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2026-06-18Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus-7.2-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o: - A major rework of the fast commit mechanism to avoid lock contention and deadlocks. We also export snapshot statistics in /proc/fs/ext4/*/fc_info - Performance optimization for directory hash computation by processing input in 4-byte chunks and removing function pointers, along with new KUnit tests for directory hash - Cleanups in JBD2 to remove special slabs and use kmalloc() instead - Various bug fixes, including: - Early validation of donor superblock in EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT to avoid cross-fs deadlock - Fix for a kernel BUG in ext4_write_inline_data_end under data=journal - Fix for a NULL dereference in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata when handle is aborted - Fix for an underflow in JBD2 fast commit block initialization check - Fix for LOGFLUSH shutdown ordering to ensure ordered data writeback - Miscellaneous fixes for error path return values and KUnit assertions * tag 'ext4_for_linus-7.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: ext4: validate donor file superblock early in EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT ext4: fix kernel BUG in ext4_write_inline_data_end ext4: fix ERR_PTR(0) in ext4_mkdir() jbd2: remove special jbd2 slabs ext4: remove mention of PageWriteback ext4: improve str2hashbuf by processing 4-byte chunks and removing function pointers ext4: add Kunit coverage for directory hash computation ext4: fast commit: export snapshot stats in fc_info ext4: fast commit: add lock_updates tracepoint ext4: fast commit: avoid i_data_sem by dropping ext4_map_blocks() in snapshots ext4: fast commit: avoid self-deadlock in inode snapshotting ext4: fast commit: avoid waiting for FC_COMMITTING ext4: lockdep: handle i_data_sem subclassing for special inodes ext4: fast commit: snapshot inode state before writing log jbd2: fix integer underflow in jbd2_journal_initialize_fast_commit() ext4: fix fast commit wait/wake bit mapping on 64-bit jbd2: check for aborted handle in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata() ext4: Use %pe to print PTR_ERR() ext4: fix LOGFLUSH shutdown ordering to allow ordered-mode data writeback ext4: replace KUnit tests for memcmp() with KUNIT_ASSERT_MEMEQ()
2026-06-15Merge tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.bh' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull buffer_head updates from Christian Brauner: "This removes b_end_io from struct buffer_head. Instead of setting bio->bi_end_io to end_bio_bh_io_sync() which then calls bh->b_end_io(), the new bh_submit() and __bh_submit() interfaces set bio->bi_end_io to the appropriate completion handler directly, replacing two indirect function calls in the completion path with one. It is also one fewer function pointer in the middle of a writable data structure that can be corrupted, it shrinks struct buffer_head from 104 to 96 bytes allowing roughly 7% more buffer_heads to be cached in the same amount of memory, and it removes some atomic operations as the buffer refcount is no longer incremented before calling the end_io handler. All in-tree users (fs/buffer.c itself, ext4, jbd2, ocfs2, gfs2, nilfs2, and md-bitmap) are converted, and submit_bh(), mark_buffer_async_write(), and end_buffer_write_sync() are removed" * tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.bh' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (34 commits) buffer: Remove end_buffer_write_sync() buffer: Change calling convention for end_buffer_read_sync() buffer: Remove b_end_io buffer: Remove submit_bh() md-bitmap: Convert read_file_page and write_file_page to bh_submit() nilfs2: Convert nilfs_mdt_submit_block to bh_submit() nilfs2: Convert nilfs_gccache_submit_read_data to bh_submit() nilfs2: Convert nilfs_btnode_submit_block to bh_submit() buffer: Remove mark_buffer_async_write() gfs2: Convert gfs2_aspace_write_folio to bh_submit() gfs2: Remove use of b_end_io in gfs2_meta_read_endio() gfs2: Convert gfs2_dir_readahead to bh_submit() gfs2: Convert gfs2_metapath_ra to bh_submit() ocfs2: Convert ocfs2_write_super_or_backup to bh_submit() ocfs2: Convert ocfs2_read_blocks to bh_submit() ocfs2: Convert ocfs2_read_block to bh_submit() ocfs2: Convert ocfs2_write_block to bh_submit() jbd2: Convert jbd2_write_superblock() to bh_submit() jbd2: Convert journal commit to bh_submit() ext4: Convert ext4_commit_super() to bh_submit() ...
2026-06-15Merge tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.super' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull vfs superblock updates from Christian Brauner: "This retires sget(). CIFS plus the two ext4 KUnit tests (extents-test, mballoc-test) were the last in-tree callers, and all three convert cleanly to sget_fc(). That lets sget() and its prototype come out, taking ~60 lines that only existed to be kept in lockstep with sget_fc() on every publish-path change" * tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: fs: retire sget() smb: client: convert cifs_smb3_do_mount() to sget_fc() ext4: convert mballoc KUnit test to sget_fc() ext4: convert extents KUnit test to sget_fc()
2026-06-10ext4: validate donor file superblock early in EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXTYun Zhou
Reject the EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT ioctl early if the donor file does not belong to the same superblock as the original file. Currently, this validation is performed inside ext4_move_extents() by mext_check_validity(), but only after lock_two_nondirectories() has already acquired the inode locks. When the donor fd refers to a file on a different filesystem (e.g., overlayfs), this late validation creates a circular lock dependency: CPU0 (overlayfs write) CPU1 (ext4 ioctl) ---- ---- inode_lock(ovl_inode) mnt_want_write_file(filp) sb_start_write(ext4_sb) [sb_writers] backing_file_write_iter() vfs_iter_write(real_file) file_start_write(real_file) sb_start_write(ext4_sb) [blocked by freeze] lock_two_nondirectories() inode_lock(ovl_inode) [blocked] With a concurrent freeze operation holding sb_writers write side, this forms a deadlock cycle: CPU0 waits for freeze to complete, freeze waits for CPU1's sb_writers reader to exit, CPU1 waits for CPU0's inode lock. Since EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT exchanges physical extents between two files, it fundamentally requires both files to reside on the same ext4 filesystem. Moving the superblock check before any lock acquisition is both semantically correct and eliminates the circular dependency by ensuring that cross-filesystem donor fds are rejected before sb_writers or inode locks are taken. Fixes: fcf6b1b729bc ("ext4: refactor ext4_move_extents code base") Reported-by: syzbot+ad6118a7584b607c67f2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=ad6118a7584b607c67f2 Signed-off-by: Yun Zhou <yun.zhou@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260608152521.1292656-1-yun.zhou@windriver.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2026-06-10ext4: fix kernel BUG in ext4_write_inline_data_endAditya Prakash Srivastava
When the data=journal mount option is used, the ext4_journalled_write_end() function incorrectly calls ext4_write_inline_data_end() without checking if the EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA flag is still set on the inode. If a previous attempt to convert the inline data to an extent failed (e.g. due to ENOSPC), the EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA flag is cleared, but the EXT4_INODE_INLINE_DATA flag remains set. In this scenario, the next call to ext4_write_begin() will not prepare the inline data xattr for writing, but ext4_journalled_write_end() will incorrectly attempt to write to it, triggering a BUG_ON(pos + len > EXT4_I(inode)->i_inline_size) in ext4_write_inline_data() since i_inline_size was not expanded. Fix this by ensuring that ext4_journalled_write_end() only calls ext4_write_inline_data_end() if the EXT4_STATE_MAY_INLINE_DATA flag is set, mirroring the behavior of ext4_write_end() and ext4_da_write_end(). Reported-by: syzbot+0c89d865531d053abb2d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=0c89d865531d053abb2d Fixes: 3fdcfb668fd7 ("ext4: add journalled write support for inline data") Signed-off-by: Aditya Prakash Srivastava <aditya.ansh182@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260608065227.3018-1-aditya.ansh182@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2026-06-10ext4: fix ERR_PTR(0) in ext4_mkdir()Hongling Zeng
When mkdir succeeds, ext4_mkdir() returns ERR_PTR(0) which is incorrect. It should return NULL instead for success and ERR_PTR() only with negative error codes for failure. Fixes: 88d5baf69082 ("Change inode_operations.mkdir to return struct dentry *") Signed-off-by: Hongling Zeng <zenghongling@kylinos.cn> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Baokun Li <libaokun@linux.alibaba.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260604073647.211279-1-zenghongling@kylinos.cn Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2026-06-10ext4: remove mention of PageWritebackMatthew Wilcox (Oracle)
Update a comment to refer to the concept of writeback instead of the (now obsolete) detail of how it's implemented. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Baokun Li <libaokun@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260526190805.341676-1-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2026-06-04ext4: Convert ext4_commit_super() to bh_submit()Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
Avoid an extra indirect function call and changing the buffer refcount by using bh_submit() instead of submit_bh(). Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528173150.1093780-16-willy@infradead.org Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-06-04ext4: Convert write_mmp_block_thawed() to bh_submit()Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
Avoid an extra indirect function call and changing the buffer refcount by using bh_submit() instead of submit_bh(). Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528173150.1093780-15-willy@infradead.org Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-06-04ext4: Convert ext4_fc_submit_bh() to bh_submit()Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
Avoid an extra indirect function call by converting ext4_end_buffer_io_sync() from bh_end_io_t to bio_end_io_t and calling bh_submit(). Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528173150.1093780-14-willy@infradead.org Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-06-04ext4; Convert __ext4_read_bh() to bh_submit()Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
Avoid an extra indirect function call and changing the buffer refcount by converting ext4_end_bitmap_read() from bh_end_io_t to bio_end_io_t and calling bh_submit(). Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260528173150.1093780-13-willy@infradead.org Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-06-03ext4: improve str2hashbuf by processing 4-byte chunks and removing function ↵Guan-Chun Wu
pointers The original byte-by-byte implementation with modulo checks is less efficient. Refactor str2hashbuf_unsigned() and str2hashbuf_signed() to process input in explicit 4-byte chunks instead of using a modulus-based loop to emit words byte by byte. Additionally, the use of function pointers for selecting the appropriate str2hashbuf implementation has been removed. Instead, the functions are directly invoked based on the hash type, eliminating the overhead of dynamic function calls. Performance test (x86_64, Intel Core i7-10700 @ 2.90GHz, average over 10000 runs, using kernel module for testing): len | orig_s | new_s | orig_u | new_u ----+--------+-------+--------+------- 1 | 70 | 71 | 63 | 63 8 | 68 | 64 | 64 | 62 32 | 75 | 70 | 75 | 63 64 | 96 | 71 | 100 | 68 255 | 192 | 108 | 187 | 84 This change improves performance, especially for larger input sizes. Signed-off-by: Guan-Chun Wu <409411716@gms.tku.edu.tw> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260531080019.3794809-3-409411716@gms.tku.edu.tw Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2026-06-03ext4: add Kunit coverage for directory hash computationGuan-Chun Wu
Introduce Kunit tests for fs/ext4/hash.c to verify ext4fs_dirhash() across the legacy, half-MD4, and TEA hash variants. The tests cover empty, seeded hashing, and non-ASCII name handling. They also verify error paths, including invalid hash versions and SipHash without a configured key, and check that the signed and unsigned hash variants differ on non-ASCII input as expected. When CONFIG_UNICODE is enabled, the tests further verify casefolded-name hashing and the fallback behavior for invalid input. Co-developed-by: Chen Hao Yu <edward062254@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Chen Hao Yu <edward062254@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Guan-Chun Wu <409411716@gms.tku.edu.tw> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260531080019.3794809-2-409411716@gms.tku.edu.tw Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2026-06-03ext4: fast commit: export snapshot stats in fc_infoLi Chen
Snapshot-based fast commit can fall back when the commit-time snapshot cannot be built (e.g. extent status cache misses). It is useful to quantify the updates-locked window and to see why snapshotting failed. Add best-effort snapshot counters to the ext4 superblock and extend /proc/fs/ext4/<sb_id>/fc_info to report the number of snapshotted inodes and ranges, snapshot failure reasons, and the average/max time spent with journal updates locked. Signed-off-by: Li Chen <chenl311@chinatelecom.cn> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260515091829.194810-8-me@linux.beauty Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2026-06-03ext4: fast commit: add lock_updates tracepointLi Chen
Commit-time fast commit snapshots run under jbd2_journal_lock_updates(), so it is useful to quantify the time spent with updates locked and to understand why snapshotting can fail. Add a new tracepoint, ext4_fc_lock_updates, reporting the time spent in the updates-locked window along with the number of snapshotted inodes and ranges. Record the first snapshot failure reason in a stable snap_err field for tooling. Signed-off-by: Li Chen <chenl311@chinatelecom.cn> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260515091829.194810-7-me@linux.beauty Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2026-06-03ext4: fast commit: avoid i_data_sem by dropping ext4_map_blocks() in snapshotsLi Chen
Commit-time snapshots run under jbd2_journal_lock_updates(), so the work done there must stay bounded. The snapshot path still used ext4_map_blocks() to build data ranges. This can take i_data_sem and pulls the mapping code into the snapshot logic. Build inode data range snapshots from the extent status tree instead. The extent status tree is a cache, not an authoritative source. If the needed information is missing or unstable (e.g. delayed allocation), treat the transaction as fast commit ineligible and fall back to full commit. Also cap the number of inodes and ranges snapshotted per fast commit and allocate range records from a dedicated slab cache. The inode pointer array is allocated outside the updates-locked window. Testing: QEMU/KVM guest, virtio-pmem + dax, ext4 -O fast_commit, mounted dax,noatime. Ran python3 500x {4K write + fsync}, fallocate 256M, and python3 500x {creat + fsync(dir)} without lockdep splats or errors. Signed-off-by: Li Chen <chenl311@chinatelecom.cn> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260515091829.194810-6-me@linux.beauty Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2026-06-03ext4: fast commit: avoid self-deadlock in inode snapshottingLi Chen
ext4_fc_snapshot_inodes() used igrab()/iput() to pin inodes while building commit-time snapshots. With ext4_fc_del() waiting for EXT4_STATE_FC_COMMITTING, iput() can trigger ext4_clear_inode()->ext4_fc_del() in the commit thread and deadlock waiting for the fast commit to finish. ext4_fc_del() also has to re-check EXT4_STATE_FC_COMMITTING after waiting on EXT4_STATE_FC_FLUSHING_DATA. The commit thread clears FLUSHING_DATA before it sets COMMITTING, so a waiter woken from the flush wait must not delete the inode based on an old COMMITTING check. Avoid taking extra references. Collect inode pointers under s_fc_lock and rely on EXT4_STATE_FC_COMMITTING to pin inodes until ext4_fc_cleanup() clears the bit. Also set EXT4_STATE_FC_COMMITTING for create-only inodes referenced from the dentry update queue, and wake up waiters when ext4_fc_cleanup() clears the bit. Signed-off-by: Li Chen <chenl311@chinatelecom.cn> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260515091829.194810-5-me@linux.beauty Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2026-06-03ext4: fast commit: avoid waiting for FC_COMMITTINGLi Chen
ext4_fc_track_inode() can be called while holding i_data_sem (e.g. fallocate). Waiting for EXT4_STATE_FC_COMMITTING in that case risks an ABBA deadlock: i_data_sem -> wait(FC_COMMITTING) vs FC_COMMITTING -> wait(i_data_sem) in the commit task. Now that fast commit snapshots inode state at commit time, updates during log writing do not need to block. Drop the wait and lockdep assertion in ext4_fc_track_inode(), and make ext4_fc_del() wait for FC_COMMITTING so an inode cannot be removed while the commit thread is still using it. When an inode is modified during a fast commit, mark it with EXT4_STATE_FC_REQUEUE so cleanup keeps it queued for the next fast commit. This is needed because jbd2_fc_end_commit() invokes the cleanup callback with tid == 0, so tid-based requeue logic would requeue every inode. Testing: tracepoint ext4:ext4_fc_commit_stop with two fsyncs in the same transaction. nblks is the number of journal blocks written for that fast commit. Before this change, the second fsync still wrote almost the same fast commit log (nblks 10->9), because tid == 0 in jbd2_fc_end_commit() caused the tid-based requeue logic to keep all inodes queued. After this change, only inodes modified during the commit are requeued, and the second fsync wrote a nearly empty fast commit (nblks 10->1). Signed-off-by: Li Chen <chenl311@chinatelecom.cn> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260515091829.194810-4-me@linux.beauty Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2026-06-03ext4: lockdep: handle i_data_sem subclassing for special inodesLi Chen
Fast commit can hold s_fc_lock while writing journal blocks. Mapping the journal inode can take its i_data_sem. Normal inode update paths can take a data inode i_data_sem and then s_fc_lock, which makes lockdep report a circular dependency. lockdep treats all i_data_sem instances as one lock class and cannot distinguish the journal inode i_data_sem from a regular inode i_data_sem. The journal inode is not tracked by fast commit and no FC waiters ever depend on it, so this is not a real ABBA deadlock. Assign the journal inode a dedicated i_data_sem lockdep subclass to avoid the false positive. Inode cache objects can be recycled, so also reset i_data_sem to I_DATA_SEM_NORMAL when allocating an ext4 inode. Otherwise a new inode may inherit an old subclass (journal/quota/ea) and trigger lockdep warnings. Signed-off-by: Li Chen <chenl311@chinatelecom.cn> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260515091829.194810-3-me@linux.beauty Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2026-06-03ext4: fast commit: snapshot inode state before writing logLi Chen
Fast commit writes inode metadata and data range updates after unlocking journal updates. New handles can start at that point, so the log writing path must not look at live inode state. Add a commit-time per-inode snapshot and populate it while journal updates are locked and existing handles are drained. Store the snapshot behind ext4_inode_info->i_fc_snap so ext4_inode_info only grows by one pointer. The snapshot contains a copy of the on-disk inode plus the data range records needed for fast commit TLVs. Snapshotting runs under jbd2_journal_lock_updates(). Avoid triggering I/O there by using ext4_get_inode_loc_noio() and falling back to full commit if the inode table block is not present or not uptodate. Log writing then only serializes the snapshot, so it no longer needs to call ext4_map_blocks() and take i_data_sem under s_fc_lock. The snapshot is installed and freed under s_fc_lock and is released from fast commit cleanup and inode eviction. Signed-off-by: Li Chen <chenl311@chinatelecom.cn> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260515091829.194810-2-me@linux.beauty Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2026-06-03ext4: fix fast commit wait/wake bit mapping on 64-bitLi Chen
On 64-bit, ext4 dynamic inode states live in the upper half of i_flags, and ext4_test_inode_state() applies the corresponding +32 offset. The fast-commit wait and wake paths open-coded the wait key with the raw EXT4_STATE_* value. Add small helpers for the state wait word and bit, and use them for the FC_COMMITTING and FC_FLUSHING_DATA waits so the wait key follows the same mapping as the state helpers. Fixes: 857d32f26181 ("ext4: rework fast commit commit path") Reported-by: Sashiko AI review <sashiko-bot@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Li Chen <chenl311@chinatelecom.cn> Reviewed-by: Baokun Li <libaokun@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260513085818.552432-1-me@linux.beauty Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2026-06-03ext4: convert mballoc KUnit test to sget_fc()Christian Brauner
Same treatment as the extents KUnit test. The mballoc test uses sget() as a thin "give me an initialized superblock" wrapper for a fake file_system_type. Move it onto sget_fc() so sget() can go away. Add a no-op mbt_init_fs_context() so fs_context_for_mount() has something to call on the fake fs_type. mbt_set() now takes a struct fs_context * (still a no-op). mbt_ext4_alloc_super_block() allocates the fc, hands it to sget_fc() and drops the fc reference once the sb is published. No functional change. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260529-work-sget-v2-2-57bbe08604e4@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-06-03ext4: convert extents KUnit test to sget_fc()Christian Brauner
The extents KUnit test uses sget() to get an initialized superblock for its fake file_system_type. sget() predates fs_context and we want to retire it. Switch this caller over to sget_fc(). Add a no-op ext_init_fs_context() so fs_context_for_mount() has something to call on the fake fs_type. ext_set() now takes a struct fs_context * (still a no-op). extents_kunit_init() allocates the fc, hands it to sget_fc() and drops the fc reference once the sb is published. sget_fc() does not retain a pointer to it. No functional change for the test. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260529-work-sget-v2-1-57bbe08604e4@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-06-01ext4: Use %pe to print PTR_ERR()Abdellah Ouhbi
Replace %ld with %pe and PTR_ERR(path) with path pointer. The %pe specifier automatically converts error pointers to human-readable error names instead of raw error codes. These changes were found by coccicheck. Signed-off-by: Abdellah Ouhbi <abdououhbi1@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260424154307.169881-1-abdououhbi1@gmail.com Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260424155508.186235-1-abdououhbi1@gmail.com Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260424152245.142308-1-abdououhbi1@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2026-06-01ext4: fix LOGFLUSH shutdown ordering to allow ordered-mode data writebackZhang Yi
In EXT4_GOING_FLAGS_LOGFLUSH mode, the EXT4_FLAGS_SHUTDOWN flag was set before calling ext4_force_commit(). This caused ordered-mode data writeback (triggered by journal commit) to fail with -EIO, since ext4_do_writepages() checks for the shutdown flag. The journal would then be aborted prematurely before the commit could succeed. Fix this by calling ext4_force_commit() first, then setting the shutdown flag, so that pending data can be written back correctly. Note that moving ext4_force_commit() before setting the shutdown flag creates a small window in which new writes may occur and generate new journal transactions. When the journal is subsequently aborted, the new transactions will not be able to write to disk. This is intentional because LOGFLUSH's semantics are to flush pre-existing journal entries before shutdown, not to guarantee atomicity for writes that race with the ioctl. Fixes: 783d94854499 ("ext4: add EXT4_IOC_GOINGDOWN ioctl") Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Baokun Li <libaokun@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260424104201.1930823-1-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2026-06-01ext4: replace KUnit tests for memcmp() with KUNIT_ASSERT_MEMEQ()Ryota Sakamoto
Replace KUnit tests for memcmp() with KUNIT_ASSERT_MEMEQ() to improve debugging that prints the hex dump of the buffers when the assertion fails, whereas memcmp() only returns an integer difference. Signed-off-by: Ryota Sakamoto <sakamo.ryota@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260127-fix-fs_ext4-memcmp-v1-1-5c269ae906b6@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2026-05-11fs: add icount_read_once() and stop open-coding ->i_count loadsMateusz Guzik
Similarly to inode_state_read_once(), it makes the caller spell out they acknowledge instability of the returned value. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260421182538.1215894-2-mjguzik@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-04-17Merge tag 'ext4_for_linux-7.0-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o: - Refactor code paths involved with partial block zero-out in prearation for converting ext4 to use iomap for buffered writes - Remove use of d_alloc() from ext4 in preparation for the deprecation of this interface - Replace some J_ASSERTS with a journal abort so we can avoid a kernel panic for a localized file system error - Simplify various code paths in mballoc, move_extent, and fast commit - Fix rare deadlock in jbd2_journal_cancel_revoke() that can be triggered by generic/013 when blocksize < pagesize - Fix memory leak when releasing an extended attribute when its value is stored in an ea_inode - Fix various potential kunit test bugs in fs/ext4/extents.c - Fix potential out-of-bounds access in check_xattr() with a corrupted file system - Make the jbd2_inode dirty range tracking safe for lockless reads - Avoid a WARN_ON when writeback files due to a corrupted file system; we already print an ext4 warning indicatign that data will be lost, so the WARN_ON is not necessary and doesn't add any new information * tag 'ext4_for_linux-7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (37 commits) jbd2: fix deadlock in jbd2_journal_cancel_revoke() ext4: fix missing brelse() in ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all() ext4: fix possible null-ptr-deref in mbt_kunit_exit() ext4: fix possible null-ptr-deref in extents_kunit_exit() ext4: fix the error handling process in extents_kunit_init). ext4: call deactivate_super() in extents_kunit_exit() ext4: fix miss unlock 'sb->s_umount' in extents_kunit_init() ext4: fix bounds check in check_xattrs() to prevent out-of-bounds access ext4: zero post-EOF partial block before appending write ext4: move pagecache_isize_extended() out of active handle ext4: remove ctime/mtime update from ext4_alloc_file_blocks() ext4: unify SYNC mode checks in fallocate paths ext4: ensure zeroed partial blocks are persisted in SYNC mode ext4: move zero partial block range functions out of active handle ext4: pass allocate range as loff_t to ext4_alloc_file_blocks() ext4: remove handle parameters from zero partial block functions ext4: move ordered data handling out of ext4_block_do_zero_range() ext4: rename ext4_block_zero_page_range() to ext4_block_zero_range() ext4: factor out journalled block zeroing range ext4: rename and extend ext4_block_truncate_page() ...
2026-04-15Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "maple_tree: Replace big node with maple copy" (Liam Howlett) Mainly prepararatory work for ongoing development but it does reduce stack usage and is an improvement. - "mm, swap: swap table phase III: remove swap_map" (Kairui Song) Offers memory savings by removing the static swap_map. It also yields some CPU savings and implements several cleanups. - "mm: memfd_luo: preserve file seals" (Pratyush Yadav) File seal preservation to LUO's memfd code - "mm: zswap: add per-memcg stat for incompressible pages" (Jiayuan Chen) Additional userspace stats reportng to zswap - "arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page" (Mike Rapoport) Some cleanups for our handling of ZERO_PAGE() and zero_pfn - "mm/kmemleak: Improve scan_should_stop() implementation" (Zhongqiu Han) A robustness improvement and some cleanups in the kmemleak code - "Improve khugepaged scan logic" (Vernon Yang) Improve khugepaged scan logic and reduce CPU consumption by prioritizing scanning tasks that access memory frequently - "Make KHO Stateless" (Jason Miu) Simplify Kexec Handover by transitioning KHO from an xarray-based metadata tracking system with serialization to a radix tree data structure that can be passed directly to the next kernel - "mm: vmscan: add PID and cgroup ID to vmscan tracepoints" (Thomas Ballasi and Steven Rostedt) Enhance vmscan's tracepointing - "mm: arch/shstk: Common shadow stack mapping helper and VM_NOHUGEPAGE" (Catalin Marinas) Cleanup for the shadow stack code: remove per-arch code in favour of a generic implementation - "Fix KASAN support for KHO restored vmalloc regions" (Pasha Tatashin) Fix a WARN() which can be emitted the KHO restores a vmalloc area - "mm: Remove stray references to pagevec" (Tal Zussman) Several cleanups, mainly udpating references to "struct pagevec", which became folio_batch three years ago - "mm: Eliminate fake head pages from vmemmap optimization" (Kiryl Shutsemau) Simplify the HugeTLB vmemmap optimization (HVO) by changing how tail pages encode their relationship to the head page - "mm/damon/core: improve DAMOS quota efficiency for core layer filters" (SeongJae Park) Improve two problematic behaviors of DAMOS that makes it less efficient when core layer filters are used - "mm/damon: strictly respect min_nr_regions" (SeongJae Park) Improve DAMON usability by extending the treatment of the min_nr_regions user-settable parameter - "mm/page_alloc: pcp locking cleanup" (Vlastimil Babka) The proper fix for a previously hotfixed SMP=n issue. Code simplifications and cleanups ensued - "mm: cleanups around unmapping / zapping" (David Hildenbrand) A bunch of cleanups around unmapping and zapping. Mostly simplifications, code movements, documentation and renaming of zapping functions - "support batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU" (Baolin Wang) Batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU. It's part cleanups; one benchmark shows large performance benefits for arm64 - "memcg: obj stock and slab stat caching cleanups" (Johannes Weiner) memcg cleanup and robustness improvements - "Allow order zero pages in page reporting" (Yuvraj Sakshith) Enhance free page reporting - it is presently and undesirably order-0 pages when reporting free memory. - "mm: vma flag tweaks" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Cleanup work following from the recent conversion of the VMA flags to a bitmap - "mm/damon: add optional debugging-purpose sanity checks" (SeongJae Park) Add some more developer-facing debug checks into DAMON core - "mm/damon: test and document power-of-2 min_region_sz requirement" (SeongJae Park) An additional DAMON kunit test and makes some adjustments to the addr_unit parameter handling - "mm/damon/core: make passed_sample_intervals comparisons overflow-safe" (SeongJae Park) Fix a hard-to-hit time overflow issue in DAMON core - "mm/damon: improve/fixup/update ratio calculation, test and documentation" (SeongJae Park) A batch of misc/minor improvements and fixups for DAMON - "mm: move vma_(kernel|mmu)_pagesize() out of hugetlb.c" (David Hildenbrand) Fix a possible issue with dax-device when CONFIG_HUGETLB=n. Some code movement was required. - "zram: recompression cleanups and tweaks" (Sergey Senozhatsky) A somewhat random mix of fixups, recompression cleanups and improvements in the zram code - "mm/damon: support multiple goal-based quota tuning algorithms" (SeongJae Park) Extend DAMOS quotas goal auto-tuning to support multiple tuning algorithms that users can select - "mm: thp: reduce unnecessary start_stop_khugepaged()" (Breno Leitao) Fix the khugpaged sysfs handling so we no longer spam the logs with reams of junk when starting/stopping khugepaged - "mm: improve map count checks" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Provide some cleanups and slight fixes in the mremap, mmap and vma code - "mm/damon: support addr_unit on default monitoring targets for modules" (SeongJae Park) Extend the use of DAMON core's addr_unit tunable - "mm: khugepaged cleanups and mTHP prerequisites" (Nico Pache) Cleanups to khugepaged and is a base for Nico's planned khugepaged mTHP support - "mm: memory hot(un)plug and SPARSEMEM cleanups" (David Hildenbrand) Code movement and cleanups in the memhotplug and sparsemem code - "mm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE and cleanup CONFIG_MIGRATION" (David Hildenbrand) Rationalize some memhotplug Kconfig support - "change young flag check functions to return bool" (Baolin Wang) Cleanups to change all young flag check functions to return bool - "mm/damon/sysfs: fix memory leak and NULL dereference issues" (Josh Law and SeongJae Park) Fix a few potential DAMON bugs - "mm/vma: convert vm_flags_t to vma_flags_t in vma code" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Convert a lot of the existing use of the legacy vm_flags_t data type to the new vma_flags_t type which replaces it. Mainly in the vma code. - "mm: expand mmap_prepare functionality and usage" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Expand the mmap_prepare functionality, which is intended to replace the deprecated f_op->mmap hook which has been the source of bugs and security issues for some time. Cleanups, documentation, extension of mmap_prepare into filesystem drivers - "mm/huge_memory: refactor zap_huge_pmd()" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Simplify and clean up zap_huge_pmd(). Additional cleanups around vm_normal_folio_pmd() and the softleaf functionality are performed. * tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits) mm: fix deferred split queue races during migration mm/khugepaged: fix issue with tracking lock mm/huge_memory: add and use has_deposited_pgtable() mm/huge_memory: add and use normal_or_softleaf_folio_pmd() mm: add softleaf_is_valid_pmd_entry(), pmd_to_softleaf_folio() mm/huge_memory: separate out the folio part of zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: use mm instead of tlb->mm mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary sanity checks mm/huge_memory: deduplicate zap deposited table call mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() mm/huge_memory: add a common exit path to zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: handle buggy PMD entry in zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: have zap_huge_pmd return a boolean, add kdoc mm/huge: avoid big else branch in zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: simplify vma_is_specal_huge() mm: on remap assert that input range within the proposed VMA mm: add mmap_action_map_kernel_pages[_full]() uio: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare in uio_info drivers: hv: vmbus: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare mm: allow handling of stacked mmap_prepare hooks in more drivers ...
2026-04-13Merge tag 'fscrypt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull fscrypt updates from Eric Biggers: - Various cleanups for the interface between fs/crypto/ and filesystems, from Christoph Hellwig - Simplify and optimize the implementation of v1 key derivation by using the AES library instead of the crypto_skcipher API * tag 'fscrypt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/linux: fscrypt: use AES library for v1 key derivation ext4: use a byte granularity cursor in ext4_mpage_readpages fscrypt: pass a real sector_t to fscrypt_zeroout_range fscrypt: pass a byte length to fscrypt_zeroout_range fscrypt: pass a byte offset to fscrypt_zeroout_range fscrypt: pass a byte length to fscrypt_zeroout_range_inline_crypt fscrypt: pass a byte offset to fscrypt_zeroout_range_inline_crypt fscrypt: pass a byte offset to fscrypt_set_bio_crypt_ctx fscrypt: pass a byte offset to fscrypt_mergeable_bio fscrypt: pass a byte offset to fscrypt_generate_dun fscrypt: move fscrypt_set_bio_crypt_ctx_bh to buffer.c ext4, fscrypt: merge fscrypt_mergeable_bio_bh into io_submit_need_new_bio ext4: factor out a io_submit_need_new_bio helper ext4: open code fscrypt_set_bio_crypt_ctx_bh ext4: initialize the write hint in io_submit_init_bio
2026-04-13Merge tag 'for-7.1/block-20260411' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux Pull block updates from Jens Axboe: - Add shared memory zero-copy I/O support for ublk, bypassing per-I/O copies between kernel and userspace by matching registered buffer PFNs at I/O time. Includes selftests. - Refactor bio integrity to support filesystem initiated integrity operations and arbitrary buffer alignment. - Clean up bio allocation, splitting bio_alloc_bioset() into clear fast and slow paths. Add bio_await() and bio_submit_or_kill() helpers, unify synchronous bi_end_io callbacks. - Fix zone write plug refcount handling and plug removal races. Add support for serializing zone writes at QD=1 for rotational zoned devices, yielding significant throughput improvements. - Add SED-OPAL ioctls for Single User Mode management and a STACK_RESET command. - Add io_uring passthrough (uring_cmd) support to the BSG layer. - Replace pp_buf in partition scanning with struct seq_buf. - zloop improvements and cleanups. - drbd genl cleanup, switching to pre_doit/post_doit. - NVMe pull request via Keith: - Fabrics authentication updates - Enhanced block queue limits support - Workqueue usage updates - A new write zeroes device quirk - Tagset cleanup fix for loop device - MD pull requests via Yu Kuai: - Fix raid5 soft lockup in retry_aligned_read() - Fix raid10 deadlock with check operation and nowait requests - Fix raid1 overlapping writes on writemostly disks - Fix sysfs deadlock on array_state=clear - Proactive RAID-5 parity building with llbitmap, with write_zeroes_unmap optimization for initial sync - Fix llbitmap barrier ordering, rdev skipping, and bitmap_ops version mismatch fallback - Fix bcache use-after-free and uninitialized closure - Validate raid5 journal metadata payload size - Various cleanups - Various other fixes, improvements, and cleanups * tag 'for-7.1/block-20260411' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: (146 commits) ublk: fix tautological comparison warning in ublk_ctrl_reg_buf scsi: bsg: fix buffer overflow in scsi_bsg_uring_cmd() block: refactor blkdev_zone_mgmt_ioctl MAINTAINERS: update ublk driver maintainer email Documentation: ublk: address review comments for SHMEM_ZC docs ublk: allow buffer registration before device is started ublk: replace xarray with IDA for shmem buffer index allocation ublk: simplify PFN range loop in __ublk_ctrl_reg_buf ublk: verify all pages in multi-page bvec fall within registered range ublk: widen ublk_shmem_buf_reg.len to __u64 for 4GB buffer support xfs: use bio_await in xfs_zone_gc_reset_sync block: add a bio_submit_or_kill helper block: factor out a bio_await helper block: unify the synchronous bi_end_io callbacks xfs: fix number of GC bvecs selftests/ublk: add read-only buffer registration test selftests/ublk: add filesystem fio verify test for shmem_zc selftests/ublk: add hugetlbfs shmem_zc test for loop target selftests/ublk: add shared memory zero-copy test selftests/ublk: add UBLK_F_SHMEM_ZC support for loop target ...
2026-04-13Merge tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.bh.metadata' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs 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 ...
2026-04-13Merge tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.kino' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull vfs i_ino updates from Christian Brauner: "For historical reasons, the inode->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->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->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
2026-04-09ext4: fix missing brelse() in ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all()Sohei Koyama
The commit c8e008b60492 ("ext4: ignore xattrs past end") introduced a refcount leak in when block_csum is false. ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all() calls ext4_get_inode_loc() to get iloc.bh, but never releases it with brelse(). Fixes: c8e008b60492 ("ext4: ignore xattrs past end") Signed-off-by: Sohei Koyama <skoyama@ddn.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Baokun Li <libaokun@linux.alibaba.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260406074830.8480-1-skoyama@ddn.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2026-04-09ext4: fix possible null-ptr-deref in mbt_kunit_exit()Ye Bin
There's issue as follows: # test_new_blocks_simple: failed to initialize: -12 KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000638-0x000000000000063f] Tainted: [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE, [N]=TEST RIP: 0010:mbt_kunit_exit+0x5e/0x3e0 [ext4_test] Call Trace: <TASK> kunit_try_run_case_cleanup+0xbc/0x100 [kunit] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x89/0x100 [kunit] kthread+0x408/0x540 ret_from_fork+0xa76/0xdf0 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 If mbt_kunit_init() init testcase failed will lead to null-ptr-deref. So add test if 'sb' is inited success in mbt_kunit_exit(). Fixes: 7c9fa399a369 ("ext4: add first unit test for ext4_mb_new_blocks_simple in mballoc") Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260330133035.287842-6-yebin@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2026-04-09ext4: fix possible null-ptr-deref in extents_kunit_exit()Ye Bin
There's issue as follows: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x00000000000002c0-0x00000000000002c7] Tainted: [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE, [N]=TEST RIP: 0010:extents_kunit_exit+0x2e/0xc0 [ext4_test] Call Trace: <TASK> kunit_try_run_case_cleanup+0xbc/0x100 [kunit] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x89/0x100 [kunit] kthread+0x408/0x540 ret_from_fork+0xa76/0xdf0 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 Above issue happens as extents_kunit_init() init testcase failed. So test if testcase is inited success. Fixes: cb1e0c1d1fad ("ext4: kunit tests for extent splitting and conversion") Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260330133035.287842-5-yebin@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2026-04-09ext4: fix the error handling process in extents_kunit_init).Ye Bin
The error processing in extents_kunit_init() is improper, causing resource leakage. Reconstruct the error handling process to prevent potential resource leaks Fixes: cb1e0c1d1fad ("ext4: kunit tests for extent splitting and conversion") Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260330133035.287842-4-yebin@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2026-04-09ext4: call deactivate_super() in extents_kunit_exit()Ye Bin
Call deactivate_super() is called in extents_kunit_exit() to cleanup the file system resource. Fixes: cb1e0c1d1fad ("ext4: kunit tests for extent splitting and conversion") Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260330133035.287842-3-yebin@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2026-04-09ext4: fix miss unlock 'sb->s_umount' in extents_kunit_init()Ye Bin
There's warning as follows when do ext4 kunit test: WARNING: kunit_try_catch/15923 still has locks held! 7.0.0-rc3-next-20260309-00028-g73f965a1bbb1-dirty #281 Tainted: G E N 1 lock held by kunit_try_catch/15923: #0: ffff888139f860e0 (&type->s_umount_key#70/1){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: alloc_super.constprop.0+0x172/0xa90 Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x180/0x1b0 debug_check_no_locks_held+0xc8/0xd0 do_exit+0x1502/0x2b20 kthread+0x3a9/0x540 ret_from_fork+0xa76/0xdf0 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 As sget() will return 'sb' which holds 's->s_umount' lock. However, "extents-test" miss unlock this lock. So unlock 's->s_umount' in the end of extents_kunit_init(). Fixes: cb1e0c1d1fad ("ext4: kunit tests for extent splitting and conversion") Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260330133035.287842-2-yebin@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2026-04-09ext4: fix bounds check in check_xattrs() to prevent out-of-bounds accessDeepanshu Kartikey
The bounds check for the next xattr entry in check_xattrs() uses (void *)next >= end, which allows next to point within sizeof(u32) bytes of end. On the next loop iteration, IS_LAST_ENTRY() reads 4 bytes via *(__u32 *)(entry), which can overrun the valid xattr region. For example, if next lands at end - 1, the check passes since next < end, but IS_LAST_ENTRY() reads 4 bytes starting at end - 1, accessing 3 bytes beyond the valid region. Fix this by changing the check to (void *)next + sizeof(u32) > end, ensuring there is always enough space for the IS_LAST_ENTRY() read on the subsequent iteration. Fixes: 3478c83cf26b ("ext4: improve xattr consistency checking and error reporting") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260224231429.31361-1-kartikey406@gmail.com/T/ [v1] Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260328150038.349497-1-kartikey406@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2026-04-09ext4: zero post-EOF partial block before appending writeZhang Yi
In cases of appending write beyond EOF, ext4_zero_partial_blocks() is called within ext4_*_write_end() to zero out the partial block beyond EOF. This prevents exposing stale data that might be written through mmap. However, supporting only the regular buffered write path is insufficient. It is also necessary to support the DAX path as well as the upcoming iomap buffered write path. Therefore, move this operation to ext4_write_checks(). In addition, this may introduce a race window in which a post-EOF buffered write can race with an mmap write after the old EOF block has been zeroed. As a result, the data in this block written by the buffer-write and the data written by the mmap-write may be mixed. However, this is safe because users should not rely on the result of the race condition. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260327102939.1095257-14-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2026-04-09ext4: move pagecache_isize_extended() out of active handleZhang Yi
In ext4_alloc_file_blocks(), pagecache_isize_extended() is called under an active handle and may also hold folio lock if the block size is smaller than the folio size. This also breaks the "folio lock -> transaction start" lock ordering for the upcoming iomap buffered I/O path. Therefore, move pagecache_isize_extended() outside of an active handle. Additionally, it is unnecessary to update the file length during each iteration of the allocation loop. Instead, update the file length only to the position where the allocation is successful. Postpone updating the inode size until after the allocation loop completes or is interrupted due to an error. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260327102939.1095257-13-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2026-04-09ext4: remove ctime/mtime update from ext4_alloc_file_blocks()Zhang Yi
The ctime and mtime update is already handled by file_modified() in ext4_fallocate(), the caller of ext4_alloc_file_blocks(). So remove the redundant calls to inode_set_ctime_current() and inode_set_mtime_to_ts() in ext4_alloc_file_blocks(). Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260327102939.1095257-12-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2026-04-09ext4: unify SYNC mode checks in fallocate pathsZhang Yi
In the ext4 fallocate call chain, SYNC mode handling is inconsistent: some places check the inode state, while others check the open file descriptor state. Unify these checks by evaluating both conditions to ensure consistent behavior across all fallocate operations. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260327102939.1095257-11-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2026-04-09ext4: ensure zeroed partial blocks are persisted in SYNC modeZhang Yi
In ext4_zero_range() and ext4_punch_hole(), when operating in SYNC mode and zeroing a partial block, only data=journal modes guarantee that the zeroed data is synchronously persisted after the operation completes. For data=ordered/writeback mode and non-journal modes, this guarantee is missing. Introduce a partial_zero parameter to explicitly trigger writeback for all scenarios where a partial block is zeroed, ensuring the zeroed data is durably persisted. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260327102939.1095257-10-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2026-04-09ext4: move zero partial block range functions out of active handleZhang Yi
Move ext4_block_zero_eof() and ext4_zero_partial_blocks() calls out of the active handle context, making them independent operations, and also add return value checks. This is safe because it still ensures data is updated before metadata for data=ordered mode and data=journal mode because we still zero data and ordering data before modifying the metadata. This change is required for iomap infrastructure conversion because the iomap buffered I/O path does not use the same journal infrastructure for partial block zeroing. The lock ordering of folio lock and starting transactions is "folio lock -> transaction start", which is opposite of the current path. Therefore, zeroing partial blocks cannot be performed under the active handle. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260327102939.1095257-9-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2026-04-09ext4: pass allocate range as loff_t to ext4_alloc_file_blocks()Zhang Yi
Change ext4_alloc_file_blocks() to accept offset and len in byte granularity instead of block granularity. This allows callers to pass byte offsets and lengths directly, and this prepares for moving the ext4_zero_partial_blocks() call from the while(len) loop for unaligned append writes, where it only needs to be invoked once before doing block allocation. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260327102939.1095257-8-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2026-04-09ext4: remove handle parameters from zero partial block functionsZhang Yi
Only journal data mode requires an active journal handle when zeroing partial blocks. Stop passing handle_t *handle to ext4_zero_partial_blocks() and related functions, and make ext4_block_journalled_zero_range() start a handle independently. This change has no practical impact now because all callers invoke these functions within the context of an active handle. It prepares for moving ext4_block_zero_eof() out of an active handle in the next patch, which is a prerequisite for converting block zero range operations to iomap infrastructure. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260327102939.1095257-7-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2026-04-09ext4: move ordered data handling out of ext4_block_do_zero_range()Zhang Yi
Remove the handle parameter from ext4_block_do_zero_range() and move the ordered data handling to ext4_block_zero_eof(). This is necessary for truncate up and append writes across a range extending beyond EOF. The ordered data must be committed before updating i_disksize to prevent exposing stale on-disk data from concurrent post-EOF mmap writes during previous folio writeback or in case of system crash during append writes. This is unnecessary for partial block hole punching because the entire punch operation does not provide atomicity guarantees and can already expose intermediate results in case of crash. Hole punching can only ever expose data that was there before the punch but missed zeroing during append / truncate could expose data that was not visible in the file before the operation. Since ordered data handling is no longer performed inside ext4_zero_partial_blocks(), ext4_punch_hole() no longer needs to attach jinode. This is prepared for the conversion to the iomap infrastructure, which does not use ordered data mode while zeroing post-EOF partial blocks. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260327102939.1095257-6-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2026-04-09ext4: rename ext4_block_zero_page_range() to ext4_block_zero_range()Zhang Yi
Rename ext4_block_zero_page_range() to ext4_block_zero_range() since the "page" naming is no longer appropriate for current context. Also change its signature to take an inode pointer instead of an address_space. This aligns with the caller ext4_block_zero_eof() and ext4_zero_partial_blocks(). Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260327102939.1095257-5-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>