[PATCH v3 0/9] tmpfs: Add case-insensitive support for tmpfs

[André Almeida]

Hi,

This series is based on [0].

This patchset adds support for case-insensitive file names lookups in
tmpfs. The main difference from other casefold filesystems is that tmpfs
has no information on disk, just on RAM, so we can't use mkfs to create a
case-insensitive tmpfs.  For this implementation, I opted to have a mount
option for casefolding. The rest of the patchset follows a similar approach
as ext4 and f2fs.

* Use case (from the original cover letter)

The use case for this feature is similar to the use case for ext4, to
better support compatibility layers (like Wine), particularly in
combination with sandboxing/container tools (like Flatpak). Those
containerization tools can share a subset of the host filesystem with an
application. In the container, the root directory and any parent
directories required for a shared directory are on tmpfs, with the
shared directories bind-mounted into the container's view of the
filesystem.

If the host filesystem is using case-insensitive directories, then the
application can do lookups inside those directories in a
case-insensitive way, without this needing to be implemented in
user-space. However, if the host is only sharing a subset of a
case-insensitive directory with the application, then the parent
directories of the mount point will be part of the container's root
tmpfs. When the application tries to do case-insensitive lookups of
those parent directories on a case-sensitive tmpfs, the lookup will
fail.

For example, if /srv/games is a case-insensitive directory on the host,
then applications will expect /srv/games/Steam/Half-Life and
/srv/games/steam/half-life to be interchangeable; but if the
container framework is only sharing /srv/games/Steam/Half-Life and
/srv/games/Steam/Portal (and not the rest of /srv/games) with the
container, with /srv, /srv/games and /srv/games/Steam as part of the
container's tmpfs root, then making /srv/games a case-insensitive
directory inside the container would be necessary to meet that
expectation.

* Testing

I send a patch for xfstests to enable the casefold test (generic/556) for
tmpfs.[1] The test succeed.

You can test this patchset using:

  sudo mount -t tmpfs -o casefold tmpfs mnt/

And making a dir case-insensitive:

  mkdir mnt/dir
  chattr +F mnt/dir

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20210323195941.69720-1-andrealmeid@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/fstests/20240823173008.280917-1-andrealmeid@xxxxxxxxxx/

Changes in v3:
 - Renamed utf8_check_strict_name() to generic_ci_validate_strict_name(), and
 reworked the big if(...) to be more clear
 - Expose the latest UTF-8 version in include/linux/unicode.h
 - shmem_lookup() now sets d_ops
 - reworked shmem_parse_opt_casefold()
 - if `mount -o casefold` has no param, load latest UTF-8 version
 - using (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_UNICODE) && IS_CASEFOLDED(dir) when possible
 - Fixed bug when adding a non-casefold flag in a non-empty dir
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240902225511.757831-1-andrealmeid@xxxxxxxxxx/

Changes in v2:
 - Found and fixed a bug in utf8_load()
 - Created a helper for checking strict file names (Krisman)
 - Merged patch 1/ and 3/ together (Krisman)
 - Reworded the explanation about d_compare (Krisman)
 - Removed bool casefold from shmem_sb_info (Krisman)
 - Reworked d_add(dentry, NULL) to be called as d_add(dentry, inode) (Krisman)
 - Moved utf8_parse_version to common unicode code
 - Fixed some smatch/sparse warnings (kernel test bot/Dan Carpenter)
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20240823173332.281211-1-andrealmeid@xxxxxxxxxx/

André Almeida (9):
  libfs: Create the helper function generic_ci_validate_strict_name()
  ext4: Use generic_ci_validate_strict_name helper
  unicode: Recreate utf8_parse_version()
  unicode: Export latest available UTF-8 version number
  libfs: Create the helper struct generic_ci_always_del_dentry_ops
  tmpfs: Add casefold lookup support
  tmpfs: Add flag FS_CASEFOLD_FL support for tmpfs dirs
  tmpfs: Expose filesystem features via sysfs
  docs: tmpfs: Add casefold options

 Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst |  23 +++
 fs/ext4/namei.c                     |   3 +-
 fs/libfs.c                          |  53 ++++++
 fs/unicode/utf8-core.c              |  29 ++++
 fs/unicode/utf8-selftest.c          |   3 -
 include/linux/fs.h                  |   2 +
 include/linux/shmem_fs.h            |   6 +-
 include/linux/unicode.h             |   5 +
 mm/shmem.c                          | 249 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 9 files changed, 355 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

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