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<title>ceph: fix crash after fscrypt_encrypt_pagecache_blocks() error</title>
<updated>2025-09-09T10:57:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Max Kellermann</name>
<email>max.kellermann@ionos.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-28T11:15:52+00:00</published>
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The function move_dirty_folio_in_page_array() was created by commit
ce80b76dd327 ("ceph: introduce ceph_process_folio_batch() method") by
moving code from ceph_writepages_start() to this function.

This new function is supposed to return an error code which is checked
by the caller (now ceph_process_folio_batch()), and on error, the
caller invokes redirty_page_for_writepage() and then breaks from the
loop.

However, the refactoring commit has gone wrong, and it by accident, it
always returns 0 (= success) because it first NULLs the pointer and
then returns PTR_ERR(NULL) which is always 0.  This means errors are
silently ignored, leaving NULL entries in the page array, which may
later crash the kernel.

The simple solution is to call PTR_ERR() before clearing the pointer.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: ce80b76dd327 ("ceph: introduce ceph_process_folio_batch() method")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/ceph-devel/aK4v548CId5GIKG1@swift.blarg.de/
Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann &lt;max.kellermann@ionos.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@gmail.com&gt;
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The function move_dirty_folio_in_page_array() was created by commit
ce80b76dd327 ("ceph: introduce ceph_process_folio_batch() method") by
moving code from ceph_writepages_start() to this function.

This new function is supposed to return an error code which is checked
by the caller (now ceph_process_folio_batch()), and on error, the
caller invokes redirty_page_for_writepage() and then breaks from the
loop.

However, the refactoring commit has gone wrong, and it by accident, it
always returns 0 (= success) because it first NULLs the pointer and
then returns PTR_ERR(NULL) which is always 0.  This means errors are
silently ignored, leaving NULL entries in the page array, which may
later crash the kernel.

The simple solution is to call PTR_ERR() before clearing the pointer.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: ce80b76dd327 ("ceph: introduce ceph_process_folio_batch() method")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/ceph-devel/aK4v548CId5GIKG1@swift.blarg.de/
Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann &lt;max.kellermann@ionos.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@gmail.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ceph: always call ceph_shift_unused_folios_left()</title>
<updated>2025-09-09T10:57:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Max Kellermann</name>
<email>max.kellermann@ionos.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-27T18:17:08+00:00</published>
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The function ceph_process_folio_batch() sets folio_batch entries to
NULL, which is an illegal state.  Before folio_batch_release() crashes
due to this API violation, the function ceph_shift_unused_folios_left()
is supposed to remove those NULLs from the array.

However, since commit ce80b76dd327 ("ceph: introduce
ceph_process_folio_batch() method"), this shifting doesn't happen
anymore because the "for" loop got moved to ceph_process_folio_batch(),
and now the `i` variable that remains in ceph_writepages_start()
doesn't get incremented anymore, making the shifting effectively
unreachable much of the time.

Later, commit 1551ec61dc55 ("ceph: introduce ceph_submit_write()
method") added more preconditions for doing the shift, replacing the
`i` check (with something that is still just as broken):

- if ceph_process_folio_batch() fails, shifting never happens

- if ceph_move_dirty_page_in_page_array() was never called (because
  ceph_process_folio_batch() has returned early for some of various
  reasons), shifting never happens

- if `processed_in_fbatch` is zero (because ceph_process_folio_batch()
  has returned early for some of the reasons mentioned above or
  because ceph_move_dirty_page_in_page_array() has failed), shifting
  never happens

Since those two commits, any problem in ceph_process_folio_batch()
could crash the kernel, e.g. this way:

 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000034
 #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
 PGD 0 P4D 0
 Oops: Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP NOPTI
 CPU: 172 UID: 0 PID: 2342707 Comm: kworker/u778:8 Not tainted 6.15.10-cm4all1-es #714 NONE
 Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R7615/0G9DHV, BIOS 1.6.10 12/08/2023
 Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-ceph-1)
 RIP: 0010:folios_put_refs+0x85/0x140
 Code: 83 c5 01 39 e8 7e 76 48 63 c5 49 8b 5c c4 08 b8 01 00 00 00 4d 85 ed 74 05 41 8b 44 ad 00 48 8b 15 b0 &gt;
 RSP: 0018:ffffb880af8db778 EFLAGS: 00010207
 RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000003
 RDX: ffffe377cc3b0000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffb880af8db8c0
 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 000000000000007d R09: 000000000102b86f
 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 00000000000000ac R12: ffffb880af8db8c0
 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff9bd262c97000
 FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9c8efc303000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 0000000000000034 CR3: 0000000160958004 CR4: 0000000000770ef0
 PKRU: 55555554
 Call Trace:
  &lt;TASK&gt;
  ceph_writepages_start+0xeb9/0x1410

The crash can be reproduced easily by changing the
ceph_check_page_before_write() return value to `-E2BIG`.

(Interestingly, the crash happens only if `huge_zero_folio` has
already been allocated; without `huge_zero_folio`,
is_huge_zero_folio(NULL) returns true and folios_put_refs() skips NULL
entries instead of dereferencing them.  That makes reproducing the bug
somewhat unreliable.  See
https://lore.kernel.org/20250826231626.218675-1-max.kellermann@ionos.com
for a discussion of this detail.)

My suggestion is to move the ceph_shift_unused_folios_left() to right
after ceph_process_folio_batch() to ensure it always gets called to
fix up the illegal folio_batch state.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: ce80b76dd327 ("ceph: introduce ceph_process_folio_batch() method")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/ceph-devel/aK4v548CId5GIKG1@swift.blarg.de/
Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann &lt;max.kellermann@ionos.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 function ceph_process_folio_batch() sets folio_batch entries to
NULL, which is an illegal state.  Before folio_batch_release() crashes
due to this API violation, the function ceph_shift_unused_folios_left()
is supposed to remove those NULLs from the array.

However, since commit ce80b76dd327 ("ceph: introduce
ceph_process_folio_batch() method"), this shifting doesn't happen
anymore because the "for" loop got moved to ceph_process_folio_batch(),
and now the `i` variable that remains in ceph_writepages_start()
doesn't get incremented anymore, making the shifting effectively
unreachable much of the time.

Later, commit 1551ec61dc55 ("ceph: introduce ceph_submit_write()
method") added more preconditions for doing the shift, replacing the
`i` check (with something that is still just as broken):

- if ceph_process_folio_batch() fails, shifting never happens

- if ceph_move_dirty_page_in_page_array() was never called (because
  ceph_process_folio_batch() has returned early for some of various
  reasons), shifting never happens

- if `processed_in_fbatch` is zero (because ceph_process_folio_batch()
  has returned early for some of the reasons mentioned above or
  because ceph_move_dirty_page_in_page_array() has failed), shifting
  never happens

Since those two commits, any problem in ceph_process_folio_batch()
could crash the kernel, e.g. this way:

 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000034
 #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
 PGD 0 P4D 0
 Oops: Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP NOPTI
 CPU: 172 UID: 0 PID: 2342707 Comm: kworker/u778:8 Not tainted 6.15.10-cm4all1-es #714 NONE
 Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R7615/0G9DHV, BIOS 1.6.10 12/08/2023
 Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-ceph-1)
 RIP: 0010:folios_put_refs+0x85/0x140
 Code: 83 c5 01 39 e8 7e 76 48 63 c5 49 8b 5c c4 08 b8 01 00 00 00 4d 85 ed 74 05 41 8b 44 ad 00 48 8b 15 b0 &gt;
 RSP: 0018:ffffb880af8db778 EFLAGS: 00010207
 RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000003
 RDX: ffffe377cc3b0000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffb880af8db8c0
 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 000000000000007d R09: 000000000102b86f
 R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 00000000000000ac R12: ffffb880af8db8c0
 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff9bd262c97000
 FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9c8efc303000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 0000000000000034 CR3: 0000000160958004 CR4: 0000000000770ef0
 PKRU: 55555554
 Call Trace:
  &lt;TASK&gt;
  ceph_writepages_start+0xeb9/0x1410

The crash can be reproduced easily by changing the
ceph_check_page_before_write() return value to `-E2BIG`.

(Interestingly, the crash happens only if `huge_zero_folio` has
already been allocated; without `huge_zero_folio`,
is_huge_zero_folio(NULL) returns true and folios_put_refs() skips NULL
entries instead of dereferencing them.  That makes reproducing the bug
somewhat unreliable.  See
https://lore.kernel.org/20250826231626.218675-1-max.kellermann@ionos.com
for a discussion of this detail.)

My suggestion is to move the ceph_shift_unused_folios_left() to right
after ceph_process_folio_batch() to ensure it always gets called to
fix up the illegal folio_batch state.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: ce80b76dd327 ("ceph: introduce ceph_process_folio_batch() method")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/ceph-devel/aK4v548CId5GIKG1@swift.blarg.de/
Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann &lt;max.kellermann@ionos.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>ceph: fix race condition where r_parent becomes stale before sending message</title>
<updated>2025-09-09T10:57:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alex Markuze</name>
<email>amarkuze@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-12T09:57:39+00:00</published>
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When the parent directory's i_rwsem is not locked, req-&gt;r_parent may become
stale due to concurrent operations (e.g. rename) between dentry lookup and
message creation. Validate that r_parent matches the encoded parent inode
and update to the correct inode if a mismatch is detected.

[ idryomov: folded a follow-up fix from Alex to drop extra reference
  from ceph_get_reply_dir() in ceph_fill_trace():

  ceph_get_reply_dir() may return a different, referenced inode when
  r_parent is stale and the parent directory lock is not held.
  ceph_fill_trace() used that inode but failed to drop the reference
  when it differed from req-&gt;r_parent, leaking an inode reference.

  Keep the directory inode in a local variable and iput() it at
  function end if it does not match req-&gt;r_parent. ]

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alex Markuze &lt;amarkuze@redhat.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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When the parent directory's i_rwsem is not locked, req-&gt;r_parent may become
stale due to concurrent operations (e.g. rename) between dentry lookup and
message creation. Validate that r_parent matches the encoded parent inode
and update to the correct inode if a mismatch is detected.

[ idryomov: folded a follow-up fix from Alex to drop extra reference
  from ceph_get_reply_dir() in ceph_fill_trace():

  ceph_get_reply_dir() may return a different, referenced inode when
  r_parent is stale and the parent directory lock is not held.
  ceph_fill_trace() used that inode but failed to drop the reference
  when it differed from req-&gt;r_parent, leaking an inode reference.

  Keep the directory inode in a local variable and iput() it at
  function end if it does not match req-&gt;r_parent. ]

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alex Markuze &lt;amarkuze@redhat.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>
<entry>
<title>ceph: fix race condition validating r_parent before applying state</title>
<updated>2025-09-09T10:57:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alex Markuze</name>
<email>amarkuze@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-12T09:57:38+00:00</published>
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Add validation to ensure the cached parent directory inode matches the
directory info in MDS replies. This prevents client-side race conditions
where concurrent operations (e.g. rename) cause r_parent to become stale
between request initiation and reply processing, which could lead to
applying state changes to incorrect directory inodes.

[ idryomov: folded a kerneldoc fixup and a follow-up fix from Alex to
  move CEPH_CAP_PIN reference when r_parent is updated:

  When the parent directory lock is not held, req-&gt;r_parent can become
  stale and is updated to point to the correct inode.  However, the
  associated CEPH_CAP_PIN reference was not being adjusted.  The
  CEPH_CAP_PIN is a reference on an inode that is tracked for
  accounting purposes.  Moving this pin is important to keep the
  accounting balanced. When the pin was not moved from the old parent
  to the new one, it created two problems: The reference on the old,
  stale parent was never released, causing a reference leak.
  A reference for the new parent was never acquired, creating the risk
  of a reference underflow later in ceph_mdsc_release_request().  This
  patch corrects the logic by releasing the pin from the old parent and
  acquiring it for the new parent when r_parent is switched.  This
  ensures reference accounting stays balanced. ]

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alex Markuze &lt;amarkuze@redhat.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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Add validation to ensure the cached parent directory inode matches the
directory info in MDS replies. This prevents client-side race conditions
where concurrent operations (e.g. rename) cause r_parent to become stale
between request initiation and reply processing, which could lead to
applying state changes to incorrect directory inodes.

[ idryomov: folded a kerneldoc fixup and a follow-up fix from Alex to
  move CEPH_CAP_PIN reference when r_parent is updated:

  When the parent directory lock is not held, req-&gt;r_parent can become
  stale and is updated to point to the correct inode.  However, the
  associated CEPH_CAP_PIN reference was not being adjusted.  The
  CEPH_CAP_PIN is a reference on an inode that is tracked for
  accounting purposes.  Moving this pin is important to keep the
  accounting balanced. When the pin was not moved from the old parent
  to the new one, it created two problems: The reference on the old,
  stale parent was never released, causing a reference leak.
  A reference for the new parent was never acquired, creating the risk
  of a reference underflow later in ceph_mdsc_release_request().  This
  patch corrects the logic by releasing the pin from the old parent and
  acquiring it for the new parent when r_parent is switched.  This
  ensures reference accounting stays balanced. ]

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alex Markuze &lt;amarkuze@redhat.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-stable-2025-07-30-15-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-07-31T21:57:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-31T21:57:54+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "As usual, many cleanups. The below blurbiage describes 42 patchsets.
  21 of those are partially or fully cleanup work. "cleans up",
  "cleanup", "maintainability", "rationalizes", etc.

  I never knew the MM code was so dirty.

  "mm: ksm: prevent KSM from breaking merging of new VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     addresses an issue with KSM's PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE mode: newly
     mapped VMAs were not eligible for merging with existing adjacent
     VMAs.

  "mm/damon: introduce DAMON_STAT for simple and practical access monitoring" (SeongJae Park)
     adds a new kernel module which simplifies the setup and usage of
     DAMON in production environments.

  "stop passing a writeback_control to swap/shmem writeout" (Christoph Hellwig)
     is a cleanup to the writeback code which removes a couple of
     pointers from struct writeback_control.

  "drivers/base/node.c: optimization and cleanups" (Donet Tom)
     contains largely uncorrelated cleanups to the NUMA node setup and
     management code.

  "mm: userfaultfd: assorted fixes and cleanups" (Tal Zussman)
     does some maintenance work on the userfaultfd code.

  "Readahead tweaks for larger folios" (Ryan Roberts)
     implements some tuneups for pagecache readahead when it is reading
     into order&gt;0 folios.

  "selftests/mm: Tweaks to the cow test" (Mark Brown)
     provides some cleanups and consistency improvements to the
     selftests code.

  "Optimize mremap() for large folios" (Dev Jain)
     does that. A 37% reduction in execution time was measured in a
     memset+mremap+munmap microbenchmark.

  "Remove zero_user()" (Matthew Wilcox)
     expunges zero_user() in favor of the more modern memzero_page().

  "mm/huge_memory: vmf_insert_folio_*() and vmf_insert_pfn_pud() fixes" (David Hildenbrand)
     addresses some warts which David noticed in the huge page code.
     These were not known to be causing any issues at this time.

  "mm/damon: use alloc_migrate_target() for DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD" (SeongJae Park)
     provides some cleanup and consolidation work in DAMON.

  "use vm_flags_t consistently" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     uses vm_flags_t in places where we were inappropriately using other
     types.

  "mm/memfd: Reserve hugetlb folios before allocation" (Vivek Kasireddy)
     increases the reliability of large page allocation in the memfd
     code.

  "mm: Remove pXX_devmap page table bit and pfn_t type" (Alistair Popple)
     removes several now-unneeded PFN_* flags.

  "mm/damon: decouple sysfs from core" (SeongJae Park)
     implememnts some cleanup and maintainability work in the DAMON
     sysfs layer.

  "madvise cleanup" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     does quite a lot of cleanup/maintenance work in the madvise() code.

  "madvise anon_name cleanups" (Vlastimil Babka)
     provides additional cleanups on top or Lorenzo's effort.

  "Implement numa node notifier" (Oscar Salvador)
     creates a standalone notifier for NUMA node memory state changes.
     Previously these were lumped under the more general memory
     on/offline notifier.

  "Make MIGRATE_ISOLATE a standalone bit" (Zi Yan)
     cleans up the pageblock isolation code and fixes a potential issue
     which doesn't seem to cause any problems in practice.

  "selftests/damon: add python and drgn based DAMON sysfs functionality tests" (SeongJae Park)
     adds additional drgn- and python-based DAMON selftests which are
     more comprehensive than the existing selftest suite.

  "Misc rework on hugetlb faulting path" (Oscar Salvador)
     fixes a rather obscure deadlock in the hugetlb fault code and
     follows that fix with a series of cleanups.

  "cma: factor out allocation logic from __cma_declare_contiguous_nid" (Mike Rapoport)
     rationalizes and cleans up the highmem-specific code in the CMA
     allocator.

  "mm/migration: rework movable_ops page migration (part 1)" (David Hildenbrand)
     provides cleanups and future-preparedness to the migration code.

  "mm/damon: add trace events for auto-tuned monitoring intervals and DAMOS quota" (SeongJae Park)
     adds some tracepoints to some DAMON auto-tuning code.

  "mm/damon: fix misc bugs in DAMON modules" (SeongJae Park)
     does that.

  "mm/damon: misc cleanups" (SeongJae Park)
     also does what it claims.

  "mm: folio_pte_batch() improvements" (David Hildenbrand)
     cleans up the large folio PTE batching code.

  "mm/damon/vaddr: Allow interleaving in migrate_{hot,cold} actions" (SeongJae Park)
     facilitates dynamic alteration of DAMON's inter-node allocation
     policy.

  "Remove unmap_and_put_page()" (Vishal Moola)
     provides a couple of page-&gt;folio conversions.

  "mm: per-node proactive reclaim" (Davidlohr Bueso)
     implements a per-node control of proactive reclaim - beyond the
     current memcg-based implementation.

  "mm/damon: remove damon_callback" (SeongJae Park)
     replaces the damon_callback interface with a more general and
     powerful damon_call()+damos_walk() interface.

  "mm/mremap: permit mremap() move of multiple VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     implements a number of mremap cleanups (of course) in preparation
     for adding new mremap() functionality: newly permit the remapping
     of multiple VMAs when the user is specifying MREMAP_FIXED. It still
     excludes some specialized situations where this cannot be performed
     reliably.

  "drop hugetlb_free_pgd_range()" (Anthony Yznaga)
     switches some sparc hugetlb code over to the generic version and
     removes the thus-unneeded hugetlb_free_pgd_range().

  "mm/damon/sysfs: support periodic and automated stats update" (SeongJae Park)
     augments the present userspace-requested update of DAMON sysfs
     monitoring files. Automatic update is now provided, along with a
     tunable to control the update interval.

  "Some randome fixes and cleanups to swapfile" (Kemeng Shi)
     does what is claims.

  "mm: introduce snapshot_page" (Luiz Capitulino and David Hildenbrand)
     provides (and uses) a means by which debug-style functions can grab
     a copy of a pageframe and inspect it locklessly without tripping
     over the races inherent in operating on the live pageframe
     directly.

  "use per-vma locks for /proc/pid/maps reads" (Suren Baghdasaryan)
     addresses the large contention issues which can be triggered by
     reads from that procfs file. Latencies are reduced by more than
     half in some situations. The series also introduces several new
     selftests for the /proc/pid/maps interface.

  "__folio_split() clean up" (Zi Yan)
     cleans up __folio_split()!

  "Optimize mprotect() for large folios" (Dev Jain)
     provides some quite large (&gt;3x) speedups to mprotect() when dealing
     with large folios.

  "selftests/mm: reuse FORCE_READ to replace "asm volatile("" : "+r" (XXX));" and some cleanup" (wang lian)
     does some cleanup work in the selftests code.

  "tools/testing: expand mremap testing" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     extends the mremap() selftest in several ways, including adding
     more checking of Lorenzo's recently added "permit mremap() move of
     multiple VMAs" feature.

  "selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test all parameters" (SeongJae Park)
     extends the DAMON sysfs interface selftest so that it tests all
     possible user-requested parameters. Rather than the present minimal
     subset"

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-07-30-15-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (370 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add missing headers to mempory policy &amp; migration section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing file to cgroup section
  MAINTAINERS: add MM MISC section, add missing files to MISC and CORE
  MAINTAINERS: add missing zsmalloc file
  MAINTAINERS: add missing files to page alloc section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing shrinker files
  MAINTAINERS: move memremap.[ch] to hotplug section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing mm_slot.h file THP section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing interval_tree.c to memory mapping section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing percpu-internal.h file to per-cpu section
  mm/page_alloc: remove trace_mm_alloc_contig_migrate_range_info()
  selftests/damon: introduce _common.sh to host shared function
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test runtime reduction of DAMON parameters
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test non-default parameters runtime commit
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMON context commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize monitoring attributes commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS schemes commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS filters commitment
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS scheme commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS destinations commitment
  ...
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "As usual, many cleanups. The below blurbiage describes 42 patchsets.
  21 of those are partially or fully cleanup work. "cleans up",
  "cleanup", "maintainability", "rationalizes", etc.

  I never knew the MM code was so dirty.

  "mm: ksm: prevent KSM from breaking merging of new VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     addresses an issue with KSM's PR_SET_MEMORY_MERGE mode: newly
     mapped VMAs were not eligible for merging with existing adjacent
     VMAs.

  "mm/damon: introduce DAMON_STAT for simple and practical access monitoring" (SeongJae Park)
     adds a new kernel module which simplifies the setup and usage of
     DAMON in production environments.

  "stop passing a writeback_control to swap/shmem writeout" (Christoph Hellwig)
     is a cleanup to the writeback code which removes a couple of
     pointers from struct writeback_control.

  "drivers/base/node.c: optimization and cleanups" (Donet Tom)
     contains largely uncorrelated cleanups to the NUMA node setup and
     management code.

  "mm: userfaultfd: assorted fixes and cleanups" (Tal Zussman)
     does some maintenance work on the userfaultfd code.

  "Readahead tweaks for larger folios" (Ryan Roberts)
     implements some tuneups for pagecache readahead when it is reading
     into order&gt;0 folios.

  "selftests/mm: Tweaks to the cow test" (Mark Brown)
     provides some cleanups and consistency improvements to the
     selftests code.

  "Optimize mremap() for large folios" (Dev Jain)
     does that. A 37% reduction in execution time was measured in a
     memset+mremap+munmap microbenchmark.

  "Remove zero_user()" (Matthew Wilcox)
     expunges zero_user() in favor of the more modern memzero_page().

  "mm/huge_memory: vmf_insert_folio_*() and vmf_insert_pfn_pud() fixes" (David Hildenbrand)
     addresses some warts which David noticed in the huge page code.
     These were not known to be causing any issues at this time.

  "mm/damon: use alloc_migrate_target() for DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD" (SeongJae Park)
     provides some cleanup and consolidation work in DAMON.

  "use vm_flags_t consistently" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     uses vm_flags_t in places where we were inappropriately using other
     types.

  "mm/memfd: Reserve hugetlb folios before allocation" (Vivek Kasireddy)
     increases the reliability of large page allocation in the memfd
     code.

  "mm: Remove pXX_devmap page table bit and pfn_t type" (Alistair Popple)
     removes several now-unneeded PFN_* flags.

  "mm/damon: decouple sysfs from core" (SeongJae Park)
     implememnts some cleanup and maintainability work in the DAMON
     sysfs layer.

  "madvise cleanup" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     does quite a lot of cleanup/maintenance work in the madvise() code.

  "madvise anon_name cleanups" (Vlastimil Babka)
     provides additional cleanups on top or Lorenzo's effort.

  "Implement numa node notifier" (Oscar Salvador)
     creates a standalone notifier for NUMA node memory state changes.
     Previously these were lumped under the more general memory
     on/offline notifier.

  "Make MIGRATE_ISOLATE a standalone bit" (Zi Yan)
     cleans up the pageblock isolation code and fixes a potential issue
     which doesn't seem to cause any problems in practice.

  "selftests/damon: add python and drgn based DAMON sysfs functionality tests" (SeongJae Park)
     adds additional drgn- and python-based DAMON selftests which are
     more comprehensive than the existing selftest suite.

  "Misc rework on hugetlb faulting path" (Oscar Salvador)
     fixes a rather obscure deadlock in the hugetlb fault code and
     follows that fix with a series of cleanups.

  "cma: factor out allocation logic from __cma_declare_contiguous_nid" (Mike Rapoport)
     rationalizes and cleans up the highmem-specific code in the CMA
     allocator.

  "mm/migration: rework movable_ops page migration (part 1)" (David Hildenbrand)
     provides cleanups and future-preparedness to the migration code.

  "mm/damon: add trace events for auto-tuned monitoring intervals and DAMOS quota" (SeongJae Park)
     adds some tracepoints to some DAMON auto-tuning code.

  "mm/damon: fix misc bugs in DAMON modules" (SeongJae Park)
     does that.

  "mm/damon: misc cleanups" (SeongJae Park)
     also does what it claims.

  "mm: folio_pte_batch() improvements" (David Hildenbrand)
     cleans up the large folio PTE batching code.

  "mm/damon/vaddr: Allow interleaving in migrate_{hot,cold} actions" (SeongJae Park)
     facilitates dynamic alteration of DAMON's inter-node allocation
     policy.

  "Remove unmap_and_put_page()" (Vishal Moola)
     provides a couple of page-&gt;folio conversions.

  "mm: per-node proactive reclaim" (Davidlohr Bueso)
     implements a per-node control of proactive reclaim - beyond the
     current memcg-based implementation.

  "mm/damon: remove damon_callback" (SeongJae Park)
     replaces the damon_callback interface with a more general and
     powerful damon_call()+damos_walk() interface.

  "mm/mremap: permit mremap() move of multiple VMAs" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     implements a number of mremap cleanups (of course) in preparation
     for adding new mremap() functionality: newly permit the remapping
     of multiple VMAs when the user is specifying MREMAP_FIXED. It still
     excludes some specialized situations where this cannot be performed
     reliably.

  "drop hugetlb_free_pgd_range()" (Anthony Yznaga)
     switches some sparc hugetlb code over to the generic version and
     removes the thus-unneeded hugetlb_free_pgd_range().

  "mm/damon/sysfs: support periodic and automated stats update" (SeongJae Park)
     augments the present userspace-requested update of DAMON sysfs
     monitoring files. Automatic update is now provided, along with a
     tunable to control the update interval.

  "Some randome fixes and cleanups to swapfile" (Kemeng Shi)
     does what is claims.

  "mm: introduce snapshot_page" (Luiz Capitulino and David Hildenbrand)
     provides (and uses) a means by which debug-style functions can grab
     a copy of a pageframe and inspect it locklessly without tripping
     over the races inherent in operating on the live pageframe
     directly.

  "use per-vma locks for /proc/pid/maps reads" (Suren Baghdasaryan)
     addresses the large contention issues which can be triggered by
     reads from that procfs file. Latencies are reduced by more than
     half in some situations. The series also introduces several new
     selftests for the /proc/pid/maps interface.

  "__folio_split() clean up" (Zi Yan)
     cleans up __folio_split()!

  "Optimize mprotect() for large folios" (Dev Jain)
     provides some quite large (&gt;3x) speedups to mprotect() when dealing
     with large folios.

  "selftests/mm: reuse FORCE_READ to replace "asm volatile("" : "+r" (XXX));" and some cleanup" (wang lian)
     does some cleanup work in the selftests code.

  "tools/testing: expand mremap testing" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
     extends the mremap() selftest in several ways, including adding
     more checking of Lorenzo's recently added "permit mremap() move of
     multiple VMAs" feature.

  "selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test all parameters" (SeongJae Park)
     extends the DAMON sysfs interface selftest so that it tests all
     possible user-requested parameters. Rather than the present minimal
     subset"

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-07-30-15-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (370 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add missing headers to mempory policy &amp; migration section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing file to cgroup section
  MAINTAINERS: add MM MISC section, add missing files to MISC and CORE
  MAINTAINERS: add missing zsmalloc file
  MAINTAINERS: add missing files to page alloc section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing shrinker files
  MAINTAINERS: move memremap.[ch] to hotplug section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing mm_slot.h file THP section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing interval_tree.c to memory mapping section
  MAINTAINERS: add missing percpu-internal.h file to per-cpu section
  mm/page_alloc: remove trace_mm_alloc_contig_migrate_range_info()
  selftests/damon: introduce _common.sh to host shared function
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test runtime reduction of DAMON parameters
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test non-default parameters runtime commit
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMON context commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize monitoring attributes commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS schemes commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS filters commitment
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: generalize DAMOS scheme commit assertion
  selftests/damon/sysfs.py: test DAMOS destinations commitment
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'fscrypt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/linux</title>
<updated>2025-07-29T01:07:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-29T01:07:38+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=283564a43383d6f26a55546fe9ae345b5fa95e66'/>
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Pull fscrypt updates from Eric Biggers:
 "Simplify how fscrypt uses the crypto API, resulting in some
  significant performance improvements:

   - Drop the incomplete and problematic support for asynchronous
     algorithms. These drivers are bug-prone, and it turns out they are
     actually much slower than the CPU-based code as well.

   - Allocate crypto requests on the stack instead of the heap. This
     improves encryption and decryption performance, especially for
     filenames. This also eliminates a point of failure during I/O"

* tag 'fscrypt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/linux:
  ceph: Remove gfp_t argument from ceph_fscrypt_encrypt_*()
  fscrypt: Remove gfp_t argument from fscrypt_encrypt_block_inplace()
  fscrypt: Remove gfp_t argument from fscrypt_crypt_data_unit()
  fscrypt: Switch to sync_skcipher and on-stack requests
  fscrypt: Drop FORBID_WEAK_KEYS flag for AES-ECB
  fscrypt: Don't use asynchronous CryptoAPI algorithms
  fscrypt: Don't use problematic non-inline crypto engines
  fscrypt: Drop obsolete recommendation to enable optimized SHA-512
  fscrypt: Explicitly include &lt;linux/export.h&gt;
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<pre>
Pull fscrypt updates from Eric Biggers:
 "Simplify how fscrypt uses the crypto API, resulting in some
  significant performance improvements:

   - Drop the incomplete and problematic support for asynchronous
     algorithms. These drivers are bug-prone, and it turns out they are
     actually much slower than the CPU-based code as well.

   - Allocate crypto requests on the stack instead of the heap. This
     improves encryption and decryption performance, especially for
     filenames. This also eliminates a point of failure during I/O"

* tag 'fscrypt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/linux:
  ceph: Remove gfp_t argument from ceph_fscrypt_encrypt_*()
  fscrypt: Remove gfp_t argument from fscrypt_encrypt_block_inplace()
  fscrypt: Remove gfp_t argument from fscrypt_crypt_data_unit()
  fscrypt: Switch to sync_skcipher and on-stack requests
  fscrypt: Drop FORBID_WEAK_KEYS flag for AES-ECB
  fscrypt: Don't use asynchronous CryptoAPI algorithms
  fscrypt: Don't use problematic non-inline crypto engines
  fscrypt: Drop obsolete recommendation to enable optimized SHA-512
  fscrypt: Explicitly include &lt;linux/export.h&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.mmap_prepare' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-07-28T20:43:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-28T20:43:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=7031769e102b768b3fa0c4c726faf532cb31e973'/>
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Pull mmap_prepare updates from Christian Brauner:
 "Last cycle we introduce f_op-&gt;mmap_prepare() in c84bf6dd2b83 ("mm:
  introduce new .mmap_prepare() file callback").

  This is preferred to the existing f_op-&gt;mmap() hook as it does require
  a VMA to be established yet, thus allowing the mmap logic to invoke
  this hook far, far earlier, prior to inserting a VMA into the virtual
  address space, or performing any other heavy handed operations.

  This allows for much simpler unwinding on error, and for there to be a
  single attempt at merging a VMA rather than having to possibly
  reattempt a merge based on potentially altered VMA state.

  Far more importantly, it prevents inappropriate manipulation of
  incompletely initialised VMA state, which is something that has been
  the cause of bugs and complexity in the past.

  The intent is to gradually deprecate f_op-&gt;mmap, and in that vein this
  series coverts the majority of file systems to using f_op-&gt;mmap_prepare.

  Prerequisite steps are taken - firstly ensuring all checks for mmap
  capabilities use the file_has_valid_mmap_hooks() helper rather than
  directly checking for f_op-&gt;mmap (which is now not a valid check) and
  secondly updating daxdev_mapping_supported() to not require a VMA
  parameter to allow ext4 and xfs to be converted.

  Commit bb666b7c2707 ("mm: add mmap_prepare() compatibility layer for
  nested file systems") handles the nasty edge-case of nested file
  systems like overlayfs, which introduces a compatibility shim to allow
  f_op-&gt;mmap_prepare() to be invoked from an f_op-&gt;mmap() callback.

  This allows for nested filesystems to continue to function correctly
  with all file systems regardless of which callback is used. Once we
  finally convert all file systems, this shim can be removed.

  As a result, ecryptfs, fuse, and overlayfs remain unaltered so they
  can nest all other file systems.

  We additionally do not update resctl - as this requires an update to
  remap_pfn_range() (or an alternative to it) which we defer to a later
  series, equally we do not update cramfs which needs a mixed mapping
  insertion with the same issue, nor do we update procfs, hugetlbfs,
  syfs or kernfs all of which require VMAs for internal state and hooks.
  We shall return to all of these later"

* tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.mmap_prepare' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  doc: update porting, vfs documentation to describe mmap_prepare()
  fs: replace mmap hook with .mmap_prepare for simple mappings
  fs: convert most other generic_file_*mmap() users to .mmap_prepare()
  fs: convert simple use of generic_file_*_mmap() to .mmap_prepare()
  mm/filemap: introduce generic_file_*_mmap_prepare() helpers
  fs/xfs: transition from deprecated .mmap hook to .mmap_prepare
  fs/ext4: transition from deprecated .mmap hook to .mmap_prepare
  fs/dax: make it possible to check dev dax support without a VMA
  fs: consistently use can_mmap_file() helper
  mm/nommu: use file_has_valid_mmap_hooks() helper
  mm: rename call_mmap/mmap_prepare to vfs_mmap/mmap_prepare
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Pull mmap_prepare updates from Christian Brauner:
 "Last cycle we introduce f_op-&gt;mmap_prepare() in c84bf6dd2b83 ("mm:
  introduce new .mmap_prepare() file callback").

  This is preferred to the existing f_op-&gt;mmap() hook as it does require
  a VMA to be established yet, thus allowing the mmap logic to invoke
  this hook far, far earlier, prior to inserting a VMA into the virtual
  address space, or performing any other heavy handed operations.

  This allows for much simpler unwinding on error, and for there to be a
  single attempt at merging a VMA rather than having to possibly
  reattempt a merge based on potentially altered VMA state.

  Far more importantly, it prevents inappropriate manipulation of
  incompletely initialised VMA state, which is something that has been
  the cause of bugs and complexity in the past.

  The intent is to gradually deprecate f_op-&gt;mmap, and in that vein this
  series coverts the majority of file systems to using f_op-&gt;mmap_prepare.

  Prerequisite steps are taken - firstly ensuring all checks for mmap
  capabilities use the file_has_valid_mmap_hooks() helper rather than
  directly checking for f_op-&gt;mmap (which is now not a valid check) and
  secondly updating daxdev_mapping_supported() to not require a VMA
  parameter to allow ext4 and xfs to be converted.

  Commit bb666b7c2707 ("mm: add mmap_prepare() compatibility layer for
  nested file systems") handles the nasty edge-case of nested file
  systems like overlayfs, which introduces a compatibility shim to allow
  f_op-&gt;mmap_prepare() to be invoked from an f_op-&gt;mmap() callback.

  This allows for nested filesystems to continue to function correctly
  with all file systems regardless of which callback is used. Once we
  finally convert all file systems, this shim can be removed.

  As a result, ecryptfs, fuse, and overlayfs remain unaltered so they
  can nest all other file systems.

  We additionally do not update resctl - as this requires an update to
  remap_pfn_range() (or an alternative to it) which we defer to a later
  series, equally we do not update cramfs which needs a mixed mapping
  insertion with the same issue, nor do we update procfs, hugetlbfs,
  syfs or kernfs all of which require VMAs for internal state and hooks.
  We shall return to all of these later"

* tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.mmap_prepare' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  doc: update porting, vfs documentation to describe mmap_prepare()
  fs: replace mmap hook with .mmap_prepare for simple mappings
  fs: convert most other generic_file_*mmap() users to .mmap_prepare()
  fs: convert simple use of generic_file_*_mmap() to .mmap_prepare()
  mm/filemap: introduce generic_file_*_mmap_prepare() helpers
  fs/xfs: transition from deprecated .mmap hook to .mmap_prepare
  fs/ext4: transition from deprecated .mmap hook to .mmap_prepare
  fs/dax: make it possible to check dev dax support without a VMA
  fs: consistently use can_mmap_file() helper
  mm/nommu: use file_has_valid_mmap_hooks() helper
  mm: rename call_mmap/mmap_prepare to vfs_mmap/mmap_prepare
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-07-28T18:22:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-28T18:22:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=7879d7aff0ffd969fcb1a59e3f87ebb353e47b7f'/>
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Pull misc VFS updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the usual selections of misc updates for this cycle.

  Features:

   - Add ext4 IOCB_DONTCACHE support

     This refactors the address_space_operations write_begin() and
     write_end() callbacks to take const struct kiocb * as their first
     argument, allowing IOCB flags such as IOCB_DONTCACHE to propagate
     to the filesystem's buffered I/O path.

     Ext4 is updated to implement handling of the IOCB_DONTCACHE flag
     and advertises support via the FOP_DONTCACHE file operation flag.

     Additionally, the i915 driver's shmem write paths are updated to
     bypass the legacy write_begin/write_end interface in favor of
     directly calling write_iter() with a constructed synchronous kiocb.
     Another i915 change replaces a manual write loop with
     kernel_write() during GEM shmem object creation.

  Cleanups:

   - don't duplicate vfs_open() in kernel_file_open()

   - proc_fd_getattr(): don't bother with S_ISDIR() check

   - fs/ecryptfs: replace snprintf with sysfs_emit in show function

   - vfs: Remove unnecessary list_for_each_entry_safe() from
     evict_inodes()

   - filelock: add new locks_wake_up_waiter() helper

   - fs: Remove three arguments from block_write_end()

   - VFS: change old_dir and new_dir in struct renamedata to dentrys

   - netfs: Remove unused declaration netfs_queue_write_request()

  Fixes:

   - eventpoll: Fix semi-unbounded recursion

   - eventpoll: fix sphinx documentation build warning

   - fs/read_write: Fix spelling typo

   - fs: annotate data race between poll_schedule_timeout() and
     pollwake()

   - fs/pipe: set FMODE_NOWAIT in create_pipe_files()

   - docs/vfs: update references to i_mutex to i_rwsem

   - fs/buffer: remove comment about hard sectorsize

   - fs/buffer: remove the min and max limit checks in __getblk_slow()

   - fs/libfs: don't assume blocksize &lt;= PAGE_SIZE in
     generic_check_addressable

   - fs_context: fix parameter name in infofc() macro

   - fs: Prevent file descriptor table allocations exceeding INT_MAX"

* tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (24 commits)
  netfs: Remove unused declaration netfs_queue_write_request()
  eventpoll: fix sphinx documentation build warning
  ext4: support uncached buffered I/O
  mm/pagemap: add write_begin_get_folio() helper function
  fs: change write_begin/write_end interface to take struct kiocb *
  drm/i915: Refactor shmem_pwrite() to use kiocb and write_iter
  drm/i915: Use kernel_write() in shmem object create
  eventpoll: Fix semi-unbounded recursion
  vfs: Remove unnecessary list_for_each_entry_safe() from evict_inodes()
  fs/libfs: don't assume blocksize &lt;= PAGE_SIZE in generic_check_addressable
  fs/buffer: remove the min and max limit checks in __getblk_slow()
  fs: Prevent file descriptor table allocations exceeding INT_MAX
  fs: Remove three arguments from block_write_end()
  fs/ecryptfs: replace snprintf with sysfs_emit in show function
  fs: annotate suspected data race between poll_schedule_timeout() and pollwake()
  docs/vfs: update references to i_mutex to i_rwsem
  fs/buffer: remove comment about hard sectorsize
  fs_context: fix parameter name in infofc() macro
  VFS: change old_dir and new_dir in struct renamedata to dentrys
  proc_fd_getattr(): don't bother with S_ISDIR() check
  ...
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<pre>
Pull misc VFS updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the usual selections of misc updates for this cycle.

  Features:

   - Add ext4 IOCB_DONTCACHE support

     This refactors the address_space_operations write_begin() and
     write_end() callbacks to take const struct kiocb * as their first
     argument, allowing IOCB flags such as IOCB_DONTCACHE to propagate
     to the filesystem's buffered I/O path.

     Ext4 is updated to implement handling of the IOCB_DONTCACHE flag
     and advertises support via the FOP_DONTCACHE file operation flag.

     Additionally, the i915 driver's shmem write paths are updated to
     bypass the legacy write_begin/write_end interface in favor of
     directly calling write_iter() with a constructed synchronous kiocb.
     Another i915 change replaces a manual write loop with
     kernel_write() during GEM shmem object creation.

  Cleanups:

   - don't duplicate vfs_open() in kernel_file_open()

   - proc_fd_getattr(): don't bother with S_ISDIR() check

   - fs/ecryptfs: replace snprintf with sysfs_emit in show function

   - vfs: Remove unnecessary list_for_each_entry_safe() from
     evict_inodes()

   - filelock: add new locks_wake_up_waiter() helper

   - fs: Remove three arguments from block_write_end()

   - VFS: change old_dir and new_dir in struct renamedata to dentrys

   - netfs: Remove unused declaration netfs_queue_write_request()

  Fixes:

   - eventpoll: Fix semi-unbounded recursion

   - eventpoll: fix sphinx documentation build warning

   - fs/read_write: Fix spelling typo

   - fs: annotate data race between poll_schedule_timeout() and
     pollwake()

   - fs/pipe: set FMODE_NOWAIT in create_pipe_files()

   - docs/vfs: update references to i_mutex to i_rwsem

   - fs/buffer: remove comment about hard sectorsize

   - fs/buffer: remove the min and max limit checks in __getblk_slow()

   - fs/libfs: don't assume blocksize &lt;= PAGE_SIZE in
     generic_check_addressable

   - fs_context: fix parameter name in infofc() macro

   - fs: Prevent file descriptor table allocations exceeding INT_MAX"

* tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (24 commits)
  netfs: Remove unused declaration netfs_queue_write_request()
  eventpoll: fix sphinx documentation build warning
  ext4: support uncached buffered I/O
  mm/pagemap: add write_begin_get_folio() helper function
  fs: change write_begin/write_end interface to take struct kiocb *
  drm/i915: Refactor shmem_pwrite() to use kiocb and write_iter
  drm/i915: Use kernel_write() in shmem object create
  eventpoll: Fix semi-unbounded recursion
  vfs: Remove unnecessary list_for_each_entry_safe() from evict_inodes()
  fs/libfs: don't assume blocksize &lt;= PAGE_SIZE in generic_check_addressable
  fs/buffer: remove the min and max limit checks in __getblk_slow()
  fs: Prevent file descriptor table allocations exceeding INT_MAX
  fs: Remove three arguments from block_write_end()
  fs/ecryptfs: replace snprintf with sysfs_emit in show function
  fs: annotate suspected data race between poll_schedule_timeout() and pollwake()
  docs/vfs: update references to i_mutex to i_rwsem
  fs/buffer: remove comment about hard sectorsize
  fs_context: fix parameter name in infofc() macro
  VFS: change old_dir and new_dir in struct renamedata to dentrys
  proc_fd_getattr(): don't bother with S_ISDIR() check
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'pull-ceph-d_name-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-07-28T17:35:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-28T17:35:13+00:00</published>
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Pull ceph dentry-&gt;d_name fixes from Al Viro:
 "Stuff that had fallen through the cracks back in February; ceph folks
  tested that pile and said they prefer to have it go through my tree..."

* tag 'pull-ceph-d_name-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  ceph: fix a race with rename() in ceph_mdsc_build_path()
  prep for ceph_encode_encrypted_fname() fixes
  [ceph] parse_longname(): strrchr() expects NUL-terminated string
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Pull ceph dentry-&gt;d_name fixes from Al Viro:
 "Stuff that had fallen through the cracks back in February; ceph folks
  tested that pile and said they prefer to have it go through my tree..."

* tag 'pull-ceph-d_name-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  ceph: fix a race with rename() in ceph_mdsc_build_path()
  prep for ceph_encode_encrypted_fname() fixes
  [ceph] parse_longname(): strrchr() expects NUL-terminated string
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<entry>
<title>fs: change write_begin/write_end interface to take struct kiocb *</title>
<updated>2025-07-16T12:48:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Taotao Chen</name>
<email>chentaotao@didiglobal.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-16T09:36:06+00:00</published>
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Change the address_space_operations callbacks write_begin() and
write_end() to take struct kiocb * as the first argument instead of
struct file *.

Update all affected function prototypes, implementations, call sites,
and related documentation across VFS, filesystems, and block layer.

Part of a series refactoring address_space_operations write_begin and
write_end callbacks to use struct kiocb for passing write context and
flags.

Signed-off-by: Taotao Chen &lt;chentaotao@didiglobal.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250716093559.217344-4-chentaotao@didiglobal.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Change the address_space_operations callbacks write_begin() and
write_end() to take struct kiocb * as the first argument instead of
struct file *.

Update all affected function prototypes, implementations, call sites,
and related documentation across VFS, filesystems, and block layer.

Part of a series refactoring address_space_operations write_begin and
write_end callbacks to use struct kiocb for passing write context and
flags.

Signed-off-by: Taotao Chen &lt;chentaotao@didiglobal.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250716093559.217344-4-chentaotao@didiglobal.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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