Merge tag 'vfs-6.8.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

Pull vfs super updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the super work for this cycle including the long-awaited
  series by Jan to make it possible to prevent writing to mounted block
  devices:

   - Writing to mounted devices is dangerous and can lead to filesystem
     corruption as well as crashes. Furthermore syzbot comes with more
     and more involved examples how to corrupt block device under a
     mounted filesystem leading to kernel crashes and reports we can do
     nothing about. Add tracking of writers to each block device and a
     kernel cmdline argument which controls whether other writeable
     opens to block devices open with BLK_OPEN_RESTRICT_WRITES flag are
     allowed.

     Note that this effectively only prevents modification of the
     particular block device's page cache by other writers. The actual
     device content can still be modified by other means - e.g. by
     issuing direct scsi commands, by doing writes through devices lower
     in the storage stack (e.g. in case loop devices, DM, or MD are
     involved) etc. But blocking direct modifications of the block
     device page cache is enough to give filesystems a chance to perform
     data validation when loading data from the underlying storage and
     thus prevent kernel crashes.

     Syzbot can use this cmdline argument option to avoid uninteresting
     crashes. Also users whose userspace setup does not need writing to
     mounted block devices can set this option for hardening. We expect
     that this will be interesting to quite a few workloads.

     Btrfs is currently opted out of this because they still haven't
     merged patches we require for this to work from three kernel
     releases ago.

   - Reimplement block device freezing and thawing as holder operations
     on the block device.

     This allows us to extend block device freezing to all devices
     associated with a superblock and not just the main device. It also
     allows us to remove get_active_super() and thus another function
     that scans the global list of superblocks.

     Freezing via additional block devices only works if the filesystem
     chooses to use @fs_holder_ops for these additional devices as well.
     That currently only includes ext4 and xfs.

     Earlier releases switched get_tree_bdev() and mount_bdev() to use
     @fs_holder_ops. The remaining nilfs2 open-coded version of
     mount_bdev() has been converted to rely on @fs_holder_ops as well.
     So block device freezing for the main block device will continue to
     work as before.

     There should be no regressions in functionality. The only special
     case is btrfs where block device freezing for the main block device
     never worked because sb->s_bdev isn't set. Block device freezing
     for btrfs can be fixed once they can switch to @fs_holder_ops but
     that can happen whenever they're ready"

* tag 'vfs-6.8.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (27 commits)
  block: Fix a memory leak in bdev_open_by_dev()
  super: don't bother with WARN_ON_ONCE()
  super: massage wait event mechanism
  ext4: Block writes to journal device
  xfs: Block writes to log device
  fs: Block writes to mounted block devices
  btrfs: Do not restrict writes to btrfs devices
  block: Add config option to not allow writing to mounted devices
  block: Remove blkdev_get_by_*() functions
  bcachefs: Convert to bdev_open_by_path()
  fs: handle freezing from multiple devices
  fs: remove dead check
  nilfs2: simplify device handling
  fs: streamline thaw_super_locked
  ext4: simplify device handling
  xfs: simplify device handling
  fs: simplify setup_bdev_super() calls
  blkdev: comment fs_holder_ops
  porting: document block device freeze and thaw changes
  fs: remove unused helper
  ...

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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
index 878e72b2f8b7..ced3a6761329 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
@@ -1061,3 +1061,15 @@ export_operations ->encode_fh() no longer has a default implementation to
 encode FILEID_INO32_GEN* file handles.
 Filesystems that used the default implementation may use the generic helper
 generic_encode_ino32_fh() explicitly.
+
+---
+
+**recommended**
+
+Block device freezing and thawing have been moved to holder operations.
+
+Before this change, get_active_super() would only be able to find the
+superblock of the main block device, i.e., the one stored in sb->s_bdev. Block
+device freezing now works for any block device owned by a given superblock, not
+just the main block device. The get_active_super() helper and bd_fsfreeze_sb
+pointer are gone.