From 6668ed271eaefaa63e686bdfbedaeb7b8e492722 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2026 10:43:19 +0200 Subject: selftests/bpf: Reject graph kptr use after RCU unlock Add a sleepable verifier test that loads a graph-node local kptr in an explicit RCU read-side critical section, then passes its node to bpf_rbtree_remove() after the section ends. Before the verifier fix, the stale NON_OWN_REF flag makes the node look like a live borrowed reference and the program is accepted. After the fix, the pointer is demoted without NON_OWN_REF and the graph kfunc argument is rejected. Also exercise a graph kptr loaded while a spin lock provides implicit RCU protection. The pointer must be invalidated when the lock is released, which guards the required ordering between non-owning-reference invalidation and RCU demotion. Update the existing fault-protected load test state description. The post-unlock pointer no longer carries NON_OWN_REF, but remains readable because the load is rewritten to use BPF_PROBE_MEM. Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260904084325.52250-7-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov --- Documentation/filesystems/ext4/overview.rst | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/filesystems/ext4/overview.rst (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/ext4/overview.rst') diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/overview.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/overview.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..171c3963d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/overview.rst @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +High Level Design +================= + +An ext4 file system is split into a series of block groups. To reduce +performance difficulties due to fragmentation, the block allocator tries +very hard to keep each file's blocks within the same group, thereby +reducing seek times. The size of a block group is specified in +``sb.s_blocks_per_group`` blocks, though it can also calculated as 8 * +``block_size_in_bytes``. With the default block size of 4KiB, each group +will contain 32,768 blocks, for a length of 128MiB. The number of block +groups is the size of the device divided by the size of a block group. + +All fields in ext4 are written to disk in little-endian order. HOWEVER, +all fields in jbd2 (the journal) are written to disk in big-endian +order. + +.. toctree:: + + blocks + blockgroup + special_inodes + allocators + checksums + bigalloc + inlinedata + eainode + verity + atomic_writes -- cgit v1.3.1