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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>x86/xen: fix balloon target initialization for PVH dom0</title>
<updated>2025-04-20T08:18:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roger Pau Monne</name>
<email>roger.pau@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-07T08:28:37+00:00</published>
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commit 87af633689ce16ddb166c80f32b120e50b1295de upstream.

PVH dom0 re-uses logic from PV dom0, in which RAM ranges not assigned to
dom0 are re-used as scratch memory to map foreign and grant pages.  Such
logic relies on reporting those unpopulated ranges as RAM to Linux, and
mark them as reserved.  This way Linux creates the underlying page
structures required for metadata management.

Such approach works fine on PV because the initial balloon target is
calculated using specific Xen data, that doesn't take into account the
memory type changes described above.  However on HVM and PVH the initial
balloon target is calculated using get_num_physpages(), and that function
does take into account the unpopulated RAM regions used as scratch space
for remote domain mappings.

This leads to PVH dom0 having an incorrect initial balloon target, which
causes malfunction (excessive memory freeing) of the balloon driver if the
dom0 memory target is later adjusted from the toolstack.

Fix this by using xen_released_pages to account for any pages that are part
of the memory map, but are already unpopulated when the balloon driver is
initialized.  This accounts for any regions used for scratch remote
mappings.  Note on x86 xen_released_pages definition is moved to
enlighten.c so it's uniformly available for all Xen-enabled builds.

Take the opportunity to unify PV with PVH/HVM guests regarding the usage of
get_num_physpages(), as that avoids having to add different logic for PV vs
PVH in both balloon_add_regions() and arch_xen_unpopulated_init().

Much like a6aa4eb994ee, the code in this changeset should have been part of
38620fc4e893.

Fixes: a6aa4eb994ee ('xen/x86: add extra pages to unpopulated-alloc if available')
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné &lt;roger.pau@citrix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20250407082838.65495-1-roger.pau@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 87af633689ce16ddb166c80f32b120e50b1295de upstream.

PVH dom0 re-uses logic from PV dom0, in which RAM ranges not assigned to
dom0 are re-used as scratch memory to map foreign and grant pages.  Such
logic relies on reporting those unpopulated ranges as RAM to Linux, and
mark them as reserved.  This way Linux creates the underlying page
structures required for metadata management.

Such approach works fine on PV because the initial balloon target is
calculated using specific Xen data, that doesn't take into account the
memory type changes described above.  However on HVM and PVH the initial
balloon target is calculated using get_num_physpages(), and that function
does take into account the unpopulated RAM regions used as scratch space
for remote domain mappings.

This leads to PVH dom0 having an incorrect initial balloon target, which
causes malfunction (excessive memory freeing) of the balloon driver if the
dom0 memory target is later adjusted from the toolstack.

Fix this by using xen_released_pages to account for any pages that are part
of the memory map, but are already unpopulated when the balloon driver is
initialized.  This accounts for any regions used for scratch remote
mappings.  Note on x86 xen_released_pages definition is moved to
enlighten.c so it's uniformly available for all Xen-enabled builds.

Take the opportunity to unify PV with PVH/HVM guests regarding the usage of
get_num_physpages(), as that avoids having to add different logic for PV vs
PVH in both balloon_add_regions() and arch_xen_unpopulated_init().

Much like a6aa4eb994ee, the code in this changeset should have been part of
38620fc4e893.

Fixes: a6aa4eb994ee ('xen/x86: add extra pages to unpopulated-alloc if available')
Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné &lt;roger.pau@citrix.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20250407082838.65495-1-roger.pau@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>xenfs/xensyms: respect hypervisor's "next" indication</title>
<updated>2025-04-20T08:17:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Beulich</name>
<email>jbeulich@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-12T15:32:45+00:00</published>
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commit 5c4e79e29a9fe4ea132118ac40c2bc97cfe23077 upstream.

The interface specifies the symnum field as an input and output; the
hypervisor sets it to the next sequential symbol's index. xensyms_next()
incrementing the position explicitly (and xensyms_next_sym()
decrementing it to "rewind") is only correct as long as the sequence of
symbol indexes is non-sparse. Use the hypervisor-supplied value instead
to update the position in xensyms_next(), and use the saved incoming
index in xensyms_next_sym().

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: a11f4f0a4e18 ("xen: xensyms support")
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;15d5e7fa-ec5d-422f-9319-d28bed916349@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 5c4e79e29a9fe4ea132118ac40c2bc97cfe23077 upstream.

The interface specifies the symnum field as an input and output; the
hypervisor sets it to the next sequential symbol's index. xensyms_next()
incrementing the position explicitly (and xensyms_next_sym()
decrementing it to "rewind") is only correct as long as the sequence of
symbol indexes is non-sparse. Use the hypervisor-supplied value instead
to update the position in xensyms_next(), and use the saved incoming
index in xensyms_next_sym().

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Fixes: a11f4f0a4e18 ("xen: xensyms support")
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;15d5e7fa-ec5d-422f-9319-d28bed916349@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Xen/swiotlb: mark xen_swiotlb_fixup() __init</title>
<updated>2025-03-22T19:56:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Beulich</name>
<email>jbeulich@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-12T15:14:38+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 75ad02318af2e4ae669e26a79f001bd5e1f97472 ]

It's sole user (pci_xen_swiotlb_init()) is __init, too.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;

Message-ID: &lt;e1198286-99ec-41c1-b5ad-e04e285836c9@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 75ad02318af2e4ae669e26a79f001bd5e1f97472 ]

It's sole user (pci_xen_swiotlb_init()) is __init, too.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;

Message-ID: &lt;e1198286-99ec-41c1-b5ad-e04e285836c9@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>xen/swiotlb: relax alignment requirements</title>
<updated>2025-02-21T13:10:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Juergen Gross</name>
<email>jgross@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-10T07:43:39+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 85fcb57c983f423180ba6ec5d0034242da05cc54 ]

When mapping a buffer for DMA via .map_page or .map_sg DMA operations,
there is no need to check the machine frames to be aligned according
to the mapped areas size. All what is needed in these cases is that the
buffer is contiguous at machine level.

So carve out the alignment check from range_straddles_page_boundary()
and move it to a helper called by xen_swiotlb_alloc_coherent() and
xen_swiotlb_free_coherent() directly.

Fixes: 9f40ec84a797 ("xen/swiotlb: add alignment check for dma buffers")
Reported-by: Jan Vejvalka &lt;jan.vejvalka@lfmotol.cuni.cz&gt;
Tested-by: Jan Vejvalka &lt;jan.vejvalka@lfmotol.cuni.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 85fcb57c983f423180ba6ec5d0034242da05cc54 ]

When mapping a buffer for DMA via .map_page or .map_sg DMA operations,
there is no need to check the machine frames to be aligned according
to the mapped areas size. All what is needed in these cases is that the
buffer is contiguous at machine level.

So carve out the alignment check from range_straddles_page_boundary()
and move it to a helper called by xen_swiotlb_alloc_coherent() and
xen_swiotlb_free_coherent() directly.

Fixes: 9f40ec84a797 ("xen/swiotlb: add alignment check for dma buffers")
Reported-by: Jan Vejvalka &lt;jan.vejvalka@lfmotol.cuni.cz&gt;
Tested-by: Jan Vejvalka &lt;jan.vejvalka@lfmotol.cuni.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>module: Convert symbol namespace to string literal</title>
<updated>2024-12-02T19:34:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-02T14:59:47+00:00</published>
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Clean up the existing export namespace code along the same lines of
commit 33def8498fdd ("treewide: Convert macro and uses of __section(foo)
to __section("foo")") and for the same reason, it is not desired for the
namespace argument to be a macro expansion itself.

Scripted using

  git grep -l -e MODULE_IMPORT_NS -e EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS | while read file;
  do
    awk -i inplace '
      /^#define EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS/ {
        gsub(/__stringify\(ns\)/, "ns");
        print;
        next;
      }
      /^#define MODULE_IMPORT_NS/ {
        gsub(/__stringify\(ns\)/, "ns");
        print;
        next;
      }
      /MODULE_IMPORT_NS/ {
        $0 = gensub(/MODULE_IMPORT_NS\(([^)]*)\)/, "MODULE_IMPORT_NS(\"\\1\")", "g");
      }
      /EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS/ {
        if ($0 ~ /(EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS[^(]*)\(([^,]+),/) {
  	if ($0 !~ /(EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS[^(]*)\(([^,]+), ([^)]+)\)/ &amp;&amp;
  	    $0 !~ /(EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS[^(]*)\(\)/ &amp;&amp;
  	    $0 !~ /^my/) {
  	  getline line;
  	  gsub(/[[:space:]]*\\$/, "");
  	  gsub(/[[:space:]]/, "", line);
  	  $0 = $0 " " line;
  	}

  	$0 = gensub(/(EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS[^(]*)\(([^,]+), ([^)]+)\)/,
  		    "\\1(\\2, \"\\3\")", "g");
        }
      }
      { print }' $file;
  done

Requested-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/2/#inbox/FMfcgzQXKWgMmjdFwwdsfgxzKpVHWPlc
Acked-by: Greg KH &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Clean up the existing export namespace code along the same lines of
commit 33def8498fdd ("treewide: Convert macro and uses of __section(foo)
to __section("foo")") and for the same reason, it is not desired for the
namespace argument to be a macro expansion itself.

Scripted using

  git grep -l -e MODULE_IMPORT_NS -e EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS | while read file;
  do
    awk -i inplace '
      /^#define EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS/ {
        gsub(/__stringify\(ns\)/, "ns");
        print;
        next;
      }
      /^#define MODULE_IMPORT_NS/ {
        gsub(/__stringify\(ns\)/, "ns");
        print;
        next;
      }
      /MODULE_IMPORT_NS/ {
        $0 = gensub(/MODULE_IMPORT_NS\(([^)]*)\)/, "MODULE_IMPORT_NS(\"\\1\")", "g");
      }
      /EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS/ {
        if ($0 ~ /(EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS[^(]*)\(([^,]+),/) {
  	if ($0 !~ /(EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS[^(]*)\(([^,]+), ([^)]+)\)/ &amp;&amp;
  	    $0 !~ /(EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS[^(]*)\(\)/ &amp;&amp;
  	    $0 !~ /^my/) {
  	  getline line;
  	  gsub(/[[:space:]]*\\$/, "");
  	  gsub(/[[:space:]]/, "", line);
  	  $0 = $0 " " line;
  	}

  	$0 = gensub(/(EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS[^(]*)\(([^,]+), ([^)]+)\)/,
  		    "\\1(\\2, \"\\3\")", "g");
        }
      }
      { print }' $file;
  done

Requested-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/2/#inbox/FMfcgzQXKWgMmjdFwwdsfgxzKpVHWPlc
Acked-by: Greg KH &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Get rid of 'remove_new' relic from platform driver struct</title>
<updated>2024-12-01T23:12:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-01T23:12:43+00:00</published>
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The continual trickle of small conversion patches is grating on me, and
is really not helping.  Just get rid of the 'remove_new' member
function, which is just an alias for the plain 'remove', and had a
comment to that effect:

  /*
   * .remove_new() is a relic from a prototype conversion of .remove().
   * New drivers are supposed to implement .remove(). Once all drivers are
   * converted to not use .remove_new any more, it will be dropped.
   */

This was just a tree-wide 'sed' script that replaced '.remove_new' with
'.remove', with some care taken to turn a subsequent tab into two tabs
to make things line up.

I did do some minimal manual whitespace adjustment for places that used
spaces to line things up.

Then I just removed the old (sic) .remove_new member function, and this
is the end result.  No more unnecessary conversion noise.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The continual trickle of small conversion patches is grating on me, and
is really not helping.  Just get rid of the 'remove_new' member
function, which is just an alias for the plain 'remove', and had a
comment to that effect:

  /*
   * .remove_new() is a relic from a prototype conversion of .remove().
   * New drivers are supposed to implement .remove(). Once all drivers are
   * converted to not use .remove_new any more, it will be dropped.
   */

This was just a tree-wide 'sed' script that replaced '.remove_new' with
'.remove', with some care taken to turn a subsequent tab into two tabs
to make things line up.

I did do some minimal manual whitespace adjustment for places that used
spaces to line things up.

Then I just removed the old (sic) .remove_new member function, and this
is the end result.  No more unnecessary conversion noise.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'irq-core-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2024-11-19T23:54:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-19T23:54:19+00:00</published>
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Pull interrupt subsystem updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Tree wide:

   - Make nr_irqs static to the core code and provide accessor functions
     to remove existing and prevent future aliasing problems with local
     variables or function arguments of the same name.

  Core code:

   - Prevent freeing an interrupt in the devres code which is not
     managed by devres in the first place.

   - Use seq_put_decimal_ull_width() for decimal values output in
     /proc/interrupts which increases performance significantly as it
     avoids parsing the format strings over and over.

   - Optimize raising the timer and hrtimer soft interrupts by using the
     'set bit only' variants instead of the combined version which
     checks whether ksoftirqd should be woken up. The latter is a
     pointless exercise as both soft interrupts are raised in the
     context of the timer interrupt and therefore never wake up
     ksoftirqd.

   - Delegate timer/hrtimer soft interrupt processing to a dedicated
     thread on RT.

     Timer and hrtimer soft interrupts are always processed in ksoftirqd
     on RT enabled kernels. This can lead to high latencies when other
     soft interrupts are delegated to ksoftirqd as well.

     The separate thread allows to run them seperately under a RT
     scheduling policy to reduce the latency overhead.

  Drivers:

   - New drivers or extensions of existing drivers to support Renesas
     RZ/V2H(P), Aspeed AST27XX, T-HEAD C900 and ATMEL sam9x7 interrupt
     chips

   - Support for multi-cluster GICs on MIPS.

     MIPS CPUs can come with multiple CPU clusters, where each CPU
     cluster has its own GIC (Generic Interrupt Controller). This
     requires to access the GIC of a remote cluster through a redirect
     register block.

     This is encapsulated into a set of helper functions to keep the
     complexity out of the actual code paths which handle the GIC
     details.

   - Support for encrypted guests in the ARM GICV3 ITS driver

     The ITS page needs to be shared with the hypervisor and therefore
     must be decrypted.

   - Small cleanups and fixes all over the place"

* tag 'irq-core-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (50 commits)
  irqchip/riscv-aplic: Prevent crash when MSI domain is missing
  genirq/proc: Use seq_put_decimal_ull_width() for decimal values
  softirq: Use a dedicated thread for timer wakeups on PREEMPT_RT.
  timers: Use __raise_softirq_irqoff() to raise the softirq.
  hrtimer: Use __raise_softirq_irqoff() to raise the softirq
  riscv: defconfig: Enable T-HEAD C900 ACLINT SSWI drivers
  irqchip: Add T-HEAD C900 ACLINT SSWI driver
  dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: Add T-HEAD C900 ACLINT SSWI device
  irqchip/stm32mp-exti: Use of_property_present() for non-boolean properties
  irqchip/mips-gic: Fix selection of GENERIC_IRQ_EFFECTIVE_AFF_MASK
  irqchip/mips-gic: Prevent indirect access to clusters without CPU cores
  irqchip/mips-gic: Multi-cluster support
  irqchip/mips-gic: Setup defaults in each cluster
  irqchip/mips-gic: Support multi-cluster in for_each_online_cpu_gic()
  irqchip/mips-gic: Replace open coded online CPU iterations
  genirq/irqdesc: Use str_enabled_disabled() helper in wakeup_show()
  genirq/devres: Don't free interrupt which is not managed by devres
  irqchip/gic-v3-its: Fix over allocation in itt_alloc_pool()
  irqchip/aspeed-intc: Add AST27XX INTC support
  dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: Add support for ASPEED AST27XX INTC
  ...
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Pull interrupt subsystem updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Tree wide:

   - Make nr_irqs static to the core code and provide accessor functions
     to remove existing and prevent future aliasing problems with local
     variables or function arguments of the same name.

  Core code:

   - Prevent freeing an interrupt in the devres code which is not
     managed by devres in the first place.

   - Use seq_put_decimal_ull_width() for decimal values output in
     /proc/interrupts which increases performance significantly as it
     avoids parsing the format strings over and over.

   - Optimize raising the timer and hrtimer soft interrupts by using the
     'set bit only' variants instead of the combined version which
     checks whether ksoftirqd should be woken up. The latter is a
     pointless exercise as both soft interrupts are raised in the
     context of the timer interrupt and therefore never wake up
     ksoftirqd.

   - Delegate timer/hrtimer soft interrupt processing to a dedicated
     thread on RT.

     Timer and hrtimer soft interrupts are always processed in ksoftirqd
     on RT enabled kernels. This can lead to high latencies when other
     soft interrupts are delegated to ksoftirqd as well.

     The separate thread allows to run them seperately under a RT
     scheduling policy to reduce the latency overhead.

  Drivers:

   - New drivers or extensions of existing drivers to support Renesas
     RZ/V2H(P), Aspeed AST27XX, T-HEAD C900 and ATMEL sam9x7 interrupt
     chips

   - Support for multi-cluster GICs on MIPS.

     MIPS CPUs can come with multiple CPU clusters, where each CPU
     cluster has its own GIC (Generic Interrupt Controller). This
     requires to access the GIC of a remote cluster through a redirect
     register block.

     This is encapsulated into a set of helper functions to keep the
     complexity out of the actual code paths which handle the GIC
     details.

   - Support for encrypted guests in the ARM GICV3 ITS driver

     The ITS page needs to be shared with the hypervisor and therefore
     must be decrypted.

   - Small cleanups and fixes all over the place"

* tag 'irq-core-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (50 commits)
  irqchip/riscv-aplic: Prevent crash when MSI domain is missing
  genirq/proc: Use seq_put_decimal_ull_width() for decimal values
  softirq: Use a dedicated thread for timer wakeups on PREEMPT_RT.
  timers: Use __raise_softirq_irqoff() to raise the softirq.
  hrtimer: Use __raise_softirq_irqoff() to raise the softirq
  riscv: defconfig: Enable T-HEAD C900 ACLINT SSWI drivers
  irqchip: Add T-HEAD C900 ACLINT SSWI driver
  dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: Add T-HEAD C900 ACLINT SSWI device
  irqchip/stm32mp-exti: Use of_property_present() for non-boolean properties
  irqchip/mips-gic: Fix selection of GENERIC_IRQ_EFFECTIVE_AFF_MASK
  irqchip/mips-gic: Prevent indirect access to clusters without CPU cores
  irqchip/mips-gic: Multi-cluster support
  irqchip/mips-gic: Setup defaults in each cluster
  irqchip/mips-gic: Support multi-cluster in for_each_online_cpu_gic()
  irqchip/mips-gic: Replace open coded online CPU iterations
  genirq/irqdesc: Use str_enabled_disabled() helper in wakeup_show()
  genirq/devres: Don't free interrupt which is not managed by devres
  irqchip/gic-v3-its: Fix over allocation in itt_alloc_pool()
  irqchip/aspeed-intc: Add AST27XX INTC support
  dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: Add support for ASPEED AST27XX INTC
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus-6.13-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip</title>
<updated>2024-11-19T02:26:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-19T02:26:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=158f238aa69d91ad74e535c73f552bd4b025109c'/>
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Pull xen updates from Juergen Gross:

 - a series for booting as a PVH guest, doing some cleanups after the
   previous work to make PVH boot code position independent

 - a fix of the xenbus driver avoiding a leak in an error case

* tag 'for-linus-6.13-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
  xen: Fix the issue of resource not being properly released in xenbus_dev_probe()
  x86/pvh: Avoid absolute symbol references in .head.text
  x86/xen: Avoid relocatable quantities in Xen ELF notes
  x86/pvh: Omit needless clearing of phys_base
  x86/pvh: Use correct size value in GDT descriptor
  x86/pvh: Call C code via the kernel virtual mapping
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Pull xen updates from Juergen Gross:

 - a series for booting as a PVH guest, doing some cleanups after the
   previous work to make PVH boot code position independent

 - a fix of the xenbus driver avoiding a leak in an error case

* tag 'for-linus-6.13-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
  xen: Fix the issue of resource not being properly released in xenbus_dev_probe()
  x86/pvh: Avoid absolute symbol references in .head.text
  x86/xen: Avoid relocatable quantities in Xen ELF notes
  x86/pvh: Omit needless clearing of phys_base
  x86/pvh: Use correct size value in GDT descriptor
  x86/pvh: Call C code via the kernel virtual mapping
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pull-fd' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2024-11-18T20:24:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-18T20:24:06+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=0f25f0e4efaeb68086f7e65c442f2d648b21736f'/>
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Pull 'struct fd' class updates from Al Viro:
 "The bulk of struct fd memory safety stuff

  Making sure that struct fd instances are destroyed in the same scope
  where they'd been created, getting rid of reassignments and passing
  them by reference, converting to CLASS(fd{,_pos,_raw}).

  We are getting very close to having the memory safety of that stuff
  trivial to verify"

* tag 'pull-fd' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (28 commits)
  deal with the last remaing boolean uses of fd_file()
  css_set_fork(): switch to CLASS(fd_raw, ...)
  memcg_write_event_control(): switch to CLASS(fd)
  assorted variants of irqfd setup: convert to CLASS(fd)
  do_pollfd(): convert to CLASS(fd)
  convert do_select()
  convert vfs_dedupe_file_range().
  convert cifs_ioctl_copychunk()
  convert media_request_get_by_fd()
  convert spu_run(2)
  switch spufs_calls_{get,put}() to CLASS() use
  convert cachestat(2)
  convert do_preadv()/do_pwritev()
  fdget(), more trivial conversions
  fdget(), trivial conversions
  privcmd_ioeventfd_assign(): don't open-code eventfd_ctx_fdget()
  o2hb_region_dev_store(): avoid goto around fdget()/fdput()
  introduce "fd_pos" class, convert fdget_pos() users to it.
  fdget_raw() users: switch to CLASS(fd_raw)
  convert vmsplice() to CLASS(fd)
  ...
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Pull 'struct fd' class updates from Al Viro:
 "The bulk of struct fd memory safety stuff

  Making sure that struct fd instances are destroyed in the same scope
  where they'd been created, getting rid of reassignments and passing
  them by reference, converting to CLASS(fd{,_pos,_raw}).

  We are getting very close to having the memory safety of that stuff
  trivial to verify"

* tag 'pull-fd' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (28 commits)
  deal with the last remaing boolean uses of fd_file()
  css_set_fork(): switch to CLASS(fd_raw, ...)
  memcg_write_event_control(): switch to CLASS(fd)
  assorted variants of irqfd setup: convert to CLASS(fd)
  do_pollfd(): convert to CLASS(fd)
  convert do_select()
  convert vfs_dedupe_file_range().
  convert cifs_ioctl_copychunk()
  convert media_request_get_by_fd()
  convert spu_run(2)
  switch spufs_calls_{get,put}() to CLASS() use
  convert cachestat(2)
  convert do_preadv()/do_pwritev()
  fdget(), more trivial conversions
  fdget(), trivial conversions
  privcmd_ioeventfd_assign(): don't open-code eventfd_ctx_fdget()
  o2hb_region_dev_store(): avoid goto around fdget()/fdput()
  introduce "fd_pos" class, convert fdget_pos() users to it.
  fdget_raw() users: switch to CLASS(fd_raw)
  convert vmsplice() to CLASS(fd)
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>xen: Fix the issue of resource not being properly released in xenbus_dev_probe()</title>
<updated>2024-11-13T19:11:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Qiu-ji Chen</name>
<email>chenqiuji666@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-05T13:09:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=afc545da381ba0c651b2658966ac737032676f01'/>
<id>afc545da381ba0c651b2658966ac737032676f01</id>
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This patch fixes an issue in the function xenbus_dev_probe(). In the
xenbus_dev_probe() function, within the if (err) branch at line 313, the
program incorrectly returns err directly without releasing the resources
allocated by err = drv-&gt;probe(dev, id). As the return value is non-zero,
the upper layers assume the processing logic has failed. However, the probe
operation was performed earlier without a corresponding remove operation.
Since the probe actually allocates resources, failing to perform the remove
operation could lead to problems.

To fix this issue, we followed the resource release logic of the
xenbus_dev_remove() function by adding a new block fail_remove before the
fail_put block. After entering the branch if (err) at line 313, the
function will use a goto statement to jump to the fail_remove block,
ensuring that the previously acquired resources are correctly released,
thus preventing the reference count leak.

This bug was identified by an experimental static analysis tool developed
by our team. The tool specializes in analyzing reference count operations
and detecting potential issues where resources are not properly managed.
In this case, the tool flagged the missing release operation as a
potential problem, which led to the development of this patch.

Fixes: 4bac07c993d0 ("xen: add the Xenbus sysfs and virtual device hotplug driver")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Qiu-ji Chen &lt;chenqiuji666@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20241105130919.4621-1-chenqiuji666@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
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This patch fixes an issue in the function xenbus_dev_probe(). In the
xenbus_dev_probe() function, within the if (err) branch at line 313, the
program incorrectly returns err directly without releasing the resources
allocated by err = drv-&gt;probe(dev, id). As the return value is non-zero,
the upper layers assume the processing logic has failed. However, the probe
operation was performed earlier without a corresponding remove operation.
Since the probe actually allocates resources, failing to perform the remove
operation could lead to problems.

To fix this issue, we followed the resource release logic of the
xenbus_dev_remove() function by adding a new block fail_remove before the
fail_put block. After entering the branch if (err) at line 313, the
function will use a goto statement to jump to the fail_remove block,
ensuring that the previously acquired resources are correctly released,
thus preventing the reference count leak.

This bug was identified by an experimental static analysis tool developed
by our team. The tool specializes in analyzing reference count operations
and detecting potential issues where resources are not properly managed.
In this case, the tool flagged the missing release operation as a
potential problem, which led to the development of this patch.

Fixes: 4bac07c993d0 ("xen: add the Xenbus sysfs and virtual device hotplug driver")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Qiu-ji Chen &lt;chenqiuji666@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20241105130919.4621-1-chenqiuji666@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
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