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Linus Torvalds 664f0f6be3 sched_ext: Fixes for v7.1-rc1
The merge window pulled in the cgroup sub-scheduler infrastructure, and
 new AI reviews are accelerating bug reporting and fixing - hence the
 larger than usual fixes batch.
 
 - Use-after-frees during scheduler load/unload. The disable path
   could free the BPF scheduler while deferred irq_work / kthread work
   was still in flight; cgroup setter callbacks read the active
   scheduler outside the rwsem that synchronizes against teardown.
   Fixed both, and reused the disable drain in the enable error paths
   so the BPF JIT page can't be freed under live callbacks.
 
 - Several BPF op invocations didn't tell the framework which runqueue
   was already locked, so helper kfuncs that re-acquire the runqueue
   by CPU could deadlock on the held lock. Fixed at the affected
   callsites, including recursive parent-into-child dispatch.
 
 - The hardlockup notifier ran from NMI but eventually took a
   non-NMI-safe lock. Bounced through irq_work.
 
 - A handful of bugs in the new sub-scheduler hierarchy: helper
   kfuncs hard-coded the root instead of resolving the caller's
   scheduler; the enable error path tried to disable per-task state
   that had never been initialized, and leaked cpus_read_lock on the
   way out; a sysfs object was leaked on every load/unload; the
   dispatch fast-path used the root scheduler instead of the task's;
   and a couple of CONFIG #ifdef guards were misclassified.
 
 - Verifier-time hardening: BPF programs of unrelated struct_ops
   types (e.g. tcp_congestion_ops) could call sched_ext kfuncs - a
   semantic bug and, once sub-sched was enabled, a KASAN
   out-of-bounds read. Now rejected at load. Plus a few NULL and
   cross-task argument checks on sched_ext kfuncs, and a selftest
   covering the new deny.
 
 - rhashtable (Herbert): restored the insecure_elasticity toggle and
   bounced the deferred-resize kick through irq_work to break a
   lock-order cycle observable from raw-spinlock callers. sched_ext's
   scheduler-instance hash is the first user of both.
 
 - The bypass-mode load balancer used file-scope cpumasks; with
   multiple scheduler instances now possible, those raced. Moved
   per-instance, plus a follow-up to skip tasks whose recorded CPU is
   stale relative to the new owning runqueue.
 
 - Smaller fixes: a dispatch queue's first-task tracking misbehaved
   when a parked iterator cursor sat in the list; the runqueue's
   next-class wasn't promoted on local-queue enqueue, leaving an SCX
   task behind RT in edge cases; the reference qmap scheduler stopped
   erroring on legitimate cross-scheduler task-storage misses.
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Merge tag 'sched_ext-for-7.1-rc1-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext

Pull sched_ext fixes from Tejun Heo:
 "The merge window pulled in the cgroup sub-scheduler infrastructure,
  and new AI reviews are accelerating bug reporting and fixing - hence
  the larger than usual fixes batch:

   - Use-after-frees during scheduler load/unload:
       - The disable path could free the BPF scheduler while deferred
         irq_work / kthread work was still in flight
       - cgroup setter callbacks read the active scheduler outside the
         rwsem that synchronizes against teardown
     Fix both, and reuse the disable drain in the enable error paths so
     the BPF JIT page can't be freed under live callbacks.

   - Several BPF op invocations didn't tell the framework which runqueue
     was already locked, so helper kfuncs that re-acquire the runqueue
     by CPU could deadlock on the held lock

     Fix the affected callsites, including recursive parent-into-child
     dispatch.

   - The hardlockup notifier ran from NMI but eventually took a
     non-NMI-safe lock. Bounce it through irq_work.

   - A handful of bugs in the new sub-scheduler hierarchy:
       - helper kfuncs hard-coded the root instead of resolving the
         caller's scheduler
       - the enable error path tried to disable per-task state that had
         never been initialized, and leaked cpus_read_lock on the way
         out
       - a sysfs object was leaked on every load/unload
       - the dispatch fast-path used the root scheduler instead of the
         task's
       - a couple of CONFIG #ifdef guards were misclassified

   - Verifier-time hardening: BPF programs of unrelated struct_ops types
     (e.g. tcp_congestion_ops) could call sched_ext kfuncs - a semantic
     bug and, once sub-sched was enabled, a KASAN out-of-bounds read.
     Now rejected at load. Plus a few NULL and cross-task argument
     checks on sched_ext kfuncs, and a selftest covering the new deny.

   - rhashtable (Herbert): restore the insecure_elasticity toggle and
     bounce the deferred-resize kick through irq_work to break a
     lock-order cycle observable from raw-spinlock callers. sched_ext's
     scheduler-instance hash is the first user of both.

   - The bypass-mode load balancer used file-scope cpumasks; with
     multiple scheduler instances now possible, those raced. Move to
     per-instance cpumasks, plus a follow-up to skip tasks whose
     recorded CPU is stale relative to the new owning runqueue.

   - Smaller fixes:
       - a dispatch queue's first-task tracking misbehaved when a parked
         iterator cursor sat in the list
       - the runqueue's next-class wasn't promoted on local-queue
         enqueue, leaving an SCX task behind RT in edge cases
       - the reference qmap scheduler stopped erroring on legitimate
         cross-scheduler task-storage misses"

* tag 'sched_ext-for-7.1-rc1-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext: (26 commits)
  sched_ext: Fix scx_flush_disable_work() UAF race
  sched_ext: Call wakeup_preempt() in local_dsq_post_enq()
  sched_ext: Release cpus_read_lock on scx_link_sched() failure in root enable
  sched_ext: Reject NULL-sch callers in scx_bpf_task_set_slice/dsq_vtime
  sched_ext: Refuse cross-task select_cpu_from_kfunc calls
  sched_ext: Align cgroup #ifdef guards with SUB_SCHED vs GROUP_SCHED
  sched_ext: Make bypass LB cpumasks per-scheduler
  sched_ext: Pass held rq to SCX_CALL_OP() for core_sched_before
  sched_ext: Pass held rq to SCX_CALL_OP() for dump_cpu/dump_task
  sched_ext: Save and restore scx_locked_rq across SCX_CALL_OP
  sched_ext: Use dsq->first_task instead of list_empty() in dispatch_enqueue() FIFO-tail
  sched_ext: Resolve caller's scheduler in scx_bpf_destroy_dsq() / scx_bpf_dsq_nr_queued()
  sched_ext: Read scx_root under scx_cgroup_ops_rwsem in cgroup setters
  sched_ext: Don't disable tasks in scx_sub_enable_workfn() abort path
  sched_ext: Skip tasks with stale task_rq in bypass_lb_cpu()
  sched_ext: Guard scx_dsq_move() against NULL kit->dsq after failed iter_new
  sched_ext: Unregister sub_kset on scheduler disable
  sched_ext: Defer scx_hardlockup() out of NMI
  sched_ext: sync disable_irq_work in bpf_scx_unreg()
  sched_ext: Fix local_dsq_post_enq() to use task's scheduler in sub-sched
  ...
2026-04-28 16:26:11 -07:00
Documentation cgroup: Fixes for v7.1-rc1 2026-04-27 16:51:27 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add modern form of the LGPL-2.1 tags to the usage guide section 2025-10-22 07:58:19 +02:00
arch ARM development for 7.1-rc1 2026-04-25 07:44:26 -07:00
block block: only restrict bio allocation gfp mask asked to block 2026-04-21 11:42:12 -06:00
certs Clang build fixes for 7.1 2026-04-24 09:29:51 -07:00
crypto This push contains the following changes: 2026-04-21 08:06:43 -07:00
drivers xen: XSA-485 and XSA-487 security patches for v7.1 2026-04-27 18:36:47 -07:00
fs \n 2026-04-27 16:45:39 -07:00
include sched_ext: Fixes for v7.1-rc1 2026-04-28 16:26:11 -07:00
init memblock: updates for 7.0-rc1 2026-04-18 11:29:14 -07:00
io_uring io_uring: take page references for NOMMU pbuf_ring mmaps 2026-04-21 20:14:39 -06:00
ipc Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument 2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
kernel sched_ext: Fixes for v7.1-rc1 2026-04-28 16:26:11 -07:00
lib sched_ext: Fixes for v7.1-rc1 2026-04-28 16:26:11 -07:00
mm slab fix for 7.1 2026-04-24 09:39:03 -07:00
net NFS client updates for Linux 7.1 2026-04-24 14:20:03 -07:00
rust Char/Misc/IIO/and others driver updates for 7.1-rc1 2026-04-24 13:23:50 -07:00
samples soc: drivers for 7.1 2026-04-16 20:34:34 -07:00
scripts First round of Kbuild fixes for 7.1 2026-04-25 17:04:15 -07:00
security + Cleanups 2026-04-24 09:22:21 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 7.1-rc1 2026-04-24 11:49:20 -07:00
tools sched_ext: Fixes for v7.1-rc1 2026-04-28 16:26:11 -07:00
usr kbuild: uapi: also test UAPI headers against C++ compilers 2026-03-25 13:24:42 +01:00
virt Arm: 2026-04-17 07:18:03 -07:00
.clang-format Devicetree updates for v7.0: 2026-02-11 18:27:08 -08:00
.clippy.toml rust: bump Clippy's MSRV and clean `incompatible_msrv` allows 2026-04-07 09:51:39 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig editorconfig: add rst extension 2026-01-26 19:07:09 -08:00
.get_maintainer.ignore .get_maintainer.ignore: add myself 2026-04-02 16:48:25 +02:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: rust: provide an option to inline C helpers into Rust 2026-03-30 02:03:52 +02:00
.mailmap Char/Misc/IIO/and others driver updates for 7.1-rc1 2026-04-24 13:23:50 -07:00
.pylintrc docs: Move the python libraries to tools/lib/python 2025-11-18 09:22:40 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add `.rustfmt.toml` 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS Delete some obsolete networking code 2026-04-24 09:41:58 -07:00
Kbuild checksyscalls: move instance functionality into generic code 2026-04-05 09:21:32 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS Char/Misc/IIO/and others driver updates for 7.1-rc1 2026-04-24 13:23:50 -07:00
Makefile Linux 7.1-rc1 2026-04-26 14:19:00 -07:00
README docs: add AI Coding Assistants documentation 2026-01-06 14:55:06 -07:00

README

Linux kernel
============

The Linux kernel is the core of any Linux operating system. It manages hardware,
system resources, and provides the fundamental services for all other software.

Quick Start
-----------

* Report a bug: See Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst
* Get the latest kernel: https://kernel.org
* Build the kernel: See Documentation/admin-guide/quickly-build-trimmed-linux.rst
* Join the community: https://lore.kernel.org/

Essential Documentation
-----------------------

All users should be familiar with:

* Building requirements: Documentation/process/changes.rst
* Code of Conduct: Documentation/process/code-of-conduct.rst
* License: See COPYING

Documentation can be built with make htmldocs or viewed online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/


Who Are You?
============

Find your role below:

* New Kernel Developer - Getting started with kernel development
* Academic Researcher - Studying kernel internals and architecture
* Security Expert - Hardening and vulnerability analysis
* Backport/Maintenance Engineer - Maintaining stable kernels
* System Administrator - Configuring and troubleshooting
* Maintainer - Leading subsystems and reviewing patches
* Hardware Vendor - Writing drivers for new hardware
* Distribution Maintainer - Packaging kernels for distros
* AI Coding Assistant - LLMs and AI-powered development tools


For Specific Users
==================

New Kernel Developer
--------------------

Welcome! Start your kernel development journey here:

* Getting Started: Documentation/process/development-process.rst
* Your First Patch: Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
* Coding Style: Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
* Build System: Documentation/kbuild/index.rst
* Development Tools: Documentation/dev-tools/index.rst
* Kernel Hacking Guide: Documentation/kernel-hacking/hacking.rst
* Core APIs: Documentation/core-api/index.rst

Academic Researcher
-------------------

Explore the kernel's architecture and internals:

* Researcher Guidelines: Documentation/process/researcher-guidelines.rst
* Memory Management: Documentation/mm/index.rst
* Scheduler: Documentation/scheduler/index.rst
* Networking Stack: Documentation/networking/index.rst
* Filesystems: Documentation/filesystems/index.rst
* RCU (Read-Copy Update): Documentation/RCU/index.rst
* Locking Primitives: Documentation/locking/index.rst
* Power Management: Documentation/power/index.rst

Security Expert
---------------

Security documentation and hardening guides:

* Security Documentation: Documentation/security/index.rst
* LSM Development: Documentation/security/lsm-development.rst
* Self Protection: Documentation/security/self-protection.rst
* Reporting Vulnerabilities: Documentation/process/security-bugs.rst
* CVE Procedures: Documentation/process/cve.rst
* Embargoed Hardware Issues: Documentation/process/embargoed-hardware-issues.rst
* Security Features: Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst

Backport/Maintenance Engineer
-----------------------------

Maintain and stabilize kernel versions:

* Stable Kernel Rules: Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst
* Backporting Guide: Documentation/process/backporting.rst
* Applying Patches: Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst
* Subsystem Profile: Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst
* Git for Maintainers: Documentation/maintainer/configure-git.rst

System Administrator
--------------------

Configure, tune, and troubleshoot Linux systems:

* Admin Guide: Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst
* Kernel Parameters: Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
* Sysctl Tuning: Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/index.rst
* Tracing/Debugging: Documentation/trace/index.rst
* Performance Security: Documentation/admin-guide/perf-security.rst
* Hardware Monitoring: Documentation/hwmon/index.rst

Maintainer
----------

Lead kernel subsystems and manage contributions:

* Maintainer Handbook: Documentation/maintainer/index.rst
* Pull Requests: Documentation/maintainer/pull-requests.rst
* Managing Patches: Documentation/maintainer/modifying-patches.rst
* Rebasing and Merging: Documentation/maintainer/rebasing-and-merging.rst
* Development Process: Documentation/process/maintainer-handbooks.rst
* Maintainer Entry Profile: Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst
* Git Configuration: Documentation/maintainer/configure-git.rst

Hardware Vendor
---------------

Write drivers and support new hardware:

* Driver API Guide: Documentation/driver-api/index.rst
* Driver Model: Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/driver.rst
* Device Drivers: Documentation/driver-api/infrastructure.rst
* Bus Types: Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/bus.rst
* Device Tree Bindings: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/
* Power Management: Documentation/driver-api/pm/index.rst
* DMA API: Documentation/core-api/dma-api.rst

Distribution Maintainer
-----------------------

Package and distribute the kernel:

* Stable Kernel Rules: Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst
* ABI Documentation: Documentation/ABI/README
* Kernel Configuration: Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.rst
* Module Signing: Documentation/admin-guide/module-signing.rst
* Kernel Parameters: Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
* Tainted Kernels: Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst

AI Coding Assistant
-------------------

CRITICAL: If you are an LLM or AI-powered coding assistant, you MUST read and
follow the AI coding assistants documentation before contributing to the Linux
kernel:

* Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst

This documentation contains essential requirements about licensing, attribution,
and the Developer Certificate of Origin that all AI tools must comply with.


Communication and Support
=========================

* Mailing Lists: https://lore.kernel.org/
* IRC: #kernelnewbies on irc.oftc.net
* Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/
* MAINTAINERS file: Lists subsystem maintainers and mailing lists
* Email Clients: Documentation/process/email-clients.rst