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<title>Merge tag 'ceph-for-6.14-rc1' of https://github.com/ceph/ceph-client</title>
<updated>2025-01-31T18:30:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2025-01-31T18:30:34+00:00</published>
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Pull ceph updates from Ilya Dryomov:
 "A fix for a memory leak from Antoine (marked for stable) and two
  cleanups from Liang and Slava"

* tag 'ceph-for-6.14-rc1' of https://github.com/ceph/ceph-client:
  ceph: exchange hardcoded value on NAME_MAX
  ceph: streamline request head structures in MDS client
  ceph: fix memory leak in ceph_mds_auth_match()
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Pull ceph updates from Ilya Dryomov:
 "A fix for a memory leak from Antoine (marked for stable) and two
  cleanups from Liang and Slava"

* tag 'ceph-for-6.14-rc1' of https://github.com/ceph/ceph-client:
  ceph: exchange hardcoded value on NAME_MAX
  ceph: streamline request head structures in MDS client
  ceph: fix memory leak in ceph_mds_auth_match()
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pull-revalidate' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-01-30T17:13:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-30T17:13:35+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs d_revalidate updates from Al Viro:
 "Provide stable parent and name to -&gt;d_revalidate() instances

  Most of the filesystem methods where we care about dentry name and
  parent have their stability guaranteed by the callers;
  -&gt;d_revalidate() is the major exception.

  It's easy enough for callers to supply stable values for expected name
  and expected parent of the dentry being validated. That kills quite a
  bit of boilerplate in -&gt;d_revalidate() instances, along with a bunch
  of races where they used to access -&gt;d_name without sufficient
  precautions"

* tag 'pull-revalidate' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  9p: fix -&gt;rename_sem exclusion
  orangefs_d_revalidate(): use stable parent inode and name passed by caller
  ocfs2_dentry_revalidate(): use stable parent inode and name passed by caller
  nfs: fix -&gt;d_revalidate() UAF on -&gt;d_name accesses
  nfs{,4}_lookup_validate(): use stable parent inode passed by caller
  gfs2_drevalidate(): use stable parent inode and name passed by caller
  fuse_dentry_revalidate(): use stable parent inode and name passed by caller
  vfat_revalidate{,_ci}(): use stable parent inode passed by caller
  exfat_d_revalidate(): use stable parent inode passed by caller
  fscrypt_d_revalidate(): use stable parent inode passed by caller
  ceph_d_revalidate(): propagate stable name down into request encoding
  ceph_d_revalidate(): use stable parent inode passed by caller
  afs_d_revalidate(): use stable name and parent inode passed by caller
  Pass parent directory inode and expected name to -&gt;d_revalidate()
  generic_ci_d_compare(): use shortname_storage
  ext4 fast_commit: make use of name_snapshot primitives
  dissolve external_name.u into separate members
  make take_dentry_name_snapshot() lockless
  dcache: back inline names with a struct-wrapped array of unsigned long
  make sure that DNAME_INLINE_LEN is a multiple of word size
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Pull vfs d_revalidate updates from Al Viro:
 "Provide stable parent and name to -&gt;d_revalidate() instances

  Most of the filesystem methods where we care about dentry name and
  parent have their stability guaranteed by the callers;
  -&gt;d_revalidate() is the major exception.

  It's easy enough for callers to supply stable values for expected name
  and expected parent of the dentry being validated. That kills quite a
  bit of boilerplate in -&gt;d_revalidate() instances, along with a bunch
  of races where they used to access -&gt;d_name without sufficient
  precautions"

* tag 'pull-revalidate' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  9p: fix -&gt;rename_sem exclusion
  orangefs_d_revalidate(): use stable parent inode and name passed by caller
  ocfs2_dentry_revalidate(): use stable parent inode and name passed by caller
  nfs: fix -&gt;d_revalidate() UAF on -&gt;d_name accesses
  nfs{,4}_lookup_validate(): use stable parent inode passed by caller
  gfs2_drevalidate(): use stable parent inode and name passed by caller
  fuse_dentry_revalidate(): use stable parent inode and name passed by caller
  vfat_revalidate{,_ci}(): use stable parent inode passed by caller
  exfat_d_revalidate(): use stable parent inode passed by caller
  fscrypt_d_revalidate(): use stable parent inode passed by caller
  ceph_d_revalidate(): propagate stable name down into request encoding
  ceph_d_revalidate(): use stable parent inode passed by caller
  afs_d_revalidate(): use stable name and parent inode passed by caller
  Pass parent directory inode and expected name to -&gt;d_revalidate()
  generic_ci_d_compare(): use shortname_storage
  ext4 fast_commit: make use of name_snapshot primitives
  dissolve external_name.u into separate members
  make take_dentry_name_snapshot() lockless
  dcache: back inline names with a struct-wrapped array of unsigned long
  make sure that DNAME_INLINE_LEN is a multiple of word size
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<title>ceph_d_revalidate(): propagate stable name down into request encoding</title>
<updated>2025-01-28T00:25:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-07T15:04:11+00:00</published>
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Currently get_fscrypt_altname() requires -&gt;r_dentry-&gt;d_name to be stable
and it gets that in almost all cases.  The only exception is -&gt;d_revalidate(),
where we have a stable name, but it's passed separately - dentry-&gt;d_name
is not stable there.

Propagate it down to get_fscrypt_altname() as a new field of struct
ceph_mds_request - -&gt;r_dname, to be used instead -&gt;r_dentry-&gt;d_name
when non-NULL.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Currently get_fscrypt_altname() requires -&gt;r_dentry-&gt;d_name to be stable
and it gets that in almost all cases.  The only exception is -&gt;d_revalidate(),
where we have a stable name, but it's passed separately - dentry-&gt;d_name
is not stable there.

Propagate it down to get_fscrypt_altname() as a new field of struct
ceph_mds_request - -&gt;r_dname, to be used instead -&gt;r_dentry-&gt;d_name
when non-NULL.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ceph_d_revalidate(): use stable parent inode passed by caller</title>
<updated>2025-01-28T00:25:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-03T05:54:18+00:00</published>
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No need to mess with the boilerplate for obtaining what we already
have.  Note that ceph is one of the "will want a path from filesystem
root if we want to talk to server" cases, so the name of the last
component is of little use - it is passed to fscrypt_d_revalidate()
and it's used to deal with (also crypt-related) case in request
marshalling, when encrypted name turns out to be too long.  The former
is not a problem, but the latter is racy; that part will be handled
in the next commit.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko &lt;Slava.Dubeyko@ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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No need to mess with the boilerplate for obtaining what we already
have.  Note that ceph is one of the "will want a path from filesystem
root if we want to talk to server" cases, so the name of the last
component is of little use - it is passed to fscrypt_d_revalidate()
and it's used to deal with (also crypt-related) case in request
marshalling, when encrypted name turns out to be too long.  The former
is not a problem, but the latter is racy; that part will be handled
in the next commit.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko &lt;Slava.Dubeyko@ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Pass parent directory inode and expected name to -&gt;d_revalidate()</title>
<updated>2025-01-28T00:25:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-08T05:28:51+00:00</published>
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-&gt;d_revalidate() often needs to access dentry parent and name; that has
to be done carefully, since the locking environment varies from caller
to caller.  We are not guaranteed that dentry in question will not be
moved right under us - not unless the filesystem is such that nothing
on it ever gets renamed.

It can be dealt with, but that results in boilerplate code that isn't
even needed - the callers normally have just found the dentry via dcache
lookup and want to verify that it's in the right place; they already
have the values of -&gt;d_parent and -&gt;d_name stable.  There is a couple
of exceptions (overlayfs and, to less extent, ecryptfs), but for the
majority of calls that song and dance is not needed at all.

It's easier to make ecryptfs and overlayfs find and pass those values if
there's a -&gt;d_revalidate() instance to be called, rather than doing that
in the instances.

This commit only changes the calling conventions; making use of supplied
values is left to followups.

NOTE: some instances need more than just the parent - things like CIFS
may need to build an entire path from filesystem root, so they need
more precautions than the usual boilerplate.  This series doesn't
do anything to that need - these filesystems have to keep their locking
mechanisms (rename_lock loops, use of dentry_path_raw(), private rwsem
a-la v9fs).

One thing to keep in mind when using name is that name-&gt;name will normally
point into the pathname being resolved; the filename in question occupies
name-&gt;len bytes starting at name-&gt;name, and there is NUL somewhere after it,
but it the next byte might very well be '/' rather than '\0'.  Do not
ignore name-&gt;len.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi &lt;gabriel@krisman.be&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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-&gt;d_revalidate() often needs to access dentry parent and name; that has
to be done carefully, since the locking environment varies from caller
to caller.  We are not guaranteed that dentry in question will not be
moved right under us - not unless the filesystem is such that nothing
on it ever gets renamed.

It can be dealt with, but that results in boilerplate code that isn't
even needed - the callers normally have just found the dentry via dcache
lookup and want to verify that it's in the right place; they already
have the values of -&gt;d_parent and -&gt;d_name stable.  There is a couple
of exceptions (overlayfs and, to less extent, ecryptfs), but for the
majority of calls that song and dance is not needed at all.

It's easier to make ecryptfs and overlayfs find and pass those values if
there's a -&gt;d_revalidate() instance to be called, rather than doing that
in the instances.

This commit only changes the calling conventions; making use of supplied
values is left to followups.

NOTE: some instances need more than just the parent - things like CIFS
may need to build an entire path from filesystem root, so they need
more precautions than the usual boilerplate.  This series doesn't
do anything to that need - these filesystems have to keep their locking
mechanisms (rename_lock loops, use of dentry_path_raw(), private rwsem
a-la v9fs).

One thing to keep in mind when using name is that name-&gt;name will normally
point into the pathname being resolved; the filename in question occupies
name-&gt;len bytes starting at name-&gt;name, and there is NUL somewhere after it,
but it the next byte might very well be '/' rather than '\0'.  Do not
ignore name-&gt;len.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi &lt;gabriel@krisman.be&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ceph: exchange hardcoded value on NAME_MAX</title>
<updated>2025-01-27T15:07:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Viacheslav Dubeyko</name>
<email>Slava.Dubeyko@ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-24T19:46:23+00:00</published>
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Initially, ceph_fs_debugfs_init() had temporary
name buffer with hardcoded length of 80 symbols.
Then, it was hardcoded again for 100 symbols.
Finally, it makes sense to exchange hardcoded
value on properly defined constant and 255 symbols
should be enough for any name case.

Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko &lt;Slava.Dubeyko@ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Patrick Donnelly &lt;pdonnell@ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@gmail.com&gt;
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Initially, ceph_fs_debugfs_init() had temporary
name buffer with hardcoded length of 80 symbols.
Then, it was hardcoded again for 100 symbols.
Finally, it makes sense to exchange hardcoded
value on properly defined constant and 255 symbols
should be enough for any name case.

Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko &lt;Slava.Dubeyko@ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Patrick Donnelly &lt;pdonnell@ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@gmail.com&gt;
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<title>ceph: streamline request head structures in MDS client</title>
<updated>2025-01-27T15:07:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Liang Jie</name>
<email>liangjie@lixiang.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-10T10:05:24+00:00</published>
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The existence of the ceph_mds_request_head_old structure in the MDS
client code is no longer required due to improvements in handling
different MDS request header versions. This patch removes the now
redundant ceph_mds_request_head_old structure and replaces its usage
with the flexible and extensible ceph_mds_request_head structure.

Changes include:
- Modification of find_legacy_request_head to directly cast the
  pointer to ceph_mds_request_head_legacy without going through the
  old structure.
- Update sizeof calculations in create_request_message to use
  offsetofend for consistency and future-proofing, rather than
  referencing the old structure.
- Use of the structured ceph_mds_request_head directly instead of the
  old one.

Additionally, this consolidation normalizes the handling of
request_head_version v1 to align with versions v2 and v3, leading to
a more consistent and maintainable codebase.

These changes simplify the codebase and reduce potential confusion
stemming from the existence of an obsolete structure.

Signed-off-by: Liang Jie &lt;liangjie@lixiang.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko &lt;Slava.Dubeyko@ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@gmail.com&gt;
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The existence of the ceph_mds_request_head_old structure in the MDS
client code is no longer required due to improvements in handling
different MDS request header versions. This patch removes the now
redundant ceph_mds_request_head_old structure and replaces its usage
with the flexible and extensible ceph_mds_request_head structure.

Changes include:
- Modification of find_legacy_request_head to directly cast the
  pointer to ceph_mds_request_head_legacy without going through the
  old structure.
- Update sizeof calculations in create_request_message to use
  offsetofend for consistency and future-proofing, rather than
  referencing the old structure.
- Use of the structured ceph_mds_request_head directly instead of the
  old one.

Additionally, this consolidation normalizes the handling of
request_head_version v1 to align with versions v2 and v3, leading to
a more consistent and maintainable codebase.

These changes simplify the codebase and reduce potential confusion
stemming from the existence of an obsolete structure.

Signed-off-by: Liang Jie &lt;liangjie@lixiang.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko &lt;Slava.Dubeyko@ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@gmail.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-01-24-23-16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-01-27T01:50:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-27T01:50:53+00:00</published>
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Mainly individually changelogged singleton patches. The patch series
  in this pull are:

   - "lib min_heap: Improve min_heap safety, testing, and documentation"
     from Kuan-Wei Chiu provides various tightenings to the min_heap
     library code

   - "xarray: extract __xa_cmpxchg_raw" from Tamir Duberstein preforms
     some cleanup and Rust preparation in the xarray library code

   - "Update reference to include/asm-&lt;arch&gt;" from Geert Uytterhoeven
     fixes pathnames in some code comments

   - "Converge on using secs_to_jiffies()" from Easwar Hariharan uses
     the new secs_to_jiffies() in various places where that is
     appropriate

   - "ocfs2, dlmfs: convert to the new mount API" from Eric Sandeen
     switches two filesystems to the new mount API

   - "Convert ocfs2 to use folios" from Matthew Wilcox does that

   - "Remove get_task_comm() and print task comm directly" from Yafang
     Shao removes now-unneeded calls to get_task_comm() in various
     places

   - "squashfs: reduce memory usage and update docs" from Phillip
     Lougher implements some memory savings in squashfs and performs
     some maintainability work

   - "lib: clarify comparison function requirements" from Kuan-Wei Chiu
     tightens the sort code's behaviour and adds some maintenance work

   - "nilfs2: protect busy buffer heads from being force-cleared" from
     Ryusuke Konishi fixes an issues in nlifs when the fs is presented
     with a corrupted image

   - "nilfs2: fix kernel-doc comments for function return values" from
     Ryusuke Konishi fixes some nilfs kerneldoc

   - "nilfs2: fix issues with rename operations" from Ryusuke Konishi
     addresses some nilfs BUG_ONs which syzbot was able to trigger

   - "minmax.h: Cleanups and minor optimisations" from David Laight does
     some maintenance work on the min/max library code

   - "Fixes and cleanups to xarray" from Kemeng Shi does maintenance
     work on the xarray library code"

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-01-24-23-16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (131 commits)
  ocfs2: use str_yes_no() and str_no_yes() helper functions
  include/linux/lz4.h: add some missing macros
  Xarray: use xa_mark_t in xas_squash_marks() to keep code consistent
  Xarray: remove repeat check in xas_squash_marks()
  Xarray: distinguish large entries correctly in xas_split_alloc()
  Xarray: move forward index correctly in xas_pause()
  Xarray: do not return sibling entries from xas_find_marked()
  ipc/util.c: complete the kernel-doc function descriptions
  gcov: clang: use correct function param names
  latencytop: use correct kernel-doc format for func params
  minmax.h: remove some #defines that are only expanded once
  minmax.h: simplify the variants of clamp()
  minmax.h: move all the clamp() definitions after the min/max() ones
  minmax.h: use BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG() for the lo &lt; hi test in clamp()
  minmax.h: reduce the #define expansion of min(), max() and clamp()
  minmax.h: update some comments
  minmax.h: add whitespace around operators and after commas
  nilfs2: do not update mtime of renamed directory that is not moved
  nilfs2: handle errors that nilfs_prepare_chunk() may return
  CREDITS: fix spelling mistake
  ...
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Mainly individually changelogged singleton patches. The patch series
  in this pull are:

   - "lib min_heap: Improve min_heap safety, testing, and documentation"
     from Kuan-Wei Chiu provides various tightenings to the min_heap
     library code

   - "xarray: extract __xa_cmpxchg_raw" from Tamir Duberstein preforms
     some cleanup and Rust preparation in the xarray library code

   - "Update reference to include/asm-&lt;arch&gt;" from Geert Uytterhoeven
     fixes pathnames in some code comments

   - "Converge on using secs_to_jiffies()" from Easwar Hariharan uses
     the new secs_to_jiffies() in various places where that is
     appropriate

   - "ocfs2, dlmfs: convert to the new mount API" from Eric Sandeen
     switches two filesystems to the new mount API

   - "Convert ocfs2 to use folios" from Matthew Wilcox does that

   - "Remove get_task_comm() and print task comm directly" from Yafang
     Shao removes now-unneeded calls to get_task_comm() in various
     places

   - "squashfs: reduce memory usage and update docs" from Phillip
     Lougher implements some memory savings in squashfs and performs
     some maintainability work

   - "lib: clarify comparison function requirements" from Kuan-Wei Chiu
     tightens the sort code's behaviour and adds some maintenance work

   - "nilfs2: protect busy buffer heads from being force-cleared" from
     Ryusuke Konishi fixes an issues in nlifs when the fs is presented
     with a corrupted image

   - "nilfs2: fix kernel-doc comments for function return values" from
     Ryusuke Konishi fixes some nilfs kerneldoc

   - "nilfs2: fix issues with rename operations" from Ryusuke Konishi
     addresses some nilfs BUG_ONs which syzbot was able to trigger

   - "minmax.h: Cleanups and minor optimisations" from David Laight does
     some maintenance work on the min/max library code

   - "Fixes and cleanups to xarray" from Kemeng Shi does maintenance
     work on the xarray library code"

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-01-24-23-16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (131 commits)
  ocfs2: use str_yes_no() and str_no_yes() helper functions
  include/linux/lz4.h: add some missing macros
  Xarray: use xa_mark_t in xas_squash_marks() to keep code consistent
  Xarray: remove repeat check in xas_squash_marks()
  Xarray: distinguish large entries correctly in xas_split_alloc()
  Xarray: move forward index correctly in xas_pause()
  Xarray: do not return sibling entries from xas_find_marked()
  ipc/util.c: complete the kernel-doc function descriptions
  gcov: clang: use correct function param names
  latencytop: use correct kernel-doc format for func params
  minmax.h: remove some #defines that are only expanded once
  minmax.h: simplify the variants of clamp()
  minmax.h: move all the clamp() definitions after the min/max() ones
  minmax.h: use BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG() for the lo &lt; hi test in clamp()
  minmax.h: reduce the #define expansion of min(), max() and clamp()
  minmax.h: update some comments
  minmax.h: add whitespace around operators and after commas
  nilfs2: do not update mtime of renamed directory that is not moved
  nilfs2: handle errors that nilfs_prepare_chunk() may return
  CREDITS: fix spelling mistake
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'lsm-pr-20250121' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm</title>
<updated>2025-01-22T04:03:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-22T04:03:04+00:00</published>
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Pull lsm updates from Paul Moore:

 - Improved handling of LSM "secctx" strings through lsm_context struct

   The LSM secctx string interface is from an older time when only one
   LSM was supported, migrate over to the lsm_context struct to better
   support the different LSMs we now have and make it easier to support
   new LSMs in the future.

   These changes explain the Rust, VFS, and networking changes in the
   diffstat.

 - Only build lsm_audit.c if CONFIG_SECURITY and CONFIG_AUDIT are
   enabled

   Small tweak to be a bit smarter about when we build the LSM's common
   audit helpers.

 - Check for absurdly large policies from userspace in SafeSetID

   SafeSetID policies rules are fairly small, basically just "UID:UID",
   it easy to impose a limit of KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE on policy writes which
   helps quiet a number of syzbot related issues. While work is being
   done to address the syzbot issues through other mechanisms, this is a
   trivial and relatively safe fix that we can do now.

 - Various minor improvements and cleanups

   A collection of improvements to the kernel selftests, constification
   of some function parameters, removing redundant assignments, and
   local variable renames to improve readability.

* tag 'lsm-pr-20250121' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm:
  lockdown: initialize local array before use to quiet static analysis
  safesetid: check size of policy writes
  net: corrections for security_secid_to_secctx returns
  lsm: rename variable to avoid shadowing
  lsm: constify function parameters
  security: remove redundant assignment to return variable
  lsm: Only build lsm_audit.c if CONFIG_SECURITY and CONFIG_AUDIT are set
  selftests: refactor the lsm `flags_overset_lsm_set_self_attr` test
  binder: initialize lsm_context structure
  rust: replace lsm context+len with lsm_context
  lsm: secctx provider check on release
  lsm: lsm_context in security_dentry_init_security
  lsm: use lsm_context in security_inode_getsecctx
  lsm: replace context+len with lsm_context
  lsm: ensure the correct LSM context releaser
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<pre>
Pull lsm updates from Paul Moore:

 - Improved handling of LSM "secctx" strings through lsm_context struct

   The LSM secctx string interface is from an older time when only one
   LSM was supported, migrate over to the lsm_context struct to better
   support the different LSMs we now have and make it easier to support
   new LSMs in the future.

   These changes explain the Rust, VFS, and networking changes in the
   diffstat.

 - Only build lsm_audit.c if CONFIG_SECURITY and CONFIG_AUDIT are
   enabled

   Small tweak to be a bit smarter about when we build the LSM's common
   audit helpers.

 - Check for absurdly large policies from userspace in SafeSetID

   SafeSetID policies rules are fairly small, basically just "UID:UID",
   it easy to impose a limit of KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE on policy writes which
   helps quiet a number of syzbot related issues. While work is being
   done to address the syzbot issues through other mechanisms, this is a
   trivial and relatively safe fix that we can do now.

 - Various minor improvements and cleanups

   A collection of improvements to the kernel selftests, constification
   of some function parameters, removing redundant assignments, and
   local variable renames to improve readability.

* tag 'lsm-pr-20250121' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm:
  lockdown: initialize local array before use to quiet static analysis
  safesetid: check size of policy writes
  net: corrections for security_secid_to_secctx returns
  lsm: rename variable to avoid shadowing
  lsm: constify function parameters
  security: remove redundant assignment to return variable
  lsm: Only build lsm_audit.c if CONFIG_SECURITY and CONFIG_AUDIT are set
  selftests: refactor the lsm `flags_overset_lsm_set_self_attr` test
  binder: initialize lsm_context structure
  rust: replace lsm context+len with lsm_context
  lsm: secctx provider check on release
  lsm: lsm_context in security_dentry_init_security
  lsm: use lsm_context in security_inode_getsecctx
  lsm: replace context+len with lsm_context
  lsm: ensure the correct LSM context releaser
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.14-rc1.netfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-01-20T17:29:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-20T17:29:11+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs netfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains read performance improvements and support for monolithic
  single-blob objects that have to be read/written as such (e.g. AFS
  directory contents). The implementation of the two parts is interwoven
  as each makes the other possible.

   - Read performance improvements

     The read performance improvements are intended to speed up some
     loss of performance detected in cifs and to a lesser extend in afs.

     The problem is that we queue too many work items during the
     collection of read results: each individual subrequest is collected
     by its own work item, and then they have to interact with each
     other when a series of subrequests don't exactly align with the
     pattern of folios that are being read by the overall request.

     Whilst the processing of the pages covered by individual
     subrequests as they complete potentially allows folios to be woken
     in parallel and with minimum delay, it can shuffle wakeups for
     sequential reads out of order - and that is the most common I/O
     pattern.

     The final assessment and cleanup of an operation is then held up
     until the last I/O completes - and for a synchronous sequential
     operation, this means the bouncing around of work items just adds
     latency.

     Two changes have been made to make this work:

     (1) All collection is now done in a single "work item" that works
         progressively through the subrequests as they complete (and
         also dispatches retries as necessary).

     (2) For readahead and AIO, this work item be done on a workqueue
         and can run in parallel with the ultimate consumer of the data;
         for synchronous direct or unbuffered reads, the collection is
         run in the application thread and not offloaded.

     Functions such as smb2_readv_callback() then just tell netfslib
     that the subrequest has terminated; netfslib does a minimal bit of
     processing on the spot - stat counting and tracing mostly - and
     then queues/wakes up the worker. This simplifies the logic as the
     collector just walks sequentially through the subrequests as they
     complete and walks through the folios, if buffered, unlocking them
     as it goes. It also keeps to a minimum the amount of latency
     injected into the filesystem's low-level I/O handling

     The way netfs supports filesystems using the deprecated
     PG_private_2 flag is changed: folios are flagged and added to a
     write request as they complete and that takes care of scheduling
     the writes to the cache. The originating read request can then just
     unlock the pages whatever happens.

   - Single-blob object support

     Single-blob objects are files for which the content of the file
     must be read from or written to the server in a single operation
     because reading them in parts may yield inconsistent results. AFS
     directories are an example of this as there exists the possibility
     that the contents are generated on the fly and would differ between
     reads or might change due to third party interference.

     Such objects will be written to and retrieved from the cache if one
     is present, though we allow/may need to propose multiple
     subrequests to do so. The important part is that read from/write to
     the *server* is monolithic.

     Single blob reading is, for the moment, fully synchronous and does
     result collection in the application thread and, also for the
     moment, the API is supplied the buffer in the form of a folio_queue
     chain rather than using the pagecache.

   - Related afs changes

     This series makes a number of changes to the kafs filesystem,
     primarily in the area of directory handling:

      - AFS's FetchData RPC reply processing is made partially
        asynchronous which allows the netfs_io_request's outstanding
        operation counter to be removed as part of reducing the
        collection to a single work item.

      - Directory and symlink reading are plumbed through netfslib using
        the single-blob object API and are now cacheable with fscache.
        This also allows the afs_read struct to be eliminated and
        netfs_io_subrequest to be used directly instead.

      - Directory and symlink content are now stored in a folio_queue
        buffer rather than in the pagecache. This means we don't require
        the RCU read lock and xarray iteration to access it, and folios
        won't randomly disappear under us because the VM wants them
        back.

      - The vnode operation lock is changed from a mutex struct to a
        private lock implementation. The problem is that the lock now
        needs to be dropped in a separate thread and mutexes don't
        permit that.

      - When a new directory or symlink is created, we now initialise it
        locally and mark it valid rather than downloading it (we know
        what it's likely to look like).

      - We now use the in-directory hashtable to reduce the number of
        entries we need to scan when doing a lookup. The edit routines
        have to maintain the hash chains.

      - Cancellation (e.g. by signal) of an async call after the
        rxrpc_call has been set up is now offloaded to the worker thread
        as there will be a notification from rxrpc upon completion. This
        avoids a double cleanup.

   - A "rolling buffer" implementation is created to abstract out the
     two separate folio_queue chaining implementations I had (one for
     read and one for write).

   - Functions are provided to create/extend a buffer in a folio_queue
     chain and tear it down again.

     This is used to handle AFS directories, but could also be used to
     create bounce buffers for content crypto and transport crypto.

   - The was_async argument is dropped from netfs_read_subreq_terminated()

     Instead we wake the read collection work item by either queuing it
     or waking up the app thread.

   - We don't need to use BH-excluding locks when communicating between
     the issuing thread and the collection thread as neither of them now
     run in BH context.

   - Also included are a number of new tracepoints; a split of the
     netfslib write collection code to put retrying into its own file
     (it gets more complicated with content encryption).

   - There are also some minor fixes AFS included, including fixing the
     AFS directory format struct layout, reducing some directory
     over-invalidation and making afs_mkdir() translate EEXIST to
     ENOTEMPY (which is not available on all systems the servers
     support).

   - Finally, there's a patch to try and detect entry into the folio
     unlock function with no folio_queue structs in the buffer (which
     isn't allowed in the cases that can get there).

     This is a debugging patch, but should be minimal overhead"

* tag 'vfs-6.14-rc1.netfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (31 commits)
  netfs: Report on NULL folioq in netfs_writeback_unlock_folios()
  afs: Add a tracepoint for afs_read_receive()
  afs: Locally initialise the contents of a new symlink on creation
  afs: Use the contained hashtable to search a directory
  afs: Make afs_mkdir() locally initialise a new directory's content
  netfs: Change the read result collector to only use one work item
  afs: Make {Y,}FS.FetchData an asynchronous operation
  afs: Fix cleanup of immediately failed async calls
  afs: Eliminate afs_read
  afs: Use netfslib for symlinks, allowing them to be cached
  afs: Use netfslib for directories
  afs: Make afs_init_request() get a key if not given a file
  netfs: Add support for caching single monolithic objects such as AFS dirs
  netfs: Add functions to build/clean a buffer in a folio_queue
  afs: Add more tracepoints to do with tracking validity
  cachefiles: Add auxiliary data trace
  cachefiles: Add some subrequest tracepoints
  netfs: Remove some extraneous directory invalidations
  afs: Fix directory format encoding struct
  afs: Fix EEXIST error returned from afs_rmdir() to be ENOTEMPTY
  ...
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Pull vfs netfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains read performance improvements and support for monolithic
  single-blob objects that have to be read/written as such (e.g. AFS
  directory contents). The implementation of the two parts is interwoven
  as each makes the other possible.

   - Read performance improvements

     The read performance improvements are intended to speed up some
     loss of performance detected in cifs and to a lesser extend in afs.

     The problem is that we queue too many work items during the
     collection of read results: each individual subrequest is collected
     by its own work item, and then they have to interact with each
     other when a series of subrequests don't exactly align with the
     pattern of folios that are being read by the overall request.

     Whilst the processing of the pages covered by individual
     subrequests as they complete potentially allows folios to be woken
     in parallel and with minimum delay, it can shuffle wakeups for
     sequential reads out of order - and that is the most common I/O
     pattern.

     The final assessment and cleanup of an operation is then held up
     until the last I/O completes - and for a synchronous sequential
     operation, this means the bouncing around of work items just adds
     latency.

     Two changes have been made to make this work:

     (1) All collection is now done in a single "work item" that works
         progressively through the subrequests as they complete (and
         also dispatches retries as necessary).

     (2) For readahead and AIO, this work item be done on a workqueue
         and can run in parallel with the ultimate consumer of the data;
         for synchronous direct or unbuffered reads, the collection is
         run in the application thread and not offloaded.

     Functions such as smb2_readv_callback() then just tell netfslib
     that the subrequest has terminated; netfslib does a minimal bit of
     processing on the spot - stat counting and tracing mostly - and
     then queues/wakes up the worker. This simplifies the logic as the
     collector just walks sequentially through the subrequests as they
     complete and walks through the folios, if buffered, unlocking them
     as it goes. It also keeps to a minimum the amount of latency
     injected into the filesystem's low-level I/O handling

     The way netfs supports filesystems using the deprecated
     PG_private_2 flag is changed: folios are flagged and added to a
     write request as they complete and that takes care of scheduling
     the writes to the cache. The originating read request can then just
     unlock the pages whatever happens.

   - Single-blob object support

     Single-blob objects are files for which the content of the file
     must be read from or written to the server in a single operation
     because reading them in parts may yield inconsistent results. AFS
     directories are an example of this as there exists the possibility
     that the contents are generated on the fly and would differ between
     reads or might change due to third party interference.

     Such objects will be written to and retrieved from the cache if one
     is present, though we allow/may need to propose multiple
     subrequests to do so. The important part is that read from/write to
     the *server* is monolithic.

     Single blob reading is, for the moment, fully synchronous and does
     result collection in the application thread and, also for the
     moment, the API is supplied the buffer in the form of a folio_queue
     chain rather than using the pagecache.

   - Related afs changes

     This series makes a number of changes to the kafs filesystem,
     primarily in the area of directory handling:

      - AFS's FetchData RPC reply processing is made partially
        asynchronous which allows the netfs_io_request's outstanding
        operation counter to be removed as part of reducing the
        collection to a single work item.

      - Directory and symlink reading are plumbed through netfslib using
        the single-blob object API and are now cacheable with fscache.
        This also allows the afs_read struct to be eliminated and
        netfs_io_subrequest to be used directly instead.

      - Directory and symlink content are now stored in a folio_queue
        buffer rather than in the pagecache. This means we don't require
        the RCU read lock and xarray iteration to access it, and folios
        won't randomly disappear under us because the VM wants them
        back.

      - The vnode operation lock is changed from a mutex struct to a
        private lock implementation. The problem is that the lock now
        needs to be dropped in a separate thread and mutexes don't
        permit that.

      - When a new directory or symlink is created, we now initialise it
        locally and mark it valid rather than downloading it (we know
        what it's likely to look like).

      - We now use the in-directory hashtable to reduce the number of
        entries we need to scan when doing a lookup. The edit routines
        have to maintain the hash chains.

      - Cancellation (e.g. by signal) of an async call after the
        rxrpc_call has been set up is now offloaded to the worker thread
        as there will be a notification from rxrpc upon completion. This
        avoids a double cleanup.

   - A "rolling buffer" implementation is created to abstract out the
     two separate folio_queue chaining implementations I had (one for
     read and one for write).

   - Functions are provided to create/extend a buffer in a folio_queue
     chain and tear it down again.

     This is used to handle AFS directories, but could also be used to
     create bounce buffers for content crypto and transport crypto.

   - The was_async argument is dropped from netfs_read_subreq_terminated()

     Instead we wake the read collection work item by either queuing it
     or waking up the app thread.

   - We don't need to use BH-excluding locks when communicating between
     the issuing thread and the collection thread as neither of them now
     run in BH context.

   - Also included are a number of new tracepoints; a split of the
     netfslib write collection code to put retrying into its own file
     (it gets more complicated with content encryption).

   - There are also some minor fixes AFS included, including fixing the
     AFS directory format struct layout, reducing some directory
     over-invalidation and making afs_mkdir() translate EEXIST to
     ENOTEMPY (which is not available on all systems the servers
     support).

   - Finally, there's a patch to try and detect entry into the folio
     unlock function with no folio_queue structs in the buffer (which
     isn't allowed in the cases that can get there).

     This is a debugging patch, but should be minimal overhead"

* tag 'vfs-6.14-rc1.netfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (31 commits)
  netfs: Report on NULL folioq in netfs_writeback_unlock_folios()
  afs: Add a tracepoint for afs_read_receive()
  afs: Locally initialise the contents of a new symlink on creation
  afs: Use the contained hashtable to search a directory
  afs: Make afs_mkdir() locally initialise a new directory's content
  netfs: Change the read result collector to only use one work item
  afs: Make {Y,}FS.FetchData an asynchronous operation
  afs: Fix cleanup of immediately failed async calls
  afs: Eliminate afs_read
  afs: Use netfslib for symlinks, allowing them to be cached
  afs: Use netfslib for directories
  afs: Make afs_init_request() get a key if not given a file
  netfs: Add support for caching single monolithic objects such as AFS dirs
  netfs: Add functions to build/clean a buffer in a folio_queue
  afs: Add more tracepoints to do with tracking validity
  cachefiles: Add auxiliary data trace
  cachefiles: Add some subrequest tracepoints
  netfs: Remove some extraneous directory invalidations
  afs: Fix directory format encoding struct
  afs: Fix EEXIST error returned from afs_rmdir() to be ENOTEMPTY
  ...
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