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<title>ext4: Fix function prototype mismatch for ext4_feat_ktype</title>
<updated>2023-02-25T10:53:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-04T21:09:12+00:00</published>
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commit 118901ad1f25d2334255b3d50512fa20591531cd upstream.

With clang's kernel control flow integrity (kCFI, CONFIG_CFI_CLANG),
indirect call targets are validated against the expected function
pointer prototype to make sure the call target is valid to help mitigate
ROP attacks. If they are not identical, there is a failure at run time,
which manifests as either a kernel panic or thread getting killed.

ext4_feat_ktype was setting the "release" handler to "kfree", which
doesn't have a matching function prototype. Add a simple wrapper
with the correct prototype.

This was found as a result of Clang's new -Wcast-function-type-strict
flag, which is more sensitive than the simpler -Wcast-function-type,
which only checks for type width mismatches.

Note that this code is only reached when ext4 is a loadable module and
it is being unloaded:

 CFI failure at kobject_put+0xbb/0x1b0 (target: kfree+0x0/0x180; expected type: 0x7c4aa698)
 ...
 RIP: 0010:kobject_put+0xbb/0x1b0
 ...
 Call Trace:
  &lt;TASK&gt;
  ext4_exit_sysfs+0x14/0x60 [ext4]
  cleanup_module+0x67/0xedb [ext4]

Fixes: b99fee58a20a ("ext4: create ext4_feat kobject dynamically")
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Build-tested-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavoars@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavoars@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230103234616.never.915-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230104210908.gonna.388-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 118901ad1f25d2334255b3d50512fa20591531cd upstream.

With clang's kernel control flow integrity (kCFI, CONFIG_CFI_CLANG),
indirect call targets are validated against the expected function
pointer prototype to make sure the call target is valid to help mitigate
ROP attacks. If they are not identical, there is a failure at run time,
which manifests as either a kernel panic or thread getting killed.

ext4_feat_ktype was setting the "release" handler to "kfree", which
doesn't have a matching function prototype. Add a simple wrapper
with the correct prototype.

This was found as a result of Clang's new -Wcast-function-type-strict
flag, which is more sensitive than the simpler -Wcast-function-type,
which only checks for type width mismatches.

Note that this code is only reached when ext4 is a loadable module and
it is being unloaded:

 CFI failure at kobject_put+0xbb/0x1b0 (target: kfree+0x0/0x180; expected type: 0x7c4aa698)
 ...
 RIP: 0010:kobject_put+0xbb/0x1b0
 ...
 Call Trace:
  &lt;TASK&gt;
  ext4_exit_sysfs+0x14/0x60 [ext4]
  cleanup_module+0x67/0xedb [ext4]

Fixes: b99fee58a20a ("ext4: create ext4_feat kobject dynamically")
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Build-tested-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavoars@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavoars@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230103234616.never.915-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230104210908.gonna.388-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: shrink race window in ext4_should_retry_alloc()</title>
<updated>2021-04-07T12:47:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Whitney</name>
<email>enwlinux@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-18T15:11:32+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit efc61345274d6c7a46a0570efbc916fcbe3e927b ]

When generic/371 is run on kvm-xfstests using 5.10 and 5.11 kernels, it
fails at significant rates on the two test scenarios that disable
delayed allocation (ext3conv and data_journal) and force actual block
allocation for the fallocate and pwrite functions in the test.  The
failure rate on 5.10 for both ext3conv and data_journal on one test
system typically runs about 85%.  On 5.11, the failure rate on ext3conv
sometimes drops to as low as 1% while the rate on data_journal
increases to nearly 100%.

The observed failures are largely due to ext4_should_retry_alloc()
cutting off block allocation retries when s_mb_free_pending (used to
indicate that a transaction in progress will free blocks) is 0.
However, free space is usually available when this occurs during runs
of generic/371.  It appears that a thread attempting to allocate
blocks is just missing transaction commits in other threads that
increase the free cluster count and reset s_mb_free_pending while
the allocating thread isn't running.  Explicitly testing for free space
availability avoids this race.

The current code uses a post-increment operator in the conditional
expression that determines whether the retry limit has been exceeded.
This means that the conditional expression uses the value of the
retry counter before it's increased, resulting in an extra retry cycle.
The current code actually retries twice before hitting its retry limit
rather than once.

Increasing the retry limit to 3 from the current actual maximum retry
count of 2 in combination with the change described above reduces the
observed failure rate to less that 0.1% on both ext3conv and
data_journal with what should be limited impact on users sensitive to
the overhead caused by retries.

A per filesystem percpu counter exported via sysfs is added to allow
users or developers to track the number of times the retry limit is
exceeded without resorting to debugging methods.  This should provide
some insight into worst case retry behavior.

Signed-off-by: Eric Whitney &lt;enwlinux@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210218151132.19678-1-enwlinux@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit efc61345274d6c7a46a0570efbc916fcbe3e927b ]

When generic/371 is run on kvm-xfstests using 5.10 and 5.11 kernels, it
fails at significant rates on the two test scenarios that disable
delayed allocation (ext3conv and data_journal) and force actual block
allocation for the fallocate and pwrite functions in the test.  The
failure rate on 5.10 for both ext3conv and data_journal on one test
system typically runs about 85%.  On 5.11, the failure rate on ext3conv
sometimes drops to as low as 1% while the rate on data_journal
increases to nearly 100%.

The observed failures are largely due to ext4_should_retry_alloc()
cutting off block allocation retries when s_mb_free_pending (used to
indicate that a transaction in progress will free blocks) is 0.
However, free space is usually available when this occurs during runs
of generic/371.  It appears that a thread attempting to allocate
blocks is just missing transaction commits in other threads that
increase the free cluster count and reset s_mb_free_pending while
the allocating thread isn't running.  Explicitly testing for free space
availability avoids this race.

The current code uses a post-increment operator in the conditional
expression that determines whether the retry limit has been exceeded.
This means that the conditional expression uses the value of the
retry counter before it's increased, resulting in an extra retry cycle.
The current code actually retries twice before hitting its retry limit
rather than once.

Increasing the retry limit to 3 from the current actual maximum retry
count of 2 in combination with the change described above reduces the
observed failure rate to less that 0.1% on both ext3conv and
data_journal with what should be limited impact on users sensitive to
the overhead caused by retries.

A per filesystem percpu counter exported via sysfs is added to allow
users or developers to track the number of times the retry limit is
exceeded without resorting to debugging methods.  This should provide
some insight into worst case retry behavior.

Signed-off-by: Eric Whitney &lt;enwlinux@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210218151132.19678-1-enwlinux@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: add basic fs-verity support</title>
<updated>2019-08-13T02:33:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-22T16:26:24+00:00</published>
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Add most of fs-verity support to ext4.  fs-verity is a filesystem
feature that enables transparent integrity protection and authentication
of read-only files.  It uses a dm-verity like mechanism at the file
level: a Merkle tree is used to verify any block in the file in
log(filesize) time.  It is implemented mainly by helper functions in
fs/verity/.  See Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst for the full
documentation.

This commit adds all of ext4 fs-verity support except for the actual
data verification, including:

- Adding a filesystem feature flag and an inode flag for fs-verity.

- Implementing the fsverity_operations to support enabling verity on an
  inode and reading/writing the verity metadata.

- Updating -&gt;write_begin(), -&gt;write_end(), and -&gt;writepages() to support
  writing verity metadata pages.

- Calling the fs-verity hooks for -&gt;open(), -&gt;setattr(), and -&gt;ioctl().

ext4 stores the verity metadata (Merkle tree and fsverity_descriptor)
past the end of the file, starting at the first 64K boundary beyond
i_size.  This approach works because (a) verity files are readonly, and
(b) pages fully beyond i_size aren't visible to userspace but can be
read/written internally by ext4 with only some relatively small changes
to ext4.  This approach avoids having to depend on the EA_INODE feature
and on rearchitecturing ext4's xattr support to support paging
multi-gigabyte xattrs into memory, and to support encrypting xattrs.
Note that the verity metadata *must* be encrypted when the file is,
since it contains hashes of the plaintext data.

This patch incorporates work by Theodore Ts'o and Chandan Rajendra.

Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
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Add most of fs-verity support to ext4.  fs-verity is a filesystem
feature that enables transparent integrity protection and authentication
of read-only files.  It uses a dm-verity like mechanism at the file
level: a Merkle tree is used to verify any block in the file in
log(filesize) time.  It is implemented mainly by helper functions in
fs/verity/.  See Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst for the full
documentation.

This commit adds all of ext4 fs-verity support except for the actual
data verification, including:

- Adding a filesystem feature flag and an inode flag for fs-verity.

- Implementing the fsverity_operations to support enabling verity on an
  inode and reading/writing the verity metadata.

- Updating -&gt;write_begin(), -&gt;write_end(), and -&gt;writepages() to support
  writing verity metadata pages.

- Calling the fs-verity hooks for -&gt;open(), -&gt;setattr(), and -&gt;ioctl().

ext4 stores the verity metadata (Merkle tree and fsverity_descriptor)
past the end of the file, starting at the first 64K boundary beyond
i_size.  This approach works because (a) verity files are readonly, and
(b) pages fully beyond i_size aren't visible to userspace but can be
read/written internally by ext4 with only some relatively small changes
to ext4.  This approach avoids having to depend on the EA_INODE feature
and on rearchitecturing ext4's xattr support to support paging
multi-gigabyte xattrs into memory, and to support encrypting xattrs.
Note that the verity metadata *must* be encrypted when the file is,
since it contains hashes of the plaintext data.

This patch incorporates work by Theodore Ts'o and Chandan Rajendra.

Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: replace ktype default_attrs with default_groups</title>
<updated>2019-07-02T21:38:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kimberly Brown</name>
<email>kimbrownkd@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-02T21:38:55+00:00</published>
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The kobj_type default_attrs field is being replaced by the
default_groups field. Replace the default_attrs field in ext4_sb_ktype
and ext4_feat_ktype with default_groups. Use the ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS macro
to create ext4_groups and ext4_feat_groups.

Signed-off-by: Kimberly Brown &lt;kimbrownkd@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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The kobj_type default_attrs field is being replaced by the
default_groups field. Replace the default_attrs field in ext4_sb_ktype
and ext4_feat_ktype with default_groups. Use the ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS macro
to create ext4_groups and ext4_feat_groups.

Signed-off-by: Kimberly Brown &lt;kimbrownkd@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: export /sys/fs/ext4/feature/casefold if Unicode support is present</title>
<updated>2019-05-06T18:03:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-06T18:03:52+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&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>2019-03-12T22:03:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-12T22:03:21+00:00</published>
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Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "A large number of bug fixes and cleanups.

  One new feature to allow users to more easily find the jbd2 journal
  thread for a particular ext4 file system"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (25 commits)
  jbd2: jbd2_get_transaction does not need to return a value
  jbd2: fix invalid descriptor block checksum
  ext4: fix bigalloc cluster freeing when hole punching under load
  ext4: add sysfs attr /sys/fs/ext4/&lt;disk&gt;/journal_task
  ext4: Change debugging support help prefix from EXT4 to Ext4
  ext4: fix compile error when using BUFFER_TRACE
  jbd2: fix compile warning when using JBUFFER_TRACE
  ext4: fix some error pointer dereferences
  ext4: annotate more implicit fall throughs
  ext4: annotate implicit fall throughs
  ext4: don't update s_rev_level if not required
  jbd2: fold jbd2_superblock_csum_{verify,set} into their callers
  jbd2: fix race when writing superblock
  ext4: fix crash during online resizing
  ext4: disallow files with EXT4_JOURNAL_DATA_FL from EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT
  ext4: add mask of ext4 flags to swap
  ext4: update quota information while swapping boot loader inode
  ext4: cleanup pagecache before swap i_data
  ext4: fix check of inode in swap_inode_boot_loader
  ext4: unlock unused_pages timely when doing writeback
  ...
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Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "A large number of bug fixes and cleanups.

  One new feature to allow users to more easily find the jbd2 journal
  thread for a particular ext4 file system"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (25 commits)
  jbd2: jbd2_get_transaction does not need to return a value
  jbd2: fix invalid descriptor block checksum
  ext4: fix bigalloc cluster freeing when hole punching under load
  ext4: add sysfs attr /sys/fs/ext4/&lt;disk&gt;/journal_task
  ext4: Change debugging support help prefix from EXT4 to Ext4
  ext4: fix compile error when using BUFFER_TRACE
  jbd2: fix compile warning when using JBUFFER_TRACE
  ext4: fix some error pointer dereferences
  ext4: annotate more implicit fall throughs
  ext4: annotate implicit fall throughs
  ext4: don't update s_rev_level if not required
  jbd2: fold jbd2_superblock_csum_{verify,set} into their callers
  jbd2: fix race when writing superblock
  ext4: fix crash during online resizing
  ext4: disallow files with EXT4_JOURNAL_DATA_FL from EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT
  ext4: add mask of ext4 flags to swap
  ext4: update quota information while swapping boot loader inode
  ext4: cleanup pagecache before swap i_data
  ext4: fix check of inode in swap_inode_boot_loader
  ext4: unlock unused_pages timely when doing writeback
  ...
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<entry>
<title>ext4: add sysfs attr /sys/fs/ext4/&lt;disk&gt;/journal_task</title>
<updated>2019-02-21T16:49:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konstantin Khlebnikov</name>
<email>khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-21T16:49:27+00:00</published>
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This is useful for moving journal thread into cgroup or
for tracing it with ftrace/perf/blktrace.

For now the only way is `pgrep jbd2/$DISK` but this is not reliable:
name may be longer than "comm" limit and any task could mock it.

Attribute shows pid in current pid-namespace or 0 if task is unreachable.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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This is useful for moving journal thread into cgroup or
for tracing it with ftrace/perf/blktrace.

For now the only way is `pgrep jbd2/$DISK` but this is not reliable:
name may be longer than "comm" limit and any task could mock it.

Attribute shows pid in current pid-namespace or 0 if task is unreachable.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fscrypt: remove filesystem specific build config option</title>
<updated>2019-01-24T04:56:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chandan Rajendra</name>
<email>chandan@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-12T09:50:12+00:00</published>
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In order to have a common code base for fscrypt "post read" processing
for all filesystems which support encryption, this commit removes
filesystem specific build config option (e.g. CONFIG_EXT4_FS_ENCRYPTION)
and replaces it with a build option (i.e. CONFIG_FS_ENCRYPTION) whose
value affects all the filesystems making use of fscrypt.

Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chandan Rajendra &lt;chandan@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
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In order to have a common code base for fscrypt "post read" processing
for all filesystems which support encryption, this commit removes
filesystem specific build config option (e.g. CONFIG_EXT4_FS_ENCRYPTION)
and replaces it with a build option (i.e. CONFIG_FS_ENCRYPTION) whose
value affects all the filesystems making use of fscrypt.

Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chandan Rajendra &lt;chandan@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-4.19/block-20180812' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2018-08-14T17:23:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-14T17:23:25+00:00</published>
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Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
 "First pull request for this merge window, there will also be a
  followup request with some stragglers.

  This pull request contains:

   - Fix for a thundering heard issue in the wbt block code (Anchal
     Agarwal)

   - A few NVMe pull requests:
      * Improved tracepoints (Keith)
      * Larger inline data support for RDMA (Steve Wise)
      * RDMA setup/teardown fixes (Sagi)
      * Effects log suppor for NVMe target (Chaitanya Kulkarni)
      * Buffered IO suppor for NVMe target (Chaitanya Kulkarni)
      * TP4004 (ANA) support (Christoph)
      * Various NVMe fixes

   - Block io-latency controller support. Much needed support for
     properly containing block devices. (Josef)

   - Series improving how we handle sense information on the stack
     (Kees)

   - Lightnvm fixes and updates/improvements (Mathias/Javier et al)

   - Zoned device support for null_blk (Matias)

   - AIX partition fixes (Mauricio Faria de Oliveira)

   - DIF checksum code made generic (Max Gurtovoy)

   - Add support for discard in iostats (Michael Callahan / Tejun)

   - Set of updates for BFQ (Paolo)

   - Removal of async write support for bsg (Christoph)

   - Bio page dirtying and clone fixups (Christoph)

   - Set of bcache fix/changes (via Coly)

   - Series improving blk-mq queue setup/teardown speed (Ming)

   - Series improving merging performance on blk-mq (Ming)

   - Lots of other fixes and cleanups from a slew of folks"

* tag 'for-4.19/block-20180812' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (190 commits)
  blkcg: Make blkg_root_lookup() work for queues in bypass mode
  bcache: fix error setting writeback_rate through sysfs interface
  null_blk: add lock drop/acquire annotation
  Blk-throttle: reduce tail io latency when iops limit is enforced
  block: paride: pd: mark expected switch fall-throughs
  block: Ensure that a request queue is dissociated from the cgroup controller
  block: Introduce blk_exit_queue()
  blkcg: Introduce blkg_root_lookup()
  block: Remove two superfluous #include directives
  blk-mq: count the hctx as active before allocating tag
  block: bvec_nr_vecs() returns value for wrong slab
  bcache: trivial - remove tailing backslash in macro BTREE_FLAG
  bcache: make the pr_err statement used for ENOENT only in sysfs_attatch section
  bcache: set max writeback rate when I/O request is idle
  bcache: add code comments for bset.c
  bcache: fix mistaken comments in request.c
  bcache: fix mistaken code comments in bcache.h
  bcache: add a comment in super.c
  bcache: avoid unncessary cache prefetch bch_btree_node_get()
  bcache: display rate debug parameters to 0 when writeback is not running
  ...
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Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
 "First pull request for this merge window, there will also be a
  followup request with some stragglers.

  This pull request contains:

   - Fix for a thundering heard issue in the wbt block code (Anchal
     Agarwal)

   - A few NVMe pull requests:
      * Improved tracepoints (Keith)
      * Larger inline data support for RDMA (Steve Wise)
      * RDMA setup/teardown fixes (Sagi)
      * Effects log suppor for NVMe target (Chaitanya Kulkarni)
      * Buffered IO suppor for NVMe target (Chaitanya Kulkarni)
      * TP4004 (ANA) support (Christoph)
      * Various NVMe fixes

   - Block io-latency controller support. Much needed support for
     properly containing block devices. (Josef)

   - Series improving how we handle sense information on the stack
     (Kees)

   - Lightnvm fixes and updates/improvements (Mathias/Javier et al)

   - Zoned device support for null_blk (Matias)

   - AIX partition fixes (Mauricio Faria de Oliveira)

   - DIF checksum code made generic (Max Gurtovoy)

   - Add support for discard in iostats (Michael Callahan / Tejun)

   - Set of updates for BFQ (Paolo)

   - Removal of async write support for bsg (Christoph)

   - Bio page dirtying and clone fixups (Christoph)

   - Set of bcache fix/changes (via Coly)

   - Series improving blk-mq queue setup/teardown speed (Ming)

   - Series improving merging performance on blk-mq (Ming)

   - Lots of other fixes and cleanups from a slew of folks"

* tag 'for-4.19/block-20180812' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (190 commits)
  blkcg: Make blkg_root_lookup() work for queues in bypass mode
  bcache: fix error setting writeback_rate through sysfs interface
  null_blk: add lock drop/acquire annotation
  Blk-throttle: reduce tail io latency when iops limit is enforced
  block: paride: pd: mark expected switch fall-throughs
  block: Ensure that a request queue is dissociated from the cgroup controller
  block: Introduce blk_exit_queue()
  blkcg: Introduce blkg_root_lookup()
  block: Remove two superfluous #include directives
  blk-mq: count the hctx as active before allocating tag
  block: bvec_nr_vecs() returns value for wrong slab
  bcache: trivial - remove tailing backslash in macro BTREE_FLAG
  bcache: make the pr_err statement used for ENOENT only in sysfs_attatch section
  bcache: set max writeback rate when I/O request is idle
  bcache: add code comments for bset.c
  bcache: fix mistaken comments in request.c
  bcache: fix mistaken code comments in bcache.h
  bcache: add a comment in super.c
  bcache: avoid unncessary cache prefetch bch_btree_node_get()
  bcache: display rate debug parameters to 0 when writeback is not running
  ...
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<entry>
<title>ext4: super: extend timestamps to 40 bits</title>
<updated>2018-07-29T19:51:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-29T19:51:48+00:00</published>
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The inode timestamps use 34 bits in ext4, but the various timestamps in
the superblock are limited to 32 bits. If every user accesses these as
'unsigned', then this is good until year 2106, but it seems better to
extend this a bit further in the process of removing the deprecated
get_seconds() function.

This adds another byte for each timestamp in the superblock, making
them long enough to store timestamps beyond what is in the inodes,
which seems good enough here (in ocfs2, they are already 64-bit wide,
which is appropriate for a new layout).

I did not modify e2fsprogs, which obviously needs the same change to
actually interpret future timestamps correctly.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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The inode timestamps use 34 bits in ext4, but the various timestamps in
the superblock are limited to 32 bits. If every user accesses these as
'unsigned', then this is good until year 2106, but it seems better to
extend this a bit further in the process of removing the deprecated
get_seconds() function.

This adds another byte for each timestamp in the superblock, making
them long enough to store timestamps beyond what is in the inodes,
which seems good enough here (in ocfs2, they are already 64-bit wide,
which is appropriate for a new layout).

I did not modify e2fsprogs, which obviously needs the same change to
actually interpret future timestamps correctly.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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