- Remove the interrupt timing infrastructure
This was added seven years ago to be used for power management purposes, but
that integration never happened.
- Clean up the remaining setup_percpu_irq() users
The memory allocator is available when interrupts can be requested so there
is not need for static irq_action. Move the remaining users to
request_percpu_irq() and delete the historical cruft.
- Warn when interrupt flag inconsistencies are detected in request*_irq().
Inconsistent flags can lead to hard to diagnose malfunction. The fallout of
this new warning has been addressed in next and the fixes are coming in via
the maintainer trees and the tip irq/cleanup pull requests.
- Invoke affinity notifier when CPU hotplug breaks affinity
Otherwise the code using the notifier misses the affinity change and
operates on stale information.
- The usual cleanups and improvements
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Merge tag 'irq-core-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull irq core updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Updates for the interrupt core subsystem:
- Remove the interrupt timing infrastructure
This was added seven years ago to be used for power management
purposes, but that integration never happened.
- Clean up the remaining setup_percpu_irq() users
The memory allocator is available when interrupts can be requested
so there is not need for static irq_action. Move the remaining
users to request_percpu_irq() and delete the historical cruft.
- Warn when interrupt flag inconsistencies are detected in
request*_irq().
Inconsistent flags can lead to hard to diagnose malfunction. The
fallout of this new warning has been addressed in next and the
fixes are coming in via the maintainer trees and the tip
irq/cleanup pull requests.
- Invoke affinity notifier when CPU hotplug breaks affinity
Otherwise the code using the notifier misses the affinity change
and operates on stale information.
- The usual cleanups and improvements"
* tag 'irq-core-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
genirq/proc: Replace snprintf with strscpy in register_handler_proc
genirq/cpuhotplug: Notify about affinity changes breaking the affinity mask
genirq: Move clear of kstat_irqs to free_desc()
genirq: Warn about using IRQF_ONESHOT without a threaded handler
irqdomain: Fix up const problem in irq_domain_set_name()
genirq: Remove setup_percpu_irq()
clocksource/drivers/mips-gic-timer: Move GIC timer to request_percpu_irq()
MIPS: Move IP27 timer to request_percpu_irq()
MIPS: Move IP30 timer to request_percpu_irq()
genirq: Remove __request_percpu_irq() helper
genirq: Remove IRQ timing tracking infrastructure
Lock debugging:
- Implement compiler-driven static analysis locking context
checking, using the upcoming Clang 22 compiler's context
analysis features. (Marco Elver)
We removed Sparse context analysis support, because prior to
removal even a defconfig kernel produced 1,700+ context
tracking Sparse warnings, the overwhelming majority of which
are false positives. On an allmodconfig kernel the number of
false positive context tracking Sparse warnings grows to
over 5,200... On the plus side of the balance actual locking
bugs found by Sparse context analysis is also rather ... sparse:
I found only 3 such commits in the last 3 years. So the
rate of false positives and the maintenance overhead is
rather high and there appears to be no active policy in
place to achieve a zero-warnings baseline to move the
annotations & fixers to developers who introduce new code.
Clang context analysis is more complete and more aggressive
in trying to find bugs, at least in principle. Plus it has
a different model to enabling it: it's enabled subsystem by
subsystem, which results in zero warnings on all relevant
kernel builds (as far as our testing managed to cover it).
Which allowed us to enable it by default, similar to other
compiler warnings, with the expectation that there are no
warnings going forward. This enforces a zero-warnings baseline
on clang-22+ builds. (Which are still limited in distribution,
admittedly.)
Hopefully the Clang approach can lead to a more maintainable
zero-warnings status quo and policy, with more and more
subsystems and drivers enabling the feature. Context tracking
can be enabled for all kernel code via WARN_CONTEXT_ANALYSIS_ALL=y
(default disabled), but this will generate a lot of false positives.
( Having said that, Sparse support could still be added back,
if anyone is interested - the removal patch is still
relatively straightforward to revert at this stage. )
Rust integration updates: (Alice Ryhl, Fujita Tomonori, Boqun Feng)
- Add support for Atomic<i8/i16/bool> and replace most Rust native
AtomicBool usages with Atomic<bool>
- Clean up LockClassKey and improve its documentation
- Add missing Send and Sync trait implementation for SetOnce
- Make ARef Unpin as it is supposed to be
- Add __rust_helper to a few Rust helpers as a preparation for
helper LTO
- Inline various lock related functions to avoid additional
function calls.
WW mutexes:
- Extend ww_mutex tests and other test-ww_mutex updates (John Stultz)
Misc fixes and cleanups:
- rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline
(Arnd Bergmann)
- locking/local_lock: Include more missing headers (Peter Zijlstra)
- seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc (Randy Dunlap)
- rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
(Tamir Duberstein)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'locking-core-2026-02-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Lock debugging:
- Implement compiler-driven static analysis locking context checking,
using the upcoming Clang 22 compiler's context analysis features
(Marco Elver)
We removed Sparse context analysis support, because prior to
removal even a defconfig kernel produced 1,700+ context tracking
Sparse warnings, the overwhelming majority of which are false
positives. On an allmodconfig kernel the number of false positive
context tracking Sparse warnings grows to over 5,200... On the plus
side of the balance actual locking bugs found by Sparse context
analysis is also rather ... sparse: I found only 3 such commits in
the last 3 years. So the rate of false positives and the
maintenance overhead is rather high and there appears to be no
active policy in place to achieve a zero-warnings baseline to move
the annotations & fixers to developers who introduce new code.
Clang context analysis is more complete and more aggressive in
trying to find bugs, at least in principle. Plus it has a different
model to enabling it: it's enabled subsystem by subsystem, which
results in zero warnings on all relevant kernel builds (as far as
our testing managed to cover it). Which allowed us to enable it by
default, similar to other compiler warnings, with the expectation
that there are no warnings going forward. This enforces a
zero-warnings baseline on clang-22+ builds (Which are still limited
in distribution, admittedly)
Hopefully the Clang approach can lead to a more maintainable
zero-warnings status quo and policy, with more and more subsystems
and drivers enabling the feature. Context tracking can be enabled
for all kernel code via WARN_CONTEXT_ANALYSIS_ALL=y (default
disabled), but this will generate a lot of false positives.
( Having said that, Sparse support could still be added back,
if anyone is interested - the removal patch is still
relatively straightforward to revert at this stage. )
Rust integration updates: (Alice Ryhl, Fujita Tomonori, Boqun Feng)
- Add support for Atomic<i8/i16/bool> and replace most Rust native
AtomicBool usages with Atomic<bool>
- Clean up LockClassKey and improve its documentation
- Add missing Send and Sync trait implementation for SetOnce
- Make ARef Unpin as it is supposed to be
- Add __rust_helper to a few Rust helpers as a preparation for
helper LTO
- Inline various lock related functions to avoid additional function
calls
WW mutexes:
- Extend ww_mutex tests and other test-ww_mutex updates (John
Stultz)
Misc fixes and cleanups:
- rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline (Arnd
Bergmann)
- locking/local_lock: Include more missing headers (Peter Zijlstra)
- seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc (Randy Dunlap)
- rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings (Tamir
Duberstein)"
* tag 'locking-core-2026-02-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (90 commits)
locking/rwlock: Fix write_trylock_irqsave() with CONFIG_INLINE_WRITE_TRYLOCK
rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline
compiler-context-analysis: Remove __assume_ctx_lock from initializers
tomoyo: Use scoped init guard
crypto: Use scoped init guard
kcov: Use scoped init guard
compiler-context-analysis: Introduce scoped init guards
cleanup: Make __DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD handle commas in initializers
seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc
tools: Update context analysis macros in compiler_types.h
rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
rust: sync: Inline various lock related methods
rust: helpers: Move #define __rust_helper out of atomic.c
rust: wait: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: time: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: task: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: sync: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: refcount: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: rcu: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: processor: Add __rust_helper to helpers
...
- more rust helpers (Alice);
- more bitops tests (Ryota);
- FIND_NTH_BIT() uninitialized variable fix (Lee Yongjun);
- random cleanups (Andy, H. Peter).
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Merge tag 'bitmap-for-6.20' of https://github.com/norov/linux
Pull bitmap updates from Yury Norov:
- more rust helpers (Alice)
- more bitops tests (Ryota)
- FIND_NTH_BIT() uninitialized variable fix (Lee Yongjun)
- random cleanups (Andy, H. Peter)
* tag 'bitmap-for-6.20' of https://github.com/norov/linux:
lib/tests: extend KUnit test for bitops with more cases
bitops: Add more files to the MAINTAINERS
lib/find_bit: fix uninitialized variable use in FIND_NTH_BIT
lib/tests: add KUnit test for bitops
rust: cpumask: add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: bitops: add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: bitmap: add __rust_helper to helpers
linux/bitfield.h: replace __auto_type with auto
Extend a KUnit test suite for the bitops API to cover more APIs from
include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-atomic.h.
- change_bit()
- test_and_set_bit()
- test_and_clear_bit()
- test_and_change_bit()
Verified on x86_64, i386, and arm64 architectures.
Sample KUnit output:
KTAP version 1
# Subtest: test_change_bit
ok 1 BITOPS_4
ok 2 BITOPS_7
ok 3 BITOPS_11
ok 4 BITOPS_31
ok 5 BITOPS_88
# test_change_bit: pass:5 fail:0 skip:0 total:5
ok 2 test_change_bit
KTAP version 1
# Subtest: test_test_and_set_bit_test_and_clear_bit
ok 1 BITOPS_4
ok 2 BITOPS_7
ok 3 BITOPS_11
ok 4 BITOPS_31
ok 5 BITOPS_88
# test_test_and_set_bit_test_and_clear_bit: pass:5 fail:0 skip:0 total:5
ok 3 test_test_and_set_bit_test_and_clear_bit
KTAP version 1
# Subtest: test_test_and_change_bit
ok 1 BITOPS_4
ok 2 BITOPS_7
ok 3 BITOPS_11
ok 4 BITOPS_31
ok 5 BITOPS_88
# test_test_and_change_bit: pass:5 fail:0 skip:0 total:5
ok 4 test_test_and_change_bit
Signed-off-by: Ryota Sakamoto <sakamo.ryota@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <ynorov@nvidia.com>
Add a KUnit test suite for the bitops API.
The existing 'lib/test_bitops.c' is preserved as-is because it contains
ad-hoc micro-benchmarks 'test_fns' and is intended to ensure no compiler
warnings from C=1 sparse checker or -Wextra compilations.
Introduce 'lib/tests/bitops_kunit.c' for functional regression testing. It
ports the test logic and data patterns from 'lib/test_bitops.c' to KUnit,
verifying correct behavior across various input patterns and
architecture-specific edge cases using isolated stack-allocated bitmaps.
The following test logic has been ported from test_bitops_startup() in
lib/test_bitops.c:
- set_bit() / clear_bit() / find_first_bit() validation ->
test_set_bit_clear_bit()
- get_count_order() validation -> test_get_count_order()
- get_count_order_long() validation -> test_get_count_order_long()
Also improve the find_first_bit() test to check the full bitmap length
(BITOPS_LENGTH) instead of omitting the last bit, ensuring the bitmap is
completely empty after cleanup.
Verified on x86_64, i386, and arm64 architectures.
Sample KUnit output:
KTAP version 1
# Subtest: bitops
# module: bitops_kunit
1..3
KTAP version 1
# Subtest: test_set_bit_clear_bit
ok 1 BITOPS_4
ok 2 BITOPS_7
ok 3 BITOPS_11
ok 4 BITOPS_31
ok 5 BITOPS_88
# test_set_bit_clear_bit: pass:5 fail:0 skip:0 total:5
ok 1 test_set_bit_clear_bit
KTAP version 1
# Subtest: test_get_count_order
ok 1 0x00000003
ok 2 0x00000004
ok 3 0x00001fff
ok 4 0x00002000
ok 5 0x50000000
ok 6 0x80000000
ok 7 0x80003000
# test_get_count_order: pass:7 fail:0 skip:0 total:7
ok 2 test_get_count_order
KTAP version 1
# Subtest: test_get_count_order_long
ok 1 0x0000000300000000
ok 2 0x0000000400000000
ok 3 0x00001fff00000000
ok 4 0x0000200000000000
ok 5 0x5000000000000000
ok 6 0x8000000000000000
ok 7 0x8000300000000000
# test_get_count_order_long: pass:7 fail:0 skip:0 total:7
ok 3 test_get_count_order_long
[Yury: trim Kconfig help message]
CC: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
CC: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ryota Sakamoto <sakamo.ryota@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <ynorov@nvidia.com>
Add a simple test stub where we will add common supported patterns that
should not generate false positives for each new supported context lock.
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-4-elver@google.com
Context Analysis is a language extension, which enables statically
checking that required contexts are active (or inactive), by acquiring
and releasing user-definable "context locks". An obvious application is
lock-safety checking for the kernel's various synchronization primitives
(each of which represents a "context lock"), and checking that locking
rules are not violated.
Clang originally called the feature "Thread Safety Analysis" [1]. This
was later changed and the feature became more flexible, gaining the
ability to define custom "capabilities". Its foundations can be found in
"Capability Systems" [2], used to specify the permissibility of
operations to depend on some "capability" being held (or not held).
Because the feature is not just able to express "capabilities" related
to synchronization primitives, and "capability" is already overloaded in
the kernel, the naming chosen for the kernel departs from Clang's
"Thread Safety" and "capability" nomenclature; we refer to the feature
as "Context Analysis" to avoid confusion. The internal implementation
still makes references to Clang's terminology in a few places, such as
`-Wthread-safety` being the warning option that also still appears in
diagnostic messages.
[1] https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ThreadSafetyAnalysis.html
[2] https://www.cs.cornell.edu/talc/papers/capabilities.pdf
See more details in the kernel-doc documentation added in this and
subsequent changes.
Clang version 22+ is required.
[peterz: disable the thing for __CHECKER__ builds]
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-3-elver@google.com
The IRQ timing tracking infrastructure was merged in 2019, but was never
plumbed in, is not selectable, and is therefore never used.
As Daniel agrees that there is little hope for this infrastructure to be
completed in the near term, drop it altogether.
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87zf7vex6h.wl-maz@kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251210082242.360936-2-maz@kernel.org
- The 6 patch series "panic: sys_info: Refactor and fix a potential
issue" from Andy Shevchenko fixes a build issue and does some cleanup in
ib/sys_info.c.
- The 9 patch series "Implement mul_u64_u64_div_u64_roundup()" from
David Laight enhances the 64-bit math code on behalf of a PWM driver and
beefs up the test module for these library functions.
- The 2 patch series "scripts/gdb/symbols: make BPF debug info available
to GDB" from Ilya Leoshkevich makes BPF symbol names, sizes, and line
numbers available to the GDB debugger.
- The 4 patch series "Enable hung_task and lockup cases to dump system
info on demand" from Feng Tang adds a sysctl which can be used to cause
additional info dumping when the hung-task and lockup detectors fire.
- The 6 patch series "lib/base64: add generic encoder/decoder, migrate
users" from Kuan-Wei Chiu adds a general base64 encoder/decoder to lib/
and migrates several users away from their private implementations.
- The 2 patch series "rbree: inline rb_first() and rb_last()" from Eric
Dumazet makes TCP a little faster.
- The 9 patch series "liveupdate: Rework KHO for in-kernel users" from
Pasha Tatashin reworks the KEXEC Handover interfaces in preparation for
Live Update Orchestrator (LUO), and possibly for other future clients.
- The 13 patch series "kho: simplify state machine and enable dynamic
updates" from Pasha Tatashin increases the flexibility of KEXEC
Handover. Also preparation for LUO.
- The 18 patch series "Live Update Orchestrator" from Pasha Tatashin is
a major new feature targeted at cloud environments. Quoting the [0/N]:
This series introduces the Live Update Orchestrator, a kernel subsystem
designed to facilitate live kernel updates using a kexec-based reboot.
This capability is critical for cloud environments, allowing hypervisors
to be updated with minimal downtime for running virtual machines. LUO
achieves this by preserving the state of selected resources, such as
memory, devices and their dependencies, across the kernel transition.
As a key feature, this series includes support for preserving memfd file
descriptors, which allows critical in-memory data, such as guest RAM or
any other large memory region, to be maintained in RAM across the kexec
reboot.
Mike Rappaport merits a mention here, for his extensive review and
testing work.
- The 3 patch series "kexec: reorganize kexec and kdump sysfs" from
Sourabh Jain moves the kexec and kdump sysfs entries from /sys/kernel/
to /sys/kernel/kexec/ and adds back-compatibility symlinks which can
hopefully be removed one day.
- The 2 patch series "kho: fixes for vmalloc restoration" from Mike
Rapoport fixes a BUG which was being hit during KHO restoration of
vmalloc() regions.
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Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-06-11-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "panic: sys_info: Refactor and fix a potential issue" (Andy Shevchenko)
fixes a build issue and does some cleanup in ib/sys_info.c
- "Implement mul_u64_u64_div_u64_roundup()" (David Laight)
enhances the 64-bit math code on behalf of a PWM driver and beefs up
the test module for these library functions
- "scripts/gdb/symbols: make BPF debug info available to GDB" (Ilya Leoshkevich)
makes BPF symbol names, sizes, and line numbers available to the GDB
debugger
- "Enable hung_task and lockup cases to dump system info on demand" (Feng Tang)
adds a sysctl which can be used to cause additional info dumping when
the hung-task and lockup detectors fire
- "lib/base64: add generic encoder/decoder, migrate users" (Kuan-Wei Chiu)
adds a general base64 encoder/decoder to lib/ and migrates several
users away from their private implementations
- "rbree: inline rb_first() and rb_last()" (Eric Dumazet)
makes TCP a little faster
- "liveupdate: Rework KHO for in-kernel users" (Pasha Tatashin)
reworks the KEXEC Handover interfaces in preparation for Live Update
Orchestrator (LUO), and possibly for other future clients
- "kho: simplify state machine and enable dynamic updates" (Pasha Tatashin)
increases the flexibility of KEXEC Handover. Also preparation for LUO
- "Live Update Orchestrator" (Pasha Tatashin)
is a major new feature targeted at cloud environments. Quoting the
cover letter:
This series introduces the Live Update Orchestrator, a kernel
subsystem designed to facilitate live kernel updates using a
kexec-based reboot. This capability is critical for cloud
environments, allowing hypervisors to be updated with minimal
downtime for running virtual machines. LUO achieves this by
preserving the state of selected resources, such as memory,
devices and their dependencies, across the kernel transition.
As a key feature, this series includes support for preserving
memfd file descriptors, which allows critical in-memory data, such
as guest RAM or any other large memory region, to be maintained in
RAM across the kexec reboot.
Mike Rappaport merits a mention here, for his extensive review and
testing work.
- "kexec: reorganize kexec and kdump sysfs" (Sourabh Jain)
moves the kexec and kdump sysfs entries from /sys/kernel/ to
/sys/kernel/kexec/ and adds back-compatibility symlinks which can
hopefully be removed one day
- "kho: fixes for vmalloc restoration" (Mike Rapoport)
fixes a BUG which was being hit during KHO restoration of vmalloc()
regions
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-06-11-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (139 commits)
calibrate: update header inclusion
Reinstate "resource: avoid unnecessary lookups in find_next_iomem_res()"
vmcoreinfo: track and log recoverable hardware errors
kho: fix restoring of contiguous ranges of order-0 pages
kho: kho_restore_vmalloc: fix initialization of pages array
MAINTAINERS: TPM DEVICE DRIVER: update the W-tag
init: replace simple_strtoul with kstrtoul to improve lpj_setup
KHO: fix boot failure due to kmemleak access to non-PRESENT pages
Documentation/ABI: new kexec and kdump sysfs interface
Documentation/ABI: mark old kexec sysfs deprecated
kexec: move sysfs entries to /sys/kernel/kexec
test_kho: always print restore status
kho: free chunks using free_page() instead of kfree()
selftests/liveupdate: add kexec test for multiple and empty sessions
selftests/liveupdate: add simple kexec-based selftest for LUO
selftests/liveupdate: add userspace API selftests
docs: add documentation for memfd preservation via LUO
mm: memfd_luo: allow preserving memfd
liveupdate: luo_file: add private argument to store runtime state
mm: shmem: export some functions to internal.h
...
- Arch Topology:
- Move parse_acpi_topology() from arm64 to common code for reuse in RISC-V
- CPU:
- Expose housekeeping CPUs through /sys/devices/system/cpu/housekeeping
- Print a newline (or 0x0A) instead of '(null)' reading
/sys/devices/system/cpu/nohz_full when nohz_full= is not set
- debugfs
- Remove (broken) 'no-mount' mode
- Remove redundant access mode checks in debugfs_get_tree() and
debugfs_create_*() functions
- Devres:
- Remove unused devm_free_percpu() helper
- Move devm_alloc_percpu() from device.h to devres.h
- Firmware Loader:
- Replace simple_strtol() with kstrtoint()
- Do not call cancel_store() when no upload is in progress
- kernfs:
- Increase struct super_block::maxbytes to MAX_LFS_FILESIZE
- Fix a missing unwind path in __kernfs_new_node()
- Misc:
- Increase the name size in struct auxiliary_device_id to 40 characters
- Replace system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq and add WQ_PERCPU to
alloc_workqueue()
- Platform:
- Replace ERR_PTR() with IOMEM_ERR_PTR() in platform ioremap functions
- Rust:
- Auxiliary:
- Unregister auxiliary device on parent device unbind
- Move parent() to impl Device; implement device context aware parent() for
Device<Bound>
- Illustrate how to safely obtain a driver's device private data when
calling from an auxiliary driver into the parant device driver
- DebugFs:
- Implement support for binary large objects
- Device:
- Let probe() return the driver's device private data as pinned initializer,
i.e. impl PinInit<Self, Error>
- Implement safe accessor for a driver's device private data for
Device<Bound> (returned reference can't out-live driver binding and
guarantees the correct private data type)
- Implement AsBusDevice trait, to be used by class device abstractions to
derive the bus device type of the parent device
- DMA:
- Store raw pointer of allocation as NonNull
- Use start_ptr() and start_ptr_mut() to inherit correct mutability of self
- FS:
- Add file::Offset type alias
- I2C:
- Add abstractions for I2C device / driver infrastructure
- Implement abstractions for manual I2C device registrations
- I/O:
- Use "kernel vertical" style for imports
- Define ResourceSize as resource_size_t
- Move ResourceSize to top-level I/O module
- Add type alias for phys_addr_t
- Implement Rust version of read_poll_timeout_atomic()
- PCI:
- Use "kernel vertical" style for imports
- Move I/O and IRQ infrastructure to separate files
- Add support for PCI interrupt vectors
- Implement TryInto<IrqRequest<'a>> for IrqVector<'a> to convert an
IrqVector bound to specific pci::Device into an IrqRequest bound to the
same pci::Device's parent Device
- Leverage pin_init_scope() to get rid of redundant Result in IRQ methods
- PinInit:
- Add {pin_}init_scope() to execute code before creating an initializer
- Platform:
- Leverage pin_init_scope() to get rid of redundant Result in IRQ methods
- Timekeeping:
- Implement abstraction of udelay()
- Uaccess:
- Implement read_slice_partial() and read_slice_file() for UserSliceReader
- Implement write_slice_partial() and write_slice_file() for UserSliceWriter
- sysfs
- Prepare the constification of struct attribute
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Merge tag 'driver-core-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/driver-core/driver-core
Pull driver core updates from Danilo Krummrich:
"Arch Topology:
- Move parse_acpi_topology() from arm64 to common code for reuse in
RISC-V
CPU:
- Expose housekeeping CPUs through /sys/devices/system/cpu/housekeeping
- Print a newline (or 0x0A) instead of '(null)' reading
/sys/devices/system/cpu/nohz_full when nohz_full= is not set
debugfs
- Remove (broken) 'no-mount' mode
- Remove redundant access mode checks in debugfs_get_tree() and
debugfs_create_*() functions
Devres:
- Remove unused devm_free_percpu() helper
- Move devm_alloc_percpu() from device.h to devres.h
Firmware Loader:
- Replace simple_strtol() with kstrtoint()
- Do not call cancel_store() when no upload is in progress
kernfs:
- Increase struct super_block::maxbytes to MAX_LFS_FILESIZE
- Fix a missing unwind path in __kernfs_new_node()
Misc:
- Increase the name size in struct auxiliary_device_id to 40
characters
- Replace system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq and add WQ_PERCPU to
alloc_workqueue()
Platform:
- Replace ERR_PTR() with IOMEM_ERR_PTR() in platform ioremap
functions
Rust:
- Auxiliary:
- Unregister auxiliary device on parent device unbind
- Move parent() to impl Device; implement device context aware
parent() for Device<Bound>
- Illustrate how to safely obtain a driver's device private data
when calling from an auxiliary driver into the parant device
driver
- DebugFs:
- Implement support for binary large objects
- Device:
- Let probe() return the driver's device private data as pinned
initializer, i.e. impl PinInit<Self, Error>
- Implement safe accessor for a driver's device private data for
Device<Bound> (returned reference can't out-live driver binding
and guarantees the correct private data type)
- Implement AsBusDevice trait, to be used by class device
abstractions to derive the bus device type of the parent device
- DMA:
- Store raw pointer of allocation as NonNull
- Use start_ptr() and start_ptr_mut() to inherit correct
mutability of self
- FS:
- Add file::Offset type alias
- I2C:
- Add abstractions for I2C device / driver infrastructure
- Implement abstractions for manual I2C device registrations
- I/O:
- Use "kernel vertical" style for imports
- Define ResourceSize as resource_size_t
- Move ResourceSize to top-level I/O module
- Add type alias for phys_addr_t
- Implement Rust version of read_poll_timeout_atomic()
- PCI:
- Use "kernel vertical" style for imports
- Move I/O and IRQ infrastructure to separate files
- Add support for PCI interrupt vectors
- Implement TryInto<IrqRequest<'a>> for IrqVector<'a> to convert
an IrqVector bound to specific pci::Device into an IrqRequest
bound to the same pci::Device's parent Device
- Leverage pin_init_scope() to get rid of redundant Result in IRQ
methods
- PinInit:
- Add {pin_}init_scope() to execute code before creating an
initializer
- Platform:
- Leverage pin_init_scope() to get rid of redundant Result in IRQ
methods
- Timekeeping:
- Implement abstraction of udelay()
- Uaccess:
- Implement read_slice_partial() and read_slice_file() for
UserSliceReader
- Implement write_slice_partial() and write_slice_file() for
UserSliceWriter
sysfs:
- Prepare the constification of struct attribute"
* tag 'driver-core-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/driver-core/driver-core: (75 commits)
rust: pci: fix build failure when CONFIG_PCI_MSI is disabled
debugfs: Fix default access mode config check
debugfs: Remove broken no-mount mode
debugfs: Remove redundant access mode checks
driver core: Check drivers_autoprobe for all added devices
driver core: WQ_PERCPU added to alloc_workqueue users
driver core: replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq
tick/nohz: Expose housekeeping CPUs in sysfs
tick/nohz: avoid showing '(null)' if nohz_full= not set
sysfs/cpu: Use DEVICE_ATTR_RO for nohz_full attribute
kernfs: fix memory leak of kernfs_iattrs in __kernfs_new_node
fs/kernfs: raise sb->maxbytes to MAX_LFS_FILESIZE
mod_devicetable: Bump auxiliary_device_id name size
sysfs: simplify attribute definition macros
samples/kobject: constify 'struct foo_attribute'
samples/kobject: add is_visible() callback to attribute group
sysfs: attribute_group: enable const variants of is_visible()
sysfs: introduce __SYSFS_FUNCTION_ALTERNATIVE()
sysfs: transparently handle const pointers in ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS()
sysfs: attribute_group: allow registration of const attribute
...
- Improve WARN(), which has vararg printf like arguments,
to work with the x86 #UD based WARN-optimizing infrastructure
by hiding the format in the bug_table and replacing this
first argument with the address of the bug-table entry,
while making the actual function that's called a UD1 instruction.
(Peter Zijlstra)
- Introduce the CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE_DETAILED Kconfig switch
(Ingo Molnar, s390 support by Heiko Carstens)
Fixes and cleanups:
- bugs/s390: Remove private WARN_ON() implementation (Heiko Carstens)
- <asm/bugs.h>: Make i386 use GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS
(Peter Zijlstra)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'core-bugs-2025-12-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull bug handling infrastructure updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Core updates:
- Improve WARN(), which has vararg printf like arguments, to work
with the x86 #UD based WARN-optimizing infrastructure by hiding the
format in the bug_table and replacing this first argument with the
address of the bug-table entry, while making the actual function
that's called a UD1 instruction (Peter Zijlstra)
- Introduce the CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE_DETAILED Kconfig switch (Ingo
Molnar, s390 support by Heiko Carstens)
Fixes and cleanups:
- bugs/s390: Remove private WARN_ON() implementation (Heiko Carstens)
- <asm/bugs.h>: Make i386 use GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS (Peter
Zijlstra)"
* tag 'core-bugs-2025-12-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (31 commits)
x86/bugs: Make i386 use GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS
x86/bug: Fix BUG_FORMAT vs KASLR
x86_64/bug: Inline the UD1
x86/bug: Implement WARN_ONCE()
x86_64/bug: Implement __WARN_printf()
x86/bug: Use BUG_FORMAT for DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE_DETAILED
x86/bug: Add BUG_FORMAT basics
bug: Allow architectures to provide __WARN_printf()
bug: Implement WARN_ON() using __WARN_FLAGS()
bug: Add report_bug_entry()
bug: Add BUG_FORMAT_ARGS infrastructure
bug: Clean up CONFIG_GENERIC_BUG_RELATIVE_POINTERS
bug: Add BUG_FORMAT infrastructure
x86: Rework __bug_table helpers
bugs/s390: Remove private WARN_ON() implementation
bugs/core: Reorganize fields in the first line of WARNING output, add ->comm[] output
bugs/sh: Concatenate 'cond_str' with '__FILE__' in __WARN_FLAGS(), to extend WARN_ON/BUG_ON output
bugs/parisc: Concatenate 'cond_str' with '__FILE__' in __WARN_FLAGS(), to extend WARN_ON/BUG_ON output
bugs/riscv: Concatenate 'cond_str' with '__FILE__' in __BUG_FLAGS(), to extend WARN_ON/BUG_ON output
bugs/riscv: Pass in 'cond_str' to __BUG_FLAGS()
...
debugfs access modes were added in Linux 5.10 (Dec 2020) [1], but the
no-mount mode has behaved effectively the same as the off mode since
Linux 5.12 (Apr 2021) [2]. The only difference is the specific error
code returned by the debugfs_create_* functions, which is -ENOENT in
no-mount mode and -EPERM in off mode.
Given that no-mount hasn't worked for several years with no complaints,
just remove it.
[1] a24c6f7bc9 ("debugfs: Add access restriction option")
[2] bc6de804d3 ("debugfs: be more robust at handling improper input in debugfs_lookup()")
56348560d4 ("debugfs: do not attempt to create a new file before the filesystem is initalized")
Signed-off-by: Aaron Thompson <dev@aaront.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251120102222.18371-3-dev@null.aaront.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
That was already the limit with KASAN enabled, and the 32-bit x86 build
ends up having a couple of drm cases that have stack frames _just_ over
1kB on my allmodconfig test. So the minimal fix for this build issue
for now is to just bump the limit and make it independent of KASAN.
[ Side note: XTENSA already used 1.5k and PARISC uses 2k, so 1280 is
still relatively conservative ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Bring in the UDB and objtool data annotations to avoid conflicts while further extending the bug exceptions.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Add a KUnit test suite to validate the base64 helpers. The tests cover
both encoding and decoding, including padded and unpadded forms as defined
by RFC 4648 (standard base64), and add negative cases for malformed inputs
and padding errors.
The test suite also validates other variants (URLSAFE, IMAP) to ensure
their correctness.
In addition to functional checks, the suite includes simple
microbenchmarks which report average encode/decode latency for small (64B)
and larger (1KB) inputs. These numbers are informational only and do not
gate the tests.
Kconfig (BASE64_KUNIT) and lib/tests/Makefile are updated accordingly.
Sample KUnit output:
KTAP version 1
# Subtest: base64
# module: base64_kunit
1..4
# base64_performance_tests: [64B] encode run : 32ns
# base64_performance_tests: [64B] decode run : 35ns
# base64_performance_tests: [1KB] encode run : 510ns
# base64_performance_tests: [1KB] decode run : 530ns
ok 1 base64_performance_tests
ok 2 base64_std_encode_tests
ok 3 base64_std_decode_tests
ok 4 base64_variant_tests
# base64: pass:4 fail:0 skip:0 total:4
# Totals: pass:4 fail:0 skip:0 total:4
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251114060157.89507-1-409411716@gms.tku.edu.tw
Signed-off-by: Guan-Chun Wu <409411716@gms.tku.edu.tw>
Reviewed-by: Kuan-Wei Chiu <visitorckw@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Cc: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Viacheslav Dubeyko <Slava.Dubeyko@ibm.com>
Cc: Xiubo Li <xiubli@redhat.com>
Cc: Yu-Sheng Huang <home7438072@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The hung_task_panic sysctl is currently a blunt instrument: it's all or
nothing.
Panicking on a single hung task can be an overreaction to a transient
glitch. A more reliable indicator of a systemic problem is when
multiple tasks hang simultaneously.
Extend hung_task_panic to accept an integer threshold, allowing the
kernel to panic only when N hung tasks are detected in a single scan.
This provides finer control to distinguish between isolated incidents
and system-wide failures.
The accepted values are:
- 0: Don't panic (unchanged)
- 1: Panic on the first hung task (unchanged)
- N > 1: Panic after N hung tasks are detected in a single scan
The original behavior is preserved for values 0 and 1, maintaining full
backward compatibility.
[lance.yang@linux.dev: new changelog]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251015063615.2632-1-lirongqing@baidu.com
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Tested-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@codeconstruct.com.au> [aspeed_g5_defconfig]
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Florian Wesphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: Jakub Kacinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld <jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Cc: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
As of writing, Documentation/Changes states the minimal versions of GNU C
being 8.1, Clang being 15.0.0 and binutils being 2.30. A few Kconfig help
texts are pointing out that specific GCC and Clang versions are needed,
but by now, those pointers to versions, such later than 4.0, later than
4.4, or clang later than 5.0, are obsolete and unlikely to be found by
users configuring their kernel builds anyway.
Drop these outdated remarks in Kconfig help texts referring to older
compiler and binutils versions. No functional change.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251010082138.185752-1-lukas.bulwahn@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@redhat.com>
Cc: Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>
Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Russel King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
- The 3 patch series "ida: Remove the ida_simple_xxx() API" from
Christophe Jaillet completes the removal of this legacy IDR API.
- The 9 patch series "panic: introduce panic status function family"
from Jinchao Wang provides a number of cleanups to the panic code and
its various helpers, which were rather ad-hoc and scattered all over the
place.
- The 5 patch series "tools/delaytop: implement real-time keyboard
interaction support" from Fan Yu adds a few nice user-facing usability
changes to the delaytop monitoring tool.
- The 3 patch series "efi: Fix EFI boot with kexec handover (KHO)" from
Evangelos Petrongonas fixes a panic which was happening with the
combination of EFI and KHO.
- The 2 patch series "Squashfs: performance improvement and a sanity
check" from Phillip Lougher teaches squashfs's lseek() about
SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE. A mere 150x speedup was measured for a well-chosen
microbenchmark.
- Plus another 50-odd singleton patches all over the place.
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Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-10-02-15-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "ida: Remove the ida_simple_xxx() API" from Christophe Jaillet
completes the removal of this legacy IDR API
- "panic: introduce panic status function family" from Jinchao Wang
provides a number of cleanups to the panic code and its various
helpers, which were rather ad-hoc and scattered all over the place
- "tools/delaytop: implement real-time keyboard interaction support"
from Fan Yu adds a few nice user-facing usability changes to the
delaytop monitoring tool
- "efi: Fix EFI boot with kexec handover (KHO)" from Evangelos
Petrongonas fixes a panic which was happening with the combination of
EFI and KHO
- "Squashfs: performance improvement and a sanity check" from Phillip
Lougher teaches squashfs's lseek() about SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE. A mere
150x speedup was measured for a well-chosen microbenchmark
- plus another 50-odd singleton patches all over the place
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-10-02-15-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (75 commits)
Squashfs: reject negative file sizes in squashfs_read_inode()
kallsyms: use kmalloc_array() instead of kmalloc()
MAINTAINERS: update Sibi Sankar's email address
Squashfs: add SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE support
Squashfs: add additional inode sanity checking
lib/genalloc: fix device leak in of_gen_pool_get()
panic: remove CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
ocfs2: fix double free in user_cluster_connect()
checkpatch: suppress strscpy warnings for userspace tools
cramfs: fix incorrect physical page address calculation
kernel: prevent prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG) from racing with parent process exit
Squashfs: fix uninit-value in squashfs_get_parent
kho: only fill kimage if KHO is finalized
ocfs2: avoid extra calls to strlen() after ocfs2_sprintf_system_inode_name()
kernel/sys.c: fix the racy usage of task_lock(tsk->group_leader) in sys_prlimit64() paths
sched/task.h: fix the wrong comment on task_lock() nesting with tasklist_lock
coccinelle: platform_no_drv_owner: handle also built-in drivers
coccinelle: of_table: handle SPI device ID tables
lib/decompress: use designated initializers for struct compress_format
efi: support booting with kexec handover (KHO)
...
- Extend modules.builtin.modinfo to include module aliases from
MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE for builtin modules so that userspace tools (such
as kmod) can verify that a particular module alias will be handled by
a builtin module.
- Bump the minimum version of LLVM for building the kernel to 15.0.0.
- Upgrade several userspace API checks in headers_check.pl to errors.
- Unify and consolidate CONFIG_WERROR / W=e handling.
- Turn assembler and linker warnings into errors with CONFIG_WERROR /
W=e.
- Respect CONFIG_WERROR / W=e when building userspace programs
(userprogs).
- Enable -Werror unconditionally when building host programs
(hostprogs).
- Support copy_file_range() and data segment alignment in gen_init_cpio
to improve performance on filesystems that support reflinks such as
btrfs and XFS.
- Miscellaneous small changes to scripts and configuration files.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'kbuild-6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux
Pull Kbuild updates from Nathan Chancellor:
- Extend modules.builtin.modinfo to include module aliases from
MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE for builtin modules so that userspace tools (such
as kmod) can verify that a particular module alias will be handled by
a builtin module
- Bump the minimum version of LLVM for building the kernel to 15.0.0
- Upgrade several userspace API checks in headers_check.pl to errors
- Unify and consolidate CONFIG_WERROR / W=e handling
- Turn assembler and linker warnings into errors with CONFIG_WERROR /
W=e
- Respect CONFIG_WERROR / W=e when building userspace programs
(userprogs)
- Enable -Werror unconditionally when building host programs
(hostprogs)
- Support copy_file_range() and data segment alignment in gen_init_cpio
to improve performance on filesystems that support reflinks such as
btrfs and XFS
- Miscellaneous small changes to scripts and configuration files
* tag 'kbuild-6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux: (47 commits)
modpost: Initialize builtin_modname to stop SIGSEGVs
Documentation: kbuild: note CONFIG_DEBUG_EFI in reproducible builds
kbuild: vmlinux.unstripped should always depend on .vmlinux.export.o
modpost: Create modalias for builtin modules
modpost: Add modname to mod_device_table alias
scsi: Always define blogic_pci_tbl structure
kbuild: extract modules.builtin.modinfo from vmlinux.unstripped
kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped
kbuild: always create intermediate vmlinux.unstripped
s390: vmlinux.lds.S: Reorder sections
KMSAN: Remove tautological checks
objtool: Drop noinstr hack for KCSAN_WEAK_MEMORY
lib/Kconfig.debug: Drop CLANG_VERSION check from DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT
riscv: Remove ld.lld version checks from many TOOLCHAIN_HAS configs
riscv: Unconditionally use linker relaxation
riscv: Remove version check for LTO_CLANG selects
powerpc: Drop unnecessary initializations in __copy_inst_from_kernel_nofault()
mips: Unconditionally select ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER
arm64: Remove tautological LLVM Kconfig conditions
ARM: Clean up definition of ARM_HAS_GROUP_RELOCS
...
- Clean up usage of TRAILING_OVERLAP() (Gustavo A. R. Silva)
- lkdtm: fortify: Fix potential NULL dereference on kmalloc failure
(Junjie Cao)
- Add str_assert_deassert() helper (Lad Prabhakar)
- gcc-plugins: Remove TODO_verify_il for GCC >= 16
- kconfig: Fix BrokenPipeError warnings in selftests
- kconfig: Add transitional symbol attribute for migration support
- kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI
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Merge tag 'hardening-v6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux
Pull hardening updates from Kees Cook:
"One notable addition is the creation of the 'transitional' keyword for
kconfig so CONFIG renaming can go more smoothly.
This has been a long-standing deficiency, and with the renaming of
CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI (since GCC will soon have KCFI
support), this came up again.
The breadth of the diffstat is mainly this renaming.
- Clean up usage of TRAILING_OVERLAP() (Gustavo A. R. Silva)
- lkdtm: fortify: Fix potential NULL dereference on kmalloc failure
(Junjie Cao)
- Add str_assert_deassert() helper (Lad Prabhakar)
- gcc-plugins: Remove TODO_verify_il for GCC >= 16
- kconfig: Fix BrokenPipeError warnings in selftests
- kconfig: Add transitional symbol attribute for migration support
- kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI"
* tag 'hardening-v6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
lib/string_choices: Add str_assert_deassert() helper
kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI
kconfig: Add transitional symbol attribute for migration support
kconfig: Fix BrokenPipeError warnings in selftests
gcc-plugins: Remove TODO_verify_il for GCC >= 16
stddef: Introduce __TRAILING_OVERLAP()
stddef: Remove token-pasting in TRAILING_OVERLAP()
lkdtm: fortify: Fix potential NULL dereference on kmalloc failure
There's really no need for this since it's 0 or 1 when
CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS is disabled/enabled, so just use IS_ENABLED()
instead. The extra symbol goes back to the original code adding it in
commit 2a01bb3885 ("panic: Make panic_on_oops configurable").
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250924094303.18521-2-johannes@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The kernel's CFI implementation uses the KCFI ABI specifically, and is
not strictly tied to a particular compiler. In preparation for GCC
supporting KCFI, rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI (along with
associated options).
Use new "transitional" Kconfig option for old CONFIG_CFI_CLANG that will
enable CONFIG_CFI during olddefconfig.
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250923213422.1105654-3-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Add KUnit tests for ffs()-family bit scanning functions: ffs(), __ffs(),
fls(), __fls(), fls64(), __ffs64(), and ffz(). The tests validate
mathematical relationships (e.g. ffs(x) == __ffs(x) + 1), and test zero
values, power-of-2 patterns, maximum values, and sparse bit patterns.
Build and run tested with everything I could reach with KUnit:
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=x86_64 ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=i386 ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=arm64 --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu-" ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=arm --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf-" ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=powerpc ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=powerpc32 ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=powerpcle ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=riscv --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=riscv64-linux-gnu-" ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=riscv32 --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=riscv64-linux-gnu-" ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=s390 --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=s390x-linux-gnu-" ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=m68k ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=loongarch ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=mips --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=mipsel-linux-gnu-" ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=sparc --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=sparc64-linux-gnu-" ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=sparc64 --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=sparc64-linux-gnu-" ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=alpha --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=alpha-linux-gnu-" ffs
$ ./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch=sh --make_options "CROSS_COMPILE=sh4-linux-gnu-" ffs
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250804164417.1612371-1-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Now that the minimum supported version of LLVM for building the kernel
has been bumped to 15.0.0, the CLANG_VERSION check for older than 14.0.0
is always false, so remove it.
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250821-bump-min-llvm-ver-15-v2-10-635f3294e5f0@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Resolve conflicts with this commit that was developed in parallel
during the merge window:
8c8efa93db ("x86/bug: Add ARCH_WARN_ASM macro for BUG/WARN asm code sharing with Rust")
Conflicts:
arch/riscv/include/asm/bug.h
arch/x86/include/asm/bug.h
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
- The 2 patch series "squashfs: Remove page->mapping references" from
Matthew Wilcox gets us closer to being able to remove page->mapping.
- The 5 patch series "relayfs: misc changes" from Jason Xing does some
maintenance and minor feature addition work in relayfs.
- The 5 patch series "kdump: crashkernel reservation from CMA" from Jiri
Bohac switches us from static preallocation of the kdump crashkernel's
working memory over to dynamic allocation. So the difficulty of
a-priori estimation of the second kernel's needs is removed and the
first kernel obtains extra memory.
- The 5 patch series "generalize panic_print's dump function to be used
by other kernel parts" from Feng Tang implements some consolidation and
rationalizatio of the various ways in which a faiing kernel splats
information at the operator.
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Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-08-03-12-47' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"Significant patch series in this pull request:
- "squashfs: Remove page->mapping references" (Matthew Wilcox) gets
us closer to being able to remove page->mapping
- "relayfs: misc changes" (Jason Xing) does some maintenance and
minor feature addition work in relayfs
- "kdump: crashkernel reservation from CMA" (Jiri Bohac) switches
us from static preallocation of the kdump crashkernel's working
memory over to dynamic allocation. So the difficulty of a-priori
estimation of the second kernel's needs is removed and the first
kernel obtains extra memory
- "generalize panic_print's dump function to be used by other
kernel parts" (Feng Tang) implements some consolidation and
rationalization of the various ways in which a failing kernel
splats information at the operator
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-08-03-12-47' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (80 commits)
tools/getdelays: add backward compatibility for taskstats version
kho: add test for kexec handover
delaytop: enhance error logging and add PSI feature description
samples: Kconfig: fix spelling mistake "instancess" -> "instances"
fat: fix too many log in fat_chain_add()
scripts/spelling.txt: add notifer||notifier to spelling.txt
xen/xenbus: fix typo "notifer"
net: mvneta: fix typo "notifer"
drm/xe: fix typo "notifer"
cxl: mce: fix typo "notifer"
KVM: x86: fix typo "notifer"
MAINTAINERS: add maintainers for delaytop
ucount: use atomic_long_try_cmpxchg() in atomic_long_inc_below()
ucount: fix atomic_long_inc_below() argument type
kexec: enable CMA based contiguous allocation
stackdepot: make max number of pools boot-time configurable
lib/xxhash: remove unused functions
init/Kconfig: restore CONFIG_BROKEN help text
lib/raid6: update recov_rvv.c zero page usage
docs: update docs after introducing delaytop
...
Testing kexec handover requires a kernel driver that will generate some
data and preserve it with KHO on the first boot and then restore that data
and verify it was preserved properly after kexec.
To facilitate such test, along with the kernel driver responsible for data
generation, preservation and restoration add a script that runs a kernel
in a VM with a minimal /init. The /init enables KHO, loads a kernel image
for kexec and runs kexec reboot. After the boot of the kexeced kernel,
the driver verifies that the data was properly preserved.
[rppt@kernel.org: fix section mismatch]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aIiRC8fXiOXKbPM_@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250727083733.2590139-1-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Changyuan Lyu <changyuanl@google.com>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Changes
-------
* Add trivial kunit test for ratelimit
* Make the ratelimit test more reliable (Petr Mladek)
* Add stress test for ratelimit
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Merge tag 'ratelimit.2025.07.23a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu
Pull ratelimit test updates from Paul McKenney:
"Add functional and stress tests:
- Add trivial kunit test for ratelimit
- Make the ratelimit test more reliable (Petr Mladek)
- Add stress test for ratelimit"
* tag 'ratelimit.2025.07.23a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu:
lib: Add stress test for ratelimit
lib: Make the ratelimit test more reliable
lib: Add trivial kunit test for ratelimit
Corrects MODULE_IMPORT_NS() syntax documentation, makes kunit_test timeout
configurable via a module parameter and a Kconfig option, fixes longest
symbol length test, adds a test for static stub, and adjusts kunit_test
timeout based on test_{suite,case} speed.
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Merge tag 'linux_kselftest-kunit-6.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest
Pull kunit updates from Shuah Khan:
"Correct MODULE_IMPORT_NS() syntax documentation, make kunit_test
timeout configurable via a module parameter and a Kconfig option, fix
longest symbol length test, add a test for static stub, and adjust
kunit_test timeout based on test_{suite,case} speed"
* tag 'linux_kselftest-kunit-6.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest:
kunit: fix longest symbol length test
kunit: Make default kunit_test timeout configurable via both a module parameter and a Kconfig option
kunit: Adjust kunit_test timeout based on test_{suite,case} speed
kunit: Add test for static stub
Documentation: kunit: Correct MODULE_IMPORT_NS() syntax
Here is the big set of char/misc/iio and other smaller driver subsystems
for 6.17-rc1. It's a big set this time around, with the huge majority
being in the iio subsystem with new drivers and dts files being added
there.
Highlights include:
- IIO driver updates, additions, and changes making more code const
and cleaning up some init logic
- bus_type constant conversion changes
- misc device test functions added
- rust miscdevice minor fixup
- unused function removals for some drivers
- mei driver updates
- mhi driver updates
- interconnect driver updates
- Android binder updates and test infrastructure added
- small cdx driver updates
- small comedi fixes
- small nvmem driver updates
- small pps driver updates
- some acrn virt driver fixes for printk messages
- other small driver updates
All of these have been in linux-next with no reported issues.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'char-misc-6.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc
Pull char / misc / IIO / other driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big set of char/misc/iio and other smaller driver
subsystems for 6.17-rc1. It's a big set this time around, with the
huge majority being in the iio subsystem with new drivers and dts
files being added there.
Highlights include:
- IIO driver updates, additions, and changes making more code const
and cleaning up some init logic
- bus_type constant conversion changes
- misc device test functions added
- rust miscdevice minor fixup
- unused function removals for some drivers
- mei driver updates
- mhi driver updates
- interconnect driver updates
- Android binder updates and test infrastructure added
- small cdx driver updates
- small comedi fixes
- small nvmem driver updates
- small pps driver updates
- some acrn virt driver fixes for printk messages
- other small driver updates
All of these have been in linux-next with no reported issues"
* tag 'char-misc-6.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (292 commits)
binder: Use seq_buf in binder_alloc kunit tests
binder: Add copyright notice to new kunit files
misc: ti_fpc202: Switch to of_fwnode_handle()
bus: moxtet: Use dev_fwnode()
pc104: move PC104 option to drivers/Kconfig
drivers: virt: acrn: Don't use %pK through printk
comedi: fix race between polling and detaching
interconnect: qcom: Add Milos interconnect provider driver
dt-bindings: interconnect: document the RPMh Network-On-Chip Interconnect in Qualcomm Milos SoC
mei: more prints with client prefix
mei: bus: use cldev in prints
bus: mhi: host: pci_generic: Add Telit FN990B40 modem support
bus: mhi: host: Detect events pointing to unexpected TREs
bus: mhi: host: pci_generic: Add Foxconn T99W696 modem
bus: mhi: host: Use str_true_false() helper
bus: mhi: host: pci_generic: Add support for EM929x and set MRU to 32768 for better performance.
bus: mhi: host: Fix endianness of BHI vector table
bus: mhi: host: pci_generic: Disable runtime PM for QDU100
bus: mhi: host: pci_generic: Fix the modem name of Foxconn T99W640
dt-bindings: interconnect: qcom,msm8998-bwmon: Allow 'nonposted-mmio'
...
Updates for the kernel's CRC (cyclic redundancy check) code:
- Reorganize the architecture-optimized CRC code. It now lives in
lib/crc/$(SRCARCH)/ rather than arch/$(SRCARCH)/lib/, and it is no
longer artificially split into separate generic and arch modules.
This allows better inlining and dead code elimination. The generic
CRC code is also no longer exported, simplifying the API. (This
mirrors the similar changes to SHA-1 and SHA-2 in lib/crypto/,
which can be found in the "Crypto library updates" pull request.)
- Improve crc32c() performance on newer x86_64 CPUs on long messages
by enabling the VPCLMULQDQ optimized code.
- Simplify the crypto_shash wrappers for crc32_le() and crc32c().
Register just one shash algorithm for each that uses the (fully
optimized) library functions, instead of unnecessarily providing
direct access to the generic CRC code.
- Remove unused and obsolete drivers for hardware CRC engines.
- Remove CRC-32 combination functions that are no longer used.
- Add kerneldoc for crc32_le(), crc32_be(), and crc32c().
- Convert the crc32() macro to an inline function.
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Merge tag 'crc-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux
Pull CRC updates from Eric Biggers:
- Reorganize the architecture-optimized CRC code
It now lives in lib/crc/$(SRCARCH)/ rather than arch/$(SRCARCH)/lib/,
and it is no longer artificially split into separate generic and arch
modules. This allows better inlining and dead code elimination
The generic CRC code is also no longer exported, simplifying the API.
(This mirrors the similar changes to SHA-1 and SHA-2 in lib/crypto/,
which can be found in the "Crypto library updates" pull request)
- Improve crc32c() performance on newer x86_64 CPUs on long messages by
enabling the VPCLMULQDQ optimized code
- Simplify the crypto_shash wrappers for crc32_le() and crc32c()
Register just one shash algorithm for each that uses the (fully
optimized) library functions, instead of unnecessarily providing
direct access to the generic CRC code
- Remove unused and obsolete drivers for hardware CRC engines
- Remove CRC-32 combination functions that are no longer used
- Add kerneldoc for crc32_le(), crc32_be(), and crc32c()
- Convert the crc32() macro to an inline function
* tag 'crc-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux: (26 commits)
lib/crc: x86/crc32c: Enable VPCLMULQDQ optimization where beneficial
lib/crc: x86: Reorganize crc-pclmul static_call initialization
lib/crc: crc64: Add include/linux/crc64.h to kernel-api.rst
lib/crc: crc32: Change crc32() from macro to inline function and remove cast
nvmem: layouts: Switch from crc32() to crc32_le()
lib/crc: crc32: Document crc32_le(), crc32_be(), and crc32c()
lib/crc: Explicitly include <linux/export.h>
lib/crc: Remove ARCH_HAS_* kconfig symbols
lib/crc: x86: Migrate optimized CRC code into lib/crc/
lib/crc: sparc: Migrate optimized CRC code into lib/crc/
lib/crc: s390: Migrate optimized CRC code into lib/crc/
lib/crc: riscv: Migrate optimized CRC code into lib/crc/
lib/crc: powerpc: Migrate optimized CRC code into lib/crc/
lib/crc: mips: Migrate optimized CRC code into lib/crc/
lib/crc: loongarch: Migrate optimized CRC code into lib/crc/
lib/crc: arm64: Migrate optimized CRC code into lib/crc/
lib/crc: arm: Migrate optimized CRC code into lib/crc/
lib/crc: Prepare for arch-optimized code in subdirs of lib/crc/
lib/crc: Move files into lib/crc/
lib/crc32: Remove unused combination support
...
Move all CRC files in lib/ into a subdirectory lib/crc/ to keep them
from cluttering up the main lib/ directory.
Reviewed-by: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250607200454.73587-2-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Add test cases for static and dynamic minor number allocation and
deallocation.
While at it, improve description and test suite name.
Some of the cases include:
- that static and dynamic allocation reserved the expected minors.
- that registering duplicate minors or duplicate names will fail.
- that failing to create a sysfs file (due to duplicate names) will
deallocate the dynamic minor correctly.
- that dynamic allocation does not allocate a minor number in the static
range.
- that there are no collisions when mixing dynamic and static allocations.
- that opening devices with various minor device numbers work.
- that registering a static number in the dynamic range won't conflict with
a dynamic allocation.
This last test verifies the bug fixed by commit 6d04d2b554 ("misc:
misc_minor_alloc to use ida for all dynamic/misc dynamic minors") has not
regressed.
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@igalia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250612-misc-dynrange-v5-1-6f35048f7273@igalia.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Add a simple single-threaded smoke test for lib/ratelimit.c
To run on x86:
make ARCH=x86_64 mrproper
./tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py run --arch x86_64 --kconfig_add CONFIG_RATELIMIT_KUNIT_TEST=y --kconfig_add CONFIG_SMP=y lib_ratelimit
This will fail on old ___ratelimit(), and subsequent patches provide
the fixes that are required.
[ paulmck: Apply timeout and kunit feedback from Petr Mladek. ]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/fbe93a52-365e-47fe-93a4-44a44547d601@paulmck-laptop/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250423115409.3425-1-spasswolf@web.de/
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Jon Pan-Doh <pandoh@google.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Karolina Stolarek <karolina.stolarek@oracle.com>
Allow configurability of the inclusion of more detailed
WARN_ON() strings, to be implemented in subsequent
commits.
Since the full cost will be around 100K more memory on
an x86 defconfig, disable it by default.
Provide the WARN_CONDITION_STR() macro to allow the conditional
passing of extra strings to lower level BUG/WARN handlers.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250515124644.2958810-4-mingo@kernel.org
semaphore" from Lance Yang enhances the hung task detector. The
detector presently dumps the blocking tasks's stack when it is blocked
on a mutex. Lance's series extends this to semaphores.
- The 2 patch series "nilfs2: improve sanity checks in dirty state
propagation" from Wentao Liang addresses a couple of minor flaws in
nilfs2.
- The 2 patch series "scripts/gdb: Fixes related to lx_per_cpu()" from
Illia Ostapyshyn fixes a couple of issues in the gdb scripts.
- The 9 patch series "Support kdump with LUKS encryption by reusing LUKS
volume keys" from Coiby Xu addresses a usability problem with kdump.
When the dump device is LUKS-encrypted, the kdump kernel may not have
the keys to the encrypted filesystem. A full writeup of this is in the
series [0/N] cover letter.
- The 2 patch series "sysfs: add counters for lockups and stalls" from
Max Kellermann adds /sys/kernel/hardlockup_count and
/sys/kernel/hardlockup_count and /sys/kernel/rcu_stall_count.
- The 3 patch series "fork: Page operation cleanups in the fork code"
from Pasha Tatashin implements a number of code cleanups in fork.c.
- The 3 patch series "scripts/gdb/symbols: determine KASLR offset on
s390 during early boot" from Ilya Leoshkevich fixes some s390 issues in
the gdb scripts.
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Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-05-31-15-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "hung_task: extend blocking task stacktrace dump to semaphore" from
Lance Yang enhances the hung task detector.
The detector presently dumps the blocking tasks's stack when it is
blocked on a mutex. Lance's series extends this to semaphores
- "nilfs2: improve sanity checks in dirty state propagation" from
Wentao Liang addresses a couple of minor flaws in nilfs2
- "scripts/gdb: Fixes related to lx_per_cpu()" from Illia Ostapyshyn
fixes a couple of issues in the gdb scripts
- "Support kdump with LUKS encryption by reusing LUKS volume keys" from
Coiby Xu addresses a usability problem with kdump.
When the dump device is LUKS-encrypted, the kdump kernel may not have
the keys to the encrypted filesystem. A full writeup of this is in
the series [0/N] cover letter
- "sysfs: add counters for lockups and stalls" from Max Kellermann adds
/sys/kernel/hardlockup_count and /sys/kernel/hardlockup_count and
/sys/kernel/rcu_stall_count
- "fork: Page operation cleanups in the fork code" from Pasha Tatashin
implements a number of code cleanups in fork.c
- "scripts/gdb/symbols: determine KASLR offset on s390 during early
boot" from Ilya Leoshkevich fixes some s390 issues in the gdb
scripts
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-05-31-15-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (67 commits)
llist: make llist_add_batch() a static inline
delayacct: remove redundant code and adjust indentation
squashfs: add optional full compressed block caching
crash_dump, nvme: select CONFIGFS_FS as built-in
scripts/gdb/symbols: determine KASLR offset on s390 during early boot
scripts/gdb/symbols: factor out pagination_off()
scripts/gdb/symbols: factor out get_vmlinux()
kernel/panic.c: format kernel-doc comments
mailmap: update and consolidate Casey Connolly's name and email
nilfs2: remove wbc->for_reclaim handling
fork: define a local GFP_VMAP_STACK
fork: check charging success before zeroing stack
fork: clean-up naming of vm_stack/vm_struct variables in vmap stacks code
fork: clean-up ifdef logic around stack allocation
kernel/rcu/tree_stall: add /sys/kernel/rcu_stall_count
kernel/watchdog: add /sys/kernel/{hard,soft}lockup_count
x86/crash: make the page that stores the dm crypt keys inaccessible
x86/crash: pass dm crypt keys to kdump kernel
Revert "x86/mm: Remove unused __set_memory_prot()"
crash_dump: retrieve dm crypt keys in kdump kernel
...
simplifies the act of creating a pte which addresses the first page in a
folio and reduces the amount of plumbing which architecture must
implement to provide this.
- The 8 patch series "Misc folio patches for 6.16" from Matthew Wilcox
is a shower of largely unrelated folio infrastructure changes which
clean things up and better prepare us for future work.
- The 3 patch series "memory,x86,acpi: hotplug memory alignment
advisement" from Gregory Price adds early-init code to prevent x86 from
leaving physical memory unused when physical address regions are not
aligned to memory block size.
- The 2 patch series "mm/compaction: allow more aggressive proactive
compaction" from Michal Clapinski provides some tuning of the (sadly,
hard-coded (more sadly, not auto-tuned)) thresholds for our invokation
of proactive compaction. In a simple test case, the reduction of a guest
VM's memory consumption was dramatic.
- The 8 patch series "Minor cleanups and improvements to swap freeing
code" from Kemeng Shi provides some code cleaups and a small efficiency
improvement to this part of our swap handling code.
- The 6 patch series "ptrace: introduce PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO API"
from Dmitry Levin adds the ability for a ptracer to modify syscalls
arguments. At this time we can alter only "system call information that
are used by strace system call tampering, namely, syscall number,
syscall arguments, and syscall return value.
This series should have been incorporated into mm.git's "non-MM"
branch, but I goofed.
- The 3 patch series "fs/proc: extend the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl to report
guard regions" from Andrei Vagin extends the info returned by the
PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl against /proc/pid/pagemap. This permits CRIU to more
efficiently get at the info about guard regions.
- The 2 patch series "Fix parameter passed to page_mapcount_is_type()"
from Gavin Shan implements that fix. No runtime effect is expected
because validate_page_before_insert() happens to fix up this error.
- The 3 patch series "kernel/events/uprobes: uprobe_write_opcode()
rewrite" from David Hildenbrand basically brings uprobe text poking into
the current decade. Remove a bunch of hand-rolled implementation in
favor of using more current facilities.
- The 3 patch series "mm/ptdump: Drop assumption that pxd_val() is u64"
from Anshuman Khandual provides enhancements and generalizations to the
pte dumping code. This might be needed when 128-bit Page Table
Descriptors are enabled for ARM.
- The 12 patch series "Always call constructor for kernel page tables"
from Kevin Brodsky "ensures that the ctor/dtor is always called for
kernel pgtables, as it already is for user pgtables". This permits the
addition of more functionality such as "insert hooks to protect page
tables". This change does result in various architectures performing
unnecesary work, but this is fixed up where it is anticipated to occur.
- The 9 patch series "Rust support for mm_struct, vm_area_struct, and
mmap" from Alice Ryhl adds plumbing to permit Rust access to core MM
structures.
- The 3 patch series "fix incorrectly disallowed anonymous VMA merges"
from Lorenzo Stoakes takes advantage of some VMA merging opportunities
which we've been missing for 15 years.
- The 4 patch series "mm/madvise: batch tlb flushes for MADV_DONTNEED
and MADV_FREE" from SeongJae Park optimizes process_madvise()'s TLB
flushing. Instead of flushing each address range in the provided iovec,
we batch the flushing across all the iovec entries. The syscall's cost
was approximately halved with a microbenchmark which was designed to
load this particular operation.
- The 6 patch series "Track node vacancy to reduce worst case allocation
counts" from Sidhartha Kumar makes the maple tree smarter about its node
preallocation. stress-ng mmap performance increased by single-digit
percentages and the amount of unnecessarily preallocated memory was
dramaticelly reduced.
- The 3 patch series "mm/gup: Minor fix, cleanup and improvements" from
Baoquan He removes a few unnecessary things which Baoquan noted when
reading the code.
- The 3 patch series ""Enhance sysfs handling for memory hotplug in
weighted interleave" from Rakie Kim "enhances the weighted interleave
policy in the memory management subsystem by improving sysfs handling,
fixing memory leaks, and introducing dynamic sysfs updates for memory
hotplug support". Fixes things on error paths which we are unlikely to
hit.
- The 7 patch series "mm/damon: auto-tune DAMOS for NUMA setups
including tiered memory" from SeongJae Park introduces new DAMOS quota
goal metrics which eliminate the manual tuning which is required when
utilizing DAMON for memory tiering.
- The 5 patch series "mm/vmalloc.c: code cleanup and improvements" from
Baoquan He provides cleanups and small efficiency improvements which
Baoquan found via code inspection.
- The 2 patch series "vmscan: enforce mems_effective during demotion"
from Gregory Price "changes reclaim to respect cpuset.mems_effective
during demotion when possible". because "presently, reclaim explicitly
ignores cpuset.mems_effective when demoting, which may cause the cpuset
settings to violated." "This is useful for isolating workloads on a
multi-tenant system from certain classes of memory more consistently."
- The 2 patch series ""Clean up split_huge_pmd_locked() and remove
unnecessary folio pointers" from Gavin Guo provides minor cleanups and
efficiency gains in in the huge page splitting and migrating code.
- The 3 patch series "Use kmem_cache for memcg alloc" from Huan Yang
creates a slab cache for `struct mem_cgroup', yielding improved memory
utilization.
- The 4 patch series "add max arg to swappiness in memory.reclaim and
lru_gen" from Zhongkun He adds a new "max" argument to the "swappiness="
argument for memory.reclaim MGLRU's lru_gen. This directs proactive
reclaim to reclaim from only anon folios rather than file-backed folios.
- The 17 patch series "kexec: introduce Kexec HandOver (KHO)" from Mike
Rapoport is the first step on the path to permitting the kernel to
maintain existing VMs while replacing the host kernel via file-based
kexec. At this time only memblock's reserve_mem is preserved.
- The 7 patch series "mm: Introduce for_each_valid_pfn()" from David
Woodhouse provides and uses a smarter way of looping over a pfn range.
By skipping ranges of invalid pfns.
- The 2 patch series "sched/numa: Skip VMA scanning on memory pinned to
one NUMA node via cpuset.mems" from Libo Chen removes a lot of pointless
VMA scanning when a task is pinned a single NUMA mode. Dramatic
performance benefits were seen in some real world cases.
- The 2 patch series "JFS: Implement migrate_folio for
jfs_metapage_aops" from Shivank Garg addresses a warning which occurs
during memory compaction when using JFS.
- The 4 patch series "move all VMA allocation, freeing and duplication
logic to mm" from Lorenzo Stoakes moves some VMA code from kernel/fork.c
into the more appropriate mm/vma.c.
- The 6 patch series "mm, swap: clean up swap cache mapping helper" from
Kairui Song provides code consolidation and cleanups related to the
folio_index() function.
- The 2 patch series "mm/gup: Cleanup memfd_pin_folios()" from Vishal
Moola does that.
- The 8 patch series "memcg: Fix test_memcg_min/low test failures" from
Waiman Long addresses some bogus failures which are being reported by
the test_memcontrol selftest.
- The 3 patch series "eliminate mmap() retry merge, add .mmap_prepare
hook" from Lorenzo Stoakes commences the deprecation of
file_operations.mmap() in favor of the new
file_operations.mmap_prepare(). The latter is more restrictive and
prevents drivers from messing with things in ways which, amongst other
problems, may defeat VMA merging.
- The 4 patch series "memcg: decouple memcg and objcg stocks"" from
Shakeel Butt decouples the per-cpu memcg charge cache from the objcg's
one. This is a step along the way to making memcg and objcg charging
NMI-safe, which is a BPF requirement.
- The 6 patch series "mm/damon: minor fixups and improvements for code,
tests, and documents" from SeongJae Park is "yet another batch of
miscellaneous DAMON changes. Fix and improve minor problems in code,
tests and documents."
- The 7 patch series "memcg: make memcg stats irq safe" from Shakeel
Butt converts memcg stats to be irq safe. Another step along the way to
making memcg charging and stats updates NMI-safe, a BPF requirement.
- The 4 patch series "Let unmap_hugepage_range() and several related
functions take folio instead of page" from Fan Ni provides folio
conversions in the hugetlb code.
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-05-31-14-50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "Add folio_mk_pte()" from Matthew Wilcox simplifies the act of
creating a pte which addresses the first page in a folio and reduces
the amount of plumbing which architecture must implement to provide
this.
- "Misc folio patches for 6.16" from Matthew Wilcox is a shower of
largely unrelated folio infrastructure changes which clean things up
and better prepare us for future work.
- "memory,x86,acpi: hotplug memory alignment advisement" from Gregory
Price adds early-init code to prevent x86 from leaving physical
memory unused when physical address regions are not aligned to memory
block size.
- "mm/compaction: allow more aggressive proactive compaction" from
Michal Clapinski provides some tuning of the (sadly, hard-coded (more
sadly, not auto-tuned)) thresholds for our invokation of proactive
compaction. In a simple test case, the reduction of a guest VM's
memory consumption was dramatic.
- "Minor cleanups and improvements to swap freeing code" from Kemeng
Shi provides some code cleaups and a small efficiency improvement to
this part of our swap handling code.
- "ptrace: introduce PTRACE_SET_SYSCALL_INFO API" from Dmitry Levin
adds the ability for a ptracer to modify syscalls arguments. At this
time we can alter only "system call information that are used by
strace system call tampering, namely, syscall number, syscall
arguments, and syscall return value.
This series should have been incorporated into mm.git's "non-MM"
branch, but I goofed.
- "fs/proc: extend the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl to report guard regions" from
Andrei Vagin extends the info returned by the PAGEMAP_SCAN ioctl
against /proc/pid/pagemap. This permits CRIU to more efficiently get
at the info about guard regions.
- "Fix parameter passed to page_mapcount_is_type()" from Gavin Shan
implements that fix. No runtime effect is expected because
validate_page_before_insert() happens to fix up this error.
- "kernel/events/uprobes: uprobe_write_opcode() rewrite" from David
Hildenbrand basically brings uprobe text poking into the current
decade. Remove a bunch of hand-rolled implementation in favor of
using more current facilities.
- "mm/ptdump: Drop assumption that pxd_val() is u64" from Anshuman
Khandual provides enhancements and generalizations to the pte dumping
code. This might be needed when 128-bit Page Table Descriptors are
enabled for ARM.
- "Always call constructor for kernel page tables" from Kevin Brodsky
ensures that the ctor/dtor is always called for kernel pgtables, as
it already is for user pgtables.
This permits the addition of more functionality such as "insert hooks
to protect page tables". This change does result in various
architectures performing unnecesary work, but this is fixed up where
it is anticipated to occur.
- "Rust support for mm_struct, vm_area_struct, and mmap" from Alice
Ryhl adds plumbing to permit Rust access to core MM structures.
- "fix incorrectly disallowed anonymous VMA merges" from Lorenzo
Stoakes takes advantage of some VMA merging opportunities which we've
been missing for 15 years.
- "mm/madvise: batch tlb flushes for MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE" from
SeongJae Park optimizes process_madvise()'s TLB flushing.
Instead of flushing each address range in the provided iovec, we
batch the flushing across all the iovec entries. The syscall's cost
was approximately halved with a microbenchmark which was designed to
load this particular operation.
- "Track node vacancy to reduce worst case allocation counts" from
Sidhartha Kumar makes the maple tree smarter about its node
preallocation.
stress-ng mmap performance increased by single-digit percentages and
the amount of unnecessarily preallocated memory was dramaticelly
reduced.
- "mm/gup: Minor fix, cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He removes
a few unnecessary things which Baoquan noted when reading the code.
- ""Enhance sysfs handling for memory hotplug in weighted interleave"
from Rakie Kim "enhances the weighted interleave policy in the memory
management subsystem by improving sysfs handling, fixing memory
leaks, and introducing dynamic sysfs updates for memory hotplug
support". Fixes things on error paths which we are unlikely to hit.
- "mm/damon: auto-tune DAMOS for NUMA setups including tiered memory"
from SeongJae Park introduces new DAMOS quota goal metrics which
eliminate the manual tuning which is required when utilizing DAMON
for memory tiering.
- "mm/vmalloc.c: code cleanup and improvements" from Baoquan He
provides cleanups and small efficiency improvements which Baoquan
found via code inspection.
- "vmscan: enforce mems_effective during demotion" from Gregory Price
changes reclaim to respect cpuset.mems_effective during demotion when
possible. because presently, reclaim explicitly ignores
cpuset.mems_effective when demoting, which may cause the cpuset
settings to violated.
This is useful for isolating workloads on a multi-tenant system from
certain classes of memory more consistently.
- "Clean up split_huge_pmd_locked() and remove unnecessary folio
pointers" from Gavin Guo provides minor cleanups and efficiency gains
in in the huge page splitting and migrating code.
- "Use kmem_cache for memcg alloc" from Huan Yang creates a slab cache
for `struct mem_cgroup', yielding improved memory utilization.
- "add max arg to swappiness in memory.reclaim and lru_gen" from
Zhongkun He adds a new "max" argument to the "swappiness=" argument
for memory.reclaim MGLRU's lru_gen.
This directs proactive reclaim to reclaim from only anon folios
rather than file-backed folios.
- "kexec: introduce Kexec HandOver (KHO)" from Mike Rapoport is the
first step on the path to permitting the kernel to maintain existing
VMs while replacing the host kernel via file-based kexec. At this
time only memblock's reserve_mem is preserved.
- "mm: Introduce for_each_valid_pfn()" from David Woodhouse provides
and uses a smarter way of looping over a pfn range. By skipping
ranges of invalid pfns.
- "sched/numa: Skip VMA scanning on memory pinned to one NUMA node via
cpuset.mems" from Libo Chen removes a lot of pointless VMA scanning
when a task is pinned a single NUMA mode.
Dramatic performance benefits were seen in some real world cases.
- "JFS: Implement migrate_folio for jfs_metapage_aops" from Shivank
Garg addresses a warning which occurs during memory compaction when
using JFS.
- "move all VMA allocation, freeing and duplication logic to mm" from
Lorenzo Stoakes moves some VMA code from kernel/fork.c into the more
appropriate mm/vma.c.
- "mm, swap: clean up swap cache mapping helper" from Kairui Song
provides code consolidation and cleanups related to the folio_index()
function.
- "mm/gup: Cleanup memfd_pin_folios()" from Vishal Moola does that.
- "memcg: Fix test_memcg_min/low test failures" from Waiman Long
addresses some bogus failures which are being reported by the
test_memcontrol selftest.
- "eliminate mmap() retry merge, add .mmap_prepare hook" from Lorenzo
Stoakes commences the deprecation of file_operations.mmap() in favor
of the new file_operations.mmap_prepare().
The latter is more restrictive and prevents drivers from messing with
things in ways which, amongst other problems, may defeat VMA merging.
- "memcg: decouple memcg and objcg stocks"" from Shakeel Butt decouples
the per-cpu memcg charge cache from the objcg's one.
This is a step along the way to making memcg and objcg charging
NMI-safe, which is a BPF requirement.
- "mm/damon: minor fixups and improvements for code, tests, and
documents" from SeongJae Park is yet another batch of miscellaneous
DAMON changes. Fix and improve minor problems in code, tests and
documents.
- "memcg: make memcg stats irq safe" from Shakeel Butt converts memcg
stats to be irq safe. Another step along the way to making memcg
charging and stats updates NMI-safe, a BPF requirement.
- "Let unmap_hugepage_range() and several related functions take folio
instead of page" from Fan Ni provides folio conversions in the
hugetlb code.
* tag 'mm-stable-2025-05-31-14-50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (285 commits)
mm: pcp: increase pcp->free_count threshold to trigger free_high
mm/hugetlb: convert use of struct page to folio in __unmap_hugepage_range()
mm/hugetlb: refactor __unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page
mm/hugetlb: refactor unmap_hugepage_range() to take folio instead of page
mm/hugetlb: pass folio instead of page to unmap_ref_private()
memcg: objcg stock trylock without irq disabling
memcg: no stock lock for cpu hot-unplug
memcg: make __mod_memcg_lruvec_state re-entrant safe against irqs
memcg: make count_memcg_events re-entrant safe against irqs
memcg: make mod_memcg_state re-entrant safe against irqs
memcg: move preempt disable to callers of memcg_rstat_updated
memcg: memcg_rstat_updated re-entrant safe against irqs
mm: khugepaged: decouple SHMEM and file folios' collapse
selftests/eventfd: correct test name and improve messages
alloc_tag: check mem_profiling_support in alloc_tag_init
Docs/damon: update titles and brief introductions to explain DAMOS
selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: read tried regions directories in order
mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: add a test for damos_set_filters_default_reject()
mm/damon/paddr: remove unused variable, folio_list, in damon_pa_stat()
mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: fix wrong comment on damons_sysfs_quota_goal_metric_strs
...
x86 already uses gcc-8 as the minimum version, this changes all other
architectures to the same version. gcc-8 is used is Debian 10 and Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 8, both of which are still supported, and binutils
2.30 is the oldest corresponding version on those. Ubuntu Pro 18.04 and
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 both use gcc-7 as the system compiler
but additionally include toolchains that remain supported.
With the new minimum toolchain versions, a number of workarounds for older
versions can be dropped, in particular on x86_64 and arm64. Importantly,
the updated compiler version allows removing two of the five remaining
gcc plugins, as support for sancov and structeak features is already
included in modern compiler versions.
I tried collecting the known changes that are possible based on the
new toolchain version, but expect that more cleanups will be possible.
Since this touches multiple architectures, I merged the patches through
the asm-generic tree.
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Merge tag 'gcc-minimum-version-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic
Pull compiler version requirement update from Arnd Bergmann:
"Require gcc-8 and binutils-2.30
x86 already uses gcc-8 as the minimum version, this changes all other
architectures to the same version. gcc-8 is used is Debian 10 and Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 8, both of which are still supported, and
binutils 2.30 is the oldest corresponding version on those.
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 both use gcc-7 as
the system compiler but additionally include toolchains that remain
supported.
With the new minimum toolchain versions, a number of workarounds for
older versions can be dropped, in particular on x86_64 and arm64.
Importantly, the updated compiler version allows removing two of the
five remaining gcc plugins, as support for sancov and structeak
features is already included in modern compiler versions.
I tried collecting the known changes that are possible based on the
new toolchain version, but expect that more cleanups will be possible.
Since this touches multiple architectures, I merged the patches
through the asm-generic tree."
* tag 'gcc-minimum-version-6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
Makefile.kcov: apply needed compiler option unconditionally in CFLAGS_KCOV
Documentation: update binutils-2.30 version reference
gcc-plugins: remove SANCOV gcc plugin
Kbuild: remove structleak gcc plugin
arm64: drop binutils version checks
raid6: skip avx512 checks
kbuild: require gcc-8 and binutils-2.30
Right now test_kmod has hardcoded dependencies on btrfs/xfs. That is not
optimal since you end up needing to select/build them, but it is not
really required since other fs could be selected for the testing. Also,
we can't change the default/driver module used for testing on
initialization.
Thus make it more generic: introduce two module parameters (start_driver
and start_test_fs), which allow to select which modules/fs to use for the
testing on test_kmod initialization. Then it's up to the user to select
which modules/fs to use for testing based on his config. However, keep
test_module as required default.
This way, config/modules becomes selectable as when the testing is done
from selftests (userspace).
While at it, also change trigger_config_run_type, since at module
initialization we already set the defaults at __kmod_config_init and
should not need to do it again in test_kmod_init(), thus we can avoid to
again set test_driver/test_fs.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250418165047.702487-1-herton@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Herton R. Krzesinski <herton@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Luis Chambelrain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Remove the dependency on module loading ("m") for the vmalloc test suite,
enabling it to be built directly into the kernel, so both ("=m") and
("=y") are supported.
Motivation:
- Faster debugging/testing of vmalloc code;
- It allows to configure the test via kernel-boot parameters.
Configuration example:
test_vmalloc.nr_threads=64
test_vmalloc.run_test_mask=7
test_vmalloc.sequential_test_order=1
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250417161216.88318-2-urezki@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Adrian Huang <ahuang12@lenovo.com>
Tested-by: Adrian Huang <ahuang12@lenovo.com>
Cc: Christop Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
With the minimum gcc version raised to 8.1, all supported compilers
now understand the -fsanitize-coverage=trace-pc option, and there
is no longer a need for the separate compiler plugin.
Since only gcc-5 was able to use the plugin for several year now,
it was already likely unused.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
gcc-12 and higher support the -ftrivial-auto-var-init= flag, after
gcc-8 is the minimum version, this is half of the supported ones, and
the vast majority of the versions that users are actually likely to
have, so it seems like a good time to stop having the fallback
plugin implementation
Older toolchains are still able to build kernels normally without
this plugin, but won't be able to use variable initialization..
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Enabling a (modular) test should not silently enable additional kernel
functionality, as that may increase the attack vector of a product.
Fix this by making PRIME_NUMBERS_KUNIT_TEST depend on PRIME_NUMBERS
instead of selecting it.
After this, one can safely enable CONFIG_KUNIT_ALL_TESTS=m to build
modules for all appropriate tests for ones system, without pulling in
extra unwanted functionality, while still allowing a tester to manually
enable PRIME_NUMBERS and this test suite on a system where PRIME_NUMBERS
is not enabled by default. Resurrect CONFIG_PRIME_NUMBERS=m in
tools/testing/selftests/lib/config for the latter use case.
Fixes: 313b38a6ec ("lib/prime_numbers: convert self-test to KUnit")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/40f8a40eef4930d3ac9febd205bc171eb04e171c.1744641237.git.geert@linux-m68k.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Linus Torvalds