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Merge tag 'vfs-6.8.rw' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull vfs rw updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains updates from Amir for read-write backing file helpers
for stacking filesystems such as overlayfs:
- Fanotify is currently in the process of introducing pre content
events. Roughly, a new permission event will be added indicating
that it is safe to write to the file being accessed. These events
are used by hierarchical storage managers to e.g., fill the content
of files on first access.
During that work we noticed that our current permission checking is
inconsistent in rw_verify_area() and remap_verify_area().
Especially in the splice code permission checking is done multiple
times. For example, one time for the whole range and then again for
partial ranges inside the iterator.
In addition, we mostly do permission checking before we call
file_start_write() except for a few places where we call it after.
For pre-content events we need such permission checking to be done
before file_start_write(). So this is a nice reason to clean this
all up.
After this series, all permission checking is done before
file_start_write().
As part of this cleanup we also massaged the splice code a bit. We
got rid of a few helpers because we are alredy drowning in special
read-write helpers. We also cleaned up the return types for splice
helpers.
- Introduce generic read-write helpers for backing files. This lifts
some overlayfs code to common code so it can be used by the FUSE
passthrough work coming in over the next cycles. Make Amir and
Miklos the maintainers for this new subsystem of the vfs"
* tag 'vfs-6.8.rw' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (30 commits)
fs: fix __sb_write_started() kerneldoc formatting
fs: factor out backing_file_mmap() helper
fs: factor out backing_file_splice_{read,write}() helpers
fs: factor out backing_file_{read,write}_iter() helpers
fs: prepare for stackable filesystems backing file helpers
fsnotify: optionally pass access range in file permission hooks
fsnotify: assert that file_start_write() is not held in permission hooks
fsnotify: split fsnotify_perm() into two hooks
fs: use splice_copy_file_range() inline helper
splice: return type ssize_t from all helpers
fs: use do_splice_direct() for nfsd/ksmbd server-side-copy
fs: move file_start_write() into direct_splice_actor()
fs: fork splice_file_range() from do_splice_direct()
fs: create {sb,file}_write_not_started() helpers
fs: create file_write_started() helper
fs: create __sb_write_started() helper
fs: move kiocb_start_write() into vfs_iocb_iter_write()
fs: move permission hook out of do_iter_read()
fs: move permission hook out of do_iter_write()
fs: move file_start_write() into vfs_iter_write()
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README
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.