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<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-11-02-14-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2023-11-03T06:53:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-03T06:53:31+00:00</published>
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "As usual, lots of singleton and doubleton patches all over the tree
  and there's little I can say which isn't in the individual changelogs.

  The lengthier patch series are

   - 'kdump: use generic functions to simplify crashkernel reservation
     in arch', from Baoquan He. This is mainly cleanups and
     consolidation of the 'crashkernel=' kernel parameter handling

   - After much discussion, David Laight's 'minmax: Relax type checks in
     min() and max()' is here. Hopefully reduces some typecasting and
     the use of min_t() and max_t()

   - A group of patches from Oleg Nesterov which clean up and slightly
     fix our handling of reads from /proc/PID/task/... and which remove
     task_struct.thread_group"

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-11-02-14-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (64 commits)
  scripts/gdb/vmalloc: disable on no-MMU
  scripts/gdb: fix usage of MOD_TEXT not defined when CONFIG_MODULES=n
  .mailmap: add address mapping for Tomeu Vizoso
  mailmap: update email address for Claudiu Beznea
  tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh: lower the ptrace permissions
  .mailmap: map Benjamin Poirier's address
  scripts/gdb: add lx_current support for riscv
  ocfs2: fix a spelling typo in comment
  proc: test ProtectionKey in proc-empty-vm test
  proc: fix proc-empty-vm test with vsyscall
  fs/proc/base.c: remove unneeded semicolon
  do_io_accounting: use sig-&gt;stats_lock
  do_io_accounting: use __for_each_thread()
  ocfs2: replace BUG_ON() at ocfs2_num_free_extents() with ocfs2_error()
  ocfs2: fix a typo in a comment
  scripts/show_delta: add __main__ judgement before main code
  treewide: mark stuff as __ro_after_init
  fs: ocfs2: check status values
  proc: test /proc/${pid}/statm
  compiler.h: move __is_constexpr() to compiler.h
  ...
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<pre>
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "As usual, lots of singleton and doubleton patches all over the tree
  and there's little I can say which isn't in the individual changelogs.

  The lengthier patch series are

   - 'kdump: use generic functions to simplify crashkernel reservation
     in arch', from Baoquan He. This is mainly cleanups and
     consolidation of the 'crashkernel=' kernel parameter handling

   - After much discussion, David Laight's 'minmax: Relax type checks in
     min() and max()' is here. Hopefully reduces some typecasting and
     the use of min_t() and max_t()

   - A group of patches from Oleg Nesterov which clean up and slightly
     fix our handling of reads from /proc/PID/task/... and which remove
     task_struct.thread_group"

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-11-02-14-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (64 commits)
  scripts/gdb/vmalloc: disable on no-MMU
  scripts/gdb: fix usage of MOD_TEXT not defined when CONFIG_MODULES=n
  .mailmap: add address mapping for Tomeu Vizoso
  mailmap: update email address for Claudiu Beznea
  tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh: lower the ptrace permissions
  .mailmap: map Benjamin Poirier's address
  scripts/gdb: add lx_current support for riscv
  ocfs2: fix a spelling typo in comment
  proc: test ProtectionKey in proc-empty-vm test
  proc: fix proc-empty-vm test with vsyscall
  fs/proc/base.c: remove unneeded semicolon
  do_io_accounting: use sig-&gt;stats_lock
  do_io_accounting: use __for_each_thread()
  ocfs2: replace BUG_ON() at ocfs2_num_free_extents() with ocfs2_error()
  ocfs2: fix a typo in a comment
  scripts/show_delta: add __main__ judgement before main code
  treewide: mark stuff as __ro_after_init
  fs: ocfs2: check status values
  proc: test /proc/${pid}/statm
  compiler.h: move __is_constexpr() to compiler.h
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.7.ctime' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2023-10-30T19:47:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-30T19:47:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=14ab6d425e80674b6a0145f05719b11e82e64824'/>
<id>14ab6d425e80674b6a0145f05719b11e82e64824</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull vfs inode time accessor updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This finishes the conversion of all inode time fields to accessor
  functions as discussed on list. Changing timestamps manually as we
  used to do before is error prone. Using accessors function makes this
  robust.

  It does not contain the switch of the time fields to discrete 64 bit
  integers to replace struct timespec and free up space in struct inode.
  But after this, the switch can be trivially made and the patch should
  only affect the vfs if we decide to do it"

* tag 'vfs-6.7.ctime' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (86 commits)
  fs: rename inode i_atime and i_mtime fields
  security: convert to new timestamp accessors
  selinux: convert to new timestamp accessors
  apparmor: convert to new timestamp accessors
  sunrpc: convert to new timestamp accessors
  mm: convert to new timestamp accessors
  bpf: convert to new timestamp accessors
  ipc: convert to new timestamp accessors
  linux: convert to new timestamp accessors
  zonefs: convert to new timestamp accessors
  xfs: convert to new timestamp accessors
  vboxsf: convert to new timestamp accessors
  ufs: convert to new timestamp accessors
  udf: convert to new timestamp accessors
  ubifs: convert to new timestamp accessors
  tracefs: convert to new timestamp accessors
  sysv: convert to new timestamp accessors
  squashfs: convert to new timestamp accessors
  server: convert to new timestamp accessors
  client: convert to new timestamp accessors
  ...
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<pre>
Pull vfs inode time accessor updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This finishes the conversion of all inode time fields to accessor
  functions as discussed on list. Changing timestamps manually as we
  used to do before is error prone. Using accessors function makes this
  robust.

  It does not contain the switch of the time fields to discrete 64 bit
  integers to replace struct timespec and free up space in struct inode.
  But after this, the switch can be trivially made and the patch should
  only affect the vfs if we decide to do it"

* tag 'vfs-6.7.ctime' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (86 commits)
  fs: rename inode i_atime and i_mtime fields
  security: convert to new timestamp accessors
  selinux: convert to new timestamp accessors
  apparmor: convert to new timestamp accessors
  sunrpc: convert to new timestamp accessors
  mm: convert to new timestamp accessors
  bpf: convert to new timestamp accessors
  ipc: convert to new timestamp accessors
  linux: convert to new timestamp accessors
  zonefs: convert to new timestamp accessors
  xfs: convert to new timestamp accessors
  vboxsf: convert to new timestamp accessors
  ufs: convert to new timestamp accessors
  udf: convert to new timestamp accessors
  ubifs: convert to new timestamp accessors
  tracefs: convert to new timestamp accessors
  sysv: convert to new timestamp accessors
  squashfs: convert to new timestamp accessors
  server: convert to new timestamp accessors
  client: convert to new timestamp accessors
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.7.misc' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2023-10-30T19:14:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-30T19:14:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=3b3f874cc1d074bdcffc224d683925fd11808fe7'/>
<id>3b3f874cc1d074bdcffc224d683925fd11808fe7</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the usual miscellaneous features, cleanups, and fixes
  for vfs and individual fses.

  Features:

   - Rename and export helpers that get write access to a mount. They
     are used in overlayfs to get write access to the upper mount.

   - Print the pretty name of the root device on boot failure. This
     helps in scenarios where we would usually only print
     "unknown-block(1,2)".

   - Add an internal SB_I_NOUMASK flag. This is another part in the
     endless POSIX ACL saga in a way.

     When POSIX ACLs are enabled via SB_POSIXACL the vfs cannot strip
     the umask because if the relevant inode has POSIX ACLs set it might
     take the umask from there. But if the inode doesn't have any POSIX
     ACLs set then we apply the umask in the filesytem itself. So we end
     up with:

      (1) no SB_POSIXACL -&gt; strip umask in vfs
      (2) SB_POSIXACL    -&gt; strip umask in filesystem

     The umask semantics associated with SB_POSIXACL allowed filesystems
     that don't even support POSIX ACLs at all to raise SB_POSIXACL
     purely to avoid umask stripping. That specifically means NFS v4 and
     Overlayfs. NFS v4 does it because it delegates this to the server
     and Overlayfs because it needs to delegate umask stripping to the
     upper filesystem, i.e., the filesystem used as the writable layer.

     This went so far that SB_POSIXACL is raised eve on kernels that
     don't even have POSIX ACL support at all.

     Stop this blatant abuse and add SB_I_NOUMASK which is an internal
     superblock flag that filesystems can raise to opt out of umask
     handling. That should really only be the two mentioned above. It's
     not that we want any filesystems to do this. Ideally we have all
     umask handling always in the vfs.

   - Make overlayfs use SB_I_NOUMASK too.

   - Now that we have SB_I_NOUMASK, stop checking for SB_POSIXACL in
     IS_POSIXACL() if the kernel doesn't have support for it. This is a
     very old patch but it's only possible to do this now with the wider
     cleanup that was done.

   - Follow-up work on fake path handling from last cycle. Citing mostly
     from Amir:

     When overlayfs was first merged, overlayfs files of regular files
     and directories, the ones that are installed in file table, had a
     "fake" path, namely, f_path is the overlayfs path and f_inode is
     the "real" inode on the underlying filesystem.

     In v6.5, we took another small step by introducing of the
     backing_file container and the file_real_path() helper. This change
     allowed vfs and filesystem code to get the "real" path of an
     overlayfs backing file. With this change, we were able to make
     fsnotify work correctly and report events on the "real" filesystem
     objects that were accessed via overlayfs.

     This method works fine, but it still leaves the vfs vulnerable to
     new code that is not aware of files with fake path. A recent
     example is commit db1d1e8b9867 ("IMA: use vfs_getattr_nosec to get
     the i_version"). This commit uses direct referencing to f_path in
     IMA code that otherwise uses file_inode() and file_dentry() to
     reference the filesystem objects that it is measuring.

     This contains work to switch things around: instead of having
     filesystem code opt-in to get the "real" path, have generic code
     opt-in for the "fake" path in the few places that it is needed.

     Is it far more likely that new filesystems code that does not use
     the file_dentry() and file_real_path() helpers will end up causing
     crashes or averting LSM/audit rules if we keep the "fake" path
     exposed by default.

     This change already makes file_dentry() moot, but for now we did
     not change this helper just added a WARN_ON() in ovl_d_real() to
     catch if we have made any wrong assumptions.

     After the dust settles on this change, we can make file_dentry() a
     plain accessor and we can drop the inode argument to -&gt;d_real().

   - Switch struct file to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU. This looks like a small
     change but it really isn't and I would like to see everyone on
     their tippie toes for any possible bugs from this work.

     Essentially we've been doing most of what SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU for
     files since a very long time because of the nasty interactions
     between the SCM_RIGHTS file descriptor garbage collection. So
     extending it makes a lot of sense but it is a subtle change. There
     are almost no places that fiddle with file rcu semantics directly
     and the ones that did mess around with struct file internal under
     rcu have been made to stop doing that because it really was always
     dodgy.

     I forgot to put in the link tag for this change and the discussion
     in the commit so adding it into the merge message:

       https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230926162228.68666-1-mjguzik@gmail.com

  Cleanups:

   - Various smaller pipe cleanups including the removal of a spin lock
     that was only used to protect against writes without pipe_lock()
     from O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE aka watch queues. As that was never
     implemented remove the additional locking from pipe_write().

   - Annotate struct watch_filter with the new __counted_by attribute.

   - Clarify do_unlinkat() cleanup so that it doesn't look like an extra
     iput() is done that would cause issues.

   - Simplify file cleanup when the file has never been opened.

   - Use module helper instead of open-coding it.

   - Predict error unlikely for stale retry.

   - Use WRITE_ONCE() for mount expiry field instead of just commenting
     that one hopes the compiler doesn't get smart.

  Fixes:

   - Fix readahead on block devices.

   - Fix writeback when layztime is enabled and inodes whose timestamp
     is the only thing that changed reside on wb-&gt;b_dirty_time. This
     caused excessively large zombie memory cgroup when lazytime was
     enabled as such inodes weren't handled fast enough.

   - Convert BUG_ON() to WARN_ON_ONCE() in open_last_lookups()"

* tag 'vfs-6.7.misc' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (26 commits)
  file, i915: fix file reference for mmap_singleton()
  vfs: Convert BUG_ON to WARN_ON_ONCE in open_last_lookups
  writeback, cgroup: switch inodes with dirty timestamps to release dying cgwbs
  chardev: Simplify usage of try_module_get()
  ovl: rely on SB_I_NOUMASK
  fs: fix umask on NFS with CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL=n
  fs: store real path instead of fake path in backing file f_path
  fs: create helper file_user_path() for user displayed mapped file path
  fs: get mnt_writers count for an open backing file's real path
  vfs: stop counting on gcc not messing with mnt_expiry_mark if not asked
  vfs: predict the error in retry_estale as unlikely
  backing file: free directly
  vfs: fix readahead(2) on block devices
  io_uring: use files_lookup_fd_locked()
  file: convert to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU
  vfs: shave work on failed file open
  fs: simplify misleading code to remove ambiguity regarding ihold()/iput()
  watch_queue: Annotate struct watch_filter with __counted_by
  fs/pipe: use spinlock in pipe_read() only if there is a watch_queue
  fs/pipe: remove unnecessary spinlock from pipe_write()
  ...
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<pre>
Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the usual miscellaneous features, cleanups, and fixes
  for vfs and individual fses.

  Features:

   - Rename and export helpers that get write access to a mount. They
     are used in overlayfs to get write access to the upper mount.

   - Print the pretty name of the root device on boot failure. This
     helps in scenarios where we would usually only print
     "unknown-block(1,2)".

   - Add an internal SB_I_NOUMASK flag. This is another part in the
     endless POSIX ACL saga in a way.

     When POSIX ACLs are enabled via SB_POSIXACL the vfs cannot strip
     the umask because if the relevant inode has POSIX ACLs set it might
     take the umask from there. But if the inode doesn't have any POSIX
     ACLs set then we apply the umask in the filesytem itself. So we end
     up with:

      (1) no SB_POSIXACL -&gt; strip umask in vfs
      (2) SB_POSIXACL    -&gt; strip umask in filesystem

     The umask semantics associated with SB_POSIXACL allowed filesystems
     that don't even support POSIX ACLs at all to raise SB_POSIXACL
     purely to avoid umask stripping. That specifically means NFS v4 and
     Overlayfs. NFS v4 does it because it delegates this to the server
     and Overlayfs because it needs to delegate umask stripping to the
     upper filesystem, i.e., the filesystem used as the writable layer.

     This went so far that SB_POSIXACL is raised eve on kernels that
     don't even have POSIX ACL support at all.

     Stop this blatant abuse and add SB_I_NOUMASK which is an internal
     superblock flag that filesystems can raise to opt out of umask
     handling. That should really only be the two mentioned above. It's
     not that we want any filesystems to do this. Ideally we have all
     umask handling always in the vfs.

   - Make overlayfs use SB_I_NOUMASK too.

   - Now that we have SB_I_NOUMASK, stop checking for SB_POSIXACL in
     IS_POSIXACL() if the kernel doesn't have support for it. This is a
     very old patch but it's only possible to do this now with the wider
     cleanup that was done.

   - Follow-up work on fake path handling from last cycle. Citing mostly
     from Amir:

     When overlayfs was first merged, overlayfs files of regular files
     and directories, the ones that are installed in file table, had a
     "fake" path, namely, f_path is the overlayfs path and f_inode is
     the "real" inode on the underlying filesystem.

     In v6.5, we took another small step by introducing of the
     backing_file container and the file_real_path() helper. This change
     allowed vfs and filesystem code to get the "real" path of an
     overlayfs backing file. With this change, we were able to make
     fsnotify work correctly and report events on the "real" filesystem
     objects that were accessed via overlayfs.

     This method works fine, but it still leaves the vfs vulnerable to
     new code that is not aware of files with fake path. A recent
     example is commit db1d1e8b9867 ("IMA: use vfs_getattr_nosec to get
     the i_version"). This commit uses direct referencing to f_path in
     IMA code that otherwise uses file_inode() and file_dentry() to
     reference the filesystem objects that it is measuring.

     This contains work to switch things around: instead of having
     filesystem code opt-in to get the "real" path, have generic code
     opt-in for the "fake" path in the few places that it is needed.

     Is it far more likely that new filesystems code that does not use
     the file_dentry() and file_real_path() helpers will end up causing
     crashes or averting LSM/audit rules if we keep the "fake" path
     exposed by default.

     This change already makes file_dentry() moot, but for now we did
     not change this helper just added a WARN_ON() in ovl_d_real() to
     catch if we have made any wrong assumptions.

     After the dust settles on this change, we can make file_dentry() a
     plain accessor and we can drop the inode argument to -&gt;d_real().

   - Switch struct file to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU. This looks like a small
     change but it really isn't and I would like to see everyone on
     their tippie toes for any possible bugs from this work.

     Essentially we've been doing most of what SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU for
     files since a very long time because of the nasty interactions
     between the SCM_RIGHTS file descriptor garbage collection. So
     extending it makes a lot of sense but it is a subtle change. There
     are almost no places that fiddle with file rcu semantics directly
     and the ones that did mess around with struct file internal under
     rcu have been made to stop doing that because it really was always
     dodgy.

     I forgot to put in the link tag for this change and the discussion
     in the commit so adding it into the merge message:

       https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230926162228.68666-1-mjguzik@gmail.com

  Cleanups:

   - Various smaller pipe cleanups including the removal of a spin lock
     that was only used to protect against writes without pipe_lock()
     from O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE aka watch queues. As that was never
     implemented remove the additional locking from pipe_write().

   - Annotate struct watch_filter with the new __counted_by attribute.

   - Clarify do_unlinkat() cleanup so that it doesn't look like an extra
     iput() is done that would cause issues.

   - Simplify file cleanup when the file has never been opened.

   - Use module helper instead of open-coding it.

   - Predict error unlikely for stale retry.

   - Use WRITE_ONCE() for mount expiry field instead of just commenting
     that one hopes the compiler doesn't get smart.

  Fixes:

   - Fix readahead on block devices.

   - Fix writeback when layztime is enabled and inodes whose timestamp
     is the only thing that changed reside on wb-&gt;b_dirty_time. This
     caused excessively large zombie memory cgroup when lazytime was
     enabled as such inodes weren't handled fast enough.

   - Convert BUG_ON() to WARN_ON_ONCE() in open_last_lookups()"

* tag 'vfs-6.7.misc' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (26 commits)
  file, i915: fix file reference for mmap_singleton()
  vfs: Convert BUG_ON to WARN_ON_ONCE in open_last_lookups
  writeback, cgroup: switch inodes with dirty timestamps to release dying cgwbs
  chardev: Simplify usage of try_module_get()
  ovl: rely on SB_I_NOUMASK
  fs: fix umask on NFS with CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL=n
  fs: store real path instead of fake path in backing file f_path
  fs: create helper file_user_path() for user displayed mapped file path
  fs: get mnt_writers count for an open backing file's real path
  vfs: stop counting on gcc not messing with mnt_expiry_mark if not asked
  vfs: predict the error in retry_estale as unlikely
  backing file: free directly
  vfs: fix readahead(2) on block devices
  io_uring: use files_lookup_fd_locked()
  file: convert to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU
  vfs: shave work on failed file open
  fs: simplify misleading code to remove ambiguity regarding ihold()/iput()
  watch_queue: Annotate struct watch_filter with __counted_by
  fs/pipe: use spinlock in pipe_read() only if there is a watch_queue
  fs/pipe: remove unnecessary spinlock from pipe_write()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>fs/pipe: use spinlock in pipe_read() only if there is a watch_queue</title>
<updated>2023-10-19T09:02:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Max Kellermann</name>
<email>max.kellermann@ionos.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-21T07:57:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=478dbf12176700f28d836dd03ae93a6888278230'/>
<id>478dbf12176700f28d836dd03ae93a6888278230</id>
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If there is no watch_queue, holding the pipe mutex is enough to
prevent concurrent writes, and we can avoid the spinlock.

O_NOTIFICATION_QUEUE is an exotic and rarely used feature, and of all
the pipes that exist at any given time, only very few actually have a
watch_queue, therefore it appears worthwile to optimize the common
case.

This patch does not optimize pipe_resize_ring() where the spinlocks
could be avoided as well; that does not seem like a worthwile
optimization because this function is not called often.

Related commits:

- commit 8df441294dd3 ("pipe: Check for ring full inside of the
  spinlock in pipe_write()")
- commit b667b8673443 ("pipe: Advance tail pointer inside of wait
  spinlock in pipe_read()")
- commit 189b0ddc2451 ("pipe: Fix missing lock in pipe_resize_ring()")

Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann &lt;max.kellermann@ionos.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20230921075755.1378787-4-max.kellermann@ionos.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
If there is no watch_queue, holding the pipe mutex is enough to
prevent concurrent writes, and we can avoid the spinlock.

O_NOTIFICATION_QUEUE is an exotic and rarely used feature, and of all
the pipes that exist at any given time, only very few actually have a
watch_queue, therefore it appears worthwile to optimize the common
case.

This patch does not optimize pipe_resize_ring() where the spinlocks
could be avoided as well; that does not seem like a worthwile
optimization because this function is not called often.

Related commits:

- commit 8df441294dd3 ("pipe: Check for ring full inside of the
  spinlock in pipe_write()")
- commit b667b8673443 ("pipe: Advance tail pointer inside of wait
  spinlock in pipe_read()")
- commit 189b0ddc2451 ("pipe: Fix missing lock in pipe_resize_ring()")

Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann &lt;max.kellermann@ionos.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20230921075755.1378787-4-max.kellermann@ionos.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>fs/pipe: remove unnecessary spinlock from pipe_write()</title>
<updated>2023-10-19T09:02:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Max Kellermann</name>
<email>max.kellermann@ionos.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-21T07:57:54+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 8df441294dd3 ("pipe: Check for ring full inside of
the spinlock in pipe_write()") which was obsoleted by commit
c73be61cede ("pipe: Add general notification queue support") because
now pipe_write() fails early with -EXDEV if there is a watch_queue.

Without a watch_queue, no notifications can be posted to the pipe and
mutex protection is enough, as can be seen in splice_pipe_to_pipe()
which does not use the spinlock either.

Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann &lt;max.kellermann@ionos.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20230921075755.1378787-3-max.kellermann@ionos.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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This reverts commit 8df441294dd3 ("pipe: Check for ring full inside of
the spinlock in pipe_write()") which was obsoleted by commit
c73be61cede ("pipe: Add general notification queue support") because
now pipe_write() fails early with -EXDEV if there is a watch_queue.

Without a watch_queue, no notifications can be posted to the pipe and
mutex protection is enough, as can be seen in splice_pipe_to_pipe()
which does not use the spinlock either.

Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann &lt;max.kellermann@ionos.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20230921075755.1378787-3-max.kellermann@ionos.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs/pipe: move check to pipe_has_watch_queue()</title>
<updated>2023-10-19T09:02:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Max Kellermann</name>
<email>max.kellermann@ionos.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-21T07:57:53+00:00</published>
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This declutters the code by reducing the number of #ifdefs and makes
the watch_queue checks simpler.  This has no runtime effect; the
machine code is identical.

Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann &lt;max.kellermann@ionos.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20230921075755.1378787-2-max.kellermann@ionos.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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This declutters the code by reducing the number of #ifdefs and makes
the watch_queue checks simpler.  This has no runtime effect; the
machine code is identical.

Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann &lt;max.kellermann@ionos.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20230921075755.1378787-2-max.kellermann@ionos.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: mark stuff as __ro_after_init</title>
<updated>2023-10-18T21:43:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-11T16:55:00+00:00</published>
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__read_mostly predates __ro_after_init. Many variables which are marked
__read_mostly should have been __ro_after_init from day 1.

Also, mark some stuff as "const" and "__init" while I'm at it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: revert sysctl_nr_open_min, sysctl_nr_open_max changes due to arm warning]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4f6bb9c0-abba-4ee4-a7aa-89265e886817@p183
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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__read_mostly predates __ro_after_init. Many variables which are marked
__read_mostly should have been __ro_after_init from day 1.

Also, mark some stuff as "const" and "__init" while I'm at it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: revert sysctl_nr_open_min, sysctl_nr_open_max changes due to arm warning]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4f6bb9c0-abba-4ee4-a7aa-89265e886817@p183
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: convert core infrastructure to new timestamp accessors</title>
<updated>2023-10-18T11:26:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-04T18:52:38+00:00</published>
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Convert the core vfs code to use the new timestamp accessor functions.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231004185239.80830-2-jlayton@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Convert the core vfs code to use the new timestamp accessor functions.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231004185239.80830-2-jlayton@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs/pipe: remove duplicate "offset" initializer</title>
<updated>2023-09-20T12:22:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Max Kellermann</name>
<email>max.kellermann@ionos.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-19T07:40:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ae81711c1edd769b7d9952dde40a579dceca4815'/>
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This code duplication was introduced by commit a194dfe6e6f6 ("pipe:
Rearrange sequence in pipe_write() to preallocate slot"), but since
the pipe's mutex is locked, nobody else can modify the value
meanwhile.

Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann &lt;max.kellermann@ionos.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20230919074045.1066796-1-max.kellermann@ionos.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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This code duplication was introduced by commit a194dfe6e6f6 ("pipe:
Rearrange sequence in pipe_write() to preallocate slot"), but since
the pipe's mutex is locked, nobody else can modify the value
meanwhile.

Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann &lt;max.kellermann@ionos.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20230919074045.1066796-1-max.kellermann@ionos.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'v6.6-vfs.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2023-08-28T17:17:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-28T17:17:14+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 filesystems.

  Features:

   - Block mode changes on symlinks and rectify our broken semantics

   - Report file modifications via fsnotify() for splice

   - Allow specifying an explicit timeout for the "rootwait" kernel
     command line option. This allows to timeout and reboot instead of
     always waiting indefinitely for the root device to show up

   - Use synchronous fput for the close system call

  Cleanups:

   - Get rid of open-coded lockdep workarounds for async io submitters
     and replace it all with a single consolidated helper

   - Simplify epoll allocation helper

   - Convert simple_write_begin and simple_write_end to use a folio

   - Convert page_cache_pipe_buf_confirm() to use a folio

   - Simplify __range_close to avoid pointless locking

   - Disable per-cpu buffer head cache for isolated cpus

   - Port ecryptfs to kmap_local_page() api

   - Remove redundant initialization of pointer buf in pipe code

   - Unexport the d_genocide() function which is only used within core
     vfs

   - Replace printk(KERN_ERR) and WARN_ON() with WARN()

  Fixes:

   - Fix various kernel-doc issues

   - Fix refcount underflow for eventfds when used as EFD_SEMAPHORE

   - Fix a mainly theoretical issue in devpts

   - Check the return value of __getblk() in reiserfs

   - Fix a racy assert in i_readcount_dec

   - Fix integer conversion issues in various functions

   - Fix LSM security context handling during automounts that prevented
     NFS superblock sharing"

* tag 'v6.6-vfs.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (39 commits)
  cachefiles: use kiocb_{start,end}_write() helpers
  ovl: use kiocb_{start,end}_write() helpers
  aio: use kiocb_{start,end}_write() helpers
  io_uring: use kiocb_{start,end}_write() helpers
  fs: create kiocb_{start,end}_write() helpers
  fs: add kerneldoc to file_{start,end}_write() helpers
  io_uring: rename kiocb_end_write() local helper
  splice: Convert page_cache_pipe_buf_confirm() to use a folio
  libfs: Convert simple_write_begin and simple_write_end to use a folio
  fs/dcache: Replace printk and WARN_ON by WARN
  fs/pipe: remove redundant initialization of pointer buf
  fs: Fix kernel-doc warnings
  devpts: Fix kernel-doc warnings
  doc: idmappings: fix an error and rephrase a paragraph
  init: Add support for rootwait timeout parameter
  vfs: fix up the assert in i_readcount_dec
  fs: Fix one kernel-doc comment
  docs: filesystems: idmappings: clarify from where idmappings are taken
  fs/buffer.c: disable per-CPU buffer_head cache for isolated CPUs
  vfs, security: Fix automount superblock LSM init problem, preventing NFS sb sharing
  ...
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the usual miscellaneous features, cleanups, and fixes
  for vfs and individual filesystems.

  Features:

   - Block mode changes on symlinks and rectify our broken semantics

   - Report file modifications via fsnotify() for splice

   - Allow specifying an explicit timeout for the "rootwait" kernel
     command line option. This allows to timeout and reboot instead of
     always waiting indefinitely for the root device to show up

   - Use synchronous fput for the close system call

  Cleanups:

   - Get rid of open-coded lockdep workarounds for async io submitters
     and replace it all with a single consolidated helper

   - Simplify epoll allocation helper

   - Convert simple_write_begin and simple_write_end to use a folio

   - Convert page_cache_pipe_buf_confirm() to use a folio

   - Simplify __range_close to avoid pointless locking

   - Disable per-cpu buffer head cache for isolated cpus

   - Port ecryptfs to kmap_local_page() api

   - Remove redundant initialization of pointer buf in pipe code

   - Unexport the d_genocide() function which is only used within core
     vfs

   - Replace printk(KERN_ERR) and WARN_ON() with WARN()

  Fixes:

   - Fix various kernel-doc issues

   - Fix refcount underflow for eventfds when used as EFD_SEMAPHORE

   - Fix a mainly theoretical issue in devpts

   - Check the return value of __getblk() in reiserfs

   - Fix a racy assert in i_readcount_dec

   - Fix integer conversion issues in various functions

   - Fix LSM security context handling during automounts that prevented
     NFS superblock sharing"

* tag 'v6.6-vfs.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (39 commits)
  cachefiles: use kiocb_{start,end}_write() helpers
  ovl: use kiocb_{start,end}_write() helpers
  aio: use kiocb_{start,end}_write() helpers
  io_uring: use kiocb_{start,end}_write() helpers
  fs: create kiocb_{start,end}_write() helpers
  fs: add kerneldoc to file_{start,end}_write() helpers
  io_uring: rename kiocb_end_write() local helper
  splice: Convert page_cache_pipe_buf_confirm() to use a folio
  libfs: Convert simple_write_begin and simple_write_end to use a folio
  fs/dcache: Replace printk and WARN_ON by WARN
  fs/pipe: remove redundant initialization of pointer buf
  fs: Fix kernel-doc warnings
  devpts: Fix kernel-doc warnings
  doc: idmappings: fix an error and rephrase a paragraph
  init: Add support for rootwait timeout parameter
  vfs: fix up the assert in i_readcount_dec
  fs: Fix one kernel-doc comment
  docs: filesystems: idmappings: clarify from where idmappings are taken
  fs/buffer.c: disable per-CPU buffer_head cache for isolated CPUs
  vfs, security: Fix automount superblock LSM init problem, preventing NFS sb sharing
  ...
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