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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-08-19 10:09:22 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-08-19 10:09:22 -0700 |
| commit | f4cdf7ca9a1fdcca413157df19753f388a5a224e (patch) | |
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Merge tag 'media/v7.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-mediagrafted
Pull media updates from Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
- v4l2-core: added ISP statistics support and per-block validation
- v4l2-core: Allow unknown HDR10 white point and luminance
- New camera sensors: Sony IMX678 and IMX471m, Himax HM1092 IR sensor
- New codec: Milos: VPU v2.0 codec support
- isp driver: gained support for Dreamchip RPPX1 ISP framework
- vsp1 driver: gained support for RZ/T2H and RZ/N2H
- Novalake driver: gained CVS support for new NVL hardware
- dvb-core: fix feed leak on failed DMX_ADD_PID
- several driver fixes, cleanups and minor improvements
* tag 'media/v7.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (308 commits)
media: ipu-bridge: check all DMI entries when overriding sensor rotation
media: v4l2-async: avoid deleting unlinked ASC entry on link error
media: rzg2l-cru: Align bytesperline to hardware DMA stride requirement
media: intel/ipu6: fix async notifier cleanup leak on parse error
media: staging/ipu7: fix async notifier UAF on probe error path
media: amd: isp4: fix self-deadlock in isp4sd_pwron_and_init() error path
media: amd: isp4: release partial allocations in isp4if_alloc_fw_gpumem()
media: rcar-isp: Fix VSPX reference leaks
media: rcar-isp: Release ISPCORE resources
media: i2c: imx415: Release runtime PM reference on VBLANK error
media: i2c: imx415: Return test pattern write errors
media: renesas: vsp1: Declare index variables in for loop statement
media: renesas: vsp1: Make reset control optional to support platforms without a reset line
media: dt-bindings: media: renesas,vsp1: Document RZ/T2H and RZ/N2H SoCs
media: dt-bindings: media: renesas,fcp: Document RZ/T2H and RZ/N2H SoCs
media: nxp: imx8-isi: Add additional 32-bit RGB format support
media: nxp: imx8-isi: Add 16-bit raw Bayer format support
media: nxp: imx8-isi: Implement per-stream reference counting for multiplexed streams
media: nxp: imx8-isi: Use BIT_ULL() for 64-bit stream masks
media: nxp: imx8-isi: Correct color map between V4L2 and ISI
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/failfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/failfs.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..21ff2db79 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/failfs.rst @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +====== +failfs +====== + +failfs is a kernel-internal filesystem that fails every operation +reaching it with ``EOPNOTSUPP``. It is the counterpart to nullfs. Where +nullfs is permanently empty, failfs means "nothing is supported here". +It cannot be mounted from userspace, nothing can be mounted on top of +it. It cannot be cloned. + +The only way into it is the ``FD_FAILFS_ROOT`` file descriptor sentinel which +is understood by ``fchdir(2)`` and ``fchroot(2)``. + +Semantics +========= + +Every path walk of a component through failfs fails with +``EOPNOTSUPP`` before that component is parsed, including ``.``. + +No path lookup can open the root, not even with ``O_PATH``. + +A process with its working directory in failfs fails every +``AT_FDCWD``-relative lookup. As with any working directory that is +unreachable from the process root, the ``getcwd(2)`` system call returns +a path prefixed with ``(unreachable)``. + +A process with its root directory in failfs fails every absolute path +lookup including absolute symlinks and the interpreter of dynamically +linked binaries. In other words, this fails exec. + +Lookups anchored at explicit directory file descriptors keep working. It +is the ``fs_struct`` equivalent of ``RESOLVE_BENEATH``. The process must +anchor every lookup at a file descriptor it explicitly holds. + +Entering +======== + +``fchroot(FD_FAILFS_ROOT, 0)`` requires ``CAP_SYS_CHROOT`` in the +caller's user namespace, mirroring ``chroot(2)``. Unprivileged callers +may enter if all of the following hold: + +* ``no_new_privs`` is set: setuid binaries on regular mounts remain + reachable via inherited directory file descriptors and executing them + with an unusable root directory is the classic confused deputy. + +* The caller is not already chrooted: the root directory is what + confines ``..`` resolution and the failfs root can never be reached by + walking up a real mount tree, so moving the root of a chrooted task to + failfs would allow it to escape its chroot via ``openat(fd, "..")``. + +* The caller does not share its ``fs_struct``: ``no_new_privs`` is + checked on the calling thread, but the root lives in the ``fs_struct``. + A ``CLONE_FS`` sibling without ``no_new_privs`` could otherwise execute + a setuid binary with the failfs root, so entry requires ``fs->users == + 1``, the same restriction ``setns(2)`` applies for the mount and user + namespaces. + +Leaving +======= + +Backing out is currently hard, but this is a property of the current +implementation, not a guaranteed interface, and may be loosened later. +For now a process that entered failfs counts as chrooted, so it cannot +create user namespaces to regain ``CAP_SYS_CHROOT``, and ``chroot(2)`` +or ``fchroot(2)`` back out require ``CAP_SYS_CHROOT``. The remaining way +out today is ``setns(2)`` with a mount namespace file descriptor, which +requires ``CAP_SYS_ADMIN`` over the target mount namespace as well as +``CAP_SYS_CHROOT`` and ``CAP_SYS_ADMIN`` in the caller's user namespace +and resets both root and working directory. A process that holds no such +file descriptor and restricts ``*chdir()``/``*chroot()``/``setns()`` via +seccomp cannot currently get back out. |
