is opened,
which is the case with hostfs.  It should be noted that hostfs inode IDs
may not be unique for the same hostfs superblock because multiple host's
(backed) superblocks may be used.

Delete inodes when dropping them to force backed host's file descriptors
closing.

This enables to entirely remove ARCH_EPHEMERAL_INODES, and then makes
Landlock fully supported by UML.  This is very useful for testing
changes.

These changes also factor out and simplify some helpers thanks to the
new hostfs_inode_update() and the hostfs_iget() revamp: read_name(),
hostfs_create(), hostfs_lookup(), hostfs_mknod(), and
hostfs_fill_sb_common().

A following commit with new Landlock tests check this new hostfs inode
consistency.

Cc: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230612191430.339153-2-mic@digikod.net
Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
2023-06-12 21:26:19 +02:00
arch hostfs: Fix ephemeral inodes 2023-06-12 21:26:19 +02:00
block blk-mq: fix blk_mq_hw_ctx active request accounting 2023-06-03 17:20:00 -06:00
certs KEYS: Add missing function documentation 2023-04-24 16:15:52 +03:00
crypto KEYS: asymmetric: Copy sig and digest in public_key_verify_signature() 2023-06-02 15:36:23 +02:00
Documentation ARM: SoC fixes for 6.4, part 2 2023-06-10 13:01:09 -07:00
drivers Biggest news is that Andi Shyti steps in for maintaining the controller 2023-06-10 13:36:07 -07:00
fs hostfs: Fix ephemeral inodes 2023-06-12 21:26:19 +02:00
include ARM: SoC fixes for 6.4, part 2 2023-06-10 13:01:09 -07:00
init Objtool changes for v6.4: 2023-04-28 14:02:54 -07:00
io_uring io_uring: undeprecate epoll_ctl support 2023-05-26 20:22:41 -06:00
ipc Merge branch 'work.namespace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2023-02-24 19:20:07 -08:00
kernel virtio,vhost,vdpa: bugfixes 2023-06-09 11:04:08 -07:00
lib Networking fixes for 6.4-rc6, including fixes from can, wifi, netfilter, 2023-06-08 09:27:19 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm mm: page_table_check: Ensure user pages are not slab pages 2023-05-29 16:14:28 +01:00
net Networking fixes for 6.4-rc6, including fixes from can, wifi, netfilter, 2023-06-08 09:27:19 -07:00
rust Rust changes for v6.4 2023-04-30 11:20:22 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: Drop unnecessary fallthrough 2023-05-16 19:44:05 +02:00
scripts Locking changes in v6.4: 2023-05-05 12:56:55 -07:00
security hostfs: Fix ephemeral inodes 2023-06-12 21:26:19 +02:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: Enable 4 amplifiers instead of 2 on a HP platform 2023-06-06 17:44:24 +02:00
tools virtio,vhost,vdpa: bugfixes 2023-06-09 11:04:08 -07:00
usr initramfs: Check negative timestamp to prevent broken cpio archive 2023-04-16 17:37:01 +09:00
virt KVM: Fix vcpu_array[0] races 2023-05-19 13:56:26 -04:00
.clang-format cxl for v6.4 2023-04-30 11:51:51 -07:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for *.dtso files 2023-02-26 15:28:23 +09:00
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CREDITS MAINTAINERS: sctp: move Neil to CREDITS 2023-05-12 08:51:32 +01:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Biggest news is that Andi Shyti steps in for maintaining the controller 2023-06-10 13:36:07 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.4-rc6 2023-06-11 14:35:30 -07:00
README

Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.