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<title>block: avoid use-after-free in disk_free_zone_resources()</title>
<updated>2026-06-01T15:54:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Damien Le Moal</name>
<email>dlemoal@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2026-05-22T11:56:22+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit f6982769910ecddabdb5b8b9afdab0bb8b6668ac ]

The function disk_update_zone_resources() may call
disk_free_zone_resources() in case of error, and following this,
blk_revalidate_disk_zones() will again calls disk_free_zone_resources() if
disk_update_zone_resources() failed. If a zone worker thread is being used
(which is the default for a rotational media zoned device),
disk_free_zone_resources() will try to stop the zone worker thread twice
because disk-&gt;zone_wplugs_worker is not reset to NULL when the worker
thread is stopped the first time.

In disk_free_zone_resources(), fix this by correctly clearing
disk-&gt;zone_wplugs_worker to NULL when the worker thread is stopped.

And while at it, since disk_free_zone_resources() is always called after a
failed call to disk_update_zone_resources(), remove the unnecessary call
to disk_free_zone_resources() in disk_update_zone_resources().

Fixes: 1365b6904fd0 ("block: allow submitting all zone writes from a single context")
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522115622.588535-1-dlemoal@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit f6982769910ecddabdb5b8b9afdab0bb8b6668ac ]

The function disk_update_zone_resources() may call
disk_free_zone_resources() in case of error, and following this,
blk_revalidate_disk_zones() will again calls disk_free_zone_resources() if
disk_update_zone_resources() failed. If a zone worker thread is being used
(which is the default for a rotational media zoned device),
disk_free_zone_resources() will try to stop the zone worker thread twice
because disk-&gt;zone_wplugs_worker is not reset to NULL when the worker
thread is stopped the first time.

In disk_free_zone_resources(), fix this by correctly clearing
disk-&gt;zone_wplugs_worker to NULL when the worker thread is stopped.

And while at it, since disk_free_zone_resources() is always called after a
failed call to disk_update_zone_resources(), remove the unnecessary call
to disk_free_zone_resources() in disk_update_zone_resources().

Fixes: 1365b6904fd0 ("block: allow submitting all zone writes from a single context")
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260522115622.588535-1-dlemoal@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>blk-mq: pop cached request if it is usable</title>
<updated>2026-06-01T15:54:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Keith Busch</name>
<email>kbusch@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-21T19:02:53+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit dc278e9bf2b9513a763353e6b9cc21e0f532954e ]

When submitting a bio to blk-mq, if the task should sleep after peeking
a cached request, but before it pops it, the plug flushes and calls
blk_mq_free_plug_rqs, freeing the cached_rqs. This creates a
use-after-free bug. Fix this by popping the cached request before any
possible blocking calls if it is suitable for use.

Popping this request first holds a queue reference, so avoid any
serialization races with queue freezes and can safely proceed with
dispatching that request to the driver. This potentially increases a
timing window from when a driver wants to freeze its queue to when
requests stop being dispatched. That scenario is off the fast path
though, and drivers need to appropriately handle requests during a
freeze request anyway.

The downside is the popped element needs to be individually freed when
we performed a bio plug merge. The cached request would have had to be
freed later anyway, but this patch does it inline with building the plug
list instead of after flushing it.

Fixes: b0077e269f6c1 ("blk-mq: make sure active queue usage is held for bio_integrity_prep()")
Fixes: 7b4f36cd22a65 ("block: ensure we hold a queue reference when using queue limits")
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch &lt;kbusch@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260521190253.242065-1-kbusch@meta.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit dc278e9bf2b9513a763353e6b9cc21e0f532954e ]

When submitting a bio to blk-mq, if the task should sleep after peeking
a cached request, but before it pops it, the plug flushes and calls
blk_mq_free_plug_rqs, freeing the cached_rqs. This creates a
use-after-free bug. Fix this by popping the cached request before any
possible blocking calls if it is suitable for use.

Popping this request first holds a queue reference, so avoid any
serialization races with queue freezes and can safely proceed with
dispatching that request to the driver. This potentially increases a
timing window from when a driver wants to freeze its queue to when
requests stop being dispatched. That scenario is off the fast path
though, and drivers need to appropriately handle requests during a
freeze request anyway.

The downside is the popped element needs to be individually freed when
we performed a bio plug merge. The cached request would have had to be
freed later anyway, but this patch does it inline with building the plug
list instead of after flushing it.

Fixes: b0077e269f6c1 ("blk-mq: make sure active queue usage is held for bio_integrity_prep()")
Fixes: 7b4f36cd22a65 ("block: ensure we hold a queue reference when using queue limits")
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch &lt;kbusch@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260521190253.242065-1-kbusch@meta.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cgroup/rstat: validate cpu before css_rstat_cpu() access</title>
<updated>2026-06-01T15:54:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Qing Ming</name>
<email>a0yami@mailbox.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-16T07:08:49+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8817005efbdfdf5d4e4814cb5dc52b53d12917d7 ]

css_rstat_updated() is exposed as a BPF kfunc and accepts a
caller-provided cpu argument. The function uses cpu for per-cpu rstat
lookups without checking whether it refers to a valid possible CPU.

A BPF iter/cgroup program with CAP_BPF and CAP_PERFMON can pass an
invalid cpu value. On an unfixed UBSCAN_BOUNDS test kernel, cpu ==
0x7fffffff triggers:

  UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in kernel/cgroup/rstat.c:31:9
  index 2147483647 is out of range for type 'long unsigned int [64]'
  Call Trace:
    css_rstat_updated
    bpf_iter_run_prog
    cgroup_iter_seq_show
    bpf_seq_read

Add cpu validation to the BPF-facing css_rstat_updated() kfunc and
move the common implementation to __css_rstat_updated() for in-kernel
callers.

Fixes: a319185be9f5 ("cgroup: bpf: enable bpf programs to integrate with rstat")
Signed-off-by: Qing Ming &lt;a0yami@mailbox.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 8817005efbdfdf5d4e4814cb5dc52b53d12917d7 ]

css_rstat_updated() is exposed as a BPF kfunc and accepts a
caller-provided cpu argument. The function uses cpu for per-cpu rstat
lookups without checking whether it refers to a valid possible CPU.

A BPF iter/cgroup program with CAP_BPF and CAP_PERFMON can pass an
invalid cpu value. On an unfixed UBSCAN_BOUNDS test kernel, cpu ==
0x7fffffff triggers:

  UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in kernel/cgroup/rstat.c:31:9
  index 2147483647 is out of range for type 'long unsigned int [64]'
  Call Trace:
    css_rstat_updated
    bpf_iter_run_prog
    cgroup_iter_seq_show
    bpf_seq_read

Add cpu validation to the BPF-facing css_rstat_updated() kfunc and
move the common implementation to __css_rstat_updated() for in-kernel
callers.

Fixes: a319185be9f5 ("cgroup: bpf: enable bpf programs to integrate with rstat")
Signed-off-by: Qing Ming &lt;a0yami@mailbox.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: fix handling of dead zone write plugs</title>
<updated>2026-06-01T15:54:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Damien Le Moal</name>
<email>dlemoal@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-13T11:11:29+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 836efd35c472d89c838d7b17ef339ddb3286ffc5 ]

Shin'ichiro reported hard to reproduce unaligned write errors with zoned
block devices. Under normal operation conditions (e.g. running XFS on an
SMR disk), these errors are nearly impossible to trigger. But using a
"slow" kernel with many debug options enables and some specific use
cases (e.g. fio zbd test case 46), the errors can be reproduced fairly
easily.

The unaligned write errors come from mishandling a valid reference
counting pattern of zone write plugs. Such pattern triggers for instance
if a process A writes a zone (not necessarilly to the full state),
another process B immediately resets the zone and immediately following
the completion of the zone reset, starts issuing writes to the zone.
With such pattern, in some cases, the zone write plugs worker thread of
the device may still be holding a reference to the zone write plug of
the zone taken when process A was writing to the zone. The following
zone reset from process B marks the zone as dead but does not remove the
zone write plug from the device hash table as a reference to the plug
still exist. Once process B starts issuing new writes, the zone write
plug is seen as dead and the writes from process B are immediately
failed, despite this write pattern being perfectly legal.

Fix this by allowing restoring a dead zone write plug to a live state if
a write is issued to the zone when the zone is: marked as dead, empty
and the write sector corresponds to the first sector of the zone (that
is, the write is aligned to the zone write pointer). This is done with
the new helper function disk_check_zone_wplug_dead(), which restores a
dead zone write plug to a live state by clearing the BLK_ZONE_WPLUG_DEAD
flag and restoring the initial reference to the zone write plug taken
when the plug was added to the device hash table.

Reported-by: Shin'ichiro Kawasaki &lt;shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com&gt;
Fixes: b7d4ffb51037 ("block: fix zone write plug removal")
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Shin'ichiro Kawasaki &lt;shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260513111129.108809-1-dlemoal@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 836efd35c472d89c838d7b17ef339ddb3286ffc5 ]

Shin'ichiro reported hard to reproduce unaligned write errors with zoned
block devices. Under normal operation conditions (e.g. running XFS on an
SMR disk), these errors are nearly impossible to trigger. But using a
"slow" kernel with many debug options enables and some specific use
cases (e.g. fio zbd test case 46), the errors can be reproduced fairly
easily.

The unaligned write errors come from mishandling a valid reference
counting pattern of zone write plugs. Such pattern triggers for instance
if a process A writes a zone (not necessarilly to the full state),
another process B immediately resets the zone and immediately following
the completion of the zone reset, starts issuing writes to the zone.
With such pattern, in some cases, the zone write plugs worker thread of
the device may still be holding a reference to the zone write plug of
the zone taken when process A was writing to the zone. The following
zone reset from process B marks the zone as dead but does not remove the
zone write plug from the device hash table as a reference to the plug
still exist. Once process B starts issuing new writes, the zone write
plug is seen as dead and the writes from process B are immediately
failed, despite this write pattern being perfectly legal.

Fix this by allowing restoring a dead zone write plug to a live state if
a write is issued to the zone when the zone is: marked as dead, empty
and the write sector corresponds to the first sector of the zone (that
is, the write is aligned to the zone write pointer). This is done with
the new helper function disk_check_zone_wplug_dead(), which restores a
dead zone write plug to a live state by clearing the BLK_ZONE_WPLUG_DEAD
flag and restoring the initial reference to the zone write plug taken
when the plug was added to the device hash table.

Reported-by: Shin'ichiro Kawasaki &lt;shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com&gt;
Fixes: b7d4ffb51037 ("block: fix zone write plug removal")
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Shin'ichiro Kawasaki &lt;shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260513111129.108809-1-dlemoal@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: allow submitting all zone writes from a single context</title>
<updated>2026-06-01T15:54:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Damien Le Moal</name>
<email>dlemoal@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-27T13:19:49+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 1365b6904fd050bf22ab9f3df375a396de5837a1 ]

In order to maintain sequential write patterns per zone with zoned block
devices, zone write plugging issues only a single write BIO per zone at
any time. This works well but has the side effect that when large
sequential write streams are issued by the user and these streams cross
zone boundaries, the device ends up receiving a discontiguous set of
write commands for different zones. The same also happens when a user
writes simultaneously at high queue depth multiple zones: the device
does not see all sequential writes per zone and receives discontiguous
writes to different zones. While this does not affect the performance of
solid state zoned block devices, when using an SMR HDD, this pattern
change from sequential writes to discontiguous writes to different zones
significantly increases head seek which results in degraded write
throughput.

In order to reduce this seek overhead for rotational media devices,
introduce a per disk zone write plugs kernel thread to issue all write
BIOs to zones. This single zone write issuing context is enabled for
any zoned block device that has a request queue flagged with the new
QUEUE_ZONED_QD1_WRITES flag.

The flag QUEUE_ZONED_QD1_WRITES is visible as the sysfs queue attribute
zoned_qd1_writes for zoned devices. For regular block devices, this
attribute is not visible. For zoned block devices, a user can override
the default value set to force the global write maximum queue depth of
1 for a zoned block device, or clear this attribute to fallback to the
default behavior of zone write plugging which limits writes to QD=1 per
sequential zone.

Writing to a zoned block device flagged with QUEUE_ZONED_QD1_WRITES is
implemented using a list of zone write plugs that have a non-empty BIO
list. Listed zone write plugs are processed by the disk zone write plugs
worker kthread in FIFO order, and all BIOs of a zone write plug are all
processed before switching to the next listed zone write plug. A newly
submitted BIO for a non-FULL zone write plug that is not yet listed
causes the addition of the zone write plug at the end of the disk list
of zone write plugs.

Since the write BIOs queued in a zone write plug BIO list are
necessarilly sequential, for rotational media, using the single zone
write plugs kthread to issue all BIOs maintains a sequential write
pattern and thus reduces seek overhead and improves write throughput.
This processing essentially result in always writing to HDDs at QD=1,
which is not an issue for HDDs operating with write caching enabled.
Performance with write cache disabled is also not degraded thanks to
the efficient write handling of modern SMR HDDs.

A disk list of zone write plugs is defined using the new struct gendisk
zone_wplugs_list, and accesses to this list is protected using the
zone_wplugs_list_lock spinlock.  The per disk kthread
(zone_wplugs_worker) code is implemented by the function
disk_zone_wplugs_worker(). A reference on listed zone write plugs is
always held until all BIOs of the zone write plug are processed by the
worker kthread. BIO issuing at QD=1 is driven using a completion
structure (zone_wplugs_worker_bio_done) and calls to blk_io_wait().

With this change, performance when sequentially writing the zones of a
30 TB SMR SATA HDD connected to an AHCI adapter changes as follows
(1MiB direct I/Os, results in MB/s unit):

                    +--------------------+
		    |   Write BW (MB/s)  |
 +------------------+----------+---------+
 | Sequential write | Baseline | Patched |
 |  Queue Depth     | 6.19-rc8 |         |
 +------------------+----------+---------+
 | 1                | 244      | 245     |
 | 2                | 244      | 245     |
 | 4                | 245      | 245     |
 | 8                | 242      | 245     |
 | 16               | 222      | 246     |
 | 32               | 211      | 245     |
 | 64               | 193      | 244     |
 | 128              | 112      | 246     |
 +------------------+----------+---------+

With the current code (baseline), as the sequential write stream crosses
a zone boundary, higher queue depth creates a gap between the
last IO to the previous zone and the first IOs to the following zones,
causing head seeks and degrading performance. Using the disk zone
write plugs worker thread, this pattern disappears and the maximum
throughput of the drive is maintained, leading to over 100%
improvements in throughput for high queue depth write.

Using 16 fio jobs all writing to randomly chosen zones at QD=32 with 1
MiB direct IOs, write throughput also increases significantly.

                    +--------------------+
		    |   Write BW (MB/s)  |
 +------------------+----------+---------+
 |   Random write   | Baseline | Patched |
 |  Number of zones | 6.19-rc7 |         |
 +------------------+----------+---------+
 | 1                | 191      | 192     |
 | 2                | 101      | 128     |
 | 4                | 115      | 123     |
 | 8                | 90       | 120     |
 | 16               | 64       | 115     |
 | 32               | 58       | 105     |
 | 64               | 56       | 101     |
 | 128              | 55       | 99      |
 +------------------+----------+---------+

Tests using XFS shows that buffered write speed with 8 jobs writing
files increases by 12% to 35% depending on the workload.

                    +--------------------+
		    |   Write BW (MB/s)  |
 +------------------+----------+---------+
 |     Workload     | Baseline | Patched |
 |                  | 6.19-rc7 |         |
 +------------------+----------+---------+
 | 256MiB file size | 212      | 238     |
 +------------------+----------+---------+
 | 4MiB .. 128 MiB  | 213      | 243     |
 | random file size |          |         |
 +------------------+----------+---------+
 | 2MiB .. 8 MiB    | 179      | 242     |
 | random file size |          |         |
 +------------------+----------+---------+

Performance gains are even more significant when using an HBA that
limits the maximum size of commands to a small value, e.g. HBAs
controlled with the mpi3mr driver limit commands to a maximum of 1 MiB.
In such case, the write throughput gains are over 40%.

                    +--------------------+
		    |   Write BW (MB/s)  |
 +------------------+----------+---------+
 |     Workload     | Baseline | Patched |
 |                  | 6.19-rc7 |         |
 +------------------+----------+---------+
 | 256MiB file size | 175      | 245     |
 +------------------+----------+---------+
 | 4MiB .. 128 MiB  | 174      | 244     |
 | random file size |          |         |
 +------------------+----------+---------+
 | 2MiB .. 8 MiB    | 171      | 243     |
 | random file size |          |         |
 +------------------+----------+---------+

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 836efd35c472 ("block: fix handling of dead zone write plugs")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 1365b6904fd050bf22ab9f3df375a396de5837a1 ]

In order to maintain sequential write patterns per zone with zoned block
devices, zone write plugging issues only a single write BIO per zone at
any time. This works well but has the side effect that when large
sequential write streams are issued by the user and these streams cross
zone boundaries, the device ends up receiving a discontiguous set of
write commands for different zones. The same also happens when a user
writes simultaneously at high queue depth multiple zones: the device
does not see all sequential writes per zone and receives discontiguous
writes to different zones. While this does not affect the performance of
solid state zoned block devices, when using an SMR HDD, this pattern
change from sequential writes to discontiguous writes to different zones
significantly increases head seek which results in degraded write
throughput.

In order to reduce this seek overhead for rotational media devices,
introduce a per disk zone write plugs kernel thread to issue all write
BIOs to zones. This single zone write issuing context is enabled for
any zoned block device that has a request queue flagged with the new
QUEUE_ZONED_QD1_WRITES flag.

The flag QUEUE_ZONED_QD1_WRITES is visible as the sysfs queue attribute
zoned_qd1_writes for zoned devices. For regular block devices, this
attribute is not visible. For zoned block devices, a user can override
the default value set to force the global write maximum queue depth of
1 for a zoned block device, or clear this attribute to fallback to the
default behavior of zone write plugging which limits writes to QD=1 per
sequential zone.

Writing to a zoned block device flagged with QUEUE_ZONED_QD1_WRITES is
implemented using a list of zone write plugs that have a non-empty BIO
list. Listed zone write plugs are processed by the disk zone write plugs
worker kthread in FIFO order, and all BIOs of a zone write plug are all
processed before switching to the next listed zone write plug. A newly
submitted BIO for a non-FULL zone write plug that is not yet listed
causes the addition of the zone write plug at the end of the disk list
of zone write plugs.

Since the write BIOs queued in a zone write plug BIO list are
necessarilly sequential, for rotational media, using the single zone
write plugs kthread to issue all BIOs maintains a sequential write
pattern and thus reduces seek overhead and improves write throughput.
This processing essentially result in always writing to HDDs at QD=1,
which is not an issue for HDDs operating with write caching enabled.
Performance with write cache disabled is also not degraded thanks to
the efficient write handling of modern SMR HDDs.

A disk list of zone write plugs is defined using the new struct gendisk
zone_wplugs_list, and accesses to this list is protected using the
zone_wplugs_list_lock spinlock.  The per disk kthread
(zone_wplugs_worker) code is implemented by the function
disk_zone_wplugs_worker(). A reference on listed zone write plugs is
always held until all BIOs of the zone write plug are processed by the
worker kthread. BIO issuing at QD=1 is driven using a completion
structure (zone_wplugs_worker_bio_done) and calls to blk_io_wait().

With this change, performance when sequentially writing the zones of a
30 TB SMR SATA HDD connected to an AHCI adapter changes as follows
(1MiB direct I/Os, results in MB/s unit):

                    +--------------------+
		    |   Write BW (MB/s)  |
 +------------------+----------+---------+
 | Sequential write | Baseline | Patched |
 |  Queue Depth     | 6.19-rc8 |         |
 +------------------+----------+---------+
 | 1                | 244      | 245     |
 | 2                | 244      | 245     |
 | 4                | 245      | 245     |
 | 8                | 242      | 245     |
 | 16               | 222      | 246     |
 | 32               | 211      | 245     |
 | 64               | 193      | 244     |
 | 128              | 112      | 246     |
 +------------------+----------+---------+

With the current code (baseline), as the sequential write stream crosses
a zone boundary, higher queue depth creates a gap between the
last IO to the previous zone and the first IOs to the following zones,
causing head seeks and degrading performance. Using the disk zone
write plugs worker thread, this pattern disappears and the maximum
throughput of the drive is maintained, leading to over 100%
improvements in throughput for high queue depth write.

Using 16 fio jobs all writing to randomly chosen zones at QD=32 with 1
MiB direct IOs, write throughput also increases significantly.

                    +--------------------+
		    |   Write BW (MB/s)  |
 +------------------+----------+---------+
 |   Random write   | Baseline | Patched |
 |  Number of zones | 6.19-rc7 |         |
 +------------------+----------+---------+
 | 1                | 191      | 192     |
 | 2                | 101      | 128     |
 | 4                | 115      | 123     |
 | 8                | 90       | 120     |
 | 16               | 64       | 115     |
 | 32               | 58       | 105     |
 | 64               | 56       | 101     |
 | 128              | 55       | 99      |
 +------------------+----------+---------+

Tests using XFS shows that buffered write speed with 8 jobs writing
files increases by 12% to 35% depending on the workload.

                    +--------------------+
		    |   Write BW (MB/s)  |
 +------------------+----------+---------+
 |     Workload     | Baseline | Patched |
 |                  | 6.19-rc7 |         |
 +------------------+----------+---------+
 | 256MiB file size | 212      | 238     |
 +------------------+----------+---------+
 | 4MiB .. 128 MiB  | 213      | 243     |
 | random file size |          |         |
 +------------------+----------+---------+
 | 2MiB .. 8 MiB    | 179      | 242     |
 | random file size |          |         |
 +------------------+----------+---------+

Performance gains are even more significant when using an HBA that
limits the maximum size of commands to a small value, e.g. HBAs
controlled with the mpi3mr driver limit commands to a maximum of 1 MiB.
In such case, the write throughput gains are over 40%.

                    +--------------------+
		    |   Write BW (MB/s)  |
 +------------------+----------+---------+
 |     Workload     | Baseline | Patched |
 |                  | 6.19-rc7 |         |
 +------------------+----------+---------+
 | 256MiB file size | 175      | 245     |
 +------------------+----------+---------+
 | 4MiB .. 128 MiB  | 174      | 244     |
 | random file size |          |         |
 +------------------+----------+---------+
 | 2MiB .. 8 MiB    | 171      | 243     |
 | random file size |          |         |
 +------------------+----------+---------+

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 836efd35c472 ("block: fix handling of dead zone write plugs")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: rename struct gendisk zone_wplugs_lock field</title>
<updated>2026-06-01T15:54:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Damien Le Moal</name>
<email>dlemoal@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-27T13:19:48+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit b7cbc30e93e3a64ea058230f6d0c764d6d80276f ]

Rename struct gendisk zone_wplugs_lock field to zone_wplugs_hash_lock to
clearly indicates that this is the spinlock used for manipulating the
hash table of zone write plugs.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 836efd35c472 ("block: fix handling of dead zone write plugs")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit b7cbc30e93e3a64ea058230f6d0c764d6d80276f ]

Rename struct gendisk zone_wplugs_lock field to zone_wplugs_hash_lock to
clearly indicates that this is the spinlock used for manipulating the
hash table of zone write plugs.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 836efd35c472 ("block: fix handling of dead zone write plugs")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: bio-integrity: Fix null-ptr-deref in bio_integrity_map_user()</title>
<updated>2026-06-01T15:54:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sungwoo Kim</name>
<email>iam@sung-woo.kim</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-12T05:09:29+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8582792cf23b3d94674d4d838f7cde9a28d0fcaf ]

pin_user_pages_fast() can partially succeed and return the number of
pages that were actually pinned. However, the bio_integrity_map_user()
does not handle this partial pinning. This leads to a general protection
fault since bvec_from_pages() dereferences an unpinned page address,
which is 0.

To fix this, add a check to verify that all requested memory is pinned.
If partial pinning occurs, unpin the memory and return -EFAULT.

Kernel Oops:

Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000001: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1061 Comm: nvme-passthroug Not tainted 7.0.0-11783-g90957f9314e8-dirty #16 PREEMPT(lazy)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.17.0-0-gb52ca86e094d-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:bio_integrity_map_user.cold+0x1b0/0x9d6

Fixes: 492c5d455969 ("block: bio-integrity: directly map user buffers")
Acked-by: Chao Shi &lt;cshi008@fiu.edu&gt;
Acked-by: Weidong Zhu &lt;weizhu@fiu.edu&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Tian &lt;daveti@purdue.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sungwoo Kim &lt;iam@sung-woo.kim&gt;
Tested-by: Shin'ichiro Kawasaki &lt;shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com&gt;
Link: https://github.com/linux-blktests/blktests/pull/244
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260512050929.541397-2-iam@sung-woo.kim
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 8582792cf23b3d94674d4d838f7cde9a28d0fcaf ]

pin_user_pages_fast() can partially succeed and return the number of
pages that were actually pinned. However, the bio_integrity_map_user()
does not handle this partial pinning. This leads to a general protection
fault since bvec_from_pages() dereferences an unpinned page address,
which is 0.

To fix this, add a check to verify that all requested memory is pinned.
If partial pinning occurs, unpin the memory and return -EFAULT.

Kernel Oops:

Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000001: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1061 Comm: nvme-passthroug Not tainted 7.0.0-11783-g90957f9314e8-dirty #16 PREEMPT(lazy)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.17.0-0-gb52ca86e094d-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:bio_integrity_map_user.cold+0x1b0/0x9d6

Fixes: 492c5d455969 ("block: bio-integrity: directly map user buffers")
Acked-by: Chao Shi &lt;cshi008@fiu.edu&gt;
Acked-by: Weidong Zhu &lt;weizhu@fiu.edu&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Tian &lt;daveti@purdue.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sungwoo Kim &lt;iam@sung-woo.kim&gt;
Tested-by: Shin'ichiro Kawasaki &lt;shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com&gt;
Link: https://github.com/linux-blktests/blktests/pull/244
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260512050929.541397-2-iam@sung-woo.kim
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: recompute nr_integrity_segments in blk_insert_cloned_request</title>
<updated>2026-06-01T15:54:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Casey Chen</name>
<email>cachen@purestorage.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-11T21:22:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=42929c98d044f126508baf54a65b0f87f932fa75'/>
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[ Upstream commit 2c6e6a18a37b905cb584eb0dda3ae482162a81ca ]

blk_insert_cloned_request() already recomputes nr_phys_segments
against the bottom queue, because "the queue settings related to
segment counting may differ from the original queue." The exact same
reasoning applies to integrity segments: a stacked driver's underlying
queue can have tighter virt_boundary_mask, seg_boundary_mask, or
max_segment_size than the top queue, in which case
blk_rq_count_integrity_sg() against the bottom queue produces a
different count than the cached rq-&gt;nr_integrity_segments inherited
from the source request by blk_rq_prep_clone().

When the cached count is lower than the bottom queue's actual count,
blk_rq_map_integrity_sg() trips

	BUG_ON(segments &gt; rq-&gt;nr_integrity_segments);

on dispatch. The same families of stacked setups that motivated the
existing nr_phys_segments recompute -- dm-multipath fanning out to
nvme-rdma in particular -- can produce this.

Mirror the nr_phys_segments handling: when the request carries
integrity, recompute nr_integrity_segments against the bottom queue
and reject the request if it exceeds the bottom queue's
max_integrity_segments. blk_rq_count_integrity_sg() and
queue_max_integrity_segments() are both already available via
&lt;linux/blk-integrity.h&gt;, which blk-mq.c includes.

This closes a latent gap in the stacking contract and brings the
integrity-segment accounting in line with the existing
phys-segment accounting.

Fixes: 76c313f658d2 ("blk-integrity: improved sg segment mapping")
Signed-off-by: Casey Chen &lt;cachen@purestorage.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260511212230.27511-1-cachen@purestorage.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 2c6e6a18a37b905cb584eb0dda3ae482162a81ca ]

blk_insert_cloned_request() already recomputes nr_phys_segments
against the bottom queue, because "the queue settings related to
segment counting may differ from the original queue." The exact same
reasoning applies to integrity segments: a stacked driver's underlying
queue can have tighter virt_boundary_mask, seg_boundary_mask, or
max_segment_size than the top queue, in which case
blk_rq_count_integrity_sg() against the bottom queue produces a
different count than the cached rq-&gt;nr_integrity_segments inherited
from the source request by blk_rq_prep_clone().

When the cached count is lower than the bottom queue's actual count,
blk_rq_map_integrity_sg() trips

	BUG_ON(segments &gt; rq-&gt;nr_integrity_segments);

on dispatch. The same families of stacked setups that motivated the
existing nr_phys_segments recompute -- dm-multipath fanning out to
nvme-rdma in particular -- can produce this.

Mirror the nr_phys_segments handling: when the request carries
integrity, recompute nr_integrity_segments against the bottom queue
and reject the request if it exceeds the bottom queue's
max_integrity_segments. blk_rq_count_integrity_sg() and
queue_max_integrity_segments() are both already available via
&lt;linux/blk-integrity.h&gt;, which blk-mq.c includes.

This closes a latent gap in the stacking contract and brings the
integrity-segment accounting in line with the existing
phys-segment accounting.

Fixes: 76c313f658d2 ("blk-integrity: improved sg segment mapping")
Signed-off-by: Casey Chen &lt;cachen@purestorage.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260511212230.27511-1-cachen@purestorage.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: don't overwrite bip_vcnt in bio_integrity_copy_user()</title>
<updated>2026-06-01T15:54:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Carlier</name>
<email>devnexen@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-11T21:51:51+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 637ad3a56a3b889527d1dacea6fea2a8bd648140 ]

bio_integrity_add_page() already sets bip_vcnt to 1 for the bounce
segment. Overwriting it with nr_vecs breaks bip_vcnt &lt;= bip_max_vcnt
on WRITE (bip_max_vcnt is 1), so the gap-merge checks in block/blk.h
read past the bip_vec[] flex array. On READ the read is in bounds
but lands on a saved user bvec instead of the bounce.

The line was added for split propagation, but bio_integrity_clone()
doesn't copy bip_vcnt and BIP_CLONE_FLAGS excludes BIP_COPY_USER.

Fixes: 3991657ae707 ("block: set bip_vcnt correctly")
Signed-off-by: David Carlier &lt;devnexen@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260511215151.346228-1-devnexen@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 637ad3a56a3b889527d1dacea6fea2a8bd648140 ]

bio_integrity_add_page() already sets bip_vcnt to 1 for the bounce
segment. Overwriting it with nr_vecs breaks bip_vcnt &lt;= bip_max_vcnt
on WRITE (bip_max_vcnt is 1), so the gap-merge checks in block/blk.h
read past the bip_vec[] flex array. On READ the read is in bounds
but lands on a saved user bvec instead of the bounce.

The line was added for split propagation, but bio_integrity_clone()
doesn't copy bip_vcnt and BIP_CLONE_FLAGS excludes BIP_COPY_USER.

Fixes: 3991657ae707 ("block: set bip_vcnt correctly")
Signed-off-by: David Carlier &lt;devnexen@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260511215151.346228-1-devnexen@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>blk-wbt: remove WARN_ON_ONCE from wbt_init_enable_default()</title>
<updated>2026-05-23T11:08:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yuto Ohnuki</name>
<email>ytohnuki@amazon.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-16T07:03:59+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit e9b004ff83067cdf96774b45aea4b239ace99a2f ]

wbt_init_enable_default() uses WARN_ON_ONCE to check for failures from
wbt_alloc() and wbt_init(). However, both are expected failure paths:

- wbt_alloc() can return NULL under memory pressure (-ENOMEM)
- wbt_init() can fail with -EBUSY if wbt is already registered

syzbot triggers this by injecting memory allocation failures during MTD
partition creation via ioctl(BLKPG), causing a spurious warning.

wbt_init_enable_default() is a best-effort initialization called from
blk_register_queue() with a void return type. Failure simply means the
disk operates without writeback throttling, which is harmless.

Replace WARN_ON_ONCE with plain if-checks, consistent with how
wbt_set_lat() in the same file already handles these failures. Add a
pr_warn() for the wbt_init() failure to retain diagnostic information
without triggering a full stack trace.

Reported-by: syzbot+71fcf20f7c1e5043d78c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=71fcf20f7c1e5043d78c
Fixes: 41afaeeda509 ("blk-wbt: fix possible deadlock to nest pcpu_alloc_mutex under q_usage_counter")
Signed-off-by: Yuto Ohnuki &lt;ytohnuki@amazon.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yu Kuai &lt;yukuai@fnnas.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nilay Shroff &lt;nilay@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260316070358.65225-2-ytohnuki@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit e9b004ff83067cdf96774b45aea4b239ace99a2f ]

wbt_init_enable_default() uses WARN_ON_ONCE to check for failures from
wbt_alloc() and wbt_init(). However, both are expected failure paths:

- wbt_alloc() can return NULL under memory pressure (-ENOMEM)
- wbt_init() can fail with -EBUSY if wbt is already registered

syzbot triggers this by injecting memory allocation failures during MTD
partition creation via ioctl(BLKPG), causing a spurious warning.

wbt_init_enable_default() is a best-effort initialization called from
blk_register_queue() with a void return type. Failure simply means the
disk operates without writeback throttling, which is harmless.

Replace WARN_ON_ONCE with plain if-checks, consistent with how
wbt_set_lat() in the same file already handles these failures. Add a
pr_warn() for the wbt_init() failure to retain diagnostic information
without triggering a full stack trace.

Reported-by: syzbot+71fcf20f7c1e5043d78c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=71fcf20f7c1e5043d78c
Fixes: 41afaeeda509 ("blk-wbt: fix possible deadlock to nest pcpu_alloc_mutex under q_usage_counter")
Signed-off-by: Yuto Ohnuki &lt;ytohnuki@amazon.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yu Kuai &lt;yukuai@fnnas.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nilay Shroff &lt;nilay@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260316070358.65225-2-ytohnuki@amazon.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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