* A major rework of the fast commit mechanism to avoid lock
contention and deadlocks. We also export snapshot statistics
in /proc/fs/ext4/*/fc_info.
* Performance optimization for directory hash computation by
processing input in 4-byte chunks and removing function pointers,
along with new KUnit tests for directory hash.
* Cleanups in JBD2 to remove special slabs and use kmalloc() instead.
* Various bug fixes, including:
- Early validation of donor superblock in EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT to avoid
cross-fs deadlock
- Fix for a kernel BUG in ext4_write_inline_data_end under
data=journal
- Fix for a NULL dereference in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata when
handle is aborted
- Fix for an underflow in JBD2 fast commit block initialization check
- Fix for LOGFLUSH shutdown ordering to ensure ordered data writeback
- Miscellaneous fixes for error path return values and KUnit assertions.
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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus-7.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
- A major rework of the fast commit mechanism to avoid lock contention
and deadlocks. We also export snapshot statistics in
/proc/fs/ext4/*/fc_info
- Performance optimization for directory hash computation by processing
input in 4-byte chunks and removing function pointers, along with new
KUnit tests for directory hash
- Cleanups in JBD2 to remove special slabs and use kmalloc() instead
- Various bug fixes, including:
- Early validation of donor superblock in EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT to
avoid cross-fs deadlock
- Fix for a kernel BUG in ext4_write_inline_data_end under
data=journal
- Fix for a NULL dereference in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata when
handle is aborted
- Fix for an underflow in JBD2 fast commit block initialization
check
- Fix for LOGFLUSH shutdown ordering to ensure ordered data
writeback
- Miscellaneous fixes for error path return values and KUnit
assertions
* tag 'ext4_for_linus-7.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
ext4: validate donor file superblock early in EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT
ext4: fix kernel BUG in ext4_write_inline_data_end
ext4: fix ERR_PTR(0) in ext4_mkdir()
jbd2: remove special jbd2 slabs
ext4: remove mention of PageWriteback
ext4: improve str2hashbuf by processing 4-byte chunks and removing function pointers
ext4: add Kunit coverage for directory hash computation
ext4: fast commit: export snapshot stats in fc_info
ext4: fast commit: add lock_updates tracepoint
ext4: fast commit: avoid i_data_sem by dropping ext4_map_blocks() in snapshots
ext4: fast commit: avoid self-deadlock in inode snapshotting
ext4: fast commit: avoid waiting for FC_COMMITTING
ext4: lockdep: handle i_data_sem subclassing for special inodes
ext4: fast commit: snapshot inode state before writing log
jbd2: fix integer underflow in jbd2_journal_initialize_fast_commit()
ext4: fix fast commit wait/wake bit mapping on 64-bit
jbd2: check for aborted handle in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata()
ext4: Use %pe to print PTR_ERR()
ext4: fix LOGFLUSH shutdown ordering to allow ordered-mode data writeback
ext4: replace KUnit tests for memcmp() with KUNIT_ASSERT_MEMEQ()
Please consider pulling these changes from the signed vfs-7.2-rc1.bh tag.
Thanks!
Christian
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Merge tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.bh' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull buffer_head updates from Christian Brauner:
"This removes b_end_io from struct buffer_head.
Instead of setting bio->bi_end_io to end_bio_bh_io_sync() which then
calls bh->b_end_io(), the new bh_submit() and __bh_submit() interfaces
set bio->bi_end_io to the appropriate completion handler directly,
replacing two indirect function calls in the completion path with one.
It is also one fewer function pointer in the middle of a writable data
structure that can be corrupted, it shrinks struct buffer_head from
104 to 96 bytes allowing roughly 7% more buffer_heads to be cached in
the same amount of memory, and it removes some atomic operations as
the buffer refcount is no longer incremented before calling the end_io
handler.
All in-tree users (fs/buffer.c itself, ext4, jbd2, ocfs2, gfs2,
nilfs2, and md-bitmap) are converted, and submit_bh(),
mark_buffer_async_write(), and end_buffer_write_sync() are removed"
* tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.bh' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (34 commits)
buffer: Remove end_buffer_write_sync()
buffer: Change calling convention for end_buffer_read_sync()
buffer: Remove b_end_io
buffer: Remove submit_bh()
md-bitmap: Convert read_file_page and write_file_page to bh_submit()
nilfs2: Convert nilfs_mdt_submit_block to bh_submit()
nilfs2: Convert nilfs_gccache_submit_read_data to bh_submit()
nilfs2: Convert nilfs_btnode_submit_block to bh_submit()
buffer: Remove mark_buffer_async_write()
gfs2: Convert gfs2_aspace_write_folio to bh_submit()
gfs2: Remove use of b_end_io in gfs2_meta_read_endio()
gfs2: Convert gfs2_dir_readahead to bh_submit()
gfs2: Convert gfs2_metapath_ra to bh_submit()
ocfs2: Convert ocfs2_write_super_or_backup to bh_submit()
ocfs2: Convert ocfs2_read_blocks to bh_submit()
ocfs2: Convert ocfs2_read_block to bh_submit()
ocfs2: Convert ocfs2_write_block to bh_submit()
jbd2: Convert jbd2_write_superblock() to bh_submit()
jbd2: Convert journal commit to bh_submit()
ext4: Convert ext4_commit_super() to bh_submit()
...
Please consider pulling these changes from the signed vfs-7.2-rc1.super tag.
Thanks!
Christian
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Merge tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.super' of 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()
Reject the EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT ioctl early if the donor file does not
belong to the same superblock as the original file. Currently, this
validation is performed inside ext4_move_extents() by
mext_check_validity(), but only after lock_two_nondirectories() has
already acquired the inode locks. When the donor fd refers to a file
on a different filesystem (e.g., overlayfs), this late validation
creates a circular lock dependency:
CPU0 (overlayfs write) CPU1 (ext4 ioctl)
---- ----
inode_lock(ovl_inode)
mnt_want_write_file(filp)
sb_start_write(ext4_sb) [sb_writers]
backing_file_write_iter()
vfs_iter_write(real_file)
file_start_write(real_file)
sb_start_write(ext4_sb) [blocked by freeze]
lock_two_nondirectories()
inode_lock(ovl_inode) [blocked]
With a concurrent freeze operation holding sb_writers write side, this
forms a deadlock cycle: CPU0 waits for freeze to complete, freeze waits
for CPU1's sb_writers reader to exit, CPU1 waits for CPU0's inode lock.
Since EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT exchanges physical extents between two files,
it fundamentally requires both files to reside on the same ext4
filesystem. Moving the superblock check before any lock acquisition
is both semantically correct and eliminates the circular dependency
by ensuring that cross-filesystem donor fds are rejected before
sb_writers or inode locks are taken.
Fixes: fcf6b1b729 ("ext4: refactor ext4_move_extents code base")
Reported-by: syzbot+ad6118a7584b607c67f2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=ad6118a7584b607c67f2
Signed-off-by: Yun Zhou <yun.zhou@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260608152521.1292656-1-yun.zhou@windriver.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
When the data=journal mount option is used, the ext4_journalled_write_end()
function incorrectly calls ext4_write_inline_data_end() without checking
if the EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA flag is still set on the inode.
If a previous attempt to convert the inline data to an extent failed (e.g.
due to ENOSPC), the EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA flag is cleared, but
the EXT4_INODE_INLINE_DATA flag remains set. In this scenario, the next
call to ext4_write_begin() will not prepare the inline data xattr for
writing, but ext4_journalled_write_end() will incorrectly attempt to write
to it, triggering a BUG_ON(pos + len > EXT4_I(inode)->i_inline_size) in
ext4_write_inline_data() since i_inline_size was not expanded.
Fix this by ensuring that ext4_journalled_write_end() only calls
ext4_write_inline_data_end() if the EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA flag is
set, mirroring the behavior of ext4_write_end() and ext4_da_write_end().
Reported-by: syzbot+0c89d865531d053abb2d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=0c89d865531d053abb2d
Fixes: 3fdcfb668f ("ext4: add journalled write support for inline data")
Signed-off-by: Aditya Prakash Srivastava <aditya.ansh182@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260608065227.3018-1-aditya.ansh182@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
When mkdir succeeds, ext4_mkdir() returns ERR_PTR(0) which is incorrect.
It should return NULL instead for success and ERR_PTR() only with
negative error codes for failure.
Fixes: 88d5baf690 ("Change inode_operations.mkdir to return struct dentry *")
Signed-off-by: Hongling Zeng <zenghongling@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Baokun Li <libaokun@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260604073647.211279-1-zenghongling@kylinos.cn
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Update a comment to refer to the concept of writeback instead of the
(now obsolete) detail of how it's implemented.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Baokun Li <libaokun@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260526190805.341676-1-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Avoid an extra indirect function call and changing the buffer refcount
by using bh_submit() instead of submit_bh().
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528173150.1093780-16-willy@infradead.org
Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
Avoid an extra indirect function call and changing the buffer refcount
by using bh_submit() instead of submit_bh().
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528173150.1093780-15-willy@infradead.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
Avoid an extra indirect function call by converting
ext4_end_buffer_io_sync() from bh_end_io_t to bio_end_io_t and
calling bh_submit().
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528173150.1093780-14-willy@infradead.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
Avoid an extra indirect function call and changing the buffer refcount
by converting ext4_end_bitmap_read() from bh_end_io_t to bio_end_io_t
and calling bh_submit().
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528173150.1093780-13-willy@infradead.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
The original byte-by-byte implementation with modulo checks is less
efficient. Refactor str2hashbuf_unsigned() and str2hashbuf_signed()
to process input in explicit 4-byte chunks instead of using a
modulus-based loop to emit words byte by byte.
Additionally, the use of function pointers for selecting the appropriate
str2hashbuf implementation has been removed. Instead, the functions are
directly invoked based on the hash type, eliminating the overhead of
dynamic function calls.
Performance test (x86_64, Intel Core i7-10700 @ 2.90GHz, average over 10000
runs, using kernel module for testing):
len | orig_s | new_s | orig_u | new_u
----+--------+-------+--------+-------
1 | 70 | 71 | 63 | 63
8 | 68 | 64 | 64 | 62
32 | 75 | 70 | 75 | 63
64 | 96 | 71 | 100 | 68
255 | 192 | 108 | 187 | 84
This change improves performance, especially for larger input sizes.
Signed-off-by: Guan-Chun Wu <409411716@gms.tku.edu.tw>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260531080019.3794809-3-409411716@gms.tku.edu.tw
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Introduce Kunit tests for fs/ext4/hash.c to verify ext4fs_dirhash()
across the legacy, half-MD4, and TEA hash variants.
The tests cover empty, seeded hashing, and non-ASCII name handling.
They also verify error paths, including invalid hash versions and
SipHash without a configured key, and check that the signed and
unsigned hash variants differ on non-ASCII input as expected.
When CONFIG_UNICODE is enabled, the tests further verify casefolded-name
hashing and the fallback behavior for invalid input.
Co-developed-by: Chen Hao Yu <edward062254@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Chen Hao Yu <edward062254@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Guan-Chun Wu <409411716@gms.tku.edu.tw>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260531080019.3794809-2-409411716@gms.tku.edu.tw
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Snapshot-based fast commit can fall back when the commit-time snapshot
cannot be built (e.g. extent status cache misses). It is useful to
quantify the updates-locked window and to see why snapshotting failed.
Add best-effort snapshot counters to the ext4 superblock and extend
/proc/fs/ext4/<sb_id>/fc_info to report the number of snapshotted
inodes and ranges, snapshot failure reasons, and the average/max time
spent with journal updates locked.
Signed-off-by: Li Chen <chenl311@chinatelecom.cn>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260515091829.194810-8-me@linux.beauty
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Commit-time fast commit snapshots run under jbd2_journal_lock_updates(),
so it is useful to quantify the time spent with updates locked and to
understand why snapshotting can fail.
Add a new tracepoint, ext4_fc_lock_updates, reporting the time spent in
the updates-locked window along with the number of snapshotted inodes
and ranges. Record the first snapshot failure reason in a stable snap_err
field for tooling.
Signed-off-by: Li Chen <chenl311@chinatelecom.cn>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260515091829.194810-7-me@linux.beauty
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Commit-time snapshots run under jbd2_journal_lock_updates(), so the work
done there must stay bounded.
The snapshot path still used ext4_map_blocks() to build data ranges. This
can take i_data_sem and pulls the mapping code into the snapshot logic.
Build inode data range snapshots from the extent status tree instead.
The extent status tree is a cache, not an authoritative source. If the
needed information is missing or unstable (e.g. delayed allocation), treat
the transaction as fast commit ineligible and fall back to full commit.
Also cap the number of inodes and ranges snapshotted per fast commit and
allocate range records from a dedicated slab cache. The inode pointer
array is allocated outside the updates-locked window.
Testing: QEMU/KVM guest, virtio-pmem + dax, ext4 -O fast_commit, mounted
dax,noatime. Ran python3 500x {4K write + fsync}, fallocate 256M, and
python3 500x {creat + fsync(dir)} without lockdep splats or errors.
Signed-off-by: Li Chen <chenl311@chinatelecom.cn>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260515091829.194810-6-me@linux.beauty
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
ext4_fc_snapshot_inodes() used igrab()/iput() to pin inodes while building
commit-time snapshots. With ext4_fc_del() waiting for
EXT4_STATE_FC_COMMITTING, iput() can trigger
ext4_clear_inode()->ext4_fc_del() in the commit thread and deadlock waiting
for the fast commit to finish.
ext4_fc_del() also has to re-check EXT4_STATE_FC_COMMITTING after
waiting on EXT4_STATE_FC_FLUSHING_DATA. The commit thread clears
FLUSHING_DATA before it sets COMMITTING, so a waiter woken from the
flush wait must not delete the inode based on an old COMMITTING
check.
Avoid taking extra references. Collect inode pointers under s_fc_lock and
rely on EXT4_STATE_FC_COMMITTING to pin inodes until ext4_fc_cleanup()
clears the bit.
Also set EXT4_STATE_FC_COMMITTING for create-only inodes referenced
from the dentry update queue, and wake up waiters when ext4_fc_cleanup()
clears the bit.
Signed-off-by: Li Chen <chenl311@chinatelecom.cn>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260515091829.194810-5-me@linux.beauty
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
ext4_fc_track_inode() can be called while holding i_data_sem (e.g.
fallocate). Waiting for EXT4_STATE_FC_COMMITTING in that case risks an
ABBA deadlock: i_data_sem -> wait(FC_COMMITTING) vs FC_COMMITTING ->
wait(i_data_sem) in the commit task.
Now that fast commit snapshots inode state at commit time, updates during
log writing do not need to block. Drop the wait and lockdep assertion in
ext4_fc_track_inode(), and make ext4_fc_del() wait for FC_COMMITTING so an
inode cannot be removed while the commit thread is still using it.
When an inode is modified during a fast commit, mark it with
EXT4_STATE_FC_REQUEUE so cleanup keeps it queued for the next fast commit.
This is needed because jbd2_fc_end_commit() invokes the cleanup callback
with tid == 0, so tid-based requeue logic would requeue every inode.
Testing: tracepoint ext4:ext4_fc_commit_stop with two fsyncs in the same
transaction. nblks is the number of journal blocks written for that fast
commit. Before this change, the second fsync still wrote almost the same
fast commit log (nblks 10->9), because tid == 0 in jbd2_fc_end_commit()
caused the tid-based requeue logic to keep all inodes queued. After this
change, only inodes modified during the commit are requeued, and the
second fsync wrote a nearly empty fast commit (nblks 10->1).
Signed-off-by: Li Chen <chenl311@chinatelecom.cn>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260515091829.194810-4-me@linux.beauty
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Fast commit can hold s_fc_lock while writing journal blocks. Mapping the
journal inode can take its i_data_sem. Normal inode update paths can take a
data inode i_data_sem and then s_fc_lock, which makes lockdep report a
circular dependency.
lockdep treats all i_data_sem instances as one lock class and cannot
distinguish the journal inode i_data_sem from a regular inode i_data_sem.
The journal inode is not tracked by fast commit and no FC waiters ever
depend on it, so this is not a real ABBA deadlock. Assign the journal inode
a dedicated i_data_sem lockdep subclass to avoid the false positive.
Inode cache objects can be recycled, so also reset i_data_sem to
I_DATA_SEM_NORMAL when allocating an ext4 inode. Otherwise a new inode may
inherit an old subclass (journal/quota/ea) and trigger lockdep warnings.
Signed-off-by: Li Chen <chenl311@chinatelecom.cn>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260515091829.194810-3-me@linux.beauty
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Fast commit writes inode metadata and data range updates after unlocking
journal updates. New handles can start at that point, so the log writing
path must not look at live inode state.
Add a commit-time per-inode snapshot and populate it while journal updates
are locked and existing handles are drained. Store the snapshot behind
ext4_inode_info->i_fc_snap so ext4_inode_info only grows by one pointer.
The snapshot contains a copy of the on-disk inode plus the data range
records needed for fast commit TLVs.
Snapshotting runs under jbd2_journal_lock_updates(). Avoid triggering I/O
there by using ext4_get_inode_loc_noio() and falling back to full commit
if the inode table block is not present or not uptodate.
Log writing then only serializes the snapshot, so it no longer needs to
call ext4_map_blocks() and take i_data_sem under s_fc_lock. The snapshot
is installed and freed under s_fc_lock and is released from fast commit
cleanup and inode eviction.
Signed-off-by: Li Chen <chenl311@chinatelecom.cn>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260515091829.194810-2-me@linux.beauty
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
On 64-bit, ext4 dynamic inode states live in the upper half of i_flags,
and ext4_test_inode_state() applies the corresponding +32 offset.
The fast-commit wait and wake paths open-coded the wait key with the raw
EXT4_STATE_* value. Add small helpers for the state wait word and bit,
and use them for the FC_COMMITTING and FC_FLUSHING_DATA waits so the wait
key follows the same mapping as the state helpers.
Fixes: 857d32f261 ("ext4: rework fast commit commit path")
Reported-by: Sashiko AI review <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Li Chen <chenl311@chinatelecom.cn>
Reviewed-by: Baokun Li <libaokun@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260513085818.552432-1-me@linux.beauty
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Same treatment as the extents KUnit test. The mballoc test uses sget()
as a thin "give me an initialized superblock" wrapper for a fake
file_system_type. Move it onto sget_fc() so sget() can go away.
Add a no-op mbt_init_fs_context() so fs_context_for_mount() has
something to call on the fake fs_type. mbt_set() now takes a struct
fs_context * (still a no-op). mbt_ext4_alloc_super_block() allocates
the fc, hands it to sget_fc() and drops the fc reference once the sb
is published.
No functional change.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260529-work-sget-v2-2-57bbe08604e4@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
The extents KUnit test uses sget() to get an initialized superblock for
its fake file_system_type. sget() predates fs_context and we want to
retire it. Switch this caller over to sget_fc().
Add a no-op ext_init_fs_context() so fs_context_for_mount() has
something to call on the fake fs_type. ext_set() now takes a struct
fs_context * (still a no-op). extents_kunit_init() allocates the fc,
hands it to sget_fc() and drops the fc reference once the sb is
published. sget_fc() does not retain a pointer to it.
No functional change for the test.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260529-work-sget-v2-1-57bbe08604e4@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
In EXT4_GOING_FLAGS_LOGFLUSH mode, the EXT4_FLAGS_SHUTDOWN flag was set
before calling ext4_force_commit(). This caused ordered-mode data
writeback (triggered by journal commit) to fail with -EIO, since
ext4_do_writepages() checks for the shutdown flag. The journal would
then be aborted prematurely before the commit could succeed.
Fix this by calling ext4_force_commit() first, then setting the
shutdown flag, so that pending data can be written back correctly.
Note that moving ext4_force_commit() before setting the shutdown flag
creates a small window in which new writes may occur and generate new
journal transactions. When the journal is subsequently aborted, the
new transactions will not be able to write to disk. This is intentional
because LOGFLUSH's semantics are to flush pre-existing journal entries
before shutdown, not to guarantee atomicity for writes that race with
the ioctl.
Fixes: 783d948544 ("ext4: add EXT4_IOC_GOINGDOWN ioctl")
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Baokun Li <libaokun@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260424104201.1930823-1-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Replace KUnit tests for memcmp() with KUNIT_ASSERT_MEMEQ() to improve
debugging that prints the hex dump of the buffers when the assertion fails,
whereas memcmp() only returns an integer difference.
Signed-off-by: Ryota Sakamoto <sakamo.ryota@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260127-fix-fs_ext4-memcmp-v1-1-5c269ae906b6@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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>
* Refactor code paths involved with partial block zero-out in
prearation for converting ext4 to use iomap for buffered writes.
* Remove use of d_alloc() from ext4 in preparation for the deprecation
of this interface.
* Replace some J_ASSERTS with a journal abort so we can avoid a kernel
panic for a localized file system error
* Simplify various code paths in mballoc, move_extent, and fast commit
* Fix rare deadlock in jbd2_journal_cancel_revoke() that can be
triggered by generic/013 when blocksize < pagesize.
* Fix memory leak when releasing an extended attribute when its
value is stored in an ea_inode
* Fix various potential kunit test bugs in fs/ext4/extents.c
* Fix potential out-of-bounds access in check_xattr() with a corrupted
file system
* Make the jbd2_inode dirty range tracking safe for lockless reads
* Avoid a WARN_ON when writeback files due to a corrupted file system;
we already print an ext4 warning indicatign that data will be lost,
so the WARN_ON is not necessary and doesn't add any new information
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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linux-7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
- Refactor code paths involved with partial block zero-out in
prearation for converting ext4 to use iomap for buffered writes
- Remove use of d_alloc() from ext4 in preparation for the deprecation
of this interface
- Replace some J_ASSERTS with a journal abort so we can avoid a kernel
panic for a localized file system error
- Simplify various code paths in mballoc, move_extent, and fast commit
- Fix rare deadlock in jbd2_journal_cancel_revoke() that can be
triggered by generic/013 when blocksize < pagesize
- Fix memory leak when releasing an extended attribute when its value
is stored in an ea_inode
- Fix various potential kunit test bugs in fs/ext4/extents.c
- Fix potential out-of-bounds access in check_xattr() with a corrupted
file system
- Make the jbd2_inode dirty range tracking safe for lockless reads
- Avoid a WARN_ON when writeback files due to a corrupted file system;
we already print an ext4 warning indicatign that data will be lost,
so the WARN_ON is not necessary and doesn't add any new information
* tag 'ext4_for_linux-7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (37 commits)
jbd2: fix deadlock in jbd2_journal_cancel_revoke()
ext4: fix missing brelse() in ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all()
ext4: fix possible null-ptr-deref in mbt_kunit_exit()
ext4: fix possible null-ptr-deref in extents_kunit_exit()
ext4: fix the error handling process in extents_kunit_init).
ext4: call deactivate_super() in extents_kunit_exit()
ext4: fix miss unlock 'sb->s_umount' in extents_kunit_init()
ext4: fix bounds check in check_xattrs() to prevent out-of-bounds access
ext4: zero post-EOF partial block before appending write
ext4: move pagecache_isize_extended() out of active handle
ext4: remove ctime/mtime update from ext4_alloc_file_blocks()
ext4: unify SYNC mode checks in fallocate paths
ext4: ensure zeroed partial blocks are persisted in SYNC mode
ext4: move zero partial block range functions out of active handle
ext4: pass allocate range as loff_t to ext4_alloc_file_blocks()
ext4: remove handle parameters from zero partial block functions
ext4: move ordered data handling out of ext4_block_do_zero_range()
ext4: rename ext4_block_zero_page_range() to ext4_block_zero_range()
ext4: factor out journalled block zeroing range
ext4: rename and extend ext4_block_truncate_page()
...
Everything:
Total patches: 368
Reviews/patch: 1.56
Reviewed rate: 74%
Excluding DAMON:
Total patches: 316
Reviews/patch: 1.77
Reviewed rate: 81%
Excluding DAMON and zram:
Total patches: 306
Reviews/patch: 1.81
Reviewed rate: 82%
Excluding DAMON, zram and maple_tree:
Total patches: 276
Reviews/patch: 2.01
Reviewed rate: 91%
Significant patch series in this merge:
- The 30 patch series "maple_tree: Replace big node with maple copy"
from Liam Howlett is mainly prepararatory work for ongoing development
but it does reduce stack usage and is an improvement.
- The 12 patch series "mm, swap: swap table phase III: remove swap_map"
from Kairui Song offers memory savings by removing the static swap_map.
It also yields some CPU savings and implements several cleanups.
- The 2 patch series "mm: memfd_luo: preserve file seals" from Pratyush
Yadav adds file seal preservation to LUO's memfd code.
- The 2 patch series "mm: zswap: add per-memcg stat for incompressible
pages" from Jiayuan Chen adds additional userspace stats reportng to
zswap.
- The 4 patch series "arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page" from Mike
Rapoport implements some cleanups for our handling of ZERO_PAGE() and
zero_pfn.
- The 2 patch series "mm/kmemleak: Improve scan_should_stop()
implementation" from Zhongqiu Han provides an robustness improvement and
some cleanups in the kmemleak code.
- The 4 patch series "Improve khugepaged scan logic" from Vernon Yang
"improves the khugepaged scan logic and reduces CPU consumption by
prioritizing scanning tasks that access memory frequently".
- The 2 patch series "Make KHO Stateless" from Jason Miu simplifies
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"
- The 3 patch series "mm: vmscan: add PID and cgroup ID to vmscan
tracepoints" from Thomas Ballasi and Steven Rostedt enhances vmscan's
tracepointing.
- The 5 patch series "mm: arch/shstk: Common shadow stack mapping helper
and VM_NOHUGEPAGE" from Catalin Marinas is a cleanup for the shadow
stack code: remove per-arch code in favour of a generic implementation.
- The 2 patch series "Fix KASAN support for KHO restored vmalloc
regions" from Pasha Tatashin fixes a WARN() which can be emitted the KHO
restores a vmalloc area.
- The 4 patch series "mm: Remove stray references to pagevec" from Tal
Zussman provides several cleanups, mainly udpating references to "struct
pagevec", which became folio_batch three years ago.
- The 17 patch series "mm: Eliminate fake head pages from vmemmap
optimization" from Kiryl Shutsemau simplifies the HugeTLB vmemmap
optimization (HVO) by changing how tail pages encode their relationship
to the head page.
- The 2 patch series "mm/damon/core: improve DAMOS quota efficiency for
core layer filters" from SeongJae Park improves two problematic
behaviors of DAMOS that makes it less efficient when core layer filters
are used.
- The 3 patch series "mm/damon: strictly respect min_nr_regions" from
SeongJae Park improves DAMON usability by extending the treatment of the
min_nr_regions user-settable parameter.
- The 3 patch series "mm/page_alloc: pcp locking cleanup" from Vlastimil
Babka is a proper fix for a previously hotfixed SMP=n issue. Code
simplifications and cleanups ennsed.
- The 16 patch series "mm: cleanups around unmapping / zapping" from
David Hildenbrand implements "a bunch of cleanups around unmapping and
zapping. Mostly simplifications, code movements, documentation and
renaming of zapping functions".
- The 6 patch series "support batched checking of the young flag for
MGLRU" from Baolin Wang supports batched checking of the young flag for
MGLRU. It's part cleanups; one benchmark shows large performance
benefits for arm64.
- The 5 patch series "memcg: obj stock and slab stat caching cleanups"
from Johannes Weiner provides memcg cleanup and robustness improvements.
- The 5 patch series "Allow order zero pages in page reporting" from
Yuvraj Sakshith enhances page_reporting's free page reporting - it is
presently and undesirably order-0 pages when reporting free memory.
- The 6 patch series "mm: vma flag tweaks" from Lorenzo Stoakes is
cleanup work following from the recent conversion of the VMA flags to a
bitmap.
- The 10 patch series "mm/damon: add optional debugging-purpose sanity
checks" from SeongJae Park adds some more developer-facing debug checks
into DAMON core.
- The 2 patch series "mm/damon: test and document power-of-2
min_region_sz requirement" from SeongJae Park adds an additional DAMON
kunit test and makes some adjustments to the addr_unit parameter
handling.
- The 3 patch series "mm/damon/core: make passed_sample_intervals
comparisons overflow-safe" from SeongJae Park fixes a hard-to-hit time
overflow issue in DAMON core.
- The 7 patch series "mm/damon: improve/fixup/update ratio calculation,
test and documentation" from SeongJae Park is a "batch of misc/minor
improvements and fixups" for DAMON.
- The 4 patch series "mm: move vma_(kernel|mmu)_pagesize() out of
hugetlb.c" from David Hildenbrand fixes a possible issue with dax-device
when CONFIG_HUGETLB=n. Some code movement was required.
- The 6 patch series "zram: recompression cleanups and tweaks" from
Sergey Senozhatsky provides "a somewhat random mix of fixups,
recompression cleanups and improvements" in the zram code.
- The 11 patch series "mm/damon: support multiple goal-based quota
tuning algorithms" from SeongJae Park extend DAMOS quotas goal
auto-tuning to support multiple tuning algorithms that users can select.
- The 4 patch series "mm: thp: reduce unnecessary
start_stop_khugepaged()" from Breno Leitao fixes the khugpaged sysfs
handling so we no longer spam the logs with reams of junk when
starting/stopping khugepaged.
- The 3 patch series "mm: improve map count checks" from Lorenzo Stoakes
provides some cleanups and slight fixes in the mremap, mmap and vma
code.
- The 5 patch series "mm/damon: support addr_unit on default monitoring
targets for modules" from SeongJae Park extends the use of DAMON core's
addr_unit tunable.
- The 5 patch series "mm: khugepaged cleanups and mTHP prerequisites"
from Nico Pache provides cleanups in the khugepaged and is a base for
Nico's planned khugepaged mTHP support.
- The 15 patch series "mm: memory hot(un)plug and SPARSEMEM cleanups"
from David Hildenbrand implements code movement and cleanups in the
memhotplug and sparsemem code.
- The 2 patch series "mm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE and
cleanup CONFIG_MIGRATION" from David Hildenbrand rationalizes some
memhotplug Kconfig support.
- The 6 patch series "change young flag check functions to return bool"
from Baolin Wang is "a cleanup patchset to change all young flag check
functions to return bool".
- The 3 patch series "mm/damon/sysfs: fix memory leak and NULL
dereference issues" from Josh Law and SeongJae Park fixes a few
potential DAMON bugs.
- The 25 patch series "mm/vma: convert vm_flags_t to vma_flags_t in vma
code" from "converts 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.
- The 21 patch series "mm: expand mmap_prepare functionality and usage"
from Lorenzo Stoakes "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". Cleanups,
documentation, extension of mmap_prepare into filesystem drivers.
- The 13 patch series "mm/huge_memory: refactor zap_huge_pmd()" from
Lorenzo Stoakes simplifies and cleans up zap_huge_pmd(). Additional
cleanups around vm_normal_folio_pmd() and the softleaf functionality are
performed.
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of 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
...
- Various cleanups for the interface between fs/crypto/ and
filesystems, from Christoph Hellwig
- Simplify and optimize the implementation of v1 key derivation by
using the AES library instead of the crypto_skcipher API
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Merge tag 'fscrypt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/linux
Pull fscrypt updates from Eric Biggers:
- Various cleanups for the interface between fs/crypto/ and
filesystems, from Christoph Hellwig
- Simplify and optimize the implementation of v1 key derivation by
using the AES library instead of the crypto_skcipher API
* tag 'fscrypt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/linux:
fscrypt: use AES library for v1 key derivation
ext4: use a byte granularity cursor in ext4_mpage_readpages
fscrypt: pass a real sector_t to fscrypt_zeroout_range
fscrypt: pass a byte length to fscrypt_zeroout_range
fscrypt: pass a byte offset to fscrypt_zeroout_range
fscrypt: pass a byte length to fscrypt_zeroout_range_inline_crypt
fscrypt: pass a byte offset to fscrypt_zeroout_range_inline_crypt
fscrypt: pass a byte offset to fscrypt_set_bio_crypt_ctx
fscrypt: pass a byte offset to fscrypt_mergeable_bio
fscrypt: pass a byte offset to fscrypt_generate_dun
fscrypt: move fscrypt_set_bio_crypt_ctx_bh to buffer.c
ext4, fscrypt: merge fscrypt_mergeable_bio_bh into io_submit_need_new_bio
ext4: factor out a io_submit_need_new_bio helper
ext4: open code fscrypt_set_bio_crypt_ctx_bh
ext4: initialize the write hint in io_submit_init_bio
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Merge tag 'for-7.1/block-20260411' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
- Add shared memory zero-copy I/O support for ublk, bypassing per-I/O
copies between kernel and userspace by matching registered buffer
PFNs at I/O time. Includes selftests.
- Refactor bio integrity to support filesystem initiated integrity
operations and arbitrary buffer alignment.
- Clean up bio allocation, splitting bio_alloc_bioset() into clear fast
and slow paths. Add bio_await() and bio_submit_or_kill() helpers,
unify synchronous bi_end_io callbacks.
- Fix zone write plug refcount handling and plug removal races. Add
support for serializing zone writes at QD=1 for rotational zoned
devices, yielding significant throughput improvements.
- Add SED-OPAL ioctls for Single User Mode management and a STACK_RESET
command.
- Add io_uring passthrough (uring_cmd) support to the BSG layer.
- Replace pp_buf in partition scanning with struct seq_buf.
- zloop improvements and cleanups.
- drbd genl cleanup, switching to pre_doit/post_doit.
- NVMe pull request via Keith:
- Fabrics authentication updates
- Enhanced block queue limits support
- Workqueue usage updates
- A new write zeroes device quirk
- Tagset cleanup fix for loop device
- MD pull requests via Yu Kuai:
- Fix raid5 soft lockup in retry_aligned_read()
- Fix raid10 deadlock with check operation and nowait requests
- Fix raid1 overlapping writes on writemostly disks
- Fix sysfs deadlock on array_state=clear
- Proactive RAID-5 parity building with llbitmap, with
write_zeroes_unmap optimization for initial sync
- Fix llbitmap barrier ordering, rdev skipping, and bitmap_ops
version mismatch fallback
- Fix bcache use-after-free and uninitialized closure
- Validate raid5 journal metadata payload size
- Various cleanups
- Various other fixes, improvements, and cleanups
* tag 'for-7.1/block-20260411' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: (146 commits)
ublk: fix tautological comparison warning in ublk_ctrl_reg_buf
scsi: bsg: fix buffer overflow in scsi_bsg_uring_cmd()
block: refactor blkdev_zone_mgmt_ioctl
MAINTAINERS: update ublk driver maintainer email
Documentation: ublk: address review comments for SHMEM_ZC docs
ublk: allow buffer registration before device is started
ublk: replace xarray with IDA for shmem buffer index allocation
ublk: simplify PFN range loop in __ublk_ctrl_reg_buf
ublk: verify all pages in multi-page bvec fall within registered range
ublk: widen ublk_shmem_buf_reg.len to __u64 for 4GB buffer support
xfs: use bio_await in xfs_zone_gc_reset_sync
block: add a bio_submit_or_kill helper
block: factor out a bio_await helper
block: unify the synchronous bi_end_io callbacks
xfs: fix number of GC bvecs
selftests/ublk: add read-only buffer registration test
selftests/ublk: add filesystem fio verify test for shmem_zc
selftests/ublk: add hugetlbfs shmem_zc test for loop target
selftests/ublk: add shared memory zero-copy test
selftests/ublk: add UBLK_F_SHMEM_ZC support for loop target
...
Please consider pulling these changes from the signed vfs-7.1-rc1.bh.metadata tag.
Thanks!
Christian
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Merge tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.bh.metadata' of 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
...
Please consider pulling these changes from the signed vfs-7.1-rc1.kino tag.
Thanks!
Christian
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Merge tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.kino' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull vfs i_ino updates from Christian Brauner:
"For historical reasons, the inode->i_ino field is an unsigned long,
which means that it's 32 bits on 32 bit architectures. This has caused
a number of filesystems to implement hacks to hash a 64-bit identifier
into a 32-bit field, and deprives us of a universal identifier field
for an inode.
This changes the inode->i_ino field from an unsigned long to a u64.
This shouldn't make any material difference on 64-bit hosts, but
32-bit hosts will see struct inode grow by at least 4 bytes. This
could have effects on slabcache sizes and field alignment.
The bulk of the changes are to format strings and tracepoints, since
the kernel itself doesn't care that much about the i_ino field. The
first patch changes some vfs function arguments, so check that one out
carefully.
With this change, we may be able to shrink some inode structures. For
instance, struct nfs_inode has a fileid field that holds the 64-bit
inode number. With this set of changes, that field could be
eliminated. I'd rather leave that sort of cleanups for later just to
keep this simple"
* tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.kino' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
nilfs2: fix 64-bit division operations in nilfs_bmap_find_target_in_group()
EVM: add comment describing why ino field is still unsigned long
vfs: remove externs from fs.h on functions modified by i_ino widening
treewide: fix missed i_ino format specifier conversions
ext4: fix signed format specifier in ext4_load_inode trace event
treewide: change inode->i_ino from unsigned long to u64
nilfs2: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
f2fs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
ext4: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
zonefs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
hugetlbfs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
ext2: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
cachefiles: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
vfs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
net: change sock.sk_ino and sock_i_ino() to u64
audit: widen ino fields to u64
vfs: widen inode hash/lookup functions to u64
The commit c8e008b604 ("ext4: ignore xattrs past end")
introduced a refcount leak in when block_csum is false.
ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all() calls ext4_get_inode_loc() to
get iloc.bh, but never releases it with brelse().
Fixes: c8e008b604 ("ext4: ignore xattrs past end")
Signed-off-by: Sohei Koyama <skoyama@ddn.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Baokun Li <libaokun@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260406074830.8480-1-skoyama@ddn.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
There's issue as follows:
# test_new_blocks_simple: failed to initialize: -12
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000638-0x000000000000063f]
Tainted: [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE, [N]=TEST
RIP: 0010:mbt_kunit_exit+0x5e/0x3e0 [ext4_test]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
kunit_try_run_case_cleanup+0xbc/0x100 [kunit]
kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x89/0x100 [kunit]
kthread+0x408/0x540
ret_from_fork+0xa76/0xdf0
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
If mbt_kunit_init() init testcase failed will lead to null-ptr-deref.
So add test if 'sb' is inited success in mbt_kunit_exit().
Fixes: 7c9fa399a3 ("ext4: add first unit test for ext4_mb_new_blocks_simple in mballoc")
Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260330133035.287842-6-yebin@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
The error processing in extents_kunit_init() is improper, causing
resource leakage.
Reconstruct the error handling process to prevent potential resource
leaks
Fixes: cb1e0c1d1f ("ext4: kunit tests for extent splitting and conversion")
Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260330133035.287842-4-yebin@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Call deactivate_super() is called in extents_kunit_exit() to cleanup
the file system resource.
Fixes: cb1e0c1d1f ("ext4: kunit tests for extent splitting and conversion")
Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260330133035.287842-3-yebin@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
There's warning as follows when do ext4 kunit test:
WARNING: kunit_try_catch/15923 still has locks held!
7.0.0-rc3-next-20260309-00028-g73f965a1bbb1-dirty #281 Tainted: G E N
1 lock held by kunit_try_catch/15923:
#0: ffff888139f860e0 (&type->s_umount_key#70/1){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: alloc_super.constprop.0+0x172/0xa90
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x180/0x1b0
debug_check_no_locks_held+0xc8/0xd0
do_exit+0x1502/0x2b20
kthread+0x3a9/0x540
ret_from_fork+0xa76/0xdf0
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
As sget() will return 'sb' which holds 's->s_umount' lock. However,
"extents-test" miss unlock this lock.
So unlock 's->s_umount' in the end of extents_kunit_init().
Fixes: cb1e0c1d1f ("ext4: kunit tests for extent splitting and conversion")
Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260330133035.287842-2-yebin@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
The bounds check for the next xattr entry in check_xattrs() uses
(void *)next >= end, which allows next to point within sizeof(u32)
bytes of end. On the next loop iteration, IS_LAST_ENTRY() reads 4
bytes via *(__u32 *)(entry), which can overrun the valid xattr region.
For example, if next lands at end - 1, the check passes since
next < end, but IS_LAST_ENTRY() reads 4 bytes starting at end - 1,
accessing 3 bytes beyond the valid region.
Fix this by changing the check to (void *)next + sizeof(u32) > end,
ensuring there is always enough space for the IS_LAST_ENTRY() read
on the subsequent iteration.
Fixes: 3478c83cf2 ("ext4: improve xattr consistency checking and error reporting")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260224231429.31361-1-kartikey406@gmail.com/T/ [v1]
Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260328150038.349497-1-kartikey406@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
In cases of appending write beyond EOF, ext4_zero_partial_blocks() is
called within ext4_*_write_end() to zero out the partial block beyond
EOF. This prevents exposing stale data that might be written through
mmap.
However, supporting only the regular buffered write path is
insufficient. It is also necessary to support the DAX path as well as
the upcoming iomap buffered write path. Therefore, move this operation
to ext4_write_checks().
In addition, this may introduce a race window in which a post-EOF
buffered write can race with an mmap write after the old EOF block has
been zeroed. As a result, the data in this block written by the
buffer-write and the data written by the mmap-write may be mixed.
However, this is safe because users should not rely on the result of the
race condition.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260327102939.1095257-14-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
In ext4_alloc_file_blocks(), pagecache_isize_extended() is called under
an active handle and may also hold folio lock if the block size is
smaller than the folio size. This also breaks the "folio lock ->
transaction start" lock ordering for the upcoming iomap buffered I/O
path.
Therefore, move pagecache_isize_extended() outside of an active handle.
Additionally, it is unnecessary to update the file length during each
iteration of the allocation loop. Instead, update the file length only
to the position where the allocation is successful. Postpone updating
the inode size until after the allocation loop completes or is
interrupted due to an error.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260327102939.1095257-13-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
The ctime and mtime update is already handled by file_modified() in
ext4_fallocate(), the caller of ext4_alloc_file_blocks(). So remove the
redundant calls to inode_set_ctime_current() and inode_set_mtime_to_ts()
in ext4_alloc_file_blocks().
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260327102939.1095257-12-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
In the ext4 fallocate call chain, SYNC mode handling is inconsistent:
some places check the inode state, while others check the open file
descriptor state. Unify these checks by evaluating both conditions
to ensure consistent behavior across all fallocate operations.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260327102939.1095257-11-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
In ext4_zero_range() and ext4_punch_hole(), when operating in SYNC mode
and zeroing a partial block, only data=journal modes guarantee that the
zeroed data is synchronously persisted after the operation completes.
For data=ordered/writeback mode and non-journal modes, this guarantee is
missing.
Introduce a partial_zero parameter to explicitly trigger writeback for
all scenarios where a partial block is zeroed, ensuring the zeroed data
is durably persisted.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260327102939.1095257-10-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Move ext4_block_zero_eof() and ext4_zero_partial_blocks() calls out of
the active handle context, making them independent operations, and also
add return value checks. This is safe because it still ensures data is
updated before metadata for data=ordered mode and data=journal mode
because we still zero data and ordering data before modifying the
metadata.
This change is required for iomap infrastructure conversion because the
iomap buffered I/O path does not use the same journal infrastructure for
partial block zeroing. The lock ordering of folio lock and starting
transactions is "folio lock -> transaction start", which is opposite of
the current path. Therefore, zeroing partial blocks cannot be performed
under the active handle.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260327102939.1095257-9-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Change ext4_alloc_file_blocks() to accept offset and len in byte
granularity instead of block granularity. This allows callers to pass
byte offsets and lengths directly, and this prepares for moving the
ext4_zero_partial_blocks() call from the while(len) loop for unaligned
append writes, where it only needs to be invoked once before doing block
allocation.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260327102939.1095257-8-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Only journal data mode requires an active journal handle when zeroing
partial blocks. Stop passing handle_t *handle to
ext4_zero_partial_blocks() and related functions, and make
ext4_block_journalled_zero_range() start a handle independently.
This change has no practical impact now because all callers invoke these
functions within the context of an active handle. It prepares for moving
ext4_block_zero_eof() out of an active handle in the next patch, which
is a prerequisite for converting block zero range operations to iomap
infrastructure.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260327102939.1095257-7-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Remove the handle parameter from ext4_block_do_zero_range() and move the
ordered data handling to ext4_block_zero_eof().
This is necessary for truncate up and append writes across a range
extending beyond EOF. The ordered data must be committed before updating
i_disksize to prevent exposing stale on-disk data from concurrent
post-EOF mmap writes during previous folio writeback or in case of
system crash during append writes.
This is unnecessary for partial block hole punching because the entire
punch operation does not provide atomicity guarantees and can already
expose intermediate results in case of crash.
Hole punching can only ever expose data that was there before the punch
but missed zeroing during append / truncate could expose data that was
not visible in the file before the operation.
Since ordered data handling is no longer performed inside
ext4_zero_partial_blocks(), ext4_punch_hole() no longer needs to attach
jinode.
This is prepared for the conversion to the iomap infrastructure, which
does not use ordered data mode while zeroing post-EOF partial blocks.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260327102939.1095257-6-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Rename ext4_block_zero_page_range() to ext4_block_zero_range() since the
"page" naming is no longer appropriate for current context. Also change
its signature to take an inode pointer instead of an address_space. This
aligns with the caller ext4_block_zero_eof() and
ext4_zero_partial_blocks().
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260327102939.1095257-5-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
