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<title>linux-stable.git/scripts/mod, branch v7.2.6</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>modpost: prevent leak when early return no suffix .o in read_symbols()</title>
<updated>2026-09-14T11:40:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Robertus Diawan Chris</name>
<email>robertusdchris@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-24T04:47:42+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 9a5b76027ed91680e10f90111d9cba300f96d1ab ]

The allocation for elf info symsearch and hdr from parse_elf() haven't
been released when return because of modname didn't have suffix ".o".
And it seems like the suffix ".o" check did not depends on parse_elf()
to succeed first. So, move the suffix ".o" check before checking
parse_elf() result to prevent resource leak when the modname didn't have
suffix ".o" and return early.

This is reported by Coverity Scan as "Resource leak".

Fixes: 8c9ce89c5b63 ("modpost: simplify mod-&gt;name allocation")
Signed-off-by: Robertus Diawan Chris &lt;robertusdchris@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260624044742.144852-1-robertusdchris@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nsc@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 9a5b76027ed91680e10f90111d9cba300f96d1ab ]

The allocation for elf info symsearch and hdr from parse_elf() haven't
been released when return because of modname didn't have suffix ".o".
And it seems like the suffix ".o" check did not depends on parse_elf()
to succeed first. So, move the suffix ".o" check before checking
parse_elf() result to prevent resource leak when the modname didn't have
suffix ".o" and return early.

This is reported by Coverity Scan as "Resource leak".

Fixes: 8c9ce89c5b63 ("modpost: simplify mod-&gt;name allocation")
Signed-off-by: Robertus Diawan Chris &lt;robertusdchris@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260624044742.144852-1-robertusdchris@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nsc@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>objtool/klp: Add .klp.symid for sympos disambiguation</title>
<updated>2026-09-14T11:40:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-03T03:24:27+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 029223d301620bc4e1086696047b0d5d6eba5edd ]

Livepatch identifies a duplicate-named symbol by its position (sympos)
among same-named kallsyms entries, which for vmlinux are counted in
ascending address order in the final linked kernel.  That order can't be
reliably derived from vmlinux.o: the final link reorders sub-sections
(.text.unlikely*, .data..*, etc).

Bridge the gap with a new .klp.symid section which can be used to
correlate symbols between vmlinux.o and vmlinux so that klp-diff can
reliably determine the sympos.

The table can't survive --gc-sections: keeping it alive would keep every
duplicate-named symbol's section alive, so the reference kernel would
stop matching the one which ships.  klp-build rejects
CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION instead.  Nothing is lost today:
x86_64 is the only HAVE_KLP_BUILD arch and doesn't select
HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION, arm64 and s390 have never selected
it either, and on powerpc, it's still EXPERIMENTAL and disabled by every
distro kernel.

This is the build-time half of reliable vmlinux sympos computation;
"objtool klp diff" will consume the table in a subsequent commit.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/64d50f077b569f47883c015cdb7079edb068efe8.1785727106.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Stable-dep-of: 15fa203ef91e ("objtool/klp: Fix symbol resolution for duplicate data symbols")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 029223d301620bc4e1086696047b0d5d6eba5edd ]

Livepatch identifies a duplicate-named symbol by its position (sympos)
among same-named kallsyms entries, which for vmlinux are counted in
ascending address order in the final linked kernel.  That order can't be
reliably derived from vmlinux.o: the final link reorders sub-sections
(.text.unlikely*, .data..*, etc).

Bridge the gap with a new .klp.symid section which can be used to
correlate symbols between vmlinux.o and vmlinux so that klp-diff can
reliably determine the sympos.

The table can't survive --gc-sections: keeping it alive would keep every
duplicate-named symbol's section alive, so the reference kernel would
stop matching the one which ships.  klp-build rejects
CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION instead.  Nothing is lost today:
x86_64 is the only HAVE_KLP_BUILD arch and doesn't select
HAVE_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION, arm64 and s390 have never selected
it either, and on powerpc, it's still EXPERIMENTAL and disabled by every
distro kernel.

This is the build-time half of reliable vmlinux sympos computation;
"objtool klp diff" will consume the table in a subsequent commit.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/64d50f077b569f47883c015cdb7079edb068efe8.1785727106.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Stable-dep-of: 15fa203ef91e ("objtool/klp: Fix symbol resolution for duplicate data symbols")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-7.2-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux</title>
<updated>2026-06-25T16:06:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-25T16:06:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=6cc37b86f80985774809aba82283fe0d564d870f'/>
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Pull more Kbuild updates from Nathan Chancellor:

 - Link host programs with ld.lld when $(LLVM) is set to match user's
   expectations that LLVM will be used exclusively during the build
   process

 - Fix modpost warnings from static variable name promotion that can
   happen more aggressively with the recently merged distributed ThinLTO
   support

 - Add an optional warning for user-supplied Kconfig values that changed
   after processing, such as out of range values or options that have
   incorrect / missing dependencies

* tag 'kbuild-7.2-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux:
  kconfig: add optional warnings for changed input values
  modpost: Ignore Clang LTO suffixes in symbol matching
  kbuild: Use ld.lld for linking host programs when LLVM is set
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Pull more Kbuild updates from Nathan Chancellor:

 - Link host programs with ld.lld when $(LLVM) is set to match user's
   expectations that LLVM will be used exclusively during the build
   process

 - Fix modpost warnings from static variable name promotion that can
   happen more aggressively with the recently merged distributed ThinLTO
   support

 - Add an optional warning for user-supplied Kconfig values that changed
   after processing, such as out of range values or options that have
   incorrect / missing dependencies

* tag 'kbuild-7.2-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux:
  kconfig: add optional warnings for changed input values
  modpost: Ignore Clang LTO suffixes in symbol matching
  kbuild: Use ld.lld for linking host programs when LLVM is set
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v7.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86</title>
<updated>2026-06-23T15:31:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-23T15:31:33+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=f31c00c377ccf07c85442712f7c940a855cb3371'/>
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Pull x86 platform driver updates from Ilpo Järvinen:

 - amd/hfi: Add support for dynamic ranking tables (version 3)

 - amd/pmc:
     - Add PMC driver support for AMD 1Ah M80H SoC
     - Delay suspend for some Lenovo Laptops to avoid keyboard and lid
       switch problems after s2idle

 - arm64: qcom-hamoa-ec: Add Hamoa/Purwa/Glymur EC driver

 - asus-armoury: add support for G614PR, GA402NJ, GA403UM, and FX608JPR

 - asus-wmi: add keystone dongle support

 - dell-dw5826e: Add reset driver for DW5826e

 - dell-laptop: Fix rollback path

 - hp-wmi:
     - Add support for Omen 16-ap0xxx (board ID 8D26) and board ID 8B2F

 - intel-hid:
     - Add HP ProBook x360 440 G1 5 button array support
     - Prevent racing ACPI notify handlers

 - intel/pmc:
     - Add Nova Lake support
     - Rate-limit LTR scale-factor warning

 - intel-uncore-freq:
     - Expose instance ID in the sysfs
     - Fix current_freq_khz after CPU hotplug

 - intel/vsec: Restore BAR fallback for header walk

 - ISST: Restore SST-PP control to all domains

 - lenovo-wmi-*:
     - Add more CPU tunable attributes
     - Add GPU tunable attributes
     - Add WMI battery charge limiting

 - oxpec: add support for OneXPlayer Super X

 - sel3350-platform: Retain LED state on load and unload

 - surface: SAM: Add support for Surface Pro 12in

 - uniwill-laptop: Add support for battery charge modes

 - tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select: Harden daemon pidfile open

 - Major refactoring efforts:
     - ACPI driver to platform driver conversion
     - Converting drivers to use the improved WMI API

 - Miscellaneous cleanups / refactoring / improvements

* tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v7.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86: (115 commits)
  platform/x86/intel/pmc: Add NVL PCI IDs for SSRAM telemetry discovery
  platform/x86/intel/pmc/ssram: Make PMT registration optional
  platform/x86/intel/pmc/ssram: Add ACPI discovery scaffolding
  platform/x86/intel/pmc/ssram: Switch to static array with per-index probe state
  platform/x86/intel/pmc/ssram: Refactor DEVID/PWRMBASE extraction into helper
  platform/x86/intel/pmc/ssram: Add PCI platform data
  platform/x86/intel/pmc/ssram: Rename probe and PCI ID table for consistency
  platform/x86/intel/pmc: Add ACPI PWRM telemetry driver for Nova Lake S
  platform/x86/intel/pmc: Add PMC SSRAM Kconfig description
  platform/x86/intel/pmt: Unify header fetch and add ACPI source
  platform/x86/intel/pmt: Cache the telemetry discovery header
  platform/x86/intel/pmt: Pass discovery index instead of resource
  platform/x86/intel/pmt/telemetry: Move overlap check to post-decode hook
  platform/x86/intel/pmt/crashlog: Split init into pre-decode
  platform/x86/intel/pmt: Add pre/post decode hooks around header parsing
  modpost: Handle malformed WMI GUID strings
  platform/wmi: Make sysfs attributes const
  platform/wmi: Make wmi_bus_class const
  hwmon: (dell-smm) Use new buffer-based WMI API
  platform/x86: dell-ddv: Use new buffer-based WMI API
  ...
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<pre>
Pull x86 platform driver updates from Ilpo Järvinen:

 - amd/hfi: Add support for dynamic ranking tables (version 3)

 - amd/pmc:
     - Add PMC driver support for AMD 1Ah M80H SoC
     - Delay suspend for some Lenovo Laptops to avoid keyboard and lid
       switch problems after s2idle

 - arm64: qcom-hamoa-ec: Add Hamoa/Purwa/Glymur EC driver

 - asus-armoury: add support for G614PR, GA402NJ, GA403UM, and FX608JPR

 - asus-wmi: add keystone dongle support

 - dell-dw5826e: Add reset driver for DW5826e

 - dell-laptop: Fix rollback path

 - hp-wmi:
     - Add support for Omen 16-ap0xxx (board ID 8D26) and board ID 8B2F

 - intel-hid:
     - Add HP ProBook x360 440 G1 5 button array support
     - Prevent racing ACPI notify handlers

 - intel/pmc:
     - Add Nova Lake support
     - Rate-limit LTR scale-factor warning

 - intel-uncore-freq:
     - Expose instance ID in the sysfs
     - Fix current_freq_khz after CPU hotplug

 - intel/vsec: Restore BAR fallback for header walk

 - ISST: Restore SST-PP control to all domains

 - lenovo-wmi-*:
     - Add more CPU tunable attributes
     - Add GPU tunable attributes
     - Add WMI battery charge limiting

 - oxpec: add support for OneXPlayer Super X

 - sel3350-platform: Retain LED state on load and unload

 - surface: SAM: Add support for Surface Pro 12in

 - uniwill-laptop: Add support for battery charge modes

 - tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select: Harden daemon pidfile open

 - Major refactoring efforts:
     - ACPI driver to platform driver conversion
     - Converting drivers to use the improved WMI API

 - Miscellaneous cleanups / refactoring / improvements

* tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v7.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86: (115 commits)
  platform/x86/intel/pmc: Add NVL PCI IDs for SSRAM telemetry discovery
  platform/x86/intel/pmc/ssram: Make PMT registration optional
  platform/x86/intel/pmc/ssram: Add ACPI discovery scaffolding
  platform/x86/intel/pmc/ssram: Switch to static array with per-index probe state
  platform/x86/intel/pmc/ssram: Refactor DEVID/PWRMBASE extraction into helper
  platform/x86/intel/pmc/ssram: Add PCI platform data
  platform/x86/intel/pmc/ssram: Rename probe and PCI ID table for consistency
  platform/x86/intel/pmc: Add ACPI PWRM telemetry driver for Nova Lake S
  platform/x86/intel/pmc: Add PMC SSRAM Kconfig description
  platform/x86/intel/pmt: Unify header fetch and add ACPI source
  platform/x86/intel/pmt: Cache the telemetry discovery header
  platform/x86/intel/pmt: Pass discovery index instead of resource
  platform/x86/intel/pmt/telemetry: Move overlap check to post-decode hook
  platform/x86/intel/pmt/crashlog: Split init into pre-decode
  platform/x86/intel/pmt: Add pre/post decode hooks around header parsing
  modpost: Handle malformed WMI GUID strings
  platform/wmi: Make sysfs attributes const
  platform/wmi: Make wmi_bus_class const
  hwmon: (dell-smm) Use new buffer-based WMI API
  platform/x86: dell-ddv: Use new buffer-based WMI API
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>modpost: Ignore Clang LTO suffixes in symbol matching</title>
<updated>2026-06-18T18:35:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rong Xu</name>
<email>xur@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-17T22:46:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9a289cc425bf469642533e4afa01c90f08971d01'/>
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When building the kernel with Clang ThinLTO enabled, the compiler
can mangle static variable names by appending suffixes such as
".llvm.&lt;hash&gt;" to prevent naming collisions across translation units.

This name mangling breaks the section mismatch whitelisting in modpost.
modpost relies on glob patterns (e.g., "*_ops" or "*_probe") to identify
safe references between permanent data and initialization code. Because
the LTO suffix modifies the end of the symbol name, legitimately
whitelisted structures fail the match, resulting in false positive
warnings.

For example, a static pernet_operations struct triggers the following:

  WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: \
  ping_v4_net_ops.llvm.5641696707737373282 (section: .data) -&gt; \
  ping_v4_proc_init_net (section: .init.text)

Fix this by ignoring "*_ops.llvm.*" in "from" symbol names (the same
as "*_ops").

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202606111233.kM8oo8Df-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Rong Xu &lt;xur@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260617224623.1346309-1-xur@google.com
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
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When building the kernel with Clang ThinLTO enabled, the compiler
can mangle static variable names by appending suffixes such as
".llvm.&lt;hash&gt;" to prevent naming collisions across translation units.

This name mangling breaks the section mismatch whitelisting in modpost.
modpost relies on glob patterns (e.g., "*_ops" or "*_probe") to identify
safe references between permanent data and initialization code. Because
the LTO suffix modifies the end of the symbol name, legitimately
whitelisted structures fail the match, resulting in false positive
warnings.

For example, a static pernet_operations struct triggers the following:

  WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: \
  ping_v4_net_ops.llvm.5641696707737373282 (section: .data) -&gt; \
  ping_v4_proc_init_net (section: .init.text)

Fix this by ignoring "*_ops.llvm.*" in "from" symbol names (the same
as "*_ops").

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202606111233.kM8oo8Df-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Rong Xu &lt;xur@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260617224623.1346309-1-xur@google.com
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-7.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux</title>
<updated>2026-06-14T23:31:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-14T23:31:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=73f399414a84d715bb1794182aaea852b11d0962'/>
<id>73f399414a84d715bb1794182aaea852b11d0962</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull Kbuild / Kconfig updates from Nathan Chancellor:
 "Kbuild:

   - Remove broken module linking exclusion for BTF

   - Add documentation around how offset header files work

   - Include unstripped vDSO libraries in pacman packages

   - Bump minimum version of LLVM for building the kernel to 17.0.1 and
     clean up unnecessary workarounds

   - Use a context manager in run-clang-tools

   - Add dist macro value if present to release tag for RPM packages

   - Detect and report truncated buf_printf() output in modpost

   - Add __llvm_covfun and __llvm_covmap to section whitelist in modpost

   - Support Clang's distributed ThinLTO mode

   - Remove architecture specific configurations for AutoFDO and
     Propeller to ease individual architecture maintenance

  Kconfig:

   - Add kconfig-sym-check target to look for dangling Kconfig symbol
     references and invalid tristate literal values

   - Harden against potential NULL pointer dereference

   - Fix typo in Kconfig test comment"

* tag 'kbuild-7.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux: (31 commits)
  kconfig: tests: fix typo in comment
  kconfig: Remove the architecture specific config for Propeller
  kconfig: Remove the architecture specific config for AutoFDO
  modpost: Add __llvm_covfun and __llvm_covmap to section_white_list
  kconfig: add kconfig-sym-check static checker
  kbuild: Remove unnecessary 'T' modifier in cmd_ar_builtin_fixup
  kbuild: distributed build support for Clang ThinLTO
  kbuild: move vmlinux.a build rule to scripts/Makefile.vmlinux_a
  scripts: modpost: detect and report truncated buf_printf() output
  kbuild: rpm-pkg: append %{?dist} macro to Release tag
  run-clang-tools: run multiprocessing.Pool as context manager
  compiler-clang.h: Drop explicit version number from "all" diagnostic macro
  compiler-clang.h: Remove __cleanup -Wunused-variable workaround
  kbuild: Remove check for broken scoping with clang &lt; 17 in CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT
  x86/entry/vdso32: Remove conditional omission of '.cfi_offset eflags'
  x86/module: Revert "Deal with GOT based stack cookie load on Clang &lt; 17"
  x86/build: Drop unnecessary '-ffreestanding' addition to KBUILD_CFLAGS
  scripts/Makefile.warn: Drop -Wformat handling for clang &lt; 16
  riscv: Drop tautological condition from TOOLCHAIN_NEEDS_OLD_ISA_SPEC
  riscv: Remove tautological condition from selection of ARCH_SUPPORTS_CFI
  ...
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<pre>
Pull Kbuild / Kconfig updates from Nathan Chancellor:
 "Kbuild:

   - Remove broken module linking exclusion for BTF

   - Add documentation around how offset header files work

   - Include unstripped vDSO libraries in pacman packages

   - Bump minimum version of LLVM for building the kernel to 17.0.1 and
     clean up unnecessary workarounds

   - Use a context manager in run-clang-tools

   - Add dist macro value if present to release tag for RPM packages

   - Detect and report truncated buf_printf() output in modpost

   - Add __llvm_covfun and __llvm_covmap to section whitelist in modpost

   - Support Clang's distributed ThinLTO mode

   - Remove architecture specific configurations for AutoFDO and
     Propeller to ease individual architecture maintenance

  Kconfig:

   - Add kconfig-sym-check target to look for dangling Kconfig symbol
     references and invalid tristate literal values

   - Harden against potential NULL pointer dereference

   - Fix typo in Kconfig test comment"

* tag 'kbuild-7.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux: (31 commits)
  kconfig: tests: fix typo in comment
  kconfig: Remove the architecture specific config for Propeller
  kconfig: Remove the architecture specific config for AutoFDO
  modpost: Add __llvm_covfun and __llvm_covmap to section_white_list
  kconfig: add kconfig-sym-check static checker
  kbuild: Remove unnecessary 'T' modifier in cmd_ar_builtin_fixup
  kbuild: distributed build support for Clang ThinLTO
  kbuild: move vmlinux.a build rule to scripts/Makefile.vmlinux_a
  scripts: modpost: detect and report truncated buf_printf() output
  kbuild: rpm-pkg: append %{?dist} macro to Release tag
  run-clang-tools: run multiprocessing.Pool as context manager
  compiler-clang.h: Drop explicit version number from "all" diagnostic macro
  compiler-clang.h: Remove __cleanup -Wunused-variable workaround
  kbuild: Remove check for broken scoping with clang &lt; 17 in CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO_OUTPUT
  x86/entry/vdso32: Remove conditional omission of '.cfi_offset eflags'
  x86/module: Revert "Deal with GOT based stack cookie load on Clang &lt; 17"
  x86/build: Drop unnecessary '-ffreestanding' addition to KBUILD_CFLAGS
  scripts/Makefile.warn: Drop -Wformat handling for clang &lt; 16
  riscv: Drop tautological condition from TOOLCHAIN_NEEDS_OLD_ISA_SPEC
  riscv: Remove tautological condition from selection of ARCH_SUPPORTS_CFI
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>modpost: Handle malformed WMI GUID strings</title>
<updated>2026-06-12T13:01:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Armin Wolf</name>
<email>W_Armin@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-10T20:34:53+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=3429ae7b2f02a4a6ad40d36ee06641d433d75a1b'/>
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Some WMI GUIDs found inside binary MOF files contain both
uppercase and lowercase characters. Blindly copying such
GUIDs will prevent the associated WMI driver from loading
automatically because the WMI GUID found inside WMI device ids
always contains uppercase characters.

Avoid this issue by always converting WMI GUID strings to
uppercase. Also verify that the WMI GUID string actually looks
like a valid GUID.

Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf &lt;W_Armin@gmx.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello &lt;mario.limonciello@amd.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260610203453.816254-10-W_Armin@gmx.de
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Some WMI GUIDs found inside binary MOF files contain both
uppercase and lowercase characters. Blindly copying such
GUIDs will prevent the associated WMI driver from loading
automatically because the WMI GUID found inside WMI device ids
always contains uppercase characters.

Avoid this issue by always converting WMI GUID strings to
uppercase. Also verify that the WMI GUID string actually looks
like a valid GUID.

Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf &lt;W_Armin@gmx.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello &lt;mario.limonciello@amd.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260610203453.816254-10-W_Armin@gmx.de
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>modpost: Add __llvm_covfun and __llvm_covmap to section_white_list</title>
<updated>2026-06-06T03:48:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Lee</name>
<email>james@codeconstruct.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-04T06:03:00+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=29c52907334a8e50ba1ee5fbaa53407dec28d876'/>
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Modpost emits hundreds of warnings when using Clang to build for ARCH=um
and CONFIG_GCOV=y. e.g.:
    vmlinux (__llvm_covfun): unexpected non-allocatable section.
    Did you forget to use "ax"/"aw" in a .S file?
    Note that for example &lt;linux/init.h&gt; contains
    section definitions for use in .S files.

For example, when we use LLVM for a kunit user mode build with coverage:
    python3 tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py build --make_options LLVM=1 \
        --kunitconfig=tools/testing/kunit/configs/default.config \
        --kunitconfig=tools/testing/kunit/configs/coverage_uml.config

The behaviour occurs when building the kernel for ARCH=um with code
coverage enabled. The warnings come from modpost's check_sec_ref
function, which ensures no sections reference others that will be
discarded. covfun and covmap sections must reference __init and __exit
sections to collect coverage data, triggering the modpost warning.

To suppress these warnings, these section names have been added to
modpost's whitelist. This is unlikely to suppress legitimate warnings as
Clang will only insert these sections when building with coverage, and
can be assumed to manage these references safely.

Signed-off-by: James Lee &lt;james@codeconstruct.com.au&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260604-dev-coverage-patch-v1-1-9f9368253cb4@codeconstruct.com.au
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
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Modpost emits hundreds of warnings when using Clang to build for ARCH=um
and CONFIG_GCOV=y. e.g.:
    vmlinux (__llvm_covfun): unexpected non-allocatable section.
    Did you forget to use "ax"/"aw" in a .S file?
    Note that for example &lt;linux/init.h&gt; contains
    section definitions for use in .S files.

For example, when we use LLVM for a kunit user mode build with coverage:
    python3 tools/testing/kunit/kunit.py build --make_options LLVM=1 \
        --kunitconfig=tools/testing/kunit/configs/default.config \
        --kunitconfig=tools/testing/kunit/configs/coverage_uml.config

The behaviour occurs when building the kernel for ARCH=um with code
coverage enabled. The warnings come from modpost's check_sec_ref
function, which ensures no sections reference others that will be
discarded. covfun and covmap sections must reference __init and __exit
sections to collect coverage data, triggering the modpost warning.

To suppress these warnings, these section names have been added to
modpost's whitelist. This is unlikely to suppress legitimate warnings as
Clang will only insert these sections when building with coverage, and
can be assumed to manage these references safely.

Signed-off-by: James Lee &lt;james@codeconstruct.com.au&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260604-dev-coverage-patch-v1-1-9f9368253cb4@codeconstruct.com.au
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: distributed build support for Clang ThinLTO</title>
<updated>2026-05-29T20:44:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rong Xu</name>
<email>xur@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-29T18:53:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9f2aee8f7d1842be08da860e45265d30dba0d1f7'/>
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<content type='text'>
Add distributed ThinLTO build support for the Linux kernel.
This new mode offers several advantages: (1) Increased
flexibility in handling user-specified build options.
(2) Improved user-friendliness for developers. (3) Greater
convenience for integrating with objtool and livepatch.

Note that "distributed" in this context refers to a term
that differentiates in-process ThinLTO builds by invoking
backend compilation through the linker, not necessarily
building in distributed environments.

Distributed ThinLTO is enabled via the
`CONFIG_LTO_CLANG_THIN_DIST` Kconfig option. For example:
 &gt; make LLVM=1 defconfig
 &gt; scripts/config -e LTO_CLANG_THIN_DIST
 &gt; make LLVM=1 oldconfig
 &gt; make LLVM=1 vmlinux -j &lt;..&gt;

The build flow proceeds in four stages:
  1. Perform FE compilation, mirroring the in-process ThinLTO mode.
  2. Thin-link the generated IR files and object files.
  3. Find all IR files and perform BE compilation, using the flags
    stored in the .*.o.cmd files.
  4. Link the BE results to generate the final vmlinux.o.

NOTE: This patch currently implements the build for the main kernel
image (vmlinux) only. Kernel module support is planned for a
subsequent patch.

Tested on the following arch: x86, arm64, loongarch, and
riscv.

The earlier implementation details can be found here:
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-distributed-thinlto-build-for-kernel/85934

Signed-off-by: Rong Xu &lt;xur@google.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Piotr Gorski &lt;piotrgorski@cachyos.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260529185347.2418373-4-xur@google.com
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Add distributed ThinLTO build support for the Linux kernel.
This new mode offers several advantages: (1) Increased
flexibility in handling user-specified build options.
(2) Improved user-friendliness for developers. (3) Greater
convenience for integrating with objtool and livepatch.

Note that "distributed" in this context refers to a term
that differentiates in-process ThinLTO builds by invoking
backend compilation through the linker, not necessarily
building in distributed environments.

Distributed ThinLTO is enabled via the
`CONFIG_LTO_CLANG_THIN_DIST` Kconfig option. For example:
 &gt; make LLVM=1 defconfig
 &gt; scripts/config -e LTO_CLANG_THIN_DIST
 &gt; make LLVM=1 oldconfig
 &gt; make LLVM=1 vmlinux -j &lt;..&gt;

The build flow proceeds in four stages:
  1. Perform FE compilation, mirroring the in-process ThinLTO mode.
  2. Thin-link the generated IR files and object files.
  3. Find all IR files and perform BE compilation, using the flags
    stored in the .*.o.cmd files.
  4. Link the BE results to generate the final vmlinux.o.

NOTE: This patch currently implements the build for the main kernel
image (vmlinux) only. Kernel module support is planned for a
subsequent patch.

Tested on the following arch: x86, arm64, loongarch, and
riscv.

The earlier implementation details can be found here:
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-distributed-thinlto-build-for-kernel/85934

Signed-off-by: Rong Xu &lt;xur@google.com&gt;
Co-developed-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Piotr Gorski &lt;piotrgorski@cachyos.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260529185347.2418373-4-xur@google.com
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>scripts: modpost: detect and report truncated buf_printf() output</title>
<updated>2026-05-28T16:57:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexandre Courbot</name>
<email>acourbot@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-27T11:52:17+00:00</published>
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<id>d7231d8cb262b1e350c00271bf53d54414b4f3b1</id>
<content type='text'>
buf_printf() uses a fixed-size stack buffer. vsnprintf() returns the
number of bytes that *would* have been written to that buffer, which can
be larger than the size of said buffer if the formatted string is too
long.

The problem is that whenever this happens buf_printf() currently passes
this length, unchecked, to buf_write(), which silently reads past the
stack buffer and copies invalid data into the output buffer.

Fix this by detecting vsnprintf() failures and truncations before
appending to the output buffer, and report a fatal error instead of
producing corrupt symbol names.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot &lt;acourbot@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260527-nova-exports-v2-1-06de4c556d55@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
buf_printf() uses a fixed-size stack buffer. vsnprintf() returns the
number of bytes that *would* have been written to that buffer, which can
be larger than the size of said buffer if the formatted string is too
long.

The problem is that whenever this happens buf_printf() currently passes
this length, unchecked, to buf_write(), which silently reads past the
stack buffer and copies invalid data into the output buffer.

Fix this by detecting vsnprintf() failures and truncations before
appending to the output buffer, and report a fatal error instead of
producing corrupt symbol names.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot &lt;acourbot@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260527-nova-exports-v2-1-06de4c556d55@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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