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  1. 10 Aug, 2023 2 commits
    • Darrick J. Wong's avatar
      MAINTAINERS: drop me as XFS maintainer · d554046e
      Darrick J. Wong authored 
      I burned out years ago trying to juggle the roles senior developer,
reviewer, tester, triager (crappily), release manager, and (at times)
manager liaison.  There's enough work here in this one subsystem for a
team of 20 FT, but instead we're squeezed to half that.  I thought if I
could hold on just a bit longer I could help to maintain the focus on
long term development to improve the experience for users.  I was wrong.

Nowadays, people working on XFS seem to spend most of their time on
distro kernel backports and dealing with AI-generated corner case bug
reports that aren't user reports.  Reviewing has become a nightmare of
sifting through under-documented kernel code trying to decide if this
new feature won't break all the other features.  Getting reviews is an
unpleasant process of negotiating with demands for further cleanups,
trying to figure out if a review comment is based in experience or
unfamiliarity, and wondering if the silence means anything.

For now, I will continue to review patches and will try to get online
fsck, parent pointers, and realtime volume modernisation merged.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
      d554046e
    • Darrick J. Wong's avatar
      docs: add maintainer entry profile for XFS · 19e13b0a
      Darrick J. Wong authored 
      Create a new document to list what I think are (within the scope of XFS)
our shared goals and community roles.  Since I will be stepping down
shortly, I feel it's important to write down somewhere all the hats that
I have been wearing for the past six years.

Also, document important extra details about how to contribute to XFS.

Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Signed-off-by: default avatarDarrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChandan Babu R <chandan.babu@oracle.com>
      19e13b0a
  3. 06 Aug, 2023 8 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux 6.5-rc5 · 52a93d39
      Linus Torvalds authored
      52a93d39
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'v6.5-rc5.vfs.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs · 0108963f
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull vfs fixes from Christian Brauner:

 - Fix a wrong check for O_TMPFILE during RESOLVE_CACHED lookup

 - Clean up directory iterators and clarify file_needs_f_pos_lock()

* tag 'v6.5-rc5.vfs.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  fs: rely on ->iterate_shared to determine f_pos locking
  vfs: get rid of old '->iterate' directory operation
  proc: fix missing conversion to 'iterate_shared'
  open: make RESOLVE_CACHED correctly test for O_TMPFILE
      0108963f
    • Christian Brauner's avatar
      fs: rely on ->iterate_shared to determine f_pos locking · 7d84d1b9
      Christian Brauner authored 
      Now that we removed ->iterate we don't need to check for either
->iterate or ->iterate_shared in file_needs_f_pos_lock(). Simply check
for ->iterate_shared instead. This will tell us whether we need to
unconditionally take the lock. Not just does it allow us to avoid
checking f_inode's mode it also actually clearly shows that we're
locking because of readdir.
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
      7d84d1b9
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      vfs: get rid of old '->iterate' directory operation · 3e327154
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      All users now just use '->iterate_shared()', which only takes the
directory inode lock for reading.

Filesystems that never got convered to shared mode now instead use a
wrapper that drops the lock, re-takes it in write mode, calls the old
function, and then downgrades the lock back to read mode.

This way the VFS layer and other callers no longer need to care about
filesystems that never got converted to the modern era.

The filesystems that use the new wrapper are ceph, coda, exfat, jfs,
ntfs, ocfs2, overlayfs, and vboxsf.

Honestly, several of them look like they really could just iterate their
directories in shared mode and skip the wrapper entirely, but the point
of this change is to not change semantics or fix filesystems that
haven't been fixed in the last 7+ years, but to finally get rid of the
dual iterators.
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
      3e327154
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      proc: fix missing conversion to 'iterate_shared' · 0a2c2baa
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      I'm looking at the directory handling due to the discussion about f_pos
locking (see commit 79796425: "file: reinstate f_pos locking
optimization for regular files"), and wanting to clean that up.

And one source of ugliness is how we were supposed to move filesystems
over to the '->iterate_shared()' function that only takes the inode lock
for reading many many years ago, but several filesystems still use the
bad old '->iterate()' that takes the inode lock for exclusive access.

See commit 61922694 ("introduce a parallel variant of ->iterate()")
that also added some documentation stating

      Old method is only used if the new one is absent; eventually it will
      be removed.  Switch while you still can; the old one won't stay.

and that was back in April 2016.  Here we are, many years later, and the
old version is still clearly sadly alive and well.

Now, some of those old style iterators are probably just because the
filesystem may end up having per-inode mutable data that it uses for
iterating a directory, but at least one case is just a mistake.

Al switched over most filesystems to use '->iterate_shared()' back when
it was introduced.  In particular, the /proc filesystem was converted as
one of the first ones in commit f50752ea ("switch all procfs
directories ->iterate_shared()").

But then later one new user of '->iterate()' was then re-introduced by
commit 6d9c939d ("procfs: add smack subdir to attrs").

And that's clearly not what we wanted, since that new case just uses the
same 'proc_pident_readdir()' and 'proc_pident_lookup()' helper functions
that other /proc pident directories use, and they are most definitely
safe to use with the inode lock held shared.

So just fix it.

This still leaves a fair number of oddball filesystems using the
old-style directory iterator (ceph, coda, exfat, jfs, ntfs, ocfs2,
overlayfs, and vboxsf), but at least we don't have any remaining in the
core filesystems.

I'm going to add a wrapper function that just drops the read-lock and
takes it as a write lock, so that we can clean up the core vfs layer and
make all the ugly 'this filesystem needs exclusive inode locking' be
just filesystem-internal warts.

I just didn't want to make that conversion when we still had a core user
left.
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
      0a2c2baa
    • Aleksa Sarai's avatar
      open: make RESOLVE_CACHED correctly test for O_TMPFILE · a0fc452a
      Aleksa Sarai authored 
      O_TMPFILE is actually __O_TMPFILE|O_DIRECTORY. This means that the old
fast-path check for RESOLVE_CACHED would reject all users passing
O_DIRECTORY with -EAGAIN, when in fact the intended test was to check
for __O_TMPFILE.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.12+
Fixes: 99668f61 ("fs: expose LOOKUP_CACHED through openat2() RESOLVE_CACHED")
Signed-off-by: default avatarAleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Message-Id: <20230806-resolve_cached-o_tmpfile-v1-1-7ba16308465e@cyphar.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
      a0fc452a
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'rust-fixes-6.5-rc5' of https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux · f0ab9f34
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull rust fixes from Miguel Ojeda:

 - Allocator: prevent mis-aligned allocation

 - Types: delete 'ForeignOwnable::borrow_mut'. A sound replacement is
   planned for the merge window

 - Build: fix bindgen error with UBSAN_BOUNDS_STRICT

* tag 'rust-fixes-6.5-rc5' of https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux:
  rust: fix bindgen build error with UBSAN_BOUNDS_STRICT
  rust: delete `ForeignOwnable::borrow_mut`
  rust: allocator: Prevent mis-aligned allocation
      f0ab9f34
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'ata-6.5-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dlemoal/libata · fb0d9199
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull ata fix from Damien Le Moal:

 - Prevent the scsi disk driver from issuing a START STOP UNIT command
   for ATA devices during system resume as this causes various issues
   reported by multiple users.

* tag 'ata-6.5-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dlemoal/libata:
  ata,scsi: do not issue START STOP UNIT on resume
      fb0d9199
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