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<title>linux-stable.git/drivers/s390, branch v6.18</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>s390/ctcm: Fix double-kfree</title>
<updated>2025-11-18T00:58:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aleksei Nikiforov</name>
<email>aleksei.nikiforov@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-12T18:27:24+00:00</published>
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The function 'mpc_rcvd_sweep_req(mpcginfo)' is called conditionally
from function 'ctcmpc_unpack_skb'. It frees passed mpcginfo.
After that a call to function 'kfree' in function 'ctcmpc_unpack_skb'
frees it again.

Remove 'kfree' call in function 'mpc_rcvd_sweep_req(mpcginfo)'.

Bug detected by the clang static analyzer.

Fixes: 0c0b20587b9f25a2 ("s390/ctcm: fix potential memory leak")
Reviewed-by: Aswin Karuvally &lt;aswin@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aleksei Nikiforov &lt;aleksei.nikiforov@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aswin Karuvally &lt;aswin@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251112182724.1109474-1-aswin@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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The function 'mpc_rcvd_sweep_req(mpcginfo)' is called conditionally
from function 'ctcmpc_unpack_skb'. It frees passed mpcginfo.
After that a call to function 'kfree' in function 'ctcmpc_unpack_skb'
frees it again.

Remove 'kfree' call in function 'mpc_rcvd_sweep_req(mpcginfo)'.

Bug detected by the clang static analyzer.

Fixes: 0c0b20587b9f25a2 ("s390/ctcm: fix potential memory leak")
Reviewed-by: Aswin Karuvally &lt;aswin@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aleksei Nikiforov &lt;aleksei.nikiforov@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aswin Karuvally &lt;aswin@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251112182724.1109474-1-aswin@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 's390-6.18-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux</title>
<updated>2025-10-09T17:51:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-09T17:51:43+00:00</published>
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Pull more s390 updates from Alexander Gordeev:

 - Compile the decompressor with -Wno-pointer-sign flag to avoid a clang
   warning

 - Fix incomplete conversion to flag output macros in __xsch(), to avoid
   always zero return value instead of the expected condition code

 - Remove superfluous newlines from inline assemblies to improve
   compiler inlining decisions

 - Expose firmware provided UID Checking state in sysfs regardless of
   the device presence or state

 - CIO does not unregister subchannels when the attached device is
   invalid or unavailable. Update the purge function to remove I/O
   subchannels if the device number is found on cio_ignore list

 - Consolidate PAI crypto allocation and cleanup paths

 - The uv_get_secret_metadata() function has been removed some few
   months ago, remove also the function mention it in a comment

* tag 's390-6.18-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux:
  s390/uv: Fix comment of uv_find_secret() function
  s390/pai_crypto: Consolidate PAI crypto allocation and cleanup paths
  s390/cio: Update purge function to unregister the unused subchannels
  s390/pci: Expose firmware provided UID Checking state in sysfs
  s390: Remove superfluous newlines from inline assemblies
  s390/cio/ioasm: Fix __xsch() condition code handling
  s390: Add -Wno-pointer-sign to KBUILD_CFLAGS_DECOMPRESSOR
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<pre>
Pull more s390 updates from Alexander Gordeev:

 - Compile the decompressor with -Wno-pointer-sign flag to avoid a clang
   warning

 - Fix incomplete conversion to flag output macros in __xsch(), to avoid
   always zero return value instead of the expected condition code

 - Remove superfluous newlines from inline assemblies to improve
   compiler inlining decisions

 - Expose firmware provided UID Checking state in sysfs regardless of
   the device presence or state

 - CIO does not unregister subchannels when the attached device is
   invalid or unavailable. Update the purge function to remove I/O
   subchannels if the device number is found on cio_ignore list

 - Consolidate PAI crypto allocation and cleanup paths

 - The uv_get_secret_metadata() function has been removed some few
   months ago, remove also the function mention it in a comment

* tag 's390-6.18-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux:
  s390/uv: Fix comment of uv_find_secret() function
  s390/pai_crypto: Consolidate PAI crypto allocation and cleanup paths
  s390/cio: Update purge function to unregister the unused subchannels
  s390/pci: Expose firmware provided UID Checking state in sysfs
  s390: Remove superfluous newlines from inline assemblies
  s390/cio/ioasm: Fix __xsch() condition code handling
  s390: Add -Wno-pointer-sign to KBUILD_CFLAGS_DECOMPRESSOR
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2025-10-06T19:37:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-06T19:37:34+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Generic:

   - Rework almost all of KVM's exports to expose symbols only to KVM's
     x86 vendor modules (kvm-{amd,intel}.ko and PPC's kvm-{pr,hv}.ko

  x86:

   - Rework almost all of KVM x86's exports to expose symbols only to
     KVM's vendor modules, i.e. to kvm-{amd,intel}.ko

   - Add support for virtualizing Control-flow Enforcement Technology
     (CET) on Intel (Shadow Stacks and Indirect Branch Tracking) and AMD
     (Shadow Stacks).

     It is worth noting that while SHSTK and IBT can be enabled
     separately in CPUID, it is not really possible to virtualize them
     separately. Therefore, Intel processors will really allow both
     SHSTK and IBT under the hood if either is made visible in the
     guest's CPUID. The alternative would be to intercept
     XSAVES/XRSTORS, which is not feasible for performance reasons

   - Fix a variety of fuzzing WARNs all caused by checking L1 intercepts
     when completing userspace I/O. KVM has already committed to
     allowing L2 to to perform I/O at that point

   - Emulate PERF_CNTR_GLOBAL_STATUS_SET for PerfMonV2 guests, as the
     MSR is supposed to exist for v2 PMUs

   - Allow Centaur CPU leaves (base 0xC000_0000) for Zhaoxin CPUs

   - Add support for the immediate forms of RDMSR and WRMSRNS, sans full
     emulator support (KVM should never need to emulate the MSRs outside
     of forced emulation and other contrived testing scenarios)

   - Clean up the MSR APIs in preparation for CET and FRED
     virtualization, as well as mediated vPMU support

   - Clean up a pile of PMU code in anticipation of adding support for
     mediated vPMUs

   - Reject in-kernel IOAPIC/PIT for TDX VMs, as KVM can't obtain EOI
     vmexits needed to faithfully emulate an I/O APIC for such guests

   - Many cleanups and minor fixes

   - Recover possible NX huge pages within the TDP MMU under read lock
     to reduce guest jitter when restoring NX huge pages

   - Return -EAGAIN during prefault if userspace concurrently
     deletes/moves the relevant memslot, to fix an issue where
     prefaulting could deadlock with the memslot update

  x86 (AMD):

   - Enable AVIC by default for Zen4+ if x2AVIC (and other prereqs) is
     supported

   - Require a minimum GHCB version of 2 when starting SEV-SNP guests
     via KVM_SEV_INIT2 so that invalid GHCB versions result in immediate
     errors instead of latent guest failures

   - Add support for SEV-SNP's CipherText Hiding, an opt-in feature that
     prevents unauthorized CPU accesses from reading the ciphertext of
     SNP guest private memory, e.g. to attempt an offline attack. This
     feature splits the shared SEV-ES/SEV-SNP ASID space into separate
     ranges for SEV-ES and SEV-SNP guests, therefore a new module
     parameter is needed to control the number of ASIDs that can be used
     for VMs with CipherText Hiding vs. how many can be used to run
     SEV-ES guests

   - Add support for Secure TSC for SEV-SNP guests, which prevents the
     untrusted host from tampering with the guest's TSC frequency, while
     still allowing the the VMM to configure the guest's TSC frequency
     prior to launch

   - Validate the XCR0 provided by the guest (via the GHCB) to avoid
     bugs resulting from bogus XCR0 values

   - Save an SEV guest's policy if and only if LAUNCH_START fully
     succeeds to avoid leaving behind stale state (thankfully not
     consumed in KVM)

   - Explicitly reject non-positive effective lengths during SNP's
     LAUNCH_UPDATE instead of subtly relying on guest_memfd to deal with
     them

   - Reload the pre-VMRUN TSC_AUX on #VMEXIT for SEV-ES guests, not the
     host's desired TSC_AUX, to fix a bug where KVM was keeping a
     different vCPU's TSC_AUX in the host MSR until return to userspace

  KVM (Intel):

   - Preparation for FRED support

   - Don't retry in TDX's anti-zero-step mitigation if the target
     memslot is invalid, i.e. is being deleted or moved, to fix a
     deadlock scenario similar to the aforementioned prefaulting case

   - Misc bugfixes and minor cleanups"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (142 commits)
  KVM: x86: Export KVM-internal symbols for sub-modules only
  KVM: x86: Drop pointless exports of kvm_arch_xxx() hooks
  KVM: x86: Move kvm_intr_is_single_vcpu() to lapic.c
  KVM: Export KVM-internal symbols for sub-modules only
  KVM: s390/vfio-ap: Use kvm_is_gpa_in_memslot() instead of open coded equivalent
  KVM: VMX: Make CR4.CET a guest owned bit
  KVM: selftests: Verify MSRs are (not) in save/restore list when (un)supported
  KVM: selftests: Add coverage for KVM-defined registers in MSRs test
  KVM: selftests: Add KVM_{G,S}ET_ONE_REG coverage to MSRs test
  KVM: selftests: Extend MSRs test to validate vCPUs without supported features
  KVM: selftests: Add support for MSR_IA32_{S,U}_CET to MSRs test
  KVM: selftests: Add an MSR test to exercise guest/host and read/write
  KVM: x86: Define AMD's #HV, #VC, and #SX exception vectors
  KVM: x86: Define Control Protection Exception (#CP) vector
  KVM: x86: Add human friendly formatting for #XM, and #VE
  KVM: SVM: Enable shadow stack virtualization for SVM
  KVM: SEV: Synchronize MSR_IA32_XSS from the GHCB when it's valid
  KVM: SVM: Pass through shadow stack MSRs as appropriate
  KVM: SVM: Update dump_vmcb with shadow stack save area additions
  KVM: nSVM: Save/load CET Shadow Stack state to/from vmcb12/vmcb02
  ...
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Pull x86 kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Generic:

   - Rework almost all of KVM's exports to expose symbols only to KVM's
     x86 vendor modules (kvm-{amd,intel}.ko and PPC's kvm-{pr,hv}.ko

  x86:

   - Rework almost all of KVM x86's exports to expose symbols only to
     KVM's vendor modules, i.e. to kvm-{amd,intel}.ko

   - Add support for virtualizing Control-flow Enforcement Technology
     (CET) on Intel (Shadow Stacks and Indirect Branch Tracking) and AMD
     (Shadow Stacks).

     It is worth noting that while SHSTK and IBT can be enabled
     separately in CPUID, it is not really possible to virtualize them
     separately. Therefore, Intel processors will really allow both
     SHSTK and IBT under the hood if either is made visible in the
     guest's CPUID. The alternative would be to intercept
     XSAVES/XRSTORS, which is not feasible for performance reasons

   - Fix a variety of fuzzing WARNs all caused by checking L1 intercepts
     when completing userspace I/O. KVM has already committed to
     allowing L2 to to perform I/O at that point

   - Emulate PERF_CNTR_GLOBAL_STATUS_SET for PerfMonV2 guests, as the
     MSR is supposed to exist for v2 PMUs

   - Allow Centaur CPU leaves (base 0xC000_0000) for Zhaoxin CPUs

   - Add support for the immediate forms of RDMSR and WRMSRNS, sans full
     emulator support (KVM should never need to emulate the MSRs outside
     of forced emulation and other contrived testing scenarios)

   - Clean up the MSR APIs in preparation for CET and FRED
     virtualization, as well as mediated vPMU support

   - Clean up a pile of PMU code in anticipation of adding support for
     mediated vPMUs

   - Reject in-kernel IOAPIC/PIT for TDX VMs, as KVM can't obtain EOI
     vmexits needed to faithfully emulate an I/O APIC for such guests

   - Many cleanups and minor fixes

   - Recover possible NX huge pages within the TDP MMU under read lock
     to reduce guest jitter when restoring NX huge pages

   - Return -EAGAIN during prefault if userspace concurrently
     deletes/moves the relevant memslot, to fix an issue where
     prefaulting could deadlock with the memslot update

  x86 (AMD):

   - Enable AVIC by default for Zen4+ if x2AVIC (and other prereqs) is
     supported

   - Require a minimum GHCB version of 2 when starting SEV-SNP guests
     via KVM_SEV_INIT2 so that invalid GHCB versions result in immediate
     errors instead of latent guest failures

   - Add support for SEV-SNP's CipherText Hiding, an opt-in feature that
     prevents unauthorized CPU accesses from reading the ciphertext of
     SNP guest private memory, e.g. to attempt an offline attack. This
     feature splits the shared SEV-ES/SEV-SNP ASID space into separate
     ranges for SEV-ES and SEV-SNP guests, therefore a new module
     parameter is needed to control the number of ASIDs that can be used
     for VMs with CipherText Hiding vs. how many can be used to run
     SEV-ES guests

   - Add support for Secure TSC for SEV-SNP guests, which prevents the
     untrusted host from tampering with the guest's TSC frequency, while
     still allowing the the VMM to configure the guest's TSC frequency
     prior to launch

   - Validate the XCR0 provided by the guest (via the GHCB) to avoid
     bugs resulting from bogus XCR0 values

   - Save an SEV guest's policy if and only if LAUNCH_START fully
     succeeds to avoid leaving behind stale state (thankfully not
     consumed in KVM)

   - Explicitly reject non-positive effective lengths during SNP's
     LAUNCH_UPDATE instead of subtly relying on guest_memfd to deal with
     them

   - Reload the pre-VMRUN TSC_AUX on #VMEXIT for SEV-ES guests, not the
     host's desired TSC_AUX, to fix a bug where KVM was keeping a
     different vCPU's TSC_AUX in the host MSR until return to userspace

  KVM (Intel):

   - Preparation for FRED support

   - Don't retry in TDX's anti-zero-step mitigation if the target
     memslot is invalid, i.e. is being deleted or moved, to fix a
     deadlock scenario similar to the aforementioned prefaulting case

   - Misc bugfixes and minor cleanups"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (142 commits)
  KVM: x86: Export KVM-internal symbols for sub-modules only
  KVM: x86: Drop pointless exports of kvm_arch_xxx() hooks
  KVM: x86: Move kvm_intr_is_single_vcpu() to lapic.c
  KVM: Export KVM-internal symbols for sub-modules only
  KVM: s390/vfio-ap: Use kvm_is_gpa_in_memslot() instead of open coded equivalent
  KVM: VMX: Make CR4.CET a guest owned bit
  KVM: selftests: Verify MSRs are (not) in save/restore list when (un)supported
  KVM: selftests: Add coverage for KVM-defined registers in MSRs test
  KVM: selftests: Add KVM_{G,S}ET_ONE_REG coverage to MSRs test
  KVM: selftests: Extend MSRs test to validate vCPUs without supported features
  KVM: selftests: Add support for MSR_IA32_{S,U}_CET to MSRs test
  KVM: selftests: Add an MSR test to exercise guest/host and read/write
  KVM: x86: Define AMD's #HV, #VC, and #SX exception vectors
  KVM: x86: Define Control Protection Exception (#CP) vector
  KVM: x86: Add human friendly formatting for #XM, and #VE
  KVM: SVM: Enable shadow stack virtualization for SVM
  KVM: SEV: Synchronize MSR_IA32_XSS from the GHCB when it's valid
  KVM: SVM: Pass through shadow stack MSRs as appropriate
  KVM: SVM: Update dump_vmcb with shadow stack save area additions
  KVM: nSVM: Save/load CET Shadow Stack state to/from vmcb12/vmcb02
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'tty-6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty</title>
<updated>2025-10-04T22:57:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-04T22:57:44+00:00</published>
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Pull tty/serial updates from Greg KH:
 "Here are some small updates for tty/serial drivers for 6.18-rc1.

  Not many changes overall, just the usual:

   - abi cleanups and reworking of the tty functions by Jiri by adding
     console lock guard logic

   - 8250_platform driver updates

   - qcom-geni driver updates

   - other minor serial driver updates

   - some more vt escape codes added

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'tty-6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (43 commits)
  tty: serial: fix help message for SERIAL_CPM
  serial: 8250: omap: Support wakeup pinctrl state on suspend
  dt-bindings: serial: 8250_omap: Add wakeup pinctrl state
  serial: max310x: improve interrupt handling
  vt: move vc_saved_screen to within tty allocated judgment
  Revert "m68k: make HPDCA and HPAPCI bools"
  tty: remove redundant condition checks
  tty/vt: Add missing return value for VT_RESIZE in vt_ioctl()
  vt: remove redundant check on vc_mode in con_font_set()
  serial: qcom-geni: Add DFS clock mode support to GENI UART driver
  m68k: make HPDCA and HPAPCI bools
  tty: n_gsm: Don't block input queue by waiting MSC
  serial: qcom-geni: Fix off-by-one error in ida_alloc_range()
  serdev: Drop dev_pm_domain_detach() call
  serial: sc16is7xx: drop redundant conversion to bool
  vt: add support for smput/rmput escape codes
  serial: stm32: allow selecting console when the driver is module
  serial: 8250_core: fix coding style issue
  tty: serial: Modify the use of dev_err_probe()
  s390/char/con3270: use tty_port_tty guard()
  ...
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<pre>
Pull tty/serial updates from Greg KH:
 "Here are some small updates for tty/serial drivers for 6.18-rc1.

  Not many changes overall, just the usual:

   - abi cleanups and reworking of the tty functions by Jiri by adding
     console lock guard logic

   - 8250_platform driver updates

   - qcom-geni driver updates

   - other minor serial driver updates

   - some more vt escape codes added

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'tty-6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (43 commits)
  tty: serial: fix help message for SERIAL_CPM
  serial: 8250: omap: Support wakeup pinctrl state on suspend
  dt-bindings: serial: 8250_omap: Add wakeup pinctrl state
  serial: max310x: improve interrupt handling
  vt: move vc_saved_screen to within tty allocated judgment
  Revert "m68k: make HPDCA and HPAPCI bools"
  tty: remove redundant condition checks
  tty/vt: Add missing return value for VT_RESIZE in vt_ioctl()
  vt: remove redundant check on vc_mode in con_font_set()
  serial: qcom-geni: Add DFS clock mode support to GENI UART driver
  m68k: make HPDCA and HPAPCI bools
  tty: n_gsm: Don't block input queue by waiting MSC
  serial: qcom-geni: Fix off-by-one error in ida_alloc_range()
  serdev: Drop dev_pm_domain_detach() call
  serial: sc16is7xx: drop redundant conversion to bool
  vt: add support for smput/rmput escape codes
  serial: stm32: allow selecting console when the driver is module
  serial: 8250_core: fix coding style issue
  tty: serial: Modify the use of dev_err_probe()
  s390/char/con3270: use tty_port_tty guard()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390/cio: Update purge function to unregister the unused subchannels</title>
<updated>2025-10-04T16:40:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineeth Vijayan</name>
<email>vneethv@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-01T13:38:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9daa5a8795865f9a3c93d8d1066785b07ded6073'/>
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Starting with 'commit 2297791c92d0 ("s390/cio: dont unregister
subchannel from child-drivers")', cio no longer unregisters
subchannels when the attached device is invalid or unavailable.

As an unintended side-effect, the cio_ignore purge function no longer
removes subchannels for devices on the cio_ignore list if no CCW device
is attached. This situation occurs when a CCW device is non-operational
or unavailable

To ensure the same outcome of the purge function as when the
current cio_ignore list had been active during boot, update the purge
function to remove I/O subchannels without working CCW devices if the
associated device number is found on the cio_ignore list.

Fixes: 2297791c92d0 ("s390/cio: dont unregister subchannel from child-drivers")
Suggested-by: Peter Oberparleiter &lt;oberpar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peter Oberparleiter &lt;oberpar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineeth Vijayan &lt;vneethv@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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Starting with 'commit 2297791c92d0 ("s390/cio: dont unregister
subchannel from child-drivers")', cio no longer unregisters
subchannels when the attached device is invalid or unavailable.

As an unintended side-effect, the cio_ignore purge function no longer
removes subchannels for devices on the cio_ignore list if no CCW device
is attached. This situation occurs when a CCW device is non-operational
or unavailable

To ensure the same outcome of the purge function as when the
current cio_ignore list had been active during boot, update the purge
function to remove I/O subchannels without working CCW devices if the
associated device number is found on the cio_ignore list.

Fixes: 2297791c92d0 ("s390/cio: dont unregister subchannel from child-drivers")
Suggested-by: Peter Oberparleiter &lt;oberpar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peter Oberparleiter &lt;oberpar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vineeth Vijayan &lt;vneethv@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'net-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2025-10-02T22:17:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-02T22:17:01+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=07fdad3a93756b872da7b53647715c48d0f4a2d0'/>
<id>07fdad3a93756b872da7b53647715c48d0f4a2d0</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
 "Core &amp; protocols:

   - Improve drop account scalability on NUMA hosts for RAW and UDP
     sockets and the backlog, almost doubling the Pps capacity under DoS

   - Optimize the UDP RX performance under stress, reducing contention,
     revisiting the binary layout of the involved data structs and
     implementing NUMA-aware locking. This improves UDP RX performance
     by an additional 50%, even more under extreme conditions

   - Add support for PSP encryption of TCP connections; this mechanism
     has some similarities with IPsec and TLS, but offers superior HW
     offloads capabilities

   - Ongoing work to support Accurate ECN for TCP. AccECN allows more
     than one congestion notification signal per RTT and is a building
     block for Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S)

   - Reorganize the TCP socket binary layout for data locality, reducing
     the number of touched cachelines in the fastpath

   - Refactor skb deferral free to better scale on large multi-NUMA
     hosts, this improves TCP and UDP RX performances significantly on
     such HW

   - Increase the default socket memory buffer limits from 256K to 4M to
     better fit modern link speeds

   - Improve handling of setups with a large number of nexthop, making
     dump operating scaling linearly and avoiding unneeded
     synchronize_rcu() on delete

   - Improve bridge handling of VLAN FDB, storing a single entry per
     bridge instead of one entry per port; this makes the dump order of
     magnitude faster on large switches

   - Restore IP ID correctly for encapsulated packets at GSO
     segmentation time, allowing GRO to merge packets in more scenarios

   - Improve netfilter matching performance on large sets

   - Improve MPTCP receive path performance by leveraging recently
     introduced core infrastructure (skb deferral free) and adopting
     recent TCP autotuning changes

   - Allow bridges to redirect to a backup port when the bridge port is
     administratively down

   - Introduce MPTCP 'laminar' endpoint that con be used only once per
     connection and simplify common MPTCP setups

   - Add RCU safety to dst-&gt;dev, closing a lot of possible races

   - A significant crypto library API for SCTP, MPTCP and IPv6 SR,
     reducing code duplication

   - Supports pulling data from an skb frag into the linear area of an
     XDP buffer

  Things we sprinkled into general kernel code:

   - Generate netlink documentation from YAML using an integrated YAML
     parser

  Driver API:

   - Support using IPv6 Flow Label in Rx hash computation and RSS queue
     selection

   - Introduce API for fetching the DMA device for a given queue,
     allowing TCP zerocopy RX on more H/W setups

   - Make XDP helpers compatible with unreadable memory, allowing more
     easily building DevMem-enabled drivers with a unified XDP/skbs
     datapath

   - Add a new dedicated ethtool callback enabling drivers to provide
     the number of RX rings directly, improving efficiency and clarity
     in RX ring queries and RSS configuration

   - Introduce a burst period for the health reporter, allowing better
     handling of multiple errors due to the same root cause

   - Support for DPLL phase offset exponential moving average,
     controlling the average smoothing factor

  Device drivers:

   - Add a new Huawei driver for 3rd gen NIC (hinic3)

   - Add a new SpacemiT driver for K1 ethernet MAC

   - Add a generic abstraction for shared memory communication
     devices (dibps)

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - Use multiple per-queue doorbell, to avoid MMIO contention
           issues
         - support adjacent functions, allowing them to delegate their
           SR-IOV VFs to sibling PFs
         - support RSS for IPSec offload
         - support exposing raw cycle counters in PTP and mlx5
         - support for disabling host PFs.
      - Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
         - ice: support for SRIOV VFs over an Active-Active link
           aggregate
         - ice: support for firmware logging via debugfs
         - ice: support for Earliest TxTime First (ETF) hardware offload
         - idpf: support basic XDP functionalities and XSk
      - Broadcom (bnxt):
         - support Hyper-V VF ID
         - dynamic SRIOV resource allocations for RoCE
      - Meta (fbnic):
         - support queue API, zero-copy Rx and Tx
         - support basic XDP functionalities
         - devlink health support for FW crashes and OTP mem corruptions
         - expand hardware stats coverage to FEC, PHY, and Pause
      - Wangxun:
         - support ethtool coalesce options
         - support for multiple RSS contexts

   - Ethernet virtual:
      - Macsec:
         - replace custom netlink attribute checks with policy-level
           checks
      - Bonding:
         - support aggregator selection based on port priority
      - Microsoft vNIC:
         - use page pool fragments for RX buffers instead of full pages
           to improve memory efficiency

   - Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
      - Qualcomm: support Ethernet function for IPQ9574 SoC
      - Airoha: implement wlan offloading via NPU
      - Freescale
         - enetc: add NETC timer PTP driver and add PTP support
         - fec: enable the Jumbo frame support for i.MX8QM
      - Renesas (R-Car S4):
         - support HW offloading for layer 2 switching
         - support for RZ/{T2H, N2H} SoCs
      - Cadence (macb): support TAPRIO traffic scheduling
      - TI:
         - support for Gigabit ICSS ethernet SoC (icssm-prueth)
      - Synopsys (stmmac): a lot of cleanups

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - Support 10g-qxgmi phy-mode for AQR412C, Felix DSA and Lynx PCS
        driver
      - Support bcm63268 GPHY power control
      - Support for Micrel lan8842 PHY and PTP
      - Support for Aquantia AQR412 and AQR115

   - CAN:
      - a large CAN-XL preparation work
      - reorganize raw_sock and uniqframe struct to minimize memory
        usage
      - rcar_canfd: update the CAN-FD handling

   - WiFi:
      - extended Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) support
      - S1G channel representation cleanup
      - improve S1G support

   - WiFi drivers:
      - Intel (iwlwifi):
         - major refactor and cleanup
      - Broadcom (brcm80211):
         - support for AP isolation
      - RealTek (rtw88/89) rtw88/89:
         - preparation work for RTL8922DE support
      - MediaTek (mt76):
         - HW restart improvements
         - MLO support
      - Qualcomm/Atheros (ath10k):
         - GTK rekey fixes

   - Bluetooth drivers:
      - btusb: support for several new IDs for MT7925
      - btintel: support for BlazarIW core
      - btintel_pcie: support for _suspend() / _resume()
      - btintel_pcie: support for Scorpious, Panther Lake-H484 IDs"

* tag 'net-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1536 commits)
  net: stmmac: Add support for Allwinner A523 GMAC200
  dt-bindings: net: sun8i-emac: Add A523 GMAC200 compatible
  Revert "Documentation: net: add flow control guide and document ethtool API"
  octeontx2-pf: fix bitmap leak
  octeontx2-vf: fix bitmap leak
  net/mlx5e: Use extack in set rxfh callback
  net/mlx5e: Introduce mlx5e_rss_params for RSS configuration
  net/mlx5e: Introduce mlx5e_rss_init_params
  net/mlx5e: Remove unused mdev param from RSS indir init
  net/mlx5: Improve QoS error messages with actual depth values
  net/mlx5e: Prevent entering switchdev mode with inconsistent netns
  net/mlx5: HWS, Generalize complex matchers
  net/mlx5: Improve write-combining test reliability for ARM64 Grace CPUs
  selftests/net: add tcp_port_share to .gitignore
  Revert "net/mlx5e: Update and set Xon/Xoff upon MTU set"
  net: add NUMA awareness to skb_attempt_defer_free()
  net: use llist for sd-&gt;defer_list
  net: make softnet_data.defer_count an atomic
  selftests: drv-net: psp: add tests for destroying devices
  selftests: drv-net: psp: add test for auto-adjusting TCP MSS
  ...
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<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
 "Core &amp; protocols:

   - Improve drop account scalability on NUMA hosts for RAW and UDP
     sockets and the backlog, almost doubling the Pps capacity under DoS

   - Optimize the UDP RX performance under stress, reducing contention,
     revisiting the binary layout of the involved data structs and
     implementing NUMA-aware locking. This improves UDP RX performance
     by an additional 50%, even more under extreme conditions

   - Add support for PSP encryption of TCP connections; this mechanism
     has some similarities with IPsec and TLS, but offers superior HW
     offloads capabilities

   - Ongoing work to support Accurate ECN for TCP. AccECN allows more
     than one congestion notification signal per RTT and is a building
     block for Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S)

   - Reorganize the TCP socket binary layout for data locality, reducing
     the number of touched cachelines in the fastpath

   - Refactor skb deferral free to better scale on large multi-NUMA
     hosts, this improves TCP and UDP RX performances significantly on
     such HW

   - Increase the default socket memory buffer limits from 256K to 4M to
     better fit modern link speeds

   - Improve handling of setups with a large number of nexthop, making
     dump operating scaling linearly and avoiding unneeded
     synchronize_rcu() on delete

   - Improve bridge handling of VLAN FDB, storing a single entry per
     bridge instead of one entry per port; this makes the dump order of
     magnitude faster on large switches

   - Restore IP ID correctly for encapsulated packets at GSO
     segmentation time, allowing GRO to merge packets in more scenarios

   - Improve netfilter matching performance on large sets

   - Improve MPTCP receive path performance by leveraging recently
     introduced core infrastructure (skb deferral free) and adopting
     recent TCP autotuning changes

   - Allow bridges to redirect to a backup port when the bridge port is
     administratively down

   - Introduce MPTCP 'laminar' endpoint that con be used only once per
     connection and simplify common MPTCP setups

   - Add RCU safety to dst-&gt;dev, closing a lot of possible races

   - A significant crypto library API for SCTP, MPTCP and IPv6 SR,
     reducing code duplication

   - Supports pulling data from an skb frag into the linear area of an
     XDP buffer

  Things we sprinkled into general kernel code:

   - Generate netlink documentation from YAML using an integrated YAML
     parser

  Driver API:

   - Support using IPv6 Flow Label in Rx hash computation and RSS queue
     selection

   - Introduce API for fetching the DMA device for a given queue,
     allowing TCP zerocopy RX on more H/W setups

   - Make XDP helpers compatible with unreadable memory, allowing more
     easily building DevMem-enabled drivers with a unified XDP/skbs
     datapath

   - Add a new dedicated ethtool callback enabling drivers to provide
     the number of RX rings directly, improving efficiency and clarity
     in RX ring queries and RSS configuration

   - Introduce a burst period for the health reporter, allowing better
     handling of multiple errors due to the same root cause

   - Support for DPLL phase offset exponential moving average,
     controlling the average smoothing factor

  Device drivers:

   - Add a new Huawei driver for 3rd gen NIC (hinic3)

   - Add a new SpacemiT driver for K1 ethernet MAC

   - Add a generic abstraction for shared memory communication
     devices (dibps)

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - Use multiple per-queue doorbell, to avoid MMIO contention
           issues
         - support adjacent functions, allowing them to delegate their
           SR-IOV VFs to sibling PFs
         - support RSS for IPSec offload
         - support exposing raw cycle counters in PTP and mlx5
         - support for disabling host PFs.
      - Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
         - ice: support for SRIOV VFs over an Active-Active link
           aggregate
         - ice: support for firmware logging via debugfs
         - ice: support for Earliest TxTime First (ETF) hardware offload
         - idpf: support basic XDP functionalities and XSk
      - Broadcom (bnxt):
         - support Hyper-V VF ID
         - dynamic SRIOV resource allocations for RoCE
      - Meta (fbnic):
         - support queue API, zero-copy Rx and Tx
         - support basic XDP functionalities
         - devlink health support for FW crashes and OTP mem corruptions
         - expand hardware stats coverage to FEC, PHY, and Pause
      - Wangxun:
         - support ethtool coalesce options
         - support for multiple RSS contexts

   - Ethernet virtual:
      - Macsec:
         - replace custom netlink attribute checks with policy-level
           checks
      - Bonding:
         - support aggregator selection based on port priority
      - Microsoft vNIC:
         - use page pool fragments for RX buffers instead of full pages
           to improve memory efficiency

   - Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
      - Qualcomm: support Ethernet function for IPQ9574 SoC
      - Airoha: implement wlan offloading via NPU
      - Freescale
         - enetc: add NETC timer PTP driver and add PTP support
         - fec: enable the Jumbo frame support for i.MX8QM
      - Renesas (R-Car S4):
         - support HW offloading for layer 2 switching
         - support for RZ/{T2H, N2H} SoCs
      - Cadence (macb): support TAPRIO traffic scheduling
      - TI:
         - support for Gigabit ICSS ethernet SoC (icssm-prueth)
      - Synopsys (stmmac): a lot of cleanups

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - Support 10g-qxgmi phy-mode for AQR412C, Felix DSA and Lynx PCS
        driver
      - Support bcm63268 GPHY power control
      - Support for Micrel lan8842 PHY and PTP
      - Support for Aquantia AQR412 and AQR115

   - CAN:
      - a large CAN-XL preparation work
      - reorganize raw_sock and uniqframe struct to minimize memory
        usage
      - rcar_canfd: update the CAN-FD handling

   - WiFi:
      - extended Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) support
      - S1G channel representation cleanup
      - improve S1G support

   - WiFi drivers:
      - Intel (iwlwifi):
         - major refactor and cleanup
      - Broadcom (brcm80211):
         - support for AP isolation
      - RealTek (rtw88/89) rtw88/89:
         - preparation work for RTL8922DE support
      - MediaTek (mt76):
         - HW restart improvements
         - MLO support
      - Qualcomm/Atheros (ath10k):
         - GTK rekey fixes

   - Bluetooth drivers:
      - btusb: support for several new IDs for MT7925
      - btintel: support for BlazarIW core
      - btintel_pcie: support for _suspend() / _resume()
      - btintel_pcie: support for Scorpious, Panther Lake-H484 IDs"

* tag 'net-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1536 commits)
  net: stmmac: Add support for Allwinner A523 GMAC200
  dt-bindings: net: sun8i-emac: Add A523 GMAC200 compatible
  Revert "Documentation: net: add flow control guide and document ethtool API"
  octeontx2-pf: fix bitmap leak
  octeontx2-vf: fix bitmap leak
  net/mlx5e: Use extack in set rxfh callback
  net/mlx5e: Introduce mlx5e_rss_params for RSS configuration
  net/mlx5e: Introduce mlx5e_rss_init_params
  net/mlx5e: Remove unused mdev param from RSS indir init
  net/mlx5: Improve QoS error messages with actual depth values
  net/mlx5e: Prevent entering switchdev mode with inconsistent netns
  net/mlx5: HWS, Generalize complex matchers
  net/mlx5: Improve write-combining test reliability for ARM64 Grace CPUs
  selftests/net: add tcp_port_share to .gitignore
  Revert "net/mlx5e: Update and set Xon/Xoff upon MTU set"
  net: add NUMA awareness to skb_attempt_defer_free()
  net: use llist for sd-&gt;defer_list
  net: make softnet_data.defer_count an atomic
  selftests: drv-net: psp: add tests for destroying devices
  selftests: drv-net: psp: add test for auto-adjusting TCP MSS
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-6.18/block-20250929' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux</title>
<updated>2025-10-02T17:16:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-02T17:16:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=e1b1d03ceec343362524318c076b110066ffe305'/>
<id>e1b1d03ceec343362524318c076b110066ffe305</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - NVMe pull request via Keith:
     - FC target fixes (Daniel)
     - Authentication fixes and updates (Martin, Chris)
     - Admin controller handling (Kamaljit)
     - Target lockdep assertions (Max)
     - Keep-alive updates for discovery (Alastair)
     - Suspend quirk (Georg)

 - MD pull request via Yu:
     - Add support for a lockless bitmap.

       A key feature for the new bitmap are that the IO fastpath is
       lockless. If a user issues lots of write IO to the same bitmap
       bit in a short time, only the first write has additional overhead
       to update bitmap bit, no additional overhead for the following
       writes.

       By supporting only resync or recover written data, means in the
       case creating new array or replacing with a new disk, there is no
       need to do a full disk resync/recovery.

 - Switch -&gt;getgeo() and -&gt;bios_param() to using struct gendisk rather
   than struct block_device.

 - Rust block changes via Andreas. This series adds configuration via
   configfs and remote completion to the rnull driver. The series also
   includes a set of changes to the rust block device driver API: a few
   cleanup patches, and a few features supporting the rnull changes.

   The series removes the raw buffer formatting logic from
   `kernel::block` and improves the logic available in `kernel::string`
   to support the same use as the removed logic.

 - floppy arch cleanups

 - Reduce the number of dereferencing needed for ublk commands

 - Restrict supported sockets for nbd. Mostly done to eliminate a class
   of issues perpetually reported by syzbot, by using nonsensical socket
   setups.

 - A few s390 dasd block fixes

 - Fix a few issues around atomic writes

 - Improve DMA interation for integrity requests

 - Improve how iovecs are treated with regards to O_DIRECT aligment
   constraints.

   We used to require each segment to adhere to the constraints, now
   only the request as a whole needs to.

 - Clean up and improve p2p support, enabling use of p2p for metadata
   payloads

 - Improve locking of request lookup, using SRCU where appropriate

 - Use page references properly for brd, avoiding very long RCU sections

 - Fix ordering of recursively submitted IOs

 - Clean up and improve updating nr_requests for a live device

 - Various fixes and cleanups

* tag 'for-6.18/block-20250929' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: (164 commits)
  s390/dasd: enforce dma_alignment to ensure proper buffer validation
  s390/dasd: Return BLK_STS_INVAL for EINVAL from do_dasd_request
  ublk: remove redundant zone op check in ublk_setup_iod()
  nvme: Use non zero KATO for persistent discovery connections
  nvmet: add safety check for subsys lock
  nvme-core: use nvme_is_io_ctrl() for I/O controller check
  nvme-core: do ioccsz/iorcsz validation only for I/O controllers
  nvme-core: add method to check for an I/O controller
  blk-cgroup: fix possible deadlock while configuring policy
  blk-mq: fix null-ptr-deref in blk_mq_free_tags() from error path
  blk-mq: Fix more tag iteration function documentation
  selftests: ublk: fix behavior when fio is not installed
  ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_unmap_io()
  ublk: pass ublk_io to __ublk_complete_rq()
  ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_need_complete_req()
  ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_check_commit_and_fetch()
  ublk: don't pass ublk_queue to ublk_fetch()
  ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_config_io_buf()
  ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_check_fetch_buf()
  ublk: pass q_id and tag to __ublk_check_and_get_req()
  ...
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<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - NVMe pull request via Keith:
     - FC target fixes (Daniel)
     - Authentication fixes and updates (Martin, Chris)
     - Admin controller handling (Kamaljit)
     - Target lockdep assertions (Max)
     - Keep-alive updates for discovery (Alastair)
     - Suspend quirk (Georg)

 - MD pull request via Yu:
     - Add support for a lockless bitmap.

       A key feature for the new bitmap are that the IO fastpath is
       lockless. If a user issues lots of write IO to the same bitmap
       bit in a short time, only the first write has additional overhead
       to update bitmap bit, no additional overhead for the following
       writes.

       By supporting only resync or recover written data, means in the
       case creating new array or replacing with a new disk, there is no
       need to do a full disk resync/recovery.

 - Switch -&gt;getgeo() and -&gt;bios_param() to using struct gendisk rather
   than struct block_device.

 - Rust block changes via Andreas. This series adds configuration via
   configfs and remote completion to the rnull driver. The series also
   includes a set of changes to the rust block device driver API: a few
   cleanup patches, and a few features supporting the rnull changes.

   The series removes the raw buffer formatting logic from
   `kernel::block` and improves the logic available in `kernel::string`
   to support the same use as the removed logic.

 - floppy arch cleanups

 - Reduce the number of dereferencing needed for ublk commands

 - Restrict supported sockets for nbd. Mostly done to eliminate a class
   of issues perpetually reported by syzbot, by using nonsensical socket
   setups.

 - A few s390 dasd block fixes

 - Fix a few issues around atomic writes

 - Improve DMA interation for integrity requests

 - Improve how iovecs are treated with regards to O_DIRECT aligment
   constraints.

   We used to require each segment to adhere to the constraints, now
   only the request as a whole needs to.

 - Clean up and improve p2p support, enabling use of p2p for metadata
   payloads

 - Improve locking of request lookup, using SRCU where appropriate

 - Use page references properly for brd, avoiding very long RCU sections

 - Fix ordering of recursively submitted IOs

 - Clean up and improve updating nr_requests for a live device

 - Various fixes and cleanups

* tag 'for-6.18/block-20250929' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: (164 commits)
  s390/dasd: enforce dma_alignment to ensure proper buffer validation
  s390/dasd: Return BLK_STS_INVAL for EINVAL from do_dasd_request
  ublk: remove redundant zone op check in ublk_setup_iod()
  nvme: Use non zero KATO for persistent discovery connections
  nvmet: add safety check for subsys lock
  nvme-core: use nvme_is_io_ctrl() for I/O controller check
  nvme-core: do ioccsz/iorcsz validation only for I/O controllers
  nvme-core: add method to check for an I/O controller
  blk-cgroup: fix possible deadlock while configuring policy
  blk-mq: fix null-ptr-deref in blk_mq_free_tags() from error path
  blk-mq: Fix more tag iteration function documentation
  selftests: ublk: fix behavior when fio is not installed
  ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_unmap_io()
  ublk: pass ublk_io to __ublk_complete_rq()
  ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_need_complete_req()
  ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_check_commit_and_fetch()
  ublk: don't pass ublk_queue to ublk_fetch()
  ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_config_io_buf()
  ublk: don't access ublk_queue in ublk_check_fetch_buf()
  ublk: pass q_id and tag to __ublk_check_and_get_req()
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: s390/vfio-ap: Use kvm_is_gpa_in_memslot() instead of open coded equivalent</title>
<updated>2025-09-30T17:38:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>seanjc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-19T00:32:59+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=15463eece957be34da64b4d6fe18fc98981bf487'/>
<id>15463eece957be34da64b4d6fe18fc98981bf487</id>
<content type='text'>
Use kvm_is_gpa_in_memslot() to check the validity of the notification
indicator byte address instead of open coding equivalent logic in the VFIO
AP driver.

Opportunistically use a dedicated wrapper that exists and is exported
expressly for the VFIO AP module.  kvm_is_gpa_in_memslot() is generally
unsuitable for use outside of KVM; other drivers typically shouldn't rely
on KVM's memslots, and using the API requires kvm-&gt;srcu (or slots_lock) to
be held for the entire duration of the usage, e.g. to avoid TOCTOU bugs.
handle_pqap() is a bit of a special case, as it's explicitly invoked from
KVM with kvm-&gt;srcu already held, and the VFIO AP driver is in many ways an
extension of KVM that happens to live in a separate module.

Providing a dedicated API for the VFIO AP driver will allow restricting
the vast majority of generic KVM's exports to KVM submodules (e.g. to x86's
kvm-{amd,intel}.ko vendor mdoules).

No functional change intended.

Acked-by: Anthony Krowiak &lt;akrowiak@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250919003303.1355064-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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Use kvm_is_gpa_in_memslot() to check the validity of the notification
indicator byte address instead of open coding equivalent logic in the VFIO
AP driver.

Opportunistically use a dedicated wrapper that exists and is exported
expressly for the VFIO AP module.  kvm_is_gpa_in_memslot() is generally
unsuitable for use outside of KVM; other drivers typically shouldn't rely
on KVM's memslots, and using the API requires kvm-&gt;srcu (or slots_lock) to
be held for the entire duration of the usage, e.g. to avoid TOCTOU bugs.
handle_pqap() is a bit of a special case, as it's explicitly invoked from
KVM with kvm-&gt;srcu already held, and the VFIO AP driver is in many ways an
extension of KVM that happens to live in a separate module.

Providing a dedicated API for the VFIO AP driver will allow restricting
the vast majority of generic KVM's exports to KVM submodules (e.g. to x86's
kvm-{amd,intel}.ko vendor mdoules).

No functional change intended.

Acked-by: Anthony Krowiak &lt;akrowiak@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250919003303.1355064-2-seanjc@google.com
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 's390-6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux</title>
<updated>2025-09-30T02:14:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-30T02:14:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9cc220a422113f665e13364be1411c7bba9e3e30'/>
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Pull s390 updates from Alexander Gordeev:

 - Refactor SCLP memory hotplug code

 - Introduce common boot_panic() decompressor helper macro and use it to
   get rid of nearly few identical implementations

 - Take into account additional key generation flags and forward it to
   the ep11 implementation. With that allow users to modify the key
   generation process, e.g. provide valid combinations of XCP_BLOB_*
   flags

 - Replace kmalloc() + copy_from_user() with memdup_user_nul() in s390
   debug facility and HMC driver

 - Add DAX support for DCSS memory block devices

 - Make the compiler statement attribute "assume" available with a new
   __assume macro

 - Rework ffs() and fls() family bitops functions, including source code
   improvements and generated code optimizations. Use the newly
   introduced __assume macro for that

 - Enable additional network features in default configurations

 - Use __GFP_ACCOUNT flag for user page table allocations to add missing
   kmemcg accounting

 - Add WQ_PERCPU flag to explicitly request the use of the per-CPU
   workqueue for 3590 tape driver

 - Switch power reading to the per-CPU and the Hiperdispatch to the
   default workqueue

 - Add memory allocation profiling hooks to allow better profiling data
   and the /proc/allocinfo output similar to other architectures

* tag 's390-6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (21 commits)
  s390/mm: Add memory allocation profiling hooks
  s390: Replace use of system_wq with system_dfl_wq
  s390/diag324: Replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq
  s390/tape: Add WQ_PERCPU to alloc_workqueue users
  s390/bitops: Switch to generic ffs() if supported by compiler
  s390/bitops: Switch to generic fls(), fls64(), etc.
  s390/mm: Use __GFP_ACCOUNT for user page table allocations
  s390/configs: Enable additional network features
  s390/bitops: Cleanup __flogr()
  s390/bitops: Use __assume() for __flogr() inline assembly return value
  compiler_types: Add __assume macro
  s390/bitops: Limit return value range of __flogr()
  s390/dcssblk: Add DAX support
  s390/hmcdrv: Replace kmalloc() + copy_from_user() with memdup_user_nul()
  s390/debug: Replace kmalloc() + copy_from_user() with memdup_user_nul()
  s390/pkey: Forward keygenflags to ep11_unwrapkey
  s390/boot: Add common boot_panic() code
  s390/bitops: Optimize inlining
  s390/bitops: Slightly optimize ffs() and fls64()
  s390/sclp: Move memory hotplug code for better modularity
  ...
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Pull s390 updates from Alexander Gordeev:

 - Refactor SCLP memory hotplug code

 - Introduce common boot_panic() decompressor helper macro and use it to
   get rid of nearly few identical implementations

 - Take into account additional key generation flags and forward it to
   the ep11 implementation. With that allow users to modify the key
   generation process, e.g. provide valid combinations of XCP_BLOB_*
   flags

 - Replace kmalloc() + copy_from_user() with memdup_user_nul() in s390
   debug facility and HMC driver

 - Add DAX support for DCSS memory block devices

 - Make the compiler statement attribute "assume" available with a new
   __assume macro

 - Rework ffs() and fls() family bitops functions, including source code
   improvements and generated code optimizations. Use the newly
   introduced __assume macro for that

 - Enable additional network features in default configurations

 - Use __GFP_ACCOUNT flag for user page table allocations to add missing
   kmemcg accounting

 - Add WQ_PERCPU flag to explicitly request the use of the per-CPU
   workqueue for 3590 tape driver

 - Switch power reading to the per-CPU and the Hiperdispatch to the
   default workqueue

 - Add memory allocation profiling hooks to allow better profiling data
   and the /proc/allocinfo output similar to other architectures

* tag 's390-6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (21 commits)
  s390/mm: Add memory allocation profiling hooks
  s390: Replace use of system_wq with system_dfl_wq
  s390/diag324: Replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq
  s390/tape: Add WQ_PERCPU to alloc_workqueue users
  s390/bitops: Switch to generic ffs() if supported by compiler
  s390/bitops: Switch to generic fls(), fls64(), etc.
  s390/mm: Use __GFP_ACCOUNT for user page table allocations
  s390/configs: Enable additional network features
  s390/bitops: Cleanup __flogr()
  s390/bitops: Use __assume() for __flogr() inline assembly return value
  compiler_types: Add __assume macro
  s390/bitops: Limit return value range of __flogr()
  s390/dcssblk: Add DAX support
  s390/hmcdrv: Replace kmalloc() + copy_from_user() with memdup_user_nul()
  s390/debug: Replace kmalloc() + copy_from_user() with memdup_user_nul()
  s390/pkey: Forward keygenflags to ep11_unwrapkey
  s390/boot: Add common boot_panic() code
  s390/bitops: Optimize inlining
  s390/bitops: Slightly optimize ffs() and fls64()
  s390/sclp: Move memory hotplug code for better modularity
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390: Remove superfluous newlines from inline assemblies</title>
<updated>2025-09-29T11:52:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>hca@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-25T08:45:18+00:00</published>
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Remove superfluous newlines from inline assemblies. Compilers use the
number of lines of inline assemblies as heuristic for the complexity
and inline decisions. Therefore inline assemblies should only contain
as many lines as required.

A lot of inline assemblies contain a superfluous newline for the last
line. Remove such newlines to improve compiler inlining decisions.

Suggested-by: Juergen Christ &lt;jchrist@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Juergen Christ &lt;jchrist@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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Remove superfluous newlines from inline assemblies. Compilers use the
number of lines of inline assemblies as heuristic for the complexity
and inline decisions. Therefore inline assemblies should only contain
as many lines as required.

A lot of inline assemblies contain a superfluous newline for the last
line. Remove such newlines to improve compiler inlining decisions.

Suggested-by: Juergen Christ &lt;jchrist@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Juergen Christ &lt;jchrist@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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