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2020-08-07gfs2: print details on transactions that aren't properly endedBob Peterson
If function gfs2_trans_begin is called with another transaction active it BUGs out, but it doesn't give any details about the duplicate. This patch moves function gfs2_print_trans and calls it when this situation arises for better debugging. Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
2020-08-07gfs2: Fix inaccurate commentBob Peterson
The comment regarding journal flush thresholds is wrong. This patch fixes it. Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
2020-08-06cifs: Fix an error pointer dereference in cifs_mount()Dan Carpenter
The error handling calls kfree(full_path) so we can't let it be a NULL pointer. There used to be a NULL assignment here but we accidentally deleted it. Add it back. Fixes: 7efd08158261 ("cifs: document and cleanup dfs mount") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) <pc@cjr.nz>
2020-08-06Merge tag 'dlm-5.9' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/teigland/linux-dlm Pull dlm updates from David Teigland: "This set includes a some improvements to the dlm networking layer: improving the ability to trace dlm messages for debugging, and improved handling of bad messages or disrupted connections" * tag 'dlm-5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/teigland/linux-dlm: fs: dlm: implement tcp graceful shutdown fs: dlm: change handling of reconnects fs: dlm: don't close socket on invalid message fs: dlm: set skb mark per peer socket fs: dlm: set skb mark for listen socket net: sock: add sock_set_mark dlm: Fix kobject memleak
2020-08-06Merge tag 'iomap-5.9-merge-5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull iomap updates from Darrick Wong: "The most notable changes are: - iomap no longer invalidates the page cache when performing a direct read, since doing so is unnecessary and the old directio code doesn't do that either. - iomap embraced the use of returning ENOTBLK from a direct write to trigger falling back to a buffered write since ext4 already did this and btrfs wants it for their port. - iomap falls back to buffered writes if we're doing a direct write and the page cache invalidation after the flush fails; this was necessary to handle a corner case in the btrfs port. - Remove email virus scanner detritus that was accidentally included in yesterday's pull request. Clearly I need(ed) to update my git branch checker scripts. :(" * tag 'iomap-5.9-merge-5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux: iomap: fall back to buffered writes for invalidation failures xfs: use ENOTBLK for direct I/O to buffered I/O fallback iomap: Only invalidate page cache pages on direct IO writes iomap: Make sure iomap_end is called after iomap_begin
2020-08-06Merge tag 'fsnotify_for_v5.9-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs Pull fsnotify updates from Jan Kara: - fanotify fix for softlockups when there are many queued events - performance improvement to reduce fsnotify overhead when not used - Amir's implementation of fanotify events with names. With these you can now efficiently monitor whole filesystem, eg to mirror changes to another machine. * tag 'fsnotify_for_v5.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs: (37 commits) fanotify: compare fsid when merging name event fsnotify: create method handle_inode_event() in fsnotify_operations fanotify: report parent fid + child fid fanotify: report parent fid + name + child fid fanotify: add support for FAN_REPORT_NAME fanotify: report events with parent dir fid to sb/mount/non-dir marks fanotify: add basic support for FAN_REPORT_DIR_FID fsnotify: remove check that source dentry is positive fsnotify: send event with parent/name info to sb/mount/non-dir marks audit: do not set FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD in audit marks mask inotify: do not set FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD in non-dir mark mask fsnotify: pass dir and inode arguments to fsnotify() fsnotify: create helper fsnotify_inode() fsnotify: send event to parent and child with single callback inotify: report both events on parent and child with single callback dnotify: report both events on parent and child with single callback fanotify: no external fh buffer in fanotify_name_event fanotify: use struct fanotify_info to parcel the variable size buffer fsnotify: add object type "child" to object type iterator fanotify: use FAN_EVENT_ON_CHILD as implicit flag on sb/mount/non-dir marks ...
2020-08-06Merge tag 'for_v5.9-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs Pull ext2, udf, reiserfs, quota cleanups and minor fixes from Jan Kara: "A few ext2 fixups and then several (mostly comment and documentation) cleanups in ext2, udf, reiserfs, and quota" * tag 'for_v5.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs: reiserfs: delete duplicated words udf: osta_udf.h: delete a duplicated word reiserfs: reiserfs.h: delete a duplicated word ext2: ext2.h: fix duplicated word + typos udf: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones quota: Fixup http links in quota doc Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: DISKQUOTA ext2: initialize quota info in ext2_xattr_set() ext2: fix some incorrect comments in inode.c ext2: remove nocheck option ext2: fix missing percpu_counter_inc ext2: ext2_find_entry() return -ENOENT if no entry found ext2: propagate errors up to ext2_find_entry()'s callers ext2: fix improper assignment for e_value_offs
2020-08-06Merge tag 'erofs-for-5.9-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xiang/erofs Pull erofs updates from Gao Xiang: "This cycle mainly addresses an issue out of some extended inode with designated location, which are not generated by current mkfs but need to handled at runtime anyway. The others are quite trivial ones. - use HTTPS links instead of insecure HTTP ones; - fix crossing page boundary on specific extended inodes; - remove useless WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE flag for unbound wq; - minor cleanup" * tag 'erofs-for-5.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xiang/erofs: erofs: remove WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE flag from unbound wq's erofs: fold in used-once helper erofs_workgroup_unfreeze_final() erofs: fix extended inode could cross boundary erofs: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
2020-08-06Merge tag '5.9-rc-smb3-fixes-part1' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6Linus Torvalds
Pull cifs updates from Steve French: "16 cifs/smb3 fixes, about half DFS related, two fixes for stable. Still working on and testing an additional set of fixes (including updates to mount, and some fallocate scenario improvements) for later in the merge window" * tag '5.9-rc-smb3-fixes-part1' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6: cifs: document and cleanup dfs mount cifs: only update prefix path of DFS links in cifs_tree_connect() cifs: fix double free error on share and prefix cifs: handle RESP_GET_DFS_REFERRAL.PathConsumed in reconnect cifs: handle empty list of targets in cifs_reconnect() cifs: rename reconn_inval_dfs_target() cifs: reduce number of referral requests in DFS link lookups cifs: merge __{cifs,smb2}_reconnect[_tcon]() into cifs_tree_connect() cifs: convert to use be32_add_cpu() cifs: delete duplicated words in header files cifs: Remove the superfluous break cifs: smb1: Try failing back to SetFileInfo if SetPathInfo fails cifs`: handle ERRBaduid for SMB1 cifs: remove unused variable 'server' smb3: warn on confusing error scenario with sec=krb5 cifs: Fix leak when handling lease break for cached root fid
2020-08-06fs: dlm: implement tcp graceful shutdownAlexander Aring
During my code inspection I saw there is no implementation of a graceful shutdown for tcp. This patch will introduce a graceful shutdown for tcp connections. The shutdown is implemented synchronized as dlm_lowcomms_stop() is called to end all dlm communication. After shutdown is done, a lot of flush and closing functionality will be called. However I don't see a problem with that. The waitqueue for synchronize the shutdown has a timeout of 10 seconds, if timeout a force close will be exectued. Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <aahringo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
2020-08-06fs: dlm: change handling of reconnectsAlexander Aring
This patch changes the handling of reconnects. At first we only close the connection related to the communication failure. If we get a new connection for an already existing connection we close the existing connection and take the new one. This patch improves significantly the stability of tcp connections while running "tcpkill -9 -i $IFACE port 21064" while generating a lot of dlm messages e.g. on a gfs2 mount with many files. My test setup shows that a deadlock is "more" unlikely. Before this patch I wasn't able to get not a deadlock after 5 seconds. After this patch my observation is that it's more likely to survive after 5 seconds and more, but still a deadlock occurs after certain time. My guess is that there are still "segments" inside the tcp writequeue or retransmit queue which get dropped when receiving a tcp reset [1]. Hard to reproduce because the right message need to be inside these queues, which might even be in the 5 first seconds with this patch. [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/net/ipv4/tcp_input.c?h=v5.8-rc6#n4122 Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <aahringo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
2020-08-06fs: dlm: don't close socket on invalid messageAlexander Aring
This patch doesn't close sockets when there is an invalid dlm message received. The connection will probably reconnect anyway so. To not close the connection will reduce the number of possible failtures. As we don't have a different strategy to react on such scenario just keep going the connection and ignore the message. Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <aahringo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
2020-08-06fs: dlm: set skb mark per peer socketAlexander Aring
This patch adds support to set the skb mark value for the DLM tcp and sctp socket per peer. The mark value will be offered as per comm value of configfs. At creation time of the peer socket it will be set as socket option. Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <aahringo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
2020-08-06fs: dlm: set skb mark for listen socketAlexander Aring
This patch adds support to set the skb mark value for the DLM listen tcp and sctp sockets. The mark value will be offered as cluster configuration. At creation time of the listen socket it will be set as socket option. Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <aahringo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
2020-08-06dlm: Fix kobject memleakWang Hai
Currently the error return path from kobject_init_and_add() is not followed by a call to kobject_put() - which means we are leaking the kobject. Set do_unreg = 1 before kobject_init_and_add() to ensure that kobject_put() can be called in its error patch. Fixes: 901195ed7f4b ("Kobject: change GFS2 to use kobject_init_and_add") Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Wang Hai <wanghai38@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
2020-08-06io_uring: account locked memory before potential error caseJens Axboe
The tear down path will always unaccount the memory, so ensure that we have accounted it before hitting any of them. Reported-by: Tomáš Chaloupka <chalucha@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2020-08-06io_uring: set ctx sq/cq entry count earlierJens Axboe
If we hit an earlier error path in io_uring_create(), then we will have accounted memory, but not set ctx->{sq,cq}_entries yet. Then when the ring is torn down in error, we use those values to unaccount the memory. Ensure we set the ctx entries before we're able to hit a potential error path. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Tomáš Chaloupka <chalucha@gmail.com> Tested-by: Tomáš Chaloupka <chalucha@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2020-08-06Merge branch 'WIP.locking/seqlocks' into locking/urgentIngo Molnar
Pick up the full seqlock series PeterZ is working on. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2020-08-06ext4: skip non-loaded groups at cr=0/1 when scanning for good groupsAlex Zhuravlev
cr=0 is supposed to be an optimization to save CPU cycles, but if buddy data (in memory) is not initialized then all this makes no sense as we have to do sync IO taking a lot of cycles. Also, at cr=0 mballoc doesn't choose any available chunk. cr=1 also skips groups using heuristic based on avg. fragment size. It's more useful to skip such groups and switch to cr=2 where groups will be scanned for available chunks. However, we always read the first block group in a flex_bg so metadata blocks will get read into the first flex_bg if possible. Using sparse image and dm-slow virtual device of 120TB was simulated, then the image was formatted and filled using debugfs to mark ~85% of available space as busy. mount process w/o the patch couldn't complete in half an hour (according to vmstat it would take ~10-11 hours). With the patch applied mount took ~20 seconds. Lustre-bug-id: https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-12988 Signed-off-by: Alex Zhuravlev <azhuravlev@whamcloud.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@whamcloud.com> Reviewed-by: Artem Blagodarenko <artem.blagodarenko@gmail.com>
2020-08-06ext4: add prefetching for block allocation bitmapsAlex Zhuravlev
This should significantly improve bitmap loading, especially for flex groups as it tries to load all bitmaps within a flex.group instead of one by one synchronously. Prefetching is done in 8 * flex_bg groups, so it should be 8 read-ahead reads for a single allocating thread. At the end of allocation the thread waits for read-ahead completion and initializes buddy information so that read-aheads are not lost in case of memory pressure. At cr=0 the number of prefetching IOs is limited per allocation context to prevent a situation when mballoc loads thousands of bitmaps looking for a perfect group and ignoring groups with good chunks. Together with the patch "ext4: limit scanning of uninitialized groups" the mount time (which includes few tiny allocations) of a 1PB filesystem is reduced significantly: 0% full 50%-full unpatched patched mount time 33s 9279s 563s [ Restructured by tytso; removed the state flags in the allocation context, so it can be used to lazily prefetch the allocation bitmaps immediately after the file system is mounted. Skip prefetching block groups which are uninitialized. Finally pass in the REQ_RAHEAD flag to the block layer while prefetching. ] Signed-off-by: Alex Zhuravlev <bzzz@whamcloud.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@whamcloud.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2020-08-06ext4: handle read only external journal deviceLukas Czerner
Ext4 uses blkdev_get_by_dev() to get the block_device for journal device which does check to see if the read-only block device was opened read-only. As a result ext4 will hapily proceed mounting the file system with external journal on read-only device. This is bad as we would not be able to use the journal leading to errors later on. Instead of simply failing to mount file system in this case, treat it in a similar way we treat internal journal on read-only device. Allow to mount with -o noload in read-only mode. This can be reproduced easily like this: mke2fs -F -O journal_dev $JOURNAL_DEV 100M mkfs.$FSTYPE -F -J device=$JOURNAL_DEV $FS_DEV blockdev --setro $JOURNAL_DEV mount $FS_DEV $MNT touch $MNT/file umount $MNT leading to error like this [ 1307.318713] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 1307.323362] generic_make_request: Trying to write to read-only block-device dm-2 (partno 0) [ 1307.331741] WARNING: CPU: 36 PID: 3224 at block/blk-core.c:855 generic_make_request_checks+0x2c3/0x580 [ 1307.341041] Modules linked in: ext4 mbcache jbd2 rfkill intel_rapl_msr intel_rapl_common isst_if_commd [ 1307.419445] CPU: 36 PID: 3224 Comm: jbd2/dm-2 Tainted: G W I 5.8.0-rc5 #2 [ 1307.427359] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R740/01KPX8, BIOS 2.3.10 08/15/2019 [ 1307.434932] RIP: 0010:generic_make_request_checks+0x2c3/0x580 [ 1307.440676] Code: 94 03 00 00 48 89 df 48 8d 74 24 08 c6 05 cf 2b 18 01 01 e8 7f a4 ff ff 48 c7 c7 50e [ 1307.459420] RSP: 0018:ffffc0d70eb5fb48 EFLAGS: 00010286 [ 1307.464646] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9b33b2978300 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 1307.471780] RDX: ffff9b33e12a81e0 RSI: ffff9b33e1298000 RDI: ffff9b33e1298000 [ 1307.478913] RBP: ffff9b7b9679e0c0 R08: 0000000000000837 R09: 0000000000000024 [ 1307.486044] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffc0d70eb5f9f0 R12: 0000000000000400 [ 1307.493177] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 1307.500308] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9b33e1280000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 1307.508396] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 1307.514142] CR2: 000055eaf4109000 CR3: 0000003dee40a006 CR4: 00000000007606e0 [ 1307.521273] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 1307.528407] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 1307.535538] PKRU: 55555554 [ 1307.538250] Call Trace: [ 1307.540708] generic_make_request+0x30/0x340 [ 1307.544985] submit_bio+0x43/0x190 [ 1307.548393] ? bio_add_page+0x62/0x90 [ 1307.552068] submit_bh_wbc+0x16a/0x190 [ 1307.555833] jbd2_write_superblock+0xec/0x200 [jbd2] [ 1307.560803] jbd2_journal_update_sb_log_tail+0x65/0xc0 [jbd2] [ 1307.566557] jbd2_journal_commit_transaction+0x2ae/0x1860 [jbd2] [ 1307.572566] ? check_preempt_curr+0x7a/0x90 [ 1307.576756] ? update_curr+0xe1/0x1d0 [ 1307.580421] ? account_entity_dequeue+0x7b/0xb0 [ 1307.584955] ? newidle_balance+0x231/0x3d0 [ 1307.589056] ? __switch_to_asm+0x42/0x70 [ 1307.592986] ? __switch_to_asm+0x36/0x70 [ 1307.596918] ? lock_timer_base+0x67/0x80 [ 1307.600851] kjournald2+0xbd/0x270 [jbd2] [ 1307.604873] ? finish_wait+0x80/0x80 [ 1307.608460] ? commit_timeout+0x10/0x10 [jbd2] [ 1307.612915] kthread+0x114/0x130 [ 1307.616152] ? kthread_park+0x80/0x80 [ 1307.619816] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 [ 1307.623400] ---[ end trace 27490236265b1630 ]--- Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200717090605.2612-1-lczerner@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2020-08-06ext4: fix spelling typos in ext4_mb_initialize_contextbrookxu
Fix spelling typos in ext4_mb_initialize_context. Signed-off-by: Chunguang Xu <brookxu@tencent.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/883b523c-58ec-7f38-0bb8-cd2ea4393684@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2020-08-06ext4: use generic names for generic ioctlsEric Biggers
Don't define EXT4_IOC_* aliases to ioctls that already have a generic FS_IOC_* name. These aliases are unnecessary, and they make it unclear which ioctls are ext4-specific and which are generic. Exception: leave EXT4_IOC_GETVERSION_OLD and EXT4_IOC_SETVERSION_OLD as-is for now, since renaming them to FS_IOC_GETVERSION and FS_IOC_SETVERSION would probably make them more likely to be confused with EXT4_IOC_GETVERSION and EXT4_IOC_SETVERSION which also exist. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200714230909.56349-1-ebiggers@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2020-08-06ext4: don't hardcode bit values in EXT4_FL_USER_*Eric Biggers
Define the EXT4_FL_USER_* constants by OR-ing together the appropriate flags, rather than hard-coding a numeric value. This makes it much easier to see which flags are listed. No change in the actual values. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200713031012.192440-1-ebiggers@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2020-08-06ext4: don't BUG on inconsistent journal featureJan Kara
A customer has reported a BUG_ON in ext4_clear_journal_err() hitting during an LTP testing. Either this has been caused by a test setup issue where the filesystem was being overwritten while LTP was mounting it or the journal replay has overwritten the superblock with invalid data. In either case it is preferable we don't take the machine down with a BUG_ON. So handle the situation of unexpectedly missing has_journal feature more gracefully. We issue warning and fail the mount in the cases where the race window is narrow and the failed check is most likely a programming error. In cases where fs corruption is more likely, we do full ext4_error() handling before failing mount / remount. Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200710140759.18031-1-jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2020-08-06ext4: do not block RWF_NOWAIT dio write on unallocated spaceJan Kara
Since commit 378f32bab371 ("ext4: introduce direct I/O write using iomap infrastructure") we don't properly bail out of RWF_NOWAIT direct IO write if underlying blocks are not allocated. Also ext4_dio_write_checks() does not honor RWF_NOWAIT when re-acquiring i_rwsem. Fix both issues. Fixes: 378f32bab371 ("ext4: introduce direct I/O write using iomap infrastructure") Cc: stable@kernel.org Reported-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200708153516.9507-1-jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2020-08-06ext4: replace HTTP links with HTTPS onesAlexander A. Klimov
Rationale: Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate. Deterministic algorithm: For each file: If not .svg: For each line: If doesn't contain `\bxmlns\b`: For each link, `\bhttp://[^# \t\r\n]*(?:\w|/)`: If both the HTTP and HTTPS versions return 200 OK and serve the same content: Replace HTTP with HTTPS. Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@al2klimov.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200706190339.20709-1-grandmaster@al2klimov.de Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2020-08-06ext4: lost matching-pair of trace in ext4_unlinkYi Zhuang
If dquot_initialize() return non-zero and trace of ext4_unlink_enter/exit enabled then the matching-pair of trace_exit will lost in log. Signed-off-by: Yi Zhuang <zhuangyi1@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200629122621.129953-1-zhuangyi1@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2020-08-06ext4: lost matching-pair of trace in ext4_truncatezhengliang
It should call trace exit in all return path for ext4_truncate. Signed-off-by: zhengliang <zhengliang6@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200701083027.45996-1-zhengliang6@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2020-08-06jbd2: add the missing unlock_buffer() in the error path of ↵zhangyi (F)
jbd2_write_superblock() jbd2_write_superblock() is under the buffer lock of journal superblock before ending that superblock write, so add a missing unlock_buffer() in in the error path before submitting buffer. Fixes: 742b06b5628f ("jbd2: check superblock mapped prior to committing") Signed-off-by: zhangyi (F) <yi.zhang@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200620061948.2049579-1-yi.zhang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2020-08-06ext4: fix potential negative array index in do_split()Eric Sandeen
If for any reason a directory passed to do_split() does not have enough active entries to exceed half the size of the block, we can end up iterating over all "count" entries without finding a split point. In this case, count == move, and split will be zero, and we will attempt a negative index into map[]. Guard against this by detecting this case, and falling back to split-to-half-of-count instead; in this case we will still have plenty of space (> half blocksize) in each split block. Fixes: ef2b02d3e617 ("ext34: ensure do_split leaves enough free space in both blocks") Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f53e246b-647c-64bb-16ec-135383c70ad7@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2020-08-06jbd2: make sure jh have b_transaction set in refile/unfile_bufferLukas Czerner
Callers of __jbd2_journal_unfile_buffer() and __jbd2_journal_refile_buffer() assume that the b_transaction is set. In fact if it's not, we can end up with journal_head refcounting errors leading to crash much later that might be very hard to track down. Add asserts to make sure that is the case. We also make sure that b_next_transaction is NULL in __jbd2_journal_unfile_buffer() since the callers expect that as well and we should not get into that stage in this state anyway, leading to problems later on if we do. Tested with fstests. Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200617092549.6712-1-lczerner@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2020-08-06ext4: fix coding style in file.cDio Putra
Fixed a few coding style issues in file.c Signed-off-by: Dio Putra <dioput12@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/239fcd8f-d33f-8621-9e82-0416dd3f9c94@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2020-08-06ext4: delete unnecessary checks before brelse()Markus Elfring
The brelse() function tests whether its argument is NULL and then returns immediately. Thus remove the tests which are not needed around the shown calls. This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software. Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0d713702-072f-a89c-20ec-ca70aa83a432@web.de Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2020-08-05Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-nextLinus Torvalds
Pull networking updates from David Miller: 1) Support 6Ghz band in ath11k driver, from Rajkumar Manoharan. 2) Support UDP segmentation in code TSO code, from Eric Dumazet. 3) Allow flashing different flash images in cxgb4 driver, from Vishal Kulkarni. 4) Add drop frames counter and flow status to tc flower offloading, from Po Liu. 5) Support n-tuple filters in cxgb4, from Vishal Kulkarni. 6) Various new indirect call avoidance, from Eric Dumazet and Brian Vazquez. 7) Fix BPF verifier failures on 32-bit pointer arithmetic, from Yonghong Song. 8) Support querying and setting hardware address of a port function via devlink, use this in mlx5, from Parav Pandit. 9) Support hw ipsec offload on bonding slaves, from Jarod Wilson. 10) Switch qca8k driver over to phylink, from Jonathan McDowell. 11) In bpftool, show list of processes holding BPF FD references to maps, programs, links, and btf objects. From Andrii Nakryiko. 12) Several conversions over to generic power management, from Vaibhav Gupta. 13) Add support for SO_KEEPALIVE et al. to bpf_setsockopt(), from Dmitry Yakunin. 14) Various https url conversions, from Alexander A. Klimov. 15) Timestamping and PHC support for mscc PHY driver, from Antoine Tenart. 16) Support bpf iterating over tcp and udp sockets, from Yonghong Song. 17) Support 5GBASE-T i40e NICs, from Aleksandr Loktionov. 18) Add kTLS RX HW offload support to mlx5e, from Tariq Toukan. 19) Fix the ->ndo_start_xmit() return type to be netdev_tx_t in several drivers. From Luc Van Oostenryck. 20) XDP support for xen-netfront, from Denis Kirjanov. 21) Support receive buffer autotuning in MPTCP, from Florian Westphal. 22) Support EF100 chip in sfc driver, from Edward Cree. 23) Add XDP support to mvpp2 driver, from Matteo Croce. 24) Support MPTCP in sock_diag, from Paolo Abeni. 25) Commonize UDP tunnel offloading code by creating udp_tunnel_nic infrastructure, from Jakub Kicinski. 26) Several pci_ --> dma_ API conversions, from Christophe JAILLET. 27) Add FLOW_ACTION_POLICE support to mlxsw, from Ido Schimmel. 28) Add SK_LOOKUP bpf program type, from Jakub Sitnicki. 29) Refactor a lot of networking socket option handling code in order to avoid set_fs() calls, from Christoph Hellwig. 30) Add rfc4884 support to icmp code, from Willem de Bruijn. 31) Support TBF offload in dpaa2-eth driver, from Ioana Ciornei. 32) Support XDP_REDIRECT in qede driver, from Alexander Lobakin. 33) Support PCI relaxed ordering in mlx5 driver, from Aya Levin. 34) Support TCP syncookies in MPTCP, from Flowian Westphal. 35) Fix several tricky cases of PMTU handling wrt. briding, from Stefano Brivio. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2056 commits) net: thunderx: initialize VF's mailbox mutex before first usage usb: hso: remove bogus check for EINPROGRESS usb: hso: no complaint about kmalloc failure hso: fix bailout in error case of probe ip_tunnel_core: Fix build for archs without _HAVE_ARCH_IPV6_CSUM selftests/net: relax cpu affinity requirement in msg_zerocopy test mptcp: be careful on subflow creation selftests: rtnetlink: make kci_test_encap() return sub-test result selftests: rtnetlink: correct the final return value for the test net: dsa: sja1105: use detected device id instead of DT one on mismatch tipc: set ub->ifindex for local ipv6 address ipv6: add ipv6_dev_find() net: openvswitch: silence suspicious RCU usage warning Revert "vxlan: fix tos value before xmit" ptp: only allow phase values lower than 1 period farsync: switch from 'pci_' to 'dma_' API wan: wanxl: switch from 'pci_' to 'dma_' API hv_netvsc: do not use VF device if link is down dpaa2-eth: Fix passing zero to 'PTR_ERR' warning net: macb: Properly handle phylink on at91sam9x ...
2020-08-05Merge tag 'driver-core-5.9-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core Pull driver core updates from Greg KH: "Here is the "big" set of changes to the driver core, and some drivers using the changes, for 5.9-rc1. "Biggest" thing in here is the device link exposure in sysfs, to help to tame the madness that is SoC device tree representations and driver interactions with it. Other stuff in here that is interesting is: - device probe log helper so that drivers can report problems in a unified way easier. - devres functions added - DEVICE_ATTR_ADMIN_* macro added to make it harder to write incorrect sysfs file permissions - documentation cleanups - ability for debugfs to be present in the kernel, yet not exposed to userspace. Needed for systems that want it enabled, but do not trust users, so they can still use some kernel functions that were otherwise disabled. - other minor fixes and cleanups The patches outside of drivers/base/ all have acks from the respective subsystem maintainers to go through this tree instead of theirs. All of these have been in linux-next with no reported issues" * tag 'driver-core-5.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (39 commits) drm/bridge: lvds-codec: simplify error handling drm/bridge/sii8620: fix resource acquisition error handling driver core: add deferring probe reason to devices_deferred property driver core: add device probe log helper driver core: Avoid binding drivers to dead devices Revert "test_firmware: Test platform fw loading on non-EFI systems" firmware_loader: EFI firmware loader must handle pre-allocated buffer selftest/firmware: Add selftest timeout in settings test_firmware: Test platform fw loading on non-EFI systems driver core: Change delimiter in devlink device's name to "--" debugfs: Add access restriction option tracefs: Remove unnecessary debug_fs checks. driver core: Fix probe_count imbalance in really_probe() kobject: remove unused KOBJ_MAX action driver core: Fix sleeping in invalid context during device link deletion driver core: Add waiting_for_supplier sysfs file for devices driver core: Add state_synced sysfs file for devices that support it driver core: Expose device link details in sysfs driver core: Drop mention of obsolete bus rwsem from kernel-doc debugfs: file: Remove unnecessary cast in kfree() ...
2020-08-05iomap: fall back to buffered writes for invalidation failuresChristoph Hellwig
Failing to invalid the page cache means data in incoherent, which is a very bad state for the system. Always fall back to buffered I/O through the page cache if we can't invalidate mappings. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Acked-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Acked-by: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> # for ext4 Reviewed-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> # for gfs2 Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com>
2020-08-05xfs: use ENOTBLK for direct I/O to buffered I/O fallbackChristoph Hellwig
This is what the classic fs/direct-io.c implementation and thuse other file systems use. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
2020-08-05iomap: Only invalidate page cache pages on direct IO writesDave Chinner
The historic requirement for XFS to invalidate cached pages on direct IO reads has been lost in the twisty pages of history - it was inherited from Irix, which implemented page cache invalidation on read as a method of working around problems synchronising page cache state with uncached IO. XFS has carried this ever since. In the initial linux ports it was necessary to get mmap and DIO to play "ok" together and not immediately corrupt data. This was the state of play until the linux kernel had infrastructure to track unwritten extents and synchronise page faults with allocations and unwritten extent conversions (->page_mkwrite infrastructure). IOws, the page cache invalidation on DIO read was necessary to prevent trivial data corruptions. This didn't solve all the problems, though. There were peformance problems if we didn't invalidate the entire page cache over the file on read - we couldn't easily determine if the cached pages were over the range of the IO, and invalidation required taking a serialising lock (i_mutex) on the inode. This serialising lock was an issue for XFS, as it was the only exclusive lock in the direct Io read path. Hence if there were any cached pages, we'd just invalidate the entire file in one go so that subsequent IOs didn't need to take the serialising lock. This was a problem that prevented ranged invalidation from being particularly useful for avoiding the remaining coherency issues. This was solved with the conversion of i_mutex to i_rwsem and the conversion of the XFS inode IO lock to use i_rwsem. Hence we could now just do ranged invalidation and the performance problem went away. However, page cache invalidation was still needed to serialise sub-page/sub-block zeroing via direct IO against buffered IO because bufferhead state attached to the cached page could get out of whack when direct IOs were issued. We've removed bufferheads from the XFS code, and we don't carry any extent state on the cached pages anymore, and so this problem has gone away, too. IOWs, it would appear that we don't have any good reason to be invalidating the page cache on DIO reads anymore. Hence remove the invalidation on read because it is unnecessary overhead, not needed to maintain coherency between mmap/buffered access and direct IO anymore, and prevents anyone from using direct IO reads from intentionally invalidating the page cache of a file. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
2020-08-05xfs: delete duplicated words + other fixesRandy Dunlap
Delete repeated words in fs/xfs/. {we, that, the, a, to, fork} Change "it it" to "it is" in one location. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
2020-08-05ceph: handle zero-length feature mask in session messagesJeff Layton
Most session messages contain a feature mask, but the MDS will routinely send a REJECT message with one that is zero-length. Commit 0fa8263367db ("ceph: fix endianness bug when handling MDS session feature bits") fixed the decoding of the feature mask, but failed to account for the MDS sending a zero-length feature mask. This causes REJECT message decoding to fail. Skip trying to decode a feature mask if the word count is zero. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org URL: https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/46823 Fixes: 0fa8263367db ("ceph: fix endianness bug when handling MDS session feature bits") Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com> Tested-by: Patrick Donnelly <pdonnell@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
2020-08-05virtio_fs: convert to LE accessorsMichael S. Tsirkin
Virtio fs is modern-only. Use LE accessors for config space. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
2020-08-05io_uring: Fix NULL pointer dereference in loop_rw_iter()Guoyu Huang
loop_rw_iter() does not check whether the file has a read or write function. This can lead to NULL pointer dereference when the user passes in a file descriptor that does not have read or write function. The crash log looks like this: [ 99.834071] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 [ 99.835364] #PF: supervisor instruction fetch in kernel mode [ 99.836522] #PF: error_code(0x0010) - not-present page [ 99.837771] PGD 8000000079d62067 P4D 8000000079d62067 PUD 79d8c067 PMD 0 [ 99.839649] Oops: 0010 [#2] SMP PTI [ 99.840591] CPU: 1 PID: 333 Comm: io_wqe_worker-0 Tainted: G D 5.8.0 #2 [ 99.842622] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014 [ 99.845140] RIP: 0010:0x0 [ 99.845840] Code: Bad RIP value. [ 99.846672] RSP: 0018:ffffa1c7c01ebc08 EFLAGS: 00010202 [ 99.848018] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff92363bd67300 RCX: ffff92363d461208 [ 99.849854] RDX: 0000000000000010 RSI: 00007ffdbf696bb0 RDI: ffff92363bd67300 [ 99.851743] RBP: ffffa1c7c01ebc40 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 99.853394] R10: ffffffff9ec692a0 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000010 [ 99.855148] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff92363d461208 R15: ffffa1c7c01ebc68 [ 99.856914] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff92363dd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 99.858651] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 99.860032] CR2: ffffffffffffffd6 CR3: 000000007ac66000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 [ 99.861979] Call Trace: [ 99.862617] loop_rw_iter.part.0+0xad/0x110 [ 99.863838] io_write+0x2ae/0x380 [ 99.864644] ? kvm_sched_clock_read+0x11/0x20 [ 99.865595] ? sched_clock+0x9/0x10 [ 99.866453] ? sched_clock_cpu+0x11/0xb0 [ 99.867326] ? newidle_balance+0x1d4/0x3c0 [ 99.868283] io_issue_sqe+0xd8f/0x1340 [ 99.869216] ? __switch_to+0x7f/0x450 [ 99.870280] ? __switch_to_asm+0x42/0x70 [ 99.871254] ? __switch_to_asm+0x36/0x70 [ 99.872133] ? lock_timer_base+0x72/0xa0 [ 99.873155] ? switch_mm_irqs_off+0x1bf/0x420 [ 99.874152] io_wq_submit_work+0x64/0x180 [ 99.875192] ? kthread_use_mm+0x71/0x100 [ 99.876132] io_worker_handle_work+0x267/0x440 [ 99.877233] io_wqe_worker+0x297/0x350 [ 99.878145] kthread+0x112/0x150 [ 99.878849] ? __io_worker_unuse+0x100/0x100 [ 99.879935] ? kthread_park+0x90/0x90 [ 99.880874] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 [ 99.881679] Modules linked in: [ 99.882493] CR2: 0000000000000000 [ 99.883324] ---[ end trace 4453745f4673190b ]--- [ 99.884289] RIP: 0010:0x0 [ 99.884837] Code: Bad RIP value. [ 99.885492] RSP: 0018:ffffa1c7c01ebc08 EFLAGS: 00010202 [ 99.886851] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff92363acd7f00 RCX: ffff92363d461608 [ 99.888561] RDX: 0000000000000010 RSI: 00007ffe040d9e10 RDI: ffff92363acd7f00 [ 99.890203] RBP: ffffa1c7c01ebc40 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 99.891907] R10: ffffffff9ec692a0 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000010 [ 99.894106] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff92363d461608 R15: ffffa1c7c01ebc68 [ 99.896079] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff92363dd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 99.898017] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 99.899197] CR2: ffffffffffffffd6 CR3: 000000007ac66000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Fixes: 32960613b7c3 ("io_uring: correctly handle non ->{read,write}_iter() file_operations") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Guoyu Huang <hgy5945@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2020-08-05NFS: Add tracepoints for layouterror and layoutstats.Trond Myklebust
Allow tracing of the NFSv4.2 layouterror and layoutstats operations. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
2020-08-05NFS: Report the stateid + status in trace_nfs4_layoutreturn_on_close()Trond Myklebust
Ensure we correctly report the stateid and status in the layoutreturn on close tracepoint. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
2020-08-05reiserfs: delete duplicated wordsRandy Dunlap
Delete repeated words in fs/reiserfs/. {from, not, we, are} Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200805024925.12281-1-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2020-08-04Merge tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a while to come. Changes include: - Some new Chinese translations - Progress on the battle against double words words and non-HTTPS URLs - Some block-mq documentation - More RST conversions from Mauro. At this point, that task is essentially complete, so we shouldn't see this kind of churn again for a while. Unless we decide to switch to asciidoc or something...:) - Lots of typo fixes, warning fixes, and more" * tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (195 commits) scripts/kernel-doc: optionally treat warnings as errors docs: ia64: correct typo mailmap: add entry for <alobakin@marvell.com> doc/zh_CN: add cpu-load Chinese version Documentation/admin-guide: tainted-kernels: fix spelling mistake MAINTAINERS: adjust kprobes.rst entry to new location devices.txt: document rfkill allocation PCI: correct flag name docs: filesystems: vfs: correct flag name docs: filesystems: vfs: correct sync_mode flag names docs: path-lookup: markup fixes for emphasis docs: path-lookup: more markup fixes docs: path-lookup: fix HTML entity mojibake CREDITS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones docs: process: Add an example for creating a fixes tag doc/zh_CN: add Chinese translation prefer section doc/zh_CN: add clearing-warn-once Chinese version doc/zh_CN: add admin-guide index doc:it_IT: process: coding-style.rst: Correct __maybe_unused compiler label futex: MAINTAINERS: Re-add selftests directory ...
2020-08-04nfs: nfs_file_write() should check for writeback errorsScott Mayhew
The NFS_CONTEXT_ERROR_WRITE flag (as well as the check of said flag) was removed by commit 6fbda89b257f. The absence of an error check allows writes to be continually queued up for a server that may no longer be able to handle them. Fix it by adding an error check using the generic error reporting functions. Fixes: 6fbda89b257f ("NFS: Replace custom error reporting mechanism with generic one") Signed-off-by: Scott Mayhew <smayhew@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
2020-08-04init: add an init_dup helperChristoph Hellwig
Add a simple helper to grab a reference to a file and install it at the next available fd, and switch the early init code over to it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-08-04Merge tag 'close-range-v5.9' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux Pull close_range() implementation from Christian Brauner: "This adds the close_range() syscall. It allows to efficiently close a range of file descriptors up to all file descriptors of a calling task. This is coordinated with the FreeBSD folks which have copied our version of this syscall and in the meantime have already merged it in April 2019: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21627 https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=359836 The syscall originally came up in a discussion around the new mount API and making new file descriptor types cloexec by default. During this discussion, Al suggested the close_range() syscall. First, it helps to close all file descriptors of an exec()ing task. This can be done safely via (quoting Al's example from [1] verbatim): /* that exec is sensitive */ unshare(CLONE_FILES); /* we don't want anything past stderr here */ close_range(3, ~0U); execve(....); The code snippet above is one way of working around the problem that file descriptors are not cloexec by default. This is aggravated by the fact that we can't just switch them over without massively regressing userspace. For a whole class of programs having an in-kernel method of closing all file descriptors is very helpful (e.g. demons, service managers, programming language standard libraries, container managers etc.). Second, it allows userspace to avoid implementing closing all file descriptors by parsing through /proc/<pid>/fd/* and calling close() on each file descriptor and other hacks. From looking at various large(ish) userspace code bases this or similar patterns are very common in service managers, container runtimes, and programming language runtimes/standard libraries such as Python or Rust. In addition, the syscall will also work for tasks that do not have procfs mounted and on kernels that do not have procfs support compiled in. In such situations the only way to make sure that all file descriptors are closed is to call close() on each file descriptor up to UINT_MAX or RLIMIT_NOFILE, OPEN_MAX trickery. Based on Linus' suggestion close_range() also comes with a new flag CLOSE_RANGE_UNSHARE to more elegantly handle file descriptor dropping right before exec. This would usually be expressed in the sequence: unshare(CLONE_FILES); close_range(3, ~0U); as pointed out by Linus it might be desirable to have this be a part of close_range() itself under a new flag CLOSE_RANGE_UNSHARE which gets especially handy when we're closing all file descriptors above a certain threshold. Test-suite as always included" * tag 'close-range-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux: tests: add CLOSE_RANGE_UNSHARE tests close_range: add CLOSE_RANGE_UNSHARE tests: add close_range() tests arch: wire-up close_range() open: add close_range()