linux.git/fs/ntfs/runlist.c, branch master

ntfs: fix variable dereferenced before check warnings

2026-03-16T11:27:45+00:00

Detected by Smatch.

lcnalloc.c:736 ntfs_cluster_alloc() error:
  we previously assumed 'rl' could be null (see line 719)

inode.c:3275 ntfs_inode_close() warn:
  variable dereferenced before check 'tmp_nis' (see line 3255)

attrib.c:4952 ntfs_attr_remove() warn:
  variable dereferenced before check 'ni' (see line 4951)

dir.c:1035 ntfs_readdir() error:
  we previously assumed 'private' could be null (see line 850)

Signed-off-by: Hyunchul Lee 
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon

ntfs: add missing newlines to pr_err() messages

2026-03-10T08:52:13+00:00

There is an inconsistent use of pr_err() statements in the current code.
Many error messages are missing the \n termination, what results in the
messages being printed with a delay, only after a next printk() line is
printed. It prevents relying on printk() to monitor the driver errors.
This patch is modifying only text messages, no functional change.

Signed-off-by: Woody Suwalski 
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon

ntfs: update runlist handling and cluster allocator

2026-02-19T12:50:52+00:00

Updates runlist handling and cluster allocation to support
contiguous allocations and filesystem trimming.

Improve the runlist API to handle allocation failures and introduces
discard support.

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Hyunchul Lee 
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon

Revert "fs: Remove NTFS classic"

2026-02-19T12:48:05+00:00

This reverts commit 7ffa8f3d30236e0ab897c30bdb01224ff1fe1c89.

Reverts the removal of the classic read-only ntfs driver to
serve as the base for a new read-write ntfs implementation.
If we stack changes on top of the revert patch, It will significantly
reduce the diff size, making the review easier.

This revert intentionally excludes the restoration of Kconfig and
Makefile. The Kconfig and Makefile will be added back in the final patch
of this series, enabling the driver only after all features and
improvements have been applied.

Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon

fs: Remove NTFS classic

2024-01-24T09:47:00+00:00

The replacement, NTFS3, was merged over two years ago.  It is now time to
remove the original from the tree as it is the last user of several APIs,
and it is not worth changing.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240115072025.2071931-1-willy@infradead.org
Acked-by: Namjae Jeon 
Acked-by: Dave Chinner 
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov 
Cc: Namjae Jeon 
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

ntfs: fix multiple kernel-doc warnings

2023-02-03T06:50:03+00:00

Fix many W=1 kernel-doc warnings in fs/ntfs/:

fs/ntfs/aops.c:30: warning: Incorrect use of kernel-doc format:  * ntfs_end_buffer_async_read - async io completion for reading attributes
fs/ntfs/aops.c:46: warning: expecting prototype for aops.c(). Prototype was for ntfs_end_buffer_async_read() instead
fs/ntfs/aops.c:1655: warning: cannot understand function prototype: 'const struct address_space_operations ntfs_normal_aops = '
fs/ntfs/aops.c:1670: warning: cannot understand function prototype: 'const struct address_space_operations ntfs_compressed_aops = '
fs/ntfs/aops.c:1685: warning: cannot understand function prototype: 'const struct address_space_operations ntfs_mst_aops = '
fs/ntfs/compress.c:22: warning: Incorrect use of kernel-doc format:  * ntfs_compression_constants - enum of constants used in the compression code
fs/ntfs/compress.c:24: warning: cannot understand function prototype: 'typedef enum '
fs/ntfs/compress.c:47: warning: cannot understand function prototype: 'u8 *ntfs_compression_buffer; '
fs/ntfs/compress.c:52: warning: expecting prototype for ntfs_cb_lock(). Prototype was for DEFINE_SPINLOCK() instead
fs/ntfs/dir.c:21: warning: Incorrect use of kernel-doc format:  * The little endian Unicode string $I30 as a global constant.
fs/ntfs/dir.c:23: warning: cannot understand function prototype: 'ntfschar I30[5] = '
fs/ntfs/inode.c:31: warning: Incorrect use of kernel-doc format:  * ntfs_test_inode - compare two (possibly fake) inodes for equality
fs/ntfs/inode.c:47: warning: expecting prototype for inode.c(). Prototype was for ntfs_test_inode() instead
fs/ntfs/inode.c:2956: warning: expecting prototype for ntfs_write_inode(). Prototype was for __ntfs_write_inode() instead
fs/ntfs/mft.c:24: warning: expecting prototype for mft.c - NTFS kernel mft record operations. Part of the Linux(). Prototype was for MAX_BHS() instead
fs/ntfs/namei.c:263: warning: This comment starts with '/**', but isn't a kernel-doc comment. Refer Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
 * Inode operations for directories.
fs/ntfs/namei.c:368: warning: This comment starts with '/**', but isn't a kernel-doc comment. Refer Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
 * Export operations allowing NFS exporting of mounted NTFS partitions.
fs/ntfs/runlist.c:16: warning: Incorrect use of kernel-doc format:  * ntfs_rl_mm - runlist memmove
fs/ntfs/runlist.c:22: warning: expecting prototype for runlist.c - NTFS runlist handling code.  Part of the Linux(). Prototype was for ntfs_rl_mm() instead
fs/ntfs/super.c:61: warning: missing initial short description on line:
 * simple_getbool -
fs/ntfs/super.c:2661: warning: This comment starts with '/**', but isn't a kernel-doc comment. Refer Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
 * The complete super operations.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230109010041.21442-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

ntfs: remove (un)?likely() from IS_ERR() conditions

2019-09-26T17:10:44+00:00

"likely(!IS_ERR(x))" is excessive. IS_ERR() already uses
unlikely() internally.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190829165025.15750-11-efremov@linux.com
Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov 
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov 
Cc: Joe Perches 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 96

2019-05-24T15:37:53+00:00

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program include file is free software you can redistribute it
  and or modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license
  as published by the free software foundation either version 2 of the
  license or at your option any later version this program include
  file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without
  any warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or
  fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license
  for more details you should have received a copy of the gnu general
  public license along with this program in the main directory of the
  linux [ntfs] distribution in the file copying if not write to the
  free software foundation inc 59 temple place suite 330 boston ma
  02111 1307 usa

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 43 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana 
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal 
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190520075212.517001706@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Fix common misspellings

2011-03-31T14:26:23+00:00

Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi

NTFS: Fix a mount time deadlock.

2007-10-12T16:16:30+00:00

Big thanks go to Mathias Kolehmainen for reporting the bug, providing
debug output and testing the patches I sent him to get it working.

The fix was to stop calling ntfs_attr_set() at mount time as that causes
balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() to be called which on systems with
little memory actually tries to go and balance the dirty pages which tries
to take the s_umount semaphore but because we are still in fill_super()
across which the VFS holds s_umount for writing this results in a
deadlock.

We now do the dirty work by hand by submitting individual buffers.  This
has the annoying "feature" that mounting can take a few seconds if the
journal is large as we have clear it all.  One day someone should improve
on this by deferring the journal clearing to a helper kernel thread so it
can be done in the background but I don't have time for this at the moment
and the current solution works fine so I am leaving it like this for now.

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds