bdev: open block device as files

Add two new helpers to allow opening block devices as files.
This is not the final infrastructure. This still opens the block device
before opening a struct a file. Until we have removed all references to
struct bdev_handle we can't switch the order:

* Introduce blk_to_file_flags() to translate from block specific to
  flags usable to pen a new file.
* Introduce bdev_file_open_by_{dev,path}().
* Introduce temporary sb_bdev_handle() helper to retrieve a struct
  bdev_handle from a block device file and update places that directly
  reference struct bdev_handle to rely on it.
* Don't count block device openes against the number of open files. A
  bdev_file_open_by_{dev,path}() file is never installed into any
  file descriptor table.

One idea that came to mind was to use kernel_tmpfile_open() which
would require us to pass a path and it would then call do_dentry_open()
going through the regular fops->open::blkdev_open() path. But then we're
back to the problem of routing block specific flags such as
BLK_OPEN_RESTRICT_WRITES through the open path and would have to waste
FMODE_* flags every time we add a new one. With this we can avoid using
a flag bit and we have more leeway in how we open block devices from
bdev_open_by_{dev,path}().

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240123-vfs-bdev-file-v2-1-adbd023e19cc@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index d35e85295489..08dcc3371aa0 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -1532,16 +1532,16 @@ int setup_bdev_super(struct super_block *sb, int sb_flags,
 		struct fs_context *fc)
 {
 	blk_mode_t mode = sb_open_mode(sb_flags);
-	struct bdev_handle *bdev_handle;
+	struct file *bdev_file;
 	struct block_device *bdev;
 
-	bdev_handle = bdev_open_by_dev(sb->s_dev, mode, sb, &fs_holder_ops);
-	if (IS_ERR(bdev_handle)) {
+	bdev_file = bdev_file_open_by_dev(sb->s_dev, mode, sb, &fs_holder_ops);
+	if (IS_ERR(bdev_file)) {
 		if (fc)
 			errorf(fc, "%s: Can't open blockdev", fc->source);
-		return PTR_ERR(bdev_handle);
+		return PTR_ERR(bdev_file);
 	}
-	bdev = bdev_handle->bdev;
+	bdev = file_bdev(bdev_file);
 
 	/*
 	 * This really should be in blkdev_get_by_dev, but right now can't due
@@ -1549,7 +1549,7 @@ int setup_bdev_super(struct super_block *sb, int sb_flags,
 	 * writable from userspace even for a read-only block device.
 	 */
 	if ((mode & BLK_OPEN_WRITE) && bdev_read_only(bdev)) {
-		bdev_release(bdev_handle);
+		fput(bdev_file);
 		return -EACCES;
 	}
 
@@ -1560,11 +1560,11 @@ int setup_bdev_super(struct super_block *sb, int sb_flags,
 	if (atomic_read(&bdev->bd_fsfreeze_count) > 0) {
 		if (fc)
 			warnf(fc, "%pg: Can't mount, blockdev is frozen", bdev);
-		bdev_release(bdev_handle);
+		fput(bdev_file);
 		return -EBUSY;
 	}
 	spin_lock(&sb_lock);
-	sb->s_bdev_handle = bdev_handle;
+	sb->s_bdev_file = bdev_file;
 	sb->s_bdev = bdev;
 	sb->s_bdi = bdi_get(bdev->bd_disk->bdi);
 	if (bdev_stable_writes(bdev))
@@ -1680,7 +1680,7 @@ void kill_block_super(struct super_block *sb)
 	generic_shutdown_super(sb);
 	if (bdev) {
 		sync_blockdev(bdev);
-		bdev_release(sb->s_bdev_handle);
+		fput(sb->s_bdev_file);
 	}
 }