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<title>keys: Pin request_key_auth payload in instantiate paths</title>
<updated>2026-07-04T11:43:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shaomin Chen</name>
<email>eeesssooo020@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-10T10:10:05+00:00</published>
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commit fd15b457a86939c38aa12116adabd8ff686c5e51 upstream.

A: request_key()       B: KEYCTL_INSTANTIATE_IOV
================       =========================

create auth key
store rka in auth key
wait for helper
                       get auth key
                       load rka from auth key
                       copy user payload
                       sleep on #PF

helper completed
detach and free rka
destroy auth key
                       wake up
                       use rka-&gt;target_key
                       **USE-AFTER-FREE**

Give request_key_auth payloads a refcount.  Take a payload reference while
authkey-&gt;sem stabilizes the payload and revocation state.  Hold that
reference across the instantiate and reject paths.  Drop the auth key
owning reference from revoke and destroy.

[jarkko: Replaced the first two paragraphs of text with an actual
 concurrency scenario.]
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.10+
Fixes: b5f545c880a2 ("[PATCH] keys: Permit running process to instantiate keys")
Reported-by: Shaomin Chen &lt;eeesssooo020@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260519144403.436694-1-eeesssooo020@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Shaomin Chen &lt;eeesssooo020@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit fd15b457a86939c38aa12116adabd8ff686c5e51 upstream.

A: request_key()       B: KEYCTL_INSTANTIATE_IOV
================       =========================

create auth key
store rka in auth key
wait for helper
                       get auth key
                       load rka from auth key
                       copy user payload
                       sleep on #PF

helper completed
detach and free rka
destroy auth key
                       wake up
                       use rka-&gt;target_key
                       **USE-AFTER-FREE**

Give request_key_auth payloads a refcount.  Take a payload reference while
authkey-&gt;sem stabilizes the payload and revocation state.  Hold that
reference across the instantiate and reject paths.  Drop the auth key
owning reference from revoke and destroy.

[jarkko: Replaced the first two paragraphs of text with an actual
 concurrency scenario.]
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.10+
Fixes: b5f545c880a2 ("[PATCH] keys: Permit running process to instantiate keys")
Reported-by: Shaomin Chen &lt;eeesssooo020@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260519144403.436694-1-eeesssooo020@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Shaomin Chen &lt;eeesssooo020@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>err.h: use __always_inline on all error pointer helpers</title>
<updated>2026-07-04T11:43:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-26T10:18:41+00:00</published>
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commit 94bfc7f3b0c7c33331ba4ff6cc64ff309dfcbce8 upstream.

While testing randconfig builds on s390, I came across a link failure with
CONFIG_DMA_SHARED_BUFFER disabled:

ERROR: modpost: "dma_buf_put" [drivers/iommu/iommufd/iommufd.ko] undefined!

The problem here is that IS_ERR() is not inlined and dead code elimination
fails as a consequence.

The err.h helpers all turn into a trivial assignment of a bit mask and
should never result in a function call, so force them to always be inline.
This should generally result in better object code aside from avoiding
the link failure above.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260526101851.2495110-1-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Lobakin &lt;aleksander.lobakin@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Tamir Duberstein &lt;tamird@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andriy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ansuel Smith &lt;ansuelsmth@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Andersson &lt;andersson@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.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 94bfc7f3b0c7c33331ba4ff6cc64ff309dfcbce8 upstream.

While testing randconfig builds on s390, I came across a link failure with
CONFIG_DMA_SHARED_BUFFER disabled:

ERROR: modpost: "dma_buf_put" [drivers/iommu/iommufd/iommufd.ko] undefined!

The problem here is that IS_ERR() is not inlined and dead code elimination
fails as a consequence.

The err.h helpers all turn into a trivial assignment of a bit mask and
should never result in a function call, so force them to always be inline.
This should generally result in better object code aside from avoiding
the link failure above.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260526101851.2495110-1-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alexander Lobakin &lt;aleksander.lobakin@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Tamir Duberstein &lt;tamird@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Andriy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ansuel Smith &lt;ansuelsmth@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Andersson &lt;andersson@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.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>
<title>block: invalidate cached plug timestamp after task switch</title>
<updated>2026-07-04T11:43:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Usama Arif</name>
<email>usama.arif@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-16T14:15:18+00:00</published>
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commit fad156c2af227f42ca796cbb20ddc354a6dd9932 upstream.

blk_time_get_ns() caches ktime_get_ns() in current-&gt;plug-&gt;cur_ktime
and marks the task with PF_BLOCK_TS. That cache is only valid while the
task keeps running; if the task is switched out, wall-clock time
advances and the cached value must not be reused when the task runs again.

The existing invalidation covers explicit plug flushes through
__blk_flush_plug(), and the schedule() / rtmutex paths through
sched_update_worker(). It does not cover in-kernel preemption paths such
as preempt_schedule(), preempt_schedule_notrace(), and
preempt_schedule_irq(), which enter __schedule(SM_PREEMPT) directly and
return without calling sched_update_worker().

As a result, a task preempted while holding a plug with PF_BLOCK_TS set
can reuse a stale plug-&gt;cur_ktime after it is scheduled back in. blk-iocost
then consumes that stale timestamp through ioc_now(), producing stale vnow
values for throttle decisions, and through ioc_rqos_done(), inflating
on-queue time and feeding false missed-QoS samples into vrate
adjustment.

Move the schedule-side invalidation to finish_task_switch(), which runs
for the scheduled-in task after every actual context switch regardless
of which schedule entry point was used. Keep __blk_flush_plug() as the
explicit flush/finish-plug invalidation path, and remove only the
PF_BLOCK_TS handling from sched_update_worker().

Fixes: 06b23f92af87 ("block: update cached timestamp post schedule/preemption")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif &lt;usama.arif@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260616141604.328820-3-usama.arif@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit fad156c2af227f42ca796cbb20ddc354a6dd9932 upstream.

blk_time_get_ns() caches ktime_get_ns() in current-&gt;plug-&gt;cur_ktime
and marks the task with PF_BLOCK_TS. That cache is only valid while the
task keeps running; if the task is switched out, wall-clock time
advances and the cached value must not be reused when the task runs again.

The existing invalidation covers explicit plug flushes through
__blk_flush_plug(), and the schedule() / rtmutex paths through
sched_update_worker(). It does not cover in-kernel preemption paths such
as preempt_schedule(), preempt_schedule_notrace(), and
preempt_schedule_irq(), which enter __schedule(SM_PREEMPT) directly and
return without calling sched_update_worker().

As a result, a task preempted while holding a plug with PF_BLOCK_TS set
can reuse a stale plug-&gt;cur_ktime after it is scheduled back in. blk-iocost
then consumes that stale timestamp through ioc_now(), producing stale vnow
values for throttle decisions, and through ioc_rqos_done(), inflating
on-queue time and feeding false missed-QoS samples into vrate
adjustment.

Move the schedule-side invalidation to finish_task_switch(), which runs
for the scheduled-in task after every actual context switch regardless
of which schedule entry point was used. Keep __blk_flush_plug() as the
explicit flush/finish-plug invalidation path, and remove only the
PF_BLOCK_TS handling from sched_update_worker().

Fixes: 06b23f92af87 ("block: update cached timestamp post schedule/preemption")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif &lt;usama.arif@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260616141604.328820-3-usama.arif@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: ip_gre: require CAP_NET_ADMIN in the device netns for changelink</title>
<updated>2026-07-04T11:43:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maoyi Xie</name>
<email>maoyixie.tju@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-12T08:59:35+00:00</published>
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commit 8165f7ff57d9667d2bb477ef6af83ede7fed4ad7 upstream.

A tunnel changelink() operates on at most two netns, dev_net(dev) and
the tunnel link netns t-&gt;net. They differ once the device is created in
or moved to a netns other than the one the request runs in. The rtnl
changelink path checks CAP_NET_ADMIN only against dev_net(dev), so a
caller privileged there but not in t-&gt;net can rewrite a tunnel that
lives in t-&gt;net.

Add rtnl_dev_link_net_capable() next to rtnl_get_net_ns_capable() in
net/core/rtnetlink.c. It requires CAP_NET_ADMIN in the link netns and is
skipped when the link netns is dev_net(dev), where the rtnl path already
checked it. The other patches in this series use the same helper.

Gate ipgre_changelink() and erspan_changelink() with it, at the top of
the op before any attribute is parsed, because the parsers update live
tunnel fields first. ipgre_netlink_parms() sets t-&gt;collect_md before
ip_tunnel_changelink() runs.

Commit 8b484efd5cb4 ("ip6: vti: Use ip6_tnl.net in
vti6_siocdevprivate().") added the same check on the ioctl path. This
adds it on RTM_NEWLINK.

Reported-by: Xiao Liang &lt;shaw.leon@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CABAhCOSzP1vaThGV35_VnsRCb=87_CPjPVsTHbq905k8A+BuUg@mail.gmail.com/
Fixes: b57708add314 ("gre: add x-netns support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Maoyi Xie &lt;maoyixie.tju@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260612085941.3158249-2-maoyixie.tju@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 8165f7ff57d9667d2bb477ef6af83ede7fed4ad7 upstream.

A tunnel changelink() operates on at most two netns, dev_net(dev) and
the tunnel link netns t-&gt;net. They differ once the device is created in
or moved to a netns other than the one the request runs in. The rtnl
changelink path checks CAP_NET_ADMIN only against dev_net(dev), so a
caller privileged there but not in t-&gt;net can rewrite a tunnel that
lives in t-&gt;net.

Add rtnl_dev_link_net_capable() next to rtnl_get_net_ns_capable() in
net/core/rtnetlink.c. It requires CAP_NET_ADMIN in the link netns and is
skipped when the link netns is dev_net(dev), where the rtnl path already
checked it. The other patches in this series use the same helper.

Gate ipgre_changelink() and erspan_changelink() with it, at the top of
the op before any attribute is parsed, because the parsers update live
tunnel fields first. ipgre_netlink_parms() sets t-&gt;collect_md before
ip_tunnel_changelink() runs.

Commit 8b484efd5cb4 ("ip6: vti: Use ip6_tnl.net in
vti6_siocdevprivate().") added the same check on the ioctl path. This
adds it on RTM_NEWLINK.

Reported-by: Xiao Liang &lt;shaw.leon@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CABAhCOSzP1vaThGV35_VnsRCb=87_CPjPVsTHbq905k8A+BuUg@mail.gmail.com/
Fixes: b57708add314 ("gre: add x-netns support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Maoyi Xie &lt;maoyixie.tju@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260612085941.3158249-2-maoyixie.tju@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: skmsg: preserve sg.copy across SG transforms</title>
<updated>2026-07-04T11:43:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yiming Qian</name>
<email>yimingqian591@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-10T06:21:36+00:00</published>
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commit 406e8a651a7b854c41fecd5117bb282b3a6c2c6b upstream.

The sk_msg sg.copy bitmap is part of the scatterlist entry ownership
state. A set bit tells sk_msg_compute_data_pointers() not to expose the
entry through writable BPF ctx-&gt;data. This protects entries backed by
pages that are not private to the sk_msg, such as splice-backed file
page-cache pages.

Several sk_msg transform paths move, copy, split, or compact
msg-&gt;sg.data[] entries without moving the matching sg.copy bit. This can
make an externally backed entry arrive at a new slot with a clear copy
bit. A later SK_MSG verdict can then expose sg_virt(sge) as writable
ctx-&gt;data and BPF stores can modify the original page cache.

Keep sg.copy synchronized with sg.data[] whenever entries are
transferred, shifted, split, or copied into a new sk_msg. Clear the bit
when an entry is replaced by a newly allocated private page or freed.
This covers the BPF pull/push/pop helpers, sk_msg_shift_left/right(),
sk_msg_xfer(), and tls_split_open_record(), including the partial tail
entry created during TLS open-record splitting.

Fixes: d3b18ad31f93 ("tls: add bpf support to sk_msg handling")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Yiming Qian &lt;yimingqian591@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Keenan Dong &lt;keenanat2000@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yiming Qian &lt;yimingqian591@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260610062137.49075-1-yimingqian591@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 406e8a651a7b854c41fecd5117bb282b3a6c2c6b upstream.

The sk_msg sg.copy bitmap is part of the scatterlist entry ownership
state. A set bit tells sk_msg_compute_data_pointers() not to expose the
entry through writable BPF ctx-&gt;data. This protects entries backed by
pages that are not private to the sk_msg, such as splice-backed file
page-cache pages.

Several sk_msg transform paths move, copy, split, or compact
msg-&gt;sg.data[] entries without moving the matching sg.copy bit. This can
make an externally backed entry arrive at a new slot with a clear copy
bit. A later SK_MSG verdict can then expose sg_virt(sge) as writable
ctx-&gt;data and BPF stores can modify the original page cache.

Keep sg.copy synchronized with sg.data[] whenever entries are
transferred, shifted, split, or copied into a new sk_msg. Clear the bit
when an entry is replaced by a newly allocated private page or freed.
This covers the BPF pull/push/pop helpers, sk_msg_shift_left/right(),
sk_msg_xfer(), and tls_split_open_record(), including the partial tail
entry created during TLS open-record splitting.

Fixes: d3b18ad31f93 ("tls: add bpf support to sk_msg handling")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Yiming Qian &lt;yimingqian591@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Keenan Dong &lt;keenanat2000@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yiming Qian &lt;yimingqian591@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260610062137.49075-1-yimingqian591@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>lsm: add backing_file LSM hooks</title>
<updated>2026-07-04T11:43:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Moore</name>
<email>paul@paul-moore.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-29T07:03:37+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 6af36aeb147a06dea47c49859cd6ca5659aeb987 ]

Stacked filesystems such as overlayfs do not currently provide the
necessary mechanisms for LSMs to properly enforce access controls on the
mmap() and mprotect() operations.  In order to resolve this gap, a LSM
security blob is being added to the backing_file struct and the following
new LSM hooks are being created:

 security_backing_file_alloc()
 security_backing_file_free()
 security_mmap_backing_file()

The first two hooks are to manage the lifecycle of the LSM security blob
in the backing_file struct, while the third provides a new mmap() access
control point for the underlying backing file.  It is also expected that
LSMs will likely want to update their security_file_mprotect() callback
to address issues with their mprotect() controls, but that does not
require a change to the security_file_mprotect() LSM hook.

There are a three other small changes to support these new LSM hooks:
* Pass the user file associated with a backing file down to
alloc_empty_backing_file() so it can be included in the
security_backing_file_alloc() hook.
* Add getter and setter functions for the backing_file struct LSM blob
as the backing_file struct remains private to fs/file_table.c.
* Constify the file struct field in the LSM common_audit_data struct to
better support LSMs that need to pass a const file struct pointer into
the common LSM audit code.

Thanks to Arnd Bergmann for identifying the missing EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()
and supplying a fixup.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
[ Mainline declares lsm_backing_file_cache in security/lsm.h.  Linux 6.12.y
does not have security/lsm_init.c or security/lsm.h; the cache variable
is defined locally as static struct kmem_cache *lsm_backing_file_cache in
security/security.c. ]
Signed-off-by: Cai Xinchen &lt;caixinchen1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 6af36aeb147a06dea47c49859cd6ca5659aeb987 ]

Stacked filesystems such as overlayfs do not currently provide the
necessary mechanisms for LSMs to properly enforce access controls on the
mmap() and mprotect() operations.  In order to resolve this gap, a LSM
security blob is being added to the backing_file struct and the following
new LSM hooks are being created:

 security_backing_file_alloc()
 security_backing_file_free()
 security_mmap_backing_file()

The first two hooks are to manage the lifecycle of the LSM security blob
in the backing_file struct, while the third provides a new mmap() access
control point for the underlying backing file.  It is also expected that
LSMs will likely want to update their security_file_mprotect() callback
to address issues with their mprotect() controls, but that does not
require a change to the security_file_mprotect() LSM hook.

There are a three other small changes to support these new LSM hooks:
* Pass the user file associated with a backing file down to
alloc_empty_backing_file() so it can be included in the
security_backing_file_alloc() hook.
* Add getter and setter functions for the backing_file struct LSM blob
as the backing_file struct remains private to fs/file_table.c.
* Constify the file struct field in the LSM common_audit_data struct to
better support LSMs that need to pass a const file struct pointer into
the common LSM audit code.

Thanks to Arnd Bergmann for identifying the missing EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()
and supplying a fixup.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
[ Mainline declares lsm_backing_file_cache in security/lsm.h.  Linux 6.12.y
does not have security/lsm_init.c or security/lsm.h; the cache variable
is defined locally as static struct kmem_cache *lsm_backing_file_cache in
security/security.c. ]
Signed-off-by: Cai Xinchen &lt;caixinchen1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: constify file ptr in backing_file accessor helpers</title>
<updated>2026-07-04T11:43:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Amir Goldstein</name>
<email>amir73il@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-29T07:03:36+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 4e301d858af17ae2ce56886296e5458c5a08219a ]

Add internal helper backing_file_set_user_path() for the only
two cases that need to modify backing_file fields.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250607115304.2521155-2-amir73il@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cai Xinchen &lt;caixinchen1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 4e301d858af17ae2ce56886296e5458c5a08219a ]

Add internal helper backing_file_set_user_path() for the only
two cases that need to modify backing_file fields.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250607115304.2521155-2-amir73il@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Cai Xinchen &lt;caixinchen1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: x86/mmu: Ensure hugepage is in by slot before checking max mapping level</title>
<updated>2026-07-04T11:43:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>seanjc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-26T11:24:05+00:00</published>
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commit ef057cbf825e03b63f6edf5980f96abf3c53089d upstream.

When recovering hugepages in the shadow MMU, verify that the base gfn of
the shadow page is actually contained within the target memslot, *before*
querying the max mapping level given the shadow page's gfn.  Failure to
pre-check the validity of the gfn can lead to an out-of-bounds access to
the slot's lpage_info (which typically manifests as a host #PF because the
lpage_info is vmalloc'd) if the guest creates a hugepage mapping (in its
PTEs) that extends "below" the bounds of a memslot.

When faulting in memory for a guest, and the size of the guest mapping is
greater than KVM's (current) max mapping, then KVM will create a "direct"
shadow page (direct in that there are no gPTEs to shadow, and so the target
gfn is a direct calculation given the base gfn of the shadow page).  The
hugepage recovery flow looks for such direct shadow pages, as forcing 4KiB
mappings when dirty logging generates the guest &gt; host mapping size case.
When the 4KiB restriction is lifted, then KVM can replace the shadow page
with a hugepage.

But if KVM originally used a smaller mapping than the guest because the
range of memory covered by the guest hugepage exceeds the bounds of a
memslot, then KVM will link a direct shadow page with a gfn that is outside
the bounds of the memslot being used to fault in memory.  The rmap entry
added for the leaf mapping is correct and within bounds, but the gfn of the
leaf SPTE's parent shadow page will be out of bounds.

  BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffc90000806ffc
  #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
  #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
  PGD 100000067 P4D 100000067 PUD 1002a7067 PMD 10612f067 PTE 0
  Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
  CPU: 13 UID: 1000 PID: 757 Comm: mmu_stress_test Not tainted 7.1.0-rc1-48ce1e26eace-x86_pir_to_irr_comments-vm #341 PREEMPT
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
  RIP: 0010:kvm_mmu_max_mapping_level+0x79/0x2b0 [kvm]
  Call Trace:
   &lt;TASK&gt;
   kvm_mmu_recover_huge_pages+0x21b/0x320 [kvm]
   kvm_set_memslot+0x1ee/0x590 [kvm]
   kvm_set_memory_region.part.0+0x3a1/0x4d0 [kvm]
   kvm_vm_ioctl+0x9bf/0x15d0 [kvm]
   __x64_sys_ioctl+0x8a/0xd0
   do_syscall_64+0xb7/0xbb0
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
  RIP: 0033:0x7f21c0f1a9bf
   &lt;/TASK&gt;

Don't bother pre-checking the bounds of the potential hugepage, i.e. don't
check that e.g. sp-&gt;gfn + KVM_PAGES_PER_HPAGE(sp-&gt;role.level + 1) is also
within the memslot, as the checks performed by kvm_mmu_max_mapping_level()
are a superset of the basic bounds checks.  I.e. pre-checking the full
range would be a dubious micro-optimization.

Fixes: 9eba50f8d7fc ("KVM: x86/mmu: Consult max mapping level when zapping collapsible SPTEs")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: David Matlack &lt;dmatlack@google.com&gt;
Cc: James Houghton &lt;jthoughton@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Bulekov &lt;bkov@amazon.com&gt;
Cc: Fred Griffoul &lt;fgriffo@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Alexander Graf &lt;graf@amazon.de&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Filippo Sironi &lt;sironi@amazon.de&gt;
Cc: Ivan Orlov &lt;iorlov@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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commit ef057cbf825e03b63f6edf5980f96abf3c53089d upstream.

When recovering hugepages in the shadow MMU, verify that the base gfn of
the shadow page is actually contained within the target memslot, *before*
querying the max mapping level given the shadow page's gfn.  Failure to
pre-check the validity of the gfn can lead to an out-of-bounds access to
the slot's lpage_info (which typically manifests as a host #PF because the
lpage_info is vmalloc'd) if the guest creates a hugepage mapping (in its
PTEs) that extends "below" the bounds of a memslot.

When faulting in memory for a guest, and the size of the guest mapping is
greater than KVM's (current) max mapping, then KVM will create a "direct"
shadow page (direct in that there are no gPTEs to shadow, and so the target
gfn is a direct calculation given the base gfn of the shadow page).  The
hugepage recovery flow looks for such direct shadow pages, as forcing 4KiB
mappings when dirty logging generates the guest &gt; host mapping size case.
When the 4KiB restriction is lifted, then KVM can replace the shadow page
with a hugepage.

But if KVM originally used a smaller mapping than the guest because the
range of memory covered by the guest hugepage exceeds the bounds of a
memslot, then KVM will link a direct shadow page with a gfn that is outside
the bounds of the memslot being used to fault in memory.  The rmap entry
added for the leaf mapping is correct and within bounds, but the gfn of the
leaf SPTE's parent shadow page will be out of bounds.

  BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffc90000806ffc
  #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
  #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
  PGD 100000067 P4D 100000067 PUD 1002a7067 PMD 10612f067 PTE 0
  Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
  CPU: 13 UID: 1000 PID: 757 Comm: mmu_stress_test Not tainted 7.1.0-rc1-48ce1e26eace-x86_pir_to_irr_comments-vm #341 PREEMPT
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
  RIP: 0010:kvm_mmu_max_mapping_level+0x79/0x2b0 [kvm]
  Call Trace:
   &lt;TASK&gt;
   kvm_mmu_recover_huge_pages+0x21b/0x320 [kvm]
   kvm_set_memslot+0x1ee/0x590 [kvm]
   kvm_set_memory_region.part.0+0x3a1/0x4d0 [kvm]
   kvm_vm_ioctl+0x9bf/0x15d0 [kvm]
   __x64_sys_ioctl+0x8a/0xd0
   do_syscall_64+0xb7/0xbb0
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
  RIP: 0033:0x7f21c0f1a9bf
   &lt;/TASK&gt;

Don't bother pre-checking the bounds of the potential hugepage, i.e. don't
check that e.g. sp-&gt;gfn + KVM_PAGES_PER_HPAGE(sp-&gt;role.level + 1) is also
within the memslot, as the checks performed by kvm_mmu_max_mapping_level()
are a superset of the basic bounds checks.  I.e. pre-checking the full
range would be a dubious micro-optimization.

Fixes: 9eba50f8d7fc ("KVM: x86/mmu: Consult max mapping level when zapping collapsible SPTEs")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: David Matlack &lt;dmatlack@google.com&gt;
Cc: James Houghton &lt;jthoughton@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Bulekov &lt;bkov@amazon.com&gt;
Cc: Fred Griffoul &lt;fgriffo@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Alexander Graf &lt;graf@amazon.de&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Filippo Sironi &lt;sironi@amazon.de&gt;
Cc: Ivan Orlov &lt;iorlov@amazon.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: ipv6: Make udp_tunnel6_xmit_skb() void</title>
<updated>2026-07-04T11:43:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Machata</name>
<email>petrm@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-25T08:24:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=10df2970790ba3f188377976ea0d379fa62fa58b'/>
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commit 6a7d88ca15f73c5c570c372238f71d63da1fda55 upstream.

The function always returns zero, thus the return value does not carry any
signal. Just make it void.

Most callers already ignore the return value. However:

- Refold arguments of the call from sctp_v6_xmit() so that they fit into
  the 80-column limit.

- tipc_udp_xmit() initializes err from the return value, but that should
  already be always zero at that point. So there's no practical change, but
  elision of the assignment prompts a couple more tweaks to clean up the
  function.

Signed-off-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;razor@blackwall.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/7facacf9d8ca3ca9391a4aee88160913671b868d.1750113335.git.petrm@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Martyniuk &lt;alexevgmart@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 6a7d88ca15f73c5c570c372238f71d63da1fda55 upstream.

The function always returns zero, thus the return value does not carry any
signal. Just make it void.

Most callers already ignore the return value. However:

- Refold arguments of the call from sctp_v6_xmit() so that they fit into
  the 80-column limit.

- tipc_udp_xmit() initializes err from the return value, but that should
  already be always zero at that point. So there's no practical change, but
  elision of the assignment prompts a couple more tweaks to clean up the
  function.

Signed-off-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;razor@blackwall.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/7facacf9d8ca3ca9391a4aee88160913671b868d.1750113335.git.petrm@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Martyniuk &lt;alexevgmart@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>phonet: Pass net and ifindex to phonet_address_notify().</title>
<updated>2026-07-04T11:43:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kuniyuki Iwashima</name>
<email>kuniyu@amazon.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-17T14:28:29+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 68ed5c38b512b734caf3da1f87db4a99fcfe3002 ]

Currently, phonet_address_notify() fetches netns and ifindex from dev.

Once addr_doit() is converted to RCU, phonet_address_notify() will be
called outside of RCU due to GFP_KERNEL, and dev will be unavailable
there.

Let's pass net and ifindex to phonet_address_notify().

Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 71de0177b28d ("net: phonet: free phonet_device after RCU grace period")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 68ed5c38b512b734caf3da1f87db4a99fcfe3002 ]

Currently, phonet_address_notify() fetches netns and ifindex from dev.

Once addr_doit() is converted to RCU, phonet_address_notify() will be
called outside of RCU due to GFP_KERNEL, and dev will be unavailable
there.

Let's pass net and ifindex to phonet_address_notify().

Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 71de0177b28d ("net: phonet: free phonet_device after RCU grace period")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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