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@ 2026-06-12 15:10 Christian Brauner
  2026-06-12 15:11 ` [GIT PULL 01/16 for v7.2] vfs kfunc Christian Brauner
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From: Christian Brauner @ 2026-06-12 15:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linus Torvalds; +Cc: Christian Brauner, linux-fsdevel, linux-kernel

Hey Linus,

This is the batch of pull requests for the v7.2 merge window.

This cycle is light on new uapi and heavy on infrastructure: a couple
of long-standing scalability problems are fixed and a few pieces of
filesystem behavior that file servers have wanted for a long time are
finally exposed.

Case folding behavior of local filesystems is now exposed so file
servers - nfsd, ksmbd, and user space servers - can report it to
clients instead of guessing. Filesystems report case-insensitive and
case-nonpreserving behavior through fileattr_get and nfsd implements
NFSv3 PATHCONF and the NFSv4 FATTR4_CASE_INSENSITIVE and
FATTR4_CASE_PRESERVING attributes which have been part of the NFS
protocols for decades. Windows NFS clients hard-require this
information for Win32 applications to behave correctly, the Linux
client uses it to disable negative dentry caching on case-insensitive
shares, and multi-protocol NFS/SMB servers need it to participate as
first-class citizens in such environments.

openat2() grows two new flags. O_EMPTYPATH allows reopening the file
behind an O_PATH file descriptor through an empty path string,
removing the detour through /proc/<pid>/fd and the procfs dependency
that comes with it. OPENAT2_REGULAR refuses to open anything but
regular files, returning the new EFTYPE error code, so services can
protect themselves against being redirected to fifos or device nodes.

exec gains a per-task task_exec_state structure holding the dumpable
mode and the user namespace captured at execve(). Both used to live on
mm_struct which exit_mm() clears long before a task is reaped, so
__ptrace_may_access() and several /proc visibility checks misbehaved
for zombies - denying legitimate access to non-dumpable zombies that
were running in nested user namespaces. exec also stops tearing down
the old mm while holding exec_update_lock and cred_guard_mutex, so
execve() of a large process no longer blocks ptrace_attach() and every
exec_update_lock reader for the duration of the teardown.

The VFS prerequisites for directory delegations land: lease holders
can opt out of having specific directory change events break their
delegation and fsnotify grows the helpers nfsd needs to drive
CB_NOTIFY callbacks from inotify watches in a future cycle.

Acquiring an inode reference becomes lockless as long as the refcount
was already at least 1, so only the 0->1 and 1->0 transitions take
inode->i_lock anymore.

The race between cgroup_writeback_umount() and inode_switch_wbs() that
could trigger "VFS: Busy inodes after unmount" and a use-after-free on
percpu counters is fixed, and the global serialization in the umount
path is replaced with a per-sb counter. Umount latency under cgroup
writeback churn drops from ~92-138ms p50 to ~5-8ms p50. Writeback also
learns to track dirty RWF_DONTCACHE pages per bdi_writeback so the
flusher can be kicked in a targeted fashion, improving uncached write
performance.

b_end_io is removed from struct buffer_head. The completion path loses
an indirect function call, struct buffer_head shrinks from 104 to 96
bytes, and a corruptible function pointer in the middle of a writable
data structure goes away. All in-tree users are converted to the new
bh_submit() interface.

fs/eventpoll.c is extensively documented and refactored. The
invariants the recent UAF fixes relied on were nowhere written down
and had to be reverse-engineered, so they are now codified in source,
long function bodies are split into named helpers, and the per-CTL_ADD
scratch state moves off file-scope globals. epoll also gains a
file-based control interface so io_uring can stop supporting nested
epoll contexts, and a long-standing race that made epoll_wait() report
false negatives with a zero timeout is fixed.

The simple xattr infrastructure moves its hash table into a
per-superblock cache and handles lazy allocation internally instead of
burdening every caller. On top of this bpffs gains support for
trusted.* and security.* xattrs so metadata like content hashes or
security labels can be attached to pinned objects.

iomap brings the vfs infrastructure required for fs-verity support in
XFS with a post-EOF merkle tree, stops pointlessly zeroing the iomap
on the final iteration which improves polled I/O IOPS by about 5%, and
introduces the IOMAP_F_ZERO_TAIL flag needed by filesystems with a
valid data length like exFAT and NTFS.

The string emitted from /proc/filesystems is pre-generated and cached
and the filesystems list is RCU-ified. The file is read by libselinux
and thus by a surprising number of programs; open+read+close goes from
~440k to ~1.06M ops/s single-threaded and from ~600k to ~3.3M ops/s
with 20 processes. procfs mounts with subset=pid are exempted from the
full mount visibility checks, unblocking procfs mounts in rootless
containers, and most ptrace_may_access() users in procfs now hold
exec_update_lock to avoid TOCTOU races with concurrent privileged
execve().

pipe writes pre-allocate pages outside pipe->mutex so readers no
longer stall behind a writer doing direct reclaim under the mutex,
improving throughput by 6-28% and up to 48% under memory pressure.

sget() is retired with the last users converted to sget_fc(), and the
exportfs support for block-style layouts is cleaned up in preparation
for multi-device filesystem exports.

Smaller items include a fix for the bpf dentry xattr kfuncs with
negative dentries, per-instance lockdep classes for rhashtable, fixes
and new helpers for the copy_struct_*() machinery, set_blocksize()
error handling for a pile of legacy filesystems that crashed when
mounting devices with sector size > PAGE_SIZE, SB_I_NOEXEC and
SB_I_NODEV being set by default in init_pseudo(), honouring SB_NOUSER
in the new mount API, a SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order fix in fasync
signaling, an FS_USERNS_DELEGATABLE flag to unbreak delegated NFS
mounts in containers, documentation with guidelines for submitting new
filesystems, and assorted selftest fixes and cleanups.

Thanks!
Christian


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