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7 daysfscrypt: Don't use problematic non-inline crypto enginesEric Biggers1-22/+15
commit b41c1d8d07906786c60893980d52688f31d114a6 upstream. Make fscrypt no longer use Crypto API drivers for non-inline crypto engines, even when the Crypto API prioritizes them over CPU-based code (which unfortunately it often does). These drivers tend to be really problematic, especially for fscrypt's workload. This commit has no effect on inline crypto engines, which are different and do work well. Specifically, exclude drivers that have CRYPTO_ALG_KERN_DRIVER_ONLY or CRYPTO_ALG_ALLOCATES_MEMORY set. (Later, CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC should be excluded too. That's omitted for now to keep this commit backportable, since until recently some CPU-based code had CRYPTO_ALG_ASYNC set.) There are two major issues with these drivers: bugs and performance. First, these drivers tend to be buggy. They're fundamentally much more error-prone and harder to test than the CPU-based code. They often don't get tested before kernel releases, and even if they do, the crypto self-tests don't properly test these drivers. Released drivers have en/decrypted or hashed data incorrectly. These bugs cause issues for fscrypt users who often didn't even want to use these drivers, e.g.: - https://github.com/google/fscryptctl/issues/32 - https://github.com/google/fscryptctl/issues/9 - https://lore.kernel.org/r/PH0PR02MB731916ECDB6C613665863B6CFFAA2@PH0PR02MB7319.namprd02.prod.outlook.com These drivers have also similarly caused issues for dm-crypt users, including data corruption and deadlocks. Since Linux v5.10, dm-crypt has disabled most of them by excluding CRYPTO_ALG_ALLOCATES_MEMORY. Second, these drivers tend to be *much* slower than the CPU-based code. This may seem counterintuitive, but benchmarks clearly show it. There's a *lot* of overhead associated with going to a hardware driver, off the CPU, and back again. To prove this, I gathered as many systems with this type of crypto engine as I could, and I measured synchronous encryption of 4096-byte messages (which matches fscrypt's workload): Intel Emerald Rapids server: AES-256-XTS: xts-aes-vaes-avx512 16171 MB/s [CPU-based, Vector AES] qat_aes_xts 289 MB/s [Offload, Intel QuickAssist] Qualcomm SM8650 HDK: AES-256-XTS: xts-aes-ce 4301 MB/s [CPU-based, ARMv8 Crypto Extensions] xts-aes-qce 73 MB/s [Offload, Qualcomm Crypto Engine] i.MX 8M Nano LPDDR4 EVK: AES-256-XTS: xts-aes-ce 647 MB/s [CPU-based, ARMv8 Crypto Extensions] xts(ecb-aes-caam) 20 MB/s [Offload, CAAM] AES-128-CBC-ESSIV: essiv(cbc-aes-caam,sha256-lib) 23 MB/s [Offload, CAAM] STM32MP157F-DK2: AES-256-XTS: xts-aes-neonbs 13.2 MB/s [CPU-based, ARM NEON] xts(stm32-ecb-aes) 3.1 MB/s [Offload, STM32 crypto engine] AES-128-CBC-ESSIV: essiv(cbc-aes-neonbs,sha256-lib) 14.7 MB/s [CPU-based, ARM NEON] essiv(stm32-cbc-aes,sha256-lib) 3.2 MB/s [Offload, STM32 crypto engine] Adiantum: adiantum(xchacha12-arm,aes-arm,nhpoly1305-neon) 52.8 MB/s [CPU-based, ARM scalar + NEON] So, there was no case in which the crypto engine was even *close* to being faster. On the first three, which have AES instructions in the CPU, the CPU was 30 to 55 times faster (!). Even on STM32MP157F-DK2 which has a Cortex-A7 CPU that doesn't have AES instructions, AES was over 4 times faster on the CPU. And Adiantum encryption, which is what actually should be used on CPUs like that, was over 17 times faster. Other justifications that have been given for these non-inline crypto engines (almost always coming from the hardware vendors, not actual users) don't seem very plausible either: - The crypto engine throughput could be improved by processing multiple requests concurrently. Currently irrelevant to fscrypt, since it doesn't do that. This would also be complex, and unhelpful in many cases. 2 of the 4 engines I tested even had only one queue. - Some of the engines, e.g. STM32, support hardware keys. Also currently irrelevant to fscrypt, since it doesn't support these. Interestingly, the STM32 driver itself doesn't support this either. - Free up CPU for other tasks and/or reduce energy usage. Not very plausible considering the "short" message length, driver overhead, and scheduling overhead. There's just very little time for the CPU to do something else like run another task or enter low-power state, before the message finishes and it's time to process the next one. - Some of these engines resist power analysis and electromagnetic attacks, while the CPU-based crypto generally does not. In theory, this sounds great. In practice, if this benefit requires the use of an off-CPU offload that massively regresses performance and has a low-quality, buggy driver, the price for this hardening (which is not relevant to most fscrypt users, and tends to be incomplete) is just too high. Inline crypto engines are much more promising here, as are on-CPU solutions like RISC-V High Assurance Cryptography. Fixes: b30ab0e03407 ("ext4 crypto: add ext4 encryption facilities") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250704070322.20692-1-ebiggers@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
12 daysf2fs: doc: fix wrong quota mount option descriptionChao Yu1-3/+3
[ Upstream commit 81b6ecca2f15922e8d653dc037df5871e754be6e ] We should use "{usr,grp,prj}jquota=" to disable journaled quota, rather than using off{usr,grp,prj}jquota. Fixes: 4b2414d04e99 ("f2fs: support journalled quota") Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2025-04-13Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus-6.15-rc2' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-6/+14
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 Pull ext4 fixes from Ted Ts'o: "A few more miscellaneous ext4 bug fixes and cleanups including some syzbot failures and fixing a stale file handing refeencing an inode previously used as a regular file, but which has been deleted and reused as an ea_inode would result in ext4 erroneously considering this a case of fs corruption" * tag 'ext4_for_linus-6.15-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: ext4: fix off-by-one error in do_split ext4: make block validity check resistent to sb bh corruption ext4: avoid -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warning Documentation: ext4: Add fields to ext4_super_block documentation ext4: don't treat fhandle lookup of ea_inode as FS corruption
2025-04-12Documentation: ext4: Add fields to ext4_super_block documentationTom Vierjahn1-6/+14
Documentation and implementation of the ext4 super block have slightly diverged: Padding has been removed in order to make room for new fields that are still missing in the documentation. Add the new fields s_encryption_level, s_first_error_errorcode, s_last_error_errorcode to the documentation of the ext4 super block. Fixes: f542fbe8d5e8 ("ext4 crypto: reserve codepoints used by the ext4 encryption feature") Fixes: 878520ac45f9 ("ext4: save the error code which triggered an ext4_error() in the superblock") Signed-off-by: Tom Vierjahn <tom.vierjahn@acm.org> Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250324221004.5268-1-tom.vierjahn@acm.org Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2025-04-03Merge tag '9p-for-6.15-rc1' of https://github.com/martinetd/linuxLinus Torvalds1-3/+3
Pull 9p updates from Dominique Martinet: - fix handling of bogus (negative/too long) replies - fix crash on mkdir with ACLs (... looks like nobody is using ACLs with semi-recent kernels...) - ipv6 support for trans=tcp - minor concurrency fix to make syzbot happy - minor cleanup * tag '9p-for-6.15-rc1' of https://github.com/martinetd/linux: docs: fs/9p: Add missing "not" in cache documentation 9p: Use hashtable.h for hash_errmap Documentation/fs/9p: fix broken link 9p/trans_fd: mark concurrent read and writes to p9_conn->err 9p/net: return error on bogus (longer than requested) replies 9p/net: fix improper handling of bogus negative read/write replies fs/9p: fix NULL pointer dereference on mkdir net/9p/fd: support ipv6 for trans=tcp
2025-04-03docs: fs/9p: Add missing "not" in cache documentationTingmao Wang1-2/+2
A quick fix for what I assume is a typo. Signed-off-by: Tingmao Wang <m@maowtm.org> Reviewed-by: Christian Schoenebeck <linux_oss@crudebyte.com> Message-ID: <20250330213443.98434-1-m@maowtm.org> Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
2025-04-01Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-03-30-18-23' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+10
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - The series "powerpc/crash: use generic crashkernel reservation" from Sourabh Jain changes powerpc's kexec code to use more of the generic layers. - The series "get_maintainer: report subsystem status separately" from Vlastimil Babka makes some long-requested improvements to the get_maintainer output. - The series "ucount: Simplify refcounting with rcuref_t" from Sebastian Siewior cleans up and optimizing the refcounting in the ucount code. - The series "reboot: support runtime configuration of emergency hw_protection action" from Ahmad Fatoum improves the ability for a driver to perform an emergency system shutdown or reboot. - The series "Converge on using secs_to_jiffies() part two" from Easwar Hariharan performs further migrations from msecs_to_jiffies() to secs_to_jiffies(). - The series "lib/interval_tree: add some test cases and cleanup" from Wei Yang permits more userspace testing of kernel library code, adds some more tests and performs some cleanups. - The series "hung_task: Dump the blocking task stacktrace" from Masami Hiramatsu arranges for the hung_task detector to dump the stack of the blocking task and not just that of the blocked task. - The series "resource: Split and use DEFINE_RES*() macros" from Andy Shevchenko provides some cleanups to the resource definition macros. - Plus the usual shower of singleton patches - please see the individual changelogs for details. * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-03-30-18-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (77 commits) mailmap: consolidate email addresses of Alexander Sverdlin fs/procfs: fix the comment above proc_pid_wchan() relay: use kasprintf() instead of fixed buffer formatting resource: replace open coded variant of DEFINE_RES() resource: replace open coded variants of DEFINE_RES_*_NAMED() resource: replace open coded variant of DEFINE_RES_NAMED_DESC() resource: split DEFINE_RES_NAMED_DESC() out of DEFINE_RES_NAMED() samples: add hung_task detector mutex blocking sample hung_task: show the blocker task if the task is hung on mutex kexec_core: accept unaccepted kexec segments' destination addresses watchdog/perf: optimize bytes copied and remove manual NUL-termination lib/interval_tree: fix the comment of interval_tree_span_iter_next_gap() lib/interval_tree: skip the check before go to the right subtree lib/interval_tree: add test case for span iteration lib/interval_tree: add test case for interval_tree_iter_xxx() helpers lib/rbtree: add random seed lib/rbtree: split tests lib/rbtree: enable userland test suite for rbtree related data structure checkpatch: describe --min-conf-desc-length scripts/gdb/symbols: determine KASLR offset on s390 ...
2025-04-01Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-03-30-16-52' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-6/+38
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - The series "Enable strict percpu address space checks" from Uros Bizjak uses x86 named address space qualifiers to provide compile-time checking of percpu area accesses. This has caused a small amount of fallout - two or three issues were reported. In all cases the calling code was found to be incorrect. - The series "Some cleanup for memcg" from Chen Ridong implements some relatively monir cleanups for the memcontrol code. - The series "mm: fixes for device-exclusive entries (hmm)" from David Hildenbrand fixes a boatload of issues which David found then using device-exclusive PTE entries when THP is enabled. More work is needed, but this makes thins better - our own HMM selftests now succeed. - The series "mm: zswap: remove z3fold and zbud" from Yosry Ahmed remove the z3fold and zbud implementations. They have been deprecated for half a year and nobody has complained. - The series "mm: further simplify VMA merge operation" from Lorenzo Stoakes implements numerous simplifications in this area. No runtime effects are anticipated. - The series "mm/madvise: remove redundant mmap_lock operations from process_madvise()" from SeongJae Park rationalizes the locking in the madvise() implementation. Performance gains of 20-25% were observed in one MADV_DONTNEED microbenchmark. - The series "Tiny cleanup and improvements about SWAP code" from Baoquan He contains a number of touchups to issues which Baoquan noticed when working on the swap code. - The series "mm: kmemleak: Usability improvements" from Catalin Marinas implements a couple of improvements to the kmemleak user-visible output. - The series "mm/damon/paddr: fix large folios access and schemes handling" from Usama Arif provides a couple of fixes for DAMON's handling of large folios. - The series "mm/damon/core: fix wrong and/or useless damos_walk() behaviors" from SeongJae Park fixes a few issues with the accuracy of kdamond's walking of DAMON regions. - The series "expose mapping wrprotect, fix fb_defio use" from Lorenzo Stoakes changes the interaction between framebuffer deferred-io and core MM. No functional changes are anticipated - this is preparatory work for the future removal of page structure fields. - The series "mm/damon: add support for hugepage_size DAMOS filter" from Usama Arif adds a DAMOS filter which permits the filtering by huge page sizes. - The series "mm: permit guard regions for file-backed/shmem mappings" from Lorenzo Stoakes extends the guard region feature from its present "anon mappings only" state. The feature now covers shmem and file-backed mappings. - The series "mm: batched unmap lazyfree large folios during reclamation" from Barry Song cleans up and speeds up the unmapping for pte-mapped large folios. - The series "reimplement per-vma lock as a refcount" from Suren Baghdasaryan puts the vm_lock back into the vma. Our reasons for pulling it out were largely bogus and that change made the code more messy. This patchset provides small (0-10%) improvements on one microbenchmark. - The series "Docs/mm/damon: misc DAMOS filters documentation fixes and improves" from SeongJae Park does some maintenance work on the DAMON docs. - The series "hugetlb/CMA improvements for large systems" from Frank van der Linden addresses a pile of issues which have been observed when using CMA on large machines. - The series "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS filter type for unmapped pages" from SeongJae Park enables users of DMAON/DAMOS to filter my the page's mapped/unmapped status. - The series "zsmalloc/zram: there be preemption" from Sergey Senozhatsky teaches zram to run its compression and decompression operations preemptibly. - The series "selftests/mm: Some cleanups from trying to run them" from Brendan Jackman fixes a pile of unrelated issues which Brendan encountered while runnimg our selftests. - The series "fs/proc/task_mmu: add guard region bit to pagemap" from Lorenzo Stoakes permits userspace to use /proc/pid/pagemap to determine whether a particular page is a guard page. - The series "mm, swap: remove swap slot cache" from Kairui Song removes the swap slot cache from the allocation path - it simply wasn't being effective. - The series "mm: cleanups for device-exclusive entries (hmm)" from David Hildenbrand implements a number of unrelated cleanups in this code. - The series "mm: Rework generic PTDUMP configs" from Anshuman Khandual implements a number of preparatoty cleanups to the GENERIC_PTDUMP Kconfig logic. - The series "mm/damon: auto-tune aggregation interval" from SeongJae Park implements a feedback-driven automatic tuning feature for DAMON's aggregation interval tuning. - The series "Fix lazy mmu mode" from Ryan Roberts fixes some issues in powerpc, sparc and x86 lazy MMU implementations. Ryan did this in preparation for implementing lazy mmu mode for arm64 to optimize vmalloc. - The series "mm/page_alloc: Some clarifications for migratetype fallback" from Brendan Jackman reworks some commentary to make the code easier to follow. - The series "page_counter cleanup and size reduction" from Shakeel Butt cleans up the page_counter code and fixes a size increase which we accidentally added late last year. - The series "Add a command line option that enables control of how many threads should be used to allocate huge pages" from Thomas Prescher does that. It allows the careful operator to significantly reduce boot time by tuning the parallalization of huge page initialization. - The series "Fix calculations in trace_balance_dirty_pages() for cgwb" from Tang Yizhou fixes the tracing output from the dirty page balancing code. - The series "mm/damon: make allow filters after reject filters useful and intuitive" from SeongJae Park improves the handling of allow and reject filters. Behaviour is made more consistent and the documention is updated accordingly. - The series "Switch zswap to object read/write APIs" from Yosry Ahmed updates zswap to the new object read/write APIs and thus permits the removal of some legacy code from zpool and zsmalloc. - The series "Some trivial cleanups for shmem" from Baolin Wang does as it claims. - The series "fs/dax: Fix ZONE_DEVICE page reference counts" from Alistair Popple regularizes the weird ZONE_DEVICE page refcount handling in DAX, permittig the removal of a number of special-case checks. - The series "refactor mremap and fix bug" from Lorenzo Stoakes is a preparatoty refactoring and cleanup of the mremap() code. - The series "mm: MM owner tracking for large folios (!hugetlb) + CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT" from David Hildenbrand reworks the manner in which we determine whether a large folio is known to be mapped exclusively into a single MM. - The series "mm/damon: add sysfs dirs for managing DAMOS filters based on handling layers" from SeongJae Park adds a couple of new sysfs directories to ease the management of DAMON/DAMOS filters. - The series "arch, mm: reduce code duplication in mem_init()" from Mike Rapoport consolidates many per-arch implementations of mem_init() into code generic code, where that is practical. - The series "mm/damon/sysfs: commit parameters online via damon_call()" from SeongJae Park continues the cleaning up of sysfs access to DAMON internal data. - The series "mm: page_ext: Introduce new iteration API" from Luiz Capitulino reworks the page_ext initialization to fix a boot-time crash which was observed with an unusual combination of compile and cmdline options. - The series "Buddy allocator like (or non-uniform) folio split" from Zi Yan reworks the code to split a folio into smaller folios. The main benefit is lessened memory consumption: fewer post-split folios are generated. - The series "Minimize xa_node allocation during xarry split" from Zi Yan reduces the number of xarray xa_nodes which are generated during an xarray split. - The series "drivers/base/memory: Two cleanups" from Gavin Shan performs some maintenance work on the drivers/base/memory code. - The series "Add tracepoints for lowmem reserves, watermarks and totalreserve_pages" from Martin Liu adds some more tracepoints to the page allocator code. - The series "mm/madvise: cleanup requests validations and classifications" from SeongJae Park cleans up some warts which SeongJae observed during his earlier madvise work. - The series "mm/hwpoison: Fix regressions in memory failure handling" from Shuai Xue addresses two quite serious regressions which Shuai has observed in the memory-failure implementation. - The series "mm: reliable huge page allocator" from Johannes Weiner makes huge page allocations cheaper and more reliable by reducing fragmentation. - The series "Minor memcg cleanups & prep for memdescs" from Matthew Wilcox is preparatory work for the future implementation of memdescs. - The series "track memory used by balloon drivers" from Nico Pache introduces a way to track memory used by our various balloon drivers. - The series "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS filter type for active pages" from Nhat Pham permits users to filter for active/inactive pages, separately for file and anon pages. - The series "Adding Proactive Memory Reclaim Statistics" from Hao Jia separates the proactive reclaim statistics from the direct reclaim statistics. - The series "mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim hwpoison folio" from Jinjiang Tu fixes our handling of hwpoisoned pages within the reclaim code. * tag 'mm-stable-2025-03-30-16-52' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (431 commits) mm/page_alloc: remove unnecessary __maybe_unused in order_to_pindex() x86/mm: restore early initialization of high_memory for 32-bits mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim hwpoison folio mm/hwpoison: introduce folio_contain_hwpoisoned_page() helper cgroup: docs: add pswpin and pswpout items in cgroup v2 doc mm: vmscan: split proactive reclaim statistics from direct reclaim statistics selftests/mm: speed up split_huge_page_test selftests/mm: uffd-unit-tests support for hugepages > 2M docs/mm/damon/design: document active DAMOS filter type mm/damon: implement a new DAMOS filter type for active pages fs/dax: don't disassociate zero page entries MM documentation: add "Unaccepted" meminfo entry selftests/mm: add commentary about 9pfs bugs fork: use __vmalloc_node() for stack allocation docs/mm: Physical Memory: Populate the "Zones" section xen: balloon: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state hv_balloon: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state balloon_compaction: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state meminfo: add a per node counter for balloon drivers mm: remove references to folio in __memcg_kmem_uncharge_page() ...
2025-03-31Merge tag 'nfsd-6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cel/linuxLinus Torvalds1-3/+7
Pull nfsd updates from Chuck Lever: "Neil Brown contributed more scalability improvements to NFSD's open file cache, and Jeff Layton contributed a menagerie of repairs to NFSD's NFSv4 callback / backchannel implementation. Mike Snitzer contributed a change to NFS re-export support that disables support for file locking on a re-exported NFSv4 mount. This is because NFSv4 state recovery is currently difficult if not impossible for re-exported NFS mounts. The change aims to prevent data integrity exposures after the re-export server crashes. Work continues on the evolving NFSD netlink administrative API. Many thanks to the contributors, reviewers, testers, and bug reporters who participated during the v6.15 development cycle" * tag 'nfsd-6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cel/linux: (45 commits) NFSD: Add a Kconfig setting to enable delegated timestamps sysctl: Fixes nsm_local_state bounds nfsd: use a long for the count in nfsd4_state_shrinker_count() nfsd: remove obsolete comment from nfs4_alloc_stid nfsd: remove unneeded forward declaration of nfsd4_mark_cb_fault() nfsd: reorganize struct nfs4_delegation for better packing nfsd: handle errors from rpc_call_async() nfsd: move cb_need_restart flag into cb_flags nfsd: replace CB_GETATTR_BUSY with NFSD4_CALLBACK_RUNNING nfsd: eliminate cl_ra_cblist and NFSD4_CLIENT_CB_RECALL_ANY nfsd: prevent callback tasks running concurrently nfsd: disallow file locking and delegations for NFSv4 reexport nfsd: filecache: drop the list_lru lock during lock gc scans nfsd: filecache: don't repeatedly add/remove files on the lru list nfsd: filecache: introduce NFSD_FILE_RECENT nfsd: filecache: use list_lru_walk_node() in nfsd_file_gc() nfsd: filecache: use nfsd_file_dispose_list() in nfsd_file_close_inode_sync() NFSD: Re-organize nfsd_file_gc_worker() nfsd: filecache: remove race handling. fs: nfs: acl: Avoid -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warning ...
2025-03-27Merge tag 'ext4-for_linus-6.15-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-3/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o: "Ext4 bug fixes and cleanups, including: - hardening against maliciously fuzzed file systems - backwards compatibility for the brief period when we attempted to ignore zero-width characters - avoid potentially BUG'ing if there is a file system corruption found during the file system unmount - fix free space reporting by statfs when project quotas are enabled and the free space is less than the remaining project quota Also improve performance when replaying a journal with a very large number of revoke records (applicable for Lustre volumes)" * tag 'ext4-for_linus-6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (71 commits) ext4: fix OOB read when checking dotdot dir ext4: on a remount, only log the ro or r/w state when it has changed ext4: correct the error handle in ext4_fallocate() ext4: Make sb update interval tunable ext4: avoid journaling sb update on error if journal is destroying ext4: define ext4_journal_destroy wrapper ext4: hash: simplify kzalloc(n * 1, ...) to kzalloc(n, ...) jbd2: add a missing data flush during file and fs synchronization ext4: don't over-report free space or inodes in statvfs ext4: clear DISCARD flag if device does not support discard jbd2: remove jbd2_journal_unfile_buffer() ext4: reorder capability check last ext4: update the comment about mb_optimize_scan jbd2: fix off-by-one while erasing journal ext4: remove references to bh->b_page ext4: goto right label 'out_mmap_sem' in ext4_setattr() ext4: fix out-of-bound read in ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all() ext4: introduce ITAIL helper jbd2: remove redundant function jbd2_journal_has_csum_v2or3_feature ext4: remove redundant function ext4_has_metadata_csum ...
2025-03-27Merge tag 'bcachefs-2025-03-24' of git://evilpiepirate.org/bcachefsLinus Torvalds3-19/+134
Pull bcachefs updates from Kent Overstreet: "On disk format is now soft frozen: no more required/automatic are anticipated before taking off the experimental label. Major changes/features since 6.14: - Scrub - Blocksize greater than page size support - A number of "rebalance spinning and doing no work" issues have been fixed; we now check if the write allocation will succeed in bch2_data_update_init(), before kicking off the read. There's still more work to do in this area. Later we may want to add another bitset btree, like rebalance_work, to track "extents that rebalance was requested to move but couldn't", e.g. due to destination target having insufficient online devices. - We can now support scaling well into the petabyte range: latest bcachefs-tools will pick an appropriate bucket size at format time to ensure fsck can run in available memory (e.g. a server with 256GB of ram and 100PB of storage would want 16MB buckets). On disk format changes: - 1.21: cached backpointers (scalability improvement) Cached replicas now get backpointers, which means we no longer rely on incrementing bucket generation numbers to invalidate cached data: this lets us get rid of the bucket generation number garbage collection, which had to periodically rescan all extents to recompute bucket oldest_gen. Bucket generation numbers are now only used as a consistency check, but they're quite useful for that. - 1.22: stripe backpointers Stripes now have backpointers: erasure coded stripes have their own checksums, separate from the checksums for the extents they contain (and stripe checksums also cover the parity blocks). This is required for implementing scrub for stripes. - 1.23: stripe lru (scalability improvement) Persistent lru for stripes, ordered by "number of empty blocks". This is used by the stripe creation path, which depending on free space may create a new stripe out of a partially empty existing stripe instead of starting a brand new stripe. This replaces an in-memory heap, and means we no longer have to read in the stripes btree at startup. - 1.24: casefolding Case insensitive directory support, courtesy of Valve. This is an incompatible feature, to enable mount with -o version_upgrade=incompatible - 1.25: extent_flags Another incompatible feature requiring explicit opt-in to enable. This adds a flags entry to extents, and a flag bit that marks extents as poisoned. A poisoned extent is an extent that was unreadable due to checksum errors. We can't move such extents without giving them a new checksum, and we may have to move them (for e.g. copygc or device evacuate). We also don't want to delete them: in the future we'll have an API that lets userspace ignore checksum errors and attempt to deal with simple bitrot itself. Marking them as poisoned lets us continue to return the correct error to userspace on normal read calls. Other changes/features: - BCH_IOCTL_QUERY_COUNTERS: this is used by the new 'bcachefs fs top' command, which shows a live view of all internal filesystem counters. - Improved journal pipelining: we can now have 16 journal writes in flight concurrently, up from 4. We're logging significantly more to the journal than we used to with all the recent disk accounting changes and additions, so some users should see a performance increase on some workloads. - BCH_MEMBER_STATE_failed: previously, we would do no IO at all to devices marked as failed. Now we will attempt to read from them, but only if we have no better options. - New option, write_error_timeout: devices will be kicked out of the filesystem if all writes have been failing for x number of seconds. We now also kick devices out when notified by blk_holder_ops that they've gone offline. - Device option handling improvements: the discard option should now be working as expected (additionally, in -tools, all device options that can be set at format time can now be set at device add time, i.e. data_allowed, state). - We now try harder to read data after a checksum error: we'll do additional retries if necessary to a device after after it gave us data with a checksum error. - More self healing work: the full inode <-> dirent consistency checks that are currently run by fsck are now also run every time we do a lookup, meaning we'll be able to correct errors at runtime. Runtime self healing will be flipped on after the new changes have seen more testing, currently they're just checking for consistency. - KMSAN fixes: our KMSAN builds should be nearly clean now, which will put a massive dent in the syzbot dashboard" * tag 'bcachefs-2025-03-24' of git://evilpiepirate.org/bcachefs: (180 commits) bcachefs: Kill unnecessary bch2_dev_usage_read() bcachefs: btree node write errors now print btree node bcachefs: Fix race in print_chain() bcachefs: btree_trans_restart_foreign_task() bcachefs: bch2_disk_accounting_mod2() bcachefs: zero init journal bios bcachefs: Eliminate padding in move_bucket_key bcachefs: Fix a KMSAN splat in btree_update_nodes_written() bcachefs: kmsan asserts bcachefs: Fix kmsan warnings in bch2_extent_crc_pack() bcachefs: Disable asm memcpys when kmsan enabled bcachefs: Handle backpointers with unknown data types bcachefs: Count BCH_DATA_parity backpointers correctly bcachefs: Run bch2_check_dirent_target() at lookup time bcachefs: Refactor bch2_check_dirent_target() bcachefs: Move bch2_check_dirent_target() to namei.c bcachefs: fs-common.c -> namei.c bcachefs: EIO cleanup bcachefs: bch2_write_prep_encoded_data() now returns errcode bcachefs: Simplify bch2_write_op_error() ...
2025-03-27Merge tag 'f2fs-for-6.15-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+3
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim: "In this round, there are three major updates: (1) folio conversion, (2) refactoring for mount API conversion, (3) some performance improvement such as direct IO, checkpoint speed, and IO priority hints. For stability, there are patches which add more sanity checks and fixes some major issues like i_size in atomic write operations and write pointer recovery in zoned devices. Enhancements: - huge folio converion work by Matthew Wilcox - clean up for mount API conversion by Eric Sandeen - improve direct IO speed in the overwrite case - add some sanity check on node consistency - set highest IO priority for checkpoint thread - keep POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE ranges and add sysfs entry to reclaim pages - add ioctl to get IO priority hint - add carve_out sysfs node for fsstat Bug fixes: - disable nat_bits during umount to avoid potential nat entry corruption - fix missing i_size update on atomic writes - fix missing discard for active segments - fix running out of free segments - fix out-of-bounds access in f2fs_truncate_inode_blocks() - call f2fs_recover_quota_end() correctly - fix potential deadloop in prepare_compress_overwrite() - fix the missing write pointer correction for zoned device - fix to avoid panic once fallocation fails for pinfile - don't retry IO for corrupted data scenario There are many other clean up patches and minor bug fixes as usual" * tag 'f2fs-for-6.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (68 commits) f2fs: fix missing discard for active segments f2fs: optimize f2fs DIO overwrites f2fs: fix to avoid atomicity corruption of atomic file f2fs: pass sbi rather than sb to parse_options() f2fs: pass sbi rather than sb to quota qf_name helpers f2fs: defer readonly check vs norecovery f2fs: Pass sbi rather than sb to f2fs_set_test_dummy_encryption f2fs: make LAZYTIME a mount option flag f2fs: make INLINECRYPT a mount option flag f2fs: factor out an f2fs_default_check function f2fs: consolidate unsupported option handling errors f2fs: use f2fs_sb_has_device_alias during option parsing f2fs: add carve_out sysfs node f2fs: fix to avoid running out of free segments f2fs: Remove f2fs_write_node_page() f2fs: Remove f2fs_write_meta_page() f2fs: Remove f2fs_write_data_page() f2fs: Remove check for ->writepage Revert "f2fs: rebuild nat_bits during umount" f2fs: fix to avoid accessing uninitialized curseg ...
2025-03-25Merge tag 'fscrypt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/linuxLinus Torvalds1-6/+2
Pull fscrypt updates from Eric Biggers: "A fix for an issue where CONFIG_FS_ENCRYPTION could be enabled without some of its dependencies, and a small documentation update" * tag 'fscrypt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/linux: fscrypt: mention init_on_free instead of page poisoning fscrypt: drop obsolete recommendation to enable optimized ChaCha20 Revert "fscrypt: relax Kconfig dependencies for crypto API algorithms"
2025-03-25Merge tag 'fsverity-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fsverity/linuxLinus Torvalds1-5/+11
Pull fsverity updates from Eric Biggers: "A fix for an issue where CONFIG_FS_VERITY could be enabled without some of its dependencies, and a small documentation update" * tag 'fsverity-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fsverity/linux: Revert "fsverity: relax build time dependency on CRYPTO_SHA256" Documentation: add a usecase for FS_IOC_READ_VERITY_METADATA
2025-03-24Merge tag 'docs-6.15' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds8-10/+10
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It has been a reasonably busy cycle for docs... - Significant changes throughout the tree to bring Python code up to current standards and raise the minimum Python required to 3.9 Much of this is preparatory to replacing the ancient Perl scripts/kernel-doc horror with a slightly less horrifying Python implementation, expected for 6.16 - Update the minimum Sphinx required to 3.4.3, allowing us to remove a bunch of older compatibility code - Rework and improve the generation of the ABI documentation (All of the above done by Mauro) - Lots of translation updates. Alex Shi and Yanteng Si are taking on responsibility for the Chinese translations going forward; that work will still get to you via docs-next - Try to standardize the format for indicating a developer's affiliation in commit tags - Clarify the TAB's role in CoC enforcement actions - Try to spell out the rules for when a commit tag can name another developer without their explicit permission Plus lots of other typo fixes and updates" * tag 'docs-6.15' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (98 commits) docs/zh_CN: fix spelling mistake docs/Chinese: change the disclaimer words docs/zh_CN: Add snp-tdx-threat-model index Chinese translation docs: driver-api: firmware: clarify userspace requirements docs: clarify rules wrt tagging other people docs: Remove outdated highuid.rst documentation Documentation: dma-buf: heaps: Add heap name definitions docs/.../submit-checklist: Use Documentation/admin-guide/abi.rst for cross-ref of README docs: Correct installation instruction Documentation: kcsan: fix "Plain Accesses and Data Races" URL in kcsan.rst Documentation/CoC: Spell out the TAB role in enforcement decisions Documentation: ocxl.rst: Update consortium site scripts: get_feat.pl: substitute s390x with s390 scripts/kernel-doc: drop dead code for Wcontents_before_sections scripts/kernel-doc: don't add not needed new lines docs: driver-api/infiniband.rst: fix Kerneldoc markup drivers: firewire: firewire-cdev.h: fix identation on a kernel-doc markup drivers: media: intel-ipu3.h: fix identation on a kernel-doc markup include/asm-generic/io.h: fix kerneldoc markup Docs/arch/arm64: Fix spelling in amu.rst ...
2025-03-24Merge tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.sysv' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-265/+0
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull vfs sysv removal from Christian Brauner: "This removes the sysv filesystem. We've discussed this various times. It's time to try" * tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.sysv' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: sysv: Remove the filesystem
2025-03-24Merge tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.async.dir' of ↵Linus Torvalds3-5/+65
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull vfs async dir updates from Christian Brauner: "This contains cleanups that fell out of the work from async directory handling: - Change kern_path_locked() and user_path_locked_at() to never return a negative dentry. This simplifies the usability of these helpers in various places - Drop d_exact_alias() from the remaining place in NFS where it is still used. This also allows us to drop the d_exact_alias() helper completely - Drop an unnecessary call to fh_update() from nfsd_create_locked() - Change i_op->mkdir() to return a struct dentry Change vfs_mkdir() to return a dentry provided by the filesystems which is hashed and positive. This allows us to reduce the number of cases where the resulting dentry is not positive to very few cases. The code in these places becomes simpler and easier to understand. - Repack DENTRY_* and LOOKUP_* flags" * tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.async.dir' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: doc: fix inline emphasis warning VFS: Change vfs_mkdir() to return the dentry. nfs: change mkdir inode_operation to return alternate dentry if needed. fuse: return correct dentry for ->mkdir ceph: return the correct dentry on mkdir hostfs: store inode in dentry after mkdir if possible. Change inode_operations.mkdir to return struct dentry * nfsd: drop fh_update() from S_IFDIR branch of nfsd_create_locked() nfs/vfs: discard d_exact_alias() VFS: add common error checks to lookup_one_qstr_excl() VFS: change kern_path_locked() and user_path_locked_at() to never return negative dentry VFS: repack LOOKUP_ bit flags. VFS: repack DENTRY_ flags.
2025-03-24Merge tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.overlayfs' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-5/+19
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull vfs overlayfs updates from Christian Brauner: "Currently overlayfs uses the mounter's credentials for its override_creds() calls. That provides a consistent permission model. This patches allows a caller to instruct overlayfs to use its credentials instead. The caller must be located in the same user namespace hierarchy as the user namespace the overlayfs instance will be mounted in. This provides a consistent and simple security model. With this it is possible to e.g., mount an overlayfs instance where the mounter must have CAP_SYS_ADMIN but the credentials used for override_creds() have dropped CAP_SYS_ADMIN. It also allows the usage of custom fs{g,u}id different from the callers and other tweaks" * tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.overlayfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: selftests/ovl: add third selftest for "override_creds" selftests/ovl: add second selftest for "override_creds" selftests/filesystems: add utils.{c,h} selftests/ovl: add first selftest for "override_creds" ovl: allow to specify override credentials
2025-03-24Merge tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.iomap' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-13/+38
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull vfs iomap updates from Christian Brauner: - Allow the filesystem to submit the writeback bios. - Allow the filsystem to track completions on a per-bio bases instead of the entire I/O. - Change writeback_ops so that ->submit_bio can be done by the filesystem. - A new ANON_WRITE flag for writes that don't have a block number assigned to them at the iomap level leaving the filesystem to do that work in the submission handler. - Incremental iterator advance The folio_batch support for zero range where the filesystem provides a batch of folios to process that might not be logically continguous requires more flexibility than the current offset based iteration currently offers. Update all iomap operations to advance the iterator within the operation and thus remove the need to advance from the core iomap iterator. - Make buffered writes work with RWF_DONTCACHE If RWF_DONTCACHE is set for a write, mark the folios being written as uncached. On writeback completion the pages will be dropped. - Introduce infrastructure for large atomic writes This will eventually be used by xfs and ext4. * tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.iomap' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (42 commits) iomap: rework IOMAP atomic flags iomap: comment on atomic write checks in iomap_dio_bio_iter() iomap: inline iomap_dio_bio_opflags() iomap: fix inline data on buffered read iomap: Lift blocksize restriction on atomic writes iomap: Support SW-based atomic writes iomap: Rename IOMAP_ATOMIC -> IOMAP_ATOMIC_HW xfs: flag as supporting FOP_DONTCACHE iomap: make buffered writes work with RWF_DONTCACHE iomap: introduce a full map advance helper iomap: rename iomap_iter processed field to status iomap: remove unnecessary advance from iomap_iter() dax: advance the iomap_iter on pte and pmd faults dax: advance the iomap_iter on dedupe range dax: advance the iomap_iter on unshare range dax: advance the iomap_iter on zero range dax: push advance down into dax_iomap_iter() for read and write dax: advance the iomap_iter in the read/write path iomap: convert misc simple ops to incremental advance iomap: advance the iter on direct I/O ...
2025-03-24Merge tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+5
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner: "Features: - Add CONFIG_DEBUG_VFS infrastucture: - Catch invalid modes in open - Use the new debug macros in inode_set_cached_link() - Use debug-only asserts around fd allocation and install - Place f_ref to 3rd cache line in struct file to resolve false sharing Cleanups: - Start using anon_inode_getfile_fmode() helper in various places - Don't take f_lock during SEEK_CUR if exclusion is guaranteed by f_pos_lock - Add unlikely() to kcmp() - Remove legacy ->remount_fs method from ecryptfs after port to the new mount api - Remove invalidate_inodes() in favour of evict_inodes() - Simplify ep_busy_loopER by removing unused argument - Avoid mmap sem relocks when coredumping with many missing pages - Inline getname() - Inline new_inode_pseudo() and de-staticize alloc_inode() - Dodge an atomic in putname if ref == 1 - Consistently deref the files table with rcu_dereference_raw() - Dedup handling of struct filename init and refcounts bumps - Use wq_has_sleeper() in end_dir_add() - Drop the lock trip around I_NEW wake up in evict() - Load the ->i_sb pointer once in inode_sb_list_{add,del} - Predict not reaching the limit in alloc_empty_file() - Tidy up do_sys_openat2() with likely/unlikely - Call inode_sb_list_add() outside of inode hash lock - Sort out fd allocation vs dup2 race commentary - Turn page_offset() into a wrapper around folio_pos() - Remove locking in exportfs around ->get_parent() call - try_lookup_one_len() does not need any locks in autofs - Fix return type of several functions from long to int in open - Fix return type of several functions from long to int in ioctls Fixes: - Fix watch queue accounting mismatch" * tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (30 commits) fs: sort out fd allocation vs dup2 race commentary, take 2 fs: call inode_sb_list_add() outside of inode hash lock fs: tidy up do_sys_openat2() with likely/unlikely fs: predict not reaching the limit in alloc_empty_file() fs: load the ->i_sb pointer once in inode_sb_list_{add,del} fs: drop the lock trip around I_NEW wake up in evict() fs: use wq_has_sleeper() in end_dir_add() VFS/autofs: try_lookup_one_len() does not need any locks fs: dedup handling of struct filename init and refcounts bumps fs: consistently deref the files table with rcu_dereference_raw() exportfs: remove locking around ->get_parent() call. fs: use debug-only asserts around fd allocation and install fs: dodge an atomic in putname if ref == 1 vfs: Remove invalidate_inodes() ecryptfs: remove NULL remount_fs from super_operations watch_queue: fix pipe accounting mismatch fs: place f_ref to 3rd cache line in struct file to resolve false sharing epoll: simplify ep_busy_loop by removing always 0 argument fs: Turn page_offset() into a wrapper around folio_pos() kcmp: improve performance adding an unlikely hint to task comparisons ...
2025-03-23Documentation/fs/9p: fix broken linkTuomas Ahola1-1/+1
In b529c06f9dc7 (Update the documentation referencing Plan 9 from User Space., 2020-04-26), another instance of the link was left unfixed. Fix that as well. Signed-off-by: Tuomas Ahola <taahol@utu.fi> Message-ID: <20250322153639.4917-1-taahol@utu.fi> Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
2025-03-21MM documentation: add "Unaccepted" meminfo entryNico Pache1-0/+3
Commit dcdfdd40fa82 ("mm: Add support for unaccepted memory") added a entry to meminfo but did not document it in the proc.rst file. This counter tracks the amount of "Unaccepted" guest memory for some Virtual Machine platforms, such as Intel TDX or AMD SEV-SNP. Add the missing entry in the documentation. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250317230403.79632-1-npache@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Jeff Xu <jeffxu@chromium.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-03-21meminfo: add a per node counter for balloon driversNico Pache1-0/+3
Patch series "track memory used by balloon drivers", v2. This series introduces a way to track memory used by balloon drivers. Add a NR_BALLOON_PAGES counter to track how many pages are reclaimed by the balloon drivers. First add the accounting, then updates the balloon drivers (virtio, Hyper-V, VMware, Pseries-cmm, and Xen) to maintain this counter. The virtio, Vmware, and pseries-cmm balloon drivers utilize the balloon_compaction interface to allocate and free balloon pages. Other balloon drivers will have to maintain this counter manually. This makes the information visible in memory reporting interfaces like /proc/meminfo, show_mem, and OOM reporting. This provides admins visibility into their VM balloon sizes without requiring different virtualization tooling. Furthermore, this information is helpful when debugging an OOM inside a VM. This patch (of 4): Add NR_BALLOON_PAGES counter to track memory used by balloon drivers and expose it through /proc/meminfo and other memory reporting interfaces. [npache@redhat.com: document Balloon Meminfo entry] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a0315ccf-f244-460e-8643-fd7388724fe5@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250314213757.244258-1-npache@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250314213757.244258-2-npache@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Atanasov <alexander.atanasov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com> Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Juegren Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Kanchana P Sridhar <kanchana.p.sridhar@intel.com> Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Cc: Oleksandr Tyshchenko <oleksandr_tyshchenko@epam.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> Cc: Wei Liu <wei.li