zfs-2.3.9

Supported Platforms

• Linux: compatible with 4.18 - 7.2 kernels
• FreeBSD: compatible with releases starting from 13.3+, 14.0+

Changes

• [zfs-2.3.9] Add workaround for device_access ZTS test
• [zfs-2.3.9] Add 'capsh' to commands.cfg
• ZTS: device access tests #18960
• vdev_disk: use calling cred to check for device access #18960
• vdev_file: use calling cred to check for device access #18960
• zfs_file_open: add cred arg, use it to check access #18960
• vdev_open: pass credential to check for permission to open device #18960
• secpolicy_zfs: add a note about the power of CAP_SYS_ADMIN #18959
• secpolicy_sys_config: only permit a global zone credential #18959
• secpolicy_zinject: only permit a global zone credential #18959
• secpolicy_nfs: remove, not used #18959
• ZTS: test secpolicy_zinject correctly limits namespace access #18959
• ZTS: test secpolicy_sys_config correctly limits namespace access #18959
• config: detect idmap method via generic_permission test #18769
• mmp: tell a failed uberblock claim apart from remote activity #18892
• ZTS: add coverage for zhack mmp reclaim #18892
• zhack: add "mmp reclaim" to recover a pool stranded by MMP #18892
• Make systemd-udev-settle optional for the import units #18832
• Fix ddtprune causing space leak #17982 #17983
• Linux 7.2 compat: META #18941
• nvpair: i_get_value_size() string array handling tweak #18877
• nvpair: Improve native handling of unterminated strings #18876
• CodeQL: Flag implicit compare-then-assign in branch conditions #18899
• Linux 5.19/6.17: handle differences in how to flush delay workqueue #18847
• Linux 6.3: follow_down() gains flags arg #18847
• Linux 6.18 compat: vfs_parse_fs_string() takes 3 args #18847
• nvpair: Fix operator precedence #18874
• ZTS: don't read a command's exit status as a missing binary #18726 #18882
• build: Fix release detection when build dir is not source dir #18891
• CI: don't fail a passing job when a log reader has already exited #18885
• CI: publish the per-VM test counter atomically #18885
• man: zvol_request_sync is not ignored under blk-mq #18887
• libzfs: don't read a dataset handle after closing it in resume send #18870 #18883
• ZTS: add coverage for the MMP claim on a degraded mirror #18855
• mmp: do not require writes to mirror legs the config marks absent #18855
• libzfs: String trimming should not operate out of bounds #18868
• libzfs: don't truncate a resolved vdev path in zpool_vdev_name() #18851 #18871
• libzfs: Do not call munmap() when mmap() fails #18869
• Add missing checks to zfs_clone_range_replay() #18867
• zfs: fix stale POSIX ACL cache after rollback #18837
• zed: let autoexpand see capacity changes on partitioned disks #12505 #18833
• ZTS: make file_check actually compare the resume test results #18834
• dmu_recv: Avoid potential null deref #18848
• DDT: Fix several bugs in pruning #18838
• cstyle: better tolerance for struct literals
• libspl: Implement VERIFY_IMPLY and VERIFY_EQUIV #18822
• mmp: skip non-writeable vdevs during activity check #18823 #18835
• zdb: output refcounts from verify_spacemap_refcounts() #18809
• L2ARC: bound the rebuild by the write hand on a first sweep #3114 #3400 #5583 #10224 #12779 #18827
• libzfs: fallback VDEV_UPATH to VDEV_PATH for non-DM devices #18439 #18802
• Fix reads for blocks freed after being cloned #18421 #18724
• Rate limit Direct I/O verify zevents #18795
• CI: Update Alpine Linux runner to 3.24.1 #18790
• Remove libuutil from the pull request template and fix headings #18791
• CI: Fix race caused by shared ctr file updates #18778
• zpl_inode: remove zpl_rename no-flags variants #18769
• ZTS: migration/setup: clear stale zfs_member label before new_fs #18492 #18753
• Fix receive -x according to comment #18737 #18738
• Add SECURITY.md policy file #18766
• linux: batch DMU reads of non-resident pages in mappedread() #16031 #18741
• Linux: fix zfs_write() infinite loop on unfaultable buffer #17129 #18740
• build: Fix for building dist target outside of project root #18744
• ZTS: ctime_001_pos increase tolerance #18733
• libzfs: fix MS_CRYPT/MS_OVERLAY collision with umount2(2) flags #18713
• zpl_ctldir: remove comments describing ancient kernel behaviour #18722
• Linux 7.2: zpl_super: convert to sget_fc() #18677
• Using net/cloud-init to unpin specific python #18717
• linux: handle mmap read beyond file size #18715
• Fix race between device removal completion and pool export #18657
• CI: Increase default watchdog NMI timeout on Linux #18704
• ddt_log: Fix refcount tagging for begin/commit #18706
• Update mtime/ctime when fallocate grows a file #18573
• honor file argument in file_wait_event #18700
• README: update supported FreeBSD release to 15.1 #18696
• Clean up embedded slog metaslab across txgs #18693
• initramfs-zfs should not try to copy directories #18582 #18686
• CI: Re-allow workflow_dispatch on zfs-qemu #18680
• Linux 7.1 compat: META (#18682)
• Update our CI runners to the newest FreeBSD 15.1 RELEASE (#18667)
• CI: Have zfs-build-packages workflow build tarballs on Alma (#18662)
• zbookmark_compare: handle "marker" bookmarks with negative levels #14777 #18652
• ZTS: Pass dec instead of hex to mknod #18547