From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
To: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Aleksa Sarai <aleksa@amutable.com>, NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>,
Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 03/14] vfs: prepare vfs_creat|mkdir_no_perm for reuse in lookup_open()
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:51:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260707-dermatologisch-umfassen-bootshaus-86b645ff14cc@brauner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260704164149.3480051-4-jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
> To implement O_CREAT|O_DIRECTORY we will have to repeat some of the
> logic that is now in vfs_mkdir() (e.g. do error checks in the same
> order). Separate this out in vfs_mkdir_no_perm(), which does all the
> non-permission related work of vfs_mkdir(). Permission checking for the
> lookup_open() path is timed differently because we may just be doing an
> open and no create. Similar considerations give rise to
> vfs_create_no_perm().
>
> Moving the fsnotify_* calls also allows us to deal with this in one
> place for each type of operation. This does mean that we also need
> to move the fsnotify_* calls into atomic_open() for the atomic open
> case, but this actually reduces duplicate code in open_last_lookups()
> and dentry_create().
>
> Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
> Signed-off-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
>
> diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
> index 40f83a942e12..ee47d3f5159f 100644
> --- a/fs/namei.c
> +++ b/fs/namei.c
> @@ -4169,6 +4169,24 @@ static inline umode_t vfs_prepare_mode(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
> return mode;
> }
>
> +static inline
> +int vfs_create_no_perm(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct dentry *dentry,
> + umode_t mode, struct delegated_inode *di)
> +{
> + struct inode *dir = d_inode(dentry->d_parent);
> + int error;
> +
> + error = try_break_deleg(dir, LEASE_BREAK_DIR_CREATE, di);
> + if (error)
> + return error;
> +
> + error = dir->i_op->create(idmap, dir, dentry, mode, true);
> + if (!error)
> + fsnotify_create(dir, dentry);
> +
> + return error;
> +}
> +
> /**
> * vfs_create - create new file
> * @idmap: idmap of the mount the inode was found from
> @@ -4201,13 +4219,8 @@ int vfs_create(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode,
> error = security_inode_create(dir, dentry, mode);
> if (error)
> return error;
> - error = try_break_deleg(dir, LEASE_BREAK_DIR_CREATE, di);
> - if (error)
> - return error;
> - error = dir->i_op->create(idmap, dir, dentry, mode, true);
> - if (!error)
> - fsnotify_create(dir, dentry);
> - return error;
> +
> + return vfs_create_no_perm(idmap, dentry, mode, di);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_create);
>
> @@ -4384,10 +4397,17 @@ static struct dentry *atomic_open(const struct path *path, struct dentry *dentry
> error = -ENOENT;
> }
> }
> +
> if (error) {
> dput(dentry);
> dentry = ERR_PTR(error);
> + } else {
> + if (file->f_mode & FMODE_CREATED)
> + fsnotify_create(dir, dentry);
> + if (file->f_mode & FMODE_OPENED)
> + fsnotify_open(file);
> }
> +
> return dentry;
> }
>
> @@ -4519,6 +4539,8 @@ static struct dentry *lookup_open(struct nameidata *nd, struct file *file,
> mode, open_flag & O_EXCL);
> if (error)
> goto out_dput;
> +
> + fsnotify_create(dir_inode, dentry);
> }
>
> return dentry;
> @@ -4607,13 +4629,9 @@ static const char *open_last_lookups(struct nameidata *nd,
> inode_lock(dir->d_inode);
> else
> inode_lock_shared(dir->d_inode);
> +
> dentry = lookup_open(nd, file, op, got_write, &delegated_inode);
> - if (!IS_ERR(dentry)) {
> - if (file->f_mode & FMODE_CREATED)
> - fsnotify_create(dir->d_inode, dentry);
> - if (file->f_mode & FMODE_OPENED)
> - fsnotify_open(file);
> - }
> +
> if (open_flag & O_CREAT)
> inode_unlock(dir->d_inode);
> else
> @@ -5066,13 +5084,6 @@ struct file *dentry_create(struct path *path, int flags, umode_t mode,
> if (unlikely(create_error) && error == -ENOENT)
> error = create_error;
>
> - if (!error) {
> - if (file->f_mode & FMODE_CREATED)
> - fsnotify_create(dir->d_inode, dentry);
> - if (file->f_mode & FMODE_OPENED)
> - fsnotify_open(file);
> - }
> -
> path->dentry = dentry;
>
> } else {
> @@ -5224,6 +5235,39 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(mknod, const char __user *, filename, umode_t, mode, unsigned, d
> return filename_mknodat(AT_FDCWD, name, mode, dev);
> }
>
> +static inline
> +struct dentry *vfs_mkdir_no_perm(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *dir,
> + struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode,
> + struct delegated_inode *di)
> +{
> + int error;
> + struct dentry *de;
> + unsigned max_links = dir->i_sb->s_max_links;
> +
> + error = -EMLINK;
> + if (max_links && dir->i_nlink >= max_links)
> + goto err;
All the gotos here seem unnecessary. You can just return directly as
there's no cleanup performed under the err: label.
--
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-07 10:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-04 16:41 [PATCH v3 00/14] vfs: add O_CREAT|O_DIRECTORY to open*(2) Jori Koolstra
2026-07-04 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 01/14] fs/namei.c: use trailing_slashes() Jori Koolstra
2026-07-06 3:56 ` NeilBrown
2026-07-06 7:29 ` David Laight
2026-07-06 20:55 ` Jori Koolstra
2026-07-07 7:42 ` David Laight
2026-07-07 10:51 ` Christian Brauner
2026-07-04 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 02/14] vfs: move create error && negative dentry case in lookup_open() up Jori Koolstra
2026-07-04 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 03/14] vfs: prepare vfs_creat|mkdir_no_perm for reuse in lookup_open() Jori Koolstra
2026-07-07 10:51 ` Christian Brauner [this message]
2026-07-04 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 04/14] vfs: call audit_inode_child() in lookup_open() on failure too Jori Koolstra
2026-07-06 5:33 ` NeilBrown
2026-07-06 21:20 ` Jori Koolstra
2026-07-06 23:02 ` NeilBrown
2026-07-07 10:51 ` Christian Brauner
2026-07-04 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 05/14] fs/namei.c: update docstring of atomic_open() Jori Koolstra
2026-07-06 5:36 ` NeilBrown
2026-07-07 10:51 ` Christian Brauner
2026-07-04 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 06/14] vfs: lookup_open(): move setting FMODE_CREATED down Jori Koolstra
2026-07-04 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 07/14] vfs: move ->create check in lookup_open() to before try_break_deleg() Jori Koolstra
2026-07-06 5:37 ` NeilBrown
2026-07-07 10:51 ` Christian Brauner
2026-07-04 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 08/14] vfs: lookup_open(): use vfs_create_no_perm() Jori Koolstra
2026-07-06 5:38 ` NeilBrown
2026-07-07 10:51 ` Christian Brauner
2026-07-04 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 09/14] vfs: add O_CREAT|O_DIRECTORY to open*(2) Jori Koolstra
2026-07-06 5:46 ` NeilBrown
2026-07-07 8:35 ` Pedro Falcato
2026-07-07 10:04 ` Christian Brauner
2026-07-07 13:04 ` Pedro Falcato
2026-07-07 13:30 ` Christian Brauner
2026-07-13 9:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-07-13 21:35 ` NeilBrown
2026-07-14 5:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-07-14 10:50 ` Jori Koolstra
2026-07-14 10:46 ` Jori Koolstra
2026-07-07 10:06 ` Jori Koolstra
2026-07-07 13:55 ` Pedro Falcato
2026-07-07 14:18 ` Jori Koolstra
2026-07-08 15:39 ` Pedro Falcato
2026-07-09 6:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-07-09 10:51 ` Jori Koolstra
2026-07-09 14:21 ` Christian Brauner
2026-07-09 14:34 ` Jori Koolstra
2026-07-13 9:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-07-07 10:51 ` Christian Brauner
2026-07-10 18:55 ` Jori Koolstra
2026-07-12 12:39 ` Christian Brauner
2026-07-04 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 10/14] vfs: move O_IS_MKDIR check from lookup_open() into individual filesystems Jori Koolstra
2026-07-06 5:50 ` NeilBrown
2026-07-07 10:51 ` Christian Brauner
2026-07-04 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 11/14] vfs: refuse O_CREAT for directories through a dangling symlink Jori Koolstra
2026-07-06 5:51 ` NeilBrown
2026-07-04 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 12/14] vfs: short-circuit MAY_WRITE access for O_DIRECTORY opens Jori Koolstra
2026-07-06 5:51 ` NeilBrown
2026-07-04 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 13/14] selftest: fix headers in fclog.c Jori Koolstra
2026-07-06 5:57 ` NeilBrown
2026-07-06 21:07 ` Jori Koolstra
2026-07-07 10:51 ` Christian Brauner
2026-07-04 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 14/14] selftest: add tests for open*(O_CREAT|O_DIRECTORY) Jori Koolstra
2026-07-07 10:51 ` Christian Brauner
2026-07-07 10:51 ` [PATCH v3 00/14] vfs: add O_CREAT|O_DIRECTORY to open*(2) Christian Brauner
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