Pull ring-buffer fix from Steven Rostedt:
- Fix accounting of persistent ring buffer rewind
On boot up, the head page is moved back to the earliest point of the
saved ring buffer. This is because the ring buffer being read by user
space on a crash may not save the part it read. Rewinding the head
page back to the earliest saved position helps keep those events from
being lost.
The number of events is also read during boot up and displayed in the
stats file in the tracefs directory. It's also used for other
accounting as well. On boot up, the "reader page" is accounted for
but a rewind may put it back into the buffer and then the reader page
may be accounted for again.
Save off the original reader page and skip accounting it when
scanning the pages in the ring buffer.
* tag 'trace-ring-buffer-v7.1-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
ring-buffer: Do not double count the reader_page
Pull locking fixes from Ingo Molnar:
- Fix ww_mutex regression, which caused hangs/pauses in some DRM drivers
- Fix rtmutex proxy-rollback bug
* tag 'locking-urgent-2026-04-24' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
locking/mutex: Fix ww_mutex wait_list operations
rtmutex: Use waiter::task instead of current in remove_waiter()
Pull ring-buffer fix from Steven Rostedt:
- Make undefsyms_base.c into a real file
The file undefsyms_base.c is used to catch any symbols used by a
remote ring buffer that is made for use of a pKVM hypervisor. As it
doesn't share the same text as the rest of the kernel, referencing
any symbols within the kernel will make it fail to be built for the
standalone hypervisor.
A file was created by the Makefile that checked for any symbols that
could cause issues. There's no reason to have this file created by
the Makefile, just create it as a normal file instead.
* tag 'trace-ring-buffer-v7.1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
tracing: Make undefsyms_base.c a first-class citizen
Pull kgdb update from Daniel Thompson:
"Only a very small update for kgdb this cycle: a single patch from
Kexin Sun that fixes some outdated comments"
* tag 'kgdb-7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/danielt/linux:
kgdb: update outdated references to kgdb_wait()
Fix fprobe to unregister ftrace_ops if corresponding type of fprobe
does not exist on the fprobe_ip_table and it is expected to be empty
when unloading modules.
Since ftrace thinks that the empty hash means everything to be traced,
if we set fprobes only on the unloaded module, all functions are traced
unexpectedly after unloading module.
e.g.
# modprobe xt_LOG.ko
# echo 'f:test log_tg*' > dynamic_events
# echo 1 > events/fprobes/test/enable
# cat enabled_functions
log_tg [xt_LOG] (1) tramp: 0xffffffffa0004000 (fprobe_ftrace_entry+0x0/0x490) ->fprobe_ftrace_entry+0x0/0x490
log_tg_check [xt_LOG] (1) tramp: 0xffffffffa0004000 (fprobe_ftrace_entry+0x0/0x490) ->fprobe_ftrace_entry+0x0/0x490
log_tg_destroy [xt_LOG] (1) tramp: 0xffffffffa0004000 (fprobe_ftrace_entry+0x0/0x490) ->fprobe_ftrace_entry+0x0/0x490
# rmmod xt_LOG
# wc -l enabled_functions
34085 enabled_functions
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/177669368776.132053.10042301916765771279.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com/
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
The function kgdb_wait() was folded into the static function
kgdb_cpu_enter() by commit 62fae31219 ("kgdb: eliminate
kgdb_wait(), all cpus enter the same way"). Update the four stale
references accordingly:
- include/linux/kgdb.h and arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c: the
kgdb_roundup_cpus() kdoc describes what other CPUs are rounded up
to call. Because kgdb_cpu_enter() is static, the correct public
entry point is kgdb_handle_exception(); also fix a pre-existing
grammar error ("get them be" -> "get them into") and reflow the
text.
- kernel/debug/debug_core.c: replace with the generic description
"the debug trap handler", since the actual entry path is
architecture-specific.
- kernel/debug/gdbstub.c: kgdb_cpu_enter() is correct here (it
describes internal state, not a call target); add the missing
parentheses.
Suggested-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel@riscstar.com>
Assisted-by: unnamed:deepseek-v3.2 coccinelle
Signed-off-by: Kexin Sun <kexinsun@smail.nju.edu.cn>
Commit 2c67dc457b ("tracing: fprobe: optimization for entry only case")
introduced a different ftrace_ops for entry-only fprobes.
However, when unregistering an fprobe, the kernel only checks if another
fprobe exists at the same address, without checking which type of fprobe
it is.
If different fprobes are registered at the same address, the same address
will be registered in both fgraph_ops and ftrace_ops, but only one of
them will be deleted when unregistering. (the one removed first will not
be deleted from the ops).
This results in junk entries remaining in either fgraph_ops or ftrace_ops.
For example:
=======
cd /sys/kernel/tracing
# 'Add entry and exit events on the same place'
echo 'f:event1 vfs_read' >> dynamic_events
echo 'f:event2 vfs_read%return' >> dynamic_events
# 'Enable both of them'
echo 1 > events/fprobes/enable
cat enabled_functions
vfs_read (2) ->arch_ftrace_ops_list_func+0x0/0x210
# 'Disable and remove exit event'
echo 0 > events/fprobes/event2/enable
echo -:event2 >> dynamic_events
# 'Disable and remove all events'
echo 0 > events/fprobes/enable
echo > dynamic_events
# 'Add another event'
echo 'f:event3 vfs_open%return' > dynamic_events
cat dynamic_events
f:fprobes/event3 vfs_open%return
echo 1 > events/fprobes/enable
cat enabled_functions
vfs_open (1) tramp: 0xffffffffa0001000 (ftrace_graph_func+0x0/0x60) ->ftrace_graph_func+0x0/0x60 subops: {ent:fprobe_fgraph_entry+0x0/0x620 ret:fprobe_return+0x0/0x150}
vfs_read (1) tramp: 0xffffffffa0001000 (ftrace_graph_func+0x0/0x60) ->ftrace_graph_func+0x0/0x60 subops: {ent:fprobe_fgraph_entry+0x0/0x620 ret:fprobe_return+0x0/0x150}
=======
As you can see, an entry for the vfs_read remains.
To fix this issue, when unregistering, the kernel should also check if
there is the same type of fprobes still exist at the same address, and
if not, delete its entry from either fgraph_ops or ftrace_ops.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/177669367993.132053.10553046138528674802.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com/
Fixes: 2c67dc457b ("tracing: fprobe: optimization for entry only case")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
When register_fprobe_ips() fails, it tries to remove a list of
fprobe_hash_node from fprobe_ip_table, but it missed to remove
fprobe itself from fprobe_table. Moreover, when removing
the fprobe_hash_node which is added to rhltable once, it must
use kfree_rcu() after removing from rhltable.
To fix these issues, this reuses unregister_fprobe() internal
code to rollback the half-way registered fprobe.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/177669366417.132053.17874946321744910456.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com/
Fixes: 4346ba1604 ("fprobe: Rewrite fprobe on function-graph tracer")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
unregister_fprobe() can fail under memory pressure because of memory
allocation failure, but this maybe called from module unloading, and
usually there is no way to retry it. Moreover. trace_fprobe does not
check the return value.
To fix this problem, unregister fprobe and fprobe_hash_node even if
working memory allocation fails.
Anyway, if the last fprobe is removed, the filter will be freed.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/177669365629.132053.8433032896213721288.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com/
Fixes: 4346ba1604 ("fprobe: Rewrite fprobe on function-graph tracer")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
This odd file was added to automatically figure out tool-generated
symbols.
Honestly, it *should* have been just a real honest-to-goodness regular
file in git, instead of having strange code to generate it in the
Makefile, but that is not how that silly thing works. So now we need to
ignore it explicitly.
Fixes: 1211907ac0 ("tracing: Generate undef symbols allowlist for simple_ring_buffer")
Cc: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:
- Fix printk ring buffer initialization and sanity checks
- Workaround printf kunit test compilation with gcc < 12.1
- Add IPv6 address printf format tests
- Misc code and documentation cleanup
* tag 'printk-for-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux:
printf: Compile the kunit test with DISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING DISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING
lib/vsprintf: use bool for local decode variable
lib/hexdump: print_hex_dump_bytes() calls print_hex_dump_debug()
printk: ringbuffer: fix errors in comments
printk_ringbuffer: Add sanity check for 0-size data
printk_ringbuffer: Fix get_data() size sanity check
printf: add IPv6 address format tests
printk: Fix _DESCS_COUNT type for 64-bit systems
Pull timer fix from Ingo Molnar:
"Fix timer stalls caused by incorrect handling of the
dev->next_event_forced flag"
* tag 'timers-urgent-2026-04-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
clockevents: Add missing resets of the next_event_forced flag
remove_waiter() is used by the slowlock paths, but it is also used for
proxy-lock rollback in rt_mutex_start_proxy_lock() when invoked from
futex_requeue().
In the latter case waiter::task is not current, but remove_waiter()
operates on current for the dequeue operation. That results in several
problems:
1) the rbtree dequeue happens without waiter::task::pi_lock being held
2) the waiter task's pi_blocked_on state is not cleared, which leaves a
dangling pointer primed for UAF around.
3) rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain() operates on the wrong top priority waiter
task
Use waiter::task instead of current in all related operations in
remove_waiter() to cure those problems.
[ tglx: Fixup rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain(), add a comment and amend the
changelog ]
Fixes: 8161239a8b ("rtmutex: Simplify PI algorithm and make highest prio task get lock")
Reported-by: Yuan Tan <yuantan098@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Yifan Wu <yifanwucs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Juefei Pu <tomapufckgml@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Xin Liu <bird@lzu.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Keenan Dong <keenanat2000@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "Eliminate Dying Memory Cgroup" (Qi Zheng and Muchun Song)
Address the longstanding "dying memcg problem". A situation wherein a
no-longer-used memory control group will hang around for an extended
period pointlessly consuming memory
- "fix unexpected type conversions and potential overflows" (Qi Zheng)
Fix a couple of potential 32-bit/64-bit issues which were identified
during review of the "Eliminate Dying Memory Cgroup" series
- "kho: history: track previous kernel version and kexec boot count"
(Breno Leitao)
Use Kexec Handover (KHO) to pass the previous kernel's version string
and the number of kexec reboots since the last cold boot to the next
kernel, and print it at boot time
- "liveupdate: prevent double preservation" (Pasha Tatashin)
Teach LUO to avoid managing the same file across different active
sessions
- "liveupdate: Fix module unloading and unregister API" (Pasha
Tatashin)
Address an issue with how LUO handles module reference counting and
unregistration during module unloading
- "zswap pool per-CPU acomp_ctx simplifications" (Kanchana Sridhar)
Simplify and clean up the zswap crypto compression handling and
improve the lifecycle management of zswap pool's per-CPU acomp_ctx
resources
- "mm/damon/core: fix damon_call()/damos_walk() vs kdmond exit race"
(SeongJae Park)
Address unlikely but possible leaks and deadlocks in damon_call() and
damon_walk()
- "mm/damon/core: validate damos_quota_goal->nid" (SeongJae Park)
Fix a couple of root-only wild pointer dereferences
- "Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon: warn commit_inputs vs other params race"
(SeongJae Park)
Update the DAMON documentation to warn operators about potential
races which can occur if the commit_inputs parameter is altered at
the wrong time
- "Minor hmm_test fixes and cleanups" (Alistair Popple)
Bugfixes and a cleanup for the HMM kernel selftests
- "Modify memfd_luo code" (Chenghao Duan)
Cleanups, simplifications and speedups to the memfd_lou code
- "mm, kvm: allow uffd support in guest_memfd" (Mike Rapoport)
Support for userfaultfd in guest_memfd
- "selftests/mm: skip several tests when thp is not available" (Chunyu
Hu)
Fix several issues in the selftests code which were causing breakage
when the tests were run on CONFIG_THP=n kernels
- "mm/mprotect: micro-optimization work" (Pedro Falcato)
A couple of nice speedups for mprotect()
- "MAINTAINERS: update KHO and LIVE UPDATE entries" (Pratyush Yadav)
Document upcoming changes in the maintenance of KHO, LUO, memfd_luo,
kexec, crash, kdump and probably other kexec-based things - they are
being moved out of mm.git and into a new git tree
* tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-18-02-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (121 commits)
MAINTAINERS: add page cache reviewer
mm/vmscan: avoid false-positive -Wuninitialized warning
MAINTAINERS: update Dave's kdump reviewer email address
MAINTAINERS: drop include/linux/liveupdate from LIVE UPDATE
MAINTAINERS: drop include/linux/kho/abi/ from KHO
MAINTAINERS: update KHO and LIVE UPDATE maintainers
MAINTAINERS: update kexec/kdump maintainers entries
mm/migrate_device: remove dead migration entry check in migrate_vma_collect_huge_pmd()
selftests: mm: skip charge_reserved_hugetlb without killall
userfaultfd: allow registration of ranges below mmap_min_addr
mm/vmstat: fix vmstat_shepherd double-scheduling vmstat_update
mm/hugetlb: fix early boot crash on parameters without '=' separator
zram: reject unrecognized type= values in recompress_store()
docs: proc: document ProtectionKey in smaps
mm/mprotect: special-case small folios when applying permissions
mm/mprotect: move softleaf code out of the main function
mm: remove '!root_reclaim' checking in should_abort_scan()
mm/sparse: fix comment for section map alignment
mm/page_io: use sio->len for PSWPIN accounting in sio_read_complete()
selftests/mm: transhuge_stress: skip the test when thp not available
...
Pull memblock updates from Mike Rapoport:
- improve debuggability of reserve_mem kernel parameter handling with
print outs in case of a failure and debugfs info showing what was
actually reserved
- Make memblock_free_late() and free_reserved_area() use the same core
logic for freeing the memory to buddy and ensure it takes care of
updating memblock arrays when ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK is enabled.
* tag 'memblock-v7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rppt/memblock:
x86/alternative: delay freeing of smp_locks section
memblock: warn when freeing reserved memory before memory map is initialized
memblock, treewide: make memblock_free() handle late freeing
memblock: make free_reserved_area() update memblock if ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK=y
memblock: extract page freeing from free_reserved_area() into a helper
memblock: make free_reserved_area() more robust
mm: move free_reserved_area() to mm/memblock.c
powerpc: opal-core: pair alloc_pages_exact() with free_pages_exact()
powerpc: fadump: pair alloc_pages_exact() with free_pages_exact()
memblock: reserve_mem: fix end caclulation in reserve_mem_release_by_name()
memblock: move reserve_bootmem_range() to memblock.c and make it static
memblock: Add reserve_mem debugfs info
memblock: Print out errors on reserve_mem parser
Because liveupdate FLB objects will soon drop their persistent module
references when registered, list traversals must be protected against
concurrent module unloading.
To provide this protection, utilize the global luo_register_rwlock. It
protects the global registry of FLBs and the handler's specific list of
FLB dependencies.
Read locks are used during concurrent list traversals (e.g., during
preservation and serialization). Write locks are taken during
registration and unregistration.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260327033335.696621-5-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Samiullah Khawaja <skhawaja@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Because liveupdate file handlers will no longer hold a module reference
when registered, we must ensure that the access to the handler list is
protected against concurrent module unloading.
Utilize the global luo_register_rwlock to protect the global registry of
file handlers. Read locks are taken during list traversals in
luo_preserve_file() and luo_file_deserialize(). Write locks are taken
during registration and unregistration.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260327033335.696621-4-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Samiullah Khawaja <skhawaja@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The luo_flb_get_private() function, which is responsible for lazily
initializing the private state of FLB objects, can be called concurrently
from multiple threads. This creates a data race on the 'initialized' flag
and can lead to multiple executions of mutex_init() and INIT_LIST_HEAD()
on the same memory.
Introduce a static spinlock (luo_flb_init_lock) local to the function to
synchronize the initialization path. Use smp_load_acquire() and
smp_store_release() for memory ordering between the fast path and the slow
path.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260327033335.696621-3-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Samiullah Khawaja <skhawaja@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "liveupdate: Fix module unloading and unregister API", v3.
This patch series addresses an issue with how LUO handles module reference
counting and unregistration during a module unload (e.g., via rmmod).
Currently, modules that register live update file handlers are pinned for
the entire duration they are registered. This prevents the modules from
being unloaded gracefully, even when no live update session is in
progress.
Furthermore, if a module is forcefully unloaded, the unregistration
functions return an error (e.g. -EBUSY) if a session is active, which is
ignored by the kernel's module unload path, leaving dangling pointers in
the LUO global lists.
To resolve these issues, this series introduces the following changes:
1. Adds a global read-write semaphore (luo_register_rwlock) to protect
the registration lists for both file handlers and FLBs.
2. Reduces the scope of module reference counting for file handlers and
FLBs. Instead of pinning modules indefinitely upon registration,
references are now taken only when they are actively used in a live
update session (e.g., during preservation, retrieval, or
deserialization).
3. Removes the global luo_session_quiesce() mechanism since module
unload behavior now handles active sessions implicitly.
4. Introduces auto-unregistration of FLBs during file handler
unregistration to prevent leaving dangling resources.
5. Changes the unregistration functions to return void instead of
an error code.
6. Fixes a data race in luo_flb_get_private() by introducing a spinlock
for thread-safe lazy initialization.
7. Strengthens security by using %.*s when printing untrusted deserialized
compatible strings and session names to prevent out-of-bounds reads.
This patch (of 10):
Deserialized strings from KHO data (such as file handler compatible
strings and session names) are provided by the previous kernel and might
not be null-terminated if the data is corrupted or maliciously crafted.
When printing these strings in error messages, use the %.*s format
specifier with the maximum buffer size to prevent out-of-bounds reads into
adjacent kernel memory.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260327033335.696621-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260327033335.696621-2-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Samiullah Khawaja <skhawaja@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "liveupdate: prevent double preservation", v4.
Currently, LUO does not prevent the same file from being managed twice
across different active sessions.
Because LUO preserves files of absolutely different types: memfd, and
upcoming vfiofd [1], iommufd [2], guestmefd (and possible kvmfd/cpufd).
There is no common private data or guarantee on how to prevent that the
same file is not preserved twice beside using inode or some slower and
expensive method like hashtables.
This patch (of 4)
Currently, LUO does not prevent the same file from being managed twice
across different active sessions.
Use a global xarray luo_preserved_files to keep track of file identifiers
being preserved by LUO. Update luo_preserve_file() to check and insert
the file identifier into this xarray when it is preserved, and erase it in
luo_file_unpreserve_files() when it is released.
To allow handlers to define what constitutes a "unique" file (e.g.,
different struct file objects pointing to the same hardware resource), add
a get_id() callback to struct liveupdate_file_ops. If not provided, the
default identifier is the struct file pointer itself.
This ensures that the same file (or resource) cannot be managed by
multiple sessions. If another session attempts to preserve an already
managed file, it will now fail with -EBUSY.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260326163943.574070-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260326163943.574070-2-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260129212510.967611-1-dmatlack@google.com [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260203220948.2176157-1-skhawaja@google.com [2]
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Samiullah Khawaja <skhawaja@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Cc: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Use Kexec Handover (KHO) to pass the previous kernel's version string and
the number of kexec reboots since the last cold boot to the next kernel,
and print it at boot time.
Example output:
[ 0.000000] KHO: exec from: 6.19.0-rc4-next-20260107 (count 1)
Motivation
==========
Bugs that only reproduce when kexecing from specific kernel versions are
difficult to diagnose. These issues occur when a buggy kernel kexecs into
a new kernel, with the bug manifesting only in the second kernel.
Recent examples include the following commits:
* commit eb22663125 ("x86/boot: Fix page table access in
5-level to 4-level paging transition")
* commit 77d48d39e9 ("efistub/tpm: Use ACPI reclaim memory
for event log to avoid corruption")
* commit 64b45dd46e ("x86/efi: skip memattr table on kexec
boot")
As kexec-based reboots become more common, these version-dependent bugs
are appearing more frequently. At scale, correlating crashes to the
previous kernel version is challenging, especially when issues only occur
in specific transition scenarios.
Implementation
==============
The kexec metadata is stored as a plain C struct (struct
kho_kexec_metadata) rather than FDT format, for simplicity and direct
field access. It is registered via kho_add_subtree() as a separate
subtree, keeping it independent from the core KHO ABI. This design
choice:
- Keeps the core KHO ABI minimal and stable
- Allows the metadata format to evolve independently
- Avoids requiring version bumps for all KHO consumers (LUO, etc.)
when the metadata format changes
The struct kho_kexec_metadata contains two fields:
- previous_release: The kernel version that initiated the kexec
- kexec_count: Number of kexec boots since last cold boot
On cold boot, kexec_count starts at 0 and increments with each kexec. The
count helps identify issues that only manifest after multiple consecutive
kexec reboots.
[leitao@debian.org: call kho_kexec_metadata_init() for both boot paths]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260309-kho-v8-5-c3abcf4ac750@debian.org/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260409-kho_fix_merge_issue-v1-1-710c84ceaa85@debian.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260316-kho-v9-5-ed6dcd951988@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
kho_add_subtree() accepts a size parameter but only forwards it to
debugfs. The size is not persisted in the KHO FDT, so it is lost across
kexec. This makes it impossible for the incoming kernel to determine the
blob size without understanding the blob format.
Store the blob size as a "blob-size" property in the KHO FDT alongside the
"preserved-data" physical address. This allows the receiving kernel to
recover the size for any blob regardless of format.
Also extend kho_retrieve_subtree() with an optional size output parameter
so callers can learn the blob size without needing to understand the blob
format. Update all callers to pass NULL for the new parameter.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260316-kho-v9-3-ed6dcd951988@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "kho: history: track previous kernel version and kexec boot
count", v9.
Use Kexec Handover (KHO) to pass the previous kernel's version string and
the number of kexec reboots since the last cold boot to the next kernel,
and print it at boot time.
Example
=======
[ 0.000000] Linux version 6.19.0-rc3-upstream-00047-ge5d992347849
...
[ 0.000000] KHO: exec from: 6.19.0-rc4-next-20260107upstream-00004-g3071b0dc4498 (count 1)
Motivation
==========
Bugs that only reproduce when kexecing from specific kernel versions are
difficult to diagnose. These issues occur when a buggy kernel kexecs into
a new kernel, with the bug manifesting only in the second kernel.
Recent examples include:
* eb22663125 ("x86/boot: Fix page table access in 5-level to 4-level paging transition")
* 77d48d39e9 ("efistub/tpm: Use ACPI reclaim memory for event log to avoid corruption")
* 64b45dd46e ("x86/efi: skip memattr table on kexec boot")
As kexec-based reboots become more common, these version-dependent bugs
are appearing more frequently. At scale, correlating crashes to the
previous kernel version is challenging, especially when issues only occur
in specific transition scenarios.
Some bugs manifest only after multiple consecutive kexec reboots.
Tracking the kexec count helps identify these cases (this metric is
already used by live update sub-system).
KHO provides a reliable mechanism to pass information between kernels. By
carrying the previous kernel's release string and kexec count forward, we
can print this context at boot time to aid debugging.
The goal of this feature is to have this information being printed in
early boot, so, users can trace back kernel releases in kexec. Systemd is
not helpful because we cannot assume that the previous kernel has systemd
or even write access to the disk (common when using Linux as bootloaders)
This patch (of 6):
kho_add_subtree() assumes the fdt argument is always an FDT and calls
fdt_totalsize() on it in the debugfs code path. This assumption will
break if a caller passes arbitrary data instead of an FDT.
When CONFIG_KEXEC_HANDOVER_DEBUGFS is enabled, kho_debugfs_fdt_add() calls
__kho_debugfs_fdt_add(), which executes:
f->wrapper.size = fdt_totalsize(fdt);
Fix this by adding an explicit size parameter to kho_add_subtree() so
callers specify the blob size. This allows subtrees to contain arbitrary
data formats, not just FDTs. Update all callers:
- memblock.c: use fdt_totalsize(fdt)
- luo_core.c: use fdt_totalsize(fdt_out)
- test_kho.c: use fdt_totalsize()
- kexec_handover.c (root fdt): use fdt_totalsize(kho_out.fdt)
Also update __kho_debugfs_fdt_add() to receive the size explicitly instead
of computing it internally via fdt_totalsize(). In kho_in_debugfs_init(),
pass fdt_totalsize() for the root FDT and sub-blobs since all current
users are FDTs. A subsequent patch will persist the size in the KHO FDT
so the incoming side can handle non-FDT blobs correctly.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260323110747.193569-1-duanchenghao@kylinos.cn
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260316-kho-v9-1-ed6dcd951988@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Suggested-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Pull bpf fixes from Alexei Starovoitov:
"Most of the diff stat comes from Xu Kuohai's fix to emit ENDBR/BTI,
since all JITs had to be touched to move constant blinding out and
pass bpf_verifier_env in.
- Fix use-after-free in arena_vm_close on fork (Alexei Starovoitov)
- Dissociate struct_ops program with map if map_update fails (Amery
Hung)
- Fix out-of-range and off-by-one bugs in arm64 JIT (Daniel Borkmann)
- Fix precedence bug in convert_bpf_ld_abs alignment check (Daniel
Borkmann)
- Fix arg tracking for imprecise/multi-offset in BPF_ST/STX insns
(Eduard Zingerman)
- Copy token from main to subprogs to fix missing kallsyms (Eduard
Zingerman)
- Prevent double close and leak of btf objects in libbpf (Jiri Olsa)
- Fix af_unix null-ptr-deref in sockmap (Michal Luczaj)
- Fix NULL deref in map_kptr_match_type for scalar regs (Mykyta
Yatsenko)
- Avoid unnecessary IPIs. Remove redundant bpf_flush_icache() in
arm64 and riscv JITs (Puranjay Mohan)
- Fix out of bounds access. Validate node_id in arena_alloc_pages()
(Puranjay Mohan)
- Reject BPF-to-BPF calls and callbacks in arm32 JIT (Puranjay Mohan)
- Refactor all JITs to pass bpf_verifier_env to emit ENDBR/BTI for
indirect jump targets on x86-64, arm64 JITs (Xu Kuohai)
- Allow UTF-8 literals in bpf_bprintf_prepare() (Yihan Ding)"
* tag 'bpf-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf: (32 commits)
bpf, arm32: Reject BPF-to-BPF calls and callbacks in the JIT
bpf: Dissociate struct_ops program with map if map_update fails
bpf: Validate node_id in arena_alloc_pages()
libbpf: Prevent double close and leak of btf objects
selftests/bpf: cover UTF-8 trace_printk output
bpf: allow UTF-8 literals in bpf_bprintf_prepare()
selftests/bpf: Reject scalar store into kptr slot
bpf: Fix NULL deref in map_kptr_match_type for scalar regs
bpf: Fix precedence bug in convert_bpf_ld_abs alignment check
bpf, arm64: Emit BTI for indirect jump target
bpf, x86: Emit ENDBR for indirect jump targets
bpf: Add helper to detect indirect jump targets
bpf: Pass bpf_verifier_env to JIT
bpf: Move constants blinding out of arch-specific JITs
bpf, sockmap: Take state lock for af_unix iter
bpf, sockmap: Fix af_unix null-ptr-deref in proto update
selftests/bpf: Extend bpf_iter_unix to attempt deadlocking
bpf, sockmap: Fix af_unix iter deadlock
bpf, sockmap: Annotate af_unix sock:: Sk_state data-races
selftests/bpf: verify kallsyms entries for token-loaded subprograms
...
Currently, when bpf_struct_ops_map_update_elem() fails, the programs'
st_ops_assoc will remain set. They may become dangling pointers if the
map is freed later, but they will never be dereferenced since the
struct_ops attachment did not succeed. However, if one of the programs
is subsequently attached as part of another struct_ops map, its
st_ops_assoc will be poisoned even though its old st_ops_assoc was stale
from a failed attachment.
Fix the spurious poisoned st_ops_assoc by dissociating struct_ops
programs with a map if the attachment fails. Move
bpf_prog_assoc_struct_ops() to after *plink++ to make sure
bpf_prog_disassoc_struct_ops() will not miss a program when iterating
st_map->links.
Note that, dissociating a program from a map requires some attention as
it must not reset a poisoned st_ops_assoc or a st_ops_assoc pointing to
another map. The former is already guarded in
bpf_prog_disassoc_struct_ops(). The latter also will not happen since
st_ops_assoc of programs in st_map->links are set by
bpf_prog_assoc_struct_ops(), which can only be poisoned or pointing to
the current map.
Signed-off-by: Amery Hung <ameryhung@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260417174900.2895486-1-ameryhung@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Pull dma-mapping updates from Marek Szyprowski:
- added support for batched cache sync, what improves performance of
dma_map/unmap_sg() operations on ARM64 architecture (Barry Song)
- introduced DMA_ATTR_CC_SHARED attribute for explicitly shared memory
used in confidential computing (Jiri Pirko)
- refactored spaghetti-like code in drivers/of/of_reserved_mem.c and
its clients (Marek Szyprowski, shared branch with device-tree updates
to avoid merge conflicts)
- prepared Contiguous Memory Allocator related code for making dma-buf
drivers modularized (Maxime Ripard)
- added support for benchmarking dma_map_sg() calls to tools/dma
utility (Qinxin Xia)
* tag 'dma-mapping-7.1-2026-04-16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszyprowski/linux: (24 commits)
dma-buf: heaps: system: document system_cc_shared heap
dma-buf: heaps: system: add system_cc_shared heap for explicitly shared memory
dma-mapping: introduce DMA_ATTR_CC_SHARED for shared memory
mm: cma: Export cma_alloc(), cma_release() and cma_get_name()
dma: contiguous: Export dev_get_cma_area()
dma: contiguous: Make dma_contiguous_default_area static
dma: contiguous: Make dev_get_cma_area() a proper function
dma: contiguous: Turn heap registration logic around
of: reserved_mem: rework fdt_init_reserved_mem_node()
of: reserved_mem: clarify fdt_scan_reserved_mem*() functions
of: reserved_mem: rearrange code a bit
of: reserved_mem: replace CMA quirks by generic methods
of: reserved_mem: switch to ops based OF_DECLARE()
of: reserved_mem: use -ENODEV instead of -ENOENT
of: reserved_mem: remove fdt node from the structure
dma-mapping: fix false kernel-doc comment marker
dma-mapping: Support batch mode for dma_direct_{map,unmap}_sg
dma-mapping: Separate DMA sync issuing and completion waiting
arm64: Provide dcache_inval_poc_nosync helper
arm64: Provide dcache_clean_poc_nosync helper
...
Pull tracing latency update from Steven Rostedt:
- Add TIMERLAT_ALIGN osnoise option
Add a timer alignment option for timerlat that makes it work like the
cyclictest -A option. timelat creates threads to test the latency of
the kernel. The alignment option will have these threads trigger at
the alignment offsets from each other. Instead of having each thread
wake up at the exact same time, if the alignment is set to "20" each
thread will wake up at 20 microseconds from the previous one.
* tag 'trace-latency-v7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
tracing/osnoise: Add option to align tlat threads
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
- Fix printf format warning for bprintf
sunrpc uses a trace_printk() that triggers a printf warning during
the compile. Move the __printf() attribute around for when debugging
is not enabled the warning will go away
- Remove redundant check for EVENT_FILE_FL_FREED in
event_filter_write()
The FREED flag is checked in the call to event_file_file() and then
checked again right afterward, which is unneeded
- Clean up event_file_file() and event_file_data() helpers
These helper functions played a different role in the past, but now
with eventfs, the READ_ONCE() isn't needed. Simplify the code a bit
and also add a warning to event_file_data() if the file or its data
is not present
- Remove updating file->private_data in tracing open
All access to the file private data is handled by the helper
functions, which do not use file->private_data. Stop updating it on
open
- Show ENUM names in function arguments via BTF in function tracing
When showing the function arguments when func-args option is set for
function tracing, if one of the arguments is found to be an enum,
show the name of the enum instead of its number
- Add new trace_call__##name() API for tracepoints
Tracepoints are enabled via static_branch() blocks, where when not
enabled, there's only a nop that is in the code where the execution
will just skip over it. When tracing is enabled, the nop is converted
to a direct jump to the tracepoint code. Sometimes more calculations
are required to be performed to update the parameters of the
tracepoint. In this case, trace_##name##_enabled() is called which is
a static_branch() that gets enabled only when the tracepoint is
enabled. This allows the extra calculations to also be skipped by the
nop:
if (trace_foo_enabled()) {
x = bar();
trace_foo(x);
}
Where the x=bar() is only performed when foo is enabled. The problem
with this approach is that there's now two static_branch() calls. One
for checking if the tracepoint is enabled, and then again to know if
the tracepoint should be called. The second one is redundant
Introduce trace_call__foo() that will call the foo() tracepoint
directly without doing a static_branch():
if (trace_foo_enabled()) {
x = bar();
trace_call__foo();
}
- Update various locations to use the new trace_call__##name() API
- Move snapshot code out of trace.c
Cleaning up trace.c to not be a "dump all", move the snapshot code
out of it and into a new trace_snapshot.c file
- Clean up some "%*.s" to "%*s"
- Allow boot kernel command line options to be called multiple times
Have options like:
ftrace_filter=foo ftrace_filter=bar ftrace_filter=zoo
Equal to:
ftrace_filter=foo,bar,zoo
- Fix ipi_raise event CPU field to be a CPU field
The ipi_raise target_cpus field is defined as a __bitmask(). There is
now a __cpumask() field definition. Update the field to use that
- Have hist_field_name() use a snprintf() and not a series of strcat()
It's safer to use snprintf() that a series of strcat()
- Fix tracepoint regfunc balancing
A tracepoint can define a "reg" and "unreg" function that gets called
before the tracepoint is enabled, and after it is disabled
respectively. But on error, after the "reg" func is called and the
tracepoint is not enabled, the "unreg" function is not called to tear
down what the "reg" function performed
- Fix output that shows what histograms are enabled
Event variables are displayed incorrectly in the histogram output
Instead of "sched.sched_wakeup.$var", it is showing
"$sched.sched_wakeup.var" where the '$' is in the incorrect location
- Some other simple cleanups
* tag 'trace-v7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (24 commits)
selftests/ftrace: Add test case for fully-qualified variable references
tracing: Fix fully-qualified variable reference printing in histograms
tracepoint: balance regfunc() on func_add() failure in tracepoint_add_func()
tracing: Rebuild full_name on each hist_field_name() call
tracing: Report ipi_raise target CPUs as cpumask
tracing: Remove duplicate latency_fsnotify() stub
tracing: Preserve repeated trace_trigger boot parameters
tracing: Append repeated boot-time tracing parameters
tracing: Remove spurious default precision from show_event_trigger/filter formats
cpufreq: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites
tracing: Remove tracing_alloc_snapshot() when snapshot isn't defined
tracing: Move snapshot code out of trace.c and into trace_snapshot.c
mm: damon: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites
btrfs: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites
spi: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites
i2c: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites
kernel: Use trace_call__##name() at guarded tracepoint call sites
tracepoint: Add trace_call__##name() API
tracing: trace_mmap.h: fix a kernel-doc warning
tracing: Pretty-print enum parameters in function arguments
...
Pull fprobe update from Masami Hiramatsu:
- do not zero out unused fgraph_data. This removes unneeded memset of
fgraph_data in fprobe entry handler.
* tag 'probes-v7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
tracing: fprobe: do not zero out unused fgraph_data
Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"Arm:
- Add support for tracing in the standalone EL2 hypervisor code,
which should help both debugging and performance analysis. This
uses the new infrastructure for 'remote' trace buffers that can be
exposed by non-kernel entities such as firmware, and which came
through the tracing tree
- Add support for GICv5 Per Processor Interrupts (PPIs), as the
starting point for supporting the new GIC architecture in KVM
- Finally add support for pKVM protected guests, where pages are
unmapped from the host as they are faulted into the guest and can
be shared back from the guest using pKVM hypercalls. Protected
guests are created using a new machine type identifier. As the
elusive guestmem has not yet delivered on its promises, anonymous
memory is also supported
This is only a first step towards full isolation from the host; for
example, the CPU register state and DMA accesses are not yet
isolated. Because this does not really yet bring fully what it
promises, it is hidden behind CONFIG_ARM_PKVM_GUEST +
'kvm-arm.mode=protected', and also triggers TAINT_USER when a VM is
created. Caveat emptor
- Rework the dreaded user_mem_abort() function to make it more
maintainable, reducing the amount of state being exposed to the
various helpers and rendering a substantial amount of state
immutable
- Expand the Stage-2 page table dumper to support NV shadow page
tables on a per-VM basis
- Tidy up the pKVM PSCI proxy code to be slightly less hard to
follow
- Fix both SPE and TRBE in non-VHE configurations so that they do not
generate spurious, out of context table walks that ultimately lead
to very bad HW lockups
- A small set of patches fixing the Stage-2 MMU freeing in error
cases
- Tighten-up accepted SMC immediate value to be only #0 for host
SMCCC calls
- The usual cleanups and other selftest churn
LoongArch:
- Use CSR_CRMD_PLV for kvm_arch_vcpu_in_kernel()
- Add DMSINTC irqchip in kernel support
RISC-V:
- Fix steal time shared memory alignment checks
- Fix vector context allocation leak
- Fix array out-of-bounds in pmu_ctr_read() and pmu_fw_ctr_read_hi()
- Fix double-free of sdata in kvm_pmu_clear_snapshot_area()
- Fix integer overflow in kvm_pmu_validate_counter_mask()
- Fix shift-out-of-bounds in make_xfence_request()
- Fix lost write protection on huge pages during dirty logging
- Split huge pages during fault handling for dirty logging
- Skip CSR restore if VCPU is reloaded on the same core
- Implement kvm_arch_has_default_irqchip() for KVM selftests
- Factored-out ISA checks into separate sources
- Added hideleg to struct kvm_vcpu_config
- Factored-out VCPU config into separate sources
- Support configuration of per-VM HGATP mode from KVM user space
s390:
- Support for ESA (31-bit) guests inside nested hypervisors
- Remove restriction on memslot alignment, which is not needed
anymore with the new gmap code
- Fix LPSW/E to update the bear (which of course is the breaking
event address register)
x86:
- Shut up various UBSAN warnings on reading module parameter before
they were initialized
- Don't zero-allocate page tables that are used for splitting
hugepages in the TDP MMU, as KVM is guaranteed to set all SPTEs in
the page table and thus write all bytes
- As an optimization, bail early when trying to unsync 4KiB mappings
if the target gfn can just be mapped with a 2MiB hugepage
x86 generic:
- Copy single-chunk MMIO write values into struct kvm_vcpu (more
precisely struct kvm_mmio_fragment) to fix use-after-free stack
bugs where KVM would dereference stack pointer after an exit to
userspace
- Clean up and comment the emulated MMIO code to try to make it
easier to maintain (not necessarily "easy", but "easier")
- Move VMXON+VMXOFF and EFER.SVME toggling out of KVM (not *all* of
VMX and SVM enabling) as it is needed for trusted I/O
- Advertise support for AVX512 Bit Matrix Multiply (BMM) instructions
- Immediately fail the build if a required #define is missing in one
of KVM's headers that is included multiple times
- Reject SET_GUEST_DEBUG with -EBUSY if there's an already injected
exception, mostly to prevent syzkaller from abusing the uAPI to
trigger WARNs, but also because it can help prevent userspace from
unintentionally crashing the VM
- Exempt SMM from CPUID faulting on Intel, as per the spec
- Misc hardening and cleanup changes
x86 (AMD):
- Fix and optimize IRQ window inhibit handling for AVIC; make it
per-vCPU so that KVM doesn't prematurely re-enable AVIC if multiple
vCPUs have to-be-injected IRQs
- Clean up and optimize the OSVW handling, avoiding a bug in which
KVM would overwrite state when enabling virtualization on multiple
CPUs in parallel. This should not be a problem because OSVW should
usually be the same for all CPUs
- Drop a WARN in KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REG_REGION where KVM complains
about a "too large" size based purely on user input
- Clean up and harden the pinning code for KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REG_REGION
- Disallow synchronizing a VMSA of an already-launched/encrypted
vCPU, as doing so for an SNP guest will crash the host due to an
RMP violation page fault
- Overhaul KVM's APIs for detecting SEV+ guests so that VM-scoped
queries are required to hold kvm->lock, and enforce it by lockdep.
Fix various bugs where sev_guest() was not ensured to be stable for
the whole duration of a function or ioctl
- Convert a pile of kvm->lock SEV code to guard()
- Play nicer with userspace that does not enable
KVM_CAP_EXCEPTION_PAYLOAD, for which KVM needs to set CR2 and DR6
as a response to ioctls such as KVM_GET_VCPU_EVENTS (even if the
payload would end up in EXITINFO2 rather than CR2, for example).
Only set CR2 and DR6 when consumption of the payload is imminent,
but on the other hand force delivery of the payload in all paths
where userspace retrieves CR2 or DR6
- Use vcpu->arch.cr2 when updating vmcb12's CR2 on nested #VMEXIT
instead of vmcb02->save.cr2. The value is out of sync after a
save/restore or after a #PF is injected into L2
- Fix a class of nSVM bugs where some fields written by the CPU are
not synchronized from vmcb02 to cached vmcb12 after VMRUN, and so
are not up-to-date when saved by KVM_GET_NESTED_STATE
- Fix a class of bugs where the ordering between KVM_SET_NESTED_STATE
and KVM_SET_{S}REGS could cause vmcb02 to be incorrectly
initialized after save+restore
- Add a variety of missing nSVM consistency checks
- Fix several bugs where KVM failed to correctly update VMCB fields
on nested #VMEXIT
- Fix several bugs where KVM failed to correctly synthesize #UD or
#GP for SVM-related instructions
- Add support for save+restore of virtualized LBRs (on SVM)
- Refactor various helpers and macros to improve clarity and
(hopefully) make the code easier to maintain
- Aggressively sanitize fields when copying from vmcb12, to guard
against unintentionally allowing L1 to utilize yet-to-be-defined
features
- Fix several bugs where KVM botched rAX legality checks when
emulating SVM instructions. There are remaining issues in that KVM
doesn't handle size prefix overrides for 64-bit guests
- Fail emulation of VMRUN/VMLOAD/VMSAVE if mapping vmcb12 fails
instead of somewhat arbitrarily synthesizing #GP (i.e. don't double
down on AMD's architectural but sketchy behavior of generating #GP
for "unsupported" addresses)
- Cache all used vmcb12 fields to further harden against TOCTOU bugs
x86 (Intel):
- Drop obsolete branch hint prefixes from the VMX instruction macros
- Use ASM_INPUT_RM() in __vmcs_writel() to coerce clang into using a
register input when appropriate
- Code cleanups
guest_memfd:
- Don't mark guest_memfd folios as accessed, as guest_memfd doesn't
support reclaim, the memory is unevictable, and there is no storage
to write back to
LoongArch selftests:
- Add KVM PMU test cases
s390 selftests:
- Enable more memory selftests
x86 selftests:
- Add support for Hygon CPUs in KVM selftests
- Fix a bug in the MSR test where it would get false failures on
AMD/Hygon CPUs with exactly one of RDPID or RDTSCP
- Add an MADV_COLLAPSE testcase for guest_memfd as a regression test
for a bug where the kernel would attempt to collapse guest_memfd
folios against KVM's will"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (373 commits)
KVM: x86: use inlines instead of macros for is_sev_*guest
x86/virt: Treat SVM as unsupported when running as an SEV+ guest
KVM: SEV: Goto an existing error label if charging misc_cg for an ASID fails
KVM: SVM: Move lock-protected allocation of SEV ASID into a separate helper
KVM: SEV: use mutex guard in snp_handle_guest_req()
KVM: SEV: use mutex guard in sev_mem_enc_unregister_region()
KVM: SEV: use mutex guard in sev_mem_enc_ioctl()
KVM: SEV: use mutex guard in snp_launch_update()
KVM: SEV: Assert that kvm->lock is held when querying SEV+ support
KVM: SEV: Document that checking for SEV+ guests when reclaiming memory is "safe"
KVM: SEV: Hide "struct kvm_sev_info" behind CONFIG_KVM_AMD_SEV=y
KVM: SEV: WARN on unhandled VM type when initializing VM
KVM: LoongArch: selftests: Add PMU overflow interrupt test
KVM: LoongArch: selftests: Add basic PMU event counting test
KVM: LoongArch: selftests: Add cpucfg read/write helpers
LoongArch: KVM: Add DMSINTC inject msi to vCPU
LoongArch: KVM: Add DMSINTC device support
LoongArch: KVM: Make vcpu_is_preempted() as a macro rather than function
LoongArch: KVM: Move host CSR_GSTAT save and restore in context switch
LoongArch: KVM: Move host CSR_EENTRY save and restore in context switch
...
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "pid: make sub-init creation retryable" (Oleg Nesterov)
Make creation of init in a new namespace more robust by clearing away
some historical cruft which is no longer needed. Also some
documentation fixups
- "selftests/fchmodat2: Error handling and general" (Mark Brown)
Fix and a cleanup for the fchmodat2() syscall selftest
- "lib: polynomial: Move to math/ and clean up" (Andy Shevchenko)
- "hung_task: Provide runtime reset interface for hung task detector"
(Aaron Tomlin)
Give administrators the ability to zero out
/proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_detect_count
- "tools/getdelays: use the static UAPI headers from
tools/include/uapi" (Thomas Weißschuh)
Teach getdelays to use the in-kernel UAPI headers rather than the
system-provided ones
- "watchdog/hardlockup: Improvements to hardlockup" (Mayank Rungta)
Several cleanups and fixups to the hardlockup detector code and its
documentation
- "lib/bch: fix undefined behavior from signed left-shifts" (Josh Law)
A couple of small/theoretical fixes in the bch code
- "ocfs2/dlm: fix two bugs in dlm_match_regions()" (Junrui Luo)
- "cleanup the RAID5 XOR library" (Christoph Hellwig)
A quite far-reaching cleanup to this code. I can't do better than to
quote Christoph:
"The XOR library used for the RAID5 parity is a bit of a mess right
now. The main file sits in crypto/ despite not being cryptography
and not using the crypto API, with the generic implementations
sitting in include/asm-generic and the arch implementations
sitting in an asm/ header in theory. The latter doesn't work for
many cases, so architectures often build the code directly into
the core kernel, or create another module for the architecture
code.
Change this to a single module in lib/ that also contains the
architecture optimizations, similar to the library work Eric
Biggers has done for the CRC and crypto libraries later. After
that it changes to better calling conventions that allow for
smarter architecture implementations (although none is contained
here yet), and uses static_call to avoid indirection function call
overhead"
- "lib/list_sort: Clean up list_sort() scheduling workarounds"
(Kuan-Wei Chiu)
Clean up this library code by removing a hacky thing which was added
for UBIFS, which UBIFS doesn't actually need
- "Fix bugs in extract_iter_to_sg()" (Christian Ehrhardt)
Fix a few bugs in the scatterlist code, add in-kernel tests for the
now-fixed bugs and fix a leak in the test itself
- "kdump: Enable LUKS-encrypted dump target support in ARM64 and
PowerPC" (Coiby Xu)
Enable support of the LUKS-encrypted device dump target on arm64 and
powerpc
- "ocfs2: consolidate extent list validation into block read callbacks"
(Joseph Qi)
Cleanup, simplify, and make more robust ocfs2's validation of extent
list fields (Kernel test robot loves mounting corrupted fs images!)
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-04-15-04-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (127 commits)
ocfs2: validate group add input before caching
ocfs2: validate bg_bits during freefrag scan
ocfs2: fix listxattr handling when the buffer is full
doc: watchdog: fix typos etc
update Sean's email address
ocfs2: use get_random_u32() where appropriate
ocfs2: split transactions in dio completion to avoid credit exhaustion
ocfs2: remove redundant l_next_free_rec check in __ocfs2_find_path()
ocfs2: validate extent block list fields during block read
ocfs2: remove empty extent list check in ocfs2_dx_dir_lookup_rec()
ocfs2: validate dx_root extent list fields during block read
ocfs2: fix use-after-free in ocfs2_fault() when VM_FAULT_RETRY
ocfs2: handle invalid dinode in ocfs2_group_extend
.get_maintainer.ignore: add Askar
ocfs2: validate bg_list extent bounds in discontig groups
checkpatch: exclude forward declarations of const structs
tools/accounting: handle truncated taskstats netlink messages
taskstats: set version in TGID exit notifications
ocfs2/heartbeat: fix slot mapping rollback leaks on error paths
arm64,ppc64le/kdump: pass dm-crypt keys to kdump kernel
...
bpf_bprintf_prepare() only needs ASCII parsing for conversion
specifiers. Plain text can safely carry bytes >= 0x80, so allow
UTF-8 literals outside '%' sequences while keeping ASCII control
bytes rejected and format specifiers ASCII-only.
This keeps existing parsing rules for format directives unchanged,
while allowing helpers such as bpf_trace_printk() to emit UTF-8
literal text.
Update test_snprintf_negative() in the same commit so selftests keep
matching the new plain-text vs format-specifier split during bisection.
Fixes: 48cac3f4a9 ("bpf: Implement formatted output helpers with bstr_printf")
Signed-off-by: Yihan Ding <dingyihan@uniontech.com>
Acked-by: Paul Chaignon <paul.chaignon@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260416120142.1420646-2-dingyihan@uniontech.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
