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Christian Brauner 6cf41fcfe0
backing file: free directly
Backing files as used by overlayfs are never installed into file
descriptor tables and are explicitly documented as such. They aren't
subject to rcu access conditions like regular files are.

Their lifetime is bound to the lifetime of the overlayfs file, i.e.,
they're stashed in ovl_file->private_data and go away otherwise. If
they're set as vma->vm_file - which is their main purpose - then they're
subject to regular refcount rules and vma->vm_file can't be installed
into an fdtable after having been set. All in all I don't see any need
for rcu delay here. So free it directly.

This all hinges on such hybrid beasts to never actually be installed
into fdtables which - as mentioned before - is not allowed. So add an
explicit WARN_ON_ONCE() so we catch any case where someone is suddenly
trying to install one of those things into a file descriptor table so we
can have a nice long chat with them.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231005-sakralbau-wappnen-f5c31755ed70@brauner
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
History 2023-10-19 11:02:49 +02:00
arch file: convert to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU 2023-10-19 11:02:48 +02:00
block block: fix pin count management when merging same-page segments 2023-09-06 07:32:27 -06:00
certs certs: Reference revocation list for all keyrings 2023-08-17 20:12:41 +00:00
crypto This update includes the following changes: 2023-08-29 11:23:29 -07:00
Documentation file: convert to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU 2023-10-19 11:02:48 +02:00
drivers file: convert to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU 2023-10-19 11:02:48 +02:00
fs backing file: free directly 2023-10-19 11:02:49 +02:00
include file: convert to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU 2023-10-19 11:02:48 +02:00
init init/mount: print pretty name of root device when panics 2023-10-19 11:02:46 +02:00
io_uring io_uring: use files_lookup_fd_locked() 2023-10-19 11:02:49 +02:00
ipc Add x86 shadow stack support 2023-08-31 12:20:12 -07:00
kernel file: convert to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU 2023-10-19 11:02:48 +02:00
lib iov_iter: Kunit tests for page extraction 2023-09-09 15:11:49 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm vfs: fix readahead(2) on block devices 2023-10-19 11:02:49 +02:00
net Including fixes from netfilter and bpf. 2023-09-07 18:33:07 -07:00
rust Documentation work keeps chugging along; stuff for 6.6 includes: 2023-08-30 20:05:42 -07:00
samples VFIO updates for v6.6-rc1 2023-08-30 20:36:01 -07:00
scripts Fix preemption delays in the SGX code, remove unnecessarily UAPI-exported code, 2023-09-10 10:39:31 -07:00
security Landlock updates for v6.6-rc1 2023-09-08 12:06:51 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 6.6-rc1 2023-09-08 13:07:50 -07:00
tools perf tools changes for v6.6: 2023-09-09 20:06:17 -07:00
usr initramfs: Encode dependency on KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP 2023-06-06 17:54:49 +09:00
virt ARM: 2023-09-07 13:52:20 -07:00
.clang-format iommu: Add for_each_group_device() 2023-05-23 08:15:51 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: rpm-pkg: rename binkernel.spec to kernel.spec 2023-07-25 00:59:33 +09:00
.mailmap for-linus-2023083101 2023-09-01 12:31:44 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS USB: Remove Wireless USB and UWB documentation 2023-08-09 14:17:32 +02:00
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 drm ci for 6.6-rc1 2023-09-10 11:55:26 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.6-rc1 2023-09-10 16:28:41 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

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.