Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"One of the 'small improvements all over the place' releases for us.
It's hard to draw any direct comparisons because summer vacations
disrupted our patch processing (and presumably - generation) quite a
bit.
Quick and dirty count suggests we (Paolo and I) merged a very similar
number of net (632) and net-next (648) patches. This is not telling
the full story either because 1/3 to 1/2 of the net-next patches also
*seem* like AI-driven low priority fixes, cleanups and clarifications.
We are completely overwhelmed, of course. The glimmer of hope is that
we secured sufficient LLM budget and access (thank you Meta!) to run
reviews with multiple frontier models on each patch. This eliminates
some hallucinations. That said, in terms of review, the LLMs can only
do so much.
The sad truth is that our APIs (especially for rare events like PCIe
errors, timeouts etc) have always been racy, and now LLMs don't let us
ignore that. I expect our direction for the next release will be to
tweak the reviews a little bit more, but start shifting focus to
letting the LLMs take care of the busy work - managing patchwork,
automating common process complaints, editing commit messages, and
maybe applying patches which already got "reviewed-by" tags from
people we trust...
Core & protocols:
- A few steps lowering rtnl_lock dependence:
- per-netns netdev unregistration for select SW drivers (e.g.
veth, ipvlan, tunnels)
- rtnl_lock-less FIB rule changes (RTM_NEWRULE and RTM_DELRULE)
- prepare software drivers and TC qdiscs for rtnl_lock-less GET
- Support BIG TCP (>64kB TSO) in UDP tunnels (vxlan, geneve)
- Support buffers larger than PAGE_SIZE in devmem zero-copy API
- Improve MPTCP handling of extreme memory pressure handling, when
out-of-order queue had to be pruned
- Report the per-group user count via RTM_GETMULTICAST
- Expose the route deletion reason in RTM_DELROUTE
- Add a SO_RIGHTS_NOTRUNC option to UNIX sockets to enable more
useful handling of LSM denials when receiving SCM_RIGHTS messages:
instead of truncating the message at the first blocked fd, keep
every fd slot and store the LSM errno in the blocked slot
- IPv6 Segment Routing - support looking up the post-encap SID
(address) in a different/specified routing table
- Support PRP RedBox (interlink) creation
- Support per-nexthop UDP dst port in VXLAN
- Continue converting getsockopt callbacks in a number of protocols
to iov_iter
Ethernet:
- Merge initial CXL support for AMD/Solarflare NICs (shared branch
with the CXL tree)
- New drivers:
- ADIN1140 10BASE-T1S MACPHY
- Initial skeleton of Intel iXD and ZTE Dinghai drivers
- High-speed NICs:
- AMD/Pensando:
- support firmware flashing
- Cisco (enic):
- SR-IOV V2 admin channel and MBOX protocol
- Huawei (hns3):
- support for ethtool pfc_prevention_tout
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- support sharing bandwidth control across interfaces
of the same device
- Marvell (octeontx2-pf):
- link RQ page pools to netdev for Netlink stats
- Google vNIC:
- XDP metadata support for DQ RDA
- Microsoft vNIC:
- support forcing full-page RX buffers
- Other NICs:
- Synopsys IP:
- eic7700: support for eth1
- Microchip (lan743x):
- support for RMII interface
- Wangxun:
- support for ethtool -G and -C for VFs
- add Tx timeout and PCIe error handling
- Intel (igb/igc):
- RSS key get/set support
- support for forcing link speed without auto-negotiation
- Switches:
- NXP (dpaa2):
- support bonding/LAG offload
- Mediatek:
- mt7530: EN7528 support
- initial support for MT7628
- Micrel (ksz8/9):
- refactoring work to move towards library model
- PTP support for KSZ8463
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- support rtnl-lock-less ethtool callbacks
- Realtek:
- rtl8366rb: use generic RTL83xx code
- support SGMII and HSGMII for RTL8367S
- PHYs:
- Airoha:
- EcoNet EN7528 PHY support
- DAPU Telecom
- DAPU Telecom DAP8211R(I) Gigabit PHY support
- Realtek:
- support RTL8261C_CG
- support RTL8261D
Wireless:
- nl80211: per-link statistics support for multi-link operation
- mac80211: AQL/airtime-fairness support for multicast
- Merge Peripheral Authentication Service (PAS) / TEE support for
ath12k (shared branch with the firmware/qcom tree)
- New drivers:
- mm81x for Morse Micro Long-Range S1G devices
- nxpwifi for NXP devices (mostly forked off from mwifiex)
- Driver changes:
- Broadcom (brcmfmac):
- DPP support, some Cypress part update
- MediaTek (mt76):
- mt7928 support
- mt7925 NAN support
- mt7996 AP powersave improvements
- Qualcomm (ath12k):
- much kernel infrastructure integration work
- AHB platform MultiPD support
- Realtek (rt89):
- LED support
- RTL8922DE support
- dual-BT coex for RTL8922D
- Intel:
- new FW version support
Bluetooth:
- HCI: add support for Shorter Connection Interval (SCI) feature
- af_bluetooth: add minimal context analysis annotations
- Driver changes:
- Intel:
- add Bluetooth SAR revision 2 support
- add vendor_reset PCI sysfs for PLDR
- Mediatek:
- add USB IDs for MT7902 and MT7922 devices
- Realtek:
- add USB IDs for 8761CU and 8852BE devices
- NXP:
- add M.2 Bluetooth device support using pwrseq
Misc:
- DPLL support for manual/numerical oscillator control (NCO)
(implement in zl3073x)
- MCTP support for MCTP over USB v1.1 (DMTF DSP0283)
- Power-over-Ethernet: support Realtek PSE controllers
- Remove the IBM EHEA driver
- Remove tulip/xircom_cb driver"
* tag 'net-next-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1433 commits)
net/mlx5e: do not HW-GRO coalesce small frames
net: openvswitch: fix nf_connlabels leak in ovs_ct_init
net: add missing ref_tracker_dir_exit() to alloc_netdev_mqs()
net: openvswitch: fix flow mask use-after-free on flow deletion
sctp: stop processing a packet once its association is deleted
dpll: zl3073x: add PTP clock support
dpll: zl3073x: add channel ToD, phase step and TIE operations
dpll: zl3073x: scale poll interval proportionally to timeout
ptp: vmclock: prevent read-only mappings from becoming writable
ipv4: reject undersized MTUs in ip_do_fragment()
bonding: initialize err for empty target lists
net: dsa: initial support for MT7628 embedded switch
net: dsa: initial MT7628 tagging driver
net: phy: mediatek: add phy driver for MT7628 built-in Fast Ethernet PHYs
dt-bindings: net: dsa: add MT7628 ESW
net: pse-pd: realtek-pse-mcu: add UART transport
net: pse-pd: realtek-pse-mcu: add I2C transport
net: pse-pd: add Realtek PSE MCU core
dt-bindings: net: pse-pd: add bindings for Realtek PSE MCU
vsock: use sock_error() to consume sk_err after a failed connect
...
Pull bpf updates from Daniel Borkmann:
"Major changes:
- Redesign the verifier error reporting: failures now carry source
and instruction annotations along with the causal event history
that led to them, making program rejections far easier to debug and
repair (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi)
- Add arena argument support to kfuncs and struct_ops through the new
__arena and __arena__nullable suffixes (Tejun Heo, Puranjay Mohan,
Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi, Ihor Solodrai)
- Signed BPF program loader rework to accommodate both BPF and
security community needs where the kernel runs the signature
verification at BPF_PROG_LOAD time before the LSM admission hook
(Daniel Borkmann)
- Add a set of ksock kfuncs which let BPF LSM and syscall programs
create, connect and send on UDP sockets in order to emit telemetry
data (Mahe Tardy)
- Unify helper and kfunc call argument verification and classify
kfunc arguments purely from BTF into a generated bpf_func_proto
which is computed once at add-call time (Amery Hung)
Other features and fixes:
- Enable EXECMEM_ROX_CACHE for BPF allocations on x86 (Mike Rapoport)
- Add bidirectional VLAN support to bpf_fib_lookup() through the new
BPF_FIB_LOOKUP_VLAN and BPF_FIB_LOOKUP_VLAN_INPUT flags (Avinash
Duduskar)
- Infer zext_dst from static register liveness analysis to fix 32-bit
zero-extension semantics, and remove the artificial limitations on
pointer types eligible for spilling (Eduard Zingerman)
- Inline the numeric open-coded iterator kfuncs so that bpf_for()
loops no longer pay a kfunc call on every iteration (Puranjay
Mohan)
- Add an arena-based bitmap data structure to libarena along with
serial and parallel selftests (Emil Tsalapatis)
- Teach resolve_btfids to discover kfuncs from the kernel's BTF ID
sets and to emit kfunc BTF decl tags, reducing the kernel build's
dependency on pahole features (Ihor Solodrai)
- Add BPF_F_ADJ_ROOM_DECAP_* flags to bpf_skb_adjust_room() so that
tunnel decapsulation can update the GSO and encapsulation state of
the skb (Nick Hudson)
- Fix the ring buffer pending_pos walk and the available-data
accounting on 32-bit position wrap (Israel Téllez García)
- Add memory usage accounting for arena maps and fix an mmap_lock
deadlock on arena lock failure (Jiayuan Chen)
- Add tracing_multi link info support to the kernel UAPI and bpftool,
and refactor the stack map code to run with preemption disabled
(Jiri Olsa)
- Support BPF_F_EGRESS in bpf_redirect_peer() to emit the skb in the
egress direction of the target's peer device (Jordan Rife)
- Add a KF_SPINLOCK_SAFE kfunc flag so that providers, in particular
modules, can declare kfuncs safe to call under bpf_spin_lock
instead of relying on the verifier's hard-coded allowlist (Kaitao
Cheng)
- Introduce global percpu data for BPF programs with libbpf probing
and bpftool skeleton support, and stop exposing uninitialized
kernel heap memory when copying per-CPU map values (Leon Hwang)
- Add s390 JIT support for load-acquire and store-release
instructions (Maxim Khmelevskii)
- Fix a CFI mismatch in the task work callback and an arm64 KASAN
false positive after bpf_throw() (Mykyta Yatsenko)
- Reject writes through untrusted BTF pointers and bound the
rdonly/rdwr_buf_size kfunc arguments (Nicholas Dudar)
- Invalidate RCU pointers only after the final spin unlock and
account for preempt and IRQ disabled regions as overlapping RCU
protection (Ning Ding)
- Support mixing bpf2bpf calls and tail calls on RV64, add signed
operations and 32-bit atomics to the RV32 JIT, and add timed
may_goto support (Pu Lehui, Kuan-Wei Chiu, Feng Jiang)
- Fix a use-after-free on mm_struct in bpf_find_vma() for foreign
tasks and an mmap_lock leak in the irq_work path (Sanghyun Park)
- Populate mmap-able BPF array map memory lazily which makes mmap()
O(1) instead of proportional to the map size (Song Liu)
- Introduce a jit_required flag and reject programs with inlined
helpers when no JIT is available, where the interpreter would
otherwise jump into an invalid address (Tiezhu Yang)
- Fix the x86 JIT per-CPU address resolution into an extended
register where the REX prefix dropped the high destination register
bit (Vineet Gupta)
- Reject MEM_ALLOC BTF accesses past object bounds, arena frees below
the arena base, and mixed arena and ordinary atomic paths (Yiyang
Chen)
- Fix the trampoline handling of 128-bit arguments and of return
values larger than 8 bytes (Yonghong Song)
- Ensure that any fault prone load is rewritten with exception table
handling, and fix the arena load-acquire and atomic fetch handling
in the x86, arm64, riscv and s390 JITs (Daniel Borkmann)
- Many more fixes and cleanups across the verifier, arena,
trampolines, sockmap, cgroup, ring buffer, x86/arm64/riscv/s390
JITs, libbpf, bpftool, resolve_btfids and selftests"
* tag 'bpf-next-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (373 commits)
selftests/bpf: Add tests for a store on a fault prone qdisc pointer
selftests/bpf: Add tests for fault prone loads out of RCU pointers
selftests/bpf: Add tests for pointer type merge at a shared load
selftests/bpf: Remove duplicate copies of the arena spinlock qnodes
selftests/bpf: Retry stat generation in cgroup_iter_memcg
selftests/bpf: Test pseudo-function policy diagnostics
bpf: Distinguish function references in policy diagnostics
bpf: Preserve source attribution without source text
selftests/bpf: Test kfunc argument diagnostics
bpf: Correct kfunc argument diagnostics
bpf: Use canonical stack argument names in diagnostics
bpf: Preserve R0 lineage across helper calls
selftests/bpf: Exercise negative optlen in cgroup getsockopt hook
bpf: Reject negative optlen in cgroup getsockopt hook
selftests/bpf: tc_tunnel - validate decap GSO and encapsulation state
bpf: Clear decap state on skb_adjust_room shrink path
bpf: Allow new DECAP flags and add guard rails
bpf: Add BPF_F_ADJ_ROOM_DECAP_* flags for tunnel decapsulation
bpf: Refactor masks for ADJ_ROOM flags and encap validation
bpf: Name the enum for BPF_FUNC_skb_adjust_room flags
...
Pull devicetree updates from Rob Herring:
- Add a DT maintainer profile document
- Various dt-check-style improvements
- Add a devres managed reserved memory region init function
- Print node name on any skipped reserved memory regions
- Correctly handle optional argument in
of_parse_phandle_with_args_map()
- Convert ti,keystone-reset, ti,da850-vpif, TI L4 interconnect, TI
SmartReflex, microchip,pic32mzda-dmt, microchip,pic32mzda-wdt, TI
DA8XX MSTPRI bus, and Xen VM bindings to DT schema format
- Add bindings for StarFive JHB100 plic, Allwinner A733 NMI controller,
MediaTek MT8173 GPU, QCom Shikra, Eliza, and Maili cpu-bwmon, and
QCom Shikra SCM firmware
- A couple of syntax fixes found using PoC Rust implementation of
dtschema tools
- Clean-ups for typos, brackets, incorrect "::" usages, and
white-space style
* tag 'devicetree-for-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux: (40 commits)
dt-bindings: interconnect: qcom-bwmon: Add Maili cpu-bwmon compatible
dtc: dt-check-style: Simplify setting depth of DtsLine
dtc: dt-check-style: Add missing /dts-v1/ to few test cases
dt-bindings: power: reset: ti,keystone-reset: Convert to DT schema
media: dt-bindings: ti,da850-vpif: Convert to dt-schema
dt-bindings: devfreq: samsung,exynos-ppmu: Use standard regex syntax
dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: mediatek,mt6577-sysirq: Drop invalid JSON pointer
dt-bindings: arm: omap: Convert L4 interconnect to DT schema
dt-bindings: power: Convert TI SmartReflex to DT schema
of: reserved_mem: Introduce devres-managed initialization function
dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: Add StarFive JHB100 plic
dt-bindings: irq: sun7i-nmi: Document the Allwinner A733 NMI controller
dt-bindings: Correct white-space style
dt-bindings: fix typos and brackets
docs: dt: submitting-patches: Mention expectation about dt-check-style
docs: dt: maintainer: Add Devicetree and OF maintainer profile document
docs: dt: writing-schema: Extend expectations about example part of binding
dt-bindings: gpu: powervr-rogue: Add MediaTek MT8173 GPU
of: base: Handle optional argument in of_parse_phandle_with_args_map()
dt-bindings: update Sudeep Holla's email address
...
Pull SoC devicetree updates from Arnd Bergmann:
"There are two new mystery SoCs with very little public information
about them so far, Qualcomm's Cortex-A78C based "Shikra" and Altera's
Cortex-A720 based Agilex72 SOCFPGA.
We have also gained support for a couple of SoCs from the 2023/2024
timeframe that have been in the making for a while:
- The Apple platform gains support for M3 Pro, Max and Ultra SoC,
following the basic M3 support from 7.2.
- Samsung Exynos 1580 is a high-end mobile phone SoC from 2024
- Canaan K230 is a RISC-V based 64-bit AI SoC, based on the earlier
K210 chip
- Sophgo SG2000 is a mixed Arm/RISC-V chip that was already supported
using the Arm core but is now also added for RISC-V along with
several other variants of the cv18xx series
In terms of newly added machines we have reference platforms for all
the chips above, plus
- Only four 32-bit Arm boards: two older phones and two older
industrial/embedded boards; using Allwinner, Qualcomm and Rockchip
SoCs
- Three laptops und three phones using Qualcomm SoCs
- Ten 64-bit Rockchips based single-board computers, along with one
NAS box and a game console.
- Seven industrial/embedded boards and modules using NXP i.MX8/9
SoCs.
- A Lenovo desktop box based on NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX
- A few more single-board computers based on Allwinnner A133,
Spacemit K1 and TI AM62.
As usual, there is a constant stream of minor cleanups and fixes
towards addressing the 'dt-check-style --mode strict' warnings, and
everyone is expected to address those warnings for new submissions
now"
* tag 'soc-dt-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc: (864 commits)
Revert "riscv: dts: spacemit: k3: add i2s0-i2s5 nodes"
Documentation/process: maintainer-soc: Mention expectation about dt-check-style
ARM: dts: helios4: add SATA regulator supplies
ARM: dts: helios4: add vcc-supply to GPIO expander
ARM: dts: helios4: add vcc-supply to EEPROM
arm64: dts: turris-mox: fix usb3 phys
arm64: dts: ti: Correct white-space style
arm64: dts: ti: k3-am64: Fix MDIO clock reference for ICSSG0 node
arm64: dts: qcom: talos-evk: Fix swapped USB QMP PHY vdda-phy/vdda-pll supplies
arm64: dts: qcom: sa8155p-adp: Fix swapped USB and UFS QMP PHY vdda-phy/vdda-pll supplies
arm64: dts: qcom: eliza-mtp: Fix swapped USB QMP PHY vdda-phy/vdda-pll supplies
arm64: dts: qcom: lemans: Fix swapped USB QMP PHY vdda-phy/vdda-pll supplies
arm64: dts: qcom: glymur: Fix swapped USB QMP PHY vdda-phy/vdda-pll supplies
arm64: dts: qcom: kaanapali: Fix swapped USB QMP PHY vdda-phy/vdda-pll supplies
arm64: dts: qcom: sar2130p: Fix swapped USB QMP PHY vdda-phy/vdda-pll supplies
arm64: dts: qcom: sm8750: Fix swapped USB QMP PHY vdda-phy/vdda-pll supplies
arm64: dts: qcom: sm8650: Fix swapped USB QMP PHY vdda-phy/vdda-pll supplies
arm64: dts: qcom: purwa: Fix swapped USB QMP PHY vdda-phy/vdda-pll supplies
arm64: dts: qcom: hamoa: Fix swapped USB QMP PHY vdda-phy/vdda-pll supplies
arm64: dts: qcom: sc8180x: Fix swapped USB QMP PHY vdda-phy/vdda-pll supplies
...
The security team is still seeing a lot of reports lacking a full patch
and showing missing contents and formatting issues. Since AI assistants
tend to be better than humans at following instructions, let's defer to
coding-assistants.rst to follow mandatory steps, and insist on the plain
text format, as well as asking for recipient addresses and an e-mail
client setup hint to be mentioned early in the report for the reporter.
Also add a link to https://github.com/masoncl/kres.git which contains
way more advanced and detailed steps for those willing to go further.
Tested with Opus-5 and Qwen3.6-27B-Architect-Polaris2-Fable-B-F451, both
of which proceeded according to instructions.
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260802203540.3453-6-w@1wt.eu
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Due to the increasing capabilities of available AI models, it's becoming
common to see them used to find bugs anywhere. Unfortunately the quality
of reports (especially when they're believed to be security relevant) is
still lacking a lot.
Let's add a section dedicated to bug finding, explaining the few
mandatory steps (noting commit ID, writing the fix from the session that
found the bug, building and testing, etc). This was tested both against
Qwen3.6-27B-Architect-Polaris2-Fable-B-F451 running under Hermes, and
Opus-5, and both followed the instructions to the letter, verifying
their results and checking threat-model.rst to decline the vulnerability
aspect. At least in the current form it's expected to improve the
situation a little bit.
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260802203540.3453-5-w@1wt.eu
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Too often we're getting reports saying "still valid in latest mainline"
with no indication of when this was verified, making this indication
pointless. Let's clarify it and insist on having a version or commit ID,
and that the version must necessarily be for a kernel.org kernel and not
a distro one.
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260802203540.3453-4-w@1wt.eu
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
When originally writing the "fake USB device" entry, it was difficult
to find a suitable section for it and it ended up in "non production
use" but that doesn't fit particularly well. Actually it's very similar
to crafted filesystems, it's a matter of spec violation. Both drivers
and FS are written against a spec, and what the threat model doesn't
cover is out-of-spec use. So let's move the entry there and rename the
crafted FS entry to "Non-conforming devices and media" instead.
Overall it looks more consistent.
The spec was tested agains Qwen3.6-27B-Architect-Polaris2-Fable-B-F451,
Opus-5 and Gemini by reading the threat-model file, then reading a tens
of FS and driver fixes, and they were now all properly classified as
regular bugs, except two that Gemini and Opus rightfully classified as
vulns (Qwen didn't spot the security potential but that's out of our
scope).
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260802203540.3453-3-w@1wt.eu
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Throwing an LLM (Opus 5) at a file looking for random bugs after having
read the threat model made it ignore certain bugs it found because "the
threat model said they must be ignored". When asked why, the LLM
rightfully reported the ambiguous wording used at a few places:
"is not a security bug", which can also be read as "is not a bug",
despite the rest of the document. That is particularly true when the
LLM decides to look for info using grep.
This change replaces "security bug" with "vulnerability" at a few places
in order to remove this identified ambiguity, and uses "bugs" instead of
issues in two such sentences to insist that what is described remains a
bug.
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260802203540.3453-2-w@1wt.eu
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull more documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"A handful of late-arriving docs fixes, along with one document update
that fell through the cracks before"
* tag 'docs-7.2-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/docs/linux:
docs: tools: Fix typo 'ackward' to 'awkward' in unittest.rst
kdoc: xforms: ignore special static/inline macros
kdoc: xforms_lists: handle DECLARE_PER_CPU() in kernel-doc
MAINTAINERS: Fix regex for kdoc
docs: kgdb: Fix path of driver options
Documentation: tracing: fix typo in events documentation
Docs/driver-api/uio-howto: document mmap_prepare callback
docs/mm: clarify that we are not looking for LLM generated content
kernel-doc: xforms: support __SYSFS_FUNCTION_ALTERNATIVE()
strncpy() has been a persistent source of bugs due to its ambiguous
intended usage and frequently counter-intuitive semantics: it may not
NUL-terminate the destination, and it unconditionally zero-pads to the
full length, which isn't always needed. All former callers have been
migrated[1] to:
- strscpy() for NUL-terminated destinations
- strscpy_pad() for NUL-terminated destinations needing zero-padding
- strtomem_pad() for non-NUL-terminated fixed-width fields
- memcpy_and_pad() for bounded copies with explicit padding
- memcpy() for known-length copies
Remove the generic implementation, its declaration, the FORTIFY_SOURCE
wrapper, and associated tests.
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90 [1]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
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
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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"
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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
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