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# ff694ab6 28-May-2020 Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>

fs/ext4: Narrow scope of DAX check in setflags

When preventing DAX and journaling on an inode. Use the effective DAX
check rather than the mount option.

This will be required t

fs/ext4: Narrow scope of DAX check in setflags

When preventing DAX and journaling on an inode. Use the effective DAX
check rather than the mount option.

This will be required to support per inode DAX flags.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200528150003.828793-2-ira.weiny@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

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# 9c94b395 05-Apr-2020 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:

- Replace ext4's bmap and iopoll implementations to use ioma

Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:

- Replace ext4's bmap and iopoll implementations to use iomap.

- Clean up extent tree handling.

- Other cleanups and miscellaneous bug fixes

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (31 commits)
ext4: save all error info in save_error_info() and drop ext4_set_errno()
ext4: fix incorrect group count in ext4_fill_super error message
ext4: fix incorrect inodes per group in error message
ext4: don't set dioread_nolock by default for blocksize < pagesize
ext4: disable dioread_nolock whenever delayed allocation is disabled
ext4: do not commit super on read-only bdev
ext4: avoid ENOSPC when avoiding to reuse recently deleted inodes
ext4: unregister sysfs path before destroying jbd2 journal
ext4: check for non-zero journal inum in ext4_calculate_overhead
ext4: remove map_from_cluster from ext4_ext_map_blocks
ext4: clean up ext4_ext_insert_extent() call in ext4_ext_map_blocks()
ext4: mark block bitmap corrupted when found instead of BUGON
ext4: use flexible-array member for xattr structs
ext4: use flexible-array member in struct fname
Documentation: correct the description of FIEMAP_EXTENT_LAST
ext4: move ext4_fiemap to use iomap framework
ext4: make ext4_ind_map_blocks work with fiemap
ext4: move ext4 bmap to use iomap infrastructure
ext4: optimize ext4_ext_precache for 0 depth
ext4: add IOMAP_F_MERGED for non-extent based mapping
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Revision tags: v5.4.38, v5.4.37, v5.4.36, v5.4.35, v5.4.34, v5.4.33, v5.4.32, v5.4.31, v5.4.30, v5.4.29, v5.6, v5.4.28, v5.4.27, v5.4.26
# 7ec9f3b4 14-Mar-2020 Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>

ext4: wire up FS_IOC_GET_ENCRYPTION_NONCE

This new ioctl retrieves a file's encryption nonce, which is useful for
testing. See the corresponding fs/crypto/ patch for more details.

ext4: wire up FS_IOC_GET_ENCRYPTION_NONCE

This new ioctl retrieves a file's encryption nonce, which is useful for
testing. See the corresponding fs/crypto/ patch for more details.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200314205052.93294-3-ebiggers@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>

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Revision tags: v5.4.25, v5.4.24, v5.4.23, v5.4.22, v5.4.21, v5.4.20
# 4337ecd1 11-Feb-2020 Eric Whitney <enwlinux@gmail.com>

ext4: remove EXT4_EOFBLOCKS_FL and associated code

The EXT4_EOFBLOCKS_FL inode flag is used to indicate whether a file
contains unwritten blocks past i_size. It's set when ext4_fallocat

ext4: remove EXT4_EOFBLOCKS_FL and associated code

The EXT4_EOFBLOCKS_FL inode flag is used to indicate whether a file
contains unwritten blocks past i_size. It's set when ext4_fallocate
is called with the KEEP_SIZE flag to extend a file with an unwritten
extent. However, this flag hasn't been useful functionally since
March, 2012, when a decision was made to remove it from ext4.

All traces of EXT4_EOFBLOCKS_FL were removed from e2fsprogs version
1.42.2 by commit 010dc7b90d97 ("e2fsck: remove EXT4_EOFBLOCKS_FL flag
handling") at that time. Now that enough time has passed to make
e2fsprogs versions containing this modification common, this patch now
removes the code associated with EXT4_EOFBLOCKS_FL from the kernel as
well.

This change has two implications. First, because pre-1.42.2 e2fsck
versions only look for a problem if EXT4_EOFBLOCKS_FL is set, and
because that bit will never be set by newer kernels containing this
patch, old versions of e2fsck won't have a compatibility problem with
files created by newer kernels.

Second, newer kernels will not clear EXT4_EOFBLOCKS_FL inode flag bits
belonging to a file written by an older kernel. If set, it will remain
in that state until the file is deleted. Because e2fsck versions since
1.42.2 don't check the flag at all, no adverse effect is expected.
However, pre-1.42.2 e2fsck versions that do check the flag may report
that it is set when it ought not to be after a file has been truncated
or had its unwritten blocks written. In this case, the old version of
e2fsck will offer to clear the flag. No adverse effect would then
occur whether the user chooses to clear the flag or not.

Signed-off-by: Eric Whitney <enwlinux@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200211210216.24960-1-enwlinux@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

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Revision tags: v5.4.19, v5.4.18, v5.4.17, v5.4.16, v5.5, v5.4.15, v5.4.14, v5.4.13, v5.4.12, v5.4.11, v5.4.10, v5.4.9, v5.4.8, v5.4.7
# a54d8d34 27-Dec-2019 Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>

ext4: Add EXT4_IOC_FSGETXATTR/EXT4_IOC_FSSETXATTR to compat_ioctl

These are backed by 'struct fsxattr' which has the same size on all
architectures.

Signed-off-by: Martijn Coene

ext4: Add EXT4_IOC_FSGETXATTR/EXT4_IOC_FSSETXATTR to compat_ioctl

These are backed by 'struct fsxattr' which has the same size on all
architectures.

Signed-off-by: Martijn Coenen <maco@android.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191227134639.35869-1-maco@android.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

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Revision tags: v5.4.6, v5.4.5, v5.4.4, v5.4.3, v5.3.15, v5.4.2, v5.4.1, v5.3.14, v5.4, v5.3.13, v5.3.12, v5.3.11, v5.3.10, v5.3.9, v5.3.8, v5.3.7, v5.3.6, v5.3.5, v5.3.4, v5.3.3, v5.3.2, v5.3.1, v5.3, v5.2.14, v5.3-rc8, v5.2.13, v5.2.12, v5.2.11, v5.2.10, v5.2.9, v5.2.8, v5.2.7, v5.2.6, v5.2.5, v5.2.4, v5.2.3, v5.2.2, v5.2.1, v5.2, v5.1.16, v5.1.15, v5.1.14, v5.1.13, v5.1.12, v5.1.11, v5.1.10, v5.1.9, v5.1.8, v5.1.7
# 314999dc 03-Jun-2019 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

fs: compat_ioctl: move FITRIM emulation into file systems

Remove the special case for FITRIM, and make file systems
handle that like all other ioctl commands with their own
handlers.

fs: compat_ioctl: move FITRIM emulation into file systems

Remove the special case for FITRIM, and make file systems
handle that like all other ioctl commands with their own
handlers.

Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Cc: linux-nilfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

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# 70cb0d02 21-Sep-2019 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
"Added new ext4 debugging ioctls to allow userspace to get inform

Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
"Added new ext4 debugging ioctls to allow userspace to get information
about the state of the extent status cache.

Dropped workaround for pre-1970 dates which were encoded incorrectly
in pre-4.4 kernels. Since both the kernel correctly generates, and
e2fsck detects and fixes this issue for the past four years, it'e time
to drop the workaround. (Also, it's not like files with dates in the
distant past were all that common in the first place.)

A lot of miscellaneous bug fixes and cleanups, including some ext4
Documentation fixes. Also included are two minor bug fixes in
fs/unicode"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (21 commits)
unicode: make array 'token' static const, makes object smaller
unicode: Move static keyword to the front of declarations
ext4: add missing bigalloc documentation.
ext4: fix kernel oops caused by spurious casefold flag
ext4: fix integer overflow when calculating commit interval
ext4: use percpu_counters for extent_status cache hits/misses
ext4: fix potential use after free after remounting with noblock_validity
jbd2: add missing tracepoint for reserved handle
ext4: fix punch hole for inline_data file systems
ext4: rework reserved cluster accounting when invalidating pages
ext4: documentation fixes
ext4: treat buffers with write errors as containing valid data
ext4: fix warning inside ext4_convert_unwritten_extents_endio
ext4: set error return correctly when ext4_htree_store_dirent fails
ext4: drop legacy pre-1970 encoding workaround
ext4: add new ioctl EXT4_IOC_GET_ES_CACHE
ext4: add a new ioctl EXT4_IOC_GETSTATE
ext4: add a new ioctl EXT4_IOC_CLEAR_ES_CACHE
jbd2: flush_descriptor(): Do not decrease buffer head's ref count
ext4: remove unnecessary error check
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# f60c55a9 18-Sep-2019 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'fsverity-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/fscrypt

Pull fs-verity support from Eric Biggers:
"fs-verity is a filesystem feature that provides Merkle tree

Merge tag 'fsverity-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/fscrypt

Pull fs-verity support from Eric Biggers:
"fs-verity is a filesystem feature that provides Merkle tree based
hashing (similar to dm-verity) for individual readonly files, mainly
for the purpose of efficient authenticity verification.

This pull request includes:

(a) The fs/verity/ support layer and documentation.

(b) fs-verity support for ext4 and f2fs.

Compared to the original fs-verity patchset from last year, the UAPI
to enable fs-verity on a file has been greatly simplified. Lots of
other things were cleaned up too.

fs-verity is planned to be used by two different projects on Android;
most of the userspace code is in place already. Another userspace tool
("fsverity-utils"), and xfstests, are also available. e2fsprogs and
f2fs-tools already have fs-verity support. Other people have shown
interest in using fs-verity too.

I've tested this on ext4 and f2fs with xfstests, both the existing
tests and the new fs-verity tests. This has also been in linux-next
since July 30 with no reported issues except a couple minor ones I
found myself and folded in fixes for.

Ted and I will be co-maintaining fs-verity"

* tag 'fsverity-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/fscrypt:
f2fs: add fs-verity support
ext4: update on-disk format documentation for fs-verity
ext4: add fs-verity read support
ext4: add basic fs-verity support
fs-verity: support builtin file signatures
fs-verity: add SHA-512 support
fs-verity: implement FS_IOC_MEASURE_VERITY ioctl
fs-verity: implement FS_IOC_ENABLE_VERITY ioctl
fs-verity: add data verification hooks for ->readpages()
fs-verity: add the hook for file ->setattr()
fs-verity: add the hook for file ->open()
fs-verity: add inode and superblock fields
fs-verity: add Kconfig and the helper functions for hashing
fs: uapi: define verity bit for FS_IOC_GETFLAGS
fs-verity: add UAPI header
fs-verity: add MAINTAINERS file entry
fs-verity: add a documentation file

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# 0642ea24 04-Aug-2019 Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>

ext4 crypto: fix to check feature status before get policy

When getting fscrypt policy via EXT4_IOC_GET_ENCRYPTION_POLICY, if
encryption feature is off, it's better to return EOPNOTSUPP

ext4 crypto: fix to check feature status before get policy

When getting fscrypt policy via EXT4_IOC_GET_ENCRYPTION_POLICY, if
encryption feature is off, it's better to return EOPNOTSUPP instead of
ENODATA, so let's add ext4_has_feature_encrypt() to do the check for
that.

This makes it so that all fscrypt ioctls consistently check for the
encryption feature, and makes ext4 consistent with f2fs in this regard.

Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
[EB - removed unneeded braces, updated the documentation, and
added more explanation to commit message]
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>

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# c93d8f88 22-Jul-2019 Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>

ext4: add basic fs-verity support

Add most of fs-verity support to ext4. fs-verity is a filesystem
feature that enables transparent integrity protection and authentication
of read-o

ext4: add basic fs-verity support

Add most of fs-verity support to ext4. fs-verity is a filesystem
feature that enables transparent integrity protection and authentication
of read-only files. It uses a dm-verity like mechanism at the file
level: a Merkle tree is used to verify any block in the file in
log(filesize) time. It is implemented mainly by helper functions in
fs/verity/. See Documentation/filesystems/fsverity.rst for the full
documentation.

This commit adds all of ext4 fs-verity support except for the actual
data verification, including:

- Adding a filesystem feature flag and an inode flag for fs-verity.

- Implementing the fsverity_operations to support enabling verity on an
inode and reading/writing the verity metadata.

- Updating ->write_begin(), ->write_end(), and ->writepages() to support
writing verity metadata pages.

- Calling the fs-verity hooks for ->open(), ->setattr(), and ->ioctl().

ext4 stores the verity metadata (Merkle tree and fsverity_descriptor)
past the end of the file, starting at the first 64K boundary beyond
i_size. This approach works because (a) verity files are readonly, and
(b) pages fully beyond i_size aren't visible to userspace but can be
read/written internally by ext4 with only some relatively small changes
to ext4. This approach avoids having to depend on the EA_INODE feature
and on rearchitecturing ext4's xattr support to support paging
multi-gigabyte xattrs into memory, and to support encrypting xattrs.
Note that the verity metadata *must* be encrypted when the file is,
since it contains hashes of the plaintext data.

This patch incorporates work by Theodore Ts'o and Chandan Rajendra.

Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>

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# 29b3692e 04-Aug-2019 Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>

ext4: wire up new fscrypt ioctls

Wire up the new ioctls for adding and removing fscrypt keys to/from the
filesystem, and the new ioctl for retrieving v2 encryption policies.

The

ext4: wire up new fscrypt ioctls

Wire up the new ioctls for adding and removing fscrypt keys to/from the
filesystem, and the new ioctl for retrieving v2 encryption policies.

The key removal ioctls also required making ext4_drop_inode() call
fscrypt_drop_inode().

For more details see Documentation/filesystems/fscrypt.rst and the
fscrypt patches that added the implementation of these ioctls.

Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>

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# bb5835ed 11-Aug-2019 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

ext4: add new ioctl EXT4_IOC_GET_ES_CACHE

For debugging reasons, it's useful to know the contents of the extent
cache. Since the extent cache contains much of what is in the fiemap

ext4: add new ioctl EXT4_IOC_GET_ES_CACHE

For debugging reasons, it's useful to know the contents of the extent
cache. Since the extent cache contains much of what is in the fiemap
ioctl, use an fiemap-style interface to return this information.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

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# 1ad3ea6e 11-Aug-2019 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

ext4: add a new ioctl EXT4_IOC_GETSTATE

The new ioctl EXT4_IOC_GETSTATE returns some of the dynamic state of
an ext4 inode for debugging purposes.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <

ext4: add a new ioctl EXT4_IOC_GETSTATE

The new ioctl EXT4_IOC_GETSTATE returns some of the dynamic state of
an ext4 inode for debugging purposes.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

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# b0c013e2 11-Aug-2019 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

ext4: add a new ioctl EXT4_IOC_CLEAR_ES_CACHE

The new ioctl EXT4_IOC_CLEAR_ES_CACHE will force an inode's extent
status cache to be cleared out. This is intended for use for
debuggi

ext4: add a new ioctl EXT4_IOC_CLEAR_ES_CACHE

The new ioctl EXT4_IOC_CLEAR_ES_CACHE will force an inode's extent
status cache to be cleared out. This is intended for use for
debugging.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

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# 5010fe9f 12-Jul-2019 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'vfs-fix-ioctl-checking-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux

Pull common SETFLAGS/FSSETXATTR parameter checking from Darrick Wong:
"Here's a patch series that s

Merge tag 'vfs-fix-ioctl-checking-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux

Pull common SETFLAGS/FSSETXATTR parameter checking from Darrick Wong:
"Here's a patch series that sets up common parameter checking functions
for the FS_IOC_SETFLAGS and FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR ioctl implementations.

The goal here is to reduce the amount of behaviorial variance between
the filesystems where those ioctls originated (ext2 and XFS,
respectively) and everybody else.

- Standardize parameter checking for the SETFLAGS and FSSETXATTR
ioctls (which were the file attribute setters for ext4 and xfs and
have now been hoisted to the vfs)

- Only allow the DAX flag to be set on files and directories"

* tag 'vfs-fix-ioctl-checking-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux:
vfs: only allow FSSETXATTR to set DAX flag on files and dirs
vfs: teach vfs_ioc_fssetxattr_check to check extent size hints
vfs: teach vfs_ioc_fssetxattr_check to check project id info
vfs: create a generic checking function for FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR
vfs: create a generic checking and prep function for FS_IOC_SETFLAGS

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# f991492e 01-Jul-2019 Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

vfs: teach vfs_ioc_fssetxattr_check to check project id info

Standardize the project id checks for FSSETXATTR.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-

vfs: teach vfs_ioc_fssetxattr_check to check project id info

Standardize the project id checks for FSSETXATTR.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

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# 7b0e492e 01-Jul-2019 Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

vfs: create a generic checking function for FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR

Create a generic checking function for the incoming FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR
fsxattr values so that we can standardize some of the

vfs: create a generic checking function for FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR

Create a generic checking function for the incoming FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR
fsxattr values so that we can standardize some of the implementation
behaviors.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

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# 5aca2842 01-Jul-2019 Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

vfs: create a generic checking and prep function for FS_IOC_SETFLAGS

Create a generic function to check incoming FS_IOC_SETFLAGS flag values
and later prepare the inode for updates so th

vfs: create a generic checking and prep function for FS_IOC_SETFLAGS

Create a generic function to check incoming FS_IOC_SETFLAGS flag values
and later prepare the inode for updates so that we can standardize the
implementations that follow ext4's flag values.

Note that the efivarfs implementation no longer fails a no-op SETFLAGS
without CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE since that's the behavior in ext*.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>

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# 7ddf79a1 09-Jun-2019 Wang Shilong <wshilong@ddn.com>

ext4: only set project inherit bit for directory

It doesn't make any sense to have project inherit bits
for regular files, even though this won't cause any
problem, but it is better

ext4: only set project inherit bit for directory

It doesn't make any sense to have project inherit bits
for regular files, even though this won't cause any
problem, but it is better fix this.

Signed-off-by: Wang Shilong <wshilong@ddn.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>

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# 2e538403 09-Jun-2019 Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

ext4: don't allow any modifications to an immutable file

Don't allow any modifications to a file that's marked immutable, which
means that we have to flush all the writable pages to make

ext4: don't allow any modifications to an immutable file

Don't allow any modifications to a file that's marked immutable, which
means that we have to flush all the writable pages to make the readonly
and we have to check the setattr/setflags parameters more closely.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org

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Revision tags: v5.1.6, v5.1.5, v5.1.4, v5.1.3, v5.1.2
# 0ba33fac 12-May-2019 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

ext4: fix miscellaneous sparse warnings

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>


Revision tags: v5.1.1, v5.0.14, v5.1, v5.0.13, v5.0.12, v5.0.11, v5.0.10
# b886ee3e 25-Apr-2019 Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.co.uk>

ext4: Support case-insensitive file name lookups

This patch implements the actual support for case-insensitive file name
lookups in ext4, based on the feature bit and the encoding stored

ext4: Support case-insensitive file name lookups

This patch implements the actual support for case-insensitive file name
lookups in ext4, based on the feature bit and the encoding stored in the
superblock.

A filesystem that has the casefold feature set is able to configure
directories with the +F (EXT4_CASEFOLD_FL) attribute, enabling lookups
to succeed in that directory in a case-insensitive fashion, i.e: match
a directory entry even if the name used by userspace is not a byte per
byte match with the disk name, but is an equivalent case-insensitive
version of the Unicode string. This operation is called a
case-insensitive file name lookup.

The feature is configured as an inode attribute applied to directories
and inherited by its children. This attribute can only be enabled on
empty directories for filesystems that support the encoding feature,
thus preventing collision of file names that only differ by case.

* dcache handling:

For a +F directory, Ext4 only stores the first equivalent name dentry
used in the dcache. This is done to prevent unintentional duplication of
dentries in the dcache, while also allowing the VFS code to quickly find
the right entry in the cache despite which equivalent string was used in
a previous lookup, without having to resort to ->lookup().

d_hash() of casefolded directories is implemented as the hash of the
casefolded string, such that we always have a well-known bucket for all
the equivalencies of the same string. d_compare() uses the
utf8_strncasecmp() infrastructure, which handles the comparison of
equivalent, same case, names as well.

For now, negative lookups are not inserted in the dcache, since they
would need to be invalidated anyway, because we can't trust missing file
dentries. This is bad for performance but requires some leveraging of
the vfs layer to fix. We can live without that for now, and so does
everyone else.

* on-disk data:

Despite using a specific version of the name as the internal
representation within the dcache, the name stored and fetched from the
disk is a byte-per-byte match with what the user requested, making this
implementation 'name-preserving'. i.e. no actual information is lost
when writing to storage.

DX is supported by modifying the hashes used in +F directories to make
them case/encoding-aware. The new disk hashes are calculated as the
hash of the full casefolded string, instead of the string directly.
This allows us to efficiently search for file names in the htree without
requiring the user to provide an exact name.

* Dealing with invalid sequences:

By default, when a invalid UTF-8 sequence is identified, ext4 will treat
it as an opaque byte sequence, ignoring the encoding and reverting to
the old behavior for that unique file. This means that case-insensitive
file name lookup will not work only for that file. An optional bit can
be set in the superblock telling the filesystem code and userspace tools
to enforce the encoding. When that optional bit is set, any attempt to
create a file name using an invalid UTF-8 sequence will fail and return
an error to userspace.

* Normalization algorithm:

The UTF-8 algorithms used to compare strings in ext4 is implemented
lives in fs/unicode, and is based on a previous version developed by
SGI. It implements the Canonical decomposition (NFD) algorithm
described by the Unicode specification 12.1, or higher, combined with
the elimination of ignorable code points (NFDi) and full
case-folding (CF) as documented in fs/unicode/utf8_norm.c.

NFD seems to be the best normalization method for EXT4 because:

- It has a lower cost than NFC/NFKC (which requires
decomposing to NFD as an intermediary step)
- It doesn't eliminate important semantic meaning like
compatibility decompositions.

Although:

- This implementation is not completely linguistic accurate, because
different languages have conflicting rules, which would require the
specialization of the filesystem to a given locale, which brings all
sorts of problems for removable media and for users who use more than
one language.

Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

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# 310a997f 25-Apr-2019 Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>

ext4: actually request zeroing of inode table after grow

It is never possible, that number of block groups decreases,
since only online grow is supported.

But after a growing oc

ext4: actually request zeroing of inode table after grow

It is never possible, that number of block groups decreases,
since only online grow is supported.

But after a growing occured, we have to zero inode tables
for just created new block groups.

Fixes: 19c5246d2516 ("ext4: add new online resize interface")
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@kernel.org

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# 17403fa2 24-Mar-2019 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

Pull ext4 fixes from Ted Ts'o:
"Miscellaneous ext4 bug fixes for 5.1"

* tag 'ext4_

Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

Pull ext4 fixes from Ted Ts'o:
"Miscellaneous ext4 bug fixes for 5.1"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
ext4: prohibit fstrim in norecovery mode
ext4: cleanup bh release code in ext4_ind_remove_space()
ext4: brelse all indirect buffer in ext4_ind_remove_space()
ext4: report real fs size after failed resize
ext4: add missing brelse() in add_new_gdb_meta_bg()
ext4: remove useless ext4_pin_inode()
ext4: avoid panic during forced reboot
ext4: fix data corruption caused by unaligned direct AIO
ext4: fix NULL pointer dereference while journal is aborted

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Revision tags: v5.0.9, v5.0.8, v5.0.7, v5.0.6, v5.0.5, v5.0.4
# 18915b58 23-Mar-2019 Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>

ext4: prohibit fstrim in norecovery mode

The ext4 fstrim implementation uses the block bitmaps to find free space
that can be discarded. If we haven't replayed the journal, the bitmaps

ext4: prohibit fstrim in norecovery mode

The ext4 fstrim implementation uses the block bitmaps to find free space
that can be discarded. If we haven't replayed the journal, the bitmaps
will be stale and we absolutely *cannot* use stale metadata to zap the
underlying storage.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

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