Merge tag 'v5.12-rc4' into next

Sync up with the mainline to bring in newest APIs.

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
index 867036aa90b8..0302035781be 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
@@ -717,6 +717,8 @@ be removed.  Switch while you still can; the old one won't stay.
 **mandatory**
 
 ->setxattr() and xattr_handler.set() get dentry and inode passed separately.
+The xattr_handler.set() gets passed the user namespace of the mount the inode
+is seen from so filesystems can idmap the i_uid and i_gid accordingly.
 dentry might be yet to be attached to inode, so do _not_ use its ->d_inode
 in the instances.  Rationale: !@#!@# security_d_instantiate() needs to be
 called before we attach dentry to inode and !@#!@##!@$!$#!@#$!@$!@$ smack
@@ -865,3 +867,26 @@ no matter what.  Everything is handled by the caller.
 
 clone_private_mount() returns a longterm mount now, so the proper destructor of
 its result is kern_unmount() or kern_unmount_array().
+
+---
+
+**mandatory**
+
+zero-length bvec segments are disallowed, they must be filtered out before
+passed on to an iterator.
+
+---
+
+**mandatory**
+
+For bvec based itererators bio_iov_iter_get_pages() now doesn't copy bvecs but
+uses the one provided. Anyone issuing kiocb-I/O should ensure that the bvec and
+page references stay until I/O has completed, i.e. until ->ki_complete() has
+been called or returned with non -EIOCBQUEUED code.
+
+---
+
+**mandatory**
+
+mnt_want_write_file() can now only be paired with mnt_drop_write_file(),
+whereas previously it could be paired with mnt_drop_write() as well.