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Linus Torvalds f47d223627 vfs-7.4-rc1.sync_close
Please consider pulling these changes from the signed vfs-7.4-rc1.sync_close tag.
 
 Thanks!
 Christian
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Merge tag 'vfs-7.4-rc1.sync_close' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

Pull file closing updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This makes closing files synchronous for close_range(), exec and exit.

  Since fput() was switched to task work every final __fput() of an
  exiting task is queued on task work and run from exit_task_work().
  exec and close_range() do the same. For a task with a large descriptor
  table that is a cmpxchg() and a TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME test-and-set per
  file plus a list entry for any later task_work_cancel() to search
  under pi_lock, and then a second pass over every struct file that
  isn't cache hot anymore by then. Oleg and Neil have pointed this out
  over the years.

  close_files(), close_range() and close-on-exec now flush and put each
  file inline the way close(2) does. Kernel threads aren't affected.
  They share init_files which init_task pins forever so their
  exit_files() never drops the last reference, and their fput() keeps
  punting to a workqueue. The one place that could put a table from a
  kthread context, a failing copy_process(), can't hold the last
  reference while the source table is alive.

  On a 64 vCPU KVM guest tearing down 4096, 65536 and 1M descriptors
  scattered at random positions in the table:

                           4096 fds        65536 fds        1M fds
    exit                   1045 -> 895 us  18.9 -> 14.9 ms  429 -> 306 ms
    execve, close-on-exec  1393 -> 1190 us 21.4 -> 16.9 ms  471 -> 325 ms
    close_range()          1179 -> 988 us  21.9 -> 17.4 ms  484 -> 337 ms

  So that is 16-21% or 40-150 ns per closed file, largest at 1M
  descriptors. With eight processes tearing down 65536 descriptors each
  at once it stays at 16-21% because the second pass over 16 MB of
  struct file is what gets expensive when CPUs compete for the cache.

  With 32 or 64 processes both kernels are bound by pushing millions of
  files through slab and rcu and the difference shrinks to 4-8%. Files
  whose own release dominates gain less, 13% for eventfds, 11% for
  pipes, 6% for AF_UNIX sockets. close(2) is untouched and will-it-scale
  is within 2%.

  The spufs coredump support is removed. It was the only reason
  do_coredump() unshared the descriptor table. gdb dropped Cell
  debugging in 9.1 and binutils in 2.34, the Cell blades are gone and
  nothing on the PlayStation 3 produces or reads these notes. With that
  unshare_files() goes away, exec installs its private table through the
  new switch_files_struct() and the coredump startup completion becomes
  a plain thread count waited on with the new wait_var_event_state().

  Three fixes for the synchronous close are included. A failed fork
  released its files under scx_fork_rwsem and deadlocked against the bpf
  link's release. A session leader's exit released its tty before
  disassociate_ctty() ran and the foreground job lost its SIGHUP, so the
  tty is hung up before the files are closed now. And descriptor tables
  are walked from the highest descriptor down which restores the order
  the deferred puts had and keeps a few long-standing release ordering
  bugs from deadlocking exit"

* tag 'vfs-7.4-rc1.sync_close' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  fs: close files from the highest descriptor down
  coredump: factor out coredump_wait_inactive()
  exit: hang up the tty before closing the files
  fork: release the files of a failed fork after sched_cancel_fork()
  coredump: replace the startup completion with a thread count
  sched: add wait_var_event_state()
  coredump: drop core_state->dumper
  fs: make close_cloexec_files() synchronous
  fs: rename do_close_on_exec() to close_cloexec_files()
  fs: make close_range() synchronous
  fs: make close_files() synchronous
  fs: add filp_close_sync()
  fs: remove unshare_files()
  fs: move unshare_fd() to fs/file.c
  fs: add switch_files_struct()
  coredump: stop unsharing the file descriptor table
  fs: don't open-code file_close_fd() in close_fd()
  powerpc: remove coredump support
2026-10-19 21:03:21 -10:00
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bpf vfs-7.4-rc1.idmap 2026-10-19 17:57:49 -10:00
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: Update cgroup time when rotating multiplexed events 2026-10-16 09:49:01 +02:00
futex futex: Fix mm reuse handling for FUT_OFF_MMSHARED 2026-10-14 15:11:48 +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 printk: Postpone kthread startup 2026-10-16 17:07:29 +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 Scheduler fixes: 2026-10-18 07:35:30 -10:00
tests userns: rename insert_extent() and sort_idmaps() 2026-09-11 15:00:37 +02:00
time time/jiffies: Saturate in mult_hz() instead of wrapping 2026-09-29 10:00:40 +02:00
trace tracing fixes for v7.3: 2026-10-16 14:27:22 -10:00
unwind Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments 2026-02-21 20:03:00 -08:00
.gitignore kheaders: rebuild kheaders_data.tar.xz when a file is modified within a minute 2025-06-24 20:30:37 +09:00
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 vfs-7.4-rc1.idmap 2026-10-19 17:57:49 -10:00
cfi.c cfi: Move BPF CFI types and helpers to generic code 2025-07-31 18:23:53 -07:00
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 vfs-7.4-rc1.sync_close 2026-10-19 21:03:21 -10:00
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 vfs-7.4-rc1.sync_close 2026-10-19 21:03:21 -10:00
freezer.c freezer: Clarify that only cgroup1 freezer uses PM freezer 2025-10-30 20:10:27 +01:00
gen_kheaders.sh kheaders: make it possible to override TAR 2025-08-06 10:23:36 +09:00
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: enable CMA based contiguous allocation 2025-08-02 12:01:38 -07:00
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 vfs-7.4-rc1.coredump 2026-10-19 17:21:24 -10:00
latencytop.c
Makefile userns: Add KUnit test suite for uid_gid_map 2026-09-09 09:45:01 +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 kernel-7.4-rc1.signal 2026-10-19 16:22:15 -10:00
pid_sysctl.h
pid.c pid: use READ_ONCE() in pid_alive() 2026-10-12 11:13:01 +02:00
profile.c
ptrace.c ptrace: refuse to change the signal mask of a user worker 2026-09-22 15:33:16 +02:00
range.c
reboot.c Merge branch 'for-7.3-hotfix' into for-linus 2026-10-16 17:38:25 +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 kernel-7.4-rc1.signal 2026-10-19 16:22:15 -10:00
smp.c SMP core updates: 2026-08-18 15:29:53 -07:00
smpboot.c sched/smp: Use the SMP version of idle_thread_set_boot_cpu() 2025-06-13 08:47:20 +02:00
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 vfs-7.4-rc1.idmap 2026-10-19 17:57:49 -10:00
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 uts: drop BUG_ON() in copy_utsname() 2026-09-04 12:46:45 +02:00
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