Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It has been a relatively busy cycle for docs, especially the build
system:
- The Perl kernel-doc script was added to 2.3.52pre1 just after the
turn of the millennium. Over the following 25 years, it accumulated
a vast amount of cruft, all in a language few people want to deal
with anymore. Mauro's Python replacement in 6.16 faithfully
reproduced all of the cruft in the hope of avoiding regressions.
Now that we have a more reasonable code base, though, we can work
on cleaning it up; many of the changes this time around are toward
that end.
- A reorganization of the ext4 docs into the usual TOC format.
- Various Chinese translations and updates.
- A new script from Mauro to help with docs-build testing.
- A new document for linked lists
- A sweep through MAINTAINERS fixing broken GitHub git:// repository
links.
...and lots of fixes and updates"
* tag 'docs-6.17' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (147 commits)
scripts: add origin commit identification based on specific patterns
sphinx: kernel_abi: fix performance regression with O=<dir>
Documentation: core-api: entry: Replace deprecated KVM entry/exit functions
docs: fault-injection: drop reference to md-faulty
docs: document linked lists
scripts: kdoc: make it backward-compatible with Python 3.7
docs: kernel-doc: emit warnings for ancient versions of Python
Documentation/rtla: Describe exit status
Documentation/rtla: Add include common_appendix.rst
docs: kernel: Clarify printk_ratelimit_burst reset behavior
Documentation: ioctl-number: Don't repeat macro names
Documentation: ioctl-number: Shorten macros table
Documentation: ioctl-number: Correct full path to papr-physical-attestation.h
Documentation: ioctl-number: Extend "Include File" column width
Documentation: ioctl-number: Fix linuxppc-dev mailto link
overlayfs.rst: fix typos
docs: kdoc: emit a warning for ancient versions of Python
docs: kdoc: clean up check_sections()
docs: kdoc: directly access the always-there KdocItem fields
docs: kdoc: straighten up dump_declaration()
...
Pull fscrypt updates from Eric Biggers:
"Simplify how fscrypt uses the crypto API, resulting in some
significant performance improvements:
- Drop the incomplete and problematic support for asynchronous
algorithms. These drivers are bug-prone, and it turns out they are
actually much slower than the CPU-based code as well.
- Allocate crypto requests on the stack instead of the heap. This
improves encryption and decryption performance, especially for
filenames. This also eliminates a point of failure during I/O"
* tag 'fscrypt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/linux:
ceph: Remove gfp_t argument from ceph_fscrypt_encrypt_*()
fscrypt: Remove gfp_t argument from fscrypt_encrypt_block_inplace()
fscrypt: Remove gfp_t argument from fscrypt_crypt_data_unit()
fscrypt: Switch to sync_skcipher and on-stack requests
fscrypt: Drop FORBID_WEAK_KEYS flag for AES-ECB
fscrypt: Don't use asynchronous CryptoAPI algorithms
fscrypt: Don't use problematic non-inline crypto engines
fscrypt: Drop obsolete recommendation to enable optimized SHA-512
fscrypt: Explicitly include <linux/export.h>
Pull crypto library conversions from Eric Biggers:
"Convert fsverity and apparmor to use the SHA-2 library functions
instead of crypto_shash. This is simpler and also slightly faster"
* tag 'libcrypto-conversions-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux:
fsverity: Switch from crypto_shash to SHA-2 library
fsverity: Explicitly include <linux/export.h>
apparmor: use SHA-256 library API instead of crypto_shash API
Pull vfs iomap updates from Christian Brauner:
- Refactor the iomap writeback code and split the generic and ioend/bio
based writeback code.
There are two methods that define the split between the generic
writeback code, and the implemementation of it, and all knowledge of
ioends and bios now sits below that layer.
- Add fuse iomap support for buffered writes and dirty folio writeback.
This is needed so that granular uptodate and dirty tracking can be
used in fuse when large folios are enabled. This has two big
advantages. For writes, instead of the entire folio needing to be
read into the page cache, only the relevant portions need to be. For
writeback, only the dirty portions need to be written back instead of
the entire folio.
* tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.iomap' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
fuse: refactor writeback to use iomap_writepage_ctx inode
fuse: hook into iomap for invalidating and checking partial uptodateness
fuse: use iomap for folio laundering
fuse: use iomap for writeback
fuse: use iomap for buffered writes
iomap: build the writeback code without CONFIG_BLOCK
iomap: add read_folio_range() handler for buffered writes
iomap: improve argument passing to iomap_read_folio_sync
iomap: replace iomap_folio_ops with iomap_write_ops
iomap: export iomap_writeback_folio
iomap: move folio_unlock out of iomap_writeback_folio
iomap: rename iomap_writepage_map to iomap_writeback_folio
iomap: move all ioend handling to ioend.c
iomap: add public helpers for uptodate state manipulation
iomap: hide ioends from the generic writeback code
iomap: refactor the writeback interface
iomap: cleanup the pending writeback tracking in iomap_writepage_map_blocks
iomap: pass more arguments using the iomap writeback context
iomap: header diet
Pull fileattr updates from Christian Brauner:
"This introduces the new file_getattr() and file_setattr() system calls
after lengthy discussions.
Both system calls serve as successors and extensible companions to
the FS_IOC_FSGETXATTR and FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR system calls which have
started to show their age in addition to being named in a way that
makes it easy to conflate them with extended attribute related
operations.
These syscalls allow userspace to set filesystem inode attributes on
special files. One of the usage examples is the XFS quota projects.
XFS has project quotas which could be attached to a directory. All new
inodes in these directories inherit project ID set on parent
directory.
The project is created from userspace by opening and calling
FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR on each inode. This is not possible for special
files such as FIFO, SOCK, BLK etc. Therefore, some inodes are left
with empty project ID. Those inodes then are not shown in the quota
accounting but still exist in the directory. This is not critical but
in the case when special files are created in the directory with
already existing project quota, these new inodes inherit extended
attributes. This creates a mix of special files with and without
attributes. Moreover, special files with attributes don't have a
possibility to become clear or change the attributes. This, in turn,
prevents userspace from re-creating quota project on these existing
files.
In addition, these new system calls allow the implementation of
additional attributes that we couldn't or didn't want to fit into the
legacy ioctls anymore"
* tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.fileattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
fs: tighten a sanity check in file_attr_to_fileattr()
tree-wide: s/struct fileattr/struct file_kattr/g
fs: introduce file_getattr and file_setattr syscalls
fs: prepare for extending file_get/setattr()
fs: make vfs_fileattr_[get|set] return -EOPNOTSUPP
selinux: implement inode_file_[g|s]etattr hooks
lsm: introduce new hooks for setting/getting inode fsxattr
fs: split fileattr related helpers into separate file
Pull mmap_prepare updates from Christian Brauner:
"Last cycle we introduce f_op->mmap_prepare() in c84bf6dd2b ("mm:
introduce new .mmap_prepare() file callback").
This is preferred to the existing f_op->mmap() hook as it does require
a VMA to be established yet, thus allowing the mmap logic to invoke
this hook far, far earlier, prior to inserting a VMA into the virtual
address space, or performing any other heavy handed operations.
This allows for much simpler unwinding on error, and for there to be a
single attempt at merging a VMA rather than having to possibly
reattempt a merge based on potentially altered VMA state.
Far more importantly, it prevents inappropriate manipulation of
incompletely initialised VMA state, which is something that has been
the cause of bugs and complexity in the past.
The intent is to gradually deprecate f_op->mmap, and in that vein this
series coverts the majority of file systems to using f_op->mmap_prepare.
Prerequisite steps are taken - firstly ensuring all checks for mmap
capabilities use the file_has_valid_mmap_hooks() helper rather than
directly checking for f_op->mmap (which is now not a valid check) and
secondly updating daxdev_mapping_supported() to not require a VMA
parameter to allow ext4 and xfs to be converted.
Commit bb666b7c27 ("mm: add mmap_prepare() compatibility layer for
nested file systems") handles the nasty edge-case of nested file
systems like overlayfs, which introduces a compatibility shim to allow
f_op->mmap_prepare() to be invoked from an f_op->mmap() callback.
This allows for nested filesystems to continue to function correctly
with all file systems regardless of which callback is used. Once we
finally convert all file systems, this shim can be removed.
As a result, ecryptfs, fuse, and overlayfs remain unaltered so they
can nest all other file systems.
We additionally do not update resctl - as this requires an update to
remap_pfn_range() (or an alternative to it) which we defer to a later
series, equally we do not update cramfs which needs a mixed mapping
insertion with the same issue, nor do we update procfs, hugetlbfs,
syfs or kernfs all of which require VMAs for internal state and hooks.
We shall return to all of these later"
* tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.mmap_prepare' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
doc: update porting, vfs documentation to describe mmap_prepare()
fs: replace mmap hook with .mmap_prepare for simple mappings
fs: convert most other generic_file_*mmap() users to .mmap_prepare()
fs: convert simple use of generic_file_*_mmap() to .mmap_prepare()
mm/filemap: introduce generic_file_*_mmap_prepare() helpers
fs/xfs: transition from deprecated .mmap hook to .mmap_prepare
fs/ext4: transition from deprecated .mmap hook to .mmap_prepare
fs/dax: make it possible to check dev dax support without a VMA
fs: consistently use can_mmap_file() helper
mm/nommu: use file_has_valid_mmap_hooks() helper
mm: rename call_mmap/mmap_prepare to vfs_mmap/mmap_prepare
Pull async directory updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains preparatory changes for the asynchronous directory
locking scheme.
While the locking scheme is still very much controversial and we're
still far away from landing any actual changes in that area the
preparatory work that we've been upstreaming for a while now has been
very useful. This is another set of minor changes and cleanups"
* tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.async.dir' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
exportfs: use lookup_one_unlocked()
coda: use iterate_dir() in coda_readdir()
VFS: Minor fixes for porting.rst
VFS: merge lookup_one_qstr_excl_raw() back into lookup_one_qstr_excl()
Pull misc VFS updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains the usual selections of misc updates for this cycle.
Features:
- Add ext4 IOCB_DONTCACHE support
This refactors the address_space_operations write_begin() and
write_end() callbacks to take const struct kiocb * as their first
argument, allowing IOCB flags such as IOCB_DONTCACHE to propagate
to the filesystem's buffered I/O path.
Ext4 is updated to implement handling of the IOCB_DONTCACHE flag
and advertises support via the FOP_DONTCACHE file operation flag.
Additionally, the i915 driver's shmem write paths are updated to
bypass the legacy write_begin/write_end interface in favor of
directly calling write_iter() with a constructed synchronous kiocb.
Another i915 change replaces a manual write loop with
kernel_write() during GEM shmem object creation.
Cleanups:
- don't duplicate vfs_open() in kernel_file_open()
- proc_fd_getattr(): don't bother with S_ISDIR() check
- fs/ecryptfs: replace snprintf with sysfs_emit in show function
- vfs: Remove unnecessary list_for_each_entry_safe() from
evict_inodes()
- filelock: add new locks_wake_up_waiter() helper
- fs: Remove three arguments from block_write_end()
- VFS: change old_dir and new_dir in struct renamedata to dentrys
- netfs: Remove unused declaration netfs_queue_write_request()
Fixes:
- eventpoll: Fix semi-unbounded recursion
- eventpoll: fix sphinx documentation build warning
- fs/read_write: Fix spelling typo
- fs: annotate data race between poll_schedule_timeout() and
pollwake()
- fs/pipe: set FMODE_NOWAIT in create_pipe_files()
- docs/vfs: update references to i_mutex to i_rwsem
- fs/buffer: remove comment about hard sectorsize
- fs/buffer: remove the min and max limit checks in __getblk_slow()
- fs/libfs: don't assume blocksize <= PAGE_SIZE in
generic_check_addressable
- fs_context: fix parameter name in infofc() macro
- fs: Prevent file descriptor table allocations exceeding INT_MAX"
* tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (24 commits)
netfs: Remove unused declaration netfs_queue_write_request()
eventpoll: fix sphinx documentation build warning
ext4: support uncached buffered I/O
mm/pagemap: add write_begin_get_folio() helper function
fs: change write_begin/write_end interface to take struct kiocb *
drm/i915: Refactor shmem_pwrite() to use kiocb and write_iter
drm/i915: Use kernel_write() in shmem object create
eventpoll: Fix semi-unbounded recursion
vfs: Remove unnecessary list_for_each_entry_safe() from evict_inodes()
fs/libfs: don't assume blocksize <= PAGE_SIZE in generic_check_addressable
fs/buffer: remove the min and max limit checks in __getblk_slow()
fs: Prevent file descriptor table allocations exceeding INT_MAX
fs: Remove three arguments from block_write_end()
fs/ecryptfs: replace snprintf with sysfs_emit in show function
fs: annotate suspected data race between poll_schedule_timeout() and pollwake()
docs/vfs: update references to i_mutex to i_rwsem
fs/buffer: remove comment about hard sectorsize
fs_context: fix parameter name in infofc() macro
VFS: change old_dir and new_dir in struct renamedata to dentrys
proc_fd_getattr(): don't bother with S_ISDIR() check
...
Pull vfs mount updates from Al Viro:
- mount hash conflicts rudiments are gone now - we do not allow
multiple mounts with the same parent/mountpoint to be hashed at the
same time.
- 'struct mount' changes:
- mnt_umounting is gone
- mnt_slave_list/mnt_slave is an hlist now
- overmounts are kept track of by explicit pointer in mount
- a bunch of flags moved out of mnt_flags to a new field, with
only namespace_sem for protection
- mnt_expiry is protected by mount_lock now (instead of
namespace_sem)
- MNT_LOCKED is used only for mounts that need to remain attached
to their parents to prevent mountpoint exposure - no more
overloading it for absolute roots
- all mnt_list uses are transient now - it's used only to
represent temporary sets during umount_tree()
- mount refcounting change: children no longer pin parents for any
mounts, whether they'd passed through umount_tree() or not
- 'struct mountpoint' changes:
- refcount is no more; what matters is ->m_list emptiness
- instead of temporary bumping the refcount, we insert a new
object (pinned_mountpoint) into ->m_list
- new calling conventions for lock_mount() and friends
- do_move_mount()/attach_recursive_mnt() seriously cleaned up
- globals in fs/pnode.c are gone
- propagate_mnt(), change_mnt_propagation() and propagate_umount()
cleaned up (in the last case - pretty much completely rewritten).
- freeing of emptied mnt_namespace is done in namespace_unlock(). For
one thing, there are subtle ordering requirements there; for another
it simplifies cleanups.
- assorted cleanups
- restore the machinery for long-term mounts from accumulated bitrot.
This is going to get a followup come next cycle, when the change of
vfs_fs_parse_string() calling conventions goes into -next
* tag 'pull-mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (48 commits)
statmount_mnt_basic(): simplify the logics for group id
invent_group_ids(): zero ->mnt_group_id always implies !IS_MNT_SHARED()
get rid of CL_SHARE_TO_SLAVE
take freeing of emptied mnt_namespace to namespace_unlock()
copy_tree(): don't link the mounts via mnt_list
change_mnt_propagation(): move ->mnt_master assignment into MS_SLAVE case
mnt_slave_list/mnt_slave: turn into hlist_head/hlist_node
turn do_make_slave() into transfer_propagation()
do_make_slave(): choose new master sanely
change_mnt_propagation(): do_make_slave() is a no-op unless IS_MNT_SHARED()
change_mnt_propagation() cleanups, step 1
propagate_mnt(): fix comment and convert to kernel-doc, while we are at it
propagate_mnt(): get rid of last_dest
fs/pnode.c: get rid of globals
propagate_one(): fold into the sole caller
propagate_one(): separate the "what should be the master for this copy" part
propagate_one(): separate the "do we need secondary here?" logics
propagate_mnt(): handle all peer groups in the same loop
propagate_one(): get rid of dest_master
mount: separate the flags accessed only under namespace_sem
...
Pull dentry d_flags updates from Al Viro:
"The current exclusion rules for dentry->d_flags stores are rather
unpleasant. The basic rules are simple:
- stores to dentry->d_flags are OK under dentry->d_lock
- stores to dentry->d_flags are OK in the dentry constructor, before
becomes potentially visible to other threads
Unfortunately, there's a couple of exceptions to that, and that's
where the headache comes from.
The main PITA comes from d_set_d_op(); that primitive sets ->d_op of
dentry and adjusts the flags that correspond to presence of individual
methods. It's very easy to misuse; existing uses _are_ safe, but proof
of correctness is brittle.
Use in __d_alloc() is safe (we are within a constructor), but we might
as well precalculate the initial value of 'd_flags' when we set the
default ->d_op for given superblock and set 'd_flags' directly instead
of messing with that helper.
The reasons why other uses are safe are bloody convoluted; I'm not
going to reproduce it here. See [1] for gory details, if you care. The
critical part is using d_set_d_op() only just prior to
d_splice_alias(), which makes a combination of d_splice_alias() with
setting ->d_op, etc a natural replacement primitive.
Better yet, if we go that way, it's easy to take setting ->d_op and
modifying 'd_flags' under ->d_lock, which eliminates the headache as
far as 'd_flags' exclusion rules are concerned. Other exceptions are
minor and easy to deal with.
What this series does:
- d_set_d_op() is no longer available; instead a new primitive
(d_splice_alias_ops()) is provided, equivalent to combination of
d_set_d_op() and d_splice_alias().
- new field of struct super_block - 's_d_flags'. This sets the
default value of 'd_flags' to be used when allocating dentries on
this filesystem.
- new primitive for setting 's_d_op': set_default_d_op(). This
replaces stores to 's_d_op' at mount time.
All in-tree filesystems converted; out-of-tree ones will get caught
by the compiler ('s_d_op' is renamed, so stores to it will be
caught). 's_d_flags' is set by the same primitive to match the
's_d_op'.
- a lot of filesystems had sb->s_d_op->d_delete equal to
always_delete_dentry; that is equivalent to setting
DCACHE_DONTCACHE in 'd_flags', so such filesystems can bloody well
set that bit in 's_d_flags' and drop 'd_delete()' from
dentry_operations.
In quite a few cases that results in empty dentry_operations, which
means that we can get rid of those.
- kill simple_dentry_operations - not needed anymore
- massage d_alloc_parallel() to get rid of the other exception wrt
'd_flags' stores - we can set DCACHE_PAR_LOOKUP as soon as we
allocate the new dentry; no need to delay that until we commit to
using the sucker.
As the result, 'd_flags' stores are all either under ->d_lock or done
before the dentry becomes visible in any shared data structures"
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250224010624.GT1977892@ZenIV/ [1]
* tag 'pull-dcache' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (21 commits)
configfs: use DCACHE_DONTCACHE
debugfs: use DCACHE_DONTCACHE
efivarfs: use DCACHE_DONTCACHE instead of always_delete_dentry()
9p: don't bother with always_delete_dentry
ramfs, hugetlbfs, mqueue: set DCACHE_DONTCACHE
kill simple_dentry_operations
devpts, sunrpc, hostfs: don't bother with ->d_op
shmem: no dentry retention past the refcount reaching zero
d_alloc_parallel(): set DCACHE_PAR_LOOKUP earlier
make d_set_d_op() static
simple_lookup(): just set DCACHE_DONTCACHE
tracefs: Add d_delete to remove negative dentries
set_default_d_op(): calculate the matching value for ->d_flags
correct the set of flags forbidden at d_set_d_op() time
split d_flags calculation out of d_set_d_op()
new helper: set_default_d_op()
fuse: no need for special dentry_operations for root dentry
switch procfs from d_set_d_op() to d_splice_alias_ops()
new helper: d_splice_alias_ops()
procfs: kill ->proc_dops
...
Now that we have established .mmap_prepare() as the preferred means by
which filesystems establish state upon memory mapping of a file, update the
VFS and porting documentation to reflect this.
As part of this change, additionally update the VFS documentation to
contain the current state of the file_operations struct.
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250723123036.35472-1-lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
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>
fsverity supports two hash algorithms: SHA-256 and SHA-512. Since both
of these have a library API now, just use the library API instead of
crypto_shash. Even with multiple algorithms, the library-based code
still ends up being quite a bit simpler, due to how clumsy the
old-school crypto API is. The library-based code is also more
efficient, since it avoids overheads such as indirect calls.
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250630172224.46909-3-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
The iomap_folio_ops are only used for buffered writes, including the zero
and unshare variants. Rename them to iomap_write_ops to better describe
the usage, and pass them through the call chain like the other operation
specific methods instead of through the iomap.
xfs_iomap_valid grows a IOMAP_HOLE check to keep the existing behavior
that never attached the folio_ops to a iomap representing a hole.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250710133343.399917-12-hch@lst.de
Acked-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Replace ->map_blocks with a new ->writeback_range, which differs in the
following ways:
- it must also queue up the I/O for writeback, that is called into the
slightly refactored and extended in scope iomap_add_to_ioend for
each region
- can handle only a part of the requested region, that is the retry
loop for partial mappings moves to the caller
- handles cleanup on failures as well, and thus also replaces the
discard_folio method only implemented by XFS.
This will allow to use the iomap writeback code also for file systems
that are not block based like fuse.
Co-developed-by: Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250710133343.399917-5-hch@lst.de
Acked-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org> # zonefs
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Make fscrypt no longer use Crypto API drivers for non-inline crypto
engines, even when the Crypto API prioritizes them over CPU-based code
(which unfortunately it often does). These drivers tend to be really
problematic, especially for fscrypt's workload. This commit has no
effect on inline crypto engines, which are different and do work well.
Specifically, exclude drivers that have CRYPTO_ALG_KERN_DRIVER_ONLY or
CRYPTO_ALG_ALLOCATES_MEMORY set. (Later, CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC should be
excluded too. That's omitted for now to keep this commit backportable,
since until recently some CPU-based code had CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC set.)
There are two major issues with these drivers: bugs and performance.
First, these drivers tend to be buggy. They're fundamentally much more
error-prone and harder to test than the CPU-based code. They often
don't get tested before kernel releases, and even if they do, the crypto
self-tests don't properly test these drivers. Released drivers have
en/decrypted or hashed data incorrectly. These bugs cause issues for
fscrypt users who often didn't even want to use these drivers, e.g.:
- https://github.com/google/fscryptctl/issues/32
- https://github.com/google/fscryptctl/issues/9
- https://lore.kernel.org/r/PH0PR02MB731916ECDB6C613665863B6CFFAA2@PH0PR02MB7319.namprd02.prod.outlook.com
These drivers have also similarly caused issues for dm-crypt users,
including data corruption and deadlocks. Since Linux v5.10, dm-crypt
has disabled most of them by excluding CRYPTO_ALG_ALLOCATES_MEMORY.
Second, these drivers tend to be *much* slower than the CPU-based code.
This may seem counterintuitive, but benchmarks clearly show it. There's
a *lot* of overhead associated with going to a hardware driver, off the
CPU, and back again. To prove this, I gathered as many systems with
this type of crypto engine as I could, and I measured synchronous
encryption of 4096-byte messages (which matches fscrypt's workload):
Intel Emerald Rapids server:
AES-256-XTS:
xts-aes-vaes-avx512 16171 MB/s [CPU-based, Vector AES]
qat_aes_xts 289 MB/s [Offload, Intel QuickAssist]
Qualcomm SM8650 HDK:
AES-256-XTS:
xts-aes-ce 4301 MB/s [CPU-based, ARMv8 Crypto Extensions]
xts-aes-qce 73 MB/s [Offload, Qualcomm Crypto Engine]
i.MX 8M Nano LPDDR4 EVK:
AES-256-XTS:
xts-aes-ce 647 MB/s [CPU-based, ARMv8 Crypto Extensions]
xts(ecb-aes-caam) 20 MB/s [Offload, CAAM]
AES-128-CBC-ESSIV:
essiv(cbc-aes-caam,sha256-lib) 23 MB/s [Offload, CAAM]
STM32MP157F-DK2:
AES-256-XTS:
xts-aes-neonbs 13.2 MB/s [CPU-based, ARM NEON]
xts(stm32-ecb-aes) 3.1 MB/s [Offload, STM32 crypto engine]
AES-128-CBC-ESSIV:
essiv(cbc-aes-neonbs,sha256-lib)
14.7 MB/s [CPU-based, ARM NEON]
essiv(stm32-cbc-aes,sha256-lib)
3.2 MB/s [Offload, STM32 crypto engine]
Adiantum:
adiantum(xchacha12-arm,aes-arm,nhpoly1305-neon)
52.8 MB/s [CPU-based, ARM scalar + NEON]
So, there was no case in which the crypto engine was even *close* to
being faster. On the first three, which have AES instructions in the
CPU, the CPU was 30 to 55 times faster (!). Even on STM32MP157F-DK2
which has a Cortex-A7 CPU that doesn't have AES instructions, AES was
over 4 times faster on the CPU. And Adiantum encryption, which is what
actually should be used on CPUs like that, was over 17 times faster.
Other justifications that have been given for these non-inline crypto
engines (almost always coming from the hardware vendors, not actual
users) don't seem very plausible either:
- The crypto engine throughput could be improved by processing
multiple requests concurrently. Currently irrelevant to fscrypt,
since it doesn't do that. This would also be complex, and unhelpful
in many cases. 2 of the 4 engines I tested even had only one queue.
- Some of the engines, e.g. STM32, support hardware keys. Also
currently irrelevant to fscrypt, since it doesn't support these.
Interestingly, the STM32 driver itself doesn't support this either.
- Free up CPU for other tasks and/or reduce energy usage. Not very
plausible considering the "short" message length, driver overhead,
and scheduling overhead. There's just very little time for the CPU
to do something else like run another task or enter low-power state,
before the message finishes and it's time to process the next one.
- Some of these engines resist power analysis and electromagnetic
attacks, while the CPU-based crypto generally does not. In theory,
this sounds great. In practice, if this benefit requires the use of
an off-CPU offload that massively regresses performance and has a
low-quality, buggy driver, the price for this hardening (which is
not relevant to most fscrypt users, and tends to be incomplete) is
just too high. Inline crypto engines are much more promising here,
as are on-CPU solutions like RISC-V High Assurance Cryptography.
Fixes: b30ab0e034 ("ext4 crypto: add ext4 encryption facilities")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250704070322.20692-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
The short description of inode table is in bitmaps.rst alongside the
proper bitmpas documentation. The docs file is short enough that it fits
whole browser screen on desktop, which implies that when readers click
"Inode Table", they will essentially see bitmaps docs.
Move inode table short description.
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250620105643.25141-7-bagasdotme@gmail.com
ext4 docs are organized in three master docs (overview.rst, globals.rst,
and dynamic.rst), in which these include other docs via include::
directive. These docs sturcture is better served by toctrees instead.
Convert the master docs to use toctrees.
Fixes: 0bf1f51e34 ("ext4: Add atomic block write documentation")
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250620105643.25141-3-bagasdotme@gmail.com
Several flags are updated and checked only under namespace_sem; we are
already making use of that when we are checking them without mount_lock,
but we have to hold mount_lock for all updates, which makes things
clumsier than they have to be.
Take MNT_SHARED, MNT_UNBINDABLE, MNT_MARKED and MNT_UMOUNT_CANDIDATE
into a separate field (->mnt_t_flags), renaming them to T_SHARED,
etc. to avoid confusion. All accesses must be under namespace_sem.
That changes locking requirements for mnt_change_propagation() and
set_mnt_shared() - only namespace_sem is needed now. The same goes
for SET_MNT_MARKED et.al.
There might be more flags moved from ->mnt_flags to that field;
this is just the initial set.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The variant currently in the tree has problems; trying to prove
correctness has caught at least one class of bugs (reparenting
that ends up moving the visible location of reparented mount, due
to not excluding some of the counterparts on propagation that
should've been included).
I tried to prove that it's the only bug there; I'm still not sure
whether it is. If anyone can reconstruct and write down an analysis
of the mainline implementation, I'll gladly review it; as it is,
I ended up doing a different implementation. Candidate collection
phase is similar, but trimming the set down until it satisfies the
constraints turned out pretty different.
I hoped to do transformation as a massage series, but that turns out
to be too convoluted. So it's a single patch replacing propagate_umount()
and friends in one go, with notes and analysis in D/f/propagate_umount.txt
(in addition to inline comments).
As far I can tell, it is provably correct and provably linear by the number
of mounts we need to look at in order to decide what should be unmounted.
It even builds and seems to survive testing...
Another nice thing that fell out of that is that ->mnt_umounting is no longer
needed.
Compared to the first version:
* explicit MNT_UMOUNT_CANDIDATE flag for is_candidate()
* trim_ancestors() only clears that flag, leaving the suckers on list
* trim_one() and handle_locked() take the stuff with flag cleared off
the list. That allows to iterate with list_for_each_entry_safe() when calling
trim_one() - it removes at most one element from the list now.
* no globals - I didn't bother with any kind of context, not worth it.
* Notes updated accordingly; I have not touch the terms yet.
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Pull mount fixes from Al Viro:
"Several mount-related fixes"
* tag 'pull-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
userns and mnt_idmap leak in open_tree_attr(2)
attach_recursive_mnt(): do not lock the covering tree when sliding something under it
replace collect_mounts()/drop_collected_mounts() with a safer variant
collect_mounts() has several problems - one can't iterate over the results
directly, so it has to be done with callback passed to iterate_mounts();
it has an oopsable race with d_invalidate(); it creates temporary clones
of mounts invisibly for sync umount (IOW, you can have non-lazy umount
succeed leaving filesystem not mounted anywhere and yet still busy).
A saner approach is to give caller an array of struct path that would pin
every mount in a subtree, without cloning any mounts.
* collect_mounts()/drop_collected_mounts()/iterate_mounts() is gone
* collect_paths(where, preallocated, size) gives either ERR_PTR(-E...) or
a pointer to array of struct path, one for each chunk of tree visible under
'where' (i.e. the first element is a copy of where, followed by (mount,root)
for everything mounted under it - the same set collect_mounts() would give).
Unlike collect_mounts(), the mounts are *not* cloned - we just get pinning
references to the roots of subtrees in the caller's namespace.
Array is terminated by {NULL, NULL} struct path. If it fits into
preallocated array (on-stack, normally), that's where it goes; otherwise
it's allocated by kmalloc_array(). Passing 0 as size means that 'preallocated'
is ignored (and expected to be NULL).
* drop_collected_paths(paths, preallocated) is given the array returned
by an earlier call of collect_paths() and the preallocated array passed to that
call. All mount/dentry references are dropped and array is kfree'd if it's not
equal to 'preallocated'.
* instead of iterate_mounts(), users should just iterate over array
of struct path - nothing exotic is needed for that. Existing users (all in
audit_tree.c) are converted.
[folded a fix for braino reported by Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com>]
Fixes: 80b5dce8c5 ("vfs: Add a function to lazily unmount all mounts from any dentry")
Tested-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Long before introduction of lore.kernel.org, people would link
to LKML threads on third-party archives (here spinics.net), which
in some cases can be unreliable (as these were outside of
kernel.org control). Replace links to them with lore counterparts
(if any).
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250611065254.36608-2-bagasdotme@gmail.com
This patch fixes two minor typos in Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.rst:
- "ramdom" → "random"
- "reenable" → "re-enable"
The changes improve spelling and consistency in the documentation.
These issues were identified using the 'codespell' tool with the
following command:
$ find Documentation/ -path Documentation/translations -prune -o \
-name '*.rst' -print | xargs codespell
Signed-off-by: Yuanye Ma <yuanye.ma20@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250618225546.104949-1-yuanye.ma20@gmail.com
Convert the last user (d_alloc_pseudo()) and be done with that.
Any out-of-tree filesystem using it should switch to d_splice_alias_ops()
or, better yet, check whether it really needs to have ->d_op vary among
its dentries.
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
... to be used instead of manually assigning to ->s_d_op.
All in-tree filesystem converted (and field itself is renamed,
so any out-of-tree ones in need of conversion will be caught
by compiler).
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Pull more smb client updates from Steve French:
- multichannel/reconnect fixes
- move smbdirect (smb over RDMA) defines to fs/smb/common so they will
be able to be used in the future more broadly, and a documentation
update explaining setting up smbdirect mounts
- update email address for Paulo
* tag '6.16-rc-part2-smb3-client-fixes' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
cifs: update internal version number
MAINTAINERS, mailmap: Update Paulo Alcantara's email address
cifs: add documentation for smbdirect setup
cifs: do not disable interface polling on failure
cifs: serialize other channels when query server interfaces is pending
cifs: deal with the channel loading lag while picking channels
smb: client: make use of common smbdirect_socket_parameters
smb: smbdirect: introduce smbdirect_socket_parameters
smb: client: make use of common smbdirect_socket
smb: smbdirect: add smbdirect_socket.h
smb: client: make use of common smbdirect.h
smb: smbdirect: add smbdirect.h with public structures
smb: client: make use of common smbdirect_pdu.h
smb: smbdirect: add smbdirect_pdu.h with protocol definitions
Pull overlayfs update from Miklos Szeredi:
- Fix a regression in getting the path of an open file (e.g. in
/proc/PID/maps) for a nested overlayfs setup (André Almeida)
- Support data-only layers and verity in a user namespace (unprivileged
composefs use case)
- Fix a gcc warning (Kees)
- Cleanups
* tag 'ovl-update-v2-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/overlayfs/vfs:
ovl: Annotate struct ovl_entry with __counted_by()
ovl: Replace offsetof() with struct_size() in ovl_stack_free()
ovl: Replace offsetof() with struct_size() in ovl_cache_entry_new()
ovl: Check for NULL d_inode() in ovl_dentry_upper()
ovl: Use str_on_off() helper in ovl_show_options()
ovl: don't require "metacopy=on" for "verity"
ovl: relax redirect/metacopy requirements for lower -> data redirect
ovl: make redirect/metacopy rejection consistent
ovl: Fix nested backing file paths
Document steps to use SMB over RDMA using the linux SMB client and
KSMBD server
Signed-off-by: Meetakshi Setiya <msetiya@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
Pull fuse updates from Miklos Szeredi:
- Remove tmp page copying in writeback path (Joanne).
This removes ~300 lines and with that a lot of complexity related to
avoiding reclaim related deadlock. The old mechanism is replaced with
a mapping flag that tells the MM not to block reclaim waiting for
writeback to complete. The MM parts have been reviewed/acked by
respective maintainers.
- Convert more code to handle large folios (Joanne). This still just
adds the code to deal with large folios and does not enable them yet.
- Allow invalidating all cached lookups atomically (Luis Henriques).
This feature is useful for CernVMFS, which currently does this
iteratively.
- Align write prefaulting in fuse with generic one (Dave Hansen)
- Fix race causing invalid data to be cached when setting attributes on
different nodes of a distributed fs (Guang Yuan Wu)
- Update documentation for passthrough (Chen Linxuan)
- Add fdinfo about the device number associated with an opened
/dev/fuse instance (Chen Linxuan)
- Increase readdir buffer size (Miklos). This depends on a patch to VFS
readdir code that was already merged through Christians tree.
- Optimize io-uring request expiration (Joanne)
- Misc cleanups
* tag 'fuse-update-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse: (25 commits)
fuse: increase readdir buffer size
readdir: supply dir_context.count as readdir buffer size hint
fuse: don't allow signals to interrupt getdents copying
fuse: support large folios for writeback
fuse: support large folios for readahead
fuse: support large folios for queued writes
fuse: support large folios for stores
fuse: support large folios for symlinks
fuse: support large folios for folio reads
fuse: support large folios for writethrough writes
fuse: refactor fuse_fill_write_pages()
fuse: support large folios for retrieves
fuse: support copying large folios
fs: fuse: add dev id to /dev/fuse fdinfo
docs: filesystems: add fuse-passthrough.rst
MAINTAINERS: update filter of FUSE documentation
fuse: fix race between concurrent setattrs from multiple nodes
fuse: remove tmp folio for writebacks and internal rb tree
mm: skip folio reclaim in legacy memcg contexts for deadlockable mappings
fuse: optimize over-io-uring request expiration check
...
Pull netfs updates from Christian Brauner:
- The main API document has been extensively updated/rewritten
- Fix an oops in write-retry due to mis-resetting the I/O iterator
- Fix the recording of transferred bytes for short DIO reads
- Fix a request's work item to not require a reference, thereby
avoiding the need to get rid of it in BH/IRQ context
- Fix waiting and waking to be consistent about the waitqueue used
- Remove NETFS_SREQ_SEEK_DATA_READ, NETFS_INVALID_WRITE,
NETFS_ICTX_WRITETHROUGH, NETFS_READ_HOLE_CLEAR,
NETFS_RREQ_DONT_UNLOCK_FOLIOS, and NETFS_RREQ_BLOCKED
- Reorder structs to eliminate holes
- Remove netfs_io_request::ractl
- Only provide proc_link field if CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
- Remove folio_queue::marks3
- Fix undifferentiation of DIO reads from unbuffered reads
* tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.netfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
netfs: Fix undifferentiation of DIO reads from unbuffered reads
netfs: Fix wait/wake to be consistent about the waitqueue used
netfs: Fix the request's work item to not require a ref
netfs: Fix setting of transferred bytes with short DIO reads
netfs: Fix oops in write-retry from mis-resetting the subreq iterator
fs/netfs: remove unused flag NETFS_RREQ_BLOCKED
fs/netfs: remove unused flag NETFS_RREQ_DONT_UNLOCK_FOLIOS
folio_queue: remove unused field `marks3`
fs/netfs: declare field `proc_link` only if CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
fs/netfs: remove `netfs_io_request.ractl`
fs/netfs: reorder struct fields to eliminate holes
fs/netfs: remove unused enum choice NETFS_READ_HOLE_CLEAR
fs/netfs: remove unused flag NETFS_ICTX_WRITETHROUGH
fs/netfs: remove unused source NETFS_INVALID_WRITE
fs/netfs: remove unused flag NETFS_SREQ_SEEK_DATA_READ
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "hung_task: extend blocking task stacktrace dump to semaphore" from
Lance Yang enhances the hung task detector.
The detector presently dumps the blocking tasks's stack when it is
blocked on a mutex. Lance's series extends this to semaphores
- "nilfs2: improve sanity checks in dirty state propagation" from
Wentao Liang addresses a couple of minor flaws in nilfs2
- "scripts/gdb: Fixes related to lx_per_cpu()" from Illia Ostapyshyn
fixes a couple of issues in the gdb scripts
- "Support kdump with LUKS encryption by reusing LUKS volume keys" from
Coiby Xu addresses a usability problem with kdump.
When the dump device is LUKS-encrypted, the kdump kernel may not have
the keys to the encrypted filesystem. A full writeup of this is in
the series [0/N] cover letter
- "sysfs: add counters for lockups and stalls" from Max Kellermann adds
/sys/kernel/hardlockup_count and /sys/kernel/hardlockup_count and
/sys/kernel/rcu_stall_count
- "fork: Page operation cleanups in the fork code" from Pasha Tatashin
implements a number of code cleanups in fork.c
- "scripts/gdb/symbols: determine KASLR offset on s390 during early
boot" from Ilya Leoshkevich fixes some s390 issues in the gdb
scripts
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-05-31-15-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (67 commits)
llist: make llist_add_batch() a static inline
delayacct: remove redundant code and adjust indentation
squashfs: add optional full compressed block caching
crash_dump, nvme: select CONFIGFS_FS as built-in
scripts/gdb/symbols: determine KASLR offset on s390 during early boot
scripts/gdb/symbols: factor out pagination_off()
scripts/gdb/symbols: factor out get_vmlinux()
kernel/panic.c: format kernel-doc comments
mailmap: update and consolidate Casey Connolly's name and email
nilfs2: remove wbc->for_reclaim handling
fork: define a local GFP_VMAP_STACK
fork: check charging success before zeroing stack
fork: clean-up naming of vm_stack/vm_struct variables in vmap stacks code
fork: clean-up ifdef logic around stack allocation
kernel/rcu/tree_stall: add /sys/kernel/rcu_stall_count
kernel/watchdog: add /sys/kernel/{hard,soft}lockup_count
x86/crash: make the page that stores the dm crypt keys inaccessible
x86/crash: pass dm crypt keys to kdump kernel
Revert "x86/mm: Remove unused __set_memory_prot()"
crash_dump: retrieve dm crypt keys in kdump kernel
...
Pull automount updates from Al Viro:
"Automount wart removal
A bunch of odd boilerplate gone from instances - the reason for
those was the need to protect the yet-to-be-attched mount from
mark_mounts_for_expiry() deciding to take it out.
But that's easy to detect and take care of in mark_mounts_for_expiry()
itself; no need to have every instance simulate mount being busy by
grabbing an extra reference to it, with finish_automount() undoing
that once it attaches that mount.
Should've done it that way from the very beginning... This is a
flagday change, thankfully there are very few instances.
vfs_submount() is gone - its sole remaining user (trace_automount)
had been switched to saner primitives"
* tag 'pull-automount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
kill vfs_submount()
saner calling conventions for ->d_automount()
Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim:
"In this round, Matthew converted most of page operations to using
folio. Beyond the work, we've applied some performance tunings such as
GC and linear lookup, in addition to enhancing fault injection and
sanity checks.
Enhancements:
- large number of folio conversions
- add a control to turn on/off the linear lookup for performance
- tune GC logics for zoned block device
- improve fault injection and sanity checks
Bug fixes:
- handle error cases of memory donation
- fix to correct check conditions in f2fs_cross_rename
- fix to skip f2fs_balance_fs() if checkpoint is disabled
- don't over-report free space or inodes in statvfs
- prevent the current section from being selected as a victim during GC
- fix to calculate first_zoned_segno correctly
- fix to avoid inconsistence between SIT and SSA for zoned block device
As usual, there are several debugging patches and clean-ups as well"
* tag 'f2fs-for-6.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (195 commits)
f2fs: fix to correct check conditions in f2fs_cross_rename
f2fs: use d_inode(dentry) cleanup dentry->d_inode
f2fs: fix to skip f2fs_balance_fs() if checkpoint is disabled
f2fs: clean up to check bi_status w/ BLK_STS_OK
f2fs: introduce is_{meta,node}_folio
f2fs: add ckpt_valid_blocks to the section entry
f2fs: add a method for calculating the remaining blocks in the current segment in LFS mode.
f2fs: introduce FAULT_VMALLOC
f2fs: use vmalloc instead of kvmalloc in .init_{,de}compress_ctx
f2fs: add f2fs_bug_on() in f2fs_quota_read()
f2fs: add f2fs_bug_on() to detect potential bug
f2fs: remove unused sbi argument from checksum functions
f2fs: fix 32-bits hexademical number in fault injection doc
f2fs: don't over-report free space or inodes in statvfs
f2fs: return bool from __write_node_folio
f2fs: simplify return value handling in f2fs_fsync_node_pages
f2fs: always unlock the page in f2fs_write_single_data_page
f2fs: remove wbc->for_reclaim handling
f2fs: return bool from __f2fs_write_meta_folio
f2fs: fix to return correct error number in f2fs_sync_node_pages()
...
Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
"Here are the driver core / kernfs changes for 6.16-rc1.
Not a huge number of changes this development cycle, here's the
summary of what is included in here:
- kernfs locking tweaks, pushing some global locks down into a per-fs
image lock
- rust driver core and pci device bindings added for new features.
- sysfs const work for bin_attributes.
The final churn of switching away from and removing the
transitional struct members, "read_new", "write_new" and
"bin_attrs_new" will come after the merge window to avoid
unnecesary merge conflicts.
- auxbus device creation helpers added
- fauxbus fix for creating sysfs files after the probe completed
properly
- other tiny updates for driver core things.
All of these have been in linux-next for over a week with no reported
issues"
* tag 'driver-core-6.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/driver-core/driver-core:
kernfs: Relax constraint in draining guard
Documentation: embargoed-hardware-issues.rst: Remove myself
drivers: hv: fix up const issue with vmbus_chan_bin_attrs
firmware_loader: use SHA-256 library API instead of crypto_shash API
docs: debugfs: do not recommend debugfs_remove_recursive
PM: wakeup: Do not expose 4 device wakeup source APIs
kernfs: switch global kernfs_rename_lock to per-fs lock
kernfs: switch global kernfs_idr_lock to per-fs lock
driver core: auxiliary bus: Fix IS_ERR() vs NULL mixup in __devm_auxiliary_device_create()
sysfs: constify attribute_group::bin_attrs
sysfs: constify bin_attribute argument of bin_attribute::read/write()
software node: Correct a OOB check in software_node_get_reference_args()
devres: simplify devm_kstrdup() using devm_kmemdup()
platform: replace magic number with macro PLATFORM_DEVID_NONE
component: do not try to unbind unbound components
driver core: auxiliary bus: add device creation helpers
driver core: faux: Add sysfs groups after probing
Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
"New ext4 features and performance improvements:
- Fast commit performance improvements
- Multi-fsblock atomic write support for bigalloc file systems
- Large folio support for regular files
This last can result in really stupendous performance for the right
workloads. For example, see [1] where the Kernel Test Robot reported
over 37% improvement on a large sequential I/O workload.
There are also the usual bug fixes and cleanups. Of note are cleanups
of the extent status tree to fix potential races that could result in
the extent status tree getting corrupted under heavy simultaneous
allocation and deallocation to a single file"
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/202505161418.ec0d753f-lkp@intel.com/ [1]
* tag 'ext4_for_linus-6.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (52 commits)
ext4: Add a WARN_ON_ONCE for querying LAST_IN_LEAF instead
ext4: Simplify flags in ext4_map_query_blocks()
ext4: Rename and document EXT4_EX_FILTER to EXT4_EX_QUERY_FILTER
ext4: Simplify last in leaf check in ext4_map_query_blocks
ext4: Unwritten to written conversion requires EXT4_EX_NOCACHE
ext4: only dirty folios when data journaling regular files
ext4: Add atomic block write documentation
ext4: Enable support for ext4 multi-fsblock atomic write using bigalloc
ext4: Add multi-fsblock atomic write support with bigalloc
ext4: Add support for EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_QUERY_LEAF_BLOCKS
ext4: Make ext4_meta_trans_blocks() non-static for later use
ext4: Check if inode uses extents in ext4_inode_can_atomic_write()
ext4: Document an edge case for overwrites
jbd2: remove journal_t argument from jbd2_superblock_csum()
jbd2: remove journal_t argument from jbd2_chksum()
ext4: remove sb argument from ext4_superblock_csum()
ext4: remove sbi argument from ext4_chksum()
ext4: enable large folio for regular file
ext4: make online defragmentation support large folios
ext4: make the writeback path support large folios
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Introduce a new fault type FAULT_VMALLOC to simulate no memory error in
f2fs_vmalloc().
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
