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<title>alpha: marvel: Fix lock ordering in init_io7_irqs()</title>
<updated>2026-09-07T15:22:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matt Turner</name>
<email>mattst88@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-28T23:05:16+00:00</published>
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commit 24d68db713d63dfe3660c56b50e887784844baea upstream.

Move irq_set_chip_and_handler() and irq_set_status_flags() calls
outside the io7-&gt;irq_lock raw spinlock.  These functions take
sparse_irq_lock, which is a mutex, and taking a sleeping lock while
holding a raw spinlock is invalid.  The raw spinlock only needs to
protect the hardware CSR accesses.

This fixes the following lockdep splat during boot:

  [ BUG: Invalid wait context ]
  swapper/0/0 is trying to lock:
  sparse_irq_lock{....}-{4:4}, at: irq_mark_irq
  other info that might help us debug this:
  context-{5:5}
  1 lock held by swapper/0/0:
   #0: &amp;io7-&gt;irq_lock{....}-{2:2}, at: init_io7_irqs.constprop.0

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260528230516.1839694-2-mattst88@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 24d68db713d63dfe3660c56b50e887784844baea upstream.

Move irq_set_chip_and_handler() and irq_set_status_flags() calls
outside the io7-&gt;irq_lock raw spinlock.  These functions take
sparse_irq_lock, which is a mutex, and taking a sleeping lock while
holding a raw spinlock is invalid.  The raw spinlock only needs to
protect the hardware CSR accesses.

This fixes the following lockdep splat during boot:

  [ BUG: Invalid wait context ]
  swapper/0/0 is trying to lock:
  sparse_irq_lock{....}-{4:4}, at: irq_mark_irq
  other info that might help us debug this:
  context-{5:5}
  1 lock held by swapper/0/0:
   #0: &amp;io7-&gt;irq_lock{....}-{2:2}, at: init_io7_irqs.constprop.0

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260528230516.1839694-2-mattst88@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>
<entry>
<title>alpha: marvel: Fix irq_set_status_flags to use correct IRQ number</title>
<updated>2026-09-07T15:22:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matt Turner</name>
<email>mattst88@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-28T23:05:15+00:00</published>
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commit 3a3ac1f6c6a67b3803f2643584310f78301e58a8 upstream.

Pass base + i to irq_set_status_flags() to match the IRQ number
used in irq_set_chip_and_handler(). Previously, IRQ_LEVEL was set
on the wrong (low-numbered) IRQ descriptors rather than the IO7
IRQs at base + i.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 08876fe8519c ("alpha: marvel: Convert irq_chip functions")
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260528230516.1839694-1-mattst88@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 3a3ac1f6c6a67b3803f2643584310f78301e58a8 upstream.

Pass base + i to irq_set_status_flags() to match the IRQ number
used in irq_set_chip_and_handler(). Previously, IRQ_LEVEL was set
on the wrong (low-numbered) IRQ descriptors rather than the IO7
IRQs at base + i.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 08876fe8519c ("alpha: marvel: Convert irq_chip functions")
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260528230516.1839694-1-mattst88@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>
<entry>
<title>alpha/PCI: Fix I/O port accessor argument order in pci_legacy_write()</title>
<updated>2026-09-07T15:22:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Krzysztof Wilczyński</name>
<email>kwilczynski@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-07-06T17:54:23+00:00</published>
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commit 651fb94aaf245430590216d497fb8b02dd73d5f9 upstream.

pci_legacy_write() in arch/alpha/kernel/pci-sysfs.c passes its arguments to
outb(), outw() and outl() in the wrong order:

  outb(port, val);

The Alpha I/O accessors in arch/alpha/include/asm/io.h take the value first
and the port second:

  extern void outb(u8 b, unsigned long port);

So the port number is written as data to the I/O address taken from the
user-supplied value, and the intended write to the requested port never
happens.

The arguments have been reversed since the file was added, and the function
returns the access size regardless, so the caller sees success while the
requested port is left untouched.

Fixes: 10a0ef39fbd1 ("PCI/alpha: pci sysfs resources")
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Wilczyński &lt;kwilczynski@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260706175423.98305-1-kwilczynski@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 651fb94aaf245430590216d497fb8b02dd73d5f9 upstream.

pci_legacy_write() in arch/alpha/kernel/pci-sysfs.c passes its arguments to
outb(), outw() and outl() in the wrong order:

  outb(port, val);

The Alpha I/O accessors in arch/alpha/include/asm/io.h take the value first
and the port second:

  extern void outb(u8 b, unsigned long port);

So the port number is written as data to the I/O address taken from the
user-supplied value, and the intended write to the requested port never
happens.

The arguments have been reversed since the file was added, and the function
returns the access size regardless, so the caller sees success while the
requested port is left untouched.

Fixes: 10a0ef39fbd1 ("PCI/alpha: pci sysfs resources")
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Wilczyński &lt;kwilczynski@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260706175423.98305-1-kwilczynski@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>alpha: don't leak hardware-fabricated FP exception bits to user space</title>
<updated>2026-09-07T15:22:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matt Turner</name>
<email>mattst88@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-03T23:40:46+00:00</published>
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commit bcfe3187412e342b4619efb92c945f073855ebc0 upstream.

On EV6 and later the hardware records exception status bits in the FPCR
before delivering a software completion trap, and those bits can be wrong
for the instruction that trapped.  Converting a double that is exactly
representable as a subnormal float sets FPCR_UNF even though the result
is exact, and an underflow trap additionally sets FPCR_INE even when the
emulated operation turns out to be exact.

alpha_fp_emul() only wrote the FPCR when soft-fp raised an exception, so
whenever it determined that the instruction was exact the fabricated bits
stayed in the FPCR and were reported to user space by fetestexcept().

Pass the exception summary register down from do_entArith() so the
handler can tell which exceptions the hardware attributed to the trapping
instruction, and always write the FPCR.  Clear the exceptions that the
trap reported but that soft-fp did not raise.  EXC_SUM reports only the
underflow or overflow when the hardware also set INE, so treat INE as a
candidate in that case, and treat a trap with no reported exception as a
denormal operand trap, for which the hardware can fabricate INE and UNF
as well.  Bits that software has already confirmed in ieee_state belong
to this or an earlier instruction and are never cleared.

The imprecise path passes no summary.  There the trap was taken somewhere
in the trap shadow, so EXC_SUM is not attribution for the instruction
being re-executed -- and only EV6, which traps precisely and so never
takes that path, has fabricated bits to clear.  For the same reason the
clearing is guarded by implver(), matching swcr_update_status().

On an UP1500 (EV68) this takes the glibc math testsuite from 831 failures
to 28, the remainder being unrelated to exception status.

This belongs with the preceding fix to ieee_swcr_to_fpcr(), and should
not be backported without it -- nor it without this.  That fix stops
FPCR_DNOD being set unconditionally, so denormal operand traps start
firing again.  Those traps very often find an exact result, which is
precisely the case where the old code left the FPCR unwritten and the
fabricated bits visible.  Applied alone it would make spurious exception
flags more common, not less.

One case cannot be resolved here: an inexact instruction without the
software completion suffix never traps, so its INE reaches the FPCR
without being recorded anywhere else.  Such a bit is indistinguishable
from an INE the hardware fabricated for a trapping instruction, and is
lost if an underflow or overflow trap with an exact result follows it.
The FPCR is the only record of those instructions and it carries no
attribution.

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-v1-2-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 bcfe3187412e342b4619efb92c945f073855ebc0 upstream.

On EV6 and later the hardware records exception status bits in the FPCR
before delivering a software completion trap, and those bits can be wrong
for the instruction that trapped.  Converting a double that is exactly
representable as a subnormal float sets FPCR_UNF even though the result
is exact, and an underflow trap additionally sets FPCR_INE even when the
emulated operation turns out to be exact.

alpha_fp_emul() only wrote the FPCR when soft-fp raised an exception, so
whenever it determined that the instruction was exact the fabricated bits
stayed in the FPCR and were reported to user space by fetestexcept().

Pass the exception summary register down from do_entArith() so the
handler can tell which exceptions the hardware attributed to the trapping
instruction, and always write the FPCR.  Clear the exceptions that the
trap reported but that soft-fp did not raise.  EXC_SUM reports only the
underflow or overflow when the hardware also set INE, so treat INE as a
candidate in that case, and treat a trap with no reported exception as a
denormal operand trap, for which the hardware can fabricate INE and UNF
as well.  Bits that software has already confirmed in ieee_state belong
to this or an earlier instruction and are never cleared.

The imprecise path passes no summary.  There the trap was taken somewhere
in the trap shadow, so EXC_SUM is not attribution for the instruction
being re-executed -- and only EV6, which traps precisely and so never
takes that path, has fabricated bits to clear.  For the same reason the
clearing is guarded by implver(), matching swcr_update_status().

On an UP1500 (EV68) this takes the glibc math testsuite from 831 failures
to 28, the remainder being unrelated to exception status.

This belongs with the preceding fix to ieee_swcr_to_fpcr(), and should
not be backported without it -- nor it without this.  That fix stops
FPCR_DNOD being set unconditionally, so denormal operand traps start
firing again.  Those traps very often find an exact result, which is
precisely the case where the old code left the FPCR unwritten and the
fabricated bits visible.  Applied alone it would make spurious exception
flags more common, not less.

One case cannot be resolved here: an inexact instruction without the
software completion suffix never traps, so its INE reaches the FPCR
without being recorded anywhere else.  Such a bit is indistinguishable
from an INE the hardware fabricated for a trapping instruction, and is
lost if an underflow or overflow trap with an exact result follows it.
The FPCR is the only record of those instructions and it carries no
attribution.

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-v1-2-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>
<entry>
<title>alpha/PCI: Fix __pci_mmap_fits() overflow for zero-length BARs</title>
<updated>2026-07-24T14:16:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Krzysztof Wilczyński</name>
<email>kwilczynski@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-08T04:35:33+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 802a3b3f470b9bc1148f26e01fc9cbfeb4dfcb57 ]

Currently, __pci_mmap_fits() computes the BAR size using
"pci_resource_len() - 1", which wraps to a large value when the BAR length
is zero, causing the bounds check to incorrectly succeed.

Add an early return for empty resources.

Fixes: 10a0ef39fbd1 ("PCI/alpha: pci sysfs resources")
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Wilczyński &lt;kwilczynski@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Shivaprasad G Bhat &lt;sbhat@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260508043543.217179-15-kwilczynski@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 802a3b3f470b9bc1148f26e01fc9cbfeb4dfcb57 ]

Currently, __pci_mmap_fits() computes the BAR size using
"pci_resource_len() - 1", which wraps to a large value when the BAR length
is zero, causing the bounds check to incorrectly succeed.

Add an early return for empty resources.

Fixes: 10a0ef39fbd1 ("PCI/alpha: pci sysfs resources")
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Wilczyński &lt;kwilczynski@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Shivaprasad G Bhat &lt;sbhat@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260508043543.217179-15-kwilczynski@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>alpha/PCI: Add security_locked_down() check to pci_mmap_resource()</title>
<updated>2026-07-24T14:16:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Krzysztof Wilczyński</name>
<email>kwilczynski@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-08T04:35:30+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 78a228f0aa0e9eba31955950c8a40a9945e2c8bb ]

Currently, Alpha's pci_mmap_resource() does not check
security_locked_down(LOCKDOWN_PCI_ACCESS) before allowing userspace to mmap
PCI BARs.

The generic version has had this check since commit eb627e17727e ("PCI:
Lock down BAR access when the kernel is locked down") to prevent DMA
attacks when the kernel is locked down.

Add the same check to Alpha's pci_mmap_resource().

Fixes: eb627e17727e ("PCI: Lock down BAR access when the kernel is locked down")
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Wilczyński &lt;kwilczynski@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Shivaprasad G Bhat &lt;sbhat@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260508043543.217179-12-kwilczynski@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 78a228f0aa0e9eba31955950c8a40a9945e2c8bb ]

Currently, Alpha's pci_mmap_resource() does not check
security_locked_down(LOCKDOWN_PCI_ACCESS) before allowing userspace to mmap
PCI BARs.

The generic version has had this check since commit eb627e17727e ("PCI:
Lock down BAR access when the kernel is locked down") to prevent DMA
attacks when the kernel is locked down.

Add the same check to Alpha's pci_mmap_resource().

Fixes: eb627e17727e ("PCI: Lock down BAR access when the kernel is locked down")
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Wilczyński &lt;kwilczynski@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Tested-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Shivaprasad G Bhat &lt;sbhat@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Magnus Lindholm &lt;linmag7@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260508043543.217179-12-kwilczynski@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS</title>
<updated>2026-03-12T11:09:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Chancellor</name>
<email>nathan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-25T22:02:51+00:00</published>
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commit 8678591b47469fe16357234efef9b260317b8be4 upstream.

Commit 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in
vmlinux.unstripped") added .modinfo to ELF_DETAILS while removing it
from COMMON_DISCARDS, as it was needed in vmlinux.unstripped and
ELF_DETAILS was present in all architecture specific vmlinux linker
scripts. While this shuffle is fine for vmlinux, ELF_DETAILS and
COMMON_DISCARDS may be used by other linker scripts, such as the s390
and x86 compressed boot images, which may not expect to have a .modinfo
section. In certain circumstances, this could result in a bootloader
failing to load the compressed kernel [1].

Commit ddc6cbef3ef1 ("s390/boot/vmlinux.lds.S: Ensure bzImage ends with
SecureBoot trailer") recently addressed this for the s390 bzImage but
the same bug remains for arm, parisc, and x86. The presence of .modinfo
in the x86 bzImage was the root cause of the issue worked around with
commit d50f21091358 ("kbuild: align modinfo section for Secureboot
Authenticode EDK2 compat"). misc.c in arch/x86/boot/compressed includes
lib/decompress_unzstd.c, which in turn includes lib/xxhash.c and its
MODULE_LICENSE / MODULE_DESCRIPTION macros due to the STATIC definition.

Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS into its own macro and handle it in
all vmlinux linker scripts. Discard .modinfo in the places where it was
previously being discarded from being in COMMON_DISCARDS, as it has
never been necessary in those uses.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped")
Reported-by: Ed W &lt;lists@wildgooses.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/587f25e0-a80e-46a5-9f01-87cb40cfa377@wildgooses.com/ [1]
Tested-by: Ed W &lt;lists@wildgooses.com&gt; # x86_64
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260225-separate-modinfo-from-elf-details-v1-1-387ced6baf4b@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 8678591b47469fe16357234efef9b260317b8be4 upstream.

Commit 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in
vmlinux.unstripped") added .modinfo to ELF_DETAILS while removing it
from COMMON_DISCARDS, as it was needed in vmlinux.unstripped and
ELF_DETAILS was present in all architecture specific vmlinux linker
scripts. While this shuffle is fine for vmlinux, ELF_DETAILS and
COMMON_DISCARDS may be used by other linker scripts, such as the s390
and x86 compressed boot images, which may not expect to have a .modinfo
section. In certain circumstances, this could result in a bootloader
failing to load the compressed kernel [1].

Commit ddc6cbef3ef1 ("s390/boot/vmlinux.lds.S: Ensure bzImage ends with
SecureBoot trailer") recently addressed this for the s390 bzImage but
the same bug remains for arm, parisc, and x86. The presence of .modinfo
in the x86 bzImage was the root cause of the issue worked around with
commit d50f21091358 ("kbuild: align modinfo section for Secureboot
Authenticode EDK2 compat"). misc.c in arch/x86/boot/compressed includes
lib/decompress_unzstd.c, which in turn includes lib/xxhash.c and its
MODULE_LICENSE / MODULE_DESCRIPTION macros due to the STATIC definition.

Split .modinfo out from ELF_DETAILS into its own macro and handle it in
all vmlinux linker scripts. Discard .modinfo in the places where it was
previously being discarded from being in COMMON_DISCARDS, as it has
never been necessary in those uses.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped")
Reported-by: Ed W &lt;lists@wildgooses.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/587f25e0-a80e-46a5-9f01-87cb40cfa377@wildgooses.com/ [1]
Tested-by: Ed W &lt;lists@wildgooses.com&gt; # x86_64
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260225-separate-modinfo-from-elf-details-v1-1-387ced6baf4b@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'sched-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-09-30T17:35:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-30T17:35:11+00:00</published>
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Core scheduler changes:

   - Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline, to improve performance
     (Menglong Dong)

   - Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig (Peter Zijlstra)

  Fair scheduling:

   - Defer throttling to when tasks exit to user-space, to reduce the
     chance &amp; impact of throttle-preemption with held locks and other
     resources (Aaron Lu, Valentin Schneider)

   - Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl-&gt;cpumask(), as the
     warning was getting triggered on certain topologies (Peter
     Zijlstra)

  Misc cleanups &amp; fixes:

   - Header cleanups (Menglong Dong)

   - Fix race in push_dl_task() (Harshit Agarwal)"

* tag 'sched-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched: Fix some typos in include/linux/preempt.h
  sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline
  rcu: Replace preempt.h with sched.h in include/linux/rcupdate.h
  arch: Add the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS to all the asm-offsets.c
  sched/fair: Do not balance task to a throttled cfs_rq
  sched/fair: Do not special case tasks in throttled hierarchy
  sched/fair: update_cfs_group() for throttled cfs_rqs
  sched/fair: Propagate load for throttled cfs_rq
  sched/fair: Get rid of throttled_lb_pair()
  sched/fair: Task based throttle time accounting
  sched/fair: Switch to task based throttle model
  sched/fair: Implement throttle task work and related helpers
  sched/fair: Add related data structure for task based throttle
  sched: Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig
  sched: Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line
  sched/fair: Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl-&gt;cpumask()
  sched/deadline: Fix race in push_dl_task()
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Core scheduler changes:

   - Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline, to improve performance
     (Menglong Dong)

   - Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig (Peter Zijlstra)

  Fair scheduling:

   - Defer throttling to when tasks exit to user-space, to reduce the
     chance &amp; impact of throttle-preemption with held locks and other
     resources (Aaron Lu, Valentin Schneider)

   - Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl-&gt;cpumask(), as the
     warning was getting triggered on certain topologies (Peter
     Zijlstra)

  Misc cleanups &amp; fixes:

   - Header cleanups (Menglong Dong)

   - Fix race in push_dl_task() (Harshit Agarwal)"

* tag 'sched-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched: Fix some typos in include/linux/preempt.h
  sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline
  rcu: Replace preempt.h with sched.h in include/linux/rcupdate.h
  arch: Add the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS to all the asm-offsets.c
  sched/fair: Do not balance task to a throttled cfs_rq
  sched/fair: Do not special case tasks in throttled hierarchy
  sched/fair: update_cfs_group() for throttled cfs_rqs
  sched/fair: Propagate load for throttled cfs_rq
  sched/fair: Get rid of throttled_lb_pair()
  sched/fair: Task based throttle time accounting
  sched/fair: Switch to task based throttle model
  sched/fair: Implement throttle task work and related helpers
  sched/fair: Add related data structure for task based throttle
  sched: Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig
  sched: Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line
  sched/fair: Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl-&gt;cpumask()
  sched/deadline: Fix race in push_dl_task()
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<title>arch: Add the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS to all the asm-offsets.c</title>
<updated>2025-09-25T07:57:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Menglong Dong</name>
<email>menglong8.dong@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-17T06:09:13+00:00</published>
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The include/generated/asm-offsets.h is generated in Kbuild during
compiling from arch/SRCARCH/kernel/asm-offsets.c. When we want to
generate another similar offset header file, circular dependency can
happen.

For example, we want to generate a offset file include/generated/test.h,
which is included in include/sched/sched.h. If we generate asm-offsets.h
first, it will fail, as include/sched/sched.h is included in asm-offsets.c
and include/generated/test.h doesn't exist; If we generate test.h first,
it can't success neither, as include/generated/asm-offsets.h is included
by it.

In x86_64, the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS is used to avoid such circular
dependency. We can generate asm-offsets.h first, and if the
COMPILE_OFFSETS is defined, we don't include the "generated/test.h".

And we define the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS for all the asm-offsets.c for this
purpose.

Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong &lt;dongml2@chinatelecom.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
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The include/generated/asm-offsets.h is generated in Kbuild during
compiling from arch/SRCARCH/kernel/asm-offsets.c. When we want to
generate another similar offset header file, circular dependency can
happen.

For example, we want to generate a offset file include/generated/test.h,
which is included in include/sched/sched.h. If we generate asm-offsets.h
first, it will fail, as include/sched/sched.h is included in asm-offsets.c
and include/generated/test.h doesn't exist; If we generate test.h first,
it can't success neither, as include/generated/asm-offsets.h is included
by it.

In x86_64, the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS is used to avoid such circular
dependency. We can generate asm-offsets.h first, and if the
COMPILE_OFFSETS is defined, we don't include the "generated/test.h".

And we define the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS for all the asm-offsets.c for this
purpose.

Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong &lt;dongml2@chinatelecom.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arch: copy_thread: pass clone_flags as u64</title>
<updated>2025-09-01T13:31:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Simon Schuster</name>
<email>schuster.simon@siemens-energy.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-01T13:09:52+00:00</published>
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With the introduction of clone3 in commit 7f192e3cd316 ("fork: add
clone3") the effective bit width of clone_flags on all architectures was
increased from 32-bit to 64-bit, with a new type of u64 for the flags.
However, for most consumers of clone_flags the interface was not
changed from the previous type of unsigned long.

While this works fine as long as none of the new 64-bit flag bits
(CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND and CLONE_INTO_CGROUP) are evaluated, this is still
undesirable in terms of the principle of least surprise.

Thus, this commit fixes all relevant interfaces of the copy_thread
function that is called from copy_process to consistently pass
clone_flags as u64, so that no truncation to 32-bit integers occurs on
32-bit architectures.

Signed-off-by: Simon Schuster &lt;schuster.simon@siemens-energy.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250901-nios2-implement-clone3-v2-3-53fcf5577d57@siemens-energy.com
Fixes: c5febea0956fd387 ("fork: Pass struct kernel_clone_args into copy_thread")
Acked-by: Guo Ren (Alibaba Damo Academy) &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt; # sparc
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt; # m68k
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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With the introduction of clone3 in commit 7f192e3cd316 ("fork: add
clone3") the effective bit width of clone_flags on all architectures was
increased from 32-bit to 64-bit, with a new type of u64 for the flags.
However, for most consumers of clone_flags the interface was not
changed from the previous type of unsigned long.

While this works fine as long as none of the new 64-bit flag bits
(CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND and CLONE_INTO_CGROUP) are evaluated, this is still
undesirable in terms of the principle of least surprise.

Thus, this commit fixes all relevant interfaces of the copy_thread
function that is called from copy_process to consistently pass
clone_flags as u64, so that no truncation to 32-bit integers occurs on
32-bit architectures.

Signed-off-by: Simon Schuster &lt;schuster.simon@siemens-energy.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250901-nios2-implement-clone3-v2-3-53fcf5577d57@siemens-energy.com
Fixes: c5febea0956fd387 ("fork: Pass struct kernel_clone_args into copy_thread")
Acked-by: Guo Ren (Alibaba Damo Academy) &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt; # sparc
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt; # m68k
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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