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<title>fuse: fuse_dev_ioctl_clone() should wait for device file to be initialized</title>
<updated>2026-04-27T13:30:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-02T18:19:55+00:00</published>
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commit da6fcc6dbddbef80e603d2f0c1554a9f2ac03742 upstream.

Use fuse_get_dev() not __fuse_get_dev() on the old fd, since in the case of
synchronous INIT the caller will want to wait for the device file to be
available for cloning, just like I/O wants to wait instead of returning an
error.

Fixes: dfb84c330794 ("fuse: allow synchronous FUSE_INIT")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.18
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit da6fcc6dbddbef80e603d2f0c1554a9f2ac03742 upstream.

Use fuse_get_dev() not __fuse_get_dev() on the old fd, since in the case of
synchronous INIT the caller will want to wait for the device file to be
available for cloning, just like I/O wants to wait instead of returning an
error.

Fixes: dfb84c330794 ("fuse: allow synchronous FUSE_INIT")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.18
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fuse: Check for large folio with SPLICE_F_MOVE</title>
<updated>2026-04-27T13:30:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bernd Schubert</name>
<email>bschubert@ddn.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-11T11:48:07+00:00</published>
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commit 59ba47b6be9cd0146ef9a55c6e32e337e11e7625 upstream.

xfstest generic/074 and generic/075 complain result in kernel
warning messages / page dumps.
This is easily reproducible (on 6.19) with
CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_SHMEM_HUGE_ALWAYS=y
CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_TMPFS_HUGE_ALWAYS=y

This just adds a test for large folios fuse_try_move_folio
with the same page copy fallback, but to avoid the warnings
from fuse_check_folio().

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Bernd Schubert &lt;bschubert@ddn.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Horst Birthelmer &lt;hbirthelmer@ddn.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 59ba47b6be9cd0146ef9a55c6e32e337e11e7625 upstream.

xfstest generic/074 and generic/075 complain result in kernel
warning messages / page dumps.
This is easily reproducible (on 6.19) with
CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_SHMEM_HUGE_ALWAYS=y
CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_TMPFS_HUGE_ALWAYS=y

This just adds a test for large folios fuse_try_move_folio
with the same page copy fallback, but to avoid the warnings
from fuse_check_folio().

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Bernd Schubert &lt;bschubert@ddn.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Horst Birthelmer &lt;hbirthelmer@ddn.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fuse: abort on fatal signal during sync init</title>
<updated>2026-04-27T13:30:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-16T13:10:00+00:00</published>
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commit 204aa22a686bfee48daca7db620c1e017615f2ff upstream.

When sync init is used and the server exits for some reason (error, crash)
while processing FUSE_INIT, the filesystem creation will hang.  The reason
is that while all other threads will exit, the mounting thread (or process)
will keep the device fd open, which will prevent an abort from happening.

This is a regression from the async mount case, where the mount was done
first, and the FUSE_INIT processing afterwards, in which case there's no
such recursive syscall keeping the fd open.

Fixes: dfb84c330794 ("fuse: allow synchronous FUSE_INIT")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.18
Reviewed-by: Joanne Koong &lt;joannelkoong@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bernd Schubert &lt;bernd@bsbernd.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 204aa22a686bfee48daca7db620c1e017615f2ff upstream.

When sync init is used and the server exits for some reason (error, crash)
while processing FUSE_INIT, the filesystem creation will hang.  The reason
is that while all other threads will exit, the mounting thread (or process)
will keep the device fd open, which will prevent an abort from happening.

This is a regression from the async mount case, where the mount was done
first, and the FUSE_INIT processing afterwards, in which case there's no
such recursive syscall keeping the fd open.

Fixes: dfb84c330794 ("fuse: allow synchronous FUSE_INIT")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.18
Reviewed-by: Joanne Koong &lt;joannelkoong@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bernd Schubert &lt;bernd@bsbernd.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: use min() or umin() instead of min_t()</title>
<updated>2025-12-15T13:33:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Laight</name>
<email>david.laight.linux@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-19T22:41:26+00:00</published>
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min_t(unsigned int, a, b) casts an 'unsigned long' to 'unsigned int'.
Use min(a, b) instead as it promotes any 'unsigned int' to 'unsigned long'
and so cannot discard significant bits.

A couple of places need umin() because of loops like:
	nfolios = DIV_ROUND_UP(ret + start, PAGE_SIZE);

	for (i = 0; i &lt; nfolios; i++) {
		struct folio *folio = page_folio(pages[i]);
		...
		unsigned int len = umin(ret, PAGE_SIZE - start);
		...
		ret -= len;
		...
	}
where the compiler doesn't track things well enough to know that
'ret' is never negative.

The alternate loop:
        for (i = 0; ret &gt; 0; i++) {
                struct folio *folio = page_folio(pages[i]);
                ...
                unsigned int len = min(ret, PAGE_SIZE - start);
                ...
                ret -= len;
                ...
        }
would be equivalent and doesn't need 'nfolios'.

Most of the 'unsigned long' actually come from PAGE_SIZE.

Detected by an extra check added to min_t().

Signed-off-by: David Laight &lt;david.laight.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119224140.8616-31-david.laight.linux@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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min_t(unsigned int, a, b) casts an 'unsigned long' to 'unsigned int'.
Use min(a, b) instead as it promotes any 'unsigned int' to 'unsigned long'
and so cannot discard significant bits.

A couple of places need umin() because of loops like:
	nfolios = DIV_ROUND_UP(ret + start, PAGE_SIZE);

	for (i = 0; i &lt; nfolios; i++) {
		struct folio *folio = page_folio(pages[i]);
		...
		unsigned int len = umin(ret, PAGE_SIZE - start);
		...
		ret -= len;
		...
	}
where the compiler doesn't track things well enough to know that
'ret' is never negative.

The alternate loop:
        for (i = 0; ret &gt; 0; i++) {
                struct folio *folio = page_folio(pages[i]);
                ...
                unsigned int len = min(ret, PAGE_SIZE - start);
                ...
                ret -= len;
                ...
        }
would be equivalent and doesn't need 'nfolios'.

Most of the 'unsigned long' actually come from PAGE_SIZE.

Detected by an extra check added to min_t().

Signed-off-by: David Laight &lt;david.laight.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119224140.8616-31-david.laight.linux@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fuse: new work queue to invalidate dentries from old epochs</title>
<updated>2025-11-12T10:45:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luis Henriques</name>
<email>luis@igalia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-16T13:53:09+00:00</published>
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With the infrastructure introduced to periodically invalidate expired
dentries, it is now possible to add an extra work queue to invalidate
dentries when an epoch is incremented.  This work queue will only be
triggered when the 'inval_wq' parameter is set.

Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis@igalia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
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With the infrastructure introduced to periodically invalidate expired
dentries, it is now possible to add an extra work queue to invalidate
dentries when an epoch is incremented.  This work queue will only be
triggered when the 'inval_wq' parameter is set.

Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis@igalia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fuse: missing copy_finish in fuse-over-io-uring argument copies</title>
<updated>2025-11-12T10:45:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cheng Ding</name>
<email>cding@ddn.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-21T20:46:42+00:00</published>
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Fix a possible reference count leak of payload pages during
fuse argument copies.

[Joanne: simplified error cleanup]

Fixes: c090c8abae4b ("fuse: Add io-uring sqe commit and fetch support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.14
Signed-off-by: Cheng Ding &lt;cding@ddn.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bernd Schubert &lt;bschubert@ddn.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Joanne Koong &lt;joannelkoong@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
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Fix a possible reference count leak of payload pages during
fuse argument copies.

[Joanne: simplified error cleanup]

Fixes: c090c8abae4b ("fuse: Add io-uring sqe commit and fetch support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.14
Signed-off-by: Cheng Ding &lt;cding@ddn.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bernd Schubert &lt;bschubert@ddn.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Joanne Koong &lt;joannelkoong@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'fuse-update-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse</title>
<updated>2025-10-03T19:48:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-03T19:48:18+00:00</published>
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Pull fuse updates from Miklos Szeredi:

 - Extend copy_file_range interface to be fully 64bit capable (Miklos)

 - Add selftest for fusectl (Chen Linxuan)

 - Move fuse docs into a separate directory (Bagas Sanjaya)

 - Allow fuse to enter freezable state in some cases (Sergey
   Senozhatsky)

 - Clean up writeback accounting after removing tmp page copies (Joanne)

 - Optimize virtiofs request handling (Li RongQing)

 - Add synchronous FUSE_INIT support (Miklos)

 - Allow server to request prune of unused inodes (Miklos)

 - Fix deadlock with AIO/sync release (Darrick)

 - Add some prep patches for block/iomap support (Darrick)

 - Misc fixes and cleanups

* tag 'fuse-update-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse: (26 commits)
  fuse: move CREATE_TRACE_POINTS to a separate file
  fuse: move the backing file idr and code into a new source file
  fuse: enable FUSE_SYNCFS for all fuseblk servers
  fuse: capture the unique id of fuse commands being sent
  fuse: fix livelock in synchronous file put from fuseblk workers
  mm: fix lockdep issues in writeback handling
  fuse: add prune notification
  fuse: remove redundant calls to fuse_copy_finish() in fuse_notify()
  fuse: fix possibly missing fuse_copy_finish() call in fuse_notify()
  fuse: remove FUSE_NOTIFY_CODE_MAX from &lt;uapi/linux/fuse.h&gt;
  fuse: remove fuse_readpages_end() null mapping check
  fuse: fix references to fuse.rst -&gt; fuse/fuse.rst
  fuse: allow synchronous FUSE_INIT
  fuse: zero initialize inode private data
  fuse: remove unused 'inode' parameter in fuse_passthrough_open
  virtio_fs: fix the hash table using in virtio_fs_enqueue_req()
  mm: remove BDI_CAP_WRITEBACK_ACCT
  fuse: use default writeback accounting
  virtio_fs: Remove redundant spinlock in virtio_fs_request_complete()
  fuse: remove unneeded offset assignment when filling write pages
  ...
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Pull fuse updates from Miklos Szeredi:

 - Extend copy_file_range interface to be fully 64bit capable (Miklos)

 - Add selftest for fusectl (Chen Linxuan)

 - Move fuse docs into a separate directory (Bagas Sanjaya)

 - Allow fuse to enter freezable state in some cases (Sergey
   Senozhatsky)

 - Clean up writeback accounting after removing tmp page copies (Joanne)

 - Optimize virtiofs request handling (Li RongQing)

 - Add synchronous FUSE_INIT support (Miklos)

 - Allow server to request prune of unused inodes (Miklos)

 - Fix deadlock with AIO/sync release (Darrick)

 - Add some prep patches for block/iomap support (Darrick)

 - Misc fixes and cleanups

* tag 'fuse-update-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse: (26 commits)
  fuse: move CREATE_TRACE_POINTS to a separate file
  fuse: move the backing file idr and code into a new source file
  fuse: enable FUSE_SYNCFS for all fuseblk servers
  fuse: capture the unique id of fuse commands being sent
  fuse: fix livelock in synchronous file put from fuseblk workers
  mm: fix lockdep issues in writeback handling
  fuse: add prune notification
  fuse: remove redundant calls to fuse_copy_finish() in fuse_notify()
  fuse: fix possibly missing fuse_copy_finish() call in fuse_notify()
  fuse: remove FUSE_NOTIFY_CODE_MAX from &lt;uapi/linux/fuse.h&gt;
  fuse: remove fuse_readpages_end() null mapping check
  fuse: fix references to fuse.rst -&gt; fuse/fuse.rst
  fuse: allow synchronous FUSE_INIT
  fuse: zero initialize inode private data
  fuse: remove unused 'inode' parameter in fuse_passthrough_open
  virtio_fs: fix the hash table using in virtio_fs_enqueue_req()
  mm: remove BDI_CAP_WRITEBACK_ACCT
  fuse: use default writeback accounting
  virtio_fs: Remove redundant spinlock in virtio_fs_request_complete()
  fuse: remove unneeded offset assignment when filling write pages
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-10-03T01:18:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-03T01:18:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8804d970fab45726b3c7cd7f240b31122aa94219'/>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from Kairui Song improves
   performance and reduces the failure rate of swap cluster allocation

 - "support large align and nid in Rust allocators" from Vitaly Wool
   permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large alignment when
   perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs

 - "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from Yueyang Pan extend
   DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets for virtual
   address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters

 - "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock" from Suren
   Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of
   /proc/pid/maps

 - "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache checking" from Kairui Song
   performs some cleanup in the swap code

 - "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David Hildenbrand provides
   code cleanup in the pagemap code

 - "add persistent huge zero folio support" from Pankaj Raghav provides
   a block layer speedup by optionalls making the
   huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount
   falls to zero

 - "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a few touchups to
   the recently added Kexec Handover feature

 - "mm: make mm-&gt;flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all arches" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To end the constant
   struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with 64-bit's
   needs

 - "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li cleans up some swap
   code

 - "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip unsupported tests" from
   Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests code

 - "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised"
   from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes to opt-out of
   THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other workloads on the
   system".

   It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations

 - "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox gets us started on
   the memdesc project. Please see

      https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and
      https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc

 - "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from Chi Zhiling
   improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path

 - "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi Yan improves our
   folio splitting selftest code

 - "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang adds some rmap
   selftests

 - "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig removes that
   function and converts its two remaining callers

 - "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain fixes some UFFD
   selftests issues

 - "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris Burkov introduces
   the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these permits btrfs to
   account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather than to the
   cgroups of random inappropriate tasks

 - "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some pageblock handling" from
   Wei Yang provides some readability improvements to the page allocator
   code

 - "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae Park teaches DAMON
   to understand arm32 highmem

 - "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for vma/maple tests" from
   Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and deduplication under
   tools/testing/

 - "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from Liam Howlett fixes
   a couple of 32-bit issues in tools/testing/radix-tree.c

 - "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific
   implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN arch-specific
   initialization code into a common arch-neutral implementation

 - "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes zspool - an
   indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing
   (zsmalloc)

 - "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from Pasha Tatashin makes a
   couple of cleanups in the fork code

 - "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand makes rather a lot of
   adjustments at various nth_page() callsites, eventually permitting
   the removal of that undesirable helper function

 - "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from Yeoreum Yun
   creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that architecture's
   memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode KASAN is
   suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only

 - "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation" from Kefeng Wang does
   some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code

 - "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer parameters" from Max
   Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API functions more accurate
   about the constness of their arguments. This was getting in the way
   of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they attempt to improving
   their own const/non-const accuracy

 - "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola fixes a number of
   code sites which were confused over when to use free_pages() vs
   __free_pages()

 - "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice Ryhl makes the
   mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau and by its
   forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver

 - "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test: split_pte_mapped_thp
   improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and some cleanups to
   the thp selftesting code

 - "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache (phase I)" from Chris
   Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the path to implementing
   "swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation and state tracking
   which is expected to yield speed and space improvements. This
   patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit in some situations

 - "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes the new memdesc
   layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little

 - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from Chunyu Hu fixes some
   issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code

 - "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from Suren Baghdasaryan
   addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new memory
   allocation profiling feature

 - "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few cleanups in
   preparation for more memdesc work

 - "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" from
   Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in furtherance of supporting
   arm highmem

 - "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix warnings" from Muhammad
   Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code and fixes the
   fallout, by removing dead code

 - "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM Reaper Traversal
   Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements in the OOM
   killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim threads so
   they can release resources

 - "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18" from SeongJae Park
   is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON

 - "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization check function" from
   SeongJae Park implement reliability and maintainability improvements
   to a recently-added bug fix

 - "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and non-idle ages" from
   SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to userspace clients
   of the DAMON_STAT information

 - "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse" from Dev Jain removes
   some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of anon VMAs. It also
   increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against an anon vma

 - "mm: do not assume file == vma-&gt;vm_file in compat_vma_mmap_prepare()"
   from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards removal of
   file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon clearing up
   the treatment of stacked filesystems

 - "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from Kiryl Shutsemau
   provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking of large
   folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate

 - "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters during fork" from
   Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats inaccuracies across
   forks and adds selftest code to verify these counters

 - "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei Yang addresses
   some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's mm_slot handling

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (372 commits)
  mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA
  mm: convert folio_page() back to a macro
  mm/khugepaged: use start_addr/addr for improved readability
  hugetlbfs: skip VMAs without shareable locks in hugetlb_vmdelete_list
  alloc_tag: fix boot failure due to NULL pointer dereference
  mm: silence data-race in update_hiwater_rss
  mm/memory-failure: don't select MEMORY_ISOLATION
  mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot
  mm/ksm: get mm_slot by mm_slot_entry() when slot is !NULL
  hugetlb: increase number of reserving hugepages via cmdline
  selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging_pages counter
  mm/ksm: fix incorrect KSM counter handling in mm_struct during fork
  drivers/base/node: fix double free in register_one_node()
  mm: remove PMD alignment constraint in execmem_vmalloc()
  mm/memory_hotplug: fix typo 'esecially' -&gt; 'especially'
  mm/rmap: improve mlock tracking for large folios
  mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround
  mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault()
  mm/rmap: mlock large folios in try_to_unmap_one()
  mm/rmap: fix a mlock race condition in folio_referenced_one()
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from Kairui Song improves
   performance and reduces the failure rate of swap cluster allocation

 - "support large align and nid in Rust allocators" from Vitaly Wool
   permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large alignment when
   perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs

 - "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from Yueyang Pan extend
   DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets for virtual
   address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters

 - "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock" from Suren
   Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of
   /proc/pid/maps

 - "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache checking" from Kairui Song
   performs some cleanup in the swap code

 - "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David Hildenbrand provides
   code cleanup in the pagemap code

 - "add persistent huge zero folio support" from Pankaj Raghav provides
   a block layer speedup by optionalls making the
   huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount
   falls to zero

 - "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a few touchups to
   the recently added Kexec Handover feature

 - "mm: make mm-&gt;flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all arches" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To end the constant
   struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with 64-bit's
   needs

 - "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li cleans up some swap
   code

 - "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip unsupported tests" from
   Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests code

 - "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised"
   from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes to opt-out of
   THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other workloads on the
   system".

   It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations

 - "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox gets us started on
   the memdesc project. Please see

      https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and
      https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc

 - "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from Chi Zhiling
   improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path

 - "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi Yan improves our
   folio splitting selftest code

 - "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang adds some rmap
   selftests

 - "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig removes that
   function and converts its two remaining callers

 - "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain fixes some UFFD
   selftests issues

 - "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris Burkov introduces
   the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these permits btrfs to
   account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather than to the
   cgroups of random inappropriate tasks

 - "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some pageblock handling" from
   Wei Yang provides some readability improvements to the page allocator
   code

 - "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae Park teaches DAMON
   to understand arm32 highmem

 - "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for vma/maple tests" from
   Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and deduplication under
   tools/testing/

 - "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from Liam Howlett fixes
   a couple of 32-bit issues in tools/testing/radix-tree.c

 - "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific
   implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN arch-specific
   initialization code into a common arch-neutral implementation

 - "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes zspool - an
   indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing
   (zsmalloc)

 - "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from Pasha Tatashin makes a
   couple of cleanups in the fork code

 - "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand makes rather a lot of
   adjustments at various nth_page() callsites, eventually permitting
   the removal of that undesirable helper function

 - "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from Yeoreum Yun
   creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that architecture's
   memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode KASAN is
   suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only

 - "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation" from Kefeng Wang does
   some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code

 - "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer parameters" from Max
   Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API functions more accurate
   about the constness of their arguments. This was getting in the way
   of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they attempt to improving
   their own const/non-const accuracy

 - "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola fixes a number of
   code sites which were confused over when to use free_pages() vs
   __free_pages()

 - "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice Ryhl makes the
   mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau and by its
   forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver

 - "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test: split_pte_mapped_thp
   improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and some cleanups to
   the thp selftesting code

 - "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache (phase I)" from Chris
   Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the path to implementing
   "swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation and state tracking
   which is expected to yield speed and space improvements. This
   patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit in some situations

 - "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes the new memdesc
   layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little

 - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from Chunyu Hu fixes some
   issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code

 - "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from Suren Baghdasaryan
   addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new memory
   allocation profiling feature

 - "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few cleanups in
   preparation for more memdesc work

 - "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" from
   Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in furtherance of supporting
   arm highmem

 - "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix warnings" from Muhammad
   Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code and fixes the
   fallout, by removing dead code

 - "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM Reaper Traversal
   Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements in the OOM
   killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim threads so
   they can release resources

 - "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18" from SeongJae Park
   is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON

 - "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization check function" from
   SeongJae Park implement reliability and maintainability improvements
   to a recently-added bug fix

 - "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and non-idle ages" from
   SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to userspace clients
   of the DAMON_STAT information

 - "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse" from Dev Jain removes
   some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of anon VMAs. It also
   increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against an anon vma

 - "mm: do not assume file == vma-&gt;vm_file in compat_vma_mmap_prepare()"
   from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards removal of
   file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon clearing up
   the treatment of stacked filesystems

 - "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from Kiryl Shutsemau
   provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking of large
   folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate

 - "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters during fork" from
   Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats inaccuracies across
   forks and adds selftest code to verify these counters

 - "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei Yang addresses
   some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's mm_slot handling

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (372 commits)
  mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA
  mm: convert folio_page() back to a macro
  mm/khugepaged: use start_addr/addr for improved readability
  hugetlbfs: skip VMAs without shareable locks in hugetlb_vmdelete_list
  alloc_tag: fix boot failure due to NULL pointer dereference
  mm: silence data-race in update_hiwater_rss
  mm/memory-failure: don't select MEMORY_ISOLATION
  mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot
  mm/ksm: get mm_slot by mm_slot_entry() when slot is !NULL
  hugetlb: increase number of reserving hugepages via cmdline
  selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging_pages counter
  mm/ksm: fix incorrect KSM counter handling in mm_struct during fork
  drivers/base/node: fix double free in register_one_node()
  mm: remove PMD alignment constraint in execmem_vmalloc()
  mm/memory_hotplug: fix typo 'esecially' -&gt; 'especially'
  mm/rmap: improve mlock tracking for large folios
  mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround
  mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault()
  mm/rmap: mlock large folios in try_to_unmap_one()
  mm/rmap: fix a mlock race condition in folio_referenced_one()
  ...
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