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From: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
To: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
	NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>,
	Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>,
	Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
Subject: [PATCH v7 02/12] vfs: prepare vfs_creat|mkdir_no_perm for reuse in lookup_open()
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:37:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261016143806.2946578-3-jkoolstra@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261016143806.2946578-1-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().

Signed-off-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
---
 fs/namei.c | 77 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 file changed, 53 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 839258260ad5..ab09dd7f7475 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -4195,6 +4195,24 @@ 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);
+	if (!error)
+		fsnotify_create(dir, dentry);
+
+	return error;
+}
+
 /**
  * vfs_create - create new file
  * @idmap:	idmap of the mount the inode was found from
@@ -4227,13 +4245,8 @@ 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);
-	if (!error)
-		fsnotify_create(dir, dentry);
-	return error;
+
+	return vfs_create_no_perm(idmap, dentry, mode, di);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_create);
 
@@ -4447,6 +4460,7 @@ static struct dentry *atomic_open(const struct path *path, struct dentry *dentry
 		dput(dentry);
 		dentry = ERR_PTR(error);
 	}
+
 	return dentry;
 }
 
@@ -4573,6 +4587,7 @@ static struct dentry *lookup_open(struct nameidata *nd, struct file *file,
 			dentry = res;
 		}
 	}
+
 	if (dentry->d_inode || !(op->open_flag & O_CREAT)) {
 		/*
 		 * No need to create a file.  If lookup returned a positive
@@ -5387,6 +5402,33 @@ 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)
+{
+	unsigned max_links = dir->i_sb->s_max_links;
+	struct dentry *de;
+	int error;
+
+	if (max_links && dir->i_nlink >= max_links)
+		return ERR_PTR(-EMLINK);
+
+	error = try_break_deleg(dir, LEASE_BREAK_DIR_CREATE, di);
+	if (error)
+		return ERR_PTR(error);
+
+	de = dir->i_op->mkdir(idmap, dir, dentry, mode);
+	if (IS_ERR(de))
+		return de;
+	if (de) {
+		dput(dentry);
+		dentry = de;
+	}
+	fsnotify_mkdir(dir, dentry);
+	return dentry;
+}
+
 /**
  * vfs_mkdir - create directory returning correct dentry if possible
  * @idmap:		idmap of the mount the inode was found from
@@ -5414,7 +5456,6 @@ struct dentry *vfs_mkdir(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *dir,
 			 struct delegated_inode *delegated_inode)
 {
 	int error;
-	unsigned max_links = dir->i_sb->s_max_links;
 	struct dentry *de;
 
 	error = may_create_dentry(idmap, dir, dentry);
@@ -5430,24 +5471,12 @@ struct dentry *vfs_mkdir(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *dir,
 	if (error)
 		goto err;
 
-	error = -EMLINK;
-	if (max_links && dir->i_nlink >= max_links)
-		goto err;
-
-	error = try_break_deleg(dir, LEASE_BREAK_DIR_CREATE, delegated_inode);
-	if (error)
+	de = vfs_mkdir_no_perm(idmap, dir, dentry, mode, delegated_inode);
+	if (IS_ERR(de)) {
+		error = PTR_ERR(de);
 		goto err;
-
-	de = dir->i_op->mkdir(idmap, dir, dentry, mode);
-	error = PTR_ERR(de);
-	if (IS_ERR(de))
-		goto err;
-	if (de) {
-		dput(dentry);
-		dentry = de;
 	}
-	fsnotify_mkdir(dir, dentry);
-	return dentry;
+	return de;
 
 err:
 	end_creating(dentry);
-- 
2.56.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-10-16 14:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-16 14:37 [PATCH v7 00/12] vfs: add O_CREAT|O_DIRECTORY to open*(2) Jori Koolstra
2026-10-16 14:37 ` [PATCH v7 01/12] fs/namei.c: use trailing_slashes() Jori Koolstra
2026-10-16 14:37 ` Jori Koolstra [this message]
2026-10-16 14:37 ` [PATCH v7 03/12] vfs: lookup_open(): move setting FMODE_CREATED down Jori Koolstra
2026-10-16 14:37 ` [PATCH v7 04/12] vfs: move ->create check in lookup_open() to before try_break_deleg() Jori Koolstra
2026-10-16 14:37 ` [PATCH v7 05/12] vfs: lookup_open(): use vfs_create_no_perm() Jori Koolstra
2026-10-16 14:38 ` [PATCH v7 06/12] vfs: lookup_open(): lock the parent as I_MUTEX_PARENT Jori Koolstra
2026-10-16 14:38 ` [PATCH v7 07/12] kernfs: hold kernfs_iattr_rwsem when initializing a new inode Jori Koolstra
2026-10-16 14:50   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-16 23:57     ` Jori Koolstra
2026-10-16 14:38 ` [PATCH v7 08/12] vfs: add O_CREAT|O_DIRECTORY to open*(2) Jori Koolstra
2026-10-16 14:38 ` [PATCH v7 09/12] vfs: use finish_lookup() helper in __lookup_slow() and lookup_open() Jori Koolstra
2026-10-16 14:38 ` [PATCH v7 10/12] vfs: short-circuit MAY_WRITE access for O_DIRECTORY opens Jori Koolstra
2026-10-16 14:38 ` [PATCH v7 11/12] vfs: change ->create/->mkdir operations unavailable errno Jori Koolstra
2026-10-16 14:38 ` [PATCH v7 12/12] selftest: add tests for open*(O_CREAT|O_DIRECTORY) Jori Koolstra

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