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    Merge tag 'vfs-6.8.super' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs · 3f6984e7
    Linus Torvalds authored
    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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