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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "ocfs2/dlm: bound peer-controlled lengths in the o2dlm" (Bryam
Vargas)
Validate and bound all input lengths and count fields in the o2dlm
migration and recovery receive handlers to prevent memory corruption
and kernel panics from malformed cluster messages
- "ocfs2: validate xattr entry bounds" (Cen Zhang)
Validate OCFS2 extended attribute entry name and value bounds during
metadata reads to prevent out-of-range memory accesses during
retrieval or listing operations.
- "taskstats: fix cgroupstats invalid fd handling and add selftests"
(Yiyang Chen)
Return -EBADF when cgroupstats receives an invalid file descriptor to
prevent caller hangs and misleading success ACKs. Add a kselftest to
validate valid cgroup v1 queries and verify proper error handling
across different Netlink flag combinations.
- "misc lib/raid/ improvements v2" (Christoph Hellwig)
Improve benchmark-based algorithm selection for the XOR and RAID6
libraries, add KUnit benchmark tests, and cleanup minor
implementation details.
- "ocfs2: cluster: o2hb_region_pin() fixes" (Joseph Qi)
Fix sleeping-in-atomic, lock order inversion and error-path cleanup
bugs in o2hb_region_pin() by releasing o2hb_live_lock across sleeping
configfs_depend_item() calls and using unlocked variants from
callback context. Ensure failed pin attempts properly decrement user
counts and unpin partially initialized heartbeat regions to prevent
memory leaks and unprotected states.
- "lib/ucs2_string.c: fix out-of-bounds read in ucs2_strnlen()"
(Vincent Mailhol)
Fix an off-by-one which could cause an out-of-bounds read.
- "ocfs2: harden heartbeat teardown races" (Cen Zhang)
Fix two OCFS2 heartbeat/o2net teardown races found by KASAN.
- "taskstats: tidy up the cpumask command path" *Bradley Morgan)
make two small cleanups in kernel/taskstats.c.
- "ocfs2: validate active orphan slots during inode read" (ZhengYuan
Huang)
Validate active ordinary and append-DIO orphan slots read from OCFS2
dinodes at the metadata boundary to prevent corrupted slot indices
from causing out-of-bounds array accesses.
- "ocfs2: bound-check both readdir re-validation scans" (Zhan Xusheng)
Enforce strict boundary checks on directory entry record lengths and
offset calculations during OCFS2 directory re-scans to prevent
out-of-bounds memory reads and directory position corruption.
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-08-22-16-57' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (95 commits)
mailmap: fix bouncing address for Taniya Das
ocfs2: bound-check dir entries in the inline-data re-validation scan
ocfs2: bound-check dir entries in the readdir re-validation scan
squashfs: avoid thundering-herd cache wakeups
prctl: fix PR_SET_MM_AUXV losing the forced AT_NULL terminator
mailmap: update email address for Linfeng Sun
lib/interval_tree: fix allocation warning messages
checkpatch: add NOKPROBE_SYMBOL to the whitelist of lines that can occur immediately after functions
Squashfs: check block offset is not negative
signal: factor out the kernel reserved si_code check
ocfs2: fix readdir position truncation on 32-bit kernels
ocfs2: fix cached cluster count after suballocator reclaim
ocfs2: fix circular locking dependency in ocfs2_init_acl()
ocfs2: validate DIO orphan slot during inode read
ocfs2: validate orphan slot during inode read
selftests/prctl: fix non-anonymous VMA mapping in set-anon-vma-name test
MAINTAINERS: add IRC and patchwork for LTP
include/linux/list.h: mark list_add and __list_add as __always_inline
tools/mm: prevent page_owner_sort from truncating input
hung_task: update DETECT_HUNG_TASK_BLOCKER Kconfig help
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "mm: drop "sub" prefix from various places" (Dev Jain)
page->folio conversion and a naming cleanup
- "mm/kasan: remove redundant initialization for kasan_flag_write_only"
(Igor Putko)
KASAN cleanup work
- "mm/filemap: reduce unnecessary xarray lookups" (Chi Zhiling)
Small speedup in the pagecaache read code
- "mm/percpu: Fix possible NOFS/NOIO reclaim recursion" (Kaitao Cheng)
Improve the vmalloc code - mainly the avoidance of GFP_KERNEL
allocations when the caller asked for GFP_NOFS or GFP_NOIO
- "mm/kmemleak: avoid soft lockup when scanning task stacks" (Breno
Leitao)
Avoid a soft lockup watchdog trigger from the kmemleak scanning code
in extreme situations
- "mm/page_owner: misc cleanups" (Ye Liu)
Cleanups to the page_owner code. For some reason lots of people have
been working on the page_owner code this cycle.
- "mm: convert to walk_page_range_vma() to eliminate find_vma()"
(Kefeng Wang)
Simplify and accelerate the page walking library function
- "mm/migrate: preparatory cleanups for batch copy and offload"
(Shivank Garg)
Cleanups in the migration code
- "mm/page_owner: add per-fd filter infrastructure for print_mode and
NUMA filtering" (Zhen Ni)
Per-fd filtering to page_owner in order to reduce the sometimes vast
amount of output it can produce
- "mm: Refactor bootmem gigantic hugepage allocation" (Muchun Song)
Fixes and preparatory cleanups around bootmem HugeTLB handling,
sparse initialization ordering, and related vmemmap setup
- "mm/zsmalloc: reduce lock contention in zs_free()" (Wenchao Hao)
Reduce lock contention in zs_free(), which dominates the unmap path
under memory pressure on Android (LMK kills) and on x86 servers
running zswap-heavy workloads.
Up to 1.83x improvement in microbenchmarking.
- "move alloc_tag.c file under mm/" (Suren Baghdasaryan)
- "samples/damon: handle damon_{start,stop}() failures" (SJ Park)
Fix improper handling of damon_start(), damon_stop(), and
damon_call() failures across DAMON sample modules to prevent
potential memory leaks, operation disruptions and use-after-free
bugs
- "mm/damon/sysfs: kobject_del() directories that users can
create/remove" (SJ Park)
Fix delayed sysfs directory removal under DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
causeing creation failures due to duplicate directory names by adding
missing kobject_del() calls before creating new directories
- "mm: cleanup clear_not_present_full_ptes()" (David Hildenbrand)
Clean up the core pte handling code
- "selftests/damon: misc fixes for test bugs" (Kunwu Chan)
Fix several bugs in the DAMON selftests
- "selftests/damon: fix memcg_path staging handling" (Cheng Nie)
Fix a bug in _damon_sysfs.py for damos_filter memcg_path setup, and
add a test case for it in sysfs.py.
- "selftests/damon: test kdamond refresh_ms" (Ruslan Valiyev)
Selftest coverage for DAMON's refresh_ms sysfs feature by updating
the test control module and verifying that scheme stats update
automatically without manual intervention
- "mm/damon: five misc fixups" (Akinobu Mita)
Miscellaneous DAMON fixups.
- "mm/damon/core: detect internal variation above max_nr_regions/2"
(Jiayuan Chen)
Fix DAMON's region splitting behavior when region counts exceed half
the maximum budget by dynamically scaling down the split fraction as
the limit approaches, preventing large regions from staying un-split,
and add corresponding KUnit test coverage
- "mm: preparatory patches for PMD level swap entries" (Usama Arif)
Refactor and clean up PMD softleaf helpers, call sites, and
architecture flags to lay the groundwork for a follow-up series that
introduces PMD page table swap entries
- "mm/damon: update, optimize, and clean up doc, tests, and code" (SJ
Park)
Update DAMON design and ABI documentation, expands unit and selftest
coverage, optimize damon_commit_target_regions(), and clean up
recently added sysfs interface code for better readability
- "mm/vmpressure: reduce CPU, memory and code overhead on cgroup v2"
(Usama Arif)
Optimize vmpressure() by skipping unnecessary work on cgroup v2 for
userspace event notifications and refactor v1-only eventfd handling
into mm/memcontrol-v1.c to reduce memory overhead and code complexity
- "selftests/mm: refactor pkey helpers and fix mmap error handling"
(Hongfu Li)
Refactor pkeys shared tracing and assertion helpers into a common
file, unify protection key selftests to use consistent diagnostic
logging and assertions, and enforce standardized MAP_FAILED return
checks for mmap() calls across the tests
- "mm/damon: optimize out nr_accesses_bp" (SJ Park)
Replace the error-prone, continuously updated nr_accesses_bp field in
damon_region with an on-demand moving sum function, reducing
structure memory overhead and avoiding state corruption bugs
- "Open HugeTLB allocation routine for more generic use" (Ackerley Tng)
Decouple HugeTLB folio allocation from VMA dependencies by
introducing hugetlb_alloc_folio(), enabling subsystems like
guest_memfd to allocate HugeTLB folios without standard VMA
reservations or pseudo-VMAs
- "mm/damon: provide pseudo moving sum probe_hits" (SJ Park)
Integrate DAMON's probe_hits attribute counter into the pseudo moving
sum infrastructure, enabling real-time, online monitoring without
waiting for full aggregation intervals
- "mm: Some cleanups for page allocator APIs" (Brendan Jackman)
Simplify and refactor the page allocator entry points and flags by
unifying allocation paths, adding internal alloc_flags arguments, and
eliminating redundant __ prefixed alloc_pages variants.
- "Fix incorrect access of hugetlb pte entries" (Dev Jain)
Enforce the consistent use of huge_ptep_get() instead of ptep_get()
for HugeTLB entries and fixes an unaligned address issue in arm64's
huge_ptep_get() implementation
- "mm/damon: validate all parameters in the core" (SJ Park)
Consolidate parameter validation into the DAMON core specifically
within damon_start() and damon_commit_ctx() to centralize error
checking, eliminate caller-side redundant checks and to improve
maintenance efficiency
- "tools/mm/page_owner_sort: fix filtering and cleanup issues" (Yichong
Chen)
Rename is_need() to filter_record() for clearer return semantics, fix
per-record allocation memory leaks and bound output copies in
search_pattern() to address an existing buffer issue
- "memcg: bail out reclaim when memcg is dying" (Jiayuan Chen)
Mitigate a system-wide stall which occurs when a cgroup is removed
while one of its memory control files is doing synchronous reclaim
- "mm/memory-failure: add panic option for unrecoverable pages" (Breno
Leitao)
Introduce an opt-in vm.panic_on_unrecoverable_memory_failure sysctl
that immediately panics the kernel on unrecoverable memory errors in
kernel-owned pages to preserve error context and prevent delayed,
silent data corruption
- "mm/damon: refactor damon_{start,stop,commit}() for simple error
handling" (SJ Park)
Refactor the DAMON core API functions to guarantee that all contexts
are fully stopped when damon_start(), damon_stop(), or damon_commit()
fail, eliminating the need for complex and error-prone caller-side
cleanup code
- "Keep tail page private zero at free and folio split" (Zi Yan)
Add checks to ensure tail_page->private is zero when freeing compound
or high-order pages and when promoting tail pages during large folio
splits. By validating these fields at free and split time, it allows
the removal of redundant private field clearing inside
prep_compound_tail()
- "mm: drop redundant lru_add_drain in anon folio reuse paths" (Barry
Song)
Eliminate redundant lru_add_drain() calls in
wp_can_reuse_anon_folio() and do_swap_page() to reduce LRU lock
contention and system overhead
By validating folio refcounts against the LRU cache before draining
and removing unnecessary drains in the swap path, it achieves up to a
30.5% reduction in drain calls during heavy swap workloads
- "mm: clean up folio LRU and swap declarations" (Jianyue Wu)
Reorganize folio LRU and swap code by relocating page-cluster state
to mm/swap_state.c, renaming mm/swap.c to mm/folio.c, and moving
MM-internal reclaim declarations into mm/internal.h.
- "userfaultfd: working set tracking for VM guest memory" (Kiryl
Shutsemau)
Add userfaultfd support for tracking the working set of VM guest
memory, so a VMM can identify hot pages and reclaim cold ones to
tiered or remote storage
- "mm: remove CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE (Part 2)" (David
Hildenbrand)
Remove the remaining pieces of CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE,
performing some smaller cleanups around freeing of reserved vmemmap
pages on the way.
- "mm/damon: update probe hits for runtime parameter commits" (SJ Park)
Ensure that DAMON's probe_hits attribute counter is properly updated
when monitoring intervals are changed at runtime, matching the
behavior of nr_accesses. To achieve this, it refactors and renames
existing helper functions for shared use, applies the updates to
probe_hits, and handles edge cases in damon_probe_hits_mvsum() to
maintain measurement accuracy.
- "KSM: performance optimizations for rmap_walk_ksm" (xu xin)
Resolve a severe KSM reverse-mapping performance bottleneck where
thousands of split VMAs sharing a single anon_vma cause extended lock
contention.
By adding an interval-filtering check during the rmap walk, it
reduces worst-case anon_vma lock hold times from over 500ms down to
under 2ms, preventing application freezes and latency spikes under
memory pressure.
- "mm: split a couple of headers from internal.h" (Mike Rapoport)
Split declarations related to mm_init, memblock, vmalloc and sparse
into new headers
- "KSM: use linear_page_index in collect_procs_ksm()" (xu xin)
Apply the interval tree optimization from rmap_walk_ksm() to
collect_procs_ksm() to avoid iterating over non-matching VMAs during
KSM memory error handling.
It hoists loop-invariant address initialization and restricts the
anon_vma_interval_tree_foreach walk to a targeted page offset range,
reducing redundant checks and improving lookup efficiency.
- "selftests/mm: avoid false failures in hugetlb and KSM tests" (Sayali
Patil)
Fix issues in the hugetlb and KSM MM selftest categories that can
report failures when the prerequisites for the tests are not
satisfied
- "mm/damon: introduce data attributes only monitoring" (SJ Park)
Introduce attribute-weighted region management in DAMON, allowing
users to prioritize specific data attributes (such as page sizes or
cgroups) over or instead of access monitoring.
By assigning weights to attribute probes, DAMON can completely
disable access tracking and adjust monitoring regions based on
weighted probe-hit counters to optimize monitoring quality for
attribute-focused workloads.
- "mm/hmm: Add mmap lock-drop support for userfaultfd-backed mappings"
(Stanislav Kinsburskii)
Extend hmm_range_fault() to support userfaultfd-backed regions by
allowing the mmap lock to be dropped during fault handling via a new
hmm_range_fault_locked() helper.
By accepting a locked pointer and signaling retry status when lock
release occurs, it enables page fault resolution in userfaultfd
regions while preserving backward compatibility for existing callers.
- "mm: make VMA page offset handling more consistent" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Clean up and standardize how vma->vm_pgoff is accessed and
manipulated across file-backed and anonymous mappings in the kernel
It introduces dedicated helper functions such as vma_start_pgoff(),
vma_end_pgoff(), vma_set_pgoff() and linear_page_delta() while
renaming rmap interval tree helpers to better reflect their
functionality.
These changes establish a cleaner foundation for future work that
will unify virtual page offset indexing for all anonymous and CoW'd
folios.
- "mm: handle device-private PMDs in walk callbacks" (Usama Arif)
Address kernel panics and state corruption caused by MM walk
callbacks reaching non-present device-private PMD swap entries
created during HMM migrations
It ensures that functions which acquire pmd_trans_huge_lock()
properly recognize device-private PMDs instead of assuming a present
THP or a standard migration entry.
- "mm/rmap: Refactor try_to_unmap_one" (Dev Jain)
Refactor try_to_unmap_one by modularizing Hugetlb,
anonymous-lazyfree, and anonymous-swapbacked logic into dedicated
functions, laying the structural groundwork for batched anonymous
large folio unmapping.
- "Docs/ABI/damon: sysfs ABI document fixes and additions" (Song Hu)
Fix typos and fills in missing entries in the DAMON sysfs ABI
document
- "dax/kmem: atomic whole-device hotplug via sysfs" (Gregory Price)
Introduce an atomic sysfs state attribute and supporting DAX/MM
infrastructure to prevent userland races when offlining and removing
entire memory regions
By adding an unplugged state alongside standard online modes, it
enables whole-device atomic hotplug control while preserving backward
compatibility.
- "mm: convert more vm_flags_t users to vma_flags_t" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Continue transitioning the kernel from the deprecated vm_flags_t type
to vma_flags_t across core memory management infrastructure.
It replaces legacy type usage in core functions such as do_mmap(),
unmapped area allocation, mm->def_vma_flags, and VMA operations like
mlock, mprotect, and mremap.
- "Two small patches to clean up mm/mm_slot.h" (xu xin)
Refactor mm_slot.h by introducing mm_slot_remove() to unify duplicate
slot deletion sequences in khugepaged and KSM. It also adds code
documentation explaining why mm_slot_lookup and mm_slot_insert must
remain as preprocessor macros rather than static inline functions.
- "mm/damon/core: hide core-private struct fields" (SJ Park)
Clean up DAMON core structures by consistently marking internal-only
fields with private: comment tags to prevent improper direct access
from outer layers.
It enforces encapsulation across core structures including
damon_region, damon_target, and damon_ctx and updates DAMON_SYSFS to
interact through approved access APIs instead of exposing raw struct
members.
- "mm/damon: unurgent fixes for infinite loop, NULL de-ref and races"
(SJ Park)
Address potential infinite loops, NULL dereferences, and race
conditions identified in DAMON
It fixes an infinite loop triggered by extreme user configurations, a
NULL pointer dereference within unit tests and minor monitoring
accuracy degradation caused by subtle runtime races.
- "mm/page_alloc: fixes for free_pages_nolock() on RT/UP" (Brendan
Jackman)
Fix an NMI safety flaw in __free_frozen_pages() where freeing pages
on non-SMP or PREEMPT_RT kernels can bypass can_spin_trylock() checks
via non-PCP or isolated migration paths.
It also resolves potential kernel crashes and privilege escalation
risks triggered when BPF tracing runs in NMI context alongside memory
hotplug or large allocation frees.
- "mm/page_alloc: couple of followups for recent cleanups" (Brendan
Jackman)
Clean up and update page allocator nomenclature, documentation, and
debug assertions.
It aligns internal FPI_ flags with the public "nolock" naming
convention, removes outdated internal implementation details from
high-level page allocator comments, and eliminates obsolete
VM_BUG_ON() assertions in allocation paths.
- "mm/mseal: further cleanups" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Refactor and simplify the mseal implementation by clarifying API
boundaries and removing unnecessary code complexity.
It replaces generic do_mseal() usage outside the syscall with a
dedicated mseal_mmap_page_zero() helper for MMAP_PAGE_ZERO,
eliminates mm_struct parameters to enforce that sealing applies only
to current->mm, and streamlines overall logic and comments with no
functional changes intended.
- "mm/vmscan: fix swappiness=max and clean up per-node proactive
reclaim" (Ridong Chen)
Resolve reclaim behavior bugs and clean up function parameters across
memory reclaim paths
It fixes swappiness=max in both standard reclaim and MGLRU so
unswappable anonymous memory no longer falls back to evicting page
cache, ensures reclaim_store() returns accurate error codes instead
of collapsing all failures into -EAGAIN, and removes the obsolete
gfp_mask parameter from __node_reclaim().
- "mm: mincore: misc cleanups" (Kefeng Wang)
Clean up and simplifies the mincore code. Most importantly, it
removes the historical special behavior that always reports VM_PFNMAP
pages as non-resident.
- "mm/huge_memory: drop dead split helper variants" (Kiryl Shutsemau)
Two trivial cleanups in the folio split API
- "mm/damon: fix uninitialized DAMOS field and kunit exec expectation
bugs" (SJ Park)
Resolve minor operational and testing bugs in DAMON identified by
Sashiko. It initializes the damos->last_applied field to prevent
occasional efficiency degradation and fixes invalid memory accesses
in DAMON KUnit tests during test failure handling.
- "cleanup for stable_page_flags()" (Jinjiang Tu)
Clean up and refactor stable_page_flags() used by /proc/kpageflags
without altering functionality.
It uses BIT_ULL() to prevent shift-overflow warnings on 64-bit flag
bits, converts folio-specific flag checks to standard folio_test_*()
helpers, and removes redundant CONFIG_PAGE_IDLE_FLAG handling.
- "Batch unmap of uffd-wp file folios" (Dev Jain)
Extend batched folio unmapping support to file folios within
userfaultfd write-protect (uffd-wp) VMAs by adding batching
capabilities to pte_install_uffd_wp_if_needed().
This removes special-case restrictions on uffd-wp VMAs in
try_to_unmap_one(), significantly simplifying the function's control
flow and complexity.
- "mm/early_ioremap: clarify and clean up early_ioremap_reset()"
(Sang-Heon Jeon)
Clarify and clean up the architecture-specific usage of
__late_set_fixmap() and __late_clear_fixmap() after
early_ioremap_reset()
It adds explicit documentation regarding when early_ioremap_reset()
must be called and removes redundant macro definitions and reset
calls in the RISC-V and ARM64 architectures.
- "mm: fix reclaim storms in defrag_mode" (Johannes Weiner)
Address severe performance regressions, swap storms, and spurious
OOMs caused by vm.defrag_mode=1 under high memory pressure in Meta
production
It updates the page allocator slowpath so non-movable allocation
requests actively trigger direct reclaim and direct compaction at
pageblock_order scale, allowing them to claim whole pageblocks rather
than spinning unproductively.
- "zram: lockmap tweaks" (Sebastian Siewior)
Optimize and fix lockdep tracking for zram devices by consolidating
per-entry lockmaps and isolate lock classes across multiple instances
This reduces memory overhead by replacing per-entry lockdep_map
instances with a single map per struct zram, and assigns a dynamic
lock_class_key to each instance to prevent false deadlock reports
when different zram devices are backed by distinct filesystems.
* tag 'mm-stable-2026-08-18-18-39' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (501 commits)
selftests/mm: thuge-gen: fix test_shmget() for PAGE_SIZE check
selftests/mm: unpoison pages in memory-failure teardown
mm/shmem: downgrade final i_blocks check in shmem_evict_inode() to pr_warn()
mm/khugepaged: replace mutex_lock/mutex_unlock usage with guard macro
mm/zsmalloc: fix release order of locks in zs_page_migrate()
Documentation: zram: remove sections numbering
ksm: stop iterating VMAs when ksm_test_exit returns true
mm: fold userfaultfd_rwp() to false without CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PTE_PROTNONE
mm/migrate: report RCU-tasks quiescent states in migrate_pages_batch()
zram: use a custom key for each zram object
zram: move lockmap to be per-zram instead per table
selftests/mm: fix gup_longterm EINVAL error message
mm: page_alloc: fix non-movable reclaim storm in defrag_mode
mm: page_alloc: move capture_control to the page allocator
mm: compaction: support non-movable compaction for pageblock requests
mm: page_alloc: __GFP_FS lockdep annotation for direct compaction
hugetlb: evaluate subpool free state while locked
mm/damon: remove trailing semicolons after function definitions
mm/damon/ops-common: prevent migration fallback to non-target nodes
mm/damon: update outdated comment about DAMOS filter handling
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull vfs lookup updates from Christian Brauner:
"This refactors lookup_open() and adds vfs_lookup_open() for nfsd.
mnt_want_write() and parent locking are moved into lookup_open()
itself.
audit_inode_child() is also now called in lookup_open() on failure.
That is the calling convention in vfs_create() and vfs_mkdir(), but
lookup_open() made no such call when atomic_open() should have created
a file and did not. And neither did the regular ->create() path fwiw.
This also contains work to remove the unneeded excl argument from the
->create() inode op"
* tag 'vfs-7.3-rc1.lookup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
fs/namei.c: fix coding style in atomic_open() and lookup_open()
fs/namei.c: fix kerneldoc of atomic_open() and vfs_lookup_open()
fs/namei.c: update stale comments in lookup_open()
Remove excl arg to ->create inode_operation
fs/namei.c: update kerneldoc of atomic_open()
vfs: call audit_inode_child() in lookup_open() on failure
vfs: move create error && negative dentry case in lookup_open() up
VFS: add vfs_lookup_open() for nfsd
VFS: move delegated_inode retry loop into lookup_open()
VFS: move mnt_want_write() and locking into lookup_open()
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proc_ipc_dointvec_minmax_orphans() currently calls shm_destroy_orphaned()
whenever shm_rmid_forced is set, including on sysctl reads. Reading
/proc/sys/kernel/shm_rmid_forced should not take shm_ids rwsem for write
and walk all segments.
Only run the cleanup when the sysctl is written and the forced RMID policy
is enabled.
When shm_rmid_forced=1, monitoring tools that read
/proc/sys/kernel/shm_rmid_forced trigger the cleanup on every read.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/?q=only+destroy+orphaned+shm+segments+on+sysctl+write
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/tencent_738A8BC6E9EA205F555E4B0DAA154D4F8E0A@qq.com
Signed-off-by: Jianlin Shi <shijianlin11@foxmail.com>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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The core do_mmap() function accepts a vm_flags_t parameter which it then
manipulates before passing to mmap_region() to do the heavy lifting of the
memory mapping.
Update do_mmap() to instead accept a vma_flags_t parameter, and adjust all
the logic within do_mmap() to manipulate this instead.
This is as part of the ongoing effort to convert VMA flags from a system
word size to a bitmap type which allows us to unrestrict the number of VMA
flags, as well as gain control over how VMA flag manipulation occurs.
We do not cascade these changes to all functions which accept vm_flags_t,
but rather use vma_flags_to_legacy() where necessary, specifically
deferring converting calc_vm_prot_bits(), calc_vm_flag_bits() and
__get_unmapped_area() to vma_flags_t.
Also utilise the new vma_flags_can_grow() predicate which correctly
handles the case of architectures without upward growing stacks.
As part of this change, introduce VMA_SHADOW_STACK so we can correctly
handle the case of the shadow stack not being defined.
No functional change intended.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260711-b4-vma-flags-mm-v2-2-0fa2357d5431@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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The only time that 'false' is passed as the 'excl' arg to the ->create
inode_operation is in lookup_open() when ->atomic_open is not provided
by the parent directory.
*all* directory inode_operations which do not have ->atomic_open
completely ignore the 'excl' arg.
Therefore we don't need the 'excl' arg. Those few ->create operations
which pay attention to the arg are only ever called with a value of
'true'.
We remove that arg and change all ->create operations to behave as those
thhe arg were 'true'.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/178290671516.27465.15984496764174914338@noble.neil.brown.name
Reviewed-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
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valid_signal(0) is true; __do_notify() skips signo 0 anyway.
Signed-off-by: Yi Xie <xieyi@kylinos.cn>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260603020936.54508-1-xieyi@kylinos.cn
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull misc kernel updates from Christian Brauner:
"Fixes
- rhashtable: give each instance its own lockdep class
syzbot reported a circular locking dependency between ht->mutex and
fs_reclaim via the simple_xattrs rhashtable being torn down during
inode eviction.
The predicted deadlock cannot occur: rhashtable_free_and_destroy()
cancels the deferred worker before taking ht->mutex and
acquisitions on distinct rhashtables are on distinct mutexes.
Lockdep flags a cycle anyway because every ht->mutex in the kernel
shared the single static lockdep class from
rhashtable_init_noprof().
The lockdep key is lifted to a per-call-site static key so every
rhashtable instance gets its own class.
- selftests/clone3: fix misuse of the libcap library interface in the
cap_checkpoint_restore test and remove unused variables
- selftests/pid_namespace: compute the pid_max test limits
dynamically instead of hardcoding values below the kernel-enforced
minimum of PIDS_PER_CPU_MIN * num_possible_cpus() which made the
tests fail on machines with many possible CPUs
- selftests: fix the Makefile TARGETS entry for nsfs which wasn't
adjusted when the tests moved under filesystems/
Cleanups
- ipc/sem.c: use unsigned int for nsops to match the declaration in
syscalls.h"
* tag 'kernel-7.2-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
selftests/clone3: remove unused variables
selftests/clone3: fix libcap interface usage
ipc/sem.c: use unsigned int for nsops
selftests: Fix Makefile target for nsfs
rhashtable: give each instance its own lockdep class
selftests/pid_namespace: compute pid_max test limits dynamically
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shm_destroy_orphaned() walks the shm idr under shm_ids(ns).rwsem, but that
does not serialize all fields tested by shm_may_destroy(). In particular,
shm_nattch is updated while holding shm_perm.lock, and attach paths can do
that without holding the rwsem.
Do not decide that an orphaned segment is unused before taking the object
lock. Move the shm_may_destroy() check under shm_perm.lock, matching the
other destroy paths, and unlock the segment when it no longer qualifies
for removal.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/9d97cc1031de2d0bace0edf3a668818aa2f4eca6.1777410234.git.zylzyl2333@gmail.com
Fixes: 4c677e2eefdb ("shm: optimize locking and ipc_namespace getting")
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: Yilin Zhu <zylzyl2333@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ren Wei <n05ec@lzu.edu.cn>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Jeongjun Park <aha310510@gmail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <sergeh@kernel.org>
Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Use unsigned int instead of unsigned for nsops parameter,
to match declaration in syscalls.h.
Signed-off-by: Yi Xie <xieyi@kylinos.cn>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260525004220.19277-1-xieyi@kylinos.cn
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
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The checkpoint/restore sysctl path can request the next SysV IPC id
through ids->next_id. ipc_idr_alloc() currently forwards that request to
idr_alloc() with an open-ended upper bound.
If the valid tail of the SysV IPC id space is full, the allocation can
spill beyond ipc_mni. The returned SysV IPC id still uses the normal
index encoding, so later lookup and removal can target the wrong slot.
This leaves the real IDR entry behind and breaks the IDR state for the
object.
The bug is in ipc_idr_alloc() in the checkpoint/restore path.
1. ids->next_id is passed to:
idr_alloc(&ids->ipcs_idr, new, ipcid_to_idx(next_id), 0, ...)
2. The zero upper bound makes the allocation effectively open-ended.
Once the valid SysV IPC tail is occupied, idr_alloc() can spill past
ipc_mni and allocate an entry beyond the valid IPC id range.
3. The new object id is still encoded with the narrower SysV IPC index
width:
new->id = (new->seq << ipcmni_seq_shift()) + idx
4. Later removal goes through ipc_rmid(), which uses:
ipcid_to_idx(ipcp->id)
That truncates the real IDR index. An object actually stored at a
high index can then be removed as if it lived at a low in-range
index.
5. For shared memory, shm_destroy() frees the current object anyway, but
the real high IDR slot is left behind as a dangling pointer.
6. A subsequent walk of /proc/sysvipc/shm reaches the stale IDR entry
and dereferences freed memory.
Prevent this by bounding the requested allocation to ipc_mni so the
checkpoint/restore path fails once the valid range is exhausted.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/cover.1778336914.git.linpu5433@gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/2eebe949bfa7d1f6e13b5be6a92c64c850ce9d45.1778336914.git.linpu5433@gmail.com
Fixes: 03f595668017 ("ipc: add sysctl to specify desired next object id")
Signed-off-by: Linpu Yu <linpu5433@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ren Wei <n05ec@lzu.edu.cn>
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>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using
git grep -l '\<k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'
to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.
Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.
For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:
Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)
Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)
Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)
(where TYPE may also be *VAR)
The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "mm/vmscan: fix demotion targets checks in reclaim/demotion" fixes a
couple of issues in the demotion code - pages were failed demotion
and were finding themselves demoted into disallowed nodes (Bing Jiao)
- "Remove XA_ZERO from error recovery of dup_mmap()" fixes a rare
mapledtree race and performs a number of cleanups (Liam Howlett)
- "mm: add bitmap VMA flag helpers and convert all mmap_prepare to use
them" implements a lot of cleanups following on from the conversion
of the VMA flags into a bitmap (Lorenzo Stoakes)
- "support batch checking of references and unmapping for large folios"
implements batching to greatly improve the performance of reclaiming
clean file-backed large folios (Baolin Wang)
- "selftests/mm: add memory failure selftests" does as claimed (Miaohe
Lin)
* tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-18-19-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (36 commits)
mm/page_alloc: clear page->private in free_pages_prepare()
selftests/mm: add memory failure dirty pagecache test
selftests/mm: add memory failure clean pagecache test
selftests/mm: add memory failure anonymous page test
mm: rmap: support batched unmapping for file large folios
arm64: mm: implement the architecture-specific clear_flush_young_ptes()
arm64: mm: support batch clearing of the young flag for large folios
arm64: mm: factor out the address and ptep alignment into a new helper
mm: rmap: support batched checks of the references for large folios
tools/testing/vma: add VMA userland tests for VMA flag functions
tools/testing/vma: separate out vma_internal.h into logical headers
tools/testing/vma: separate VMA userland tests into separate files
mm: make vm_area_desc utilise vma_flags_t only
mm: update all remaining mmap_prepare users to use vma_flags_t
mm: update shmem_[kernel]_file_*() functions to use vma_flags_t
mm: update secretmem to use VMA flags on mmap_prepare
mm: update hugetlbfs to use VMA flags on mmap_prepare
mm: add basic VMA flag operation helper functions
tools: bitmap: add missing bitmap_[subset(), andnot()]
mm: add mk_vma_flags() bitmap flag macro helper
...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull pidfs updates from Christian Brauner:
- pid: introduce task_ppid_vnr() helper
- pidfs: convert rb-tree to rhashtable
Mateusz reported performance penalties during task creation because
pidfs uses pidmap_lock to add elements into the rbtree. Switch to an
rhashtable to have separate fine-grained locking and to decouple from
pidmap_lock moving all heavy manipulations outside of it
Also move inode allocation outside of pidmap_lock. With this there's
nothing happening for pidfs under pidmap_lock
- pid: reorder fields in pid_namespace to reduce false sharing
- Revert "pid: make __task_pid_nr_ns(ns => NULL) safe for zombie
callers"
- ipc: Add SPDX license id to mqueue.c
* tag 'kernel-7.0-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
pid: introduce task_ppid_vnr() helper
pidfs: implement ino allocation without the pidmap lock
Revert "pid: make __task_pid_nr_ns(ns => NULL) safe for zombie callers"
pid: reorder fields in pid_namespace to reduce false sharing
pidfs: convert rb-tree to rhashtable
ipc: Add SPDX license id to mqueue.c
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In order to be able to use only vma_flags_t in vm_area_desc we must adjust
shmem file setup functions to operate in terms of vma_flags_t rather than
vm_flags_t.
This patch makes this change and updates all callers to use the new
functions.
No functional changes intended.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: comment fixes, per Baolin]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/736febd280eb484d79cef5cf55b8a6f79ad832d2.1769097829.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Cc: Yury Norov <ynorov@nvidia.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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In order to update all mmap_prepare users to utilising the new VMA flags
type vma_flags_t and associated helper functions, we start by updating
hugetlbfs which has a lot of additional logic that requires updating to
make this change.
This is laying the groundwork for eliminating the vm_flags_t from struct
vm_area_desc and using vma_flags_t only, which further lays the ground for
removing the deprecated vm_flags_t type altogether.
No functional changes intended.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/9226bec80c9aa3447cc2b83354f733841dba8a50.1769097829.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Cc: Yury Norov <ynorov@nvidia.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "ocfs2: give ocfs2 the ability to reclaim suballocator free bg" saves
disk space by teaching ocfs2 to reclaim suballocator block group
space (Heming Zhao)
- "Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs" adds the
ARRAY_END() macro and uses it in various places (Alejandro Colomar)
- "vmcoreinfo: support VMCOREINFO_BYTES larger than PAGE_SIZE" makes
the vmcore code future-safe, if VMCOREINFO_BYTES ever exceeds the
page size (Pnina Feder)
- "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing module buildid" cleans
up kallsyms code related to module buildid and fixes an invalid
access crash when printing backtraces (Petr Mladek)
- "Address page fault in ima_restore_measurement_list()" fixes a
kexec-related crash that can occur when booting the second-stage
kernel on x86 (Harshit Mogalapalli)
- "kho: ABI headers and Documentation updates" updates the kexec
handover ABI documentation (Mike Rapoport)
- "Align atomic storage" adds the __aligned attribute to atomic_t and
atomic64_t definitions to get natural alignment of both types on
csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc and sh (Finn Thain)
- "kho: clean up page initialization logic" simplifies the page
initialization logic in kho_restore_page() (Pratyush Yadav)
- "Unload linux/kernel.h" moves several things out of kernel.h and into
more appropriate places (Yury Norov)
- "don't abuse task_struct.group_leader" removes the usage of
->group_leader when it is "obviously unnecessary" (Oleg Nesterov)
- "list private v2 & luo flb" adds some infrastructure improvements to
the live update orchestrator (Pasha Tatashin)
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (107 commits)
watchdog/hardlockup: simplify perf event probe and remove per-cpu dependency
procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat()
watchdog/softlockup: fix sample ring index wrap in need_counting_irqs()
kcsan, compiler_types: avoid duplicate type issues in BPF Type Format
kho: fix doc for kho_restore_pages()
tests/liveupdate: add in-kernel liveupdate test
liveupdate: luo_flb: introduce File-Lifecycle-Bound global state
liveupdate: luo_file: Use private list
list: add kunit test for private list primitives
list: add primitives for private list manipulations
delayacct: fix uapi timespec64 definition
panic: add panic_force_cpu= parameter to redirect panic to a specific CPU
netclassid: use thread_group_leader(p) in update_classid_task()
RDMA/umem: don't abuse current->group_leader
drm/pan*: don't abuse current->group_leader
drm/amd: kill the outdated "Only the pthreads threading model is supported" checks
drm/amdgpu: don't abuse current->group_leader
android/binder: use same_thread_group(proc->tsk, current) in binder_mmap()
android/binder: don't abuse current->group_leader
kho: skip memoryless NUMA nodes when reserving scratch areas
...
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Add GPL-2.0 license id to file, replacing reference to
GPL in the header comment.
Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@sony.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260117202759.692347-1-tim.bird@sony.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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The IPC sysctls implement the ctl_table_root::permissions hook and they
override the file access mode based on the CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
capability, which is being checked regardless of whether any access is
actually denied or not, so if an LSM denies the capability, an audit
record may be logged even when access is in fact granted.
It wouldn't be viable to restructure the sysctl permission logic to only
check the capability when the access would be actually denied if it's not
granted. Thus, do the same as in net_ctl_permissions() (net/sysctl_net.c)
- switch from ns_capable() to ns_capable_noaudit(), so that the check
never emits an audit record.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260122141303.241133-1-omosnace@redhat.com
Fixes: 0889f44e2810 ("ipc: Check permissions for checkpoint_restart sysctls at open time")
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "panic: sys_info: Refactor and fix a potential issue" (Andy Shevchenko)
fixes a build issue and does some cleanup in ib/sys_info.c
- "Implement mul_u64_u64_div_u64_roundup()" (David Laight)
enhances the 64-bit math code on behalf of a PWM driver and beefs up
the test module for these library functions
- "scripts/gdb/symbols: make BPF debug info available to GDB" (Ilya Leoshkevich)
makes BPF symbol names, sizes, and line numbers available to the GDB
debugger
- "Enable hung_task and lockup cases to dump system info on demand" (Feng Tang)
adds a sysctl which can be used to cause additional info dumping when
the hung-task and lockup detectors fire
- "lib/base64: add generic encoder/decoder, migrate users" (Kuan-Wei Chiu)
adds a general base64 encoder/decoder to lib/ and migrates several
users away from their private implementations
- "rbree: inline rb_first() and rb_last()" (Eric Dumazet)
makes TCP a little faster
- "liveupdate: Rework KHO for in-kernel users" (Pasha Tatashin)
reworks the KEXEC Handover interfaces in preparation for Live Update
Orchestrator (LUO), and possibly for other future clients
- "kho: simplify state machine and enable dynamic updates" (Pasha Tatashin)
increases the flexibility of KEXEC Handover. Also preparation for LUO
- "Live Update Orchestrator" (Pasha Tatashin)
is a major new feature targeted at cloud environments. Quoting the
cover letter:
This series introduces the Live Update Orchestrator, a kernel
subsystem designed to facilitate live kernel updates using a
kexec-based reboot. This capability is critical for cloud
environments, allowing hypervisors to be updated with minimal
downtime for running virtual machines. LUO achieves this by
preserving the state of selected resources, such as memory,
devices and their dependencies, across the kernel transition.
As a key feature, this series includes support for preserving
memfd file descriptors, which allows critical in-memory data, such
as guest RAM or any other large memory region, to be maintained in
RAM across the kexec reboot.
Mike Rappaport merits a mention here, for his extensive review and
testing work.
- "kexec: reorganize kexec and kdump sysfs" (Sourabh Jain)
moves the kexec and kdump sysfs entries from /sys/kernel/ to
/sys/kernel/kexec/ and adds back-compatibility symlinks which can
hopefully be removed one day
- "kho: fixes for vmalloc restoration" (Mike Rapoport)
fixes a BUG which was being hit during KHO restoration of vmalloc()
regions
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-06-11-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (139 commits)
calibrate: update header inclusion
Reinstate "resource: avoid unnecessary lookups in find_next_iomem_res()"
vmcoreinfo: track and log recoverable hardware errors
kho: fix restoring of contiguous ranges of order-0 pages
kho: kho_restore_vmalloc: fix initialization of pages array
MAINTAINERS: TPM DEVICE DRIVER: update the W-tag
init: replace simple_strtoul with kstrtoul to improve lpj_setup
KHO: fix boot failure due to kmemleak access to non-PRESENT pages
Documentation/ABI: new kexec and kdump sysfs interface
Documentation/ABI: mark old kexec sysfs deprecated
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