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Linus Torvalds 65989db7f8 New ext4 features:
* Add support so tune2fs can modify/update the superblock using an
     ioctl, without needing write access to the block device.
   * Add support for 32-bit reserved uid's and gid's.
 
 Bug fixes:
 
   * Fix potential warnings and other failures caused by corrupted / fuzzed
     file systems.
   * Fail unaligned direct I/O write with EINVAL instead of silently
     falling back to buffered I/O
   * Correectly handle fsmap queries for metadata mappings
   * Avoid journal stalls caused by writeback throttling
   * Add some missing GFP_NOFAIL flags to avoid potential deadlocks
     under extremem memory pressure
 
 Cleanups:
 
   * Remove obsolete EXT3 Kconfigs
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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus-6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "New ext4 features:

   - Add support so tune2fs can modify/update the superblock using an
     ioctl, without needing write access to the block device

   - Add support for 32-bit reserved uid's and gid's

  Bug fixes:

   - Fix potential warnings and other failures caused by corrupted /
     fuzzed file systems

   - Fail unaligned direct I/O write with EINVAL instead of silently
     falling back to buffered I/O

   - Correectly handle fsmap queries for metadata mappings

   - Avoid journal stalls caused by writeback throttling

   - Add some missing GFP_NOFAIL flags to avoid potential deadlocks
     under extremem memory pressure

  Cleanups:

   - Remove obsolete EXT3 Kconfigs"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus-6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: fix checks for orphan inodes
  ext4: validate ea_ino and size in check_xattrs
  ext4: guard against EA inode refcount underflow in xattr update
  ext4: implemet new ioctls to set and get superblock parameters
  ext4: add support for 32-bit default reserved uid and gid values
  ext4: avoid potential buffer over-read in parse_apply_sb_mount_options()
  ext4: fix an off-by-one issue during moving extents
  ext4: increase i_disksize to offset + len in ext4_update_disksize_before_punch()
  ext4: verify orphan file size is not too big
  ext4: fail unaligned direct IO write with EINVAL
  ext4: correctly handle queries for metadata mappings
  ext4: increase IO priority of fastcommit
  ext4: remove obsolete EXT3 config options
  jbd2: increase IO priority of checkpoint
  ext4: fix potential null deref in ext4_mb_init()
  ext4: add ext4_sb_bread_nofail() helper function for ext4_free_branches()
  ext4: replace min/max nesting with clamp()
  fs: ext4: change GFP_KERNEL to GFP_NOFS to avoid deadlock
2025-10-03 13:47:10 -07:00
arch assorted dead code removal around asm/pgtable.h 2025-10-03 11:37:50 -07:00
block Summary of significant series in this pull request: 2025-10-02 18:18:33 -07:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto Summary of significant series in this pull request: 2025-10-02 18:18:33 -07:00
Documentation fuse update for 6.18 2025-10-03 12:48:18 -07:00
drivers vfs_parse_fs_string() stuff 2025-10-03 10:51:44 -07:00
fs New ext4 features: 2025-10-03 13:47:10 -07:00
include New ext4 features: 2025-10-03 13:47:10 -07:00
init Patch series in this pull request: 2025-10-02 18:44:54 -07:00
io_uring Summary of significant series in this pull request: 2025-10-02 18:18:33 -07:00
ipc namespace-6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 11:20:29 -07:00
kernel vfs_parse_fs_string() stuff 2025-10-03 10:51:44 -07:00
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LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
mm fuse update for 6.18 2025-10-03 12:48:18 -07:00
net Networking changes for 6.18. 2025-10-02 15:17:01 -07:00
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security Simplifying ->d_name audits, easy part. 2025-10-03 11:14:02 -07:00
sound sound updates for 6.18-rc1 2025-10-02 11:37:19 -07:00
tools fuse update for 6.18 2025-10-03 12:48:18 -07:00
usr gen_init_cpio: add -a <data_align> as reflink optimization 2025-08-20 16:02:56 -07:00
virt Merge tag 'kvm-x86-no_assignment-6.17' of https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux into HEAD 2025-07-29 08:36:42 -04:00
.clang-format Linux 6.15-rc5 2025-05-06 16:39:25 +10:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
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.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: remove Alyssa Rosenzweig 2025-09-18 21:17:31 +02:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore compile_commands.json globally 2025-08-12 15:53:55 -07:00
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.pylintrc docs: add a .pylintrc file with sys path for docs scripts 2025-04-09 12:10:33 -06:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Delete inactive maintainers from AF_XDP 2025-09-25 13:18:22 +02:00
Kbuild sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline 2025-09-25 09:57:16 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS fuse update for 6.18 2025-10-03 12:48:18 -07:00
Makefile Kbuild updates for 6.18 2025-10-01 20:58:51 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.