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<title>kernel/linux.git/fs/minix/inode.c, branch linux-7.1.y</title>
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<updated>2026-04-13T19:46:42+00:00</updated>
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<title>Merge tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.bh.metadata' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2026-04-13T19:46:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-13T19:46:42+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs buffer_head updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This cleans up the mess that has accumulated over the years in
  metadata buffer_head tracking for inodes.

  It moves the tracking into dedicated structure in filesystem-private
  part of the inode (so that we don't use private_list, private_data,
  and private_lock in struct address_space), and also moves couple other
  users of private_data and private_list so these are removed from
  struct address_space saving 3 longs in struct inode for 99% of inodes"

* tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.bh.metadata' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (42 commits)
  fs: Drop i_private_list from address_space
  fs: Drop mapping_metadata_bhs from address space
  ext4: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
  minix: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
  udf: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
  fat: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
  bfs: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
  affs: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
  ext2: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part
  fs: Provide functions for handling mapping_metadata_bhs directly
  fs: Switch inode_has_buffers() to take mapping_metadata_bhs
  fs: Make bhs point to mapping_metadata_bhs
  fs: Move metadata bhs tracking to a separate struct
  fs: Fold fsync_buffers_list() into sync_mapping_buffers()
  fs: Drop osync_buffers_list()
  kvm: Use private inode list instead of i_private_list
  fs: Remove i_private_data
  aio: Stop using i_private_data and i_private_lock
  hugetlbfs: Stop using i_private_data
  fs: Stop using i_private_data for metadata bh tracking
  ...
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<title>minix: Track metadata bhs in fs-private inode part</title>
<updated>2026-03-26T14:03:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-26T09:54:33+00:00</published>
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Track metadata bhs for an inode in fs-private part of the inode.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326095354.16340-81-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>minix: Sync and invalidate metadata buffers from minix_evict_inode()</title>
<updated>2026-03-26T14:03:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-26T09:54:11+00:00</published>
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There are only very few filesystems using generic metadata buffer head
tracking and everybody is paying the overhead. When we remove this
tracking for inode reclaim code .evict will start to see inodes with
metadata buffers attached so write them out and prune them.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326095354.16340-59-jack@suse.cz
Tested-by: syzbot@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>treewide: change inode-&gt;i_ino from unsigned long to u64</title>
<updated>2026-03-06T13:31:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-04T15:32:42+00:00</published>
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On 32-bit architectures, unsigned long is only 32 bits wide, which
causes 64-bit inode numbers to be silently truncated. Several
filesystems (NFS, XFS, BTRFS, etc.) can generate inode numbers that
exceed 32 bits, and this truncation can lead to inode number collisions
and other subtle bugs on 32-bit systems.

Change the type of inode-&gt;i_ino from unsigned long to u64 to ensure that
inode numbers are always represented as 64-bit values regardless of
architecture. Update all format specifiers treewide from %lu/%lx to
%llu/%llx to match the new type, along with corresponding local variable
types.

This is the bulk treewide conversion. Earlier patches in this series
handled trace events separately to allow trace field reordering for
better struct packing on 32-bit.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260304-iino-u64-v3-12-2257ad83d372@kernel.org
Acked-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>minix: Add required sanity checking to minix_check_superblock()</title>
<updated>2026-01-19T11:16:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jori Koolstra</name>
<email>jkoolstra@xs4all.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-08T15:39:47+00:00</published>
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The fs/minix implementation of the minix filesystem does not currently
support any other value for s_log_zone_size than 0. This is also the
only value supported in util-linux; see mkfs.minix.c line 511. In
addition, this patch adds some sanity checking for the other minix
superblock fields, and moves the minix_blocks_needed() checks for the
zmap and imap also to minix_check_super_block().

This also closes a related syzbot bug report.

Signed-off-by: Jori Koolstra &lt;jkoolstra@xs4all.nl&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251208153947.108343-1-jkoolstra@xs4all.nl
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+5ad0824204c7bf9b67f2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=5ad0824204c7bf9b67f2
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.minix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-12-01T23:22:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-01T23:22:40+00:00</published>
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Pull minix fixes from Christian Brauner:
 "Fix two syzbot corruption bugs in the minix filesystem.

  Syzbot fuzzes filesystems by trying to mount and manipulate
  deliberately corrupted images. This should not lead to BUG_ONs and
  WARN_ONs for easy to detect corruptions.

   - Add error handling to minix filesystem for inode corruption
     detection, enabling the filesystem to report such corruptions
     cleanly.

   - Fix a drop_nlink warning in minix_rmdir() triggered by corrupted
     directory link counts.

   - Fix a drop_nlink warning in minix_rename() triggered by corrupted
     inode link counts"

* tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.minix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  Fix a drop_nlink warning in minix_rename
  Fix a drop_nlink warning in minix_rmdir
  Add error handling to minix filesystem for inode corruption detection
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<entry>
<title>Add error handling to minix filesystem for inode corruption detection</title>
<updated>2025-11-05T12:45:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jori Koolstra</name>
<email>jkoolstra@xs4all.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-04T14:30:03+00:00</published>
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We would like to provide early and specific warnings of filesystem
corruption without running into generic WARN_ONs and BUG_ONs.
Towards this goal, ext4, e.g., has a EFSCORRUPTED errno and a
standardized inode corruption message format. This patch adds this
errno and message format to the minix filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Jori Koolstra &lt;jkoolstra@xs4all.nl&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251104143005.3283980-2-jkoolstra@xs4all.nl
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Coccinelle-based conversion to use -&gt;i_state accessors</title>
<updated>2025-10-20T18:22:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mateusz Guzik</name>
<email>mjguzik@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-09T07:59:18+00:00</published>
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All places were patched by coccinelle with the default expecting that
-&gt;i_lock is held, afterwards entries got fixed up by hand to use
unlocked variants as needed.

The script:
@@
expression inode, flags;
@@

- inode-&gt;i_state &amp; flags
+ inode_state_read(inode) &amp; flags

@@
expression inode, flags;
@@

- inode-&gt;i_state &amp;= ~flags
+ inode_state_clear(inode, flags)

@@
expression inode, flag1, flag2;
@@

- inode-&gt;i_state &amp;= ~flag1 &amp; ~flag2
+ inode_state_clear(inode, flag1 | flag2)

@@
expression inode, flags;
@@

- inode-&gt;i_state |= flags
+ inode_state_set(inode, flags)

@@
expression inode, flags;
@@

- inode-&gt;i_state = flags
+ inode_state_assign(inode, flags)

@@
expression inode, flags;
@@

- flags = inode-&gt;i_state
+ flags = inode_state_read(inode)

@@
expression inode, flags;
@@

- READ_ONCE(inode-&gt;i_state) &amp; flags
+ inode_state_read(inode) &amp; flags

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mjguzik@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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