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<title>alpha: fix ieee_swcr_to_fpcr setting FPCR_DNOD unconditionally</title>
<updated>2026-09-07T15:36:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matt Turner</name>
<email>mattst88@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-03T23:40:45+00:00</published>
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commit 49672d026cc4773608e1222b69b29fd70f41336b upstream.

ieee_swcr_to_fpcr() converts the software IEEE trap-enable and status
bits kept in thread_info.ieee_state into the hardware FPCR format.  It
contained:

	fp |= (~sw &amp; IEEE_TRAP_ENABLE_DNO) &lt;&lt; 41;

FPCR_DNOD (bit 47) disables denormal operand traps: with it set the
hardware handles a denormal operand itself, treating it as zero, instead
of trapping for software completion.  The intent was to set DNOD when the
user has not asked for SIGFPE on denormal operands, but
IEEE_TRAP_ENABLE_DNO is clear by default, so ieee_swcr_to_fpcr(0) always
set DNOD.

Instructions built with the software completion suffix therefore never
trapped on a denormal operand.  The hardware silently substituted zero
and produced wrong results, affecting every program compiled with -mieee
and default FPU settings, glibc included.

Set FPCR_DNOD only when IEEE_MAP_DMZ is requested, which is exactly the
case where flushing denormal inputs to zero is what the user asked for.
DNOD then encodes MAP_DMZ, which ieee_fpcr_to_swcr() already recovers
from FPCR_DNZ, so drop its attempt to recover IEEE_TRAP_ENABLE_DNO from
DNOD; the DNO trap enable lives solely in ieee_state.

Both functions are in a uapi header, so the encoding change is visible to
userspace, but nothing outside the kernel is known to depend on DNOD
carrying the DNO trap enable, and the kernel is the only writer of the
FPCR.

This must not be backported on its own.  Re-enabling denormal operand
traps exposes a second bug, fixed in the following patch: those traps
usually find an exact result, and for an exact result the emulator did
not write the FPCR back, leaving hardware-fabricated exception bits
visible to user space.  Taken alone this change would make spurious
exception flags more common.

The bug predates the git history, so there is no commit to reference in a
Fixes tag.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.15+
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260803-alpha-fp-exceptions-v1-1-c99d75608e60@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 49672d026cc4773608e1222b69b29fd70f41336b upstream.

ieee_swcr_to_fpcr() converts the software IEEE trap-enable and status
bits kept in thread_info.ieee_state into the hardware FPCR format.  It
contained:

	fp |= (~sw &amp; IEEE_TRAP_ENABLE_DNO) &lt;&lt; 41;

FPCR_DNOD (bit 47) disables denormal operand traps: with it set the
hardware handles a denormal operand itself, treating it as zero, instead
of trapping for software completion.  The intent was to set DNOD when the
user has not asked for SIGFPE on denormal operands, but
IEEE_TRAP_ENABLE_DNO is clear by default, so ieee_swcr_to_fpcr(0) always
set DNOD.

Instructions built with the software completion suffix therefore never
trapped on a denormal operand.  The hardware silently substituted zero
and produced wrong results, affecting every program compiled with -mieee
and default FPU settings, glibc included.

Set FPCR_DNOD only when IEEE_MAP_DMZ is requested, which is exactly the
case where flushing denormal inputs to zero is what the user asked for.
DNOD then encodes MAP_DMZ, which ieee_fpcr_to_swcr() already recovers
from FPCR_DNZ, so drop its attempt to recover IEEE_TRAP_ENABLE_DNO from
DNOD; the DNO trap enable lives solely in ieee_state.

Both functions are in a uapi header, so the encoding change is visible to
userspace, but nothing outside the kernel is known to depend on DNOD
carrying the DNO trap enable, and the kernel is the only writer of the
FPCR.

This must not be backported on its own.  Re-enabling denormal operand
traps exposes a second bug, fixed in the following patch: those traps
usually find an exact result, and for an exact result the emulator did
not write the FPCR back, leaving hardware-fabricated exception bits
visible to user space.  Taken alone this change would make spurious
exception flags more common.

The bug predates the git history, so there is no commit to reference in a
Fixes tag.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.15+
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260803-alpha-fp-exceptions-v1-1-c99d75608e60@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2026-06-14T22:29:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-14T22:29:45+00:00</published>
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "Features:

   - Reduce pipe-&gt;mutex contention by pre-allocating pages outside the
     lock in anon_pipe_write().

     anon_pipe_write() called alloc_page() once per page while holding
     pipe-&gt;mutex. The allocation can sleep doing direct reclaim and runs
     memcg charging, which extends the critical section and stalls any
     concurrent reader on the same mutex. Now up to 8 pages are
     pre-allocated before the mutex is taken, leftovers are recycled
     into the per-pipe tmp_page[] cache before unlock, and any remainder
     is released after unlock, keeping the allocator out of the critical
     section on both sides. On a writers x readers sweep with 64KB
     writes against a 1 MB pipe throughput improves 6-28% and average
     write latency drops 5-22%; under memory pressure - when the cost of
     holding the mutex across reclaim is highest - throughput improves
     21-48% and latency drops 17-33%. The microbenchmark is added to
     selftests.

   - uaccess/sockptr: fix the ignored_trailing logic in
     copy_struct_to_user() to behave as documented and the usize check
     in copy_struct_from_sockptr() for user pointers, and add
     copy_struct_{from,to}_bounce_buffer() and copy_struct_to_sockptr()
     helpers for upcoming users (IPPROTO_SMBDIRECT, IPPROTO_QUIC).

   - bpf: add a sleepable bpf_real_inode() kfunc that resolves the real
     inode backing a dentry via d_real_inode(). On overlayfs the inode
     attached to the dentry doesn't carry the underlying device
     information; this is used by the filesystem restriction BPF program
     that was merged into systemd.

   - docs: add guidelines for submitting new filesystems, motivated by
     the maintenance burden abandoned and untestable filesystems impose
     on VFS developers, blocking infrastructure work like folio
     conversions and iomap migration.

  Fixes:

   - libfs: set SB_I_NOEXEC and SB_I_NODEV by default in init_pseudo()
     and drop the now-redundant assignments in callers. This began as a
     one-line dma-buf fix for a path_noexec() warning; a pseudo
     filesystem has no reason not to set SB_I_NOEXEC. All init_pseudo()
     callers were audited: the only visible effect is on dma-buf where
     SB_I_NOEXEC silences the warning.

   - Handle set_blocksize() failures in legacy filesystems (bfs, hpfs,
     qnx4, jfs, befs, affs, isofs, minix, ntfs3, omfs). Mounting a
     device with a sector size &gt; PAGE_SIZE crashed roughly half of them;
     the rest had the same missing error handling pattern. Plus a
     follow-up releasing the superblock buffer_head when setting the
     minix v3 block size fails.

   - mount: honour SB_NOUSER in the new mount API.

   - fs/fcntl: fix a SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order in fasync signaling by
     switching the process-group paths of send_sigio() and send_sigurg()
     from read_lock(&amp;tasklist_lock) to RCU, matching the single-PID
     path.

   - vfs: add an FS_USERNS_DELEGATABLE flag and set it for NFS, fixing
     delegated NFS mounts (fsopen() in a container with the mount
     performed by a privileged daemon) that broke when non-init
     s_user_ns was tied to FS_USERNS_MOUNT.

   - selftests/namespaces: fix a hang in nsid_test where an unreaped
     grandchild kept the TAP pipe write-end open, a waitpid(-1) race in
     listns_efault_test, and a false FAIL on kernels without listns()
     where the tests should SKIP.

   - filelock: fix the break_lease() stub signature for
     CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING=n.

   - init/initramfs_test: wait for the async initramfs unpacking before
     running; the test and do_populate_rootfs() share the parser state.

   - fs/coredump: reduce redundant log noise in
     validate_coredump_safety().

   - iomap: pass the correct length to fserror_report_io() in
     __iomap_write_begin().

   - backing-file: fix the backing_file_open() kerneldoc.

  Cleanups:

   - initramfs: refactor the cpio hex header parsing to use hex2bin()
     instead of the hand-rolled simple_strntoul() which is reverted, and
     extend the initramfs KUnit tests to cover header fields with 0x
     prefixes.

   - Replace __get_free_pages() and friends with kmalloc()/kzalloc()
     across quota, proc, ocfs2/dlm, nilfs2, nfs, nfsd, libfs, jfs, jbd2,
     isofs, fuse, select, namespace, configfs, binfmt_misc, bfs, and the
     do_mounts init code - part of the larger work of replacing page
     allocator calls with kmalloc().

   - Use clear_and_wake_up_bit() in unlock_buffer() and
     journal_end_buffer_io_sync() instead of open-coding the sequence.

   - Drop unused VFS exports: unexport drop_super_exclusive(), remove
     start_removing_user_path_at(), and fold __start_removing_path()
     into start_removing_path().

   - fs/read_write: narrow the __kernel_write() export with
     EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_MODULES().

   - vfs: uapi: retire octal and hex constants in favor of (1 &lt;&lt; n) for
     the O_ flags. Finding a free bit for a new flag across the
     architectures was needlessly hard with the mixed bases.

   - dcache: add extra sanity checks of dead dentries in dentry_free()
     via a new DENTRY_WARN_ONCE() that also prints d_flags.

   - iov_iter: use kmemdup_array() in dup_iter() to harden the
     allocation against multiplication overflow.

   - fs/pipe: write to -&gt;poll_usage only once.

   - vfs: remove an always-taken if-branch in find_next_fd().

   - dcache: use kmalloc_flex() for struct external_name in __d_alloc().

   - namei: use QSTR() instead of QSTR_INIT() in path_pts().

   - sync_file_range: delete dead S_ISLNK code.

   - Comment fixes: retire a stale comment in fget_task_next() and fix
     assorted spelling mistakes"

* tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (73 commits)
  backing-file: fix backing_file_open() kerneldoc parameter
  iomap: pass the correct len to fserror_report_io in __iomap_write_begin
  vfs: add FS_USERNS_DELEGATABLE flag and set it for NFS
  filelock: fix break_lease() stub signature for CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING=n
  vfs: uapi: retire octal and hex numbers in favor of (1 &lt;&lt; n) for O_ flags
  bpf: add bpf_real_inode() kfunc
  fs/read_write: Do not export __kernel_write() to the entire world
  libfs: drop redundant SB_I_NOEXEC/SB_I_NODEV in init_pseudo() callers
  libfs: set SB_I_NOEXEC and SB_I_NODEV by default in init_pseudo()
  mount: honour SB_NOUSER in the new mount API
  fs/fcntl: fix SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order in fasync signaling
  selftests/pipe: add pipe_bench microbenchmark
  fs/pipe: pre-allocate pages outside pipe-&gt;mutex in anon_pipe_write
  fs: retire stale comment in fget_task_next()
  fs: fix spelling mistakes in comment
  bfs: replace get_zeroed_page() with kzalloc()
  binfmt_misc: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc()
  configfs: replace __get_free_pages() with kzalloc()
  fs/namespace: use __getname() to allocate mntpath buffer
  fs/select: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc()
  ...
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "Features:

   - Reduce pipe-&gt;mutex contention by pre-allocating pages outside the
     lock in anon_pipe_write().

     anon_pipe_write() called alloc_page() once per page while holding
     pipe-&gt;mutex. The allocation can sleep doing direct reclaim and runs
     memcg charging, which extends the critical section and stalls any
     concurrent reader on the same mutex. Now up to 8 pages are
     pre-allocated before the mutex is taken, leftovers are recycled
     into the per-pipe tmp_page[] cache before unlock, and any remainder
     is released after unlock, keeping the allocator out of the critical
     section on both sides. On a writers x readers sweep with 64KB
     writes against a 1 MB pipe throughput improves 6-28% and average
     write latency drops 5-22%; under memory pressure - when the cost of
     holding the mutex across reclaim is highest - throughput improves
     21-48% and latency drops 17-33%. The microbenchmark is added to
     selftests.

   - uaccess/sockptr: fix the ignored_trailing logic in
     copy_struct_to_user() to behave as documented and the usize check
     in copy_struct_from_sockptr() for user pointers, and add
     copy_struct_{from,to}_bounce_buffer() and copy_struct_to_sockptr()
     helpers for upcoming users (IPPROTO_SMBDIRECT, IPPROTO_QUIC).

   - bpf: add a sleepable bpf_real_inode() kfunc that resolves the real
     inode backing a dentry via d_real_inode(). On overlayfs the inode
     attached to the dentry doesn't carry the underlying device
     information; this is used by the filesystem restriction BPF program
     that was merged into systemd.

   - docs: add guidelines for submitting new filesystems, motivated by
     the maintenance burden abandoned and untestable filesystems impose
     on VFS developers, blocking infrastructure work like folio
     conversions and iomap migration.

  Fixes:

   - libfs: set SB_I_NOEXEC and SB_I_NODEV by default in init_pseudo()
     and drop the now-redundant assignments in callers. This began as a
     one-line dma-buf fix for a path_noexec() warning; a pseudo
     filesystem has no reason not to set SB_I_NOEXEC. All init_pseudo()
     callers were audited: the only visible effect is on dma-buf where
     SB_I_NOEXEC silences the warning.

   - Handle set_blocksize() failures in legacy filesystems (bfs, hpfs,
     qnx4, jfs, befs, affs, isofs, minix, ntfs3, omfs). Mounting a
     device with a sector size &gt; PAGE_SIZE crashed roughly half of them;
     the rest had the same missing error handling pattern. Plus a
     follow-up releasing the superblock buffer_head when setting the
     minix v3 block size fails.

   - mount: honour SB_NOUSER in the new mount API.

   - fs/fcntl: fix a SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order in fasync signaling by
     switching the process-group paths of send_sigio() and send_sigurg()
     from read_lock(&amp;tasklist_lock) to RCU, matching the single-PID
     path.

   - vfs: add an FS_USERNS_DELEGATABLE flag and set it for NFS, fixing
     delegated NFS mounts (fsopen() in a container with the mount
     performed by a privileged daemon) that broke when non-init
     s_user_ns was tied to FS_USERNS_MOUNT.

   - selftests/namespaces: fix a hang in nsid_test where an unreaped
     grandchild kept the TAP pipe write-end open, a waitpid(-1) race in
     listns_efault_test, and a false FAIL on kernels without listns()
     where the tests should SKIP.

   - filelock: fix the break_lease() stub signature for
     CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING=n.

   - init/initramfs_test: wait for the async initramfs unpacking before
     running; the test and do_populate_rootfs() share the parser state.

   - fs/coredump: reduce redundant log noise in
     validate_coredump_safety().

   - iomap: pass the correct length to fserror_report_io() in
     __iomap_write_begin().

   - backing-file: fix the backing_file_open() kerneldoc.

  Cleanups:

   - initramfs: refactor the cpio hex header parsing to use hex2bin()
     instead of the hand-rolled simple_strntoul() which is reverted, and
     extend the initramfs KUnit tests to cover header fields with 0x
     prefixes.

   - Replace __get_free_pages() and friends with kmalloc()/kzalloc()
     across quota, proc, ocfs2/dlm, nilfs2, nfs, nfsd, libfs, jfs, jbd2,
     isofs, fuse, select, namespace, configfs, binfmt_misc, bfs, and the
     do_mounts init code - part of the larger work of replacing page
     allocator calls with kmalloc().

   - Use clear_and_wake_up_bit() in unlock_buffer() and
     journal_end_buffer_io_sync() instead of open-coding the sequence.

   - Drop unused VFS exports: unexport drop_super_exclusive(), remove
     start_removing_user_path_at(), and fold __start_removing_path()
     into start_removing_path().

   - fs/read_write: narrow the __kernel_write() export with
     EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR_MODULES().

   - vfs: uapi: retire octal and hex constants in favor of (1 &lt;&lt; n) for
     the O_ flags. Finding a free bit for a new flag across the
     architectures was needlessly hard with the mixed bases.

   - dcache: add extra sanity checks of dead dentries in dentry_free()
     via a new DENTRY_WARN_ONCE() that also prints d_flags.

   - iov_iter: use kmemdup_array() in dup_iter() to harden the
     allocation against multiplication overflow.

   - fs/pipe: write to -&gt;poll_usage only once.

   - vfs: remove an always-taken if-branch in find_next_fd().

   - dcache: use kmalloc_flex() for struct external_name in __d_alloc().

   - namei: use QSTR() instead of QSTR_INIT() in path_pts().

   - sync_file_range: delete dead S_ISLNK code.

   - Comment fixes: retire a stale comment in fget_task_next() and fix
     assorted spelling mistakes"

* tag 'vfs-7.2-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (73 commits)
  backing-file: fix backing_file_open() kerneldoc parameter
  iomap: pass the correct len to fserror_report_io in __iomap_write_begin
  vfs: add FS_USERNS_DELEGATABLE flag and set it for NFS
  filelock: fix break_lease() stub signature for CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING=n
  vfs: uapi: retire octal and hex numbers in favor of (1 &lt;&lt; n) for O_ flags
  bpf: add bpf_real_inode() kfunc
  fs/read_write: Do not export __kernel_write() to the entire world
  libfs: drop redundant SB_I_NOEXEC/SB_I_NODEV in init_pseudo() callers
  libfs: set SB_I_NOEXEC and SB_I_NODEV by default in init_pseudo()
  mount: honour SB_NOUSER in the new mount API
  fs/fcntl: fix SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order in fasync signaling
  selftests/pipe: add pipe_bench microbenchmark
  fs/pipe: pre-allocate pages outside pipe-&gt;mutex in anon_pipe_write
  fs: retire stale comment in fget_task_next()
  fs: fix spelling mistakes in comment
  bfs: replace get_zeroed_page() with kzalloc()
  binfmt_misc: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc()
  configfs: replace __get_free_pages() with kzalloc()
  fs/namespace: use __getname() to allocate mntpath buffer
  fs/select: replace __get_free_page() with kmalloc()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>vfs: uapi: retire octal and hex numbers in favor of (1 &lt;&lt; n) for O_ flags</title>
<updated>2026-06-06T13:34:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jori Koolstra</name>
<email>jkoolstra@xs4all.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-04T22:24:05+00:00</published>
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A recent build failure[1] exposed the diffculty of working with the
current octal and hex definitions of O_ flags when trying to find a gap
for a new flag. This difficulty is compounded by the fact that O_ flags
may have architectural specific values.

Replace the hex/octal #defines, which are hard to parse when looking for
free bits, with explicit bit shifts like (1 &lt;&lt; 11). Also, add comments
that identify which architectures redefine some of the seemingly free
("cursed") bits in uapi/asm-generic/fcntl.h. These should not be used to
define new O_ flags (for now, at least).

The translastion was done with Claude Opus 4.8, and verified with a
(non-AI) gawk script. The accounting of which architectures claim
which bit-gaps in uapi/asm-generic/fcntl.h is also done by hand.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/agruPPybCx8q2XcJ@sirena.org.uk/

Assisted-by: Claude:Opus 4.8
Signed-off-by: Jori Koolstra &lt;jkoolstra@xs4all.nl&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260604222405.5382-1-jkoolstra@xs4all.nl
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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A recent build failure[1] exposed the diffculty of working with the
current octal and hex definitions of O_ flags when trying to find a gap
for a new flag. This difficulty is compounded by the fact that O_ flags
may have architectural specific values.

Replace the hex/octal #defines, which are hard to parse when looking for
free bits, with explicit bit shifts like (1 &lt;&lt; 11). Also, add comments
that identify which architectures redefine some of the seemingly free
("cursed") bits in uapi/asm-generic/fcntl.h. These should not be used to
define new O_ flags (for now, at least).

The translastion was done with Claude Opus 4.8, and verified with a
(non-AI) gawk script. The accounting of which architectures claim
which bit-gaps in uapi/asm-generic/fcntl.h is also done by hand.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/agruPPybCx8q2XcJ@sirena.org.uk/

Assisted-by: Claude:Opus 4.8
Signed-off-by: Jori Koolstra &lt;jkoolstra@xs4all.nl&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260604222405.5382-1-jkoolstra@xs4all.nl
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>openat2: introduce EFTYPE error code</title>
<updated>2026-05-21T08:53:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dorjoy Chowdhury</name>
<email>dorjoychy111@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-28T17:22:22+00:00</published>
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Introduce a new error code EFTYPE for wrong file type operations.
EFTYPE is already used in BSD systems like FreeBSD and macOS.

This will be used by the upcoming OPENAT2_REGULAR flag support to
return a specific error when a path doesn't refer to a regular file.

Signed-off-by: Dorjoy Chowdhury &lt;dorjoychy111@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260328172314.45807-2-dorjoychy111@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Aleksa Sarai &lt;aleksa@amutable.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Introduce a new error code EFTYPE for wrong file type operations.
EFTYPE is already used in BSD systems like FreeBSD and macOS.

This will be used by the upcoming OPENAT2_REGULAR flag support to
return a specific error when a path doesn't refer to a regular file.

Signed-off-by: Dorjoy Chowdhury &lt;dorjoychy111@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260328172314.45807-2-dorjoychy111@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Aleksa Sarai &lt;aleksa@amutable.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>uapi: promote EFSCORRUPTED and EUCLEAN to errno.h</title>
<updated>2026-01-13T08:58:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Darrick J. Wong</name>
<email>djwong@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-13T00:31:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=602544773763da411ffa67567fa1d146f3a40231'/>
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Stop definining these privately and instead move them to the uapi
errno.h so that they become canonical instead of copy pasta.

Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/176826402587.3490369.17659117524205214600.stgit@frogsfrogsfrogs
Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang &lt;hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Stop definining these privately and instead move them to the uapi
errno.h so that they become canonical instead of copy pasta.

Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/176826402587.3490369.17659117524205214600.stgit@frogsfrogsfrogs
Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang &lt;hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>alpha: don't reference obsolete termio struct for TC* constants</title>
<updated>2025-12-08T22:10:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sam James</name>
<email>sam@gentoo.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-05T08:14:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9aeed9041929812a10a6d693af050846942a1d16'/>
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<content type='text'>
Similar in nature to ab107276607af90b13a5994997e19b7b9731e251. glibc-2.42
drops the legacy termio struct, but the ioctls.h header still defines some
TC* constants in terms of termio (via sizeof). Hardcode the values instead.

This fixes building Python for example, which falls over like:
  ./Modules/termios.c:1119:16: error: invalid application of 'sizeof' to incomplete type 'struct termio'

Link: https://bugs.gentoo.org/961769
Link: https://bugs.gentoo.org/962600
Signed-off-by: Sam James &lt;sam@gentoo.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6ebd3451908785cad53b50ca6bc46cfe9d6bc03c.1764922497.git.sam@gentoo.org
Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
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<pre>
Similar in nature to ab107276607af90b13a5994997e19b7b9731e251. glibc-2.42
drops the legacy termio struct, but the ioctls.h header still defines some
TC* constants in terms of termio (via sizeof). Hardcode the values instead.

This fixes building Python for example, which falls over like:
  ./Modules/termios.c:1119:16: error: invalid application of 'sizeof' to incomplete type 'struct termio'

Link: https://bugs.gentoo.org/961769
Link: https://bugs.gentoo.org/962600
Signed-off-by: Sam James &lt;sam@gentoo.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6ebd3451908785cad53b50ca6bc46cfe9d6bc03c.1764922497.git.sam@gentoo.org
Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'net-next-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2025-07-30T15:58:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-30T15:58:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8be4d31cb8aaeea27bde4b7ddb26e28a89062ebf'/>
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Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core &amp; protocols:

   - Wrap datapath globals into net_aligned_data, to avoid false sharing

   - Preserve MSG_ZEROCOPY in forwarding (e.g. out of a container)

   - Add SO_INQ and SCM_INQ support to AF_UNIX

   - Add SIOCINQ support to AF_VSOCK

   - Add TCP_MAXSEG sockopt to MPTCP

   - Add IPv6 force_forwarding sysctl to enable forwarding per interface

   - Make TCP validation of whether packet fully fits in the receive
     window and the rcv_buf more strict. With increased use of HW
     aggregation a single "packet" can be multiple 100s of kB

   - Add MSG_MORE flag to optimize large TCP transmissions via sockmap,
     improves latency up to 33% for sockmap users

   - Convert TCP send queue handling from tasklet to BH workque

   - Improve BPF iteration over TCP sockets to see each socket exactly
     once

   - Remove obsolete and unused TCP RFC3517/RFC6675 loss recovery code

   - Support enabling kernel threads for NAPI processing on per-NAPI
     instance basis rather than a whole device. Fully stop the kernel
     NAPI thread when threaded NAPI gets disabled. Previously thread
     would stick around until ifdown due to tricky synchronization

   - Allow multicast routing to take effect on locally-generated packets

   - Add output interface argument for End.X in segment routing

   - MCTP: add support for gateway routing, improve bind() handling

   - Don't require rtnl_lock when fetching an IPv6 neighbor over Netlink

   - Add a new neighbor flag ("extern_valid"), which cedes refresh
     responsibilities to userspace. This is needed for EVPN multi-homing
     where a neighbor entry for a multi-homed host needs to be synced
     across all the VTEPs among which the host is multi-homed

   - Support NUD_PERMANENT for proxy neighbor entries

   - Add a new queuing discipline for IETF RFC9332 DualQ Coupled AQM

   - Add sequence numbers to netconsole messages. Unregister
     netconsole's console when all net targets are removed. Code
     refactoring. Add a number of selftests

   - Align IPSec inbound SA lookup to RFC 4301. Only SPI and protocol
     should be used for an inbound SA lookup

   - Support inspecting ref_tracker state via DebugFS

   - Don't force bonding advertisement frames tx to ~333 ms boundaries.
     Add broadcast_neighbor option to send ARP/ND on all bonded links

   - Allow providing upcall pid for the 'execute' command in openvswitch

   - Remove DCCP support from Netfilter's conntrack

   - Disallow multiple packet duplications in the queuing layer

   - Prevent use of deprecated iptables code on PREEMPT_RT

  Driver API:

   - Support RSS and hashing configuration over ethtool Netlink

   - Add dedicated ethtool callbacks for getting and setting hashing
     fields

   - Add support for power budget evaluation strategy in PSE /
     Power-over-Ethernet. Generate Netlink events for overcurrent etc

   - Support DPLL phase offset monitoring across all device inputs.
     Support providing clock reference and SYNC over separate DPLL
     inputs

   - Support traffic classes in devlink rate API for bandwidth
     management

   - Remove rtnl_lock dependency from UDP tunnel port configuration

  Device drivers:

   - Add a new Broadcom driver for 800G Ethernet (bnge)

   - Add a standalone driver for Microchip ZL3073x DPLL

   - Remove IBM's NETIUCV device driver

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
      - Broadcom (bnxt):
         - support zero-copy Tx of DMABUF memory
         - take page size into account for page pool recycling rings
      - Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
         - idpf: XDP and AF_XDP support preparations
         - idpf: add flow steering
         - add link_down_events statistic
         - clean up the TSPLL code
         - preparations for live VM migration
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - support zero-copy Rx/Tx interfaces (DMABUF and io_uring)
         - optimize context memory usage for matchers
         - expose serial numbers in devlink info
         - support PCIe congestion metrics
      - Meta (fbnic):
         - add 25G, 50G, and 100G link modes to phylink
         - support dumping FW logs
      - Marvell/Cavium:
         - support for CN20K generation of the Octeon chips
      - Amazon:
         - add HW clock (without timestamping, just hypervisor time access)

   - Ethernet virtual:
      - VirtIO net:
         - support segmentation of UDP-tunnel-encapsulated packets
      - Google (gve):
         - support packet timestamping and clock synchronization
      - Microsoft vNIC:
         - add handler for device-originated servicing events
         - allow dynamic MSI-X vector allocation
         - support Tx bandwidth clamping

   - Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
      - AMD:
         - amd-xgbe: hardware timestamping and PTP clock support
      - Broadcom integrated MACs (bcmgenet, bcmasp):
         - use napi_complete_done() return value to support NAPI polling
         - add support for re-starting auto-negotiation
      - Broadcom switches (b53):
         - support BCM5325 switches
         - add bcm63xx EPHY power control
      - Synopsys (stmmac):
         - lots of code refactoring and cleanups
      - TI:
         - icssg-prueth: read firmware-names from device tree
         - icssg: PRP offload support
      - Microchip:
         - lan78xx: convert to PHYLINK for improved PHY and MAC management
         - ksz: add KSZ8463 switch support
      - Intel:
         - support similar queue priority scheme in multi-queue and
           time-sensitive networking (taprio)
         - support packet pre-emption in both
      - RealTek (r8169):
         - enable EEE at 5Gbps on RTL8126
      - Airoha:
         - add PPPoE offload support
         - MDIO bus controller for Airoha AN7583

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - support for the IPQ5018 internal GE PHY
      - micrel KSZ9477 switch-integrated PHYs:
         - add MDI/MDI-X control support
         - add RX error counters
         - add cable test support
         - add Signal Quality Indicator (SQI) reporting
      - dp83tg720: improve reset handling and reduce link recovery time
      - support bcm54811 (and its MII-Lite interface type)
      - air_en8811h: support resume/suspend
      - support PHY counters for QCA807x and QCA808x
      - support WoL for QCA807x

   - CAN drivers:
      - rcar_canfd: support for Transceiver Delay Compensation
      - kvaser: report FW versions via devlink dev info

   - WiFi:
      - extended regulatory info support (6 GHz)
      - add statistics and beacon monitor for Multi-Link Operation (MLO)
      - support S1G aggregation, improve S1G support
      - add Radio Measurement action fields
      - support per-radio RTS threshold
      - some work around how FIPS affects wifi, which was wrong (RC4 is
        used by TKIP, not only WEP)
      - improvements for unsolicited probe response handling

   - WiFi drivers:
      - RealTek (rtw88):
         - IBSS mode for SDIO devices
      - RealTek (rtw89):
         - BT coexistence for MLO/WiFi7
         - concurrent station + P2P support
         - support for USB devices RTL8851BU/RTL8852BU
      - Intel (iwlwifi):
         - use embedded PNVM in (to be released) FW images to fix
           compatibility issues
         - many cleanups (unused FW APIs, PCIe code, WoWLAN)
         - some FIPS interoperability
      - MediaTek (mt76):
         - firmware recovery improvements
         - more MLO work
      - Qualcomm/Atheros (ath12k):
         - fix scan on multi-radio devices
         - more EHT/Wi-Fi 7 features
         - encapsulation/decapsulation offload
      - Broadcom (brcm80211):
         - support SDIO 43751 device

   - Bluetooth:
      - hci_event: add support for handling LE BIG Sync Lost event
      - ISO: add socket option to report packet seqnum via CMSG
      - ISO: support SCM_TIMESTAMPING for ISO TS

   - Bluetooth drivers:
      - intel_pcie: support Function Level Reset
      - nxpuart: add support for 4M baudrate
      - nxpuart: implement powerup sequence, reset, FW dump, and FW loading"

* tag 'net-next-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1742 commits)
  dpll: zl3073x: Fix build failure
  selftests: bpf: fix legacy netfilter options
  ipv6: annotate data-races around rt-&gt;fib6_nsiblings
  ipv6: fix possible infinite loop in fib6_info_uses_dev()
  ipv6: prevent infinite loop in rt6_nlmsg_size()
  ipv6: add a retry logic in net6_rt_notify()
  vrf: Drop existing dst reference in vrf_ip6_input_dst
  net/sched: taprio: align entry index attr validation with mqprio
  net: fsl_pq_mdio: use dev_err_probe
  selftests: rtnetlink.sh: remove esp4_offload after test
  vsock: remove unnecessary null check in vsock_getname()
  igb: xsk: solve negative overflow of nb_pkts in zerocopy mode
  stmmac: xsk: fix negative overflow of budget in zerocopy mode
  dt-bindings: ieee802154: Convert at86rf230.txt yaml format
  net: dsa: microchip: Disable PTP function of KSZ8463
  net: dsa: microchip: Setup fiber ports for KSZ8463
  net: dsa: microchip: Write switch MAC address differently for KSZ8463
  net: dsa: microchip: Use different registers for KSZ8463
  net: dsa: microchip: Add KSZ8463 switch support to KSZ DSA driver
  dt-bindings: net: dsa: microchip: Add KSZ8463 switch support
  ...
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<pre>
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core &amp; protocols:

   - Wrap datapath globals into net_aligned_data, to avoid false sharing

   - Preserve MSG_ZEROCOPY in forwarding (e.g. out of a container)

   - Add SO_INQ and SCM_INQ support to AF_UNIX

   - Add SIOCINQ support to AF_VSOCK

   - Add TCP_MAXSEG sockopt to MPTCP

   - Add IPv6 force_forwarding sysctl to enable forwarding per interface

   - Make TCP validation of whether packet fully fits in the receive
     window and the rcv_buf more strict. With increased use of HW
     aggregation a single "packet" can be multiple 100s of kB

   - Add MSG_MORE flag to optimize large TCP transmissions via sockmap,
     improves latency up to 33% for sockmap users

   - Convert TCP send queue handling from tasklet to BH workque

   - Improve BPF iteration over TCP sockets to see each socket exactly
     once

   - Remove obsolete and unused TCP RFC3517/RFC6675 loss recovery code

   - Support enabling kernel threads for NAPI processing on per-NAPI
     instance basis rather than a whole device. Fully stop the kernel
     NAPI thread when threaded NAPI gets disabled. Previously thread
     would stick around until ifdown due to tricky synchronization

   - Allow multicast routing to take effect on locally-generated packets

   - Add output interface argument for End.X in segment routing

   - MCTP: add support for gateway routing, improve bind() handling

   - Don't require rtnl_lock when fetching an IPv6 neighbor over Netlink

   - Add a new neighbor flag ("extern_valid"), which cedes refresh
     responsibilities to userspace. This is needed for EVPN multi-homing
     where a neighbor entry for a multi-homed host needs to be synced
     across all the VTEPs among which the host is multi-homed

   - Support NUD_PERMANENT for proxy neighbor entries

   - Add a new queuing discipline for IETF RFC9332 DualQ Coupled AQM

   - Add sequence numbers to netconsole messages. Unregister
     netconsole's console when all net targets are removed. Code
     refactoring. Add a number of selftests

   - Align IPSec inbound SA lookup to RFC 4301. Only SPI and protocol
     should be used for an inbound SA lookup

   - Support inspecting ref_tracker state via DebugFS

   - Don't force bonding advertisement frames tx to ~333 ms boundaries.
     Add broadcast_neighbor option to send ARP/ND on all bonded links

   - Allow providing upcall pid for the 'execute' command in openvswitch

   - Remove DCCP support from Netfilter's conntrack

   - Disallow multiple packet duplications in the queuing layer

   - Prevent use of deprecated iptables code on PREEMPT_RT

  Driver API:

   - Support RSS and hashing configuration over ethtool Netlink

   - Add dedicated ethtool callbacks for getting and setting hashing
     fields

   - Add support for power budget evaluation strategy in PSE /
     Power-over-Ethernet. Generate Netlink events for overcurrent etc

   - Support DPLL phase offset monitoring across all device inputs.
     Support providing clock reference and SYNC over separate DPLL
     inputs

   - Support traffic classes in devlink rate API for bandwidth
     management

   - Remove rtnl_lock dependency from UDP tunnel port configuration

  Device drivers:

   - Add a new Broadcom driver for 800G Ethernet (bnge)

   - Add a standalone driver for Microchip ZL3073x DPLL

   - Remove IBM's NETIUCV device driver

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
      - Broadcom (bnxt):
         - support zero-copy Tx of DMABUF memory
         - take page size into account for page pool recycling rings
      - Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
         - idpf: XDP and AF_XDP support preparations
         - idpf: add flow steering
         - add link_down_events statistic
         - clean up the TSPLL code
         - preparations for live VM migration
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - support zero-copy Rx/Tx interfaces (DMABUF and io_uring)
         - optimize context memory usage for matchers
         - expose serial numbers in devlink info
         - support PCIe congestion metrics
      - Meta (fbnic):
         - add 25G, 50G, and 100G link modes to phylink
         - support dumping FW logs
      - Marvell/Cavium:
         - support for CN20K generation of the Octeon chips
      - Amazon:
         - add HW clock (without timestamping, just hypervisor time access)

   - Ethernet virtual:
      - VirtIO net:
         - support segmentation of UDP-tunnel-encapsulated packets
      - Google (gve):
         - support packet timestamping and clock synchronization
      - Microsoft vNIC:
         - add handler for device-originated servicing events
         - allow dynamic MSI-X vector allocation
         - support Tx bandwidth clamping

   - Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
      - AMD:
         - amd-xgbe: hardware timestamping and PTP clock support
      - Broadcom integrated MACs (bcmgenet, bcmasp):
         - use napi_complete_done() return value to support NAPI polling
         - add support for re-starting auto-negotiation
      - Broadcom switches (b53):
         - support BCM5325 switches
         - add bcm63xx EPHY power control
      - Synopsys (stmmac):
         - lots of code refactoring and cleanups
      - TI:
         - icssg-prueth: read firmware-names from device tree
         - icssg: PRP offload support
      - Microchip:
         - lan78xx: convert to PHYLINK for improved PHY and MAC management
         - ksz: add KSZ8463 switch support
      - Intel:
         - support similar queue priority scheme in multi-queue and
           time-sensitive networking (taprio)
         - support packet pre-emption in both
      - RealTek (r8169):
         - enable EEE at 5Gbps on RTL8126
      - Airoha:
         - add PPPoE offload support
         - MDIO bus controller for Airoha AN7583

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - support for the IPQ5018 internal GE PHY
      - micrel KSZ9477 switch-integrated PHYs:
         - add MDI/MDI-X control support
         - add RX error counters
         - add cable test support
         - add Signal Quality Indicator (SQI) reporting
      - dp83tg720: improve reset handling and reduce link recovery time
      - support bcm54811 (and its MII-Lite interface type)
      - air_en8811h: support resume/suspend
      - support PHY counters for QCA807x and QCA808x
      - support WoL for QCA807x

   - CAN drivers:
      - rcar_canfd: support for Transceiver Delay Compensation
      - kvaser: report FW versions via devlink dev info

   - WiFi:
      - extended regulatory info support (6 GHz)
      - add statistics and beacon monitor for Multi-Link Operation (MLO)
      - support S1G aggregation, improve S1G support
      - add Radio Measurement action fields
      - support per-radio RTS threshold
      - some work around how FIPS affects wifi, which was wrong (RC4 is
        used by TKIP, not only WEP)
      - improvements for unsolicited probe response handling

   - WiFi drivers:
      - RealTek (rtw88):
         - IBSS mode for SDIO devices
      - RealTek (rtw89):
         - BT coexistence for MLO/WiFi7
         - concurrent station + P2P support
         - support for USB devices RTL8851BU/RTL8852BU
      - Intel (iwlwifi):
         - use embedded PNVM in (to be released) FW images to fix
           compatibility issues
         - many cleanups (unused FW APIs, PCIe code, WoWLAN)
         - some FIPS interoperability
      - MediaTek (mt76):
         - firmware recovery improvements
         - more MLO work
      - Qualcomm/Atheros (ath12k):
         - fix scan on multi-radio devices
         - more EHT/Wi-Fi 7 features
         - encapsulation/decapsulation offload
      - Broadcom (brcm80211):
         - support SDIO 43751 device

   - Bluetooth:
      - hci_event: add support for handling LE BIG Sync Lost event
      - ISO: add socket option to report packet seqnum via CMSG
      - ISO: support SCM_TIMESTAMPING for ISO TS

   - Bluetooth drivers:
      - intel_pcie: support Function Level Reset
      - nxpuart: add support for 4M baudrate
      - nxpuart: implement powerup sequence, reset, FW dump, and FW loading"

* tag 'net-next-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1742 commits)
  dpll: zl3073x: Fix build failure
  selftests: bpf: fix legacy netfilter options
  ipv6: annotate data-races around rt-&gt;fib6_nsiblings
  ipv6: fix possible infinite loop in fib6_info_uses_dev()
  ipv6: prevent infinite loop in rt6_nlmsg_size()
  ipv6: add a retry logic in net6_rt_notify()
  vrf: Drop existing dst reference in vrf_ip6_input_dst
  net/sched: taprio: align entry index attr validation with mqprio
  net: fsl_pq_mdio: use dev_err_probe
  selftests: rtnetlink.sh: remove esp4_offload after test
  vsock: remove unnecessary null check in vsock_getname()
  igb: xsk: solve negative overflow of nb_pkts in zerocopy mode
  stmmac: xsk: fix negative overflow of budget in zerocopy mode
  dt-bindings: ieee802154: Convert at86rf230.txt yaml format
  net: dsa: microchip: Disable PTP function of KSZ8463
  net: dsa: microchip: Setup fiber ports for KSZ8463
  net: dsa: microchip: Write switch MAC address differently for KSZ8463
  net: dsa: microchip: Use different registers for KSZ8463
  net: dsa: microchip: Add KSZ8463 switch support to KSZ DSA driver
  dt-bindings: net: dsa: microchip: Add KSZ8463 switch support
  ...
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>af_unix: Introduce SO_INQ.</title>
<updated>2025-07-09T01:05:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kuniyuki Iwashima</name>
<email>kuniyu@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-02T22:35:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=df30285b3670bf52e1e5512e4d4482bec5e93c16'/>
<id>df30285b3670bf52e1e5512e4d4482bec5e93c16</id>
<content type='text'>
We have an application that uses almost the same code for TCP and
AF_UNIX (SOCK_STREAM).

TCP can use TCP_INQ, but AF_UNIX doesn't have it and requires an
extra syscall, ioctl(SIOCINQ) or getsockopt(SO_MEMINFO) as an
alternative.

Let's introduce the generic version of TCP_INQ.

If SO_INQ is enabled, recvmsg() will put a cmsg of SCM_INQ that
contains the exact value of ioctl(SIOCINQ).  The cmsg is also
included when msg-&gt;msg_get_inq is non-zero to make sockets
io_uring-friendly.

Note that SOCK_CUSTOM_SOCKOPT is flagged only for SOCK_STREAM to
override setsockopt() for SOL_SOCKET.

By having the flag in struct unix_sock, instead of struct sock, we
can later add SO_INQ support for TCP and reuse tcp_sk(sk)-&gt;recvmsg_inq.

Note also that supporting custom getsockopt() for SOL_SOCKET will need
preparation for other SOCK_CUSTOM_SOCKOPT users (UDP, vsock, MPTCP).

Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250702223606.1054680-7-kuniyu@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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We have an application that uses almost the same code for TCP and
AF_UNIX (SOCK_STREAM).

TCP can use TCP_INQ, but AF_UNIX doesn't have it and requires an
extra syscall, ioctl(SIOCINQ) or getsockopt(SO_MEMINFO) as an
alternative.

Let's introduce the generic version of TCP_INQ.

If SO_INQ is enabled, recvmsg() will put a cmsg of SCM_INQ that
contains the exact value of ioctl(SIOCINQ).  The cmsg is also
included when msg-&gt;msg_get_inq is non-zero to make sockets
io_uring-friendly.

Note that SOCK_CUSTOM_SOCKOPT is flagged only for SOCK_STREAM to
override setsockopt() for SOL_SOCKET.

By having the flag in struct unix_sock, instead of struct sock, we
can later add SO_INQ support for TCP and reuse tcp_sk(sk)-&gt;recvmsg_inq.

Note also that supporting custom getsockopt() for SOL_SOCKET will need
preparation for other SOCK_CUSTOM_SOCKOPT users (UDP, vsock, MPTCP).

Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250702223606.1054680-7-kuniyu@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>alpha: regularize the situation with asm/param.h</title>
<updated>2025-06-25T02:02:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-02T00:28:34+00:00</published>
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The only reason why alpha can't do what sparc et.al. are doing
is that include/asm-generic/param.h relies upon the value of HZ
set for userland header in uapi/asm/param.h being 100.

We need that value to define USER_HZ and we need that definition
to outlive the redefinition of HZ kernel-side.  And alpha needs
it to be 1024, not 100 like everybody else.

So let's add __USER_HZ to uapi/asm-generic/param.h, defaulting to
100 and used to define HZ.  That way include/asm-generic/param.h
can use that thing instead of open-coding it - it won't be affected
by undefining and redefining HZ.

That done, alpha asm/param.h can be removed and uapi/asm/param.h
switched to defining __USER_HZ and EXEC_PAGESIZE and then including
&lt;asm-generic/param.h&gt; - asm/param.h will resolve to uapi/asm/param.h,
which pulls &lt;asm-generic/param.h&gt;, which will do the right thing
both in the kernel and userland contexts.

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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The only reason why alpha can't do what sparc et.al. are doing
is that include/asm-generic/param.h relies upon the value of HZ
set for userland header in uapi/asm/param.h being 100.

We need that value to define USER_HZ and we need that definition
to outlive the redefinition of HZ kernel-side.  And alpha needs
it to be 1024, not 100 like everybody else.

So let's add __USER_HZ to uapi/asm-generic/param.h, defaulting to
100 and used to define HZ.  That way include/asm-generic/param.h
can use that thing instead of open-coding it - it won't be affected
by undefining and redefining HZ.

That done, alpha asm/param.h can be removed and uapi/asm/param.h
switched to defining __USER_HZ and EXEC_PAGESIZE and then including
&lt;asm-generic/param.h&gt; - asm/param.h will resolve to uapi/asm/param.h,
which pulls &lt;asm-generic/param.h&gt;, which will do the right thing
both in the kernel and userland contexts.

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>af_unix: Introduce SO_PASSRIGHTS.</title>
<updated>2025-05-23T09:24:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kuniyuki Iwashima</name>
<email>kuniyu@amazon.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-19T20:57:59+00:00</published>
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As long as recvmsg() or recvmmsg() is used with cmsg, it is not
possible to avoid receiving file descriptors via SCM_RIGHTS.

This behaviour has occasionally been flagged as problematic, as
it can be (ab)used to trigger DoS during close(), for example, by
passing a FUSE-controlled fd or a hung NFS fd.

For instance, as noted on the uAPI Group page [0], an untrusted peer
could send a file descriptor pointing to a hung NFS mount and then
close it.  Once the receiver calls recvmsg() with msg_control, the
descriptor is automatically installed, and then the responsibility
for the final close() now falls on the receiver, which may result
in blocking the process for a long time.

Regarding this, systemd calls cmsg_close_all() [1] after each
recvmsg() to close() unwanted file descriptors sent via SCM_RIGHTS.

However, this cannot work around the issue at all, because the final
fput() may still occur on the receiver's side once sendmsg() with
SCM_RIGHTS succeeds.  Also, even filtering by LSM at recvmsg() does
not work for the same reason.

Thus, we need a better way to refuse SCM_RIGHTS at sendmsg().

Let's introduce SO_PASSRIGHTS to disable SCM_RIGHTS.

Note that this option is enabled by default for backward
compatibility.

Link: https://uapi-group.org/kernel-features/#disabling-reception-of-scm_rights-for-af_unix-sockets #[0]
Link: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/v257.5/src/basic/fd-util.c#L612-L628 #[1]
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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As long as recvmsg() or recvmmsg() is used with cmsg, it is not
possible to avoid receiving file descriptors via SCM_RIGHTS.

This behaviour has occasionally been flagged as problematic, as
it can be (ab)used to trigger DoS during close(), for example, by
passing a FUSE-controlled fd or a hung NFS fd.

For instance, as noted on the uAPI Group page [0], an untrusted peer
could send a file descriptor pointing to a hung NFS mount and then
close it.  Once the receiver calls recvmsg() with msg_control, the
descriptor is automatically installed, and then the responsibility
for the final close() now falls on the receiver, which may result
in blocking the process for a long time.

Regarding this, systemd calls cmsg_close_all() [1] after each
recvmsg() to close() unwanted file descriptors sent via SCM_RIGHTS.

However, this cannot work around the issue at all, because the final
fput() may still occur on the receiver's side once sendmsg() with
SCM_RIGHTS succeeds.  Also, even filtering by LSM at recvmsg() does
not work for the same reason.

Thus, we need a better way to refuse SCM_RIGHTS at sendmsg().

Let's introduce SO_PASSRIGHTS to disable SCM_RIGHTS.

Note that this option is enabled by default for backward
compatibility.

Link: https://uapi-group.org/kernel-features/#disabling-reception-of-scm_rights-for-af_unix-sockets #[0]
Link: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/v257.5/src/basic/fd-util.c#L612-L628 #[1]
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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