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<title>linux-stable.git/fs/fuse, branch v6.18</title>
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<title>virtio-fs: fix incorrect check for fsvq-&gt;kobj</title>
<updated>2025-11-05T13:00:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alok Tiwari</name>
<email>alok.a.tiwari@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-27T10:46:47+00:00</published>
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In virtio_fs_add_queues_sysfs(), the code incorrectly checks fs-&gt;mqs_kobj
after calling kobject_create_and_add(). Change the check to fsvq-&gt;kobj
(fs-&gt;mqs_kobj -&gt; fsvq-&gt;kobj) to ensure the per-queue kobject is
successfully created.

Fixes: 87cbdc396a31 ("virtio_fs: add sysfs entries for queue information")
Signed-off-by: Alok Tiwari &lt;alok.a.tiwari@oracle.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027104658.1668537-1-alok.a.tiwari@oracle.com
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi &lt;stefanha@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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In virtio_fs_add_queues_sysfs(), the code incorrectly checks fs-&gt;mqs_kobj
after calling kobject_create_and_add(). Change the check to fsvq-&gt;kobj
(fs-&gt;mqs_kobj -&gt; fsvq-&gt;kobj) to ensure the per-queue kobject is
successfully created.

Fixes: 87cbdc396a31 ("virtio_fs: add sysfs entries for queue information")
Signed-off-by: Alok Tiwari &lt;alok.a.tiwari@oracle.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027104658.1668537-1-alok.a.tiwari@oracle.com
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi &lt;stefanha@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Revert "fs: make vfs_fileattr_[get|set] return -EOPNOTSUPP"</title>
<updated>2025-10-10T11:44:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Albershteyn</name>
<email>aalbersh@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-08T12:44:17+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 474b155adf3927d2c944423045757b54aa1ca4de.

This patch caused regression in ioctl_setflags(). Underlying filesystems
use EOPNOTSUPP to indicate that flag is not supported. This error is
also gets converted in ioctl_setflags(). Therefore, for unsupported
flags error changed from EOPNOSUPP to ENOIOCTLCMD.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/a622643f-1585-40b0-9441-cf7ece176e83@kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Andrey Albershteyn &lt;aalbersh@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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This reverts commit 474b155adf3927d2c944423045757b54aa1ca4de.

This patch caused regression in ioctl_setflags(). Underlying filesystems
use EOPNOTSUPP to indicate that flag is not supported. This error is
also gets converted in ioctl_setflags(). Therefore, for unsupported
flags error changed from EOPNOSUPP to ENOIOCTLCMD.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/a622643f-1585-40b0-9441-cf7ece176e83@kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Andrey Albershteyn &lt;aalbersh@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<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>
<title>Merge tag 'pull-finish_no_open' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-10-03T17:59:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-03T17:59:31+00:00</published>
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Pull finish_no_open updates from Al Viro:
 "finish_no_open calling conventions change to simplify callers"

* tag 'pull-finish_no_open' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  slightly simplify nfs_atomic_open()
  simplify gfs2_atomic_open()
  simplify fuse_atomic_open()
  simplify nfs_atomic_open_v23()
  simplify vboxsf_dir_atomic_open()
  simplify cifs_atomic_open()
  9p: simplify v9fs_vfs_atomic_open_dotl()
  9p: simplify v9fs_vfs_atomic_open()
  allow finish_no_open(file, ERR_PTR(-E...))
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Pull finish_no_open updates from Al Viro:
 "finish_no_open calling conventions change to simplify callers"

* tag 'pull-finish_no_open' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  slightly simplify nfs_atomic_open()
  simplify gfs2_atomic_open()
  simplify fuse_atomic_open()
  simplify nfs_atomic_open_v23()
  simplify vboxsf_dir_atomic_open()
  simplify cifs_atomic_open()
  9p: simplify v9fs_vfs_atomic_open_dotl()
  9p: simplify v9fs_vfs_atomic_open()
  allow finish_no_open(file, ERR_PTR(-E...))
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<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>
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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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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-6.18/io_uring-20250929' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux</title>
<updated>2025-10-02T16:56:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-02T16:56:23+00:00</published>
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Pull io_uring updates from Jens Axboe:

 - Store ring provided buffers locally for the users, rather than stuff
   them into struct io_kiocb.

   These types of buffers must always be fully consumed or recycled in
   the current context, and leaving them in struct io_kiocb is hence not
   a good ideas as that struct has a vastly different life time.

   Basically just an architecture cleanup that can help prevent issues
   with ring provided buffers in the future.

 - Support for mixed CQE sizes in the same ring.

   Before this change, a CQ ring either used the default 16b CQEs, or it
   was setup with 32b CQE using IORING_SETUP_CQE32. For use cases where
   a few 32b CQEs were needed, this caused everything else to use big
   CQEs. This is wasteful both in terms of memory usage, but also memory
   bandwidth for the posted CQEs.

   With IORING_SETUP_CQE_MIXED, applications may use request types that
   post both normal 16b and big 32b CQEs on the same ring.

 - Add helpers for async data management, to make it harder for opcode
   handlers to mess it up.

 - Add support for multishot for uring_cmd, which ublk can use. This
   helps improve efficiency, by providing a persistent request type that
   can trigger multiple CQEs.

 - Add initial support for ring feature querying.

   We had basic support for probe operations, but the API isn't great.
   Rather than expand that, add support for QUERY which is easily
   expandable and can cover a lot more cases than the existing probe
   support. This will help applications get a better idea of what
   operations are supported on a given host.

 - zcrx improvements from Pavel:
        - Improve refill entry alignment for better caching
        - Various cleanups, especially around deduplicating normal
          memory vs dmabuf setup.
        - Generalisation of the niov size (Patch 12). It's still hard
          coded to PAGE_SIZE on init, but will let the user to specify
          the rx buffer length on setup.
        - Syscall / synchronous bufer return. It'll be used as a slow
          fallback path for returning buffers when the refill queue is
          full. Useful for tolerating slight queue size misconfiguration
          or with inconsistent load.
        - Accounting more memory to cgroups.
        - Additional independent cleanups that will also be useful for
          mutli-area support.

 - Various fixes and cleanups

* tag 'for-6.18/io_uring-20250929' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: (68 commits)
  io_uring/cmd: drop unused res2 param from io_uring_cmd_done()
  io_uring: fix nvme's 32b cqes on mixed cq
  io_uring/query: cap number of queries
  io_uring/query: prevent infinite loops
  io_uring/zcrx: account niov arrays to cgroup
  io_uring/zcrx: allow synchronous buffer return
  io_uring/zcrx: introduce io_parse_rqe()
  io_uring/zcrx: don't adjust free cache space
  io_uring/zcrx: use guards for the refill lock
  io_uring/zcrx: reduce netmem scope in refill
  io_uring/zcrx: protect netdev with pp_lock
  io_uring/zcrx: rename dma lock
  io_uring/zcrx: make niov size variable
  io_uring/zcrx: set sgt for umem area
  io_uring/zcrx: remove dmabuf_offset
  io_uring/zcrx: deduplicate area mapping
  io_uring/zcrx: pass ifq to io_zcrx_alloc_fallback()
  io_uring/zcrx: check all niovs filled with dma addresses
  io_uring/zcrx: move area reg checks into io_import_area
  io_uring/zcrx: don't pass slot to io_zcrx_create_area
  ...
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<pre>
Pull io_uring updates from Jens Axboe:

 - Store ring provided buffers locally for the users, rather than stuff
   them into struct io_kiocb.

   These types of buffers must always be fully consumed or recycled in
   the current context, and leaving them in struct io_kiocb is hence not
   a good ideas as that struct has a vastly different life time.

   Basically just an architecture cleanup that can help prevent issues
   with ring provided buffers in the future.

 - Support for mixed CQE sizes in the same ring.

   Before this change, a CQ ring either used the default 16b CQEs, or it
   was setup with 32b CQE using IORING_SETUP_CQE32. For use cases where
   a few 32b CQEs were needed, this caused everything else to use big
   CQEs. This is wasteful both in terms of memory usage, but also memory
   bandwidth for the posted CQEs.

   With IORING_SETUP_CQE_MIXED, applications may use request types that
   post both normal 16b and big 32b CQEs on the same ring.

 - Add helpers for async data management, to make it harder for opcode
   handlers to mess it up.

 - Add support for multishot for uring_cmd, which ublk can use. This
   helps improve efficiency, by providing a persistent request type that
   can trigger multiple CQEs.

 - Add initial support for ring feature querying.

   We had basic support for probe operations, but the API isn't great.
   Rather than expand that, add support for QUERY which is easily
   expandable and can cover a lot more cases than the existing probe
   support. This will help applications get a better idea of what
   operations are supported on a given host.

 - zcrx improvements from Pavel:
        - Improve refill entry alignment for better caching
        - Various cleanups, especially around deduplicating normal
          memory vs dmabuf setup.
        - Generalisation of the niov size (Patch 12). It's still hard
          coded to PAGE_SIZE on init, but will let the user to specify
          the rx buffer length on setup.
        - Syscall / synchronous bufer return. It'll be used as a slow
          fallback path for returning buffers when the refill queue is
          full. Useful for tolerating slight queue size misconfiguration
          or with inconsistent load.
        - Accounting more memory to cgroups.
        - Additional independent cleanups that will also be useful for
          mutli-area support.

 - Various fixes and cleanups

* tag 'for-6.18/io_uring-20250929' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: (68 commits)
  io_uring/cmd: drop unused res2 param from io_uring_cmd_done()
  io_uring: fix nvme's 32b cqes on mixed cq
  io_uring/query: cap number of queries
  io_uring/query: prevent infinite loops
  io_uring/zcrx: account niov arrays to cgroup
  io_uring/zcrx: allow synchronous buffer return
  io_uring/zcrx: introduce io_parse_rqe()
  io_uring/zcrx: don't adjust free cache space
  io_uring/zcrx: use guards for the refill lock
  io_uring/zcrx: reduce netmem scope in refill
  io_uring/zcrx: protect netdev with pp_lock
  io_uring/zcrx: rename dma lock
  io_uring/zcrx: make niov size variable
  io_uring/zcrx: set sgt for umem area
  io_uring/zcrx: remove dmabuf_offset
  io_uring/zcrx: deduplicate area mapping
  io_uring/zcrx: pass ifq to io_zcrx_alloc_fallback()
  io_uring/zcrx: check all niovs filled with dma addresses
  io_uring/zcrx: move area reg checks into io_import_area
  io_uring/zcrx: don't pass slot to io_zcrx_create_area
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.workqueue' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-09-29T17:27:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-29T17:27:17+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs workqueue updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains various workqueue changes affecting the filesystem
  layer.

  Currently if a user enqueue a work item using schedule_delayed_work()
  the used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() use
  WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies
  to schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that
  makes use again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.

  This replaces the use of system_wq and system_unbound_wq. system_wq is
  a per-CPU workqueue which isn't very obvious from the name and
  system_unbound_wq is to be used when locality is not required.

  So this renames system_wq to system_percpu_wq, and system_unbound_wq
  to system_dfl_wq.

  This also adds a new WQ_PERCPU flag to allow the fs subsystem users to
  explicitly request the use of per-CPU behavior. Both WQ_UNBOUND and
  WQ_PERCPU flags coexist for one release cycle to allow callers to
  transition their calls. WQ_UNBOUND will be removed in a next release
  cycle"

* tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.workqueue' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  fs: WQ_PERCPU added to alloc_workqueue users
  fs: replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq
  fs: replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq
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<pre>
Pull vfs workqueue updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains various workqueue changes affecting the filesystem
  layer.

  Currently if a user enqueue a work item using schedule_delayed_work()
  the used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() use
  WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies
  to schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that
  makes use again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.

  This replaces the use of system_wq and system_unbound_wq. system_wq is
  a per-CPU workqueue which isn't very obvious from the name and
  system_unbound_wq is to be used when locality is not required.

  So this renames system_wq to system_percpu_wq, and system_unbound_wq
  to system_dfl_wq.

  This also adds a new WQ_PERCPU flag to allow the fs subsystem users to
  explicitly request the use of per-CPU behavior. Both WQ_UNBOUND and
  WQ_PERCPU flags coexist for one release cycle to allow callers to
  transition their calls. WQ_UNBOUND will be removed in a next release
  cycle"

* tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.workqueue' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  fs: WQ_PERCPU added to alloc_workqueue users
  fs: replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq
  fs: replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-09-29T16:03:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-29T16:03:07+00:00</published>
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the usual selections of misc updates for this cycle.

  Features:

   - Add "initramfs_options" parameter to set initramfs mount options.
     This allows to add specific mount options to the rootfs to e.g.,
     limit the memory size

   - Add RWF_NOSIGNAL flag for pwritev2()

     Add RWF_NOSIGNAL flag for pwritev2. This flag prevents the SIGPIPE
     signal from being raised when writing on disconnected pipes or
     sockets. The flag is handled directly by the pipe filesystem and
     converted to the existing MSG_NOSIGNAL flag for sockets

   - Allow to pass pid namespace as procfs mount option

     Ever since the introduction of pid namespaces, procfs has had very
     implicit behaviour surrounding them (the pidns used by a procfs
     mount is auto-selected based on the mounting process's active
     pidns, and the pidns itself is basically hidden once the mount has
     been constructed)

     This implicit behaviour has historically meant that userspace was
     required to do some special dances in order to configure the pidns
     of a procfs mount as desired. Examples include:

     * In order to bypass the mnt_too_revealing() check, Kubernetes
       creates a procfs mount from an empty pidns so that user
       namespaced containers can be nested (without this, the nested
       containers would fail to mount procfs)

       But this requires forking off a helper process because you cannot
       just one-shot this using mount(2)

     * Container runtimes in general need to fork into a container
       before configuring its mounts, which can lead to security issues
       in the case of shared-pidns containers (a privileged process in
       the pidns can interact with your container runtime process)

       While SUID_DUMP_DISABLE and user namespaces make this less of an
       issue, the strict need for this due to a minor uAPI wart is kind
       of unfortunate

       Things would be much easier if there was a way for userspace to
       just specify the pidns they want. So this pull request contains
       changes to implement a new "pidns" argument which can be set
       using fsconfig(2):

           fsconfig(procfd, FSCONFIG_SET_FD, "pidns", NULL, nsfd);
           fsconfig(procfd, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "pidns", "/proc/self/ns/pid", 0);

       or classic mount(2) / mount(8):

           // mount -t proc -o pidns=/proc/self/ns/pid proc /tmp/proc
           mount("proc", "/tmp/proc", "proc", MS_..., "pidns=/proc/self/ns/pid");

  Cleanups:

   - Remove the last references to EXPORT_OP_ASYNC_LOCK

   - Make file_remove_privs_flags() static

   - Remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN when GFP_NOWAIT is used

   - Use try_cmpxchg() in start_dir_add()

   - Use try_cmpxchg() in sb_init_done_wq()

   - Replace offsetof() with struct_size() in ioctl_file_dedupe_range()

   - Remove vfs_ioctl() export

   - Replace rwlock() with spinlock in epoll code as rwlock causes
     priority inversion on preempt rt kernels

   - Make ns_entries in fs/proc/namespaces const

   - Use a switch() statement() in init_special_inode() just like we do
     in may_open()

   - Use struct_size() in dir_add() in the initramfs code

   - Use str_plural() in rd_load_image()

   - Replace strcpy() with strscpy() in find_link()

   - Rename generic_delete_inode() to inode_just_drop() and
     generic_drop_inode() to inode_generic_drop()

   - Remove unused arguments from fcntl_{g,s}et_rw_hint()

  Fixes:

   - Document @name parameter for name_contains_dotdot() helper

   - Fix spelling mistake

   - Always return zero from replace_fd() instead of the file descriptor
     number

   - Limit the size for copy_file_range() in compat mode to prevent a
     signed overflow

   - Fix debugfs mount options not being applied

   - Verify the inode mode when loading it from disk in minixfs

   - Verify the inode mode when loading it from disk in cramfs

   - Don't trigger automounts with RESOLVE_NO_XDEV

     If openat2() was called with RESOLVE_NO_XDEV it didn't traverse
     through automounts, but could still trigger them

   - Add FL_RECLAIM flag to show_fl_flags() macro so it appears in
     tracepoints

   - Fix unused variable warning in rd_load_image() on s390

   - Make INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME depend on BLK_DEV_INITRD

   - Use ns_capable_noaudit() when determining net sysctl permissions

   - Don't call path_put() under namespace semaphore in listmount() and
     statmount()"

* tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (38 commits)
  fcntl: trim arguments
  listmount: don't call path_put() under namespace semaphore
  statmount: don't call path_put() under namespace semaphore
  pid: use ns_capable_noaudit() when determining net sysctl permissions
  fs: rename generic_delete_inode() and generic_drop_inode()
  init: INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME should depend on BLK_DEV_INITRD
  initramfs: Replace strcpy() with strscpy() in find_link()
  initrd: Use str_plural() in rd_load_image()
  initramfs: Use struct_size() helper to improve dir_add()
  initrd: Fix unused variable warning in rd_load_image() on s390
  fs: use the switch statement in init_special_inode()
  fs/proc/namespaces: make ns_entries const
  filelock: add FL_RECLAIM to show_fl_flags() macro
  eventpoll: Replace rwlock with spinlock
  selftests/proc: add tests for new pidns APIs
  procfs: add "pidns" mount option
  pidns: move is-ancestor logic to helper
  openat2: don't trigger automounts with RESOLVE_NO_XDEV
  namei: move cross-device check to __traverse_mounts
  namei: remove LOOKUP_NO_XDEV check from handle_mounts
  ...
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<pre>
Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the usual selections of misc updates for this cycle.

  Features:

   - Add "initramfs_options" parameter to set initramfs mount options.
     This allows to add specific mount options to the rootfs to e.g.,
     limit the memory size

   - Add RWF_NOSIGNAL flag for pwritev2()

     Add RWF_NOSIGNAL flag for pwritev2. This flag prevents the SIGPIPE
     signal from being raised when writing on disconnected pipes or
     sockets. The flag is handled directly by the pipe filesystem and
     converted to the existing MSG_NOSIGNAL flag for sockets

   - Allow to pass pid namespace as procfs mount option

     Ever since the introduction of pid namespaces, procfs has had very
     implicit behaviour surrounding them (the pidns used by a procfs
     mount is auto-selected based on the mounting process's active
     pidns, and the pidns itself is basically hidden once the mount has
     been constructed)

     This implicit behaviour has historically meant that userspace was
     required to do some special dances in order to configure the pidns
     of a procfs mount as desired. Examples include:

     * In order to bypass the mnt_too_revealing() check, Kubernetes
       creates a procfs mount from an empty pidns so that user
       namespaced containers can be nested (without this, the nested
       containers would fail to mount procfs)

       But this requires forking off a helper process because you cannot
       just one-shot this using mount(2)

     * Container runtimes in general need to fork into a container
       before configuring its mounts, which can lead to security issues
       in the case of shared-pidns containers (a privileged process in
       the pidns can interact with your container runtime process)

       While SUID_DUMP_DISABLE and user namespaces make this less of an
       issue, the strict need for this due to a minor uAPI wart is kind
       of unfortunate

       Things would be much easier if there was a way for userspace to
       just specify the pidns they want. So this pull request contains
       changes to implement a new "pidns" argument which can be set
       using fsconfig(2):

           fsconfig(procfd, FSCONFIG_SET_FD, "pidns", NULL, nsfd);
           fsconfig(procfd, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "pidns", "/proc/self/ns/pid", 0);

       or classic mount(2) / mount(8):

           // mount -t proc -o pidns=/proc/self/ns/pid proc /tmp/proc
           mount("proc", "/tmp/proc", "proc", MS_..., "pidns=/proc/self/ns/pid");

  Cleanups:

   - Remove the last references to EXPORT_OP_ASYNC_LOCK

   - Make file_remove_privs_flags() static

   - Remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN when GFP_NOWAIT is used

   - Use try_cmpxchg() in start_dir_add()

   - Use try_cmpxchg() in sb_init_done_wq()

   - Replace offsetof() with struct_size() in ioctl_file_dedupe_range()

   - Remove vfs_ioctl() export

   - Replace rwlock() with spinlock in epoll code as rwlock causes
     priority inversion on preempt rt kernels

   - Make ns_entries in fs/proc/namespaces const

   - Use a switch() statement() in init_special_inode() just like we do
     in may_open()

   - Use struct_size() in dir_add() in the initramfs code

   - Use str_plural() in rd_load_image()

   - Replace strcpy() with strscpy() in find_link()

   - Rename generic_delete_inode() to inode_just_drop() and
     generic_drop_inode() to inode_generic_drop()

   - Remove unused arguments from fcntl_{g,s}et_rw_hint()

  Fixes:

   - Document @name parameter for name_contains_dotdot() helper

   - Fix spelling mistake

   - Always return zero from replace_fd() instead of the file descriptor
     number

   - Limit the size for copy_file_range() in compat mode to prevent a
     signed overflow

   - Fix debugfs mount options not being applied

   - Verify the inode mode when loading it from disk in minixfs

   - Verify the inode mode when loading it from disk in cramfs

   - Don't trigger automounts with RESOLVE_NO_XDEV

     If openat2() was called with RESOLVE_NO_XDEV it didn't traverse
     through automounts, but could still trigger them

   - Add FL_RECLAIM flag to show_fl_flags() macro so it appears in
     tracepoints

   - Fix unused variable warning in rd_load_image() on s390

   - Make INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME depend on BLK_DEV_INITRD

   - Use ns_capable_noaudit() when determining net sysctl permissions

   - Don't call path_put() under namespace semaphore in listmount() and
     statmount()"

* tag 'vfs-6.18-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (38 commits)
  fcntl: trim arguments
  listmount: don't call path_put() under namespace semaphore
  statmount: don't call path_put() under namespace semaphore
  pid: use ns_capable_noaudit() when determining net sysctl permissions
  fs: rename generic_delete_inode() and generic_drop_inode()
  init: INITRAMFS_PRESERVE_MTIME should depend on BLK_DEV_INITRD
  initramfs: Replace strcpy() with strscpy() in find_link()
  initrd: Use str_plural() in rd_load_image()
  initramfs: Use struct_size() helper to improve dir_add()
  initrd: Fix unused variable warning in rd_load_image() on s390
  fs: use the switch statement in init_special_inode()
  fs/proc/namespaces: make ns_entries const
  filelock: add FL_RECLAIM to show_fl_flags() macro
  eventpoll: Replace rwlock with spinlock
  selftests/proc: add tests for new pidns APIs
  procfs: add "pidns" mount option
  pidns: move is-ancestor logic to helper
  openat2: don't trigger automounts with RESOLVE_NO_XDEV
  namei: move cross-device check to __traverse_mounts
  namei: remove LOOKUP_NO_XDEV check from handle_mounts
  ...
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<title>fuse: move CREATE_TRACE_POINTS to a separate file</title>
<updated>2025-09-25T14:22:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Darrick J. Wong</name>
<email>djwong@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-16T00:27:58+00:00</published>
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Before we start adding new tracepoints for fuse+iomap, move the
tracepoint creation itself to a separate source file so that we don't
have to start pulling iomap dependencies into dev.c just for the iomap
structures.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
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Before we start adding new tracepoints for fuse+iomap, move the
tracepoint creation itself to a separate source file so that we don't
have to start pulling iomap dependencies into dev.c just for the iomap
structures.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fuse: move the backing file idr and code into a new source file</title>
<updated>2025-09-25T14:06:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Darrick J. Wong</name>
<email>djwong@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-16T00:27:11+00:00</published>
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iomap support for fuse is also going to want the ability to attach
backing files to a fuse filesystem.  Move the fuse_backing code into a
separate file so that both can use it.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
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iomap support for fuse is also going to want the ability to attach
backing files to a fuse filesystem.  Move the fuse_backing code into a
separate file so that both can use it.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
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