Merge tag 'vfs-6.7-rc3.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull vfs fixes from Christian Brauner: - Avoid calling back into LSMs from vfs_getattr_nosec() calls. IMA used to query inode properties accessing raw inode fields without dedicated helpers. That was finally fixed a few releases ago by forcing IMA to use vfs_getattr_nosec() helpers. The goal of the vfs_getattr_nosec() helper is to query for attributes without calling into the LSM layer which would be quite problematic because incredibly IMA is called from __fput()... __fput() -> ima_file_free() What it does is to call back into the filesystem to update the file's IMA xattr. Querying the inode without using vfs_getattr_nosec() meant that IMA didn't handle stacking filesystems such as overlayfs correctly. So the switch to vfs_getattr_nosec() is quite correct. But the switch to vfs_getattr_nosec() revealed another bug when used on stacking filesystems: __fput() ...
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