linux-kernel - [RFC 2/2] fuse: Add new flag to reuse the backing file of fuse

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Message-ID: <20260115072032.402-3-luochunsheng@ustc.edu>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:20:31 +0800
From: Chunsheng Luo <luochunsheng@...c.edu>
To: miklos@...redi.hu
Cc: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Chunsheng Luo <luochunsheng@...c.edu>
Subject: [RFC 2/2] fuse: Add new flag to reuse the backing file of fuse_inode

To simplify crash recovery and reduce performance impact, backing_ids
are not persisted across daemon restarts. However, this creates a
problem: when the daemon restarts and a process opens the same FUSE
file, a new backing_id may be allocated for the same backing file. If
the inode already has a cached backing file from before the restart,
subsequent open requests with the new backing_id will fail in
fuse_inode_uncached_io_start() due to fb mismatch, even though both
IDs reference the identical underlying file.

Introduce the FOPEN_PASSTHROUGH_INODE_CACHE flag to address this
issue. When set, the kernel reuses the backing file already cached in
the inode.

Signed-off-by: Chunsheng Luo <luochunsheng@...c.edu>
---
 fs/fuse/iomode.c          |  2 +-
 fs/fuse/passthrough.c     | 11 +++++++++++
 include/uapi/linux/fuse.h |  2 ++
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/fuse/iomode.c b/fs/fuse/iomode.c
index 3728933188f3..b200bb248598 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/iomode.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/iomode.c
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ static void fuse_file_uncached_io_release(struct fuse_file *ff,
  */
 #define FOPEN_PASSTHROUGH_MASK \
 	(FOPEN_PASSTHROUGH | FOPEN_DIRECT_IO | FOPEN_PARALLEL_DIRECT_WRITES | \
-	 FOPEN_NOFLUSH)
+	 FOPEN_NOFLUSH | FOPEN_PASSTHROUGH_INODE_CACHE)
 
 static int fuse_file_passthrough_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 {
diff --git a/fs/fuse/passthrough.c b/fs/fuse/passthrough.c
index 72de97c03d0e..fde4ac0c5737 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/passthrough.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/passthrough.c
@@ -147,16 +147,26 @@ ssize_t fuse_passthrough_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 /*
  * Setup passthrough to a backing file.
  *
+ * If fuse inode backing is provided and FOPEN_PASSTHROUGH_INODE_CACHE flag
+ * is set, try to reuse it first before looking up backing_id.
+ *
  * Returns an fb object with elevated refcount to be stored in fuse inode.
  */
 struct fuse_backing *fuse_passthrough_open(struct file *file, int backing_id)
 {
 	struct fuse_file *ff = file->private_data;
 	struct fuse_conn *fc = ff->fm->fc;
+	struct fuse_inode *fi = get_fuse_inode(file->f_inode);
 	struct fuse_backing *fb = NULL;
 	struct file *backing_file;
 	int err;
 
+	if (ff->open_flags & FOPEN_PASSTHROUGH_INODE_CACHE) {
+		fb = fuse_backing_get(fuse_inode_backing(fi));
+		if (fb)
+			goto do_open;
+	}
+
 	err = -EINVAL;
 	if (backing_id <= 0)
 		goto out;
@@ -166,6 +176,7 @@ struct fuse_backing *fuse_passthrough_open(struct file *file, int backing_id)
 	if (!fb)
 		goto out;
 
+do_open:
 	/* Allocate backing file per fuse file to store fuse path */
 	backing_file = backing_file_open(&file->f_path, file->f_flags,
 					 &fb->file->f_path, fb->cred);
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/fuse.h b/include/uapi/linux/fuse.h
index c13e1f9a2f12..3b681d502fc1 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/fuse.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/fuse.h
@@ -383,6 +383,7 @@ struct fuse_file_lock {
  * FOPEN_NOFLUSH: don't flush data cache on close (unless FUSE_WRITEBACK_CACHE)
  * FOPEN_PARALLEL_DIRECT_WRITES: Allow concurrent direct writes on the same inode
  * FOPEN_PASSTHROUGH: passthrough read/write io for this open file
+ * FOPEN_PASSTHROUGH_INODE_CACHE: reuse the backing file for passthrough reads/writes
  */
 #define FOPEN_DIRECT_IO		(1 << 0)
 #define FOPEN_KEEP_CACHE	(1 << 1)
@@ -392,6 +393,7 @@ struct fuse_file_lock {
 #define FOPEN_NOFLUSH		(1 << 5)
 #define FOPEN_PARALLEL_DIRECT_WRITES	(1 << 6)
 #define FOPEN_PASSTHROUGH	(1 << 7)
+#define FOPEN_PASSTHROUGH_INODE_CACHE	(1 << 8)
 
 /**
  * INIT request/reply flags
-- 
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