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2025-12-01Merge tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner: "Features: - Cheaper MAY_EXEC handling for path lookup. This elides MAY_WRITE permission checks during path lookup and adds the IOP_FASTPERM_MAY_EXEC flag so filesystems like btrfs can avoid expensive permission work. - Hide dentry_cache behind runtime const machinery. - Add German Maglione as virtiofs co-maintainer. Cleanups: - Tidy up and inline step_into() and walk_component() for improved code generation. - Re-enable IOCB_NOWAIT writes to files. This refactors file timestamp update logic, fixing a layering bypass in btrfs when updating timestamps on device files and improving FMODE_NOCMTIME handling in VFS now that nfsd started using it. - Path lookup optimizations extracting slowpaths into dedicated routines and adding branch prediction hints for mntput_no_expire(), fd_install(), lookup_slow(), and various other hot paths. - Enable clang's -fms-extensions flag, requiring a JFS rename to avoid conflicts. - Remove spurious exports in fs/file_attr.c. - Stop duplicating union pipe_index declaration. This depends on the shared kbuild branch that brings in -fms-extensions support which is merged into this branch. - Use MD5 library instead of crypto_shash in ecryptfs. - Use largest_zero_folio() in iomap_dio_zero(). - Replace simple_strtol/strtoul with kstrtoint/kstrtouint in init and initrd code. - Various typo fixes. Fixes: - Fix emergency sync for btrfs. Btrfs requires an explicit sync_fs() call with wait == 1 to commit super blocks. The emergency sync path never passed this, leaving btrfs data uncommitted during emergency sync. - Use local kmap in watch_queue's post_one_notification(). - Add hint prints in sb_set_blocksize() for LBS dependency on THP" * tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (35 commits) MAINTAINERS: add German Maglione as virtiofs co-maintainer fs: inline step_into() and walk_component() fs: tidy up step_into() & friends before inlining orangefs: use inode_update_timestamps directly btrfs: fix the comment on btrfs_update_time btrfs: use vfs_utimes to update file timestamps fs: export vfs_utimes fs: lift the FMODE_NOCMTIME check into file_update_time_flags fs: refactor file timestamp update logic include/linux/fs.h: trivial fix: regualr -> regular fs/splice.c: trivial fix: pipes -> pipe's fs: mark lookup_slow() as noinline fs: add predicts based on nd->depth fs: move mntput_no_expire() slowpath into a dedicated routine fs: remove spurious exports in fs/file_attr.c watch_queue: Use local kmap in post_one_notification() fs: touch up predicts in path lookup fs: move fd_install() slowpath into a dedicated routine and provide commentary fs: hide dentry_cache behind runtime const machinery fs: touch predicts in do_dentry_open() ...
2025-11-30Linux 6.18v6.18Linus Torvalds
2025-11-24kbuild: Enable GCC diagnostic context for value-tracking warningsKees Cook
Enable GCC 16's coming "-fdiagnostics-show-context=N" option[1] to provide enhanced diagnostic information for value-tracking warnings, which displays the control flow chain leading to the diagnostic. This covers our existing use of -Wrestrict and -Wstringop-overread, and gets us closer to enabling -Warray-bounds, -Wstringop-overflow, and -Wstringop-truncation, so we can track the rationale for the warning, letting us more quickly identify actual issues vs what have looked in the past like false positives. Fixes based on this work have already been landing, e.g.: 4a6f18f28627 ("net/mlx4_core: Avoid impossible mlx4_db_alloc() order value") 8a39f1c870e9 ("ovl: Check for NULL d_inode() in ovl_dentry_upper()") e5f7e4e0a445 ("drm/amdgpu/atom: Work around vbios NULL offset false positive") The context depth ("=N") provides the immediate decision path that led to the problematic code location, showing conditional checks and branch decisions that caused the warning. This will help us understand why GCC's value-tracking analysis triggered the warning and makes it easier to determine whether warnings are legitimate issues or false positives. For example, an array bounds warning will now show the conditional statements (like "if (i >= 4)") that established the out-of-bounds access range, directly connecting the control flow to the warning location. This is particularly valuable when GCC's interprocedural analysis can generate warnings that are difficult to understand without seeing the inferred control flow. While my testing has shown that "=1" reports enough for finding the origin of most bounds issues, I have used "=2" here just to be conservative. Build time measurements with this option off, =1, and =2 are all with noise of each other, so there seems to be no harm in "turning it up". If we need to, we can make this value configurable in the future. Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=6faa3cfe60ff9769d1bebfffdd2c7325217d7389 [1] Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251121184342.it.626-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
2025-11-24rust: syn: enable support in kbuildMiguel Ojeda
With all the new files in place and ready from the new crate, enable the support for it in the build system. Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net> Tested-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net> Tested-by: Jesung Yang <y.j3ms.n@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251124151837.2184382-20-ojeda@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
2025-11-24rust: quote: enable support in kbuildMiguel Ojeda
With all the new files in place and ready from the new crate, enable the support for it in the build system. Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com> Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net> Tested-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net> Tested-by: Jesung Yang <y.j3ms.n@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251124151837.2184382-15-ojeda@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
2025-11-24rust: proc-macro2: enable support in kbuildMiguel Ojeda
With all the new files in place and ready from the new crate, enable the support for it in the build system. `proc_macro_byte_character` and `proc_macro_c_str_literals` were stabilized in Rust 1.79.0 [1] and were implemented earlier than our minimum Rust version (1.78) [2][3]. Thus just enable them instead of using the `cfg` that `proc-macro2` uses to emulate them in older compilers. In addition, skip formatting for this vendored crate and take the chance to add a comment mentioning this. Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/123431 [1] Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/112711 [2] Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/119651 [3] Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net> Tested-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net> Tested-by: Jesung Yang <y.j3ms.n@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251124151837.2184382-11-ojeda@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
2025-11-23Linux 6.18-rc7v6.18-rc7Linus Torvalds
2025-11-16Linux 6.18-rc6v6.18-rc6Linus Torvalds
2025-11-14kbuild: allow architectures to override CC_CAN_LINKThomas Weißschuh
The generic test for CC_CAN_LINK assumes that all architectures use -m32 and -m64 to switch between 32-bit and 64-bit compilation. This is overly simplistic. Architectures may use other flags (-mabi, -m31, etc.) or may also require byte order handling (-mlittle-endian, -EL). Expressing all of the different possibilities will be very complicated and brittle. Instead allow architectures to supply their own logic which will be easy to understand and evolve. Both the boolean ARCH_HAS_CC_CAN_LINK and the string ARCH_USERFLAGS need to be implemented as kconfig does not allow the reuse of string options. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251114-kbuild-userprogs-bits-v3-3-4dee0d74d439@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
2025-11-10Merge patch "kbuild: Add '-fms-extensions' to areas with dedicated CFLAGS"Christian Brauner
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> says: Shared branch between Kbuild and other trees for enabling '-fms-extensions' for 6.19. * tag 'kbuild-ms-extensions-6.19' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux: kbuild: Add '-fms-extensions' to areas with dedicated CFLAGS Kbuild: enable -fms-extensions jfs: Rename _inline to avoid conflict with clang's '-fms-extensions' Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251101-kbuild-ms-extensions-dedicated-cflags-v1-1-38004aba524b@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-09Linux 6.18-rc5v6.18-rc5Linus Torvalds
2025-11-08kbuild: Rename Makefile.extrawarn to Makefile.warnNathan Chancellor
Since commit e88ca24319e4 ("kbuild: consolidate warning flags in scripts/Makefile.extrawarn"), scripts/Makefile.extrawarn contains all warnings for the main kernel build, not just warnings enabled by the values for W=. Rename it to scripts/Makefile.warn to make it clearer that this Makefile is where all Kbuild warning handling should exist. Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251023-rename-scripts-makefile-extrawarn-v1-1-8f7531542169@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
2025-11-08Merge tag 'kbuild-ms-extensions-6.19' into kbuild-nextNicolas Schier
Shared branch between Kbuild and other trees for enabling '-fms-extensions' for 6.19 Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org>
2025-11-02Linux 6.18-rc4v6.18-rc4Linus Torvalds
2025-10-29Kbuild: enable -fms-extensionsRasmus Villemoes
Once in a while, it turns out that enabling -fms-extensions could allow some slightly prettier code. But every time it has come up, the code that had to be used instead has been deemed "not too awful" and not worth introducing another compiler flag for. That's probably true for each individual case, but then it's somewhat of a chicken/egg situation. If we just "bite the bullet" as Linus says and enable it once and for all, it is available whenever a use case turns up, and no individual case has to justify it. A lore.kernel.org search provides these examples: - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/200706301813.58435.agruen@suse.de/ - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180419152817.GD25406@bombadil.infradead.org/ - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/170622208395.21664.2510213291504081000@noble.neil.brown.name/ - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87h6475w9q.fsf@prevas.dk/ - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wjeZwww6Zswn6F_iZTpUihTSNKYppLqj36iQDDhfntuEw@mail.gmail.com/ Undoubtedly, there are more places in the code where this could also be used but where -fms-extensions just didn't come up in any discussion. Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251020142228.1819871-2-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk [nathan: Move disabled clang warning to scripts/Makefile.extrawarn and adjust comment] Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
2025-10-26Linux 6.18-rc3v6.18-rc3Linus Torvalds
2025-10-24tracing: Add a tracepoint verification check at build timeSteven Rostedt
If a tracepoint is defined via DECLARE_TRACE() or TRACE_EVENT() but never called (via the trace_<tracepoint>() function), its metadata is still around in memory and not discarded. When created via TRACE_EVENT() the situation is worse because the TRACE_EVENT() creates metadata that can be around 5k per trace event. Having unused trace events causes several thousand of wasted bytes. Add a verifier that injects a string of the name of the tracepoint it calls that is added to the discarded section "__tracepoint_check". For every builtin tracepoint, its name (which is saved in the in-memory section "__tracepoint_strings") will have its name also in the "__tracepoint_check" section if it is used. Add a new program that is run on build called tracepoint-update. This is executed on the vmlinux.o before the __tracepoint_check section is discarded (the section is discarded before vmlinux is created). This program will create an array of each string in the __tracepoint_check section and then sort it. Then it will walk the strings in the __tracepoint_strings section and do a binary search to check if its name is in the __tracepoint_check section. If it is not, then it is unused and a warning is printed. Note, this currently only handles tracepoints that are builtin and not in modules. Enabling this currently with a given config produces: warning: tracepoint 'sched_move_numa' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'sched_stick_numa' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'sched_swap_numa' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'pelt_hw_tp' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'pelt_irq_tp' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'rcu_preempt_task' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'rcu_unlock_preempted_task' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'xdp_bulk_tx' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'xdp_redirect_map' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'xdp_redirect_map_err' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'vma_mas_szero' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'vma_store' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'hugepage_set_pmd' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'hugepage_set_pud' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'hugepage_update_pmd' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'hugepage_update_pud' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'block_rq_remap' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'xhci_dbc_handle_event' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'xhci_dbc_handle_transfer' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'xhci_dbc_gadget_ep_queue' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'xhci_dbc_alloc_request' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'xhci_dbc_free_request' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'xhci_dbc_queue_request' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'xhci_dbc_giveback_request' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'tcp_ao_wrong_maclen' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'tcp_ao_mismatch' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'tcp_ao_key_not_found' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'tcp_ao_rnext_request' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'tcp_ao_synack_no_key' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'tcp_ao_snd_sne_update' is unused. warning: tracepoint 'tcp_ao_rcv_sne_update' is unused. Some of the above is totally unused but others are not used due to their "trace_" functions being inside configs, in which case, the defined tracepoints should also be inside those same configs. Others are architecture specific but defined in generic code, where they should either be moved to the architecture or be surrounded by #ifdef for the architectures they are for. This tool could be updated to process modules in the future. I'd like to thank Mathieu Desnoyers for suggesting using strings instead of pointers, as using pointers in vmlinux.o required handling relocations and it required implementing almost a full feature linker to do so. To enable this check, run the build with: make UT=1 Note, when all the existing unused tracepoints are removed from the build, the "UT=1" will be removed and this will always be enabled when tracepoints are configured to warn on any new tracepoints. The reason this isn't always enabled now is because it will introduce a lot of warnings for the current unused tracepoints, and all bisects would end at this commit for those warnings. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250528114549.4d8a5e03@gandalf.local.home/ Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Cc: Nicolas Schier <nicolas.schier@linux.dev> Cc: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers+lkml@gmail.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20251022004452.920728129@kernel.org Suggested-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> # for using strings instead of pointers Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2025-10-19Linux 6.18-rc2v6.18-rc2Linus Torvalds
2025-10-17Merge branch 'build-script' into docs-mwJonathan Corbet
Quoth Mauro: This series should probably be called: "Move the trick-or-treat build hacks accumulated over time into a single place and document them." as this reflects its main goal. As such: - it places the jobserver logic on a library; - it removes sphinx/parallel-wrapper.sh; - the code now properly implements a jobserver-aware logic to do the parallelism when called via GNU make, failing back to "-j" when there's no jobserver; - converts check-variable-fonts.sh to Python and uses it via function call; - drops an extra script to generate man pages, adding a makefile target for it; - ensures that return code is 0 when PDF successfully builds; - about half of the script is comments and documentation. I tried to do my best to document all tricks that are inside the script. This way, the docs build steps is now documented. It should be noticed that it is out of the scope of this series to change the implementation. Surely the process can be improved, but first let's consolidate and document everything on a single place. Such script was written in a way that it can be called either directly or via a Makefile. Running outside Makefile is interesting specially when debug is needed. The command line interface replaces the need of having lots of env vars before calling sphinx-build: $ ./tools/docs/sphinx-build-wrapper --help usage: sphinx-build-wrapper [-h] [--sphinxdirs SPHINXDIRS [SPHINXDIRS ...]] [--conf CONF] [--builddir BUILDDIR] [--theme THEME] [--css CSS] [--paper {,a4,letter}] [-v] [-j JOBS] [-i] [-V [VENV]] {cleandocs,linkcheckdocs,htmldocs,epubdocs,texinfodocs,infodocs,mandocs,latexdocs,pdfdocs,xmldocs} Kernel documentation builder positional arguments: {cleandocs,linkcheckdocs,htmldocs,epubdocs,texinfodocs,infodocs,mandocs,latexdocs,pdfdocs,xmldocs} Documentation target to build options: -h, --help show this help message and exit --sphinxdirs SPHINXDIRS [SPHINXDIRS ...] Specific directories to build --conf CONF Sphinx configuration file --builddir BUILDDIR Sphinx configuration file --theme THEME Sphinx theme to use --css CSS Custom CSS file for HTML/EPUB --paper {,a4,letter} Paper size for LaTeX/PDF output -v, --verbose place build in verbose mode -j, --jobs JOBS Sets number of jobs to use with sphinx-build -i, --interactive Change latex default to run in interactive mode -V, --venv [VENV] If used, run Sphinx from a venv dir (default dir: sphinx_latest) the only mandatory argument is the target, which is identical with "make" targets. The call inside Makefile doesn't use the last four arguments. They're there to help identifying problems at the build: -v makes the output verbose; -j helps to test parallelism; -i runs latexmk in interactive mode, allowing to debug PDF build issues; -V is useful when testing it with different venvs. When used with GNU make (or some other make which implements jobserver), a call like: make -j <targets> htmldocs will make the wrapper to automatically use POSIX jobserver to claim the number of available job slots, calling sphinx-build with a "-j" parameter reflecting it. ON such case, the default can be overriden via SPHINXDIRS argument. Visiable changes when compared with the old behavior: When V=0, the only visible difference is that: - pdfdocs target now returns 0 on success, 1 on failures. This addresses an issue over the current process where we it always return success even on failures; - it will now print the name of PDF files that failed to build, if any. In verbose mode, sphinx-build-wrapper and sphinx-build command lines are now displayed.
2025-10-12Linux 6.18-rc1v6.18-rc1Linus Torvalds
2025-10-03Merge tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It has been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, with changes all over: - Bring the kernel memory-model docs into the Sphinx build in the "literal include" mode. - Lots of build-infrastructure work, further cleaning up long-term kernel-doc technical debt. The sphinx-pre-install tool has been converted to Python and updated for current systems. - A new tool to detect when documents have been moved and generate HTML redirects; this can be used on kernel.org (or any other site hosting the rendered docs) to avoid breaking links. - Automated processing of the YAML files describing the netlink protocol. - A significant update of the maintainer's PGP guide. ... and a seemingly endless series of typo fixes, build-problem fixes, etc" * tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (193 commits) Documentation/features: Update feature lists for 6.17-rc7 docs: remove cdomain.py Documentation/process: submitting-patches: fix typo in "were do" docs: dev-tools/lkmm: Fix typo of missing file extension Documentation: trace: histogram: Convert ftrace docs cross-reference Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Wrap introductory note in note:: directive Documentation: trace: historgram-design: Separate sched_waking histogram section heading and the following diagram Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Trim trailing vertices in diagram explanation text Documentation: trace: histogram: Fix histogram trigger subsection number order docs: driver-api: fix spelling of "buses". Documentation: fbcon: Use admonition directives Documentation: fbcon: Reindent 8th step of attach/detach/unload Documentation: fbcon: Add boot options and attach/detach/unload section headings docs: filesystems: sysfs: add remaining top level sysfs directory descriptions docs: filesystems: sysfs: clarify symlink destinations in dev and bus/devices descriptions docs: filesystems: sysfs: remove top level sysfs net directory docs: maintainer: Fix ambiguous subheading formatting docs: kdoc: a few more dump_typedef() tweaks docs: kdoc: remove redundant comment stripping in dump_typedef() docs: kdoc: remove some dead code in dump_typedef() ...
2025-10-01Merge tag 'kbuild-6.18-1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux Pull Kbuild updates from Nathan Chancellor: - Extend modules.builtin.modinfo to include module aliases from MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE for builtin modules so that userspace tools (such as kmod) can verify that a particular module alias will be handled by a builtin module - Bump the minimum version of LLVM for building the kernel to 15.0.0 - Upgrade several userspace API checks in headers_check.pl to errors - Unify and consolidate CONFIG_WERROR / W=e handling - Turn assembler and linker warnings into errors with CONFIG_WERROR / W=e - Respect CONFIG_WERROR / W=e when building userspace programs (userprogs) - Enable -Werror unconditionally when building host programs (hostprogs) - Support copy_file_range() and data segment alignment in gen_init_cpio to improve performance on filesystems that support reflinks such as btrfs and XFS - Miscellaneous small changes to scripts and configuration files * tag 'kbuild-6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux: (47 commits) modpost: Initialize builtin_modname to stop SIGSEGVs Documentation: kbuild: note CONFIG_DEBUG_EFI in reproducible builds kbuild: vmlinux.unstripped should always depend on .vmlinux.export.o modpost: Create modalias for builtin modules modpost: Add modname to mod_device_table alias scsi: Always define blogic_pci_tbl structure kbuild: extract modules.builtin.modinfo from vmlinux.unstripped kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped kbuild: always create intermediate vmlinux.unstripped s390: vmlinux.lds.S: Reorder sections KMSAN: Remove tautological checks objtool: Drop noinstr hack for KCSAN_WEAK_MEMORY lib/Kconfig.debug: Drop CLANG_VERSION check from DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT riscv: Remove ld.lld version checks from many TOOLCHAIN_HAS configs riscv: Unconditionally use linker relaxation riscv: Remove version check for LTO_CLANG selects powerpc: Drop unnecessary initializations in __copy_inst_from_kernel_nofault() mips: Unconditionally select ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER arm64: Remove tautological LLVM Kconfig conditions ARM: Clean up definition of ARM_HAS_GROUP_RELOCS ...
2025-09-29Merge tag 'hardening-v6.18-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux Pull hardening updates from Kees Cook: "One notable addition is the creation of the 'transitional' keyword for kconfig so CONFIG renaming can go more smoothly. This has been a long-standing deficiency, and with the renaming of CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI (since GCC will soon have KCFI support), this came up again. The breadth of the diffstat is mainly this renaming. - Clean up usage of TRAILING_OVERLAP() (Gustavo A. R. Silva) - lkdtm: fortify: Fix potential NULL dereference on kmalloc failure (Junjie Cao) - Add str_assert_deassert() helper (Lad Prabhakar) - gcc-plugins: Remove TODO_verify_il for GCC >= 16 - kconfig: Fix BrokenPipeError warnings in selftests - kconfig: Add transitional symbol attribute for migration support - kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI" * tag 'hardening-v6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: lib/string_choices: Add str_assert_deassert() helper kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI kconfig: Add transitional symbol attribute for migration support kconfig: Fix BrokenPipeError warnings in selftests gcc-plugins: Remove TODO_verify_il for GCC >= 16 stddef: Introduce __TRAILING_OVERLAP() stddef: Remove token-pasting in TRAILING_OVERLAP() lkdtm: fortify: Fix potential NULL dereference on kmalloc failure
2025-09-29Unbreak 'make tools/*' for user-space targetsLinus Torvalds
This pattern isn't very documented, and apparently not used much outside of 'make tools/help', but it has existed for over a decade (since commit ea01fa9f63ae: "tools: Connect to the kernel build system"). However, it doesn't work very well for most cases, particularly the useful "tools/all" target, because it overrides the LDFLAGS value with an empty one. And once overridden, 'make' will then not honor the tooling makefiles trying to change it - which then makes any LDFLAGS use in the tooling directory break, typically causing odd link errors. Remove that LDFLAGS override, since it seems to be entirely historical. The core kernel makefiles no longer modify LDFLAGS as part of the build, and use kernel-specific link flags instead (eg 'KBUILD_LDFLAGS' and friends). This allows more of the 'make tools/*' cases to work. I say 'more', because some of the tooling build rules make various other assumptions or have other issues, so it's still a bit hit-or-miss. But those issues tend to show up with the 'make -C tools xyz' pattern too, so now it's no longer an issue of this particular 'tools/*' build rule being special. Acked-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Cc: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2025-09-28Linux 6.17v6.17Linus Torvalds
2025-09-24kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFIKees Cook
The kernel's CFI implementation uses the KCFI ABI specifically, and is not strictly tied to a particular compiler. In preparation for GCC supporting KCFI, rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI (along with associated options). Use new "transitional" Kconfig option for old CONFIG_CFI_CLANG that will enable CONFIG_CFI during olddefconfig. Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250923213422.1105654-3-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
2025-09-21Linux 6.17-rc7v6.17-rc7Linus Torvalds
2025-09-19Merge 6.17-rc6 into kbuild-nextNathan Chancellor
Commit bd7c2312128e ("pinctrl: meson: Fix typo in device table macro") is needed in kbuild-next to avoid a build error with a future change. While at it, address the conflict between commit 41f9049cff32 ("riscv: Only allow LTO with CMODEL_MEDANY") and commit 6578a1ff6aa4 ("riscv: Remove version check for LTO_CLANG selects"), as reported by Stephen Rothwell [1]. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250908134913.68778b7b@canb.auug.org.au/ [1] Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
2025-09-18docs: add support to build manpages from kerneldoc outputMauro Carvalho Chehab
Generating man files currently requires running a separate script. The target also doesn't appear at the docs Makefile. Add support for mandocs at the Makefile, adding the build logic inside sphinx-build-wrapper, updating documentation and dropping the ancillary script. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Message-ID: <3d248d724e7f3154f6e3a227e5923d7360201de9.1758196090.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2025-09-14Linux 6.17-rc6v6.17-rc6Linus Torvalds
2025-09-09docs: add tools/docs/gen-redirects.pyVegard Nossum
Add a new script and a new documentation 'make' target, htmldocs-redirects. This will generate HTML stub files in the HTML documentation output directory that redirect the browser to the new path. Suggested-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> Suggested-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20250905144608.577449-4-vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
2025-09-07Linux 6.17-rc5v6.17-rc5Linus Torvalds
2025-08-31Linux 6.17-rc4v6.17-rc4Linus Torvalds
2025-08-24Linux 6.17-rc3v6.17-rc3Linus Torvalds
2025-08-18kbuild: userprogs: avoid duplication of flags inherited from kernelThomas Weißschuh
The duplication makes maintenance harder. Changes need to be done in two places and the lines will grow overly long. Use an intermediary variable instead. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <n.schier@avm.de> Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250813-kbuild-userprogs-bits-v1-1-2d9f7f411083@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
2025-08-17Linux 6.17-rc2v6.17-rc2Linus Torvalds
2025-08-14kbuild: rust: move `-Dwarnings` handling to `Makefile.extrawarn`Miguel Ojeda
Following commit e88ca24319e4 ("kbuild: consolidate warning flags in scripts/Makefile.extrawarn"), move `-Dwarnings` handling into `Makefile.extrawarn` like C's `-Werror`. No functional change intended. Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nsc@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250814-kbuild-werror-v2-3-c01e596309d2@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
2025-08-10Linux 6.17-rc1v6.17-rc1Linus Torvalds
2025-08-06Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.17-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: "This is the last pull request from me. I'm grateful to have been able to continue as a maintainer for eight years. From the next cycle, Nathan and Nicolas will maintain Kbuild. - Fix a shortcut key issue in menuconfig - Fix missing rebuild of kheaders - Sort the symbol dump generated by gendwarfsyms - Support zboot extraction in scripts/extract-vmlinux - Migrate gconfig to GTK 3 - Add TAR variable to allow overriding the default tar command - Hand over Kbuild maintainership" * tag 'kbuild-v6.17-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (92 commits) MAINTAINERS: hand over Kbuild maintenance kheaders: make it possible to override TAR kbuild: userprogs: use correct linker when mixing clang and GNU ld kconfig: lxdialog: replace strcpy() with strncpy() in inputbox.c kconfig: lxdialog: replace strcpy with snprintf in print_autowrap kconfig: gconf: refactor text_insert_help() kconfig: gconf: remove unneeded variable in text_insert_msg kconfig: gconf: use hyphens in signals kconfig: gconf: replace GtkImageMenuItem with GtkMenuItem kconfig: gconf: Fix Back button behavior kconfig: gconf: fix single view to display dependent symbols correctly scripts: add zboot support to extract-vmlinux gendwarfksyms: order -T symtypes output by name gendwarfksyms: use preferred form of sizeof for allocation kconfig: qconf: confine {begin,end}Group to constructor and destructor kconfig: qconf: fix ConfigList::updateListAllforAll() kconfig: add a function to dump all menu entries in a tree-like format kconfig: gconf: show GTK version in About dialog kconfig: gconf: replace GtkHPaned and GtkVPaned with GtkPaned kconfig: gconf: replace GdkColor with GdkRGBA ...
2025-08-06kheaders: make it possible to override TARMichał Górny
Commit 86cdd2fdc4e3 ("kheaders: make headers archive reproducible") introduced a number of options specific to GNU tar to the `tar` invocation in `gen_kheaders.sh` script. This causes the script to fail to work on systems where `tar` is not GNU tar. This can occur e.g. on recent Gentoo Linux installations that support using bsdtar from libarchive instead. Add a `TAR` make variable to make it possible to override the tar executable used, e.g. by specifying: make TAR=gtar Link: https://bugs.gentoo.org/884061 Reported-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> Tested-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> Co-developed-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
2025-08-06kbuild: userprogs: use correct linker when mixing clang and GNU ldThomas Weißschuh
The userprogs infrastructure does not expect clang being used with GNU ld and in that case uses /usr/bin/ld for linking, not the configured $(LD). This fallback is problematic as it will break when cross-compiling. Mixing clang and GNU ld is used for example when building for SPARC64, as ld.lld is not sufficient; see Documentation/kbuild/llvm.rst. Relax the check around --ld-path so it gets used for all linkers. Fixes: dfc1b168a8c4 ("kbuild: userprogs: use correct lld when linking through clang") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
2025-08-03Merge tag 'rust-6.17' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ojeda/linux Pull Rust updates from Miguel Ojeda: "Toolchain and infrastructure: - Enable a set of Clippy lints: 'ptr_as_ptr', 'ptr_cast_constness', 'as_ptr_cast_mut', 'as_underscore', 'cast_lossless' and 'ref_as_ptr' These are intended to avoid type casts with the 'as' operator, which are quite powerful, into restricted variants that are less powerful and thus should help to avoid mistakes - Remove the 'author' key now that most instances were moved to the plural one in the previous cycle 'kernel' crate: - New 'bug' module: add 'warn_on!' macro which reuses the existing 'BUG'/'WARN' infrastructure, i.e. it respects the usual sysctls and kernel parameters: warn_on!(value == 42); To avoid duplicating the assembly code, the same strategy is followed as for the static branch code in order to share the assembly between both C and Rust This required a few rearrangements on C arch headers -- the existing C macros should still generate the same outputs, thus no functional change expected there - 'workqueue' module: add delayed work items, including a 'DelayedWork' struct, a 'impl_has_delayed_work!' macro and an 'enqueue_delayed' method, e.g.: /// Enqueue the struct for execution on the system workqueue, /// where its value will be printed 42 jiffies later. fn print_later(value: Arc<MyStruct>) { let _ = workqueue::system().enqueue_delayed(value, 42); } - New 'bits' module: add support for 'bit' and 'genmask' functions, with runtime- and compile-time variants, e.g.: static_assert!(0b00010000 == bit_u8(4)); static_assert!(0b00011110 == genmask_u8(1..=4)); assert!(checked_bit_u32(u32::BITS).is_none()); - 'uaccess' module: add 'UserSliceReader::strcpy_into_buf', which reads NUL-terminated strings from userspace into a '&CStr' Introduce 'UserPtr' newtype, similar in purpose to '__user' in C, to minimize mistakes handling userspace pointers, including mixing them up with integers and leaking them via the 'Debug' trait. Add it to the prelude, too - Start preparations for the replacement of our custom 'CStr' type with the analogous type in the 'core' standard library. This will take place across several cycles to make it easier. For this one, it includes a new 'fmt' module, using upstream method names and some other cleanups Replace 'fmt!' with a re-export, which helps Clippy lint properly, and clean up the found 'uninlined-format-args' instances - 'dma' module: - Clarify wording and be consistent in 'coherent' nomenclature - Convert the 'read!()' and 'write!()' macros to return a 'Result' - Add 'as_slice()', 'write()' methods in 'CoherentAllocation' - Expose 'count()' and 'size()' in 'CoherentAllocation' and add the corresponding type invariants - Implement 'CoherentAllocation::dma_handle_with_offset()' - 'time' module: - Make 'Instant' generic over clock source. This allows the compiler to assert that arithmetic expressions involving the 'Instant' use 'Instants' based on the same clock source - Make 'HrTimer' generic over the timer mode. 'HrTimer' timers take a 'Duration' or an 'Instant' when setting the expiry time, depending on the timer mode. With this change, the compiler can check the type matches the timer mode - Add an abstraction for 'fsleep'. 'fsleep' is a flexible sleep function that will select an appropriate sleep method depending on the requested sleep time - Avoid 64-bit divisions on 32-bit hardware when calculating timestamps - Seal the 'HrTimerMode' trait. This prevents users of the 'HrTimerMode' from implementing the trait on their own types - Pass the correct timer mode ID to 'hrtimer_start_range_ns()' - 'list' module: remove 'OFFSET' constants, allowing to remove pointer arithmetic; now 'impl_list_item!' invokes 'impl_has_list_links!' or 'impl_has_list_links_self_ptr!'. Other simplifications too - 'types' module: remove 'ForeignOwnable::PointedTo' in favor of a constant, which avoids exposing the type of the opaque pointer, and require 'into_foreign' to return non-null Remove the 'Either<L, R>' type as well. It is unused, and we want to encourage the use of custom enums for concrete use cases - 'sync' module: implement 'Borrow' and 'BorrowMut' for 'Arc' types to allow them to be used in generic APIs - 'alloc' module: implement 'Borrow' and 'BorrowMut' for 'Box<T, A>'; and 'Borrow', 'BorrowMut' and 'Default' for 'Vec<T, A>' - 'Opaque' type: add 'cast_from' method to perform a restricted cast that cannot change the inner type and use it in callers of 'container_of!'. Rename 'raw_get' to 'cast_into' to match it - 'rbtree' module: add 'is_empty' method - 'sync' module: new 'aref' submodule to hold 'AlwaysRefCounted' and 'ARef', which are moved from the too general 'types' module which we want to reduce or eventually remove. Also fix a safety comment in 'static_lock_class' 'pin-init' crate: - Add 'impl<T, E> [Pin]Init<T, E> for Result<T, E>', so results are now (pin-)initializers - Add 'Zeroable::init_zeroed()' that delegates to 'init_zeroed()' - New 'zeroed()', a safe version of 'mem::zeroed()' and also provide it via 'Zeroable::zeroed()' - Implement 'Zeroable' for 'Option<&T>', 'Option<&mut T>' and for 'Option<[unsafe] [extern "abi"] fn(...args...) -> ret>' for '"Rust"' and '"C"' ABIs and up to 20 arguments - Changed blanket impls of 'Init' and 'PinInit' from 'impl<T, E> [Pin]Init<T, E> for T' to 'impl<T> [Pin]Init<T> for T' - Renamed 'zeroed()' to 'init_zeroed()' - Upstream dev news: improve CI more to deny warnings, use '--all-targets'. Check the synchronization status of the two '-next' branches in upstream and the kernel MAINTAINERS: - Add Vlastimil Babka, Liam R. Howlett, Uladzislau Rezki and Lorenzo Stoakes as reviewers (thanks everyone) And a few other cleanups and improvements" * tag 'rust-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ojeda/linux: (76 commits) rust: Add warn_on macro arm64/bug: Add ARCH_WARN_ASM macro for BUG/WARN asm code sharing with Rust riscv/bug: Add ARCH_WARN_ASM macro for BUG/WARN asm code sharing with Rust x86/bug: Add ARCH_WARN_ASM macro for BUG/WARN asm code sharing with Rust rust: kernel: move ARef and AlwaysRefCounted to sync::aref rust: sync: fix safety comment for `static_lock_class` rust: types: remove `Either<L, R>` rust: kernel: use `core::ffi::CStr` method names rust: str: add `CStr` methods matching `core::ffi::CStr` rust: str: remove unnecessary qualification rust: use `kernel::{fmt,prelude::fmt!}` rust: kernel: add `fmt` module rust: kernel: remove `fmt!`, fix clippy::uninlined-format-args scripts: rust: emit path candidates in panic message scripts: rust: replace length checks with match rust: list: remove nonexistent generic parameter in link rust: bits: add support for bits/genmask macros rust: list: remove OFFSET constants rust: list: add `impl_list_item!` examples rust: list: use fully qualified path ...
2025-07-28Merge tag 'hardening-v6.17-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux Pull hardening updates from Kees Cook: - Introduce and start using TRAILING_OVERLAP() helper for fixing embedded flex array instances (Gustavo A. R. Silva) - mux: Convert mux_control_ops to a flex array member in mux_chip (Thorsten Blum) - string: Group str_has_prefix() and strstarts() (Andy Shevchenko) - Remove KCOV instrumentation from __init and __head (Ritesh Harjani, Kees Cook) - Refactor and rename stackleak feature to support Clang - Add KUnit test for seq_buf API - Fix KUnit fortify test under LTO * tag 'hardening-v6.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (22 commits) sched/task_stack: Add missing const qualifier to end_of_stack() kstack_erase: Support Clang stack depth tracking kstack_erase: Add -mgeneral-regs-only to silence Clang warnings init.h: Disable sanitizer coverage for __init and __head kstack_erase: Disable kstack_erase for all of arm compressed boot code x86: Handle KCOV __init vs inline mismatches arm64: Handle KCOV __init vs inline mismatches s390: Handle KCOV __init vs inline mismatches arm: Handle KCOV __init vs inline mismatches mips: Handle KCOV __init vs inline mismatch powerpc/mm/book3s64: Move kfence and debug_pagealloc related calls to __init section configs/hardening: Enable CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON configs/hardening: Enable CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE stackleak: Split KSTACK_ERASE_CFLAGS from GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS stackleak: Rename stackleak_track_stack to __sanitizer_cov_stack_depth stackleak: Rename STACKLEAK to KSTACK_ERASE seq_buf: Introduce KUnit tests string: Group str_has_prefix() and strstarts() kunit/fortify: Add back "volatile" for sizeof() constants acpi: nfit: intel: avoid multiple -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warnings ...
2025-07-27Linux 6.16v6.16Linus Torvalds
2025-07-21stackleak: Split KSTACK_ERASE_CFLAGS from GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGSKees Cook
In preparation for Clang stack depth tracking for KSTACK_ERASE, split the stackleak-specific cflags out of GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS into KSTACK_ERASE_CFLAGS. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250717232519.2984886-3-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
2025-07-20Linux 6.16-rc7v6.16-rc7Linus Torvalds
2025-07-13Linux 6.16-rc6v6.16-rc6Linus Torvalds
2025-07-06Linux 6.16-rc5v6.16-rc5Linus Torvalds
2025-06-29Linux 6.16-rc4v6.16-rc4Linus Torvalds
2025-06-22rust: enable `clippy::ref_as_ptr` lintTamir Duberstein
In Rust 1.78.0, Clippy introduced the `ref_as_ptr` lint [1]: > Using `as` casts may result in silently changing mutability or type. While this doesn't eliminate unchecked `as` conversions, it makes such conversions easier to scrutinize. It also has the slight benefit of removing a degree of freedom on which to bikeshed. Thus apply the changes and enable the lint -- no functional change intended. Link: https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#ref_as_ptr [1] Suggested-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/D8PGG7NTWB6U.3SS3A5LN4XWMN@proton.me/ Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <benno.lossin@proton.me> Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@gmail.com> Acked-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250615-ptr-as-ptr-v12-6-f43b024581e8@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>