Merge tag 'v6.6.6' into dev-6.6

This is the 6.6.6 stable release

Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>

fs: Pass AT_GETATTR_NOSEC flag to getattr interface function

[ Upstream commit 8a924db2d7b5eb69ba08b1a0af46e9f1359a9bdf ]

When vfs_getattr_nosec() calls a filesystem's getattr interface function
th

fs: Pass AT_GETATTR_NOSEC flag to getattr interface function

[ Upstream commit 8a924db2d7b5eb69ba08b1a0af46e9f1359a9bdf ]

When vfs_getattr_nosec() calls a filesystem's getattr interface function
then the 'nosec' should propagate into this function so that
vfs_getattr_nosec() can again be called from the filesystem's gettattr
rather than vfs_getattr(). The latter would add unnecessary security
checks that the initial vfs_getattr_nosec() call wanted to avoid.
Therefore, introduce the getattr flag GETATTR_NOSEC and allow to pass
with the new getattr_flags parameter to the getattr interface function.
In overlayfs and ecryptfs use this flag to determine which one of the
two functions to call.

In a recent code change introduced to IMA vfs_getattr_nosec() ended up
calling vfs_getattr() in overlayfs, which in turn called
security_inode_getattr() on an exiting process that did not have
current->fs set anymore, which then caused a kernel NULL pointer
dereference. With this change the call to security_inode_getattr() can
be avoided, thus avoiding the NULL pointer dereference.

Reported-by: <syzbot+a67fc5321ffb4b311c98@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Fixes: db1d1e8b9867 ("IMA: use vfs_getattr_nosec to get the i_version")
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Cc: Tyler Hicks <code@tyhicks.com>
Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Co-developed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231002125733.1251467-1-stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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Merge tag 'kvm-riscv-fixes-6.6-1' of https://github.com/kvm-riscv/linux into HEAD

KVM/riscv fixes for 6.6, take #1

- Fix KVM_GET_REG_LIST API for ISA_EXT registers
- Fix reading ISA_EXT register of

Merge tag 'kvm-riscv-fixes-6.6-1' of https://github.com/kvm-riscv/linux into HEAD

KVM/riscv fixes for 6.6, take #1

- Fix KVM_GET_REG_LIST API for ISA_EXT registers
- Fix reading ISA_EXT register of a missing extension
- Fix ISA_EXT register handling in get-reg-list test
- Fix filtering of AIA registers in get-reg-list test

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Merge tag 'v6.6-rc3.vfs.ctime.revert' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

Pull finegrained timestamp reverts from Christian Brauner:
"Earlier this week we sent a few minor fixe

Merge tag 'v6.6-rc3.vfs.ctime.revert' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

Pull finegrained timestamp reverts from Christian Brauner:
"Earlier this week we sent a few minor fixes for the multi-grained
timestamp work in [1]. While we were polishing those up after Linus
realized that there might be a nicer way to fix them we received a
regression report in [2] that fine grained timestamps break gnulib
tests and thus possibly other tools.

The kernel will elide fine-grain timestamp updates when no one is
actively querying for them to avoid performance impacts. So a sequence
like write(f1) stat(f2) write(f2) stat(f2) write(f1) stat(f1) may
result in timestamp f1 to be older than the final f2 timestamp even
though f1 was last written too but the second write didn't update the
timestamp.

Such plotholes can lead to subtle bugs when programs compare
timestamps. For example, the nap() function in [2] will estimate that
it needs to wait one ns on a fine-grain timestamp enabled filesytem
between subsequent calls to observe a timestamp change. But in general
we don't update timestamps with more than one jiffie if we think that
no one is actively querying for fine-grain timestamps to avoid
performance impacts.

While discussing various fixes the decision was to go back to the
drawing board and ultimately to explore a solution that involves only
exposing such fine-grained timestamps to nfs internally and never to
userspace.

As there are multiple solutions discussed the honest thing to do here
is not to fix this up or disable it but to cleanly revert. The general
infrastructure will probably come back but there is no reason to keep
this code in mainline.

The general changes to timestamp handling are valid and a good cleanup
that will stay. The revert is fully bisectable"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230918-hirte-neuzugang-4c2324e7bae3@brauner [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/bf0524debb976627693e12ad23690094e4514303.camel@linuxfromscratch.org [2]

* tag 'v6.6-rc3.vfs.ctime.revert' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
Revert "fs: add infrastructure for multigrain timestamps"
Revert "btrfs: convert to multigrain timestamps"
Revert "ext4: switch to multigrain timestamps"
Revert "xfs: switch to multigrain timestamps"
Revert "tmpfs: add support for multigrain timestamps"

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Revert "fs: add infrastructure for multigrain timestamps"

This reverts commit ffb6cf19e06334062744b7e3493f71e500964f8e.

Users reported regressions due to enabling multi-grained timestamps
unconditi

Revert "fs: add infrastructure for multigrain timestamps"

This reverts commit ffb6cf19e06334062744b7e3493f71e500964f8e.

Users reported regressions due to enabling multi-grained timestamps
unconditionally. As no clear consensus on a solution has come up and the
discussion has gone back to the drawing board revert the infrastructure
changes for. If it isn't code that's here to stay, make it go away.

Message-ID: <20230920-keine-eile-c9755b5825db@brauner>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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stat: remove no-longer-used helper macros

The choose_32_64() macros were added to deal with an odd inconsistency
between the 32-bit and 64-bit layout of 'struct stat' way back when in
commit a52dd97

stat: remove no-longer-used helper macros

The choose_32_64() macros were added to deal with an odd inconsistency
between the 32-bit and 64-bit layout of 'struct stat' way back when in
commit a52dd971f947 ("vfs: de-crapify "cp_new_stat()" function").

Then a decade later Mikulas noticed that said inconsistency had been a
mistake in the early x86-64 port, and shouldn't have existed in the
first place. So commit 932aba1e1690 ("stat: fix inconsistency between
struct stat and struct compat_stat") removed the uses of the helpers.

But the helpers remained around, unused.

Get rid of them.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes

Forwarding to v6.6-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

vfs: mostly undo glibc turning 'fstat()' into 'fstatat(AT_EMPTY_PATH)'

Mateusz reports that glibc turns 'fstat()' calls into 'fstatat()', and
that seems to have been going on for quite a long time d

vfs: mostly undo glibc turning 'fstat()' into 'fstatat(AT_EMPTY_PATH)'

Mateusz reports that glibc turns 'fstat()' calls into 'fstatat()', and
that seems to have been going on for quite a long time due to glibc
having tried to simplify its stat logic into just one point.

This turns out to cause completely unnecessary overhead, where we then
go off and allocate the kernel side pathname, and actually look up the
empty path. Sure, our path lookup is quite optimized, but it still
causes a fair bit of allocation overhead and a couple of completely
unnecessary rounds of lockref accesses etc.

This is all hopefully getting fixed in user space, and there is a patch
floating around for just having glibc use the native fstat() system
call. But even with the current situation we can at least improve on
things by catching the situation and short-circuiting it.

Note that this is still measurably slower than just a plain 'fstat()',
since just checking that the filename is actually empty is somewhat
expensive due to inevitable user space access overhead from the kernel
(ie verifying pointers, and SMAP on x86). But it's still quite a bit
faster than actually looking up the path for real.

To quote numers from Mateusz:
"Sapphire Rapids, will-it-scale, ops/s

stock fstat 5088199
patched fstat 7625244 (+49%)
real fstat 8540383 (+67% / +12%)"

where that 'stock fstat' is the glibc translation of fstat into
fstatat() with an empty path, the 'patched fstat' is with this short
circuiting of the path lookup, and the 'real fstat' is the actual native
fstat() system call with none of this overhead.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230903204858.lv7i3kqvw6eamhgz@f/
Reported-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Merge tag 'v6.6-vfs.ctime' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

Pull vfs timestamp updates from Christian Brauner:
"This adds VFS support for multi-grain timestamps and converts

Merge tag 'v6.6-vfs.ctime' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

Pull vfs timestamp updates from Christian Brauner:
"This adds VFS support for multi-grain timestamps and converts tmpfs,
xfs, ext4, and btrfs to use them. This carries acks from all relevant
filesystems.

The VFS always uses coarse-grained timestamps when updating the ctime
and mtime after a change. This has the benefit of allowing filesystems
to optimize away a lot of metadata updates, down to around 1 per
jiffy, even when a file is under heavy writes.

Unfortunately, this has always been an issue when we're exporting via
NFSv3, which relies on timestamps to validate caches. A lot of changes
can happen in a jiffy, so timestamps aren't sufficient to help the
client decide to invalidate the cache.

Even with NFSv4, a lot of exported filesystems don't properly support
a change attribute and are subject to the same problems with timestamp
granularity. Other applications have similar issues with timestamps
(e.g., backup applications).

If we were to always use fine-grained timestamps, that would improve
the situation, but that becomes rather expensive, as the underlying
filesystem would have to log a lot more metadata updates.

This introduces fine-grained timestamps that are used when they are
actively queried.

This uses the 31st bit of the ctime tv_nsec field to indicate that
something has queried the inode for the mtime or ctime. When this flag
is set, on the next mtime or ctime update, the kernel will fetch a
fine-grained timestamp instead of the usual coarse-grained one.

As POSIX generally mandates that when the mtime changes, the ctime
must also change the kernel always stores normalized ctime values, so
only the first 30 bits of the tv_nsec field are ever used.

Filesytems can opt into this behavior by setting the FS_MGTIME flag in
the fstype. Filesystems that don't set this flag will continue to use
coarse-grained timestamps.

Various preparatory changes, fixes and cleanups are included:

- Fixup all relevant places where POSIX requires updating ctime
together with mtime. This is a wide-range of places and all
maintainers provided necessary Acks.

- Add new accessors for inode->i_ctime directly and change all
callers to rely on them. Plain accesses to inode->i_ctime are now
gone and it is accordingly rename to inode->__i_ctime and commented
as requiring accessors.

- Extend generic_fillattr() to pass in a request mask mirroring in a
sense the statx() uapi. This allows callers to pass in a request
mask to only get a subset of attributes filled in.

- Rework timestamp updates so it's possible to drop the @now
parameter the update_time() inode operation and associated helpers.

- Add inode_update_timestamps() and convert all filesystems to it
removing a bunch of open-coding"

* tag 'v6.6-vfs.ctime' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (107 commits)
btrfs: convert to multigrain timestamps
ext4: switch to multigrain timestamps
xfs: switch to multigrain timestamps
tmpfs: add support for multigrain timestamps
fs: add infrastructure for multigrain timestamps
fs: drop the timespec64 argument from update_time
xfs: have xfs_vn_update_time gets its own timestamp
fat: make fat_update_time get its own timestamp
fat: remove i_version handling from fat_update_time
ubifs: have ubifs_update_time use inode_update_timestamps
btrfs: have it use inode_update_timestamps
fs: drop the timespec64 arg from generic_update_time
fs: pass the request_mask to generic_fillattr
fs: remove silly warning from current_time
gfs2: fix timestamp handling on quota inodes
fs: rename i_ctime field to __i_ctime
selinux: convert to ctime accessor functions
security: convert to ctime accessor functions
apparmor: convert to ctime accessor functions
sunrpc: convert to ctime accessor functions
...

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fs: add infrastructure for multigrain timestamps

The VFS always uses coarse-grained timestamps when updating the ctime
and mtime after a change. This has the benefit of allowing filesystems
to optim

fs: add infrastructure for multigrain timestamps

The VFS always uses coarse-grained timestamps when updating the ctime
and mtime after a change. This has the benefit of allowing filesystems
to optimize away a lot metadata updates, down to around 1 per jiffy,
even when a file is under heavy writes.

Unfortunately, this has always been an issue when we're exporting via
NFSv3, which relies on timestamps to validate caches. A lot of changes
can happen in a jiffy, so timestamps aren't sufficient to help the
client decide to invalidate the cache. Even with NFSv4, a lot of
exported filesystems don't properly support a change attribute and are
subject to the same problems with timestamp granularity. Other
applications have similar issues with timestamps (e.g backup
applications).

If we were to always use fine-grained timestamps, that would improve the
situation, but that becomes rather expensive, as the underlying
filesystem would have to log a lot more metadata updates.

What we need is a way to only use fine-grained timestamps when they are
being actively queried.

POSIX generally mandates that when the the mtime changes, the ctime must
also change. The kernel always stores normalized ctime values, so only
the first 30 bits of the tv_nsec field are ever used.

Use the 31st bit of the ctime tv_nsec field to indicate that something
has queried the inode for the mtime or ctime. When this flag is set,
on the next mtime or ctime update, the kernel will fetch a fine-grained
timestamp instead of the usual coarse-grained one.

Filesytems can opt into this behavior by setting the FS_MGTIME flag in
the fstype. Filesystems that don't set this flag will continue to use
coarse-grained timestamps.

Later patches will convert individual filesystems to use the new
infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Message-Id: <20230807-mgctime-v7-9-d1dec143a704@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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fs: pass the request_mask to generic_fillattr

generic_fillattr just fills in the entire stat struct indiscriminately
today, copying data from the inode. There is at least one attribute
(STATX_CHANGE

fs: pass the request_mask to generic_fillattr

generic_fillattr just fills in the entire stat struct indiscriminately
today, copying data from the inode. There is at least one attribute
(STATX_CHANGE_COOKIE) that can have side effects when it is reported,
and we're looking at adding more with the addition of multigrain
timestamps.

Add a request_mask argument to generic_fillattr and have most callers
just pass in the value that is passed to getattr. Have other callers
(e.g. ksmbd) just pass in STATX_BASIC_STATS. Also move the setting of
STATX_CHANGE_COOKIE into generic_fillattr.

Acked-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Xiubo Li <xiubli@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: "Paulo Alcantara (SUSE)" <pc@manguebit.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Message-Id: <20230807-mgctime-v7-2-d1dec143a704@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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fs: 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.

Re

fs: 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.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Message-Id: <20230705190309.579783-23-jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.4 merge window.

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Need to pull in commit from drm-next (earlier in drm-intel-next):

1eca0778f4b3 ("drm/i915: add struct i915_dsm to wrap dsm members together")

In order to

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

Need to pull in commit from drm-next (earlier in drm-intel-next):

1eca0778f4b3 ("drm/i915: add struct i915_dsm to wrap dsm members together")

In order to merge following patch to drm-intel-gt-next:

https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/530942/?series=114925&rev=6

Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>

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Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Catch up with 6.3-rc cycle...

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>

Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into msm-next

Merge drm-next into msm-next to pick up external clk and PM dependencies
for improved a6xx GPU reset sequence.

Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <ro

Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into msm-next

Merge drm-next into msm-next to pick up external clk and PM dependencies
for improved a6xx GPU reset sequence.

Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>

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Merge tag 'v6.3-rc2' into next

Merge with mainline to get of_property_present() and other newer APIs.

Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes

Backmerging to get latest upstream.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Backmerging to get v6.3-rc1 and sync with the other DRM trees.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge remote-tracking branch 'acme/perf-tools' into perf-tools-next

To pick up perf-tools fixes just merged upstream.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Merge branch 'linus' into objtool/core, to pick up Xen dependencies

Pick up dependencies - freshly merged upstream via xen-next - before applying
dependent objtool changes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Moln

Merge branch 'linus' into objtool/core, to pick up Xen dependencies

Pick up dependencies - freshly merged upstream via xen-next - before applying
dependent objtool changes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.3 merge window.

Merge tag 'fs.idmapped.v6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/idmapping

Pull vfs idmapping updates from Christian Brauner:

- Last cycle we introduced the dedicated struct mnt_i

Merge tag 'fs.idmapped.v6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/idmapping

Pull vfs idmapping updates from Christian Brauner:

- Last cycle we introduced the dedicated struct mnt_idmap type for
mount idmapping and the required infrastucture in 256c8aed2b42 ("fs:
introduce dedicated idmap type for mounts"). As promised in last
cycle's pull request message this converts everything to rely on
struct mnt_idmap.

Currently we still pass around the plain namespace that was attached
to a mount. This is in general pretty convenient but it makes it easy
to conflate namespaces that are relevant on the filesystem with
namespaces that are relevant on the mount level. Especially for
non-vfs developers without detailed knowledge in this area this was a
potential source for bugs.

This finishes the conversion. Instead of passing the plain namespace
around this updates all places that currently take a pointer to a
mnt_userns with a pointer to struct mnt_idmap.

Now that the conversion is done all helpers down to the really
low-level helpers only accept a struct mnt_idmap argument instead of
two namespace arguments.

Conflating mount and other idmappings will now cause the compiler to
complain loudly thus eliminating the possibility of any bugs. This
makes it impossible for filesystem developers to mix up mount and
filesystem idmappings as they are two distinct types and require
distinct helpers that cannot be used interchangeably.

Everything associated with struct mnt_idmap is moved into a single
separate file. With that change no code can poke around in struct
mnt_idmap. It can only be interacted with through dedicated helpers.
That means all filesystems are and all of the vfs is completely
oblivious to the actual implementation of idmappings.

We are now also able to extend struct mnt_idmap as we see fit. For
example, we can decouple it completely from namespaces for users that
don't require or don't want to use them at all. We can also extend
the concept of idmappings so we can cover filesystem specific
requirements.

In combination with the vfs{g,u}id_t work we finished in v6.2 this
makes this feature substantially more robust and thus difficult to
implement wrong by a given filesystem and also protects the vfs.

- Enable idmapped mounts for tmpfs and fulfill a longstanding request.

A long-standing request from users had been to make it possible to
create idmapped mounts for tmpfs. For example, to share the host's
tmpfs mount between multiple sandboxes. This is a prerequisite for
some advanced Kubernetes cases. Systemd also has a range of use-cases
to increase service isolation. And there are more users of this.

However, with all of the other work going on this was way down on the
priority list but luckily someone other than ourselves picked this
up.

As usual the patch is tiny as all the infrastructure work had been
done multiple kernel releases ago. In addition to all the tests that
we already have I requested that Rodrigo add a dedicated tmpfs
testsuite for idmapped mounts to xfstests. It is to be included into
xfstests during the v6.3 development cycle. This should add a slew of
additional tests.

* tag 'fs.idmapped.v6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/idmapping: (26 commits)
shmem: support idmapped mounts for tmpfs
fs: move mnt_idmap
fs: port vfs{g,u}id helpers to mnt_idmap
fs: port fs{g,u}id helpers to mnt_idmap
fs: port i_{g,u}id_into_vfs{g,u}id() to mnt_idmap
fs: port i_{g,u}id_{needs_}update() to mnt_idmap
quota: port to mnt_idmap
fs: port privilege checking helpers to mnt_idmap
fs: port inode_owner_or_capable() to mnt_idmap
fs: port inode_init_owner() to mnt_idmap
fs: port acl to mnt_idmap
fs: port xattr to mnt_idmap
fs: port ->permission() to pass mnt_idmap
fs: port ->fileattr_set() to pass mnt_idmap
fs: port ->set_acl() to pass mnt_idmap
fs: port ->get_acl() to pass mnt_idmap
fs: port ->tmpfile() to pass mnt_idmap
fs: port ->rename() to pass mnt_idmap
fs: port ->mknod() to pass mnt_idmap
fs: port ->mkdir() to pass mnt_idmap
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Merge tag 'iversion-v6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlayton/linux

Pull i_version updates from Jeff Layton:
"This overhauls how we handle i_version queries from nfsd.

Inste

Merge tag 'iversion-v6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlayton/linux

Pull i_version updates from Jeff Layton:
"This overhauls how we handle i_version queries from nfsd.

Instead of having special routines and grabbing the i_version field
directly out of the inode in some cases, we've moved most of the
handling into the various filesystems' getattr operations. As a bonus,
this makes ceph's change attribute usable by knfsd as well.

This should pave the way for future work to make this value queryable
by userland, and to make it more resilient against rolling back on a
crash"

* tag 'iversion-v6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlayton/linux:
nfsd: remove fetch_iversion export operation
nfsd: use the getattr operation to fetch i_version
nfsd: move nfsd4_change_attribute to nfsfh.c
ceph: report the inode version in getattr if requested
nfs: report the inode version in getattr if requested
vfs: plumb i_version handling into struct kstat
fs: clarify when the i_version counter must be updated
fs: uninline inode_query_iversion

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vfs: plumb i_version handling into struct kstat

The NFS server has a lot of special handling for different types of
change attribute access, depending on the underlying filesystem. In
most cases, it

vfs: plumb i_version handling into struct kstat

The NFS server has a lot of special handling for different types of
change attribute access, depending on the underlying filesystem. In
most cases, it's doing a getattr anyway and then fetching that value
after the fact.

Rather that do that, add a new STATX_CHANGE_COOKIE flag that is a
kernel-only symbol (for now). If requested and getattr can implement it,
it can fill out this field. For IS_I_VERSION inodes, add a generic
implementation in vfs_getattr_nosec. Take care to mask
STATX_CHANGE_COOKIE off in requests from userland and in the result
mask.

Since not all filesystems can give the same guarantees of monotonicity,
claim a STATX_ATTR_CHANGE_MONOTONIC flag that filesystems can set to
indicate that they offer an i_version value that can never go backward.

Eventually if we decide to make the i_version available to userland, we
can just designate a field for it in struct statx, and move the
STATX_CHANGE_COOKIE definition to the uapi header.

Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>

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