kernel/linux.git/block/fops.c, branch v7.0-rc7

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

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

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

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

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

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

block: enable per-cpu bio cache by default

2025-12-04T14:19:24+00:00

Since after commit 12e4e8c7ab59 ("io_uring/rw: enable bio caches for IRQ rw"), bio_put is safe for task and irq context, bio_alloc_bioset is safe for task context and no one calls in irq context, so we can enable per cpu bio cache by default. Benchmarked with t/io_uring and ext4+nvme: taskset -c 6 /root/fio/t/io_uring -p0 -d128 -b4096 -s1 -c1 -F1 -B1 -R1 -X1 -n1 -P1 /mnt/testfile base IOPS is 562K, patch IOPS is 574K. The CPU usage of bio_alloc_bioset decrease from 1.42% to 1.22%. The worst case is allocate bio in CPU A but free in CPU B, still use t/io_uring and ext4+nvme: base IOPS is 648K, patch IOPS is 647K. Also use fio test ext4/xfs with libaio/sync/io_uring on null_blk and nvme, no obvious performance regression. Signed-off-by: Fengnan Chang Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

iomap: add caller-provided callbacks for read and readahead

2025-11-05T11:57:23+00:00

Add caller-provided callbacks for read and readahead so that it can be used generically, especially by filesystems that are not block-based. In particular, this: * Modifies the read and readahead interface to take in a struct iomap_read_folio_ctx that is publicly defined as: struct iomap_read_folio_ctx { const struct iomap_read_ops *ops; struct folio *cur_folio; struct readahead_control *rac; void *read_ctx; }; where struct iomap_read_ops is defined as: struct iomap_read_ops { int (*read_folio_range)(const struct iomap_iter *iter, struct iomap_read_folio_ctx *ctx, size_t len); void (*read_submit)(struct iomap_read_folio_ctx *ctx); }; read_folio_range() reads in the folio range and is required by the caller to provide. read_submit() is optional and is used for submitting any pending read requests. * Modifies existing filesystems that use iomap for read and readahead to use the new API, through the new statically inlined helpers iomap_bio_read_folio() and iomap_bio_readahead(). There is no change in functionality for those filesystems. Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

block: move bio_iov_iter_get_bdev_pages to block/fops.c

2025-10-07T14:05:44+00:00

Keep bio_iov_iter_get_bdev_pages local with the callers, as blindly looking at the bdev logical block size is often not the best idea unless on a block device. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn Reviewed-by: Keith Busch Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

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() ...

block: simplify direct io validity check

2025-09-09T16:27:01+00:00

The block layer checks all the segments for validity later, so no need for an early check. Just reduce it to a simple position and total length check, and defer the more invasive segment checks to the block layer. Signed-off-by: Keith Busch Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: add size alignment to bio_iov_iter_get_pages

2025-09-09T16:27:01+00:00

The block layer tries to align bio vectors to the block device's logical block size. Some cases don't have a block device, or we may need to align to something larger, which we can't derive it from the queue limits. Have the caller specify what they want, or allow any length alignment if nothing was specified. Since the most common use case relies on the block device's limits, a helper function is provided. Signed-off-by: Keith Busch Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

block: don't silently ignore metadata for sync read/write

2025-08-20T09:13:01+00:00

The block fops don't try to handle metadata for synchronous requests, probably because the completion handler looks at dio->iocb which is not valid for synchronous requests. But silently ignoring metadata (or warning in case of __blkdev_direct_IO_simple) is a really bad idea as that can cause silent data corruption if a user ever shows up. Instead simply handle metadata for synchronous requests as the completion handler can simply check for bio_integrity() as the block layer default integrity will already be freed at this point, and thus bio_integrity() will only return true for user mapped integrity. Fixes: 3d8b5a22d404 ("block: add support to pass user meta buffer") Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250819082517.2038819-3-hch@lst.de Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

fs: add a FMODE_ flag to indicate IOCB_HAS_METADATA availability

2025-08-20T09:12:58+00:00

Currently the kernel will happily route io_uring requests with metadata to file operations that don't support it. Add a FMODE_ flag to guard that. Fixes: 4de2ce04c862 ("fs: introduce IOCB_HAS_METADATA for metadata") Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250819082517.2038819-2-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner