procfs: convert to ctime accessor functions

In later patches, we're going to change how the inode's ctime field is
used. Switch to using accessor functions instead of raw accesses of
inode->i_ctime.

procfs: convert to ctime accessor functions

In later patches, we're going to change how the inode's ctime field is
used. Switch to using accessor functions instead of raw accesses of
inode->i_ctime.

Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Message-Id: <20230705190309.579783-65-jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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tty, proc, kernfs, random: Use copy_splice_read()

Use copy_splice_read() for tty, procfs, kernfs and random files rather
than going through generic_file_splice_read() as they just copy the file
into

tty, proc, kernfs, random: Use copy_splice_read()

Use copy_splice_read() for tty, procfs, kernfs and random files rather
than going through generic_file_splice_read() as they just copy the file
into the output buffer and don't splice pages. This avoids the need for
them to have a ->read_folio() to satisfy filemap_splice_read().

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230522135018.2742245-13-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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take care to handle NULL ->proc_lseek()

Easily done now, just by clearing FMODE_LSEEK in ->f_mode
during proc_reg_open() for such entries.

Fixes: 868941b14441 "fs: remove no_llseek"
Signed-off-by:

take care to handle NULL ->proc_lseek()

Easily done now, just by clearing FMODE_LSEEK in ->f_mode
during proc_reg_open() for such entries.

Fixes: 868941b14441 "fs: remove no_llseek"
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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proc: add some (hopefully) insightful comments

* /proc/${pid}/net status
* removing PDE vs last close stuff (again!)
* random small stuff

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YtwrM6sDC0OQ53YB@localhost.

proc: add some (hopefully) insightful comments

* /proc/${pid}/net status
* removing PDE vs last close stuff (again!)
* random small stuff

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YtwrM6sDC0OQ53YB@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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proc: delete unused <linux/uaccess.h> includes

Those aren't necessary after seq files won.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YqnA3mS7KBt8Z4If@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <ado

proc: delete unused <linux/uaccess.h> includes

Those aren't necessary after seq files won.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YqnA3mS7KBt8Z4If@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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fs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()

The inode allocation is supposed to use alloc_inode_sb(), so convert
kmem_cache_alloc() of all filesystems to alloc_inode_sb().

Link: https://lkml.kerne

fs: allocate inode by using alloc_inode_sb()

The inode allocation is supposed to use alloc_inode_sb(), so convert
kmem_cache_alloc() of all filesystems to alloc_inode_sb().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220228122126.37293-5-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> [ext4]
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Cc: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
Cc: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Fam Zheng <fam.zheng@bytedance.com>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kari Argillander <kari.argillander@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Xiongchun Duan <duanxiongchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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fs: proc: store PDE()->data into inode->i_private

PDE_DATA(inode) is introduced to get user private data and hide the
layout of struct proc_dir_entry. The inode->i_private is used to do the
same th

fs: proc: store PDE()->data into inode->i_private

PDE_DATA(inode) is introduced to get user private data and hide the
layout of struct proc_dir_entry. The inode->i_private is used to do the
same thing as well. Save a copy of user private data to inode->
i_private when proc inode is allocated. This means the user also can
get their private data by inode->i_private.

Introduce pde_data() to wrap inode->i_private so that we can remove
PDE_DATA() from fs/proc/generic.c and make PTE_DATE() as a wrapper of
pde_data(). It will be easier if we decide to remove PDE_DATE() in the
future.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211124081956.87711-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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proc: delete redundant subset=pid check

Two checks in lookup and readdir code should be enough to not have third
check in open code.

Can't open what can't be looked up?

Link: https://lkml.kernel.o

proc: delete redundant subset=pid check

Two checks in lookup and readdir code should be enough to not have third
check in open code.

Can't open what can't be looked up?

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YFYYwIBIkytqnkxP@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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proc: mandate ->proc_lseek in "struct proc_ops"

Now that proc_ops are separate from file_operations and other operations
it easy to check all instances to have ->proc_lseek hook and remove check
in

proc: mandate ->proc_lseek in "struct proc_ops"

Now that proc_ops are separate from file_operations and other operations
it easy to check all instances to have ->proc_lseek hook and remove check
in main code.

Note:
nonseekable_open() files naturally don't require ->proc_lseek.

Garbage collect pde_lseek() function.

[adobriyan@gmail.com: smoke test lseek()]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YG4OIhChOrVTPgdN@localhost.localdomain

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YFYX0Bzwxlc7aBa/@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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proc: wire up generic_file_splice_read for iter ops

Wire up generic_file_splice_read for the iter based proxy ops, so
that splice reads from them work.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

proc: wire up generic_file_splice_read for iter ops

Wire up generic_file_splice_read for the iter based proxy ops, so
that splice reads from them work.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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proc: add a read_iter method to proc proc_ops

This will allow proc files to implement iter read semantics.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org

proc: add a read_iter method to proc proc_ops

This will allow proc files to implement iter read semantics.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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proc: cleanup the compat vs no compat file ops

Instead of providing a special no-compat version provide a special
compat version for operations with ->compat_ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig

proc: cleanup the compat vs no compat file ops

Instead of providing a special no-compat version provide a special
compat version for operations with ->compat_ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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proc: remove a level of indentation in proc_get_inode

Just return early on inode allocation failure.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

proc: Use new_inode not new_inode_pseudo

Recently syzbot reported that unmounting proc when there is an ongoing
inotify watch on the root directory of proc could result in a use
after free when the

proc: Use new_inode not new_inode_pseudo

Recently syzbot reported that unmounting proc when there is an ongoing
inotify watch on the root directory of proc could result in a use
after free when the watch is removed after the unmount of proc
when the watcher exits.

Commit 69879c01a0c3 ("proc: Remove the now unnecessary internal mount
of proc") made it easier to unmount proc and allowed syzbot to see the
problem, but looking at the code it has been around for a long time.

Looking at the code the fsnotify watch should have been removed by
fsnotify_sb_delete in generic_shutdown_super. Unfortunately the inode
was allocated with new_inode_pseudo instead of new_inode so the inode
was not on the sb->s_inodes list. Which prevented
fsnotify_unmount_inodes from finding the inode and removing the watch
as well as made it so the "VFS: Busy inodes after unmount" warning
could not find the inodes to warn about them.

Make all of the inodes in proc visible to generic_shutdown_super,
and fsnotify_sb_delete by using new_inode instead of new_inode_pseudo.
The only functional difference is that new_inode places the inodes
on the sb->s_inodes list.

I wrote a small test program and I can verify that without changes it
can trigger this issue, and by replacing new_inode_pseudo with
new_inode the issues goes away.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/000000000000d788c905a7dfa3f4@google.com
Reported-by: syzbot+7d2debdcdb3cb93c1e5e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 0097875bd415 ("proc: Implement /proc/thread-self to point at the directory of the current thread")
Fixes: 021ada7dff22 ("procfs: switch /proc/self away from proc_dir_entry")
Fixes: 51f0885e5415 ("vfs,proc: guarantee unique inodes in /proc")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

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proc: use named enums for better readability

Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org

proc: use named enums for better readability

Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

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proc: use human-readable values for hidepid

The hidepid parameter values are becoming more and more and it becomes
difficult to remember what each new magic number means.

Backward compatibility is

proc: use human-readable values for hidepid

The hidepid parameter values are becoming more and more and it becomes
difficult to remember what each new magic number means.

Backward compatibility is preserved since it is possible to specify
numerical value for the hidepid parameter. This does not break the
fsconfig since it is not possible to specify a numerical value through
it. All numeric values are converted to a string. The type
FSCONFIG_SET_BINARY cannot be used to indicate a numerical value.

Selftest has been added to verify this behavior.

Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

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proc: add option to mount only a pids subset

This allows to hide all files and directories in the procfs that are not
related to tasks.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>
Revi

proc: add option to mount only a pids subset

This allows to hide all files and directories in the procfs that are not
related to tasks.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

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proc: allow to mount many instances of proc in one pid namespace

This patch allows to have multiple procfs instances inside the
same pid namespace. The aim here is lightweight sandboxes, and to allo

proc: allow to mount many instances of proc in one pid namespace

This patch allows to have multiple procfs instances inside the
same pid namespace. The aim here is lightweight sandboxes, and to allow
that we have to modernize procfs internals.

1) The main aim of this work is to have on embedded systems one
supervisor for apps. Right now we have some lightweight sandbox support,
however if we create pid namespacess we have to manages all the
processes inside too, where our goal is to be able to run a bunch of
apps each one inside its own mount namespace without being able to
notice each other. We only want to use mount namespaces, and we want
procfs to behave more like a real mount point.

2) Linux Security Modules have multiple ptrace paths inside some
subsystems, however inside procfs, the implementation does not guarantee
that the ptrace() check which triggers the security_ptrace_check() hook
will always run. We have the 'hidepid' mount option that can be used to
force the ptrace_may_access() check inside has_pid_permissions() to run.
The problem is that 'hidepid' is per pid namespace and not attached to
the mount point, any remount or modification of 'hidepid' will propagate
to all other procfs mounts.

This also does not allow to support Yama LSM easily in desktop and user
sessions. Yama ptrace scope which restricts ptrace and some other
syscalls to be allowed only on inferiors, can be updated to have a
per-task context, where the context will be inherited during fork(),
clone() and preserved across execve(). If we support multiple private
procfs instances, then we may force the ptrace_may_access() on
/proc/<pids>/ to always run inside that new procfs instances. This will
allow to specifiy on user sessions if we should populate procfs with
pids that the user can ptrace or not.

By using Yama ptrace scope, some restricted users will only be able to see
inferiors inside /proc, they won't even be able to see their other
processes. Some software like Chromium, Firefox's crash handler, Wine
and others are already using Yama to restrict which processes can be
ptracable. With this change this will give the possibility to restrict
/proc/<pids>/ but more importantly this will give desktop users a
generic and usuable way to specifiy which users should see all processes
and which users can not.

Side notes:
* This covers the lack of seccomp where it is not able to parse
arguments, it is easy to install a seccomp filter on direct syscalls
that operate on pids, however /proc/<pid>/ is a Linux ABI using
filesystem syscalls. With this change LSMs should be able to analyze
open/read/write/close...

In the new patch set version I removed the 'newinstance' option
as suggested by Eric W. Biederman.

Selftest has been added to verify new behavior.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

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proc: faster open/read/close with "permanent" files

Now that "struct proc_ops" exist we can start putting there stuff which
could not fly with VFS "struct file_operations"...

Most of fs/proc/inode.

proc: faster open/read/close with "permanent" files

Now that "struct proc_ops" exist we can start putting there stuff which
could not fly with VFS "struct file_operations"...

Most of fs/proc/inode.c file is dedicated to make open/read/.../close
reliable in the event of disappearing /proc entries which usually happens
if module is getting removed. Files like /proc/cpuinfo which never
disappear simply do not need such protection.

Save 2 atomic ops, 1 allocation, 1 free per open/read/close sequence for such
"permanent" files.

Enable "permanent" flag for

/proc/cpuinfo
/proc/kmsg
/proc/modules
/proc/slabinfo
/proc/stat
/proc/sysvipc/*
/proc/swaps

More will come once I figure out foolproof way to prevent out module
authors from marking their stuff "permanent" for performance reasons
when it is not.

This should help with scalability: benchmark is "read /proc/cpuinfo R times
by N threads scattered over the system".

N R t, s (before) t, s (after)
-----------------------------------------------------
64 4096 1.582458 1.530502 -3.2%
256 4096 6.371926 6.125168 -3.9%
1024 4096 25.64888 24.47528 -4.6%

Benchmark source:

#include <chrono>
#include <iostream>
#include <thread>
#include <vector>

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>

const int NR_CPUS = sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN);
int N;
const char *filename;
int R;

int xxx = 0;

int glue(int n)
{
cpu_set_t m;
CPU_ZERO(&m);
CPU_SET(n, &m);
return sched_setaffinity(0, sizeof(cpu_set_t), &m);
}

void f(int n)
{
glue(n % NR_CPUS);

while (*(volatile int *)&xxx == 0) {
}

for (int i = 0; i < R; i++) {
int fd = open(filename, O_RDONLY);
char buf[4096];
ssize_t rv = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
asm volatile ("" :: "g" (rv));
close(fd);
}
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
if (argc < 4) {
std::cerr << "usage: " << argv[0] << ' ' << "N /proc/filename R
";
return 1;
}

N = atoi(argv[1]);
filename = argv[2];
R = atoi(argv[3]);

for (int i = 0; i < NR_CPUS; i++) {
if (glue(i) == 0)
break;
}

std::vector<std::thread> T;
T.reserve(N);
for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
T.emplace_back(f, i);
}

auto t0 = std::chrono::system_clock::now();
{
*(volatile int *)&xxx = 1;
for (auto& t: T) {
t.join();
}
}
auto t1 = std::chrono::system_clock::now();
std::chrono::duration<double> dt = t1 - t0;
std::cout << dt.count() << '
';

return 0;
}

P.S.:
Explicit randomization marker is added because adding non-function pointer
will silently disable structure layout randomization.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200222201539.GA22576@avx2
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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fs/proc/inode.c: annotate close_pdeo() for sparse

Fix sparse locking imbalance warning:

warning: context imbalance in close_pdeo() - unexpected unlock

Signed-off-by: Jules Irenge <jbi.octave@gmai

fs/proc/inode.c: annotate close_pdeo() for sparse

Fix sparse locking imbalance warning:

warning: context imbalance in close_pdeo() - unexpected unlock

Signed-off-by: Jules Irenge <jbi.octave@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200227201538.GA30462@avx2
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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proc: Use a list of inodes to flush from proc

Rework the flushing of proc to use a list of directory inodes that
need to be flushed.

The list is kept on struct pid not on struct task_struct, as the

proc: Use a list of inodes to flush from proc

Rework the flushing of proc to use a list of directory inodes that
need to be flushed.

The list is kept on struct pid not on struct task_struct, as there is
a fixed connection between proc inodes and pids but at least for the
case of de_thread the pid of a task_struct changes.

This removes the dependency on proc_mnt which allows for different
mounts of proc having different mount options even in the same pid
namespace and this allows for the removal of proc_mnt which will
trivially the first mount of proc to honor it's mount options.

This flushing remains an optimization. The functions
pid_delete_dentry and pid_revalidate ensure that ordinary dcache
management will not attempt to use dentries past the point their
respective task has died. When unused the shrinker will
eventually be able to remove these dentries.

There is a case in de_thread where proc_flush_pid can be
called early for a given pid. Which winds up being
safe (if suboptimal) as this is just an optiimization.

Only pid directories are put on the list as the other
per pid files are children of those directories and
d_invalidate on the directory will get them as well.

So that the pid can be used during flushing it's reference count is
taken in release_task and dropped in proc_flush_pid. Further the call
of proc_flush_pid is moved after the tasklist_lock is released in
release_task so that it is certain that the pid has already been
unhashed when flushing it taking place. This removes a small race
where a dentry could recreated.

As struct pid is supposed to be small and I need a per pid lock
I reuse the only lock that currently exists in struct pid the
the wait_pidfd.lock.

The net result is that this adds all of this functionality
with just a little extra list management overhead and
a single extra pointer in struct pid.

v2: Initialize pid->inodes. I somehow failed to get that
initialization into the initial version of the patch. A boot
failure was reported by "kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>", and
failure to initialize that pid->inodes matches all of the reported
symptoms.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

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proc: Clear the pieces of proc_inode that proc_evict_inode cares about

This just keeps everything tidier, and allows for using flags like
SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU where slabs are not always cleared befo

proc: Clear the pieces of proc_inode that proc_evict_inode cares about

This just keeps everything tidier, and allows for using flags like
SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU where slabs are not always cleared before reuse.
I don't see reuse without reinitializing happening with the proc_inode
but I had a false alarm while reworking flushing of proc dentries and
indoes when a process dies that caused me to tidy this up.

The code is a little easier to follow and reason about this
way so I figured the changes might as well be kept.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

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proc: Use d_invalidate in proc_prune_siblings_dcache

The function d_prune_aliases has the problem that it will only prune
aliases thare are completely unused. It will not remove aliases for
the dca

proc: Use d_invalidate in proc_prune_siblings_dcache

The function d_prune_aliases has the problem that it will only prune
aliases thare are completely unused. It will not remove aliases for
the dcache or even think of removing mounts from the dcache. For that
behavior d_invalidate is needed.

To use d_invalidate replace d_prune_aliases with d_find_alias followed
by d_invalidate and dput.

For completeness the directory and the non-directory cases are
separated because in theory (although not in currently in practice for
proc) directories can only ever have a single dentry while
non-directories can have hardlinks and thus multiple dentries.
As part of this separation use d_find_any_alias for directories
to spare d_find_alias the extra work of doing that.

Plus the differences between d_find_any_alias and d_find_alias makes
it clear why the directory and non-directory code and not share code.

To make it clear these routines now invalidate dentries rename
proc_prune_siblings_dache to proc_invalidate_siblings_dcache, and rename
proc_sys_prune_dcache proc_sys_invalidate_dcache.

V2: Split the directory and non-directory cases. To make this
code robust to future changes in proc.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

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proc: In proc_prune_siblings_dcache cache an aquired super block

Because there are likely to be several sysctls in a row on the
same superblock cache the super_block after the count has
been raised

proc: In proc_prune_siblings_dcache cache an aquired super block

Because there are likely to be several sysctls in a row on the
same superblock cache the super_block after the count has
been raised and don't deactivate it until we are processing
another super_block.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

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proc: Generalize proc_sys_prune_dcache into proc_prune_siblings_dcache

This prepares the way for allowing the pid part of proc to use this
dcache pruning code as well.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Bieder

proc: Generalize proc_sys_prune_dcache into proc_prune_siblings_dcache

This prepares the way for allowing the pid part of proc to use this
dcache pruning code as well.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

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