kernel/linux.git/fs/jbd2/journal.c, branch v7.0.10

Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments

2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00

This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split over multiple lines. I only did the ones that are easy to verify the resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next line. Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the middle of the script. I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial. So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed' scripts. The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want whitespace cleanup anyway. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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

jbd2: fix the inconsistency between checksum and data in memory for journal sb

2025-11-26T22:05:47+00:00

Copying the file system while it is mounted as read-only results in a mount failure: [~]# mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/sdc [~]# mount /dev/sdc -o ro /mnt/test [~]# dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/sda bs=1M [~]# mount /dev/sda /mnt/test1 [ 1094.849826] JBD2: journal checksum error [ 1094.850927] EXT4-fs (sda): Could not load journal inode mount: mount /dev/sda on /mnt/test1 failed: Bad message The process described above is just an abstracted way I came up with to reproduce the issue. In the actual scenario, the file system was mounted read-only and then copied while it was still mounted. It was found that the mount operation failed. The user intended to verify the data or use it as a backup, and this action was performed during a version upgrade. Above issue may happen as follows: ext4_fill_super set_journal_csum_feature_set(sb) if (ext4_has_metadata_csum(sb)) incompat = JBD2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_CSUM_V3; if (test_opt(sb, JOURNAL_CHECKSUM) jbd2_journal_set_features(sbi->s_journal, compat, 0, incompat); lock_buffer(journal->j_sb_buffer); sb->s_feature_incompat |= cpu_to_be32(incompat); //The data in the journal sb was modified, but the checksum was not updated, so the data remaining in memory has a mismatch between the data and the checksum. unlock_buffer(journal->j_sb_buffer); In this case, the journal sb copied over is in a state where the checksum and data are inconsistent, so mounting fails. To solve the above issue, update the checksum in memory after modifying the journal sb. Fixes: 4fd5ea43bc11 ("jbd2: checksum journal superblock") Signed-off-by: Ye Bin Reviewed-by: Baokun Li Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Message-ID: <20251103010123.3753631-1-yebin@huaweicloud.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Cc: stable@kernel.org

jbd2: store more accurate errno in superblock when possible

2025-11-26T22:05:39+00:00

When jbd2_journal_abort() is called, the provided error code is stored in the journal superblock. Some existing calls hard-code -EIO even when the actual failure is not I/O related. This patch updates those calls to pass more accurate error codes, allowing the superblock to record the true cause of failure. This helps improve diagnostics and debugging clarity when analyzing journal aborts. Signed-off-by: Wengang Wang Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi Message-ID: <20251031210501.7337-1-wen.gang.wang@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

jbd2: use a per-journal lock_class_key for jbd2_trans_commit_key

2025-11-13T13:34:39+00:00

syzbot is reporting possibility of deadlock due to sharing lock_class_key for jbd2_handle across ext4 and ocfs2. But this is a false positive, for one disk partition can't have two filesystems at the same time. Reported-by: syzbot+6e493c165d26d6fcbf72@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=6e493c165d26d6fcbf72 Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa Tested-by: syzbot+6e493c165d26d6fcbf72@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Message-ID: <987110fc-5470-457a-a218-d286a09dd82f@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Cc: stable@kernel.org

treewide, timers: Rename from_timer() to timer_container_of()

2025-06-08T07:07:37+00:00

Move this API to the canonical timer_*() namespace. [ tglx: Redone against pre rc1 ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aB2X0jCKQO56WdMt@gmail.com

jbd2: remove journal_t argument from jbd2_superblock_csum()

2025-05-20T14:31:12+00:00

Since jbd2_superblock_csum() no longer uses its journal_t argument, remove it. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Reviewed-by: Baokun Li Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250513053809.699974-5-ebiggers@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

jbd2: remove journal_t argument from jbd2_chksum()

2025-05-20T14:31:12+00:00

Since jbd2_chksum() no longer uses its journal_t argument, remove it. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Reviewed-by: Baokun Li Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250513053809.699974-4-ebiggers@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

ext4/jbd2: convert jbd2_journal_blocks_per_page() to support large folio

2025-05-20T14:31:12+00:00

jbd2_journal_blocks_per_page() returns the number of blocks in a single page. Rename it to jbd2_journal_blocks_per_folio() and make it returns the number of blocks in the largest folio, preparing for the calculation of journal credits blocks when allocating blocks within a large folio in the writeback path. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250512063319.3539411-5-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o