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<entry>
<title>fs/inode: Prevent dump_mapping() accessing invalid dentry.d_name.name</title>
<updated>2024-12-09T09:31:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Li Zhijian</name>
<email>lizhijian@fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-25T08:04:01+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 7f7b850689ac06a62befe26e1fd1806799e7f152 ]

It's observed that a crash occurs during hot-remove a memory device,
in which user is accessing the hugetlb. See calltrace as following:

------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 14045 at arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1278 do_user_addr_fault+0x2a0/0x790
Modules linked in: kmem device_dax cxl_mem cxl_pmem cxl_port cxl_pci dax_hmem dax_pmem nd_pmem cxl_acpi nd_btt cxl_core crc32c_intel nvme virtiofs fuse nvme_core nfit libnvdimm dm_multipath scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_emc s
mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod
CPU: 1 PID: 14045 Comm: daxctl Not tainted 6.10.0-rc2-lizhijian+ #492
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:do_user_addr_fault+0x2a0/0x790
Code: 48 8b 00 a8 04 0f 84 b5 fe ff ff e9 1c ff ff ff 4c 89 e9 4c 89 e2 be 01 00 00 00 bf 02 00 00 00 e8 b5 ef 24 00 e9 42 fe ff ff &lt;0f&gt; 0b 48 83 c4 08 4c 89 ea 48 89 ee 4c 89 e7 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41
RSP: 0000:ffffc90000a575f0 EFLAGS: 00010046
RAX: ffff88800c303600 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: ffffffff82504162 RDI: ffffffff824b2c36
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffc90000a57658
R13: 0000000000001000 R14: ffff88800bc2e040 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  00007f51cb57d880(0000) GS:ffff88807fd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000001000 CR3: 00000000072e2004 CR4: 00000000001706f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 ? __warn+0x8d/0x190
 ? do_user_addr_fault+0x2a0/0x790
 ? report_bug+0x1c3/0x1d0
 ? handle_bug+0x3c/0x70
 ? exc_invalid_op+0x14/0x70
 ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20
 ? do_user_addr_fault+0x2a0/0x790
 ? exc_page_fault+0x31/0x200
 exc_page_fault+0x68/0x200
&lt;...snip...&gt;
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000000001000
 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
 PGD 800000000ad92067 P4D 800000000ad92067 PUD 7677067 PMD 0
 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
 ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
 BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000000001000
 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
 PGD 800000000ad92067 P4D 800000000ad92067 PUD 7677067 PMD 0
 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
 CPU: 1 PID: 14045 Comm: daxctl Kdump: loaded Tainted: G        W          6.10.0-rc2-lizhijian+ #492
 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
 RIP: 0010:dentry_name+0x1f4/0x440
&lt;...snip...&gt;
? dentry_name+0x2fa/0x440
vsnprintf+0x1f3/0x4f0
vprintk_store+0x23a/0x540
vprintk_emit+0x6d/0x330
_printk+0x58/0x80
dump_mapping+0x10b/0x1a0
? __pfx_free_object_rcu+0x10/0x10
__dump_page+0x26b/0x3e0
? vprintk_emit+0xe0/0x330
? _printk+0x58/0x80
? dump_page+0x17/0x50
dump_page+0x17/0x50
do_migrate_range+0x2f7/0x7f0
? do_migrate_range+0x42/0x7f0
? offline_pages+0x2f4/0x8c0
offline_pages+0x60a/0x8c0
memory_subsys_offline+0x9f/0x1c0
? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0x77/0x100
? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x38/0x60
device_offline+0xe3/0x110
state_store+0x6e/0xc0
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x143/0x200
vfs_write+0x39f/0x560
ksys_write+0x65/0xf0
do_syscall_64+0x62/0x130

Previously, some sanity check have been done in dump_mapping() before
the print facility parsing '%pd' though, it's still possible to run into
an invalid dentry.d_name.name.

Since dump_mapping() only needs to dump the filename only, retrieve it
by itself in a safer way to prevent an unnecessary crash.

Note that either retrieving the filename with '%pd' or
strncpy_from_kernel_nofault(), the filename could be unreliable.

Signed-off-by: Li Zhijian &lt;lizhijian@fujitsu.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240826055503.1522320-1-lizhijian@fujitsu.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
[Xiangyu: Bp to fix CVE: CVE-2024-49934, modified strscpy step due to 6.1/6.6 need pass
the max len to strscpy]
Signed-off-by: Xiangyu Chen &lt;xiangyu.chen@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vfs: fix race between evice_inodes() and find_inode()&amp;iput()</title>
<updated>2024-10-04T14:29:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Julian Sun</name>
<email>sunjunchao2870@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-23T13:07:30+00:00</published>
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commit 88b1afbf0f6b221f6c5bb66cc80cd3b38d696687 upstream.

Hi, all

Recently I noticed a bug[1] in btrfs, after digged it into
and I believe it'a race in vfs.

Let's assume there's a inode (ie ino 261) with i_count 1 is
called by iput(), and there's a concurrent thread calling
generic_shutdown_super().

cpu0:                              cpu1:
iput() // i_count is 1
  -&gt;spin_lock(inode)
  -&gt;dec i_count to 0
  -&gt;iput_final()                    generic_shutdown_super()
    -&gt;__inode_add_lru()               -&gt;evict_inodes()
      // cause some reason[2]           -&gt;if (atomic_read(inode-&gt;i_count)) continue;
      // return before                  // inode 261 passed the above check
      // list_lru_add_obj()             // and then schedule out
   -&gt;spin_unlock()
// note here: the inode 261
// was still at sb list and hash list,
// and I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE was not been set

btrfs_iget()
  // after some function calls
  -&gt;find_inode()
    // found the above inode 261
    -&gt;spin_lock(inode)
   // check I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE
   // and passed
      -&gt;__iget()
    -&gt;spin_unlock(inode)                // schedule back
                                        -&gt;spin_lock(inode)
                                        // check (I_NEW|I_FREEING|I_WILL_FREE) flags,
                                        // passed and set I_FREEING
iput()                                  -&gt;spin_unlock(inode)
  -&gt;spin_lock(inode)			  -&gt;evict()
  // dec i_count to 0
  -&gt;iput_final()
    -&gt;spin_unlock()
    -&gt;evict()

Now, we have two threads simultaneously evicting
the same inode, which may trigger the BUG(inode-&gt;i_state &amp; I_CLEAR)
statement both within clear_inode() and iput().

To fix the bug, recheck the inode-&gt;i_count after holding i_lock.
Because in the most scenarios, the first check is valid, and
the overhead of spin_lock() can be reduced.

If there is any misunderstanding, please let me know, thanks.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/000000000000eabe1d0619c48986@google.com/
[2]: The reason might be 1. SB_ACTIVE was removed or 2. mapping_shrinkable()
return false when I reproduced the bug.

Reported-by: syzbot+67ba3c42bcbb4665d3ad@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=67ba3c42bcbb4665d3ad
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 63997e98a3be ("split invalidate_inodes()")
Signed-off-by: Julian Sun &lt;sunjunchao2870@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240823130730.658881-1-sunjunchao2870@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vfs: Don't evict inode under the inode lru traversing context</title>
<updated>2024-08-29T15:33:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhihao Cheng</name>
<email>chengzhihao1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-09T03:16:28+00:00</published>
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commit 2a0629834cd82f05d424bbc193374f9a43d1f87d upstream.

The inode reclaiming process(See function prune_icache_sb) collects all
reclaimable inodes and mark them with I_FREEING flag at first, at that
time, other processes will be stuck if they try getting these inodes
(See function find_inode_fast), then the reclaiming process destroy the
inodes by function dispose_list(). Some filesystems(eg. ext4 with
ea_inode feature, ubifs with xattr) may do inode lookup in the inode
evicting callback function, if the inode lookup is operated under the
inode lru traversing context, deadlock problems may happen.

Case 1: In function ext4_evict_inode(), the ea inode lookup could happen
        if ea_inode feature is enabled, the lookup process will be stuck
	under the evicting context like this:

 1. File A has inode i_reg and an ea inode i_ea
 2. getfattr(A, xattr_buf) // i_ea is added into lru // lru-&gt;i_ea
 3. Then, following three processes running like this:

    PA                              PB
 echo 2 &gt; /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
  shrink_slab
   prune_dcache_sb
   // i_reg is added into lru, lru-&gt;i_ea-&gt;i_reg
   prune_icache_sb
    list_lru_walk_one
     inode_lru_isolate
      i_ea-&gt;i_state |= I_FREEING // set inode state
     inode_lru_isolate
      __iget(i_reg)
      spin_unlock(&amp;i_reg-&gt;i_lock)
      spin_unlock(lru_lock)
                                     rm file A
                                      i_reg-&gt;nlink = 0
      iput(i_reg) // i_reg-&gt;nlink is 0, do evict
       ext4_evict_inode
        ext4_xattr_delete_inode
         ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all
          ext4_xattr_inode_iget
           ext4_iget(i_ea-&gt;i_ino)
            iget_locked
             find_inode_fast
              __wait_on_freeing_inode(i_ea) ----→ AA deadlock
    dispose_list // cannot be executed by prune_icache_sb
     wake_up_bit(&amp;i_ea-&gt;i_state)

Case 2: In deleted inode writing function ubifs_jnl_write_inode(), file
        deleting process holds BASEHD's wbuf-&gt;io_mutex while getting the
	xattr inode, which could race with inode reclaiming process(The
        reclaiming process could try locking BASEHD's wbuf-&gt;io_mutex in
	inode evicting function), then an ABBA deadlock problem would
	happen as following:

 1. File A has inode ia and a xattr(with inode ixa), regular file B has
    inode ib and a xattr.
 2. getfattr(A, xattr_buf) // ixa is added into lru // lru-&gt;ixa
 3. Then, following three processes running like this:

        PA                PB                        PC
                echo 2 &gt; /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
                 shrink_slab
                  prune_dcache_sb
                  // ib and ia are added into lru, lru-&gt;ixa-&gt;ib-&gt;ia
                  prune_icache_sb
                   list_lru_walk_one
                    inode_lru_isolate
                     ixa-&gt;i_state |= I_FREEING // set inode state
                    inode_lru_isolate
                     __iget(ib)
                     spin_unlock(&amp;ib-&gt;i_lock)
                     spin_unlock(lru_lock)
                                                   rm file B
                                                    ib-&gt;nlink = 0
 rm file A
  iput(ia)
   ubifs_evict_inode(ia)
    ubifs_jnl_delete_inode(ia)
     ubifs_jnl_write_inode(ia)
      make_reservation(BASEHD) // Lock wbuf-&gt;io_mutex
      ubifs_iget(ixa-&gt;i_ino)
       iget_locked
        find_inode_fast
         __wait_on_freeing_inode(ixa)
          |          iput(ib) // ib-&gt;nlink is 0, do evict
          |           ubifs_evict_inode
          |            ubifs_jnl_delete_inode(ib)
          ↓             ubifs_jnl_write_inode
     ABBA deadlock ←-----make_reservation(BASEHD)
                   dispose_list // cannot be executed by prune_icache_sb
                    wake_up_bit(&amp;ixa-&gt;i_state)

Fix the possible deadlock by using new inode state flag I_LRU_ISOLATING
to pin the inode in memory while inode_lru_isolate() reclaims its pages
instead of using ordinary inode reference. This way inode deletion
cannot be triggered from inode_lru_isolate() thus avoiding the deadlock.
evict() is made to wait for I_LRU_ISOLATING to be cleared before
proceeding with inode cleanup.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/37c29c42-7685-d1f0-067d-63582ffac405@huaweicloud.com/
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219022
Fixes: e50e5129f384 ("ext4: xattr-in-inode support")
Fixes: 7959cf3a7506 ("ubifs: journal: Handle xattrs like files")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Zhihao Cheng &lt;chengzhihao1@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240809031628.1069873-1-chengzhihao@huaweicloud.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Suggested-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Suggested-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mjguzik@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>filemap: add a per-mapping stable writes flag</title>
<updated>2023-12-03T06:33:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-25T14:10:17+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 762321dab9a72760bf9aec48362f932717c9424d ]

folio_wait_stable waits for writeback to finish before modifying the
contents of a folio again, e.g. to support check summing of the data
in the block integrity code.

Currently this behavior is controlled by the SB_I_STABLE_WRITES flag
on the super_block, which means it is uniform for the entire file system.
This is wrong for the block device pseudofs which is shared by all
block devices, or file systems that can use multiple devices like XFS
witht the RT subvolume or btrfs (although btrfs currently reimplements
folio_wait_stable anyway).

Add a per-address_space AS_STABLE_WRITES flag to control the behavior
in a more fine grained way.  The existing SB_I_STABLE_WRITES is kept
to initialize AS_STABLE_WRITES to the existing default which covers
most cases.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231025141020.192413-2-hch@lst.de
Tested-by: Ilya Dryomov &lt;idryomov@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 1898efcdbed3 ("block: update the stable_writes flag in bdev_add")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Revert "fs: add infrastructure for multigrain timestamps"</title>
<updated>2023-09-20T16:05:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-20T14:40:13+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit ffb6cf19e06334062744b7e3493f71e500964f8e.

Users reported regressions due to enabling multi-grained timestamps
unconditionally. As no clear consensus on a solution has come up and the
discussion has gone back to the drawing board revert the infrastructure
changes for. If it isn't code that's here to stay, make it go away.

Message-ID: &lt;20230920-keine-eile-c9755b5825db@brauner&gt;
Acked-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'v6.6-vfs.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2023-08-28T18:04:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-28T18:04:18+00:00</published>
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Pull superblock updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the super rework that was ready for this cycle. The
  first part changes the order of how we open block devices and allocate
  superblocks, contains various cleanups, simplifications, and a new
  mechanism to wait on superblock state changes.

  This unblocks work to ultimately limit the number of writers to a
  block device. Jan has already scheduled follow-up work that will be
  ready for v6.7 and allows us to restrict the number of writers to a
  given block device. That series builds on this work right here.

  The second part contains filesystem freezing updates.

  Overview:

  The generic superblock changes are rougly organized as follows
  (ignoring additional minor cleanups):

   (1) Removal of the bd_super member from struct block_device.

       This was a very odd back pointer to struct super_block with
       unclear rules. For all relevant places we have other means to get
       the same information so just get rid of this.

   (2) Simplify rules for superblock cleanup.

       Roughly, everything that is allocated during fs_context
       initialization and that's stored in fs_context-&gt;s_fs_info needs
       to be cleaned up by the fs_context-&gt;free() implementation before
       the superblock allocation function has been called successfully.

       After sget_fc() returned fs_context-&gt;s_fs_info has been
       transferred to sb-&gt;s_fs_info at which point sb-&gt;kill_sb() if
       fully responsible for cleanup. Adhering to these rules means that
       cleanup of sb-&gt;s_fs_info in fill_super() is to be avoided as it's
       brittle and inconsistent.

       Cleanup shouldn't be duplicated between sb-&gt;put_super() as
       sb-&gt;put_super() is only called if sb-&gt;s_root has been set aka
       when the filesystem has been successfully born (SB_BORN). That
       complexity should be avoided.

       This also means that block devices are to be closed in
       sb-&gt;kill_sb() instead of sb-&gt;put_super(). More details in the
       lower section.

   (3) Make it possible to lookup or create a superblock before opening
       block devices

       There's a subtle dependency on (2) as some filesystems did rely
       on fill_super() to be called in order to correctly clean up
       sb-&gt;s_fs_info. All these filesystems have been fixed.

   (4) Switch most filesystem to follow the same logic as the generic
       mount code now does as outlined in (3).

   (5) Use the superblock as the holder of the block device. We can now
       easily go back from block device to owning superblock.

   (6) Export and extend the generic fs_holder_ops and use them as
       holder ops everywhere and remove the filesystem specific holder
       ops.

   (7) Call from the block layer up into the filesystem layer when the
       block device is removed, allowing to shut down the filesystem
       without risk of deadlocks.

   (8) Get rid of get_super().

       We can now easily go back from the block device to owning
       superblock and can call up from the block layer into the
       filesystem layer when the device is removed. So no need to wade
       through all registered superblock to find the owning superblock
       anymore"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230824-prall-intakt-95dbffdee4a0@brauner/

* tag 'v6.6-vfs.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (47 commits)
  super: use higher-level helper for {freeze,thaw}
  super: wait until we passed kill super
  super: wait for nascent superblocks
  super: make locking naming consistent
  super: use locking helpers
  fs: simplify invalidate_inodes
  fs: remove get_super
  block: call into the file system for ioctl BLKFLSBUF
  block: call into the file system for bdev_mark_dead
  block: consolidate __invalidate_device and fsync_bdev
  block: drop the "busy inodes on changed media" log message
  dasd: also call __invalidate_device when setting the device offline
  amiflop: don't call fsync_bdev in FDFMTBEG
  floppy: call disk_force_media_change when changing the format
  block: simplify the disk_force_media_change interface
  nbd: call blk_mark_disk_dead in nbd_clear_sock_ioctl
  xfs use fs_holder_ops for the log and RT devices
  xfs: drop s_umount over opening the log and RT devices
  ext4: use fs_holder_ops for the log device
  ext4: drop s_umount over opening the log device
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'v6.6-vfs.ctime' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2023-08-28T16:31:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-28T16:31:32+00:00</published>
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<id>urn:sha1:615e95831ec3d428cc554ac12e9439e2d66038d3</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull vfs timestamp updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This adds VFS support for multi-grain timestamps and converts tmpfs,
  xfs, ext4, and btrfs to use them. This carries acks from all relevant
  filesystems.

  The VFS always uses coarse-grained timestamps when updating the ctime
  and mtime after a change. This has the benefit of allowing filesystems
  to optimize away a lot of metadata updates, down to around 1 per
  jiffy, even when a file is under heavy writes.

  Unfortunately, this has always been an issue when we're exporting via
  NFSv3, which relies on timestamps to validate caches. A lot of changes
  can happen in a jiffy, so timestamps aren't sufficient to help the
  client decide to invalidate the cache.

  Even with NFSv4, a lot of exported filesystems don't properly support
  a change attribute and are subject to the same problems with timestamp
  granularity. Other applications have similar issues with timestamps
  (e.g., backup applications).

  If we were to always use fine-grained timestamps, that would improve
  the situation, but that becomes rather expensive, as the underlying
  filesystem would have to log a lot more metadata updates.

  This introduces fine-grained timestamps that are used when they are
  actively queried.

  This uses the 31st bit of the ctime tv_nsec field to indicate that
  something has queried the inode for the mtime or ctime. When this flag
  is set, on the next mtime or ctime update, the kernel will fetch a
  fine-grained timestamp instead of the usual coarse-grained one.

  As POSIX generally mandates that when the mtime changes, the ctime
  must also change the kernel always stores normalized ctime values, so
  only the first 30 bits of the tv_nsec field are ever used.

  Filesytems can opt into this behavior by setting the FS_MGTIME flag in
  the fstype. Filesystems that don't set this flag will continue to use
  coarse-grained timestamps.

  Various preparatory changes, fixes and cleanups are included:

   - Fixup all relevant places where POSIX requires updating ctime
     together with mtime. This is a wide-range of places and all
     maintainers provided necessary Acks.

   - Add new accessors for inode-&gt;i_ctime directly and change all
     callers to rely on them. Plain accesses to inode-&gt;i_ctime are now
     gone and it is accordingly rename to inode-&gt;__i_ctime and commented
     as requiring accessors.

   - Extend generic_fillattr() to pass in a request mask mirroring in a
     sense the statx() uapi. This allows callers to pass in a request
     mask to only get a subset of attributes filled in.

   - Rework timestamp updates so it's possible to drop the @now
     parameter the update_time() inode operation and associated helpers.

   - Add inode_update_timestamps() and convert all filesystems to it
     removing a bunch of open-coding"

* tag 'v6.6-vfs.ctime' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (107 commits)
  btrfs: convert to multigrain timestamps
  ext4: switch to multigrain timestamps
  xfs: switch to multigrain timestamps
  tmpfs: add support for multigrain timestamps
  fs: add infrastructure for multigrain timestamps
  fs: drop the timespec64 argument from update_time
  xfs: have xfs_vn_update_time gets its own timestamp
  fat: make fat_update_time get its own timestamp
  fat: remove i_version handling from fat_update_time
  ubifs: have ubifs_update_time use inode_update_timestamps
  btrfs: have it use inode_update_timestamps
  fs: drop the timespec64 arg from generic_update_time
  fs: pass the request_mask to generic_fillattr
  fs: remove silly warning from current_time
  gfs2: fix timestamp handling on quota inodes
  fs: rename i_ctime field to __i_ctime
  selinux: convert to ctime accessor functions
  security: convert to ctime accessor functions
  apparmor: convert to ctime accessor functions
  sunrpc: convert to ctime accessor functions
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: simplify invalidate_inodes</title>
<updated>2023-08-21T12:35:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-11T10:08:28+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
kill_dirty has always been true for a long time, so hard code it and
remove the unused return value.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20230811100828.1897174-18-hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking: remove spin_lock_prefetch</title>
<updated>2023-08-12T16:18:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mateusz Guzik</name>
<email>mjguzik@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-12T16:15:54+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
The only remaining consumer is new_inode, where it showed up in 2001 as
commit c37fa164f793 ("v2.4.9.9 -&gt; v2.4.9.10") in a historical repo [1]
with a changelog which does not mention it.

Since then the line got only touched up to keep compiling.

While it may have been of benefit back in the day, it is guaranteed to
at best not get in the way in the multicore setting -- as the code
performs *a lot* of work between the prefetch and actual lock acquire,
any contention means the cacheline is already invalid by the time the
routine calls spin_lock().  It adds spurious traffic, for short.

On top of it prefetch is notoriously tricky to use for single-threaded
purposes, making it questionable from the get go.

As such, remove it.

I admit upfront I did not see value in benchmarking this change, but I
can do it if that is deemed appropriate.

Removal from new_inode and of the entire thing are in the same patch as
requested by Linus, so whatever weird looks can be directed at that guy.

Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/commit/fs/inode.c?id=c37fa164f793735b32aa3f53154ff1a7659e6442 [1]
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mjguzik@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: add infrastructure for multigrain timestamps</title>
<updated>2023-08-11T07:04:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-07T19:38:40+00:00</published>
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<id>urn:sha1:ffb6cf19e06334062744b7e3493f71e500964f8e</id>
<content type='text'>
The VFS always uses coarse-grained timestamps when updating the ctime
and mtime after a change. This has the benefit of allowing filesystems
to optimize away a lot metadata updates, down to around 1 per jiffy,
even when a file is under heavy writes.

Unfortunately, this has always been an issue when we're exporting via
NFSv3, which relies on timestamps to validate caches. A lot of changes
can happen in a jiffy, so timestamps aren't sufficient to help the
client decide to invalidate the cache. Even with NFSv4, a lot of
exported filesystems don't properly support a change attribute and are
subject to the same problems with timestamp granularity. Other
applications have similar issues with timestamps (e.g backup
applications).

If we were to always use fine-grained timestamps, that would improve the
situation, but that becomes rather expensive, as the underlying
filesystem would have to log a lot more metadata updates.

What we need is a way to only use fine-grained timestamps when they are
being actively queried.

POSIX generally mandates that when the the mtime changes, the ctime must
also change. The kernel always stores normalized ctime values, so only
the first 30 bits of the tv_nsec field are ever used.

Use the 31st bit of the ctime tv_nsec field to indicate that something
has queried the inode for the mtime or ctime. When this flag is set,
on the next mtime or ctime update, the kernel will fetch a fine-grained
timestamp instead of the usual coarse-grained one.

Filesytems can opt into this behavior by setting the FS_MGTIME flag in
the fstype. Filesystems that don't set this flag will continue to use
coarse-grained timestamps.

Later patches will convert individual filesystems to use the new
infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20230807-mgctime-v7-9-d1dec143a704@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
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