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<title>compiler_types.h: add "auto" as a macro for "__auto_type"</title>
<updated>2026-01-11T14:19:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@zytor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-18T18:35:00+00:00</published>
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commit 2fb6915fa22dc5524d704afba58a13305dd9f533 upstream.

"auto" was defined as a keyword back in the K&amp;R days, but as a storage
type specifier.  No one ever used it, since it was and is the default
storage type for local variables.

C++11 recycled the keyword to allow a type to be declared based on the
type of an initializer.  This was finally adopted into standard C in
C23.

gcc and clang provide the "__auto_type" alias keyword as an extension
for pre-C23, however, there is no reason to pollute the bulk of the
source base with this temporary keyword; instead define "auto" as a
macro unless the compiler is running in C23+ mode.

This macro is added in &lt;linux/compiler_types.h&gt; because that header is
included in some of the tools headers, wheres &lt;linux/compiler.h&gt; is
not as it has a bunch of very kernel-specific things in it.

[ Cc: stable to reduce potential backporting burden. ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 2fb6915fa22dc5524d704afba58a13305dd9f533 upstream.

"auto" was defined as a keyword back in the K&amp;R days, but as a storage
type specifier.  No one ever used it, since it was and is the default
storage type for local variables.

C++11 recycled the keyword to allow a type to be declared based on the
type of an initializer.  This was finally adopted into standard C in
C23.

gcc and clang provide the "__auto_type" alias keyword as an extension
for pre-C23, however, there is no reason to pollute the bulk of the
source base with this temporary keyword; instead define "auto" as a
macro unless the compiler is running in C23+ mode.

This macro is added in &lt;linux/compiler_types.h&gt; because that header is
included in some of the tools headers, wheres &lt;linux/compiler.h&gt; is
not as it has a bunch of very kernel-specific things in it.

[ Cc: stable to reduce potential backporting burden. ]

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>compiler_types: Move unused static inline functions warning to W=2</title>
<updated>2025-12-06T21:12:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-06T10:50:00+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 9818af18db4bfefd320d0fef41390a616365e6f7 ]

Per Nathan, clang catches unused "static inline" functions in C files
since commit 6863f5643dd7 ("kbuild: allow Clang to find unused static
inline functions for W=1 build").

Linus said:

&gt; So I entirely ignore W=1 issues, because I think so many of the extra
&gt; warnings are bogus.
&gt;
&gt; But if this one in particular is causing more problems than most -
&gt; some teams do seem to use W=1 as part of their test builds - it's fine
&gt; to send me a patch that just moves bad warnings to W=2.
&gt;
&gt; And if anybody uses W=2 for their test builds, that's THEIR problem..

Here is the change to bump the warning from W=1 to W=2.

Fixes: 6863f5643dd7 ("kbuild: allow Clang to find unused static inline functions for W=1 build")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251106105000.2103276-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
[nathan: Adjust comment as well]
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 9818af18db4bfefd320d0fef41390a616365e6f7 ]

Per Nathan, clang catches unused "static inline" functions in C files
since commit 6863f5643dd7 ("kbuild: allow Clang to find unused static
inline functions for W=1 build").

Linus said:

&gt; So I entirely ignore W=1 issues, because I think so many of the extra
&gt; warnings are bogus.
&gt;
&gt; But if this one in particular is causing more problems than most -
&gt; some teams do seem to use W=1 as part of their test builds - it's fine
&gt; to send me a patch that just moves bad warnings to W=2.
&gt;
&gt; And if anybody uses W=2 for their test builds, that's THEIR problem..

Here is the change to bump the warning from W=1 to W=2.

Fixes: 6863f5643dd7 ("kbuild: allow Clang to find unused static inline functions for W=1 build")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251106105000.2103276-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
[nathan: Adjust comment as well]
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kmsan: compiler_types: declare __no_sanitize_or_inline</title>
<updated>2024-05-17T09:56:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Potapenko</name>
<email>glider@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-26T09:16:22+00:00</published>
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commit 90d1f14cbb9ddbfc532e2da13bf6e0ed8320e792 upstream.

It turned out that KMSAN instruments READ_ONCE_NOCHECK(), resulting in
false positive reports, because __no_sanitize_or_inline enforced inlining.

Properly declare __no_sanitize_or_inline under __SANITIZE_MEMORY__, so
that it does not __always_inline the annotated function.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240426091622.3846771-1-glider@google.com
Fixes: 5de0ce85f5a4 ("kmsan: mark noinstr as __no_sanitize_memory")
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+355c5bb8c1445c871ee8@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/000000000000826ac1061675b0e3@google.com
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 90d1f14cbb9ddbfc532e2da13bf6e0ed8320e792 upstream.

It turned out that KMSAN instruments READ_ONCE_NOCHECK(), resulting in
false positive reports, because __no_sanitize_or_inline enforced inlining.

Properly declare __no_sanitize_or_inline under __SANITIZE_MEMORY__, so
that it does not __always_inline the annotated function.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240426091622.3846771-1-glider@google.com
Fixes: 5de0ce85f5a4 ("kmsan: mark noinstr as __no_sanitize_memory")
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+355c5bb8c1445c871ee8@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/000000000000826ac1061675b0e3@google.com
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>update workarounds for gcc "asm goto" issue</title>
<updated>2024-02-23T08:12:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-15T19:14:33+00:00</published>
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commit 68fb3ca0e408e00db1c3f8fccdfa19e274c033be upstream.

In commit 4356e9f841f7 ("work around gcc bugs with 'asm goto' with
outputs") I did the gcc workaround unconditionally, because the cause of
the bad code generation wasn't entirely clear.

In the meantime, Jakub Jelinek debugged the issue, and has come up with
a fix in gcc [2], which also got backported to the still maintained
branches of gcc-11, gcc-12 and gcc-13.

Note that while the fix technically wasn't in the original gcc-14
branch, Jakub says:

 "while it is true that no GCC 14 snapshots until today (or whenever the
  fix will be committed) have the fix, for GCC trunk it is up to the
  distros to use the latest snapshot if they use it at all and would
  allow better testing of the kernel code without the workaround, so
  that if there are other issues they won't be discovered years later.
  Most userland code doesn't actually use asm goto with outputs..."

so we will consider gcc-14 to be fixed - if somebody is using gcc
snapshots of the gcc-14 before the fix, they should upgrade.

Note that while the bug goes back to gcc-11, in practice other gcc
changes seem to have effectively hidden it since gcc-12.1 as per a
bisect by Jakub.  So even a gcc-14 snapshot without the fix likely
doesn't show actual problems.

Also, make the default 'asm_goto_output()' macro mark the asm as
volatile by hand, because of an unrelated gcc issue [1] where it doesn't
match the documented behavior ("asm goto is always volatile").

Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=103979 [1]
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113921 [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240208220604.140859-1-seanjc@google.com/
Requested-by: Jakub Jelinek &lt;jakub@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Pinski &lt;quic_apinski@quicinc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 68fb3ca0e408e00db1c3f8fccdfa19e274c033be upstream.

In commit 4356e9f841f7 ("work around gcc bugs with 'asm goto' with
outputs") I did the gcc workaround unconditionally, because the cause of
the bad code generation wasn't entirely clear.

In the meantime, Jakub Jelinek debugged the issue, and has come up with
a fix in gcc [2], which also got backported to the still maintained
branches of gcc-11, gcc-12 and gcc-13.

Note that while the fix technically wasn't in the original gcc-14
branch, Jakub says:

 "while it is true that no GCC 14 snapshots until today (or whenever the
  fix will be committed) have the fix, for GCC trunk it is up to the
  distros to use the latest snapshot if they use it at all and would
  allow better testing of the kernel code without the workaround, so
  that if there are other issues they won't be discovered years later.
  Most userland code doesn't actually use asm goto with outputs..."

so we will consider gcc-14 to be fixed - if somebody is using gcc
snapshots of the gcc-14 before the fix, they should upgrade.

Note that while the bug goes back to gcc-11, in practice other gcc
changes seem to have effectively hidden it since gcc-12.1 as per a
bisect by Jakub.  So even a gcc-14 snapshot without the fix likely
doesn't show actual problems.

Also, make the default 'asm_goto_output()' macro mark the asm as
volatile by hand, because of an unrelated gcc issue [1] where it doesn't
match the documented behavior ("asm goto is always volatile").

Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=103979 [1]
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113921 [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240208220604.140859-1-seanjc@google.com/
Requested-by: Jakub Jelinek &lt;jakub@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Pinski &lt;quic_apinski@quicinc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>work around gcc bugs with 'asm goto' with outputs</title>
<updated>2024-02-23T08:12:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-09T20:39:31+00:00</published>
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commit 68fb3ca0e408e00db1c3f8fccdfa19e274c033be upstream.

We've had issues with gcc and 'asm goto' before, and we created a
'asm_volatile_goto()' macro for that in the past: see commits
3f0116c3238a ("compiler/gcc4: Add quirk for 'asm goto' miscompilation
bug") and a9f180345f53 ("compiler/gcc4: Make quirk for
asm_volatile_goto() unconditional").

Then, much later, we ended up removing the workaround in commit
43c249ea0b1e ("compiler-gcc.h: remove ancient workaround for gcc PR
58670") because we no longer supported building the kernel with the
affected gcc versions, but we left the macro uses around.

Now, Sean Christopherson reports a new version of a very similar
problem, which is fixed by re-applying that ancient workaround.  But the
problem in question is limited to only the 'asm goto with outputs'
cases, so instead of re-introducing the old workaround as-is, let's
rename and limit the workaround to just that much less common case.

It looks like there are at least two separate issues that all hit in
this area:

 (a) some versions of gcc don't mark the asm goto as 'volatile' when it
     has outputs:

        https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98619
        https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110420

     which is easy to work around by just adding the 'volatile' by hand.

 (b) Internal compiler errors:

        https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110422

     which are worked around by adding the extra empty 'asm' as a
     barrier, as in the original workaround.

but the problem Sean sees may be a third thing since it involves bad
code generation (not an ICE) even with the manually added 'volatile'.

The same old workaround works for this case, even if this feels a
bit like voodoo programming and may only be hiding the issue.

Reported-and-tested-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240208220604.140859-1-seanjc@google.com/
Cc: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jakub Jelinek &lt;jakub@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Pinski &lt;quic_apinski@quicinc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 68fb3ca0e408e00db1c3f8fccdfa19e274c033be upstream.

We've had issues with gcc and 'asm goto' before, and we created a
'asm_volatile_goto()' macro for that in the past: see commits
3f0116c3238a ("compiler/gcc4: Add quirk for 'asm goto' miscompilation
bug") and a9f180345f53 ("compiler/gcc4: Make quirk for
asm_volatile_goto() unconditional").

Then, much later, we ended up removing the workaround in commit
43c249ea0b1e ("compiler-gcc.h: remove ancient workaround for gcc PR
58670") because we no longer supported building the kernel with the
affected gcc versions, but we left the macro uses around.

Now, Sean Christopherson reports a new version of a very similar
problem, which is fixed by re-applying that ancient workaround.  But the
problem in question is limited to only the 'asm goto with outputs'
cases, so instead of re-introducing the old workaround as-is, let's
rename and limit the workaround to just that much less common case.

It looks like there are at least two separate issues that all hit in
this area:

 (a) some versions of gcc don't mark the asm goto as 'volatile' when it
     has outputs:

        https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98619
        https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110420

     which is easy to work around by just adding the 'volatile' by hand.

 (b) Internal compiler errors:

        https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110422

     which are worked around by adding the extra empty 'asm' as a
     barrier, as in the original workaround.

but the problem Sean sees may be a third thing since it involves bad
code generation (not an ICE) even with the manually added 'volatile'.

The same old workaround works for this case, even if this feels a
bit like voodoo programming and may only be hiding the issue.

Reported-and-tested-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240208220604.140859-1-seanjc@google.com/
Cc: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jakub Jelinek &lt;jakub@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Pinski &lt;quic_apinski@quicinc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2022-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2022-10-11T00:53:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-11T00:53:04+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Yu Zhao's Multi-Gen LRU patches are here. They've been under test in
   linux-next for a couple of months without, to my knowledge, any
   negative reports (or any positive ones, come to that).

 - Also the Maple Tree from Liam Howlett. An overlapping range-based
   tree for vmas. It it apparently slightly more efficient in its own
   right, but is mainly targeted at enabling work to reduce mmap_lock
   contention.

   Liam has identified a number of other tree users in the kernel which
   could be beneficially onverted to mapletrees.

   Yu Zhao has identified a hard-to-hit but "easy to fix" lockdep splat
   at [1]. This has yet to be addressed due to Liam's unfortunately
   timed vacation. He is now back and we'll get this fixed up.

 - Dmitry Vyukov introduces KMSAN: the Kernel Memory Sanitizer. It uses
   clang-generated instrumentation to detect used-unintialized bugs down
   to the single bit level.

   KMSAN keeps finding bugs. New ones, as well as the legacy ones.

 - Yang Shi adds a userspace mechanism (madvise) to induce a collapse of
   memory into THPs.

 - Zach O'Keefe has expanded Yang Shi's madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) to
   support file/shmem-backed pages.

 - userfaultfd updates from Axel Rasmussen

 - zsmalloc cleanups from Alexey Romanov

 - cleanups from Miaohe Lin: vmscan, hugetlb_cgroup, hugetlb and
   memory-failure

 - Huang Ying adds enhancements to NUMA balancing memory tiering mode's
   page promotion, with a new way of detecting hot pages.

 - memcg updates from Shakeel Butt: charging optimizations and reduced
   memory consumption.

 - memcg cleanups from Kairui Song.

 - memcg fixes and cleanups from Johannes Weiner.

 - Vishal Moola provides more folio conversions

 - Zhang Yi removed ll_rw_block() :(

 - migration enhancements from Peter Xu

 - migration error-path bugfixes from Huang Ying

 - Aneesh Kumar added ability for a device driver to alter the memory
   tiering promotion paths. For optimizations by PMEM drivers, DRM
   drivers, etc.

 - vma merging improvements from Jakub Matěn.

 - NUMA hinting cleanups from David Hildenbrand.

 - xu xin added aditional userspace visibility into KSM merging
   activity.

 - THP &amp; KSM code consolidation from Qi Zheng.

 - more folio work from Matthew Wilcox.

 - KASAN updates from Andrey Konovalov.

 - DAMON cleanups from Kaixu Xia.

 - DAMON work from SeongJae Park: fixes, cleanups.

 - hugetlb sysfs cleanups from Muchun Song.

 - Mike Kravetz fixes locking issues in hugetlbfs and in hugetlb core.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAOUHufZabH85CeUN-MEMgL8gJGzJEWUrkiM58JkTbBhh-jew0Q@mail.gmail.com [1]

* tag 'mm-stable-2022-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (555 commits)
  hugetlb: allocate vma lock for all sharable vmas
  hugetlb: take hugetlb vma_lock when clearing vma_lock-&gt;vma pointer
  hugetlb: fix vma lock handling during split vma and range unmapping
  mglru: mm/vmscan.c: fix imprecise comments
  mm/mglru: don't sync disk for each aging cycle
  mm: memcontrol: drop dead CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP config symbol
  mm: memcontrol: use do_memsw_account() in a few more places
  mm: memcontrol: deprecate swapaccounting=0 mode
  mm: memcontrol: don't allocate cgroup swap arrays when memcg is disabled
  mm/secretmem: remove reduntant return value
  mm/hugetlb: add available_huge_pages() func
  mm: remove unused inline functions from include/linux/mm_inline.h
  selftests/vm: add selftest for MADV_COLLAPSE of uffd-minor memory
  selftests/vm: add file/shmem MADV_COLLAPSE selftest for cleared pmd
  selftests/vm: add thp collapse shmem testing
  selftests/vm: add thp collapse file and tmpfs testing
  selftests/vm: modularize thp collapse memory operations
  selftests/vm: dedup THP helpers
  mm/khugepaged: add tracepoint to hpage_collapse_scan_file()
  mm/madvise: add file and shmem support to MADV_COLLAPSE
  ...
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Yu Zhao's Multi-Gen LRU patches are here. They've been under test in
   linux-next for a couple of months without, to my knowledge, any
   negative reports (or any positive ones, come to that).

 - Also the Maple Tree from Liam Howlett. An overlapping range-based
   tree for vmas. It it apparently slightly more efficient in its own
   right, but is mainly targeted at enabling work to reduce mmap_lock
   contention.

   Liam has identified a number of other tree users in the kernel which
   could be beneficially onverted to mapletrees.

   Yu Zhao has identified a hard-to-hit but "easy to fix" lockdep splat
   at [1]. This has yet to be addressed due to Liam's unfortunately
   timed vacation. He is now back and we'll get this fixed up.

 - Dmitry Vyukov introduces KMSAN: the Kernel Memory Sanitizer. It uses
   clang-generated instrumentation to detect used-unintialized bugs down
   to the single bit level.

   KMSAN keeps finding bugs. New ones, as well as the legacy ones.

 - Yang Shi adds a userspace mechanism (madvise) to induce a collapse of
   memory into THPs.

 - Zach O'Keefe has expanded Yang Shi's madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) to
   support file/shmem-backed pages.

 - userfaultfd updates from Axel Rasmussen

 - zsmalloc cleanups from Alexey Romanov

 - cleanups from Miaohe Lin: vmscan, hugetlb_cgroup, hugetlb and
   memory-failure

 - Huang Ying adds enhancements to NUMA balancing memory tiering mode's
   page promotion, with a new way of detecting hot pages.

 - memcg updates from Shakeel Butt: charging optimizations and reduced
   memory consumption.

 - memcg cleanups from Kairui Song.

 - memcg fixes and cleanups from Johannes Weiner.

 - Vishal Moola provides more folio conversions

 - Zhang Yi removed ll_rw_block() :(

 - migration enhancements from Peter Xu

 - migration error-path bugfixes from Huang Ying

 - Aneesh Kumar added ability for a device driver to alter the memory
   tiering promotion paths. For optimizations by PMEM drivers, DRM
   drivers, etc.

 - vma merging improvements from Jakub Matěn.

 - NUMA hinting cleanups from David Hildenbrand.

 - xu xin added aditional userspace visibility into KSM merging
   activity.

 - THP &amp; KSM code consolidation from Qi Zheng.

 - more folio work from Matthew Wilcox.

 - KASAN updates from Andrey Konovalov.

 - DAMON cleanups from Kaixu Xia.

 - DAMON work from SeongJae Park: fixes, cleanups.

 - hugetlb sysfs cleanups from Muchun Song.

 - Mike Kravetz fixes locking issues in hugetlbfs and in hugetlb core.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAOUHufZabH85CeUN-MEMgL8gJGzJEWUrkiM58JkTbBhh-jew0Q@mail.gmail.com [1]

* tag 'mm-stable-2022-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (555 commits)
  hugetlb: allocate vma lock for all sharable vmas
  hugetlb: take hugetlb vma_lock when clearing vma_lock-&gt;vma pointer
  hugetlb: fix vma lock handling during split vma and range unmapping
  mglru: mm/vmscan.c: fix imprecise comments
  mm/mglru: don't sync disk for each aging cycle
  mm: memcontrol: drop dead CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP config symbol
  mm: memcontrol: use do_memsw_account() in a few more places
  mm: memcontrol: deprecate swapaccounting=0 mode
  mm: memcontrol: don't allocate cgroup swap arrays when memcg is disabled
  mm/secretmem: remove reduntant return value
  mm/hugetlb: add available_huge_pages() func
  mm: remove unused inline functions from include/linux/mm_inline.h
  selftests/vm: add selftest for MADV_COLLAPSE of uffd-minor memory
  selftests/vm: add file/shmem MADV_COLLAPSE selftest for cleared pmd
  selftests/vm: add thp collapse shmem testing
  selftests/vm: add thp collapse file and tmpfs testing
  selftests/vm: modularize thp collapse memory operations
  selftests/vm: dedup THP helpers
  mm/khugepaged: add tracepoint to hpage_collapse_scan_file()
  mm/madvise: add file and shmem support to MADV_COLLAPSE
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'slab-for-6.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab</title>
<updated>2022-10-10T17:21:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-10T17:21:22+00:00</published>
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Pull slab fixes from Vlastimil Babka:

 - The "common kmalloc v4" series [1] by Hyeonggon Yoo.

   While the plan after LPC is to try again if it's possible to get rid
   of SLOB and SLAB (and if any critical aspect of those is not possible
   to achieve with SLUB today, modify it accordingly), it will take a
   while even in case there are no objections.

   Meanwhile this is a nice cleanup and some parts (e.g. to the
   tracepoints) will be useful even if we end up with a single slab
   implementation in the future:

      - Improves the mm/slab_common.c wrappers to allow deleting
        duplicated code between SLAB and SLUB.

      - Large kmalloc() allocations in SLAB are passed to page allocator
        like in SLUB, reducing number of kmalloc caches.

      - Removes the {kmem_cache_alloc,kmalloc}_node variants of
        tracepoints, node id parameter added to non-_node variants.

 - Addition of kmalloc_size_roundup()

   The first two patches from a series by Kees Cook [2] that introduce
   kmalloc_size_roundup(). This will allow merging of per-subsystem
   patches using the new function and ultimately stop (ab)using ksize()
   in a way that causes ongoing trouble for debugging functionality and
   static checkers.

 - Wasted kmalloc() memory tracking in debugfs alloc_traces

   A patch from Feng Tang that enhances the existing debugfs
   alloc_traces file for kmalloc caches with information about how much
   space is wasted by allocations that needs less space than the
   particular kmalloc cache provides.

 - My series [3] to fix validation races for caches with enabled
   debugging:

      - By decoupling the debug cache operation more from non-debug
        fastpaths, extra locking simplifications were possible and thus
        done afterwards.

      - Additional cleanup of PREEMPT_RT specific code on top, by Thomas
        Gleixner.

      - A late fix for slab page leaks caused by the series, by Feng
        Tang.

 - Smaller fixes and cleanups:

      - Unneeded variable removals, by ye xingchen

      - A cleanup removing a BUG_ON() in create_unique_id(), by Chao Yu

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220817101826.236819-1-42.hyeyoo@gmail.com/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220923202822.2667581-1-keescook@chromium.org/ [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220823170400.26546-1-vbabka@suse.cz/ [3]

* tag 'slab-for-6.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab: (30 commits)
  mm/slub: fix a slab missed to be freed problem
  slab: Introduce kmalloc_size_roundup()
  slab: Remove __malloc attribute from realloc functions
  mm/slub: clean up create_unique_id()
  mm/slub: enable debugging memory wasting of kmalloc
  slub: Make PREEMPT_RT support less convoluted
  mm/slub: simplify __cmpxchg_double_slab() and slab_[un]lock()
  mm/slub: convert object_map_lock to non-raw spinlock
  mm/slub: remove slab_lock() usage for debug operations
  mm/slub: restrict sysfs validation to debug caches and make it safe
  mm/sl[au]b: check if large object is valid in __ksize()
  mm/slab_common: move declaration of __ksize() to mm/slab.h
  mm/slab_common: drop kmem_alloc &amp; avoid dereferencing fields when not using
  mm/slab_common: unify NUMA and UMA version of tracepoints
  mm/sl[au]b: cleanup kmem_cache_alloc[_node]_trace()
  mm/sl[au]b: generalize kmalloc subsystem
  mm/slub: move free_debug_processing() further
  mm/sl[au]b: introduce common alloc/free functions without tracepoint
  mm/slab: kmalloc: pass requests larger than order-1 page to page allocator
  mm/slab_common: cleanup kmalloc_large()
  ...
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Pull slab fixes from Vlastimil Babka:

 - The "common kmalloc v4" series [1] by Hyeonggon Yoo.

   While the plan after LPC is to try again if it's possible to get rid
   of SLOB and SLAB (and if any critical aspect of those is not possible
   to achieve with SLUB today, modify it accordingly), it will take a
   while even in case there are no objections.

   Meanwhile this is a nice cleanup and some parts (e.g. to the
   tracepoints) will be useful even if we end up with a single slab
   implementation in the future:

      - Improves the mm/slab_common.c wrappers to allow deleting
        duplicated code between SLAB and SLUB.

      - Large kmalloc() allocations in SLAB are passed to page allocator
        like in SLUB, reducing number of kmalloc caches.

      - Removes the {kmem_cache_alloc,kmalloc}_node variants of
        tracepoints, node id parameter added to non-_node variants.

 - Addition of kmalloc_size_roundup()

   The first two patches from a series by Kees Cook [2] that introduce
   kmalloc_size_roundup(). This will allow merging of per-subsystem
   patches using the new function and ultimately stop (ab)using ksize()
   in a way that causes ongoing trouble for debugging functionality and
   static checkers.

 - Wasted kmalloc() memory tracking in debugfs alloc_traces

   A patch from Feng Tang that enhances the existing debugfs
   alloc_traces file for kmalloc caches with information about how much
   space is wasted by allocations that needs less space than the
   particular kmalloc cache provides.

 - My series [3] to fix validation races for caches with enabled
   debugging:

      - By decoupling the debug cache operation more from non-debug
        fastpaths, extra locking simplifications were possible and thus
        done afterwards.

      - Additional cleanup of PREEMPT_RT specific code on top, by Thomas
        Gleixner.

      - A late fix for slab page leaks caused by the series, by Feng
        Tang.

 - Smaller fixes and cleanups:

      - Unneeded variable removals, by ye xingchen

      - A cleanup removing a BUG_ON() in create_unique_id(), by Chao Yu

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220817101826.236819-1-42.hyeyoo@gmail.com/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220923202822.2667581-1-keescook@chromium.org/ [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220823170400.26546-1-vbabka@suse.cz/ [3]

* tag 'slab-for-6.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab: (30 commits)
  mm/slub: fix a slab missed to be freed problem
  slab: Introduce kmalloc_size_roundup()
  slab: Remove __malloc attribute from realloc functions
  mm/slub: clean up create_unique_id()
  mm/slub: enable debugging memory wasting of kmalloc
  slub: Make PREEMPT_RT support less convoluted
  mm/slub: simplify __cmpxchg_double_slab() and slab_[un]lock()
  mm/slub: convert object_map_lock to non-raw spinlock
  mm/slub: remove slab_lock() usage for debug operations
  mm/slub: restrict sysfs validation to debug caches and make it safe
  mm/sl[au]b: check if large object is valid in __ksize()
  mm/slab_common: move declaration of __ksize() to mm/slab.h
  mm/slab_common: drop kmem_alloc &amp; avoid dereferencing fields when not using
  mm/slab_common: unify NUMA and UMA version of tracepoints
  mm/sl[au]b: cleanup kmem_cache_alloc[_node]_trace()
  mm/sl[au]b: generalize kmalloc subsystem
  mm/slub: move free_debug_processing() further
  mm/sl[au]b: introduce common alloc/free functions without tracepoint
  mm/slab: kmalloc: pass requests larger than order-1 page to page allocator
  mm/slab_common: cleanup kmalloc_large()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kcfi-v6.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2022-10-04T00:11:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-04T00:11:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=865dad2022c52ac6c5c9a87c5cec78a69f633fb6'/>
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Pull kcfi updates from Kees Cook:
 "This replaces the prior support for Clang's standard Control Flow
  Integrity (CFI) instrumentation, which has required a lot of special
  conditions (e.g. LTO) and work-arounds.

  The new implementation ("Kernel CFI") is specific to C, directly
  designed for the Linux kernel, and takes advantage of architectural
  features like x86's IBT. This series retains arm64 support and adds
  x86 support.

  GCC support is expected in the future[1], and additional "generic"
  architectural support is expected soon[2].

  Summary:

   - treewide: Remove old CFI support details

   - arm64: Replace Clang CFI support with Clang KCFI support

   - x86: Introduce Clang KCFI support"

Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107048 [1]
Link: https://github.com/samitolvanen/llvm-project/commits/kcfi_generic [2]

* tag 'kcfi-v6.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (22 commits)
  x86: Add support for CONFIG_CFI_CLANG
  x86/purgatory: Disable CFI
  x86: Add types to indirectly called assembly functions
  x86/tools/relocs: Ignore __kcfi_typeid_ relocations
  kallsyms: Drop CONFIG_CFI_CLANG workarounds
  objtool: Disable CFI warnings
  objtool: Preserve special st_shndx indexes in elf_update_symbol
  treewide: Drop __cficanonical
  treewide: Drop WARN_ON_FUNCTION_MISMATCH
  treewide: Drop function_nocfi
  init: Drop __nocfi from __init
  arm64: Drop unneeded __nocfi attributes
  arm64: Add CFI error handling
  arm64: Add types to indirect called assembly functions
  psci: Fix the function type for psci_initcall_t
  lkdtm: Emit an indirect call for CFI tests
  cfi: Add type helper macros
  cfi: Switch to -fsanitize=kcfi
  cfi: Drop __CFI_ADDRESSABLE
  cfi: Remove CONFIG_CFI_CLANG_SHADOW
  ...
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Pull kcfi updates from Kees Cook:
 "This replaces the prior support for Clang's standard Control Flow
  Integrity (CFI) instrumentation, which has required a lot of special
  conditions (e.g. LTO) and work-arounds.

  The new implementation ("Kernel CFI") is specific to C, directly
  designed for the Linux kernel, and takes advantage of architectural
  features like x86's IBT. This series retains arm64 support and adds
  x86 support.

  GCC support is expected in the future[1], and additional "generic"
  architectural support is expected soon[2].

  Summary:

   - treewide: Remove old CFI support details

   - arm64: Replace Clang CFI support with Clang KCFI support

   - x86: Introduce Clang KCFI support"

Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107048 [1]
Link: https://github.com/samitolvanen/llvm-project/commits/kcfi_generic [2]

* tag 'kcfi-v6.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (22 commits)
  x86: Add support for CONFIG_CFI_CLANG
  x86/purgatory: Disable CFI
  x86: Add types to indirectly called assembly functions
  x86/tools/relocs: Ignore __kcfi_typeid_ relocations
  kallsyms: Drop CONFIG_CFI_CLANG workarounds
  objtool: Disable CFI warnings
  objtool: Preserve special st_shndx indexes in elf_update_symbol
  treewide: Drop __cficanonical
  treewide: Drop WARN_ON_FUNCTION_MISMATCH
  treewide: Drop function_nocfi
  init: Drop __nocfi from __init
  arm64: Drop unneeded __nocfi attributes
  arm64: Add CFI error handling
  arm64: Add types to indirect called assembly functions
  psci: Fix the function type for psci_initcall_t
  lkdtm: Emit an indirect call for CFI tests
  cfi: Add type helper macros
  cfi: Switch to -fsanitize=kcfi
  cfi: Drop __CFI_ADDRESSABLE
  cfi: Remove CONFIG_CFI_CLANG_SHADOW
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kmsan: mark noinstr as __no_sanitize_memory</title>
<updated>2022-10-03T21:03:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Potapenko</name>
<email>glider@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-15T15:03:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=5de0ce85f5a4d2883eae6f48eb015bc5dfbd91e9'/>
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noinstr functions should never be instrumented, so make KMSAN skip them by
applying the __no_sanitize_memory attribute.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220915150417.722975-9-glider@google.com
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: Ilya Leoshkevich &lt;iii@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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noinstr functions should never be instrumented, so make KMSAN skip them by
applying the __no_sanitize_memory attribute.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220915150417.722975-9-glider@google.com
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;andreyknvl@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: Ilya Leoshkevich &lt;iii@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegard.nossum@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>slab: Remove __malloc attribute from realloc functions</title>
<updated>2022-09-29T09:05:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-23T20:28:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9ed9cac1850a2a55674b4a17100c50b46f645921'/>
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The __malloc attribute should not be applied to "realloc" functions, as
the returned pointer may alias the storage of the prior pointer. Instead
of splitting __malloc from __alloc_size, which would be a huge amount of
churn, just create __realloc_size for the few cases where it is needed.

Thanks to Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt; for reporting build
failures with gcc-8 in earlier version which tried to remove the #ifdef.
While the "alloc_size" attribute is available on all GCC versions, I
forgot that it gets disabled explicitly by the kernel in GCC &lt; 9.1 due
to misbehaviors. Add a note to the compiler_attributes.h entry for it.

Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo &lt;42.hyeyoo@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
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The __malloc attribute should not be applied to "realloc" functions, as
the returned pointer may alias the storage of the prior pointer. Instead
of splitting __malloc from __alloc_size, which would be a huge amount of
churn, just create __realloc_size for the few cases where it is needed.

Thanks to Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt; for reporting build
failures with gcc-8 in earlier version which tried to remove the #ifdef.
While the "alloc_size" attribute is available on all GCC versions, I
forgot that it gets disabled explicitly by the kernel in GCC &lt; 9.1 due
to misbehaviors. Add a note to the compiler_attributes.h entry for it.

Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo &lt;42.hyeyoo@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
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