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, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index ed5966a7049512..e9291e27cc47f3 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1228,8 +1228,8 @@ struct super_block {
 #endif
 	struct hlist_bl_head	s_roots;	/* alternate root dentries for NFS */
 	struct list_head	s_mounts;	/* list of mounts; _not_ for fs use */
-	struct block_device	*s_bdev;
-	struct bdev_handle	*s_bdev_handle;
+	struct block_device	*s_bdev;	/* can go away once we use an accessor for @s_bdev_file */
+	struct file		*s_bdev_file;
 	struct backing_dev_info *s_bdi;
 	struct mtd_info		*s_mtd;
 	struct hlist_node	s_instances;
@@ -1327,6 +1327,12 @@ struct super_block {
 	struct list_head	s_inodes_wb;	/* writeback inodes */
 } __randomize_layout;
 
+/* Temporary helper that will go away. */
+static inline struct bdev_handle *sb_bdev_handle(struct super_block *sb)
+{
+	return sb->s_bdev_file->private_data;
+}
+
 static inline struct user_namespace *i_user_ns(const struct inode *inode)
 {
 	return inode->i_sb->s_user_ns;