A ublk_io is converted to a request in several places in the I/O path by
using blk_mq_tag_to_rq() to look up the (qid, tag) on the ublk device's
tagset. This involves a bunch of dereferences and a tag bounds check.
To make this conversion cheaper, store the request pointer in ublk_io.
Overlap this storage with the io_uring_cmd pointer. This is safe because
the io_uring_cmd pointer is only valid if UBLK_IO_FLAG_ACTIVE is set on
the ublk_io, the request pointer is valid if UBLK_IO_FLAG_OWNED_BY_SRV,
and these flags are mutually exclusive.
Suggested-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Caleb Sander Mateos <csander@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250430225234.2676781-10-csander@purestorage.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
ublk_abort_queue() currently checks whether the UBLK_IO_FLAG_ACTIVE flag
is cleared to tell whether to abort each ublk_io in the queue. But it's
possible for a ublk_io to not be ACTIVE but also not have a request in
flight, such as when no fetch request has yet been submitted for a tag
or when a fetch request is cancelled. So ublk_abort_queue() must
additionally check for an inflight request.
Simplify this code by checking for UBLK_IO_FLAG_OWNED_BY_SRV instead,
which indicates precisely whether a request is currently inflight.
Signed-off-by: Caleb Sander Mateos <csander@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250430225234.2676781-9-csander@purestorage.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
ublk_dispatch_req() currently handles 3 different cases: incoming ublk
requests that don't need to wait for a data buffer, incoming requests
that do need to wait for a buffer, and resuming those requests once the
buffer is provided. But the call site that provides a data buffer
(UBLK_IO_NEED_GET_DATA) is separate from those for incoming requests.
So simplify the function by splitting the UBLK_IO_NEED_GET_DATA case
into its own function ublk_get_data(). This avoids several redundant
checks in the UBLK_IO_NEED_GET_DATA case, and streamlines the incoming
request cases.
Don't call ublk_fill_io_cmd() for UBLK_IO_NEED_GET_DATA, as it's no
longer necessary to set io->cmd or the UBLK_IO_FLAG_ACTIVE flag for
ublk_dispatch_req().
Since UBLK_IO_NEED_GET_DATA no longer relies on ublk_dispatch_req()
calling io_uring_cmd_done(), return the UBLK_IO_RES_OK status directly
from the ->uring_cmd() handler. If ublk_start_io() fails, don't complete
the UBLK_IO_NEED_GET_DATA command, matching the existing behavior.
Signed-off-by: Caleb Sander Mateos <csander@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250430225234.2676781-8-csander@purestorage.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Move the logic for the UBLK_IO_COMMIT_AND_FETCH_REQ opcode into its own
function. This also allows us to mark ublk_queue pointers as const for
that operation, which can help prevent data races since we may allow
concurrent operation on one ublk_queue in the future. Also open code
ublk_commit_completion in ublk_commit_and_fetch to reduce the number of
parameters/avoid a redundant lookup.
[Restore __ublk_ch_uring_cmd() req variable used in commit d6aa0c178b
("ublk: call ublk_dispatch_req() for handling UBLK_U_IO_NEED_GET_DATA")]
Suggested-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Uday Shankar <ushankar@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: Caleb Sander Mateos <csander@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Caleb Sander Mateos <csander@purestorage.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250430225234.2676781-2-csander@purestorage.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
blk_mq_flush_plug_list() has a fast path if all requests in the plug
are destined for the same request_queue. It calls ->queue_rqs() with the
whole batch of requests, falling back on ->queue_rq() for any requests
not handled by ->queue_rqs(). However, if the requests are destined for
multiple queues, blk_mq_flush_plug_list() has a slow path that calls
blk_mq_dispatch_list() repeatedly to filter the requests by ctx/hctx.
Each queue's requests are inserted into the hctx's dispatch list under a
spinlock, then __blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests() takes them out of the
dispatch list (taking the spinlock again), and finally
blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list() calls ->queue_rq() on each request.
Acquiring the hctx spinlock twice and calling ->queue_rq() instead of
->queue_rqs() makes the slow path significantly more expensive. Thus,
batching more requests into a single plug (e.g. io_uring_enter syscall)
can counterintuitively hurt performance by causing the plug to span
multiple queues. We have observed 2-3% of CPU time spent acquiring the
hctx spinlock alone on workloads issuing requests to multiple NVMe
devices in the same io_uring SQE batches.
Add a medium path in blk_mq_flush_plug_list() for plugs that don't have
elevators or come from a schedule, but do span multiple queues. Filter
the requests by queue and call ->queue_rqs()/->queue_rq() on the list of
requests destined to each request_queue.
With this change, we no longer see any CPU time spent in _raw_spin_lock
from blk_mq_flush_plug_list and throughput increases accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Caleb Sander Mateos <csander@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250426011728.4189119-4-csander@purestorage.com
[axboe: fix whitespace damage]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
blk_mq_plug_issue_direct(), __blk_mq_flush_plug_list(), and
blk_mq_dispatch_plug_list() take a struct blk_plug * but only use its
mq_list. Pass the struct rq_list * instead in preparation for calling
them with other lists of requests.
Drop "plug" from the function names as they are no longer plug-specific.
Signed-off-by: Caleb Sander Mateos <csander@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250426011728.4189119-2-csander@purestorage.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
The zoned loop block device driver allows a user to create emulated
zoned block devices using one regular file per zone as backing storage.
Compared to null_blk or scsi_debug, it has the advantage of allowing
emulating large zoned devices without requiring the same amount of
memory as the capacity of the emulated device. Furthermore, zoned
devices emulated with this driver can be re-started after a host reboot
without any loss of the state of the device zones, which is something
that null_blk and scsi_debug do not support.
This initial implementation is simple and does not support zone resource
limits. That is, a zoned loop block device limits for the maximum number
of open zones and maximum number of active zones is always 0.
This driver can be either compiled in-kernel or as a module, named
"zloop". Compilation of this driver depends on the block layer support
for zoned block device (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ZONED must be set).
Using the zloop driver to create and delete zoned block devices is
done by writing commands to the zoned loop control character device file
(/dev/zloop-control). Creating a device is done with:
$ echo "add [options]" > /dev/zloop-control
The options available for the "add" operation cat be listed by reading
the zloop-control device file:
$ cat /dev/zloop-control
add id=%d,capacity_mb=%u,zone_size_mb=%u,zone_capacity_mb=%u,conv_zones=%u,base_dir=%s,nr_queues=%u,queue_depth=%u
remove id=%d
The options available allow controlling the zoned device total
capacity, zone size, zone capactity of sequential zones, total number
of conventional zones, base directory for the zones backing file, number
of I/O queues and the maximum queue depth of I/O queues.
Deleting a device is done using the "remove" command:
$ echo "remove id=0" > /dev/zloop-control
This implementation passes various tests using zonefs and fio (t/zbd
tests) and provides a state machine for zone conditions that is
compliant with the T10 ZBC and NVMe ZNS specifications.
Co-developed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250407075222.170336-2-dlemoal@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Merge 6.15 block fixes - both to get the fixes causing issues with
XFS testing, but also to make it easier for 6.16 ublk patches to avoid
conflicts.
* block-6.15:
ublk: fix race between io_uring_cmd_complete_in_task and ublk_cancel_cmd
ublk: call ublk_dispatch_req() for handling UBLK_U_IO_NEED_GET_DATA
block: don't autoload drivers on blk-cgroup configuration
block: don't autoload drivers on stat
block: remove the backing_inode variable in bdev_statx
block: move blkdev_{get,put} _no_open prototypes out of blkdev.h
block: never reduce ra_pages in blk_apply_bdi_limits
selftests: ublk: common: fix _get_disk_dev_t for pre-9.0 coreutils
selftests: ublk: remove useless 'delay_us' from 'struct dev_ctx'
selftests: ublk: fix recover test
block: hoist block size validation code to a separate function
block: fix race between set_blocksize and read paths
nvmet: fix out-of-bounds access in nvmet_enable_port
We call io_uring_cmd_complete_in_task() to schedule task_work for handling
UBLK_U_IO_NEED_GET_DATA.
This way is really not necessary because the current context is exactly
the ublk queue context, so call ublk_dispatch_req() directly for handling
UBLK_U_IO_NEED_GET_DATA.
Fixes: 216c8f5ef0 ("ublk: replace monitor with cancelable uring_cmd")
Tested-by: Jared Holzman <jholzman@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250425013742.1079549-2-ming.lei@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
When the user increased the read-ahead size through sysfs this value
currently get lost if the device is reprobe, including on a resume
from suspend.
As there is no hardware limitation for the read-ahead size there is
no real need to reset it or track a separate hardware limitation
like for max_sectors.
This restores the pre-atomic queue limit behavior in the sd driver as
sd did not use blk_queue_io_opt and thus never updated the read ahead
size to the value based of the optimal I/O, but changes behavior for
all other drivers. As the new behavior seems useful and sd is the
driver for which the readahead size tweaks are most useful that seems
like a worthwhile trade off.
Fixes: 804e498e04 ("sd: convert to the atomic queue limits API")
Reported-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250424082521.1967286-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Pull NVMe fix from Christoph:
"nvme fixes for Linux 6.15
- fix an out-of-bounds access in nvmet_enable_port (Richard Weinberger)"
* tag 'nvme-6.15-2025-04-24' of git://git.infradead.org/nvme:
nvmet: fix out-of-bounds access in nvmet_enable_port
With the new large sector size support, it's now the case that
set_blocksize can change i_blksize and the folio order in a manner that
conflicts with a concurrent reader and causes a kernel crash.
Specifically, let's say that udev-worker calls libblkid to detect the
labels on a block device. The read call can create an order-0 folio to
read the first 4096 bytes from the disk. But then udev is preempted.
Next, someone tries to mount an 8k-sectorsize filesystem from the same
block device. The filesystem calls set_blksize, which sets i_blksize to
8192 and the minimum folio order to 1.
Now udev resumes, still holding the order-0 folio it allocated. It then
tries to schedule a read bio and do_mpage_readahead tries to create
bufferheads for the folio. Unfortunately, blocks_per_folio == 0 because
the page size is 4096 but the blocksize is 8192 so no bufferheads are
attached and the bh walk never sets bdev. We then submit the bio with a
NULL block device and crash.
Therefore, truncate the page cache after flushing but before updating
i_blksize. However, that's not enough -- we also need to lock out file
IO and page faults during the update. Take both the i_rwsem and the
invalidate_lock in exclusive mode for invalidations, and in shared mode
for read/write operations.
I don't know if this is the correct fix, but xfs/259 found it.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Shin'ichiro Kawasaki <shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/174543795699.4139148.2086129139322431423.stgit@frogsfrogsfrogs
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
ublk_init_queues() ensures that all nr_hw_queues queues are initialized,
with each ublk_queue's q_id set to its index. And ublk_init_queues() is
called before ublk_add_chdev(), which creates the cdev. Is is therefore
impossible for the !ubq || ub_cmd->q_id != ubq->q_id condition to hit in
__ublk_ch_uring_cmd(). Remove it to avoids some branches in the I/O path.
Signed-off-by: Caleb Sander Mateos <csander@purestorage.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Uday Shankar <ushankar@purestorage.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250416170154.3621609-1-csander@purestorage.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
When trying to enable a port that has no transport configured yet,
nvmet_enable_port() uses NVMF_TRTYPE_MAX (255) to query the transports
array, causing an out-of-bounds access:
[ 106.058694] BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in nvmet_enable_port+0x42/0x1da
[ 106.058719] Read of size 8 at addr ffffffff89dafa58 by task ln/632
[...]
[ 106.076026] nvmet: transport type 255 not supported
Since commit 200adac758, NVMF_TRTYPE_MAX is the default state as configured by
nvmet_ports_make().
Avoid this by checking for NVMF_TRTYPE_MAX before proceeding.
Fixes: 200adac758 ("nvme: Add PCI transport type")
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Currently ublk only allows the size of the ublkb block device to be
set via UBLK_CMD_SET_PARAMS before UBLK_CMD_START_DEV is triggered.
This does not provide support for extendable user-space block devices
without having to stop and restart the underlying ublkb block device
causing IO interruption.
This patch adds a new ublk command UBLK_U_CMD_UPDATE_SIZE to allow the
ublk block device to be resized on-the-fly.
Feature flag UBLK_F_UPDATE_SIZE is also added to indicate support.
Signed-off-by: Omri Mann <omri@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2a370ab1-d85b-409d-b762-f9f3f6bdf705@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Even if blk-rq-qos isn't used or configured, dipping into the queue to
fetch ->rq_qos is a noticeable slowdown and visible in profiles. Add an
unlikely static key around blk-rq-qos, to avoid fetching this cacheline
if blk-iolatency or blk-wbt isn't configured or used.
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
On x86, rep stos will be emitted to clear the the blk_mq_alloc_data
struct, as not all members are being explicitly initialied. Depending on
the type of CPU, this is a noticeable slowdown compared to just ensuring
that the struct is fully initialized when setup.
For the 4 spots that setup a struct blk_mq_alloc_data on the stack,
ensure all members are being initialized.
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
The 'nr_budgets' argument of blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list() is either the
number of elements in the 'list' argument or zero. Instead of passing
the number of list elements to blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list(), pass a boolean
argument that indicates whether or not blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list() should
request the block driver for a budget for each request in 'list'.
Remove the code for counting list elements from blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list()
callers where possible. Remove the code that decrements nr_budgets from
blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list() because it is superfluous. Each request that
is processed by blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list() is in one of these two states
if 'get_budget' is false:
* Either the request is on 'list' and the budget for the request has to
be released from the error path.
* Or the request is not on 'list' and q->mq_ops->queue_rq() has already
released the budget (ret != BLK_STS_OK) or q->mq_ops->queue_rq() will
release the budget asynchronously (ret == BLK_STS_OK).
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Cc: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250415205134.3650042-1-bvanassche@acm.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
I had left the warning around but as a non-fatal error to get my gcc-15
builds going, but fixed up some of the most annoying warning cases so
that it wouldn't be *too* verbose.
Because I like the _concept_ of the warning, even if I detested the
implementation to shut it up.
It turns out the implementation to shut it up is even more broken than I
thought, and my "shut up most of the warnings" patch just caused fatal
errors on gcc-14 instead.
I had tested with clang, but when I upgrade my development environment,
I try to do it on all machines because I hate having different systems
to maintain, and hadn't realized that gcc-14 now had issues.
The ACPI case is literally why I wanted to have a *type* that doesn't
trigger the warning (see commit d5d45a7f26: "gcc-15: make
'unterminated string initialization' just a warning"), instead of
marking individual places as "__nonstring".
But gcc-14 doesn't like that __nonstring location that shut gcc-15 up,
because it's on an array of char arrays, not on one single array:
drivers/acpi/tables.c:399:1: error: 'nonstring' attribute ignored on objects of type 'const char[][4]' [-Werror=attributes]
399 | static const char table_sigs[][ACPI_NAMESEG_SIZE] __initconst __nonstring = {
| ^~~~~~
and my attempts to nest it properly with a type had failed, because of
how gcc doesn't like marking the types as having attributes, only
symbols.
There may be some trick to it, but I was already annoyed by the bad
attribute design, now I'm just entirely fed up with it.
I wish gcc had a proper way to say "this type is a *byte* array, not a
string".
The obvious thing would be to distinguish between "char []" and an
explicitly signed "unsigned char []" (as opposed to an implicitly
unsigned char, which is typically an architecture-specific default, but
for the kernel is universal thanks to '-funsigned-char').
But any "we can typedef a 8-bit type to not become a string just because
it's an array" model would be fine.
But "__attribute__((nonstring))" is sadly not that sane model.
Reported-by: Chris Clayton <chris2553@googlemail.com>
Fixes: 4b4bd8c50f ("gcc-15: acpi: sprinkle random '__nonstring' crumbles around")
Fixes: d5d45a7f26 ("gcc-15: make 'unterminated string initialization' just a warning")
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The C sequence points are complicated things, and gcc-15 has apparently
added a warning for the case where an object is both used and modified
multiple times within the same sequence point.
That's a great warning.
Or rather, it would be a great warning, except gcc-15 seems to not
really be very exact about it, and doesn't notice that the modification
are to two entirely different members of the same object: the array
counter and the array entries.
So that seems kind of silly.
That said, the code that gcc complains about is unnecessarily
complicated, so moving the array counter update into a separate
statement seems like the most straightforward fix for these warnings:
drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mld/d3.c: In function ‘iwl_mld_set_netdetect_info’:
drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mld/d3.c:1102:66: error: operation on ‘netdetect_info->n_matches’ may be undefined [-Werror=sequence-point]
1102 | netdetect_info->matches[netdetect_info->n_matches++] = match;
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~
drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mld/d3.c:1120:58: error: operation on ‘match->n_channels’ may be undefined [-Werror=sequence-point]
1120 | match->channels[match->n_channels++] =
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~
side note: the code at that second warning is actively buggy, and only
works on little-endian machines that don't do strict alignment checks.
The code casts an array of integers into an array of unsigned long in
order to use our bitmap iterators. That happens to work fine on any
sane architecture, but it's still wrong.
This does *not* fix that more serious problem. This only splits the two
assignments into two statements and fixes the compiler warning. I need
to get rid of the new warnings in order to be able to actually do any
build testing.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
All of these cases are perfectly valid and good traditional C, but hit
by the "you're not NUL-terminating your byte array" warning.
And none of the cases want any terminating NUL character.
Mark them __nonstring to shut up gcc-15 (and in the case of the ak8974
magnetometer driver, I just removed the explicit array size and let gcc
expand the 3-byte and 6-byte arrays by one extra byte, because it was
the simpler change).
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This removes two cases of explicit NUL padding that now causes warnings
because of '-Wunterminated-string-initialization' being part of -Wextra
in gcc-15.
Gcc is being silly in this case when it says that it truncates a NUL
terminator, because in these cases there were _multiple_ NUL characters.
But we can get rid of the warning by just simplifying the two
initializers that trigger the warning for me, so this does exactly that.
I'm not sure why the power supply code did that odd
.attr_name = #_name "\0",
pattern: it was introduced in commit 2cabeaf151 ("power: supply: core:
Cleanup power supply sysfs attribute list"), but that 'attr_name[]'
field is an explicitly sized character array in a statically initialized
variable, and a string initializer always has a terminating NUL _and_
statically initialized character arrays are zero-padded anyway, so it
really seems to be rather extraneous belt-and-suspenders.
The zero_uuid[16] initialization in drivers/md/bcache/super.c makes
perfect sense, but it isn't necessary for the same reasons, and not
worth the new gcc warning noise.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is not great: I'd much rather introduce a typedef that is a "ACPI
name byte buffer", and use that to mark these special 4-byte ACPI names
that do not use NUL termination.
But as noted in the previous commit ("gcc-15: make 'unterminated string
initialization' just a warning") gcc doesn't actually seem to support
that notion, so instead you have to just mark every single array
declaration individually.
So this is not pretty, but this gets rid of the bulk of the annoying
warnings during an allmodconfig build for me.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
gcc-15 enabling -Wunterminated-string-initialization in -Wextra by
default was done with the best intentions, but the warning is still
quite broken.
What annoys me about the warning is that this is a very traditional AND
CORRECT way to initialize fixed byte arrays in C:
unsigned char hex[16] = "0123456789abcdef";
and we use this all over the kernel. And the warning is fine, but gcc
developers apparently never made a reasonable way to disable it. As is
(sadly) tradition with these things.
Yes, there's "__attribute__((nonstring))", and we have a macro to make
that absolutely disgusting syntax more palatable (ie the kernel syntax
for that monstrosity is just "__nonstring").
But that attribute is misdesigned. What you'd typically want to do is
tell the compiler that you are using a type that isn't a string but a
byte array, but that doesn't work at all:
warning: ‘nonstring’ attribute does not apply to types [-Wattributes]
and because of this fundamental mis-design, you then have to mark each
instance of that pattern.
This is particularly noticeable in our ACPI code, because ACPI has this
notion of a 4-byte "type name" that gets used all over, and is exactly
this kind of byte array.
This is a sad oversight, because the warning is useful, but really would
be so much better if gcc had also given a sane way to indicate that we
really just want a byte array type at a type level, not the broken "each
and every array definition" level.
So now instead of creating a nice "ACPI name" type using something like
typedef char acpi_name_t[4] __nonstring;
we have to do things like
char name[ACPI_NAMESEG_SIZE] __nonstring;
in every place that uses this concept and then happens to have the
typical initializers.
This is annoying me mainly because I think the warning _is_ a good
warning, which is why I'm not just turning it off in disgust. But it is
hampered by this bad implementation detail.
[ And obviously I'm doing this now because system upgrades for me are
something that happen in the middle of the release cycle: don't do it
before or during travel, or just before or during the busy merge
window period. ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull misc hotfixes from Andrew Morton:
"16 hotfixes. 2 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.14
issues or aren't considered necessary for -stable kernels.
All patches are basically for MM although five are alterations to
MAINTAINERS"
[ Basic counting skills are clearly not a strictly necessary requirement
for kernel maintainers. - Linus ]
* tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2025-04-19-21-24' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm:
MAINTAINERS: add section for locking of mm's and VMAs
mm: vmscan: fix kswapd exit condition in defrag_mode
mm: vmscan: restore high-cpu watermark safety in kswapd
MAINTAINERS: add Pedro as reviewer to the MEMORY MAPPING section
mm/memory: move sanity checks in do_wp_page() after mapcount vs. refcount stabilization
mm, hugetlb: increment the number of pages to be reset on HVO
writeback: fix false warning in inode_to_wb()
docs: ABI: replace mcroce@microsoft.com with new Meta address
mm/gup: fix wrongly calculated returned value in fault_in_safe_writeable()
MAINTAINERS: add memory advice section
MAINTAINERS: add mmap trace events to MEMORY MAPPING
mm: memcontrol: fix swap counter leak from offline cgroup
MAINTAINERS: add MM subsection for the page allocator
MAINTAINERS: update SLAB ALLOCATOR maintainers
fs/dax: fix folio splitting issue by resetting old folio order + _nr_pages
mm/page_alloc: fix deadlock on cpu_hotplug_lock in __accept_page()
Pull vfs fixes from Christian Brauner:
- Revert the hfs{plus} deprecation warning that's also included in this
pull request. The commit introducing the deprecation warning resides
rather early in this branch. So simply dropping it would've rebased
all other commits which I decided to avoid. Hence the revert in the
same branch
[ Background - the deprecation warning discussion resulted in people
stepping up, and so hfs{plus} will have a maintainer taking care of
it after all.. - Linus ]
- Switch CONFIG_SYSFS_SYCALL default to n and decouple from
CONFIG_EXPERT
- Fix an audit bug caused by changes to our kernel path lookup helpers
this cycle. Audit needs the parent path even if the dentry it tried
to look up is negative
- Ensure that the kernel path lookup helpers leave the passed in path
argument clean when they return an error. This is consistent with all
our other helpers
- Ensure that vfs_getattr_nosec() calls bdev_statx() so the relevant
information is available to kernel consumers as well
- Don't set a timer and call schedule() if the timer will expire
immediately in epoll
- Make netfs lookup tables with __nonstring
* tag 'vfs-6.15-rc3.fixes.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
Revert "hfs{plus}: add deprecation warning"
fs: move the bdex_statx call to vfs_getattr_nosec
netfs: Mark __nonstring lookup tables
eventpoll: Set epoll timeout if it's in the future
fs: ensure that *path_locked*() helpers leave passed path pristine
fs: add kern_path_locked_negative()
hfs{plus}: add deprecation warning
Kconfig: switch CONFIG_SYSFS_SYCALL default to n
This reverts commit ddee68c499.
There's ongoing discussion about better maintenance of at least hfsplus.
Rever the deprecation warning for now.
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
