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Linus Torvalds 1dbb742205 vfs-7.3-rc8.fixes
Please consider pulling these changes from the signed vfs-7.3-rc8.fixes tag.
 
 Thanks!
 Christian
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Merge tag 'vfs-7.3-rc8.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

Pull vfs fixes from Christian Brauner:

 - Fix a range of use-after-frees during rcu pathwalk caused by non-rcu
   frees.

   Whatever ->permission(), ->d_revalidate(), ->get_link(), ->d_hash()
   and ->d_compare() read in rcu mode has to be freed after a grace
   period. umount(2) hides most of it because namespace_unlock() waits
   for one, but a chdir() out of a lazily unmounted directory or the
   close() of the last file on it drops the last reference without.

    * ext4_get_link() reads the sbi and the extent status counters for a
      symlink stored in a data block. Both are freed after a grace
      period now.

    * The unicode map of casefolded ext4, f2fs and tmpfs was freed under
      generic_ci_d_hash() and generic_ci_d_compare().

    * ntfs3 with nocase freed its sbi and mount options under its dentry
      hash and compare. A remount freed the old options right away too.

    * eventfs freed an eventfs_inode after an SRCU grace period only
      while tracefs_d_revalidate() reads it under rcu_read_lock().

    * afs and 9p are only saved by the grace period their private bdi
      gets in bdi_unregister(). They stop depending on it.

    * create_ipc_ns() leaked the mqueue mount and its superblock on a
      late failure. A long-term mount needs kern_unmount().

 - Don't let idle threads pin the initramfs.

   The idle threads of the secondary cpus are forked from PID 1 with a
   private copy of its fs_struct, aren't on the task list so
   pivot_root() never moves them and never exit. So the initramfs stayed
   pinned forever on every machine with more than one cpu, 70 to 150 MB
   in the reports. They share init_fs now like init_task does.

 - A mount that copy_tree() leaves out can't take over a lock.

   copy_tree() drops mounts of mount namespace files from the copies it
   makes for unshare(CLONE_NEWNS) and propagation without looking at
   MNT_LOCKED. So root in a user namespace could bind a child's
   /proc/<pid>/ns/mnt beneath a locked cover, let it take the lock over,
   unshare(CLONE_NEWNS) and read the file. copy_tree() refuses with
   EPERM now and the move beneath a locked mount is refused up front.

 - Revert "namei: don't reveal overmounted entries in refwalk" from the
   rc7 fixes. The bug class is bigger than that patch.

 - namei: lookup_fast_for_open() checked ->d_inode while
   traverse_mounts() checks the type in d_flags, which is set second, so
   a refwalk racing the instantiation could fail an O_CREAT open with
   ENOENT. Use d_is_negative() in both places.

 - Drop the smp_mb()s in mntput_no_expire_slowpath() and do_umount()
   that mnt_get_count()'s own barrier made redundant.

 - fsnotify: a mark added while fsnotify_destroy_marks() walks the
   connector could be missed and the connector detached, so an fdinfo
   read called igrab(NULL). New marks are refused during teardown.

 - pipe: a failed second fasync enable on an O_RDWR FIFO removed the
   existing reader entry and cleared FASYNC while the writer entry
   stayed, a use-after-free in send_sigio() later.

 - watch_queue: post_one_notification() could see nr_notes before the
   note pool behind it and dereference a NULL array. An unprivileged
   user can trigger that with a key watch. Publish nr_notes last.

 - pid_namespace: zap_pid_ns_processes() waits without bound for a
   tracer outside the namespace to reap its zombies and neither wait was
   freezable, so every suspend attempt failed.

 - exit: is_child_subreaper and has_child_subreaper shared a word with
   other bitfields written without a common lock, so racing prctl()s
   lost a bit. They are separate bools now.

 - autofs: a notification write that failed on a pipe the daemon had
   already replaced put the superblock into catatonic mode again and
   closed the replacement. Only do that for the current pipe.

 - ovl: reject a lowerdir ending with an unescaped backslash with EINVAL
   instead of a confusing ENOENT later.

 - ocfs2/dlm: take dlm_reco_state_lock when the debugfs state file walks
   the recovery participant list.

 - samples/pidfd: fix the userprogs typo that kept pidfd-metadata from
   being built.

* tag 'vfs-7.3-rc8.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (24 commits)
  Revert "namei: don't reveal overmounted entries in refwalk"
  selftests/filesystems: test that a mntns file can't take over a lock
  fs: let idle threads share init_fs
  namespace: a mount that copy_tree() leaves out can't take over a lock
  namei: test for a negative dentry the way traverse_mounts() does
  fs: pass flags to copy_fs()
  ovl: reject lowerdir ending with unescaped backslash
  fsnotify: prevent mark additions during connector teardown
  pid_namespace: make zap_pid_ns_processes() freezable
  fs: drop the smp_mb()s that mnt_get_count() made redundant
  autofs: ignore notification errors from a replaced pipe
  ntfs3: free replaced mount options after a grace period
  ntfs3: free the sbi after a grace period
  unicode: free the map after a grace period
  ipc: drop the mqueue mount with kern_unmount() on setup failure
  eventfs: free the eventfs_inode after an rcu grace period too
  9p: free the session after a grace period
  watch_queue: Fix note pool publication race in watch_queue_set_size()
  afs: free the super info after a grace period
  pipe: preserve existing fasync readers on writer setup failure
  ...
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bpf bpf: Fix missing migration protection in __rhtab_map_lookup_and_delete_batch() 2026-10-02 11:34:15 +00:00
cgroup cgroup: Fixes for v7.3-rc6 2026-10-07 02:19:02 +02:00
configs slab: support for compiler-assisted type-based slab cache partitioning 2026-05-14 10:44:09 +02:00
debug kgdb: update outdated references to kgdb_wait() 2026-04-21 16:41:54 +01:00
dma dma-mapping fixes for Linux 7.3 2026-10-10 00:49:55 +02:00
entry syscall_user_dispatch: Use CONFIG_SYSCTL for sysctl guard 2026-09-07 14:00:56 +02:00
events perf: Require kernel access for text poke events 2026-10-01 14:02:06 +02:00
futex futex: Fix private hash use-after-free on resize 2026-10-02 11:47:13 +02:00
gcov Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments 2026-02-21 20:03:00 -08:00
irq irq: Make refcount_interrupt kunit test selectable 2026-10-02 11:40:12 +02:00
kcsan kcsan: avoid unintended access checking in NMIs 2026-07-20 18:18:37 +02:00
livepatch livepatch: Fix NULL pointer dereference in klp_find_func() 2026-07-07 12:54:37 +02:00
liveupdate kho: make boot time huge page allocation work nicely with KHO 2026-08-23 09:17:38 -07:00
locking Misc locking fixes: 2026-09-06 10:45:46 -07:00
module module: fix lost error code from codetag_load_module() 2026-09-26 13:55:09 -07:00
power PM: hibernate: Freeze kernel threads after image preallocation 2026-09-22 21:09:51 +02:00
printk braille: nbcon: Allow to use a serial console with NBCON API as Braille console 2026-10-02 10:26:42 +02:00
rcu srcu: Fix WARN_ON() for rcu_segcblist_n_cbs() in cleanup_srcu_struct() 2026-10-01 17:17:48 -07:00
sched sched_ext: Fixes for v7.3-rc7 2026-10-14 15:58:16 -07:00
time time/jiffies: Saturate in mult_hz() instead of wrapping 2026-09-29 10:00:40 +02:00
trace fprobe: Use guard(rcu_sched_notrace) and check rcu_is_watching() 2026-09-30 08:41:31 +09:00
unwind Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments 2026-02-21 20:03:00 -08:00
.gitignore
acct.c fs: move SB_I_USERNS_VISIBLE to FS_USERNS_MOUNT_RESTRICTED 2026-05-11 23:13:01 +02:00
async.c Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument 2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
audit_fsnotify.c audit: fix recursive locking deadlock in audit_dupe_exe() 2026-05-27 19:15:34 -04:00
audit_tree.c audit: fix exe mark UAF in kill_rules() 2026-09-25 16:18:51 -04:00
audit_watch.c audit: drop BUG_ON() from audit_add_to_parent() 2026-07-28 15:53:48 -04:00
audit.c audit: fix potential integer overflow in audit_log_n_string() 2026-07-29 16:19:06 -04:00
audit.h audit: fix recursive locking deadlock in audit_dupe_exe() 2026-05-27 19:15:34 -04:00
auditfilter.c audit/stable-7.3 PR 20260814 2026-08-19 16:21:32 -07:00
auditsc.c audit: drop BUG_ON() from audit_signal_info_syscall() 2026-07-28 15:53:49 -04:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c x86/asm: Remove ANNOTATE_DATA_SPECIAL usage 2025-12-03 16:53:19 +01:00
capability.c capability: unexport has_capability_noaudit 2026-08-21 09:09:55 +02:00
cfi.c
compat.c
configs.c
context_tracking.c context_tracking: Remove rcu_task_trace_heavyweight_{enter,exit}() 2026-01-01 16:39:46 +08:00
cpu_pm.c syscore: Pass context data to callbacks 2025-11-14 10:01:52 +01:00
cpu.c Misc CPU hotplug fixes: 2026-06-23 16:43:24 -07:00
crash_core_test.c crash: add KUnit tests for crash_exclude_mem_range 2025-09-13 17:32:55 -07:00
crash_core.c powerpc/kexec_file: Use crash_exclude_core_ranges() helper 2026-06-30 18:49:06 +03:00
crash_dump_dm_crypt.c crash_dump: release keyring reference at the correct time 2026-07-13 10:04:47 +03:00
crash_reserve.c kernel/crash: remove inclusion of crypto/sha1.h 2026-03-27 21:19:46 -07:00
cred.c exec_state: relocate dumpable information 2026-05-26 11:02:01 +02:00
delayacct.c sysctl: remove CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL, it just mirrors CONFIG_SYSCTL 2026-08-05 15:28:23 +02:00
dma.c
elfcorehdr.c
exec_domain.c
exec_state.c exec_state: relocate dumpable information 2026-05-26 11:02:01 +02:00
exit.c pid_namespace: make zap_pid_ns_processes() freezable 2026-10-14 22:08:04 +02:00
exit.h
extable.c
fail_function.c Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument 2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
fork.c fs: let idle threads share init_fs 2026-10-14 22:08:06 +02:00
freezer.c freezer: Clarify that only cgroup1 freezer uses PM freezer 2025-10-30 20:10:27 +01:00
gen_kheaders.sh
groups.c treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types 2026-02-21 01:02:28 -08:00
hung_task.c hung_task: explicitly report I/O wait state in log output 2026-03-27 21:19:40 -07:00
iomem.c
irq_work.c irq_work: Fix use-after-free in irq_work_single() on PREEMPT_RT 2026-05-11 16:28:04 +02:00
jump_label.c treewide: refresh kmalloc_obj() conversions 2026-09-04 21:37:00 -07:00
kallsyms_internal.h kallsyms: Get rid of kallsyms relative base 2026-01-22 15:58:22 -07:00
kallsyms_selftest.c Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument 2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
kallsyms_selftest.h
kallsyms.c mm.git review status for linus..mm-nonmm-stable 2026-02-12 12:13:01 -08:00
kcmp.c fs: add real_fs to track task's actual fs_struct 2026-06-29 10:43:45 +02:00
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.kexec liveupdate: kho: move to kernel/liveupdate 2025-11-27 14:24:33 -08:00
Kconfig.locks locking/qspinlock: Add contended_release tracepoint 2026-08-07 17:58:10 +02:00
Kconfig.preempt sched_ext: Changes for v7.3 2026-08-20 11:01:37 -07:00
kcov.c mm.git review status for master..mm-nonmm-stable 2026-08-23 08:07:11 -07:00
kexec_core.c liveupdate: skip serialization for context-preserving kexec 2026-06-01 09:19:38 +03:00
kexec_elf.c
kexec_file.c kexec_file: skip checksum verification when safe 2026-07-01 13:01:08 +03:00
kexec_internal.h
kexec.c Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument 2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
kheaders.c
kprobes.c kprobes: Skip disarmed probes when checking optkprobe overlap 2026-10-02 15:51:57 +09:00
kstack_erase.c sysctl: remove __user qualifier from stack_erasing_sysctl buffer argument 2025-11-27 15:44:53 +01:00
ksyms_common.c
ksysfs.c kernel: ksysfs: initialize kernel_kobj earlier 2026-04-03 19:39:52 +02:00
kthread.c treewide: refresh kmalloc_obj() conversions 2026-09-04 21:37:00 -07:00
latencytop.c
Makefile exec: introduce struct task_exec_state 2026-05-26 11:02:01 +02:00
module_signature.c module: Give 'enum pkey_id_type' a more specific name 2026-03-24 21:42:37 +00:00
notifier.c
nscommon.c nsfs: tighten permission checks for ns iteration ioctls 2026-02-27 22:00:08 +01:00
nsproxy.c unshare: don't drop active namespace references that were never taken 2026-10-01 14:20:07 +02:00
nstree.c nstree: check listing permission before taking a namespace reference 2026-09-09 10:03:15 +02:00
padata.c padata: Put CPU offline callback in ONLINE section to allow failure 2026-03-22 11:17:59 +09:00
panic.c bug/kunit: Core support for suppressing warning backtraces 2026-05-14 10:50:00 -06:00
params.c mm.git review status for master..mm-nonmm-stable 2026-08-23 08:07:11 -07:00
pid_namespace.c pid_namespace: make zap_pid_ns_processes() freezable 2026-10-14 22:08:04 +02:00
pid_sysctl.h
pid.c Summary 2026-08-20 08:46:41 -07:00
profile.c
ptrace.c exec_state: relocate dumpable information 2026-05-26 11:02:01 +02:00
range.c
reboot.c reboot: fix cad_pid use-after-free race 2026-08-31 10:25:46 +02:00
regset.c
relay.c Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument 2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
resource_kunit.c Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument 2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
resource.c resource: downgrade "resource sanity check" warning to debug level 2026-08-03 21:10:05 -07:00
rseq.c rseq: Reenable performance optimizations conditionally 2026-05-06 17:40:27 +02:00
scftorture.c smp_call_function() torture-test updates: 2026-08-23 19:28:04 -07:00
scs.c scs: fix a wrong parameter in __scs_magic 2025-11-12 10:00:13 -08:00
seccomp.c seccomp, treewide: Rename and convert __secure_computing() to return boolean 2026-07-12 12:38:02 +02:00
signal.c signal: Prevent exec() race 2026-09-16 18:44:03 +02:00
smp.c SMP core updates: 2026-08-18 15:29:53 -07:00
smpboot.c
smpboot.h
softirq.c interrupt: Disable interrupt before modifying hardirq_disable counter 2026-08-30 08:39:04 +02:00
stacktrace.c
static_call_inline.c Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument 2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
static_call.c
stop_machine.c stop_machine: Make stop_one_cpu_nowait() return void 2026-07-31 12:35:26 +02:00
sys_ni.c time: Respect COMPAT_32BIT_TIME for old time type functions 2026-07-07 23:52:53 +02:00
sys.c prctl: fix PR_SET_MM_AUXV losing the forced AT_NULL terminator 2026-08-19 19:55:05 -07:00
sysctl-test.c
sysctl.c sysctl: Negate before converting in the int read path 2026-09-29 09:25:14 +02:00
task_work.c task_work: Fix NMI race condition 2025-10-29 10:29:54 +01:00
taskstats.c taskstats: fold the two cpumask handlers into one 2026-08-13 15:42:05 -07:00
torture.c torture: Don't leak shuffle_tmp_mask when shuffler kthread fails to start 2026-08-14 14:59:21 -07:00
tracepoint.c tracepoint: balance regfunc() on func_add() failure in tracepoint_add_func() 2026-04-14 05:17:02 -04:00
tsacct.c tsacct: skip all kernel threads 2026-01-26 19:07:13 -08:00
ucount.c binfmt_misc: correctly account pre-opened interpreters 2026-08-03 23:36:18 +02:00
uid16.c
uid16.h
umh.c fs: add umh argument to struct kernel_clone_args 2026-06-29 10:54:41 +02:00
up.c smp: Refactor remote CPU selection in smp_call_function_any() 2026-07-16 09:24:55 +02:00
user_namespace.c Convert remaining multi-line kmalloc_obj/flex GFP_KERNEL uses 2026-02-22 08:26:33 -08:00
user-return-notifier.c
user.c binfmt_misc: use RCU for the handler lookup 2026-08-03 10:08:36 +02:00
utsname_sysctl.c sysctl: remove CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL, it just mirrors CONFIG_SYSCTL 2026-08-05 15:28:23 +02:00
utsname.c namespace-6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 11:20:29 -07:00
vhost_task.c vhost_task_create: kill unnecessary .exit_signal initialization 2026-06-10 02:17:00 -04:00
vmcore_info.c mm.git review status for linus..mm-nonmm-stable 2026-04-16 20:11:56 -07:00
watch_queue.c watch_queue: Fix note pool publication race in watch_queue_set_size() 2026-10-14 22:08:02 +02:00
watchdog_buddy.c watchdog/hardlockup: improve buddy system detection timeliness 2026-03-27 21:19:47 -07:00
watchdog_perf.c watchdog/hardlockup: simplify perf event probe and remove per-cpu dependency 2026-02-08 00:13:35 -08:00
watchdog.c watchdog/softlockup: fix softlockup typos 2026-08-03 21:10:06 -07:00
workqueue_internal.h workqueue: Show in-flight work item duration in stall diagnostics 2026-03-05 07:27:48 -10:00
workqueue.c workqueue: Fix NULL current_pwq deref in mem-reclaim helper 2026-10-07 07:57:17 -10:00