kernel/linux.git/fs/romfs, branch v7.0-rc7

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-18-19-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-02-19T04:50:32+00:00

Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "mm/vmscan: fix demotion targets checks in reclaim/demotion" fixes a couple of issues in the demotion code - pages were failed demotion and were finding themselves demoted into disallowed nodes (Bing Jiao) - "Remove XA_ZERO from error recovery of dup_mmap()" fixes a rare mapledtree race and performs a number of cleanups (Liam Howlett) - "mm: add bitmap VMA flag helpers and convert all mmap_prepare to use them" implements a lot of cleanups following on from the conversion of the VMA flags into a bitmap (Lorenzo Stoakes) - "support batch checking of references and unmapping for large folios" implements batching to greatly improve the performance of reclaiming clean file-backed large folios (Baolin Wang) - "selftests/mm: add memory failure selftests" does as claimed (Miaohe Lin) * tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-18-19-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (36 commits) mm/page_alloc: clear page->private in free_pages_prepare() selftests/mm: add memory failure dirty pagecache test selftests/mm: add memory failure clean pagecache test selftests/mm: add memory failure anonymous page test mm: rmap: support batched unmapping for file large folios arm64: mm: implement the architecture-specific clear_flush_young_ptes() arm64: mm: support batch clearing of the young flag for large folios arm64: mm: factor out the address and ptep alignment into a new helper mm: rmap: support batched checks of the references for large folios tools/testing/vma: add VMA userland tests for VMA flag functions tools/testing/vma: separate out vma_internal.h into logical headers tools/testing/vma: separate VMA userland tests into separate files mm: make vm_area_desc utilise vma_flags_t only mm: update all remaining mmap_prepare users to use vma_flags_t mm: update shmem_[kernel]_file_*() functions to use vma_flags_t mm: update secretmem to use VMA flags on mmap_prepare mm: update hugetlbfs to use VMA flags on mmap_prepare mm: add basic VMA flag operation helper functions tools: bitmap: add missing bitmap_[subset(), andnot()] mm: add mk_vma_flags() bitmap flag macro helper ...

mm: update all remaining mmap_prepare users to use vma_flags_t

2026-02-12T23:42:58+00:00

We will be shortly removing the vm_flags_t field from vm_area_desc so we need to update all mmap_prepare users to only use the dessc->vma_flags field. This patch achieves that and makes all ancillary changes required to make this possible. This lays the groundwork for future work to eliminate the use of vm_flags_t in vm_area_desc altogether and more broadly throughout the kernel. While we're here, we take the opportunity to replace VM_REMAP_FLAGS with VMA_REMAP_FLAGS, the vma_flags_t equivalent. No functional changes intended. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/fb1f55323799f09fe6a36865b31550c9ec67c225.1769097829.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Acked-by: Damien Le Moal [zonefs] Acked-by: "Darrick J. Wong" Acked-by: Pedro Falcato Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: Barry Song Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Dev Jain Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Zi Yan Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen Cc: Yury Norov Cc: Chris Mason Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

romfs: check sb_set_blocksize() return value

2026-01-13T08:56:58+00:00

romfs_fill_super() ignores the return value of sb_set_blocksize(), which can fail if the requested block size is incompatible with the block device's configuration. This can be triggered by setting a loop device's block size larger than PAGE_SIZE using ioctl(LOOP_SET_BLOCK_SIZE, 32768), then mounting a romfs filesystem on that device. When sb_set_blocksize(sb, ROMBSIZE) is called with ROMBSIZE=4096 but the device has logical_block_size=32768, bdev_validate_blocksize() fails because the requested size is smaller than the device's logical block size. sb_set_blocksize() returns 0 (failure), but romfs ignores this and continues mounting. The superblock's block size remains at the device's logical block size (32768). Later, when sb_bread() attempts I/O with this oversized block size, it triggers a kernel BUG in folio_set_bh(): kernel BUG at fs/buffer.c:1582! BUG_ON(size > PAGE_SIZE); Fix by checking the return value of sb_set_blocksize() and failing the mount with -EINVAL if it returns 0. Reported-by: syzbot+9c4e33e12283d9437c25@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=9c4e33e12283d9437c25 Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260113084037.1167887-1-kartikey406@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

Coccinelle-based conversion to use ->i_state accessors

2025-10-20T18:22:26+00:00

All places were patched by coccinelle with the default expecting that ->i_lock is held, afterwards entries got fixed up by hand to use unlocked variants as needed. The script: @@ expression inode, flags; @@ - inode->i_state & flags + inode_state_read(inode) & flags @@ expression inode, flags; @@ - inode->i_state &= ~flags + inode_state_clear(inode, flags) @@ expression inode, flag1, flag2; @@ - inode->i_state &= ~flag1 & ~flag2 + inode_state_clear(inode, flag1 | flag2) @@ expression inode, flags; @@ - inode->i_state |= flags + inode_state_set(inode, flags) @@ expression inode, flags; @@ - inode->i_state = flags + inode_state_assign(inode, flags) @@ expression inode, flags; @@ - flags = inode->i_state + flags = inode_state_read(inode) @@ expression inode, flags; @@ - READ_ONCE(inode->i_state) & flags + inode_state_read(inode) & flags Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

fs: replace mmap hook with .mmap_prepare for simple mappings

2025-06-19T11:56:59+00:00

Since commit c84bf6dd2b83 ("mm: introduce new .mmap_prepare() file callback"), the f_op->mmap() hook has been deprecated in favour of f_op->mmap_prepare(). This callback is invoked in the mmap() logic far earlier, so error handling can be performed more safely without complicated and bug-prone state unwinding required should an error arise. This hook also avoids passing a pointer to a not-yet-correctly-established VMA avoiding any issues with referencing this data structure. It rather provides a pointer to the new struct vm_area_desc descriptor type which contains all required state and allows easy setting of required parameters without any consideration needing to be paid to locking or reference counts. Note that nested filesystems like overlayfs are compatible with an .mmap_prepare() callback since commit bb666b7c2707 ("mm: add mmap_prepare() compatibility layer for nested file systems"). In this patch we apply this change to file systems with relatively simple mmap() hook logic - exfat, ceph, f2fs, bcachefs, zonefs, btrfs, ocfs2, orangefs, nilfs2, romfs, ramfs and aio. Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Link: https://lore.kernel.org/f528ac4f35b9378931bd800920fee53fc0c5c74d.1750099179.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Acked-by: Damien Le Moal Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

romfs: fix romfs_read_folio()

2024-08-21T20:32:58+00:00

Add the correct offset to folio_zero_tail(). Fixes: d86f2de026c5 ("romfs: Convert romfs_read_folio() to use a folio") Reported-by: Greg Ungerer Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Zr0GTnPHfeA0P8nb@casper.infradead.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

romfs: Convert romfs_read_folio() to use a folio

2024-05-31T10:31:42+00:00

Remove the conversion back to struct page and use the folio APIs instead of the page APIs. It's probably more trouble than it's worth to support large folios in romfs, so there are still PAGE_SIZE assumptions in this function. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240530202110.2653630-13-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

fs,block: yield devices early

2024-03-27T12:17:15+00:00

Currently a device is only really released once the umount returns to userspace due to how file closing works. That ultimately could cause an old umount assumption to be violated that concurrent umount and mount don't fail. So an exclusively held device with a temporary holder should be yielded before the filesystem is gone. Add a helper that allows callers to do that. This also allows us to remove the two holder ops that Linus wasn't excited about. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240326-vfs-bdev-end_holder-v1-1-20af85202918@kernel.org Fixes: f3a608827d1f ("bdev: open block device as files") # mainline only Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

Merge tag 'vfs-6.9.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

2024-03-11T17:52:34+00:00

Pull block handle updates from Christian Brauner: "Last cycle we changed opening of block devices, and opening a block device would return a bdev_handle. This allowed us to implement support for restricting and forbidding writes to mounted block devices. It was accompanied by converting and adding helpers to operate on bdev_handles instead of plain block devices. That was already a good step forward but ultimately it isn't necessary to have special purpose helpers for opening block devices internally that return a bdev_handle. Fundamentally, opening a block device internally should just be equivalent to opening files. So now all internal opens of block devices return files just as a userspace open would. Instead of introducing a separate indirection into bdev_open_by_*() via struct bdev_handle bdev_file_open_by_*() is made to just return a struct file. Opening and closing a block device just becomes equivalent to opening and closing a file. This all works well because internally we already have a pseudo fs for block devices and so opening block devices is simple. There's a few places where we needed to be careful such as during boot when the kernel is supposed to mount the rootfs directly without init doing it. Here we need to take care to ensure that we flush out any asynchronous file close. That's what we already do for opening, unpacking, and closing the initramfs. So nothing new here. The equivalence of opening and closing block devices to regular files is a win in and of itself. But it also has various other advantages. We can remove struct bdev_handle completely. Various low-level helpers are now private to the block layer. Other helpers were simply removable completely. A follow-up series that is already reviewed build on this and makes it possible to remove bdev->bd_inode and allows various clean ups of the buffer head code as well. All places where we stashed a bdev_handle now just stash a file and use simple accessors to get to the actual block device which was already the case for bdev_handle" * tag 'vfs-6.9.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (35 commits) block: remove bdev_handle completely block: don't rely on BLK_OPEN_RESTRICT_WRITES when yielding write access bdev: remove bdev pointer from struct bdev_handle bdev: make struct bdev_handle private to the block layer bdev: make bdev_{release, open_by_dev}() private to block layer bdev: remove bdev_open_by_path() reiserfs: port block device access to file ocfs2: port block device access to file nfs: port block device access to files jfs: port block device access to file f2fs: port block device access to files ext4: port block device access to file erofs: port device access to file btrfs: port device access to file bcachefs: port block device access to file target: port block device access to file s390: port block device access to file nvme: port block device access to file block2mtd: port device access to files bcache: port block device access to files ...

romfs: remove SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag usage

2024-02-27T10:21:31+00:00

The SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag used to be implemented in SLAB, which was removed as of v6.8-rc1 (see [1]), so it became a dead flag since the commit 16a1d968358a ("mm/slab: remove mm/slab.c and slab_def.h"). And the series[1] went on to mark it obsolete explicitly to avoid confusion for users. Here we can just remove all its users, which has no any functional change. Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240223-slab-cleanup-flags-v2-1-02f1753e8303@suse.cz [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240224135143.830142-1-chengming.zhou@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner