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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "mm/rmap: index MAP_PRIVATE file-backed folios by anonymous pgoff"
(Lorenzo Stoakes)
Index MAP_PRIVATE file-backed folios by their anonymous page offset
to resolve confusion around reverse mapping for zeroed and CoW'd
file-backed memory.
Use this new VMA anonymous page offset tracking to eliminate index
conflicts and lay the foundation for scalable CoW performance
improvements.
- "promote mapped executable folios after first usage for MGLRU"
(Baolin Wang)
Make MGLRU's protection of mapped executable file folios more
reliable. Follow the classical LRU's logic, promoting mapped
executable file folios after their first usage to give executable
code a better chance to stay in memory and improve workload
performance.
- "mm: vmscan: fix node reclaim ignoring swappiness parameter" (Ridong
Chen)
Fix per-node proactive reclaim interface's ignoring the swappiness
parameter when CONFIG_MEMCG is disabled by consolidating
sc_swappiness() into a single function that checks
proactive_swappiness regardless of kernel configuration.
- "mm/vmscan: reduce lru_lock contention via vmstat-derived
scan-balance cost" (Usama Arif)
Reduce lru_lock contention in the reclaim path by deriving
scan-balance costs from vmstat counters rather than lock-acquired
producer updates.
Read and decay these cost signals on the reclaim side under a
dedicated per-lruvec lock, reducing total LRU lock wait time by over
60% without impacting scan throughput.
- "zram: fix zram issues reported by sashiko" (Sergey Senozhatsky)
Fix two low-risk zram bugs which Sashiko spotted in drive-by review.
- "Honor XA_FLAGS_ACCOUNT in xas_split_alloc() and charge to folio's
memcg" (Zi Yan)
Fix xas_split_alloc() by enabling target folio memcg charging during
splits and adding the missing __GFP_ACCOUNT flag for proper XArray
node memory accounting.
- "selftests/mm: use pattern matching in .gitignore" (Pratyush Mallick)
Replace hardcoded binary names in selftests/mm/.gitignore with a
generic pattern-matching rule to automatically ignore generated test
files and avoid manual updates when adding new tests.
- "mm/page_ext: remove pgdat_page_ext_init()" (Sang-Heon Jeon)
Make the incompatibility between FLATMEM and NUMA explicit in
mm/Kconfig and remove the unused pgdat_page_ext_init() function.
- "zram: fix zstd error paths and add parameter validation" (Haoqin
Huang)
Clean up zram compression backends by removing redundant error
cleanup, adding parameter and dictionary validation, auto-prefixing
algorithm error logs, and resetting parameters prior to
reinitialization.
- "zram: fix stale scan bounds after reinitialization" (Longlong Xia)
Prevent out-of-bounds slot accesses during concurrent zram resets by
moving table scan bound calculations under dev_lock in
writeback_store() and read_block_state().
- "add anon mTHP collapse test cases" (Baolin Wang)
Extend selftests helper functions to support arbitrary page orders
and add new test cases and options for mTHP collapse in khugepaged.
- "selftests/mm: Handle unsupported and transient test conditions"
(Muhammad Usama Anjum)
Update MM selftests to report a SKIP status instead of a failure when
required kernel or filesystem features are unsupported, while adding
retry logic for transient page migration errors.
- "mm/zswap: Fixes and improves the zswap shrink" (Hao Jia)
Fix the missing zswap global shrinker when CONFIG_MEMCG is disabled
and extend shrink_memcg() to support batch writeback for improved
writeback efficiency.
- "alloc_tag: introduce IOCTL-based filtering for MAP" (Suren
Baghdasaryan)
Introduce an IOCTL-based binary interface for memory allocation
profiling that enables kernel-side filtering before per-CPU counter
aggregation.
This eliminates the text-parsing overhead of /proc/allocinfo and
provides up to a 20x speedup by transferring only filtered allocation
data to userspace.
- "better block swap batching and a different take on swap_ops v5"
(Christoph Hellwig)
Refactor block swap I/O to use swap_iocb for batching instead of
single-bio requests and rebase the swap_ops interface, achieving
faster swap throughput during kernel builds.
- "mm: kmemleak: reduce transient false positives by confirming leaks"
(Catalin Marinas)
Reduce false-positive kmemleak reports by combining two kmemleak
enhancements that add a second confirmation scan and a configurable
minimum unreferenced scan count module parameter.
- "mm: kmemleak: default min_unref_scans to 2 for verbose kernels"
(Breno Leitao)
Auto-scanning kernels can generate false-positive memory leak reports
on single scans, so this patch defaults min_unref_scans to 2 when
CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_VERBOSE is enabled to require a second
confirming scan.
- "swap_ops updates" (Christoph Hellwig)
Batching I/O for synchronous swap devices causes performance
regressions and filesystem-based swap suffers from double-indirection
overhead. This series resolves both issues by reintroducing per-folio
writes for synchronous swap and allowing filesystems to directly
export their own swap_ops.
- "mm/khugepaged: several cleanups" (Nico Pache)
khugepaged accumulated redundant state-checking patterns and outdated
comments following mTHP integration. Introduce dedicated helpers for
PTE validation and event counting while refreshing the internal
documentation.
- "maple_tree: lock checking and clean ups" (Liam Howlett)
Syzbot reports incorrectly blame memory management exit paths for
locking bugs, maple tree erase operations risk allocation failures
without gfp flags and internal documentation lacks clarity.
Improve lock error detection, update docs, fix race and allocation
edge cases and optimize erase allocations using a fallback to
GFP_KERNEL | GFP_NOFAIL.
* tag 'mm-stable-2026-08-26-15-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (172 commits)
selftests/proc: make proc-maps-race work with READ_IMPLIES_EXEC
memcg: move LRU size accounting on reparenting instead of copying it
mm/vmscan: fix comment logic in balance_pgdat
maple_tree: add helper mas_make_walkable()
maple_tree: avoid extra gap calculation
maple_tree: fix argument name in header
maple_tree: change two GFP flags in tests
maple_tree: document erase and allocations better
maple_tree: avoid mas_erase() and mtree_erase() failures
maple_tree: document that erase may use GFP_KERNEL for allocations
maple_tree: catch race in mas_alloc_cyclic()
maple_tree: add bulk parent set helper
maple_tree: micro optimisation of mas_wr_store_type()
maple_tree: optimise mas_wr_node_store() when not in rcu mode
maple_tree: use prefetched value in mas_wr_store_type()
maple_tree: clarify comments on mas_nomem()
maple_tree: drop MAPLE_ALLOC_SLOTS
maple_tree: drop dead code from mas_extend_spanning_null()
maple_tree: documentation fix
maple_tree: add write lock checking with lockdep sequence numbers
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Currently swap to and from file systems goes through two indirect calls
between the swap ops and the swap_rw method. Reduce this by directly
providing the swap_ops from the file system.
For this refactor swap_fs_submit into a swap_fs_prepare_rw helper that
initializes the iov_iter on the callers stack so that file systems can
call it directly, and use that to initialize file system specific ops in
the NFS and SMB clients, which then get passed to swap_fs_activate.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260723054622.3460249-4-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Baoquan He <baoquan.he@linux.dev>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <ryncsn@gmail.com>
Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
Cc: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
- Improve performance by allowing parallel DIO writes when we were
previously being overly conservative when checking whether it was
safe to avoid requiring an exclusive lock
- Improve the performance of ext4_mb_prefetch() used by fallocate() by
avoiding work when it is not needed
- Remove the unnecessary custom end_io function
ext4_end_buffer_io_sync()
- Improve performance when performing an overwrite to an already
uptodate folio
- Clean up how we handle deallocating EA inodes to avoid a potential
lock ordering issue when there is a failed mount while an EA inode is
still being evicted
- Use str_plural() instead of a custom macro
- Avoid soft lockups or RCU stalls if there are many busy buffers
(caused by heavy I/O) while checkpointing
- Use scoped NOFS when starting a handle in nojournal mode
- Align fields in handle structure to optimize setting and getting the
h_type and h_line_no fields
- Fix documentation of the meta_bg block group layout
- Bug fixes:
- Fix a potential out-of-bounds read in ext4_read_inline_dir()
- Fix a potential deadlock when concurrent xattr operations are
racing with each other when some of the xattrs are using the
ea_inode feature
- Fix a spurious warning with data=journal that can be triggered
when writeback races with remounting the file system read-only
- Fix a potential deadlock when EXT4_IOC_MIGRATE races with a file
system freeze operation
- Make sure all in-flight direct I/O operations are complete before
falling back to buffered I/O
- Handle IOCB_NOWAIT properly when performing a extending DAX write
- Prevent potentially sleeping on a block allocation when
IOCB_NOWAIT is set
- Fix potential races when racing an inline data write with a page
fault
- Propagate errors when adding or removing extent ranges during a
fast commit replay
- Avoid trying to expand an inode's extra size when it is being
evicted to avoid a number of corner case or deadlocks
- Avoid spurious error when retrying inode extra size expansion
- Fix corner cases where we underestimate the number of journal
credits needed
- Avoid hangs/crashes/WARNINGS caused by maliciously corrupted file
systems
- Don't issue spurious orphan clean message on RO file systems
- Avoid leaving the file system in an inconsistent state after a
crash when a WRITE_ZEROS in progress converting an unwritten
extent to a written extent
- Handle WRITE_ZEROS correctly when there are some partially dirtied
regions in the page cache
- Pass errors during zero-rage, truncate, or punch hole to the
caller if ext4_get_block() fails
- Wait for writeback to finish when triggered by zero-range or
zero-range for those devices that require stable writes
- If the reserved gid superblock field is set, set the reserved gid
instead of the reserved uid
* tag 'ext4_for_linus-7.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (56 commits)
ext4: fix estimate extent index blocks in ext4_ext_index_trans_blocks()
ext4: fix transaction overflow during writeback
ext4: teach ext4_meta_trans_blocks() about number of allocated extents
ext4: guard against NULL s_group_info in ext4_get_group_info
ext4: fix spurious message about orphan cleanup on RO fs
ext4: stop retrying saturated xattr cache entries
ext4: don't enable DAX on new encrypted files
ext4: protect WRITE_ZEROES written extents with orphan list
ext4: export converted block count from ext4_convert_unwritten_extents()
ext4: fix incorrect function call when initializing s_resgid
ext4: validate EA inode i_nlink in ext4_xattr_inode_iget
jbd2: align h_type and h_line_no in the handle structure on byte boundaries
ext4: enable scoped NOFS when starting a handle in nojournal mode
ext4: write back partial-zeroed edges in WRITE_ZEROES
ext4: zero out whole block for clean edges in WRITE_ZEROES
ext4: track partial-zero outcome per edge in ext4_zero_partial_blocks()
ext4: clarify return semantics of ext4_load_tail_bh()
ext4: move partial block zeroing earlier in ext4_zero_range()
ext4: check return value of ext4_get_block() in ext4_load_tail_bh()
ext4: skip tail block zeroing for inline data files
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull vfs writeback updates from Christian Brauner:
"This makes sync_inode_metadata() and writeback_single_inode() persist
not only the inode but all metadata associated with it.
A new .sync_inode_metadata superblock operation is called from
__writeback_single_inode(). Alongside it a new I_METADATA_WRITEBACK
state flag is added.
Filesystems no longer need their own mmb_fsync() implementations and
can just use simple_fsync(). All metadata is now written for IS_SYNC
and IS_DIRSYNC inodes. Races where several fsyncs raced and mmb_sync()
could return before all buffers were really persisted are fixed since
I_SYNC now serializes properly.
The I_METADATA_WRITEBACK scheme also fixes the case where a
WB_SYNC_NONE writeback landing between write(2) and fsync(2) left
fsync(2) failing to persist the inode. That problem is not specific to
filesystems using the generic metadata bh tracking, and the ones that
do not are left alone.
ext2, udf, bfs, minix, fat and ext4 in nojournal mode have their data
integrity writeout fixed and are converted. affs drops metadata bh
tracking and mmb_fsync() is removed.
A few other fixes came out of this:
- a UAF in mark_buffer_write_io_error()
- missed inode writeback when racing with __writeback_single_inode()
- ext4 allocating the mapping_metadata_bhs struct on demand
- three fat fixes: a lost inode update in do_msdos_rename() with
DIRSYNC, inode buffer write errors not propagating out of
fat_sync_inode_metadata() and directory entries not being
persisted on fsync(2) of the root directory"
* tag 'vfs-7.3-rc1.sync' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (24 commits)
writeback: Export __inode_attach_wb()
fat: Fix persisting directory entries on fsync(2) of the root directory
fat: Propagate inode buffer write errors from fat_sync_inode_metadata()
fat: Fix lost inode update in do_msdos_rename() with DIRSYNC
vfs: Remove mmb_fsync()
fat: Replace fat_sync_inode() with sync_inode_metadata()
fat: Fix missed inode writeback during fsync(2)
ext4: Fix data integrity writeout issues in nojournal mode
minix: Fix data integrity writeout issues
bfs: Fix data integrity writeout issues
udf: Fold udf_update_inode() into udf_write_inode()
udf: Use sync_inode_metadata() in udf_evict_inode()
udf: Drop udf_sync_inode()
udf: Use sync_inode_metadata() to writeout IS_SYNC inode
udf: Fix data integrity writeout issues
ext2: Fix data integrity writeout issues
ext2: Avoid unnecessary inode buffer writeback for sync(2)
ext2: Drop __ext2_write_inode()
ext2: Fix lost inode updates for IS_SYNC inodes
fs: Provide way for filesystem to wait for metadata writeback
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull vfs superblock updates from Christian Brauner:
- Make it possible to share a block device between multiple
filesystems.
erofs can mount read-only blob devices shared between many
superblocks, but because we only tracked a single superblock a
freeze, thaw, removal or sync on such a device was never propagated
to all the superblocks using it, and there was no way to find them.
Add an efficient table to lookup all superblocks using a given block
device.
- A bunch of pre-existing fixes fell out of this work:
A block-device freeze racing a btrfs device change could leave the
whole filesystem stuck frozen. A bdev_freeze() issued by "dmsetup
suspend" or an LVM snapshot resolves that holder to freeze the
filesystem. and bdev_thaw() resolves it again to thaw. A freeze
landing while btrfs is adding, removing or replacing a device freezes
the filesystem. The membership change then drops that link. So the
matching thaw could no longer find the superblock.
Forbid freezing a device for the duration of a membership change,
modelled on deny_write_access()/allow_write_access().
* tag 'vfs-7.3-rc1.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (24 commits)
super: fix dying superblock warning messages
block: reject block device inodes with i_rdev == 0 in lookup_bdev()
selftests/filesystems: add ustat() coverage
fs: look up the superblock via the device table in user_get_super()
super: make fs_holder_ops private
f2fs: open via dedicated fs bdev helpers
erofs: open via dedicated fs bdev helpers
fs: tolerate per-superblock freeze errors on shared devices
fs: look up superblocks via the device table in fs_holder_ops
ext4: open via dedicated fs bdev helpers
btrfs: open via dedicated fs bdev helpers
xfs: port to fs_bdev_file_open_by_path()
fs: add dedicated block device open helpers for filesystems
fs: maintain a global device-to-superblock table
ocfs2: don't reset s_dev on dismount
ext4: use anonymous devices for KUnit test superblocks
fs, block: move blk_mode_t and fop_flags_t into <linux/types.h>
super: take lock after last reference count
super: convert s_count to refcount_t s_passive
btrfs: deny freezing devices undergoing a replace
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"Bigger cleanups:
- The lockref dead-count handling is tidied up.
The open-coded check for a count below zero as the dead marker
relies on information the caller should not have.
- make put_mnt_ns() leave mounts connected. Destroying a mount
namespace disconnected its mounts from their mount points. So a
file descriptor still open on the parent of a mount point could be
used to peek under it.
Locked mounts were already kept connected to prevent exactly that.
But a mount is only locked when its tree is copied across a user
namespace boundary. So a mount namespace set up by a privileged
component had no locked mounts and its mounts were disconnected.
Passing UMOUNT_CONNECTED keeps every mount connected and prevents
that bug.
- vfs_prepare_mode() passes S_IFDIR for directories. I meant to fix
that ago but didn't get to it. So now someone finally did it.
This kills the exception where the mode could be 0 when a directory
was created whereas every other creation operation passed it
explicitly already.
- move long delayed work for ufs, jffs2, hfsplus, hfs and affs from
the per-cpu system_long_wq to the new unbound system_dfl_long_wq.
None of that work relies on per-cpu state and the work item is
enqueued with queue_delayed_work() whose timer is global anyway. So
it may as well benefit from scheduler task placement.
Smaller fixes and cleanups:
- unlock_buffer() and journal_end_buffer_io_sync() use
clear_and_wake_up_bit()
- the pipe page pools are unified into a single per-pipe pool and the
extra wake_up(rd_wait) is limited to EPOLLET consumers
- eventpoll now computes its timer slack lazily in ep_poll()
- shrink_dcache_for_umount() keeps making progress on busy roots
- excess xarray nodes are freed in clear_inode()
- romfs detects hard link cycles
- the user path of nested backing files is fixed
- pidfd holds exec_update_lock around the namespace ioctl
- non-memcg-aware nr_cached_objects is skipped during memcg slab
shrink
- iomap_write_iter() always returns status
- mangle_path() is renamed to seq_mangle_path()
- inode timestamp accessors are annotated
- new regression test for pipe->poll_usage.
- a few documentation, kernel-doc and selftest fixes"
* tag 'vfs-7.3-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (67 commits)
selftests/namespaces: Fix racy pipe handshake in timens and pidns_separate
selftests/epoll: add a regression test for pipe->poll_usage
pipe: only enable the extra wake_up(rd_wait) for EPOLLET consumers
pidfd: hold exec_update_lock around namespace ioctl
fs: fix user path of nested backing files
fs: remove stale inode_insert5() kernel-doc parameter
fs: fix switch/case indentation in sysfs() syscall
fs: document semantics of kstat::{uid,gid} fields
dcache: keep shrink_dcache_for_umount() making progress on busy roots
seq_file: rename mangle_path to seq_mangle_path
nstree: add/fix struct ns_id_req kernel-doc member fields
dcache: use lockref routines for dead count checks
lockref: tidy up dead count handling
initramfs: fix typo in reserve_initrd_mem comment
fs/pipe: unify the page pools into a single per-pipe pool
fs: annotate inode timestamp accessors
eventpoll: compute timer slack lazily in ep_poll()
selftests/filesystems: add mntns cleanup test
put_mnt_ns(): leave mounts connected
affs: Move long delayed work on system_dfl_long_wq
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull vfs lookup updates from Christian Brauner:
"This refactors lookup_open() and adds vfs_lookup_open() for nfsd.
mnt_want_write() and parent locking are moved into lookup_open()
itself.
audit_inode_child() is also now called in lookup_open() on failure.
That is the calling convention in vfs_create() and vfs_mkdir(), but
lookup_open() made no such call when atomic_open() should have created
a file and did not. And neither did the regular ->create() path fwiw.
This also contains work to remove the unneeded excl argument from the
->create() inode op"
* tag 'vfs-7.3-rc1.lookup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
fs/namei.c: fix coding style in atomic_open() and lookup_open()
fs/namei.c: fix kerneldoc of atomic_open() and vfs_lookup_open()
fs/namei.c: update stale comments in lookup_open()
Remove excl arg to ->create inode_operation
fs/namei.c: update kerneldoc of atomic_open()
vfs: call audit_inode_child() in lookup_open() on failure
vfs: move create error && negative dentry case in lookup_open() up
VFS: add vfs_lookup_open() for nfsd
VFS: move delegated_inode retry loop into lookup_open()
VFS: move mnt_want_write() and locking into lookup_open()
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The only time that 'false' is passed as the 'excl' arg to the ->create
inode_operation is in lookup_open() when ->atomic_open is not provided
by the parent directory.
*all* directory inode_operations which do not have ->atomic_open
completely ignore the 'excl' arg.
Therefore we don't need the 'excl' arg. Those few ->create operations
which pay attention to the arg are only ever called with a value of
'true'.
We remove that arg and change all ->create operations to behave as those
thhe arg were 'true'.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/178290671516.27465.15984496764174914338@noble.neil.brown.name
Reviewed-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
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syzbot reported a KCSAN race between fill_mg_cmtime() and
inode_set_ctime_to_ts() on inode->i_ctime_{sec,nsec}.
stat/getattr can sample inode timestamps while update paths store new
values concurrently, so KCSAN can report benign races on these fields.
Annotate the timestamp accessors with READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE(), and use
the ctime accessor for the remaining ctime loads. This avoids the KCSAN
reports without changing timestamp semantics.
Fixes: 4e40eff0b573 ("fs: add infrastructure for multigrain timestamps")
Reported-by: syzbot+8b3bd9f8a06658479d4a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=8b3bd9f8a06658479d4a
Signed-off-by: Yu Peng <pengyu@kylinos.cn>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260708080232.2564807-1-pengyu@kylinos.cn
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
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Currently, inode and in general metadata writeback is handled in a lazy
manner. When inode is dirty, __writeback_single_inode() calls
.write_inode method which for lots of filesystems just copies inode
metadata into the underlying block buffer. Writeback of other metadata
associated with the inode (as well as buffers underlying inodes) is
usually handled completely separately and implicitely during writeback
of block device inode. This is good for efficiency of WB_SYNC_NONE
writeback or sync(2). However it becomes problematic for situations
where we want to make sure inode and its metadata is really persistent
on disk. fsync(2) is the most pronounced example of this and thus we
have grown a special file operation and various helper functions to
assist with this task. However fsync(2) is not the only case, For
example directories with DIRSYNC flag need similar functionality and
current use of sync_inode_metadata() for this task in filesystems
generally misses writeout of necessary metadata.
Furthermore even fsync(2) handling as implemented by simple_fsync() or
similar helpers is racy and can fail to properly persist the inode. The
problem is that WB_SYNC_NONE writeback can copy inode metadata into
underlying buffer and clean inode dirty bits. Following fsync(2) will
see inode is clean and will fail to make sure underlying buffer is
written out.
When multiple fsync(2) calls race, there's also another type of race
involving mmb_fsync(). There the problem is buffers already submitted to
the disk are no longer tracked in the mmb list and so racing mmb_sync()
can return before all of the IO completes.
Provide a new inode state bit I_METADATA_WRITEBACK tracking whether
writeback of inode related metadata may be needed for successful data
integrity sync and if this bit is set __writeback_single_inode() for
data integrity writeback will call new superblock operation
.sync_inode_metadata whose task is to make sure all metadata associated
with the inode (including the inode itself) is properly persisted. This
will allow filesystems to address the data integrity issues described
above and at the same time somewhat simplify our fsync implementations.
Issues with racing fsync(2) calls will be addressed by synchronization on
I_SYNC inode state which is set while calling .sync_inode_metadata, issues
with missed inode buffer writeback are fixed by filesystems looking up
corresponding buffer head and writing it out if needed.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260727104923.3828017-25-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
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Add a helper that drops an inode reference only if the caller does not
hold the last one. Returns true if the reference was dropped, false
otherwise.
This is useful for filesystems that need to release inode references
in contexts where triggering final iput (and thus eviction) would be
unsafe due to lock ordering constraints. The caller can check the
return value and defer the final iput to a safe context.
Unlike iput_not_last() which BUG_ON's if called with the last ref,
this variant is designed to be called speculatively.
Signed-off-by: Yun Zhou <yun.zhou@windriver.com>
Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Suggested-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
Tested-by: syzbot@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260710030851.2791589-2-yun.zhou@windriver.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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Ever since idmapped mounts were introduced, inode ownership checks (for
side-channel protection) in mincore() and madvise(MADV_PAGEOUT) were done
against the nop_mnt_idmap, which completely ignores the file's mount's
idmap. This results in odd edgecases like:
1) mount/bind-mount with an idmap userA:userB:1
2) userB runs an owner_or_capable() check on file that is owned by userA
on-disk/in-memory, but owned by userB after idmap translation
3) owner_or_capable() mysteriously fails as the correct idmap wasn't supplied
In the case of mincore/madvise MADV_PAGEOUT, this is usually benign,
because file_permission(file, MAY_WRITE) will probably succeed, as it uses
the proper idmap internally, but it does not need to be the case on e.g a
0444 file where even the owner itself doesn't have permissions to write to
it.
Since this is clearly not trivial to get right, introduce a
file_owner_or_capable() that can carry the correct semantics, and switch
the various users in mm to it.
The issue was found by manual code inspection & an off-list discussion
with Jan Kara.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260625153853.913949-1-pfalcato@suse.de
Fixes: 9caccd41541a ("fs: introduce MOUNT_ATTR_IDMAP")
Signed-off-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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blk_mode_t and fop_flags_t are both plain 'unsigned int __bitwise' flag
typedefs, exactly like the gfp_t, slab_flags_t and fmode_t that already
live in <linux/types.h>. Move them there so they are available
everywhere without having to drag in a subsystem header.
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260616-work-super-bdev_holder_global-v2-4-7df6b864028e@kernel.org
Tested-by: syzbot@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "khugepaged: add mTHP collapse support" (Nico Pache)
Provide khugepaged with the capability to collapse anonymous memory
regions to mTHPs
- "Remove CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS and enable file THP for writable
files" (Zi Yan)
Remove the READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS check in file_thp_enabled(), so that
khugepaged and MADV_COLLAPSE can run on filesystems with PMD THP
pagecache support even without READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS enabled
- "make MM selftests more CI friendly" (Mike Rapoport)
General fixes and cleanups to the MM selftests. Also move more MM
selftests under the kselftest framework, making them more amenable to
ongoing CI testing
- "selftests/mm: fix failures and robustness improvements" and
"selftests/mm: assorted fixes for hmm-tests" (Sayali Patil)
Fix several issues in MM selftests which were revealed by powerpc 64k
pagesize
* tag 'mm-stable-2026-06-23-08-55' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (118 commits)
Revert "mm: limit filemap_fault readahead to VMA boundaries"
mm/vmscan: pass NULL to trace vmscan node reclaim
mm: use mapping_mapped to simplify the code
selftests/mm: fix exclusive_cow test fork() handling
selftests/mm: remove hardcoded THP sizing assumptions in hmm tests
selftests/mm: allow PUD-level entries in compound testcase of hmm tests
mm/gup_test: reject wrapped user ranges
mm/page_frag: reject invalid CPUs in page_frag_test
mm/damon/core: always put unsuccessfully committed target pids
mm: page_isolation: avoid unsafe folio reads while scanning compound pages
mm/shrinker: do not hold RCU lock in shrinker_debugfs_count_show()
selftests: mm: fix and speedup "droppable" test
mm: merge writeout into pageout
MAINTAINERS: add Hao Ge as reviewer for codetag and alloc_tag
selftests/mm: clarify alternate unmapping in compaction_test
selftests/mm: move hwpoison setup into run_test() and silence modprobe output for memory-failure category
selftests/mm: skip uffd-stress test when nr_pages_per_cpu is zero
selftests/mm: skip uffd-wp-mremap if UFFD write-protect is unsupported
selftests/mm: ensure destination is hugetlb-backed in hugetlb-mremap
selftest/mm: register existing mapping with userfaultfd in hugetlb-mremap
...
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filemap_nr_thps*() are removed, the related field, address_space->nr_thps,
is no longer needed. Remove it. This shrinks struct address_space by 8
bytes on 64-bit systems which may increase the number of inodes we can
cache.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260517135416.1434539-8-ziy@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull procfs updates from Christian Brauner:
- Revamp fs/filesystems.c
The file was a mess with a hand-rolled linked list in desperate need
of a cleanup. The filesystems list is now RCU-ified, /proc files can
be marked permanent from outside fs/proc/, and the string emitted
when reading /proc/filesystems is pre-generated and cached instead of
pointer-chasing and printfing entry by entry on every read.
The file is read frequently because libselinux reads it and is linked
into numerous frequently used programs (even ones you would not
suspect, like sed!). Scalability also improves since reference
maintenance on open/close is bypassed.
open+read+close cycle single-threaded (ops/s):
before: 442732
after: 1063462 (+140%)
open+read+close cycle with 20 processes (ops/s):
before: 606177
after: 3300576 (+444%)
A follow-up patch adds missing unlocks in some corner cases and
tidies things up.
- Relax the mount visibility check for subset=pid mounts
When procfs is mounted with subset=pid, all static files become
unavailable and only the dynamic pid information is accessible. In
that case there is no point in imposing the full mount visibility
restrictions on the mounter - everything that can be hidden in procfs
is already inaccessible. These restrictions prevented procfs from
being mounted inside rootless containers since almost all container
implementations overmount parts of procfs to hide certain
directories.
As part of this /proc/self/net is only shown in subset=pid mounts for
CAP_NET_ADMIN, reconfiguring subset=pid is rejected, the
SB_I_USERNS_VISIBLE superblock flag is replaced with an
FS_USERNS_MOUNT_RESTRICTED filesystem flag, fully visible mounts are
recorded in a list, and the mount restrictions are finally
documented.
- Protect ptrace_may_access() with exec_update_lock in procfs
Most uses of ptrace_may_access() in procfs should hold
exec_update_lock to avoid TOCTOU issues with concurrent privileged
execve() (like setuid binary execution).
This fixes the easy cases - the owner and visibility checks and the
FD link permission checks - with the gnarlier ones to follow later.
* tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.procfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
fs: fix ups and tidy ups to /proc/filesystems caching
proc: protect ptrace_may_access() with exec_update_lock (FD links)
proc: protect ptrace_may_access() with exec_update_lock (part 1)
docs: proc: add documentation about mount restrictions
proc: handle subset=pid separately in userns visibility checks
proc: prevent reconfiguring subset=pid
proc: subset=pid: Show /proc/self/net only for CAP_NET_ADMIN
fs: cache the string generated by reading /proc/filesystems
sysfs: remove trivial sysfs_get_tree() wrapper
fs: RCU-ify filesystems list
fs: move SB_I_USERNS_VISIBLE to FS_USERNS_MOUNT_RESTRICTED
proc: allow to mark /proc files permanent outside of fs/proc/
namespace: record fully visible mounts in list
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"Features:
- Reduce pipe->mutex contention by pre-allocating pages outside the
lock in anon_pipe_write().
anon_pipe_write() called alloc_page() once per page while holding
pipe->mutex. The allocation can sleep doing direct reclaim and runs
memcg charging, which extends the critical section and stalls any
concurrent reader on the same mutex. Now up to 8 pages are
pre-allocated before the mutex is taken, leftovers are recycled
into the per-pipe tmp_page[] cache before unlock, and any remainder
is released after unlock, keeping the allocator out of the critical
section on both sides. On a writers x readers sweep with 64KB
writes against a 1 MB pipe throughput improves 6-28% and average
write latency drops 5-22%; under memory pressure - when the cost of
holding the mutex across reclaim is highest - throughput improves
21-48% and latency drops 17-33%. The microbenchmark is added to
selftests.
- uaccess/sockptr: fix the ignored_trailing logic in
copy_struct_to_user() to behave as documented and the usize check
in copy_struct_from_sockptr() for user pointers, and add
copy_struct_{from,to}_bounce_buffer() and copy_struct_to_sockptr()
helpers for upcoming users (IPPROTO_SMBDIRECT, IPPROTO_QUIC).
- bpf: add a sleepable bpf_real_inode() kfunc that resolves the real
inode backing a dentry via d_real_inode(). On overlayfs the inode
attached to the dentry doesn't carry the underlying device
information; this is used by the filesystem restriction BPF program
that was merged into systemd.
- docs: add guidelines for submitting new filesystems, motivated by
the maintenance burden abandoned and untestable filesystems impose
on VFS developers, blocking infrastructure work like folio
conversions and iomap migration.
Fixes:
- libfs: set SB_I_NOEXEC and SB_I_NODEV by default in init_pseudo()
and drop the now-redundant assignments in callers. This began as a
one-line dma-buf fix for a path_noexec() warning; a pseudo
filesystem has no reason not to set SB_I_NOEXEC. All init_pseudo()
callers were audited: the only visible effect is on dma-buf where
SB_I_NOEXEC silences the warning.
- Handle set_blocksize() failures in legacy filesystems (bfs, hpfs,
qnx4, jfs, befs, affs, isofs, minix, ntfs3, omfs). Mounting a
device with a sector size > PAGE_SIZE crashed roughly half of them;
the rest had the same missing error handling pattern. Plus a
follow-up releasing the superblock buffer_head when setting the
minix v3 block size fails.
- mount: honour SB_NOUSER in the new mount API.
- fs/fcntl: fix a SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order in fasync signaling by
switching the process-group paths of send_sigio() and send_sigurg()
from read_lock(&tasklist_lock) to RCU, matching the single-PID
path.
- vfs: add an FS_USERNS_DELEGATABLE flag and set it for NFS, fixing
delegated NFS mounts (fsopen() in a container with the mount
performed by a privileged daemon) that broke when non-init
s_user_ns was tied to FS_USERNS_MOUNT.
- selftests/namespaces: fix a hang in nsid_test where an unreaped
grandchild kept the TAP pipe write-end open, a waitpid(-1) race in
listns_efault_test, and a false FAIL on kernels without listns()
where the tests should SKIP.
- filelock: fix the break_lease() stub signature for
CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING=n.
- init/initramfs_test: wait for the async initramfs unpacking before
running; the test and do_populate_rootfs() share the parser state.
- fs/coredump: reduce redundant log noise in
validate_coredump_safety().
- iomap: pass the correct length to fserror_report_io() in
__iomap_write_begin().
- backing-file: fix the backing_file_open() kerneldoc.
Cleanups:
- initramfs: refactor the cpio hex header parsing to use hex2bin()
instead of the hand-rolled simple_strntoul() which is reverted, and
extend the initramfs KUnit tests to cover header fields with 0x
prefixes.
- Replace __get_free_pages() and friends with kmalloc()/kzalloc()
across quota, proc, ocfs2/dlm, nilfs2, nfs, nfsd, libfs, jfs, jbd2,
isofs, fuse, select, namespace, configfs, binfmt_misc, bfs, and the
do_mounts init code - part of the larger work of replacing page
allocator calls with kmalloc().
- Use clear_and_wake_up_bit() in unlock_buffer() and
journal_end_buffer_io_sync() instead of open-coding the sequence.
- Drop unused VFS exports: unexport drop_super_exclusive(), remove
start_removing_user_path_at(), and fold __start_removing_path()
into start_removing_path().
- fs/read_write: narrow the __kernel_write() export with
EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_MODULES().
- vfs: uapi: retire octal and hex constants in favor of (1 << n) for
the O_ flags. Finding a free bit for a new flag across the
architectures was needlessly hard with the mixed bases.
- dcache: add extra sanity checks of dead dentries in dentry_free()
via a new DENTRY_WARN_ONCE() that also prints d_flags.
- iov_iter: use kmemdup_array() in dup_iter() to harden the
allocation against multiplication overflow.
- fs/pipe: write to ->poll_usage only once.
- vfs: remove an always-taken if-branch in find_next_fd().
- dcache: use kmalloc_flex() for struct external_name in __d_alloc().
- namei: use QSTR() instead of QSTR_INIT() in path_pts().
- sync_file_range: delete dead S_ISLNK code.
- Comment fixes: retire a stale comment in fget_task_next() and fix
assorted spelling mistakes"
* tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (73 commits)
backing-file: fix backing_file_open() kerneldoc parameter
iomap: pass the correct len to fserror_report_io in __iomap_write_begin
vfs: add FS_USERNS_DELEGATABLE flag and set it for NFS
filelock: fix break_lease() stub signature for CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING=n
vfs: uapi: retire octal and hex numbers in favor of (1 << n) for O_ flags
bpf: add bpf_real_inode() kfunc
fs/read_write: Do not export __kernel_write() to the entire world
libfs: drop redundant SB_I_NOEXEC/SB_I_NODEV in init_pseudo() callers
libfs: set SB_I_NOEXEC and SB_I_NODEV by default in init_pseudo()
mount: honour SB_NOUSER in the new mount API
fs/fcntl: fix SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order in fasync signaling
selftests/pipe: add pipe_bench microbenchmark
fs/pipe: pre-allocate pages outside pipe->mutex in anon_pipe_write
fs: retire stale comment in fget_task_next()
fs: fix spelling mistakes in comment
bfs: replace get_zeroed_page() with kzalloc()
binfmt_misc: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc()
configfs: replace __get_free_pages() with kzalloc()
fs/namespace: use __getname() to allocate mntpath buffer
fs/select: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc()
...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull vfs writeback updates from Christian Brauner:
- Fix a race between cgroup_writeback_umount() and inode_switch_wbs()
When a container exits, a race between cgroup_writeback_umount() and
inode_switch_wbs()/cleanup_offline_cgwb() can trigger "VFS: Busy
inodes after unmount" followed by a use-after-free on percpu
counters.
There is a window between inode_prepare_wbs_switch() returning true
(having passed the SB_ACTIVE check and grabbed the inode) and the
subsequent wb_queue_isw() call: if cgroup_writeback_umount() observes
the global isw_nr_in_flight counter as non-zero but flush_workqueue()
finds nothing queued yet, it returns early - leaving a held inode
reference that blocks evict_inodes() and a later iput() that hits
freed percpu counters.
The race is closed by covering the window from
inode_prepare_wbs_switch() through wb_queue_isw() with an RCU
read-side critical section and synchronizing in the umount path.
On top of that the now-dead rcu_barrier() left over from the
queue_rcu_work() era is removed, and the global
synchronize_rcu()/flush_workqueue() pair is replaced with a per-sb
in-flight counter plus pin/unpin/drain helpers so umount no longer
serializes against switch activity on unrelated superblocks.
Under cgroup writeback churn on a 16 vCPU guest this takes umount
latency from ~92-138ms p50 down to ~5-8ms p50 and the cumulative cost
of cgroup_writeback_umount() from ~62ms to ~4us per call.
The initial race fix is kept separate and minimal so it backports
cleanly to stable trees that still queue switches via
queue_rcu_work().
- Improve write performance with RWF_DONTCACHE
Dirty DONTCACHE pages are now tracked per bdi_writeback so that the
writeback flusher can be kicked in a targeted fashion for
IOCB_DONTCACHE writes instead of relying on global writeback, and the
PG_dropbehind flag is preserved when a folio is split.
* tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.writeback' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
mm: kick writeback flusher for IOCB_DONTCACHE with targeted dirty tracking
mm: track DONTCACHE dirty pages per bdi_writeback
mm: preserve PG_dropbehind flag during folio split
writeback: use a per-sb counter to drain inode wb switches at umount
writeback: drop now-unnecessary rcu_barrier() in cgroup_writeback_umount()
writeback: fix race between cgroup_writeback_umount() and inode_switch_wbs()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull vfs superblock updates from Christian Brauner:
"This retires sget().
CIFS plus the two ext4 KUnit tests (extents-test, mballoc-test) were
the last in-tree callers, and all three convert cleanly to sget_fc().
That lets sget() and its prototype come out, taking ~60 lines that
only existed to be kept in lockstep with sget_fc() on every
publish-path change"
* tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
fs: retire sget()
smb: client: convert cifs_smb3_do_mount() to sget_fc()
ext4: convert mballoc KUnit test to sget_fc()
ext4: convert extents KUnit test to sget_fc()
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Commit e1c5ae59c0f2 ("fs: don't allow non-init s_user_ns for filesystems
without FS_USERNS_MOUNT") prevents the mount of any filesystem inside a
container that doesn't have FS_USERNS_MOUNT set.
This broke NFS mounts in our containerized environment. We have a daemon
somewhat like systemd-mountfsd running in the init_ns. A process does a
fsopen() inside the container and passes it to the daemon via unix
socket.
The daemon then vets that the request is for an allowed NFS server and
performs the mount. This now fails because the fc->user_ns is set to the
value in the container and NFS doesn't set FS_USERNS_MOUNT. We don't
want to add FS_USERNS_MOUNT to NFS since that would allow the container
to mount any NFS server (even malicious ones).
Add a new FS_USERNS_DELEGATABLE flag, and enable it on NFS.
Fixes: e1c5ae59c0f2 ("fs: don't allow non-init s_user_ns for filesystems without FS_USERNS_MOUNT")
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260129-twmount-v1-1-4874ed2a15c4@kernel.org
Acked-by: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@futurfusion.io>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
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The IOCB_DONTCACHE writeback path in generic_write_sync() calls
filemap_flush_range() on every write, submitting writeback inline in
the writer's context. Perf lock contention profiling shows the
performance problem is not lock contention but the writeback submission
work itself — walking the page tree and submitting I/O blocks the writer
for milliseconds, inflating p99.9 latency from 23ms (buffered) to 93ms
(dontcache).
Replace the inline filemap_flush_range() call with a flusher kick that
drains dirty pages in the background. This moves writeback submission
completely off the writer's hot path.
To avoid flushing unrelated buffered dirty data, add a dedicated
WB_start_dontcache bit and wb_check_start_dontcache() handler that uses
the per-wb WB_DONTCACHE_DIRTY counter to determine how many pages to
write back. The flusher writes back that many pages from the oldest dirty
inodes (not restricted to dontcache-specific inodes). This helps
preserve I/O batching while limiting the scope of expedited writeback.
Like WB_start_all, the WB_start_dontcache bit coalesces multiple
DONTCACHE writes into a single flusher wakeup without per-write
allocations. Use test_and_clear_bit to atomically consume the kick
request before reading the dirty counter and starting writeback, so that
concurrent DONTCACHE writes during writeback can re-set the bit and
schedule a follow-up flusher run.
Read the dirty counter with wb_stat_sum() (aggregating per-CPU batches)
rather than wb_stat() (which reads only the global counter) to ensure
small writes below the percpu batch threshold are visible to the flusher.
In filemap_dontcache_kick_writeback(), set the WB_start_dontcache bit
inside the unlocked_inode_to_wb_begin/end section for correct cgroup
writeback domain targeting, but defer the wb_wakeup() call until after
the section ends, since wb_wakeup() uses spin_unlock_irq() which would
unconditionally re-enable interrupts while the i_pages xa_lock may still
be held under irqsave during a cgroup writeback switch. Pin the wb with
wb_get() inside the RCU critical section before calling wb_wakeup()
outside it, since cgroup bdi_writeback structures are RCU-freed and the
wb pointer could become invalid after unlocked_inode_to_wb_end() drops
the RCU read lock.
Also add WB_REASON_DONTCACHE as a new writeback reason for tracing
visibility.
dontcache-bench results (same host, T6F_SKL_1920GBF, 251 GiB RAM,
xfs on NVMe, fio io_uring):
Buffered and direct I/O paths are unaffected by this patchset. All
improvements are confined to the dontcache path:
Single-stream throughput (MB/s):
Before After Change
seq-write/dontcache 298 897 +201%
rand-write/dontcache 131 236 +80%
Tail latency improvements (seq-write/dontcache):
p99: 135,266 us -> 23,986 us (-82%)
p99.9: 8,925,479 us -> 28,443 us (-99.7%)
Multi-writer (4 jobs, sequential write):
Before After Change
dontcache aggregate (MB/s) 2,529 4,532 +79%
dontcache p99 (us) 8,553 1,002 -88%
dontcache p99.9 (us) 109,314 1,057 -99%
Dontcache multi-writer throughput now matches buffered (4,532 vs
4,616 MB/s).
32-file write (Axboe test):
Before After Change
dontcache aggregate (MB/s) 1,548 3,499 +126%
dontcache p99 (us) 10,170 602 -94%
Peak dirty pages (MB) 1,837 213 -88%
Dontcache now reaches 81% of buffered throughput (was 35%).
Competing writers (dontcache vs buffered, separate files):
Before After
buffered writer 868 433 MB/s
dontcache writer 415 433 MB/s
Aggregate 1,284 866 MB/s
Previously the buffered writer starved the dontcache writer 2:1.
With per-bdi_writeback tracking, both writers now receive equal
bandwidth. The aggregate matches the buffered-vs-buffered baseline
(863 MB/s), indicating fair sharing regardless of I/O mode.
The dontcache writer's p99.9 latency collapsed from 119 ms to
33 ms (-73%), eliminating the severe periodic stalls seen in the
baseline. Both writers now share identical latency profiles,
matching the buffered-vs-buffered pattern.
The per-bdi_writeback dirty tracking dramatically reduces peak dirty
pages in dontcache workloads, with the 32-file test dropping from
1.8 GB to 213 MB. Dontcache sequential write throughput triples and
multi-writer throughput reaches parity with buffered I/O, with tail
latencies collapsing by 1-2 orders of magnitude.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260511-dontcache-v7-3-2848ddce8090@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
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sget() and sget_fc() have lived side by side as near-duplicate
find-or-create-and-publish helpers for the legacy and fs_context mount
APIs. The three remaining in-tree callers (CIFS plus the ext4 extents
and mballoc KUnit tests) have all been moved to sget_fc(). Nothing
calls sget() anymore.
Delete sget() from fs/super.c and the prototype in <linux/fs.h>.
Update the two comments that referred to "sget()" or "sget{_fc}()" to
just say "sget_fc()".
This removes ~60 lines of code that only existed to be kept in
lockstep with sget_fc() on every superblock publish-path change.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260529-work-sget-v2-4-57bbe08604e4@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
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Whether a filesystem's mounts need to undergo a visibility check in user
namespaces is a static property of the filesystem type, not a runtime
property of each superblock instance. Both proc and sysfs always set
SB_I_USERNS_VISIBLE on their superblocks unconditionally (sysfs does so
on first creation, and subsequent mounts reuse the same superblock).
Move this flag from sb->s_iflags (SB_I_USERNS_VISIBLE) to
file_system_type->fs_flags (FS_USERNS_MOUNT_RESTRICTED) so the intent
is expressed at the filesystem type level where it belongs.
All check sites are updated to test sb->s_type->fs_flags instead of
sb->s_iflags. The SB_I_NOEXEC and SB_I_NODEV flags remain on the
superblock as they are runtime properties set during fill_super.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/72887c5b6204dc3adf5a53104f0be6bd8bc4f6cd.1777278334.git.legion@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Aleksa Sarai <aleksa@amutable.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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The drivers list was protected by an rwlock; every mount, every open
of /proc/filesystems and the legacy sysfs(2) syscall walked a
hand-rolled singly-linked list under it. /proc/filesystems is
especially hot because libselinux causes programs as mundane as
mkdir, ls and sed to open and read it on every invocation.
Convert the list to an RCU-protected hlist and switch the writer side
to a plain spinlock. Writers keep their existing non-sleeping
section while readers walk under rcu_read_lock() with no lock traffic:
- register_filesystem()/unregister_filesystem() take
file_systems_lock, publish via hlist_{add_tail,del_init}_rcu()
and invalidate the cached /proc/filesystems string.
unregister_filesystem() keeps its synchronize_rcu() after
dropping the lock so in-flight readers are drained before the
module (and its embedded file_system_type) can go away.
- __get_fs_type(), list_bdev_fs_names() and the
fs_index()/fs_name()/fs_maxindex() helpers walk the list under
rcu_read_lock(). fs_name() continues to drop the read-side
lock after try_module_get() and accesses ->name outside the RCU
section; the module reference pins the embedded file_system_type
across the boundary.
struct file_system_type::next becomes struct hlist_node list; no
in-tree caller references the old ->next field outside
fs/filesystems.c.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260425220844.1763933-3-mjguzik@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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With this change only 0->1 and 1->0 transitions need the lock.
I verified all places which look at the refcount either only care about
it staying 0 (and have the lock enforce it) or don't hold the inode lock
to begin with (making the above change irrelevant to their correcness or
lack thereof).
I also confirmed nfs and btrfs like to call into these a lot and now
avoid the lock in the common case, shaving off some atomics.
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260421182538.1215894-4-mjguzik@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Similarly to inode_state_read_once(), it makes the caller spell out
they acknowledge instability of the returned value.
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260421182538.1215894-2-mjguzik@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "Eliminate Dying Memory Cgroup" (Qi Zheng and Muchun Song)
Address the longstanding "dying memcg problem". A situation wherein a
no-longer-used memory control group will hang around for an extended
period pointlessly consuming memory
- "fix unexpected type conversions and potential overflows" (Qi Zheng)
Fix a couple of potential 32-bit/64-bit issues which were identified
during review of the "Eliminate Dying Memory Cgroup" series
- "kho: history: track previous kernel version and kexec boot count"
(Breno Leitao)
Use Kexec Handover (KHO) to pass the previous kernel's version string
and the number of kexec reboots since the last cold boot to the next
kernel, and print it at boot time
- "liveupdate: prevent double preservation" (Pasha Tatashin)
Teach LUO to avoid managing the same file across different active
sessions
- "liveupdate: Fix module unloading and unregister API" (Pasha
Tatashin)
Address an issue with how LUO handles module reference counting and
unregistration during module unloading
- "zswap pool per-CPU acomp_ctx simplifications" (Kanchana Sridhar)
Simplify and clean up the zswap crypto compression handling and
improve the lifecycle management of zswap pool's per-CPU acomp_ctx
resources
- "mm/damon/core: fix damon_call()/damos_walk() vs kdmond exit race"
(SeongJae Park)
Address unlikely but possible leaks and deadlocks in damon_call() and
damon_walk()
- "mm/damon/core: validate damos_quota_goal->nid" (SeongJae Park)
Fix a couple of root-only wild pointer dereferences
- "Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon: warn commit_inputs vs other params race"
(SeongJae Park)
Update the DAMON documentation to warn operators about potential
races which can occur if the commit_inputs parameter is altered at
the wrong time
- "Minor hmm_test fixes and cleanups" (Alistair Popple)
Bugfixes and a cleanup for the HMM kernel selftests
- "Modify memfd_luo code" (Chenghao Duan)
Cleanups, simplifications and speedups to the memfd_lou code
- "mm, kvm: allow uffd support in guest_memfd" (Mike Rapoport)
Support for userfaultfd in guest_memfd
- "selftests/mm: skip several tests when thp is not available" (Chunyu
Hu)
Fix several issues in the selftests code which were causing breakage
when the tests were run on CONFIG_THP=n kernels
- "mm/mprotect: micro-optimization work" (Pedro Falcato)
A couple of nice speedups for mprotect()
- "MAINTAINERS: update KHO and LIVE UPDATE entries" (Pratyush Yadav)
Document upcoming changes in the maintenance of KHO, LUO, memfd_luo,
kexec, crash, kdump and probably other kexec-based things - they are
being moved out of mm.git and into a new git tree
* tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-18-02-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (121 commits)
MAINTAINERS: add page cache reviewer
mm/vmscan: avoid false-positive -Wuninitialized warning
MAINTAINERS: update Dave's kdump reviewer email address
MAINTAINERS: drop include/linux/liveupdate from LIVE UPDATE
MAINTAINERS: drop include/linux/kho/abi/ from KHO
MAINTAINERS: update KHO and LIVE UPDATE maintainers
MAINTAINERS: update kexec/kdump maintainers entries
mm/migrate_device: remove dead migration entry check in migrate_vma_collect_huge_pmd()
selftests: mm: skip charge_reserved_hugetlb without killall
userfaultfd: allow registration of ranges below mmap_min_addr
mm/vmstat: fix vmstat_shepherd double-scheduling vmstat_update
mm/hugetlb: fix early boot crash on parameters without '=' separator
zram: reject unrecognized type= values in recompress_store()
docs: proc: document ProtectionKey in smaps
mm/mprotect: special-case small folios when applying permissions
mm/mprotect: move softleaf code out of the main function
mm: remove '!root_reclaim' checking in should_abort_scan()
mm/sparse: fix comment for section map alignment
mm/page_io: use sio->len for PSWPIN accounting in sio_read_complete()
selftests/mm: transhuge_stress: skip the test when thp not available
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Commit c50ca15dd496 ("mm: add vm_ops->mapped hook") introduced
__vma_check_mmap_hook() in order to assert that a driver doesn't
incorrectly implement both an f_op->mmap() and a vm_ops->mapped hook, the
latter of which would not ultimately get invoked.
However, this did not correctly account for stacked drivers (or drivers
that otherwise use the compatibility layer) which might recursively call
an mmap_prepare hook via the compatibility layer.
Thus the nested mmap_prepare() invocation might result in a VMA which has
vm_ops->mapped set with an overlaying mmap() hook, causing the
__vma_check_mmap_hook() to fail in vfs_mmap(), wrongly failing the
operation.
This patch resolves this by simply removing the check, as we can't be
certain that an mmap() hook doesn't at some point invoke the compatibility
layer, and it's not worth trying to track it.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260413105713.92625-1-ljs@kernel.org
Fixes: c50ca15dd496 ("mm: add vm_ops->mapped hook")
Reported-by: Shinichiro Kawasaki <shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/adx2ws5z0NMIe5Yj@shinmob/
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Shinichiro Kawasaki <shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "maple_tree: Replace big node with maple copy" (Liam Howlett)
Mainly prepararatory work for ongoing development but it does reduce
stack usage and is an improvement.
- "mm, swap: swap table phase III: remove swap_map" (Kairui Song)
Offers memory savings by removing the static swap_map. It also yields
some CPU savings and implements several cleanups.
- "mm: memfd_luo: preserve file seals" (Pratyush Yadav)
File seal preservation to LUO's memfd code
- "mm: zswap: add per-memcg stat for incompressible pages" (Jiayuan
Chen)
Additional userspace stats reportng to zswap
- "arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page" (Mike Rapoport)
Some cleanups for our handling of ZERO_PAGE() and zero_pfn
- "mm/kmemleak: Improve scan_should_stop() implementation" (Zhongqiu
Han)
A robustness improvement and some cleanups in the kmemleak code
- "Improve khugepaged scan logic" (Vernon Yang)
Improve khugepaged scan logic and reduce CPU consumption by
prioritizing scanning tasks that access memory frequently
- "Make KHO Stateless" (Jason Miu)
Simplify Kexec Handover by transitioning KHO from an xarray-based
metadata tracking system with serialization to a radix tree data
structure that can be passed directly to the next kernel
- "mm: vmscan: add PID and cgroup ID to vmscan tracepoints" (Thomas
Ballasi and Steven Rostedt)
Enhance vmscan's tracepointing
- "mm: arch/shstk: Common shadow stack mapping helper and
VM_NOHUGEPAGE" (Catalin Marinas)
Cleanup for the shadow stack code: remove per-arch code in favour of
a generic implementation
- "Fix KASAN support for KHO restored vmalloc regions" (Pasha Tatashin)
Fix a WARN() which can be emitted the KHO restores a vmalloc area
- "mm: Remove stray references to pagevec" (Tal Zussman)
Several cleanups, mainly udpating references to "struct pagevec",
which became folio_batch three years ago
- "mm: Eliminate fake head pages from vmemmap optimization" (Kiryl
Shutsemau)
Simplify the HugeTLB vmemmap optimization (HVO) by changing how tail
pages encode their relationship to the head page
- "mm/damon/core: improve DAMOS quota efficiency for core layer
filters" (SeongJae Park)
Improve two problematic behaviors of DAMOS that makes it less
efficient when core layer filters are used
- "mm/damon: strictly respect min_nr_regions" (SeongJae Park)
Improve DAMON usability by extending the treatment of the
min_nr_regions user-settable parameter
- "mm/page_alloc: pcp locking cleanup" (Vlastimil Babka)
The proper fix for a previously hotfixed SMP=n issue. Code
simplifications and cleanups ensued
- "mm: cleanups around unmapping / zapping" (David Hildenbrand)
A bunch of cleanups around unmapping and zapping. Mostly
simplifications, code movements, documentation and renaming of
zapping functions
- "support batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU" (Baolin Wang)
Batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU. It's part cleanups; one
benchmark shows large performance benefits for arm64
- "memcg: obj stock and slab stat caching cleanups" (Johannes Weiner)
memcg cleanup and robustness improvements
- "Allow order zero pages in page reporting" (Yuvraj Sakshith)
Enhance free page reporting - it is presently and undesirably order-0
pages when reporting free memory.
- "mm: vma flag tweaks" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Cleanup work following from the recent conversion of the VMA flags to
a bitmap
- "mm/damon: add optional debugging-purpose sanity checks" (SeongJae
Park)
Add some more developer-facing debug checks into DAMON core
- "mm/damon: test and document power-of-2 min_region_sz requirement"
(SeongJae Park)
An additional DAMON kunit test and makes some adjustments to the
addr_unit parameter handling
- "mm/damon/core: make passed_sample_intervals comparisons
overflow-safe" (SeongJae Park)
Fix a hard-to-hit time overflow issue in DAMON core
- "mm/damon: improve/fixup/update ratio calculation, test and
documentation" (SeongJae Park)
A batch of misc/minor improvements and fixups for DAMON
- "mm: move vma_(kernel|mmu)_pagesize() out of hugetlb.c" (David
Hildenbrand)
Fix a possible issue with dax-device when CONFIG_HUGETLB=n. Some code
movement was required.
- "zram: recompression cleanups and tweaks" (Sergey Senozhatsky)
A somewhat random mix of fixups, recompression cleanups and
improvements in the zram code
- "mm/damon: support multiple goal-based quota tuning algorithms"
(SeongJae Park)
Extend DAMOS quotas goal auto-tuning to support multiple tuning
algorithms that users can select
- "mm: thp: reduce unnecessary start_stop_khugepaged()" (Breno Leitao)
Fix the khugpaged sysfs handling so we no longer spam the logs with
reams of junk when starting/stopping khugepaged
- "mm: improve map count checks" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Provide some cleanups and slight fixes in the mremap, mmap and vma
code
- "mm/damon: support addr_unit on default monitoring targets for
modules" (SeongJae Park)
Extend the use of DAMON core's addr_unit tunable
- "mm: khugepaged cleanups and mTHP prerequisites" (Nico Pache)
Cleanups to khugepaged and is a base for Nico's planned khugepaged
mTHP support
- "mm: memory hot(un)plug and SPARSEMEM cleanups" (David Hildenbrand)
Code movement and cleanups in the memhotplug and sparsemem code
- "mm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE and cleanup
CONFIG_MIGRATION" (David Hildenbrand)
Rationalize some memhotplug Kconfig support
- "change young flag check functions to return bool" (Baolin Wang)
Cleanups to change all young flag check functions to return bool
- "mm/damon/sysfs: fix memory leak and NULL dereference issues" (Josh
Law and SeongJae Park)
Fix a few potential DAMON bugs
- "mm/vma: convert vm_flags_t to vma_flags_t in vma code" (Lorenzo
Stoakes)
Convert a lot of the existing use of the legacy vm_flags_t data type
to the new vma_flags_t type which replaces it. Mainly in the vma
code.
- "mm: expand mmap_prepare functionality and usage" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Expand the mmap_prepare functionality, which is intended to replace
the deprecated f_op->mmap hook which has been the source of bugs and
security issues for some time. Cleanups, documentation, extension of
mmap_prepare into filesystem drivers
- "mm/huge_memory: refactor zap_huge_pmd()" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Simplify and clean up zap_huge_pmd(). Additional cleanups around
vm_normal_folio_pmd() and the softleaf functionality are performed.
* tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits)
mm: fix deferred split queue races during migration
mm/khugepaged: fix issue with tracking lock
mm/huge_memory: add and use has_deposited_pgtable()
mm/huge_memory: add and use normal_or_softleaf_folio_pmd()
mm: add softleaf_is_valid_pmd_entry(), pmd_to_softleaf_folio()
mm/huge_memory: separate out the folio part of zap_huge_pmd()
mm/huge_memory: use mm instead of tlb->mm
mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary sanity checks
mm/huge_memory: deduplicate zap deposited table call
mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary VM_BUG_ON_PAGE()
mm/huge_memory: add a common exit path to zap_huge_pmd()
mm/huge_memory: handle buggy PMD entry in zap_huge_pmd()
mm/huge_memory: have zap_huge_pmd return a boolean, add kdoc
mm/huge: avoid big else branch in zap_huge_pmd()
mm/huge_memory: simplify vma_is_specal_huge()
mm: on remap assert that input range within the proposed VMA
mm: add mmap_action_map_kernel_pages[_full]()
uio: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare in uio_info
drivers: hv: vmbus: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare
mm: allow handling of stacked mmap_prepare hooks in more drivers
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm
Pull LSM updates from Paul Moore:
"We only have five patches in the LSM tree, but three of the five are
for an important bugfix relating to overlayfs and the mmap() and
mprotect() access controls for LSMs. Highlights below:
- Fix problems with the mmap() and mprotect() LSM hooks on overlayfs
As we are dealing with problems both in mmap() and mprotect() there
are essentially two components to this fix, spread across three
patches with all marked for stable.
The simplest portion of the fix is the creation of a new LSM hook,
security_mmap_backing_file(), that is used to enforce LSM mmap()
access controls on backing files in the stacked/overlayfs case. The
existing security_mmap_file() does not have visibility past the
user file. You can see from the associated SELinux hook callback
the code is fairly straightforward.
The mprotect() fix is a bit more complicated as there is no way in
the mprotect() code path to inspect both the user and backing
files, and bolting on a second file reference to vm_area_struct
wasn't really an option.
The solution taken here adds a LSM security blob and associated
hooks to the backing_file struct that LSMs can use to capture and
store relevant information from the user file. While the necessary
SELinux information is relatively small, a single u32, I expect
other LSMs to require more than that, and a dedicated backing_file
LSM blob provides a storage mechanism without negatively impacting
other filesystems.
I want to note that other LSMs beyond SELinux have been involved in
the discussion of the fixes presented here and they are working on
their own related changes using these new hooks, but due to other
issues those patches will be coming at a later date.
- Use kstrdup_const()/kfree_const() for securityfs symlink targets
- Resolve a handful of kernel-doc warnings in cred.h"
* tag 'lsm-pr-20260410' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm:
selinux: fix overlayfs mmap() and mprotect() access checks
lsm: add backing_file LSM hooks
fs: prepare for adding LSM blob to backing_file
securityfs: use kstrdup_const() to manage symlink targets
cred: fix kernel-doc warnings in cred.h
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"Features:
- coredump: add tracepoint for coredump events
- fs: hide file and bfile caches behind runtime const machinery
Fixes:
- fix architecture-specific compat_ftruncate64 implementations
- dcache: Limit the minimal number of bucket to two
- fs/omfs: reject s_sys_blocksize smaller than OMFS_DIR_START
- fs/mbcache: cancel shrink work before destroying the cache
- dcache: permit dynamic_dname()s up to NAME_MAX
Cleanups:
- remove or unexport unused fs_context infrastructure
- trivial ->setattr cleanups
- selftests/filesystems: Assume that TIOCGPTPEER is defined
- writeback: fix kernel-doc function name mismatch for wb_put_many()
- autofs: replace manual symlink buffer allocation in autofs_dir_symlink
- init/initramfs.c: trivial fix: FSM -> Finite-state machine
- fs: remove stale and duplicate forward declarations
- readdir: Introduce dirent_size()
- fs: Replace user_access_{begin/end} by scoped user access
- kernel: acct: fix duplicate word in comment
- fs: write a better comment in step_into() concerning .mnt assignment
- fs: attr: fix comment formatting and spelling issues"
* tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (28 commits)
dcache: permit dynamic_dname()s up to NAME_MAX
fs: attr: fix comment formatting and spelling issues
fs: hide file and bfile caches behind runtime const machinery
fs: write a better comment in step_into() concerning .mnt assignment
proc: rename proc_notify_change to proc_setattr
proc: rename proc_setattr to proc_nochmod_setattr
affs: rename affs_notify_change to affs_setattr
adfs: rename adfs_notify_change to adfs_setattr
hfs: update comments on hfs_inode_setattr
kernel: acct: fix duplicate word in comment
fs: Replace user_access_{begin/end} by scoped user access
readdir: Introduce dirent_size()
coredump: add tracepoint for coredump events
fs: remove do_sys_truncate
fs: pass on FTRUNCATE_* flags to do_truncate
fs: fix archiecture-specific compat_ftruncate64
fs: remove stale and duplicate forward declarations
init/initramfs.c: trivial fix: FSM -> Finite-state machine
autofs: replace manual symlink buffer allocation in autofs_dir_symlink
fs/mbcache: cancel shrink work before destroying the cache
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull vfs buffer_head updates from Christian Brauner:
"This cleans up the mess that has accumulated over the years in
metadata buffer_head tracking for inodes.
It moves the tracking into dedicated structure in filesystem-private
part of the inode (so that we don't use private_list, private_data,
and private_lock in struct address_space), and also moves couple other
users of private_data and private_list so these are removed from
struct address_space saving 3 longs in struct inode for 99% of inodes"
* tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.bh.metadata' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (42 commits)
fs: Drop i_private_list from address_space
fs: Drop mapping_metadata_bhs from address space
ext4: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
minix: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
udf: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
fat: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
bfs: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
affs: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
ext2: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
fs: Provide functions for handling mapping_metadata_bhs directly
fs: Switch inode_has_buffers() to take mapping_metadata_bhs
fs: Make bhs point to mapping_metadata_bhs
fs: Move metadata bhs tracking to a separate struct
fs: Fold fsync_buffers_list() into sync_mapping_buffers()
fs: Drop osync_buffers_list()
kvm: Use private inode list instead of i_private_list
fs: Remove i_private_data
aio: Stop using i_private_data and i_private_lock
hugetlbfs: Stop using i_private_data
fs: Stop using i_private_data for metadata bh tracking
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While the conversion of mmap hooks to mmap_prepare is underway, we will
encounter situations where mmap hooks need to invoke nested mmap_prepare
hooks.
The nesting of mmap hooks is termed 'stacking'. In order to flexibly
facilitate the conversion of custom mmap hooks in drivers which stack, we
must split up the existing __compat_vma_mmap() function into two separate
functions:
* compat_set_desc_from_vma() - This allows the setting of a vm_area_desc
object's fields to the relevant fields of a VMA.
* __compat_vma_mmap() - Once an mmap_prepare hook has been executed upon a
vm_area_desc object, this function performs any mmap actions specified by
the mmap_prepare hook and then invokes its vm_ops->mapped() hook if any
were specified.
In ordinary cases, where a file's f_op->mmap_prepare() hook simply needs
to be invoked in a stacked mmap() hook, compat_vma_mmap() can be used.
However some drivers define their own nested hooks, which are invoked in
turn by another hook.
A concrete example is vmbus_channel->mmap_ring_buffer(), which is invoked
in turn by bin_attribute->mmap():
vmbus_channel->mmap_ring_buffer() has a signature of:
int (*mmap_ring_buffer)(struct vmbus_channel *channel,
struct vm_area_struct *vma);
And bin_attribute->mmap() has a signature of:
int (*mmap)(struct file *, struct kobject *,
const struct bin_attribute *attr,
struct vm_area_struct *vma);
And so compat_vma_mmap() cannot be used here for incremental conversion of
hooks from mmap() to mmap_prepare().
There are many such instances like this, where conversion to mmap_prepare
would otherwise cascade to a huge change set due to nesting of this kind.
The changes in this patch mean we could now instead convert
vmbus_channel->mmap_ring_buffer() to
vmbus_channel->mmap_prepare_ring_buffer(), and implement something like:
struct vm_area_desc desc;
int err;
compat_set_desc_from_vma(&desc, file, vma);
err = channel->mmap_prepare_ring_buffer(channel, &desc);
if (err)
return err;
return __compat_vma_mmap(&desc, vma);
Allowing us to incrementally update this logic, and other logic like it.
Unfortunately, as part of this change, we need to be able to flexibly
assign to the VMA descriptor, so have to remove some of the const
declarations within the structure.
Also update the VMA tests to reflect the changes.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/24aac3019dd34740e788d169fccbe3c62781e648.1774045440.git.ljs@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@foss.st.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Bodo Stroesser <bostroesser@gmail.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
Cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Previously, when a driver needed to do something like establish a
reference count, it could do so in the mmap hook in the knowledge that the
mapping would succeed.
With the introduction of f_op->mmap_prepare this is no longer the case, as
it is invoked prior to actually establishing the mapping.
mmap_prepare is not appropriate for this kind of thing as it is called
before any merge might take place, and after which an error might occur
meaning resources could be leaked.
To take this into account, introduce a new vm_ops->mapped callback which
is invoked when the VMA is first mapped (though notably - not when it is
merged - which is correct and mirrors existing mmap/open/close behaviour).
We do better that vm_ops->open() here, as this callback can return an
error, at which point the VMA will be unmapped.
Note that vm_ops->mapped() is invoked after any mmap action is complete
(such as I/O remapping).
We intentionally do not expose the VMA at this point, exposing only the
fields that could be used, and an output parameter in case the operation
needs to update the vma->vm_private_data field.
In order to deal with stacked filesystems which invoke inner filesystem's
mmap() invocations, add __compat_vma_mapped() and invoke it on vfs_mmap()
(via compat_vma_mmap()) to ensure that the mapped callback is handled when
an mmap() caller invokes a nested filesystem's mmap_prepare() callback.
Update the mmap_prepare documentation to describe the mapped hook and make
it clear what its intended use is.
The vm_ops->mapped() call is handled by the mmap complete logic to ensure
the same code paths are handled by both the compatibility and VMA layers.
Additionally, update VMA userland test headers to reflect the change.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4c5e98297eb0aae9565c564e1c296a112702f144.1774045440.git.ljs@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@foss.st.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Bodo Stroesser <bostroesser@gmail.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
Cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "mm: expand mmap_prepare functionality and usage", v4.
This series expands the mmap_prepare functionality, which is intended to
replace the deprecated f_op->mmap hook which has been the source of bugs
and security issues for some time.
This series starts with some cleanup of existing mmap_prepare logic, then
adds documentation for the mmap_prepare call to make it easier for
filesystem and driver writers to understand how it works.
It then importantly adds a vm_ops->mapped hook, a key feature that was
missing from mmap_prepare previously - this is invoked when a driver which
specifies mmap_prepare has successfully been mapped but not merged with
another VMA.
mmap_prepare is invoked prior to a merge being attempted, so you cannot
manipulate state such as reference counts as if it were a new mapping.
The vm_ops->mapped hook allows a driver to perform tasks required at this
stage, and provides symmetry against subsequent vm_ops->open,close calls.
The series uses this to correct the afs implementation which wrongly
manipulated reference count at mmap_prepare time.
It then adds an mmap_prepare equivalent of vm_iomap_memory() -
mmap_action_simple_ioremap(), then uses this to update a number of drivers.
It then splits out the mmap_prepare compatibility layer (which allows for
invocation of mmap_prepare hooks in an mmap() hook) in such a way as to
allow for more incremental implementation of mmap_prepare hooks.
It then uses this to extend mmap_prepare usage in drivers.
Finally it adds an mmap_prepare equivalent of vm_map_pages(), which lays
the foundation for future work which will extend mmap_prepare to DMA
coherent mappings.
This patch (of 21):
Rather than passing arbitrary fields, pass a vm_area_desc pointer to mmap
prepare functions to mmap prepare, and an action and vma pointer to mmap
complete in order to put all the action-specific logic in the function
actually doing the work.
Additionally, allow mmap prepare functions to return an error so we can
error out as soon as possible if there is something logically incorrect in
the input.
Update remap_pfn_range_prepare() to properly check the input range for the
CoW case.
Also remove io_remap_pfn_range_complete(), as we can simply set up the
fields correctly in io_remap_pfn_range_prepare() and use
remap_pfn_range_complete() for this.
While we're here, make remap_pfn_range_prepare_vma() a little neater, and
pass mmap_action directly to call_action_complete().
Then, update compat_vma_mmap() to perform its logic directly, as
__compat_vma_map() is not used by anything so we don't need to export it.
Also update compat_vma_mmap() to use vfs_mmap_prepare() rather than
calling the mmap_prepare op directly.
Finally, update the VMA userland tests to reflect the changes.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1774045440.git.ljs@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/99f408e4694f44ab12bdc55fe0bd9685d3bd1117.1774045440.git.ljs@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@foss.st.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Bodo Stroesser <bostroesser@gmail.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
Cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Stacked filesystems such as overlayfs do not currently provide the
necessary mechanisms for LSMs to properly enforce access controls on the
mmap() and mprotect() operations. In order to resolve this gap, a LSM
security blob is being added to the backing_file struct and the following
new LSM hooks are being created:
security_backing_file_alloc()
security_backing_file_free()
security_mmap_backing_file()
The first two hooks are to manage the lifecycle of the LSM security blob
in the backing_file struct, while the third provides a new mmap() access
control point for the underlying backing file. It is also expected that
LSMs will likely want to update their security_file_mprotect() callback
to address issues with their mprotect() controls, but that does not
require a change to the security_file_mprotect() LSM hook.
There are a three other small changes to support these new LSM hooks:
* Pass the user file associated with a backing file down to
alloc_empty_backing_file() so it can be included in the
security_backing_file_alloc() hook.
* Add getter and setter functions for the backing_file struct LSM blob
as the backing_file struct remains private to fs/file_table.c.
* Constify the file struct field in the LSM common_audit_data struct to
better support LSMs that need to pass a const file struct pointer into
the common LSM audit code.
Thanks to Arnd Bergmann for identifying the missing EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()
and supplying a fixup.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
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Nobody is using i_private_list anymore. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326095354.16340-84-jack@suse.cz
Tested-by: syzbot@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Nobody uses mapping_metadata_bhs in struct address_space anymore. Just
remove it and with it all helper functions using it.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326095354.16340-83-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Make buffer heads point to mapping_metadata_bhs instead of struct
address_space. This makes the code more self contained. For the (only)
case of IO error handling where we really need to reach struct
address_space add a pointer to the mapping from mapping_metadata_bhs.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326095354.16340-73-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Instead of tracking metadata bhs for a mapping using i_private_list and
i_private_lock create a dedicated mapping_metadata_bhs struct for it.
So far this struct is embedded in address_space but that will be
switched for per-fs private inode parts later in the series. This also
changes the locking from bdev mapping's i_private_lock to a new lock
embedded in mapping_metadata_bhs to untangle the i_private_lock locking
for maintaining lists of metadata bhs and the locking for looking up /
reclaiming bdev's buffer heads. The locking in remove_assoc_map() gets
more complex due to this but overall this looks like a reasonable
tradeoff.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326095354.16340-72-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Nobody is using it anymore.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326095354.16340-68-jack@suse.cz
Tested-by: syzbot@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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The implementation is now really basic so rename generic_file_fsync()
simple_fsync() and __generic_file_fsync() to simple_fsync_noflush().
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326095354.16340-56-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Remove the following unnecessary forward declarations from fs.h, which
improves maintainability.
- struct hd_geometry: became unused in fs.h when
block_device_operations was moved to blkdev.h in commit 08f858512151
("[PATCH] move block_device_operations to blkdev.h"). The forward
declaration is now added to blkdev.h where it is actually used.
- struct iovec: became unused when aio_read/aio_write were removed in
commit 8436318205b9 ("->aio_read and ->aio_write removed")
- struct iov_iter: duplicate forward declaration. This removes the
redundant second declaration, added in commit 293bc9822fa9
("new methods: ->read_iter() and ->write_iter()")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202512301303.s7YWTZHA-lkp@intel.com/
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202512302139.Wl0soAlz-lkp@intel.com/
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202512302105.pmzYfmcV-lkp@intel.com/
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202512302125.FNgHwu5z-lkp@intel.com/
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202512302108.nIV8r5ES-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Yuto Ohnuki <ytohnuki@amazon.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260226201857.27310-2-ytohnuki@amazon.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Christoph says, in response to one of the patches in the i_ino widening
series, which changes the prototype of several functions in fs.h:
"Can you please drop all these pointless externs while you're at it?"
Remove extern keyword from functions touched by that patch (and a few
that happened to be nearby). Also add missing argument names to
declarations that lacked them.
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260307-iino-u64-v2-1-a1a1696e0653@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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On 32-bit architectures, unsigned long is only 32 bits wide, which
causes 64-bit inode numbers to be silently truncated. Several
filesystems (NFS, XFS, BTRFS, etc.) can generate inode numbers that
exceed 32 bits, and this truncation can lead to inode number collisions
and other subtle bugs on 32-bit systems.
Change the type of inode->i_ino from unsigned long to u64 to ensure that
inode numbers are always represented as 64-bit values regardless of
architecture. Update all format specifiers treewide from %lu/%lx to
%llu/%llx to match the new type, along with corresponding local variable
types.
This is the bulk treewide conversion. Earlier patches in this series
handled trace events separately to allow trace field reordering for
better struct packing on 32-bit.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260304-iino-u64-v3-12-2257ad83d372@kernel.org
Acked-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Change the inode hash/lookup VFS API functions to accept u64 parameters
instead of unsigned long for inode numbers and hash values. This is
preparation for widening i_ino itself to u64, which will allow
filesystems to store full 64-bit inode numbers on 32-bit architectures.
Since unsigned long implicitly widens to u64 on all architectures, this
change is backward-compatible with all existing callers.
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260304-iino-u64-v3-1-2257ad83d372@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl
Pull sysctl updates from Joel Granados:
- Remove macros from proc handler converters
Replace the proc converter macros with "regular" functions. Though it
is more verbose than the macro version, it helps when debugging and
better aligns with coding-style.rst.
- General cleanup
Remove superfluous ctl_table forward declarations. Const qualify the
memory_allocation_profiling_sysctl and loadpin_sysctl_table arrays.
Add missing kernel doc to proc_dointvec_conv.
- Testing
This series was run through sysctl selftests/kunit test suite in
x86_64. And went into linux-next after rc4, giving it a good 3 weeks
of testing
* tag 'sysctl-7.00-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl:
sysctl: replace SYSCTL_INT_CONV_CUSTOM macro with functions
sysctl: Replace unidirectional INT converter macros with functions
sysctl: Add kernel doc to proc_douintvec_conv
sysctl: Replace UINT converter macros with functions
sysctl: Add CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL guards for converter macros
sysctl: clarify proc_douintvec_minmax doc
sysctl: Return -ENOSYS from proc_douintvec_conv when CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL=n
sysctl: Remove unused ctl_table forward declarations
loadpin: Implement custom proc_handler for enforce
alloc_tag: move memory_allocation_profiling_sysctls into .rodata
sysctl: Add missing kernel-doc for proc_dointvec_conv
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull more misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"Features:
- Optimize close_range() from O(range size) to O(active FDs) by using
find_next_bit() on the open_fds bitmap instead of linearly scanning
the entire requested range. This is a significant improvement for
large-range close operations on sparse file descriptor tables.
- Add FS_XFLAG_VERITY file attribute for fs-verity files, retrievable
via FS_IOC_FSGETXATTR and file_getattr(). The flag is read-only.
Add tracepoints for fs-verity enable and verify operations,
replacing the previously removed debug printk's.
- Prevent nfsd from exporting special kernel filesystems like pidfs
and nsfs. These filesystems have custom ->open() and ->permission()
export methods that are designed for open_by_handle_at(2) only and
are incompatible with nfsd. Update the exportfs documentation
accordingly.
Fixes:
- Fix KMSAN uninit-value in ovl_fill_real() where strcmp() was used
on a non-null-terminated decrypted directory entry name from
fscrypt. This triggered on encrypted lower layers when the
decrypted name buffer contained uninitialized tail data.
The fix also adds VFS-level name_is_dot(), name_is_dotdot(), and
name_is_dot_dotdot() helpers, replacing various open-coded "." and
".." checks across the tree.
- Fix read-only fsflags not being reset together with xflags in
vfs_fileattr_set(). Currently harmless since no read-only xflags
overlap with flags, but this would cause inconsistencies for any
future shared read-only flag
- Return -EREMOTE instead of -ESRCH from PIDFD_GET_INFO when the
target process is in a different pid namespace. This lets userspace
distinguish "process exited" from "process in another namespace",
matching glibc's pidfd_getpid() behavior
Cleanups:
- Use C-string literals in the Rust seq_file bindings, replacing the
kernel::c_str!() macro (available since Rust 1.77)
- Fix typo in d_walk_ret enum comment, add porting notes for the
readlink_copy() calling convention change"
* tag 'vfs-7.0-rc1.misc.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
fs: add porting notes about readlink_copy()
pidfs: return -EREMOTE when PIDFD_GET_INFO is called on another ns
nfsd: do not allow exporting of special kernel filesystems
exportfs: clarify the documentation of open()/permission() expotrfs ops
fsverity: add tracepoints
fs: add FS_XFLAG_VERITY for fs-verity files
rust: seq_file: replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
fs: dcache: fix typo in enum d_walk_ret comment
ovl: use name_is_dot* helpers in readdir code
fs: add helpers name_is_dot{,dot,_dotdot}
ovl: Fix uninit-value in ovl_fill_real
fs: reset read-only fsflags together with xflags
fs/file: optimize close_range() complexity from O(N) to O(Sparse)
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull vfs 'struct filename' updates from Al Viro:
"[Mostly] sanitize struct filename handling"
* tag 'pull-filename' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (68 commits)
sysfs(2): fs_index() argument is _not_ a pathname
alpha: switch osf_mount() to strndup_user()
ksmbd: use CLASS(filename_kernel)
mqueue: switch to CLASS(filename)
user_statfs(): switch to CLASS(filename)
statx: switch to CLASS(filename_maybe_null)
quotactl_block(): switch to CLASS(filename)
chroot(2): switch to CLASS(filename)
move_mount(2): switch to CLASS(filename_maybe_null)
namei.c: switch user pathname imports to CLASS(filename{,_flags})
namei.c: convert getname_kernel() callers to CLASS(filename_kernel)
do_f{chmod,chown,access}at(): use CLASS(filename_uflags)
do_readlinkat(): switch to CLASS(filename_flags)
do_sys_truncate(): switch to CLASS(filename)
do_utimes_path(): switch to CLASS(filename_uflags)
chdir(2): unspaghettify a bit...
do_fchownat(): unspaghettify a bit...
fspick(2): use CLASS(filename_flags)
name_to_handle_at(): use CLASS(filename_uflags)
vfs_open_tree(): use CLASS(filename_uflags)
...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains a mix of VFS cleanups, performance improvements, API
fixes, documentation, and a deprecation notice.
Scalability and performance:
- Rework pid allocation to only take pidmap_lock once instead of
twice during alloc_pid(), improving thread creation/teardown
throughput by 10-16% depending on false-sharing luck. Pad the
namespace refcount to reduce false-sharing
- Track file lock presence via a flag in ->i_opflags instead of
reading ->i_flctx, avoiding false-sharing with ->i_readcount on
open/close hot paths. Measured 4-16% improvement on 24-core
open-in-a-loop benchmarks
- Use a consume fence in locks_inode_context() to match the
store-release/load-consume idiom, eliminating a hardware fence on
some architectures
- Annotate cdev_lock with __cacheline_aligned_in_smp to prevent
false-sharing
- Remove a redundant DCACHE_MANAGED_DENTRY check in
__follow_mount_rcu() that never fires since the caller already
verifies it, eliminating a 100% mispredicted branch
- Fix a 100% mispredicted likely() in devcgroup_inode_permission()
that became wrong after a prior code reorder
Bug fixes and correctness:
- Make insert_inode_locked() wait for inode destruction instead of
skipping, fixing a corner case where two matching inodes could
exist in the hash
- Move f_mode initialization before file_ref_init() in alloc_file()
to respect the SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU ordering contract
- Add a WARN_ON_ONCE guard in try_to_free_buffers() for folios with
no buffers attached, preventing a null pointer dereference when
AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS is set but no release_folio op exists
- Fix select restart_block to store end_time as timespec64, avoiding
truncation of tv_sec on 32-bit architectures
- Make dump_inode() use get_kernel_nofault() to safely access inode
and superblock fields, matching the dump_mapping() pattern
API modernization:
- Make posix_acl_to_xattr() allocate the buffer internally since
every single caller was doing it anyway. Reduces boilerplate and
unnecessary error checking across ~15 filesystems
- Replace deprecated simple_strtoul() with kstrtoul() for the
ihash_entries, dhash_entries, mhash_entries, and mphash_entries
boot parameters, adding proper error handling
- Convert chardev code to use guard(mutex) and __free(kfree) cleanup
patterns
- Replace min_t() with min() or umin() in VFS code to avoid silently
truncating unsigned long to unsigned int
- Gate LOOKUP_RCU assertions behind CONFIG_DEBUG_VFS since callers
already check the flag
Deprecation:
- Begin deprecating legacy BSD process accounting (acct(2)). The
interface has numerous footguns and better alternatives exist
(eBPF)
Documentation:
- Fix and complete kernel-doc for struct export_operations, removing
duplicated documentation between ReST and source
- Fix kernel-doc warnings for __start_dirop() and ilookup5_nowait()
Testing:
- Add a kunit test for initramfs cpio handling of entries with
filesize > PATH_MAX
Misc:
- Add missing <linux/init_task.h> include in fs_struct.c"
* tag 'vfs-7.0-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (28 commits)
posix_acl: make posix_acl_to_xattr() alloc the buffer
fs: make insert_inode_locked() wait for inode destruction
initramfs_test: kunit test for cpio.filesize > PATH_MAX
fs: improve dump_inode() to safely access inode fields
fs: add <linux/init_task.h> for 'init_fs'
docs: exportfs: Use source code struct documentation
fs: move initializing f_mode before file_ref_init()
exportfs: Complete kernel-doc for struct export_operations
exportfs: Mark struct export_operations functions at kernel-doc
exportfs: Fix kernel-doc output for get_name()
acct(2): begin the deprecation of legacy BSD process accounting
device_cgroup: remove branch hint after code refactor
VFS: fix __start_dirop() kernel-doc warnings
fs: Describe @isnew parameter in ilookup5_nowait()
fs/namei: Remove redundant DCACHE_MANAGED_DENTRY check in __follow_mount_rcu
fs: only assert on LOOKUP_RCU when built with CONFIG_DEBUG_VFS
select: store end_time as timespec64 in restart block
chardev: Switch to guard(mutex) and __free(kfree)
namespace: Replace simple_strtoul with kstrtoul to parse boot params
dcache: Replace simple_strtoul with kstrtoul in set_dhash_entries
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