Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"Things have calmed down a bit on the docs front, with no earthshaking
changes this time around:
- Ongoing work on the Japanese and Portuguese translations
- Better integration of the MAINTAINERS file into the rendered
documents, including a search interface
- A seemingly infinite supply of fixes for typos, minor grammatical
issues, and related problems that LLMs find with abandon"
* tag 'docs-7.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux: (93 commits)
docs: pt_BR: Translate 3.Early-stage.rst into Portuguese
docs: pt_BR: update "Purpose of Defconfigs" section in maintainer-soc.rst
Documentation: bug-hunting.rst: fix grammar
docs/ja_JP: translate submitting-patches.rst (interleaved-replies)
docs: Fix minor grammatical error
docs/{it_it,sp_SP,zh_CN,zh_TW}: update references to removed CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB
Documentation: process: fix brackets
Documentation: arch: fix brackets
docs/dyndbg: explain flags parse 1st
docs/dyndbg: update examples \012 to \n
docs: kernel-parameters: Fix stale sticore file paths
docs: real-time: Fix duplicated sched(7) text
docs: kgdb: Fix stale source file paths
docs: sonypi: Fix stale header file path
docs: kernel-parameters: Remove sa1100ir IrDA parameter
iommu: Documentation: rearrange, update kernel-parameters
docs: md: fix grammar in speed_limit description
docs: changes.rst: restore pahole 1.26 minimum (regressed by sort)
Documentation: Fix syntax of kmalloc_objs example in coding style doc
docs: pt_BR: update maintainer-handbooks
...
Pull Kbuild / Kconfig updates from Nathan Chancellor:
"Kbuild:
- Remove broken module linking exclusion for BTF
- Add documentation around how offset header files work
- Include unstripped vDSO libraries in pacman packages
- Bump minimum version of LLVM for building the kernel to 17.0.1 and
clean up unnecessary workarounds
- Use a context manager in run-clang-tools
- Add dist macro value if present to release tag for RPM packages
- Detect and report truncated buf_printf() output in modpost
- Add __llvm_covfun and __llvm_covmap to section whitelist in modpost
- Support Clang's distributed ThinLTO mode
- Remove architecture specific configurations for AutoFDO and
Propeller to ease individual architecture maintenance
Kconfig:
- Add kconfig-sym-check target to look for dangling Kconfig symbol
references and invalid tristate literal values
- Harden against potential NULL pointer dereference
- Fix typo in Kconfig test comment"
* tag 'kbuild-7.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux: (31 commits)
kconfig: tests: fix typo in comment
kconfig: Remove the architecture specific config for Propeller
kconfig: Remove the architecture specific config for AutoFDO
modpost: Add __llvm_covfun and __llvm_covmap to section_white_list
kconfig: add kconfig-sym-check static checker
kbuild: Remove unnecessary 'T' modifier in cmd_ar_builtin_fixup
kbuild: distributed build support for Clang ThinLTO
kbuild: move vmlinux.a build rule to scripts/Makefile.vmlinux_a
scripts: modpost: detect and report truncated buf_printf() output
kbuild: rpm-pkg: append %{?dist} macro to Release tag
run-clang-tools: run multiprocessing.Pool as context manager
compiler-clang.h: Drop explicit version number from "all" diagnostic macro
compiler-clang.h: Remove __cleanup -Wunused-variable workaround
kbuild: Remove check for broken scoping with clang < 17 in CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT
x86/entry/vdso32: Remove conditional omission of '.cfi_offset eflags'
x86/module: Revert "Deal with GOT based stack cookie load on Clang < 17"
x86/build: Drop unnecessary '-ffreestanding' addition to KBUILD_CFLAGS
scripts/Makefile.warn: Drop -Wformat handling for clang < 16
riscv: Drop tautological condition from TOOLCHAIN_NEEDS_OLD_ISA_SPEC
riscv: Remove tautological condition from selection of ARCH_SUPPORTS_CFI
...
Update two file paths that became stale when kgdb/kdb sources
were reorganized:
- kernel/debugger/debug_core.c -> kernel/debug/debug_core.c
- drivers/char/kdb_keyboard.c -> kernel/debug/kdb/kdb_keyboard.c
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6
Signed-off-by: Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260531140207.4114764-1-costa.shul@redhat.com>
Commit 9edd04c418 ("docs: Raise minimum pahole version to 1.26 for
KF_IMPLICIT_ARGS kfuncs") raised the minimum required pahole version
from 1.22 to 1.26 in the requirements table and added a paragraph
explaining the failure mode for distributions still shipping pahole
v1.25 (e.g. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS).
The next day, commit ece7e57afd ("docs: changes.rst and ver_linux:
sort the lists") came through a different tree (docs vs sched_ext) and
re-flowed the table alphabetically, but its base did not include
9edd04c418. When the two commits met in mainline, the textual rewrite
of the table won and the version bump was lost. The added "Since Linux
7.0..." paragraph also disappeared.
The result is that changes.rst on master (v7.1-rc5) lists pahole 1.22
again, even though sched_ext kfuncs annotated with KF_IMPLICIT_ARGS
genuinely require v1.26 to produce a correct vmlinux BTF. Users on
distributions with pahole v1.25 hit "func_proto incompatible with
vmlinux" when loading any sched_ext BPF program (scx_simple,
scx_qmap, ...) and have no documentation pointing them at the version
gap.
Restore both changes from 9edd04c418.
Fixes: ece7e57afd ("docs: changes.rst and ver_linux: sort the lists")
Signed-off-by: Zhan Xusheng <zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260526022033.1301884-1-zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com>
The first parameter should match the variable that the allocated memory
is assigned to. Fix the example accordingly, the one for kmalloc_obj got
it right already.
Fixes: 7c6d969d53 ("Documentation: adopt new coding style of type-aware kmalloc-family")
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260529081006.2019687-2-ukleinek@kernel.org>
The current minimum version of LLVM for building the kernel is 15.0.0.
However, there are two deficiencies compared to GCC that were fixed in
LLVM 17 that are starting to become more noticeable.
The first was a bug in LLVM's scope checker [1], where all labels in a
function were validated as potential targets of an asm goto statement,
even if they were not listed in the asm goto statement as targets. This
becomes particularly problematic when the cleanup attribute is used, as
asm goto(... : label_a);
...
label_a:
...
int var __free(foo);
asm goto(... : label_b);
...
label_b:
...
will trigger an error since the scope checker will complain that the
cleanup variable would be skipped when jumping from the first asm goto
to label_b (which obviously cannot happen). This issue was the catalyst
for commit e2ffa15b9b ("kbuild: Disable CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT on
clang < 17"). Unfortunately, this issue is reproducible with regular asm
goto in addition to asm goto with outputs, so that change was not
entirely sufficient to avoid the issue altogether. As asm goto has
effectively been required since commit a0a12c3ed0 ("asm goto:
eradicate CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO") and the usage of the cleanup attribute
continues to grow across the tree, raising the minimum to a version that
avoids this issue altogether is a better long term solution than
attempting to workaround it at every spot where it happens.
The second issue is an incompatibility with GCC 8.1+ around variables
marked with const being valid constant expressions for _Static_assert
and other macros [2]. With GCC 8.1 being the minimum supported version
since commit 118c40b7b5 ("kbuild: require gcc-8 and binutils-2.30"),
this incompatibility becomes more of a maintenance burden since only
clang-15 and clang-16 are affected by it.
Looking at the clang version of various major distributions through
Docker images, no one should be left behind as a result of this bump, as
the old ones cannot clear the current minimum of 15.0.0.
archlinux:latest clang version 22.1.3
debian:oldoldstable-slim Debian clang version 11.0.1-2
debian:oldstable-slim Debian clang version 14.0.6
debian:stable-slim Debian clang version 19.1.7 (3+b1)
debian:testing-slim Debian clang version 21.1.8 (3+b1)
debian:unstable-slim Debian clang version 21.1.8 (7+b1)
fedora:42 clang version 20.1.8 (Fedora 20.1.8-4.fc42)
fedora:latest clang version 21.1.8 (Fedora 21.1.8-4.fc43)
fedora:44 clang version 22.1.1 (Fedora 22.1.1-2.fc44)
fedora:rawhide clang version 22.1.3 (Fedora 22.1.3-1.fc45)
opensuse/leap:latest clang version 17.0.6
opensuse/tumbleweed:latest clang version 21.1.8
ubuntu:jammy Ubuntu clang version 14.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
ubuntu:noble Ubuntu clang version 18.1.3 (1ubuntu1)
ubuntu:questing Ubuntu clang version 20.1.8 (0ubuntu4)
ubuntu:resolute Ubuntu clang version 21.1.8 (6ubuntu1)
17.0.1 is chosen as the minimum instead of 17.0.0 to ensure that the
particular version of LLVM 17 has the two aforementioned bugs fixed, as
the second was fixed during the 17.0.0 release candidate phase and it
was not until LLVM 18 that LLVM adopted the scheme of x.0.0 being a
prerelease version and x.1.0 is a release version [3] to help with
scenarios such as this.
Link: f023f5cdb2 [1]
Link: 0b2d5b967d [2]
Link: 4532617ae4 [3]
Acked-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260517-bump-minimum-supported-llvm-version-to-17-v2-1-b3b8cda46bdd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Common understanding of word "Reviewer" is: a person performing a review
work [1]. Tools are not persons, thus cannot be reviewers in this term.
Also tools cannot make statements and cannot take responsibility for the
review.
Our docs already clearly mark that "Reviewed-by" must come from a
person:
- "By offering my Reviewed-by: tag, I state that:"
Usage of first person "I" and word "state"
- "A Reviewed-by tag is *a statement of opinion* that the patch is an
appropriate modification of the kernel without any remaining serious"
Only a person can make a statement of opinion.
- "Any interested reviewer (who has done the work) can offer a
Reviewed-by"
A person can offer a tag thus above does not grant the tool
permission to offer a tag.
However this might not be enough, so let's clarify that only a person
with a known identity can state the "Reviewer's statement of oversight".
Link: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reviewer [1]
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260520154846.162170-2-krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>
The threat-model document says that only users with CAP_SYS_ADMIN can carry
out a number of admin-level tasks, but there are numerous capabilities that
can confer that sort of power. Generalize the text slightly to make it
clear that CAP_SYS_ADMIN is not the only all-powerful capability.
Acked-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Rather than make readers search for this document, just a link to it where
it is referenced.
(While I was at it, I removed the unused and unneeded _threatmodel label
from the top of threat-model.rst).
Acked-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
AI tools are increasingly used to assist in bug discovery. While these
tools can identify valid issues, reports that are submitted without
manual verification often lack context, contain speculative impact
assessments, or include unnecessary formatting. Such reports increase
triage effort, waste maintainers' time and may be ignored.
Reports where the reporter has verified the issue and the proposed fix
typically meet quality standards. This documentation outlines specific
requirements for length, formatting, and impact evaluation to reduce
the effort needed to deal with these reports.
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260509094755.2838-4-w@1wt.eu>
The use of automated tools to find bugs in random locations of the kernel
induces a raise of security reports even if most of them should just be
reported as regular bugs. This patch is an attempt at drawing a line
between what qualifies as a security bug and what does not, hoping to
improve the situation and ease decision on the reporter's side.
It defers the enumeration to a new file, threat-model.rst, that tries
to enumerate various classes of issues that are and are not security
bugs. This should permit to more easily update this file for various
subsystem-specific rules without having to revisit the security bug
reporting guide.
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260509094755.2838-3-w@1wt.eu>
With the increase of automated reports, the security team is dealing
with way more messages than really needed. The reporting process works
well with most teams so there is no need to systematically involve the
security team in reports.
Let's suggest to keep it for small lists of recipients and new reporters
only. This should continue to cover the risk of lost messages while
reducing the volume from prolific reporters.
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260509094755.2838-2-w@1wt.eu>
Pull SPDX update from Greg KH:
"Here is a single SPDX-like change for 7.1-rc1. It explicitly allows
the use of SPDX-FileCopyrightText which has been used already in many
files.
At the same time, update checkpatch to catch any "non allowed" spdx
identifiers as we don't want to go overboard here.
This has been in linux-next for a long time with no reported problems"
* tag 'spdx-7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/spdx:
LICENSES: Explicitly allow SPDX-FileCopyrightText
Pull networking fixes from Jakub Kicinski:
"Including fixes from Netfilter.
Steady stream of fixes. Last two weeks feel comparable to the two
weeks before the merge window. Lots of AI-aided bug discovery. A newer
big source is Sashiko/Gemini (Roman Gushchin's system), which points
out issues in existing code during patch review (maybe 25% of fixes
here likely originating from Sashiko). Nice thing is these are often
fixed by the respective maintainers, not drive-bys.
Current release - new code bugs:
- kconfig: MDIO_PIC64HPSC should depend on ARCH_MICROCHIP
Previous releases - regressions:
- add async ndo_set_rx_mode and switch drivers which we promised to
be called under the per-netdev mutex to it
- dsa: remove duplicate netdev_lock_ops() for conduit ethtool ops
- hv_sock: report EOF instead of -EIO for FIN
- vsock/virtio: fix MSG_PEEK calculation on bytes to copy
Previous releases - always broken:
- ipv6: fix possible UAF in icmpv6_rcv()
- icmp: validate reply type before using icmp_pointers
- af_unix: drop all SCM attributes for SOCKMAP
- netfilter: fix a number of bugs in the osf (OS fingerprinting)
- eth: intel: fix timestamp interrupt configuration for E825C
Misc:
- bunch of data-race annotations"
* tag 'net-7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (148 commits)
rxrpc: Fix error handling in rxgk_extract_token()
rxrpc: Fix re-decryption of RESPONSE packets
rxrpc: Fix rxrpc_input_call_event() to only unshare DATA packets
rxrpc: Fix missing validation of ticket length in non-XDR key preparsing
rxgk: Fix potential integer overflow in length check
rxrpc: Fix conn-level packet handling to unshare RESPONSE packets
rxrpc: Fix potential UAF after skb_unshare() failure
rxrpc: Fix rxkad crypto unalignment handling
rxrpc: Fix memory leaks in rxkad_verify_response()
net: rds: fix MR cleanup on copy error
m68k: mvme147: Make me the maintainer
net: txgbe: fix firmware version check
selftests/bpf: check epoll readiness during reuseport migration
tcp: call sk_data_ready() after listener migration
vhost_net: fix sleeping with preempt-disabled in vhost_net_busy_poll()
ipv6: Cap TLV scan in ip6_tnl_parse_tlv_enc_lim
tipc: fix double-free in tipc_buf_append()
llc: Return -EINPROGRESS from llc_ui_connect()
ipv4: icmp: validate reply type before using icmp_pointers
selftests/net: packetdrill: cover RFC 5961 5.2 challenge ACK on both edges
...
Common mistake in commit messages of patches on mailing list adding
CONFIG options to arm/multi_v7 or arm64/defconfig is saying what that
patch is doing, e.g. "Enable driver foo". That is obvious from the diff
part, thus explaining it does not bring any value. What brings value is
to understand why "driver foo" should be in a shared, upstream
defconfig, especially considering that distros have their own defconfigs
and we do not care about non-upstream trees.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260413074401.27282-4-krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Pull media updates from Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
- new CSI tegra support, covering Tegra20 and Tegra30
- new camera sensor drivers: T4ka3 and ov2732
- m88ds3103: add 3103c chip support
- uvcvideo: add support for Intel RealSense D436/D555 and P010 pixel format
- synopsys csi2rx: add i.MX93 support
- imx8-isi: add i.MX95 support
- imx8mq-mipi-csi2: add i.MX8ULP support
- dw100: add V4L2 requests support
- support for DTV devices from Hauppauge got some improvements
- media staging: dropped starfive-camss driver
- media docs: document multi-committers model and improve maint profile
- media core:
- add v4l2_subdev_get_frame_desc_passthrough() helper
- improve error handling in fwnode parsing
- lots of driver fixes, cleanups and improvements
* tag 'media/v7.1-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (251 commits)
Revert "media: cx231xx: add USB ID 2040:8360 for Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-935"
media: synopsys: csi2rx: add i.MX93 support
media: dt-bindings: add NXP i.MX93 compatible string
media: synopsys: csi2rx: Use enum and u32 array for register offsets
media: synopsys: csi2rx: implement .get_frame_desc() callback
media: synopsys: csi2rx: only check errors from devm_clk_bulk_get_all()
media: synopsys: csi2rx: use devm_reset_control_get_optional_exclusive()
media: i2c: imx283: add support for non-continuous MIPI clock mode
media: i2c: ov08d10: add support for 24 MHz input clock
media: i2c: ov08d10: add support for reset and power management
media: i2c: ov08d10: add support for binding via device tree
dt-bindings: media: i2c: document Omnivision OV08D10 CMOS image sensor
media: i2c: ov08d10: add missing newline to prints
media: i2c: ov08d10: fix some typos in comments
media: i2c: ov08d10: remove duplicate register write
media: i2c: ov08d10: fix image vertical start setting
media: i2c: ov08d10: fix runtime PM handling in probe
staging: media: ipu7: Update TODO
media: Add t4ka3 camera sensor driver
media: i2c: Add ov2732 image sensor driver
...
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core & protocols:
- Support HW queue leasing, allowing containers to be granted access
to HW queues for zero-copy operations and AF_XDP
- Number of code moves to help the compiler with inlining. Avoid
output arguments for returning drop reason where possible
- Rework drop handling within qdiscs to include more metadata about
the reason and dropping qdisc in the tracepoints
- Remove the rtnl_lock use from IP Multicast Routing
- Pack size information into the Rx Flow Steering table pointer
itself. This allows making the table itself a flat array of u32s,
thus making the table allocation size a power of two
- Report TCP delayed ack timer information via socket diag
- Add ip_local_port_step_width sysctl to allow distributing the
randomly selected ports more evenly throughout the allowed space
- Add support for per-route tunsrc in IPv6 segment routing
- Start work of switching sockopt handling to iov_iter
- Improve dynamic recvbuf sizing in MPTCP, limit burstiness and avoid
buffer size drifting up
- Support MSG_EOR in MPTCP
- Add stp_mode attribute to the bridge driver for STP mode selection.
This addresses concerns about call_usermodehelper() usage
- Remove UDP-Lite support (as announced in 2023)
- Remove support for building IPv6 as a module. Remove the now
unnecessary function calling indirection
Cross-tree stuff:
- Move Michael MIC code from generic crypto into wireless, it's
considered insecure but some WiFi networks still need it
Netfilter:
- Switch nft_fib_ipv6 module to no longer need temporary dst_entry
object allocations by using fib6_lookup() + RCU.
Florian W reports this gets us ~13% higher packet rate
- Convert IPVS's global __ip_vs_mutex to per-net service_mutex and
switch the service tables to be per-net. Convert some code that
walks the service lists to use RCU instead of the service_mutex
- Add more opinionated input validation to lower security exposure
- Make IPVS hash tables to be per-netns and resizable
Wireless:
- Finished assoc frame encryption/EPPKE/802.1X-over-auth
- Radar detection improvements
- Add 6 GHz incumbent signal detection APIs
- Multi-link support for FILS, probe response templates and client
probing
- New APIs and mac80211 support for NAN (Neighbor Aware Networking,
aka Wi-Fi Aware) so less work must be in firmware
Driver API:
- Add numerical ID for devlink instances (to avoid having to create
fake bus/device pairs just to have an ID). Support shared devlink
instances which span multiple PFs
- Add standard counters for reporting pause storm events (implement
in mlx5 and fbnic)
- Add configuration API for completion writeback buffering (implement
in mana)
- Support driver-initiated change of RSS context sizes
- Support DPLL monitoring input frequency (implement in zl3073x)
- Support per-port resources in devlink (implement in mlx5)
Misc:
- Expand the YAML spec for Netfilter
Drivers
- Software:
- macvlan: support multicast rx for bridge ports with shared
source MAC address
- team: decouple receive and transmit enablement for IEEE 802.3ad
LACP "independent control"
- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- support high order pages in zero-copy mode (for payload
coalescing)
- support multiple packets in a page (for systems with 64kB
pages)
- Broadcom 25-400GE (bnxt):
- implement XDP RSS hash metadata extraction
- add software fallback for UDP GSO, lowering the IOMMU cost
- Broadcom 800GE (bnge):
- add link status and configuration handling
- add various HW and SW statistics
- Marvell/Cavium:
- NPC HW block support for cn20k
- Huawei (hinic3):
- add mailbox / control queue
- add rx VLAN offload
- add driver info and link management
- Ethernet NICs:
- Marvell/Aquantia:
- support reading SFP module info on some AQC100 cards
- Realtek PCI (r8169):
- add support for RTL8125cp
- Realtek USB (r8152):
- support for the RTL8157 5Gbit chip
- add 2500baseT EEE status/configuration support
- Ethernet NICs embedded and off-the-shelf IP:
- Synopsys (stmmac):
- cleanup and reorganize SerDes handling and PCS support
- cleanup descriptor handling and per-platform data
- cleanup and consolidate MDIO defines and handling
- shrink driver memory use for internal structures
- improve Tx IRQ coalescing
- improve TCP segmentation handling
- add support for Spacemit K3
- Cadence (macb):
- support PHYs that have inband autoneg disabled with GEM
- support IEEE 802.3az EEE
- rework usrio capabilities and handling
- AMD (xgbe):
- improve power management for S0i3
- improve TX resilience for link-down handling
- Virtual:
- Google cloud vNIC:
- support larger ring sizes in DQO-QPL mode
- improve HW-GRO handling
- support UDP GSO for DQO format
- PCIe NTB:
- support queue count configuration
- Ethernet PHYs:
- automatically disable PHY autonomous EEE if MAC is in charge
- Broadcom:
- add BCM84891/BCM84892 support
- Micrel:
- support for LAN9645X internal PHY
- Realtek:
- add RTL8224 pair order support
- support PHY LEDs on RTL8211F-VD
- support spread spectrum clocking (SSC)
- Maxlinear:
- add PHY-level statistics via ethtool
- Ethernet switches:
- Maxlinear (mxl862xx):
- support for bridge offloading
- support for VLANs
- support driver statistics
- Bluetooth:
- large number of fixes and new device IDs
- Mediatek:
- support MT6639 (MT7927)
- support MT7902 SDIO
- WiFi:
- Intel (iwlwifi):
- UNII-9 and continuing UHR work
- MediaTek (mt76):
- mt7996/mt7925 MLO fixes/improvements
- mt7996 NPU support (HW eth/wifi traffic offload)
- Qualcomm (ath12k):
- monitor mode support on IPQ5332
- basic hwmon temperature reporting
- support IPQ5424
- Realtek:
- add USB RX aggregation to improve performance
- add USB TX flow control by tracking in-flight URBs
- Cellular:
- IPA v5.2 support"
* tag 'net-next-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1561 commits)
net: pse-pd: fix kernel-doc function name for pse_control_find_by_id()
wireguard: device: use exit_rtnl callback instead of manual rtnl_lock in pre_exit
wireguard: allowedips: remove redundant space
tools: ynl: add sample for wireguard
wireguard: allowedips: Use kfree_rcu() instead of call_rcu()
MAINTAINERS: Add netkit selftest files
selftests/net: Add additional test coverage in nk_qlease
selftests/net: Split netdevsim tests from HW tests in nk_qlease
tools/ynl: Make YnlFamily closeable as a context manager
net: airoha: Add missing PPE configurations in airoha_ppe_hw_init()
net: airoha: Fix VIP configuration for AN7583 SoC
net: caif: clear client service pointer on teardown
net: strparser: fix skb_head leak in strp_abort_strp()
net: usb: cdc-phonet: fix skb frags[] overflow in rx_complete()
selftests/bpf: add test for xdp_master_redirect with bond not up
net, bpf: fix null-ptr-deref in xdp_master_redirect() for down master
net: airoha: Remove PCE_MC_EN_MASK bit in REG_FE_PCE_CFG configuration
sctp: disable BH before calling udp_tunnel_xmit_skb()
sctp: fix missing encap_port propagation for GSO fragments
net: airoha: Rely on net_device pointer in ETS callbacks
...
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"A busier cycle than I had expected for docs, including:
- Translations: some overdue updates to the Japanese translations,
Chinese translations for some of the Rust documentation, and the
beginnings of a Portuguese translation.
- New documents covering CPU isolation, managed interrupts, debugging
Python gbb scripts, and more.
- More tooling work from Mauro, reducing docs-build warnings, adding
self tests, improving man-page output, bringing in a proper C
tokenizer to replace (some of) the mess of kernel-doc regexes, and
more.
- Update and synchronize changes.rst and scripts/ver_linux, and put
both into alphabetical order.
... and a long list of documentation updates, typo fixes, and general
improvements"
* tag 'docs-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux: (162 commits)
Documentation: core-api: real-time: correct spelling
doc: Add CPU Isolation documentation
Documentation: Add managed interrupts
Documentation: seq_file: drop 2.6 reference
docs/zh_CN: update rust/index.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: update rust/quick-start.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: update rust/coding-guidelines.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: update rust/arch-support.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: sync process/2.Process.rst with English version
docs/zh_CN: fix an inconsistent statement in dev-tools/testing-overview
tracing: Documentation: Update histogram-design.rst for fn() handling
docs: sysctl: Add documentation for /proc/sys/xen/
Docs: hid: intel-ish-hid: make long URL usable
Documentation/kernel-parameters: fix architecture alignment for pt, nopt, and nobypass
sched/doc: Update yield_task description in sched-design-CFS
Documentation/rtla: Convert links to RST format
docs: fix typos and duplicated words across documentation
docs: fix typo in zoran driver documentation
docs: add an Assisted-by mention to submitting-patches.rst
Revert "scripts/checkpatch: add Assisted-by: tag validation"
...
Pull Rust updates from Miguel Ojeda:
"Toolchain and infrastructure:
- Bump the minimum Rust version to 1.85.0 (and 'bindgen' to 0.71.1).
As proposed in LPC 2025 and the Maintainers Summit [1], we are
going to follow Debian Stable's Rust versions as our minimum
versions.
Debian Trixie was released on 2025-08-09 with a Rust 1.85.0 and
'bindgen' 0.71.1 toolchain, which is a fair amount of time for e.g.
kernel developers to upgrade.
Other major distributions support a Rust version that is high
enough as well, including:
+ Arch Linux.
+ Fedora Linux.
+ Gentoo Linux.
+ Nix.
+ openSUSE Slowroll and openSUSE Tumbleweed.
+ Ubuntu 25.10 and 26.04 LTS. In addition, 24.04 LTS using
their versioned packages.
The merged patch series comes with the associated cleanups and
simplifications treewide that can be performed thanks to both
bumps, as well as documentation updates.
In addition, start using 'bindgen''s '--with-attribute-custom-enum'
feature to set the 'cfi_encoding' attribute for the 'lru_status'
enum used in Binder.
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/1050174/ [1]
- Add experimental Kconfig option ('CONFIG_RUST_INLINE_HELPERS') that
inlines C helpers into Rust.
Essentially, it performs a step similar to LTO, but just for the
helpers, i.e. very local and fast.
It relies on 'llvm-link' and its '--internalize' flag, and requires
a compatible LLVM between Clang and 'rustc' (i.e. same major
version, 'CONFIG_RUSTC_CLANG_LLVM_COMPATIBLE'). It is only enabled
for two architectures for now.
The result is a measurable speedup in different workloads that
different users have tested. For instance, for the null block
driver, it amounts to a 2%.
- Support global per-version flags.
While we already have per-version flags in many places, we didn't
have a place to set global ones that depend on the compiler
version, i.e. in 'rust_common_flags', which sometimes is needed to
e.g. tweak the lints set per version.
Use that to allow the 'clippy::precedence' lint for Rust < 1.86.0,
since it had a change in behavior.
- Support overriding the crate name and apply it to Rust Binder,
which wanted the module to be called 'rust_binder'.
- Add the remaining '__rust_helper' annotations (started in the
previous cycle).
'kernel' crate:
- Introduce the 'const_assert!' macro: a more powerful version of
'static_assert!' that can refer to generics inside functions or
implementation bodies, e.g.:
fn f<const N: usize>() {
const_assert!(N > 1);
}
fn g<T>() {
const_assert!(size_of::<T>() > 0, "T cannot be ZST");
}
In addition, reorganize our set of build-time assertion macros
('{build,const,static_assert}!') to live in the 'build_assert'
module.
Finally, improve the docs as well to clarify how these are
different from one another and how to pick the right one to use,
and their equivalence (if any) to the existing C ones for extra
clarity.
- 'sizes' module: add 'SizeConstants' trait.
This gives us typed 'SZ_*' constants (avoiding casts) for use in
device address spaces where the address width depends on the
hardware (e.g. 32-bit MMIO windows, 64-bit GPU framebuffers, etc.),
e.g.:
let gpu_heap = 14 * u64::SZ_1M;
let mmio_window = u32::SZ_16M;
- 'clk' module: implement 'Send' and 'Sync' for 'Clk' and thus
simplify the users in Tyr and PWM.
- 'ptr' module: add 'const_align_up'.
- 'str' module: improve the documentation of the 'c_str!' macro to
explain that one should only use it for non-literal cases (for the
other case we instead use C string literals, e.g. 'c"abc"').
- Disallow the use of 'CStr::{as_ptr,from_ptr}' and clean one such
use in the 'task' module.
- 'sync' module: finish the move of 'ARef' and 'AlwaysRefCounted'
outside of the 'types' module, i.e. update the last remaining
instances and finally remove the re-exports.
- 'error' module: clarify that 'from_err_ptr' can return 'Ok(NULL)',
including runtime-tested examples.
The intention is to hopefully prevent UB that assumes the result of
the function is not 'NULL' if successful. This originated from a
case of UB I noticed in 'regulator' that created a 'NonNull' on it.
Timekeeping:
- Expand the example section in the 'HrTimer' documentation.
- Mark the 'ClockSource' trait as unsafe to ensure valid values for
'ktime_get()'.
- Add 'Delta::from_nanos()'.
'pin-init' crate:
- Replace the 'Zeroable' impls for 'Option<NonZero*>' with impls of
'ZeroableOption' for 'NonZero*'.
- Improve feature gate handling for unstable features.
- Declutter the documentation of implementations of 'Zeroable' for
tuples.
- Replace uses of 'addr_of[_mut]!' with '&raw [mut]'.
rust-analyzer:
- Add type annotations to 'generate_rust_analyzer.py'.
- Add support for scripts written in Rust ('generate_rust_target.rs',
'rustdoc_test_builder.rs', 'rustdoc_test_gen.rs').
- Refactor 'generate_rust_analyzer.py' to explicitly identify host
and target crates, improve readability, and reduce duplication.
And some other fixes, cleanups and improvements"
* tag 'rust-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ojeda/linux: (79 commits)
rust: sizes: add SizeConstants trait for device address space constants
rust: kernel: update `file_with_nul` comment
rust: kbuild: allow `clippy::precedence` for Rust < 1.86.0
rust: kbuild: support global per-version flags
rust: declare cfi_encoding for lru_status
docs: rust: general-information: use real example
docs: rust: general-information: simplify Kconfig example
docs: rust: quick-start: remove GDB/Binutils mention
docs: rust: quick-start: remove Nix "unstable channel" note
docs: rust: quick-start: remove Gentoo "testing" note
docs: rust: quick-start: add Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and remove subsection title
docs: rust: quick-start: update minimum Ubuntu version
docs: rust: quick-start: update Ubuntu versioned packages
docs: rust: quick-start: openSUSE provides `rust-src` package nowadays
rust: kbuild: remove "dummy parameter" workaround for `bindgen` < 0.71.1
rust: kbuild: update `bindgen --rust-target` version and replace comment
rust: rust_is_available: remove warning for `bindgen` < 0.69.5 && libclang >= 19.1
rust: rust_is_available: remove warning for `bindgen` 0.66.[01]
rust: bump `bindgen` minimum supported version to 0.71.1 (Debian Trixie)
rust: block: update `const_refs_to_static` MSRV TODO comment
...
We now require disclosure of the use of coding assistants, but our core
submitting-patches document does not mention that. Add a brief mention
with a pointer to Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <877bqtlzug.fsf@trenco.lwn.net>
In previous patch "Documentation: clarify the mandatory and desirable
info for security reports" I left two typos that I didn't detect in local
checks. One is "get_maintainers.pl" (no 's' in the script name), and the
other one is a missing closing quote after "Reported-by", which didn't
have effect here but I don't know if it can break rendering elsewhere
(e.g. on the public HTML page). Better fix it before it gets merged.
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260404082033.5160-1-w@1wt.eu
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
A significant part of the effort of the security team consists in begging
reporters for patch proposals, or asking them to provide them in regular
format, and most of the time they're willing to provide this, they just
didn't know that it would help. So let's add a section detailing the
required and desirable contents in a security report to help reporters
write more actionable reports which do not require round trips.
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260403062018.31080-4-w@1wt.eu
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
These days, 80% of the work done by the security team consists in
locating the affected subsystem in a report, running get_maintainers on
it, forwarding the report to these persons and responding to the reporter
with them in Cc. This is a huge and unneeded overhead that we must try to
lower for a better overall efficiency. This patch adds a complete section
explaining how to figure the list of recipients to send the report to.
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260403062018.31080-3-w@1wt.eu
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sort the lists of tools in both scripts/ver_linux and
Documentation/process/changes.rst into alphabetical order, facilitating
comparison between the two.
Signed-off-by: Manuel Ebner <manuelebner@mailbox.org>
[jc: rewrote changelog]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260325194811.78509-2-manuelebner@mailbox.org>
Some of the entries in both Documentation/process/changes.rst and
script/ver_linux were obsolete; update them to reflect the current way of
getting version information.
Many were missing altogether; add the relevant information for:
bash, bc, bindgen, btrfs-progs, Clang, gdb, GNU awk, GNU tar,
GRUB, GRUB2, gtags, iptables, kmod, mcelog, mkimage, openssl,
pahole, Python, Rust, Sphinx, squashfs-tools
Signed-off-by: Manuel Ebner <manuelebner@mailbox.org>
[jc: rewrote changelog]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20260325194616.78093-2-manuelebner@mailbox.org>
Sources already have SPDX-FileCopyrightText (~40 instances) and more
appear on the mailing list, so document that it is allowed. On the
other hand SPDX defines several other tags like SPDX-FileType, so add
checkpatch rule to narrow desired tags only to two of them - license and
copyright. That way no new tags would sneak in to the kernel unnoticed.
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The library to create tests for both NIC HW and netdevsim has existed
for almost a year. netdevsim-only tests we get increasingly feel like
a waste, we should try to write tests that work both on netdevsim and
real HW. Refine the guidance accordingly.
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260304151647.2770466-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Add additional quotes from Linus while trimming the existing ones and
sorting them all into categories. That makes it easier for new
developers and maintainers to look up how Linus expects certain
situations wrt regressions to be handled. The earlier sections in the
document already explain this, but those parts are often questioned --
or not considered authoritative at all and plainly ignored. Having it
straight from the horse's mouth helps get everyone on the same page,
even if that makes the document quite a bit longer (the raw line count
of this section doubles, but the number of characters increases by
nearly 50%). In return, this covers a lot more aspects and, due to the
sub-headings, is easier to navigate.
In contrast to the more neutral description in the early sections of the
document, this also provides a better insight into how serious Linus is
about the "no regressions" rule and how he wants it to be interpreted in
practice; this makes it easier for new developers and maintainers to
understand things and prevent run-ins with higher-level maintainers.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <c825d7981e1badb22d15f3f6fc9c95001a017f09.1771833924.git.linux@leemhuis.info>
The media profile documentation will point to kernel.org sign.
Add a link to it.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
Somehow people got into the habit of putting labels at the tops of
documentation files, even when they are not used. It is better to just
give the name of a file when linking to the whole thing; remove the label
and update the references accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
