Linux 7.3 Device Mapper Sees Many Fixes, Including Code Cleanups By Claude Opus

The Linux Device Mapper "DKM" framework for mapping block devices to higher-level virtual block devices doesn't see any major new features for Linux 7.3 but there are many bug fixes, including code clean-ups carried out by AI. The DM changes merged for Linux 7.3 include six minor code clean-ups for issues spotted by Claude Opus 4.6. There are also various manual code clean-ups to different DM targets, improved metadata validation for DM-PCACHE and DM-ARRAY, and various fixes. - 6 minor cleanups found by Claude Opus 4.6 - small cleanups in dm core, dm-cache, dm-switch, dm-inlinecrypt, dm-vdo - improve validation of metadata in dm-pcache - dm: fix resume-vs-remove ioctl race condition - dm: fix race condition when issuing table load ioctls concurrently - fix dm-raid1 and dm-io, so that they work with unaligned bio vectors - dm-integrity: use keyed markers as discard fillers - improve metadata validation in dm-array - fix dm-stats crash on memory allocation failure - fix dm-dust, so that it works if it is not the first target in a table - dm-era: fix superblock refcount leak on snapshot failure Those interested in these Device Mapper fixes and clean-ups can see the whole list of now-merged patches via this pull.