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<title>Merge tag 'dax-misc-for-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2016-05-27T02:34:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-27T02:34:26+00:00</published>
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Pull misc DAX updates from Vishal Verma:
 "DAX error handling for 4.7

   - Until now, dax has been disabled if media errors were found on any
     device.  This enables the use of DAX in the presence of these
     errors by making all sector-aligned zeroing go through the driver.

   - The driver (already) has the ability to clear errors on writes that
     are sent through the block layer using 'DSMs' defined in ACPI 6.1.

  Other misc changes:

   - When mounting DAX filesystems, check to make sure the partition is
     page aligned.  This is a requirement for DAX, and previously, we
     allowed such unaligned mounts to succeed, but subsequent
     reads/writes would fail.

   - Misc/cleanup fixes from Jan that remove unused code from DAX
     related to zeroing, writeback, and some size checks"

* tag 'dax-misc-for-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
  dax: fix a comment in dax_zero_page_range and dax_truncate_page
  dax: for truncate/hole-punch, do zeroing through the driver if possible
  dax: export a low-level __dax_zero_page_range helper
  dax: use sb_issue_zerout instead of calling dax_clear_sectors
  dax: enable dax in the presence of known media errors (badblocks)
  dax: fallback from pmd to pte on error
  block: Update blkdev_dax_capable() for consistency
  xfs: Add alignment check for DAX mount
  ext2: Add alignment check for DAX mount
  ext4: Add alignment check for DAX mount
  block: Add bdev_dax_supported() for dax mount checks
  block: Add vfs_msg() interface
  dax: Remove redundant inode size checks
  dax: Remove pointless writeback from dax_do_io()
  dax: Remove zeroing from dax_io()
  dax: Remove dead zeroing code from fault handlers
  ext2: Avoid DAX zeroing to corrupt data
  ext2: Fix block zeroing in ext2_get_blocks() for DAX
  dax: Remove complete_unwritten argument
  DAX: move RADIX_DAX_ definitions to dax.c
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Pull misc DAX updates from Vishal Verma:
 "DAX error handling for 4.7

   - Until now, dax has been disabled if media errors were found on any
     device.  This enables the use of DAX in the presence of these
     errors by making all sector-aligned zeroing go through the driver.

   - The driver (already) has the ability to clear errors on writes that
     are sent through the block layer using 'DSMs' defined in ACPI 6.1.

  Other misc changes:

   - When mounting DAX filesystems, check to make sure the partition is
     page aligned.  This is a requirement for DAX, and previously, we
     allowed such unaligned mounts to succeed, but subsequent
     reads/writes would fail.

   - Misc/cleanup fixes from Jan that remove unused code from DAX
     related to zeroing, writeback, and some size checks"

* tag 'dax-misc-for-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
  dax: fix a comment in dax_zero_page_range and dax_truncate_page
  dax: for truncate/hole-punch, do zeroing through the driver if possible
  dax: export a low-level __dax_zero_page_range helper
  dax: use sb_issue_zerout instead of calling dax_clear_sectors
  dax: enable dax in the presence of known media errors (badblocks)
  dax: fallback from pmd to pte on error
  block: Update blkdev_dax_capable() for consistency
  xfs: Add alignment check for DAX mount
  ext2: Add alignment check for DAX mount
  ext4: Add alignment check for DAX mount
  block: Add bdev_dax_supported() for dax mount checks
  block: Add vfs_msg() interface
  dax: Remove redundant inode size checks
  dax: Remove pointless writeback from dax_do_io()
  dax: Remove zeroing from dax_io()
  dax: Remove dead zeroing code from fault handlers
  ext2: Avoid DAX zeroing to corrupt data
  ext2: Fix block zeroing in ext2_get_blocks() for DAX
  dax: Remove complete_unwritten argument
  DAX: move RADIX_DAX_ definitions to dax.c
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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>2016-05-24T19:55:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-24T19:55:26+00:00</published>
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Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Fix a number of bugs, most notably a potential stale data exposure
  after a crash and a potential BUG_ON crash if a file has the data
  journalling flag enabled while it has dirty delayed allocation blocks
  that haven't been written yet.  Also fix a potential crash in the new
  project quota code and a maliciously corrupted file system.

  In addition, fix some DAX-specific bugs, including when there is a
  transient ENOSPC situation and races between writes via direct I/O and
  an mmap'ed segment that could lead to lost I/O.

  Finally the usual set of miscellaneous cleanups"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (23 commits)
  ext4: pre-zero allocated blocks for DAX IO
  ext4: refactor direct IO code
  ext4: fix race in transient ENOSPC detection
  ext4: handle transient ENOSPC properly for DAX
  dax: call get_blocks() with create == 1 for write faults to unwritten extents
  ext4: remove unmeetable inconsisteny check from ext4_find_extent()
  jbd2: remove excess descriptions for handle_s
  ext4: remove unnecessary bio get/put
  ext4: silence UBSAN in ext4_mb_init()
  ext4: address UBSAN warning in mb_find_order_for_block()
  ext4: fix oops on corrupted filesystem
  ext4: fix check of dqget() return value in ext4_ioctl_setproject()
  ext4: clean up error handling when orphan list is corrupted
  ext4: fix hang when processing corrupted orphaned inode list
  ext4: remove trailing \n from ext4_warning/ext4_error calls
  ext4: fix races between changing inode journal mode and ext4_writepages
  ext4: handle unwritten or delalloc buffers before enabling data journaling
  ext4: fix jbd2 handle extension in ext4_ext_truncate_extend_restart()
  ext4: do not ask jbd2 to write data for delalloc buffers
  jbd2: add support for avoiding data writes during transaction commits
  ...
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Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Fix a number of bugs, most notably a potential stale data exposure
  after a crash and a potential BUG_ON crash if a file has the data
  journalling flag enabled while it has dirty delayed allocation blocks
  that haven't been written yet.  Also fix a potential crash in the new
  project quota code and a maliciously corrupted file system.

  In addition, fix some DAX-specific bugs, including when there is a
  transient ENOSPC situation and races between writes via direct I/O and
  an mmap'ed segment that could lead to lost I/O.

  Finally the usual set of miscellaneous cleanups"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (23 commits)
  ext4: pre-zero allocated blocks for DAX IO
  ext4: refactor direct IO code
  ext4: fix race in transient ENOSPC detection
  ext4: handle transient ENOSPC properly for DAX
  dax: call get_blocks() with create == 1 for write faults to unwritten extents
  ext4: remove unmeetable inconsisteny check from ext4_find_extent()
  jbd2: remove excess descriptions for handle_s
  ext4: remove unnecessary bio get/put
  ext4: silence UBSAN in ext4_mb_init()
  ext4: address UBSAN warning in mb_find_order_for_block()
  ext4: fix oops on corrupted filesystem
  ext4: fix check of dqget() return value in ext4_ioctl_setproject()
  ext4: clean up error handling when orphan list is corrupted
  ext4: fix hang when processing corrupted orphaned inode list
  ext4: remove trailing \n from ext4_warning/ext4_error calls
  ext4: fix races between changing inode journal mode and ext4_writepages
  ext4: handle unwritten or delalloc buffers before enabling data journaling
  ext4: fix jbd2 handle extension in ext4_ext_truncate_extend_restart()
  ext4: do not ask jbd2 to write data for delalloc buffers
  jbd2: add support for avoiding data writes during transaction commits
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dax: Remove complete_unwritten argument</title>
<updated>2016-05-17T00:11:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-11T09:58:48+00:00</published>
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Fault handlers currently take complete_unwritten argument to convert
unwritten extents after PTEs are updated. However no filesystem uses
this anymore as the code is racy. Remove the unused argument.

Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
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Fault handlers currently take complete_unwritten argument to convert
unwritten extents after PTEs are updated. However no filesystem uses
this anymore as the code is racy. Remove the unused argument.

Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vishal Verma &lt;vishal.l.verma@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: pre-zero allocated blocks for DAX IO</title>
<updated>2016-05-13T04:51:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-13T04:51:15+00:00</published>
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Currently ext4 treats DAX IO the same way as direct IO. I.e., it
allocates unwritten extents before IO is done and converts unwritten
extents afterwards. However this way DAX IO can race with page fault to
the same area:

ext4_ext_direct_IO()				dax_fault()
  dax_io()
    get_block() - allocates unwritten extent
    copy_from_iter_pmem()
						  get_block() - converts
						    unwritten block to
						    written and zeroes it
						    out
  ext4_convert_unwritten_extents()

So data written with DAX IO gets lost. Similarly dax_new_buf() called
from dax_io() can overwrite data that has been already written to the
block via mmap.

Fix the problem by using pre-zeroed blocks for DAX IO the same way as we
use them for DAX mmap. The downside of this solution is that every
allocating write writes each block twice (once zeros, once data). Fixing
the race with locking is possible as well however we would need to
lock-out faults for the whole range written to by DAX IO. And that is
not easy to do without locking-out faults for the whole file which seems
too aggressive.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Currently ext4 treats DAX IO the same way as direct IO. I.e., it
allocates unwritten extents before IO is done and converts unwritten
extents afterwards. However this way DAX IO can race with page fault to
the same area:

ext4_ext_direct_IO()				dax_fault()
  dax_io()
    get_block() - allocates unwritten extent
    copy_from_iter_pmem()
						  get_block() - converts
						    unwritten block to
						    written and zeroes it
						    out
  ext4_convert_unwritten_extents()

So data written with DAX IO gets lost. Similarly dax_new_buf() called
from dax_io() can overwrite data that has been already written to the
block via mmap.

Fix the problem by using pre-zeroed blocks for DAX IO the same way as we
use them for DAX mmap. The downside of this solution is that every
allocating write writes each block twice (once zeros, once data). Fixing
the race with locking is possible as well however we would need to
lock-out faults for the whole range written to by DAX IO. And that is
not easy to do without locking-out faults for the whole file which seems
too aggressive.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: simplify the generic_write_sync prototype</title>
<updated>2016-05-01T23:58:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-07T15:52:01+00:00</published>
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The kiocb already has the new position, so use that.  The only interesting
case is AIO, where we currently don't bother updating ki_pos.  We're about
to free the kiocb after we're done, so we might as well update it to make
everyone's life simpler.

While we're at it also return the bytes written argument passed in if
we were successful so that the boilerplate error switch code in the
callers can go away.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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The kiocb already has the new position, so use that.  The only interesting
case is AIO, where we currently don't bother updating ki_pos.  We're about
to free the kiocb after we're done, so we might as well update it to make
everyone's life simpler.

While we're at it also return the bytes written argument passed in if
we were successful so that the boilerplate error switch code in the
callers can go away.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: add IOCB_SYNC and IOCB_DSYNC</title>
<updated>2016-05-01T23:58:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-07T15:52:00+00:00</published>
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This will allow us to do per-I/O sync file writes, as required by a lot
of fileservers or storage targets.

XXX: Will need a few additional audits for O_DSYNC

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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This will allow us to do per-I/O sync file writes, as required by a lot
of fileservers or storage targets.

XXX: Will need a few additional audits for O_DSYNC

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: remove trailing \n from ext4_warning/ext4_error calls</title>
<updated>2016-04-27T05:11:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Wilk</name>
<email>jwilk@jwilk.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-27T05:11:21+00:00</published>
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Messages passed to ext4_warning() or ext4_error() don't need trailing
newlines, because these function add the newlines themselves.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk &lt;jwilk@jwilk.net&gt;
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Messages passed to ext4_warning() or ext4_error() don't need trailing
newlines, because these function add the newlines themselves.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk &lt;jwilk@jwilk.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4</title>
<updated>2016-04-08T00:22:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-08T00:22:20+00:00</published>
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Pull ext4 bugfixes from Ted Ts'o:
 "These changes contains a fix for overlayfs interacting with some
  (badly behaved) dentry code in various file systems.  These have been
  reviewed by Al and the respective file system mtinainers and are going
  through the ext4 tree for convenience.

  This also has a few ext4 encryption bug fixes that were discovered in
  Android testing (yes, we will need to get these sync'ed up with the
  fs/crypto code; I'll take care of that).  It also has some bug fixes
  and a change to ignore the legacy quota options to allow for xfstests
  regression testing of ext4's internal quota feature and to be more
  consistent with how xfs handles this case"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: ignore quota mount options if the quota feature is enabled
  ext4 crypto: fix some error handling
  ext4: avoid calling dquot_get_next_id() if quota is not enabled
  ext4: retry block allocation for failed DIO and DAX writes
  ext4: add lockdep annotations for i_data_sem
  ext4: allow readdir()'s of large empty directories to be interrupted
  btrfs: fix crash/invalid memory access on fsync when using overlayfs
  ext4 crypto: use dget_parent() in ext4_d_revalidate()
  ext4: use file_dentry()
  ext4: use dget_parent() in ext4_file_open()
  nfs: use file_dentry()
  fs: add file_dentry()
  ext4 crypto: don't let data integrity writebacks fail with ENOMEM
  ext4: check if in-inode xattr is corrupted in ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea()
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Pull ext4 bugfixes from Ted Ts'o:
 "These changes contains a fix for overlayfs interacting with some
  (badly behaved) dentry code in various file systems.  These have been
  reviewed by Al and the respective file system mtinainers and are going
  through the ext4 tree for convenience.

  This also has a few ext4 encryption bug fixes that were discovered in
  Android testing (yes, we will need to get these sync'ed up with the
  fs/crypto code; I'll take care of that).  It also has some bug fixes
  and a change to ignore the legacy quota options to allow for xfstests
  regression testing of ext4's internal quota feature and to be more
  consistent with how xfs handles this case"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: ignore quota mount options if the quota feature is enabled
  ext4 crypto: fix some error handling
  ext4: avoid calling dquot_get_next_id() if quota is not enabled
  ext4: retry block allocation for failed DIO and DAX writes
  ext4: add lockdep annotations for i_data_sem
  ext4: allow readdir()'s of large empty directories to be interrupted
  btrfs: fix crash/invalid memory access on fsync when using overlayfs
  ext4 crypto: use dget_parent() in ext4_d_revalidate()
  ext4: use file_dentry()
  ext4: use dget_parent() in ext4_file_open()
  nfs: use file_dentry()
  fs: add file_dentry()
  ext4 crypto: don't let data integrity writebacks fail with ENOMEM
  ext4: check if in-inode xattr is corrupted in ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea()
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros</title>
<updated>2016-04-04T17:41:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-01T12:29:47+00:00</published>
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PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} macros were introduced *long* time
ago with promise that one day it will be possible to implement page
cache with bigger chunks than PAGE_SIZE.

This promise never materialized.  And unlikely will.

We have many places where PAGE_CACHE_SIZE assumed to be equal to
PAGE_SIZE.  And it's constant source of confusion on whether
PAGE_CACHE_* or PAGE_* constant should be used in a particular case,
especially on the border between fs and mm.

Global switching to PAGE_CACHE_SIZE != PAGE_SIZE would cause to much
breakage to be doable.

Let's stop pretending that pages in page cache are special.  They are
not.

The changes are pretty straight-forward:

 - &lt;foo&gt; &lt;&lt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -&gt; &lt;foo&gt;;

 - &lt;foo&gt; &gt;&gt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -&gt; &lt;foo&gt;;

 - PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} -&gt; PAGE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN};

 - page_cache_get() -&gt; get_page();

 - page_cache_release() -&gt; put_page();

This patch contains automated changes generated with coccinelle using
script below.  For some reason, coccinelle doesn't patch header files.
I've called spatch for them manually.

The only adjustment after coccinelle is revert of changes to
PAGE_CAHCE_ALIGN definition: we are going to drop it later.

There are few places in the code where coccinelle didn't reach.  I'll
fix them manually in a separate patch.  Comments and documentation also
will be addressed with the separate patch.

virtual patch

@@
expression E;
@@
- E &lt;&lt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
expression E;
@@
- E &gt;&gt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT
+ PAGE_SHIFT

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
+ PAGE_SIZE

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_MASK
+ PAGE_MASK

@@
expression E;
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_ALIGN(E)
+ PAGE_ALIGN(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_get(E)
+ get_page(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_release(E)
+ put_page(E)

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} macros were introduced *long* time
ago with promise that one day it will be possible to implement page
cache with bigger chunks than PAGE_SIZE.

This promise never materialized.  And unlikely will.

We have many places where PAGE_CACHE_SIZE assumed to be equal to
PAGE_SIZE.  And it's constant source of confusion on whether
PAGE_CACHE_* or PAGE_* constant should be used in a particular case,
especially on the border between fs and mm.

Global switching to PAGE_CACHE_SIZE != PAGE_SIZE would cause to much
breakage to be doable.

Let's stop pretending that pages in page cache are special.  They are
not.

The changes are pretty straight-forward:

 - &lt;foo&gt; &lt;&lt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -&gt; &lt;foo&gt;;

 - &lt;foo&gt; &gt;&gt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -&gt; &lt;foo&gt;;

 - PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} -&gt; PAGE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN};

 - page_cache_get() -&gt; get_page();

 - page_cache_release() -&gt; put_page();

This patch contains automated changes generated with coccinelle using
script below.  For some reason, coccinelle doesn't patch header files.
I've called spatch for them manually.

The only adjustment after coccinelle is revert of changes to
PAGE_CAHCE_ALIGN definition: we are going to drop it later.

There are few places in the code where coccinelle didn't reach.  I'll
fix them manually in a separate patch.  Comments and documentation also
will be addressed with the separate patch.

virtual patch

@@
expression E;
@@
- E &lt;&lt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
expression E;
@@
- E &gt;&gt; (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT
+ PAGE_SHIFT

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
+ PAGE_SIZE

@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_MASK
+ PAGE_MASK

@@
expression E;
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_ALIGN(E)
+ PAGE_ALIGN(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_get(E)
+ get_page(E)

@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_release(E)
+ put_page(E)

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>ext4: use file_dentry()</title>
<updated>2016-03-26T20:14:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2016-03-26T20:14:42+00:00</published>
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EXT4 may be used as lower layer of overlayfs and accessing f_path.dentry
can lead to a crash.

Fix by replacing direct access of file-&gt;f_path.dentry with the
file_dentry() accessor, which will always return a native object.

Reported-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Fixes: 4bacc9c9234c ("overlayfs: Make f_path always point to the overlay and f_inode to the underlay")
Fixes: ff978b09f973 ("ext4 crypto: move context consistency check to ext4_file_open()")
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v4.5
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EXT4 may be used as lower layer of overlayfs and accessing f_path.dentry
can lead to a crash.

Fix by replacing direct access of file-&gt;f_path.dentry with the
file_dentry() accessor, which will always return a native object.

Reported-by: Daniel Axtens &lt;dja@axtens.net&gt;
Fixes: 4bacc9c9234c ("overlayfs: Make f_path always point to the overlay and f_inode to the underlay")
Fixes: ff978b09f973 ("ext4 crypto: move context consistency check to ext4_file_open()")
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v4.5
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