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<title>bcachefs: Fix subvol to missing root repair</title>
<updated>2025-06-10T11:17:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kent Overstreet</name>
<email>kent.overstreet@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-02T23:48:27+00:00</published>
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commit 29cc6fb7c068c773049d3bde14b939033893eff4 upstream.

We had a bug where the root inode of a subvolume was erronously deleted:
bch2_evict_inode() called bch2_inode_rm(), meaning the VFS inode's
i_nlink was somehow set to 0 when it shouldn't have - the inode in the
btree indicated it clearly was not unlinked.

This has been addressed with additional safety checks in
bch2_inode_rm() - pulling in the safety checks we already were doing
when deleting unlinked inodes in recovery - but the really disastrous
bug was in check_subvols(), which on finding a dangling subvol (subvol
with a missing root inode) would delete the subvolume.

I assume this bug dates from early check_directory_structure() code,
which originally handled subvolumes and normal paths - the idea being
that still live contents of the subvolume would get reattached
somewhere.

But that's incorrect, and disastrously so; deleting a subvolume triggers
deleting the snapshot ID it points to, deleting the entire contents.

The correct way to repair is to recreate the root inode if it's missing;
then any contents will get reattached under that subvolume's lost+found.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 29cc6fb7c068c773049d3bde14b939033893eff4 upstream.

We had a bug where the root inode of a subvolume was erronously deleted:
bch2_evict_inode() called bch2_inode_rm(), meaning the VFS inode's
i_nlink was somehow set to 0 when it shouldn't have - the inode in the
btree indicated it clearly was not unlinked.

This has been addressed with additional safety checks in
bch2_inode_rm() - pulling in the safety checks we already were doing
when deleting unlinked inodes in recovery - but the really disastrous
bug was in check_subvols(), which on finding a dangling subvol (subvol
with a missing root inode) would delete the subvolume.

I assume this bug dates from early check_directory_structure() code,
which originally handled subvolumes and normal paths - the idea being
that still live contents of the subvolume would get reattached
somewhere.

But that's incorrect, and disastrously so; deleting a subvolume triggers
deleting the snapshot ID it points to, deleting the entire contents.

The correct way to repair is to recreate the root inode if it's missing;
then any contents will get reattached under that subvolume's lost+found.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bcachefs: Run may_delete_deleted_inode() checks in bch2_inode_rm()</title>
<updated>2025-06-10T11:17:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kent Overstreet</name>
<email>kent.overstreet@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-02T21:43:36+00:00</published>
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commit 09fb85ae565645b982e9030dbb2ff6707f2cdddc upstream.

We had a bug where bch2_evict_inode() incorrectly called bch2_inode_rm()
- the journal clearly showed the inode was not unlinked.

We've got checks that we use in recovery when cleaning up deleted
inodes, lift them to bch2_inode_rm() as well.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 09fb85ae565645b982e9030dbb2ff6707f2cdddc upstream.

We had a bug where bch2_evict_inode() incorrectly called bch2_inode_rm()
- the journal clearly showed the inode was not unlinked.

We've got checks that we use in recovery when cleaning up deleted
inodes, lift them to bch2_inode_rm() as well.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bcachefs: delete dead code from may_delete_deleted_inode()</title>
<updated>2025-06-10T11:17:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kent Overstreet</name>
<email>kent.overstreet@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-02T22:26:44+00:00</published>
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commit bb6689bbeebc6fb51f0f120b486bdcc9a38ffcf6 upstream.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit bb6689bbeebc6fb51f0f120b486bdcc9a38ffcf6 upstream.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bcachefs: Repair code for directory i_size</title>
<updated>2025-06-10T11:17:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kent Overstreet</name>
<email>kent.overstreet@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-31T15:58:11+00:00</published>
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commit 36a2fdf7c5c1ccae6ca16cd14067567096cebe17 upstream.

We had a bug due due to an incomplete revert of the patch implementing
directory i_size (summing up the size of the dirents), leading to
completely screwy i_size values that underflow.

Most userspace programs don't seem to care (e.g. du ignores it), but it
turns out this broke sshfs, so needs to be repaired.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 36a2fdf7c5c1ccae6ca16cd14067567096cebe17 upstream.

We had a bug due due to an incomplete revert of the patch implementing
directory i_size (summing up the size of the dirents), leading to
completely screwy i_size values that underflow.

Most userspace programs don't seem to care (e.g. du ignores it), but it
turns out this broke sshfs, so needs to be repaired.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bcachefs: Kill un-reverted directory i_size code</title>
<updated>2025-06-10T11:17:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kent Overstreet</name>
<email>kent.overstreet@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-31T22:32:37+00:00</published>
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commit 95fafc0f3407a6446082c11849df585bd3246571 upstream.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 95fafc0f3407a6446082c11849df585bd3246571 upstream.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>coredump: hand a pidfd to the usermode coredump helper</title>
<updated>2025-06-04T12:46:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-14T13:55:07+00:00</published>
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commit b5325b2a270fcaf7b2a9a0f23d422ca8a5a8bdea upstream.

Give userspace a way to instruct the kernel to install a pidfd into the
usermode helper process. This makes coredump handling a lot more
reliable for userspace. In parallel with this commit we already have
systemd adding support for this in [1].

We create a pidfs file for the coredumping process when we process the
corename pattern. When the usermode helper process is forked we then
install the pidfs file as file descriptor three into the usermode
helpers file descriptor table so it's available to the exec'd program.

Since usermode helpers are either children of the system_unbound_wq
workqueue or kthreadd we know that the file descriptor table is empty
and can thus always use three as the file descriptor number.

Note, that we'll install a pidfd for the thread-group leader even if a
subthread is calling do_coredump(). We know that task linkage hasn't
been removed due to delay_group_leader() and even if this @current isn't
the actual thread-group leader we know that the thread-group leader
cannot be reaped until @current has exited.

Link: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/37125 [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250414-work-coredump-v2-3-685bf231f828@kernel.org
Tested-by: Luca Boccassi &lt;luca.boccassi@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit b5325b2a270fcaf7b2a9a0f23d422ca8a5a8bdea upstream.

Give userspace a way to instruct the kernel to install a pidfd into the
usermode helper process. This makes coredump handling a lot more
reliable for userspace. In parallel with this commit we already have
systemd adding support for this in [1].

We create a pidfs file for the coredumping process when we process the
corename pattern. When the usermode helper process is forked we then
install the pidfs file as file descriptor three into the usermode
helpers file descriptor table so it's available to the exec'd program.

Since usermode helpers are either children of the system_unbound_wq
workqueue or kthreadd we know that the file descriptor table is empty
and can thus always use three as the file descriptor number.

Note, that we'll install a pidfd for the thread-group leader even if a
subthread is calling do_coredump(). We know that task linkage hasn't
been removed due to delay_group_leader() and even if this @current isn't
the actual thread-group leader we know that the thread-group leader
cannot be reaped until @current has exited.

Link: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/37125 [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250414-work-coredump-v2-3-685bf231f828@kernel.org
Tested-by: Luca Boccassi &lt;luca.boccassi@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>coredump: fix error handling for replace_fd()</title>
<updated>2025-06-04T12:46:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-14T13:55:06+00:00</published>
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commit 95c5f43181fe9c1b5e5a4bd3281c857a5259991f upstream.

The replace_fd() helper returns the file descriptor number on success
and a negative error code on failure. The current error handling in
umh_pipe_setup() only works because the file descriptor that is replaced
is zero but that's pretty volatile. Explicitly check for a negative
error code.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250414-work-coredump-v2-2-685bf231f828@kernel.org
Tested-by: Luca Boccassi &lt;luca.boccassi@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 95c5f43181fe9c1b5e5a4bd3281c857a5259991f upstream.

The replace_fd() helper returns the file descriptor number on success
and a negative error code on failure. The current error handling in
umh_pipe_setup() only works because the file descriptor that is replaced
is zero but that's pretty volatile. Explicitly check for a negative
error code.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250414-work-coredump-v2-2-685bf231f828@kernel.org
Tested-by: Luca Boccassi &lt;luca.boccassi@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>pidfs: move O_RDWR into pidfs_alloc_file()</title>
<updated>2025-06-04T12:46:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-14T13:55:05+00:00</published>
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commit c57f07b235871c9e5bffaccd458dca2d9a62b164 upstream.

Since all pidfds must be O_RDWR currently enfore that directly in the
file allocation function itself instead of letting callers specify it.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250414-work-coredump-v2-1-685bf231f828@kernel.org
Tested-by: Luca Boccassi &lt;luca.boccassi@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit c57f07b235871c9e5bffaccd458dca2d9a62b164 upstream.

Since all pidfds must be O_RDWR currently enfore that directly in the
file allocation function itself instead of letting callers specify it.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250414-work-coredump-v2-1-685bf231f828@kernel.org
Tested-by: Luca Boccassi &lt;luca.boccassi@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'v6.15-rc8-ksmbd-server-fixes' of git://git.samba.org/ksmbd</title>
<updated>2025-05-23T15:42:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-23T15:42:29+00:00</published>
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Pull smb server fixes from Steve French:

 - Fix for rename regression due to the recent VFS lookup changes

 - Fix write failure

 - locking fix for oplock handling

* tag 'v6.15-rc8-ksmbd-server-fixes' of git://git.samba.org/ksmbd:
  ksmbd: use list_first_entry_or_null for opinfo_get_list()
  ksmbd: fix rename failure
  ksmbd: fix stream write failure
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Pull smb server fixes from Steve French:

 - Fix for rename regression due to the recent VFS lookup changes

 - Fix write failure

 - locking fix for oplock handling

* tag 'v6.15-rc8-ksmbd-server-fixes' of git://git.samba.org/ksmbd:
  ksmbd: use list_first_entry_or_null for opinfo_get_list()
  ksmbd: fix rename failure
  ksmbd: fix stream write failure
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.15-rc8.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-05-23T14:51:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-23T14:51:05+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs fixes from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains a small set of fixes for the blocking buffer lookup
  conversion done earlier this cycle.

  It adds a missing conversion in the getblk slowpath and a few minor
  optimizations and cleanups"

* tag 'vfs-6.15-rc8.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  fs/buffer: optimize discard_buffer()
  fs/buffer: remove superfluous statements
  fs/buffer: avoid redundant lookup in getblk slowpath
  fs/buffer: use sleeping lookup in __getblk_slowpath()
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Pull vfs fixes from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains a small set of fixes for the blocking buffer lookup
  conversion done earlier this cycle.

  It adds a missing conversion in the getblk slowpath and a few minor
  optimizations and cleanups"

* tag 'vfs-6.15-rc8.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  fs/buffer: optimize discard_buffer()
  fs/buffer: remove superfluous statements
  fs/buffer: avoid redundant lookup in getblk slowpath
  fs/buffer: use sleeping lookup in __getblk_slowpath()
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