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<title>nilfs2: fix potential bug in end_buffer_async_write</title>
<updated>2024-02-08T05:20:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ryusuke Konishi</name>
<email>konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2024-02-03T16:16:45+00:00</published>
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According to a syzbot report, end_buffer_async_write(), which handles the
completion of block device writes, may detect abnormal condition of the
buffer async_write flag and cause a BUG_ON failure when using nilfs2.

Nilfs2 itself does not use end_buffer_async_write().  But, the async_write
flag is now used as a marker by commit 7f42ec394156 ("nilfs2: fix issue
with race condition of competition between segments for dirty blocks") as
a means of resolving double list insertion of dirty blocks in
nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers() and nilfs_lookup_node_buffers() and the
resulting crash.

This modification is safe as long as it is used for file data and b-tree
node blocks where the page caches are independent.  However, it was
irrelevant and redundant to also introduce async_write for segment summary
and super root blocks that share buffers with the backing device.  This
led to the possibility that the BUG_ON check in end_buffer_async_write
would fail as described above, if independent writebacks of the backing
device occurred in parallel.

The use of async_write for segment summary buffers has already been
removed in a previous change.

Fix this issue by removing the manipulation of the async_write flag for
the remaining super root block buffer.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240203161645.4992-1-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Fixes: 7f42ec394156 ("nilfs2: fix issue with race condition of competition between segments for dirty blocks")
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+5c04210f7c7f897c1e7f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/00000000000019a97c05fd42f8c8@google.com
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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According to a syzbot report, end_buffer_async_write(), which handles the
completion of block device writes, may detect abnormal condition of the
buffer async_write flag and cause a BUG_ON failure when using nilfs2.

Nilfs2 itself does not use end_buffer_async_write().  But, the async_write
flag is now used as a marker by commit 7f42ec394156 ("nilfs2: fix issue
with race condition of competition between segments for dirty blocks") as
a means of resolving double list insertion of dirty blocks in
nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers() and nilfs_lookup_node_buffers() and the
resulting crash.

This modification is safe as long as it is used for file data and b-tree
node blocks where the page caches are independent.  However, it was
irrelevant and redundant to also introduce async_write for segment summary
and super root blocks that share buffers with the backing device.  This
led to the possibility that the BUG_ON check in end_buffer_async_write
would fail as described above, if independent writebacks of the backing
device occurred in parallel.

The use of async_write for segment summary buffers has already been
removed in a previous change.

Fix this issue by removing the manipulation of the async_write flag for
the remaining super root block buffer.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240203161645.4992-1-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Fixes: 7f42ec394156 ("nilfs2: fix issue with race condition of competition between segments for dirty blocks")
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+5c04210f7c7f897c1e7f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/00000000000019a97c05fd42f8c8@google.com
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>nilfs2: fix hang in nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers()</title>
<updated>2024-02-08T05:20:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ryusuke Konishi</name>
<email>konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-31T14:56:57+00:00</published>
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Syzbot reported a hang issue in migrate_pages_batch() called by mbind()
and nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers() called in the log writer of nilfs2.

While migrate_pages_batch() locks a folio and waits for the writeback to
complete, the log writer thread that should bring the writeback to
completion picks up the folio being written back in
nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers() that it calls for subsequent log
creation and was trying to lock the folio.  Thus causing a deadlock.

In the first place, it is unexpected that folios/pages in the middle of
writeback will be updated and become dirty.  Nilfs2 adds a checksum to
verify the validity of the log being written and uses it for recovery at
mount, so data changes during writeback are suppressed.  Since this is
broken, an unclean shutdown could potentially cause recovery to fail.

Investigation revealed that the root cause is that the wait for writeback
completion in nilfs_page_mkwrite() is conditional, and if the backing
device does not require stable writes, data may be modified without
waiting.

Fix these issues by making nilfs_page_mkwrite() wait for writeback to
finish regardless of the stable write requirement of the backing device.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240131145657.4209-1-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Fixes: 1d1d1a767206 ("mm: only enforce stable page writes if the backing device requires it")
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+ee2ae68da3b22d04cd8d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/00000000000047d819061004ad6c@google.com
Tested-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Syzbot reported a hang issue in migrate_pages_batch() called by mbind()
and nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers() called in the log writer of nilfs2.

While migrate_pages_batch() locks a folio and waits for the writeback to
complete, the log writer thread that should bring the writeback to
completion picks up the folio being written back in
nilfs_lookup_dirty_data_buffers() that it calls for subsequent log
creation and was trying to lock the folio.  Thus causing a deadlock.

In the first place, it is unexpected that folios/pages in the middle of
writeback will be updated and become dirty.  Nilfs2 adds a checksum to
verify the validity of the log being written and uses it for recovery at
mount, so data changes during writeback are suppressed.  Since this is
broken, an unclean shutdown could potentially cause recovery to fail.

Investigation revealed that the root cause is that the wait for writeback
completion in nilfs_page_mkwrite() is conditional, and if the backing
device does not require stable writes, data may be modified without
waiting.

Fix these issues by making nilfs_page_mkwrite() wait for writeback to
finish regardless of the stable write requirement of the backing device.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240131145657.4209-1-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Fixes: 1d1d1a767206 ("mm: only enforce stable page writes if the backing device requires it")
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+ee2ae68da3b22d04cd8d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/00000000000047d819061004ad6c@google.com
Tested-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>nilfs2: fix data corruption in dsync block recovery for small block sizes</title>
<updated>2024-02-08T05:20:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ryusuke Konishi</name>
<email>konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-24T12:19:36+00:00</published>
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The helper function nilfs_recovery_copy_block() of
nilfs_recovery_dsync_blocks(), which recovers data from logs created by
data sync writes during a mount after an unclean shutdown, incorrectly
calculates the on-page offset when copying repair data to the file's page
cache.  In environments where the block size is smaller than the page
size, this flaw can cause data corruption and leak uninitialized memory
bytes during the recovery process.

Fix these issues by correcting this byte offset calculation on the page.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240124121936.10575-1-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The helper function nilfs_recovery_copy_block() of
nilfs_recovery_dsync_blocks(), which recovers data from logs created by
data sync writes during a mount after an unclean shutdown, incorrectly
calculates the on-page offset when copying repair data to the file's page
cache.  In environments where the block size is smaller than the page
size, this flaw can cause data corruption and leak uninitialized memory
bytes during the recovery process.

Fix these issues by correcting this byte offset calculation on the page.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240124121936.10575-1-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pull-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2024-01-12T04:23:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-12T04:23:50+00:00</published>
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Pull misc filesystem updates from Al Viro:
 "Misc cleanups (the part that hadn't been picked by individual fs
  trees)"

* tag 'pull-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  apparmorfs: don't duplicate kfree_link()
  orangefs: saner arguments passing in readdir guts
  ocfs2_find_match(): there's no such thing as NULL or negative -&gt;d_parent
  reiserfs_add_entry(): get rid of pointless namelen checks
  __ocfs2_add_entry(), ocfs2_prepare_dir_for_insert(): namelen checks
  ext4_add_entry(): -&gt;d_name.len is never 0
  befs: d_obtain_alias(ERR_PTR(...)) will do the right thing
  affs: d_obtain_alias(ERR_PTR(...)) will do the right thing
  /proc/sys: use d_splice_alias() calling conventions to simplify failure exits
  hostfs: use d_splice_alias() calling conventions to simplify failure exits
  udf_fiiter_add_entry(): check for zero -&gt;d_name.len is bogus...
  udf: d_obtain_alias(ERR_PTR(...)) will do the right thing...
  udf: d_splice_alias() will do the right thing on ERR_PTR() inode
  nfsd: kill stale comment about simple_fill_super() requirements
  bfs_add_entry(): get rid of pointless -&gt;d_name.len checks
  nilfs2: d_obtain_alias(ERR_PTR(...)) will do the right thing...
  zonefs: d_splice_alias() will do the right thing on ERR_PTR() inode
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Pull misc filesystem updates from Al Viro:
 "Misc cleanups (the part that hadn't been picked by individual fs
  trees)"

* tag 'pull-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  apparmorfs: don't duplicate kfree_link()
  orangefs: saner arguments passing in readdir guts
  ocfs2_find_match(): there's no such thing as NULL or negative -&gt;d_parent
  reiserfs_add_entry(): get rid of pointless namelen checks
  __ocfs2_add_entry(), ocfs2_prepare_dir_for_insert(): namelen checks
  ext4_add_entry(): -&gt;d_name.len is never 0
  befs: d_obtain_alias(ERR_PTR(...)) will do the right thing
  affs: d_obtain_alias(ERR_PTR(...)) will do the right thing
  /proc/sys: use d_splice_alias() calling conventions to simplify failure exits
  hostfs: use d_splice_alias() calling conventions to simplify failure exits
  udf_fiiter_add_entry(): check for zero -&gt;d_name.len is bogus...
  udf: d_obtain_alias(ERR_PTR(...)) will do the right thing...
  udf: d_splice_alias() will do the right thing on ERR_PTR() inode
  nfsd: kill stale comment about simple_fill_super() requirements
  bfs_add_entry(): get rid of pointless -&gt;d_name.len checks
  nilfs2: d_obtain_alias(ERR_PTR(...)) will do the right thing...
  zonefs: d_splice_alias() will do the right thing on ERR_PTR() inode
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-01-09-10-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2024-01-09T19:46:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-09T19:46:20+00:00</published>
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Quite a lot of kexec work this time around. Many singleton patches in
  many places. The notable patch series are:

   - nilfs2 folio conversion from Matthew Wilcox in 'nilfs2: Folio
     conversions for file paths'.

   - Additional nilfs2 folio conversion from Ryusuke Konishi in 'nilfs2:
     Folio conversions for directory paths'.

   - IA64 remnant removal in Heiko Carstens's 'Remove unused code after
     IA-64 removal'.

   - Arnd Bergmann has enabled the -Wmissing-prototypes warning
     everywhere in 'Treewide: enable -Wmissing-prototypes'. This had
     some followup fixes:

      - Nathan Chancellor has cleaned up the hexagon build in the series
        'hexagon: Fix up instances of -Wmissing-prototypes'.

      - Nathan also addressed some s390 warnings in 's390: A couple of
        fixes for -Wmissing-prototypes'.

      - Arnd Bergmann addresses the same warnings for MIPS in his series
        'mips: address -Wmissing-prototypes warnings'.

   - Baoquan He has made kexec_file operate in a top-down-fitting manner
     similar to kexec_load in the series 'kexec_file: Load kernel at top
     of system RAM if required'

   - Baoquan He has also added the self-explanatory 'kexec_file: print
     out debugging message if required'.

   - Some checkstack maintenance work from Tiezhu Yang in the series
     'Modify some code about checkstack'.

   - Douglas Anderson has disentangled the watchdog code's logging when
     multiple reports are occurring simultaneously. The series is
     'watchdog: Better handling of concurrent lockups'.

   - Yuntao Wang has contributed some maintenance work on the crash code
     in 'crash: Some cleanups and fixes'"

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-01-09-10-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (157 commits)
  crash_core: fix and simplify the logic of crash_exclude_mem_range()
  x86/crash: use SZ_1M macro instead of hardcoded value
  x86/crash: remove the unused image parameter from prepare_elf_headers()
  kdump: remove redundant DEFAULT_CRASH_KERNEL_LOW_SIZE
  scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh: strip unexpected CR from lines
  watchdog: if panicking and we dumped everything, don't re-enable dumping
  watchdog/hardlockup: use printk_cpu_sync_get_irqsave() to serialize reporting
  watchdog/softlockup: use printk_cpu_sync_get_irqsave() to serialize reporting
  watchdog/hardlockup: adopt softlockup logic avoiding double-dumps
  kexec_core: fix the assignment to kimage-&gt;control_page
  x86/kexec: fix incorrect end address passed to kernel_ident_mapping_init()
  lib/trace_readwrite.c:: replace asm-generic/io with linux/io
  nilfs2: cpfile: fix some kernel-doc warnings
  stacktrace: fix kernel-doc typo
  scripts/checkstack.pl: fix no space expression between sp and offset
  x86/kexec: fix incorrect argument passed to kexec_dprintk()
  x86/kexec: use pr_err() instead of kexec_dprintk() when an error occurs
  nilfs2: add missing set_freezable() for freezable kthread
  kernel: relay: remove relay_file_splice_read dead code, doesn't work
  docs: submit-checklist: remove all of "make namespacecheck"
  ...
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Quite a lot of kexec work this time around. Many singleton patches in
  many places. The notable patch series are:

   - nilfs2 folio conversion from Matthew Wilcox in 'nilfs2: Folio
     conversions for file paths'.

   - Additional nilfs2 folio conversion from Ryusuke Konishi in 'nilfs2:
     Folio conversions for directory paths'.

   - IA64 remnant removal in Heiko Carstens's 'Remove unused code after
     IA-64 removal'.

   - Arnd Bergmann has enabled the -Wmissing-prototypes warning
     everywhere in 'Treewide: enable -Wmissing-prototypes'. This had
     some followup fixes:

      - Nathan Chancellor has cleaned up the hexagon build in the series
        'hexagon: Fix up instances of -Wmissing-prototypes'.

      - Nathan also addressed some s390 warnings in 's390: A couple of
        fixes for -Wmissing-prototypes'.

      - Arnd Bergmann addresses the same warnings for MIPS in his series
        'mips: address -Wmissing-prototypes warnings'.

   - Baoquan He has made kexec_file operate in a top-down-fitting manner
     similar to kexec_load in the series 'kexec_file: Load kernel at top
     of system RAM if required'

   - Baoquan He has also added the self-explanatory 'kexec_file: print
     out debugging message if required'.

   - Some checkstack maintenance work from Tiezhu Yang in the series
     'Modify some code about checkstack'.

   - Douglas Anderson has disentangled the watchdog code's logging when
     multiple reports are occurring simultaneously. The series is
     'watchdog: Better handling of concurrent lockups'.

   - Yuntao Wang has contributed some maintenance work on the crash code
     in 'crash: Some cleanups and fixes'"

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-01-09-10-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (157 commits)
  crash_core: fix and simplify the logic of crash_exclude_mem_range()
  x86/crash: use SZ_1M macro instead of hardcoded value
  x86/crash: remove the unused image parameter from prepare_elf_headers()
  kdump: remove redundant DEFAULT_CRASH_KERNEL_LOW_SIZE
  scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh: strip unexpected CR from lines
  watchdog: if panicking and we dumped everything, don't re-enable dumping
  watchdog/hardlockup: use printk_cpu_sync_get_irqsave() to serialize reporting
  watchdog/softlockup: use printk_cpu_sync_get_irqsave() to serialize reporting
  watchdog/hardlockup: adopt softlockup logic avoiding double-dumps
  kexec_core: fix the assignment to kimage-&gt;control_page
  x86/kexec: fix incorrect end address passed to kernel_ident_mapping_init()
  lib/trace_readwrite.c:: replace asm-generic/io with linux/io
  nilfs2: cpfile: fix some kernel-doc warnings
  stacktrace: fix kernel-doc typo
  scripts/checkstack.pl: fix no space expression between sp and offset
  x86/kexec: fix incorrect argument passed to kexec_dprintk()
  x86/kexec: use pr_err() instead of kexec_dprintk() when an error occurs
  nilfs2: add missing set_freezable() for freezable kthread
  kernel: relay: remove relay_file_splice_read dead code, doesn't work
  docs: submit-checklist: remove all of "make namespacecheck"
  ...
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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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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.8.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2024-01-08T18:26:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-08T18:26:08+00:00</published>
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the usual miscellaneous features, cleanups, and fixes
  for vfs and individual fses.

  Features:

   - Add Jan Kara as VFS reviewer

   - Show correct device and inode numbers in proc/&lt;pid&gt;/maps for vma
     files on stacked filesystems. This is now easily doable thanks to
     the backing file work from the last cycles. This comes with
     selftests

  Cleanups:

   - Remove a redundant might_sleep() from wait_on_inode()

   - Initialize pointer with NULL, not 0

   - Clarify comment on access_override_creds()

   - Rework and simplify eventfd_signal() and eventfd_signal_mask()
     helpers

   - Process aio completions in batches to avoid needless wakeups

   - Completely decouple struct mnt_idmap from namespaces. We now only
     keep the actual idmapping around and don't stash references to
     namespaces

   - Reformat maintainer entries to indicate that a given subsystem
     belongs to fs/

   - Simplify fput() for files that were never opened

   - Get rid of various pointless file helpers

   - Rename various file helpers

   - Rename struct file members after SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU switch from
     last cycle

   - Make relatime_need_update() return bool

   - Use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_USER when allocating superblocks

   - Replace deprecated ida_simple_*() calls with their current ida_*()
     counterparts

  Fixes:

   - Fix comments on user namespace id mapping helpers. They aren't
     kernel doc comments so they shouldn't be using /**

   - s/Retuns/Returns/g in various places

   - Add missing parameter documentation on can_move_mount_beneath()

   - Rename i_mapping-&gt;private_data to i_mapping-&gt;i_private_data

   - Fix a false-positive lockdep warning in pipe_write() for watch
     queues

   - Improve __fget_files_rcu() code generation to improve performance

   - Only notify writer that pipe resizing has finished after setting
     pipe-&gt;max_usage otherwise writers are never notified that the pipe
     has been resized and hang

   - Fix some kernel docs in hfsplus

   - s/passs/pass/g in various places

   - Fix kernel docs in ntfs

   - Fix kcalloc() arguments order reported by gcc 14

   - Fix uninitialized value in reiserfs"

* tag 'vfs-6.8.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (36 commits)
  reiserfs: fix uninit-value in comp_keys
  watch_queue: fix kcalloc() arguments order
  ntfs: dir.c: fix kernel-doc function parameter warnings
  fs: fix doc comment typo fs tree wide
  selftests/overlayfs: verify device and inode numbers in /proc/pid/maps
  fs/proc: show correct device and inode numbers in /proc/pid/maps
  eventfd: Remove usage of the deprecated ida_simple_xx() API
  fs: super: use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_USER for super block allocation
  fs/hfsplus: wrapper.c: fix kernel-doc warnings
  fs: add Jan Kara as reviewer
  fs/inode: Make relatime_need_update return bool
  pipe: wakeup wr_wait after setting max_usage
  file: remove __receive_fd()
  file: stop exposing receive_fd_user()
  fs: replace f_rcuhead with f_task_work
  file: remove pointless wrapper
  file: s/close_fd_get_file()/file_close_fd()/g
  Improve __fget_files_rcu() code generation (and thus __fget_light())
  file: massage cleanup of files that failed to open
  fs/pipe: Fix lockdep false-positive in watchqueue pipe_write()
  ...
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the usual miscellaneous features, cleanups, and fixes
  for vfs and individual fses.

  Features:

   - Add Jan Kara as VFS reviewer

   - Show correct device and inode numbers in proc/&lt;pid&gt;/maps for vma
     files on stacked filesystems. This is now easily doable thanks to
     the backing file work from the last cycles. This comes with
     selftests

  Cleanups:

   - Remove a redundant might_sleep() from wait_on_inode()

   - Initialize pointer with NULL, not 0

   - Clarify comment on access_override_creds()

   - Rework and simplify eventfd_signal() and eventfd_signal_mask()
     helpers

   - Process aio completions in batches to avoid needless wakeups

   - Completely decouple struct mnt_idmap from namespaces. We now only
     keep the actual idmapping around and don't stash references to
     namespaces

   - Reformat maintainer entries to indicate that a given subsystem
     belongs to fs/

   - Simplify fput() for files that were never opened

   - Get rid of various pointless file helpers

   - Rename various file helpers

   - Rename struct file members after SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU switch from
     last cycle

   - Make relatime_need_update() return bool

   - Use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_USER when allocating superblocks

   - Replace deprecated ida_simple_*() calls with their current ida_*()
     counterparts

  Fixes:

   - Fix comments on user namespace id mapping helpers. They aren't
     kernel doc comments so they shouldn't be using /**

   - s/Retuns/Returns/g in various places

   - Add missing parameter documentation on can_move_mount_beneath()

   - Rename i_mapping-&gt;private_data to i_mapping-&gt;i_private_data

   - Fix a false-positive lockdep warning in pipe_write() for watch
     queues

   - Improve __fget_files_rcu() code generation to improve performance

   - Only notify writer that pipe resizing has finished after setting
     pipe-&gt;max_usage otherwise writers are never notified that the pipe
     has been resized and hang

   - Fix some kernel docs in hfsplus

   - s/passs/pass/g in various places

   - Fix kernel docs in ntfs

   - Fix kcalloc() arguments order reported by gcc 14

   - Fix uninitialized value in reiserfs"

* tag 'vfs-6.8.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (36 commits)
  reiserfs: fix uninit-value in comp_keys
  watch_queue: fix kcalloc() arguments order
  ntfs: dir.c: fix kernel-doc function parameter warnings
  fs: fix doc comment typo fs tree wide
  selftests/overlayfs: verify device and inode numbers in /proc/pid/maps
  fs/proc: show correct device and inode numbers in /proc/pid/maps
  eventfd: Remove usage of the deprecated ida_simple_xx() API
  fs: super: use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_USER for super block allocation
  fs/hfsplus: wrapper.c: fix kernel-doc warnings
  fs: add Jan Kara as reviewer
  fs/inode: Make relatime_need_update return bool
  pipe: wakeup wr_wait after setting max_usage
  file: remove __receive_fd()
  file: stop exposing receive_fd_user()
  fs: replace f_rcuhead with f_task_work
  file: remove pointless wrapper
  file: s/close_fd_get_file()/file_close_fd()/g
  Improve __fget_files_rcu() code generation (and thus __fget_light())
  file: massage cleanup of files that failed to open
  fs/pipe: Fix lockdep false-positive in watchqueue pipe_write()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>nilfs2: cpfile: fix some kernel-doc warnings</title>
<updated>2023-12-29T20:22:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>rdunlap@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-20T22:13:42+00:00</published>
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Correct the function parameter names for nilfs_cpfile_get_info():

cpfile.c:564: warning: Function parameter or member 'cnop' not described in 'nilfs_cpfile_get_cpinfo'
cpfile.c:564: warning: Function parameter or member 'mode' not described in 'nilfs_cpfile_get_cpinfo'
cpfile.c:564: warning: Function parameter or member 'buf' not described in 'nilfs_cpfile_get_cpinfo'
cpfile.c:564: warning: Function parameter or member 'cisz' not described in 'nilfs_cpfile_get_cpinfo'
cpfile.c:564: warning: Excess function parameter 'cno' description in 'nilfs_cpfile_get_cpinfo'
cpfile.c:564: warning: Excess function parameter 'ci' description in 'nilfs_cpfile_get_cpinfo'

Also add missing descriptions of the function's specification.

[ konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com: filled in missing descriptions ]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231220065931.2372-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231220221342.11505-1-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Correct the function parameter names for nilfs_cpfile_get_info():

cpfile.c:564: warning: Function parameter or member 'cnop' not described in 'nilfs_cpfile_get_cpinfo'
cpfile.c:564: warning: Function parameter or member 'mode' not described in 'nilfs_cpfile_get_cpinfo'
cpfile.c:564: warning: Function parameter or member 'buf' not described in 'nilfs_cpfile_get_cpinfo'
cpfile.c:564: warning: Function parameter or member 'cisz' not described in 'nilfs_cpfile_get_cpinfo'
cpfile.c:564: warning: Excess function parameter 'cno' description in 'nilfs_cpfile_get_cpinfo'
cpfile.c:564: warning: Excess function parameter 'ci' description in 'nilfs_cpfile_get_cpinfo'

Also add missing descriptions of the function's specification.

[ konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com: filled in missing descriptions ]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231220065931.2372-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231220221342.11505-1-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>nilfs2: add missing set_freezable() for freezable kthread</title>
<updated>2023-12-29T20:22:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kevin Hao</name>
<email>haokexin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-19T09:09:18+00:00</published>
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The kernel thread function nilfs_segctor_thread() invokes the
try_to_freeze() in its loop.  But all the kernel threads are non-freezable
by default.  So if we want to make a kernel thread to be freezable, we
have to invoke set_freezable() explicitly.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231219090918.2329-1-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao &lt;haokexin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The kernel thread function nilfs_segctor_thread() invokes the
try_to_freeze() in its loop.  But all the kernel threads are non-freezable
by default.  So if we want to make a kernel thread to be freezable, we
have to invoke set_freezable() explicitly.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231219090918.2329-1-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hao &lt;haokexin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>nilfs2: switch WARN_ONs to warning output in nilfs_sufile_do_free()</title>
<updated>2023-12-20T23:02:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ryusuke Konishi</name>
<email>konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-07T04:57:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=2c20b0f26694e1d40bb9b86f8eff5675e87003d1'/>
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nilfs_sufile_do_free(), which is called when log write fails or during GC,
uses WARN_ONs to check for abnormal status of metadata.  In the former
case, these WARN_ONs will not be fired, but in the latter case they don't
"never-happen".  It is possible to trigger these by intentionally
modifying the userland GC library to release segments that are not in the
expected state.

So, replace them with warning output using the dedicated macro
nilfs_warn().

This replaces two potentially triggered WARN_ONs with ones that use a
warning output macro.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231207045730.5205-1-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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nilfs_sufile_do_free(), which is called when log write fails or during GC,
uses WARN_ONs to check for abnormal status of metadata.  In the former
case, these WARN_ONs will not be fired, but in the latter case they don't
"never-happen".  It is possible to trigger these by intentionally
modifying the userland GC library to release segments that are not in the
expected state.

So, replace them with warning output using the dedicated macro
nilfs_warn().

This replaces two potentially triggered WARN_ONs with ones that use a
warning output macro.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231207045730.5205-1-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi &lt;konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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