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<title>fsverity: Fix silent truncation in bpf_get_fsverity_digest()</title>
<updated>2026-08-04T07:24:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-03T18:12:32+00:00</published>
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bpf_get_fsverity_digest() silently truncates the digest if the provided
buffer is too small.  This is a footgun, and it doesn't match the
semantics of the equivalent UAPI (FS_IOC_MEASURE_VERITY).

Change it to return -EOVERFLOW instead, matching FS_IOC_MEASURE_VERITY.

Fixes: 67814c00de31 ("bpf, fsverity: Add kfunc bpf_get_fsverity_digest")
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260803181232.14743-3-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
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bpf_get_fsverity_digest() silently truncates the digest if the provided
buffer is too small.  This is a footgun, and it doesn't match the
semantics of the equivalent UAPI (FS_IOC_MEASURE_VERITY).

Change it to return -EOVERFLOW instead, matching FS_IOC_MEASURE_VERITY.

Fixes: 67814c00de31 ("bpf, fsverity: Add kfunc bpf_get_fsverity_digest")
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260803181232.14743-3-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fsverity: Fix bpf_get_fsverity_digest() dynptr assumptions</title>
<updated>2026-08-04T07:24:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-03T18:12:31+00:00</published>
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The BPF verifier and the dynptr abstraction ensure that the memory space
referenced by a dynptr remains valid.  They do not, however, provide any
guarantee that the contents of the memory are stable.  kfuncs are
expected to remain memory-safe even if concurrent modifications occur.

bpf_get_fsverity_digest() didn't follow that: it could crash if
arg-&gt;digest_size was concurrently modified.

Fix that by using the known-good value hash_alg-&gt;digest_size instead.

Also widen 'dynptr_sz' and 'out_digest_sz' to u64 to match the return
type of __bpf_dynptr_size().  It doesn't appear that it can actually be
more than INT_MAX currently (since __bpf_dynptr_data_rw() excludes
file-based pointers), but the correct type might as well be used.

Fixes: 67814c00de31 ("bpf, fsverity: Add kfunc bpf_get_fsverity_digest")
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260803181232.14743-2-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
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The BPF verifier and the dynptr abstraction ensure that the memory space
referenced by a dynptr remains valid.  They do not, however, provide any
guarantee that the contents of the memory are stable.  kfuncs are
expected to remain memory-safe even if concurrent modifications occur.

bpf_get_fsverity_digest() didn't follow that: it could crash if
arg-&gt;digest_size was concurrently modified.

Fix that by using the known-good value hash_alg-&gt;digest_size instead.

Also widen 'dynptr_sz' and 'out_digest_sz' to u64 to match the return
type of __bpf_dynptr_size().  It doesn't appear that it can actually be
more than INT_MAX currently (since __bpf_dynptr_data_rw() excludes
file-based pointers), but the correct type might as well be used.

Fixes: 67814c00de31 ("bpf, fsverity: Add kfunc bpf_get_fsverity_digest")
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260803181232.14743-2-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'bpf-next-7.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next</title>
<updated>2026-06-17T08:18:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-17T08:18:14+00:00</published>
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Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov:
 "Major changes:

   - Recover from BPF arena page faults using a scratch page and add
     ptep_try_set() for lockless empty-slot installs on x86 and arm64.

     This allows BPF kfuncs to access arena pointers directly.

     The 'arena_direct_access' stable branch was created for this work
     and was pulled into sched-ext and bpf-next trees (Tejun Heo, Kumar
     Kartikeya Dwivedi)

   - Lift old restriction and support 6+ arguments in BPF programs and
     kfuncs on x86 and arm64 (Yonghong Song, Puranjay Mohan)

  Other features and fixes:

   - Add 24-bit BTF vlen and reclaim unused bits in the BTF UAPI to ease
     addition of new BTF kinds (Alan Maguire)

   - Raise the maximum BPF call chain depth from 8 to 16 frames (Alexei
     Starovoitov)

   - Refactor object relationship tracking in the verifier and fix a
     dynptr use-after-free bug (Amery Hung)

   - Harden the signed program loader and reject exclusive maps as inner
     maps (Daniel Borkmann)

   - Replace the verifier min/max bounds fields with a circular number
     (cnum) representation and improve 32-&gt;64 bit range refinements
     (Eduard Zingerman)

   - Introduce the arena library and runtime (libarena) with a buddy
     allocator, rbtree and SPMC queue data structures, ASAN support and
     a parallel test harness. Allow subprograms to return arena pointers
     and switch to a BTF type-tag based __arena annotation (Emil
     Tsalapatis)

   - Cache build IDs in the sleepable stackmap path and avoid faultable
     build ID reads under mm locks (Ihor Solodrai)

   - Introduce the tracing_multi link to attach a single BPF program to
     many kernel functions at once. Allow specifying the uprobe_multi
     target via FD (Jiri Olsa)

   - Extend the bpf_list family of kfuncs with bpf_list_add/del(), and
     bpf_list_is_first/is_last/empty() (Kaitao Cheng)

   - Extend the BPF syscall with common attributes support for
     prog_load, btf_load and map_create (Leon Hwang)

   - Wrap rhashtable as BPF map (Mykyta Yatsenko, Herbert Xu)

   - Add sleepable support for tracepoint programs and fix deadlocks in
     LRU map due to NMI reentry (Mykyta Yatsenko)

   - Fix OOB access in bpf_flow_keys, fix nullness analysis of inner
     arrays, enforce write checks for global subprograms (Nuoqi Gui)

   - Report the maximum combined stack depth and print a breakdown of
     instructions processed per subprogram (Paul Chaignon)

   - Add an XDP load-balancer benchmark and arm64 JIT support for stack
     arguments (Puranjay Mohan)

   - Add kfuncs to traverse over wakeup_sources (Samuel Wu)

   - Allow sleepable BPF programs to use LPM trie maps directly (Vlad
     Poenaru)

   - Many more fixes and cleanups across the verifier, BTF, sockmap,
     devmap, bpffs, security hooks, s390/riscv/loongarch JITs,
     rqspinlock, libbpf, bpftool, selftests"

* tag 'bpf-next-7.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (336 commits)
  selftests/bpf: Work around llvm stack overflow in crypto progs
  selftests/bpf: add test for bpf_msg_pop_data() overflow
  bpf, sockmap: fix integer overflow in bpf_msg_pop_data() bounds check
  sockmap: Fix use-after-free in udp_bpf_recvmsg()
  bpf, sockmap: keep sk_msg copy state in sync
  bpf, sockmap: Fix wrong rsge offset in bpf_msg_push_data()
  bpf, sockmap: reject overflowing copy + len in bpf_msg_push_data()
  selftsets/bpf: Retry map update on helper_fill_hashmap()
  selftests/bpf: Add test for sleepable lsm_cgroup rejection
  selftests/bpf: Add test to verify the fix for bpf_setsockopt() helper
  bpf: Fix bpf_get/setsockopt to tos for ipv4-mapped ipv6 socket
  selftests/bpf: Avoid static LLVM linking for cross builds
  selftests/bpf: Use common CFLAGS for urandom_read
  selftests/bpf: Initialize operation name before use
  tools/bpf: build: Append extra cflags
  libbpf: Initialize CFLAGS before including Makefile.include
  bpftool: Append extra host flags
  bpftool: Avoid adding EXTRA_CFLAGS to HOST_CFLAGS
  bpftool: Pass host flags to bootstrap libbpf
  selftests/bpf: correct CONFIG_PPC64 macro name in comment
  ...
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Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov:
 "Major changes:

   - Recover from BPF arena page faults using a scratch page and add
     ptep_try_set() for lockless empty-slot installs on x86 and arm64.

     This allows BPF kfuncs to access arena pointers directly.

     The 'arena_direct_access' stable branch was created for this work
     and was pulled into sched-ext and bpf-next trees (Tejun Heo, Kumar
     Kartikeya Dwivedi)

   - Lift old restriction and support 6+ arguments in BPF programs and
     kfuncs on x86 and arm64 (Yonghong Song, Puranjay Mohan)

  Other features and fixes:

   - Add 24-bit BTF vlen and reclaim unused bits in the BTF UAPI to ease
     addition of new BTF kinds (Alan Maguire)

   - Raise the maximum BPF call chain depth from 8 to 16 frames (Alexei
     Starovoitov)

   - Refactor object relationship tracking in the verifier and fix a
     dynptr use-after-free bug (Amery Hung)

   - Harden the signed program loader and reject exclusive maps as inner
     maps (Daniel Borkmann)

   - Replace the verifier min/max bounds fields with a circular number
     (cnum) representation and improve 32-&gt;64 bit range refinements
     (Eduard Zingerman)

   - Introduce the arena library and runtime (libarena) with a buddy
     allocator, rbtree and SPMC queue data structures, ASAN support and
     a parallel test harness. Allow subprograms to return arena pointers
     and switch to a BTF type-tag based __arena annotation (Emil
     Tsalapatis)

   - Cache build IDs in the sleepable stackmap path and avoid faultable
     build ID reads under mm locks (Ihor Solodrai)

   - Introduce the tracing_multi link to attach a single BPF program to
     many kernel functions at once. Allow specifying the uprobe_multi
     target via FD (Jiri Olsa)

   - Extend the bpf_list family of kfuncs with bpf_list_add/del(), and
     bpf_list_is_first/is_last/empty() (Kaitao Cheng)

   - Extend the BPF syscall with common attributes support for
     prog_load, btf_load and map_create (Leon Hwang)

   - Wrap rhashtable as BPF map (Mykyta Yatsenko, Herbert Xu)

   - Add sleepable support for tracepoint programs and fix deadlocks in
     LRU map due to NMI reentry (Mykyta Yatsenko)

   - Fix OOB access in bpf_flow_keys, fix nullness analysis of inner
     arrays, enforce write checks for global subprograms (Nuoqi Gui)

   - Report the maximum combined stack depth and print a breakdown of
     instructions processed per subprogram (Paul Chaignon)

   - Add an XDP load-balancer benchmark and arm64 JIT support for stack
     arguments (Puranjay Mohan)

   - Add kfuncs to traverse over wakeup_sources (Samuel Wu)

   - Allow sleepable BPF programs to use LPM trie maps directly (Vlad
     Poenaru)

   - Many more fixes and cleanups across the verifier, BTF, sockmap,
     devmap, bpffs, security hooks, s390/riscv/loongarch JITs,
     rqspinlock, libbpf, bpftool, selftests"

* tag 'bpf-next-7.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (336 commits)
  selftests/bpf: Work around llvm stack overflow in crypto progs
  selftests/bpf: add test for bpf_msg_pop_data() overflow
  bpf, sockmap: fix integer overflow in bpf_msg_pop_data() bounds check
  sockmap: Fix use-after-free in udp_bpf_recvmsg()
  bpf, sockmap: keep sk_msg copy state in sync
  bpf, sockmap: Fix wrong rsge offset in bpf_msg_push_data()
  bpf, sockmap: reject overflowing copy + len in bpf_msg_push_data()
  selftsets/bpf: Retry map update on helper_fill_hashmap()
  selftests/bpf: Add test for sleepable lsm_cgroup rejection
  selftests/bpf: Add test to verify the fix for bpf_setsockopt() helper
  bpf: Fix bpf_get/setsockopt to tos for ipv4-mapped ipv6 socket
  selftests/bpf: Avoid static LLVM linking for cross builds
  selftests/bpf: Use common CFLAGS for urandom_read
  selftests/bpf: Initialize operation name before use
  tools/bpf: build: Append extra cflags
  libbpf: Initialize CFLAGS before including Makefile.include
  bpftool: Append extra host flags
  bpftool: Avoid adding EXTRA_CFLAGS to HOST_CFLAGS
  bpftool: Pass host flags to bootstrap libbpf
  selftests/bpf: correct CONFIG_PPC64 macro name in comment
  ...
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<entry>
<title>fsverity: generate and store zero-block hash</title>
<updated>2026-06-05T11:36:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Albershteyn</name>
<email>aalbersh@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-20T12:37:02+00:00</published>
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Compute the hash of one filesystem block's worth of zeros. A filesystem
implementation can decide to elide merkle tree blocks containing only
this hash and synthesize the contents at read time.

Let's pretend that there's a file containing 131 data block and whose
merkle tree looks roughly like this:

root
 +--leaf0
 |   +--data0
 |   +--data1
 |   +--...
 |   `--data128
 `--leaf1
     +--data129
     +--data130
     `--data131

If data[0-128] are sparse holes, then leaf0 will contain a repeating
sequence of @zero_digest.  Therefore, leaf0 need not be written to disk
because its contents can be synthesized.

A subsequent xfs patch will use this to reduce the size of the merkle
tree when dealing with sparse gold master disk images and the like.

Note that this works only on the first-level (data holes). fsverity
doesn't store/generate zero_digest for any higher levels.

Add a helper to pre-fill folio with hashes of empty blocks. This will be
used by iomap to synthesize blocks full of zero hashes on the fly.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrey Albershteyn &lt;aalbersh@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260520123722.405752-5-aalbersh@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Compute the hash of one filesystem block's worth of zeros. A filesystem
implementation can decide to elide merkle tree blocks containing only
this hash and synthesize the contents at read time.

Let's pretend that there's a file containing 131 data block and whose
merkle tree looks roughly like this:

root
 +--leaf0
 |   +--data0
 |   +--data1
 |   +--...
 |   `--data128
 `--leaf1
     +--data129
     +--data130
     `--data131

If data[0-128] are sparse holes, then leaf0 will contain a repeating
sequence of @zero_digest.  Therefore, leaf0 need not be written to disk
because its contents can be synthesized.

A subsequent xfs patch will use this to reduce the size of the merkle
tree when dealing with sparse gold master disk images and the like.

Note that this works only on the first-level (data holes). fsverity
doesn't store/generate zero_digest for any higher levels.

Add a helper to pre-fill folio with hashes of empty blocks. This will be
used by iomap to synthesize blocks full of zero hashes on the fly.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrey Albershteyn &lt;aalbersh@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260520123722.405752-5-aalbersh@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Refactor dynptr mutability tracking</title>
<updated>2026-04-19T13:16:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Amery Hung</name>
<email>ameryhung@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-14T19:10:14+00:00</published>
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Redefine dynptr mutability and fix inconsistency in the verifier and
kfunc signatures. Dynptr mutability is at two levels. The first is
the bpf_dynptr structure and the second is the memory the dynptr points
to. The verifer currently tracks the mutability of the bpf_dynptr struct
through helper and kfunc prototypes, where "const struct bpf_dynptr *"
means the structure itself is immutable. The second level is tracked
in upper bit of bpf_dynptr-&gt;size in runtime and is not changed in this
patch.

There are two type of inconsistency in the verfier regarding the
mutability of the bpf_dynptr struct. First, there are many existing
kfuncs whose prototypes are wrong. For example, bpf_dynptr_adjust()
mutates a dynptr's start and offset but marks the argument as a const
pointer. At the same time many other kfuncs that does not mutate the
dynptr but mark themselves as mutable. Second, the verifier currently
does not honor the const qualifier in kfunc prototypes as it determines
whether tagging the arg_type with MEM_RDONLY or not based on the register
state.

Since all the verifier care is to prevent CONST_PTR_TO_DYNPTR from
being destroyed in callback and global subprogram, redefine the
mutability at the bpf_dynptr level to just bpf_dynptr_kern-&gt;data. Then,
explicitly prohibit passing CONST_PTR_TO_DYNPTR to an argument tagged
with MEM_UNINIT or OBJ_RELEASE. The mutability of a dynptr's view is not
really interesting so drop MEM_RDONLY annotation for dynptr from the
helpers and kfuncs. Plus, if the mutability of the entire bpf_dynptr
were to be done correctly, it would kill the bpf_dynptr_adjust() usage
in callback and global subporgram.

Implementation wise

- First, make sure all kfunc arg are correctly tagged: Tag the dynptr
  argument of bpf_dynptr_file_discard() with OBJ_RELEASE.
- Then, in process_dynptr_func(), make sure CONST_PTR_TO_DYNPTR cannot
  be passed to argument tagged with MEM_UNINIT or OBJ_RELEASE. For
  MEM_UNINIT, it is already checked by is_dynptr_reg_valid_uninit().
  For OBJ_RELEASE, check against OBJ_RELEASE instead of MEM_RDONLY and
  drop a now identical check in unmark_stack_slots_dynptr().
- Remove the mutual exclusive check between MEM_UNINIT and MEM_RDONLY,
  but don't add a MEM_UNINIT and OBJ_RELEASE version as it is obviously
  wrong.

Note that while this patch stops following the C semantic for the
mutability of bpf_dynptr, the prototype of kfuncs are still fixed to
maintain the correct C semantics in the implementation. Adding or
removing the const qualifier does not break backward compatibility.
In addition, fix kfuncs dropping the const qualifier when casting the
opaque bpf_dynptr to bpf_dynptr_kern.

In test_kfunc_dynptr_param.c, initialize dynptr to 0 to avoid
-Wuninitialized-const-pointer warning.

Signed-off-by: Amery Hung &lt;ameryhung@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260414191014.1218567-1-ameryhung@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
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Redefine dynptr mutability and fix inconsistency in the verifier and
kfunc signatures. Dynptr mutability is at two levels. The first is
the bpf_dynptr structure and the second is the memory the dynptr points
to. The verifer currently tracks the mutability of the bpf_dynptr struct
through helper and kfunc prototypes, where "const struct bpf_dynptr *"
means the structure itself is immutable. The second level is tracked
in upper bit of bpf_dynptr-&gt;size in runtime and is not changed in this
patch.

There are two type of inconsistency in the verfier regarding the
mutability of the bpf_dynptr struct. First, there are many existing
kfuncs whose prototypes are wrong. For example, bpf_dynptr_adjust()
mutates a dynptr's start and offset but marks the argument as a const
pointer. At the same time many other kfuncs that does not mutate the
dynptr but mark themselves as mutable. Second, the verifier currently
does not honor the const qualifier in kfunc prototypes as it determines
whether tagging the arg_type with MEM_RDONLY or not based on the register
state.

Since all the verifier care is to prevent CONST_PTR_TO_DYNPTR from
being destroyed in callback and global subprogram, redefine the
mutability at the bpf_dynptr level to just bpf_dynptr_kern-&gt;data. Then,
explicitly prohibit passing CONST_PTR_TO_DYNPTR to an argument tagged
with MEM_UNINIT or OBJ_RELEASE. The mutability of a dynptr's view is not
really interesting so drop MEM_RDONLY annotation for dynptr from the
helpers and kfuncs. Plus, if the mutability of the entire bpf_dynptr
were to be done correctly, it would kill the bpf_dynptr_adjust() usage
in callback and global subporgram.

Implementation wise

- First, make sure all kfunc arg are correctly tagged: Tag the dynptr
  argument of bpf_dynptr_file_discard() with OBJ_RELEASE.
- Then, in process_dynptr_func(), make sure CONST_PTR_TO_DYNPTR cannot
  be passed to argument tagged with MEM_UNINIT or OBJ_RELEASE. For
  MEM_UNINIT, it is already checked by is_dynptr_reg_valid_uninit().
  For OBJ_RELEASE, check against OBJ_RELEASE instead of MEM_RDONLY and
  drop a now identical check in unmark_stack_slots_dynptr().
- Remove the mutual exclusive check between MEM_UNINIT and MEM_RDONLY,
  but don't add a MEM_UNINIT and OBJ_RELEASE version as it is obviously
  wrong.

Note that while this patch stops following the C semantic for the
mutability of bpf_dynptr, the prototype of kfuncs are still fixed to
maintain the correct C semantics in the implementation. Adding or
removing the const qualifier does not break backward compatibility.
In addition, fix kfuncs dropping the const qualifier when casting the
opaque bpf_dynptr to bpf_dynptr_kern.

In test_kfunc_dynptr_param.c, initialize dynptr to 0 to avoid
-Wuninitialized-const-pointer warning.

Signed-off-by: Amery Hung &lt;ameryhung@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260414191014.1218567-1-ameryhung@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
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<title>Merge tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.kino' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2026-04-13T19:19:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-13T19:19:01+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs i_ino updates from Christian Brauner:
 "For historical reasons, the inode-&gt;i_ino field is an unsigned long,
  which means that it's 32 bits on 32 bit architectures. This has caused
  a number of filesystems to implement hacks to hash a 64-bit identifier
  into a 32-bit field, and deprives us of a universal identifier field
  for an inode.

  This changes the inode-&gt;i_ino field from an unsigned long to a u64.
  This shouldn't make any material difference on 64-bit hosts, but
  32-bit hosts will see struct inode grow by at least 4 bytes. This
  could have effects on slabcache sizes and field alignment.

  The bulk of the changes are to format strings and tracepoints, since
  the kernel itself doesn't care that much about the i_ino field. The
  first patch changes some vfs function arguments, so check that one out
  carefully.

  With this change, we may be able to shrink some inode structures. For
  instance, struct nfs_inode has a fileid field that holds the 64-bit
  inode number. With this set of changes, that field could be
  eliminated. I'd rather leave that sort of cleanups for later just to
  keep this simple"

* tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.kino' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  nilfs2: fix 64-bit division operations in nilfs_bmap_find_target_in_group()
  EVM: add comment describing why ino field is still unsigned long
  vfs: remove externs from fs.h on functions modified by i_ino widening
  treewide: fix missed i_ino format specifier conversions
  ext4: fix signed format specifier in ext4_load_inode trace event
  treewide: change inode-&gt;i_ino from unsigned long to u64
  nilfs2: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  f2fs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  ext4: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  zonefs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  hugetlbfs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  ext2: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  cachefiles: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  vfs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  net: change sock.sk_ino and sock_i_ino() to u64
  audit: widen ino fields to u64
  vfs: widen inode hash/lookup functions to u64
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Pull vfs i_ino updates from Christian Brauner:
 "For historical reasons, the inode-&gt;i_ino field is an unsigned long,
  which means that it's 32 bits on 32 bit architectures. This has caused
  a number of filesystems to implement hacks to hash a 64-bit identifier
  into a 32-bit field, and deprives us of a universal identifier field
  for an inode.

  This changes the inode-&gt;i_ino field from an unsigned long to a u64.
  This shouldn't make any material difference on 64-bit hosts, but
  32-bit hosts will see struct inode grow by at least 4 bytes. This
  could have effects on slabcache sizes and field alignment.

  The bulk of the changes are to format strings and tracepoints, since
  the kernel itself doesn't care that much about the i_ino field. The
  first patch changes some vfs function arguments, so check that one out
  carefully.

  With this change, we may be able to shrink some inode structures. For
  instance, struct nfs_inode has a fileid field that holds the 64-bit
  inode number. With this set of changes, that field could be
  eliminated. I'd rather leave that sort of cleanups for later just to
  keep this simple"

* tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.kino' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  nilfs2: fix 64-bit division operations in nilfs_bmap_find_target_in_group()
  EVM: add comment describing why ino field is still unsigned long
  vfs: remove externs from fs.h on functions modified by i_ino widening
  treewide: fix missed i_ino format specifier conversions
  ext4: fix signed format specifier in ext4_load_inode trace event
  treewide: change inode-&gt;i_ino from unsigned long to u64
  nilfs2: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  f2fs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  ext4: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  zonefs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  hugetlbfs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  ext2: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  cachefiles: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  vfs: widen trace event i_ino fields to u64
  net: change sock.sk_ino and sock_i_ino() to u64
  audit: widen ino fields to u64
  vfs: widen inode hash/lookup functions to u64
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<title>treewide: change inode-&gt;i_ino from unsigned long to u64</title>
<updated>2026-03-06T13:31:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-04T15:32:42+00:00</published>
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On 32-bit architectures, unsigned long is only 32 bits wide, which
causes 64-bit inode numbers to be silently truncated. Several
filesystems (NFS, XFS, BTRFS, etc.) can generate inode numbers that
exceed 32 bits, and this truncation can lead to inode number collisions
and other subtle bugs on 32-bit systems.

Change the type of inode-&gt;i_ino from unsigned long to u64 to ensure that
inode numbers are always represented as 64-bit values regardless of
architecture. Update all format specifiers treewide from %lu/%lx to
%llu/%llx to match the new type, along with corresponding local variable
types.

This is the bulk treewide conversion. Earlier patches in this series
handled trace events separately to allow trace field reordering for
better struct packing on 32-bit.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260304-iino-u64-v3-12-2257ad83d372@kernel.org
Acked-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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On 32-bit architectures, unsigned long is only 32 bits wide, which
causes 64-bit inode numbers to be silently truncated. Several
filesystems (NFS, XFS, BTRFS, etc.) can generate inode numbers that
exceed 32 bits, and this truncation can lead to inode number collisions
and other subtle bugs on 32-bit systems.

Change the type of inode-&gt;i_ino from unsigned long to u64 to ensure that
inode numbers are always represented as 64-bit values regardless of
architecture. Update all format specifiers treewide from %lu/%lx to
%llu/%llx to match the new type, along with corresponding local variable
types.

This is the bulk treewide conversion. Earlier patches in this series
handled trace events separately to allow trace field reordering for
better struct packing on 32-bit.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260304-iino-u64-v3-12-2257ad83d372@kernel.org
Acked-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fsverity: add dependency on 64K or smaller pages</title>
<updated>2026-03-03T05:05:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T20:45:25+00:00</published>
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Currently, all filesystems that support fsverity (ext4, f2fs, and btrfs)
cache the Merkle tree in the pagecache at a 64K aligned offset after the
end of the file data.  This offset needs to be a multiple of the page
size, which is guaranteed only when the page size is 64K or smaller.

64K was chosen to be the "largest reasonable page size".  But it isn't
the largest *possible* page size: the hexagon and powerpc ports of Linux
support 256K pages, though that configuration is rarely used.

For now, just disable support for FS_VERITY in these odd configurations
to ensure it isn't used in cases where it would have incorrect behavior.

Fixes: 671e67b47e9f ("fs-verity: add Kconfig and the helper functions for hashing")
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260119063349.GA643@lst.de
Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260221204525.30426-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
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Currently, all filesystems that support fsverity (ext4, f2fs, and btrfs)
cache the Merkle tree in the pagecache at a 64K aligned offset after the
end of the file data.  This offset needs to be a multiple of the page
size, which is guaranteed only when the page size is 64K or smaller.

64K was chosen to be the "largest reasonable page size".  But it isn't
the largest *possible* page size: the hexagon and powerpc ports of Linux
support 256K pages, though that configuration is rarely used.

For now, just disable support for FS_VERITY in these odd configurations
to ensure it isn't used in cases where it would have incorrect behavior.

Fixes: 671e67b47e9f ("fs-verity: add Kconfig and the helper functions for hashing")
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260119063349.GA643@lst.de
Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260221204525.30426-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'fsverity-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fsverity/linux</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T21:12:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T21:12:04+00:00</published>
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Pull fsverity fixes from Eric Biggers:

 - Fix a build error on parisc

 - Remove the non-large-folio-aware function fsverity_verify_page()

* tag 'fsverity-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fsverity/linux:
  fsverity: fix build error by adding fsverity_readahead() stub
  fsverity: remove fsverity_verify_page()
  f2fs: make f2fs_verify_cluster() partially large-folio-aware
  f2fs: remove unnecessary ClearPageUptodate in f2fs_verify_cluster()
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Pull fsverity fixes from Eric Biggers:

 - Fix a build error on parisc

 - Remove the non-large-folio-aware function fsverity_verify_page()

* tag 'fsverity-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fsverity/linux:
  fsverity: fix build error by adding fsverity_readahead() stub
  fsverity: remove fsverity_verify_page()
  f2fs: make f2fs_verify_cluster() partially large-folio-aware
  f2fs: remove unnecessary ClearPageUptodate in f2fs_verify_cluster()
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<entry>
<title>fsverity: remove fsverity_verify_page()</title>
<updated>2026-02-18T07:11:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-18T01:06:30+00:00</published>
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Now that fsverity_verify_page() has no callers, remove it.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260218010630.7407-4-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
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Now that fsverity_verify_page() has no callers, remove it.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260218010630.7407-4-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
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