[GIT PULL for v7.1] vfs fixes

From: Christian Brauner

Date: Thu Apr 23 2026 - 18:48:32 EST


Hey Linus,

/* Summary */

- eventpoll: fix ep_remove() UAF and follow-up cleanup

- fs: aio: set VMA_DONTCOPY_BIT in mmap to fix NULL-pointer-dereference error

- writeback: Fix use after free in inode_switch_wbs_work_fn()

- fuse: reject oversized dirents in page cache

- fs: aio: reject partial mremap to avoid Null-pointer-dereference error

- nstree: fix func. parameter kernel-doc warnings

- fs: Handle multiply claimed blocks more gracefully with mmb

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The following changes since commit d60bc140158342716e13ff0f8aa65642f43ba053:

Merge tag 'pwrseq-updates-for-v7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brgl/linux (2026-04-13 20:28:22 -0700)

are available in the Git repository at:

git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs tags/vfs-7.1-rc1.fixes

for you to fetch changes up to ac8777cc36224b4705d2c6efb10c56135d479b21:

Merge patch series "eventpoll: fix ep_remove() UAF and follow-up cleanup" (2026-04-24 00:37:04 +0200)

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vfs-7.1-rc1.fixes

Please consider pulling these changes from the signed vfs-7.1-rc1.fixes tag.

Thanks!
Christian

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Christian Brauner (12):
eventpoll: use hlist_is_singular_node() in __ep_remove()
eventpoll: split __ep_remove()
eventpoll: kill __ep_remove()
eventpoll: drop vestigial __ prefix from ep_remove_{file,epi}()
eventpoll: rename ep_remove_safe() back to ep_remove()
eventpoll: move epi_fget() up
eventpoll: fix ep_remove struct eventpoll / struct file UAF
eventpoll: move f_lock acquisition into ep_remove_file()
eventpoll: refresh eventpoll_release() fast-path comment
eventpoll: drop dead bool return from ep_remove_epi()
eventpoll: drop vestigial epi->dying flag
Merge patch series "eventpoll: fix ep_remove() UAF and follow-up cleanup"

Jan Kara (2):
writeback: Fix use after free in inode_switch_wbs_work_fn()
fs: Handle multiply claimed blocks more gracefully with mmb

Randy Dunlap (1):
nstree: fix func. parameter kernel-doc warnings

Samuel Page (1):
fuse: reject oversized dirents in page cache

Zizhi Wo (2):
fs: aio: set VMA_DONTCOPY_BIT in mmap to fix NULL-pointer-dereference error
fs: aio: reject partial mremap to avoid Null-pointer-dereference error

fs/aio.c | 5 +-
fs/buffer.c | 9 ++-
fs/eventpoll.c | 158 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
fs/fs-writeback.c | 36 ++++++-----
fs/fuse/readdir.c | 4 ++
include/linux/eventpoll.h | 16 +++--
include/linux/nstree.h | 6 +-
7 files changed, 125 insertions(+), 109 deletions(-)