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<entry>
<title>ext4: add i_data_sem protection in ext4_destroy_inline_data_nolock()</title>
<updated>2025-12-12T17:40:18Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Nepomnyashih</name>
<email>sdl@nppct.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-04T09:33:25Z</published>
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commit 0cd8feea8777f8d9b9a862b89c688b049a5c8475 upstream.

Fix a race between inline data destruction and block mapping.

The function ext4_destroy_inline_data_nolock() changes the inode data
layout by clearing EXT4_INODE_INLINE_DATA and setting EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS.
At the same time, another thread may execute ext4_map_blocks(), which
tests EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS to decide whether to call ext4_ext_map_blocks()
or ext4_ind_map_blocks().

Without i_data_sem protection, ext4_ind_map_blocks() may receive inode
with EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS flag and triggering assert.

kernel BUG at fs/ext4/indirect.c:546!
EXT4-fs (loop2): unmounting filesystem.
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:ext4_ind_map_blocks.cold+0x2b/0x5a fs/ext4/indirect.c:546

Call Trace:
 &lt;TASK&gt;
 ext4_map_blocks+0xb9b/0x16f0 fs/ext4/inode.c:681
 _ext4_get_block+0x242/0x590 fs/ext4/inode.c:822
 ext4_block_write_begin+0x48b/0x12c0 fs/ext4/inode.c:1124
 ext4_write_begin+0x598/0xef0 fs/ext4/inode.c:1255
 ext4_da_write_begin+0x21e/0x9c0 fs/ext4/inode.c:3000
 generic_perform_write+0x259/0x5d0 mm/filemap.c:3846
 ext4_buffered_write_iter+0x15b/0x470 fs/ext4/file.c:285
 ext4_file_write_iter+0x8e0/0x17f0 fs/ext4/file.c:679
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2271 [inline]
 do_iter_readv_writev+0x212/0x3c0 fs/read_write.c:735
 do_iter_write+0x186/0x710 fs/read_write.c:861
 vfs_iter_write+0x70/0xa0 fs/read_write.c:902
 iter_file_splice_write+0x73b/0xc90 fs/splice.c:685
 do_splice_from fs/splice.c:763 [inline]
 direct_splice_actor+0x10f/0x170 fs/splice.c:950
 splice_direct_to_actor+0x33a/0xa10 fs/splice.c:896
 do_splice_direct+0x1a9/0x280 fs/splice.c:1002
 do_sendfile+0xb13/0x12c0 fs/read_write.c:1255
 __do_sys_sendfile64 fs/read_write.c:1323 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendfile64 fs/read_write.c:1309 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendfile64+0x1cf/0x210 fs/read_write.c:1309
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8

Fixes: c755e251357a ("ext4: fix deadlock between inline_data and ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.11+
Signed-off-by: Alexey Nepomnyashih &lt;sdl@nppct.ru&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20251104093326.697381-1-sdl@nppct.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: refresh inline data size before write operations</title>
<updated>2025-12-12T17:40:18Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Deepanshu Kartikey</name>
<email>kartikey406@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-20T06:09:36Z</published>
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commit 892e1cf17555735e9d021ab036c36bc7b58b0e3b upstream.

The cached ei-&gt;i_inline_size can become stale between the initial size
check and when ext4_update_inline_data()/ext4_create_inline_data() use
it. Although ext4_get_max_inline_size() reads the correct value at the
time of the check, concurrent xattr operations can modify i_inline_size
before ext4_write_lock_xattr() is acquired.

This causes ext4_update_inline_data() and ext4_create_inline_data() to
work with stale capacity values, leading to a BUG_ON() crash in
ext4_write_inline_data():

  kernel BUG at fs/ext4/inline.c:1331!
  BUG_ON(pos + len &gt; EXT4_I(inode)-&gt;i_inline_size);

The race window:
1. ext4_get_max_inline_size() reads i_inline_size = 60 (correct)
2. Size check passes for 50-byte write
3. [Another thread adds xattr, i_inline_size changes to 40]
4. ext4_write_lock_xattr() acquires lock
5. ext4_update_inline_data() uses stale i_inline_size = 60
6. Attempts to write 50 bytes but only 40 bytes actually available
7. BUG_ON() triggers

Fix this by recalculating i_inline_size via ext4_find_inline_data_nolock()
immediately after acquiring xattr_sem. This ensures ext4_update_inline_data()
and ext4_create_inline_data() work with current values that are protected
from concurrent modifications.

This is similar to commit a54c4613dac1 ("ext4: fix race writing to an
inline_data file while its xattrs are changing") which fixed i_inline_off
staleness. This patch addresses the related i_inline_size staleness issue.

Reported-by: syzbot+f3185be57d7e8dda32b8@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=f3185be57d7e8dda32b8
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey &lt;kartikey406@gmail.com&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20251020060936.474314-1-kartikey406@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: do not BUG when INLINE_DATA_FL lacks system.data xattr</title>
<updated>2025-07-25T13:14:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-17T14:54:34Z</published>
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A syzbot fuzzed image triggered a BUG_ON in ext4_update_inline_data()
when an inode had the INLINE_DATA_FL flag set but was missing the
system.data extended attribute.

Since this can happen due to a maiciouly fuzzed file system, we
shouldn't BUG, but rather, report it as a corrupted file system.

Add similar replacements of BUG_ON with EXT4_ERROR_INODE() ii
ext4_create_inline_data() and ext4_inline_data_truncate().

Reported-by: syzbot+544248a761451c0df72f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<title>ext4: refactor the inline directory conversion and new directory codepaths</title>
<updated>2025-07-18T03:25:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-12T18:12:49Z</published>
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There was a lot of common code in the codepaths used to convert an
inline directory and to creaet a new directory.  To address this,
rename ext4_init_dot_dotdot() to ext4_init_dirblock() and then move
common code into that function.

This reduces the lines of code count in fs/ext4/inline.c and
fs/ext4/namei.c, as well as reducing the size of their object files.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250712181249.434530-3-tytso@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<title>ext4: use memcpy() instead of strcpy()</title>
<updated>2025-07-18T03:25:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-12T18:12:48Z</published>
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The strcpy() function is considered dangerous and eeeevil by people
who are using sophisticated code analysis tools such as "grep".  This
is true even when a quick inspection would show that the source is a
constant string ("." or "..") and the destination is a fixed array
which is guaranteed to have enough space.  Make the "grep" code
analysis tool happy by using memcpy() isstead of strcpy().  :-)

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250712181249.434530-2-tytso@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<title>ext4: Make sure BH_New bit is cleared in -&gt;write_end handler</title>
<updated>2025-07-18T03:25:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-09T08:48:32Z</published>
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Currently we clear BH_New bit in case of error and also in the standard
ext4_write_end() handler (in block_commit_write()). However
ext4_journalled_write_end() misses this clearing and thus we are leaving
stale BH_New bits behind. Generally ext4_block_write_begin() clears
these bits before any harm can be done but in case blocksize &lt; pagesize
and we hit some error when processing a page with these stale bits,
we'll try to zero buffers with these stale BH_New bits and jbd2 will
complain (as buffers were not prepared for writing in this transaction).
Fix the problem by clearing BH_New bits in ext4_journalled_write_end()
and WARN if ext4_block_write_begin() sees stale BH_New bits.

Reported-by: Baolin Liu &lt;liubaolin12138@163.com&gt;
Reported-by: Zhi Long &lt;longzhi@sangfor.com.cn&gt;
Fixes: 3910b513fcdf ("ext4: persist the new uptodate buffers in ext4_journalled_zero_new_buffers")
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250709084831.23876-2-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: replace ext4_writepage_trans_blocks()</title>
<updated>2025-07-14T03:41:52Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhang Yi</name>
<email>yi.zhang@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-07T14:08:12Z</published>
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After ext4 supports large folios, the semantics of reserving credits in
pages is no longer applicable. In most scenarios, reserving credits in
extents is sufficient. Therefore, introduce ext4_chunk_trans_extent()
to replace ext4_writepage_trans_blocks(). move_extent_per_page() is the
only remaining location where we are still processing extents in pages.

Suggested-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi &lt;yi.zhang@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250707140814.542883-10-yi.zhang@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: inline: fix len overflow in ext4_prepare_inline_data</title>
<updated>2025-05-14T03:02:09Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo</name>
<email>cascardo@igalia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-15T14:53:04Z</published>
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When running the following code on an ext4 filesystem with inline_data
feature enabled, it will lead to the bug below.

        fd = open("file1", O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, 0666);
        ftruncate(fd, 30);
        pwrite(fd, "a", 1, (1UL &lt;&lt; 40) + 5UL);

That happens because write_begin will succeed as when
ext4_generic_write_inline_data calls ext4_prepare_inline_data, pos + len
will be truncated, leading to ext4_prepare_inline_data parameter to be 6
instead of 0x10000000006.

Then, later when write_end is called, we hit:

        BUG_ON(pos + len &gt; EXT4_I(inode)-&gt;i_inline_size);

at ext4_write_inline_data.

Fix it by using a loff_t type for the len parameter in
ext4_prepare_inline_data instead of an unsigned int.

[   44.545164] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[   44.545530] kernel BUG at fs/ext4/inline.c:240!
[   44.545834] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
[   44.546172] CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 343 Comm: test Not tainted 6.15.0-rc2-00003-g9080916f4863 #45 PREEMPT(full)  112853fcebfdb93254270a7959841d2c6aa2c8bb
[   44.546523] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
[   44.546523] RIP: 0010:ext4_write_inline_data+0xfe/0x100
[   44.546523] Code: 3c 0e 48 83 c7 48 48 89 de 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d e9 e4 fa 43 01 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc cc 0f 0b &lt;0f&gt; 0b 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 41 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 48 83 ec 20 49
[   44.546523] RSP: 0018:ffffb342008b79a8 EFLAGS: 00010216
[   44.546523] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff9329c579c000 RCX: 0000010000000006
[   44.546523] RDX: 000000000000003c RSI: ffffb342008b79f0 RDI: ffff9329c158e738
[   44.546523] RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
[   44.546523] R10: 00007ffffffff000 R11: ffffffff9bd0d910 R12: 0000006210000000
[   44.546523] R13: fffffc7e4015e700 R14: 0000010000000005 R15: ffff9329c158e738
[   44.546523] FS:  00007f4299934740(0000) GS:ffff932a60179000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[   44.546523] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[   44.546523] CR2: 00007f4299a1ec90 CR3: 0000000002886002 CR4: 0000000000770eb0
[   44.546523] PKRU: 55555554
[   44.546523] Call Trace:
[   44.546523]  &lt;TASK&gt;
[   44.546523]  ext4_write_inline_data_end+0x126/0x2d0
[   44.546523]  generic_perform_write+0x17e/0x270
[   44.546523]  ext4_buffered_write_iter+0xc8/0x170
[   44.546523]  vfs_write+0x2be/0x3e0
[   44.546523]  __x64_sys_pwrite64+0x6d/0xc0
[   44.546523]  do_syscall_64+0x6a/0xf0
[   44.546523]  ? __wake_up+0x89/0xb0
[   44.546523]  ? xas_find+0x72/0x1c0
[   44.546523]  ? next_uptodate_folio+0x317/0x330
[   44.546523]  ? set_pte_range+0x1a6/0x270
[   44.546523]  ? filemap_map_pages+0x6ee/0x840
[   44.546523]  ? ext4_setattr+0x2fa/0x750
[   44.546523]  ? do_pte_missing+0x128/0xf70
[   44.546523]  ? security_inode_post_setattr+0x3e/0xd0
[   44.546523]  ? ___pte_offset_map+0x19/0x100
[   44.546523]  ? handle_mm_fault+0x721/0xa10
[   44.546523]  ? do_user_addr_fault+0x197/0x730
[   44.546523]  ? do_syscall_64+0x76/0xf0
[   44.546523]  ? arch_exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x1e/0x60
[   44.546523]  ? irqentry_exit_to_user_mode+0x79/0x90
[   44.546523]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x55/0x5d
[   44.546523] RIP: 0033:0x7f42999c6687
[   44.546523] Code: 48 89 fa 4c 89 df e8 58 b3 00 00 8b 93 08 03 00 00 59 5e 48 83 f8 fc 74 1a 5b c3 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 8b 44 24 10 0f 05 &lt;5b&gt; c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 83 e2 39 83 fa 08 75 de e8 23 ff ff ff
[   44.546523] RSP: 002b:00007ffeae4a7930 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000012
[   44.546523] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f4299934740 RCX: 00007f42999c6687
[   44.546523] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 000055ea6149200f RDI: 0000000000000003
[   44.546523] RBP: 00007ffeae4a79a0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[   44.546523] R10: 0000010000000005 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000000
[   44.546523] R13: 00007ffeae4a7ac8 R14: 00007f4299b86000 R15: 000055ea61493dd8
[   44.546523]  &lt;/TASK&gt;
[   44.546523] Modules linked in:
[   44.568501] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[   44.568889] RIP: 0010:ext4_write_inline_data+0xfe/0x100
[   44.569328] Code: 3c 0e 48 83 c7 48 48 89 de 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d e9 e4 fa 43 01 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc cc 0f 0b &lt;0f&gt; 0b 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 41 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 48 83 ec 20 49
[   44.570931] RSP: 0018:ffffb342008b79a8 EFLAGS: 00010216
[   44.571356] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff9329c579c000 RCX: 0000010000000006
[   44.571959] RDX: 000000000000003c RSI: ffffb342008b79f0 RDI: ffff9329c158e738
[   44.572571] RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
[   44.573148] R10: 00007ffffffff000 R11: ffffffff9bd0d910 R12: 0000006210000000
[   44.573748] R13: fffffc7e4015e700 R14: 0000010000000005 R15: ffff9329c158e738
[   44.574335] FS:  00007f4299934740(0000) GS:ffff932a60179000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[   44.575027] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[   44.575520] CR2: 00007f4299a1ec90 CR3: 0000000002886002 CR4: 0000000000770eb0
[   44.576112] PKRU: 55555554
[   44.576338] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
[   44.576517] Kernel Offset: 0x1a600000 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffffbfffffff)

Reported-by: syzbot+fe2a25dae02a207717a0@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=fe2a25dae02a207717a0
Fixes: f19d5870cbf7 ("ext4: add normal write support for inline data")
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo &lt;cascardo@igalia.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger@dilger.ca&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250415-ext4-prepare-inline-overflow-v1-1-f4c13d900967@igalia.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>ext4: for committing inode, make ext4_fc_track_inode wait</title>
<updated>2025-05-09T01:56:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Harshad Shirwadkar</name>
<email>harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-08T17:59:01Z</published>
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If the inode that's being requested to track using ext4_fc_track_inode
is being committed, then wait until the inode finishes the
commit. Also, add calls to ext4_fc_track_inode at the right places.
With this patch, now calling ext4_reserve_inode_write() results in
inode being tracked for next fast commit. This ensures that by the
time ext4_reserve_inode_write() returns, it is ready to be modified
and won't be committed until the corresponding handle is open.

A subtle lock ordering requirement with i_data_sem (which is
documented in the code) requires that ext4_fc_track_inode() be called
before grabbing i_data_sem. So, this patch also adds explicit
ext4_fc_track_inode() calls in places where i_data_sem grabbed.

Signed-off-by: Harshad Shirwadkar &lt;harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250508175908.1004880-3-harshadshirwadkar@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-03-30-16-52' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-04-01T16:29:18Z</updated>
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<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2025-04-01T16:29:18Z</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - The series "Enable strict percpu address space checks" from Uros
   Bizjak uses x86 named address space qualifiers to provide
   compile-time checking of percpu area accesses.

   This has caused a small amount of fallout - two or three issues were
   reported. In all cases the calling code was found to be incorrect.

 - The series "Some cleanup for memcg" from Chen Ridong implements some
   relatively monir cleanups for the memcontrol code.

 - The series "mm: fixes for device-exclusive entries (hmm)" from David
   Hildenbrand fixes a boatload of issues which David found then using
   device-exclusive PTE entries when THP is enabled. More work is
   needed, but this makes thins better - our own HMM selftests now
   succeed.

 - The series "mm: zswap: remove z3fold and zbud" from Yosry Ahmed
   remove the z3fold and zbud implementations. They have been deprecated
   for half a year and nobody has complained.

 - The series "mm: further simplify VMA merge operation" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes implements numerous simplifications in this area. No runtime
   effects are anticipated.

 - The series "mm/madvise: remove redundant mmap_lock operations from
   process_madvise()" from SeongJae Park rationalizes the locking in the
   madvise() implementation. Performance gains of 20-25% were observed
   in one MADV_DONTNEED microbenchmark.

 - The series "Tiny cleanup and improvements about SWAP code" from
   Baoquan He contains a number of touchups to issues which Baoquan
   noticed when working on the swap code.

 - The series "mm: kmemleak: Usability improvements" from Catalin
   Marinas implements a couple of improvements to the kmemleak
   user-visible output.

 - The series "mm/damon/paddr: fix large folios access and schemes
   handling" from Usama Arif provides a couple of fixes for DAMON's
   handling of large folios.

 - The series "mm/damon/core: fix wrong and/or useless damos_walk()
   behaviors" from SeongJae Park fixes a few issues with the accuracy of
   kdamond's walking of DAMON regions.

 - The series "expose mapping wrprotect, fix fb_defio use" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes changes the interaction between framebuffer deferred-io and
   core MM. No functional changes are anticipated - this is preparatory
   work for the future removal of page structure fields.

 - The series "mm/damon: add support for hugepage_size DAMOS filter"
   from Usama Arif adds a DAMOS filter which permits the filtering by
   huge page sizes.

 - The series "mm: permit guard regions for file-backed/shmem mappings"
   from Lorenzo Stoakes extends the guard region feature from its
   present "anon mappings only" state. The feature now covers shmem and
   file-backed mappings.

 - The series "mm: batched unmap lazyfree large folios during
   reclamation" from Barry Song cleans up and speeds up the unmapping
   for pte-mapped large folios.

 - The series "reimplement per-vma lock as a refcount" from Suren
   Baghdasaryan puts the vm_lock back into the vma. Our reasons for
   pulling it out were largely bogus and that change made the code more
   messy. This patchset provides small (0-10%) improvements on one
   microbenchmark.

 - The series "Docs/mm/damon: misc DAMOS filters documentation fixes and
   improves" from SeongJae Park does some maintenance work on the DAMON
   docs.

 - The series "hugetlb/CMA improvements for large systems" from Frank
   van der Linden addresses a pile of issues which have been observed
   when using CMA on large machines.

 - The series "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS filter type for unmapped pages"
   from SeongJae Park enables users of DMAON/DAMOS to filter my the
   page's mapped/unmapped status.

 - The series "zsmalloc/zram: there be preemption" from Sergey
   Senozhatsky teaches zram to run its compression and decompression
   operations preemptibly.

 - The series "selftests/mm: Some cleanups from trying to run them" from
   Brendan Jackman fixes a pile of unrelated issues which Brendan
   encountered while runnimg our selftests.

 - The series "fs/proc/task_mmu: add guard region bit to pagemap" from
   Lorenzo Stoakes permits userspace to use /proc/pid/pagemap to
   determine whether a particular page is a guard page.

 - The series "mm, swap: remove swap slot cache" from Kairui Song
   removes the swap slot cache from the allocation path - it simply
   wasn't being effective.

 - The series "mm: cleanups for device-exclusive entries (hmm)" from
   David Hildenbrand implements a number of unrelated cleanups in this
   code.

 - The series "mm: Rework generic PTDUMP configs" from Anshuman Khandual
   implements a number of preparatoty cleanups to the GENERIC_PTDUMP
   Kconfig logic.

 - The series "mm/damon: auto-tune aggregation interval" from SeongJae
   Park implements a feedback-driven automatic tuning feature for
   DAMON's aggregation interval tuning.

 - The series "Fix lazy mmu mode" from Ryan Roberts fixes some issues in
   powerpc, sparc and x86 lazy MMU implementations. Ryan did this in
   preparation for implementing lazy mmu mode for arm64 to optimize
   vmalloc.

 - The series "mm/page_alloc: Some clarifications for migratetype
   fallback" from Brendan Jackman reworks some commentary to make the
   code easier to follow.

 - The series "page_counter cleanup and size reduction" from Shakeel
   Butt cleans up the page_counter code and fixes a size increase which
   we accidentally added late last year.

 - The series "Add a command line option that enables control of how
   many threads should be used to allocate huge pages" from Thomas
   Prescher does that. It allows the careful operator to significantly
   reduce boot time by tuning the parallalization of huge page
   initialization.

 - The series "Fix calculations in trace_balance_dirty_pages() for cgwb"
   from Tang Yizhou fixes the tracing output from the dirty page
   balancing code.

 - The series "mm/damon: make allow filters after reject filters useful
   and intuitive" from SeongJae Park improves the handling of allow and
   reject filters. Behaviour is made more consistent and the documention
   is updated accordingly.

 - The series "Switch zswap to object read/write APIs" from Yosry Ahmed
   updates zswap to the new object read/write APIs and thus permits the
   removal of some legacy code from zpool and zsmalloc.

 - The series "Some trivial cleanups for shmem" from Baolin Wang does as
   it claims.

 - The series "fs/dax: Fix ZONE_DEVICE page reference counts" from
   Alistair Popple regularizes the weird ZONE_DEVICE page refcount
   handling in DAX, permittig the removal of a number of special-case
   checks.

 - The series "refactor mremap and fix bug" from Lorenzo Stoakes is a
   preparatoty refactoring and cleanup of the mremap() code.

 - The series "mm: MM owner tracking for large folios (!hugetlb) +
   CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT" from David Hildenbrand reworks the manner in
   which we determine whether a large folio is known to be mapped
   exclusively into a single MM.

 - The series "mm/damon: add sysfs dirs for managing DAMOS filters based
   on handling layers" from SeongJae Park adds a couple of new sysfs
   directories to ease the management of DAMON/DAMOS filters.

 - The series "arch, mm: reduce code duplication in mem_init()" from
   Mike Rapoport consolidates many per-arch implementations of
   mem_init() into code generic code, where that is practical.

 - The series "mm/damon/sysfs: commit parameters online via
   damon_call()" from SeongJae Park continues the cleaning up of sysfs
   access to DAMON internal data.

 - The series "mm: page_ext: Introduce new iteration API" from Luiz
   Capitulino reworks the page_ext initialization to fix a boot-time
   crash which was observed with an unusual combination of compile and
   cmdline options.

 - The series "Buddy allocator like (or non-uniform) folio split" from
   Zi Yan reworks the code to split a folio into smaller folios. The
   main benefit is lessened memory consumption: fewer post-split folios
   are generated.

 - The series "Minimize xa_node allocation during xarry split" from Zi
   Yan reduces the number of xarray xa_nodes which are generated during
   an xarray split.

 - The series "drivers/base/memory: Two cleanups" from Gavin Shan
   performs some maintenance work on the drivers/base/memory code.

 - The series "Add tracepoints for lowmem reserves, watermarks and
   totalreserve_pages" from Martin Liu adds some more tracepoints to the
   page allocator code.

 - The series "mm/madvise: cleanup requests validations and
   classifications" from SeongJae Park cleans up some warts which
   SeongJae observed during his earlier madvise work.

 - The series "mm/hwpoison: Fix regressions in memory failure handling"
   from Shuai Xue addresses two quite serious regressions which Shuai
   has observed in the memory-failure implementation.

 - The series "mm: reliable huge page allocator" from Johannes Weiner
   makes huge page allocations cheaper and more reliable by reducing
   fragmentation.

 - The series "Minor memcg cleanups &amp; prep for memdescs" from Matthew
   Wilcox is preparatory work for the future implementation of memdescs.

 - The series "track memory used by balloon drivers" from Nico Pache
   introduces a way to track memory used by our various balloon drivers.

 - The series "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS filter type for active pages"
   from Nhat Pham permits users to filter for active/inactive pages,
   separately for file and anon pages.

 - The series "Adding Proactive Memory Reclaim Statistics" from Hao Jia
   separates the proactive reclaim statistics from the direct reclaim
   statistics.

 - The series "mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim hwpoison folio" from
   Jinjiang Tu fixes our handling of hwpoisoned pages within the reclaim
   code.

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-03-30-16-52' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (431 commits)
  mm/page_alloc: remove unnecessary __maybe_unused in order_to_pindex()
  x86/mm: restore early initialization of high_memory for 32-bits
  mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim hwpoison folio
  mm/hwpoison: introduce folio_contain_hwpoisoned_page() helper
  cgroup: docs: add pswpin and pswpout items in cgroup v2 doc
  mm: vmscan: split proactive reclaim statistics from direct reclaim statistics
  selftests/mm: speed up split_huge_page_test
  selftests/mm: uffd-unit-tests support for hugepages &gt; 2M
  docs/mm/damon/design: document active DAMOS filter type
  mm/damon: implement a new DAMOS filter type for active pages
  fs/dax: don't disassociate zero page entries
  MM documentation: add "Unaccepted" meminfo entry
  selftests/mm: add commentary about 9pfs bugs
  fork: use __vmalloc_node() for stack allocation
  docs/mm: Physical Memory: Populate the "Zones" section
  xen: balloon: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state
  hv_balloon: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state
  balloon_compaction: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state
  meminfo: add a per node counter for balloon drivers
  mm: remove references to folio in __memcg_kmem_uncharge_page()
  ...
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