kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/fs/bfs, branch master

Remove excl arg to ->create inode_operation

2026-07-02T07:06:55+00:00

The only time that 'false' is passed as the 'excl' arg to the ->create inode_operation is in lookup_open() when ->atomic_open is not provided by the parent directory. *all* directory inode_operations which do not have ->atomic_open completely ignore the 'excl' arg. Therefore we don't need the 'excl' arg. Those few ->create operations which pay attention to the arg are only ever called with a value of 'true'. We remove that arg and change all ->create operations to behave as those thhe arg were 'true'. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Link: https://patch.msgid.link/178290671516.27465.15984496764174914338@noble.neil.brown.name Reviewed-by: Jori Koolstra Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable)

bfs: replace get_zeroed_page() with kzalloc()

2026-05-28T11:58:14+00:00

bfs_dump_imap() allocates temporary buffer with get_zeroed_page(). kmalloc() is a better API for such use and it also provides better scalability and more debugging possibilities. Replace use of get_zeroed_page() with kzalloc(). Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260523-b4-fs-v1-17-275e36a83f0e@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable)

bfs: handle set_blocksize failures

2026-05-21T11:39:35+00:00

bfs uses buffer_heads, which don't handle block size > PAGE_SIZE well. Without this, mounting will hit the BUG_ON(offset >= folio_size(folio)); in folio_set_bh on the first __bread_gfp call. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260511071701.2456211-2-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable)

Merge tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.bh.metadata' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

2026-04-13T19:46:42+00:00

Pull vfs buffer_head updates from Christian Brauner: "This cleans up the mess that has accumulated over the years in metadata buffer_head tracking for inodes. It moves the tracking into dedicated structure in filesystem-private part of the inode (so that we don't use private_list, private_data, and private_lock in struct address_space), and also moves couple other users of private_data and private_list so these are removed from struct address_space saving 3 longs in struct inode for 99% of inodes" * tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.bh.metadata' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (42 commits) fs: Drop i_private_list from address_space fs: Drop mapping_metadata_bhs from address space ext4: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part minix: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part udf: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part fat: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part bfs: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part affs: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part ext2: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part fs: Provide functions for handling mapping_metadata_bhs directly fs: Switch inode_has_buffers() to take mapping_metadata_bhs fs: Make bhs point to mapping_metadata_bhs fs: Move metadata bhs tracking to a separate struct fs: Fold fsync_buffers_list() into sync_mapping_buffers() fs: Drop osync_buffers_list() kvm: Use private inode list instead of i_private_list fs: Remove i_private_data aio: Stop using i_private_data and i_private_lock hugetlbfs: Stop using i_private_data fs: Stop using i_private_data for metadata bh tracking ...

bfs: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part

2026-03-26T14:03:32+00:00

Track metadata bhs for an inode in fs-private part of the inode. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326095354.16340-78-jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

bfs: Sync and invalidate metadata buffers from bfs_evict_inode()

2026-03-26T14:03:29+00:00

There are only very few filesystems using generic metadata buffer head tracking and everybody is paying the overhead. When we remove this tracking for inode reclaim code .evict will start to see inodes with metadata buffers attached so write them out and prune them. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326095354.16340-62-jack@suse.cz Tested-by: syzbot@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

bfs: Switch to generic_buffers_fsync()

2026-03-26T14:03:28+00:00

BFS uses list of metadata bhs attached to an inode. Switch it to use generic_buffers_fsync() instead of generic_file_fsync() as we'll be removing metadata bh handling from generic_file_fsync(). Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326095354.16340-53-jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

treewide: change inode->i_ino from unsigned long to u64

2026-03-06T13:31:28+00:00

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->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 Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260304-iino-u64-v3-12-2257ad83d372@kernel.org Acked-by: Damien Le Moal Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Chuck Lever Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook