Merging upstream version 6.8.9.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 40 deletions

diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index 3494a9cd80..a84d21e55c 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -304,6 +304,10 @@ int vfs_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len)
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
 
+	ret = fsnotify_file_area_perm(file, MAY_WRITE, &offset, len);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+
 	if (S_ISFIFO(inode->i_mode))
 		return -ESPIPE;
 
@@ -442,7 +446,8 @@ static const struct cred *access_override_creds(void)
 	 * 'get_current_cred()' function), that will clear the
 	 * non_rcu field, because now that other user may be
 	 * expecting RCU freeing. But normal thread-synchronous
-	 * cred accesses will keep things non-RCY.
+	 * cred accesses will keep things non-racy to avoid RCU
+	 * freeing.
 	 */
 	override_cred->non_rcu = 1;
 
@@ -1177,44 +1182,6 @@ struct file *kernel_file_open(const struct path *path, int flags,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kernel_file_open);
 
-/**
- * backing_file_open - open a backing file for kernel internal use
- * @user_path:	path that the user reuqested to open
- * @flags:	open flags
- * @real_path:	path of the backing file
- * @cred:	credentials for open
- *
- * Open a backing file for a stackable filesystem (e.g., overlayfs).
- * @user_path may be on the stackable filesystem and @real_path on the
- * underlying filesystem.  In this case, we want to be able to return the
- * @user_path of the stackable filesystem. This is done by embedding the
- * returned file into a container structure that also stores the stacked
- * file's path, which can be retrieved using backing_file_user_path().
- */
-struct file *backing_file_open(const struct path *user_path, int flags,
-			       const struct path *real_path,
-			       const struct cred *cred)
-{
-	struct file *f;
-	int error;
-
-	f = alloc_empty_backing_file(flags, cred);
-	if (IS_ERR(f))
-		return f;
-
-	path_get(user_path);
-	*backing_file_user_path(f) = *user_path;
-	f->f_path = *real_path;
-	error = do_dentry_open(f, d_inode(real_path->dentry), NULL);
-	if (error) {
-		fput(f);
-		f = ERR_PTR(error);
-	}
-
-	return f;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(backing_file_open);
-
 #define WILL_CREATE(flags)	(flags & (O_CREAT | __O_TMPFILE))
 #define O_PATH_FLAGS		(O_DIRECTORY | O_NOFOLLOW | O_PATH | O_CLOEXEC)
 
@@ -1574,7 +1541,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(close, unsigned int, fd)
 	int retval;
 	struct file *file;
 
-	file = close_fd_get_file(fd);
+	file = file_close_fd(fd);
 	if (!file)
 		return -EBADF;