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<title>timers/migration: Fix imbalanced NUMA trees</title>
<updated>2025-12-18T13:02:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2025-10-24T13:25:33+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 5eb579dfd46b4949117ecb0f1ba2f12d3dc9a6f2 ]

When a CPU from a new node boots, the old root may happen to be
connected to the new root even if their node mismatch, as depicted in
the following scenario:

1) CPU 0 boots and creates the first group for node 0.

   [GRP0:0]
    node 0
      |
    CPU 0

2) CPU 1 from node 1 boots and creates a new top that corresponds to
   node 1, but it also connects the old root from node 0 to the new root
   from node 1 by mistake.

             [GRP1:0]
              node 1
            /        \
           /          \
   [GRP0:0]             [GRP0:1]
    node 0               node 1
      |                    |
    CPU 0                CPU 1

3) This eventually leads to an imbalanced tree where some node 0 CPUs
   migrate node 1 timers (and vice versa) way before reaching the
   crossnode groups, resulting in more frequent remote memory accesses
   than expected.

                      [GRP2:0]
                      NUMA_NO_NODE
                     /             \
             [GRP1:0]              [GRP1:1]
              node 1               node 0
            /        \                |
           /          \             [...]
   [GRP0:0]             [GRP0:1]
    node 0               node 1
      |                    |
    CPU 0...              CPU 1...

A balanced tree should only contain groups having children that belong
to the same node:

                      [GRP2:0]
                      NUMA_NO_NODE
                     /             \
             [GRP1:0]              [GRP1:0]
              node 0               node 1
            /        \             /      \
           /          \           /        \
   [GRP0:0]          [...]      [...]    [GRP0:1]
    node 0                                node 1
      |                                     |
    CPU 0...                              CPU 1...

In order to fix this, the hierarchy must be unfolded up to the crossnode
level as soon as a node mismatch is detected. For example the stage 2
above should lead to this layout:

                      [GRP2:0]
                      NUMA_NO_NODE
                     /             \
             [GRP1:0]              [GRP1:1]
              node 0               node 1
              /                         \
             /                           \
        [GRP0:0]                        [GRP0:1]
        node 0                           node 1
          |                                |
       CPU 0                             CPU 1

This means that not only GRP1:0 must be created but also GRP1:1 and
GRP2:0 in order to prepare a balanced tree for next CPUs to boot.

Fixes: 7ee988770326 ("timers: Implement the hierarchical pull model")
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251024132536.39841-4-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 5eb579dfd46b4949117ecb0f1ba2f12d3dc9a6f2 ]

When a CPU from a new node boots, the old root may happen to be
connected to the new root even if their node mismatch, as depicted in
the following scenario:

1) CPU 0 boots and creates the first group for node 0.

   [GRP0:0]
    node 0
      |
    CPU 0

2) CPU 1 from node 1 boots and creates a new top that corresponds to
   node 1, but it also connects the old root from node 0 to the new root
   from node 1 by mistake.

             [GRP1:0]
              node 1
            /        \
           /          \
   [GRP0:0]             [GRP0:1]
    node 0               node 1
      |                    |
    CPU 0                CPU 1

3) This eventually leads to an imbalanced tree where some node 0 CPUs
   migrate node 1 timers (and vice versa) way before reaching the
   crossnode groups, resulting in more frequent remote memory accesses
   than expected.

                      [GRP2:0]
                      NUMA_NO_NODE
                     /             \
             [GRP1:0]              [GRP1:1]
              node 1               node 0
            /        \                |
           /          \             [...]
   [GRP0:0]             [GRP0:1]
    node 0               node 1
      |                    |
    CPU 0...              CPU 1...

A balanced tree should only contain groups having children that belong
to the same node:

                      [GRP2:0]
                      NUMA_NO_NODE
                     /             \
             [GRP1:0]              [GRP1:0]
              node 0               node 1
            /        \             /      \
           /          \           /        \
   [GRP0:0]          [...]      [...]    [GRP0:1]
    node 0                                node 1
      |                                     |
    CPU 0...                              CPU 1...

In order to fix this, the hierarchy must be unfolded up to the crossnode
level as soon as a node mismatch is detected. For example the stage 2
above should lead to this layout:

                      [GRP2:0]
                      NUMA_NO_NODE
                     /             \
             [GRP1:0]              [GRP1:1]
              node 0               node 1
              /                         \
             /                           \
        [GRP0:0]                        [GRP0:1]
        node 0                           node 1
          |                                |
       CPU 0                             CPU 1

This means that not only GRP1:0 must be created but also GRP1:1 and
GRP2:0 in order to prepare a balanced tree for next CPUs to boot.

Fixes: 7ee988770326 ("timers: Implement the hierarchical pull model")
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251024132536.39841-4-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>timers/migration: Remove locking on group connection</title>
<updated>2025-12-18T13:02:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-24T13:25:32+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit fa9620355d4192200f15cb3d97c6eb9c02442249 ]

Initializing the tmc's group, the group's number of children and the
group's parent can all be done without locking because:

  1) Reading the group's parent and its group mask is done locklessly.

  2) The connections prepared for a given CPU hierarchy are visible to the
     target CPU once online, thanks to the CPU hotplug enforced memory
     ordering.

  3) In case of a newly created upper level, the new root and its
     connections and initialization are made visible by the CPU which made
     the connections. When that CPUs goes idle in the future, the new link
     is published by tmigr_inactive_up() through the atomic RmW on
     -&gt;migr_state.

  4) If CPUs were still walking up the active hierarchy, they could observe
     the new root earlier. In this case the ordering is enforced by an
     early initialization of the group mask and by barriers that maintain
     address dependency as explained in:

     b729cc1ec21a ("timers/migration: Fix another race between hotplug and idle entry/exit")
     de3ced72a792 ("timers/migration: Enforce group initialization visibility to tree walkers")

  5) Timers are propagated by a chain of group locking from the bottom to
     the top. And while doing so, the tree also propagates groups links
     and initialization. Therefore remote expiration, which also relies
     on group locking, will observe those links and initialization while
     holding the root lock before walking the tree remotely and update
     remote timers. This is especially important for migrators in the
     active hierarchy that may observe the new root early.

Therefore the locking is unnecessary at initialization. If anything, it
just brings confusion. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251024132536.39841-3-frederic@kernel.org
Stable-dep-of: 5eb579dfd46b ("timers/migration: Fix imbalanced NUMA trees")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit fa9620355d4192200f15cb3d97c6eb9c02442249 ]

Initializing the tmc's group, the group's number of children and the
group's parent can all be done without locking because:

  1) Reading the group's parent and its group mask is done locklessly.

  2) The connections prepared for a given CPU hierarchy are visible to the
     target CPU once online, thanks to the CPU hotplug enforced memory
     ordering.

  3) In case of a newly created upper level, the new root and its
     connections and initialization are made visible by the CPU which made
     the connections. When that CPUs goes idle in the future, the new link
     is published by tmigr_inactive_up() through the atomic RmW on
     -&gt;migr_state.

  4) If CPUs were still walking up the active hierarchy, they could observe
     the new root earlier. In this case the ordering is enforced by an
     early initialization of the group mask and by barriers that maintain
     address dependency as explained in:

     b729cc1ec21a ("timers/migration: Fix another race between hotplug and idle entry/exit")
     de3ced72a792 ("timers/migration: Enforce group initialization visibility to tree walkers")

  5) Timers are propagated by a chain of group locking from the bottom to
     the top. And while doing so, the tree also propagates groups links
     and initialization. Therefore remote expiration, which also relies
     on group locking, will observe those links and initialization while
     holding the root lock before walking the tree remotely and update
     remote timers. This is especially important for migrators in the
     active hierarchy that may observe the new root early.

Therefore the locking is unnecessary at initialization. If anything, it
just brings confusion. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251024132536.39841-3-frederic@kernel.org
Stable-dep-of: 5eb579dfd46b ("timers/migration: Fix imbalanced NUMA trees")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>timers/migration: Convert "while" loops to use "for"</title>
<updated>2025-12-18T13:02:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-24T13:25:31+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 6c181b5667eea3e6564d334443536a5974190e15 ]

Both the "do while" and "while" loops in tmigr_setup_groups() eventually
mimic the behaviour of "for" loops.

Simplify accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251024132536.39841-2-frederic@kernel.org
Stable-dep-of: 5eb579dfd46b ("timers/migration: Fix imbalanced NUMA trees")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 6c181b5667eea3e6564d334443536a5974190e15 ]

Both the "do while" and "while" loops in tmigr_setup_groups() eventually
mimic the behaviour of "for" loops.

Simplify accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251024132536.39841-2-frederic@kernel.org
Stable-dep-of: 5eb579dfd46b ("timers/migration: Fix imbalanced NUMA trees")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>timekeeping: Fix error code in tk_aux_sysfs_init()</title>
<updated>2025-11-25T16:52:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
<email>dan.carpenter@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-25T13:55:19+00:00</published>
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If kobject_create_and_add() fails on the first iteration, then the error
code is set to -ENOMEM which is correct. But if it fails in subsequent
iterations then "ret" is zero, which means success, but it should be
-ENOMEM.

Set the error code to -ENOMEM correctly.

Fixes: 7b5ab04f035f ("timekeeping: Fix resource leak in tk_aux_sysfs_init() error paths")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Malaya Kumar Rout &lt;mrout@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/aSW1R8q5zoY_DgQE@stanley.mountain
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If kobject_create_and_add() fails on the first iteration, then the error
code is set to -ENOMEM which is correct. But if it fails in subsequent
iterations then "ret" is zero, which means success, but it should be
-ENOMEM.

Set the error code to -ENOMEM correctly.

Fixes: 7b5ab04f035f ("timekeeping: Fix resource leak in tk_aux_sysfs_init() error paths")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Malaya Kumar Rout &lt;mrout@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/aSW1R8q5zoY_DgQE@stanley.mountain
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>timers: Fix NULL function pointer race in timer_shutdown_sync()</title>
<updated>2025-11-22T21:55:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yipeng Zou</name>
<email>zouyipeng@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-22T09:39:42+00:00</published>
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There is a race condition between timer_shutdown_sync() and timer
expiration that can lead to hitting a WARN_ON in expire_timers().

The issue occurs when timer_shutdown_sync() clears the timer function
to NULL while the timer is still running on another CPU. The race
scenario looks like this:

CPU0					CPU1
					&lt;SOFTIRQ&gt;
					lock_timer_base()
					expire_timers()
					base-&gt;running_timer = timer;
					unlock_timer_base()
					[call_timer_fn enter]
					mod_timer()
					...
timer_shutdown_sync()
lock_timer_base()
// For now, will not detach the timer but only clear its function to NULL
if (base-&gt;running_timer != timer)
	ret = detach_if_pending(timer, base, true);
if (shutdown)
	timer-&gt;function = NULL;
unlock_timer_base()
					[call_timer_fn exit]
					lock_timer_base()
					base-&gt;running_timer = NULL;
					unlock_timer_base()
					...
					// Now timer is pending while its function set to NULL.
					// next timer trigger
					&lt;SOFTIRQ&gt;
					expire_timers()
					WARN_ON_ONCE(!fn) // hit
					...
lock_timer_base()
// Now timer will detach
if (base-&gt;running_timer != timer)
	ret = detach_if_pending(timer, base, true);
if (shutdown)
	timer-&gt;function = NULL;
unlock_timer_base()

The problem is that timer_shutdown_sync() clears the timer function
regardless of whether the timer is currently running. This can leave a
pending timer with a NULL function pointer, which triggers the
WARN_ON_ONCE(!fn) check in expire_timers().

Fix this by only clearing the timer function when actually detaching the
timer. If the timer is running, leave the function pointer intact, which is
safe because the timer will be properly detached when it finishes running.

Fixes: 0cc04e80458a ("timers: Add shutdown mechanism to the internal functions")
Signed-off-by: Yipeng Zou &lt;zouyipeng@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251122093942.301559-1-zouyipeng@huawei.com
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There is a race condition between timer_shutdown_sync() and timer
expiration that can lead to hitting a WARN_ON in expire_timers().

The issue occurs when timer_shutdown_sync() clears the timer function
to NULL while the timer is still running on another CPU. The race
scenario looks like this:

CPU0					CPU1
					&lt;SOFTIRQ&gt;
					lock_timer_base()
					expire_timers()
					base-&gt;running_timer = timer;
					unlock_timer_base()
					[call_timer_fn enter]
					mod_timer()
					...
timer_shutdown_sync()
lock_timer_base()
// For now, will not detach the timer but only clear its function to NULL
if (base-&gt;running_timer != timer)
	ret = detach_if_pending(timer, base, true);
if (shutdown)
	timer-&gt;function = NULL;
unlock_timer_base()
					[call_timer_fn exit]
					lock_timer_base()
					base-&gt;running_timer = NULL;
					unlock_timer_base()
					...
					// Now timer is pending while its function set to NULL.
					// next timer trigger
					&lt;SOFTIRQ&gt;
					expire_timers()
					WARN_ON_ONCE(!fn) // hit
					...
lock_timer_base()
// Now timer will detach
if (base-&gt;running_timer != timer)
	ret = detach_if_pending(timer, base, true);
if (shutdown)
	timer-&gt;function = NULL;
unlock_timer_base()

The problem is that timer_shutdown_sync() clears the timer function
regardless of whether the timer is currently running. This can leave a
pending timer with a NULL function pointer, which triggers the
WARN_ON_ONCE(!fn) check in expire_timers().

Fix this by only clearing the timer function when actually detaching the
timer. If the timer is running, leave the function pointer intact, which is
safe because the timer will be properly detached when it finishes running.

Fixes: 0cc04e80458a ("timers: Add shutdown mechanism to the internal functions")
Signed-off-by: Yipeng Zou &lt;zouyipeng@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251122093942.301559-1-zouyipeng@huawei.com
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<entry>
<title>timekeeping: Fix resource leak in tk_aux_sysfs_init() error paths</title>
<updated>2025-11-20T15:40:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Malaya Kumar Rout</name>
<email>mrout@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-20T15:02:13+00:00</published>
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tk_aux_sysfs_init() returns immediately on error during the auxiliary clock
initialization loop without cleaning up previously allocated kobjects and
sysfs groups.

If kobject_create_and_add() or sysfs_create_group() fails during loop
iteration, the parent kobjects (tko and auxo) and any previously created
child kobjects are leaked.

Fix this by adding proper error handling with goto labels to ensure all
allocated resources are cleaned up on failure. kobject_put() on the
parent kobjects will handle cleanup of their children.

Fixes: 7b95663a3d96 ("timekeeping: Provide interface to control auxiliary clocks")
Signed-off-by: Malaya Kumar Rout &lt;mrout@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251120150213.246777-1-mrout@redhat.com
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tk_aux_sysfs_init() returns immediately on error during the auxiliary clock
initialization loop without cleaning up previously allocated kobjects and
sysfs groups.

If kobject_create_and_add() or sysfs_create_group() fails during loop
iteration, the parent kobjects (tko and auxo) and any previously created
child kobjects are leaked.

Fix this by adding proper error handling with goto labels to ensure all
allocated resources are cleaned up on failure. kobject_put() on the
parent kobjects will handle cleanup of their children.

Fixes: 7b95663a3d96 ("timekeeping: Provide interface to control auxiliary clocks")
Signed-off-by: Malaya Kumar Rout &lt;mrout@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251120150213.246777-1-mrout@redhat.com
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<entry>
<title>tick/sched: Fix bogus condition in report_idle_softirq()</title>
<updated>2025-11-19T18:30:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wen Yang</name>
<email>wen.yang@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-19T17:45:25+00:00</published>
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In commit 0345691b24c0 ("tick/rcu: Stop allowing RCU_SOFTIRQ in idle") the
new function report_idle_softirq() was created by breaking code out of the
existing can_stop_idle_tick() for kernels v5.18 and newer.

In doing so, the code essentially went from this form:

	if (A) {
		static int ratelimit;
		if (ratelimit &lt; 10 &amp;&amp; !C &amp;&amp; A&amp;D) {
                       pr_warn("NOHZ tick-stop error: ...");
		       ratelimit++;
		}
		return false;
	}

to a new function:

static bool report_idle_softirq(void)
{
       static int ratelimit;

       if (likely(!A))
               return false;

       if (ratelimit &lt; 10)
               return false;
...
       pr_warn("NOHZ tick-stop error: local softirq work is pending, handler #%02x!!!\n",
               pending);
       ratelimit++;

       return true;
}

commit a7e282c77785 ("tick/rcu: Fix bogus ratelimit condition") realized
ratelimit was essentially set to zero instead of ten, and hence *no*
softirq pending messages would ever be issued, but "fixed" it as:

-       if (ratelimit &lt; 10)
+       if (ratelimit &gt;= 10)
                return false;

However, this fix introduced another issue:

When ratelimit is greater than or equal 10, even if A is true, it will
directly return false. While ratelimit in the original code was only used
to control printing and will not affect the return value.

Restore the original logic and restrict ratelimit to control the printk and
not the return value.

Fixes: 0345691b24c0 ("tick/rcu: Stop allowing RCU_SOFTIRQ in idle")
Fixes: a7e282c77785 ("tick/rcu: Fix bogus ratelimit condition")
Signed-off-by: Wen Yang &lt;wen.yang@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119174525.29470-1-wen.yang@linux.dev
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<pre>
In commit 0345691b24c0 ("tick/rcu: Stop allowing RCU_SOFTIRQ in idle") the
new function report_idle_softirq() was created by breaking code out of the
existing can_stop_idle_tick() for kernels v5.18 and newer.

In doing so, the code essentially went from this form:

	if (A) {
		static int ratelimit;
		if (ratelimit &lt; 10 &amp;&amp; !C &amp;&amp; A&amp;D) {
                       pr_warn("NOHZ tick-stop error: ...");
		       ratelimit++;
		}
		return false;
	}

to a new function:

static bool report_idle_softirq(void)
{
       static int ratelimit;

       if (likely(!A))
               return false;

       if (ratelimit &lt; 10)
               return false;
...
       pr_warn("NOHZ tick-stop error: local softirq work is pending, handler #%02x!!!\n",
               pending);
       ratelimit++;

       return true;
}

commit a7e282c77785 ("tick/rcu: Fix bogus ratelimit condition") realized
ratelimit was essentially set to zero instead of ten, and hence *no*
softirq pending messages would ever be issued, but "fixed" it as:

-       if (ratelimit &lt; 10)
+       if (ratelimit &gt;= 10)
                return false;

However, this fix introduced another issue:

When ratelimit is greater than or equal 10, even if A is true, it will
directly return false. While ratelimit in the original code was only used
to control printing and will not affect the return value.

Restore the original logic and restrict ratelimit to control the printk and
not the return value.

Fixes: 0345691b24c0 ("tick/rcu: Stop allowing RCU_SOFTIRQ in idle")
Fixes: a7e282c77785 ("tick/rcu: Fix bogus ratelimit condition")
Signed-off-by: Wen Yang &lt;wen.yang@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119174525.29470-1-wen.yang@linux.dev
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>posix-timers: Plug potential memory leak in do_timer_create()</title>
<updated>2025-11-14T15:58:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eslam Khafagy</name>
<email>eslam.medhat1993@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-14T12:27:39+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=e0fd4d42e27f761e9cc82801b3f183e658dc749d'/>
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When posix timer creation is set to allocate a given timer ID and the
access to the user space value faults, the function terminates without
freeing the already allocated posix timer structure.

Move the allocation after the user space access to cure that.

[ tglx: Massaged change log ]

Fixes: ec2d0c04624b3 ("posix-timers: Provide a mechanism to allocate a given timer ID")
Reported-by: syzbot+9c47ad18f978d4394986@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Suggested-by: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eslam Khafagy &lt;eslam.medhat1993@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251114122739.994326-1-eslam.medhat1993@gmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/69155df4.a70a0220.3124cb.0017.GAE@google.com/T/
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<pre>
When posix timer creation is set to allocate a given timer ID and the
access to the user space value faults, the function terminates without
freeing the already allocated posix timer structure.

Move the allocation after the user space access to cure that.

[ tglx: Massaged change log ]

Fixes: ec2d0c04624b3 ("posix-timers: Provide a mechanism to allocate a given timer ID")
Reported-by: syzbot+9c47ad18f978d4394986@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Suggested-by: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eslam Khafagy &lt;eslam.medhat1993@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251114122739.994326-1-eslam.medhat1993@gmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/69155df4.a70a0220.3124cb.0017.GAE@google.com/T/
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>timekeeping: Fix aux clocks sysfs initialization loop bound</title>
<updated>2025-10-20T17:56:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Haofeng Li</name>
<email>lihaofeng@kylinos.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-15T06:17:53+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=39a9ed0fb6dac58547afdf9b6cb032d326a3698f'/>
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The loop in tk_aux_sysfs_init() uses `i &lt;= MAX_AUX_CLOCKS` as the
termination condition, which results in 9 iterations (i=0 to 8) when
MAX_AUX_CLOCKS is defined as 8. However, the kernel is designed to support
only up to 8 auxiliary clocks.

This off-by-one error causes the creation of a 9th sysfs entry that exceeds
the intended auxiliary clock range.

Fix the loop bound to use `i &lt; MAX_AUX_CLOCKS` to ensure exactly 8
auxiliary clock entries are created, matching the design specification.

Fixes: 7b95663a3d96 ("timekeeping: Provide interface to control auxiliary clocks")
Signed-off-by: Haofeng Li &lt;lihaofeng@kylinos.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/tencent_2376993D9FC06A3616A4F981B3DE1C599607@qq.com
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<pre>
The loop in tk_aux_sysfs_init() uses `i &lt;= MAX_AUX_CLOCKS` as the
termination condition, which results in 9 iterations (i=0 to 8) when
MAX_AUX_CLOCKS is defined as 8. However, the kernel is designed to support
only up to 8 auxiliary clocks.

This off-by-one error causes the creation of a 9th sysfs entry that exceeds
the intended auxiliary clock range.

Fix the loop bound to use `i &lt; MAX_AUX_CLOCKS` to ensure exactly 8
auxiliary clock entries are created, matching the design specification.

Fixes: 7b95663a3d96 ("timekeeping: Provide interface to control auxiliary clocks")
Signed-off-by: Haofeng Li &lt;lihaofeng@kylinos.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/tencent_2376993D9FC06A3616A4F981B3DE1C599607@qq.com
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'net-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2025-10-02T22:17:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-02T22:17:01+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=07fdad3a93756b872da7b53647715c48d0f4a2d0'/>
<id>07fdad3a93756b872da7b53647715c48d0f4a2d0</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
 "Core &amp; protocols:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   - Improve netfilter matching performance on large sets

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

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

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

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

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

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

  Things we sprinkled into general kernel code:

   - Generate netlink documentation from YAML using an integrated YAML
     parser

  Driver API:

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

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

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

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

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

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

  Device drivers:

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

   - Add a new SpacemiT driver for K1 ethernet MAC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

   - Improve netfilter matching performance on large sets

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

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

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

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

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

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

  Things we sprinkled into general kernel code:

   - Generate netlink documentation from YAML using an integrated YAML
     parser

  Driver API:

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

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

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

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

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

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

  Device drivers:

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

   - Add a new SpacemiT driver for K1 ethernet MAC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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