linux-stable.git/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl, branch v6.12.95

crypto: qat - remove unused character device and IOCTLs

2026-07-04T11:43:36+00:00

[ Upstream commit d237230728c567297f2f98b425d63156ab2ed17f ]

The QAT driver exposes a character device (qat_adf_ctl) with IOCTLs
for device configuration, start, stop, status query and enumeration.
These IOCTLs are not part of any public uAPI header and have no known
in-tree or out-of-tree users. Device lifecycle is already managed via
sysfs.

The ioctl interface also increases the attack surface and is the
subject of a number of bug reports.

Remove the character device, the IOCTL definitions, and the related
data structures (adf_dev_status_info, adf_user_cfg_key_val,
adf_user_cfg_section, adf_user_cfg_ctl_data). Drop the now-unused
adf_cfg_user.h header and strip adf_ctl_drv.c down to the minimal
module_init/module_exit hooks for workqueue, AER, and crypto/compression
algorithm registration.

Clean up leftover dead code that was only reachable from the removed
IOCTL paths: adf_cfg_del_all(), adf_devmgr_verify_id(),
adf_devmgr_get_num_dev(), adf_devmgr_get_dev_by_id(),
adf_get_vf_real_id() and the unused ADF_CFG macros.

Additionally, drop the entry associated to QAT IOCTLs in
ioctl-number.rst.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: d8cba25d2c68 ("crypto: qat - Intel(R) QAT driver framework")
Reported-by: Zhi Wang 
Reported-by: Bin Yu 
Reported-by: MingYu Wang 
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/61d6d499.ab89.19b9b7f3186.Coremail.wangzhi_xd@stu.xidian.edu.cn/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260508034841.256794-1-w15303746062@163.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260508023542.256299-1-w15303746062@163.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260504025120.98242-1-w15303746062@163.com/
Signed-off-by: Giovanni Cabiddu 
Reviewed-by: Ahsan Atta 
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Documentation: ioctl-number: Extend "Include File" column width

2026-07-04T11:43:36+00:00

[ Upstream commit 15afd5def819e4df2a29cef6fcfa6ae7ba167c0f ]

Extend width of "Include File" column to fit full path to
papr-physical-attestation.h in later commit.

Reviewed-by: Haren Myneni 
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya 
Acked-by: Madhavan Srinivasan 
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250714015711.14525-3-bagasdotme@gmail.com
Stable-dep-of: d237230728c5 ("crypto: qat - remove unused character device and IOCTLs")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Documentation: ioctl-number: Fix linuxppc-dev mailto link

2026-07-04T11:43:36+00:00

[ Upstream commit 3dfa97bd93614c15418ba7b5c727f6c5bb617174 ]

Spell out full Linux PPC mailing list address like other subsystem
mailing lists listed in the table.

Reviewed-by: Haren Myneni 
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya 
Acked-by: Madhavan Srinivasan 
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250714015711.14525-2-bagasdotme@gmail.com
Stable-dep-of: d237230728c5 ("crypto: qat - remove unused character device and IOCTLs")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Documentation: add ublk driver ioctl numbers

2024-08-26T21:34:14+00:00

ublk driver takes the following ioctl numbers:

	'u'   00-2F  linux/ublk_cmd.h

So document it in ioctl-number.rst

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei 
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240823134339.1496916-1-ming.lei@redhat.com

Documentation: ioctl: document 0x07 ioctl code

2024-07-29T21:25:03+00:00

It looks like this was supposed to be documented when VSOCK was
added[1], but it got lost in later submissions.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20130109000024.3719.71468.stgit@promb-2n-dhcp175.eng.vmware.com/#Z31Documentation:ioctl:ioctl-number.txt [1]
Fixes: d021c344051a ("VSOCK: Introduce VM Sockets")
Signed-off-by: Alyssa Ross 
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240725171120.12226-2-hi@alyssa.is

Merge tag 'char-misc-6.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc

2024-07-19T22:55:08+00:00

Pull char / misc and other driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the "big" set of char/misc and other driver subsystem changes
  for 6.11-rc1. Nothing major in here, just loads of new drivers and
  updates. Included in here are:

   - IIO api updates and new drivers added

   - wait_interruptable_timeout() api cleanups for some drivers

   - MODULE_DESCRIPTION() additions for loads of drivers

   - parport out-of-bounds fix

   - interconnect driver updates and additions

   - mhi driver updates and additions

   - w1 driver fixes

   - binder speedups and fixes

   - eeprom driver updates

   - coresight driver updates

   - counter driver update

   - new misc driver additions

   - other minor api updates

  All of these, EXCEPT for the final Kconfig build fix for 32bit
  systems, have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues.
  The Kconfig fixup went in 29 hours ago, so might have missed the
  latest linux-next, but was acked by everyone involved"

* tag 'char-misc-6.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (330 commits)
  misc: Kconfig: exclude mrvl-cn10k-dpi compilation for 32-bit systems
  misc: delete Makefile.rej
  binder: fix hang of unregistered readers
  misc: Kconfig: add a new dependency for MARVELL_CN10K_DPI
  virtio: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro
  agp: uninorth: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro
  spmi: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macros
  dev/parport: fix the array out-of-bounds risk
  samples: configfs: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro
  misc: mrvl-cn10k-dpi: add Octeon CN10K DPI administrative driver
  misc: keba: Fix missing AUXILIARY_BUS dependency
  slimbus: Fix struct and documentation alignment in stream.c
  MAINTAINERS: CC dri-devel list on Qualcomm FastRPC patches
  misc: fastrpc: use coherent pool for untranslated Compute Banks
  misc: fastrpc: support complete DMA pool access to the DSP
  misc: fastrpc: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro
  misc: fastrpc: Add missing dev_err newlines
  misc: fastrpc: Use memdup_user()
  nvmem: core: Implement force_ro sysfs attribute
  nvmem: Use sysfs_emit() for type attribute
  ...

Merge tag 'docs-6.11' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2024-07-18T22:54:16+00:00

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "Nothing hugely exciting happening in the documentation tree this time
  around, mostly more of the usual:

   - More Spanish, Italian, and Chinese translations

   - A new script, scripts/checktransupdate.py, can be used to see which
     commits have touched an (English) document since a given
     translation was last updated.

   - A couple of "best practices" suggestions (on Link: tags and
     off-list discussions) that were not entirely at consensus level,
     but I concluded they were close enough to accept.

   - Some nice cleanups removing documentation for kernel parameters
     that have not been recognized for ... a long time.

  ...along with the usual updates, typo fixes, and such"

* tag 'docs-6.11' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (57 commits)
  Documentation: Document user_events ioctl code
  docs/pinctrl: fix typo in mapping example
  docs: maintainer: discourage taking conversations off-list
  docs: driver-model: platform: update the definition of platform_driver
  docs/sp_SP: Add translation for scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst
  writing_musb_glue_layer.rst: Fix broken URL
  zh_CN/admin-guide: one typo fix
  docs/zh_CN/virt: Update the translation of guest-halt-polling.rst
  Documentation: add reference from dynamic debug to loglevel kernel params
  Documentation: best practices for using Link trailers
  Documentation: fix links to mailing list services
  Documentation: exception-tables.rst: Fix the wrong steps referenced
  docs/zh_CN: add process/researcher-guidelines Chinese translation
  Documentation/tools/rv: fix document header
  docs/sp_SP: Add translation of process/maintainer-kvm-x86.rst
  docs/admin-guide/mm: correct typo 'quired' to 'queried'
  Add libps2 to the input section of driver-api
  Docs/mm/index: move allocation profiling document to unsorted documents chapter
  Docs/mm/index: rename 'Legacy Documentation' to 'Unsorted Documentation'
  Docs/mm/index: Remove 'Memory Management Guide' chapter marker
  ...

Documentation: Document user_events ioctl code

2024-07-16T17:15:02+00:00

The user events trace subsystem uses the 0x2A/'*' code for ioctls. These
are published via the uapi/linux/user_events.h header file.

Add a line indicating user events as the owner of the 0x2A/'*' code and
reserve the first 32 sequence numbers.

Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave 
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240715181413.1157-1-beaub@linux.microsoft.com

misc: mrvl-cn10k-dpi: add Octeon CN10K DPI administrative driver

2024-07-10T12:58:29+00:00

Adds a misc driver for Marvell CN10K DPI(DMA Engine) device's physical
function which initializes DPI DMA hardware's global configuration and
enables hardware mailbox channels between physical function (PF) and
it's virtual functions (VF). VF device drivers (User space drivers) use
this hw mailbox to communicate any required device configuration on it's
respective VF device. Accordingly, this DPI PF driver provisions the
VF device resources.

At the hardware level, the DPI physical function (PF) acts as a management
interface to setup the VF device resources, VF devices are only provisioned
to handle or control the actual DMA Engine's data transfer capabilities.

Signed-off-by: Vamsi Attunuru 
Reviewed-by: Srujana Challa 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240706153009.3775333-1-vattunuru@marvell.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tracing: Have memmapped ring buffer use ioctl of "R" range 0x20-2F

2024-07-03T20:40:45+00:00

To prevent conflicts with other ioctl numbers to allow strace to have an
idea of what is happening, add the range of ioctls for the trace buffer
mapping from _IO("T", 0x1) to the range of "R" 0x20 - 0x2F.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240630105322.GA17573@altlinux.org/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240630213626.GA23566@altlinux.org/

Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Fixes: cf9f0f7c4c5bb ("tracing: Allow user-space mapping of the ring-buffer")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20240702153354.367861db@rorschach.local.home
Reported-by: "Dmitry V. Levin" 
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google)