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<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2023-04-28T02:42:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2023-04-28T02:42:02+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Nick Piggin's "shoot lazy tlbs" series, to improve the peformance of
   switching from a user process to a kernel thread.

 - More folio conversions from Kefeng Wang, Zhang Peng and Pankaj
   Raghav.

 - zsmalloc performance improvements from Sergey Senozhatsky.

 - Yue Zhao has found and fixed some data race issues around the
   alteration of memcg userspace tunables.

 - VFS rationalizations from Christoph Hellwig:
     - removal of most of the callers of write_one_page()
     - make __filemap_get_folio()'s return value more useful

 - Luis Chamberlain has changed tmpfs so it no longer requires swap
   backing. Use `mount -o noswap'.

 - Qi Zheng has made the slab shrinkers operate locklessly, providing
   some scalability benefits.

 - Keith Busch has improved dmapool's performance, making part of its
   operations O(1) rather than O(n).

 - Peter Xu adds the UFFD_FEATURE_WP_UNPOPULATED feature to userfaultd,
   permitting userspace to wr-protect anon memory unpopulated ptes.

 - Kirill Shutemov has changed MAX_ORDER's meaning to be inclusive
   rather than exclusive, and has fixed a bunch of errors which were
   caused by its unintuitive meaning.

 - Axel Rasmussen give userfaultfd the UFFDIO_CONTINUE_MODE_WP feature,
   which causes minor faults to install a write-protected pte.

 - Vlastimil Babka has done some maintenance work on vma_merge():
   cleanups to the kernel code and improvements to our userspace test
   harness.

 - Cleanups to do_fault_around() by Lorenzo Stoakes.

 - Mike Rapoport has moved a lot of initialization code out of various
   mm/ files and into mm/mm_init.c.

 - Lorenzo Stoakes removd vmf_insert_mixed_prot(), which was added for
   DRM, but DRM doesn't use it any more.

 - Lorenzo has also coverted read_kcore() and vread() to use iterators
   and has thereby removed the use of bounce buffers in some cases.

 - Lorenzo has also contributed further cleanups of vma_merge().

 - Chaitanya Prakash provides some fixes to the mmap selftesting code.

 - Matthew Wilcox changes xfs and afs so they no longer take sleeping
   locks in -&gt;map_page(), a step towards RCUification of pagefaults.

 - Suren Baghdasaryan has improved mmap_lock scalability by switching to
   per-VMA locking.

 - Frederic Weisbecker has reworked the percpu cache draining so that it
   no longer causes latency glitches on cpu isolated workloads.

 - Mike Rapoport cleans up and corrects the ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER Kconfig
   logic.

 - Liu Shixin has changed zswap's initialization so we no longer waste a
   chunk of memory if zswap is not being used.

 - Yosry Ahmed has improved the performance of memcg statistics
   flushing.

 - David Stevens has fixed several issues involving khugepaged,
   userfaultfd and shmem.

 - Christoph Hellwig has provided some cleanup work to zram's IO-related
   code paths.

 - David Hildenbrand has fixed up some issues in the selftest code's
   testing of our pte state changing.

 - Pankaj Raghav has made page_endio() unneeded and has removed it.

 - Peter Xu contributed some rationalizations of the userfaultfd
   selftests.

 - Yosry Ahmed has fixed an issue around memcg's page recalim
   accounting.

 - Chaitanya Prakash has fixed some arm-related issues in the
   selftests/mm code.

 - Longlong Xia has improved the way in which KSM handles hwpoisoned
   pages.

 - Peter Xu fixes a few issues with uffd-wp at fork() time.

 - Stefan Roesch has changed KSM so that it may now be used on a
   per-process and per-cgroup basis.

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits)
  mm,unmap: avoid flushing TLB in batch if PTE is inaccessible
  shmem: restrict noswap option to initial user namespace
  mm/khugepaged: fix conflicting mods to collapse_file()
  sparse: remove unnecessary 0 values from rc
  mm: move 'mmap_min_addr' logic from callers into vm_unmapped_area()
  hugetlb: pte_alloc_huge() to replace huge pte_alloc_map()
  maple_tree: fix allocation in mas_sparse_area()
  mm: do not increment pgfault stats when page fault handler retries
  zsmalloc: allow only one active pool compaction context
  selftests/mm: add new selftests for KSM
  mm: add new KSM process and sysfs knobs
  mm: add new api to enable ksm per process
  mm: shrinkers: fix debugfs file permissions
  mm: don't check VMA write permissions if the PTE/PMD indicates write permissions
  migrate_pages_batch: fix statistics for longterm pin retry
  userfaultfd: use helper function range_in_vma()
  lib/show_mem.c: use for_each_populated_zone() simplify code
  mm: correct arg in reclaim_pages()/reclaim_clean_pages_from_list()
  fs/buffer: convert create_page_buffers to folio_create_buffers
  fs/buffer: add folio_create_empty_buffers helper
  ...
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Nick Piggin's "shoot lazy tlbs" series, to improve the peformance of
   switching from a user process to a kernel thread.

 - More folio conversions from Kefeng Wang, Zhang Peng and Pankaj
   Raghav.

 - zsmalloc performance improvements from Sergey Senozhatsky.

 - Yue Zhao has found and fixed some data race issues around the
   alteration of memcg userspace tunables.

 - VFS rationalizations from Christoph Hellwig:
     - removal of most of the callers of write_one_page()
     - make __filemap_get_folio()'s return value more useful

 - Luis Chamberlain has changed tmpfs so it no longer requires swap
   backing. Use `mount -o noswap'.

 - Qi Zheng has made the slab shrinkers operate locklessly, providing
   some scalability benefits.

 - Keith Busch has improved dmapool's performance, making part of its
   operations O(1) rather than O(n).

 - Peter Xu adds the UFFD_FEATURE_WP_UNPOPULATED feature to userfaultd,
   permitting userspace to wr-protect anon memory unpopulated ptes.

 - Kirill Shutemov has changed MAX_ORDER's meaning to be inclusive
   rather than exclusive, and has fixed a bunch of errors which were
   caused by its unintuitive meaning.

 - Axel Rasmussen give userfaultfd the UFFDIO_CONTINUE_MODE_WP feature,
   which causes minor faults to install a write-protected pte.

 - Vlastimil Babka has done some maintenance work on vma_merge():
   cleanups to the kernel code and improvements to our userspace test
   harness.

 - Cleanups to do_fault_around() by Lorenzo Stoakes.

 - Mike Rapoport has moved a lot of initialization code out of various
   mm/ files and into mm/mm_init.c.

 - Lorenzo Stoakes removd vmf_insert_mixed_prot(), which was added for
   DRM, but DRM doesn't use it any more.

 - Lorenzo has also coverted read_kcore() and vread() to use iterators
   and has thereby removed the use of bounce buffers in some cases.

 - Lorenzo has also contributed further cleanups of vma_merge().

 - Chaitanya Prakash provides some fixes to the mmap selftesting code.

 - Matthew Wilcox changes xfs and afs so they no longer take sleeping
   locks in -&gt;map_page(), a step towards RCUification of pagefaults.

 - Suren Baghdasaryan has improved mmap_lock scalability by switching to
   per-VMA locking.

 - Frederic Weisbecker has reworked the percpu cache draining so that it
   no longer causes latency glitches on cpu isolated workloads.

 - Mike Rapoport cleans up and corrects the ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER Kconfig
   logic.

 - Liu Shixin has changed zswap's initialization so we no longer waste a
   chunk of memory if zswap is not being used.

 - Yosry Ahmed has improved the performance of memcg statistics
   flushing.

 - David Stevens has fixed several issues involving khugepaged,
   userfaultfd and shmem.

 - Christoph Hellwig has provided some cleanup work to zram's IO-related
   code paths.

 - David Hildenbrand has fixed up some issues in the selftest code's
   testing of our pte state changing.

 - Pankaj Raghav has made page_endio() unneeded and has removed it.

 - Peter Xu contributed some rationalizations of the userfaultfd
   selftests.

 - Yosry Ahmed has fixed an issue around memcg's page recalim
   accounting.

 - Chaitanya Prakash has fixed some arm-related issues in the
   selftests/mm code.

 - Longlong Xia has improved the way in which KSM handles hwpoisoned
   pages.

 - Peter Xu fixes a few issues with uffd-wp at fork() time.

 - Stefan Roesch has changed KSM so that it may now be used on a
   per-process and per-cgroup basis.

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits)
  mm,unmap: avoid flushing TLB in batch if PTE is inaccessible
  shmem: restrict noswap option to initial user namespace
  mm/khugepaged: fix conflicting mods to collapse_file()
  sparse: remove unnecessary 0 values from rc
  mm: move 'mmap_min_addr' logic from callers into vm_unmapped_area()
  hugetlb: pte_alloc_huge() to replace huge pte_alloc_map()
  maple_tree: fix allocation in mas_sparse_area()
  mm: do not increment pgfault stats when page fault handler retries
  zsmalloc: allow only one active pool compaction context
  selftests/mm: add new selftests for KSM
  mm: add new KSM process and sysfs knobs
  mm: add new api to enable ksm per process
  mm: shrinkers: fix debugfs file permissions
  mm: don't check VMA write permissions if the PTE/PMD indicates write permissions
  migrate_pages_batch: fix statistics for longterm pin retry
  userfaultfd: use helper function range_in_vma()
  lib/show_mem.c: use for_each_populated_zone() simplify code
  mm: correct arg in reclaim_pages()/reclaim_clean_pages_from_list()
  fs/buffer: convert create_page_buffers to folio_create_buffers
  fs/buffer: add folio_create_empty_buffers helper
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4</title>
<updated>2023-04-26T15:57:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-26T15:57:41+00:00</published>
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Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "There are a number of major cleanups in ext4 this cycle:

   - The data=journal writepath has been significantly cleaned up and
     simplified, and reduces a large number of data=journal special
     cases by Jan Kara.

   - Ojaswin Muhoo has replaced linked list used to track extents that
     have been used for inode preallocation with a red-black tree in the
     multi-block allocator. This improves performance for workloads
     which do a large number of random allocating writes.

   - Thanks to Kemeng Shi for a lot of cleanup and bug fixes in the
     multi-block allocator.

   - Matthew wilcox has converted the code paths for reading and writing
     ext4 pages to use folios.

   - Jason Yan has continued to factor out ext4_fill_super() into
     smaller functions for improve ease of maintenance and
     comprehension.

   - Josh Triplett has created an uapi header for ext4 userspace API's"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (105 commits)
  ext4: Add a uapi header for ext4 userspace APIs
  ext4: remove useless conditional branch code
  ext4: remove unneeded check of nr_to_submit
  ext4: move dax and encrypt checking into ext4_check_feature_compatibility()
  ext4: factor out ext4_block_group_meta_init()
  ext4: move s_reserved_gdt_blocks and addressable checking into ext4_check_geometry()
  ext4: rename two functions with 'check'
  ext4: factor out ext4_flex_groups_free()
  ext4: use ext4_group_desc_free() in ext4_put_super() to save some duplicated code
  ext4: factor out ext4_percpu_param_init() and ext4_percpu_param_destroy()
  ext4: factor out ext4_hash_info_init()
  Revert "ext4: Fix warnings when freezing filesystem with journaled data"
  ext4: Update comment in mpage_prepare_extent_to_map()
  ext4: Simplify handling of journalled data in ext4_bmap()
  ext4: Drop special handling of journalled data from ext4_quota_on()
  ext4: Drop special handling of journalled data from ext4_evict_inode()
  ext4: Fix special handling of journalled data from extent zeroing
  ext4: Drop special handling of journalled data from extent shifting operations
  ext4: Drop special handling of journalled data from ext4_sync_file()
  ext4: Commit transaction before writing back pages in data=journal mode
  ...
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Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "There are a number of major cleanups in ext4 this cycle:

   - The data=journal writepath has been significantly cleaned up and
     simplified, and reduces a large number of data=journal special
     cases by Jan Kara.

   - Ojaswin Muhoo has replaced linked list used to track extents that
     have been used for inode preallocation with a red-black tree in the
     multi-block allocator. This improves performance for workloads
     which do a large number of random allocating writes.

   - Thanks to Kemeng Shi for a lot of cleanup and bug fixes in the
     multi-block allocator.

   - Matthew wilcox has converted the code paths for reading and writing
     ext4 pages to use folios.

   - Jason Yan has continued to factor out ext4_fill_super() into
     smaller functions for improve ease of maintenance and
     comprehension.

   - Josh Triplett has created an uapi header for ext4 userspace API's"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (105 commits)
  ext4: Add a uapi header for ext4 userspace APIs
  ext4: remove useless conditional branch code
  ext4: remove unneeded check of nr_to_submit
  ext4: move dax and encrypt checking into ext4_check_feature_compatibility()
  ext4: factor out ext4_block_group_meta_init()
  ext4: move s_reserved_gdt_blocks and addressable checking into ext4_check_geometry()
  ext4: rename two functions with 'check'
  ext4: factor out ext4_flex_groups_free()
  ext4: use ext4_group_desc_free() in ext4_put_super() to save some duplicated code
  ext4: factor out ext4_percpu_param_init() and ext4_percpu_param_destroy()
  ext4: factor out ext4_hash_info_init()
  Revert "ext4: Fix warnings when freezing filesystem with journaled data"
  ext4: Update comment in mpage_prepare_extent_to_map()
  ext4: Simplify handling of journalled data in ext4_bmap()
  ext4: Drop special handling of journalled data from ext4_quota_on()
  ext4: Drop special handling of journalled data from ext4_evict_inode()
  ext4: Fix special handling of journalled data from extent zeroing
  ext4: Drop special handling of journalled data from extent shifting operations
  ext4: Drop special handling of journalled data from ext4_sync_file()
  ext4: Commit transaction before writing back pages in data=journal mode
  ...
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<entry>
<title>netfs: Fix netfs_extract_iter_to_sg() for ITER_UBUF/IOVEC</title>
<updated>2023-04-12T16:26:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-12T12:18:57+00:00</published>
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Fix netfs_extract_iter_to_sg() for ITER_UBUF and ITER_IOVEC to set the
size of the page to the part of the page extracted, not the remaining
amount of data in the extracted page array at that point.

This doesn't yet affect anything as cifs, the only current user, only
passes in non-user-backed iterators.

Fixes: 018584697533 ("netfs: Add a function to extract an iterator into a scatterlist")
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steve French &lt;sfrench@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Shyam Prasad N &lt;nspmangalore@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Rohith Surabattula &lt;rohiths.msft@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Fix netfs_extract_iter_to_sg() for ITER_UBUF and ITER_IOVEC to set the
size of the page to the part of the page extracted, not the remaining
amount of data in the extracted page array at that point.

This doesn't yet affect anything as cifs, the only current user, only
passes in non-user-backed iterators.

Fixes: 018584697533 ("netfs: Add a function to extract an iterator into a scatterlist")
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steve French &lt;sfrench@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Shyam Prasad N &lt;nspmangalore@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Rohith Surabattula &lt;rohiths.msft@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: Add FGP_WRITEBEGIN</title>
<updated>2023-04-06T17:39:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-24T18:01:01+00:00</published>
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This particular combination of flags is used by most filesystems
in their -&gt;write_begin method, although it does find use in a
few other places.  Before folios, it warranted its own function
(grab_cache_page_write_begin()), but I think that just having specialised
flags is enough.  It certainly helps the few places that have been
converted from grab_cache_page_write_begin() to __filemap_get_folio().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230324180129.1220691-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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This particular combination of flags is used by most filesystems
in their -&gt;write_begin method, although it does find use in a
few other places.  Before folios, it warranted its own function
(grab_cache_page_write_begin()), but I think that just having specialised
flags is enough.  It certainly helps the few places that have been
converted from grab_cache_page_write_begin() to __filemap_get_folio().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230324180129.1220691-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: return an ERR_PTR from __filemap_get_folio</title>
<updated>2023-04-06T02:42:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-07T14:34:10+00:00</published>
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Instead of returning NULL for all errors, distinguish between:

 - no entry found and not asked to allocated (-ENOENT)
 - failed to allocate memory (-ENOMEM)
 - would block (-EAGAIN)

so that callers don't have to guess the error based on the passed in
flags.

Also pass through the error through the direct callers: filemap_get_folio,
filemap_lock_folio filemap_grab_folio and filemap_get_incore_folio.

[hch@lst.de: fix null-pointer deref]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230310070023.GA13563@lst.de
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230310043137.GA1624890@u2004
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230307143410.28031-8-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt; [nilfs2]
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Instead of returning NULL for all errors, distinguish between:

 - no entry found and not asked to allocated (-ENOENT)
 - failed to allocate memory (-ENOMEM)
 - would block (-EAGAIN)

so that callers don't have to guess the error based on the passed in
flags.

Also pass through the error through the direct callers: filemap_get_folio,
filemap_lock_folio filemap_grab_folio and filemap_get_incore_folio.

[hch@lst.de: fix null-pointer deref]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230310070023.GA13563@lst.de
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230310043137.GA1624890@u2004
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230307143410.28031-8-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt; [nilfs2]
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>iov: Fix netfs_extract_user_to_sg()</title>
<updated>2023-03-02T00:18:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-27T13:04:54+00:00</published>
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Fix the loop check in netfs_extract_user_to_sg() for extraction from
user-backed iterators to do the body if npages &gt; 0, not if npages &lt; 0
(which it can never be).

This isn't currently used by cifs, which only ever extracts data from BVEC,
KVEC and XARRAY iterators at this level, user-backed iterators having being
decanted into BVEC iterators at a higher level to accommodate the work
being done in a kernel thread.

Found by smatch:
	fs/netfs/iterator.c:139 netfs_extract_user_to_sg() warn: unsigned 'npages' is never less than zero.

Fixes: 018584697533 ("netfs: Add a function to extract an iterator into a scatterlist")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202302261115.P3TQi1ZO-lkp@intel.com/
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;error27@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Y/yYnAhoAYDBKixX@kili
Reviewed-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) &lt;pc@manguebit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Steve French &lt;stfrench@microsoft.com&gt;
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Fix the loop check in netfs_extract_user_to_sg() for extraction from
user-backed iterators to do the body if npages &gt; 0, not if npages &lt; 0
(which it can never be).

This isn't currently used by cifs, which only ever extracts data from BVEC,
KVEC and XARRAY iterators at this level, user-backed iterators having being
decanted into BVEC iterators at a higher level to accommodate the work
being done in a kernel thread.

Found by smatch:
	fs/netfs/iterator.c:139 netfs_extract_user_to_sg() warn: unsigned 'npages' is never less than zero.

Fixes: 018584697533 ("netfs: Add a function to extract an iterator into a scatterlist")
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202302261115.P3TQi1ZO-lkp@intel.com/
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;error27@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Y/yYnAhoAYDBKixX@kili
Reviewed-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) &lt;pc@manguebit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Steve French &lt;stfrench@microsoft.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag '6.3-rc-smb3-client-fixes' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6</title>
<updated>2023-02-23T01:12:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-23T01:12:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=307e14c039063f0c9bd7a18a7add8f940580dcc9'/>
<id>307e14c039063f0c9bd7a18a7add8f940580dcc9</id>
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Pull cifs client updates from Steve French:
 "The largest subset of this is from David Howells et al: making the
  cifs/smb3 driver pass iov_iters down to the lowest layers, directly to
  the network transport rather than passing lists of pages around,
  helping multiple areas:

   - Pin user pages, thereby fixing the race between concurrent DIO read
     and fork, where the pages containing the DIO read buffer may end up
     belonging to the child process and not the parent - with the result
     that the parent might not see the retrieved data.

   - cifs shouldn't take refs on pages extracted from non-user-backed
     iterators (eg. KVEC). With these changes, cifs will apply the
     appropriate cleanup.

   - Making it easier to transition to using folios in cifs rather than
     pages by dealing with them through BVEC and XARRAY iterators.

   - Allowing cifs to use the new splice function

  The remainder are:

   - fixes for stable, including various fixes for uninitialized memory,
     wrong length field causing mount issue to very old servers,
     important directory lease fixes and reconnect fixes

   - cleanups (unused code removal, change one element array usage, and
     a change form strtobool to kstrtobool, and Kconfig cleanups)

   - SMBDIRECT (RDMA) fixes including iov_iter integration and UAF fixes

   - reconnect fixes

   - multichannel fixes, including improving channel allocation (to
     least used channel)

   - remove the last use of lock_page_killable by moving to
     folio_lock_killable"

* tag '6.3-rc-smb3-client-fixes' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6: (46 commits)
  update internal module version number for cifs.ko
  cifs: update ip_addr for ses only for primary chan setup
  cifs: use tcon allocation functions even for dummy tcon
  cifs: use the least loaded channel for sending requests
  cifs: DIO to/from KVEC-type iterators should now work
  cifs: Remove unused code
  cifs: Build the RDMA SGE list directly from an iterator
  cifs: Change the I/O paths to use an iterator rather than a page list
  cifs: Add a function to read into an iter from a socket
  cifs: Add some helper functions
  cifs: Add a function to Hash the contents of an iterator
  cifs: Add a function to build an RDMA SGE list from an iterator
  netfs: Add a function to extract an iterator into a scatterlist
  netfs: Add a function to extract a UBUF or IOVEC into a BVEC iterator
  cifs: Implement splice_read to pass down ITER_BVEC not ITER_PIPE
  splice: Export filemap/direct_splice_read()
  iov_iter: Add a function to extract a page list from an iterator
  iov_iter: Define flags to qualify page extraction.
  splice: Add a func to do a splice from an O_DIRECT file without ITER_PIPE
  splice: Add a func to do a splice from a buffered file without ITER_PIPE
  ...
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Pull cifs client updates from Steve French:
 "The largest subset of this is from David Howells et al: making the
  cifs/smb3 driver pass iov_iters down to the lowest layers, directly to
  the network transport rather than passing lists of pages around,
  helping multiple areas:

   - Pin user pages, thereby fixing the race between concurrent DIO read
     and fork, where the pages containing the DIO read buffer may end up
     belonging to the child process and not the parent - with the result
     that the parent might not see the retrieved data.

   - cifs shouldn't take refs on pages extracted from non-user-backed
     iterators (eg. KVEC). With these changes, cifs will apply the
     appropriate cleanup.

   - Making it easier to transition to using folios in cifs rather than
     pages by dealing with them through BVEC and XARRAY iterators.

   - Allowing cifs to use the new splice function

  The remainder are:

   - fixes for stable, including various fixes for uninitialized memory,
     wrong length field causing mount issue to very old servers,
     important directory lease fixes and reconnect fixes

   - cleanups (unused code removal, change one element array usage, and
     a change form strtobool to kstrtobool, and Kconfig cleanups)

   - SMBDIRECT (RDMA) fixes including iov_iter integration and UAF fixes

   - reconnect fixes

   - multichannel fixes, including improving channel allocation (to
     least used channel)

   - remove the last use of lock_page_killable by moving to
     folio_lock_killable"

* tag '6.3-rc-smb3-client-fixes' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6: (46 commits)
  update internal module version number for cifs.ko
  cifs: update ip_addr for ses only for primary chan setup
  cifs: use tcon allocation functions even for dummy tcon
  cifs: use the least loaded channel for sending requests
  cifs: DIO to/from KVEC-type iterators should now work
  cifs: Remove unused code
  cifs: Build the RDMA SGE list directly from an iterator
  cifs: Change the I/O paths to use an iterator rather than a page list
  cifs: Add a function to read into an iter from a socket
  cifs: Add some helper functions
  cifs: Add a function to Hash the contents of an iterator
  cifs: Add a function to build an RDMA SGE list from an iterator
  netfs: Add a function to extract an iterator into a scatterlist
  netfs: Add a function to extract a UBUF or IOVEC into a BVEC iterator
  cifs: Implement splice_read to pass down ITER_BVEC not ITER_PIPE
  splice: Export filemap/direct_splice_read()
  iov_iter: Add a function to extract a page list from an iterator
  iov_iter: Define flags to qualify page extraction.
  splice: Add a func to do a splice from an O_DIRECT file without ITER_PIPE
  splice: Add a func to do a splice from a buffered file without ITER_PIPE
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfs: Add a function to extract an iterator into a scatterlist</title>
<updated>2023-02-20T23:25:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-27T15:19:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=0185846975339a5c348373aa450a977f5242366b'/>
<id>0185846975339a5c348373aa450a977f5242366b</id>
<content type='text'>
Provide a function for filling in a scatterlist from the list of pages
contained in an iterator.

If the iterator is UBUF- or IOBUF-type, the pages have a pin taken on them
(as FOLL_PIN).

If the iterator is BVEC-, KVEC- or XARRAY-type, no pin is taken on the
pages and it is left to the caller to manage their lifetime.  It cannot be
assumed that a ref can be validly taken, particularly in the case of a KVEC
iterator.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: Steve French &lt;sfrench@samba.org&gt;
cc: Shyam Prasad N &lt;nspmangalore@gmail.com&gt;
cc: Rohith Surabattula &lt;rohiths.msft@gmail.com&gt;
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steve French &lt;stfrench@microsoft.com&gt;
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Provide a function for filling in a scatterlist from the list of pages
contained in an iterator.

If the iterator is UBUF- or IOBUF-type, the pages have a pin taken on them
(as FOLL_PIN).

If the iterator is BVEC-, KVEC- or XARRAY-type, no pin is taken on the
pages and it is left to the caller to manage their lifetime.  It cannot be
assumed that a ref can be validly taken, particularly in the case of a KVEC
iterator.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: Steve French &lt;sfrench@samba.org&gt;
cc: Shyam Prasad N &lt;nspmangalore@gmail.com&gt;
cc: Rohith Surabattula &lt;rohiths.msft@gmail.com&gt;
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steve French &lt;stfrench@microsoft.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfs: Add a function to extract a UBUF or IOVEC into a BVEC iterator</title>
<updated>2023-02-20T23:25:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-20T15:16:32+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=85dd2c8ff368b1446be9febde84afe1d7aec4261'/>
<id>85dd2c8ff368b1446be9febde84afe1d7aec4261</id>
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Add a function to extract the pages from a user-space supplied iterator
(UBUF- or IOVEC-type) into a BVEC-type iterator, retaining the pages by
getting a pin on them (as FOLL_PIN) as we go.

This is useful in three situations:

 (1) A userspace thread may have a sibling that unmaps or remaps the
     process's VM during the operation, changing the assignment of the
     pages and potentially causing an error.  Retaining the pages keeps
     some pages around, even if this occurs; futher, we find out at the
     point of extraction if EFAULT is going to be incurred.

 (2) Pages might get swapped out/discarded if not retained, so we want to
     retain them to avoid the reload causing a deadlock due to a DIO
     from/to an mmapped region on the same file.

 (3) The iterator may get passed to sendmsg() by the filesystem.  If a
     fault occurs, we may get a short write to a TCP stream that's then
     tricky to recover from.

We don't deal with other types of iterator here, leaving it to other
mechanisms to retain the pages (eg. PG_locked, PG_writeback and the pipe
lock).

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: Steve French &lt;sfrench@samba.org&gt;
cc: Shyam Prasad N &lt;nspmangalore@gmail.com&gt;
cc: Rohith Surabattula &lt;rohiths.msft@gmail.com&gt;
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steve French &lt;stfrench@microsoft.com&gt;
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Add a function to extract the pages from a user-space supplied iterator
(UBUF- or IOVEC-type) into a BVEC-type iterator, retaining the pages by
getting a pin on them (as FOLL_PIN) as we go.

This is useful in three situations:

 (1) A userspace thread may have a sibling that unmaps or remaps the
     process's VM during the operation, changing the assignment of the
     pages and potentially causing an error.  Retaining the pages keeps
     some pages around, even if this occurs; futher, we find out at the
     point of extraction if EFAULT is going to be incurred.

 (2) Pages might get swapped out/discarded if not retained, so we want to
     retain them to avoid the reload causing a deadlock due to a DIO
     from/to an mmapped region on the same file.

 (3) The iterator may get passed to sendmsg() by the filesystem.  If a
     fault occurs, we may get a short write to a TCP stream that's then
     tricky to recover from.

We don't deal with other types of iterator here, leaving it to other
mechanisms to retain the pages (eg. PG_locked, PG_writeback and the pipe
lock).

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: Steve French &lt;sfrench@samba.org&gt;
cc: Shyam Prasad N &lt;nspmangalore@gmail.com&gt;
cc: Rohith Surabattula &lt;rohiths.msft@gmail.com&gt;
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steve French &lt;stfrench@microsoft.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>use less confusing names for iov_iter direction initializers</title>
<updated>2022-11-25T18:01:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-16T00:25:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=de4eda9de2d957ef2d6a8365a01e26a435e958cb'/>
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READ/WRITE proved to be actively confusing - the meanings are
"data destination, as used with read(2)" and "data source, as
used with write(2)", but people keep interpreting those as
"we read data from it" and "we write data to it", i.e. exactly
the wrong way.

Call them ITER_DEST and ITER_SOURCE - at least that is harder
to misinterpret...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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READ/WRITE proved to be actively confusing - the meanings are
"data destination, as used with read(2)" and "data source, as
used with write(2)", but people keep interpreting those as
"we read data from it" and "we write data to it", i.e. exactly
the wrong way.

Call them ITER_DEST and ITER_SOURCE - at least that is harder
to misinterpret...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
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