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<title>Merge tag 'fuse-update-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse</title>
<updated>2026-08-25T14:59:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-25T14:59:44+00:00</published>
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Pull fuse updates from Miklos Szeredi:

 - Improve performance of the io-uring transport by introducing buffer
   pools and zero-copy (Joanne)

 - Fix lots of bugs (Baokun Li)

 - Fix io-uring initialization issues (Joanne, Bernd)

 - More prep work for large folios (Joanne)

 - Don't limit buffered read to 128k (Jim Harris)

 - Fix zeroing of page end (dirtied with mmap) on file size extension
   (Jimmy Zuber)

 - Improve performance in certain cases with wake_up_sync() when queuing
   request (Xuewen Yan)

 - Misc fixes and cleanups (Xuewen Yan)

* tag 'fuse-update-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse: (35 commits)
  fuse: zero the partial EOF page when extending a file
  io_uring: Add missing include for ITER_SOURCE and ITER_DEST
  fuse: Fix the condition to enable over-io-uring
  fuse: invalidate the correct range after O_APPEND direct write
  selftests/fuse: test post-EOF page zeroing when a file is extended
  fuse: wake one waiter per freed slot when raising max_background
  fuse: use min_not_zero() in fuse_init_server_timeout()
  fuse: copy request headers via a stack buffer for io-uring
  fuse: give wakeup hints to the scheduler for synchronous requests
  fuse: check for NULL root inode in fuse_fill_super_submount
  fuse: reject a duplicate fd= mount option
  cuse: wait for pending RCU callbacks on module exit
  fuse: fix invalidate lock leak on open O_TRUNC DAX failure
  fuse: fix invalidate lock leak on setattr writeback failure
  fuse: wait for FR_FINISHED on abort_on_kill to prevent use-after-free
  fuse: make dentry_tree_work static
  docs: fuse: document io-uring buffer pool and zero-copy uapi
  fuse: add zero-copy over io-uring
  fuse: support registered buffer pools in io-uring
  fuse: add io-uring buffer pools
  ...
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Pull fuse updates from Miklos Szeredi:

 - Improve performance of the io-uring transport by introducing buffer
   pools and zero-copy (Joanne)

 - Fix lots of bugs (Baokun Li)

 - Fix io-uring initialization issues (Joanne, Bernd)

 - More prep work for large folios (Joanne)

 - Don't limit buffered read to 128k (Jim Harris)

 - Fix zeroing of page end (dirtied with mmap) on file size extension
   (Jimmy Zuber)

 - Improve performance in certain cases with wake_up_sync() when queuing
   request (Xuewen Yan)

 - Misc fixes and cleanups (Xuewen Yan)

* tag 'fuse-update-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse: (35 commits)
  fuse: zero the partial EOF page when extending a file
  io_uring: Add missing include for ITER_SOURCE and ITER_DEST
  fuse: Fix the condition to enable over-io-uring
  fuse: invalidate the correct range after O_APPEND direct write
  selftests/fuse: test post-EOF page zeroing when a file is extended
  fuse: wake one waiter per freed slot when raising max_background
  fuse: use min_not_zero() in fuse_init_server_timeout()
  fuse: copy request headers via a stack buffer for io-uring
  fuse: give wakeup hints to the scheduler for synchronous requests
  fuse: check for NULL root inode in fuse_fill_super_submount
  fuse: reject a duplicate fd= mount option
  cuse: wait for pending RCU callbacks on module exit
  fuse: fix invalidate lock leak on open O_TRUNC DAX failure
  fuse: fix invalidate lock leak on setattr writeback failure
  fuse: wait for FR_FINISHED on abort_on_kill to prevent use-after-free
  fuse: make dentry_tree_work static
  docs: fuse: document io-uring buffer pool and zero-copy uapi
  fuse: add zero-copy over io-uring
  fuse: support registered buffer pools in io-uring
  fuse: add io-uring buffer pools
  ...
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<entry>
<title>selftests/fuse: test post-EOF page zeroing when a file is extended</title>
<updated>2026-08-24T10:18:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jimmy Zuber</name>
<email>jamz@amazon.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-07-31T20:38:42+00:00</published>
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Add a regression test for the bug where extending a file left the tail of
the old partial EOF page exposing stale mmap-dirtied data instead of zeros.

The test is a self-contained raw /dev/fuse server (no libfuse dependency)
that runs without writeback_cache and returns FOPEN_KEEP_CACHE, the
configuration in which the bug is visible.  Its backing data is always zero
in the hole, so any non-zero byte a read sees is stale page-cache data.
All offsets are relative to the runtime page size.  Four cases:

  - write_extend: pollute the post-EOF tail, extend past it by writing into
    a later page, and verify the tail reads back as zero;
  - ftruncate_extend: same, but extend via ftruncate();
  - fallocate_extend: same, but extend via fallocate() at the old EOF;
  - extend_into_eof_page_preserves_data: an extending write landing inside
    the old EOF page must not be clobbered by the zeroing.

Each case fails without the fix and passes with it.

Signed-off-by: Jimmy Zuber &lt;jamz@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
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Add a regression test for the bug where extending a file left the tail of
the old partial EOF page exposing stale mmap-dirtied data instead of zeros.

The test is a self-contained raw /dev/fuse server (no libfuse dependency)
that runs without writeback_cache and returns FOPEN_KEEP_CACHE, the
configuration in which the bug is visible.  Its backing data is always zero
in the hole, so any non-zero byte a read sees is stale page-cache data.
All offsets are relative to the runtime page size.  Four cases:

  - write_extend: pollute the post-EOF tail, extend past it by writing into
    a later page, and verify the tail reads back as zero;
  - ftruncate_extend: same, but extend via ftruncate();
  - fallocate_extend: same, but extend via fallocate() at the old EOF;
  - extend_into_eof_page_preserves_data: an extending write landing inside
    the old EOF page must not be clobbered by the zeroing.

Each case fails without the fix and passes with it.

Signed-off-by: Jimmy Zuber &lt;jamz@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-7.3-rc1.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2026-08-17T20:57:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-17T20:57:04+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs superblock updates from Christian Brauner:

 - Make it possible to share a block device between multiple
   filesystems.

   erofs can mount read-only blob devices shared between many
   superblocks, but because we only tracked a single superblock a
   freeze, thaw, removal or sync on such a device was never propagated
   to all the superblocks using it, and there was no way to find them.

   Add an efficient table to lookup all superblocks using a given block
   device.

 - A bunch of pre-existing fixes fell out of this work:

   A block-device freeze racing a btrfs device change could leave the
   whole filesystem stuck frozen. A bdev_freeze() issued by "dmsetup
   suspend" or an LVM snapshot resolves that holder to freeze the
   filesystem. and bdev_thaw() resolves it again to thaw. A freeze
   landing while btrfs is adding, removing or replacing a device freezes
   the filesystem. The membership change then drops that link. So the
   matching thaw could no longer find the superblock.

   Forbid freezing a device for the duration of a membership change,
   modelled on deny_write_access()/allow_write_access().

* tag 'vfs-7.3-rc1.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (24 commits)
  super: fix dying superblock warning messages
  block: reject block device inodes with i_rdev == 0 in lookup_bdev()
  selftests/filesystems: add ustat() coverage
  fs: look up the superblock via the device table in user_get_super()
  super: make fs_holder_ops private
  f2fs: open via dedicated fs bdev helpers
  erofs: open via dedicated fs bdev helpers
  fs: tolerate per-superblock freeze errors on shared devices
  fs: look up superblocks via the device table in fs_holder_ops
  ext4: open via dedicated fs bdev helpers
  btrfs: open via dedicated fs bdev helpers
  xfs: port to fs_bdev_file_open_by_path()
  fs: add dedicated block device open helpers for filesystems
  fs: maintain a global device-to-superblock table
  ocfs2: don't reset s_dev on dismount
  ext4: use anonymous devices for KUnit test superblocks
  fs, block: move blk_mode_t and fop_flags_t into &lt;linux/types.h&gt;
  super: take lock after last reference count
  super: convert s_count to refcount_t s_passive
  btrfs: deny freezing devices undergoing a replace
  ...
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Pull vfs superblock updates from Christian Brauner:

 - Make it possible to share a block device between multiple
   filesystems.

   erofs can mount read-only blob devices shared between many
   superblocks, but because we only tracked a single superblock a
   freeze, thaw, removal or sync on such a device was never propagated
   to all the superblocks using it, and there was no way to find them.

   Add an efficient table to lookup all superblocks using a given block
   device.

 - A bunch of pre-existing fixes fell out of this work:

   A block-device freeze racing a btrfs device change could leave the
   whole filesystem stuck frozen. A bdev_freeze() issued by "dmsetup
   suspend" or an LVM snapshot resolves that holder to freeze the
   filesystem. and bdev_thaw() resolves it again to thaw. A freeze
   landing while btrfs is adding, removing or replacing a device freezes
   the filesystem. The membership change then drops that link. So the
   matching thaw could no longer find the superblock.

   Forbid freezing a device for the duration of a membership change,
   modelled on deny_write_access()/allow_write_access().

* tag 'vfs-7.3-rc1.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (24 commits)
  super: fix dying superblock warning messages
  block: reject block device inodes with i_rdev == 0 in lookup_bdev()
  selftests/filesystems: add ustat() coverage
  fs: look up the superblock via the device table in user_get_super()
  super: make fs_holder_ops private
  f2fs: open via dedicated fs bdev helpers
  erofs: open via dedicated fs bdev helpers
  fs: tolerate per-superblock freeze errors on shared devices
  fs: look up superblocks via the device table in fs_holder_ops
  ext4: open via dedicated fs bdev helpers
  btrfs: open via dedicated fs bdev helpers
  xfs: port to fs_bdev_file_open_by_path()
  fs: add dedicated block device open helpers for filesystems
  fs: maintain a global device-to-superblock table
  ocfs2: don't reset s_dev on dismount
  ext4: use anonymous devices for KUnit test superblocks
  fs, block: move blk_mode_t and fop_flags_t into &lt;linux/types.h&gt;
  super: take lock after last reference count
  super: convert s_count to refcount_t s_passive
  btrfs: deny freezing devices undergoing a replace
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-7.3-rc1.ovl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2026-08-17T20:38:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-17T20:38:36+00:00</published>
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Pull overlayfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This lets the merged overlayfs mount itself be idmapped through
  mount_setattr(MOUNT_ATTR_IDMAP), in addition to the already supported
  idmapped lower and upper layers. The same overlay tree can then be
  exposed under a different ownership view.

  Overlayfs already normalizes every underlying id through the relevant
  layer idmap when ovl_copyattr() copies attributes into the overlay
  inode. So the overlay inode's i_uid and i_gid are overlay-final ids.

  The overlay mount idmap composes on top of that and is applied at the
  overlay-inode boundary only while the underlying layers keep being
  accessed with the mounter's credentials through their own (possibly
  idmapped) mounts.

  So this only changes how the caller sees the overlay inode and never
  widens the mounter's access to the layers. The second,
  mounter-credential check in ovl_permission() against the real inode
  stays on the layer idmap.

  Most paths need no change because the VFS applies the mount idmap to
  the overlay inode before overlayfs runs or after it returns at the
  syscall boundary. Overlayfs only has to change where it bypasses the
  generic path.

  This also included is a fix for a double end_creating() on the
  overlayfs casefold-mismatch path"

* tag 'vfs-7.3-rc1.ovl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  ovl: fix double end_creating() on the casefold-mismatch path
  ovl: document security.capability idmapping on the xattr forward paths
  selftests/filesystems/overlayfs: test idmapped overlay mounts
  selftests/filesystems/overlayfs: fix set_layers_via_fds link error
  docs: document idmapped overlay mounts
  ovl: allow idmapping overlay mounts
  ovl: handle idmapped mounts in ovl_set_acl()
  ovl: handle idmapped mounts in ovl_getattr()
  ovl: handle idmapped mounts in ovl_setattr()
  ovl: handle idmapped mounts in ovl_permission()
  ovl: handle idmapped mounts in ovl_create_object() and ovl_tmpfile()
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Pull overlayfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This lets the merged overlayfs mount itself be idmapped through
  mount_setattr(MOUNT_ATTR_IDMAP), in addition to the already supported
  idmapped lower and upper layers. The same overlay tree can then be
  exposed under a different ownership view.

  Overlayfs already normalizes every underlying id through the relevant
  layer idmap when ovl_copyattr() copies attributes into the overlay
  inode. So the overlay inode's i_uid and i_gid are overlay-final ids.

  The overlay mount idmap composes on top of that and is applied at the
  overlay-inode boundary only while the underlying layers keep being
  accessed with the mounter's credentials through their own (possibly
  idmapped) mounts.

  So this only changes how the caller sees the overlay inode and never
  widens the mounter's access to the layers. The second,
  mounter-credential check in ovl_permission() against the real inode
  stays on the layer idmap.

  Most paths need no change because the VFS applies the mount idmap to
  the overlay inode before overlayfs runs or after it returns at the
  syscall boundary. Overlayfs only has to change where it bypasses the
  generic path.

  This also included is a fix for a double end_creating() on the
  overlayfs casefold-mismatch path"

* tag 'vfs-7.3-rc1.ovl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  ovl: fix double end_creating() on the casefold-mismatch path
  ovl: document security.capability idmapping on the xattr forward paths
  selftests/filesystems/overlayfs: test idmapped overlay mounts
  selftests/filesystems/overlayfs: fix set_layers_via_fds link error
  docs: document idmapped overlay mounts
  ovl: allow idmapping overlay mounts
  ovl: handle idmapped mounts in ovl_set_acl()
  ovl: handle idmapped mounts in ovl_getattr()
  ovl: handle idmapped mounts in ovl_setattr()
  ovl: handle idmapped mounts in ovl_permission()
  ovl: handle idmapped mounts in ovl_create_object() and ovl_tmpfile()
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-7.3-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2026-08-17T19:56:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-17T19:56:12+00:00</published>
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "Bigger cleanups:

   - The lockref dead-count handling is tidied up.

     The open-coded check for a count below zero as the dead marker
     relies on information the caller should not have.

   - make put_mnt_ns() leave mounts connected. Destroying a mount
     namespace disconnected its mounts from their mount points. So a
     file descriptor still open on the parent of a mount point could be
     used to peek under it.

     Locked mounts were already kept connected to prevent exactly that.
     But a mount is only locked when its tree is copied across a user
     namespace boundary. So a mount namespace set up by a privileged
     component had no locked mounts and its mounts were disconnected.
     Passing UMOUNT_CONNECTED keeps every mount connected and prevents
     that bug.

   - vfs_prepare_mode() passes S_IFDIR for directories. I meant to fix
     that ago but didn't get to it. So now someone finally did it.

     This kills the exception where the mode could be 0 when a directory
     was created whereas every other creation operation passed it
     explicitly already.

   - move long delayed work for ufs, jffs2, hfsplus, hfs and affs from
     the per-cpu system_long_wq to the new unbound system_dfl_long_wq.

     None of that work relies on per-cpu state and the work item is
     enqueued with queue_delayed_work() whose timer is global anyway. So
     it may as well benefit from scheduler task placement.

  Smaller fixes and cleanups:

   - unlock_buffer() and journal_end_buffer_io_sync() use
     clear_and_wake_up_bit()

   - the pipe page pools are unified into a single per-pipe pool and the
     extra wake_up(rd_wait) is limited to EPOLLET consumers

   - eventpoll now computes its timer slack lazily in ep_poll()

   - shrink_dcache_for_umount() keeps making progress on busy roots

   - excess xarray nodes are freed in clear_inode()

   - romfs detects hard link cycles

   - the user path of nested backing files is fixed

   - pidfd holds exec_update_lock around the namespace ioctl

   - non-memcg-aware nr_cached_objects is skipped during memcg slab
     shrink

   - iomap_write_iter() always returns status

   - mangle_path() is renamed to seq_mangle_path()

   - inode timestamp accessors are annotated

   - new regression test for pipe-&gt;poll_usage.

   - a few documentation, kernel-doc and selftest fixes"

* tag 'vfs-7.3-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (67 commits)
  selftests/namespaces: Fix racy pipe handshake in timens and pidns_separate
  selftests/epoll: add a regression test for pipe-&gt;poll_usage
  pipe: only enable the extra wake_up(rd_wait) for EPOLLET consumers
  pidfd: hold exec_update_lock around namespace ioctl
  fs: fix user path of nested backing files
  fs: remove stale inode_insert5() kernel-doc parameter
  fs: fix switch/case indentation in sysfs() syscall
  fs: document semantics of kstat::{uid,gid} fields
  dcache: keep shrink_dcache_for_umount() making progress on busy roots
  seq_file: rename mangle_path to seq_mangle_path
  nstree: add/fix struct ns_id_req kernel-doc member fields
  dcache: use lockref routines for dead count checks
  lockref: tidy up dead count handling
  initramfs: fix typo in reserve_initrd_mem comment
  fs/pipe: unify the page pools into a single per-pipe pool
  fs: annotate inode timestamp accessors
  eventpoll: compute timer slack lazily in ep_poll()
  selftests/filesystems: add mntns cleanup test
  put_mnt_ns(): leave mounts connected
  affs: Move long delayed work on system_dfl_long_wq
  ...
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "Bigger cleanups:

   - The lockref dead-count handling is tidied up.

     The open-coded check for a count below zero as the dead marker
     relies on information the caller should not have.

   - make put_mnt_ns() leave mounts connected. Destroying a mount
     namespace disconnected its mounts from their mount points. So a
     file descriptor still open on the parent of a mount point could be
     used to peek under it.

     Locked mounts were already kept connected to prevent exactly that.
     But a mount is only locked when its tree is copied across a user
     namespace boundary. So a mount namespace set up by a privileged
     component had no locked mounts and its mounts were disconnected.
     Passing UMOUNT_CONNECTED keeps every mount connected and prevents
     that bug.

   - vfs_prepare_mode() passes S_IFDIR for directories. I meant to fix
     that ago but didn't get to it. So now someone finally did it.

     This kills the exception where the mode could be 0 when a directory
     was created whereas every other creation operation passed it
     explicitly already.

   - move long delayed work for ufs, jffs2, hfsplus, hfs and affs from
     the per-cpu system_long_wq to the new unbound system_dfl_long_wq.

     None of that work relies on per-cpu state and the work item is
     enqueued with queue_delayed_work() whose timer is global anyway. So
     it may as well benefit from scheduler task placement.

  Smaller fixes and cleanups:

   - unlock_buffer() and journal_end_buffer_io_sync() use
     clear_and_wake_up_bit()

   - the pipe page pools are unified into a single per-pipe pool and the
     extra wake_up(rd_wait) is limited to EPOLLET consumers

   - eventpoll now computes its timer slack lazily in ep_poll()

   - shrink_dcache_for_umount() keeps making progress on busy roots

   - excess xarray nodes are freed in clear_inode()

   - romfs detects hard link cycles

   - the user path of nested backing files is fixed

   - pidfd holds exec_update_lock around the namespace ioctl

   - non-memcg-aware nr_cached_objects is skipped during memcg slab
     shrink

   - iomap_write_iter() always returns status

   - mangle_path() is renamed to seq_mangle_path()

   - inode timestamp accessors are annotated

   - new regression test for pipe-&gt;poll_usage.

   - a few documentation, kernel-doc and selftest fixes"

* tag 'vfs-7.3-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (67 commits)
  selftests/namespaces: Fix racy pipe handshake in timens and pidns_separate
  selftests/epoll: add a regression test for pipe-&gt;poll_usage
  pipe: only enable the extra wake_up(rd_wait) for EPOLLET consumers
  pidfd: hold exec_update_lock around namespace ioctl
  fs: fix user path of nested backing files
  fs: remove stale inode_insert5() kernel-doc parameter
  fs: fix switch/case indentation in sysfs() syscall
  fs: document semantics of kstat::{uid,gid} fields
  dcache: keep shrink_dcache_for_umount() making progress on busy roots
  seq_file: rename mangle_path to seq_mangle_path
  nstree: add/fix struct ns_id_req kernel-doc member fields
  dcache: use lockref routines for dead count checks
  lockref: tidy up dead count handling
  initramfs: fix typo in reserve_initrd_mem comment
  fs/pipe: unify the page pools into a single per-pipe pool
  fs: annotate inode timestamp accessors
  eventpoll: compute timer slack lazily in ep_poll()
  selftests/filesystems: add mntns cleanup test
  put_mnt_ns(): leave mounts connected
  affs: Move long delayed work on system_dfl_long_wq
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-7.3-rc1.failfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2026-08-17T16:15:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-17T16:15:52+00:00</published>
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Pull failfs filesystem from Christian Brauner:
 "Add failfs and expose a FD_FAILFS_ROOT sentinel.

  This allows userspace to shed their filesystem state completely. A
  process with its root or working directory in failfs must anchor every
  path lookup at an explicit file descriptor. Absolute paths, absolute
  symlinks and AT_FDCWD-relative lookups simply fail.

  Failfs is the counterpart to nullfs. nullfs says adds a permanently
  empty, immutable directory whose lookups fail with ENOENT but which
  can be opened, read, stat'd and mounted upon. Failfs on the other hand
  fails every operation. The root cannot be opened at all. A single
  instance is mounted during early boot via kern_mount(), which makes it
  logically distinct from every mount namespace.

  This is accompanied by a new fchroot() system call which makes
  chrooting via a file descriptor a first class concept. It's possible
  to chroot into failfs as an unprivileged user provided the task has no
  new privileges set"

* tag 'vfs-7.3-rc1.failfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  Documentation: add failfs documentation
  selftests/filesystems: add failfs selftests
  arch: hookup fchroot() system call
  fs: support FD_FAILFS_ROOT in fchroot()
  fs: add fchroot()
  fs: support FD_FAILFS_ROOT in fchdir()
  fs: add failfs
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Pull failfs filesystem from Christian Brauner:
 "Add failfs and expose a FD_FAILFS_ROOT sentinel.

  This allows userspace to shed their filesystem state completely. A
  process with its root or working directory in failfs must anchor every
  path lookup at an explicit file descriptor. Absolute paths, absolute
  symlinks and AT_FDCWD-relative lookups simply fail.

  Failfs is the counterpart to nullfs. nullfs says adds a permanently
  empty, immutable directory whose lookups fail with ENOENT but which
  can be opened, read, stat'd and mounted upon. Failfs on the other hand
  fails every operation. The root cannot be opened at all. A single
  instance is mounted during early boot via kern_mount(), which makes it
  logically distinct from every mount namespace.

  This is accompanied by a new fchroot() system call which makes
  chrooting via a file descriptor a first class concept. It's possible
  to chroot into failfs as an unprivileged user provided the task has no
  new privileges set"

* tag 'vfs-7.3-rc1.failfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  Documentation: add failfs documentation
  selftests/filesystems: add failfs selftests
  arch: hookup fchroot() system call
  fs: support FD_FAILFS_ROOT in fchroot()
  fs: add fchroot()
  fs: support FD_FAILFS_ROOT in fchdir()
  fs: add failfs
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<entry>
<title>selftests/epoll: add a regression test for pipe-&gt;poll_usage</title>
<updated>2026-08-13T10:19:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-07-29T11:33:45+00:00</published>
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pipe-&gt;poll_usage was added to ensure that edge-triggered epoll consumers
get a wakeup on every write, even if the pipe was already non-empty.
However, none of the existing epoll_wakeup_test cases cover this; the
test suite passes even with WRITE_ONCE(pipe-&gt;poll_usage, true) removed.

Add a test that writes twice to a pipe and verifies that epoll_wait with
EPOLLET reports data each time. This covers the pipe-specific per-write
wakeup behavior that edge-triggered consumers depend on.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/amnlGZesXu-SUK2H@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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pipe-&gt;poll_usage was added to ensure that edge-triggered epoll consumers
get a wakeup on every write, even if the pipe was already non-empty.
However, none of the existing epoll_wakeup_test cases cover this; the
test suite passes even with WRITE_ONCE(pipe-&gt;poll_usage, true) removed.

Add a test that writes twice to a pipe and verifies that epoll_wait with
EPOLLET reports data each time. This covers the pipe-specific per-write
wakeup behavior that edge-triggered consumers depend on.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/amnlGZesXu-SUK2H@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>selftests/filesystems: test completing a context from another user namespace</title>
<updated>2026-08-10T07:35:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-02T18:00:45+00:00</published>
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fsopen() records the caller's user namespace in fc-&gt;user_ns and hands
back an ordinary file descriptor, so the task that issues
FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE need not be the one that created the context.
mount_capable() authorizes that for a caller holding CAP_SYS_ADMIN in an
ancestor of fc-&gt;user_ns, which any unprivileged user has over a user
namespace it just created.

binfmt_misc and overlayfs used to WARN_ON() the mismatch. Add a test for
both. Also cover the handover within one user namespace. That is a
supported thing to do and has to keep working.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260802-work-fill_super-warn-v1-3-4e987911a39a@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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fsopen() records the caller's user namespace in fc-&gt;user_ns and hands
back an ordinary file descriptor, so the task that issues
FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE need not be the one that created the context.
mount_capable() authorizes that for a caller holding CAP_SYS_ADMIN in an
ancestor of fc-&gt;user_ns, which any unprivileged user has over a user
namespace it just created.

binfmt_misc and overlayfs used to WARN_ON() the mismatch. Add a test for
both. Also cover the handover within one user namespace. That is a
supported thing to do and has to keep working.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260802-work-fill_super-warn-v1-3-4e987911a39a@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>selftests/filesystems: add mntns cleanup test</title>
<updated>2026-07-31T08:09:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Noah Orlando</name>
<email>Noah.Orlando@deshaw.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-07-06T18:26:01+00:00</published>
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Verify that destroying a mount namespace keeps its mounts connected.

Signed-off-by: Noah Orlando &lt;Noah.Orlando@deshaw.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260706182559.2496448-4-Noah.Orlando@deshaw.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Verify that destroying a mount namespace keeps its mounts connected.

Signed-off-by: Noah Orlando &lt;Noah.Orlando@deshaw.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260706182559.2496448-4-Noah.Orlando@deshaw.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>selftests/statmount: Fix file descriptor leak in setup_namespace</title>
<updated>2026-07-31T08:09:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Malaya Kumar Rout</name>
<email>malayarout91@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-07-04T12:04:36+00:00</published>
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In setup_namespace(), f_mountinfo is opened with fopen() at line 115
but is never closed. Multiple ksft_exit_fail_msg() calls exit the
program without closing this file descriptor, and the cleanup_namespace()
function registered with atexit() also doesn't close it.

Add fclose(f_mountinfo) in cleanup_namespace() to ensure the file
descriptor is properly closed on both normal and error exit paths,
since cleanup_namespace() is already registered as an atexit handler.

Signed-off-by: Malaya Kumar Rout &lt;malayarout91@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260704120437.99851-1-malayarout91@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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In setup_namespace(), f_mountinfo is opened with fopen() at line 115
but is never closed. Multiple ksft_exit_fail_msg() calls exit the
program without closing this file descriptor, and the cleanup_namespace()
function registered with atexit() also doesn't close it.

Add fclose(f_mountinfo) in cleanup_namespace() to ensure the file
descriptor is properly closed on both normal and error exit paths,
since cleanup_namespace() is already registered as an atexit handler.

Signed-off-by: Malaya Kumar Rout &lt;malayarout91@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260704120437.99851-1-malayarout91@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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