kernel/fs/fuse/file.c, branch linux-rolling-stable

fs/writeback: skip AS_NO_DATA_INTEGRITY mappings in wait_sb_inodes()

2026-01-19T20:30:01Z

Above the while() loop in wait_sb_inodes(), we document that we must wait for all pages under writeback for data integrity. Consequently, if a mapping, like fuse, traditionally does not have data integrity semantics, there is no need to wait at all; we can simply skip these inodes. This restores fuse back to prior behavior where syncs are no-ops. This fixes a user regression where if a system is running a faulty fuse server that does not reply to issued write requests, this causes wait_sb_inodes() to wait forever. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260105211737.4105620-2-joannelkoong@gmail.com Fixes: 0c58a97f919c ("fuse: remove tmp folio for writebacks and internal rb tree") Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong Reported-by: Athul Krishna Reported-by: J. Neuschäfer Reviewed-by: Bernd Schubert Tested-by: J. Neuschäfer Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Bernd Schubert Cc: Bonaccorso Salvatore Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Jan Kara Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Miklos Szeredi Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'fuse-update-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse

2025-12-05T23:25:13Z

Pull fuse updates from Miklos Szeredi: - Add mechanism for cleaning out unused, stale dentries; controlled via a module option (Luis Henriques) - Fix various bugs - Cleanups * tag 'fuse-update-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse: fuse: Uninitialized variable in fuse_epoch_work() fuse: fix io-uring list corruption for terminated non-committed requests fuse: signal that a fuse inode should exhibit local fs behaviors fuse: Always flush the page cache before FOPEN_DIRECT_IO write fuse: Invalidate the page cache after FOPEN_DIRECT_IO write fuse: rename 'namelen' to 'namesize' fuse: use strscpy instead of strcpy fuse: refactor fuse_conn_put() to remove negative logic. fuse: new work queue to invalidate dentries from old epochs fuse: new work queue to periodically invalidate expired dentries dcache: export shrink_dentry_list() and add new helper d_dispose_if_unused() fuse: add WARN_ON and comment for RCU revalidate fuse: Fix whitespace for fuse_uring_args_to_ring() comment fuse: missing copy_finish in fuse-over-io-uring argument copies fuse: fix readahead reclaim deadlock

fuse: Always flush the page cache before FOPEN_DIRECT_IO write

2025-11-13T13:54:05Z

This was done as condition on direct_io_allow_mmap, but I believe this is not right, as a file might be open two times - once with write-back enabled another time with FOPEN_DIRECT_IO. Signed-off-by: Bernd Schubert Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi

fuse: Invalidate the page cache after FOPEN_DIRECT_IO write

2025-11-13T13:54:05Z

generic_file_direct_write() also does this and has a large comment about. Reproducer here is xfstest's generic/209, which is exactly to have competing DIO write and cached IO read. Signed-off-by: Bernd Schubert Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi

iomap: simplify ->read_folio_range() error handling for reads

2025-11-12T09:50:32Z

Instead of requiring that the caller calls iomap_finish_folio_read() even if the ->read_folio_range() callback returns an error, account for this internally in iomap instead, which makes the interface simpler and makes it match writeback's ->read_folio_range() error handling expectations. Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251111193658.3495942-6-joannelkoong@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

iomap: optimize pending async writeback accounting

2025-11-12T09:50:32Z

Pending writebacks must be accounted for to determine when all requests have completed and writeback on the folio should be ended. Currently this is done by atomically incrementing ifs->write_bytes_pending for every range to be written back. Instead, the number of atomic operations can be minimized by setting ifs->write_bytes_pending to the folio size, internally tracking how many bytes are written back asynchronously, and then after sending off all the requests, decrementing ifs->write_bytes_pending by the number of bytes not written back asynchronously. Now, for N ranges written back, only N + 2 atomic operations are required instead of 2N + 2. Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251111193658.3495942-5-joannelkoong@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

fuse: fix readahead reclaim deadlock

2025-11-11T15:04:45Z

Commit e26ee4efbc79 ("fuse: allocate ff->release_args only if release is needed") skips allocating ff->release_args if the server does not implement open. However in doing so, fuse_prepare_release() now skips grabbing the reference on the inode, which makes it possible for an inode to be evicted from the dcache while there are inflight readahead requests. This causes a deadlock if the server triggers reclaim while servicing the readahead request and reclaim attempts to evict the inode of the file being read ahead. Since the folio is locked during readahead, when reclaim evicts the fuse inode and fuse_evict_inode() attempts to remove all folios associated with the inode from the page cache (truncate_inode_pages_range()), reclaim will block forever waiting for the lock since readahead cannot relinquish the lock because it is itself blocked in reclaim: >>> stack_trace(1504735) folio_wait_bit_common (mm/filemap.c:1308:4) folio_lock (./include/linux/pagemap.h:1052:3) truncate_inode_pages_range (mm/truncate.c:336:10) fuse_evict_inode (fs/fuse/inode.c:161:2) evict (fs/inode.c:704:3) dentry_unlink_inode (fs/dcache.c:412:3) __dentry_kill (fs/dcache.c:615:3) shrink_kill (fs/dcache.c:1060:12) shrink_dentry_list (fs/dcache.c:1087:3) prune_dcache_sb (fs/dcache.c:1168:2) super_cache_scan (fs/super.c:221:10) do_shrink_slab (mm/shrinker.c:435:9) shrink_slab (mm/shrinker.c:626:10) shrink_node (mm/vmscan.c:5951:2) shrink_zones (mm/vmscan.c:6195:3) do_try_to_free_pages (mm/vmscan.c:6257:3) do_swap_page (mm/memory.c:4136:11) handle_pte_fault (mm/memory.c:5562:10) handle_mm_fault (mm/memory.c:5870:9) do_user_addr_fault (arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1338:10) handle_page_fault (arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1481:3) exc_page_fault (arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1539:2) asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x27 Fix this deadlock by allocating ff->release_args and grabbing the reference on the inode when preparing the file for release even if the server does not implement open. The inode reference will be dropped when the last reference on the fuse file is dropped (see fuse_file_put() -> fuse_release_end()). Fixes: e26ee4efbc79 ("fuse: allocate ff->release_args only if release is needed") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong Reported-by: Omar Sandoval Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi

fuse: use iomap for readahead

2025-11-05T11:57:24Z

Do readahead in fuse using iomap. This gives us granular uptodate tracking for large folios, which optimizes how much data needs to be read in. If some portions of the folio are already uptodate (eg through a prior write), we only need to read in the non-uptodate portions. Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

fuse: use iomap for read_folio

2025-11-05T11:57:23Z

Read folio data into the page cache using iomap. This gives us granular uptodate tracking for large folios, which optimizes how much data needs to be read in. If some portions of the folio are already uptodate (eg through a prior write), we only need to read in the non-uptodate portions. Signed-off-by: Joanne Koong Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

fuse: fix livelock in synchronous file put from fuseblk workers

2025-09-23T09:32:17Z

I observed a hang when running generic/323 against a fuseblk server. This test opens a file, initiates a lot of AIO writes to that file descriptor, and closes the file descriptor before the writes complete. Unsurprisingly, the AIO exerciser threads are mostly stuck waiting for responses from the fuseblk server: # cat /proc/372265/task/372313/stack [<0>] request_wait_answer+0x1fe/0x2a0 [fuse] [<0>] __fuse_simple_request+0xd3/0x2b0 [fuse] [<0>] fuse_do_getattr+0xfc/0x1f0 [fuse] [<0>] fuse_file_read_iter+0xbe/0x1c0 [fuse] [<0>] aio_read+0x130/0x1e0 [<0>] io_submit_one+0x542/0x860 [<0>] __x64_sys_io_submit+0x98/0x1a0 [<0>] do_syscall_64+0x37/0xf0 [<0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53 But the /weird/ part is that the fuseblk server threads are waiting for responses from itself: # cat /proc/372210/task/372232/stack [<0>] request_wait_answer+0x1fe/0x2a0 [fuse] [<0>] __fuse_simple_request+0xd3/0x2b0 [fuse] [<0>] fuse_file_put+0x9a/0xd0 [fuse] [<0>] fuse_release+0x36/0x50 [fuse] [<0>] __fput+0xec/0x2b0 [<0>] task_work_run+0x55/0x90 [<0>] syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0xe9/0x100 [<0>] do_syscall_64+0x43/0xf0 [<0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53 The fuseblk server is fuse2fs so there's nothing all that exciting in the server itself. So why is the fuse server calling fuse_file_put? The commit message for the fstest sheds some light on that: "By closing the file descriptor before calling io_destroy, you pretty much guarantee that the last put on the ioctx will be done in interrupt context (during I/O completion). Aha. AIO fgets a new struct file from the fd when it queues the ioctx. The completion of the FUSE_WRITE command from userspace causes the fuse server to call the AIO completion function. The completion puts the struct file, queuing a delayed fput to the fuse server task. When the fuse server task returns to userspace, it has to run the delayed fput, which in the case of a fuseblk server, it does synchronously. Sending the FUSE_RELEASE command sychronously from fuse server threads is a bad idea because a client program can initiate enough simultaneous AIOs such that all the fuse server threads end up in delayed_fput, and now there aren't any threads left to handle the queued fuse commands. Fix this by only using asynchronous fputs when closing files, and leave a comment explaining why. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.38 Fixes: 5a18ec176c934c ("fuse: fix hang of single threaded fuseblk filesystem") Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi