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<title>linux-stable.git/fs/inode.c, branch v6.9</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'bcachefs-2024-03-13' of https://evilpiepirate.org/git/bcachefs</title>
<updated>2024-03-15T16:00:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-15T16:00:09+00:00</published>
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Pull bcachefs updates from Kent Overstreet:

 - Subvolume children btree; this is needed for providing a userspace
   interface for walking subvolumes, which will come later

 - Lots of improvements to directory structure checking

 - Improved journal pipelining, significantly improving performance on
   high iodepth write workloads

 - Discard path improvements: the discard path is more efficient, and no
   longer flushes the journal unnecessarily

 - Buffered write path can now avoid taking the inode lock

 - new mm helper: memalloc_flags_{save|restore}

 - mempool now does kvmalloc mempools

* tag 'bcachefs-2024-03-13' of https://evilpiepirate.org/git/bcachefs: (128 commits)
  bcachefs: time_stats: shrink time_stat_buffer for better alignment
  bcachefs: time_stats: split stats-with-quantiles into a separate structure
  bcachefs: mean_and_variance: put struct mean_and_variance_weighted on a diet
  bcachefs: time_stats: add larger units
  bcachefs: pull out time_stats.[ch]
  bcachefs: reconstruct_alloc cleanup
  bcachefs: fix bch_folio_sector padding
  bcachefs: Fix btree key cache coherency during replay
  bcachefs: Always flush write buffer in delete_dead_inodes()
  bcachefs: Fix order of gc_done passes
  bcachefs: fix deletion of indirect extents in btree_gc
  bcachefs: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic
  bcachefs: Kill unused flags argument to btree_split()
  bcachefs: Check for writing superblocks with nonsense member seq fields
  bcachefs: fix bch2_journal_buf_to_text()
  lib/generic-radix-tree.c: Make nodes more reasonably sized
  bcachefs: copy_(to|from)_user_errcode()
  bcachefs: Split out bkey_types.h
  bcachefs: fix lost journal buf wakeup due to improved pipelining
  bcachefs: intercept mountoption value for bool type
  ...
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Pull bcachefs updates from Kent Overstreet:

 - Subvolume children btree; this is needed for providing a userspace
   interface for walking subvolumes, which will come later

 - Lots of improvements to directory structure checking

 - Improved journal pipelining, significantly improving performance on
   high iodepth write workloads

 - Discard path improvements: the discard path is more efficient, and no
   longer flushes the journal unnecessarily

 - Buffered write path can now avoid taking the inode lock

 - new mm helper: memalloc_flags_{save|restore}

 - mempool now does kvmalloc mempools

* tag 'bcachefs-2024-03-13' of https://evilpiepirate.org/git/bcachefs: (128 commits)
  bcachefs: time_stats: shrink time_stat_buffer for better alignment
  bcachefs: time_stats: split stats-with-quantiles into a separate structure
  bcachefs: mean_and_variance: put struct mean_and_variance_weighted on a diet
  bcachefs: time_stats: add larger units
  bcachefs: pull out time_stats.[ch]
  bcachefs: reconstruct_alloc cleanup
  bcachefs: fix bch_folio_sector padding
  bcachefs: Fix btree key cache coherency during replay
  bcachefs: Always flush write buffer in delete_dead_inodes()
  bcachefs: Fix order of gc_done passes
  bcachefs: fix deletion of indirect extents in btree_gc
  bcachefs: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic
  bcachefs: Kill unused flags argument to btree_split()
  bcachefs: Check for writing superblocks with nonsense member seq fields
  bcachefs: fix bch2_journal_buf_to_text()
  lib/generic-radix-tree.c: Make nodes more reasonably sized
  bcachefs: copy_(to|from)_user_errcode()
  bcachefs: Split out bkey_types.h
  bcachefs: fix lost journal buf wakeup due to improved pipelining
  bcachefs: intercept mountoption value for bool type
  ...
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<entry>
<title>fs: file_remove_privs_flags()</title>
<updated>2024-03-14T01:22:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kent Overstreet</name>
<email>kent.overstreet@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-28T23:28:48+00:00</published>
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Rename and export __file_remove_privs(); for a buffered write path that
doesn't take the inode lock we need to be able to check if the operation
needs to do work first.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Rename and export __file_remove_privs(); for a buffered write path that
doesn't take the inode lock we need to be able to check if the operation
needs to do work first.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.9.iomap' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2024-03-11T17:07:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-11T17:07:03+00:00</published>
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Pull iomap updates from Christian Brauner:

 - Restore read-write hints in struct bio through the bi_write_hint
   member for the sake of UFS devices in mobile applications. This can
   result in up to 40% lower write amplification in UFS devices. The
   patch series that builds on this will be coming in via the SCSI
   maintainers (Bart)

 - Overhaul the iomap writeback code. Afterwards -&gt;map_blocks() is able
   to map multiple blocks at once as long as they're in the same folio.
   This reduces CPU usage for buffered write workloads on e.g., xfs on
   systems with lots of cores (Christoph)

 - Record processed bytes in iomap_iter() trace event (Kassey)

 - Extend iomap_writepage_map() trace event after Christoph's
   -&gt;map_block() changes to map mutliple blocks at once (Zhang)

* tag 'vfs-6.9.iomap' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (22 commits)
  iomap: Add processed for iomap_iter
  iomap: add pos and dirty_len into trace_iomap_writepage_map
  block, fs: Restore the per-bio/request data lifetime fields
  fs: Propagate write hints to the struct block_device inode
  fs: Move enum rw_hint into a new header file
  fs: Split fcntl_rw_hint()
  fs: Verify write lifetime constants at compile time
  fs: Fix rw_hint validation
  iomap: pass the length of the dirty region to -&gt;map_blocks
  iomap: map multiple blocks at a time
  iomap: submit ioends immediately
  iomap: factor out a iomap_writepage_map_block helper
  iomap: only call mapping_set_error once for each failed bio
  iomap: don't chain bios
  iomap: move the iomap_sector sector calculation out of iomap_add_to_ioend
  iomap: clean up the iomap_alloc_ioend calling convention
  iomap: move all remaining per-folio logic into iomap_writepage_map
  iomap: factor out a iomap_writepage_handle_eof helper
  iomap: move the PF_MEMALLOC check to iomap_writepages
  iomap: move the io_folios field out of struct iomap_ioend
  ...
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Pull iomap updates from Christian Brauner:

 - Restore read-write hints in struct bio through the bi_write_hint
   member for the sake of UFS devices in mobile applications. This can
   result in up to 40% lower write amplification in UFS devices. The
   patch series that builds on this will be coming in via the SCSI
   maintainers (Bart)

 - Overhaul the iomap writeback code. Afterwards -&gt;map_blocks() is able
   to map multiple blocks at once as long as they're in the same folio.
   This reduces CPU usage for buffered write workloads on e.g., xfs on
   systems with lots of cores (Christoph)

 - Record processed bytes in iomap_iter() trace event (Kassey)

 - Extend iomap_writepage_map() trace event after Christoph's
   -&gt;map_block() changes to map mutliple blocks at once (Zhang)

* tag 'vfs-6.9.iomap' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (22 commits)
  iomap: Add processed for iomap_iter
  iomap: add pos and dirty_len into trace_iomap_writepage_map
  block, fs: Restore the per-bio/request data lifetime fields
  fs: Propagate write hints to the struct block_device inode
  fs: Move enum rw_hint into a new header file
  fs: Split fcntl_rw_hint()
  fs: Verify write lifetime constants at compile time
  fs: Fix rw_hint validation
  iomap: pass the length of the dirty region to -&gt;map_blocks
  iomap: map multiple blocks at a time
  iomap: submit ioends immediately
  iomap: factor out a iomap_writepage_map_block helper
  iomap: only call mapping_set_error once for each failed bio
  iomap: don't chain bios
  iomap: move the iomap_sector sector calculation out of iomap_add_to_ioend
  iomap: clean up the iomap_alloc_ioend calling convention
  iomap: move all remaining per-folio logic into iomap_writepage_map
  iomap: factor out a iomap_writepage_handle_eof helper
  iomap: move the PF_MEMALLOC check to iomap_writepages
  iomap: move the io_folios field out of struct iomap_ioend
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: use inode_set_ctime_to_ts to set inode ctime to current time</title>
<updated>2024-03-01T12:58:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nguyen Dinh Phi</name>
<email>phind.uet@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-28T17:30:31+00:00</published>
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The function inode_set_ctime_current simply retrieves the current time
and assigns it to the field __i_ctime without any alterations. Therefore,
it is possible to set ctime to now directly using inode_set_ctime_to_ts

Signed-off-by: Nguyen Dinh Phi &lt;phind.uet@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240228173031.3208743-1-phind.uet@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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The function inode_set_ctime_current simply retrieves the current time
and assigns it to the field __i_ctime without any alterations. Therefore,
it is possible to set ctime to now directly using inode_set_ctime_to_ts

Signed-off-by: Nguyen Dinh Phi &lt;phind.uet@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240228173031.3208743-1-phind.uet@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: remove SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag usage</title>
<updated>2024-02-27T10:21:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chengming Zhou</name>
<email>zhouchengming@bytedance.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-24T13:53:15+00:00</published>
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The SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag used to be implemented in SLAB, which was
removed as of v6.8-rc1 (see [1]), so it became a dead flag since the
commit 16a1d968358a ("mm/slab: remove mm/slab.c and slab_def.h"). And
the series[1] went on to mark it obsolete explicitly to avoid confusion
for users. Here we can just remove all its users, which has no any
functional change.

Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou &lt;zhouchengming@bytedance.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240223-slab-cleanup-flags-v2-1-02f1753e8303@suse.cz [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240224135315.830477-1-chengming.zhou@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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The SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag used to be implemented in SLAB, which was
removed as of v6.8-rc1 (see [1]), so it became a dead flag since the
commit 16a1d968358a ("mm/slab: remove mm/slab.c and slab_def.h"). And
the series[1] went on to mark it obsolete explicitly to avoid confusion
for users. Here we can just remove all its users, which has no any
functional change.

Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou &lt;zhouchengming@bytedance.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240223-slab-cleanup-flags-v2-1-02f1753e8303@suse.cz [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240224135315.830477-1-chengming.zhou@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: Move enum rw_hint into a new header file</title>
<updated>2024-02-06T13:30:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bart Van Assche</name>
<email>bvanassche@acm.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-02T20:39:23+00:00</published>
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Move enum rw_hint into a new header file to prepare for using this data
type in the block layer. Add the attribute __packed to reduce the space
occupied by instances of this data type from four bytes to one byte.
Change the data type of i_write_hint from u8 into enum rw_hint.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Chao Yu &lt;chao@kernel.org&gt; # for the F2FS part
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240202203926.2478590-5-bvanassche@acm.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Move enum rw_hint into a new header file to prepare for using this data
type in the block layer. Add the attribute __packed to reduce the space
occupied by instances of this data type from four bytes to one byte.
Change the data type of i_write_hint from u8 into enum rw_hint.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Chao Yu &lt;chao@kernel.org&gt; # for the F2FS part
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240202203926.2478590-5-bvanassche@acm.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: improve dump_mapping() robustness</title>
<updated>2024-01-22T14:33:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Baolin Wang</name>
<email>baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-16T07:53:35+00:00</published>
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We met a kernel crash issue when running stress-ng testing, and the
system crashes when printing the dentry name in dump_mapping().

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
pc : dentry_name+0xd8/0x224
lr : pointer+0x22c/0x370
sp : ffff800025f134c0
......
Call trace:
  dentry_name+0xd8/0x224
  pointer+0x22c/0x370
  vsnprintf+0x1ec/0x730
  vscnprintf+0x2c/0x60
  vprintk_store+0x70/0x234
  vprintk_emit+0xe0/0x24c
  vprintk_default+0x3c/0x44
  vprintk_func+0x84/0x2d0
  printk+0x64/0x88
  __dump_page+0x52c/0x530
  dump_page+0x14/0x20
  set_migratetype_isolate+0x110/0x224
  start_isolate_page_range+0xc4/0x20c
  offline_pages+0x124/0x474
  memory_block_offline+0x44/0xf4
  memory_subsys_offline+0x3c/0x70
  device_offline+0xf0/0x120
  ......

The root cause is that, one thread is doing page migration, and we will
use the target page's -&gt;mapping field to save 'anon_vma' pointer between
page unmap and page move, and now the target page is locked and refcount
is 1.

Currently, there is another stress-ng thread performing memory hotplug,
attempting to offline the target page that is being migrated. It discovers
that the refcount of this target page is 1, preventing the offline operation,
thus proceeding to dump the page. However, page_mapping() of the target
page may return an incorrect file mapping to crash the system in dump_mapping(),
since the target page-&gt;mapping only saves 'anon_vma' pointer without setting
PAGE_MAPPING_ANON flag.

The page migration issue has been fixed by commit d1adb25df711 ("mm: migrate:
fix getting incorrect page mapping during page migration"). In addition,
Matthew suggested we should also improve dump_mapping()'s robustness to
resilient against the kernel crash [1].

With checking the 'dentry.parent' and 'dentry.d_name.name' used by
dentry_name(), I can see dump_mapping() will output the invalid dentry
instead of crashing the system when this issue is reproduced again.

[12211.189128] page:fffff7de047741c0 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:ffff989117f55ea0 index:0x1 pfn:0x211dd07
[12211.189144] aops:0x0 ino:1 invalid dentry:74786574206e6870
[12211.189148] flags: 0x57ffffc0000001(locked|node=1|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)
[12211.189150] page_type: 0xffffffff()
[12211.189153] raw: 0057ffffc0000001 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 ffff989117f55ea0
[12211.189154] raw: 0000000000000001 0000000000000001 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
[12211.189155] page dumped because: unmovable page

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZXxn%2F0oixJxxAnpF@casper.infradead.org/

Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/937ab1f87328516821d39be672b6bc18861d9d3e.1705391420.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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We met a kernel crash issue when running stress-ng testing, and the
system crashes when printing the dentry name in dump_mapping().

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
pc : dentry_name+0xd8/0x224
lr : pointer+0x22c/0x370
sp : ffff800025f134c0
......
Call trace:
  dentry_name+0xd8/0x224
  pointer+0x22c/0x370
  vsnprintf+0x1ec/0x730
  vscnprintf+0x2c/0x60
  vprintk_store+0x70/0x234
  vprintk_emit+0xe0/0x24c
  vprintk_default+0x3c/0x44
  vprintk_func+0x84/0x2d0
  printk+0x64/0x88
  __dump_page+0x52c/0x530
  dump_page+0x14/0x20
  set_migratetype_isolate+0x110/0x224
  start_isolate_page_range+0xc4/0x20c
  offline_pages+0x124/0x474
  memory_block_offline+0x44/0xf4
  memory_subsys_offline+0x3c/0x70
  device_offline+0xf0/0x120
  ......

The root cause is that, one thread is doing page migration, and we will
use the target page's -&gt;mapping field to save 'anon_vma' pointer between
page unmap and page move, and now the target page is locked and refcount
is 1.

Currently, there is another stress-ng thread performing memory hotplug,
attempting to offline the target page that is being migrated. It discovers
that the refcount of this target page is 1, preventing the offline operation,
thus proceeding to dump the page. However, page_mapping() of the target
page may return an incorrect file mapping to crash the system in dump_mapping(),
since the target page-&gt;mapping only saves 'anon_vma' pointer without setting
PAGE_MAPPING_ANON flag.

The page migration issue has been fixed by commit d1adb25df711 ("mm: migrate:
fix getting incorrect page mapping during page migration"). In addition,
Matthew suggested we should also improve dump_mapping()'s robustness to
resilient against the kernel crash [1].

With checking the 'dentry.parent' and 'dentry.d_name.name' used by
dentry_name(), I can see dump_mapping() will output the invalid dentry
instead of crashing the system when this issue is reproduced again.

[12211.189128] page:fffff7de047741c0 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:ffff989117f55ea0 index:0x1 pfn:0x211dd07
[12211.189144] aops:0x0 ino:1 invalid dentry:74786574206e6870
[12211.189148] flags: 0x57ffffc0000001(locked|node=1|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)
[12211.189150] page_type: 0xffffffff()
[12211.189153] raw: 0057ffffc0000001 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 ffff989117f55ea0
[12211.189154] raw: 0000000000000001 0000000000000001 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
[12211.189155] page dumped because: unmovable page

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZXxn%2F0oixJxxAnpF@casper.infradead.org/

Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/937ab1f87328516821d39be672b6bc18861d9d3e.1705391420.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pull-rename' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2024-01-12T04:00:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-12T04:00:22+00:00</published>
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Pull rename updates from Al Viro:
 "Fix directory locking scheme on rename

  This was broken in 6.5; we really can't lock two unrelated directories
  without holding -&gt;s_vfs_rename_mutex first and in case of same-parent
  rename of a subdirectory 6.5 ends up doing just that"

* tag 'pull-rename' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  rename(): avoid a deadlock in the case of parents having no common ancestor
  kill lock_two_inodes()
  rename(): fix the locking of subdirectories
  f2fs: Avoid reading renamed directory if parent does not change
  ext4: don't access the source subdirectory content on same-directory rename
  ext2: Avoid reading renamed directory if parent does not change
  udf_rename(): only access the child content on cross-directory rename
  ocfs2: Avoid touching renamed directory if parent does not change
  reiserfs: Avoid touching renamed directory if parent does not change
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Pull rename updates from Al Viro:
 "Fix directory locking scheme on rename

  This was broken in 6.5; we really can't lock two unrelated directories
  without holding -&gt;s_vfs_rename_mutex first and in case of same-parent
  rename of a subdirectory 6.5 ends up doing just that"

* tag 'pull-rename' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  rename(): avoid a deadlock in the case of parents having no common ancestor
  kill lock_two_inodes()
  rename(): fix the locking of subdirectories
  f2fs: Avoid reading renamed directory if parent does not change
  ext4: don't access the source subdirectory content on same-directory rename
  ext2: Avoid reading renamed directory if parent does not change
  udf_rename(): only access the child content on cross-directory rename
  ocfs2: Avoid touching renamed directory if parent does not change
  reiserfs: Avoid touching renamed directory if parent does not change
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sysctl-6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux</title>
<updated>2024-01-11T01:44:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-11T01:44:36+00:00</published>
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Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "To help make the move of sysctls out of kernel/sysctl.c not incur a
  size penalty sysctl has been changed to allow us to not require the
  sentinel, the final empty element on the sysctl array. Joel Granados
  has been doing all this work.

  In the v6.6 kernel we got the major infrastructure changes required to
  support this. For v6.7 we had all arch/ and drivers/ modified to
  remove the sentinel. For v6.8-rc1 we get a few more updates for fs/
  directory only.

  The kernel/ directory is left but we'll save that for v6.9-rc1 as
  those patches are still being reviewed. After that we then can expect
  also the removal of the no longer needed check for procname == NULL.

  Let us recap the purpose of this work:

   - this helps reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run
     time memory consumed by the kernel by about ~64 bytes per array

   - the extra 64-byte penalty is no longer inncurred now when we move
     sysctls out from kernel/sysctl.c to their own files

  Thomas Weißschuh also sent a few cleanups, for v6.9-rc1 we expect to
  see further work by Thomas Weißschuh with the constificatin of the
  struct ctl_table.

  Due to Joel Granados's work, and to help bring in new blood, I have
  suggested for him to become a maintainer and he's accepted. So for
  v6.9-rc1 I look forward to seeing him sent you a pull request for
  further sysctl changes. This also removes Iurii Zaikin as a maintainer
  as he has moved on to other projects and has had no time to help at
  all"

* tag 'sysctl-6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux:
  sysctl: remove struct ctl_path
  sysctl: delete unused define SYSCTL_PERM_EMPTY_DIR
  coda: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  sysctl: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  fs: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  cachefiles: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  sysclt: Clarify the results of selftest run
  sysctl: Add a selftest for handling empty dirs
  sysctl: Fix out of bounds access for empty sysctl registers
  MAINTAINERS: Add Joel Granados as co-maintainer for proc sysctl
  MAINTAINERS: remove Iurii Zaikin from proc sysctl
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Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "To help make the move of sysctls out of kernel/sysctl.c not incur a
  size penalty sysctl has been changed to allow us to not require the
  sentinel, the final empty element on the sysctl array. Joel Granados
  has been doing all this work.

  In the v6.6 kernel we got the major infrastructure changes required to
  support this. For v6.7 we had all arch/ and drivers/ modified to
  remove the sentinel. For v6.8-rc1 we get a few more updates for fs/
  directory only.

  The kernel/ directory is left but we'll save that for v6.9-rc1 as
  those patches are still being reviewed. After that we then can expect
  also the removal of the no longer needed check for procname == NULL.

  Let us recap the purpose of this work:

   - this helps reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run
     time memory consumed by the kernel by about ~64 bytes per array

   - the extra 64-byte penalty is no longer inncurred now when we move
     sysctls out from kernel/sysctl.c to their own files

  Thomas Weißschuh also sent a few cleanups, for v6.9-rc1 we expect to
  see further work by Thomas Weißschuh with the constificatin of the
  struct ctl_table.

  Due to Joel Granados's work, and to help bring in new blood, I have
  suggested for him to become a maintainer and he's accepted. So for
  v6.9-rc1 I look forward to seeing him sent you a pull request for
  further sysctl changes. This also removes Iurii Zaikin as a maintainer
  as he has moved on to other projects and has had no time to help at
  all"

* tag 'sysctl-6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux:
  sysctl: remove struct ctl_path
  sysctl: delete unused define SYSCTL_PERM_EMPTY_DIR
  coda: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  sysctl: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  fs: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  cachefiles: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  sysclt: Clarify the results of selftest run
  sysctl: Add a selftest for handling empty dirs
  sysctl: Fix out of bounds access for empty sysctl registers
  MAINTAINERS: Add Joel Granados as co-maintainer for proc sysctl
  MAINTAINERS: remove Iurii Zaikin from proc sysctl
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-01-08-15-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2024-01-09T19:18:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-09T19:18:47+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are
  included in this merge do the following:

   - Peng Zhang has done some mapletree maintainance work in the series

	'maple_tree: add mt_free_one() and mt_attr() helpers'
	'Some cleanups of maple tree'

   - In the series 'mm: use memmap_on_memory semantics for dax/kmem'
     Vishal Verma has altered the interworking between memory-hotplug
     and dax/kmem so that newly added 'device memory' can more easily
     have its memmap placed within that newly added memory.

   - Matthew Wilcox continues folio-related work (including a few fixes)
     in the patch series

	'Add folio_zero_tail() and folio_fill_tail()'
	'Make folio_start_writeback return void'
	'Fix fault handler's handling of poisoned tail pages'
	'Convert aops-&gt;error_remove_page to -&gt;error_remove_folio'
	'Finish two folio conversions'
	'More swap folio conversions'

   - Kefeng Wang has also contributed folio-related work in the series

	'mm: cleanup and use more folio in page fault'

   - Jim Cromie has improved the kmemleak reporting output in the series
     'tweak kmemleak report format'.

   - In the series 'stackdepot: allow evicting stack traces' Andrey
     Konovalov to permits clients (in this case KASAN) to cause eviction
     of no longer needed stack traces.

   - Charan Teja Kalla has fixed some accounting issues in the page
     allocator's atomic reserve calculations in the series 'mm:
     page_alloc: fixes for high atomic reserve caluculations'.

   - Dmitry Rokosov has added to the samples/ dorectory some sample code
     for a userspace memcg event listener application. See the series
     'samples: introduce cgroup events listeners'.

   - Some mapletree maintanance work from Liam Howlett in the series
     'maple_tree: iterator state changes'.

   - Nhat Pham has improved zswap's approach to writeback in the series
     'workload-specific and memory pressure-driven zswap writeback'.

   - DAMON/DAMOS feature and maintenance work from SeongJae Park in the
     series

	'mm/damon: let users feed and tame/auto-tune DAMOS'
	'selftests/damon: add Python-written DAMON functionality tests'
	'mm/damon: misc updates for 6.8'

   - Yosry Ahmed has improved memcg's stats flushing in the series 'mm:
     memcg: subtree stats flushing and thresholds'.

   - In the series 'Multi-size THP for anonymous memory' Ryan Roberts
     has added a runtime opt-in feature to transparent hugepages which
     improves performance by allocating larger chunks of memory during
     anonymous page faults.

   - Matthew Wilcox has also contributed some cleanup and maintenance
     work against eh buffer_head code int he series 'More buffer_head
     cleanups'.

   - Suren Baghdasaryan has done work on Andrea Arcangeli's series
     'userfaultfd move option'. UFFDIO_MOVE permits userspace heap
     compaction algorithms to move userspace's pages around rather than
     UFFDIO_COPY'a alloc/copy/free.

   - Stefan Roesch has developed a 'KSM Advisor', in the series 'mm/ksm:
     Add ksm advisor'. This is a governor which tunes KSM's scanning
     aggressiveness in response to userspace's current needs.

   - Chengming Zhou has optimized zswap's temporary working memory use
     in the series 'mm/zswap: dstmem reuse optimizations and cleanups'.

   - Matthew Wilcox has performed some maintenance work on the writeback
     code, both code and within filesystems. The series is 'Clean up the
     writeback paths'.

   - Andrey Konovalov has optimized KASAN's handling of alloc and free
     stack traces for secondary-level allocators, in the series 'kasan:
     save mempool stack traces'.

   - Andrey also performed some KASAN maintenance work in the series
     'kasan: assorted clean-ups'.

   - David Hildenbrand has gone to town on the rmap code. Cleanups, more
     pte batching, folio conversions and more. See the series 'mm/rmap:
     interface overhaul'.

   - Kinsey Ho has contributed some maintenance work on the MGLRU code
     in the series 'mm/mglru: Kconfig cleanup'.

   - Matthew Wilcox has contributed lruvec page accounting code cleanups
     in the series 'Remove some lruvec page accounting functions'"

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-01-08-15-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (361 commits)
  mm, treewide: rename MAX_ORDER to MAX_PAGE_ORDER
  mm, treewide: introduce NR_PAGE_ORDERS
  selftests/mm: add separate UFFDIO_MOVE test for PMD splitting
  selftests/mm: skip test if application doesn't has root privileges
  selftests/mm: conform test to TAP format output
  selftests: mm: hugepage-mmap: conform to TAP format output
  selftests/mm: gup_test: conform test to TAP format output
  mm/selftests: hugepage-mremap: conform test to TAP format output
  mm/vmstat: move pgdemote_* out of CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
  mm: zsmalloc: return -ENOSPC rather than -EINVAL in zs_malloc while size is too large
  mm/memcontrol: remove __mod_lruvec_page_state()
  mm/khugepaged: use a folio more in collapse_file()
  slub: use a folio in __kmalloc_large_node
  slub: use folio APIs in free_large_kmalloc()
  slub: use alloc_pages_node() in alloc_slab_page()
  mm: remove inc/dec lruvec page state functions
  mm: ratelimit stat flush from workingset shrinker
  kasan: stop leaking stack trace handles
  mm/mglru: remove CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
  mm/mglru: add dummy pmd_dirty()
  ...
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<pre>
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are
  included in this merge do the following:

   - Peng Zhang has done some mapletree maintainance work in the series

	'maple_tree: add mt_free_one() and mt_attr() helpers'
	'Some cleanups of maple tree'

   - In the series 'mm: use memmap_on_memory semantics for dax/kmem'
     Vishal Verma has altered the interworking between memory-hotplug
     and dax/kmem so that newly added 'device memory' can more easily
     have its memmap placed within that newly added memory.

   - Matthew Wilcox continues folio-related work (including a few fixes)
     in the patch series

	'Add folio_zero_tail() and folio_fill_tail()'
	'Make folio_start_writeback return void'
	'Fix fault handler's handling of poisoned tail pages'
	'Convert aops-&gt;error_remove_page to -&gt;error_remove_folio'
	'Finish two folio conversions'
	'More swap folio conversions'

   - Kefeng Wang has also contributed folio-related work in the series

	'mm: cleanup and use more folio in page fault'

   - Jim Cromie has improved the kmemleak reporting output in the series
     'tweak kmemleak report format'.

   - In the series 'stackdepot: allow evicting stack traces' Andrey
     Konovalov to permits clients (in this case KASAN) to cause eviction
     of no longer needed stack traces.

   - Charan Teja Kalla has fixed some accounting issues in the page
     allocator's atomic reserve calculations in the series 'mm:
     page_alloc: fixes for high atomic reserve caluculations'.

   - Dmitry Rokosov has added to the samples/ dorectory some sample code
     for a userspace memcg event listener application. See the series
     'samples: introduce cgroup events listeners'.

   - Some mapletree maintanance work from Liam Howlett in the series
     'maple_tree: iterator state changes'.

   - Nhat Pham has improved zswap's approach to writeback in the series
     'workload-specific and memory pressure-driven zswap writeback'.

   - DAMON/DAMOS feature and maintenance work from SeongJae Park in the
     series

	'mm/damon: let users feed and tame/auto-tune DAMOS'
	'selftests/damon: add Python-written DAMON functionality tests'
	'mm/damon: misc updates for 6.8'

   - Yosry Ahmed has improved memcg's stats flushing in the series 'mm:
     memcg: subtree stats flushing and thresholds'.

   - In the series 'Multi-size THP for anonymous memory' Ryan Roberts
     has added a runtime opt-in feature to transparent hugepages which
     improves performance by allocating larger chunks of memory during
     anonymous page faults.

   - Matthew Wilcox has also contributed some cleanup and maintenance
     work against eh buffer_head code int he series 'More buffer_head
     cleanups'.

   - Suren Baghdasaryan has done work on Andrea Arcangeli's series
     'userfaultfd move option'. UFFDIO_MOVE permits userspace heap
     compaction algorithms to move userspace's pages around rather than
     UFFDIO_COPY'a alloc/copy/free.

   - Stefan Roesch has developed a 'KSM Advisor', in the series 'mm/ksm:
     Add ksm advisor'. This is a governor which tunes KSM's scanning
     aggressiveness in response to userspace's current needs.

   - Chengming Zhou has optimized zswap's temporary working memory use
     in the series 'mm/zswap: dstmem reuse optimizations and cleanups'.

   - Matthew Wilcox has performed some maintenance work on the writeback
     code, both code and within filesystems. The series is 'Clean up the
     writeback paths'.

   - Andrey Konovalov has optimized KASAN's handling of alloc and free
     stack traces for secondary-level allocators, in the series 'kasan:
     save mempool stack traces'.

   - Andrey also performed some KASAN maintenance work in the series
     'kasan: assorted clean-ups'.

   - David Hildenbrand has gone to town on the rmap code. Cleanups, more
     pte batching, folio conversions and more. See the series 'mm/rmap:
     interface overhaul'.

   - Kinsey Ho has contributed some maintenance work on the MGLRU code
     in the series 'mm/mglru: Kconfig cleanup'.

   - Matthew Wilcox has contributed lruvec page accounting code cleanups
     in the series 'Remove some lruvec page accounting functions'"

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-01-08-15-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (361 commits)
  mm, treewide: rename MAX_ORDER to MAX_PAGE_ORDER
  mm, treewide: introduce NR_PAGE_ORDERS
  selftests/mm: add separate UFFDIO_MOVE test for PMD splitting
  selftests/mm: skip test if application doesn't has root privileges
  selftests/mm: conform test to TAP format output
  selftests: mm: hugepage-mmap: conform to TAP format output
  selftests/mm: gup_test: conform test to TAP format output
  mm/selftests: hugepage-mremap: conform test to TAP format output
  mm/vmstat: move pgdemote_* out of CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
  mm: zsmalloc: return -ENOSPC rather than -EINVAL in zs_malloc while size is too large
  mm/memcontrol: remove __mod_lruvec_page_state()
  mm/khugepaged: use a folio more in collapse_file()
  slub: use a folio in __kmalloc_large_node
  slub: use folio APIs in free_large_kmalloc()
  slub: use alloc_pages_node() in alloc_slab_page()
  mm: remove inc/dec lruvec page state functions
  mm: ratelimit stat flush from workingset shrinker
  kasan: stop leaking stack trace handles
  mm/mglru: remove CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
  mm/mglru: add dummy pmd_dirty()
  ...
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