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<title>lsm: add backing_file LSM hooks</title>
<updated>2026-05-07T04:14:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Moore</name>
<email>paul@paul-moore.com</email>
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<published>2025-12-19T18:18:22+00:00</published>
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commit 6af36aeb147a06dea47c49859cd6ca5659aeb987 upstream.

Stacked filesystems such as overlayfs do not currently provide the
necessary mechanisms for LSMs to properly enforce access controls on the
mmap() and mprotect() operations.  In order to resolve this gap, a LSM
security blob is being added to the backing_file struct and the following
new LSM hooks are being created:

 security_backing_file_alloc()
 security_backing_file_free()
 security_mmap_backing_file()

The first two hooks are to manage the lifecycle of the LSM security blob
in the backing_file struct, while the third provides a new mmap() access
control point for the underlying backing file.  It is also expected that
LSMs will likely want to update their security_file_mprotect() callback
to address issues with their mprotect() controls, but that does not
require a change to the security_file_mprotect() LSM hook.

There are a three other small changes to support these new LSM hooks:
* Pass the user file associated with a backing file down to
alloc_empty_backing_file() so it can be included in the
security_backing_file_alloc() hook.
* Add getter and setter functions for the backing_file struct LSM blob
as the backing_file struct remains private to fs/file_table.c.
* Constify the file struct field in the LSM common_audit_data struct to
better support LSMs that need to pass a const file struct pointer into
the common LSM audit code.

Thanks to Arnd Bergmann for identifying the missing EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()
and supplying a fixup.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 6af36aeb147a06dea47c49859cd6ca5659aeb987 upstream.

Stacked filesystems such as overlayfs do not currently provide the
necessary mechanisms for LSMs to properly enforce access controls on the
mmap() and mprotect() operations.  In order to resolve this gap, a LSM
security blob is being added to the backing_file struct and the following
new LSM hooks are being created:

 security_backing_file_alloc()
 security_backing_file_free()
 security_mmap_backing_file()

The first two hooks are to manage the lifecycle of the LSM security blob
in the backing_file struct, while the third provides a new mmap() access
control point for the underlying backing file.  It is also expected that
LSMs will likely want to update their security_file_mprotect() callback
to address issues with their mprotect() controls, but that does not
require a change to the security_file_mprotect() LSM hook.

There are a three other small changes to support these new LSM hooks:
* Pass the user file associated with a backing file down to
alloc_empty_backing_file() so it can be included in the
security_backing_file_alloc() hook.
* Add getter and setter functions for the backing_file struct LSM blob
as the backing_file struct remains private to fs/file_table.c.
* Constify the file struct field in the LSM common_audit_data struct to
better support LSMs that need to pass a const file struct pointer into
the common LSM audit code.

Thanks to Arnd Bergmann for identifying the missing EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()
and supplying a fixup.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<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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<entry>
<title>fuse: quiet down complaints in fuse_conn_limit_write</title>
<updated>2026-04-27T13:30:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Darrick J. Wong</name>
<email>djwong@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-23T23:06:50+00:00</published>
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commit 129a45f9755a89f573c6a513a6b9e3d234ce89b0 upstream.

gcc 15 complains about an uninitialized variable val that is passed by
reference into fuse_conn_limit_write:

 control.c: In function ‘fuse_conn_congestion_threshold_write’:
 include/asm-generic/rwonce.h:55:37: warning: ‘val’ may be used uninitialized [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
    55 |         *(volatile typeof(x) *)&amp;(x) = (val);                            \
       |         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~
 include/asm-generic/rwonce.h:61:9: note: in expansion of macro ‘__WRITE_ONCE’
    61 |         __WRITE_ONCE(x, val);                                           \
       |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~
 control.c:178:9: note: in expansion of macro ‘WRITE_ONCE’
   178 |         WRITE_ONCE(fc-&gt;congestion_threshold, val);
       |         ^~~~~~~~~~
 control.c:166:18: note: ‘val’ was declared here
   166 |         unsigned val;
       |                  ^~~

Unfortunately there's enough macro spew involved in kstrtoul_from_user
that I think gcc gives up on its analysis and sprays the above warning.
AFAICT it's not actually a bug, but we could just zero-initialize the
variable to enable using -Wmaybe-uninitialized to find real problems.

Previously we would use some weird uninitialized_var annotation to quiet
down the warnings, so clearly this code has been like this for quite
some time.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.9
Fixes: 3f649ab728cda8 ("treewide: Remove uninitialized_var() usage")
Signed-off-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 129a45f9755a89f573c6a513a6b9e3d234ce89b0 upstream.

gcc 15 complains about an uninitialized variable val that is passed by
reference into fuse_conn_limit_write:

 control.c: In function ‘fuse_conn_congestion_threshold_write’:
 include/asm-generic/rwonce.h:55:37: warning: ‘val’ may be used uninitialized [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
    55 |         *(volatile typeof(x) *)&amp;(x) = (val);                            \
       |         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~
 include/asm-generic/rwonce.h:61:9: note: in expansion of macro ‘__WRITE_ONCE’
    61 |         __WRITE_ONCE(x, val);                                           \
       |         ^~~~~~~~~~~~
 control.c:178:9: note: in expansion of macro ‘WRITE_ONCE’
   178 |         WRITE_ONCE(fc-&gt;congestion_threshold, val);
       |         ^~~~~~~~~~
 control.c:166:18: note: ‘val’ was declared here
   166 |         unsigned val;
       |                  ^~~

Unfortunately there's enough macro spew involved in kstrtoul_from_user
that I think gcc gives up on its analysis and sprays the above warning.
AFAICT it's not actually a bug, but we could just zero-initialize the
variable to enable using -Wmaybe-uninitialized to find real problems.

Previously we would use some weird uninitialized_var annotation to quiet
down the warnings, so clearly this code has been like this for quite
some time.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.9
Fixes: 3f649ab728cda8 ("treewide: Remove uninitialized_var() usage")
Signed-off-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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<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>
<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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<entry>
<title>fuse: reject oversized dirents in page cache</title>
<updated>2026-04-27T13:30:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Samuel Page</name>
<email>sam@bynar.io</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-20T09:01:37+00:00</published>
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commit 51a8de6c50bf947c8f534cd73da4c8f0a13e7bed upstream.

fuse_add_dirent_to_cache() computes a serialized dirent size from the
server-controlled namelen field and copies the dirent into a single
page-cache page. The existing logic only checks whether the dirent fits
in the remaining space of the current page and advances to a fresh page
if not. It never checks whether the dirent itself exceeds PAGE_SIZE.

As a result, a malicious FUSE server can return a dirent with
namelen=4095, producing a serialized record size of 4120 bytes. On 4 KiB
page systems this causes memcpy() to overflow the cache page by 24 bytes
into the following kernel page.

Reject dirents that cannot fit in a single page before copying them into
the readdir cache.

Fixes: 69e34551152a ("fuse: allow caching readdir")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.16+
Assisted-by: Bynario AI
Signed-off-by: Samuel Page &lt;sam@bynar.io&gt;
Reported-by: Qi Tang &lt;tpluszz77@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Zijun Hu &lt;nightu@northwestern.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260420090139.662772-1-mszeredi@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 51a8de6c50bf947c8f534cd73da4c8f0a13e7bed upstream.

fuse_add_dirent_to_cache() computes a serialized dirent size from the
server-controlled namelen field and copies the dirent into a single
page-cache page. The existing logic only checks whether the dirent fits
in the remaining space of the current page and advances to a fresh page
if not. It never checks whether the dirent itself exceeds PAGE_SIZE.

As a result, a malicious FUSE server can return a dirent with
namelen=4095, producing a serialized record size of 4120 bytes. On 4 KiB
page systems this causes memcpy() to overflow the cache page by 24 bytes
into the following kernel page.

Reject dirents that cannot fit in a single page before copying them into
the readdir cache.

Fixes: 69e34551152a ("fuse: allow caching readdir")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.16+
Assisted-by: Bynario AI
Signed-off-by: Samuel Page &lt;sam@bynar.io&gt;
Reported-by: Qi Tang &lt;tpluszz77@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Zijun Hu &lt;nightu@northwestern.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260420090139.662772-1-mszeredi@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>writeback: don't block sync for filesystems with no data integrity guarantees</title>
<updated>2026-03-20T13:18:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joanne Koong</name>
<email>joannelkoong@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-20T00:51:45+00:00</published>
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Add a SB_I_NO_DATA_INTEGRITY superblock flag for filesystems that cannot
guarantee data persistence on sync (eg fuse). For superblocks with this
flag set, sync kicks off writeback of dirty inodes but does not wait
for the flusher threads to complete the writeback.

This replaces the per-inode AS_NO_DATA_INTEGRITY mapping flag added in
commit f9a49aa302a0 ("fs/writeback: skip AS_NO_DATA_INTEGRITY mappings
in wait_sb_inodes()"). The flag belongs at the superblock level because
data integrity is a filesystem-wide property, not a per-inode one.
Having this flag at the superblock level also allows us to skip having
to iterate every dirty inode in wait_sb_inodes() only to skip each inode
individually.

Prior to this commit, mappings with no data integrity guarantees skipped
waiting on writeback completion but still waited on the flusher threads
to finish initiating the writeback. Waiting on the flusher threads is
unnecessary. This commit kicks off writeback but does not wait on the
flusher threads. This change properly addresses a recent report [1] for
a suspend-to-RAM hang seen on fuse-overlayfs that was caused by waiting
on the flusher threads to finish:

Workqueue: pm_fs_sync pm_fs_sync_work_fn
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 __schedule+0x457/0x1720
 schedule+0x27/0xd0
 wb_wait_for_completion+0x97/0xe0
 sync_inodes_sb+0xf8/0x2e0
 __iterate_supers+0xdc/0x160
 ksys_sync+0x43/0xb0
 pm_fs_sync_work_fn+0x17/0xa0
 process_one_work+0x193/0x350
 worker_thread+0x1a1/0x310
 kthread+0xfc/0x240
 ret_from_fork+0x243/0x280
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
 &lt;/TASK&gt;

On fuse this is problematic because there are paths that may cause the
flusher thread to block (eg if systemd freezes the user session cgroups
first, which freezes the fuse daemon, before invoking the kernel
suspend. The kernel suspend triggers -&gt;write_node() which on fuse issues
a synchronous setattr request, which cannot be processed since the
daemon is frozen. Or if the daemon is buggy and cannot properly complete
writeback, initiating writeback on a dirty folio already under writeback
leads to writeback_get_folio() -&gt; folio_prepare_writeback() -&gt;
unconditional wait on writeback to finish, which will cause a hang).
This commit restores fuse to its prior behavior before tmp folios were
removed, where sync was essentially a no-op.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/CAJnrk1a-asuvfrbKXbEwwDSctvemF+6zfhdnuzO65Pt8HsFSRw@mail.gmail.com/T/#m632c4648e9cafc4239299887109ebd880ac6c5c1

Fixes: 0c58a97f919c ("fuse: remove tmp folio for writebacks and internal rb tree")
Reported-by: John &lt;therealgraysky@proton.me&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong &lt;joannelkoong@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260320005145.2483161-2-joannelkoong@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Add a SB_I_NO_DATA_INTEGRITY superblock flag for filesystems that cannot
guarantee data persistence on sync (eg fuse). For superblocks with this
flag set, sync kicks off writeback of dirty inodes but does not wait
for the flusher threads to complete the writeback.

This replaces the per-inode AS_NO_DATA_INTEGRITY mapping flag added in
commit f9a49aa302a0 ("fs/writeback: skip AS_NO_DATA_INTEGRITY mappings
in wait_sb_inodes()"). The flag belongs at the superblock level because
data integrity is a filesystem-wide property, not a per-inode one.
Having this flag at the superblock level also allows us to skip having
to iterate every dirty inode in wait_sb_inodes() only to skip each inode
individually.

Prior to this commit, mappings with no data integrity guarantees skipped
waiting on writeback completion but still waited on the flusher threads
to finish initiating the writeback. Waiting on the flusher threads is
unnecessary. This commit kicks off writeback but does not wait on the
flusher threads. This change properly addresses a recent report [1] for
a suspend-to-RAM hang seen on fuse-overlayfs that was caused by waiting
on the flusher threads to finish:

Workqueue: pm_fs_sync pm_fs_sync_work_fn
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 __schedule+0x457/0x1720
 schedule+0x27/0xd0
 wb_wait_for_completion+0x97/0xe0
 sync_inodes_sb+0xf8/0x2e0
 __iterate_supers+0xdc/0x160
 ksys_sync+0x43/0xb0
 pm_fs_sync_work_fn+0x17/0xa0
 process_one_work+0x193/0x350
 worker_thread+0x1a1/0x310
 kthread+0xfc/0x240
 ret_from_fork+0x243/0x280
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
 &lt;/TASK&gt;

On fuse this is problematic because there are paths that may cause the
flusher thread to block (eg if systemd freezes the user session cgroups
first, which freezes the fuse daemon, before invoking the kernel
suspend. The kernel suspend triggers -&gt;write_node() which on fuse issues
a synchronous setattr request, which cannot be processed since the
daemon is frozen. Or if the daemon is buggy and cannot properly complete
writeback, initiating writeback on a dirty folio already under writeback
leads to writeback_get_folio() -&gt; folio_prepare_writeback() -&gt;
unconditional wait on writeback to finish, which will cause a hang).
This commit restores fuse to its prior behavior before tmp folios were
removed, where sync was essentially a no-op.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/CAJnrk1a-asuvfrbKXbEwwDSctvemF+6zfhdnuzO65Pt8HsFSRw@mail.gmail.com/T/#m632c4648e9cafc4239299887109ebd880ac6c5c1

Fixes: 0c58a97f919c ("fuse: remove tmp folio for writebacks and internal rb tree")
Reported-by: John &lt;therealgraysky@proton.me&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong &lt;joannelkoong@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260320005145.2483161-2-joannelkoong@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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</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>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=bf4afc53b77aeaa48b5409da5c8da6bb4eff7f43'/>
<id>bf4afc53b77aeaa48b5409da5c8da6bb4eff7f43</id>
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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>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kmalloc_obj-treewide-v7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T19:02:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T19:02:58+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8934827db5403eae57d4537114a9ff88b0a8460f'/>
<id>8934827db5403eae57d4537114a9ff88b0a8460f</id>
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Pull kmalloc_obj conversion from Kees Cook:
 "This does the tree-wide conversion to kmalloc_obj() and friends using
  coccinelle, with a subsequent small manual cleanup of whitespace
  alignment that coccinelle does not handle.

  This uncovered a clang bug in __builtin_counted_by_ref(), so the
  conversion is preceded by disabling that for current versions of
  clang.  The imminent clang 22.1 release has the fix.

  I've done allmodconfig build tests for x86_64, arm64, i386, and arm. I
  did defconfig builds for alpha, m68k, mips, parisc, powerpc, riscv,
  s390, sparc, sh, arc, csky, xtensa, hexagon, and openrisc"

* tag 'kmalloc_obj-treewide-v7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  kmalloc_obj: Clean up after treewide replacements
  treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types
  compiler_types: Disable __builtin_counted_by_ref for Clang
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<pre>
Pull kmalloc_obj conversion from Kees Cook:
 "This does the tree-wide conversion to kmalloc_obj() and friends using
  coccinelle, with a subsequent small manual cleanup of whitespace
  alignment that coccinelle does not handle.

  This uncovered a clang bug in __builtin_counted_by_ref(), so the
  conversion is preceded by disabling that for current versions of
  clang.  The imminent clang 22.1 release has the fix.

  I've done allmodconfig build tests for x86_64, arm64, i386, and arm. I
  did defconfig builds for alpha, m68k, mips, parisc, powerpc, riscv,
  s390, sparc, sh, arc, csky, xtensa, hexagon, and openrisc"

* tag 'kmalloc_obj-treewide-v7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  kmalloc_obj: Clean up after treewide replacements
  treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types
  compiler_types: Disable __builtin_counted_by_ref for Clang
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</div>
</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>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=69050f8d6d075dc01af7a5f2f550a8067510366f'/>
<id>69050f8d6d075dc01af7a5f2f550a8067510366f</id>
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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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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
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>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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