kernel/linux.git/Documentation/filesystems, branch v6.18.21

ovl: make fsync after metadata copy-up opt-in mount option

2026-04-02T11:23:21+00:00

commit 1f6ee9be92f8df85a8c9a5a78c20fd39c0c21a95 upstream. Commit 7d6899fb69d25 ("ovl: fsync after metadata copy-up") was done to fix durability of overlayfs copy up on an upper filesystem which does not enforce ordering on storing of metadata changes (e.g. ubifs). In an earlier revision of the regressing commit by Lei Lv, the metadata fsync behavior was opt-in via a new "fsync=strict" mount option. We were hoping that the opt-in mount option could be avoided, so the change was only made to depend on metacopy=off, in the hope of not hurting performance of metadata heavy workloads, which are more likely to be using metacopy=on. This hope was proven wrong by a performance regression report from Google COS workload after upgrade to kernel 6.12. This is an adaptation of Lei's original "fsync=strict" mount option to the existing upstream code. The new mount option is mutually exclusive with the "volatile" mount option, so the latter is now an alias to the "fsync=volatile" mount option. Reported-by: Chenglong Tang Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-unionfs/CAOdxtTadAFH01Vui1FvWfcmQ8jH1O45owTzUcpYbNvBxnLeM7Q@mail.gmail.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-unionfs/CAOQ4uxgKC1SgjMWre=fUb00v8rxtd6sQi-S+dxR8oDzAuiGu8g@mail.gmail.com/ Fixes: 7d6899fb69d25 ("ovl: fsync after metadata copy-up") Depends: 50e638beb67e0 ("ovl: Use str_on_off() helper in ovl_show_options()") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.12+ Signed-off-by: Fei Lv Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus-6.18-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

2025-10-15T14:51:57+00:00

Pull ext4 bug fixes from Ted Ts'o: - Fix regression caused by removing CONFIG_EXT3_FS when testing some very old defconfigs - Avoid a BUG_ON when opening a file on a maliciously corrupted file system - Avoid mm warnings when freeing a very large orphan file metadata - Avoid a theoretical races between metadata writeback and checkpoints (it's very hard to hit in practice, since the race requires that the writeback take a very long time) * tag 'ext4_for_linus-6.18-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: Use CONFIG_EXT4_FS instead of CONFIG_EXT3_FS in all of the defconfigs ext4: free orphan info with kvfree ext4: detect invalid INLINE_DATA + EXTENTS flag combination ext4, doc: fix and improve directory hash tree description ext4: wait for ongoing I/O to complete before freeing blocks jbd2: ensure that all ongoing I/O complete before freeing blocks

ext4, doc: fix and improve directory hash tree description

2025-10-10T17:34:45+00:00

Some of the details about how directory hash trees work were confusing or outright wrong, this patch should fix those. A note on dx_tail's dt_reserved member, as far as I can tell the kernel never sets this explicitly, so its content is apparently left-overs from what was there before (for the dx_root I've seen remnants of a ext4_dir_entry_tail struct from when the dir was not yet a hash dir). Signed-off-by: Zeno Endemann Message-ID: <20250925152435.22749-1-zeno.endemann@mailbox.org> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

Merge tag 'vfio-v6.18-rc1' of https://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio

2025-10-04T15:24:54+00:00

Pull VFIO updates from Alex Williamson: - Use fdinfo to expose the sysfs path of a device represented by a vfio device file (Alex Mastro) - Mark vfio-fsl-mc, vfio-amba, and the reset functions for vfio-platform for removal as these are either orphaned or believed to be unused (Alex Williamson) - Add reviewers for vfio-platform to save it from also being marked for removal (Mostafa Saleh, Pranjal Shrivastava) - VFIO selftests, including basic sanity testing and minimal userspace drivers for testing against real hardware. This is also expected to provide integration with KVM selftests for KVM-VFIO interfaces (David Matlack, Josh Hilke) - Fix drivers/cdx and vfio/cdx to build without CONFIG_GENERIC_MSI_IRQ (Nipun Gupta) - Fix reference leak in hisi_acc (Miaoqian Lin) - Use consistent return for unsupported device feature (Alex Mastro) - Unwind using the correct memory free callback in vfio/pds (Zilin Guan) - Use IRQ_DISABLE_LAZY flag to improve handling of pre-PCI2.3 INTx and resolve stalled interrupt on ppc64 (Timothy Pearson) - Enable GB300 in nvgrace-gpu vfio-pci variant driver (Tushar Dave) - Misc: - Drop unnecessary ternary conversion in vfio/pci (Xichao Zhao) - Grammatical fix in nvgrace-gpu (Morduan Zang) - Update Shameer's email address (Shameer Kolothum) - Fix document build warning (Alex Williamson) * tag 'vfio-v6.18-rc1' of https://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio: (48 commits) vfio/nvgrace-gpu: Add GB300 SKU to the devid table vfio/pci: Fix INTx handling on legacy non-PCI 2.3 devices vfio/pds: replace bitmap_free with vfree vfio: return -ENOTTY for unsupported device feature hisi_acc_vfio_pci: Fix reference leak in hisi_acc_vfio_debug_init vfio/platform: Mark reset drivers for removal vfio/amba: Mark for removal MAINTAINERS: Add myself as VFIO-platform reviewer MAINTAINERS: Add myself as VFIO-platform reviewer docs: proc.rst: Fix VFIO Device title formatting vfio: selftests: Fix .gitignore for already tracked files vfio/cdx: update driver to build without CONFIG_GENERIC_MSI_IRQ cdx: don't select CONFIG_GENERIC_MSI_IRQ MAINTAINERS: Update Shameer Kolothum's email address vfio: selftests: Add a script to help with running VFIO selftests vfio: selftests: Make iommufd the default iommu_mode vfio: selftests: Add iommufd mode vfio: selftests: Add iommufd_compat_type1{,v2} modes vfio: selftests: Add vfio_type1v2_mode vfio: selftests: Replicate tests across all iommu_modes ...

Merge tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2025-10-04T00:16:13+00:00

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It has been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, with changes all over: - Bring the kernel memory-model docs into the Sphinx build in the "literal include" mode. - Lots of build-infrastructure work, further cleaning up long-term kernel-doc technical debt. The sphinx-pre-install tool has been converted to Python and updated for current systems. - A new tool to detect when documents have been moved and generate HTML redirects; this can be used on kernel.org (or any other site hosting the rendered docs) to avoid breaking links. - Automated processing of the YAML files describing the netlink protocol. - A significant update of the maintainer's PGP guide. ... and a seemingly endless series of typo fixes, build-problem fixes, etc" * tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (193 commits) Documentation/features: Update feature lists for 6.17-rc7 docs: remove cdomain.py Documentation/process: submitting-patches: fix typo in "were do" docs: dev-tools/lkmm: Fix typo of missing file extension Documentation: trace: histogram: Convert ftrace docs cross-reference Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Wrap introductory note in note:: directive Documentation: trace: historgram-design: Separate sched_waking histogram section heading and the following diagram Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Trim trailing vertices in diagram explanation text Documentation: trace: histogram: Fix histogram trigger subsection number order docs: driver-api: fix spelling of "buses". Documentation: fbcon: Use admonition directives Documentation: fbcon: Reindent 8th step of attach/detach/unload Documentation: fbcon: Add boot options and attach/detach/unload section headings docs: filesystems: sysfs: add remaining top level sysfs directory descriptions docs: filesystems: sysfs: clarify symlink destinations in dev and bus/devices descriptions docs: filesystems: sysfs: remove top level sysfs net directory docs: maintainer: Fix ambiguous subheading formatting docs: kdoc: a few more dump_typedef() tweaks docs: kdoc: remove redundant comment stripping in dump_typedef() docs: kdoc: remove some dead code in dump_typedef() ...

Merge tag 'f2fs-for-6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs

2025-10-03T21:05:12+00:00

Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim: "This focuses on two primary updates for Android devices. First, it sets hash-based file name lookup as the default method to improve performance, while retaining an option to fall back to a linear lookup. Second, it resolves a persistent issue with the 'checkpoint=enable' feature. The update further boosts performance by prefetching node blocks, merging FUA writes more efficiently, and optimizing block allocation policies. The release is rounded out by a comprehensive set of bug fixes that address memory safety, data integrity, and potential system hangs, along with minor documentation and code clean-ups. Enhancements: - add mount option and sysfs entry to tune the lookup mode - dump more information and add a timeout when enabling/disabling checkpoints - readahead node blocks in F2FS_GET_BLOCK_PRECACHE mode - merge FUA command with the existing writes - allocate HOT_DATA for IPU writes - Use allocate_section_policy to control write priority in multi-devices setups - add reserved nodes for privileged users - Add bggc_io_aware to adjust the priority of BG_GC when issuing IO - show the list of donation files Bug fixes: - add missing dput() when printing the donation list - fix UAF issue in f2fs_merge_page_bio() - add sanity check on ei.len in __update_extent_tree_range() - fix infinite loop in __insert_extent_tree() - fix zero-sized extent for precache extents - fix to mitigate overhead of f2fs_zero_post_eof_page() - fix to avoid migrating empty section - fix to truncate first page in error path of f2fs_truncate() - fix to update map->m_next_extent correctly in f2fs_map_blocks() - fix wrong layout information on 16KB page - fix to do sanity check on node footer for non inode dnode - fix to avoid NULL pointer dereference in f2fs_check_quota_consistency() - fix to detect potential corrupted nid in free_nid_list - fix to clear unusable_cap for checkpoint=enable - fix to zero data after EOF for compressed file correctly - fix to avoid overflow while left shift operation - fix condition in __allow_reserved_blocks()" * tag 'f2fs-for-6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (43 commits) f2fs: add missing dput() when printing the donation list f2fs: fix UAF issue in f2fs_merge_page_bio() f2fs: readahead node blocks in F2FS_GET_BLOCK_PRECACHE mode f2fs: add sanity check on ei.len in __update_extent_tree_range() f2fs: fix infinite loop in __insert_extent_tree() f2fs: fix zero-sized extent for precache extents f2fs: fix to mitigate overhead of f2fs_zero_post_eof_page() f2fs: fix to avoid migrating empty section f2fs: fix to truncate first page in error path of f2fs_truncate() f2fs: fix to update map->m_next_extent correctly in f2fs_map_blocks() f2fs: fix wrong layout information on 16KB page f2fs: clean up error handing of f2fs_submit_page_read() f2fs: avoid unnecessary folio_clear_uptodate() for cleanup f2fs: merge FUA command with the existing writes f2fs: allocate HOT_DATA for IPU writes f2fs: Use allocate_section_policy to control write priority in multi-devices setups Documentation: f2fs: Reword title Documentation: f2fs: Indent compression_mode option list Documentation: f2fs: Wrap snippets in literal code blocks Documentation: f2fs: Span write hint table section rows ...

Merge tag 'fuse-update-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse

2025-10-03T19:48:18+00:00

Pull fuse updates from Miklos Szeredi: - Extend copy_file_range interface to be fully 64bit capable (Miklos) - Add selftest for fusectl (Chen Linxuan) - Move fuse docs into a separate directory (Bagas Sanjaya) - Allow fuse to enter freezable state in some cases (Sergey Senozhatsky) - Clean up writeback accounting after removing tmp page copies (Joanne) - Optimize virtiofs request handling (Li RongQing) - Add synchronous FUSE_INIT support (Miklos) - Allow server to request prune of unused inodes (Miklos) - Fix deadlock with AIO/sync release (Darrick) - Add some prep patches for block/iomap support (Darrick) - Misc fixes and cleanups * tag 'fuse-update-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse: (26 commits) fuse: move CREATE_TRACE_POINTS to a separate file fuse: move the backing file idr and code into a new source file fuse: enable FUSE_SYNCFS for all fuseblk servers fuse: capture the unique id of fuse commands being sent fuse: fix livelock in synchronous file put from fuseblk workers mm: fix lockdep issues in writeback handling fuse: add prune notification fuse: remove redundant calls to fuse_copy_finish() in fuse_notify() fuse: fix possibly missing fuse_copy_finish() call in fuse_notify() fuse: remove FUSE_NOTIFY_CODE_MAX from fuse: remove fuse_readpages_end() null mapping check fuse: fix references to fuse.rst -> fuse/fuse.rst fuse: allow synchronous FUSE_INIT fuse: zero initialize inode private data fuse: remove unused 'inode' parameter in fuse_passthrough_open virtio_fs: fix the hash table using in virtio_fs_enqueue_req() mm: remove BDI_CAP_WRITEBACK_ACCT fuse: use default writeback accounting virtio_fs: Remove redundant spinlock in virtio_fs_request_complete() fuse: remove unneeded offset assignment when filling write pages ...

Merge tag 'pull-fs_context' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2025-10-03T17:51:44+00:00

Pull fs_context updates from Al Viro: "Change vfs_parse_fs_string() calling conventions Get rid of the length argument (almost all callers pass strlen() of the string argument there), add vfs_parse_fs_qstr() for the cases that do want separate length" * tag 'pull-fs_context' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: do_nfs4_mount(): switch to vfs_parse_fs_string() change the calling conventions for vfs_parse_fs_string()

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-10-03T01:18:33+00:00

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->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->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' -> '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() ...

Merge tag 'for-6.18/block-20250929' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux

2025-10-02T17:16:56+00:00

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 ->getgeo() and ->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() ...