Re: [PATCH v2] fuse: reject fuse_notify() pagecache ops on directories

[Christian Brauner]

On Tue, 19 May 2026 16:29:38 +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> The operations FUSE_NOTIFY_STORE and FUSE_NOTIFY_RETRIEVE allow the
> FUSE daemon to actively write/read pagecache contents.
> 
> For directories with FOPEN_CACHE_DIR, the pagecache is used as
> kernel-internal cache storage, and userspace is not supposed to have
> direct access to this cache - in particular, fuse_parse_cache() will hit
> WARN_ON() if the cache contains bogus data.
> 
> [...]

Applied to the vfs.fixes branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs.fixes branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

Note that commit hashes shown below are subject to change due to rebase,
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tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs.fixes

[1/1] fuse: reject fuse_notify() pagecache ops on directories
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/ef5728148f16