linux/Documentation/filesystems
Linus Torvalds 3f6984e730 vfs-6.8.super
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.8.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* tag 'vfs-6.8.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (27 commits)
  block: Fix a memory leak in bdev_open_by_dev()
  super: don't bother with WARN_ON_ONCE()
  super: massage wait event mechanism
  ext4: Block writes to journal device
  xfs: Block writes to log device
  fs: Block writes to mounted block devices
  btrfs: Do not restrict writes to btrfs devices
  block: Add config option to not allow writing to mounted devices
  block: Remove blkdev_get_by_*() functions
  bcachefs: Convert to bdev_open_by_path()
  fs: handle freezing from multiple devices
  fs: remove dead check
  nilfs2: simplify device handling
  fs: streamline thaw_super_locked
  ext4: simplify device handling
  xfs: simplify device handling
  fs: simplify setup_bdev_super() calls
  blkdev: comment fs_holder_ops
  porting: document block device freeze and thaw changes
  fs: remove unused helper
  ...
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caching Documentation: Fix typos 2023-08-18 11:29:03 -06:00
ext4 Documentation: Fix typos 2023-08-18 11:29:03 -06:00
nfs vfs-6.7.fsid 2023-11-07 12:11:26 -08:00
smb smb3: move Documentation/filesystems/cifs to Documentation/filesystems/smb 2023-05-24 16:29:21 -05:00
spufs Documentation: spufs: correct a duplicate word typo 2022-09-27 13:21:44 -06:00
9p.rst Documentation: Fix typos 2023-08-18 11:29:03 -06:00
adfs.rst
affs.rst
afs.rst afs: Documentation: correct reference to CONFIG_AFS_FS 2023-07-21 13:46:02 -06:00
api-summary.rst
autofs-mount-control.rst autofs: use flexible array in ioctl structure 2023-05-30 16:42:00 -07:00
autofs.rst autofs: use flexible array in ioctl structure 2023-05-30 16:42:00 -07:00
automount-support.rst
befs.rst Documentation: Fix typos 2023-08-18 11:29:03 -06:00
bfs.rst
btrfs.rst MAINTAINERS: remove links to obsolete btrfs.wiki.kernel.org 2023-09-08 14:21:27 +02:00
ceph.rst ceph: update documentation regarding snapshot naming limitations 2023-08-24 11:24:36 +02:00
coda.rst
configfs.rst Documentation: Fix typos 2023-08-18 11:29:03 -06:00
cramfs.rst
dax.rst Documentation: Fix typos 2023-08-18 11:29:03 -06:00
debugfs.rst debugfs: small Documentation cleaning 2022-11-09 13:58:55 -07:00
devpts.rst Documentation: Fix typos 2023-08-18 11:29:03 -06:00
directory-locking.rst fs: Lock moved directories 2023-06-02 15:00:18 +02:00
dlmfs.rst docs: update ocfs2-devel mailing list address 2023-07-08 09:29:29 -07:00
dnotify.rst
ecryptfs.rst
efivarfs.rst
erofs.rst MAINTAINERS: erofs: add EROFS webpage 2023-11-17 19:55:46 +08:00
ext2.rst ext2: remove nobh support 2022-08-02 12:34:04 -04:00
ext3.rst
f2fs.rst Documentation: Fix typos 2023-08-18 11:29:03 -06:00
fiemap.rst
files.rst file: convert to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU 2023-10-19 11:02:48 +02:00
fscrypt.rst fscrypt: track master key presence separately from secret 2023-10-16 21:23:45 -07:00
fsverity.rst ovl: Add framework for verity support 2023-08-12 19:02:38 +03:00
fuse-io.rst docs/fuse-io: Document the usage of DIRECT_IO_ALLOW_MMAP 2023-12-04 10:16:53 +01:00
fuse.rst fuse: Add module param for CAP_SYS_ADMIN access bypassing allow_other 2022-07-21 16:06:19 +02:00
gfs2-glocks.rst gfs2 fixes 2023-09-05 13:00:28 -07:00
gfs2-uevents.rst
gfs2.rst
hfs.rst
hfsplus.rst
hpfs.rst
idmappings.rst Documentation work keeps chugging along; stuff for 6.6 includes: 2023-08-30 20:05:42 -07:00
index.rst docs: add maintainer entry profile for XFS 2023-08-10 07:47:53 -07:00
inotify.rst
isofs.rst
journalling.rst
locking.rst Documentation work keeps chugging along; stuff for 6.6 includes: 2023-08-30 20:05:42 -07:00
locks.rst
mount_api.rst fs_context: drop the unused lsm_flags member 2023-03-16 14:38:28 +01:00
netfs_library.rst Documentation: Fix typos 2023-08-18 11:29:03 -06:00
nilfs2.rst Documentation: Fix typos 2023-08-18 11:29:03 -06:00
ntfs.rst
ntfs3.rst Documentation: Fix typos 2023-08-18 11:29:03 -06:00
ocfs2-online-filecheck.rst
ocfs2.rst docs: update ocfs2-devel mailing list address 2023-07-08 09:29:29 -07:00
omfs.rst
orangefs.rst Documentation: Fix typos 2023-08-18 11:29:03 -06:00
overlayfs.rst ovl: add support for appending lowerdirs one by one 2023-10-31 00:13:02 +02:00
path-lookup.rst
path-lookup.txt
porting.rst porting: document block device freeze and thaw changes 2023-11-18 14:59:23 +01:00
proc.rst doc: Add /proc/bootconfig to proc.rst 2023-10-31 18:46:43 +09:00
qnx6.rst Documentation: Fix typos 2023-08-18 11:29:03 -06:00
quota.rst
ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.rst Documentation/filesystems: ramfs-rootfs-initramfs: use :Author: 2023-05-16 12:55:35 -06:00
relay.rst
romfs.rst
seq_file.rst Documentation: Fix typos 2023-08-18 11:29:03 -06:00
sharedsubtree.rst Documentation/filesystems: sharedsubtree: add section headings 2023-05-16 12:50:05 -06:00
splice.rst
squashfs.rst
sysfs.rst driver core: bus: mark the struct bus_type for sysfs callbacks as constant 2023-03-23 13:20:40 +01:00
sysv-fs.rst
tmpfs.rst tmpfs,xattr: enable limited user extended attributes 2023-08-10 12:06:04 +02:00
ubifs-authentication.rst Documentation: Fix typos 2023-08-18 11:29:03 -06:00
ubifs.rst Documentation: ubifs: Fix compression idiom 2022-10-10 13:01:10 -06:00
udf.rst
vfat.rst Documentation: Fix typos 2023-08-18 11:29:03 -06:00
vfs.rst Documentation work keeps chugging along; stuff for 6.6 includes: 2023-08-30 20:05:42 -07:00
virtiofs.rst
xfs-delayed-logging-design.rst Documentation: filesystems: correct possessive "its" 2022-09-27 13:21:44 -06:00
xfs-maintainer-entry-profile.rst docs: add maintainer entry profile for XFS 2023-08-10 07:47:53 -07:00
xfs-online-fsck-design.rst Documentation: xfs: Remove repeated word in comments 2023-09-22 05:20:09 -06:00
xfs-self-describing-metadata.rst xfs: document the filesystem metadata checking strategy 2023-04-11 18:59:47 -07:00
zonefs.rst Documentation: Fix typos 2023-08-18 11:29:03 -06:00