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<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-10-03T01:18:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2025-10-03T01:18:33+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from Kairui Song improves
   performance and reduces the failure rate of swap cluster allocation

 - "support large align and nid in Rust allocators" from Vitaly Wool
   permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large alignment when
   perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs

 - "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from Yueyang Pan extend
   DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets for virtual
   address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters

 - "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock" from Suren
   Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of
   /proc/pid/maps

 - "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache checking" from Kairui Song
   performs some cleanup in the swap code

 - "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David Hildenbrand provides
   code cleanup in the pagemap code

 - "add persistent huge zero folio support" from Pankaj Raghav provides
   a block layer speedup by optionalls making the
   huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount
   falls to zero

 - "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a few touchups to
   the recently added Kexec Handover feature

 - "mm: make mm-&gt;flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all arches" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To end the constant
   struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with 64-bit's
   needs

 - "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li cleans up some swap
   code

 - "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip unsupported tests" from
   Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests code

 - "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised"
   from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes to opt-out of
   THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other workloads on the
   system".

   It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations

 - "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox gets us started on
   the memdesc project. Please see

      https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and
      https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc

 - "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from Chi Zhiling
   improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path

 - "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi Yan improves our
   folio splitting selftest code

 - "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang adds some rmap
   selftests

 - "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig removes that
   function and converts its two remaining callers

 - "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain fixes some UFFD
   selftests issues

 - "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris Burkov introduces
   the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these permits btrfs to
   account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather than to the
   cgroups of random inappropriate tasks

 - "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some pageblock handling" from
   Wei Yang provides some readability improvements to the page allocator
   code

 - "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae Park teaches DAMON
   to understand arm32 highmem

 - "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for vma/maple tests" from
   Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and deduplication under
   tools/testing/

 - "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from Liam Howlett fixes
   a couple of 32-bit issues in tools/testing/radix-tree.c

 - "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific
   implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN arch-specific
   initialization code into a common arch-neutral implementation

 - "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes zspool - an
   indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing
   (zsmalloc)

 - "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from Pasha Tatashin makes a
   couple of cleanups in the fork code

 - "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand makes rather a lot of
   adjustments at various nth_page() callsites, eventually permitting
   the removal of that undesirable helper function

 - "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from Yeoreum Yun
   creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that architecture's
   memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode KASAN is
   suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only

 - "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation" from Kefeng Wang does
   some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code

 - "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer parameters" from Max
   Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API functions more accurate
   about the constness of their arguments. This was getting in the way
   of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they attempt to improving
   their own const/non-const accuracy

 - "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola fixes a number of
   code sites which were confused over when to use free_pages() vs
   __free_pages()

 - "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice Ryhl makes the
   mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau and by its
   forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver

 - "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test: split_pte_mapped_thp
   improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and some cleanups to
   the thp selftesting code

 - "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache (phase I)" from Chris
   Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the path to implementing
   "swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation and state tracking
   which is expected to yield speed and space improvements. This
   patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit in some situations

 - "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes the new memdesc
   layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little

 - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from Chunyu Hu fixes some
   issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code

 - "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from Suren Baghdasaryan
   addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new memory
   allocation profiling feature

 - "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few cleanups in
   preparation for more memdesc work

 - "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" from
   Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in furtherance of supporting
   arm highmem

 - "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix warnings" from Muhammad
   Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code and fixes the
   fallout, by removing dead code

 - "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM Reaper Traversal
   Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements in the OOM
   killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim threads so
   they can release resources

 - "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18" from SeongJae Park
   is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON

 - "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization check function" from
   SeongJae Park implement reliability and maintainability improvements
   to a recently-added bug fix

 - "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and non-idle ages" from
   SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to userspace clients
   of the DAMON_STAT information

 - "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse" from Dev Jain removes
   some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of anon VMAs. It also
   increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against an anon vma

 - "mm: do not assume file == vma-&gt;vm_file in compat_vma_mmap_prepare()"
   from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards removal of
   file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon clearing up
   the treatment of stacked filesystems

 - "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from Kiryl Shutsemau
   provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking of large
   folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate

 - "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters during fork" from
   Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats inaccuracies across
   forks and adds selftest code to verify these counters

 - "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei Yang addresses
   some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's mm_slot handling

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (372 commits)
  mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA
  mm: convert folio_page() back to a macro
  mm/khugepaged: use start_addr/addr for improved readability
  hugetlbfs: skip VMAs without shareable locks in hugetlb_vmdelete_list
  alloc_tag: fix boot failure due to NULL pointer dereference
  mm: silence data-race in update_hiwater_rss
  mm/memory-failure: don't select MEMORY_ISOLATION
  mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot
  mm/ksm: get mm_slot by mm_slot_entry() when slot is !NULL
  hugetlb: increase number of reserving hugepages via cmdline
  selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging_pages counter
  mm/ksm: fix incorrect KSM counter handling in mm_struct during fork
  drivers/base/node: fix double free in register_one_node()
  mm: remove PMD alignment constraint in execmem_vmalloc()
  mm/memory_hotplug: fix typo 'esecially' -&gt; 'especially'
  mm/rmap: improve mlock tracking for large folios
  mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround
  mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault()
  mm/rmap: mlock large folios in try_to_unmap_one()
  mm/rmap: fix a mlock race condition in folio_referenced_one()
  ...
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from Kairui Song improves
   performance and reduces the failure rate of swap cluster allocation

 - "support large align and nid in Rust allocators" from Vitaly Wool
   permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large alignment when
   perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs

 - "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from Yueyang Pan extend
   DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets for virtual
   address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters

 - "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock" from Suren
   Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of
   /proc/pid/maps

 - "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache checking" from Kairui Song
   performs some cleanup in the swap code

 - "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David Hildenbrand provides
   code cleanup in the pagemap code

 - "add persistent huge zero folio support" from Pankaj Raghav provides
   a block layer speedup by optionalls making the
   huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount
   falls to zero

 - "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a few touchups to
   the recently added Kexec Handover feature

 - "mm: make mm-&gt;flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all arches" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To end the constant
   struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with 64-bit's
   needs

 - "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li cleans up some swap
   code

 - "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip unsupported tests" from
   Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests code

 - "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised"
   from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes to opt-out of
   THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other workloads on the
   system".

   It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations

 - "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox gets us started on
   the memdesc project. Please see

      https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and
      https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc

 - "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from Chi Zhiling
   improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path

 - "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi Yan improves our
   folio splitting selftest code

 - "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang adds some rmap
   selftests

 - "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig removes that
   function and converts its two remaining callers

 - "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain fixes some UFFD
   selftests issues

 - "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris Burkov introduces
   the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these permits btrfs to
   account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather than to the
   cgroups of random inappropriate tasks

 - "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some pageblock handling" from
   Wei Yang provides some readability improvements to the page allocator
   code

 - "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae Park teaches DAMON
   to understand arm32 highmem

 - "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for vma/maple tests" from
   Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and deduplication under
   tools/testing/

 - "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from Liam Howlett fixes
   a couple of 32-bit issues in tools/testing/radix-tree.c

 - "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific
   implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN arch-specific
   initialization code into a common arch-neutral implementation

 - "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes zspool - an
   indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing
   (zsmalloc)

 - "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from Pasha Tatashin makes a
   couple of cleanups in the fork code

 - "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand makes rather a lot of
   adjustments at various nth_page() callsites, eventually permitting
   the removal of that undesirable helper function

 - "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from Yeoreum Yun
   creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that architecture's
   memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode KASAN is
   suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only

 - "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation" from Kefeng Wang does
   some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code

 - "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer parameters" from Max
   Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API functions more accurate
   about the constness of their arguments. This was getting in the way
   of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they attempt to improving
   their own const/non-const accuracy

 - "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola fixes a number of
   code sites which were confused over when to use free_pages() vs
   __free_pages()

 - "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice Ryhl makes the
   mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau and by its
   forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver

 - "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test: split_pte_mapped_thp
   improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and some cleanups to
   the thp selftesting code

 - "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache (phase I)" from Chris
   Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the path to implementing
   "swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation and state tracking
   which is expected to yield speed and space improvements. This
   patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit in some situations

 - "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes the new memdesc
   layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little

 - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from Chunyu Hu fixes some
   issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code

 - "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from Suren Baghdasaryan
   addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new memory
   allocation profiling feature

 - "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few cleanups in
   preparation for more memdesc work

 - "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" from
   Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in furtherance of supporting
   arm highmem

 - "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix warnings" from Muhammad
   Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code and fixes the
   fallout, by removing dead code

 - "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM Reaper Traversal
   Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements in the OOM
   killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim threads so
   they can release resources

 - "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18" from SeongJae Park
   is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON

 - "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization check function" from
   SeongJae Park implement reliability and maintainability improvements
   to a recently-added bug fix

 - "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and non-idle ages" from
   SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to userspace clients
   of the DAMON_STAT information

 - "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse" from Dev Jain removes
   some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of anon VMAs. It also
   increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against an anon vma

 - "mm: do not assume file == vma-&gt;vm_file in compat_vma_mmap_prepare()"
   from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards removal of
   file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon clearing up
   the treatment of stacked filesystems

 - "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from Kiryl Shutsemau
   provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking of large
   folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate

 - "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters during fork" from
   Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats inaccuracies across
   forks and adds selftest code to verify these counters

 - "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei Yang addresses
   some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's mm_slot handling

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (372 commits)
  mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA
  mm: convert folio_page() back to a macro
  mm/khugepaged: use start_addr/addr for improved readability
  hugetlbfs: skip VMAs without shareable locks in hugetlb_vmdelete_list
  alloc_tag: fix boot failure due to NULL pointer dereference
  mm: silence data-race in update_hiwater_rss
  mm/memory-failure: don't select MEMORY_ISOLATION
  mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot
  mm/ksm: get mm_slot by mm_slot_entry() when slot is !NULL
  hugetlb: increase number of reserving hugepages via cmdline
  selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging_pages counter
  mm/ksm: fix incorrect KSM counter handling in mm_struct during fork
  drivers/base/node: fix double free in register_one_node()
  mm: remove PMD alignment constraint in execmem_vmalloc()
  mm/memory_hotplug: fix typo 'esecially' -&gt; 'especially'
  mm/rmap: improve mlock tracking for large folios
  mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround
  mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault()
  mm/rmap: mlock large folios in try_to_unmap_one()
  mm/rmap: fix a mlock race condition in folio_referenced_one()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-6.18/block-20250929' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux</title>
<updated>2025-10-02T17:16:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-02T17:16:56+00:00</published>
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Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - NVMe pull request via Keith:
     - FC target fixes (Daniel)
     - Authentication fixes and updates (Martin, Chris)
     - Admin controller handling (Kamaljit)
     - Target lockdep assertions (Max)
     - Keep-alive updates for discovery (Alastair)
     - Suspend quirk (Georg)

 - MD pull request via Yu:
     - Add support for a lockless bitmap.

       A key feature for the new bitmap are that the IO fastpath is
       lockless. If a user issues lots of write IO to the same bitmap
       bit in a short time, only the first write has additional overhead
       to update bitmap bit, no additional overhead for the following
       writes.

       By supporting only resync or recover written data, means in the
       case creating new array or replacing with a new disk, there is no
       need to do a full disk resync/recovery.

 - Switch -&gt;getgeo() and -&gt;bios_param() to using struct gendisk rather
   than struct block_device.

 - Rust block changes via Andreas. This series adds configuration via
   configfs and remote completion to the rnull driver. The series also
   includes a set of changes to the rust block device driver API: a few
   cleanup patches, and a few features supporting the rnull changes.

   The series removes the raw buffer formatting logic from
   `kernel::block` and improves the logic available in `kernel::string`
   to support the same use as the removed logic.

 - floppy arch cleanups

 - Reduce the number of dereferencing needed for ublk commands

 - Restrict supported sockets for nbd. Mostly done to eliminate a class
   of issues perpetually reported by syzbot, by using nonsensical socket
   setups.

 - A few s390 dasd block fixes

 - Fix a few issues around atomic writes

 - Improve DMA interation for integrity requests

 - Improve how iovecs are treated with regards to O_DIRECT aligment
   constraints.

   We used to require each segment to adhere to the constraints, now
   only the request as a whole needs to.

 - Clean up and improve p2p support, enabling use of p2p for metadata
   payloads

 - Improve locking of request lookup, using SRCU where appropriate

 - Use page references properly for brd, avoiding very long RCU sections

 - Fix ordering of recursively submitted IOs

 - Clean up and improve updating nr_requests for a live device

 - Various fixes and cleanups

* tag 'for-6.18/block-20250929' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: (164 commits)
  s390/dasd: enforce dma_alignment to ensure proper buffer validation
  s390/dasd: Return BLK_STS_INVAL for EINVAL from do_dasd_request
  ublk: remove redundant zone op check in ublk_setup_iod()
  nvme: Use non zero KATO for persistent discovery connections
  nvmet: add safety check for subsys lock
  nvme-core: use nvme_is_io_ctrl() for I/O controller check
  nvme-core: do ioccsz/iorcsz validation only for I/O controllers
  nvme-core: add method to check for an I/O controller
  blk-cgroup: fix possible deadlock while configuring policy
  blk-mq: fix null-ptr-deref in blk_mq_free_tags() from error path
  blk-mq: Fix more tag iteration function documentation
  selftests: ublk: fix behavior when fio is not installed
  ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_unmap_io()
  ublk: pass ublk_io to __ublk_complete_rq()
  ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_need_complete_req()
  ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_check_commit_and_fetch()
  ublk: don't pass ublk_queue to ublk_fetch()
  ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_config_io_buf()
  ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_check_fetch_buf()
  ublk: pass q_id and tag to __ublk_check_and_get_req()
  ...
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Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - NVMe pull request via Keith:
     - FC target fixes (Daniel)
     - Authentication fixes and updates (Martin, Chris)
     - Admin controller handling (Kamaljit)
     - Target lockdep assertions (Max)
     - Keep-alive updates for discovery (Alastair)
     - Suspend quirk (Georg)

 - MD pull request via Yu:
     - Add support for a lockless bitmap.

       A key feature for the new bitmap are that the IO fastpath is
       lockless. If a user issues lots of write IO to the same bitmap
       bit in a short time, only the first write has additional overhead
       to update bitmap bit, no additional overhead for the following
       writes.

       By supporting only resync or recover written data, means in the
       case creating new array or replacing with a new disk, there is no
       need to do a full disk resync/recovery.

 - Switch -&gt;getgeo() and -&gt;bios_param() to using struct gendisk rather
   than struct block_device.

 - Rust block changes via Andreas. This series adds configuration via
   configfs and remote completion to the rnull driver. The series also
   includes a set of changes to the rust block device driver API: a few
   cleanup patches, and a few features supporting the rnull changes.

   The series removes the raw buffer formatting logic from
   `kernel::block` and improves the logic available in `kernel::string`
   to support the same use as the removed logic.

 - floppy arch cleanups

 - Reduce the number of dereferencing needed for ublk commands

 - Restrict supported sockets for nbd. Mostly done to eliminate a class
   of issues perpetually reported by syzbot, by using nonsensical socket
   setups.

 - A few s390 dasd block fixes

 - Fix a few issues around atomic writes

 - Improve DMA interation for integrity requests

 - Improve how iovecs are treated with regards to O_DIRECT aligment
   constraints.

   We used to require each segment to adhere to the constraints, now
   only the request as a whole needs to.

 - Clean up and improve p2p support, enabling use of p2p for metadata
   payloads

 - Improve locking of request lookup, using SRCU where appropriate

 - Use page references properly for brd, avoiding very long RCU sections

 - Fix ordering of recursively submitted IOs

 - Clean up and improve updating nr_requests for a live device

 - Various fixes and cleanups

* tag 'for-6.18/block-20250929' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: (164 commits)
  s390/dasd: enforce dma_alignment to ensure proper buffer validation
  s390/dasd: Return BLK_STS_INVAL for EINVAL from do_dasd_request
  ublk: remove redundant zone op check in ublk_setup_iod()
  nvme: Use non zero KATO for persistent discovery connections
  nvmet: add safety check for subsys lock
  nvme-core: use nvme_is_io_ctrl() for I/O controller check
  nvme-core: do ioccsz/iorcsz validation only for I/O controllers
  nvme-core: add method to check for an I/O controller
  blk-cgroup: fix possible deadlock while configuring policy
  blk-mq: fix null-ptr-deref in blk_mq_free_tags() from error path
  blk-mq: Fix more tag iteration function documentation
  selftests: ublk: fix behavior when fio is not installed
  ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_unmap_io()
  ublk: pass ublk_io to __ublk_complete_rq()
  ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_need_complete_req()
  ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_check_commit_and_fetch()
  ublk: don't pass ublk_queue to ublk_fetch()
  ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_config_io_buf()
  ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_check_fetch_buf()
  ublk: pass q_id and tag to __ublk_check_and_get_req()
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>memstick: drop nth_page() usage within SG entry</title>
<updated>2025-09-21T21:22:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Hildenbrand</name>
<email>david@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-01T15:03:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=a1f4c374cc09789c8ed89b77b45d31e3f15a5685'/>
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It's no longer required to use nth_page() when iterating pages within a
single SG entry, so let's drop the nth_page() usage.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-29-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Maxim Levitsky &lt;maximlevitsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Dubov &lt;oakad@yahoo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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It's no longer required to use nth_page() when iterating pages within a
single SG entry, so let's drop the nth_page() usage.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-29-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Maxim Levitsky &lt;maximlevitsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Dubov &lt;oakad@yahoo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mspro_block: drop nth_page() usage within SG entry</title>
<updated>2025-09-21T21:22:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Hildenbrand</name>
<email>david@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-01T15:03:48+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=58f2c185839756b690370f5e536e629c7c7b0aac'/>
<id>58f2c185839756b690370f5e536e629c7c7b0aac</id>
<content type='text'>
It's no longer required to use nth_page() when iterating pages within a
single SG entry, so let's drop the nth_page() usage.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-28-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Maxim Levitsky &lt;maximlevitsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Dubov &lt;oakad@yahoo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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It's no longer required to use nth_page() when iterating pages within a
single SG entry, so let's drop the nth_page() usage.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901150359.867252-28-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Maxim Levitsky &lt;maximlevitsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Dubov &lt;oakad@yahoo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pull-getgeo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs into for-6.18/block</title>
<updated>2025-09-03T21:15:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-03T21:15:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=4dbe13c78447450ee133fc3399ebcabe27a62164'/>
<id>4dbe13c78447450ee133fc3399ebcabe27a62164</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull struct block_device getgeo changes from Al.

"switching -&gt;getgeo() from struct block_device to struct gendisk

 Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;"

* tag 'pull-getgeo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  block: switch -&gt;getgeo() to struct gendisk
  scsi: switch -&gt;bios_param() to passing gendisk
  scsi: switch scsi_bios_ptable() and scsi_partsize() to gendisk
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Pull struct block_device getgeo changes from Al.

"switching -&gt;getgeo() from struct block_device to struct gendisk

 Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;"

* tag 'pull-getgeo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  block: switch -&gt;getgeo() to struct gendisk
  scsi: switch -&gt;bios_param() to passing gendisk
  scsi: switch scsi_bios_ptable() and scsi_partsize() to gendisk
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mmc: Merge branch fixes into next</title>
<updated>2025-08-19T12:34:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ulf Hansson</name>
<email>ulf.hansson@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-19T12:34:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=7138017038c42feb682445407974ed736e1ff308'/>
<id>7138017038c42feb682445407974ed736e1ff308</id>
<content type='text'>
Merge the mmc fixes for v6.17-rc[n] into the next branch, to allow them to
get tested together with the new mmc changes that are targeted for v6.18.

Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt;
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Merge the mmc fixes for v6.17-rc[n] into the next branch, to allow them to
get tested together with the new mmc changes that are targeted for v6.18.

Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>misc: rtsx: usb card reader: add OCP support</title>
<updated>2025-08-19T12:34:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ricky Wu</name>
<email>ricky_wu@realtek.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-12T03:08:11+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=d2e6fb2c31a07f34e5e7533df11431cb0d2ecf9f'/>
<id>d2e6fb2c31a07f34e5e7533df11431cb0d2ecf9f</id>
<content type='text'>
This patch adds support for Over Current Protection (OCP) to the Realtek
USB card reader driver.

The OCP mechanism protects the hardware by detecting and handling current
overload conditions.
This implementation includes:

- Register configurations to enable OCP monitoring.
- Handling of OCP interrupt events and associated error reporting.
- Card power management changes in response to OCP triggers.

This enhancement improves the robustness of the driver when operating in
environments where electrical anomalies may occur, particularly with SD
and MS card interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Ricky Wu &lt;ricky_wu@realtek.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250812030811.2426112-1-ricky_wu@realtek.com
Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt;
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This patch adds support for Over Current Protection (OCP) to the Realtek
USB card reader driver.

The OCP mechanism protects the hardware by detecting and handling current
overload conditions.
This implementation includes:

- Register configurations to enable OCP monitoring.
- Handling of OCP interrupt events and associated error reporting.
- Card power management changes in response to OCP triggers.

This enhancement improves the robustness of the driver when operating in
environments where electrical anomalies may occur, particularly with SD
and MS card interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Ricky Wu &lt;ricky_wu@realtek.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250812030811.2426112-1-ricky_wu@realtek.com
Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>memstick: Add timeout to prevent indefinite waiting</title>
<updated>2025-08-19T12:34:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiayi Li</name>
<email>lijiayi@kylinos.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-04T02:48:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=b65e630a55a490a0269ab1e4a282af975848064c'/>
<id>b65e630a55a490a0269ab1e4a282af975848064c</id>
<content type='text'>
Add timeout handling to wait_for_completion calls in memstick_set_rw_addr()
and memstick_alloc_card() to prevent indefinite blocking in case of
hardware or communication failures.

Signed-off-by: Jiayi Li &lt;lijiayi@kylinos.cn&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250804024825.1565078-1-lijiayi@kylinos.cn
Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt;
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Add timeout handling to wait_for_completion calls in memstick_set_rw_addr()
and memstick_alloc_card() to prevent indefinite blocking in case of
hardware or communication failures.

Signed-off-by: Jiayi Li &lt;lijiayi@kylinos.cn&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250804024825.1565078-1-lijiayi@kylinos.cn
Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>memstick: Fix deadlock by moving removing flag earlier</title>
<updated>2025-08-18T10:01:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiayi Li</name>
<email>lijiayi@kylinos.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-04T01:36:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=99d7ab8db9d8230b243f5ed20ba0229e54cc0dfa'/>
<id>99d7ab8db9d8230b243f5ed20ba0229e54cc0dfa</id>
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The existing memstick core patch: commit 62c59a8786e6 ("memstick: Skip
allocating card when removing host") sets host-&gt;removing in
memstick_remove_host(),but still exists a critical time window where
memstick_check can run after host-&gt;eject is set but before removing is set.

In the rtsx_usb_ms driver, the problematic sequence is:

rtsx_usb_ms_drv_remove:          memstick_check:
  host-&gt;eject = true
  cancel_work_sync(handle_req)     if(!host-&gt;removing)
  ...                              memstick_alloc_card()
                                     memstick_set_rw_addr()
                                       memstick_new_req()
                                         rtsx_usb_ms_request()
                                           if(!host-&gt;eject)
                                           skip schedule_work
                                       wait_for_completion()
  memstick_remove_host:                [blocks indefinitely]
    host-&gt;removing = true
    flush_workqueue()
    [block]

1. rtsx_usb_ms_drv_remove sets host-&gt;eject = true
2. cancel_work_sync(&amp;host-&gt;handle_req) runs
3. memstick_check work may be executed here &lt;-- danger window
4. memstick_remove_host sets removing = 1

During this window (step 3), memstick_check calls memstick_alloc_card,
which may indefinitely waiting for mrq_complete completion that will
never occur because rtsx_usb_ms_request sees eject=true and skips
scheduling work, memstick_set_rw_addr waits forever for completion.

This causes a deadlock when memstick_remove_host tries to flush_workqueue,
waiting for memstick_check to complete, while memstick_check is blocked
waiting for mrq_complete completion.

Fix this by setting removing=true at the start of rtsx_usb_ms_drv_remove,
before any work cancellation. This ensures memstick_check will see the
removing flag immediately and exit early, avoiding the deadlock.

Fixes: 62c59a8786e6 ("memstick: Skip allocating card when removing host")
Signed-off-by: Jiayi Li &lt;lijiayi@kylinos.cn&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250804013604.1311218-1-lijiayi@kylinos.cn
Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt;
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The existing memstick core patch: commit 62c59a8786e6 ("memstick: Skip
allocating card when removing host") sets host-&gt;removing in
memstick_remove_host(),but still exists a critical time window where
memstick_check can run after host-&gt;eject is set but before removing is set.

In the rtsx_usb_ms driver, the problematic sequence is:

rtsx_usb_ms_drv_remove:          memstick_check:
  host-&gt;eject = true
  cancel_work_sync(handle_req)     if(!host-&gt;removing)
  ...                              memstick_alloc_card()
                                     memstick_set_rw_addr()
                                       memstick_new_req()
                                         rtsx_usb_ms_request()
                                           if(!host-&gt;eject)
                                           skip schedule_work
                                       wait_for_completion()
  memstick_remove_host:                [blocks indefinitely]
    host-&gt;removing = true
    flush_workqueue()
    [block]

1. rtsx_usb_ms_drv_remove sets host-&gt;eject = true
2. cancel_work_sync(&amp;host-&gt;handle_req) runs
3. memstick_check work may be executed here &lt;-- danger window
4. memstick_remove_host sets removing = 1

During this window (step 3), memstick_check calls memstick_alloc_card,
which may indefinitely waiting for mrq_complete completion that will
never occur because rtsx_usb_ms_request sees eject=true and skips
scheduling work, memstick_set_rw_addr waits forever for completion.

This causes a deadlock when memstick_remove_host tries to flush_workqueue,
waiting for memstick_check to complete, while memstick_check is blocked
waiting for mrq_complete completion.

Fix this by setting removing=true at the start of rtsx_usb_ms_drv_remove,
before any work cancellation. This ensures memstick_check will see the
removing flag immediately and exit early, avoiding the deadlock.

Fixes: 62c59a8786e6 ("memstick: Skip allocating card when removing host")
Signed-off-by: Jiayi Li &lt;lijiayi@kylinos.cn&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250804013604.1311218-1-lijiayi@kylinos.cn
Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: switch -&gt;getgeo() to struct gendisk</title>
<updated>2025-08-13T06:59:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-22T02:19:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=4fc8728aa34f54835b72e4db0f3db76a72948b65'/>
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Instances are happier that way and it makes more sense anyway -
the only part of the result that is related to partition we are given
is the start sector, and that has been filled in by the caller.

Everything else is a function of the disk.  Only one instance
(DASD) is ever looking at anything other than bdev-&gt;bd_disk and
that one is trivial to adjust.

Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Instances are happier that way and it makes more sense anyway -
the only part of the result that is related to partition we are given
is the start sector, and that has been filled in by the caller.

Everything else is a function of the disk.  Only one instance
(DASD) is ever looking at anything other than bdev-&gt;bd_disk and
that one is trivial to adjust.

Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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