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From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	 Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org,  linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,  Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>,
	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org,  Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>,
	David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>,
	 linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
	 linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Gao Xiang <xiang@kernel.org>,
	 linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org,
	 "Christian Brauner (Amutable)" <brauner@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH RFC v2 17/18] fs: look up the superblock via the device table in user_get_super()
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:08:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260616-work-super-bdev_holder_global-v2-17-7df6b864028e@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260616-work-super-bdev_holder_global-v2-0-7df6b864028e@kernel.org>

user_get_super() still finds the superblock for a device number by
walking the global super_blocks list under sb_lock. Every superblock is
registered in the device table under its s_dev since sget_fc() inserts
it there, including superblocks on anonymous devices, so use the table
instead.

The refcount-pinning cursor helpers super_dev_{get,first,next}() only
touch table state and do not depend on CONFIG_BLOCK, so drop the
CONFIG_BLOCK guard around them: their new caller serves anonymous
devices as well (ustat() on e.g. tmpfs) and is built without
CONFIG_BLOCK. The guard falls in this patch rather than separately
since without this caller the helpers would be unused without
CONFIG_BLOCK.

The pinned entry holds a passive reference on the superblock so
super_lock() can be called directly; once the superblock is locked grab
a passive reference for the caller before dropping the pin.

The device table contains more than the old walk could find: a
superblock is also registered for every additional device it claims
(the xfs log and realtime devices, btrfs member devices, the ext4
external journal, erofs blob devices). Don't filter those out:
specifying any device a filesystem uses now resolves to that
filesystem, so ustat() and quotactl() work on e.g. the xfs log device
or a btrfs member device (the latter used to fail outright as btrfs
superblocks carry an anonymous s_dev that never matches a member
device). When several superblocks share a device (erofs blob devices)
the first live superblock wins.

The cursor also keeps scanning past dying superblocks where the old
walk gave up after the first s_dev match, so a mount racing with the
unmount of the same device (or with the reuse of a recycled anonymous
dev_t) finds the live superblock where the old walk could spuriously
return NULL.

This removes the last s_dev-keyed walk of the super_blocks list and
takes ustat() and quotactl()'s block device lookup off sb_lock
entirely.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
---
 fs/super.c | 28 ++++++++--------------------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index 2d0a07861bfc..93f24aea75c4 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -501,7 +501,6 @@ static int super_dev_register(struct super_block *sb)
 	return err;
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
 static struct super_dev *super_dev_get(struct rhlist_head *pos)
 {
 	struct super_dev *sb_dev;
@@ -535,7 +534,6 @@ static struct super_dev *super_dev_next(struct super_dev *prev)
 	super_dev_put(prev);
 	return sb_dev;
 }
-#endif
 
 static void kill_super_notify(struct super_block *sb)
 {
@@ -1044,29 +1042,19 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(iterate_supers_type);
 
 struct super_block *user_get_super(dev_t dev, bool excl)
 {
-	struct super_block *sb;
-
-	spin_lock(&sb_lock);
-	list_for_each_entry(sb, &super_blocks, s_list) {
-		bool locked;
+	struct super_dev *sb_dev;
 
-		if (sb->s_dev != dev)
-			continue;
+	for (sb_dev = super_dev_first(dev); sb_dev; sb_dev = super_dev_next(sb_dev)) {
+		struct super_block *sb = sb_dev->sd_sb;
 
-		if (!refcount_inc_not_zero(&sb->s_passive))
+		if (!super_lock(sb, excl))
 			continue;
 
-		spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
-
-		locked = super_lock(sb, excl);
-		if (locked)
-			return sb;
-
-		put_super(sb);
-		spin_lock(&sb_lock);
-		break;
+		/* The pinned entry holds a passive reference, take our own. */
+		refcount_inc(&sb->s_passive);
+		super_dev_put(sb_dev);
+		return sb;
 	}
-	spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
 	return NULL;
 }
 

-- 
2.47.3


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-06-16 14:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-16 14:08 [PATCH RFC v2 00/18] fs: support freeze/thaw/mark_dead/sync with shared devices Christian Brauner
2026-06-16 14:08 ` [PATCH RFC v2 01/18] xfs: fix the error unwind in xfs_open_devices() Christian Brauner
2026-06-16 14:08 ` [PATCH RFC v2 02/18] super: convert s_count to refcount_t s_passive Christian Brauner
2026-06-16 14:08 ` [PATCH RFC v2 03/18] super: take lock after last reference count Christian Brauner
2026-06-16 14:08 ` [PATCH RFC v2 04/18] fs, block: move blk_mode_t and fop_flags_t into <linux/types.h> Christian Brauner
2026-06-16 14:08 ` [PATCH RFC v2 05/18] ext4: use anonymous devices for KUnit test superblocks Christian Brauner
2026-06-16 14:08 ` [PATCH RFC v2 06/18] ocfs2: don't reset s_dev on dismount Christian Brauner
2026-06-16 14:08 ` [PATCH RFC v2 07/18] fs: maintain a global device-to-superblock table Christian Brauner
2026-06-16 14:08 ` [PATCH RFC v2 08/18] fs: add dedicated block device open helpers for filesystems Christian Brauner
2026-06-16 14:08 ` [PATCH RFC v2 09/18] xfs: port to fs_bdev_file_open_by_path() Christian Brauner
2026-06-16 14:08 ` [PATCH RFC v2 10/18] btrfs: open via dedicated fs bdev helpers Christian Brauner
2026-06-16 14:08 ` [PATCH RFC v2 11/18] ext4: " Christian Brauner
2026-06-16 14:08 ` [PATCH RFC v2 12/18] fs: look up superblocks via the device table in fs_holder_ops Christian Brauner
2026-06-16 14:08 ` [PATCH RFC v2 13/18] fs: tolerate per-superblock freeze errors on shared devices Christian Brauner
2026-06-16 14:08 ` [PATCH RFC v2 14/18] erofs: open via dedicated fs bdev helpers Christian Brauner
2026-06-16 14:08 ` [PATCH RFC v2 15/18] f2fs: " Christian Brauner
2026-06-17  3:17   ` Chao Yu
2026-06-16 14:08 ` [PATCH RFC v2 16/18] super: make fs_holder_ops private Christian Brauner
2026-06-16 14:08 ` Christian Brauner [this message]
2026-06-16 14:08 ` [PATCH RFC v2 18/18] selftests/filesystems: add ustat() coverage Christian Brauner

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