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
...
FAT uses a list of metadata bhs attached to an inode. Switch it to use
generic_buffers_fsync_noflush() instead of __generic_file_fsync() as
we'll be removing metadata bh handling from __generic_file_fsync().
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326095354.16340-54-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
The kernel test robot reported that on hexagon with clang, several test
functions in fat_test.c exceed the 1280-byte stack frame limit.
The root cause is the compound literal assignment in
fat_test_set_time_offset():
*sbi = (struct msdos_sb_info){};
struct msdos_sb_info contains two hash tables of 256 hlist_head entries
(FAT_HASH_SIZE), making it several kilobytes. The compound literal
creates a temporary on the stack, and when clang inlines
fat_test_set_time_offset() into each test function, the large temporary
inflates every caller's stack frame beyond the limit.
Replace the compound literal with memset() which zeroes the struct
in-place without a stack temporary.
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202603251755.4UYY1Rcd-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Extend fat_test with coverage for FAT timestamp edge cases that are not
currently exercised.
Add tests for fat_time_unix2fat() clamping at the UTC boundaries and
when time_offset pushes an otherwise valid timestamp outside the FAT
date range. Also cover the NULL time_cs path used by existing callers,
and verify fat_truncate_atime() truncation across timezone offsets.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260315222404.9678-1-aviv.daum@gmail.com
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: avivdaum <aviv.daum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using
git grep -l '\<k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'
to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.
Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.
For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.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>
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "ocfs2: give ocfs2 the ability to reclaim suballocator free bg" saves
disk space by teaching ocfs2 to reclaim suballocator block group
space (Heming Zhao)
- "Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs" adds the
ARRAY_END() macro and uses it in various places (Alejandro Colomar)
- "vmcoreinfo: support VMCOREINFO_BYTES larger than PAGE_SIZE" makes
the vmcore code future-safe, if VMCOREINFO_BYTES ever exceeds the
page size (Pnina Feder)
- "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing module buildid" cleans
up kallsyms code related to module buildid and fixes an invalid
access crash when printing backtraces (Petr Mladek)
- "Address page fault in ima_restore_measurement_list()" fixes a
kexec-related crash that can occur when booting the second-stage
kernel on x86 (Harshit Mogalapalli)
- "kho: ABI headers and Documentation updates" updates the kexec
handover ABI documentation (Mike Rapoport)
- "Align atomic storage" adds the __aligned attribute to atomic_t and
atomic64_t definitions to get natural alignment of both types on
csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc and sh (Finn Thain)
- "kho: clean up page initialization logic" simplifies the page
initialization logic in kho_restore_page() (Pratyush Yadav)
- "Unload linux/kernel.h" moves several things out of kernel.h and into
more appropriate places (Yury Norov)
- "don't abuse task_struct.group_leader" removes the usage of
->group_leader when it is "obviously unnecessary" (Oleg Nesterov)
- "list private v2 & luo flb" adds some infrastructure improvements to
the live update orchestrator (Pasha Tatashin)
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (107 commits)
watchdog/hardlockup: simplify perf event probe and remove per-cpu dependency
procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat()
watchdog/softlockup: fix sample ring index wrap in need_counting_irqs()
kcsan, compiler_types: avoid duplicate type issues in BPF Type Format
kho: fix doc for kho_restore_pages()
tests/liveupdate: add in-kernel liveupdate test
liveupdate: luo_flb: introduce File-Lifecycle-Bound global state
liveupdate: luo_file: Use private list
list: add kunit test for private list primitives
list: add primitives for private list manipulations
delayacct: fix uapi timespec64 definition
panic: add panic_force_cpu= parameter to redirect panic to a specific CPU
netclassid: use thread_group_leader(p) in update_classid_task()
RDMA/umem: don't abuse current->group_leader
drm/pan*: don't abuse current->group_leader
drm/amd: kill the outdated "Only the pthreads threading model is supported" checks
drm/amdgpu: don't abuse current->group_leader
android/binder: use same_thread_group(proc->tsk, current) in binder_mmap()
android/binder: don't abuse current->group_leader
kho: skip memoryless NUMA nodes when reserving scratch areas
...
Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains a mix of VFS cleanups, performance improvements, API
fixes, documentation, and a deprecation notice.
Scalability and performance:
- Rework pid allocation to only take pidmap_lock once instead of
twice during alloc_pid(), improving thread creation/teardown
throughput by 10-16% depending on false-sharing luck. Pad the
namespace refcount to reduce false-sharing
- Track file lock presence via a flag in ->i_opflags instead of
reading ->i_flctx, avoiding false-sharing with ->i_readcount on
open/close hot paths. Measured 4-16% improvement on 24-core
open-in-a-loop benchmarks
- Use a consume fence in locks_inode_context() to match the
store-release/load-consume idiom, eliminating a hardware fence on
some architectures
- Annotate cdev_lock with __cacheline_aligned_in_smp to prevent
false-sharing
- Remove a redundant DCACHE_MANAGED_DENTRY check in
__follow_mount_rcu() that never fires since the caller already
verifies it, eliminating a 100% mispredicted branch
- Fix a 100% mispredicted likely() in devcgroup_inode_permission()
that became wrong after a prior code reorder
Bug fixes and correctness:
- Make insert_inode_locked() wait for inode destruction instead of
skipping, fixing a corner case where two matching inodes could
exist in the hash
- Move f_mode initialization before file_ref_init() in alloc_file()
to respect the SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU ordering contract
- Add a WARN_ON_ONCE guard in try_to_free_buffers() for folios with
no buffers attached, preventing a null pointer dereference when
AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS is set but no release_folio op exists
- Fix select restart_block to store end_time as timespec64, avoiding
truncation of tv_sec on 32-bit architectures
- Make dump_inode() use get_kernel_nofault() to safely access inode
and superblock fields, matching the dump_mapping() pattern
API modernization:
- Make posix_acl_to_xattr() allocate the buffer internally since
every single caller was doing it anyway. Reduces boilerplate and
unnecessary error checking across ~15 filesystems
- Replace deprecated simple_strtoul() with kstrtoul() for the
ihash_entries, dhash_entries, mhash_entries, and mphash_entries
boot parameters, adding proper error handling
- Convert chardev code to use guard(mutex) and __free(kfree) cleanup
patterns
- Replace min_t() with min() or umin() in VFS code to avoid silently
truncating unsigned long to unsigned int
- Gate LOOKUP_RCU assertions behind CONFIG_DEBUG_VFS since callers
already check the flag
Deprecation:
- Begin deprecating legacy BSD process accounting (acct(2)). The
interface has numerous footguns and better alternatives exist
(eBPF)
Documentation:
- Fix and complete kernel-doc for struct export_operations, removing
duplicated documentation between ReST and source
- Fix kernel-doc warnings for __start_dirop() and ilookup5_nowait()
Testing:
- Add a kunit test for initramfs cpio handling of entries with
filesize > PATH_MAX
Misc:
- Add missing <linux/init_task.h> include in fs_struct.c"
* tag 'vfs-7.0-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (28 commits)
posix_acl: make posix_acl_to_xattr() alloc the buffer
fs: make insert_inode_locked() wait for inode destruction
initramfs_test: kunit test for cpio.filesize > PATH_MAX
fs: improve dump_inode() to safely access inode fields
fs: add <linux/init_task.h> for 'init_fs'
docs: exportfs: Use source code struct documentation
fs: move initializing f_mode before file_ref_init()
exportfs: Complete kernel-doc for struct export_operations
exportfs: Mark struct export_operations functions at kernel-doc
exportfs: Fix kernel-doc output for get_name()
acct(2): begin the deprecation of legacy BSD process accounting
device_cgroup: remove branch hint after code refactor
VFS: fix __start_dirop() kernel-doc warnings
fs: Describe @isnew parameter in ilookup5_nowait()
fs/namei: Remove redundant DCACHE_MANAGED_DENTRY check in __follow_mount_rcu
fs: only assert on LOOKUP_RCU when built with CONFIG_DEBUG_VFS
select: store end_time as timespec64 in restart block
chardev: Switch to guard(mutex) and __free(kfree)
namespace: Replace simple_strtoul with kstrtoul to parse boot params
dcache: Replace simple_strtoul with kstrtoul in set_dhash_entries
...
Pull vfs lease updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains updates for lease support to require filesystems to
explicitly opt-in to lease support
Currently kernel_setlease() falls through to generic_setlease() when a
a filesystem does not define ->setlease(), silently granting lease
support to every filesystem regardless of whether it is prepared for
it.
This is a poor default: most filesystems never intended to support
leases, and the silent fallthrough makes it impossible to distinguish
"supports leases" from "never thought about it".
This inverts the default. It adds explicit
.setlease = generic_setlease;
assignments to every in-tree filesystem that should retain lease
support, then changes kernel_setlease() to return -EINVAL when
->setlease is NULL.
With the new default in place, simple_nosetlease() is redundant and
is removed along with all references to it"
* tag 'vfs-7.0-rc1.leases' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (25 commits)
fuse: add setlease file operation
fs: remove simple_nosetlease()
filelock: default to returning -EINVAL when ->setlease operation is NULL
xfs: add setlease file operation
ufs: add setlease file operation
udf: add setlease file operation
tmpfs: add setlease file operation
squashfs: add setlease file operation
overlayfs: add setlease file operation
orangefs: add setlease file operation
ocfs2: add setlease file operation
ntfs3: add setlease file operation
nilfs2: add setlease file operation
jfs: add setlease file operation
jffs2: add setlease file operation
gfs2: add a setlease file operation
fat: add setlease file operation
f2fs: add setlease file operation
exfat: add setlease file operation
ext4: add setlease file operation
...
Remove <linux/hex.h> from <linux/kernel.h> and update all users/callers of
hex.h interfaces to directly #include <linux/hex.h> as part of the process
of putting kernel.h on a diet.
Removing hex.h from kernel.h means that 36K C source files don't have to
pay the price of parsing hex.h for the roughly 120 C source files that
need it.
This change has been build-tested with allmodconfig on most ARCHes. Also,
all users/callers of <linux/hex.h> in the entire source tree have been
updated if needed (if not already #included).
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251215005206.2362276-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Pass the type of update (atime vs c/mtime plus version) as an enum
instead of a set of flags that caused all kinds of confusion.
Because inode_update_timestamps now can't return a modified version
of those flags, return the I_DIRTY_* flags needed to persist the
update, which is what the main caller in generic_update_time wants
anyway, and which is suitable for the other callers that only want
to know if an update happened.
The whole update_time path keeps the flags argument, which will be used
to support non-blocking updates soon even if it is unused, and (the
slightly renamed) inode_update_time also gains the possibility to return
a negative errno to support this.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260108141934.2052404-6-hch@lst.de
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Fat only has a single on-disk timestamp covering ctime and mtime. Add
fat-specific flags that indicate which timestamp fat_truncate_time should
update to make this more clear. This allows removing no-op
fat_truncate_time calls with the S_CTIME flag and prepares for removing
the S_* flags.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260108141934.2052404-5-hch@lst.de
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
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>
Pull misc updates from Andrew Morton:
"There are no significant series in this small merge. Please see the
individual changelogs for details"
[ Editor's note: it's mainly ocfs2 and a couple of random fixes ]
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-11-11-47' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm:
mm: memfd_luo: add CONFIG_SHMEM dependency
mm: shmem: avoid build warning for CONFIG_SHMEM=n
ocfs2: fix memory leak in ocfs2_merge_rec_left()
ocfs2: invalidate inode if i_mode is zero after block read
ocfs2: avoid -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warning
ocfs2: convert remaining read-only checks to ocfs2_emergency_state
ocfs2: add ocfs2_emergency_state helper and apply to setattr
checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with __free attribute check
args: fix documentation to reflect the correct numbers
ocfs2: fix kernel BUG in ocfs2_find_victim_chain
liveupdate: luo_core: fix redundant bound check in luo_ioctl()
ocfs2: validate inline xattr size and entry count in ocfs2_xattr_ibody_list
fs/fat: remove unnecessary wrapper fat_max_cache()
ocfs2: replace deprecated strcpy with strscpy
ocfs2: check tl_used after reading it from trancate log inode
liveupdate: luo_file: don't use invalid list iterator
Pull fs header updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains initial work to start splitting up fs.h.
Begin the long-overdue work of splitting up the monolithic fs.h
header. The header has grown to over 3000 lines and includes types and
functions for many different subsystems, making it difficult to
navigate and causing excessive compilation dependencies.
This series introduces new focused headers for superblock-related
code:
- Rename fs_types.h to fs_dirent.h to better reflect its actual
content (directory entry types)
- Add fs/super_types.h containing superblock type definitions
- Add fs/super.h containing superblock function declarations
This is the first step in a longer effort to modularize the VFS
headers.
Cleanups:
- Inode Field Layout Optimization (Mateusz Guzik)
Move inode fields used during fast path lookup closer together to
improve cache locality during path resolution.
- current_umask() Optimization (Mateusz Guzik)
Inline current_umask() and move it to fs_struct.h. This improves
performance by avoiding function call overhead for this
frequently-used function, and places it in a more appropriate
header since it operates on fs_struct"
* tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.fs_header' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
fs: move inode fields used during fast path lookup closer together
fs: inline current_umask() and move it to fs_struct.h
fs: add fs/super.h header
fs: add fs/super_types.h header
fs: rename fs_types.h to fs_dirent.h
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"Significant patch series in this pull request:
- "squashfs: Remove page->mapping references" (Matthew Wilcox) gets
us closer to being able to remove page->mapping
- "relayfs: misc changes" (Jason Xing) does some maintenance and
minor feature addition work in relayfs
- "kdump: crashkernel reservation from CMA" (Jiri Bohac) switches
us from static preallocation of the kdump crashkernel's working
memory over to dynamic allocation. So the difficulty of a-priori
estimation of the second kernel's needs is removed and the first
kernel obtains extra memory
- "generalize panic_print's dump function to be used by other
kernel parts" (Feng Tang) implements some consolidation and
rationalization of the various ways in which a failing kernel
splats information at the operator
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-08-03-12-47' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (80 commits)
tools/getdelays: add backward compatibility for taskstats version
kho: add test for kexec handover
delaytop: enhance error logging and add PSI feature description
samples: Kconfig: fix spelling mistake "instancess" -> "instances"
fat: fix too many log in fat_chain_add()
scripts/spelling.txt: add notifer||notifier to spelling.txt
xen/xenbus: fix typo "notifer"
net: mvneta: fix typo "notifer"
drm/xe: fix typo "notifer"
cxl: mce: fix typo "notifer"
KVM: x86: fix typo "notifer"
MAINTAINERS: add maintainers for delaytop
ucount: use atomic_long_try_cmpxchg() in atomic_long_inc_below()
ucount: fix atomic_long_inc_below() argument type
kexec: enable CMA based contiguous allocation
stackdepot: make max number of pools boot-time configurable
lib/xxhash: remove unused functions
init/Kconfig: restore CONFIG_BROKEN help text
lib/raid6: update recov_rvv.c zero page usage
docs: update docs after introducing delaytop
...
