linux-rng/arch/s390, branch master

random: vDSO: avoid call to memset() when zeroing reserved parameter

2026-10-02T10:12:13Z

After a recent change in LLVM [1], builds with the random vDSO implementation, such as PowerPC and RISC-V, fail when checking the vDSO: arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso/vdso32.so.dbg: dynamic relocations are not supported arch/riscv/kernel/vdso/vdso.so.dbg: dynamic relocations are not supported memset() is now generated when zeroing params->reserved for some builds because LLVM has an optimization (now run in more instances) that can recognize at compile time when it is assigning a static value to a contiguous area of memory and turn that into a call to memset(). Both clang and GCC assume memset() is always available [2]. Clang has an internal fiddly hook, -max-store-memset, which we can set to a high number, to disable generating out of line memset calls [3]. Similarly, GCC has -finline-stringops=memset to do the same [4], should this issue ever hit future version of GCC. While these options wouldn't make sense for normal kernel code, it is fine for the extremely limited and intentionally compact vDSO code. Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/90cebef1411617fc3eedd359bdf00cb44b1c2439 [1] Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-16.2.0/gcc/Standards.html#index-ffreestanding [2] Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/b28eeb28bea39148738dc375e8a97072a1907e64 [3] Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Optimize-Options.html#index-finline-stringops [4] Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/2183 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.12+ Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-08-26-15-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-08-27T16:17:06Z

Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "mm/rmap: index MAP_PRIVATE file-backed folios by anonymous pgoff" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Index MAP_PRIVATE file-backed folios by their anonymous page offset to resolve confusion around reverse mapping for zeroed and CoW'd file-backed memory. Use this new VMA anonymous page offset tracking to eliminate index conflicts and lay the foundation for scalable CoW performance improvements. - "promote mapped executable folios after first usage for MGLRU" (Baolin Wang) Make MGLRU's protection of mapped executable file folios more reliable. Follow the classical LRU's logic, promoting mapped executable file folios after their first usage to give executable code a better chance to stay in memory and improve workload performance. - "mm: vmscan: fix node reclaim ignoring swappiness parameter" (Ridong Chen) Fix per-node proactive reclaim interface's ignoring the swappiness parameter when CONFIG_MEMCG is disabled by consolidating sc_swappiness() into a single function that checks proactive_swappiness regardless of kernel configuration. - "mm/vmscan: reduce lru_lock contention via vmstat-derived scan-balance cost" (Usama Arif) Reduce lru_lock contention in the reclaim path by deriving scan-balance costs from vmstat counters rather than lock-acquired producer updates. Read and decay these cost signals on the reclaim side under a dedicated per-lruvec lock, reducing total LRU lock wait time by over 60% without impacting scan throughput. - "zram: fix zram issues reported by sashiko" (Sergey Senozhatsky) Fix two low-risk zram bugs which Sashiko spotted in drive-by review. - "Honor XA_FLAGS_ACCOUNT in xas_split_alloc() and charge to folio's memcg" (Zi Yan) Fix xas_split_alloc() by enabling target folio memcg charging during splits and adding the missing __GFP_ACCOUNT flag for proper XArray node memory accounting. - "selftests/mm: use pattern matching in .gitignore" (Pratyush Mallick) Replace hardcoded binary names in selftests/mm/.gitignore with a generic pattern-matching rule to automatically ignore generated test files and avoid manual updates when adding new tests. - "mm/page_ext: remove pgdat_page_ext_init()" (Sang-Heon Jeon) Make the incompatibility between FLATMEM and NUMA explicit in mm/Kconfig and remove the unused pgdat_page_ext_init() function. - "zram: fix zstd error paths and add parameter validation" (Haoqin Huang) Clean up zram compression backends by removing redundant error cleanup, adding parameter and dictionary validation, auto-prefixing algorithm error logs, and resetting parameters prior to reinitialization. - "zram: fix stale scan bounds after reinitialization" (Longlong Xia) Prevent out-of-bounds slot accesses during concurrent zram resets by moving table scan bound calculations under dev_lock in writeback_store() and read_block_state(). - "add anon mTHP collapse test cases" (Baolin Wang) Extend selftests helper functions to support arbitrary page orders and add new test cases and options for mTHP collapse in khugepaged. - "selftests/mm: Handle unsupported and transient test conditions" (Muhammad Usama Anjum) Update MM selftests to report a SKIP status instead of a failure when required kernel or filesystem features are unsupported, while adding retry logic for transient page migration errors. - "mm/zswap: Fixes and improves the zswap shrink" (Hao Jia) Fix the missing zswap global shrinker when CONFIG_MEMCG is disabled and extend shrink_memcg() to support batch writeback for improved writeback efficiency. - "alloc_tag: introduce IOCTL-based filtering for MAP" (Suren Baghdasaryan) Introduce an IOCTL-based binary interface for memory allocation profiling that enables kernel-side filtering before per-CPU counter aggregation. This eliminates the text-parsing overhead of /proc/allocinfo and provides up to a 20x speedup by transferring only filtered allocation data to userspace. - "better block swap batching and a different take on swap_ops v5" (Christoph Hellwig) Refactor block swap I/O to use swap_iocb for batching instead of single-bio requests and rebase the swap_ops interface, achieving faster swap throughput during kernel builds. - "mm: kmemleak: reduce transient false positives by confirming leaks" (Catalin Marinas) Reduce false-positive kmemleak reports by combining two kmemleak enhancements that add a second confirmation scan and a configurable minimum unreferenced scan count module parameter. - "mm: kmemleak: default min_unref_scans to 2 for verbose kernels" (Breno Leitao) Auto-scanning kernels can generate false-positive memory leak reports on single scans, so this patch defaults min_unref_scans to 2 when CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_VERBOSE is enabled to require a second confirming scan. - "swap_ops updates" (Christoph Hellwig) Batching I/O for synchronous swap devices causes performance regressions and filesystem-based swap suffers from double-indirection overhead. This series resolves both issues by reintroducing per-folio writes for synchronous swap and allowing filesystems to directly export their own swap_ops. - "mm/khugepaged: several cleanups" (Nico Pache) khugepaged accumulated redundant state-checking patterns and outdated comments following mTHP integration. Introduce dedicated helpers for PTE validation and event counting while refreshing the internal documentation. - "maple_tree: lock checking and clean ups" (Liam Howlett) Syzbot reports incorrectly blame memory management exit paths for locking bugs, maple tree erase operations risk allocation failures without gfp flags and internal documentation lacks clarity. Improve lock error detection, update docs, fix race and allocation edge cases and optimize erase allocations using a fallback to GFP_KERNEL | GFP_NOFAIL. * tag 'mm-stable-2026-08-26-15-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (172 commits) selftests/proc: make proc-maps-race work with READ_IMPLIES_EXEC memcg: move LRU size accounting on reparenting instead of copying it mm/vmscan: fix comment logic in balance_pgdat maple_tree: add helper mas_make_walkable() maple_tree: avoid extra gap calculation maple_tree: fix argument name in header maple_tree: change two GFP flags in tests maple_tree: document erase and allocations better maple_tree: avoid mas_erase() and mtree_erase() failures maple_tree: document that erase may use GFP_KERNEL for allocations maple_tree: catch race in mas_alloc_cyclic() maple_tree: add bulk parent set helper maple_tree: micro optimisation of mas_wr_store_type() maple_tree: optimise mas_wr_node_store() when not in rcu mode maple_tree: use prefetched value in mas_wr_store_type() maple_tree: clarify comments on mas_nomem() maple_tree: drop MAPLE_ALLOC_SLOTS maple_tree: drop dead code from mas_extend_spanning_null() maple_tree: documentation fix maple_tree: add write lock checking with lockdep sequence numbers ...

Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

2026-08-25T18:48:04Z

Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini: "ARM64: - Add support for 'slot' based PMU events, paired with new UAPI that compels the user to select a specific PMU implementation - Lazy save/restore of vCPU state for pKVM, along with various fixes and cleanups to the management of vCPU state between the untrusted host and pKVM hypervisor - Disable traps of EL1 registers for nested hypervisors when FEAT_NV2p1 is present, guaranteeing that EL2-specific register bits are stateful in the EL1 counterpart - Leverage FEAT_NV3 to avoid unnecessary ERET/TLBI traps when the scope of those instructions remains 'in host' (i.e. L1 kernel/userspace) - Pile of fixes for the management of the VNCR pseudo-TLB, such as under-invalidations and races with concurrent TLBIs on other vCPUs - Consolidate the non-protected and pKVM view of ICH_VTR_EL2 to a runtime-patched constant, allowing the same data to be shared with pKVM prior to dropping host privileges - Considerable pile of LLM-assisted fixes around the shop but mostly in the VGIC, our in-kernel generator of bugs (and sometimes interrupts) LoongArch: - Advertise already-supported capabilities - Some bug fixes about timer and MMIO - Some hardening about interrupt injection - Replace kvm_err() with kvm_pr_unimpl() - Add FPU/LSX/LASX test cases for selftests RISC-V: - Svadu/Zicfiss/Zicfilp FWFT support for Guest - Use try_cmpxchg for IMSIC MRIF RMW - More arch-specific tracepoints in KVM RISC-V - Eager page splitting when enabling dirty logging - Optimize hfence request handling for SMP Guests - Improve dirty log clearing by skipping zero bits in mask - Guard HFENCE range loops against overflow - CPU PM notifiers in KVM RISC-V for non-retentive idle states - Fix kernel-mode vector context save/restore for Guest s390: - Fixes for vfio-ap - Fixes for the gmap rework - Fixes for vsie - AI triggered fixes all over - diag9c tracing - code move preparation for the additional arm64 support - enable CONTEXT_ANALYSIS x86: - Perform spring cleaning on x86.{c,h} and asm/kvm_host.h, by adding regs.c (the kvm_cache_regs.h => regs.h is already applied) and msrs.{c,h}, and moving relevant code out of x86.c - Split kvm_mmu in three parts, respectively to describe the format of page tables, walking the guest page tables and building the page tables. Always use the same page table walker kvm->arch.gva_walk as the entry point to convert a guest's virtual address, where the previous code used two different kvm_mmu structs depending on whether the walk included nested EPT/NPT or not. Make page fault vmexits reuse the permission checking machinery that is used for guest page faults. This is both a cleanup and a baby step towards supporting XS/XU memory permissions - Document some of the "fun" gotchas with the APIC base when creating IRQCHIPs on x86 - Remove a defunct masterclock update from kvm_xen_shared_info_init(). It could result in incorrect kvmclock due to triggering an unnecessary switch to/from masterclock mode - Skip Xen runstate time updates if time has effectively gone backwards, so that the guest doesn't report 100% steal time for a very, very long time - Drop KVM's runtime updates of the Xen PV timing CPUID leaf, as KVM was updating the wrong sub-leaf, and upstream KVM will soon provide all the information needed by userspace to populate the CPUID field itself - Fix a bug where KVM would walk a newly created rmap without holding the rmap lock (or mmu_lock) during aging - Fix a bug where aging TDP MMU SPTEs could clobber FROZEN SPTEs - Fix a variety of #DB priority bugs - Fix a class of races related to enabling Hyper-V emulation on a vCPU after the vCPU is visible to the rest of KVM - Use static calls for nested virtualization ops - Move more KVM-internal code out of x86's kvm_host.h - Enumerate support for a variety of Zhaoxin instructions that don't require explicit virtualization - Fix missing EFER validation bugs, including in the KVM_SET_SREGS* path - Harden kvm_vcpu_map() against double-mapping and thus leaking references - Misc fixes and cleanups, e.g. for largely benign syzkaller splats x86 (Intel): - Zero a vCPU's entry in VMX's Posted Interrupt Descriptor table used for IPI virtualization when the vCPU is freed, to fix a use-after-free where hardware will write to a freed vCPU's PID - Service local TLB flushes on a failed nested VM-Enter to fix a bug where KVM could miss a TLB on a future, successful VM-Enter with the same L2 VPID - Cap the maximum value shoved into the VMX Preemption Timer to workaround an erratum that affects all existing Intel CPUs that support CPUID 0x15 - Fix VPID virtualization bugs where KVM would fail to flush hardware TLBs - Harden the TDX "populate" ioctls against bad input, and to prepare for supporting in-place private<=>shared conversion x86 (AMD): - Forcefully invalidate SNP VMSA pages if their backing guest_memfd page is zapped/invalidated, e.g. due to a PUNCH_HOLE in response to a Page-State Change request - Remove a dying VM from the GA Log notifier list before the VM is actually destroyed, to fix a potential use-after-free - While FOLL_WRITE was needed in the past to trigger CoW unsharing, nowadays FOLL_LONGTERM does that already even without FOLL_WRITE, and in fact, get_user_pages() actually disallows FOLL_WRITE together with FOLL_LONGTERM. So don't pass FOLL_WRITE when registering encrypted memory regions, i.e. when pinning SEV/SEV-ES guest memory, to fix a regression with file-backed memory introduced by KVM's (correct) usage of long-term pins (This was reviewed by mm maintainers; for more information, see commit ee1a586dd1fa "KVM: SEV: Drop FOLL_WRITE for encrypted region registration") - Allocate full pages for SEV/SEV-ES {DE,EN}CRYPT ops on SNP-enabled hosts to fix a data corruption issue due to the PSP driver assigning to-be-written pages to firmware (as required by the SNP specs) - Unconditionally intercept ICBEP so that KVM generates the correct guest RIP when handling an ICEBP-induced TASK_SWITCH #VMEXIT - Harden the SNP "populate" ioctls against bad input, and to prepare for supporting in-place private<=>shared conversion Generic: - Remove kvm_debugfs_dir if kvm_init() fails after creating KVM's debugfs - Add a per-VM bitmap to track which vCPU IDs have been "claimed" but for which the vCPU isn't yet online, and use the bitmap to reject duplicate IDs before calling into arch code. This allows arch code to consume vcpu_id without having to worry about cross-vCPU clobbering (at least s390 and x86 have had related bugs) - Rework the so called "prepare" and "invalidate" guest_memfd hooks to prepare for in-place private<=>shared conversion, and clean up a few warts along the way Selftests: - Automatically allocate a full page for L2 guest stacks on x86 instead of requiring test-specific L1 guest code to carve out a portion of the L1 stack for L2 usage, and to ensure the L2 stack also adheres to the x86-64 calling convention ABI - Add a selftest to verify {Guest,Host}-Only behavior in x86's mediated PMU - Clean up nested SVM's handling of GPRs on L2<=>L1 transitions, reuse the functionality for nested VMX, and drop the ucall hack that was fudging around the lack of GPR switching on nVMX - Add a stress test to verify KVM doesn't clobber/drop #PF state, e.g. CR2, across save/restore, including when L2 is active - Add a test to verify KVM_CREATE_VM accepts exactly what is reported by KVM_CAP_VM_TYPES - Misc selftests fixes and cleanups - Fix several issues with seeding the pRNG, and rework the pRNG APIs to that the pRNG can be sanely used in host code, not just guest code - Add an IRQ test to validate virtual IRQ deliverty for IRQs wired up via KVM_IRQFD + KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING, with optional support for triggering IRQs via writes to an assigned VFIO device - Add syscall wrappers to assert success on a variety of pthreads and CPU affinity APIs - Set vCPU pthread affinity as early as possible to reduce contention issues that were surfaced by PREEMPT_LAZY, which result in runtimes of over a minute on large hosts, versus the expected ~5 seconds - Rework the PMU counters test to run each testcase using a single VM with many vCPUs for each sub-testcase, instead of using a unique VM for each sub-testcase. This cuts the runtime by ~20x Miscellaneous: - MAINTAINERS updates for vfio-ap, guest_memfd, kvm-x86. Mostly representing the status quo more accurately, but also... welcome David Hildenbrand as guest_memfd reviewer!" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (413 commits) KVM: arm64: Validate GICv5 timer PPIs before claiming ownership KVM: arm64: vgic: Reject out-of-range GICv5 PPI IDs KVM: arm64: vgic: Prevent speculative SPI array underflow KVM: arm64: vgic: Free gic_kvm_info on initialization failure KVM: arm64: Avoid mismatched accesses to 'struct kvm_nvhe_init_params' s390/vfio-ap: Fix NULL deref in status_show() during queue probe s390/vfio-ap: Fix hot-unplug skipped when last AP adapter or domain removed s390/vfio-ap: fix potential use of uninitialized apm_filtered bitmap s390/vfio-ap: Fix control domain removal in vfio_ap_mdev_cfg_remove s390/vfio-ap: Fix required lock not held during update of ap_matrix_mdev object s390/vfio-ap: Fix missing lock required to access list of ap_matrix_mdev objects s390/vfio-ap: Fix dereference matrix_mdev->kvm without checking for NULL s390/vfio-ap: Fix stale do_remove flag across iterations in vfio_ap_mdev_cfg_remove RISC-V: KVM: fix vcpu vector context handling for kernel-mode vector riscv: vector: allow non-preemptible kernel-mode vector with IRQs off riscv: vector: refactor riscv_v_start_kernel_context KVM: s390: gmap: Make prefix handling optional KVM: s390: gmap: Make CMMA optional KVM: s390: gmap: Make storage keys optional KVM: s390: Prepare gmap for a second KVM implementation ...

mm: provide vma_[flags_]is_cow_mapping() and remove is_cow_mapping()

2026-08-25T01:42:50Z

All remaining callers of is_cow_mapping() are invoking it in the form of is_cow_mapping(vma->vm_flags) or an indirected version of this. Therefore, provide a helper - vma_is_cow_mapping() to directly test the VMA. Additionally provide a new helper vma_flags_is_cow_mapping() which performs the check using the new vma_flags_t type, and share this logic between vma_is_cow_mapping() and vma_desc_is_cow_mapping(). With these changes, no callers of is_cow_mapping() remain, so remove it. Also update the userland VMA tests to reflect the change. No functional change intended. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix kerneldoc comment typo, per Lorenzo] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/aob1goSSPH6sTN9y@gremlin Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260813-b4-scalable-cow-virt-pgoff-v5-2-c21581c0c3c8@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Alexander Deucher Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Alexander Shishkin Cc: Alistair Popple Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: Baoquan He Cc: Barry Song Cc: Boris Brezillon Cc: Byungchul Park Cc: Chengming Zhou Cc: Chris Li Cc: Christan König Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Claudio Imbrenda Cc: Dave Airlie Cc: Dev Jain Cc: Gerald Schaefer Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Gregory Price (Meta) Cc: Harry Yoo Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Huang Ray Cc: "Huang, Ying" Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Clark Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Janosch Frank Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Hubbard Cc: Joshua Hahn Cc: Kairui Song Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Kemeng Shi Cc: Lance Yang Cc: Liam R. Howlett Cc: Liviu Dudau Cc: Maarten Lankhorst Cc: Marc Rutland Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" Cc: Matthew Auld Cc: Matthew Brost Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Maxime Ripard Cc: Miaohe Lin Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Namhyung kim Cc: Naoya Horiguchi Cc: Nhat Pham Cc: Nico Pache Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Pedro Falcato Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Rakie Kim Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Rodrigo Vivi Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Steven Price Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Sven Schnelle Cc: Thomas Hellström Cc: Thomas Zimemrmann Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: xu xin Cc: Zi Yan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tags 'dma-mapping-7.3-2026-08-24' and 'dma-mapping-7.3-2026-08-24-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszyprowski/linux

2026-08-24T18:35:46Z

Pull dma-mapping updates from Marek Szyprowski: - swiotlb: - new configuration option for the default pool size (Jagadeesh Pagadala) - reduce overhead for high watermark tracking (chenhuguanshen) - minor code cleanups and improvements (Vova Sharaienko, Honglei Huang and Marek Szyprowski) - add proper tracking of the shared DMA state through direct, pool and swiotlb paths (Aneesh Kumar K.V) This is important for confidential-computing * tag 'dma-mapping-7.3-2026-08-24' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszyprowski/linux: dma/swiotlb: decouple high watermark tracking from CONFIG_DEBUG_FS MAINTAINERS: update tree for DMA MAPPING HELPERS dma/swiotlb: introduce Kconfig option for compile-time default pool size dma-direct: Improve readability of the dma_direct_map_sg() for P2PDMA case iommu/dma: simplify dma_iova_destroy() and drop the free_iova helper dma-coherent: use KiB in DMA allocation logs dma-coherent: fix spacing coding style issue * tag 'dma-mapping-7.3-2026-08-24-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszyprowski/linux: (23 commits) swiotlb: remove unused SWIOTLB_FORCE flag dma: swiotlb: handle set_memory_decrypted() failures dma: swiotlb: free dynamic pools from process context dma-direct: rename ret to cpu_addr in alloc helpers dma-direct: select DMA address encoding from __DMA_ATTR_ALLOC_CC_SHARED dma-direct: set decrypted flag for remapped DMA allocations dma-direct: make dma_direct_map_phys() honor DMA_ATTR_CC_SHARED dma-direct: Move dma_direct_map_phys() to dma/direct.c dma-direct: pass attrs to dma_capable() for DMA_ATTR_CC_SHARED checks dma-mapping: make dma_pgprot() honor __DMA_ATTR_ALLOC_CC_SHARED dma: swiotlb: track pool encryption state and honor DMA_ATTR_CC_SHARED dma: swiotlb: pass mapping attributes by reference dma-pool: track decrypted atomic pools and select them via attrs dma-direct: use __DMA_ATTR_ALLOC_CC_SHARED in alloc/free paths dma-mapping: Add internal shared allocation attribute coco: arm64: s390: powerpc: Mark secure guests with CC_ATTR_GUEST_MEM_ENCRYPT dma-direct: swiotlb: handle swiotlb alloc/free outside __dma_direct_alloc_pages s390: Expose protected virtualization through cc_platform_has() swiotlb: Preserve allocation virtual address for dynamic pools dma: free atomic pool pages by physical address ...

Merge tag 's390-7.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux

2026-08-23T17:26:44Z

Pull s390 updates from Vasily Gorbik: - Add a cpuidle driver with polling and enabled wait states using the existing CPU idle infrastructure and idle governor to improve latency for frequent sleep/wakeup cycles. Remove the obsolete tick delay heuristic and generic arch_needs_cpu() hook. Add the corresponding driver entry to MAINTAINERS - Add kCFI support using the generic support provided by Clang - Enable Clang CONTEXT_ANALYSIS for various architecture code and for char, PCI, CIO and virtio drivers. Add required lock annotations, exclude unsupported mm helpers and remove conditional PCI locking - Fix secure storage access exception handling and reintroduce DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS previously removed as a workaround - Fix cpum_cf perf crashes when CPUs are brought online while per-task events are active. Allocate and remove per-CPU counter data from CPU hotplug callbacks - Fix a deadlock when an s390dbf debug area is unregistered while one of its debugfs files is being written to - Fix MVIY_PERCPU() with binutils older than 2.39, where an assembler macro silently omitted an instruction needed to repair interrupted operations after CPU migration - Remove/replace cond_resched() calls which are no-ops with the supported s390 preemption models - Fix AP queue depth and maximum message length decoding according to the architecture. Current hardware is not affected, but future hardware could report values which were handled incorrectly - Reflect the configured CPU state in cpu_enabled_mask so deconfigured CPUs are not presented as available for onlining - Restore the vDSO GNU_EH_FRAME program header which was lost when the build switched to direct linker invocation, and mark it read-only - Add SCLP action qualifiers used by Spyre for card initialization, recoverable error and telemetry reporting - Move KMSAN interrupt flag helpers out of line to fix -Wstatic-in-inline build warnings - Use level-specific page table entry accessors for hugetlb entries and ptep_get() when accessing crashed kernel memory in kdump - Make forced AP bus rescans killable so that a user process blocked behind an ongoing scan can still be terminated with SIGKILL - Rework pkey ioctl error paths to remove duplicated cleanup code and avoid freeing error pointers - Allow the protected guest SWIOTLB buffer to be allocated outside the first 2GB. Also enable dynamic SWIOTLB growth and the coherent atomic pool fallback to improve I/O behavior when the initial pool is exhausted - Add program check statistics and spinlock contention tracepoints. Increase the lockdep chain capacity to keep lockdep enabled for complex code paths such as btrfs - Simplify IPL, trap and syscall code and remove the obsolete unistd_32.h generation entry * tag 's390-7.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (59 commits) s390/percpu: Fix MVIY_PERCPU() with older binutils s390/debug: Fix deadlock during unregister s390/cpum_cf: Handle CPU hotplug via prepare/dead callbacks s390: Enable CONTEXT_ANALYSIS for various directories s390/mm: Add __context_unsafe() attribute to gmap helper functions s390/mm: Add __context_unsafe() attribute to do_secure_storage_access() s390/sysinfo: Add context analysis attributes s390/irqflags: Add out-of-line definitions of arch_local_irq_*() for KMSAN s390/virtio: Enable CONTEXT_ANALYSIS s390/cio: Enable CONTEXT_ANALYSIS s390/vfio_ccw: Add __must_hold() attribute to vfio_ccw_sch_quiesce() s390/pci: Enable CONTEXT_ANALYSIS s390/pci: Rework __zpci_event_availability() to remove conditional locking s390/pci: Rework __zpci_event_error() to remove conditional locking s390/char: Enable CONTEXT_ANALYSIS s390/con3215: Add __must_hold() attribute to raw3215_make_room() s390/ap: Fix MAPML computation s390/cio: Remove cond_resched() calls s390: Remove cond_resched() calls KVM: s390: Remove cond_resched() calls ...

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-08-18-18-39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-08-21T01:17:08Z

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "mm: drop "sub" prefix from various places" (Dev Jain) page->folio conversion and a naming cleanup - "mm/kasan: remove redundant initialization for kasan_flag_write_only" (Igor Putko) KASAN cleanup work - "mm/filemap: reduce unnecessary xarray lookups" (Chi Zhiling) Small speedup in the pagecaache read code - "mm/percpu: Fix possible NOFS/NOIO reclaim recursion" (Kaitao Cheng) Improve the vmalloc code - mainly the avoidance of GFP_KERNEL allocations when the caller asked for GFP_NOFS or GFP_NOIO - "mm/kmemleak: avoid soft lockup when scanning task stacks" (Breno Leitao) Avoid a soft lockup watchdog trigger from the kmemleak scanning code in extreme situations - "mm/page_owner: misc cleanups" (Ye Liu) Cleanups to the page_owner code. For some reason lots of people have been working on the page_owner code this cycle. - "mm: convert to walk_page_range_vma() to eliminate find_vma()" (Kefeng Wang) Simplify and accelerate the page walking library function - "mm/migrate: preparatory cleanups for batch copy and offload" (Shivank Garg) Cleanups in the migration code - "mm/page_owner: add per-fd filter infrastructure for print_mode and NUMA filtering" (Zhen Ni) Per-fd filtering to page_owner in order to reduce the sometimes vast amount of output it can produce - "mm: Refactor bootmem gigantic hugepage allocation" (Muchun Song) Fixes and preparatory cleanups around bootmem HugeTLB handling, sparse initialization ordering, and related vmemmap setup - "mm/zsmalloc: reduce lock contention in zs_free()" (Wenchao Hao) Reduce lock contention in zs_free(), which dominates the unmap path under memory pressure on Android (LMK kills) and on x86 servers running zswap-heavy workloads. Up to 1.83x improvement in microbenchmarking. - "move alloc_tag.c file under mm/" (Suren Baghdasaryan) - "samples/damon: handle damon_{start,stop}() failures" (SJ Park) Fix improper handling of damon_start(), damon_stop(), and damon_call() failures across DAMON sample modules to prevent potential memory leaks, operation disruptions and use-after-free bugs - "mm/damon/sysfs: kobject_del() directories that users can create/remove" (SJ Park) Fix delayed sysfs directory removal under DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE causeing creation failures due to duplicate directory names by adding missing kobject_del() calls before creating new directories - "mm: cleanup clear_not_present_full_ptes()" (David Hildenbrand) Clean up the core pte handling code - "selftests/damon: misc fixes for test bugs" (Kunwu Chan) Fix several bugs in the DAMON selftests - "selftests/damon: fix memcg_path staging handling" (Cheng Nie) Fix a bug in _damon_sysfs.py for damos_filter memcg_path setup, and add a test case for it in sysfs.py. - "selftests/damon: test kdamond refresh_ms" (Ruslan Valiyev) Selftest coverage for DAMON's refresh_ms sysfs feature by updating the test control module and verifying that scheme stats update automatically without manual intervention - "mm/damon: five misc fixups" (Akinobu Mita) Miscellaneous DAMON fixups. - "mm/damon/core: detect internal variation above max_nr_regions/2" (Jiayuan Chen) Fix DAMON's region splitting behavior when region counts exceed half the maximum budget by dynamically scaling down the split fraction as the limit approaches, preventing large regions from staying un-split, and add corresponding KUnit test coverage - "mm: preparatory patches for PMD level swap entries" (Usama Arif) Refactor and clean up PMD softleaf helpers, call sites, and architecture flags to lay the groundwork for a follow-up series that introduces PMD page table swap entries - "mm/damon: update, optimize, and clean up doc, tests, and code" (SJ Park) Update DAMON design and ABI documentation, expands unit and selftest coverage, optimize damon_commit_target_regions(), and clean up recently added sysfs interface code for better readability - "mm/vmpressure: reduce CPU, memory and code overhead on cgroup v2" (Usama Arif) Optimize vmpressure() by skipping unnecessary work on cgroup v2 for userspace event notifications and refactor v1-only eventfd handling into mm/memcontrol-v1.c to reduce memory overhead and code complexity - "selftests/mm: refactor pkey helpers and fix mmap error handling" (Hongfu Li) Refactor pkeys shared tracing and assertion helpers into a common file, unify protection key selftests to use consistent diagnostic logging and assertions, and enforce standardized MAP_FAILED return checks for mmap() calls across the tests - "mm/damon: optimize out nr_accesses_bp" (SJ Park) Replace the error-prone, continuously updated nr_accesses_bp field in damon_region with an on-demand moving sum function, reducing structure memory overhead and avoiding state corruption bugs - "Open HugeTLB allocation routine for more generic use" (Ackerley Tng) Decouple HugeTLB folio allocation from VMA dependencies by introducing hugetlb_alloc_folio(), enabling subsystems like guest_memfd to allocate HugeTLB folios without standard VMA reservations or pseudo-VMAs - "mm/damon: provide pseudo moving sum probe_hits" (SJ Park) Integrate DAMON's probe_hits attribute counter into the pseudo moving sum infrastructure, enabling real-time, online monitoring without waiting for full aggregation intervals - "mm: Some cleanups for page allocator APIs" (Brendan Jackman) Simplify and refactor the page allocator entry points and flags by unifying allocation paths, adding internal alloc_flags arguments, and eliminating redundant __ prefixed alloc_pages variants. - "Fix incorrect access of hugetlb pte entries" (Dev Jain) Enforce the consistent use of huge_ptep_get() instead of ptep_get() for HugeTLB entries and fixes an unaligned address issue in arm64's huge_ptep_get() implementation - "mm/damon: validate all parameters in the core" (SJ Park) Consolidate parameter validation into the DAMON core specifically within damon_start() and damon_commit_ctx() to centralize error checking, eliminate caller-side redundant checks and to improve maintenance efficiency - "tools/mm/page_owner_sort: fix filtering and cleanup issues" (Yichong Chen) Rename is_need() to filter_record() for clearer return semantics, fix per-record allocation memory leaks and bound output copies in search_pattern() to address an existing buffer issue - "memcg: bail out reclaim when memcg is dying" (Jiayuan Chen) Mitigate a system-wide stall which occurs when a cgroup is removed while one of its memory control files is doing synchronous reclaim - "mm/memory-failure: add panic option for unrecoverable pages" (Breno Leitao) Introduce an opt-in vm.panic_on_unrecoverable_memory_failure sysctl that immediately panics the kernel on unrecoverable memory errors in kernel-owned pages to preserve error context and prevent delayed, silent data corruption - "mm/damon: refactor damon_{start,stop,commit}() for simple error handling" (SJ Park) Refactor the DAMON core API functions to guarantee that all contexts are fully stopped when damon_start(), damon_stop(), or damon_commit() fail, eliminating the need for complex and error-prone caller-side cleanup code - "Keep tail page private zero at free and folio split" (Zi Yan) Add checks to ensure tail_page->private is zero when freeing compound or high-order pages and when promoting tail pages during large folio splits. By validating these fields at free and split time, it allows the removal of redundant private field clearing inside prep_compound_tail() - "mm: drop redundant lru_add_drain in anon folio reuse paths" (Barry Song) Eliminate redundant lru_add_drain() calls in wp_can_reuse_anon_folio() and do_swap_page() to reduce LRU lock contention and system overhead By validating folio refcounts against the LRU cache before draining and removing unnecessary drains in the swap path, it achieves up to a 30.5% reduction in drain calls during heavy swap workloads - "mm: clean up folio LRU and swap declarations" (Jianyue Wu) Reorganize folio LRU and swap code by relocating page-cluster state to mm/swap_state.c, renaming mm/swap.c to mm/folio.c, and moving MM-internal reclaim declarations into mm/internal.h. - "userfaultfd: working set tracking for VM guest memory" (Kiryl Shutsemau) Add userfaultfd support for tracking the working set of VM guest memory, so a VMM can identify hot pages and reclaim cold ones to tiered or remote storage - "mm: remove CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE (Part 2)" (David Hildenbrand) Remove the remaining pieces of CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE, performing some smaller cleanups around freeing of reserved vmemmap pages on the way. - "mm/damon: update probe hits for runtime parameter commits" (SJ Park) Ensure that DAMON's probe_hits attribute counter is properly updated when monitoring intervals are changed at runtime, matching the behavior of nr_accesses. To achieve this, it refactors and renames existing helper functions for shared use, applies the updates to probe_hits, and handles edge cases in damon_probe_hits_mvsum() to maintain measurement accuracy. - "KSM: performance optimizations for rmap_walk_ksm" (xu xin) Resolve a severe KSM reverse-mapping performance bottleneck where thousands of split VMAs sharing a single anon_vma cause extended lock contention. By adding an interval-filtering check during the rmap walk, it reduces worst-case anon_vma lock hold times from over 500ms down to under 2ms, preventing application freezes and latency spikes under memory pressure. - "mm: split a couple of headers from internal.h" (Mike Rapoport) Split declarations related to mm_init, memblock, vmalloc and sparse into new headers - "KSM: use linear_page_index in collect_procs_ksm()" (xu xin) Apply the interval tree optimization from rmap_walk_ksm() to collect_procs_ksm() to avoid iterating over non-matching VMAs during KSM memory error handling. It hoists loop-invariant address initialization and restricts the anon_vma_interval_tree_foreach walk to a targeted page offset range, reducing redundant checks and improving lookup efficiency. - "selftests/mm: avoid false failures in hugetlb and KSM tests" (Sayali Patil) Fix issues in the hugetlb and KSM MM selftest categories that can report failures when the prerequisites for the tests are not satisfied - "mm/damon: introduce data attributes only monitoring" (SJ Park) Introduce attribute-weighted region management in DAMON, allowing users to prioritize specific data attributes (such as page sizes or cgroups) over or instead of access monitoring. By assigning weights to attribute probes, DAMON can completely disable access tracking and adjust monitoring regions based on weighted probe-hit counters to optimize monitoring quality for attribute-focused workloads. - "mm/hmm: Add mmap lock-drop support for userfaultfd-backed mappings" (Stanislav Kinsburskii) Extend hmm_range_fault() to support userfaultfd-backed regions by allowing the mmap lock to be dropped during fault handling via a new hmm_range_fault_locked() helper. By accepting a locked pointer and signaling retry status when lock release occurs, it enables page fault resolution in userfaultfd regions while preserving backward compatibility for existing callers. - "mm: make VMA page offset handling more consistent" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Clean up and standardize how vma->vm_pgoff is accessed and manipulated across file-backed and anonymous mappings in the kernel It introduces dedicated helper functions such as vma_start_pgoff(), vma_end_pgoff(), vma_set_pgoff() and linear_page_delta() while renaming rmap interval tree helpers to better reflect their functionality. These changes establish a cleaner foundation for future work that will unify virtual page offset indexing for all anonymous and CoW'd folios. - "mm: handle device-private PMDs in walk callbacks" (Usama Arif) Address kernel panics and state corruption caused by MM walk callbacks reaching non-present device-private PMD swap entries created during HMM migrations It ensures that functions which acquire pmd_trans_huge_lock() properly recognize device-private PMDs instead of assuming a present THP or a standard migration entry. - "mm/rmap: Refactor try_to_unmap_one" (Dev Jain) Refactor try_to_unmap_one by modularizing Hugetlb, anonymous-lazyfree, and anonymous-swapbacked logic into dedicated functions, laying the structural groundwork for batched anonymous large folio unmapping. - "Docs/ABI/damon: sysfs ABI document fixes and additions" (Song Hu) Fix typos and fills in missing entries in the DAMON sysfs ABI document - "dax/kmem: atomic whole-device hotplug via sysfs" (Gregory Price) Introduce an atomic sysfs state attribute and supporting DAX/MM infrastructure to prevent userland races when offlining and removing entire memory regions By adding an unplugged state alongside standard online modes, it enables whole-device atomic hotplug control while preserving backward compatibility. - "mm: convert more vm_flags_t users to vma_flags_t" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Continue transitioning the kernel from the deprecated vm_flags_t type to vma_flags_t across core memory management infrastructure. It replaces legacy type usage in core functions such as do_mmap(), unmapped area allocation, mm->def_vma_flags, and VMA operations like mlock, mprotect, and mremap. - "Two small patches to clean up mm/mm_slot.h" (xu xin) Refactor mm_slot.h by introducing mm_slot_remove() to unify duplicate slot deletion sequences in khugepaged and KSM. It also adds code documentation explaining why mm_slot_lookup and mm_slot_insert must remain as preprocessor macros rather than static inline functions. - "mm/damon/core: hide core-private struct fields" (SJ Park) Clean up DAMON core structures by consistently marking internal-only fields with private: comment tags to prevent improper direct access from outer layers. It enforces encapsulation across core structures including damon_region, damon_target, and damon_ctx and updates DAMON_SYSFS to interact through approved access APIs instead of exposing raw struct members. - "mm/damon: unurgent fixes for infinite loop, NULL de-ref and races" (SJ Park) Address potential infinite loops, NULL dereferences, and race conditions identified in DAMON It fixes an infinite loop triggered by extreme user configurations, a NULL pointer dereference within unit tests and minor monitoring accuracy degradation caused by subtle runtime races. - "mm/page_alloc: fixes for free_pages_nolock() on RT/UP" (Brendan Jackman) Fix an NMI safety flaw in __free_frozen_pages() where freeing pages on non-SMP or PREEMPT_RT kernels can bypass can_spin_trylock() checks via non-PCP or isolated migration paths. It also resolves potential kernel crashes and privilege escalation risks triggered when BPF tracing runs in NMI context alongside memory hotplug or large allocation frees. - "mm/page_alloc: couple of followups for recent cleanups" (Brendan Jackman) Clean up and update page allocator nomenclature, documentation, and debug assertions. It aligns internal FPI_ flags with the public "nolock" naming convention, removes outdated internal implementation details from high-level page allocator comments, and eliminates obsolete VM_BUG_ON() assertions in allocation paths. - "mm/mseal: further cleanups" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Refactor and simplify the mseal implementation by clarifying API boundaries and removing unnecessary code complexity. It replaces generic do_mseal() usage outside the syscall with a dedicated mseal_mmap_page_zero() helper for MMAP_PAGE_ZERO, eliminates mm_struct parameters to enforce that sealing applies only to current->mm, and streamlines overall logic and comments with no functional changes intended. - "mm/vmscan: fix swappiness=max and clean up per-node proactive reclaim" (Ridong Chen) Resolve reclaim behavior bugs and clean up function parameters across memory reclaim paths It fixes swappiness=max in both standard reclaim and MGLRU so unswappable anonymous memory no longer falls back to evicting page cache, ensures reclaim_store() returns accurate error codes instead of collapsing all failures into -EAGAIN, and removes the obsolete gfp_mask parameter from __node_reclaim(). - "mm: mincore: misc cleanups" (Kefeng Wang) Clean up and simplifies the mincore code. Most importantly, it removes the historical special behavior that always reports VM_PFNMAP pages as non-resident. - "mm/huge_memory: drop dead split helper variants" (Kiryl Shutsemau) Two trivial cleanups in the folio split API - "mm/damon: fix uninitialized DAMOS field and kunit exec expectation bugs" (SJ Park) Resolve minor operational and testing bugs in DAMON identified by Sashiko. It initializes the damos->last_applied field to prevent occasional efficiency degradation and fixes invalid memory accesses in DAMON KUnit tests during test failure handling. - "cleanup for stable_page_flags()" (Jinjiang Tu) Clean up and refactor stable_page_flags() used by /proc/kpageflags without altering functionality. It uses BIT_ULL() to prevent shift-overflow warnings on 64-bit flag bits, converts folio-specific flag checks to standard folio_test_*() helpers, and removes redundant CONFIG_PAGE_IDLE_FLAG handling. - "Batch unmap of uffd-wp file folios" (Dev Jain) Extend batched folio unmapping support to file folios within userfaultfd write-protect (uffd-wp) VMAs by adding batching capabilities to pte_install_uffd_wp_if_needed(). This removes special-case restrictions on uffd-wp VMAs in try_to_unmap_one(), significantly simplifying the function's control flow and complexity. - "mm/early_ioremap: clarify and clean up early_ioremap_reset()" (Sang-Heon Jeon) Clarify and clean up the architecture-specific usage of __late_set_fixmap() and __late_clear_fixmap() after early_ioremap_reset() It adds explicit documentation regarding when early_ioremap_reset() must be called and removes redundant macro definitions and reset calls in the RISC-V and ARM64 architectures. - "mm: fix reclaim storms in defrag_mode" (Johannes Weiner) Address severe performance regressions, swap storms, and spurious OOMs caused by vm.defrag_mode=1 under high memory pressure in Meta production It updates the page allocator slowpath so non-movable allocation requests actively trigger direct reclaim and direct compaction at pageblock_order scale, allowing them to claim whole pageblocks rather than spinning unproductively. - "zram: lockmap tweaks" (Sebastian Siewior) Optimize and fix lockdep tracking for zram devices by consolidating per-entry lockmaps and isolate lock classes across multiple instances This reduces memory overhead by replacing per-entry lockdep_map instances with a single map per struct zram, and assigns a dynamic lock_class_key to each instance to prevent false deadlock reports when different zram devices are backed by distinct filesystems. * tag 'mm-stable-2026-08-18-18-39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (501 commits) selftests/mm: thuge-gen: fix test_shmget() for PAGE_SIZE check selftests/mm: unpoison pages in memory-failure teardown mm/shmem: downgrade final i_blocks check in shmem_evict_inode() to pr_warn() mm/khugepaged: replace mutex_lock/mutex_unlock usage with guard macro mm/zsmalloc: fix release order of locks in zs_page_migrate() Documentation: zram: remove sections numbering ksm: stop iterating VMAs when ksm_test_exit returns true mm: fold userfaultfd_rwp() to false without CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PTE_PROTNONE mm/migrate: report RCU-tasks quiescent states in migrate_pages_batch() zram: use a custom key for each zram object zram: move lockmap to be per-zram instead per table selftests/mm: fix gup_longterm EINVAL error message mm: page_alloc: fix non-movable reclaim storm in defrag_mode mm: page_alloc: move capture_control to the page allocator mm: compaction: support non-movable compaction for pageblock requests mm: page_alloc: __GFP_FS lockdep annotation for direct compaction hugetlb: evaluate subpool free state while locked mm/damon: remove trailing semicolons after function definitions mm/damon/ops-common: prevent migration fallback to non-target nodes mm/damon: update outdated comment about DAMOS filter handling ...

Merge tag 'vfio-v7.3-rc1' of https://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio

2026-08-20T23:57:59Z

Pull VFIO updates from Alex Williamson: - Add nv_falcon vfio selftest driver. The Falcon is a general-purpose microcontroller embedded within NVIDIA GPUs, presenting a relatively simple DMA programming interface. This adds another selftest target for vfio-pci with real DMA transfers (Rubin Du, Alex Williamson) - Add allocation assertion helpers to vfio selftests and use them to avoid variable length arrays and the compiler errors they generate (Alex Mastro) - Fix use-after-free hazard where an init path error in MSI support leaves a stray pointer that can later be reused or double-freed (Xiang Mei) - Fix previous refactor of PCI BAR mappings to honor non_mappable_bars flag, which otherwise generates a warning when trying to pci_iomap() a 256TiB BAR on ISM devices on s390 (Farhan Ali) - Add igb vfio selftest driver. Like nv_falcon, this provides another target for DMA testing with vfio selftests, but importantly this driver supports both physical 82576 NICs and the emulation model in QEMU. This therefore enables a vfio selftest vector with no physical hardware requirements (Josh Hilke, Alex Williamson) - Mark selftest fixture objects __maybe_unused to accommodate builds with clang -Wunused-but-set-global (David Matlack) - Add error recovery for vfio-pci devices on s390x. This expands devices which expose the existing error eventfd and introduces a device feature for reporting firmware defined error state information to the user, allowing recovery through hypervisor channels (Farhan Ali) * tag 'vfio-v7.3-rc1' of https://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio: vfio/pci: Remove the pcie check for VFIO_PCI_ERR_IRQ_INDEX vfio-pci/zdev: Add a device feature for error information s390/pci: Store PCI error information for passthrough devices PCI/MSI: Enable memory decoding before restoring MSI-X messages PCI: Fail FLR when config space is inaccessible PCI: Avoid saving config space state if inaccessible PCI: Allow per function PCI slots to fix slot reset on s390 PCI: Introduce PCI_SLOT_PLACEHOLDER constant for slot_nr placeholder value selftests: harness: Mark test fixture objects __maybe_unused vfio: selftests: Retry on EAGAIN during device reset vfio: selftests: igb: Add driver for Intel 82576 device vfio: selftests: Add helpers to re-enable interrupts vfio/pci: Avoid mapping BARs for devices with non-mappable BARs vfio/pci: clear vdev->msi_perm after freeing it on init failure vfio: selftests: Avoid VLAs vfio: selftests: Add allocation assert helpers vfio: selftests: Add NVIDIA Falcon driver for DMA testing vfio: selftests: Allow drivers without send_msi() support vfio: selftests: Add generic PCI command register helpers vfio: selftests: Add memcpy chunking to vfio_pci_driver_memcpy()

Merge tag 'sysctl-7.03-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl

2026-08-20T15:46:41Z

Pull sysctl updates from Joel Granados: - Fix kernel-doc warnings by adjusting in file documentation - Consolidate do_proc_* function into do_proc_vec Consolidate three slightly different implementations of applying a converter on all elements of a vector. Fixes to this function now propagate to the three types. - Replace CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL with CONFIG_SYSCTL (they were the same) and restrict cad_pid modifications to global root (GLOBAL_ROOT_UID) * tag 'sysctl-7.03-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl: sysctl: remove CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL, it just mirrors CONFIG_SYSCTL sysctl: move the "cad_pid" entry from pid_table[] to kern_reboot_table[] sysctl: repair some kernel-doc comments sysctl: add Returns: kernel-doc for all functions sysctl: Update API function documentation sysctl: Rename proc_doulongvec_minmax_conv to proc_doulongvec_conv sysctl: Group proc_handler declarations and document sysctl: Replace do_proc_do{int,ulong,uint}vec with do_proc_vec sysctl: Add negp parameter to douintvec converter functions sysctl: Move default converter assignment out of do_proc_dointvec

Merge tag 'bpf-next-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next

2026-08-20T14:36:20Z

Pull bpf updates from Daniel Borkmann: "Major changes: - Redesign the verifier error reporting: failures now carry source and instruction annotations along with the causal event history that led to them, making program rejections far easier to debug and repair (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi) - Add arena argument support to kfuncs and struct_ops through the new __arena and __arena__nullable suffixes (Tejun Heo, Puranjay Mohan, Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi, Ihor Solodrai) - Signed BPF program loader rework to accommodate both BPF and security community needs where the kernel runs the signature verification at BPF_PROG_LOAD time before the LSM admission hook (Daniel Borkmann) - Add a set of ksock kfuncs which let BPF LSM and syscall programs create, connect and send on UDP sockets in order to emit telemetry data (Mahe Tardy) - Unify helper and kfunc call argument verification and classify kfunc arguments purely from BTF into a generated bpf_func_proto which is computed once at add-call time (Amery Hung) Other features and fixes: - Enable EXECMEM_ROX_CACHE for BPF allocations on x86 (Mike Rapoport) - Add bidirectional VLAN support to bpf_fib_lookup() through the new BPF_FIB_LOOKUP_VLAN and BPF_FIB_LOOKUP_VLAN_INPUT flags (Avinash Duduskar) - Infer zext_dst from static register liveness analysis to fix 32-bit zero-extension semantics, and remove the artificial limitations on pointer types eligible for spilling (Eduard Zingerman) - Inline the numeric open-coded iterator kfuncs so that bpf_for() loops no longer pay a kfunc call on every iteration (Puranjay Mohan) - Add an arena-based bitmap data structure to libarena along with serial and parallel selftests (Emil Tsalapatis) - Teach resolve_btfids to discover kfuncs from the kernel's BTF ID sets and to emit kfunc BTF decl tags, reducing the kernel build's dependency on pahole features (Ihor Solodrai) - Add BPF_F_ADJ_ROOM_DECAP_* flags to bpf_skb_adjust_room() so that tunnel decapsulation can update the GSO and encapsulation state of the skb (Nick Hudson) - Fix the ring buffer pending_pos walk and the available-data accounting on 32-bit position wrap (Israel Téllez García) - Add memory usage accounting for arena maps and fix an mmap_lock deadlock on arena lock failure (Jiayuan Chen) - Add tracing_multi link info support to the kernel UAPI and bpftool, and refactor the stack map code to run with preemption disabled (Jiri Olsa) - Support BPF_F_EGRESS in bpf_redirect_peer() to emit the skb in the egress direction of the target's peer device (Jordan Rife) - Add a KF_SPINLOCK_SAFE kfunc flag so that providers, in particular modules, can declare kfuncs safe to call under bpf_spin_lock instead of relying on the verifier's hard-coded allowlist (Kaitao Cheng) - Introduce global percpu data for BPF programs with libbpf probing and bpftool skeleton support, and stop exposing uninitialized kernel heap memory when copying per-CPU map values (Leon Hwang) - Add s390 JIT support for load-acquire and store-release instructions (Maxim Khmelevskii) - Fix a CFI mismatch in the task work callback and an arm64 KASAN false positive after bpf_throw() (Mykyta Yatsenko) - Reject writes through untrusted BTF pointers and bound the rdonly/rdwr_buf_size kfunc arguments (Nicholas Dudar) - Invalidate RCU pointers only after the final spin unlock and account for preempt and IRQ disabled regions as overlapping RCU protection (Ning Ding) - Support mixing bpf2bpf calls and tail calls on RV64, add signed operations and 32-bit atomics to the RV32 JIT, and add timed may_goto support (Pu Lehui, Kuan-Wei Chiu, Feng Jiang) - Fix a use-after-free on mm_struct in bpf_find_vma() for foreign tasks and an mmap_lock leak in the irq_work path (Sanghyun Park) - Populate mmap-able BPF array map memory lazily which makes mmap() O(1) instead of proportional to the map size (Song Liu) - Introduce a jit_required flag and reject programs with inlined helpers when no JIT is available, where the interpreter would otherwise jump into an invalid address (Tiezhu Yang) - Fix the x86 JIT per-CPU address resolution into an extended register where the REX prefix dropped the high destination register bit (Vineet Gupta) - Reject MEM_ALLOC BTF accesses past object bounds, arena frees below the arena base, and mixed arena and ordinary atomic paths (Yiyang Chen) - Fix the trampoline handling of 128-bit arguments and of return values larger than 8 bytes (Yonghong Song) - Ensure that any fault prone load is rewritten with exception table handling, and fix the arena load-acquire and atomic fetch handling in the x86, arm64, riscv and s390 JITs (Daniel Borkmann) - Many more fixes and cleanups across the verifier, arena, trampolines, sockmap, cgroup, ring buffer, x86/arm64/riscv/s390 JITs, libbpf, bpftool, resolve_btfids and selftests" * tag 'bpf-next-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (373 commits) selftests/bpf: Add tests for a store on a fault prone qdisc pointer selftests/bpf: Add tests for fault prone loads out of RCU pointers selftests/bpf: Add tests for pointer type merge at a shared load selftests/bpf: Remove duplicate copies of the arena spinlock qnodes selftests/bpf: Retry stat generation in cgroup_iter_memcg selftests/bpf: Test pseudo-function policy diagnostics bpf: Distinguish function references in policy diagnostics bpf: Preserve source attribution without source text selftests/bpf: Test kfunc argument diagnostics bpf: Correct kfunc argument diagnostics bpf: Use canonical stack argument names in diagnostics bpf: Preserve R0 lineage across helper calls selftests/bpf: Exercise negative optlen in cgroup getsockopt hook bpf: Reject negative optlen in cgroup getsockopt hook selftests/bpf: tc_tunnel - validate decap GSO and encapsulation state bpf: Clear decap state on skb_adjust_room shrink path bpf: Allow new DECAP flags and add guard rails bpf: Add BPF_F_ADJ_ROOM_DECAP_* flags for tunnel decapsulation bpf: Refactor masks for ADJ_ROOM flags and encap validation bpf: Name the enum for BPF_FUNC_skb_adjust_room flags ...