[PATCH v3 09/13] filelock: lift the ban on directory leases in generic_setlease

Jan Kara jack at suse.cz
Wed Oct 22 09:03:19 UTC 2025


On Tue 21-10-25 11:25:44, Jeff Layton wrote:
> With the addition of the try_break_lease calls in directory changing
> operations, allow generic_setlease to hand them out. Write leases on
> directories are never allowed however, so continue to reject them.
> 
> For now, there is no API for requesting delegations from userland, so
> ensure that userland is prevented from acquiring a lease on a directory.
> 
> Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neil at brown.name>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at kernel.org>

Looks good. Feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>

								Honza

> ---
>  fs/locks.c | 12 ++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/locks.c b/fs/locks.c
> index 0b16921fb52e602ea2e0c3de39d9d772af98ba7d..b47552106769ec5a189babfe12518e34aa59c759 100644
> --- a/fs/locks.c
> +++ b/fs/locks.c
> @@ -1929,14 +1929,19 @@ static int generic_delete_lease(struct file *filp, void *owner)
>  int generic_setlease(struct file *filp, int arg, struct file_lease **flp,
>  			void **priv)
>  {
> -	if (!S_ISREG(file_inode(filp)->i_mode))
> +	struct inode *inode = file_inode(filp);
> +
> +	if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && !S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
>  	switch (arg) {
>  	case F_UNLCK:
>  		return generic_delete_lease(filp, *priv);
> -	case F_RDLCK:
>  	case F_WRLCK:
> +		if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
> +			return -EINVAL;
> +		fallthrough;
> +	case F_RDLCK:
>  		if (!(*flp)->fl_lmops->lm_break) {
>  			WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
>  			return -ENOLCK;
> @@ -2065,6 +2070,9 @@ static int do_fcntl_add_lease(unsigned int fd, struct file *filp, int arg)
>   */
>  int fcntl_setlease(unsigned int fd, struct file *filp, int arg)
>  {
> +	if (S_ISDIR(file_inode(filp)->i_mode))
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
>  	if (arg == F_UNLCK)
>  		return vfs_setlease(filp, F_UNLCK, NULL, (void **)&filp);
>  	return do_fcntl_add_lease(fd, filp, arg);
> 
> -- 
> 2.51.0
> 
-- 
Jan Kara <jack at suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR



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