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<title>ext4: fix off-by-one on max nr_pages in ext4_find_unwritten_pgoff()</title>
<updated>2018-05-23T01:36:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eryu Guan</name>
<email>eguan@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2017-05-24T22:02:20+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 624327f8794704c5066b11a52f9da6a09dce7f9a ]

ext4_find_unwritten_pgoff() is used to search for offset of hole or
data in page range [index, end] (both inclusive), and the max number
of pages to search should be at least one, if end == index.
Otherwise the only page is missed and no hole or data is found,
which is not correct.

When block size is smaller than page size, this can be demonstrated
by preallocating a file with size smaller than page size and writing
data to the last block. E.g. run this xfs_io command on a 1k block
size ext4 on x86_64 host.

  # xfs_io -fc "falloc 0 3k" -c "pwrite 2k 1k" \
  	    -c "seek -d 0" /mnt/ext4/testfile
  wrote 1024/1024 bytes at offset 2048
  1 KiB, 1 ops; 0.0000 sec (42.459 MiB/sec and 43478.2609 ops/sec)
  Whence  Result
  DATA    EOF

Data at offset 2k was missed, and lseek(2) returned ENXIO.

This is unconvered by generic/285 subtest 07 and 08 on ppc64 host,
where pagesize is 64k. Because a recent change to generic/285
reduced the preallocated file size to smaller than 64k.

Signed-off-by: Eryu Guan &lt;eguan@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 624327f8794704c5066b11a52f9da6a09dce7f9a ]

ext4_find_unwritten_pgoff() is used to search for offset of hole or
data in page range [index, end] (both inclusive), and the max number
of pages to search should be at least one, if end == index.
Otherwise the only page is missed and no hole or data is found,
which is not correct.

When block size is smaller than page size, this can be demonstrated
by preallocating a file with size smaller than page size and writing
data to the last block. E.g. run this xfs_io command on a 1k block
size ext4 on x86_64 host.

  # xfs_io -fc "falloc 0 3k" -c "pwrite 2k 1k" \
  	    -c "seek -d 0" /mnt/ext4/testfile
  wrote 1024/1024 bytes at offset 2048
  1 KiB, 1 ops; 0.0000 sec (42.459 MiB/sec and 43478.2609 ops/sec)
  Whence  Result
  DATA    EOF

Data at offset 2k was missed, and lseek(2) returned ENXIO.

This is unconvered by generic/285 subtest 07 and 08 on ppc64 host,
where pagesize is 64k. Because a recent change to generic/285
reduced the preallocated file size to smaller than 64k.

Signed-off-by: Eryu Guan &lt;eguan@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: fix SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA for blocksize &lt; pagesize</title>
<updated>2017-09-10T20:36:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-05T21:43:24+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit fcf5ea10992fbac3c7473a1db33d56a139333cd1 ]

ext4_find_unwritten_pgoff() does not properly handle a situation when
starting index is in the middle of a page and blocksize &lt; pagesize. The
following command shows the bug on filesystem with 1k blocksize:

  xfs_io -f -c "falloc 0 4k" \
            -c "pwrite 1k 1k" \
            -c "pwrite 3k 1k" \
            -c "seek -a -r 0" foo

In this example, neither lseek(fd, 1024, SEEK_HOLE) nor lseek(fd, 2048,
SEEK_DATA) will return the correct result.

Fix the problem by neglecting buffers in a page before starting offset.

Reported-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.8+
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit fcf5ea10992fbac3c7473a1db33d56a139333cd1 ]

ext4_find_unwritten_pgoff() does not properly handle a situation when
starting index is in the middle of a page and blocksize &lt; pagesize. The
following command shows the bug on filesystem with 1k blocksize:

  xfs_io -f -c "falloc 0 4k" \
            -c "pwrite 1k 1k" \
            -c "pwrite 3k 1k" \
            -c "seek -a -r 0" foo

In this example, neither lseek(fd, 1024, SEEK_HOLE) nor lseek(fd, 2048,
SEEK_DATA) will return the correct result.

Fix the problem by neglecting buffers in a page before starting offset.

Reported-by: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.8+
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: fix SEEK_HOLE</title>
<updated>2017-06-26T02:02:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-22T02:33:23+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 7d95eddf313c88b24f99d4ca9c2411a4b82fef33 ]

Currently, SEEK_HOLE implementation in ext4 may both return that there's
a hole at some offset although that offset already has data and skip
some holes during a search for the next hole. The first problem is
demostrated by:

xfs_io -c "falloc 0 256k" -c "pwrite 0 56k" -c "seek -h 0" file
wrote 57344/57344 bytes at offset 0
56 KiB, 14 ops; 0.0000 sec (2.054 GiB/sec and 538461.5385 ops/sec)
Whence	Result
HOLE	0

Where we can see that SEEK_HOLE wrongly returned offset 0 as containing
a hole although we have written data there. The second problem can be
demonstrated by:

xfs_io -c "falloc 0 256k" -c "pwrite 0 56k" -c "pwrite 128k 8k"
       -c "seek -h 0" file

wrote 57344/57344 bytes at offset 0
56 KiB, 14 ops; 0.0000 sec (1.978 GiB/sec and 518518.5185 ops/sec)
wrote 8192/8192 bytes at offset 131072
8 KiB, 2 ops; 0.0000 sec (2 GiB/sec and 500000.0000 ops/sec)
Whence	Result
HOLE	139264

Where we can see that hole at offsets 56k..128k has been ignored by the
SEEK_HOLE call.

The underlying problem is in the ext4_find_unwritten_pgoff() which is
just buggy. In some cases it fails to update returned offset when it
finds a hole (when no pages are found or when the first found page has
higher index than expected), in some cases conditions for detecting hole
are just missing (we fail to detect a situation where indices of
returned pages are not contiguous).

Fix ext4_find_unwritten_pgoff() to properly detect non-contiguous page
indices and also handle all cases where we got less pages then expected
in one place and handle it properly there.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: c8c0df241cc2719b1262e627f999638411934f60
CC: Zheng Liu &lt;wenqing.lz@taobao.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 7d95eddf313c88b24f99d4ca9c2411a4b82fef33 ]

Currently, SEEK_HOLE implementation in ext4 may both return that there's
a hole at some offset although that offset already has data and skip
some holes during a search for the next hole. The first problem is
demostrated by:

xfs_io -c "falloc 0 256k" -c "pwrite 0 56k" -c "seek -h 0" file
wrote 57344/57344 bytes at offset 0
56 KiB, 14 ops; 0.0000 sec (2.054 GiB/sec and 538461.5385 ops/sec)
Whence	Result
HOLE	0

Where we can see that SEEK_HOLE wrongly returned offset 0 as containing
a hole although we have written data there. The second problem can be
demonstrated by:

xfs_io -c "falloc 0 256k" -c "pwrite 0 56k" -c "pwrite 128k 8k"
       -c "seek -h 0" file

wrote 57344/57344 bytes at offset 0
56 KiB, 14 ops; 0.0000 sec (1.978 GiB/sec and 518518.5185 ops/sec)
wrote 8192/8192 bytes at offset 131072
8 KiB, 2 ops; 0.0000 sec (2 GiB/sec and 500000.0000 ops/sec)
Whence	Result
HOLE	139264

Where we can see that hole at offsets 56k..128k has been ignored by the
SEEK_HOLE call.

The underlying problem is in the ext4_find_unwritten_pgoff() which is
just buggy. In some cases it fails to update returned offset when it
finds a hole (when no pages are found or when the first found page has
higher index than expected), in some cases conditions for detecting hole
are just missing (we fail to detect a situation where indices of
returned pages are not contiguous).

Fix ext4_find_unwritten_pgoff() to properly detect non-contiguous page
indices and also handle all cases where we got less pages then expected
in one place and handle it properly there.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: c8c0df241cc2719b1262e627f999638411934f60
CC: Zheng Liu &lt;wenqing.lz@taobao.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dax: don't abuse get_block mapping for endio callbacks</title>
<updated>2016-04-12T02:44:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Chinner</name>
<email>dchinner@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-03T23:18:18+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit e842f2903908934187af7232fb5b21da527d1757 ]

dax_fault() currently relies on the get_block callback to attach an
io completion callback to the mapping buffer head so that it can
run unwritten extent conversion after zeroing allocated blocks.

Instead of this hack, pass the conversion callback directly into
dax_fault() similar to the get_block callback. When the filesystem
allocates unwritten extents, it will set the buffer_unwritten()
flag, and hence the dax_fault code can call the completion function
in the contexts where it is necessary without overloading the
mapping buffer head.

Note: The changes to ext4 to use this interface are suspect at best.
In fact, the way ext4 did this end_io assignment in the first place
looks suspect because it only set a completion callback when there
wasn't already some other write() call taking place on the same
inode. The ext4 end_io code looks rather intricate and fragile with
all it's reference counting and passing to different contexts for
modification via inode private pointers that aren't protected by
locks...

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit e842f2903908934187af7232fb5b21da527d1757 ]

dax_fault() currently relies on the get_block callback to attach an
io completion callback to the mapping buffer head so that it can
run unwritten extent conversion after zeroing allocated blocks.

Instead of this hack, pass the conversion callback directly into
dax_fault() similar to the get_block callback. When the filesystem
allocates unwritten extents, it will set the buffer_unwritten()
flag, and hence the dax_fault code can call the completion function
in the contexts where it is necessary without overloading the
mapping buffer head.

Note: The changes to ext4 to use this interface are suspect at best.
In fact, the way ext4 did this end_io assignment in the first place
looks suspect because it only set a completion callback when there
wasn't already some other write() call taking place on the same
inode. The ext4 end_io code looks rather intricate and fragile with
all it's reference counting and passing to different contexts for
modification via inode private pointers that aren't protected by
locks...

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: fix races between page faults and hole punching</title>
<updated>2016-03-23T14:20:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-07T19:28:03+00:00</published>
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Currently, page faults and hole punching are completely unsynchronized.
This can result in page fault faulting in a page into a range that we
are punching after truncate_pagecache_range() has been called and thus
we can end up with a page mapped to disk blocks that will be shortly
freed. Filesystem corruption will shortly follow. Note that the same
race is avoided for truncate by checking page fault offset against
i_size but there isn't similar mechanism available for punching holes.

Fix the problem by creating new rw semaphore i_mmap_sem in inode and
grab it for writing over truncate, hole punching, and other functions
removing blocks from extent tree and for read over page faults. We
cannot easily use i_data_sem for this since that ranks below transaction
start and we need something ranking above it so that it can be held over
the whole truncate / hole punching operation. Also remove various
workarounds we had in the code to reduce race window when page fault
could have created pages with stale mapping information.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mingming Cao &lt;mingming.cao@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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Currently, page faults and hole punching are completely unsynchronized.
This can result in page fault faulting in a page into a range that we
are punching after truncate_pagecache_range() has been called and thus
we can end up with a page mapped to disk blocks that will be shortly
freed. Filesystem corruption will shortly follow. Note that the same
race is avoided for truncate by checking page fault offset against
i_size but there isn't similar mechanism available for punching holes.

Fix the problem by creating new rw semaphore i_mmap_sem in inode and
grab it for writing over truncate, hole punching, and other functions
removing blocks from extent tree and for read over page faults. We
cannot easily use i_data_sem for this since that ranks below transaction
start and we need something ranking above it so that it can be held over
the whole truncate / hole punching operation. Also remove various
workarounds we had in the code to reduce race window when page fault
could have created pages with stale mapping information.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mingming Cao &lt;mingming.cao@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4</title>
<updated>2015-04-19T21:26:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-19T21:26:31+00:00</published>
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Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "A few bug fixes and add support for file-system level encryption in
  ext4"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (31 commits)
  ext4 crypto: enable encryption feature flag
  ext4 crypto: add symlink encryption
  ext4 crypto: enable filename encryption
  ext4 crypto: filename encryption modifications
  ext4 crypto: partial update to namei.c for fname crypto
  ext4 crypto: insert encrypted filenames into a leaf directory block
  ext4 crypto: teach ext4_htree_store_dirent() to store decrypted filenames
  ext4 crypto: filename encryption facilities
  ext4 crypto: implement the ext4 decryption read path
  ext4 crypto: implement the ext4 encryption write path
  ext4 crypto: inherit encryption policies on inode and directory create
  ext4 crypto: enforce context consistency
  ext4 crypto: add encryption key management facilities
  ext4 crypto: add ext4 encryption facilities
  ext4 crypto: add encryption policy and password salt support
  ext4 crypto: add encryption xattr support
  ext4 crypto: export ext4_empty_dir()
  ext4 crypto: add ext4 encryption Kconfig
  ext4 crypto: reserve codepoints used by the ext4 encryption feature
  ext4 crypto: add ext4_mpage_readpages()
  ...
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Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "A few bug fixes and add support for file-system level encryption in
  ext4"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (31 commits)
  ext4 crypto: enable encryption feature flag
  ext4 crypto: add symlink encryption
  ext4 crypto: enable filename encryption
  ext4 crypto: filename encryption modifications
  ext4 crypto: partial update to namei.c for fname crypto
  ext4 crypto: insert encrypted filenames into a leaf directory block
  ext4 crypto: teach ext4_htree_store_dirent() to store decrypted filenames
  ext4 crypto: filename encryption facilities
  ext4 crypto: implement the ext4 decryption read path
  ext4 crypto: implement the ext4 encryption write path
  ext4 crypto: inherit encryption policies on inode and directory create
  ext4 crypto: enforce context consistency
  ext4 crypto: add encryption key management facilities
  ext4 crypto: add ext4 encryption facilities
  ext4 crypto: add encryption policy and password salt support
  ext4 crypto: add encryption xattr support
  ext4 crypto: export ext4_empty_dir()
  ext4 crypto: add ext4 encryption Kconfig
  ext4 crypto: reserve codepoints used by the ext4 encryption feature
  ext4 crypto: add ext4_mpage_readpages()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2015-04-17T03:27:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-17T03:27:56+00:00</published>
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Pull third hunk of vfs changes from Al Viro:
 "This contains the -&gt;direct_IO() changes from Omar + saner
  generic_write_checks() + dealing with fcntl()/{read,write}() races
  (mirroring O_APPEND/O_DIRECT into iocb-&gt;ki_flags and instead of
  repeatedly looking at -&gt;f_flags, which can be changed by fcntl(2),
  check -&gt;ki_flags - which cannot) + infrastructure bits for dhowells'
  d_inode annotations + Christophs switch of /dev/loop to
  vfs_iter_write()"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (30 commits)
  block: loop: switch to VFS ITER_BVEC
  configfs: Fix inconsistent use of file_inode() vs file-&gt;f_path.dentry-&gt;d_inode
  VFS: Make pathwalk use d_is_reg() rather than S_ISREG()
  VFS: Fix up debugfs to use d_is_dir() in place of S_ISDIR()
  VFS: Combine inode checks with d_is_negative() and d_is_positive() in pathwalk
  NFS: Don't use d_inode as a variable name
  VFS: Impose ordering on accesses of d_inode and d_flags
  VFS: Add owner-filesystem positive/negative dentry checks
  nfs: generic_write_checks() shouldn't be done on swapout...
  ocfs2: use __generic_file_write_iter()
  mirror O_APPEND and O_DIRECT into iocb-&gt;ki_flags
  switch generic_write_checks() to iocb and iter
  ocfs2: move generic_write_checks() before the alignment checks
  ocfs2_file_write_iter: stop messing with ppos
  udf_file_write_iter: reorder and simplify
  fuse: -&gt;direct_IO() doesn't need generic_write_checks()
  ext4_file_write_iter: move generic_write_checks() up
  xfs_file_aio_write_checks: switch to iocb/iov_iter
  generic_write_checks(): drop isblk argument
  blkdev_write_iter: expand generic_file_checks() call in there
  ...
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Pull third hunk of vfs changes from Al Viro:
 "This contains the -&gt;direct_IO() changes from Omar + saner
  generic_write_checks() + dealing with fcntl()/{read,write}() races
  (mirroring O_APPEND/O_DIRECT into iocb-&gt;ki_flags and instead of
  repeatedly looking at -&gt;f_flags, which can be changed by fcntl(2),
  check -&gt;ki_flags - which cannot) + infrastructure bits for dhowells'
  d_inode annotations + Christophs switch of /dev/loop to
  vfs_iter_write()"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (30 commits)
  block: loop: switch to VFS ITER_BVEC
  configfs: Fix inconsistent use of file_inode() vs file-&gt;f_path.dentry-&gt;d_inode
  VFS: Make pathwalk use d_is_reg() rather than S_ISREG()
  VFS: Fix up debugfs to use d_is_dir() in place of S_ISDIR()
  VFS: Combine inode checks with d_is_negative() and d_is_positive() in pathwalk
  NFS: Don't use d_inode as a variable name
  VFS: Impose ordering on accesses of d_inode and d_flags
  VFS: Add owner-filesystem positive/negative dentry checks
  nfs: generic_write_checks() shouldn't be done on swapout...
  ocfs2: use __generic_file_write_iter()
  mirror O_APPEND and O_DIRECT into iocb-&gt;ki_flags
  switch generic_write_checks() to iocb and iter
  ocfs2: move generic_write_checks() before the alignment checks
  ocfs2_file_write_iter: stop messing with ppos
  udf_file_write_iter: reorder and simplify
  fuse: -&gt;direct_IO() doesn't need generic_write_checks()
  ext4_file_write_iter: move generic_write_checks() up
  xfs_file_aio_write_checks: switch to iocb/iov_iter
  generic_write_checks(): drop isblk argument
  blkdev_write_iter: expand generic_file_checks() call in there
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2015-04-15T23:39:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-15T23:39:15+00:00</published>
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Merge second patchbomb from Andrew Morton:

 - the rest of MM

 - various misc bits

 - add ability to run /sbin/reboot at reboot time

 - printk/vsprintf changes

 - fiddle with seq_printf() return value

* akpm: (114 commits)
  parisc: remove use of seq_printf return value
  lru_cache: remove use of seq_printf return value
  tracing: remove use of seq_printf return value
  cgroup: remove use of seq_printf return value
  proc: remove use of seq_printf return value
  s390: remove use of seq_printf return value
  cris fasttimer: remove use of seq_printf return value
  cris: remove use of seq_printf return value
  openrisc: remove use of seq_printf return value
  ARM: plat-pxa: remove use of seq_printf return value
  nios2: cpuinfo: remove use of seq_printf return value
  microblaze: mb: remove use of seq_printf return value
  ipc: remove use of seq_printf return value
  rtc: remove use of seq_printf return value
  power: wakeup: remove use of seq_printf return value
  x86: mtrr: if: remove use of seq_printf return value
  linux/bitmap.h: improve BITMAP_{LAST,FIRST}_WORD_MASK
  MAINTAINERS: CREDITS: remove Stefano Brivio from B43
  .mailmap: add Ricardo Ribalda
  CREDITS: add Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
  ...
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Merge second patchbomb from Andrew Morton:

 - the rest of MM

 - various misc bits

 - add ability to run /sbin/reboot at reboot time

 - printk/vsprintf changes

 - fiddle with seq_printf() return value

* akpm: (114 commits)
  parisc: remove use of seq_printf return value
  lru_cache: remove use of seq_printf return value
  tracing: remove use of seq_printf return value
  cgroup: remove use of seq_printf return value
  proc: remove use of seq_printf return value
  s390: remove use of seq_printf return value
  cris fasttimer: remove use of seq_printf return value
  cris: remove use of seq_printf return value
  openrisc: remove use of seq_printf return value
  ARM: plat-pxa: remove use of seq_printf return value
  nios2: cpuinfo: remove use of seq_printf return value
  microblaze: mb: remove use of seq_printf return value
  ipc: remove use of seq_printf return value
  rtc: remove use of seq_printf return value
  power: wakeup: remove use of seq_printf return value
  x86: mtrr: if: remove use of seq_printf return value
  linux/bitmap.h: improve BITMAP_{LAST,FIRST}_WORD_MASK
  MAINTAINERS: CREDITS: remove Stefano Brivio from B43
  .mailmap: add Ricardo Ribalda
  CREDITS: add Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dax: unify ext2/4_{dax,}_file_operations</title>
<updated>2015-04-15T23:35:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Boaz Harrosh</name>
<email>boaz@plexistor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-15T23:15:17+00:00</published>
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The original dax patchset split the ext2/4_file_operations because of the
two NULL splice_read/splice_write in the dax case.

In the vfs if splice_read/splice_write are NULL we then call
default_splice_read/write.

What we do here is make generic_file_splice_read aware of IS_DAX() so the
original ext2/4_file_operations can be used as is.

For write it appears that iter_file_splice_write is just fine.  It uses
the regular f_op-&gt;write(file,..) or new_sync_write(file, ...).

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh &lt;boaz@plexistor.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The original dax patchset split the ext2/4_file_operations because of the
two NULL splice_read/splice_write in the dax case.

In the vfs if splice_read/splice_write are NULL we then call
default_splice_read/write.

What we do here is make generic_file_splice_read aware of IS_DAX() so the
original ext2/4_file_operations can be used as is.

For write it appears that iter_file_splice_write is just fine.  It uses
the regular f_op-&gt;write(file,..) or new_sync_write(file, ...).

Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh &lt;boaz@plexistor.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dax: use pfn_mkwrite to update c/mtime + freeze protection</title>
<updated>2015-04-15T23:35:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Boaz Harrosh</name>
<email>boaz@plexistor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-15T23:15:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=0e3b210ce1722168227cb3bc7746256d0c0afece'/>
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From: Yigal Korman &lt;yigal@plexistor.com&gt;

[v1]
Without this patch, c/mtime is not updated correctly when mmap'ed page is
first read from and then written to.

A new xfstest is submitted for testing this (generic/080)

[v2]
Jan Kara has pointed out that if we add the
sb_start/end_pagefault pair in the new pfn_mkwrite we
are then fixing another bug where: A user could start
writing to the page while filesystem is frozen.

Signed-off-by: Yigal Korman &lt;yigal@plexistor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh &lt;boaz@plexistor.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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From: Yigal Korman &lt;yigal@plexistor.com&gt;

[v1]
Without this patch, c/mtime is not updated correctly when mmap'ed page is
first read from and then written to.

A new xfstest is submitted for testing this (generic/080)

[v2]
Jan Kara has pointed out that if we add the
sb_start/end_pagefault pair in the new pfn_mkwrite we
are then fixing another bug where: A user could start
writing to the page while filesystem is frozen.

Signed-off-by: Yigal Korman &lt;yigal@plexistor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh &lt;boaz@plexistor.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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