Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "maple_tree: Replace big node with maple copy" (Liam Howlett)
Mainly prepararatory work for ongoing development but it does reduce
stack usage and is an improvement.
- "mm, swap: swap table phase III: remove swap_map" (Kairui Song)
Offers memory savings by removing the static swap_map. It also yields
some CPU savings and implements several cleanups.
- "mm: memfd_luo: preserve file seals" (Pratyush Yadav)
File seal preservation to LUO's memfd code
- "mm: zswap: add per-memcg stat for incompressible pages" (Jiayuan
Chen)
Additional userspace stats reportng to zswap
- "arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page" (Mike Rapoport)
Some cleanups for our handling of ZERO_PAGE() and zero_pfn
- "mm/kmemleak: Improve scan_should_stop() implementation" (Zhongqiu
Han)
A robustness improvement and some cleanups in the kmemleak code
- "Improve khugepaged scan logic" (Vernon Yang)
Improve khugepaged scan logic and reduce CPU consumption by
prioritizing scanning tasks that access memory frequently
- "Make KHO Stateless" (Jason Miu)
Simplify Kexec Handover by transitioning KHO from an xarray-based
metadata tracking system with serialization to a radix tree data
structure that can be passed directly to the next kernel
- "mm: vmscan: add PID and cgroup ID to vmscan tracepoints" (Thomas
Ballasi and Steven Rostedt)
Enhance vmscan's tracepointing
- "mm: arch/shstk: Common shadow stack mapping helper and
VM_NOHUGEPAGE" (Catalin Marinas)
Cleanup for the shadow stack code: remove per-arch code in favour of
a generic implementation
- "Fix KASAN support for KHO restored vmalloc regions" (Pasha Tatashin)
Fix a WARN() which can be emitted the KHO restores a vmalloc area
- "mm: Remove stray references to pagevec" (Tal Zussman)
Several cleanups, mainly udpating references to "struct pagevec",
which became folio_batch three years ago
- "mm: Eliminate fake head pages from vmemmap optimization" (Kiryl
Shutsemau)
Simplify the HugeTLB vmemmap optimization (HVO) by changing how tail
pages encode their relationship to the head page
- "mm/damon/core: improve DAMOS quota efficiency for core layer
filters" (SeongJae Park)
Improve two problematic behaviors of DAMOS that makes it less
efficient when core layer filters are used
- "mm/damon: strictly respect min_nr_regions" (SeongJae Park)
Improve DAMON usability by extending the treatment of the
min_nr_regions user-settable parameter
- "mm/page_alloc: pcp locking cleanup" (Vlastimil Babka)
The proper fix for a previously hotfixed SMP=n issue. Code
simplifications and cleanups ensued
- "mm: cleanups around unmapping / zapping" (David Hildenbrand)
A bunch of cleanups around unmapping and zapping. Mostly
simplifications, code movements, documentation and renaming of
zapping functions
- "support batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU" (Baolin Wang)
Batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU. It's part cleanups; one
benchmark shows large performance benefits for arm64
- "memcg: obj stock and slab stat caching cleanups" (Johannes Weiner)
memcg cleanup and robustness improvements
- "Allow order zero pages in page reporting" (Yuvraj Sakshith)
Enhance free page reporting - it is presently and undesirably order-0
pages when reporting free memory.
- "mm: vma flag tweaks" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Cleanup work following from the recent conversion of the VMA flags to
a bitmap
- "mm/damon: add optional debugging-purpose sanity checks" (SeongJae
Park)
Add some more developer-facing debug checks into DAMON core
- "mm/damon: test and document power-of-2 min_region_sz requirement"
(SeongJae Park)
An additional DAMON kunit test and makes some adjustments to the
addr_unit parameter handling
- "mm/damon/core: make passed_sample_intervals comparisons
overflow-safe" (SeongJae Park)
Fix a hard-to-hit time overflow issue in DAMON core
- "mm/damon: improve/fixup/update ratio calculation, test and
documentation" (SeongJae Park)
A batch of misc/minor improvements and fixups for DAMON
- "mm: move vma_(kernel|mmu)_pagesize() out of hugetlb.c" (David
Hildenbrand)
Fix a possible issue with dax-device when CONFIG_HUGETLB=n. Some code
movement was required.
- "zram: recompression cleanups and tweaks" (Sergey Senozhatsky)
A somewhat random mix of fixups, recompression cleanups and
improvements in the zram code
- "mm/damon: support multiple goal-based quota tuning algorithms"
(SeongJae Park)
Extend DAMOS quotas goal auto-tuning to support multiple tuning
algorithms that users can select
- "mm: thp: reduce unnecessary start_stop_khugepaged()" (Breno Leitao)
Fix the khugpaged sysfs handling so we no longer spam the logs with
reams of junk when starting/stopping khugepaged
- "mm: improve map count checks" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Provide some cleanups and slight fixes in the mremap, mmap and vma
code
- "mm/damon: support addr_unit on default monitoring targets for
modules" (SeongJae Park)
Extend the use of DAMON core's addr_unit tunable
- "mm: khugepaged cleanups and mTHP prerequisites" (Nico Pache)
Cleanups to khugepaged and is a base for Nico's planned khugepaged
mTHP support
- "mm: memory hot(un)plug and SPARSEMEM cleanups" (David Hildenbrand)
Code movement and cleanups in the memhotplug and sparsemem code
- "mm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE and cleanup
CONFIG_MIGRATION" (David Hildenbrand)
Rationalize some memhotplug Kconfig support
- "change young flag check functions to return bool" (Baolin Wang)
Cleanups to change all young flag check functions to return bool
- "mm/damon/sysfs: fix memory leak and NULL dereference issues" (Josh
Law and SeongJae Park)
Fix a few potential DAMON bugs
- "mm/vma: convert vm_flags_t to vma_flags_t in vma code" (Lorenzo
Stoakes)
Convert a lot of the existing use of the legacy vm_flags_t data type
to the new vma_flags_t type which replaces it. Mainly in the vma
code.
- "mm: expand mmap_prepare functionality and usage" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Expand the mmap_prepare functionality, which is intended to replace
the deprecated f_op->mmap hook which has been the source of bugs and
security issues for some time. Cleanups, documentation, extension of
mmap_prepare into filesystem drivers
- "mm/huge_memory: refactor zap_huge_pmd()" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Simplify and clean up zap_huge_pmd(). Additional cleanups around
vm_normal_folio_pmd() and the softleaf functionality are performed.
* tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits)
mm: fix deferred split queue races during migration
mm/khugepaged: fix issue with tracking lock
mm/huge_memory: add and use has_deposited_pgtable()
mm/huge_memory: add and use normal_or_softleaf_folio_pmd()
mm: add softleaf_is_valid_pmd_entry(), pmd_to_softleaf_folio()
mm/huge_memory: separate out the folio part of zap_huge_pmd()
mm/huge_memory: use mm instead of tlb->mm
mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary sanity checks
mm/huge_memory: deduplicate zap deposited table call
mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary VM_BUG_ON_PAGE()
mm/huge_memory: add a common exit path to zap_huge_pmd()
mm/huge_memory: handle buggy PMD entry in zap_huge_pmd()
mm/huge_memory: have zap_huge_pmd return a boolean, add kdoc
mm/huge: avoid big else branch in zap_huge_pmd()
mm/huge_memory: simplify vma_is_specal_huge()
mm: on remap assert that input range within the proposed VMA
mm: add mmap_action_map_kernel_pages[_full]()
uio: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare in uio_info
drivers: hv: vmbus: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare
mm: allow handling of stacked mmap_prepare hooks in more drivers
...
Pull timer core updates from Thomas Gleixner:
- A rework of the hrtimer subsystem to reduce the overhead for
frequently armed timers, especially the hrtick scheduler timer:
- Better timer locality decision
- Simplification of the evaluation of the first expiry time by
keeping track of the neighbor timers in the RB-tree by providing
a RB-tree variant with neighbor links. That avoids walking the
RB-tree on removal to find the next expiry time, but even more
important allows to quickly evaluate whether a timer which is
rearmed changes the position in the RB-tree with the modified
expiry time or not. If not, the dequeue/enqueue sequence which
both can end up in rebalancing can be completely avoided.
- Deferred reprogramming of the underlying clock event device. This
optimizes for the situation where a hrtimer callback sets the
need resched bit. In that case the code attempts to defer the
re-programming of the clock event device up to the point where
the scheduler has picked the next task and has the next hrtick
timer armed. In case that there is no immediate reschedule or
soft interrupts have to be handled before reaching the reschedule
point in the interrupt entry code the clock event is reprogrammed
in one of those code paths to prevent that the timer becomes
stale.
- Support for clocksource coupled clockevents
The TSC deadline timer is coupled to the TSC. The next event is
programmed in TSC time. Currently this is done by converting the
CLOCK_MONOTONIC based expiry value into a relative timeout,
converting it into TSC ticks, reading the TSC adding the delta
ticks and writing the deadline MSR.
As the timekeeping core has the conversion factors for the TSC
already, the whole back and forth conversion can be completely
avoided. The timekeeping core calculates the reverse conversion
factors from nanoseconds to TSC ticks and utilizes the base
timestamps of TSC and CLOCK_MONOTONIC which are updated once per
tick. This allows a direct conversion into the TSC deadline value
without reading the time and as a bonus keeps the deadline
conversion in sync with the TSC conversion factors, which are
updated by adjtimex() on systems with NTP/PTP enabled.
- Allow inlining of the clocksource read and clockevent write
functions when they are tiny enough, e.g. on x86 RDTSC and WRMSR.
With all those enhancements in place a hrtick enabled scheduler
provides the same performance as without hrtick. But also other
hrtimer users obviously benefit from these optimizations.
- Robustness improvements and cleanups of historical sins in the
hrtimer and timekeeping code.
- Rewrite of the clocksource watchdog.
The clocksource watchdog code has over time reached the state of an
impenetrable maze of duct tape and staples. The original design,
which was made in the context of systems far smaller than today, is
based on the assumption that the to be monitored clocksource (TSC)
can be trivially compared against a known to be stable clocksource
(HPET/ACPI-PM timer).
Over the years this rather naive approach turned out to have major
flaws. Long delays between the watchdog invocations can cause wrap
arounds of the reference clocksource. The access to the reference
clocksource degrades on large multi-sockets systems dure to
interconnect congestion. This has been addressed with various
heuristics which degraded the accuracy of the watchdog to the point
that it fails to detect actual TSC problems on older hardware which
exposes slow inter CPU drifts due to firmware manipulating the TSC to
hide SMI time.
The rewrite addresses this by:
- Restricting the validation against the reference clocksource to
the boot CPU which is usually closest to the legacy block which
contains the reference clocksource (HPET/ACPI-PM).
- Do a round robin validation betwen the boot CPU and the other
CPUs based only on the TSC with an algorithm similar to the TSC
synchronization code during CPU hotplug.
- Being more leniant versus remote timeouts
- The usual tiny fixes, cleanups and enhancements all over the place
* tag 'timers-core-2026-04-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (75 commits)
alarmtimer: Access timerqueue node under lock in suspend
hrtimer: Fix incorrect #endif comment for BITS_PER_LONG check
posix-timers: Fix stale function name in comment
timers: Get this_cpu once while clearing the idle state
clocksource: Rewrite watchdog code completely
clocksource: Don't use non-continuous clocksources as watchdog
x86/tsc: Handle CLOCK_SOURCE_VALID_FOR_HRES correctly
MIPS: Don't select CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG
parisc: Remove unused clocksource flags
hrtimer: Add a helper to retrieve a hrtimer from its timerqueue node
hrtimer: Remove trailing comma after HRTIMER_MAX_CLOCK_BASES
hrtimer: Mark index and clockid of clock base as const
hrtimer: Drop unnecessary pointer indirection in hrtimer_expire_entry event
hrtimer: Drop spurious space in 'enum hrtimer_base_type'
hrtimer: Don't zero-initialize ret in hrtimer_nanosleep()
hrtimer: Remove hrtimer_get_expires_ns()
timekeeping: Mark offsets array as const
timekeeping/auxclock: Consistently use raw timekeeper for tk_setup_internals()
timer_list: Print offset as signed integer
tracing: Use explicit array size instead of sentinel elements in symbol printing
...
The "small" argument to do_sys_ftruncate indicates if > 32-bit size
should be reject, but all the arch-specific compat ftruncate64
implementations get this wrong. Merge do_sys_ftruncate and
ksys_ftruncate, replace the integer as boolean small flag with a
descriptive one about LFS semantics, and use it correctly in the
architecture-specific ftruncate64 implementations.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Fixes: 3dd681d944 ("arm64: 32-bit (compat) applications support")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260323070205.2939118-2-hch@lst.de
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Resolve conflict between this change in the upstream kernel:
4c652a4772 ("rseq: Mark rseq_arm_slice_extension_timer() __always_inline")
... and this pending change in timers/core:
0e98eb1481 ("entry: Prepare for deferred hrtimer rearming")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The assembly flush instructions were swapped for I- and D-cache flags:
SYSCALL_DEFINE3(cacheflush, ...)
{
if (cache & DCACHE) {
"fic ...\n"
}
if (cache & ICACHE && error == 0) {
"fdc ...\n"
}
Fix it by using fdc for DCACHE, and fic for ICACHE flushing.
Reported-by: Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>
Fixes: c6d96328fe ("parisc: Add cacheflush() syscall")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v6.5+
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Pull parisc fixes from Helge Deller:
"While testing Sasha Levin's 'kallsyms: embed source file:line info in
kernel stack traces' patch series, which increases the typical kernel
image size, I found some issues with the parisc initial kernel mapping
which may prevent the kernel to boot.
The three small patches here fix this"
* tag 'parisc-for-7.0-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
parisc: Fix initial page table creation for boot
parisc: Check kernel mapping earlier at bootup
parisc: Increase initial mapping to 64 MB with KALLSYMS
The KERNEL_INITIAL_ORDER value defines the initial size (usually 32 or
64 MB) of the page table during bootup. Up until now the whole area was
initialized with PTE entries, but there was no check if we filled too
many entries. Change the code to fill up with so many entries that the
"_end" symbol can be reached by the kernel, but not more entries than
actually fit into the initial PTE tables.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v6.0+
The check if the initial mapping is sufficient needs to happen much
earlier during bootup. Move this test directly to the start_parisc()
function and use native PDC iodc functions to print the warning, because
panic() and printk() are not functional yet.
This fixes boot when enabling various KALLSYSMS options which need
much more space.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v6.0+
Commit 3e86e4d74c ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in
vmlinux.unstripped") added .modinfo to ELF_DETAILS while removing it
from COMMON_DISCARDS, as it was needed in vmlinux.unstripped and
ELF_DETAILS was present in all architecture specific vmlinux linker
scripts. While this shuffle is fine for vmlinux, ELF_DETAILS and
COMMON_DISCARDS may be used by other linker scripts, such as the s390
and x86 compressed boot images, which may not expect to have a .modinfo
section. In certain circumstances, this could result in a bootloader
failing to load the compressed kernel [1].
Commit ddc6cbef3e ("s390/boot/vmlinux.lds.S: Ensure bzImage ends with
SecureBoot trailer") recently addressed this for the s390 bzImage but
the same bug remains for arm, parisc, and x86. The presence of .modinfo
in the x86 bzImage was the root cause of the issue worked around with
commit d50f210913 ("kbuild: align modinfo section for Secureboot
Authenticode EDK2 compat"). misc.c in arch/x86/boot/compressed includes
lib/decompress_unzstd.c, which in turn includes lib/xxhash.c and its
MODULE_LICENSE / MODULE_DESCRIPTION macros due to the STATIC definition.
Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS into its own macro and handle it in
all vmlinux linker scripts. Discard .modinfo in the places where it was
previously being discarded from being in COMMON_DISCARDS, as it has
never been necessary in those uses.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 3e86e4d74c ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped")
Reported-by: Ed W <lists@wildgooses.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/587f25e0-a80e-46a5-9f01-87cb40cfa377@wildgooses.com/ [1]
Tested-by: Ed W <lists@wildgooses.com> # x86_64
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260225-separate-modinfo-from-elf-details-v1-1-387ced6baf4b@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using
git grep -l '\<k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'
to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.
Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.
For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:
Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)
Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)
Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)
(where TYPE may also be *VAR)
The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Pull parisc updates from Helge Deller:
- Fix device reference leak in error path
- Check if system provides a 64-bit free running platform counter
- Minor fixes in debug code
* tag 'parisc-for-7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
parisc: lba_pci: Add debug code to show IO and PA ranges
parisc: Detect 64-bit free running platform counter
parisc: Fix minor printk issues in iosapic debug code
parisc: Enhance debug code for PAT firmware
parisc: Add PDC PAT call to get free running 64-bit counter
parisc: Fix module path output in qemu tables
parisc: Export model name for MPE/ix
parisc: Prevent interrupts during reboot
parisc: Print hardware IDs as 4 digit hex strings
parisc: kernel: replace kfree() with put_device() in create_tree_node()
Enhance output when running PAT firmware, which is helpful when
developing the QEMU emulator. The added code is behind an ifdef,
so no performance overhead for normal kernels.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
PDC PAT defines this optional function. Testing on my C8000 workstation
and a rp3440 server did not indicate that they provide such counter.
Nevertheless, add the function since we should try to use such a
counter if it's available. In Qemu it should be simple to add it.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
The hardware IDs are 32-bit unsigned integers, so print them as 4-digit
hex numbers. Additionally fix some whitespace glitches.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
If device_register() fails, put_device() is the correct way to
drop the device reference.
Found by code review.
Fixes: 1070c9655b ("[PA-RISC] Fix must_check warnings in drivers.c")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Haoxiang Li <lihaoxiang@isrc.iscas.ac.cn>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Provide a new syscall which has the only purpose to yield the CPU after the
kernel granted a time slice extension.
sched_yield() is not suitable for that because it unconditionally
schedules, but the end of the time slice extension is not required to
schedule when the task was already preempted. This also allows to have a
strict check for termination to catch user space invoking random syscalls
including sched_yield() from a time slice extension region.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251215155708.929634896@linutronix.de
Pull parisc architecture updates from Helge Deller:
"A fix which allows booting on the very old 710 workstations, and two
fixes in the syscall entry/exit path which allow to execute 64-bit
userspace binaries.
Note that although we currently have a 64-bit (static) kernel to allow
more than 4 GB physical RAM, there is no support for 64-bit userspace
for parisc-linux yet, but Dave and Sven are making slowly progress to
port and fix glibc and gcc.
Summary:
- Fix boot on 710 workstation by not reprogramming ASP chip
- Fix 64bit userspace syscalls (64-bit userspace is still being
developed)
- minor code cleanups in asm/bug.h and perf_regs.c"
* tag 'parisc-for-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
parisc: Do not reprogram affinitiy on ASP chip
parisc: Drop linux/kernel.h include from asm/bug.h header
parisc: remove unneeded semicolon in perf_regs.c
parisc: entry.S: fix space adjustment on interruption for 64-bit userspace
parisc: entry: set W bit for !compat tasks in syscall_restore_rfi()
parisc: Drop padding fields and layers entries from inventory log
Pull namespace updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains substantial namespace infrastructure changes including a new
system call, active reference counting, and extensive header cleanups.
The branch depends on the shared kbuild branch for -fms-extensions support.
Features:
- listns() system call
Add a new listns() system call that allows userspace to iterate
through namespaces in the system. This provides a programmatic
interface to discover and inspect namespaces, addressing
longstanding limitations:
Currently, there is no direct way for userspace to enumerate
namespaces. Applications must resort to scanning /proc/*/ns/ across
all processes, which is:
- Inefficient - requires iterating over all processes
- Incomplete - misses namespaces not attached to any running
process but kept alive by file descriptors, bind mounts, or
parent references
- Permission-heavy - requires access to /proc for many processes
- No ordering or ownership information
- No filtering per namespace type
The listns() system call solves these problems:
ssize_t listns(const struct ns_id_req *req, u64 *ns_ids,
size_t nr_ns_ids, unsigned int flags);
struct ns_id_req {
__u32 size;
__u32 spare;
__u64 ns_id;
struct /* listns */ {
__u32 ns_type;
__u32 spare2;
__u64 user_ns_id;
};
};
Features include:
- Pagination support for large namespace sets
- Filtering by namespace type (MNT_NS, NET_NS, USER_NS, etc.)
- Filtering by owning user namespace
- Permission checks respecting namespace isolation
- Active Reference Counting
Introduce an active reference count that tracks namespace
visibility to userspace. A namespace is visible in the following
cases:
- The namespace is in use by a task
- The namespace is persisted through a VFS object (namespace file
descriptor or bind-mount)
- The namespace is a hierarchical type and is the parent of child
namespaces
The active reference count does not regulate lifetime (that's still
done by the normal reference count) - it only regulates visibility
to namespace file handles and listns().
This prevents resurrection of namespaces that are pinned only for
internal kernel reasons (e.g., user namespaces held by
file->f_cred, lazy TLB references on idle CPUs, etc.) which should
not be accessible via (1)-(3).
- Unified Namespace Tree
Introduce a unified tree structure for all namespaces with:
- Fixed IDs assigned to initial namespaces
- Lookup based solely on inode number
- Maintained list of owned namespaces per user namespace
- Simplified rbtree comparison helpers
Cleanups
- Header Reorganization:
- Move namespace types into separate header (ns_common_types.h)
- Decouple nstree from ns_common header
- Move nstree types into separate header
- Switch to new ns_tree_{node,root} structures with helper functions
- Use guards for ns_tree_lock
- Initial Namespace Reference Count Optimization
- Make all reference counts on initial namespaces a nop to avoid
pointless cacheline ping-pong for namespaces that can never go
away
- Drop custom reference count initialization for initial namespaces
- Add NS_COMMON_INIT() macro and use it for all namespaces
- pid: rely on common reference count behavior
- Miscellaneous Cleanups
- Rename exit_task_namespaces() to exit_nsproxy_namespaces()
- Rename is_initial_namespace() and make argument const
- Use boolean to indicate anonymous mount namespace
- Simplify owner list iteration in nstree
- nsfs: raise SB_I_NODEV, SB_I_NOEXEC, and DCACHE_DONTCACHE explicitly
- nsfs: use inode_just_drop()
- pidfs: raise DCACHE_DONTCACHE explicitly
- pidfs: simplify PIDFD_GET__NAMESPACE ioctls
- libfs: allow to specify s_d_flags
- cgroup: add cgroup namespace to tree after owner is set
- nsproxy: fix free_nsproxy() and simplify create_new_namespaces()
Fixes:
- setns(pidfd, ...) race condition
Fix a subtle race when using pidfds with setns(). When the target
task exits after prepare_nsset() but before commit_nsset(), the
namespace's active reference count might have been dropped. If
setns() then installs the namespaces, it would bump the active
reference count from zero without taking the required reference on
the owner namespace, leading to underflow when later decremented.
The fix resurrects the ownership chain if necessary - if the caller
succeeded in grabbing passive references, the setns() should
succeed even if the target task exits or gets reaped.
- Return EFAULT on put_user() error instead of success
- Make sure references are dropped outside of RCU lock (some
namespaces like mount namespace sleep when putting the last
reference)
- Don't skip active reference count initialization for network
namespace
- Add asserts for active refcount underflow
- Add asserts for initial namespace reference counts (both passive
and active)
- ipc: enable is_ns_init_id() assertions
- Fix kernel-doc comments for internal nstree functions
- Selftests
- 15 active reference count tests
- 9 listns() functionality tests
- 7 listns() permission tests
- 12 inactive namespace resurrection tests
- 3 threaded active reference count tests
- commit_creds() active reference tests
- Pagination and stress tests
- EFAULT handling test
- nsid tests fixes"
* tag 'namespace-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (103 commits)
pidfs: simplify PIDFD_GET_<type>_NAMESPACE ioctls
nstree: fix kernel-doc comments for internal functions
nsproxy: fix free_nsproxy() and simplify create_new_namespaces()
selftests/namespaces: fix nsid tests
ns: drop custom reference count initialization for initial namespaces
pid: rely on common reference count behavior
ns: add asserts for initial namespace active reference counts
ns: add asserts for initial namespace reference counts
ns: make all reference counts on initial namespace a nop
ipc: enable is_ns_init_id() assertions
fs: use boolean to indicate anonymous mount namespace
ns: rename is_initial_namespace()
ns: make is_initial_namespace() argument const
nstree: use guards for ns_tree_lock
nstree: simplify owner list iteration
nstree: switch to new structures
nstree: add helper to operate on struct ns_tree_{node,root}
nstree: move nstree types into separate header
nstree: decouple from ns_common header
ns: move namespace types into separate header
...
Guenter Roeck reported this kernel crash on his emulated B160L machine:
Starting network: udhcpc: started, v1.36.1
Backtrace:
[<104320d4>] unwind_once+0x1c/0x5c
[<10434a00>] walk_stackframe.isra.0+0x74/0xb8
[<10434a6c>] arch_stack_walk+0x28/0x38
[<104e5efc>] stack_trace_save+0x48/0x5c
[<105d1bdc>] set_track_prepare+0x44/0x6c
[<105d9c80>] ___slab_alloc+0xfc4/0x1024
[<105d9d38>] __slab_alloc.isra.0+0x58/0x90
[<105dc80c>] kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x2ac/0x4a0
[<105b8e54>] __anon_vma_prepare+0x60/0x280
[<105a823c>] __vmf_anon_prepare+0x68/0x94
[<105a8b34>] do_wp_page+0x8cc/0xf10
[<105aad88>] handle_mm_fault+0x6c0/0xf08
[<10425568>] do_page_fault+0x110/0x440
[<10427938>] handle_interruption+0x184/0x748
[<11178398>] schedule+0x4c/0x190
BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#0, ifconfig/2420
lock: terminate_lock.2+0x0/0x1c, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: ifconfig/2420, .owner_cpu: 0
While creating the stack trace, the unwinder uses the stack pointer to guess
the previous frame to read the previous stack pointer from memory. The crash
happens, because the unwinder tries to read from unaligned memory and as such
triggers the unalignment trap handler which then leads to the spinlock
recursion and finally to a deadlock.
Fix it by checking the alignment before accessing the memory.
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.12+
In wide mode, the IASQ contain the upper part of the GVA
during interruption. This needs to be reversed before
the space is used - otherwise it contains parts of IAOQ.
See Page 2-13 "Processing Resources / Interruption Instruction
Address Queues" in the Parisc 2.0 Architecture Manual page 2-13
for an explanation.
The IAOQ/IASQ space_adjust was skipped for other interruptions
than itlb misses. However, the code in handle_interruption()
checks whether iasq[0] contains a valid space. Due to the not
masked out bits this match failed and the process was killed.
Also add space_adjust for IAOQ1/IASQ1 so ptregs contains sane values.
Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.0+
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
When the kernel leaves to userspace via syscall_restore_rfi(), the
W bit is not set in the new PSW. This doesn't cause any problems
because there's no 64 bit userspace for parisc. Simple static binaries
are usually loaded at addresses way below the 32 bit limit so the W bit
doesn't matter.
Fix this by setting the W bit when TIF_32BIT is not set.
Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Pull parisc updates from Helge Deller:
"Minor enhancements and fixes, specifically:
- report emulation and alignment faults via perf
- add initial kernel-side support for perf_events
- small initialization fixes in the parisc firmware layer
- adjust TC* constants and avoid referencing termio structs to avoid
userspace build errors"
* tag 'parisc-for-6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
parisc: Fix iodc and device path return values on old machines
parisc: Firmware: Fix returned path for PDC_MODULE_FIND on older machines
parisc: Add initial kernel-side perf_event support
parisc: Report software alignment faults via perf
parisc: Report emulation faults via perf
parisc: don't reference obsolete termio struct for TC* constants
parisc: Remove spurious if statement from raw_copy_from_user()
Older machines may not fully initialize the return values when asking for IODC
and device path data when building the inventory. Work around possible
firmware leaks by proper initialization of the variables.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Older machines (like my 715/64) don't correctly initialize the
device path when returning from the PDC_MODULE_FIND firmware call.
Work around that shortcoming by initializing the path with the
known values.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from Kairui Song improves
performance and reduces the failure rate of swap cluster allocation
- "support large align and nid in Rust allocators" from Vitaly Wool
permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large alignment when
perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs
- "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from Yueyang Pan extend
DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets for virtual
address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters
- "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock" from Suren
Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of
/proc/pid/maps
- "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache checking" from Kairui Song
performs some cleanup in the swap code
- "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David Hildenbrand provides
code cleanup in the pagemap code
- "add persistent huge zero folio support" from Pankaj Raghav provides
a block layer speedup by optionalls making the
huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount
falls to zero
- "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a few touchups to
the recently added Kexec Handover feature
- "mm: make mm->flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all arches" from Lorenzo
Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To end the constant
struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with 64-bit's
needs
- "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li cleans up some swap
code
- "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip unsupported tests" from
Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests code
- "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised"
from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes to opt-out of
THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other workloads on the
system".
It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations
- "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox gets us started on
the memdesc project. Please see
https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and
https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc
- "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from Chi Zhiling
improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path
- "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi Yan improves our
folio splitting selftest code
- "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang adds some rmap
selftests
- "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig removes that
function and converts its two remaining callers
- "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain fixes some UFFD
selftests issues
- "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris Burkov introduces
the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these permits btrfs to
account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather than to the
cgroups of random inappropriate tasks
- "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some pageblock handling" from
Wei Yang provides some readability improvements to the page allocator
code
- "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae Park teaches DAMON
to understand arm32 highmem
- "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for vma/maple tests" from
Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and deduplication under
tools/testing/
- "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from Liam Howlett fixes
a couple of 32-bit issues in tools/testing/radix-tree.c
- "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific
implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN arch-specific
initialization code into a common arch-neutral implementation
- "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes zspool - an
indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing
(zsmalloc)
- "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from Pasha Tatashin makes a
couple of cleanups in the fork code
- "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand makes rather a lot of
adjustments at various nth_page() callsites, eventually permitting
the removal of that undesirable helper function
- "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from Yeoreum Yun
creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that architecture's
memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode KASAN is
suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only
- "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation" from Kefeng Wang does
some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code
- "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer parameters" from Max
Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API functions more accurate
about the constness of their arguments. This was getting in the way
of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they attempt to improving
their own const/non-const accuracy
- "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola fixes a number of
code sites which were confused over when to use free_pages() vs
__free_pages()
- "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice Ryhl makes the
mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau and by its
forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver
- "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test: split_pte_mapped_thp
improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and some cleanups to
the thp selftesting code
- "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache (phase I)" from Chris
Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the path to implementing
"swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation and state tracking
which is expected to yield speed and space improvements. This
patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit in some situations
- "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes the new memdesc
layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little
- "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from Chunyu Hu fixes some
issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code
- "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from Suren Baghdasaryan
addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new memory
allocation profiling feature
- "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few cleanups in
preparation for more memdesc work
- "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" from
Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in furtherance of supporting
arm highmem
- "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix warnings" from Muhammad
Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code and fixes the
fallout, by removing dead code
- "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM Reaper Traversal
Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements in the OOM
killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim threads so
they can release resources
- "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18" from SeongJae Park
is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON
- "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization check function" from
SeongJae Park implement reliability and maintainability improvements
to a recently-added bug fix
- "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and non-idle ages" from
SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to userspace clients
of the DAMON_STAT information
- "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse" from Dev Jain removes
some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of anon VMAs. It also
increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against an anon vma
- "mm: do not assume file == vma->vm_file in compat_vma_mmap_prepare()"
from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards removal of
file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon clearing up
the treatment of stacked filesystems
- "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from Kiryl Shutsemau
provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking of large
folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate
- "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters during fork" from
Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats inaccuracies across
forks and adds selftest code to verify these counters
- "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei Yang addresses
some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's mm_slot handling
* tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (372 commits)
mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA
mm: convert folio_page() back to a macro
mm/khugepaged: use start_addr/addr for improved readability
hugetlbfs: skip VMAs without shareable locks in hugetlb_vmdelete_list
alloc_tag: fix boot failure due to NULL pointer dereference
mm: silence data-race in update_hiwater_rss
mm/memory-failure: don't select MEMORY_ISOLATION
mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot
mm/ksm: get mm_slot by mm_slot_entry() when slot is !NULL
hugetlb: increase number of reserving hugepages via cmdline
selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging_pages counter
mm/ksm: fix incorrect KSM counter handling in mm_struct during fork
drivers/base/node: fix double free in register_one_node()
mm: remove PMD alignment constraint in execmem_vmalloc()
mm/memory_hotplug: fix typo 'esecially' -> 'especially'
mm/rmap: improve mlock tracking for large folios
mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround
mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault()
mm/rmap: mlock large folios in try_to_unmap_one()
mm/rmap: fix a mlock race condition in folio_referenced_one()
...
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Core scheduler changes:
- Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline, to improve performance
(Menglong Dong)
- Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line (Peter Zijlstra)
- Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig (Peter Zijlstra)
Fair scheduling:
- Defer throttling to when tasks exit to user-space, to reduce the
chance & impact of throttle-preemption with held locks and other
resources (Aaron Lu, Valentin Schneider)
- Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl->cpumask(), as the
warning was getting triggered on certain topologies (Peter
Zijlstra)
Misc cleanups & fixes:
- Header cleanups (Menglong Dong)
- Fix race in push_dl_task() (Harshit Agarwal)"
* tag 'sched-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched: Fix some typos in include/linux/preempt.h
sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline
rcu: Replace preempt.h with sched.h in include/linux/rcupdate.h
arch: Add the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS to all the asm-offsets.c
sched/fair: Do not balance task to a throttled cfs_rq
sched/fair: Do not special case tasks in throttled hierarchy
sched/fair: update_cfs_group() for throttled cfs_rqs
sched/fair: Propagate load for throttled cfs_rq
sched/fair: Get rid of throttled_lb_pair()
sched/fair: Task based throttle time accounting
sched/fair: Switch to task based throttle model
sched/fair: Implement throttle task work and related helpers
sched/fair: Add related data structure for task based throttle
sched: Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig
sched: Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line
sched/fair: Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl->cpumask()
sched/deadline: Fix race in push_dl_task()
The include/generated/asm-offsets.h is generated in Kbuild during
compiling from arch/SRCARCH/kernel/asm-offsets.c. When we want to
generate another similar offset header file, circular dependency can
happen.
For example, we want to generate a offset file include/generated/test.h,
which is included in include/sched/sched.h. If we generate asm-offsets.h
first, it will fail, as include/sched/sched.h is included in asm-offsets.c
and include/generated/test.h doesn't exist; If we generate test.h first,
it can't success neither, as include/generated/asm-offsets.h is included
by it.
In x86_64, the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS is used to avoid such circular
dependency. We can generate asm-offsets.h first, and if the
COMPILE_OFFSETS is defined, we don't include the "generated/test.h".
And we define the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS for all the asm-offsets.c for this
purpose.
Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong <dongml2@chinatelecom.cn>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Patch series "Add and use memdesc_flags_t".
At some point struct page will be separated from struct slab and struct
folio. This is a step towards that by introducing a type for the 'flags'
word of all three structures. This gives us a certain amount of type
safety by establishing that some of these unsigned longs are different
from other unsigned longs in that they contain things like node ID,
section number and zone number in the upper bits. That lets us have
functions that can be easily called by anyone who has a slab, folio or
page (but not easily by anyone else) to get the node or zone.
There's going to be some unusual merge problems with this as some odd bits
of the kernel decide they want to print out the flags value or something
similar by writing page->flags and now they'll need to write page->flags.f
instead. That's most of the churn here. Maybe we should be removing
these things from the debug output?
This patch (of 11):
Wrap the unsigned long flags in a typedef. In upcoming patches, this will
provide a strong hint that you can't just pass a random unsigned long to
functions which take this as an argument.
[willy@infradead.org: s/flags/flags.f/ in several architectures]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aKMgPRLD-WnkPxYm@casper.infradead.org
[nicola.vetrini@gmail.com: mips: fix compilation error]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+G9fYvkpmqGr6wjBNHY=dRp71PLCoi2341JxOudi60yqaeUdg@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250825214245.1838158-1-nicola.vetrini@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250805172307.1302730-1-willy@infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250805172307.1302730-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
With the introduction of clone3 in commit 7f192e3cd3 ("fork: add
clone3") the effective bit width of clone_flags on all architectures was
increased from 32-bit to 64-bit, with a new type of u64 for the flags.
However, for most consumers of clone_flags the interface was not
changed from the previous type of unsigned long.
While this works fine as long as none of the new 64-bit flag bits
(CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND and CLONE_INTO_CGROUP) are evaluated, this is still
undesirable in terms of the principle of least surprise.
Thus, this commit fixes all relevant interfaces of the copy_thread
function that is called from copy_process to consistently pass
clone_flags as u64, so that no truncation to 32-bit integers occurs on
32-bit architectures.
Signed-off-by: Simon Schuster <schuster.simon@siemens-energy.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250901-nios2-implement-clone3-v2-3-53fcf5577d57@siemens-energy.com
Fixes: c5febea095 ("fork: Pass struct kernel_clone_args into copy_thread")
Acked-by: Guo Ren (Alibaba Damo Academy) <guoren@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> # sparc
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> # m68k
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Pull parisc updates from Helge Deller:
- The parisc kernel wrongly allows reading from read-protected
userspace memory without faulting, e.g. when userspace uses
mprotect() to read-protect a memory area and then uses a pointer to
this memory in a write(2, addr, 1) syscall.
To fix this issue, Dave Anglin developed a set of patches which use
the proberi assembler instruction to additionally check read access
permissions at runtime.
- Randy Dunlap contributed two patches to fix a minor typo and to
explain why a 32-bit compiler is needed although a 64-bit kernel is
built
* tag 'parisc-for-6.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
parisc: Revise __get_user() to probe user read access
parisc: Revise gateway LWS calls to probe user read access
parisc: Drop WARN_ON_ONCE() from flush_cache_vmap
parisc: Try to fixup kernel exception in bad_area_nosemaphore path of do_page_fault()
parisc: Define and use set_pte_at()
parisc: Rename pte_needs_flush() to pte_needs_cache_flush() in cache.c
parisc: Check region is readable by user in raw_copy_from_user()
parisc: Update comments in make_insert_tlb
parisc: Makefile: explain that 64BIT requires both 32-bit and 64-bit compilers
parisc: Makefile: fix a typo in palo.conf
Pull execve updates from Kees Cook:
- Introduce regular REGSET note macros arch-wide (Dave Martin)
- Remove arbitrary 4K limitation of program header size (Yin Fengwei)
- Reorder function qualifiers for copy_clone_args_from_user() (Dishank Jogi)
* tag 'execve-v6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (25 commits)
fork: reorder function qualifiers for copy_clone_args_from_user
binfmt_elf: remove the 4k limitation of program header size
binfmt_elf: Warn on missing or suspicious regset note names
xtensa: ptrace: Use USER_REGSET_NOTE_TYPE() to specify regset note names
um: ptrace: Use USER_REGSET_NOTE_TYPE() to specify regset note names
x86/ptrace: Use USER_REGSET_NOTE_TYPE() to specify regset note names
sparc: ptrace: Use USER_REGSET_NOTE_TYPE() to specify regset note names
sh: ptrace: Use USER_REGSET_NOTE_TYPE() to specify regset note names
s390/ptrace: Use USER_REGSET_NOTE_TYPE() to specify regset note names
riscv: ptrace: Use USER_REGSET_NOTE_TYPE() to specify regset note names
powerpc/ptrace: Use USER_REGSET_NOTE_TYPE() to specify regset note names
parisc: ptrace: Use USER_REGSET_NOTE_TYPE() to specify regset note names
openrisc: ptrace: Use USER_REGSET_NOTE_TYPE() to specify regset note names
nios2: ptrace: Use USER_REGSET_NOTE_TYPE() to specify regset note names
MIPS: ptrace: Use USER_REGSET_NOTE_TYPE() to specify regset note names
m68k: ptrace: Use USER_REGSET_NOTE_TYPE() to specify regset note names
LoongArch: ptrace: Use USER_REGSET_NOTE_TYPE() to specify regset note names
hexagon: ptrace: Use USER_REGSET_NOTE_TYPE() to specify regset note names
csky: ptrace: Use USER_REGSET_NOTE_TYPE() to specify regset note names
arm64: ptrace: Use USER_REGSET_NOTE_TYPE() to specify regset note names
...
We use load and stbys,e instructions to trigger memory reference
interruptions without writing to memory. Because of the way read
access support is implemented, read access interruptions are only
triggered at privilege levels 2 and 3. The kernel and gateway
page execute at privilege level 0, so this code never triggers
a read access interruption. Thus, it is currently possible for
user code to execute a LWS compare and swap operation at an
address that is read protected at privilege level 3 (PRIV_USER).
Fix this by probing read access rights at privilege level 3 and
branching to lws_fault if access isn't allowed.
Signed-off-by: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.12+
The local name used in cache.c conflicts the declaration in
include/asm-generic/tlb.h.
Signed-off-by: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.12+
