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<title>nvdimm/btt: Free arena sub-allocations on discover_arenas() error path</title>
<updated>2026-07-24T14:20:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Abdun Nihaal</name>
<email>nihaal@cse.iitm.ac.in</email>
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<published>2026-05-19T05:50:12+00:00</published>
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commit 13fe4cd9ddd0aacb7777812328be525a11ea3fea upstream.

Memory allocated by btt_freelist_init(), btt_rtt_init(), and
btt_maplocks_init() is not freed on some discover_arenas() error
paths. This leaks memory when arena discovery fails.

Add the missing kfree() calls to release the allocations before
returning an error.

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Fixes: 5212e11fde4d ("nd_btt: atomic sector updates")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Abdun Nihaal &lt;nihaal@cse.iitm.ac.in&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alison Schofield &lt;alison.schofield@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260519-nvdimmleaks-v1-1-592300fb7a43@cse.iitm.ac.in
Signed-off-by: Alison Schofield &lt;alison.schofield@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 13fe4cd9ddd0aacb7777812328be525a11ea3fea upstream.

Memory allocated by btt_freelist_init(), btt_rtt_init(), and
btt_maplocks_init() is not freed on some discover_arenas() error
paths. This leaks memory when arena discovery fails.

Add the missing kfree() calls to release the allocations before
returning an error.

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Fixes: 5212e11fde4d ("nd_btt: atomic sector updates")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Abdun Nihaal &lt;nihaal@cse.iitm.ac.in&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alison Schofield &lt;alison.schofield@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260519-nvdimmleaks-v1-1-592300fb7a43@cse.iitm.ac.in
Signed-off-by: Alison Schofield &lt;alison.schofield@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>nvdimm/btt: Free arenas on btt_init() error paths</title>
<updated>2026-07-24T14:20:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Abdun Nihaal</name>
<email>nihaal@cse.iitm.ac.in</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-19T05:50:13+00:00</published>
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commit 1a6b6442a982d0ca5fb6a1a39b6f6dfd760eda57 upstream.

The arenas allocated by discover_arenas() or create_arenas() are not
freed on some error paths in btt_init(). This leaks memory when BTT
initialization fails.

Call free_arenas() from the affected error paths to release the
allocations.

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Fixes: 5212e11fde4d ("nd_btt: atomic sector updates")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Abdun Nihaal &lt;nihaal@cse.iitm.ac.in&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alison Schofield &lt;alison.schofield@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260519-nvdimmleaks-v1-2-592300fb7a43@cse.iitm.ac.in
Signed-off-by: Alison Schofield &lt;alison.schofield@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 1a6b6442a982d0ca5fb6a1a39b6f6dfd760eda57 upstream.

The arenas allocated by discover_arenas() or create_arenas() are not
freed on some error paths in btt_init(). This leaks memory when BTT
initialization fails.

Call free_arenas() from the affected error paths to release the
allocations.

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Fixes: 5212e11fde4d ("nd_btt: atomic sector updates")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Abdun Nihaal &lt;nihaal@cse.iitm.ac.in&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alison Schofield &lt;alison.schofield@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260519-nvdimmleaks-v1-2-592300fb7a43@cse.iitm.ac.in
Signed-off-by: Alison Schofield &lt;alison.schofield@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>nvdimm/btt: Handle preemption in BTT lane acquisition</title>
<updated>2026-07-24T14:19:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alison Schofield</name>
<email>alison.schofield@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-28T02:16:22+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8d4b989d9c9afe5f185aa5853b666fc4617afe9e ]

BTT lanes serialize access to per-lane metadata and workspace state
during BTT I/O. The btt-check unit test reports data mismatches during
BTT writes due to a race in lane acquisition that can lead to silent
data corruption.

The existing lane model uses a spinlock together with a per-CPU
recursion count. That recursion model stopped being valid after BTT
lanes became preemptible: another task can run on the same CPU,
observe a non-zero recursion count, bypass locking, and use the same
lane concurrently.

BTT lanes are also held across arena_write_bytes() calls. That path
reaches nsio_rw_bytes(), which flushes writes with nvdimm_flush().
Some provider flush callbacks can sleep, making a spinlock the wrong
primitive for the lane lifetime.

Replace the spinlock-based recursion model with a dynamically
allocated per-lane mutex array and take the lane lock
unconditionally.

Add might_sleep() to catch any future atomic-context caller.

Found with the ndctl unit test btt-check.sh.

Fixes: 36c75ce3bd29 ("nd_btt: Make BTT lanes preemptible")
Assisted-by: Claude-Sonnet:4.5
Tested-by: Aboorva Devarajan &lt;aboorvad@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Aboorva Devarajan &lt;aboorvad@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528021625.618462-1-alison.schofield@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Alison Schofield &lt;alison.schofield@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 8d4b989d9c9afe5f185aa5853b666fc4617afe9e ]

BTT lanes serialize access to per-lane metadata and workspace state
during BTT I/O. The btt-check unit test reports data mismatches during
BTT writes due to a race in lane acquisition that can lead to silent
data corruption.

The existing lane model uses a spinlock together with a per-CPU
recursion count. That recursion model stopped being valid after BTT
lanes became preemptible: another task can run on the same CPU,
observe a non-zero recursion count, bypass locking, and use the same
lane concurrently.

BTT lanes are also held across arena_write_bytes() calls. That path
reaches nsio_rw_bytes(), which flushes writes with nvdimm_flush().
Some provider flush callbacks can sleep, making a spinlock the wrong
primitive for the lane lifetime.

Replace the spinlock-based recursion model with a dynamically
allocated per-lane mutex array and take the lane lock
unconditionally.

Add might_sleep() to catch any future atomic-context caller.

Found with the ndctl unit test btt-check.sh.

Fixes: 36c75ce3bd29 ("nd_btt: Make BTT lanes preemptible")
Assisted-by: Claude-Sonnet:4.5
Tested-by: Aboorva Devarajan &lt;aboorvad@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Aboorva Devarajan &lt;aboorvad@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528021625.618462-1-alison.schofield@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Alison Schofield &lt;alison.schofield@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.integrity' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2026-04-13T17:40:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-13T17:40:26+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs integrity updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This adds support to generate and verify integrity information (aka
  T10 PI) in the file system, instead of the automatic below the covers
  support that is currently used.

  The implementation is based on refactoring the existing block layer PI
  code to be reusable for this use case, and then adding relatively
  small wrappers for the file system use case. These are then used in
  iomap to implement the semantics, and wired up in XFS with a small
  amount of glue code.

  Compared to the baseline this does not change performance for writes,
  but increases read performance up to 15% for 4k I/O, with the benefit
  decreasing with larger I/O sizes as even the baseline maxes out the
  device quickly on my older enterprise SSD"

* tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.integrity' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  xfs: support T10 protection information
  iomap: support T10 protection information
  iomap: support ioends for buffered reads
  iomap: add a bioset pointer to iomap_read_folio_ops
  ntfs3: remove copy and pasted iomap code
  iomap: allow file systems to hook into buffered read bio submission
  iomap: only call into -&gt;submit_read when there is a read_ctx
  iomap: pass the iomap_iter to -&gt;submit_read
  iomap: refactor iomap_bio_read_folio_range
  block: pass a maxlen argument to bio_iov_iter_bounce
  block: add fs_bio_integrity helpers
  block: make max_integrity_io_size public
  block: prepare generation / verification helpers for fs usage
  block: add a bdev_has_integrity_csum helper
  block: factor out a bio_integrity_setup_default helper
  block: factor out a bio_integrity_action helper
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Pull vfs integrity updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This adds support to generate and verify integrity information (aka
  T10 PI) in the file system, instead of the automatic below the covers
  support that is currently used.

  The implementation is based on refactoring the existing block layer PI
  code to be reusable for this use case, and then adding relatively
  small wrappers for the file system use case. These are then used in
  iomap to implement the semantics, and wired up in XFS with a small
  amount of glue code.

  Compared to the baseline this does not change performance for writes,
  but increases read performance up to 15% for 4k I/O, with the benefit
  decreasing with larger I/O sizes as even the baseline maxes out the
  device quickly on my older enterprise SSD"

* tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.integrity' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  xfs: support T10 protection information
  iomap: support T10 protection information
  iomap: support ioends for buffered reads
  iomap: add a bioset pointer to iomap_read_folio_ops
  ntfs3: remove copy and pasted iomap code
  iomap: allow file systems to hook into buffered read bio submission
  iomap: only call into -&gt;submit_read when there is a read_ctx
  iomap: pass the iomap_iter to -&gt;submit_read
  iomap: refactor iomap_bio_read_folio_range
  block: pass a maxlen argument to bio_iov_iter_bounce
  block: add fs_bio_integrity helpers
  block: make max_integrity_io_size public
  block: prepare generation / verification helpers for fs usage
  block: add a bdev_has_integrity_csum helper
  block: factor out a bio_integrity_setup_default helper
  block: factor out a bio_integrity_action helper
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<entry>
<title>nvdimm/bus: Fix potential use after free in asynchronous initialization</title>
<updated>2026-03-09T14:38:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ira Weiny</name>
<email>ira.weiny@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-06T18:33:05+00:00</published>
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Dingisoul with KASAN reports a use after free if device_add() fails in
nd_async_device_register().

Commit b6eae0f61db2 ("libnvdimm: Hold reference on parent while
scheduling async init") correctly added a reference on the parent device
to be held until asynchronous initialization was complete.  However, if
device_add() results in an allocation failure the ref count of the
device drops to 0 prior to the parent pointer being accessed.  Thus
resulting in use after free.

The bug bot AI correctly identified the fix.  Save a reference to the
parent pointer to be used to drop the parent reference regardless of the
outcome of device_add().

Reported-by: Dingisoul &lt;dingiso.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: http://lore.kernel.org/8855544b-be9e-4153-aa55-0bc328b13733@gmail.com
Fixes: b6eae0f61db2 ("libnvdimm: Hold reference on parent while scheduling async init")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260306-fix-uaf-async-init-v1-1-a28fd7526723@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny &lt;ira.weiny@intel.com&gt;
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Dingisoul with KASAN reports a use after free if device_add() fails in
nd_async_device_register().

Commit b6eae0f61db2 ("libnvdimm: Hold reference on parent while
scheduling async init") correctly added a reference on the parent device
to be held until asynchronous initialization was complete.  However, if
device_add() results in an allocation failure the ref count of the
device drops to 0 prior to the parent pointer being accessed.  Thus
resulting in use after free.

The bug bot AI correctly identified the fix.  Save a reference to the
parent pointer to be used to drop the parent reference regardless of the
outcome of device_add().

Reported-by: Dingisoul &lt;dingiso.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: http://lore.kernel.org/8855544b-be9e-4153-aa55-0bc328b13733@gmail.com
Fixes: b6eae0f61db2 ("libnvdimm: Hold reference on parent while scheduling async init")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Dave Jiang &lt;dave.jiang@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260306-fix-uaf-async-init-v1-1-a28fd7526723@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny &lt;ira.weiny@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: factor out a bio_integrity_action helper</title>
<updated>2026-03-09T13:47:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-23T13:20:01+00:00</published>
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Split the logic to see if a bio needs integrity metadata from
bio_integrity_prep into a reusable helper than can be called from
file system code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Anuj Gupta &lt;anuj20.g@samsung.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kanchan Joshi &lt;joshi.k@samsung.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Anuj Gupta &lt;anuj20.g@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Split the logic to see if a bio needs integrity metadata from
bio_integrity_prep into a reusable helper than can be called from
file system code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Anuj Gupta &lt;anuj20.g@samsung.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kanchan Joshi &lt;joshi.k@samsung.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Anuj Gupta &lt;anuj20.g@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00</published>
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This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines.  I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.

Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script.  I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.

So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.

The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines.  I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.

Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script.  I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.

So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.

The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>nvdimm: virtio_pmem: serialize flush requests</title>
<updated>2026-02-04T19:16:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Li Chen</name>
<email>me@linux.beauty</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-03T02:13:51+00:00</published>
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Under heavy concurrent flush traffic, virtio-pmem can overflow its request
virtqueue (req_vq): virtqueue_add_sgs() starts returning -ENOSPC and the
driver logs "no free slots in the virtqueue". Shortly after that the
device enters VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_NEEDS_RESET and flush requests fail with
"virtio pmem device needs a reset".

Serialize virtio_pmem_flush() with a per-device mutex so only one flush
request is in-flight at a time. This prevents req_vq descriptor overflow
under high concurrency.

Reproducer (guest with virtio-pmem):
  - mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/pmem0
  - mount -t ext4 -o dax,noatime /dev/pmem0 /mnt/bench
  - fio: ioengine=io_uring rw=randwrite bs=4k iodepth=64 numjobs=64
        direct=1 fsync=1 runtime=30s time_based=1
  - dmesg: "no free slots in the virtqueue"
           "virtio pmem device needs a reset"

Fixes: 6e84200c0a29 ("virtio-pmem: Add virtio pmem driver")
Signed-off-by: Li Chen &lt;me@linux.beauty&gt;
Acked-by: Pankaj Gupta &lt;pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260203021353.121091-1-me@linux.beauty
Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny &lt;ira.weiny@intel.com&gt;
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Under heavy concurrent flush traffic, virtio-pmem can overflow its request
virtqueue (req_vq): virtqueue_add_sgs() starts returning -ENOSPC and the
driver logs "no free slots in the virtqueue". Shortly after that the
device enters VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_NEEDS_RESET and flush requests fail with
"virtio pmem device needs a reset".

Serialize virtio_pmem_flush() with a per-device mutex so only one flush
request is in-flight at a time. This prevents req_vq descriptor overflow
under high concurrency.

Reproducer (guest with virtio-pmem):
  - mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/pmem0
  - mount -t ext4 -o dax,noatime /dev/pmem0 /mnt/bench
  - fio: ioengine=io_uring rw=randwrite bs=4k iodepth=64 numjobs=64
        direct=1 fsync=1 runtime=30s time_based=1
  - dmesg: "no free slots in the virtqueue"
           "virtio pmem device needs a reset"

Fixes: 6e84200c0a29 ("virtio-pmem: Add virtio pmem driver")
Signed-off-by: Li Chen &lt;me@linux.beauty&gt;
Acked-by: Pankaj Gupta &lt;pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260203021353.121091-1-me@linux.beauty
Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny &lt;ira.weiny@intel.com&gt;
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