* [PATCH v3] liveupdate: add LUO_SESSION_MAGIC magic inode type
@ 2026-04-17 20:40 luca.boccassi
2026-04-17 20:53 ` Pasha Tatashin
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: luca.boccassi @ 2026-04-17 20:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: kexec
Cc: linux-mm, graf, rppt, pasha.tatashin, pratyush, brauner, Luca Boccassi
From: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
In userspace when managing LUO sessions we want to be able to identify
a FD as a LUO session, in order to be able to do the special handling
that they require in order to function as intended on kexec.
Currently this requires scraping procfs and doing string matching on
the prefix of the dname, which is not an ideal interface.
Add a singleton inode type with a magic value, so that we can
programmatically identify a fd as a LUO session via fstat().
Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
---
This was requested by Lennart and Christian when discussing integration
with systemd for LUO management.
v2: apply one fix from bot review about cleanup on error path:
https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260415184536.1155220-1-luca.boccassi%40gmail.com
the other comments are invalid: luo is not a kmod, and the write hooks are not set up
v3: add test case to liveupdate selftest
include/uapi/linux/magic.h | 1 +
kernel/liveupdate/luo_core.c | 10 ++-
kernel/liveupdate/luo_internal.h | 2 +
kernel/liveupdate/luo_session.c | 73 +++++++++++++++++--
.../testing/selftests/liveupdate/liveupdate.c | 40 ++++++++++
5 files changed, 120 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/magic.h b/include/uapi/linux/magic.h
index 4f2da935a76cc..4f51005522ffe 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/magic.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/magic.h
@@ -105,5 +105,6 @@
#define PID_FS_MAGIC 0x50494446 /* "PIDF" */
#define GUEST_MEMFD_MAGIC 0x474d454d /* "GMEM" */
#define NULL_FS_MAGIC 0x4E554C4C /* "NULL" */
+#define LUO_SESSION_MAGIC 0x4c554f53 /* "LUOS" */
#endif /* __LINUX_MAGIC_H__ */
diff --git a/kernel/liveupdate/luo_core.c b/kernel/liveupdate/luo_core.c
index dda7bb57d421c..f1a63ebe4fa44 100644
--- a/kernel/liveupdate/luo_core.c
+++ b/kernel/liveupdate/luo_core.c
@@ -197,9 +197,17 @@ static int __init luo_late_startup(void)
if (!liveupdate_enabled())
return 0;
+ err = luo_session_fs_init();
+ if (err) {
+ luo_global.enabled = false;
+ return err;
+ }
+
err = luo_fdt_setup();
- if (err)
+ if (err) {
+ luo_session_fs_cleanup();
luo_global.enabled = false;
+ }
return err;
}
diff --git a/kernel/liveupdate/luo_internal.h b/kernel/liveupdate/luo_internal.h
index 8083d8739b093..d4ac7b4c58829 100644
--- a/kernel/liveupdate/luo_internal.h
+++ b/kernel/liveupdate/luo_internal.h
@@ -79,6 +79,8 @@ struct luo_session {
int luo_session_create(const char *name, struct file **filep);
int luo_session_retrieve(const char *name, struct file **filep);
+int __init luo_session_fs_init(void);
+void __init luo_session_fs_cleanup(void);
int __init luo_session_setup_outgoing(void *fdt);
int __init luo_session_setup_incoming(void *fdt);
int luo_session_serialize(void);
diff --git a/kernel/liveupdate/luo_session.c b/kernel/liveupdate/luo_session.c
index af9e498206d24..f30151c37bd43 100644
--- a/kernel/liveupdate/luo_session.c
+++ b/kernel/liveupdate/luo_session.c
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@
#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
-#include <linux/anon_inodes.h>
#include <linux/cleanup.h>
#include <linux/err.h>
#include <linux/errno.h>
@@ -62,7 +61,10 @@
#include <linux/libfdt.h>
#include <linux/list.h>
#include <linux/liveupdate.h>
+#include <linux/magic.h>
+#include <linux/mount.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
+#include <linux/pseudo_fs.h>
#include <linux/rwsem.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/unaligned.h>
@@ -376,18 +378,58 @@ static const struct file_operations luo_session_fops = {
.unlocked_ioctl = luo_session_ioctl,
};
+static struct vfsmount *luo_session_mnt __ro_after_init;
+static struct inode *luo_session_inode __ro_after_init;
+
+static char *luo_session_dname(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen)
+{
+ return dynamic_dname(buffer, buflen, "luo_session:%s",
+ dentry->d_name.name);
+}
+
+static const struct dentry_operations luo_session_dentry_operations = {
+ .d_dname = luo_session_dname,
+};
+
+static int luo_session_init_fs_context(struct fs_context *fc)
+{
+ struct pseudo_fs_context *ctx;
+
+ ctx = init_pseudo(fc, LUO_SESSION_MAGIC);
+ if (!ctx)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ fc->s_iflags |= SB_I_NOEXEC;
+ fc->s_iflags |= SB_I_NODEV;
+ ctx->dops = &luo_session_dentry_operations;
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static struct file_system_type luo_session_fs_type = {
+ .name = "luo_session",
+ .init_fs_context = luo_session_init_fs_context,
+ .kill_sb = kill_anon_super,
+};
+
/* Create a "struct file" for session */
static int luo_session_getfile(struct luo_session *session, struct file **filep)
{
- char name_buf[128];
+ char name_buf[LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_NAME_LENGTH + 1];
struct file *file;
lockdep_assert_held(&session->mutex);
- snprintf(name_buf, sizeof(name_buf), "[luo_session] %s", session->name);
- file = anon_inode_getfile(name_buf, &luo_session_fops, session, O_RDWR);
- if (IS_ERR(file))
+
+ ihold(luo_session_inode);
+
+ snprintf(name_buf, sizeof(name_buf), "%s", session->name);
+ file = alloc_file_pseudo(luo_session_inode, luo_session_mnt, name_buf,
+ O_RDWR, &luo_session_fops);
+ if (IS_ERR(file)) {
+ iput(luo_session_inode);
return PTR_ERR(file);
+ }
+ file->private_data = session;
*filep = file;
return 0;
@@ -662,3 +704,24 @@ void luo_session_resume(void)
up_write(&luo_session_global.outgoing.rwsem);
up_write(&luo_session_global.incoming.rwsem);
}
+
+int __init luo_session_fs_init(void)
+{
+ luo_session_mnt = kern_mount(&luo_session_fs_type);
+ if (IS_ERR(luo_session_mnt))
+ return PTR_ERR(luo_session_mnt);
+
+ luo_session_inode = alloc_anon_inode(luo_session_mnt->mnt_sb);
+ if (IS_ERR(luo_session_inode)) {
+ kern_unmount(luo_session_mnt);
+ return PTR_ERR(luo_session_inode);
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+void __init luo_session_fs_cleanup(void)
+{
+ iput(luo_session_inode);
+ kern_unmount(luo_session_mnt);
+}
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/liveupdate.c b/tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/liveupdate.c
index bdc1cedc4f944..27b3cbff6c739 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/liveupdate.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/liveupdate.c
@@ -22,9 +22,12 @@
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <sys/vfs.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <linux/liveupdate.h>
+#include <linux/magic.h>
#include "../kselftest.h"
#include "../kselftest_harness.h"
@@ -416,4 +419,41 @@ TEST_F(liveupdate_device, get_session_name_max_length)
ASSERT_EQ(close(session_fd), 0);
}
+/*
+ * Test Case: Session fstat
+ *
+ * Verifies that fstatfs() on a session file descriptor reports the
+ * LUO_SESSION_MAGIC filesystem type, and that fstat() returns consistent
+ * inode numbers across different sessions (shared singleton inode).
+ */
+TEST_F(liveupdate_device, session_fstat)
+{
+ int session_fd1, session_fd2;
+ struct statfs sfs;
+ struct stat st1, st2;
+
+ self->fd1 = open(LIVEUPDATE_DEV, O_RDWR);
+ if (self->fd1 < 0 && errno == ENOENT)
+ SKIP(return, "%s does not exist", LIVEUPDATE_DEV);
+ ASSERT_GE(self->fd1, 0);
+
+ session_fd1 = create_session(self->fd1, "fstat-session-1");
+ ASSERT_GE(session_fd1, 0);
+
+ session_fd2 = create_session(self->fd1, "fstat-session-2");
+ ASSERT_GE(session_fd2, 0);
+
+ /* Verify the filesystem type is LUO_SESSION_MAGIC */
+ ASSERT_EQ(fstatfs(session_fd1, &sfs), 0);
+ EXPECT_EQ(sfs.f_type, LUO_SESSION_MAGIC);
+
+ /* Verify both sessions share the same inode number */
+ ASSERT_EQ(fstat(session_fd1, &st1), 0);
+ ASSERT_EQ(fstat(session_fd2, &st2), 0);
+ EXPECT_EQ(st1.st_ino, st2.st_ino);
+
+ ASSERT_EQ(close(session_fd1), 0);
+ ASSERT_EQ(close(session_fd2), 0);
+}
+
TEST_HARNESS_MAIN
--
2.47.3
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2026-04-17 20:40 [PATCH v3] liveupdate: add LUO_SESSION_MAGIC magic inode type luca.boccassi
@ 2026-04-17 20:53 ` Pasha Tatashin
2026-04-17 20:59 ` Luca Boccassi
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Pasha Tatashin @ 2026-04-17 20:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: luca.boccassi
Cc: kexec, linux-mm, graf, rppt, pratyush, brauner, linux-kernel,
pasha.tatashin
On 04-17 21:40, luca.boccassi@gmail.com wrote:
> From: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
>
> In userspace when managing LUO sessions we want to be able to identify
> a FD as a LUO session, in order to be able to do the special handling
> that they require in order to function as intended on kexec.
>
> Currently this requires scraping procfs and doing string matching on
> the prefix of the dname, which is not an ideal interface.
>
> Add a singleton inode type with a magic value, so that we can
> programmatically identify a fd as a LUO session via fstat().
>
> Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
> ---
> This was requested by Lennart and Christian when discussing integration
> with systemd for LUO management.
>
> v2: apply one fix from bot review about cleanup on error path:
> https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260415184536.1155220-1-luca.boccassi%40gmail.com
> the other comments are invalid: luo is not a kmod, and the write hooks are not set up
> v3: add test case to liveupdate selftest
This should be split into two patches, also please CC:
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>
> include/uapi/linux/magic.h | 1 +
> kernel/liveupdate/luo_core.c | 10 ++-
> kernel/liveupdate/luo_internal.h | 2 +
> kernel/liveupdate/luo_session.c | 73 +++++++++++++++++--
> .../testing/selftests/liveupdate/liveupdate.c | 40 ++++++++++
> 5 files changed, 120 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/magic.h b/include/uapi/linux/magic.h
> index 4f2da935a76cc..4f51005522ffe 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/magic.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/magic.h
> @@ -105,5 +105,6 @@
> #define PID_FS_MAGIC 0x50494446 /* "PIDF" */
> #define GUEST_MEMFD_MAGIC 0x474d454d /* "GMEM" */
> #define NULL_FS_MAGIC 0x4E554C4C /* "NULL" */
> +#define LUO_SESSION_MAGIC 0x4c554f53 /* "LUOS" */
>
> #endif /* __LINUX_MAGIC_H__ */
> diff --git a/kernel/liveupdate/luo_core.c b/kernel/liveupdate/luo_core.c
> index dda7bb57d421c..f1a63ebe4fa44 100644
> --- a/kernel/liveupdate/luo_core.c
> +++ b/kernel/liveupdate/luo_core.c
> @@ -197,9 +197,17 @@ static int __init luo_late_startup(void)
> if (!liveupdate_enabled())
> return 0;
>
> + err = luo_session_fs_init();
> + if (err) {
> + luo_global.enabled = false;
> + return err;
> + }
> +
> err = luo_fdt_setup();
> - if (err)
> + if (err) {
> + luo_session_fs_cleanup();
> luo_global.enabled = false;
> + }
>
> return err;
> }
> diff --git a/kernel/liveupdate/luo_internal.h b/kernel/liveupdate/luo_internal.h
> index 8083d8739b093..d4ac7b4c58829 100644
> --- a/kernel/liveupdate/luo_internal.h
> +++ b/kernel/liveupdate/luo_internal.h
> @@ -79,6 +79,8 @@ struct luo_session {
>
> int luo_session_create(const char *name, struct file **filep);
> int luo_session_retrieve(const char *name, struct file **filep);
> +int __init luo_session_fs_init(void);
> +void __init luo_session_fs_cleanup(void);
> int __init luo_session_setup_outgoing(void *fdt);
> int __init luo_session_setup_incoming(void *fdt);
> int luo_session_serialize(void);
> diff --git a/kernel/liveupdate/luo_session.c b/kernel/liveupdate/luo_session.c
> index af9e498206d24..f30151c37bd43 100644
> --- a/kernel/liveupdate/luo_session.c
> +++ b/kernel/liveupdate/luo_session.c
> @@ -50,7 +50,6 @@
>
> #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
>
> -#include <linux/anon_inodes.h>
> #include <linux/cleanup.h>
> #include <linux/err.h>
> #include <linux/errno.h>
> @@ -62,7 +61,10 @@
> #include <linux/libfdt.h>
> #include <linux/list.h>
> #include <linux/liveupdate.h>
> +#include <linux/magic.h>
> +#include <linux/mount.h>
> #include <linux/mutex.h>
> +#include <linux/pseudo_fs.h>
> #include <linux/rwsem.h>
> #include <linux/slab.h>
> #include <linux/unaligned.h>
> @@ -376,18 +378,58 @@ static const struct file_operations luo_session_fops = {
> .unlocked_ioctl = luo_session_ioctl,
> };
>
> +static struct vfsmount *luo_session_mnt __ro_after_init;
> +static struct inode *luo_session_inode __ro_after_init;
> +
> +static char *luo_session_dname(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen)
> +{
> + return dynamic_dname(buffer, buflen, "luo_session:%s",
> + dentry->d_name.name);
> +}
> +
> +static const struct dentry_operations luo_session_dentry_operations = {
> + .d_dname = luo_session_dname,
> +};
> +
> +static int luo_session_init_fs_context(struct fs_context *fc)
> +{
> + struct pseudo_fs_context *ctx;
> +
> + ctx = init_pseudo(fc, LUO_SESSION_MAGIC);
> + if (!ctx)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> +
> + fc->s_iflags |= SB_I_NOEXEC;
> + fc->s_iflags |= SB_I_NODEV;
> + ctx->dops = &luo_session_dentry_operations;
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +static struct file_system_type luo_session_fs_type = {
> + .name = "luo_session",
> + .init_fs_context = luo_session_init_fs_context,
> + .kill_sb = kill_anon_super,
> +};
> +
> /* Create a "struct file" for session */
> static int luo_session_getfile(struct luo_session *session, struct file **filep)
> {
> - char name_buf[128];
> + char name_buf[LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_NAME_LENGTH + 1];
> struct file *file;
>
> lockdep_assert_held(&session->mutex);
> - snprintf(name_buf, sizeof(name_buf), "[luo_session] %s", session->name);
> - file = anon_inode_getfile(name_buf, &luo_session_fops, session, O_RDWR);
> - if (IS_ERR(file))
> +
> + ihold(luo_session_inode);
> +
> + snprintf(name_buf, sizeof(name_buf), "%s", session->name);
> + file = alloc_file_pseudo(luo_session_inode, luo_session_mnt, name_buf,
> + O_RDWR, &luo_session_fops);
> + if (IS_ERR(file)) {
> + iput(luo_session_inode);
> return PTR_ERR(file);
> + }
>
> + file->private_data = session;
> *filep = file;
>
> return 0;
> @@ -662,3 +704,24 @@ void luo_session_resume(void)
> up_write(&luo_session_global.outgoing.rwsem);
> up_write(&luo_session_global.incoming.rwsem);
> }
> +
> +int __init luo_session_fs_init(void)
> +{
> + luo_session_mnt = kern_mount(&luo_session_fs_type);
> + if (IS_ERR(luo_session_mnt))
> + return PTR_ERR(luo_session_mnt);
> +
> + luo_session_inode = alloc_anon_inode(luo_session_mnt->mnt_sb);
> + if (IS_ERR(luo_session_inode)) {
> + kern_unmount(luo_session_mnt);
> + return PTR_ERR(luo_session_inode);
> + }
> +
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +void __init luo_session_fs_cleanup(void)
> +{
> + iput(luo_session_inode);
> + kern_unmount(luo_session_mnt);
> +}
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/liveupdate.c b/tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/liveupdate.c
> index bdc1cedc4f944..27b3cbff6c739 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/liveupdate.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/liveupdate/liveupdate.c
> @@ -22,9 +22,12 @@
> #include <fcntl.h>
> #include <string.h>
> #include <sys/ioctl.h>
> +#include <sys/stat.h>
> +#include <sys/vfs.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
>
> #include <linux/liveupdate.h>
> +#include <linux/magic.h>
>
> #include "../kselftest.h"
> #include "../kselftest_harness.h"
> @@ -416,4 +419,41 @@ TEST_F(liveupdate_device, get_session_name_max_length)
> ASSERT_EQ(close(session_fd), 0);
> }
>
> +/*
> + * Test Case: Session fstat
> + *
> + * Verifies that fstatfs() on a session file descriptor reports the
> + * LUO_SESSION_MAGIC filesystem type, and that fstat() returns consistent
> + * inode numbers across different sessions (shared singleton inode).
> + */
> +TEST_F(liveupdate_device, session_fstat)
> +{
> + int session_fd1, session_fd2;
> + struct statfs sfs;
> + struct stat st1, st2;
Reverse-christmast-tree order please.
> +
> + self->fd1 = open(LIVEUPDATE_DEV, O_RDWR);
> + if (self->fd1 < 0 && errno == ENOENT)
> + SKIP(return, "%s does not exist", LIVEUPDATE_DEV);
> + ASSERT_GE(self->fd1, 0);
> +
> + session_fd1 = create_session(self->fd1, "fstat-session-1");
> + ASSERT_GE(session_fd1, 0);
> +
> + session_fd2 = create_session(self->fd1, "fstat-session-2");
> + ASSERT_GE(session_fd2, 0);
> +
> + /* Verify the filesystem type is LUO_SESSION_MAGIC */
> + ASSERT_EQ(fstatfs(session_fd1, &sfs), 0);
> + EXPECT_EQ(sfs.f_type, LUO_SESSION_MAGIC);
> +
> + /* Verify both sessions share the same inode number */
> + ASSERT_EQ(fstat(session_fd1, &st1), 0);
> + ASSERT_EQ(fstat(session_fd2, &st2), 0);
> + EXPECT_EQ(st1.st_ino, st2.st_ino);
> +
> + ASSERT_EQ(close(session_fd1), 0);
> + ASSERT_EQ(close(session_fd2), 0);
> +}
> +
> TEST_HARNESS_MAIN
> --
> 2.47.3
>
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread* Re: [PATCH v3] liveupdate: add LUO_SESSION_MAGIC magic inode type
2026-04-17 20:53 ` Pasha Tatashin
@ 2026-04-17 20:59 ` Luca Boccassi
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Luca Boccassi @ 2026-04-17 20:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Pasha Tatashin
Cc: kexec, linux-mm, graf, rppt, pratyush, brauner, linux-kernel
On Fri, 17 Apr 2026 at 21:53, Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> wrote:
>
> On 04-17 21:40, luca.boccassi@gmail.com wrote:
> > From: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
> >
> > In userspace when managing LUO sessions we want to be able to identify
> > a FD as a LUO session, in order to be able to do the special handling
> > that they require in order to function as intended on kexec.
> >
> > Currently this requires scraping procfs and doing string matching on
> > the prefix of the dname, which is not an ideal interface.
> >
> > Add a singleton inode type with a magic value, so that we can
> > programmatically identify a fd as a LUO session via fstat().
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > This was requested by Lennart and Christian when discussing integration
> > with systemd for LUO management.
> >
> > v2: apply one fix from bot review about cleanup on error path:
> > https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260415184536.1155220-1-luca.boccassi%40gmail.com
> > the other comments are invalid: luo is not a kmod, and the write hooks are not set up
> > v3: add test case to liveupdate selftest
>
> This should be split into two patches, also please CC:
> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
...
> Reverse-christmast-tree order please.
Done with v4, thanks
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