linux.git/block/fops.c, branch v7.3-rc1

Merge tag 'for-7.3/block-20260819' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux

2026-08-20T20:55:16+00:00

Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - NVMe updates via Keith:
     - Enable Clang context analysis for the nvme host driver, adding
       context annotations across core, fabrics, rdma, tcp and pci
     - nvmet reservation state exposed through a new namespace-level
       debugfs directory, plus ABI documentation for the host sysfs and
       target configfs interfaces
     - nvme-tcp host memory disclosure fixes on the read path: reject a
       read that transferred too few bytes, don't accept C2HData based
       on blk_rq_payload_bytes() alone, and fix the R2T case for a read
       command
     - Parallelize nvme-rdma I/O queue allocation and startup (Surabhi)
     - Apple nvme fixes and quirks: page aligned admin queue buffers,
       destroy the admin queue on removal, and various DMA/NVMMU
       correctness fixes
     - A large pile of nvmet and host fixes for out-of-bounds reads,
       refcount/resource leaks, and NULL derefs across auth, zns,
       passthru, pci-epf, rdma and configfs
     - Various other fixes and cleanups

 - MD updates via Yu Kuai:
     - llbitmap reshape support, the large series wiring exact bitmap
       mapping and reshape lifecycle through raid5 and raid10, growing
       the page cache in place, and remapping checkpointed bits as
       reshape progresses
     - raid5 fixes for lockless max_nr_stripes and recovery_offset
       accesses, a reshape deadlock with more failed devices than max
       degraded, and bitmap batch counter consistency
     - Atomic write handling for raid1/raid10, and removal of the
       REQ_NOWAIT support from raid1/10/456
     - raid5-ppl use-after-free fix in ppl_do_flush()
     - A batch of smaller fixes across md core and the bitmap code

 - s390/dasd ESE full-track write support and the surrounding
   infrastructure, plus enabling CONTEXT_ANALYSIS for s390/block

 - RWF_DONTCACHE support for block devices, built on new task-context
   bio completion infrastructure, and wiring it up for the iomap and
   buffer dropbehind writeback paths

 - Async io_uring zone reset all, plus zone management command cleanups
   allowing REQ_NOWAIT and tightening conventional zone rejection

 - Block integrity refactoring: lift BIP_CHECK_FLAGS to the shared
   header, handle nogenerate/noverify properly in fs-integrity, and drop
   the blk-integrity.h include from bdev.c

 - Split out a new blk_plug.h header

 - ublk improvements: add UBLK_F_IO_DESC_SIZE, split request validation
   from io_desc init, reject non-power-of-2 zone sizes in SET_PARAMS,
   and a series of hardening fixes around map/unmap and auto buf reg

 - null_blk cleanups and configfs serialization fixes

 - nbd queue freeze removal on the setup paths, and a new
   pre_defined_connections module parameter for pre-created devices

 - blk-cgroup fixes for the race between policy activation and blkg
   destruction, and accounting per-cpu stats over possible CPUs across
   blk-stat, iolatency, iocost and kyber

 - Various dio fixes: leak on metadata mapping error, validate user
   space vectors during extraction, and set dma_alignment from the
   backing file for loop and zloop direct I/O

 - bio cleanups

 - Various other fixes and cleanups all over

* tag 'for-7.3/block-20260819' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: (241 commits)
  nbd: add pre_defined_connections module parameter for pre-created devices
  nbd: remove queue freeze for newly created nbd from netlink path
  nbd: factor out a nbd_genl_foreach_sock
  nbd: skip queue freeze when setting size at device startup
  nbd: remove queue freeze in nbd_add_socket
  nbd: clear queue limits on disconnect
  nbd: disallow NBD_SET_SOCK on an active device
  nbd: simplify find_fallback() by removing redundant logic
  blk-mq: add missing call to srcu_barrier() in blk_mq_free_tag_set()
  block: mtip32xx: synchronize ioctls with device removal
  ublk: avoid teardown retry loop on xarray allocation failure
  null_blk: fix UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds when zone_size is 0 or overflows
  block: don't include blk-integrity.h in bdev.c
  xfs: avoid double deferrals for RWF_DONTCACHE writes
  loop: Fix recently introduced lock inversion
  block: set QUEUE_FLAG_DYING unconditionally in blk_mark_disk_dead()
  swim3: Add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION
  selftests: ublk: add SET_PARAMS validation test
  selftests: ublk: add helper for SET_PARAMS
  ublk: reject non-power-of-2 zone sizes in SET_PARAMS
  ...

block: introduce bio_iov_iter_set()

2026-08-15T23:09:32+00:00

In preparation to supporting dma-buf backed iterators and bios,
introduce bio_iov_iter_set() which attempts to set up the bio directly
from the given iterator. For now, it only supports bvec and expects
users to check the result and fall back to other means if fails, but
later we'll add more types.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/4686a0e47fc14f3f888967a80d45a6f66044f1e0.1785596451.git.asml.silence@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: enable RWF_DONTCACHE for block devices

2026-07-31T15:00:14+00:00

Block device buffered reads and writes already pass through
filemap_read() and iomap_file_buffered_write() respectively, both of
which handle IOCB_DONTCACHE. Enable RWF_DONTCACHE for block device files
by setting FOP_DONTCACHE in def_blk_fops.

For CONFIG_BUFFER_HEAD=y, writeback goes through buffer_head's
__bh_submit() which sets BIO_COMPLETE_IN_TASK on dropbehind folios. For
CONFIG_BUFFER_HEAD=n, writeback goes through iomap which handles it via
BIO_COMPLETE_IN_TASK on the ioend bio.

This support is useful for databases that operate on raw block devices,
among other userspace applications.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Tal Zussman 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260730-blk-dontcache-v7-5-3e8e6850068d@columbia.edu
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: validate user space vectors during extraction

2026-07-31T14:10:49+00:00

The bio-based drivers don't necessarily check the alignment split, and
stacking block drivers don't always handle a misalignment detected after
submitting the bio. Validate user vectors against the device's
dma_alignment as the bio is built from the iov_iter, rejecting
misaligned early with -EINVAL.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 5ff3f74e145a ("block: simplify direct io validity check")
Fixes: 7eac33186957 ("iomap: simplify direct io validity check")
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260720201057.1862857-6-kbusch@meta.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: convert iomap ops to ->iomap_next()

2026-07-31T10:28:50+00:00

Convert block iomap_ops to the new ->iomap_next() callback. The callback is
generated with the DEFINE_IOMAP_ITER_NEXT() macro, which wraps the
iomap_iter_next() helper to finish the previous mapping if needed and
produce the next one. No functional changes are intended.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch 
Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260729192737.3190206-15-joannelkoong@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable)

block: fix dio leak on metadata mapping error

2026-07-30T21:54:07+00:00

A failed integrity mapping holds a dio reference, so we need to go
through the full bio ending in case there were previously submitted
bio's in the sequence.

Fixes: 2729a60bbfb92 ("block: don't silently ignore metadata for sync read/write")
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260720201057.1862857-3-kbusch@meta.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: use blkdev_iov_iter_get_pages status for errors

2026-07-30T21:54:06+00:00

blkdev_iov_iter_get_pages() can return various error values, including
EIO, EFAULT, and ENOMEM. Set the actual reported status so user space
can know why an operation failed.

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260720201057.1862857-2-kbusch@meta.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: add a bio_endio_status helper

2026-05-28T13:59:18+00:00

Add a helper that sets bi_status and call bio_endio() as that is a very
common pattern and convert the core block code over to it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch 
Reviewed-by: Md Haris Iqbal 
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal 
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528084632.2505277-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: remove blkdev_write_begin() and blkdev_write_end()

2026-05-26T17:01:55+00:00

Remove blkdev_write_begin(), blkdev_write_end(), and their entries in
def_blk_aops. These have been unreachable since commit 487c607df790
("block: use iomap for writes to block devices") switched block device
buffered writes from generic_perform_write() to
iomap_file_buffered_write(), which bypasses aops->write_begin/end.

Signed-off-by: Tal Zussman 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260525-blk-write-cleanup-v1-1-391c073e3831@columbia.edu
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\