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<title>nilfs2: fix slab-out-of-bounds in nilfs_direct_propagate after truncation</title>
<updated>2026-09-07T15:36:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ryusuke Konishi</name>
<email>konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2026-07-17T04:39:43+00:00</published>
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commit 45662dedb8f272ef7f16e69f13424c4bd0399240 upstream.

Shuangpeng Bai reported that KASAN detected a slab-out-of-bounds error
in nilfs_direct_propagate() during testing.

Analysis revealed that after truncating a file, a node block immediately
below the B-tree root was not deleted.  Instead, it remained in the B-tree
node cache in a dirty state.  The log writer subsequently detected this
block and incorrectly invoked nilfs_direct_propagate() on it, which is
designed to handle only data blocks in direct mapping.

B-tree nodes in the cache are managed by virtual block numbers, and their
logical keys typically exceed the range expected by direct mapping.
Consequently, processing such a node as a direct mapping entry triggers
a slab-out-of-bounds access.

The root cause is that when a B-tree mapping collapses into a direct
mapping during truncation, an intermediate node block pointed to by the
root node is left behind as garbage instead of being explicitly deleted.

This resolves the issue by adding a nilfs_btree_discard() operation
to delete the remaining intermediate node block during the conversion.
A 'deform' flag is added to the bop_delete interface to explicitly signal
that the deletion is part of a mapping transformation.  This allows the
B-tree mapping implementation to perform the necessary cleanup and
discarding of the residual node structure that would be otherwise be left
orphaned after the transition.

Reported-by: Shuangpeng Bai &lt;shuangpeng.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/08A3603A-ADB6-484C-9015-9AC1340E6FB8@gmail.com
Fixes: 36a580eb489f ("nilfs2: direct block mapping")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 45662dedb8f272ef7f16e69f13424c4bd0399240 upstream.

Shuangpeng Bai reported that KASAN detected a slab-out-of-bounds error
in nilfs_direct_propagate() during testing.

Analysis revealed that after truncating a file, a node block immediately
below the B-tree root was not deleted.  Instead, it remained in the B-tree
node cache in a dirty state.  The log writer subsequently detected this
block and incorrectly invoked nilfs_direct_propagate() on it, which is
designed to handle only data blocks in direct mapping.

B-tree nodes in the cache are managed by virtual block numbers, and their
logical keys typically exceed the range expected by direct mapping.
Consequently, processing such a node as a direct mapping entry triggers
a slab-out-of-bounds access.

The root cause is that when a B-tree mapping collapses into a direct
mapping during truncation, an intermediate node block pointed to by the
root node is left behind as garbage instead of being explicitly deleted.

This resolves the issue by adding a nilfs_btree_discard() operation
to delete the remaining intermediate node block during the conversion.
A 'deform' flag is added to the bop_delete interface to explicitly signal
that the deletion is part of a mapping transformation.  This allows the
B-tree mapping implementation to perform the necessary cleanup and
discarding of the residual node structure that would be otherwise be left
orphaned after the transition.

Reported-by: Shuangpeng Bai &lt;shuangpeng.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/08A3603A-ADB6-484C-9015-9AC1340E6FB8@gmail.com
Fixes: 36a580eb489f ("nilfs2: direct block mapping")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>nilfs2: reject invalid block index in GC ioctl</title>
<updated>2026-08-27T12:35:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ryusuke Konishi</name>
<email>konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-07-02T16:07:19+00:00</published>
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commit a1735eae55448bc79c2da6593455791e886f6ed8 upstream.

Syzbot reported list corruption caused by a double list_add_tail() call on
bh-&gt;b_assoc_buffers within nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers().

Analysis revealed that the root cause was the insertion of a page/folio
with a page index of ULONG_MAX into the page cache via the GC ioctl.
filemap_get_folios_tag(), called by nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers(),
repeatedly detects a dirty folio with a page index of ULONG_MAX due to
index wrap-around, leading to duplicate processing of dirty buffers.

As a preparatory step, the GC ioctl loads the page/folio of the block to
be moved during GC and inserts it into the page cache based on information
in the nilfs_vdesc structure passed as an argument.  Normally, this does
not cause issues because the user-space GC library configures the
nilfs_vdesc structure properly.  However, since there is no range check on
the parameters determining the page index, a request with artificially
crafted parameters -- such as those generated by Syzbot -- can result in a
page/folio being inserted with a page index of ULONG_MAX, triggering the
above problem.

This resolves the issue by checking the ranges of 'vd_offset' and
'vd_vblocknr' in the nilfs_vdesc structure that determine the page index,
thereby preventing the invalid page/folio insertions.

Reported-by: syzbot+c37bed40868932d790e9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=c37bed40868932d790e9
Fixes: 7942b919f732 ("nilfs2: ioctl operations")
Cc: wuyankun &lt;wuyankun@uniontech.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit a1735eae55448bc79c2da6593455791e886f6ed8 upstream.

Syzbot reported list corruption caused by a double list_add_tail() call on
bh-&gt;b_assoc_buffers within nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers().

Analysis revealed that the root cause was the insertion of a page/folio
with a page index of ULONG_MAX into the page cache via the GC ioctl.
filemap_get_folios_tag(), called by nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers(),
repeatedly detects a dirty folio with a page index of ULONG_MAX due to
index wrap-around, leading to duplicate processing of dirty buffers.

As a preparatory step, the GC ioctl loads the page/folio of the block to
be moved during GC and inserts it into the page cache based on information
in the nilfs_vdesc structure passed as an argument.  Normally, this does
not cause issues because the user-space GC library configures the
nilfs_vdesc structure properly.  However, since there is no range check on
the parameters determining the page index, a request with artificially
crafted parameters -- such as those generated by Syzbot -- can result in a
page/folio being inserted with a page index of ULONG_MAX, triggering the
above problem.

This resolves the issue by checking the ranges of 'vd_offset' and
'vd_vblocknr' in the nilfs_vdesc structure that determine the page index,
thereby preventing the invalid page/folio insertions.

Reported-by: syzbot+c37bed40868932d790e9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=c37bed40868932d790e9
Fixes: 7942b919f732 ("nilfs2: ioctl operations")
Cc: wuyankun &lt;wuyankun@uniontech.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'nilfs2-v7.2-tag1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vdubeyko/nilfs2</title>
<updated>2026-06-16T06:44:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-16T06:44:20+00:00</published>
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Pull nilfs2 updates from Viacheslav Dubeyko:
 "Fixes of syzbot reported issue and various small fixes in NILFS2
  functionality.

   - fix hung task in nilfs_transaction_begin() (Deepanshu Kartikey)

     Reported by syzbot. The root cause is that user-supplied segment
     numbers were not validated before nilfs_clean_segments() began
     doing work; the range check on each segnum was performed deep
     inside the call chain by nilfs_sufile_updatev(), which emits a
     nilfs_warn() per invalid entry while still holding the segctor lock
     and the sufile mi_sem.

     Fix it by validating the contents of kbufs[4] in
     nilfs_clean_segments() immediately after acquiring ns_segctor_sem
     via nilfs_transaction_lock().

   - fix a smatch warning in nilfs_mkdir() warn (Hongling Zeng)

     This corrects a semantic issue related to the use of the
     ERR_PTR macro that arose from a recent VFS change.

   - fix a backing_dev_info reference leak (Shuangpeng Bai)

     setup_bdev_super() initializes sb-&gt;s_bdev and takes a reference on
     the block device backing_dev_info when assigning sb-&gt;s_bdi.

     nilfs_fill_super() takes another reference to the same
     backing_dev_info and stores it in sb-&gt;s_bdi again. The extra
     reference is not paired with a matching bdi_put(), since
     generic_shutdown_super() releases sb-&gt;s_bdi only once.

     Drop the redundant bdi_get() in nilfs_fill_super(). The single
     reference taken by setup_bdev_super() is enough and is released
     during superblock shutdown"

* tag 'nilfs2-v7.2-tag1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vdubeyko/nilfs2:
  nilfs2: Fix return in nilfs_mkdir
  nilfs2: fix backing_dev_info reference leak
  nilfs2: reject CLEAN_SEGMENTS ioctl with out-of-range segment numbers
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Pull nilfs2 updates from Viacheslav Dubeyko:
 "Fixes of syzbot reported issue and various small fixes in NILFS2
  functionality.

   - fix hung task in nilfs_transaction_begin() (Deepanshu Kartikey)

     Reported by syzbot. The root cause is that user-supplied segment
     numbers were not validated before nilfs_clean_segments() began
     doing work; the range check on each segnum was performed deep
     inside the call chain by nilfs_sufile_updatev(), which emits a
     nilfs_warn() per invalid entry while still holding the segctor lock
     and the sufile mi_sem.

     Fix it by validating the contents of kbufs[4] in
     nilfs_clean_segments() immediately after acquiring ns_segctor_sem
     via nilfs_transaction_lock().

   - fix a smatch warning in nilfs_mkdir() warn (Hongling Zeng)

     This corrects a semantic issue related to the use of the
     ERR_PTR macro that arose from a recent VFS change.

   - fix a backing_dev_info reference leak (Shuangpeng Bai)

     setup_bdev_super() initializes sb-&gt;s_bdev and takes a reference on
     the block device backing_dev_info when assigning sb-&gt;s_bdi.

     nilfs_fill_super() takes another reference to the same
     backing_dev_info and stores it in sb-&gt;s_bdi again. The extra
     reference is not paired with a matching bdi_put(), since
     generic_shutdown_super() releases sb-&gt;s_bdi only once.

     Drop the redundant bdi_get() in nilfs_fill_super(). The single
     reference taken by setup_bdev_super() is enough and is released
     during superblock shutdown"

* tag 'nilfs2-v7.2-tag1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vdubeyko/nilfs2:
  nilfs2: Fix return in nilfs_mkdir
  nilfs2: fix backing_dev_info reference leak
  nilfs2: reject CLEAN_SEGMENTS ioctl with out-of-range segment numbers
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2026-06-14T22:29:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-14T22:29:45+00:00</published>
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "Features:

   - Reduce pipe-&gt;mutex contention by pre-allocating pages outside the
     lock in anon_pipe_write().

     anon_pipe_write() called alloc_page() once per page while holding
     pipe-&gt;mutex. The allocation can sleep doing direct reclaim and runs
     memcg charging, which extends the critical section and stalls any
     concurrent reader on the same mutex. Now up to 8 pages are
     pre-allocated before the mutex is taken, leftovers are recycled
     into the per-pipe tmp_page[] cache before unlock, and any remainder
     is released after unlock, keeping the allocator out of the critical
     section on both sides. On a writers x readers sweep with 64KB
     writes against a 1 MB pipe throughput improves 6-28% and average
     write latency drops 5-22%; under memory pressure - when the cost of
     holding the mutex across reclaim is highest - throughput improves
     21-48% and latency drops 17-33%. The microbenchmark is added to
     selftests.

   - uaccess/sockptr: fix the ignored_trailing logic in
     copy_struct_to_user() to behave as documented and the usize check
     in copy_struct_from_sockptr() for user pointers, and add
     copy_struct_{from,to}_bounce_buffer() and copy_struct_to_sockptr()
     helpers for upcoming users (IPPROTO_SMBDIRECT, IPPROTO_QUIC).

   - bpf: add a sleepable bpf_real_inode() kfunc that resolves the real
     inode backing a dentry via d_real_inode(). On overlayfs the inode
     attached to the dentry doesn't carry the underlying device
     information; this is used by the filesystem restriction BPF program
     that was merged into systemd.

   - docs: add guidelines for submitting new filesystems, motivated by
     the maintenance burden abandoned and untestable filesystems impose
     on VFS developers, blocking infrastructure work like folio
     conversions and iomap migration.

  Fixes:

   - libfs: set SB_I_NOEXEC and SB_I_NODEV by default in init_pseudo()
     and drop the now-redundant assignments in callers. This began as a
     one-line dma-buf fix for a path_noexec() warning; a pseudo
     filesystem has no reason not to set SB_I_NOEXEC. All init_pseudo()
     callers were audited: the only visible effect is on dma-buf where
     SB_I_NOEXEC silences the warning.

   - Handle set_blocksize() failures in legacy filesystems (bfs, hpfs,
     qnx4, jfs, befs, affs, isofs, minix, ntfs3, omfs). Mounting a
     device with a sector size &gt; PAGE_SIZE crashed roughly half of them;
     the rest had the same missing error handling pattern. Plus a
     follow-up releasing the superblock buffer_head when setting the
     minix v3 block size fails.

   - mount: honour SB_NOUSER in the new mount API.

   - fs/fcntl: fix a SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order in fasync signaling by
     switching the process-group paths of send_sigio() and send_sigurg()
     from read_lock(&amp;tasklist_lock) to RCU, matching the single-PID
     path.

   - vfs: add an FS_USERNS_DELEGATABLE flag and set it for NFS, fixing
     delegated NFS mounts (fsopen() in a container with the mount
     performed by a privileged daemon) that broke when non-init
     s_user_ns was tied to FS_USERNS_MOUNT.

   - selftests/namespaces: fix a hang in nsid_test where an unreaped
     grandchild kept the TAP pipe write-end open, a waitpid(-1) race in
     listns_efault_test, and a false FAIL on kernels without listns()
     where the tests should SKIP.

   - filelock: fix the break_lease() stub signature for
     CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING=n.

   - init/initramfs_test: wait for the async initramfs unpacking before
     running; the test and do_populate_rootfs() share the parser state.

   - fs/coredump: reduce redundant log noise in
     validate_coredump_safety().

   - iomap: pass the correct length to fserror_report_io() in
     __iomap_write_begin().

   - backing-file: fix the backing_file_open() kerneldoc.

  Cleanups:

   - initramfs: refactor the cpio hex header parsing to use hex2bin()
     instead of the hand-rolled simple_strntoul() which is reverted, and
     extend the initramfs KUnit tests to cover header fields with 0x
     prefixes.

   - Replace __get_free_pages() and friends with kmalloc()/kzalloc()
     across quota, proc, ocfs2/dlm, nilfs2, nfs, nfsd, libfs, jfs, jbd2,
     isofs, fuse, select, namespace, configfs, binfmt_misc, bfs, and the
     do_mounts init code - part of the larger work of replacing page
     allocator calls with kmalloc().

   - Use clear_and_wake_up_bit() in unlock_buffer() and
     journal_end_buffer_io_sync() instead of open-coding the sequence.

   - Drop unused VFS exports: unexport drop_super_exclusive(), remove
     start_removing_user_path_at(), and fold __start_removing_path()
     into start_removing_path().

   - fs/read_write: narrow the __kernel_write() export with
     EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_MODULES().

   - vfs: uapi: retire octal and hex constants in favor of (1 &lt;&lt; n) for
     the O_ flags. Finding a free bit for a new flag across the
     architectures was needlessly hard with the mixed bases.

   - dcache: add extra sanity checks of dead dentries in dentry_free()
     via a new DENTRY_WARN_ONCE() that also prints d_flags.

   - iov_iter: use kmemdup_array() in dup_iter() to harden the
     allocation against multiplication overflow.

   - fs/pipe: write to -&gt;poll_usage only once.

   - vfs: remove an always-taken if-branch in find_next_fd().

   - dcache: use kmalloc_flex() for struct external_name in __d_alloc().

   - namei: use QSTR() instead of QSTR_INIT() in path_pts().

   - sync_file_range: delete dead S_ISLNK code.

   - Comment fixes: retire a stale comment in fget_task_next() and fix
     assorted spelling mistakes"

* tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (73 commits)
  backing-file: fix backing_file_open() kerneldoc parameter
  iomap: pass the correct len to fserror_report_io in __iomap_write_begin
  vfs: add FS_USERNS_DELEGATABLE flag and set it for NFS
  filelock: fix break_lease() stub signature for CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING=n
  vfs: uapi: retire octal and hex numbers in favor of (1 &lt;&lt; n) for O_ flags
  bpf: add bpf_real_inode() kfunc
  fs/read_write: Do not export __kernel_write() to the entire world
  libfs: drop redundant SB_I_NOEXEC/SB_I_NODEV in init_pseudo() callers
  libfs: set SB_I_NOEXEC and SB_I_NODEV by default in init_pseudo()
  mount: honour SB_NOUSER in the new mount API
  fs/fcntl: fix SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order in fasync signaling
  selftests/pipe: add pipe_bench microbenchmark
  fs/pipe: pre-allocate pages outside pipe-&gt;mutex in anon_pipe_write
  fs: retire stale comment in fget_task_next()
  fs: fix spelling mistakes in comment
  bfs: replace get_zeroed_page() with kzalloc()
  binfmt_misc: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc()
  configfs: replace __get_free_pages() with kzalloc()
  fs/namespace: use __getname() to allocate mntpath buffer
  fs/select: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc()
  ...
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "Features:

   - Reduce pipe-&gt;mutex contention by pre-allocating pages outside the
     lock in anon_pipe_write().

     anon_pipe_write() called alloc_page() once per page while holding
     pipe-&gt;mutex. The allocation can sleep doing direct reclaim and runs
     memcg charging, which extends the critical section and stalls any
     concurrent reader on the same mutex. Now up to 8 pages are
     pre-allocated before the mutex is taken, leftovers are recycled
     into the per-pipe tmp_page[] cache before unlock, and any remainder
     is released after unlock, keeping the allocator out of the critical
     section on both sides. On a writers x readers sweep with 64KB
     writes against a 1 MB pipe throughput improves 6-28% and average
     write latency drops 5-22%; under memory pressure - when the cost of
     holding the mutex across reclaim is highest - throughput improves
     21-48% and latency drops 17-33%. The microbenchmark is added to
     selftests.

   - uaccess/sockptr: fix the ignored_trailing logic in
     copy_struct_to_user() to behave as documented and the usize check
     in copy_struct_from_sockptr() for user pointers, and add
     copy_struct_{from,to}_bounce_buffer() and copy_struct_to_sockptr()
     helpers for upcoming users (IPPROTO_SMBDIRECT, IPPROTO_QUIC).

   - bpf: add a sleepable bpf_real_inode() kfunc that resolves the real
     inode backing a dentry via d_real_inode(). On overlayfs the inode
     attached to the dentry doesn't carry the underlying device
     information; this is used by the filesystem restriction BPF program
     that was merged into systemd.

   - docs: add guidelines for submitting new filesystems, motivated by
     the maintenance burden abandoned and untestable filesystems impose
     on VFS developers, blocking infrastructure work like folio
     conversions and iomap migration.

  Fixes:

   - libfs: set SB_I_NOEXEC and SB_I_NODEV by default in init_pseudo()
     and drop the now-redundant assignments in callers. This began as a
     one-line dma-buf fix for a path_noexec() warning; a pseudo
     filesystem has no reason not to set SB_I_NOEXEC. All init_pseudo()
     callers were audited: the only visible effect is on dma-buf where
     SB_I_NOEXEC silences the warning.

   - Handle set_blocksize() failures in legacy filesystems (bfs, hpfs,
     qnx4, jfs, befs, affs, isofs, minix, ntfs3, omfs). Mounting a
     device with a sector size &gt; PAGE_SIZE crashed roughly half of them;
     the rest had the same missing error handling pattern. Plus a
     follow-up releasing the superblock buffer_head when setting the
     minix v3 block size fails.

   - mount: honour SB_NOUSER in the new mount API.

   - fs/fcntl: fix a SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order in fasync signaling by
     switching the process-group paths of send_sigio() and send_sigurg()
     from read_lock(&amp;tasklist_lock) to RCU, matching the single-PID
     path.

   - vfs: add an FS_USERNS_DELEGATABLE flag and set it for NFS, fixing
     delegated NFS mounts (fsopen() in a container with the mount
     performed by a privileged daemon) that broke when non-init
     s_user_ns was tied to FS_USERNS_MOUNT.

   - selftests/namespaces: fix a hang in nsid_test where an unreaped
     grandchild kept the TAP pipe write-end open, a waitpid(-1) race in
     listns_efault_test, and a false FAIL on kernels without listns()
     where the tests should SKIP.

   - filelock: fix the break_lease() stub signature for
     CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING=n.

   - init/initramfs_test: wait for the async initramfs unpacking before
     running; the test and do_populate_rootfs() share the parser state.

   - fs/coredump: reduce redundant log noise in
     validate_coredump_safety().

   - iomap: pass the correct length to fserror_report_io() in
     __iomap_write_begin().

   - backing-file: fix the backing_file_open() kerneldoc.

  Cleanups:

   - initramfs: refactor the cpio hex header parsing to use hex2bin()
     instead of the hand-rolled simple_strntoul() which is reverted, and
     extend the initramfs KUnit tests to cover header fields with 0x
     prefixes.

   - Replace __get_free_pages() and friends with kmalloc()/kzalloc()
     across quota, proc, ocfs2/dlm, nilfs2, nfs, nfsd, libfs, jfs, jbd2,
     isofs, fuse, select, namespace, configfs, binfmt_misc, bfs, and the
     do_mounts init code - part of the larger work of replacing page
     allocator calls with kmalloc().

   - Use clear_and_wake_up_bit() in unlock_buffer() and
     journal_end_buffer_io_sync() instead of open-coding the sequence.

   - Drop unused VFS exports: unexport drop_super_exclusive(), remove
     start_removing_user_path_at(), and fold __start_removing_path()
     into start_removing_path().

   - fs/read_write: narrow the __kernel_write() export with
     EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_MODULES().

   - vfs: uapi: retire octal and hex constants in favor of (1 &lt;&lt; n) for
     the O_ flags. Finding a free bit for a new flag across the
     architectures was needlessly hard with the mixed bases.

   - dcache: add extra sanity checks of dead dentries in dentry_free()
     via a new DENTRY_WARN_ONCE() that also prints d_flags.

   - iov_iter: use kmemdup_array() in dup_iter() to harden the
     allocation against multiplication overflow.

   - fs/pipe: write to -&gt;poll_usage only once.

   - vfs: remove an always-taken if-branch in find_next_fd().

   - dcache: use kmalloc_flex() for struct external_name in __d_alloc().

   - namei: use QSTR() instead of QSTR_INIT() in path_pts().

   - sync_file_range: delete dead S_ISLNK code.

   - Comment fixes: retire a stale comment in fget_task_next() and fix
     assorted spelling mistakes"

* tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (73 commits)
  backing-file: fix backing_file_open() kerneldoc parameter
  iomap: pass the correct len to fserror_report_io in __iomap_write_begin
  vfs: add FS_USERNS_DELEGATABLE flag and set it for NFS
  filelock: fix break_lease() stub signature for CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING=n
  vfs: uapi: retire octal and hex numbers in favor of (1 &lt;&lt; n) for O_ flags
  bpf: add bpf_real_inode() kfunc
  fs/read_write: Do not export __kernel_write() to the entire world
  libfs: drop redundant SB_I_NOEXEC/SB_I_NODEV in init_pseudo() callers
  libfs: set SB_I_NOEXEC and SB_I_NODEV by default in init_pseudo()
  mount: honour SB_NOUSER in the new mount API
  fs/fcntl: fix SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order in fasync signaling
  selftests/pipe: add pipe_bench microbenchmark
  fs/pipe: pre-allocate pages outside pipe-&gt;mutex in anon_pipe_write
  fs: retire stale comment in fget_task_next()
  fs: fix spelling mistakes in comment
  bfs: replace get_zeroed_page() with kzalloc()
  binfmt_misc: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc()
  configfs: replace __get_free_pages() with kzalloc()
  fs/namespace: use __getname() to allocate mntpath buffer
  fs/select: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>nilfs2: Convert nilfs_mdt_submit_block to bh_submit()</title>
<updated>2026-06-04T08:28:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-28T17:31:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=b9fa6916b1141e3648779e99039b02d4c57225f6'/>
<id>b9fa6916b1141e3648779e99039b02d4c57225f6</id>
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Avoid an extra indirect function call and changing the buffer refcount
by using bh_submit() instead of submit_bh().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528173150.1093780-30-willy@infradead.org
Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: linux-nilfs@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Avoid an extra indirect function call and changing the buffer refcount
by using bh_submit() instead of submit_bh().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528173150.1093780-30-willy@infradead.org
Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: linux-nilfs@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>nilfs2: Convert nilfs_gccache_submit_read_data to bh_submit()</title>
<updated>2026-06-04T08:28:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-28T17:31:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=143a7cea4280562a0cdc3ca43e6e1ced4f8ec61d'/>
<id>143a7cea4280562a0cdc3ca43e6e1ced4f8ec61d</id>
<content type='text'>
Avoid an extra indirect function call and changing the buffer refcount
by using bh_submit() instead of submit_bh().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528173150.1093780-29-willy@infradead.org
Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: linux-nilfs@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Avoid an extra indirect function call and changing the buffer refcount
by using bh_submit() instead of submit_bh().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528173150.1093780-29-willy@infradead.org
Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: linux-nilfs@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>nilfs2: Convert nilfs_btnode_submit_block to bh_submit()</title>
<updated>2026-06-04T08:28:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-28T17:31:40+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=673c1546cdd73728bc353bdadbbeea6e2dbef42a'/>
<id>673c1546cdd73728bc353bdadbbeea6e2dbef42a</id>
<content type='text'>
Avoid an extra indirect function call and changing the buffer refcount
by using bh_submit() instead of submit_bh().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528173150.1093780-28-willy@infradead.org
Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: linux-nilfs@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Avoid an extra indirect function call and changing the buffer refcount
by using bh_submit() instead of submit_bh().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528173150.1093780-28-willy@infradead.org
Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: linux-nilfs@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>nilfs2: replace get_zeroed_page() with kzalloc()</title>
<updated>2026-05-27T13:12:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)</name>
<email>rppt@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-23T17:54:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4948580c76d970bf364f4e225c24ea827f7b3138'/>
<id>4948580c76d970bf364f4e225c24ea827f7b3138</id>
<content type='text'>
nilfs_ioctl_wrap_copy() allocates a temporary buffer with
get_zeroed_page().

kzalloc() is a better API for such use and it also provides better
scalability and more debugging possibilities.

Replace use of get_zeroed_page() with kzalloc().

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260523-b4-fs-v1-4-275e36a83f0e@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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nilfs_ioctl_wrap_copy() allocates a temporary buffer with
get_zeroed_page().

kzalloc() is a better API for such use and it also provides better
scalability and more debugging possibilities.

Replace use of get_zeroed_page() with kzalloc().

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260523-b4-fs-v1-4-275e36a83f0e@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>nilfs2: Fix return in nilfs_mkdir</title>
<updated>2026-05-20T18:20:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hongling Zeng</name>
<email>zenghongling@kylinos.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-20T10:15:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=e5925f33e4fa9ee313d481557607adce8e30ed2e'/>
<id>e5925f33e4fa9ee313d481557607adce8e30ed2e</id>
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Return NULL instead of passing zero to ERR_PTR.
  Fixes smatch warning:
     - fs/nilfs2/namei.c:261 nilfs_mkdir() warn: passing zero to 'ERR_PTR'

Fixes: 88d5baf69082 ("Change inode_operations.mkdir to return struct dentry *")
Signed-off-by: Hongling Zeng &lt;zenghongling@kylinos.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
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Return NULL instead of passing zero to ERR_PTR.
  Fixes smatch warning:
     - fs/nilfs2/namei.c:261 nilfs_mkdir() warn: passing zero to 'ERR_PTR'

Fixes: 88d5baf69082 ("Change inode_operations.mkdir to return struct dentry *")
Signed-off-by: Hongling Zeng &lt;zenghongling@kylinos.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>nilfs2: fix backing_dev_info reference leak</title>
<updated>2026-05-08T18:06:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shuangpeng Bai</name>
<email>shuangpeng.kernel@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-07T15:50:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=665f192a2a11384cb7dc1be5f87d16438522a4ed'/>
<id>665f192a2a11384cb7dc1be5f87d16438522a4ed</id>
<content type='text'>
setup_bdev_super() already initializes sb-&gt;s_bdev and takes a
reference on the block device backing_dev_info when assigning sb-&gt;s_bdi.

nilfs_fill_super() takes another reference to the same
backing_dev_info and stores it in sb-&gt;s_bdi again. The extra
reference is not paired with a matching bdi_put(), since
generic_shutdown_super() releases sb-&gt;s_bdi only once.

Drop the redundant bdi_get() in nilfs_fill_super(). The single
reference taken by setup_bdev_super() is enough and is released
during superblock shutdown.

Fixes: c1e012ea9e83 ("nilfs2: use setup_bdev_super to de-duplicate the mount code")
Signed-off-by: Shuangpeng Bai &lt;shuangpeng.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
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setup_bdev_super() already initializes sb-&gt;s_bdev and takes a
reference on the block device backing_dev_info when assigning sb-&gt;s_bdi.

nilfs_fill_super() takes another reference to the same
backing_dev_info and stores it in sb-&gt;s_bdi again. The extra
reference is not paired with a matching bdi_put(), since
generic_shutdown_super() releases sb-&gt;s_bdi only once.

Drop the redundant bdi_get() in nilfs_fill_super(). The single
reference taken by setup_bdev_super() is enough and is released
during superblock shutdown.

Fixes: c1e012ea9e83 ("nilfs2: use setup_bdev_super to de-duplicate the mount code")
Signed-off-by: Shuangpeng Bai &lt;shuangpeng.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
</pre>
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