From: Justin Suess <utilityemal77@gmail.com>
To: "Christian Brauner" <brauner@kernel.org>,
"Alexander Viro" <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
"Jan Kara" <jack@suse.cz>, NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>,
"Mickaël Salaün" <mic@digikod.net>,
"Alexei Starovoitov" <ast@kernel.org>,
"Daniel Borkmann" <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
"Andrii Nakryiko" <andrii@kernel.org>,
"Song Liu" <song@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
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"Paul Moore" <paul@paul-moore.com>,
"James Morris" <jmorris@namei.org>,
"Serge E . Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
"Martin KaFai Lau" <martin.lau@linux.dev>,
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"Yonghong Song" <yonghong.song@linux.dev>,
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"Jiri Olsa" <jolsa@kernel.org>,
"Jeff Layton" <jlayton@kernel.org>,
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"Mateusz Guzik" <mjguzik@gmail.com>,
"Shuah Khan" <shuah@kernel.org>, "Tingmao Wang" <m@maowtm.org>,
"Justin Suess" <utilityemal77@gmail.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH bpf-next 08/12] fs: add mnt_undo_legitimize()
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2026 20:20:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261006002020.2890858-9-utilityemal77@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261006002020.2890858-1-utilityemal77@gmail.com>
A failed __legitimize_mnt() can oblige its caller to mntput() the
mount, which may be the final put and so may sleep: legitimize_mnt()
leaves the RCU read-side critical section it ran under to do it. A
caller that cannot leave its critical section - a BPF program driving
a lockless walk, which only the verifier ends - needs that put to be
callable from inside it.
Add mnt_undo_legitimize(), which drops the count and, when the count
turns out to be the mount's last, keeps it and hands the mount to
delayed_mntput() for the sleepable final put. delayed_mntput() then
tells the two queue populations apart by MNT_DOOMED rather than by an
unlocked mnt_get_count() read, which a concurrent failed
__legitimize_mnt() could transiently inflate. legitimize_mnt()
switches to it as well, retiring its
rcu_read_unlock/mntput/rcu_read_lock dance.
Unlike mntput(), mnt_expiry_mark is left alone: a walker that failed
to legitimize a mount never used it.
Signed-off-by: Justin Suess <utilityemal77@gmail.com>
---
fs/mount.h | 1 +
fs/namespace.c | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
2 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/mount.h b/fs/mount.h
index 94fcc306d21e..e714040f8e8f 100644
--- a/fs/mount.h
+++ b/fs/mount.h
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ static inline int is_mounted(struct vfsmount *mnt)
extern struct mount *__lookup_mnt(struct vfsmount *, struct dentry *);
extern int __legitimize_mnt(struct vfsmount *, unsigned);
+void mnt_undo_legitimize(struct mount *mnt);
static inline bool __path_is_mountpoint(const struct path *path)
{
diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index 580877e46b1a..920b8a85f9fa 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -767,11 +767,8 @@ static bool legitimize_mnt(struct vfsmount *bastard, unsigned seq)
int res = __legitimize_mnt(bastard, seq);
if (likely(!res))
return true;
- if (unlikely(res < 0)) {
- rcu_read_unlock();
- mntput(bastard);
- rcu_read_lock();
- }
+ if (unlikely(res < 0))
+ mnt_undo_legitimize(real_mount(bastard));
return false;
}
@@ -1330,8 +1327,19 @@ static void delayed_mntput(struct work_struct *unused)
struct llist_node *node = llist_del_all(&delayed_mntput_list);
struct mount *m, *t;
- llist_for_each_entry_safe(m, t, node, mnt_llist)
- cleanup_mnt(m);
+ llist_for_each_entry_safe(m, t, node, mnt_llist) {
+ /*
+ * MNT_DOOMED is only ever set on the mounts
+ * mntput_no_expire_slowpath() queues here, never on the
+ * kept-count ones mnt_undo_legitimize() queues. Route on it
+ * rather than on mnt_get_count(), which a concurrent failed
+ * __legitimize_mnt() can transiently inflate.
+ */
+ if (m->mnt.mnt_flags & MNT_DOOMED)
+ cleanup_mnt(m);
+ else
+ mntput(&m->mnt); /* kept by mnt_undo_legitimize() */
+ }
}
static DECLARE_DELAYED_WORK(delayed_mntput_work, delayed_mntput);
@@ -1423,6 +1431,47 @@ void mntput(struct vfsmount *mnt)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(mntput);
+/**
+ * mnt_undo_legitimize - drop a count __legitimize_mnt() asked us to put
+ * @mnt: the mount __legitimize_mnt() failed on
+ *
+ * Like the mntput() that a failed __legitimize_mnt() normally obliges,
+ * but callable from the RCU read-side critical section the legitimization
+ * ran under: when the count turns out to be the mount's last, it is kept
+ * and the mount handed to delayed_mntput() for the sleepable final put.
+ * Unlike mntput(), mnt_expiry_mark is left alone: a walker that failed
+ * to legitimize the mount never used it.
+ */
+void mnt_undo_legitimize(struct mount *mnt)
+{
+ if (likely(READ_ONCE(mnt->mnt_ns))) {
+ /* Not the final count, as in mntput_no_expire(). */
+ mnt_add_count(mnt, -1);
+ return;
+ }
+ lock_mount_hash();
+ /*
+ * As in mntput_no_expire(): make sure that if a concurrent
+ * __legitimize_mnt() has not seen us grab mount_lock, we'll see
+ * its refcount increment here.
+ */
+ smp_mb();
+ if (likely(mnt_get_count(mnt) > 1)) {
+ mnt_add_count(mnt, -1);
+ unlock_mount_hash();
+ return;
+ }
+ unlock_mount_hash();
+ /*
+ * Ours is the last count: nothing else can reach the mount any
+ * more, which makes its mnt_llist ours to use. delayed_mntput()
+ * tells our kept-count mount from the doomed ones by MNT_DOOMED.
+ */
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(mnt->mnt.mnt_flags & MNT_DOOMED);
+ if (llist_add(&mnt->mnt_llist, &delayed_mntput_list))
+ schedule_delayed_work(&delayed_mntput_work, 1);
+}
+
struct vfsmount *mntget(struct vfsmount *mnt)
{
if (mnt)
--
2.55.0
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-06 0:20 [RFC PATCH bpf-next 00/12] fs: unified VFS ancestor walk for Landlock and BPF Justin Suess
2026-10-06 0:20 ` [RFC PATCH bpf-next 01/12] namei: introduce __path_walk_parent() Justin Suess
2026-10-06 0:20 ` [RFC PATCH bpf-next 02/12] namei: add vfs_walk_ancestors() Justin Suess
2026-10-06 0:20 ` [RFC PATCH bpf-next 03/12] landlock: convert ancestor walk to vfs_walk_ancestors() Justin Suess
2026-10-06 1:10 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-10-06 0:20 ` [RFC PATCH bpf-next 04/12] bpf: mark struct path trusted Justin Suess
2026-10-06 1:10 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-10-06 0:20 ` [RFC PATCH bpf-next 05/12] namei: make vfs_walk_ancestors() stepwise Justin Suess
2026-10-06 0:20 ` [RFC PATCH bpf-next 06/12] bpf: add a path ancestor iterator Justin Suess
2026-10-06 1:11 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-10-06 0:20 ` [RFC PATCH bpf-next 07/12] selftests/bpf: exercise the " Justin Suess
2026-10-06 1:10 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-10-06 0:20 ` Justin Suess [this message]
2026-10-06 0:20 ` [RFC PATCH bpf-next 09/12] namei: add an rcu-walk mode to the ancestor walk Justin Suess
2026-10-06 1:10 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-10-06 0:20 ` [RFC PATCH bpf-next 10/12] bpf: support "__uninit" iterator arguments in generic kfuncs Justin Suess
2026-10-06 0:20 ` [RFC PATCH bpf-next 11/12] bpf: add a lockless path ancestor iterator Justin Suess
2026-10-06 1:10 ` bot+bpf-ci
2026-10-06 0:20 ` [RFC PATCH bpf-next 12/12] selftests/bpf: exercise the " Justin Suess
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