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<title>fs,block: yield devices early</title>
<updated>2024-03-27T12:17:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-26T12:47:22+00:00</published>
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Currently a device is only really released once the umount returns to
userspace due to how file closing works. That ultimately could cause
an old umount assumption to be violated that concurrent umount and mount
don't fail. So an exclusively held device with a temporary holder should
be yielded before the filesystem is gone. Add a helper that allows
callers to do that. This also allows us to remove the two holder ops
that Linus wasn't excited about.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240326-vfs-bdev-end_holder-v1-1-20af85202918@kernel.org
Fixes: f3a608827d1f ("bdev: open block device as files") # mainline only
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Currently a device is only really released once the umount returns to
userspace due to how file closing works. That ultimately could cause
an old umount assumption to be violated that concurrent umount and mount
don't fail. So an exclusively held device with a temporary holder should
be yielded before the filesystem is gone. Add a helper that allows
callers to do that. This also allows us to remove the two holder ops
that Linus wasn't excited about.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240326-vfs-bdev-end_holder-v1-1-20af85202918@kernel.org
Fixes: f3a608827d1f ("bdev: open block device as files") # mainline only
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs,block: get holder during claim</title>
<updated>2024-03-18T09:32:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-14T14:24:13+00:00</published>
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Now that we open block devices as files we need to deal with the
realities that closing is a deferred operation. An operation on the
block device such as e.g., freeze, thaw, or removal that runs
concurrently with umount, tries to acquire a stable reference on the
holder. The holder might already be gone though. Make that reliable by
grabbing a passive reference to the holder during bdev_open() and
releasing it during bdev_release().

Fixes: f3a608827d1f ("bdev: open block device as files") # mainline only
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZfEQQ9jZZVes0WCZ@infradead.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Yi Zhang &lt;yi.zhang@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHj4cs8tbDwKRwfS1=DmooP73ysM__xAb2PQc6XsAmWR+VuYmg@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240315-freibad-annehmbar-ca68c375af91@brauner
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Now that we open block devices as files we need to deal with the
realities that closing is a deferred operation. An operation on the
block device such as e.g., freeze, thaw, or removal that runs
concurrently with umount, tries to acquire a stable reference on the
holder. The holder might already be gone though. Make that reliable by
grabbing a passive reference to the holder during bdev_open() and
releasing it during bdev_release().

Fixes: f3a608827d1f ("bdev: open block device as files") # mainline only
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZfEQQ9jZZVes0WCZ@infradead.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Yi Zhang &lt;yi.zhang@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHj4cs8tbDwKRwfS1=DmooP73ysM__xAb2PQc6XsAmWR+VuYmg@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240315-freibad-annehmbar-ca68c375af91@brauner
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.9.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2024-03-11T17:52:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-11T17:52:34+00:00</published>
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Pull block handle updates from Christian Brauner:
 "Last cycle we changed opening of block devices, and opening a block
  device would return a bdev_handle. This allowed us to implement
  support for restricting and forbidding writes to mounted block
  devices. It was accompanied by converting and adding helpers to
  operate on bdev_handles instead of plain block devices.

  That was already a good step forward but ultimately it isn't necessary
  to have special purpose helpers for opening block devices internally
  that return a bdev_handle.

  Fundamentally, opening a block device internally should just be
  equivalent to opening files. So now all internal opens of block
  devices return files just as a userspace open would. Instead of
  introducing a separate indirection into bdev_open_by_*() via struct
  bdev_handle bdev_file_open_by_*() is made to just return a struct
  file. Opening and closing a block device just becomes equivalent to
  opening and closing a file.

  This all works well because internally we already have a pseudo fs for
  block devices and so opening block devices is simple. There's a few
  places where we needed to be careful such as during boot when the
  kernel is supposed to mount the rootfs directly without init doing it.
  Here we need to take care to ensure that we flush out any asynchronous
  file close. That's what we already do for opening, unpacking, and
  closing the initramfs. So nothing new here.

  The equivalence of opening and closing block devices to regular files
  is a win in and of itself. But it also has various other advantages.
  We can remove struct bdev_handle completely. Various low-level helpers
  are now private to the block layer. Other helpers were simply
  removable completely.

  A follow-up series that is already reviewed build on this and makes it
  possible to remove bdev-&gt;bd_inode and allows various clean ups of the
  buffer head code as well. All places where we stashed a bdev_handle
  now just stash a file and use simple accessors to get to the actual
  block device which was already the case for bdev_handle"

* tag 'vfs-6.9.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (35 commits)
  block: remove bdev_handle completely
  block: don't rely on BLK_OPEN_RESTRICT_WRITES when yielding write access
  bdev: remove bdev pointer from struct bdev_handle
  bdev: make struct bdev_handle private to the block layer
  bdev: make bdev_{release, open_by_dev}() private to block layer
  bdev: remove bdev_open_by_path()
  reiserfs: port block device access to file
  ocfs2: port block device access to file
  nfs: port block device access to files
  jfs: port block device access to file
  f2fs: port block device access to files
  ext4: port block device access to file
  erofs: port device access to file
  btrfs: port device access to file
  bcachefs: port block device access to file
  target: port block device access to file
  s390: port block device access to file
  nvme: port block device access to file
  block2mtd: port device access to files
  bcache: port block device access to files
  ...
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Pull block handle updates from Christian Brauner:
 "Last cycle we changed opening of block devices, and opening a block
  device would return a bdev_handle. This allowed us to implement
  support for restricting and forbidding writes to mounted block
  devices. It was accompanied by converting and adding helpers to
  operate on bdev_handles instead of plain block devices.

  That was already a good step forward but ultimately it isn't necessary
  to have special purpose helpers for opening block devices internally
  that return a bdev_handle.

  Fundamentally, opening a block device internally should just be
  equivalent to opening files. So now all internal opens of block
  devices return files just as a userspace open would. Instead of
  introducing a separate indirection into bdev_open_by_*() via struct
  bdev_handle bdev_file_open_by_*() is made to just return a struct
  file. Opening and closing a block device just becomes equivalent to
  opening and closing a file.

  This all works well because internally we already have a pseudo fs for
  block devices and so opening block devices is simple. There's a few
  places where we needed to be careful such as during boot when the
  kernel is supposed to mount the rootfs directly without init doing it.
  Here we need to take care to ensure that we flush out any asynchronous
  file close. That's what we already do for opening, unpacking, and
  closing the initramfs. So nothing new here.

  The equivalence of opening and closing block devices to regular files
  is a win in and of itself. But it also has various other advantages.
  We can remove struct bdev_handle completely. Various low-level helpers
  are now private to the block layer. Other helpers were simply
  removable completely.

  A follow-up series that is already reviewed build on this and makes it
  possible to remove bdev-&gt;bd_inode and allows various clean ups of the
  buffer head code as well. All places where we stashed a bdev_handle
  now just stash a file and use simple accessors to get to the actual
  block device which was already the case for bdev_handle"

* tag 'vfs-6.9.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (35 commits)
  block: remove bdev_handle completely
  block: don't rely on BLK_OPEN_RESTRICT_WRITES when yielding write access
  bdev: remove bdev pointer from struct bdev_handle
  bdev: make struct bdev_handle private to the block layer
  bdev: make bdev_{release, open_by_dev}() private to block layer
  bdev: remove bdev_open_by_path()
  reiserfs: port block device access to file
  ocfs2: port block device access to file
  nfs: port block device access to files
  jfs: port block device access to file
  f2fs: port block device access to files
  ext4: port block device access to file
  erofs: port device access to file
  btrfs: port device access to file
  bcachefs: port block device access to file
  target: port block device access to file
  s390: port block device access to file
  nvme: port block device access to file
  block2mtd: port device access to files
  bcache: port block device access to files
  ...
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<entry>
<title>bdev: open block device as files</title>
<updated>2024-02-25T11:05:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-08T17:47:35+00:00</published>
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Add two new helpers to allow opening block devices as files.
This is not the final infrastructure. This still opens the block device
before opening a struct a file. Until we have removed all references to
struct bdev_handle we can't switch the order:

* Introduce blk_to_file_flags() to translate from block specific to
  flags usable to pen a new file.
* Introduce bdev_file_open_by_{dev,path}().
* Introduce temporary sb_bdev_handle() helper to retrieve a struct
  bdev_handle from a block device file and update places that directly
  reference struct bdev_handle to rely on it.
* Don't count block device openes against the number of open files. A
  bdev_file_open_by_{dev,path}() file is never installed into any
  file descriptor table.

One idea that came to mind was to use kernel_tmpfile_open() which
would require us to pass a path and it would then call do_dentry_open()
going through the regular fops-&gt;open::blkdev_open() path. But then we're
back to the problem of routing block specific flags such as
BLK_OPEN_RESTRICT_WRITES through the open path and would have to waste
FMODE_* flags every time we add a new one. With this we can avoid using
a flag bit and we have more leeway in how we open block devices from
bdev_open_by_{dev,path}().

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240123-vfs-bdev-file-v2-1-adbd023e19cc@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Add two new helpers to allow opening block devices as files.
This is not the final infrastructure. This still opens the block device
before opening a struct a file. Until we have removed all references to
struct bdev_handle we can't switch the order:

* Introduce blk_to_file_flags() to translate from block specific to
  flags usable to pen a new file.
* Introduce bdev_file_open_by_{dev,path}().
* Introduce temporary sb_bdev_handle() helper to retrieve a struct
  bdev_handle from a block device file and update places that directly
  reference struct bdev_handle to rely on it.
* Don't count block device openes against the number of open files. A
  bdev_file_open_by_{dev,path}() file is never installed into any
  file descriptor table.

One idea that came to mind was to use kernel_tmpfile_open() which
would require us to pass a path and it would then call do_dentry_open()
going through the regular fops-&gt;open::blkdev_open() path. But then we're
back to the problem of routing block specific flags such as
BLK_OPEN_RESTRICT_WRITES through the open path and would have to waste
FMODE_* flags every time we add a new one. With this we can avoid using
a flag bit and we have more leeway in how we open block devices from
bdev_open_by_{dev,path}().

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240123-vfs-bdev-file-v2-1-adbd023e19cc@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs/super.c: don't drop -&gt;s_user_ns until we free struct super_block itself</title>
<updated>2024-02-25T07:10:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-02T02:10:01+00:00</published>
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Avoids fun races in RCU pathwalk...  Same goes for freeing LSM shite
hanging off super_block's arse.

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Avoids fun races in RCU pathwalk...  Same goes for freeing LSM shite
hanging off super_block's arse.

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'fscrypt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/linux</title>
<updated>2024-01-10T18:24:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-10T18:24:49+00:00</published>
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Pull fscrypt updates from Eric Biggers:
 "Adjust the timing of the fscrypt keyring destruction, to prepare for
  btrfs's fscrypt support.

  Also document that CephFS supports fscrypt now"

* tag 'fscrypt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/linux:
  fs: move fscrypt keyring destruction to after -&gt;put_super
  f2fs: move release of block devices to after kill_block_super()
  fscrypt: document that CephFS supports fscrypt now
  fscrypt: update comment for do_remove_key()
  fscrypt.rst: update definition of struct fscrypt_context_v2
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Pull fscrypt updates from Eric Biggers:
 "Adjust the timing of the fscrypt keyring destruction, to prepare for
  btrfs's fscrypt support.

  Also document that CephFS supports fscrypt now"

* tag 'fscrypt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/linux:
  fs: move fscrypt keyring destruction to after -&gt;put_super
  f2fs: move release of block devices to after kill_block_super()
  fscrypt: document that CephFS supports fscrypt now
  fscrypt: update comment for do_remove_key()
  fscrypt.rst: update definition of struct fscrypt_context_v2
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.8.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2024-01-08T18:43:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-08T18:43:51+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs super updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the super work for this cycle including the long-awaited
  series by Jan to make it possible to prevent writing to mounted block
  devices:

   - Writing to mounted devices is dangerous and can lead to filesystem
     corruption as well as crashes. Furthermore syzbot comes with more
     and more involved examples how to corrupt block device under a
     mounted filesystem leading to kernel crashes and reports we can do
     nothing about. Add tracking of writers to each block device and a
     kernel cmdline argument which controls whether other writeable
     opens to block devices open with BLK_OPEN_RESTRICT_WRITES flag are
     allowed.

     Note that this effectively only prevents modification of the
     particular block device's page cache by other writers. The actual
     device content can still be modified by other means - e.g. by
     issuing direct scsi commands, by doing writes through devices lower
     in the storage stack (e.g. in case loop devices, DM, or MD are
     involved) etc. But blocking direct modifications of the block
     device page cache is enough to give filesystems a chance to perform
     data validation when loading data from the underlying storage and
     thus prevent kernel crashes.

     Syzbot can use this cmdline argument option to avoid uninteresting
     crashes. Also users whose userspace setup does not need writing to
     mounted block devices can set this option for hardening. We expect
     that this will be interesting to quite a few workloads.

     Btrfs is currently opted out of this because they still haven't
     merged patches we require for this to work from three kernel
     releases ago.

   - Reimplement block device freezing and thawing as holder operations
     on the block device.

     This allows us to extend block device freezing to all devices
     associated with a superblock and not just the main device. It also
     allows us to remove get_active_super() and thus another function
     that scans the global list of superblocks.

     Freezing via additional block devices only works if the filesystem
     chooses to use @fs_holder_ops for these additional devices as well.
     That currently only includes ext4 and xfs.

     Earlier releases switched get_tree_bdev() and mount_bdev() to use
     @fs_holder_ops. The remaining nilfs2 open-coded version of
     mount_bdev() has been converted to rely on @fs_holder_ops as well.
     So block device freezing for the main block device will continue to
     work as before.

     There should be no regressions in functionality. The only special
     case is btrfs where block device freezing for the main block device
     never worked because sb-&gt;s_bdev isn't set. Block device freezing
     for btrfs can be fixed once they can switch to @fs_holder_ops but
     that can happen whenever they're ready"

* tag 'vfs-6.8.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (27 commits)
  block: Fix a memory leak in bdev_open_by_dev()
  super: don't bother with WARN_ON_ONCE()
  super: massage wait event mechanism
  ext4: Block writes to journal device
  xfs: Block writes to log device
  fs: Block writes to mounted block devices
  btrfs: Do not restrict writes to btrfs devices
  block: Add config option to not allow writing to mounted devices
  block: Remove blkdev_get_by_*() functions
  bcachefs: Convert to bdev_open_by_path()
  fs: handle freezing from multiple devices
  fs: remove dead check
  nilfs2: simplify device handling
  fs: streamline thaw_super_locked
  ext4: simplify device handling
  xfs: simplify device handling
  fs: simplify setup_bdev_super() calls
  blkdev: comment fs_holder_ops
  porting: document block device freeze and thaw changes
  fs: remove unused helper
  ...
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Pull vfs super updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the super work for this cycle including the long-awaited
  series by Jan to make it possible to prevent writing to mounted block
  devices:

   - Writing to mounted devices is dangerous and can lead to filesystem
     corruption as well as crashes. Furthermore syzbot comes with more
     and more involved examples how to corrupt block device under a
     mounted filesystem leading to kernel crashes and reports we can do
     nothing about. Add tracking of writers to each block device and a
     kernel cmdline argument which controls whether other writeable
     opens to block devices open with BLK_OPEN_RESTRICT_WRITES flag are
     allowed.

     Note that this effectively only prevents modification of the
     particular block device's page cache by other writers. The actual
     device content can still be modified by other means - e.g. by
     issuing direct scsi commands, by doing writes through devices lower
     in the storage stack (e.g. in case loop devices, DM, or MD are
     involved) etc. But blocking direct modifications of the block
     device page cache is enough to give filesystems a chance to perform
     data validation when loading data from the underlying storage and
     thus prevent kernel crashes.

     Syzbot can use this cmdline argument option to avoid uninteresting
     crashes. Also users whose userspace setup does not need writing to
     mounted block devices can set this option for hardening. We expect
     that this will be interesting to quite a few workloads.

     Btrfs is currently opted out of this because they still haven't
     merged patches we require for this to work from three kernel
     releases ago.

   - Reimplement block device freezing and thawing as holder operations
     on the block device.

     This allows us to extend block device freezing to all devices
     associated with a superblock and not just the main device. It also
     allows us to remove get_active_super() and thus another function
     that scans the global list of superblocks.

     Freezing via additional block devices only works if the filesystem
     chooses to use @fs_holder_ops for these additional devices as well.
     That currently only includes ext4 and xfs.

     Earlier releases switched get_tree_bdev() and mount_bdev() to use
     @fs_holder_ops. The remaining nilfs2 open-coded version of
     mount_bdev() has been converted to rely on @fs_holder_ops as well.
     So block device freezing for the main block device will continue to
     work as before.

     There should be no regressions in functionality. The only special
     case is btrfs where block device freezing for the main block device
     never worked because sb-&gt;s_bdev isn't set. Block device freezing
     for btrfs can be fixed once they can switch to @fs_holder_ops but
     that can happen whenever they're ready"

* tag 'vfs-6.8.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (27 commits)
  block: Fix a memory leak in bdev_open_by_dev()
  super: don't bother with WARN_ON_ONCE()
  super: massage wait event mechanism
  ext4: Block writes to journal device
  xfs: Block writes to log device
  fs: Block writes to mounted block devices
  btrfs: Do not restrict writes to btrfs devices
  block: Add config option to not allow writing to mounted devices
  block: Remove blkdev_get_by_*() functions
  bcachefs: Convert to bdev_open_by_path()
  fs: handle freezing from multiple devices
  fs: remove dead check
  nilfs2: simplify device handling
  fs: streamline thaw_super_locked
  ext4: simplify device handling
  xfs: simplify device handling
  fs: simplify setup_bdev_super() calls
  blkdev: comment fs_holder_ops
  porting: document block device freeze and thaw changes
  fs: remove unused helper
  ...
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<title>fs: move fscrypt keyring destruction to after -&gt;put_super</title>
<updated>2023-12-28T03:56:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josef Bacik</name>
<email>josef@toxicpanda.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-27T17:14:29+00:00</published>
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btrfs has a variety of asynchronous things we do with inodes that can
potentially last until -&gt;put_super, when we shut everything down and
clean up all of our async work.  Due to this we need to move
fscrypt_destroy_keyring() to after -&gt;put_super, otherwise we get
warnings about still having active references on the master key.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Neal Gompa &lt;neal@gompa.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231227171429.9223-3-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
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btrfs has a variety of asynchronous things we do with inodes that can
potentially last until -&gt;put_super, when we shut everything down and
clean up all of our async work.  Due to this we need to move
fscrypt_destroy_keyring() to after -&gt;put_super, otherwise we get
warnings about still having active references on the master key.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Neal Gompa &lt;neal@gompa.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231227171429.9223-3-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: super: use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_USER for super block allocation</title>
<updated>2023-12-12T13:24:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Mikhalitsyn</name>
<email>aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-08T15:10:22+00:00</published>
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There is no reason to use a GFP_USER flag for struct super_block allocation
in the alloc_super(). Instead, let's use GFP_KERNEL for that.

&gt;From the memory management perspective, the only difference between
GFP_USER and GFP_KERNEL is that GFP_USER allocations are tied to a cpuset,
while GFP_KERNEL ones are not.

There is no real issue and this is not a candidate to go to the stable,
but let's fix it for a consistency sake.

Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn &lt;aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231208151022.156273-1-aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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There is no reason to use a GFP_USER flag for struct super_block allocation
in the alloc_super(). Instead, let's use GFP_KERNEL for that.

&gt;From the memory management perspective, the only difference between
GFP_USER and GFP_KERNEL is that GFP_USER allocations are tied to a cpuset,
while GFP_KERNEL ones are not.

There is no real issue and this is not a candidate to go to the stable,
but let's fix it for a consistency sake.

Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn &lt;aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231208151022.156273-1-aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>super: don't bother with WARN_ON_ONCE()</title>
<updated>2023-11-28T18:15:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-27T11:51:31+00:00</published>
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We hold our own active reference and we've checked it above.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231127-vfs-super-massage-wait-v1-2-9ab277bfd01a@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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We hold our own active reference and we've checked it above.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231127-vfs-super-massage-wait-v1-2-9ab277bfd01a@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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