Please consider pulling these changes from the signed vfs-7.2-rc1.misc tag.
Thanks!
Christian
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Merge tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.misc' of 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()
...
It has no callers left, so delete it. Inline __end_buffer_write_sync()
into bh_end_write().
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528173150.1093780-35-willy@infradead.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
Unify end_buffer_read_sync() and __end_buffer_read_notouch()
by requiring the caller put the refcount on the buffer. The only caller
is in the gfs2_meta_read() path, and there we can put the refcount
after locking the buffer.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528173150.1093780-34-willy@infradead.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
This shrinks buffer_head by 8 bytes, letting us pack more buffer heads
per slab. With a Debian config, it shrinks from 104 bytes to 96 bytes
which is 42 objects per 4KiB page rather than 39, a 7% reduction in the
amount of memory used.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528173150.1093780-33-willy@infradead.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
No users are left; remove this API. Also remove/fix comments mentioning
it, and end_bio_bh_io_sync() as it's now unused.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528173150.1093780-32-willy@infradead.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
There are no more callers of this function, so delete it.
end_buffer_async_write() then has only one caller left, so
inline it into bh_end_async_write().
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528173150.1093780-27-willy@infradead.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
Avoid an extra indirect function call by using __bh_submit() instead
of submit_bh_wbc(). Since there is only one caller of submit_bh_wbc()
left, inline it into submit_bh().
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528173150.1093780-12-willy@infradead.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
Avoid an extra indirect function call by using bh_submit() instead of
submit_bh(). Since mark_buffer_async_read() would collapse to a single
function call, inline it into block_read_full_folio() along with its
extensive comment. Convert end_buffer_async_read_io() to
bh_end_async_read().
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528173150.1093780-11-willy@infradead.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528173150.1093780-10-willy@infradead.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/20260528173150.1093780-9-willy@infradead.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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/20260528173150.1093780-8-willy@infradead.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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/20260528173150.1093780-7-willy@infradead.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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/20260528173150.1093780-6-willy@infradead.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
These are the bio_end_io_t versions of end_buffer_read_sync(),
end_buffer_write_sync() and end_buffer_async_write(). They do not
contain a put_bh() call as it is no longer necessary.
Also add the helper function bio_endio_bh().
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528173150.1093780-5-willy@infradead.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
All callers of mark_buffer_async_write_endio() pass
end_buffer_async_write, so we can inline mark_buffer_async_write_endio()
into mark_buffer_async_write() and just call that instead.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528173150.1093780-4-willy@infradead.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
bh_submit() takes a bio_end_io allowing users to avoid the indirect
function call through bh->b_end_io, and eventually allowing us to remove
bh->b_end_io.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528173150.1093780-3-willy@infradead.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
Rearrange functions to avoid this forward declaration.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528173150.1093780-2-willy@infradead.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
Use `clear_and_wake_up_bit()` in `unlock_buffer()`, since the helper was
introduced in 'commit 8236b0ae31 ("bdi: wake up concurrent
wb_shutdown() callers.")' as a generic way of doing the same sequence of
operations:
clear_bit_unlock();
smp_mb__after_atomic();
wake_up_bit();
The helper was implemented to avoid bugs caused by forgetting to call
`wake_up_bit()` after `clear_bit_unlock()`.
Since `unlock_buffer()` predates git and was last modified in
'commit 4e857c58ef ("arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*()")', years
before `clear_and_wake_up_bit()`, it still uses the open-coded sequence.
Replace the open-coded sequence with the helper to avoid duplicate code
and reduce code paths to maintain.
Suggested-by: shuo chen <1289151713@qq.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/kernelnewbies/agzoqV835-co4kAN@guidai/T/#t
Signed-off-by: Agatha Isabelle Moreira <code@agatha.dev>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/ag4SD-mkmn5IbuN7@guidai
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
Please consider pulling these changes from the signed vfs-7.1-rc1.fixes tag.
Thanks!
Christian
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Merge tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull vfs fixes from Christian Brauner:
- eventpoll: fix ep_remove() UAF and follow-up cleanup
- fs: aio: set VMA_DONTCOPY_BIT in mmap to fix NULL-pointer-dereference
error
- writeback: Fix use after free in inode_switch_wbs_work_fn()
- fuse: reject oversized dirents in page cache
- fs: aio: reject partial mremap to avoid Null-pointer-dereference
error
- nstree: fix func. parameter kernel-doc warnings
- fs: Handle multiply claimed blocks more gracefully with mmb
* tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
eventpoll: drop vestigial epi->dying flag
eventpoll: drop dead bool return from ep_remove_epi()
eventpoll: refresh eventpoll_release() fast-path comment
eventpoll: move f_lock acquisition into ep_remove_file()
eventpoll: fix ep_remove struct eventpoll / struct file UAF
eventpoll: move epi_fget() up
eventpoll: rename ep_remove_safe() back to ep_remove()
eventpoll: drop vestigial __ prefix from ep_remove_{file,epi}()
eventpoll: kill __ep_remove()
eventpoll: split __ep_remove()
eventpoll: use hlist_is_singular_node() in __ep_remove()
fs: Handle multiply claimed blocks more gracefully with mmb
nstree: fix func. parameter kernel-doc warnings
fs: aio: reject partial mremap to avoid Null-pointer-dereference error
fuse: reject oversized dirents in page cache
writeback: Fix use after free in inode_switch_wbs_work_fn()
fs: aio: set VMA_DONTCOPY_BIT in mmap to fix NULL-pointer-dereference error
When a metadata block is referenced by multiple inodes and tracked by
metadata bh infrastructure (which is forbidden and generally indicates
filesystem corruption), it can happen that mmb_mark_buffer_dirty() is
called for two different mmb structures in parallel. This can lead to a
corruption of mmb linked list. Handle that situation gracefully (at
least from mmb POV) by serializing on setting bh->b_mmb.
Reported-by: Ruikai Peng <ruikai@pwno.io>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260423090311.10955-2-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Everything:
Total patches: 121
Reviews/patch: 2.11
Reviewed rate: 90%
Excluding DAMON:
Total patches: 113
Reviews/patch: 2.25
Reviewed rate: 96%
- The 33 patch series "Eliminate Dying Memory Cgroup" from Qi Zheng and
Muchun Song addresses 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. The [0/N]
changelog has a good overview of this work.
- The 3 patch series "fix unexpected type conversions and potential
overflows" from Qi Zheng fixes a couple of potential 32-bit/64-bit
issues which were identified during review of the "Eliminate Dying
Memory Cgroup" series.
- The 6 patch series "kho: history: track previous kernel version and
kexec boot count" from Breno Leitao uses 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 prints it at boot time.
- The 4 patch series "liveupdate: prevent double preservation" from
Pasha Tatashin teaches LUO to avoid managing the same file across
different active sessions.
- The 10 patch series "liveupdate: Fix module unloading and unregister
API" from Pasha Tatashin addresses an issue with how LUO handles module
reference counting and unregistration during module unloading.
- The 2 patch series "zswap pool per-CPU acomp_ctx simplifications" from
Kanchana Sridhar simplifies and cleans up the zswap crypto compression
handling and improves the lifecycle management of zswap pool's per-CPU
acomp_ctx resources.
- The 2 patch series "mm/damon/core: fix damon_call()/damos_walk() vs
kdmond exit race" from SeongJae Park addresses unlikely but possible
leaks and deadlocks in damon_call() and damon_walk().
- The 2 patch series "mm/damon/core: validate damos_quota_goal->nid"
from SeongJae Park fixes a couple of root-only wild pointer
dereferences.
- The 2 patch series "Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon: warn commit_inputs vs
other params race" from SeongJae Park updates the DAMON documentation to
warn operators about potential races which can occur if the
commit_inputs parameter is altered at the wrong time.
- The 3 patch series "Minor hmm_test fixes and cleanups" from Alistair
Popple implements two bugfixes a cleanup for the HMM kernel selftests.
- The 6 patch series "Modify memfd_luo code" from Chenghao Duan provides
cleanups, simplifications and speedups in the memfd_lou code.
- The 4 patch series "mm, kvm: allow uffd support in guest_memfd" from
Mike Rapoport enables support for userfaultfd in guest_memfd.
- The 6 patch series "selftests/mm: skip several tests when thp is not
available" from Chunyu Hu fixes several issues in the selftests code
which were causing breakage when the tests were run on CONFIG_THP=n
kernels.
- The 2 patch series "mm/mprotect: micro-optimization work" from Pedro
Falcato implements a couple of nice speedups for mprotect().
- The 3 patch series "MAINTAINERS: update KHO and LIVE UPDATE entries"
from Pratyush Yadav reflects 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.
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-18-02-14' of 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
...
In the near future, a folio will no longer pin its corresponding memory
cgroup. To ensure safety, it will only be appropriate to hold the rcu
read lock or acquire a reference to the memory cgroup returned by
folio_memcg(), thereby preventing it from being released.
In the current patch, the function get_mem_cgroup_from_folio() is employed
to safeguard against the release of the memory cgroup. This serves as a
preparatory measure for the reparenting of the LRU pages.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/d6d48fdcf329c549373ac0a1c80fd9f38067e34e.1772711148.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Allen Pais <apais@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Hamza Mahfooz <hamzamahfooz@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Imran Khan <imran.f.khan@oracle.com>
Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh.babulal@oracle.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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
struct pagevec was removed in commit 1e0877d58b ("mm: remove struct
pagevec"). Rename include/linux/pagevec.h to reflect reality and update
includes tree-wide. Add the new filename to MAINTAINERS explicitly, as it
no longer matches the "include/linux/page[-_]*" pattern in MEMORY
MANAGEMENT - CORE.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260225-pagevec_cleanup-v2-3-716868cc2d11@columbia.edu
Signed-off-by: Tal Zussman <tz2294@columbia.edu>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
As part of transition toward moving mapping_metadata_bhs to fs-private
part of the inode, provide functions for operations on this list
directly instead of going through the inode / mapping.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326095354.16340-75-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
As part of a move towards placing mapping_metadata_bhs in fs-private
inode part, switch inode_has_buffers() to take mapping_metadata_bhs
and rename the function to mmb_has_buffers().
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326095354.16340-74-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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>
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>
There's only single caller of fsync_buffers_list() so untangle the code
a bit by folding fsync_buffers_list() into sync_mapping_buffers(). Also
merge the comments and update them to reflect current state of code.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326095354.16340-71-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
The function only waits for already locked buffers in the list of
metadata bhs. fsync_buffers_list() has just waited for all outstanding
IO on buffers so this isn't adding anything useful. Comment in front of
fsync_buffers_list() mentions concerns about buffers being moved out
from tmp list back to mappings i_private_list but these days
mark_buffer_dirty_inode() doesn't touch inodes with b_assoc_map set so
that cannot happen. Just delete the stale code.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326095354.16340-70-jack@suse.cz
Tested-by: syzbot@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
All filesystem using generic metadata bh tracking are using bdev mapping
as a backing for these bhs. Stop using i_private_data for it and get to
bdev mapping directly.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326095354.16340-65-jack@suse.cz
Tested-by: syzbot@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
There are only a few filesystems that use generic tracking of inode
metadata buffer heads. As such the logic to reclaim tracked metadata
buffer heads in inode_lru_isolate() doesn't bring a benefit big enough
to justify intertwining of inode reclaim and metadata buffer head
tracking. Just treat tracked metadata buffer heads as any other metadata
filesystem has to properly clean up on inode eviction and stop handling
it in inode_lru_isolate(). As a result filesystems using generic
tracking of metadata buffer heads may now see dirty metadata buffers in
their .evict methods more often which can slow down inode reclaim but
given these filesystems aren't used in performance demanding setups we
should be fine.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326095354.16340-64-jack@suse.cz
Tested-by: syzbot@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Logical offsets into an inode are usually expressed as bytes in the VFS.
Switch fscrypt_set_bio_crypt_ctx to that convention.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260302141922.370070-9-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
fscrypt_set_bio_crypt_ctx_bh is only used by submit_bh_wbc now. Move it
there and merge bh_get_inode_and_lblk_num into it.
Note that this does not add ifdefs for fscrypt as the compiler will
optimize away the dead code if it is not built in.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260302141922.370070-6-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:
Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)
Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)
Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)
(where TYPE may also be *VAR)
The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
fsverity cleanups, speedup, and memory usage optimization from
Christoph Hellwig:
- Move some logic into common code
- Fix btrfs to reject truncates of fsverity files
- Improve the readahead implementation
- Store each inode's fsverity_info in a hash table instead of using a
pointer in the filesystem-specific part of the inode.
This optimizes for memory usage in the usual case where most files
don't have fsverity enabled.
- Look up the fsverity_info fewer times during verification, to
amortize the hash table overhead
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Merge tag 'fsverity-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fsverity/linux
Pull fsverity updates from Eric Biggers:
"fsverity cleanups, speedup, and memory usage optimization from
Christoph Hellwig:
- Move some logic into common code
- Fix btrfs to reject truncates of fsverity files
- Improve the readahead implementation
- Store each inode's fsverity_info in a hash table instead of using a
pointer in the filesystem-specific part of the inode.
This optimizes for memory usage in the usual case where most files
don't have fsverity enabled.
- Look up the fsverity_info fewer times during verification, to
amortize the hash table overhead"
* tag 'fsverity-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fsverity/linux:
fsverity: remove inode from fsverity_verification_ctx
fsverity: use a hashtable to find the fsverity_info
btrfs: consolidate fsverity_info lookup
f2fs: consolidate fsverity_info lookup
ext4: consolidate fsverity_info lookup
fs: consolidate fsverity_info lookup in buffer.c
fsverity: push out fsverity_info lookup
fsverity: deconstify the inode pointer in struct fsverity_info
fsverity: kick off hash readahead at data I/O submission time
ext4: move ->read_folio and ->readahead to readpage.c
readahead: push invalidate_lock out of page_cache_ra_unbounded
fsverity: don't issue readahead for non-ENOENT errors from __filemap_get_folio
fsverity: start consolidating pagecache code
fsverity: pass struct file to ->write_merkle_tree_block
f2fs: don't build the fsverity work handler for !CONFIG_FS_VERITY
ext4: don't build the fsverity work handler for !CONFIG_FS_VERITY
fs,fsverity: clear out fsverity_info from common code
fs,fsverity: reject size changes on fsverity files in setattr_prepare
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Merge tag 'for-7.0/block-20260206' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
- Support for batch request processing for ublk, improving the
efficiency of the kernel/ublk server communication. This can yield
nice 7-12% performance improvements
- Support for integrity data for ublk
- Various other ublk improvements and additions, including a ton of
selftests additions and updated
- Move the handling of blk-crypto software fallback from below the
block layer to above it. This reduces the complexity of dealing with
bio splitting
- Series fixing a number of potential deadlocks in blk-mq related to
the queue usage counter and writeback throttling and rq-qos debugfs
handling
- Add an async_depth queue attribute, to resolve a performance
regression that's been around for a qhilw related to the scheduler
depth handling
- Only use task_work for IOPOLL completions on NVMe, if it is necessary
to do so. An earlier fix for an issue resulted in all these
completions being punted to task_work, to guarantee that completions
were only run for a given io_uring ring when it was local to that
ring. With the new changes, we can detect if it's necessary to use
task_work or not, and avoid it if possible.
- rnbd fixes:
- Fix refcount underflow in device unmap path
- Handle PREFLUSH and NOUNMAP flags properly in protocol
- Fix server-side bi_size for special IOs
- Zero response buffer before use
- Fix trace format for flags
- Add .release to rnbd_dev_ktype
- MD pull requests via Yu Kuai
- Fix raid5_run() to return error when log_init() fails
- Fix IO hang with degraded array with llbitmap
- Fix percpu_ref not resurrected on suspend timeout in llbitmap
- Fix GPF in write_page caused by resize race
- Fix NULL pointer dereference in process_metadata_update
- Fix hang when stopping arrays with metadata through dm-raid
- Fix any_working flag handling in raid10_sync_request
- Refactor sync/recovery code path, improve error handling for
badblocks, and remove unused recovery_disabled field
- Consolidate mddev boolean fields into mddev_flags
- Use mempool to allocate stripe_request_ctx and make sure
max_sectors is not less than io_opt in raid5
- Fix return value of mddev_trylock
- Fix memory leak in raid1_run()
- Add Li Nan as mdraid reviewer
- Move phys_vec definitions to the kernel types, mostly in preparation
for some VFIO and RDMA changes
- Improve the speed for secure erase for some devices
- Various little rust updates
- Various other minor fixes, improvements, and cleanups
* tag 'for-7.0/block-20260206' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: (162 commits)
blk-mq: ABI/sysfs-block: fix docs build warnings
selftests: ublk: organize test directories by test ID
block: decouple secure erase size limit from discard size limit
block: remove redundant kill_bdev() call in set_blocksize()
blk-mq: add documentation for new queue attribute async_dpeth
block, bfq: convert to use request_queue->async_depth
mq-deadline: covert to use request_queue->async_depth
kyber: covert to use request_queue->async_depth
blk-mq: add a new queue sysfs attribute async_depth
blk-mq: factor out a helper blk_mq_limit_depth()
blk-mq-sched: unify elevators checking for async requests
block: convert nr_requests to unsigned int
block: don't use strcpy to copy blockdev name
blk-mq-debugfs: warn about possible deadlock
blk-mq-debugfs: add missing debugfs_mutex in blk_mq_debugfs_register_hctxs()
blk-mq-debugfs: remove blk_mq_debugfs_unregister_rqos()
blk-mq-debugfs: make blk_mq_debugfs_register_rqos() static
blk-rq-qos: fix possible debugfs_mutex deadlock
blk-mq-debugfs: factor out a helper to register debugfs for all rq_qos
blk-wbt: fix possible deadlock to nest pcpu_alloc_mutex under q_usage_counter
...
Look up the fsverity_info once in end_buffer_async_read_io, and then
pass it along to the I/O completion workqueue in
struct postprocess_bh_ctx.
This amortizes the lookup better once it becomes less efficient.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260202060754.270269-8-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Pass a struct fsverity_info to the verification and readahead helpers,
and push the lookup into the callers. Right now this is a very dumb
almost mechanic move that open codes a lot of fsverity_info_addr() calls
in the file systems. The subsequent patches will clean this up.
This prepares for reducing the number of fsverity_info lookups, which
will allow to amortize them better when using a more expensive lookup
method.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> # btrfs
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260202060754.270269-7-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Add a blk_crypto_submit_bio helper that either submits the bio when
it is not encrypted or inline encryption is provided, but otherwise
handles the encryption before going down into the low-level driver.
This reduces the risk from bio reordering and keeps memory allocation
as high up in the stack as possible.
Note that if the submitter knows that inline enctryption is known to
be supported by the underyling driver, it can still use plain
submit_bio.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
try_to_free_buffers() can be called on folios with no buffers attached
when filemap_release_folio() is invoked on a folio belonging to a mapping
with AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS set but no release_folio operation defined.
In such cases, folio_needs_release() returns true because of the
AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS flag, but the folio has no private buffer data. This
causes try_to_free_buffers() to call drop_buffers() on a folio with no
buffers, leading to a null pointer dereference.
Adding a check in try_to_free_buffers() to return early if the folio has no
buffers attached, with WARN_ON_ONCE() to alert about the misconfiguration.
This provides defensive hardening.
Signed-off-by: Deepakkumar Karn <dkarn@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251211131211.308021-1-dkarn@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
min_t(unsigned int, a, b) casts an 'unsigned long' to 'unsigned int'.
Use min(a, b) instead as it promotes any 'unsigned int' to 'unsigned long'
and so cannot discard significant bits.
A couple of places need umin() because of loops like:
nfolios = DIV_ROUND_UP(ret + start, PAGE_SIZE);
for (i = 0; i < nfolios; i++) {
struct folio *folio = page_folio(pages[i]);
...
unsigned int len = umin(ret, PAGE_SIZE - start);
...
ret -= len;
...
}
where the compiler doesn't track things well enough to know that
'ret' is never negative.
The alternate loop:
for (i = 0; ret > 0; i++) {
struct folio *folio = page_folio(pages[i]);
...
unsigned int len = min(ret, PAGE_SIZE - start);
...
ret -= len;
...
}
would be equivalent and doesn't need 'nfolios'.
Most of the 'unsigned long' actually come from PAGE_SIZE.
Detected by an extra check added to min_t().
Signed-off-by: David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119224140.8616-31-david.laight.linux@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.folio' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull folio updates from Christian Brauner:
"Add a new folio_next_pos() helper function that returns the file
position of the first byte after the current folio. This is a common
operation in filesystems when needing to know the end of the current
folio.
The helper is lifted from btrfs which already had its own version, and
is now used across multiple filesystems and subsystems:
- btrfs
- buffer
- ext4
- f2fs
- gfs2
- iomap
- netfs
- xfs
- mm
This fixes a long-standing bug in ocfs2 on 32-bit systems with files
larger than 2GiB. Presumably this is not a common configuration, but
the fix is backported anyway. The other filesystems did not have bugs,
they were just mildly inefficient.
This also introduce uoff_t as the unsigned version of loff_t. A recent
commit inadvertently changed a comparison from being unsigned (on
64-bit systems) to being signed (which it had always been on 32-bit
systems), leading to sporadic fstests failures.
Generally file sizes are restricted to being a signed integer, but in
places where -1 is passed to indicate "up to the end of the file", it
is convenient to have an unsigned type to ensure comparisons are
always unsigned regardless of architecture"
* tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.folio' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
fs: Add uoff_t
mm: Use folio_next_pos()
xfs: Use folio_next_pos()
netfs: Use folio_next_pos()
iomap: Use folio_next_pos()
gfs2: Use folio_next_pos()
f2fs: Use folio_next_pos()
ext4: Use folio_next_pos()
buffer: Use folio_next_pos()
btrfs: Use folio_next_pos()
filemap: Add folio_next_pos()
This is one instruction more efficient than open-coding folio_pos() +
folio_size(). It's the equivalent of (x + y) << z rather than
x << z + y << z.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251024170822.1427218-4-willy@infradead.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
There's issue as follows:
BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in end_buffer_read_sync+0xe3/0x110
Read of size 8 at addr ffffc9000168f7f8 by task swapper/3/0
CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/3 Not tainted 6.16.0-862.14.0.6.x86_64
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
dump_stack_lvl+0x55/0x70
print_address_description.constprop.0+0x2c/0x390
print_report+0xb4/0x270
kasan_report+0xb8/0xf0
end_buffer_read_sync+0xe3/0x110
end_bio_bh_io_sync+0x56/0x80
blk_update_request+0x30a/0x720
scsi_end_request+0x51/0x2b0
scsi_io_completion+0xe3/0x480
? scsi_device_unbusy+0x11e/0x160
blk_complete_reqs+0x7b/0x90
handle_softirqs+0xef/0x370
irq_exit_rcu+0xa5/0xd0
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6e/0x90
</IRQ>
Above issue happens when do ntfs3 filesystem mount, issue may happens
as follows:
mount IRQ
ntfs_fill_super
read_cache_page
do_read_cache_folio
filemap_read_folio
mpage_read_folio
do_mpage_readpage
ntfs_get_block_vbo
bh_read
submit_bh
wait_on_buffer(bh);
blk_complete_reqs
scsi_io_completion
scsi_end_request
blk_update_request
end_bio_bh_io_sync
end_buffer_read_sync
__end_buffer_read_notouch
unlock_buffer
wait_on_buffer(bh);--> return will return to caller
put_bh
--> trigger stack-out-of-bounds
In the mpage_read_folio() function, the stack variable 'map_bh' is
passed to ntfs_get_block_vbo(). Once unlock_buffer() unlocks and
wait_on_buffer() returns to continue processing, the stack variable
is likely to be reclaimed. Consequently, during the end_buffer_read_sync()
process, calling put_bh() may result in stack overrun.
If the bh is not allocated on the stack, it belongs to a folio. Freeing
a buffer head which belongs to a folio is done by drop_buffers() which
will fail to free buffers which are still locked. So it is safe to call
put_bh() before __end_buffer_read_notouch().
Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250811141830.343774-1-yebin@huaweicloud.com
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Change the address_space_operations callbacks write_begin() and
write_end() to take struct kiocb * as the first argument instead of
struct file *.
Update all affected function prototypes, implementations, call sites,
and related documentation across VFS, filesystems, and block layer.
Part of a series refactoring address_space_operations write_begin and
write_end callbacks to use struct kiocb for passing write context and
flags.
Signed-off-by: Taotao Chen <chentaotao@didiglobal.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250716093559.217344-4-chentaotao@didiglobal.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
All filesystems will already check the max and min value of their block
size during their initialization. __getblk_slow() is a very low-level
function to have these checks. Remove them and only check for logical
block size alignment.
As this check with logical block size alignment might never trigger, add
WARN_ON_ONCE() to the check. As WARN_ON_ONCE() will already print the
stack, remove the call to dump_stack().
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@samsung.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250626113223.181399-1-p.raghav@samsung.com
Reviewed-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
