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<title>linux-stable.git/fs/nilfs2/segment.c, branch v7.0</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

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

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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<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;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>nilfs2: avoid having an active sc_timer before freeing sci</title>
<updated>2025-11-10T05:19:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Edward Adam Davis</name>
<email>eadavis@qq.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-29T22:51:52+00:00</published>
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Because kthread_stop did not stop sc_task properly and returned -EINTR,
the sc_timer was not properly closed, ultimately causing the problem [1]
reported by syzbot when freeing sci due to the sc_timer not being closed.

Because the thread sc_task main function nilfs_segctor_thread() returns 0
when it succeeds, when the return value of kthread_stop() is not 0 in
nilfs_segctor_destroy(), we believe that it has not properly closed
sc_timer.

We use timer_shutdown_sync() to sync wait for sc_timer to shutdown, and
set the value of sc_task to NULL under the protection of lock
sc_state_lock, so as to avoid the issue caused by sc_timer not being
properly shutdowned.

[1]
ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object: 00000000dacb411a object type: timer_list hint: nilfs_construction_timeout
Call trace:
 nilfs_segctor_destroy fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2811 [inline]
 nilfs_detach_log_writer+0x668/0x8cc fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2877
 nilfs_put_super+0x4c/0x12c fs/nilfs2/super.c:509

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251029225226.16044-1-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Fixes: 3f66cc261ccb ("nilfs2: use kthread_create and kthread_stop for the log writer thread")
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+24d8b70f039151f65590@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=24d8b70f039151f65590
Tested-by: syzbot+24d8b70f039151f65590@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Edward Adam Davis &lt;eadavis@qq.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[6.12+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Because kthread_stop did not stop sc_task properly and returned -EINTR,
the sc_timer was not properly closed, ultimately causing the problem [1]
reported by syzbot when freeing sci due to the sc_timer not being closed.

Because the thread sc_task main function nilfs_segctor_thread() returns 0
when it succeeds, when the return value of kthread_stop() is not 0 in
nilfs_segctor_destroy(), we believe that it has not properly closed
sc_timer.

We use timer_shutdown_sync() to sync wait for sc_timer to shutdown, and
set the value of sc_task to NULL under the protection of lock
sc_state_lock, so as to avoid the issue caused by sc_timer not being
properly shutdowned.

[1]
ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object: 00000000dacb411a object type: timer_list hint: nilfs_construction_timeout
Call trace:
 nilfs_segctor_destroy fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2811 [inline]
 nilfs_detach_log_writer+0x668/0x8cc fs/nilfs2/segment.c:2877
 nilfs_put_super+0x4c/0x12c fs/nilfs2/super.c:509

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251029225226.16044-1-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Fixes: 3f66cc261ccb ("nilfs2: use kthread_create and kthread_stop for the log writer thread")
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+24d8b70f039151f65590@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=24d8b70f039151f65590
Tested-by: syzbot+24d8b70f039151f65590@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Edward Adam Davis &lt;eadavis@qq.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[6.12+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide, timers: Rename from_timer() to timer_container_of()</title>
<updated>2025-06-08T07:07:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-09T05:51:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=41cb08555c4164996d67c78b3bf1c658075b75f1'/>
<id>41cb08555c4164996d67c78b3bf1c658075b75f1</id>
<content type='text'>
Move this API to the canonical timer_*() namespace.

[ tglx: Redone against pre rc1 ]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aB2X0jCKQO56WdMt@gmail.com

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Move this API to the canonical timer_*() namespace.

[ tglx: Redone against pre rc1 ]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aB2X0jCKQO56WdMt@gmail.com

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>nilfs2: remove wbc-&gt;for_reclaim handling</title>
<updated>2025-05-21T17:48:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-16T12:31:13+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Since commit 013a07052a1a ("nilfs2: convert metadata aops from writepage
to writepages"), nilfs_mdt_write_folio can't be called from reclaim
context any more.  Remove the code keyed of the wbc-&gt;for_reclaim flag,
which is now only set for writing out swap or shmem pages inside the swap
code, but never passed to file systems.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250508054938.15894-7-hch@lst.de
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250516123417.6779-1-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Since commit 013a07052a1a ("nilfs2: convert metadata aops from writepage
to writepages"), nilfs_mdt_write_folio can't be called from reclaim
context any more.  Remove the code keyed of the wbc-&gt;for_reclaim flag,
which is now only set for writing out swap or shmem pages inside the swap
code, but never passed to file systems.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250508054938.15894-7-hch@lst.de
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250516123417.6779-1-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Switch/rename to timer_delete[_sync]()</title>
<updated>2025-04-05T08:30:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-05T08:17:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8fa7292fee5c5240402371ea89ab285ec856c916'/>
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<content type='text'>
timer_delete[_sync]() replaces del_timer[_sync](). Convert the whole tree
over and remove the historical wrapper inlines.

Conversion was done with coccinelle plus manual fixups where necessary.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
timer_delete[_sync]() replaces del_timer[_sync](). Convert the whole tree
over and remove the historical wrapper inlines.

Conversion was done with coccinelle plus manual fixups where necessary.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>nilfs2: revise the return value description style for consistency.</title>
<updated>2025-01-25T06:47:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ryusuke Konishi</name>
<email>konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-10T01:01:50+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=2e62857f1312606bd173b81102047e8c7bce3c3f'/>
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<content type='text'>
Also for comments that do not cause kernel-doc warnings (those that list
multiple error codes), revise the return value description style to match
Brian G.'s suggestion of "..., or one of the following negative error
codes on failure:".

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAAq45aNh1qV8P6XgDhKeNstT=PvcPUaCXsAF-f9rvmzznsZL5A@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250110010530.21872-8-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "Brian G ." &lt;gissf1@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Also for comments that do not cause kernel-doc warnings (those that list
multiple error codes), revise the return value description style to match
Brian G.'s suggestion of "..., or one of the following negative error
codes on failure:".

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAAq45aNh1qV8P6XgDhKeNstT=PvcPUaCXsAF-f9rvmzznsZL5A@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250110010530.21872-8-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "Brian G ." &lt;gissf1@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>nilfs2: add missing return value kernel-doc descriptions</title>
<updated>2025-01-25T06:47:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ryusuke Konishi</name>
<email>konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-10T01:01:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=fd4e7fadfd91023c2c5868f16af3fe8bed06636b'/>
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There are a number of kernel-doc comments for functions that are missing
return values, which also causes a number of warnings when the kernel-doc
script is run with the "-Wall" option.

Fix this issue by adding proper return value descriptions, and improve
code maintainability.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250110010530.21872-7-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "Brian G ." &lt;gissf1@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
There are a number of kernel-doc comments for functions that are missing
return values, which also causes a number of warnings when the kernel-doc
script is run with the "-Wall" option.

Fix this issue by adding proper return value descriptions, and improve
code maintainability.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250110010530.21872-7-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "Brian G ." &lt;gissf1@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>nilfs2: correct return value kernel-doc descriptions for the rest</title>
<updated>2025-01-25T06:47:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ryusuke Konishi</name>
<email>konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-10T01:01:48+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=343d4a33f26d048fde4b02cfc3681f766b3f1b12'/>
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<content type='text'>
Similar to the previous changes to fix return value descriptions, this
fixes the format of the return value descriptions of functions for the
rest.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250110010530.21872-6-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "Brian G ." &lt;gissf1@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Similar to the previous changes to fix return value descriptions, this
fixes the format of the return value descriptions of functions for the
rest.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250110010530.21872-6-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "Brian G ." &lt;gissf1@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>nilfs2: protect access to buffers with no active references</title>
<updated>2025-01-25T06:47:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ryusuke Konishi</name>
<email>konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-07T20:00:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=367a9bffabe08c04f6d725032cce3d891b2b9e1a'/>
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nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers(), which iterates through the buffers
attached to dirty data folios/pages, accesses the attached buffers without
locking the folios/pages.

For data cache, nilfs_clear_folio_dirty() may be called asynchronously
when the file system degenerates to read only, so
nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers() still has the potential to cause use
after free issues when buffers lose the protection of their dirty state
midway due to this asynchronous clearing and are unintentionally freed by
try_to_free_buffers().

Eliminate this race issue by adjusting the lock section in this function.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250107200202.6432-3-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Fixes: 8c26c4e2694a ("nilfs2: fix issue with flush kernel thread after remount in RO mode because of driver's internal error or metadata corruption")
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers(), which iterates through the buffers
attached to dirty data folios/pages, accesses the attached buffers without
locking the folios/pages.

For data cache, nilfs_clear_folio_dirty() may be called asynchronously
when the file system degenerates to read only, so
nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers() still has the potential to cause use
after free issues when buffers lose the protection of their dirty state
midway due to this asynchronous clearing and are unintentionally freed by
try_to_free_buffers().

Eliminate this race issue by adjusting the lock section in this function.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250107200202.6432-3-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Fixes: 8c26c4e2694a ("nilfs2: fix issue with flush kernel thread after remount in RO mode because of driver's internal error or metadata corruption")
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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