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
  ...

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->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->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
  ...

Pull iomap updates from Christian Brauner:
 "The bulk of this is the conversion of iomap to a single ->iomap_next()
  callback and thus finishing the move to an iterator model.

  Every iomap operation drove its iteration through a struct iomap_ops
  holding ->iomap_begin() and ->iomap_end(). iomap_iter() only ever sees
  those as pointers. That means every step of every iteration is an
  indirect call.

  This collapses both into one ->iomap_next() callback that finishes the
  previous mapping and produces the next one. This lets callers inline
  the iteration loop and pass its ->iomap_next() as a compile time
  constant. That means the compiler can turn it into a direct and hence
  inlineable call.

  This also allows future callers to express custom logic to drive the
  iteration forward better. xfs, btrfs, ext4, ext2, erofs, f2fs, gfs2,
  hpfs, fuse, exfat, zonefs, ntfs, ntfs3 and the block device mapping
  are all converted. No functional changes are intended.

  This also adds a simple direct I/O path for small reads. On Gen5 NVMe
  the __iomap_dio_rw() dominates 4K random reads. The same single-core
  io_uring poll mode workload reaches ~3.2M IOPS against the raw block
  device but only ~1.92M through ext4 or XFS.

  __iomap_dio_rw(), iomap_iter(), iomap_dio_bio_iter() and kfree() were
  at the top of the profile. The new path is very lightweight if no
  special behavior is requested. The bio comes from a dedicated bioset
  and laid out so the whole request is a single cacheline aligned
  allocation. Completion runs inline.

  That takes ext4 from 1.92M to 2.19M IOPS in the original workload. fio
  shows around:
   - 4% at libaio queue depths of 64 and up
   - around 5% for io_uring
   - up to 10% for io_uring poll mode at depth 256
  on both ext4 and xfs.

  A few other patches:

   - iomap_folio_mark_uptodate() lets a filesystem that writes into the
     page cache outside the iomap read and write paths keep iomap's
     internal uptodate bitmap in sync, which fuse needs for
     server-pushed notify stores before it can enable large folios;

   - two fixes for iomap_bio_read_folio_range_sync(): a potential crash
     when device integrity behavior is changed and a missing
     bio_uninit().

   - a folio batch release fix on iomap callback failures

   - FGP_NOFS is dropped from iomap_get_folio()

   - documentation fix"

* tag 'vfs-7.3-rc1.iomap' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (29 commits)
  iomap: iomap_bio_read_folio_range_sync is missing a call to bio_uninit
  iomap: don't free integrity payload that doesn't exist
  docs: fix grammatical error in iomap docs
  exfat: convert iomap ops to ->iomap_next()
  fuse: convert iomap ops to ->iomap_next()
  hpfs: convert iomap ops to ->iomap_next()
  gfs2: convert iomap ops to ->iomap_next()
  f2fs: convert iomap ops to ->iomap_next()
  block: convert iomap ops to ->iomap_next()
  ext2: convert iomap ops to ->iomap_next()
  zonefs: convert iomap ops to ->iomap_next()
  erofs: convert iomap ops to ->iomap_next()
  ext4: convert iomap ops to ->iomap_next()
  ntfs: convert iomap ops to ->iomap_next()
  ntfs3: convert iomap ops to ->iomap_next()
  btrfs: convert iomap ops to ->iomap_next()
  xfs: convert iomap ops to ->iomap_next()
  iomap: add ->iomap_next()
  iomap: use GFP_NOWAIT when application for iomap_dio_simple allocations
  iomap: decouple simple direct I/O reads from iomap_dio_rw
  ...

Which could leak blkg references.

Fixes: c03cea42149d ("iomap: add initial support for writes without buffer heads")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260804124404.737145-3-hch@lst.de
Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Anuj Gupta <anuj20.g@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>

fs_bio_integrity_alloc might not allocate a bio integrity payload if PI
verification is disabled on the block device.  Check for that case before
calling fs_bio_integrity_free in iomap_bio_read_folio_range_sync to
avoid a NULL pointer dereferences.

Make the branch cover the PI verification as well - while
fs_bio_integrity_verify works without an integrity payload, it requires
one to actually do useful work.

Fixes: 0b10a370529c ("iomap: support T10 protection information")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v7.1
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Anuj Gupta <anuj20.g@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Kanchan Joshi <joshi.k@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260804124404.737145-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>

Set BIO_COMPLETE_IN_TASK on iomap writeback bios when a dropbehind folio
is added. This ensures that bi_end_io runs in task context, where
folio_end_dropbehind() can safely invalidate folios.

With the bio layer now handling task-context deferral generically,
IOMAP_IOEND_DONTCACHE is no longer needed, as XFS no longer needs to
route DONTCACHE ioends through its completion workqueue. Remove the flag
and its NOMERGE entry.

Without the NOMERGE, regular I/Os that get merged with a dropbehind
folio will also have their completion deferred to task context.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Tal Zussman <tz2294@columbia.edu>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260730-blk-dontcache-v7-3-3e8e6850068d@columbia.edu
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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 <hare@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260720201057.1862857-6-kbusch@meta.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Have one ->iomap_next() callback instead of ->iomap_begin() and
->iomap_end(). ->iomap_next() finishes the previous mapping if needed,
and produces the next mapping.

Collapsing to a single callback lets a performance-critical caller
inline its iteration loop and pass its ->iomap_next() function as a
compile-time constant, so the compiler can devirtualize that callback
into a direct call instead of an indirect call through a function
pointer.

iomap_iter() uses ->iomap_next() when the filesystem provides that
callback and otherwise falls back to the ->iomap_begin()/->iomap_end()
path, so filesystems can be converted one at a time.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260729192737.3190206-6-joannelkoong@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>

For non-blocking iocbs we should avoid blocking allocation where
possible, so switch to a GFP_NOWAIT allocation here.

Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Fengnan Chang <changfengnan@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260729192737.3190206-5-joannelkoong@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>

The pending iomap_iter_next conversion creates performance issues for the
new simple direct I/O read fast path, because it assumes a model where
the iterator must be advanced at the end, which the direct I/O read fast
path tries to avoid.

Side step this by splitting the simple path from iomap_dio_rw, and
require the file systems to call into it explicitly, and pass only a
->begin callback.  This allows to drop various checks for incompatible
features while creating a requirement for the file system to only call
the simple path for cases that it can handle.

As a side-benefit we can now inline the initial part of the simple
direct I/O read fast path and let the compiler convert the indirect call
to ->begin into a direct call.

Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Fengnan Chang <changfengnan@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong <joannelkoong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260729192737.3190206-4-joannelkoong@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>