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<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-11-01-14-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2023-11-03T05:38:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2023-11-03T05:38:47+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are
  included in this merge do the following:

   - Kemeng Shi has contributed some compation maintenance work in the
     series 'Fixes and cleanups to compaction'

   - Joel Fernandes has a patchset ('Optimize mremap during mutual
     alignment within PMD') which fixes an obscure issue with mremap()'s
     pagetable handling during a subsequent exec(), based upon an
     implementation which Linus suggested

   - More DAMON/DAMOS maintenance and feature work from SeongJae Park i
     the following patch series:

	mm/damon: misc fixups for documents, comments and its tracepoint
	mm/damon: add a tracepoint for damos apply target regions
	mm/damon: provide pseudo-moving sum based access rate
	mm/damon: implement DAMOS apply intervals
	mm/damon/core-test: Fix memory leaks in core-test
	mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: Do DAMOS tried regions update for only one apply interval

   - In the series 'Do not try to access unaccepted memory' Adrian
     Hunter provides some fixups for the recently-added 'unaccepted
     memory' feature. To increase the feature's checking coverage. 'Plug
     a few gaps where RAM is exposed without checking if it is
     unaccepted memory'

   - In the series 'cleanups for lockless slab shrink' Qi Zheng has done
     some maintenance work which is preparation for the lockless slab
     shrinking code

   - Qi Zheng has redone the earlier (and reverted) attempt to make slab
     shrinking lockless in the series 'use refcount+RCU method to
     implement lockless slab shrink'

   - David Hildenbrand contributes some maintenance work for the rmap
     code in the series 'Anon rmap cleanups'

   - Kefeng Wang does more folio conversions and some maintenance work
     in the migration code. Series 'mm: migrate: more folio conversion
     and unification'

   - Matthew Wilcox has fixed an issue in the buffer_head code which was
     causing long stalls under some heavy memory/IO loads. Some cleanups
     were added on the way. Series 'Add and use bdev_getblk()'

   - In the series 'Use nth_page() in place of direct struct page
     manipulation' Zi Yan has fixed a potential issue with the direct
     manipulation of hugetlb page frames

   - In the series 'mm: hugetlb: Skip initialization of gigantic tail
     struct pages if freed by HVO' has improved our handling of gigantic
     pages in the hugetlb vmmemmep optimizaton code. This provides
     significant boot time improvements when significant amounts of
     gigantic pages are in use

   - Matthew Wilcox has sent the series 'Small hugetlb cleanups' - code
     rationalization and folio conversions in the hugetlb code

   - Yin Fengwei has improved mlock()'s handling of large folios in the
     series 'support large folio for mlock'

   - In the series 'Expose swapcache stat for memcg v1' Liu Shixin has
     added statistics for memcg v1 users which are available (and
     useful) under memcg v2

   - Florent Revest has enhanced the MDWE (Memory-Deny-Write-Executable)
     prctl so that userspace may direct the kernel to not automatically
     propagate the denial to child processes. The series is named 'MDWE
     without inheritance'

   - Kefeng Wang has provided the series 'mm: convert numa balancing
     functions to use a folio' which does what it says

   - In the series 'mm/ksm: add fork-exec support for prctl' Stefan
     Roesch makes is possible for a process to propagate KSM treatment
     across exec()

   - Huang Ying has enhanced memory tiering's calculation of memory
     distances. This is used to permit the dax/kmem driver to use 'high
     bandwidth memory' in addition to Optane Data Center Persistent
     Memory Modules (DCPMM). The series is named 'memory tiering:
     calculate abstract distance based on ACPI HMAT'

   - In the series 'Smart scanning mode for KSM' Stefan Roesch has
     optimized KSM by teaching it to retain and use some historical
     information from previous scans

   - Yosry Ahmed has fixed some inconsistencies in memcg statistics in
     the series 'mm: memcg: fix tracking of pending stats updates
     values'

   - In the series 'Implement IOCTL to get and optionally clear info
     about PTEs' Peter Xu has added an ioctl to /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/pagemap
     which permits us to atomically read-then-clear page softdirty
     state. This is mainly used by CRIU

   - Hugh Dickins contributed the series 'shmem,tmpfs: general
     maintenance', a bunch of relatively minor maintenance tweaks to
     this code

   - Matthew Wilcox has increased the use of the VMA lock over
     file-backed page faults in the series 'Handle more faults under the
     VMA lock'. Some rationalizations of the fault path became possible
     as a result

   - In the series 'mm/rmap: convert page_move_anon_rmap() to
     folio_move_anon_rmap()' David Hildenbrand has implemented some
     cleanups and folio conversions

   - In the series 'various improvements to the GUP interface' Lorenzo
     Stoakes has simplified and improved the GUP interface with an eye
     to providing groundwork for future improvements

   - Andrey Konovalov has sent along the series 'kasan: assorted fixes
     and improvements' which does those things

   - Some page allocator maintenance work from Kemeng Shi in the series
     'Two minor cleanups to break_down_buddy_pages'

   - In thes series 'New selftest for mm' Breno Leitao has developed
     another MM self test which tickles a race we had between madvise()
     and page faults

   - In the series 'Add folio_end_read' Matthew Wilcox provides cleanups
     and an optimization to the core pagecache code

   - Nhat Pham has added memcg accounting for hugetlb memory in the
     series 'hugetlb memcg accounting'

   - Cleanups and rationalizations to the pagemap code from Lorenzo
     Stoakes, in the series 'Abstract vma_merge() and split_vma()'

   - Audra Mitchell has fixed issues in the procfs page_owner code's new
     timestamping feature which was causing some misbehaviours. In the
     series 'Fix page_owner's use of free timestamps'

   - Lorenzo Stoakes has fixed the handling of new mappings of sealed
     files in the series 'permit write-sealed memfd read-only shared
     mappings'

   - Mike Kravetz has optimized the hugetlb vmemmap optimization in the
     series 'Batch hugetlb vmemmap modification operations'

   - Some buffer_head folio conversions and cleanups from Matthew Wilcox
     in the series 'Finish the create_empty_buffers() transition'

   - As a page allocator performance optimization Huang Ying has added
     automatic tuning to the allocator's per-cpu-pages feature, in the
     series 'mm: PCP high auto-tuning'

   - Roman Gushchin has contributed the patchset 'mm: improve
     performance of accounted kernel memory allocations' which improves
     their performance by ~30% as measured by a micro-benchmark

   - folio conversions from Kefeng Wang in the series 'mm: convert page
     cpupid functions to folios'

   - Some kmemleak fixups in Liu Shixin's series 'Some bugfix about
     kmemleak'

   - Qi Zheng has improved our handling of memoryless nodes by keeping
     them off the allocation fallback list. This is done in the series
     'handle memoryless nodes more appropriately'

   - khugepaged conversions from Vishal Moola in the series 'Some
     khugepaged folio conversions'"

[ bcachefs conflicts with the dynamically allocated shrinkers have been
  resolved as per Stephen Rothwell in

     https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230913093553.4290421e@canb.auug.org.au/

  with help from Qi Zheng.

  The clone3 test filtering conflict was half-arsed by yours truly ]

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-11-01-14-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (406 commits)
  mm/damon/sysfs: update monitoring target regions for online input commit
  mm/damon/sysfs: remove requested targets when online-commit inputs
  selftests: add a sanity check for zswap
  Documentation: maple_tree: fix word spelling error
  mm/vmalloc: fix the unchecked dereference warning in vread_iter()
  zswap: export compression failure stats
  Documentation: ubsan: drop "the" from article title
  mempolicy: migration attempt to match interleave nodes
  mempolicy: mmap_lock is not needed while migrating folios
  mempolicy: alloc_pages_mpol() for NUMA policy without vma
  mm: add page_rmappable_folio() wrapper
  mempolicy: remove confusing MPOL_MF_LAZY dead code
  mempolicy: mpol_shared_policy_init() without pseudo-vma
  mempolicy trivia: use pgoff_t in shared mempolicy tree
  mempolicy trivia: slightly more consistent naming
  mempolicy trivia: delete those ancient pr_debug()s
  mempolicy: fix migrate_pages(2) syscall return nr_failed
  kernfs: drop shared NUMA mempolicy hooks
  hugetlbfs: drop shared NUMA mempolicy pretence
  mm/damon/sysfs-test: add a unit test for damon_sysfs_set_targets()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-6.7-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux</title>
<updated>2023-10-30T20:42:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-30T20:42:06+00:00</published>
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Pull btrfs updates from David Sterba:
 "New features:

   - raid-stripe-tree

     New tree for logical file extent mapping where the physical mapping
     may not match on multiple devices. This is now used in zoned mode
     to implement RAID0/RAID1* profiles, but can be used in non-zoned
     mode as well. The support for RAID56 is in development and will
     eventually fix the problems with the current implementation. This
     is a backward incompatible feature and has to be enabled at mkfs
     time.

   - simple quota accounting (squota)

     A simplified mode of qgroup that accounts all space on the initial
     extent owners (a subvolume), the snapshots are then cheap to create
     and delete. The deletion of snapshots in fully accounting qgroups
     is a known CPU/IO performance bottleneck.

     The squota is not suitable for the general use case but works well
     for containers where the original subvolume exists for the whole
     time. This is a backward incompatible feature as it needs extending
     some structures, but can be enabled on an existing filesystem.

   - temporary filesystem fsid (temp_fsid)

     The fsid identifies a filesystem and is hard coded in the
     structures, which disallows mounting the same fsid found on
     different devices.

     For a single device filesystem this is not strictly necessary, a
     new temporary fsid can be generated on mount e.g. after a device is
     cloned. This will be used by Steam Deck for root partition A/B
     testing, or can be used for VM root images.

  Other user visible changes:

   - filesystems with partially finished metadata_uuid conversion cannot
     be mounted anymore and the uuid fixup has to be done by btrfs-progs
     (btrfstune).

  Performance improvements:

   - reduce reservations for checksum deletions (with enabled free space
     tree by factor of 4), on a sample workload on file with many
     extents the deletion time decreased by 12%

   - make extent state merges more efficient during insertions, reduce
     rb-tree iterations (run time of critical functions reduced by 5%)

  Core changes:

   - the integrity check functionality has been removed, this was a
     debugging feature and removal does not affect other integrity
     checks like checksums or tree-checker

   - space reservation changes:

      - more efficient delayed ref reservations, this avoids building up
        too much work or overusing or exhausting the global block
        reserve in some situations

      - move delayed refs reservation to the transaction start time,
        this prevents some ENOSPC corner cases related to exhaustion of
        global reserve

      - improvements in reducing excessive reservations for block group
        items

      - adjust overcommit logic in near full situations, account for one
        more chunk to eventually allocate metadata chunk, this is mostly
        relevant for small filesystems (&lt;10GiB)

   - single device filesystems are scanned but not registered (except
     seed devices), this allows temp_fsid to work

   - qgroup iterations do not need GFP_ATOMIC allocations anymore

   - cleanups, refactoring, reduced data structure size, function
     parameter simplifications, error handling fixes"

* tag 'for-6.7-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux: (156 commits)
  btrfs: open code timespec64 in struct btrfs_inode
  btrfs: remove redundant log root tree index assignment during log sync
  btrfs: remove redundant initialization of variable dirty in btrfs_update_time()
  btrfs: sysfs: show temp_fsid feature
  btrfs: disable the device add feature for temp-fsid
  btrfs: disable the seed feature for temp-fsid
  btrfs: update comment for temp-fsid, fsid, and metadata_uuid
  btrfs: remove pointless empty log context list check when syncing log
  btrfs: update comment for struct btrfs_inode::lock
  btrfs: remove pointless barrier from btrfs_sync_file()
  btrfs: add and use helpers for reading and writing last_trans_committed
  btrfs: add and use helpers for reading and writing fs_info-&gt;generation
  btrfs: add and use helpers for reading and writing log_transid
  btrfs: add and use helpers for reading and writing last_log_commit
  btrfs: support cloned-device mount capability
  btrfs: add helper function find_fsid_by_disk
  btrfs: stop reserving excessive space for block group item insertions
  btrfs: stop reserving excessive space for block group item updates
  btrfs: reorder btrfs_inode to fill gaps
  btrfs: open code btrfs_ordered_inode_tree in btrfs_inode
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.7.ctime' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2023-10-30T19:47:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-30T19:47:13+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs inode time accessor updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This finishes the conversion of all inode time fields to accessor
  functions as discussed on list. Changing timestamps manually as we
  used to do before is error prone. Using accessors function makes this
  robust.

  It does not contain the switch of the time fields to discrete 64 bit
  integers to replace struct timespec and free up space in struct inode.
  But after this, the switch can be trivially made and the patch should
  only affect the vfs if we decide to do it"

* tag 'vfs-6.7.ctime' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (86 commits)
  fs: rename inode i_atime and i_mtime fields
  security: convert to new timestamp accessors
  selinux: convert to new timestamp accessors
  apparmor: convert to new timestamp accessors
  sunrpc: convert to new timestamp accessors
  mm: convert to new timestamp accessors
  bpf: convert to new timestamp accessors
  ipc: convert to new timestamp accessors
  linux: convert to new timestamp accessors
  zonefs: convert to new timestamp accessors
  xfs: convert to new timestamp accessors
  vboxsf: convert to new timestamp accessors
  ufs: convert to new timestamp accessors
  udf: convert to new timestamp accessors
  ubifs: convert to new timestamp accessors
  tracefs: convert to new timestamp accessors
  sysv: convert to new timestamp accessors
  squashfs: convert to new timestamp accessors
  server: convert to new timestamp accessors
  client: convert to new timestamp accessors
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.7.xattr' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2023-10-30T19:29:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-30T19:29:44+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs xattr updates from Christian Brauner:
 "The 's_xattr' field of 'struct super_block' currently requires a
  mutable table of 'struct xattr_handler' entries (although each handler
  itself is const). However, no code in vfs actually modifies the
  tables.

  This changes the type of 's_xattr' to allow const tables, and modifies
  existing file systems to move their tables to .rodata. This is
  desirable because these tables contain entries with function pointers
  in them; moving them to .rodata makes it considerably less likely to
  be modified accidentally or maliciously at runtime"

* tag 'vfs-6.7.xattr' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (30 commits)
  const_structs.checkpatch: add xattr_handler
  net: move sockfs_xattr_handlers to .rodata
  shmem: move shmem_xattr_handlers to .rodata
  overlayfs: move xattr tables to .rodata
  xfs: move xfs_xattr_handlers to .rodata
  ubifs: move ubifs_xattr_handlers to .rodata
  squashfs: move squashfs_xattr_handlers to .rodata
  smb: move cifs_xattr_handlers to .rodata
  reiserfs: move reiserfs_xattr_handlers to .rodata
  orangefs: move orangefs_xattr_handlers to .rodata
  ocfs2: move ocfs2_xattr_handlers and ocfs2_xattr_handler_map to .rodata
  ntfs3: move ntfs_xattr_handlers to .rodata
  nfs: move nfs4_xattr_handlers to .rodata
  kernfs: move kernfs_xattr_handlers to .rodata
  jfs: move jfs_xattr_handlers to .rodata
  jffs2: move jffs2_xattr_handlers to .rodata
  hfsplus: move hfsplus_xattr_handlers to .rodata
  hfs: move hfs_xattr_handlers to .rodata
  gfs2: move gfs2_xattr_handlers_max to .rodata
  fuse: move fuse_xattr_handlers to .rodata
  ...
</content>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.7.super' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2023-10-30T18:59:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-30T18:59:05+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs superblock updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the work to make block device opening functions return a
  struct bdev_handle instead of just a struct block_device. The same
  struct bdev_handle is then also passed to block device closing
  functions.

  This allows us to propagate context from opening to closing a block
  device without having to modify all users everytime.

  Sidenote, in the future we might even want to try and have block
  device opening functions return a struct file directly but that's a
  series on top of this.

  These are further preparatory changes to be able to count writable
  opens and blocking writes to mounted block devices. That's a separate
  piece of work for next cycle and for that we absolutely need the
  changes to btrfs that have been quietly dropped somehow.

  Originally the series contained a patch that removed the old
  blkdev_*() helpers. But since this would've caused needles churn in
  -next for bcachefs we ended up delaying it.

  The second piece of work addresses one of the major annoyances about
  the work last cycle, namely that we required dropping s_umount
  whenever we used the superblock and fs_holder_ops for a block device.

  The reason for that requirement had been that in some codepaths
  s_umount could've been taken under disk-&gt;open_mutex (that's always
  been the case, at least theoretically). For example, on surprise block
  device removal or media change. And opening and closing block devices
  required grabbing disk-&gt;open_mutex as well.

  So we did the work and went through the block layer and fixed all
  those places so that s_umount is never taken under disk-&gt;open_mutex.
  This means no more brittle games where we yield and reacquire s_umount
  during block device opening and closing and no more requirements where
  block devices need to be closed. Filesystems don't need to care about
  this.

  There's a bunch of other follow-up work such as moving block device
  freezing and thawing to holder operations which makes it work for all
  block devices and not just the main block device just as we did for
  surprise removal. But that is for next cycle.

  Tested with fstests for all major fses, blktests, LTP"

* tag 'vfs-6.7.super' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (37 commits)
  porting: update locking requirements
  fs: assert that open_mutex isn't held over holder ops
  block: assert that we're not holding open_mutex over blk_report_disk_dead
  block: move bdev_mark_dead out of disk_check_media_change
  block: WARN_ON_ONCE() when we remove active partitions
  block: simplify bdev_del_partition()
  fs: Avoid grabbing sb-&gt;s_umount under bdev-&gt;bd_holder_lock
  jfs: fix log-&gt;bdev_handle null ptr deref in lbmStartIO
  bcache: Fixup error handling in register_cache()
  xfs: Convert to bdev_open_by_path()
  reiserfs: Convert to bdev_open_by_dev/path()
  ocfs2: Convert to use bdev_open_by_dev()
  nfs/blocklayout: Convert to use bdev_open_by_dev/path()
  jfs: Convert to bdev_open_by_dev()
  f2fs: Convert to bdev_open_by_dev/path()
  ext4: Convert to bdev_open_by_dev()
  erofs: Convert to use bdev_open_by_path()
  btrfs: Convert to bdev_open_by_path()
  fs: Convert to bdev_open_by_dev()
  mm/swap: Convert to use bdev_open_by_dev()
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>btrfs: Convert to bdev_open_by_path()</title>
<updated>2023-10-28T11:29:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-27T09:34:26+00:00</published>
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Convert btrfs to use bdev_open_by_path() and pass the handle around.  We
also drop the holder from struct btrfs_device as it is now not needed
anymore.

CC: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
CC: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230927093442.25915-20-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-6.6-rc7-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux</title>
<updated>2023-10-23T17:59:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-23T17:59:13+00:00</published>
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Pull btrfs fix from David Sterba:
 "One more fix for a problem with snapshot of a newly created subvolume
  that can lead to inconsistent data under some circumstances. Kernel
  6.5 added a performance optimization to skip transaction commit for
  subvolume creation but this could end up with newer data on disk but
  not linked to other structures.

  The fix itself is an added condition, the rest of the patch is a
  parameter added to several functions"

* tag 'for-6.6-rc7-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux:
  btrfs: fix unwritten extent buffer after snapshotting a new subvolume
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>btrfs: fix unwritten extent buffer after snapshotting a new subvolume</title>
<updated>2023-10-23T15:17:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Filipe Manana</name>
<email>fdmanana@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-19T12:19:28+00:00</published>
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When creating a snapshot of a subvolume that was created in the current
transaction, we can end up not persisting a dirty extent buffer that is
referenced by the snapshot, resulting in IO errors due to checksum failures
when trying to read the extent buffer later from disk. A sequence of steps
that leads to this is the following:

1) At ioctl.c:create_subvol() we allocate an extent buffer, with logical
   address 36007936, for the leaf/root of a new subvolume that has an ID
   of 291. We mark the extent buffer as dirty, and at this point the
   subvolume tree has a single node/leaf which is also its root (level 0);

2) We no longer commit the transaction used to create the subvolume at
   create_subvol(). We used to, but that was recently removed in
   commit 1b53e51a4a8f ("btrfs: don't commit transaction for every subvol
   create");

3) The transaction used to create the subvolume has an ID of 33, so the
   extent buffer 36007936 has a generation of 33;

4) Several updates happen to subvolume 291 during transaction 33, several
   files created and its tree height changes from 0 to 1, so we end up with
   a new root at level 1 and the extent buffer 36007936 is now a leaf of
   that new root node, which is extent buffer 36048896.

   The commit root remains as 36007936, since we are still at transaction
   33;

5) Creation of a snapshot of subvolume 291, with an ID of 292, starts at
   ioctl.c:create_snapshot(). This triggers a commit of transaction 33 and
   we end up at transaction.c:create_pending_snapshot(), in the critical
   section of a transaction commit.

   There we COW the root of subvolume 291, which is extent buffer 36048896.
   The COW operation returns extent buffer 36048896, since there's no need
   to COW because the extent buffer was created in this transaction and it
   was not written yet.

   The we call btrfs_copy_root() against the root node 36048896. During
   this operation we allocate a new extent buffer to turn into the root
   node of the snapshot, copy the contents of the root node 36048896 into
   this snapshot root extent buffer, set the owner to 292 (the ID of the
   snapshot), etc, and then we call btrfs_inc_ref(). This will create a
   delayed reference for each leaf pointed by the root node with a
   reference root of 292 - this includes a reference for the leaf
   36007936.

   After that we set the bit BTRFS_ROOT_FORCE_COW in the root's state.

   Then we call btrfs_insert_dir_item(), to create the directory entry in
   in the tree of subvolume 291 that points to the snapshot. This ends up
   needing to modify leaf 36007936 to insert the respective directory
   items. Because the bit BTRFS_ROOT_FORCE_COW is set for the root's state,
   we need to COW the leaf. We end up at btrfs_force_cow_block() and then
   at update_ref_for_cow().

   At update_ref_for_cow() we call btrfs_block_can_be_shared() which
   returns false, despite the fact the leaf 36007936 is shared - the
   subvolume's root and the snapshot's root point to that leaf. The
   reason that it incorrectly returns false is because the commit root
   of the subvolume is extent buffer 36007936 - it was the initial root
   of the subvolume when we created it. So btrfs_block_can_be_shared()
   which has the following logic:

   int btrfs_block_can_be_shared(struct btrfs_root *root,
                                 struct extent_buffer *buf)
   {
       if (test_bit(BTRFS_ROOT_SHAREABLE, &amp;root-&gt;state) &amp;&amp;
           buf != root-&gt;node &amp;&amp; buf != root-&gt;commit_root &amp;&amp;
           (btrfs_header_generation(buf) &lt;=
            btrfs_root_last_snapshot(&amp;root-&gt;root_item) ||
            btrfs_header_flag(buf, BTRFS_HEADER_FLAG_RELOC)))
               return 1;

       return 0;
   }

   Returns false (0) since 'buf' (extent buffer 36007936) matches the
   root's commit root.

   As a result, at update_ref_for_cow(), we don't check for the number
   of references for extent buffer 36007936, we just assume it's not
   shared and therefore that it has only 1 reference, so we set the local
   variable 'refs' to 1.

   Later on, in the final if-else statement at update_ref_for_cow():

   static noinline int update_ref_for_cow(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
                                          struct btrfs_root *root,
                                          struct extent_buffer *buf,
                                          struct extent_buffer *cow,
                                          int *last_ref)
   {
      (...)
      if (refs &gt; 1) {
          (...)
      } else {
          (...)
          btrfs_clear_buffer_dirty(trans, buf);
          *last_ref = 1;
      }
   }

   So we mark the extent buffer 36007936 as not dirty, and as a result
   we don't write it to disk later in the transaction commit, despite the
   fact that the snapshot's root points to it.

   Attempting to access the leaf or dumping the tree for example shows
   that the extent buffer was not written:

   $ btrfs inspect-internal dump-tree -t 292 /dev/sdb
   btrfs-progs v6.2.2
   file tree key (292 ROOT_ITEM 33)
   node 36110336 level 1 items 2 free space 119 generation 33 owner 292
   node 36110336 flags 0x1(WRITTEN) backref revision 1
   checksum stored a8103e3e
   checksum calced a8103e3e
   fs uuid 90c9a46f-ae9f-4626-9aff-0cbf3e2e3a79
   chunk uuid e8c9c885-78f4-4d31-85fe-89e5f5fd4a07
           key (256 INODE_ITEM 0) block 36007936 gen 33
           key (257 EXTENT_DATA 0) block 36052992 gen 33
   checksum verify failed on 36007936 wanted 0x00000000 found 0x86005f29
   checksum verify failed on 36007936 wanted 0x00000000 found 0x86005f29
   total bytes 107374182400
   bytes used 38572032
   uuid 90c9a46f-ae9f-4626-9aff-0cbf3e2e3a79

   The respective on disk region is full of zeroes as the device was
   trimmed at mkfs time.

   Obviously 'btrfs check' also detects and complains about this:

   $ btrfs check /dev/sdb
   Opening filesystem to check...
   Checking filesystem on /dev/sdb
   UUID: 90c9a46f-ae9f-4626-9aff-0cbf3e2e3a79
   generation: 33 (33)
   [1/7] checking root items
   [2/7] checking extents
   checksum verify failed on 36007936 wanted 0x00000000 found 0x86005f29
   checksum verify failed on 36007936 wanted 0x00000000 found 0x86005f29
   checksum verify failed on 36007936 wanted 0x00000000 found 0x86005f29
   bad tree block 36007936, bytenr mismatch, want=36007936, have=0
   owner ref check failed [36007936 4096]
   ERROR: errors found in extent allocation tree or chunk allocation
   [3/7] checking free space tree
   [4/7] checking fs roots
   checksum verify failed on 36007936 wanted 0x00000000 found 0x86005f29
   checksum verify failed on 36007936 wanted 0x00000000 found 0x86005f29
   checksum verify failed on 36007936 wanted 0x00000000 found 0x86005f29
   bad tree block 36007936, bytenr mismatch, want=36007936, have=0
   The following tree block(s) is corrupted in tree 292:
        tree block bytenr: 36110336, level: 1, node key: (256, 1, 0)
   root 292 root dir 256 not found
   ERROR: errors found in fs roots
   found 38572032 bytes used, error(s) found
   total csum bytes: 16048
   total tree bytes: 1265664
   total fs tree bytes: 1118208
   total extent tree bytes: 65536
   btree space waste bytes: 562598
   file data blocks allocated: 65978368
    referenced 36569088

Fix this by updating btrfs_block_can_be_shared() to consider that an
extent buffer may be shared if it matches the commit root and if its
generation matches the current transaction's generation.

This can be reproduced with the following script:

   $ cat test.sh
   #!/bin/bash

   MNT=/mnt/sdi
   DEV=/dev/sdi

   # Use a filesystem with a 64K node size so that we have the same node
   # size on every machine regardless of its page size (on x86_64 default
   # node size is 16K due to the 4K page size, while on PPC it's 64K by
   # default). This way we can make sure we are able to create a btree for
   # the subvolume with a height of 2.
   mkfs.btrfs -f -n 64K $DEV
   mount $DEV $MNT

   btrfs subvolume create $MNT/subvol

   # Create a few empty files on the subvolume, this bumps its btree
   # height to 2 (root node at level 1 and 2 leaves).
   for ((i = 1; i &lt;= 300; i++)); do
       echo -n &gt; $MNT/subvol/file_$i
   done

   btrfs subvolume snapshot -r $MNT/subvol $MNT/subvol/snap

   umount $DEV

   btrfs check $DEV

Running it on a 6.5 kernel (or any 6.6-rc kernel at the moment):

   $ ./test.sh
   Create subvolume '/mnt/sdi/subvol'
   Create a readonly snapshot of '/mnt/sdi/subvol' in '/mnt/sdi/subvol/snap'
   Opening filesystem to check...
   Checking filesystem on /dev/sdi
   UUID: bbdde2ff-7d02-45ca-8a73-3c36f23755a1
   [1/7] checking root items
   [2/7] checking extents
   parent transid verify failed on 30539776 wanted 7 found 5
   parent transid verify failed on 30539776 wanted 7 found 5
   parent transid verify failed on 30539776 wanted 7 found 5
   Ignoring transid failure
   owner ref check failed [30539776 65536]
   ERROR: errors found in extent allocation tree or chunk allocation
   [3/7] checking free space tree
   [4/7] checking fs roots
   parent transid verify failed on 30539776 wanted 7 found 5
   Ignoring transid failure
   Wrong key of child node/leaf, wanted: (256, 1, 0), have: (2, 132, 0)
   Wrong generation of child node/leaf, wanted: 5, have: 7
   root 257 root dir 256 not found
   ERROR: errors found in fs roots
   found 917504 bytes used, error(s) found
   total csum bytes: 0
   total tree bytes: 851968
   total fs tree bytes: 393216
   total extent tree bytes: 65536
   btree space waste bytes: 736550
   file data blocks allocated: 0
    referenced 0

A test case for fstests will follow soon.

Fixes: 1b53e51a4a8f ("btrfs: don't commit transaction for every subvol create")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.5+
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana &lt;fdmanana@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-6.6-rc6-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux</title>
<updated>2023-10-19T15:56:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-19T15:56:01+00:00</published>
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Pull btrfs fix from David Sterba:
 "Fix a bug in chunk size decision that could lead to suboptimal
  placement and filling patterns"

* tag 'for-6.6-rc6-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux:
  btrfs: fix stripe length calculation for non-zoned data chunk allocation
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<entry>
<title>btrfs: convert to new timestamp accessors</title>
<updated>2023-10-18T11:26:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-04T18:52:08+00:00</published>
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Convert to using the new inode timestamp accessor functions.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231004185347.80880-21-jlayton@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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