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<title>rust: compile libcore with edition 2024 for 1.87+</title>
<updated>2025-06-19T13:41:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gary Guo</name>
<email>gary@garyguo.net</email>
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<published>2025-05-17T08:55:59+00:00</published>
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commit f4daa80d6be7d3c55ca72a8e560afc4e21f886aa upstream.

Rust 1.87 (released on 2025-05-15) compiles core library with edition
2024 instead of 2021 [1]. Ensure that the edition matches libcore's
expectation to avoid potential breakage.

[ J3m3 reported in Zulip [2] that the `rust-analyzer` target was
  broken after this patch -- indeed, we need to avoid `core-cfgs`
  since those are passed to the `rust-analyzer` target.

  So, instead, I tweaked the patch to create a new `core-edition`
  variable and explicitly mention the `--edition` flag instead of
  reusing `core-cfg`s.

  In addition, pass a new argument using this new variable to
  `generate_rust_analyzer.py` so that we set the right edition there.

  By the way, for future reference: the `filter-out` change is needed
  for Rust &lt; 1.87, since otherwise we would skip the `--edition=2021`
  we just added, ending up with no edition flag, and thus the compiler
  would default to the 2015 one.

  [2] https://rust-for-linux.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/291565/topic/x/near/520206547

    - Miguel ]

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # Needed in 6.12.y and later (Rust is pinned in older LTSs).
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/138162 [1]
Reported-by: est31 &lt;est31@protonmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/1163
Signed-off-by: Gary Guo &lt;gary@garyguo.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250517085600.2857460-1-gary@garyguo.net
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit f4daa80d6be7d3c55ca72a8e560afc4e21f886aa upstream.

Rust 1.87 (released on 2025-05-15) compiles core library with edition
2024 instead of 2021 [1]. Ensure that the edition matches libcore's
expectation to avoid potential breakage.

[ J3m3 reported in Zulip [2] that the `rust-analyzer` target was
  broken after this patch -- indeed, we need to avoid `core-cfgs`
  since those are passed to the `rust-analyzer` target.

  So, instead, I tweaked the patch to create a new `core-edition`
  variable and explicitly mention the `--edition` flag instead of
  reusing `core-cfg`s.

  In addition, pass a new argument using this new variable to
  `generate_rust_analyzer.py` so that we set the right edition there.

  By the way, for future reference: the `filter-out` change is needed
  for Rust &lt; 1.87, since otherwise we would skip the `--edition=2021`
  we just added, ending up with no edition flag, and thus the compiler
  would default to the 2015 one.

  [2] https://rust-for-linux.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/291565/topic/x/near/520206547

    - Miguel ]

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # Needed in 6.12.y and later (Rust is pinned in older LTSs).
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/138162 [1]
Reported-by: est31 &lt;est31@protonmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/1163
Signed-off-by: Gary Guo &lt;gary@garyguo.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250517085600.2857460-1-gary@garyguo.net
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda &lt;ojeda@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>genksyms: Fix enum consts from a reference affecting new values</title>
<updated>2025-06-19T13:40:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Pavlu</name>
<email>petr.pavlu@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-03T13:02:09+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit c50a04f8f45c7f13972f9097622d1d929033ea8c ]

Enumeration constants read from a symbol reference file can incorrectly
affect new enumeration constants parsed from an actual input file.

Example:

 $ cat test.c
 enum { E_A, E_B, E_MAX };
 struct bar { int mem[E_MAX]; };
 int foo(struct bar *a) {}
 __GENKSYMS_EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo);

 $ cat test.c | ./scripts/genksyms/genksyms -T test.0.symtypes
 #SYMVER foo 0x070d854d

 $ cat test.0.symtypes
 E#E_MAX 2
 s#bar struct bar { int mem [ E#E_MAX ] ; }
 foo int foo ( s#bar * )

 $ cat test.c | ./scripts/genksyms/genksyms -T test.1.symtypes -r test.0.symtypes
 &lt;stdin&gt;:4: warning: foo: modversion changed because of changes in enum constant E_MAX
 #SYMVER foo 0x9c9dfd81

 $ cat test.1.symtypes
 E#E_MAX ( 2 ) + 3
 s#bar struct bar { int mem [ E#E_MAX ] ; }
 foo int foo ( s#bar * )

The __add_symbol() function includes logic to handle the incrementation of
enumeration values, but this code is also invoked when reading a reference
file. As a result, the variables last_enum_expr and enum_counter might be
incorrectly set after reading the reference file, which later affects
parsing of the actual input.

Fix the problem by splitting the logic for the incrementation of
enumeration values into a separate function process_enum() and call it from
__add_symbol() only when processing non-reference data.

Fixes: e37ddb825003 ("genksyms: Track changes to enum constants")
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu &lt;petr.pavlu@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit c50a04f8f45c7f13972f9097622d1d929033ea8c ]

Enumeration constants read from a symbol reference file can incorrectly
affect new enumeration constants parsed from an actual input file.

Example:

 $ cat test.c
 enum { E_A, E_B, E_MAX };
 struct bar { int mem[E_MAX]; };
 int foo(struct bar *a) {}
 __GENKSYMS_EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo);

 $ cat test.c | ./scripts/genksyms/genksyms -T test.0.symtypes
 #SYMVER foo 0x070d854d

 $ cat test.0.symtypes
 E#E_MAX 2
 s#bar struct bar { int mem [ E#E_MAX ] ; }
 foo int foo ( s#bar * )

 $ cat test.c | ./scripts/genksyms/genksyms -T test.1.symtypes -r test.0.symtypes
 &lt;stdin&gt;:4: warning: foo: modversion changed because of changes in enum constant E_MAX
 #SYMVER foo 0x9c9dfd81

 $ cat test.1.symtypes
 E#E_MAX ( 2 ) + 3
 s#bar struct bar { int mem [ E#E_MAX ] ; }
 foo int foo ( s#bar * )

The __add_symbol() function includes logic to handle the incrementation of
enumeration values, but this code is also invoked when reading a reference
file. As a result, the variables last_enum_expr and enum_counter might be
incorrectly set after reading the reference file, which later affects
parsing of the actual input.

Fix the problem by splitting the logic for the incrementation of
enumeration values into a separate function process_enum() and call it from
__add_symbol() only when processing non-reference data.

Fixes: e37ddb825003 ("genksyms: Track changes to enum constants")
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu &lt;petr.pavlu@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>randstruct: gcc-plugin: Fix attribute addition</title>
<updated>2025-06-19T13:40:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-30T22:18:28+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit f39f18f3c3531aa802b58a20d39d96e82eb96c14 ]

Based on changes in the 2021 public version of the randstruct
out-of-tree GCC plugin[1], more carefully update the attributes on
resulting decls, to avoid tripping checks in GCC 15's
comptypes_check_enum_int() when it has been configured with
"--enable-checking=misc":

arch/arm64/kernel/kexec_image.c:132:14: internal compiler error: in comptypes_check_enum_int, at c/c-typeck.cc:1519
  132 | const struct kexec_file_ops kexec_image_ops = {
      |              ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 internal_error(char const*, ...), at gcc/gcc/diagnostic-global-context.cc:517
 fancy_abort(char const*, int, char const*), at gcc/gcc/diagnostic.cc:1803
 comptypes_check_enum_int(tree_node*, tree_node*, bool*), at gcc/gcc/c/c-typeck.cc:1519
 ...

Link: https://archive.org/download/grsecurity/grsecurity-3.1-5.10.41-202105280954.patch.gz [1]
Reported-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann &lt;thiago.bauermann@linaro.org&gt;
Closes: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/367
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250530000646.104457-1-thiago.bauermann@linaro.org/
Reported-by: Ingo Saitz &lt;ingo@hannover.ccc.de&gt;
Closes: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1104745
Fixes: 313dd1b62921 ("gcc-plugins: Add the randstruct plugin")
Tested-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann &lt;thiago.bauermann@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250530221824.work.623-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit f39f18f3c3531aa802b58a20d39d96e82eb96c14 ]

Based on changes in the 2021 public version of the randstruct
out-of-tree GCC plugin[1], more carefully update the attributes on
resulting decls, to avoid tripping checks in GCC 15's
comptypes_check_enum_int() when it has been configured with
"--enable-checking=misc":

arch/arm64/kernel/kexec_image.c:132:14: internal compiler error: in comptypes_check_enum_int, at c/c-typeck.cc:1519
  132 | const struct kexec_file_ops kexec_image_ops = {
      |              ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 internal_error(char const*, ...), at gcc/gcc/diagnostic-global-context.cc:517
 fancy_abort(char const*, int, char const*), at gcc/gcc/diagnostic.cc:1803
 comptypes_check_enum_int(tree_node*, tree_node*, bool*), at gcc/gcc/c/c-typeck.cc:1519
 ...

Link: https://archive.org/download/grsecurity/grsecurity-3.1-5.10.41-202105280954.patch.gz [1]
Reported-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann &lt;thiago.bauermann@linaro.org&gt;
Closes: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/367
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250530000646.104457-1-thiago.bauermann@linaro.org/
Reported-by: Ingo Saitz &lt;ingo@hannover.ccc.de&gt;
Closes: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1104745
Fixes: 313dd1b62921 ("gcc-plugins: Add the randstruct plugin")
Tested-by: Thiago Jung Bauermann &lt;thiago.bauermann@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250530221824.work.623-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>randstruct: gcc-plugin: Remove bogus void member</title>
<updated>2025-06-19T13:40:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-26T07:37:52+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit e136a4062174a9a8d1c1447ca040ea81accfa6a8 ]

When building the randomized replacement tree of struct members, the
randstruct GCC plugin would insert, as the first member, a 0-sized void
member. This appears as though it was done to catch non-designated
("unnamed") static initializers, which wouldn't be stable since they
depend on the original struct layout order.

This was accomplished by having the side-effect of the "void member"
tripping an assert in GCC internals (count_type_elements) if the member
list ever needed to be counted (e.g. for figuring out the order of members
during a non-designated initialization), which would catch impossible type
(void) in the struct:

security/landlock/fs.c: In function ‘hook_file_ioctl_common’:
security/landlock/fs.c:1745:61: internal compiler error: in count_type_elements, at expr.cc:7075
 1745 |                         .u.op = &amp;(struct lsm_ioctlop_audit) {
      |                                                             ^

static HOST_WIDE_INT
count_type_elements (const_tree type, bool for_ctor_p)
{
  switch (TREE_CODE (type))
...
    case VOID_TYPE:
    default:
      gcc_unreachable ();
    }
}

However this is a redundant safety measure since randstruct uses the
__designated_initializer attribute both internally and within the
__randomized_layout attribute macro so that this would be enforced
by the compiler directly even when randstruct was not enabled (via
-Wdesignated-init).

A recent change in Landlock ended up tripping the same member counting
routine when using a full-struct copy initializer as part of an anonymous
initializer. This, however, is a false positive as the initializer is
copying between identical structs (and hence identical layouts). The
"path" member is "struct path", a randomized struct, and is being copied
to from another "struct path", the "f_path" member:

        landlock_log_denial(landlock_cred(file-&gt;f_cred), &amp;(struct landlock_request) {
                .type = LANDLOCK_REQUEST_FS_ACCESS,
                .audit = {
                        .type = LSM_AUDIT_DATA_IOCTL_OP,
                        .u.op = &amp;(struct lsm_ioctlop_audit) {
                                .path = file-&gt;f_path,
                                .cmd = cmd,
                        },
                },
	...

As can be seen with the coming randstruct KUnit test, there appears to
be no behavioral problems with this kind of initialization when the void
member is removed from the randstruct GCC plugin, so remove it.

Reported-by: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" &lt;linux@treblig.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Z_PRaKx7q70MKgCA@gallifrey/
Reported-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250407-kbuild-disable-gcc-plugins-v1-1-5d46ae583f5e@kernel.org/
Reported-by: WangYuli &lt;wangyuli@uniontech.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/337D5D4887277B27+3c677db3-a8b9-47f0-93a4-7809355f1381@uniontech.com/
Fixes: 313dd1b62921 ("gcc-plugins: Add the randstruct plugin")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: f39f18f3c353 ("randstruct: gcc-plugin: Fix attribute addition")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit e136a4062174a9a8d1c1447ca040ea81accfa6a8 ]

When building the randomized replacement tree of struct members, the
randstruct GCC plugin would insert, as the first member, a 0-sized void
member. This appears as though it was done to catch non-designated
("unnamed") static initializers, which wouldn't be stable since they
depend on the original struct layout order.

This was accomplished by having the side-effect of the "void member"
tripping an assert in GCC internals (count_type_elements) if the member
list ever needed to be counted (e.g. for figuring out the order of members
during a non-designated initialization), which would catch impossible type
(void) in the struct:

security/landlock/fs.c: In function ‘hook_file_ioctl_common’:
security/landlock/fs.c:1745:61: internal compiler error: in count_type_elements, at expr.cc:7075
 1745 |                         .u.op = &amp;(struct lsm_ioctlop_audit) {
      |                                                             ^

static HOST_WIDE_INT
count_type_elements (const_tree type, bool for_ctor_p)
{
  switch (TREE_CODE (type))
...
    case VOID_TYPE:
    default:
      gcc_unreachable ();
    }
}

However this is a redundant safety measure since randstruct uses the
__designated_initializer attribute both internally and within the
__randomized_layout attribute macro so that this would be enforced
by the compiler directly even when randstruct was not enabled (via
-Wdesignated-init).

A recent change in Landlock ended up tripping the same member counting
routine when using a full-struct copy initializer as part of an anonymous
initializer. This, however, is a false positive as the initializer is
copying between identical structs (and hence identical layouts). The
"path" member is "struct path", a randomized struct, and is being copied
to from another "struct path", the "f_path" member:

        landlock_log_denial(landlock_cred(file-&gt;f_cred), &amp;(struct landlock_request) {
                .type = LANDLOCK_REQUEST_FS_ACCESS,
                .audit = {
                        .type = LSM_AUDIT_DATA_IOCTL_OP,
                        .u.op = &amp;(struct lsm_ioctlop_audit) {
                                .path = file-&gt;f_path,
                                .cmd = cmd,
                        },
                },
	...

As can be seen with the coming randstruct KUnit test, there appears to
be no behavioral problems with this kind of initialization when the void
member is removed from the randstruct GCC plugin, so remove it.

Reported-by: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" &lt;linux@treblig.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Z_PRaKx7q70MKgCA@gallifrey/
Reported-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250407-kbuild-disable-gcc-plugins-v1-1-5d46ae583f5e@kernel.org/
Reported-by: WangYuli &lt;wangyuli@uniontech.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/337D5D4887277B27+3c677db3-a8b9-47f0-93a4-7809355f1381@uniontech.com/
Fixes: 313dd1b62921 ("gcc-plugins: Add the randstruct plugin")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: f39f18f3c353 ("randstruct: gcc-plugin: Fix attribute addition")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kbuild: fix typos "module.builtin" to "modules.builtin"</title>
<updated>2025-05-12T06:04:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-12T05:36:58+00:00</published>
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The filenames in the comments do not match the actual generated files.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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The filenames in the comments do not match the actual generated files.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: fix dependency on sorttable</title>
<updated>2025-05-12T06:04:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-11T03:55:19+00:00</published>
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Commit ac4f06789b4f ("kbuild: Create intermediate vmlinux build with
relocations preserved") missed replacing one occurrence of "vmlinux"
that was added during the same development cycle.

Fixes: ac4f06789b4f ("kbuild: Create intermediate vmlinux build with relocations preserved")
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit ac4f06789b4f ("kbuild: Create intermediate vmlinux build with
relocations preserved") missed replacing one occurrence of "vmlinux"
that was added during the same development cycle.

Fixes: ac4f06789b4f ("kbuild: Create intermediate vmlinux build with relocations preserved")
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: Disable -Wdefault-const-init-unsafe</title>
<updated>2025-05-12T06:03:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Chancellor</name>
<email>nathan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-06T21:02:01+00:00</published>
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A new on by default warning in clang [1] aims to flags instances where
const variables without static or thread local storage or const members
in aggregate types are not initialized because it can lead to an
indeterminate value. This is quite noisy for the kernel due to
instances originating from header files such as:

  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ring.h:62:2: error: default initialization of an object of type 'typeof (ring-&gt;size)' (aka 'const unsigned int') leaves the object uninitialized [-Werror,-Wdefault-const-init-var-unsafe]
     62 |         typecheck(typeof(ring-&gt;size), next);
        |         ^
  include/linux/typecheck.h:10:9: note: expanded from macro 'typecheck'
     10 | ({      type __dummy; \
        |              ^

  include/net/ip.h:478:14: error: default initialization of an object of type 'typeof (rt-&gt;dst.expires)' (aka 'const unsigned long') leaves the object uninitialized [-Werror,-Wdefault-const-init-var-unsafe]
    478 |                 if (mtu &amp;&amp; time_before(jiffies, rt-&gt;dst.expires))
        |                            ^
  include/linux/jiffies.h:138:26: note: expanded from macro 'time_before'
    138 | #define time_before(a,b)        time_after(b,a)
        |                                 ^
  include/linux/jiffies.h:128:3: note: expanded from macro 'time_after'
    128 |         (typecheck(unsigned long, a) &amp;&amp; \
        |          ^
  include/linux/typecheck.h:11:12: note: expanded from macro 'typecheck'
     11 |         typeof(x) __dummy2; \
        |                   ^

  include/linux/list.h:409:27: warning: default initialization of an object of type 'union (unnamed union at include/linux/list.h:409:27)' with const member leaves the object uninitialized [-Wdefault-const-init-field-unsafe]
    409 |         struct list_head *next = smp_load_acquire(&amp;head-&gt;next);
        |                                  ^
  include/asm-generic/barrier.h:176:29: note: expanded from macro 'smp_load_acquire'
    176 | #define smp_load_acquire(p) __smp_load_acquire(p)
        |                             ^
  arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h:164:59: note: expanded from macro '__smp_load_acquire'
    164 |         union { __unqual_scalar_typeof(*p) __val; char __c[1]; } __u;   \
        |                                                                  ^
  include/linux/list.h:409:27: note: member '__val' declared 'const' here

  crypto/scatterwalk.c:66:22: error: default initialization of an object of type 'struct scatter_walk' with const member leaves the object uninitialized [-Werror,-Wdefault-const-init-field-unsafe]
     66 |         struct scatter_walk walk;
        |                             ^
  include/crypto/algapi.h:112:15: note: member 'addr' declared 'const' here
    112 |                 void *const addr;
        |                             ^

  fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c:733:24: error: default initialization of an object of type 'struct vm_area_struct' with const member leaves the object uninitialized [-Werror,-Wdefault-const-init-field-unsafe]
    733 |         struct vm_area_struct pseudo_vma;
        |                               ^
  include/linux/mm_types.h:803:20: note: member 'vm_flags' declared 'const' here
    803 |                 const vm_flags_t vm_flags;
        |                                  ^

Silencing the instances from typecheck.h is difficult because '= {}' is
not available in older but supported compilers and '= {0}' would cause
warnings about a literal 0 being treated as NULL. While it might be
possible to come up with a local hack to silence the warning for
clang-21+, it may not be worth it since -Wuninitialized will still
trigger if an uninitialized const variable is actually used.

In all audited cases of the "field" variant of the warning, the members
are either not used in the particular call path, modified through other
means such as memset() / memcpy() because the containing object is not
const, or are within a union with other non-const members.

Since this warning does not appear to have a high signal to noise ratio,
just disable it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/576161cb6069e2c7656a8ef530727a0f4aefff30 [1]
Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing &lt;lkft@linaro.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/CA+G9fYuNjKcxFKS_MKPRuga32XbndkLGcY-PVuoSwzv6VWbY=w@mail.gmail.com/
Reported-by: Marcus Seyfarth &lt;m.seyfarth@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/2088
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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A new on by default warning in clang [1] aims to flags instances where
const variables without static or thread local storage or const members
in aggregate types are not initialized because it can lead to an
indeterminate value. This is quite noisy for the kernel due to
instances originating from header files such as:

  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ring.h:62:2: error: default initialization of an object of type 'typeof (ring-&gt;size)' (aka 'const unsigned int') leaves the object uninitialized [-Werror,-Wdefault-const-init-var-unsafe]
     62 |         typecheck(typeof(ring-&gt;size), next);
        |         ^
  include/linux/typecheck.h:10:9: note: expanded from macro 'typecheck'
     10 | ({      type __dummy; \
        |              ^

  include/net/ip.h:478:14: error: default initialization of an object of type 'typeof (rt-&gt;dst.expires)' (aka 'const unsigned long') leaves the object uninitialized [-Werror,-Wdefault-const-init-var-unsafe]
    478 |                 if (mtu &amp;&amp; time_before(jiffies, rt-&gt;dst.expires))
        |                            ^
  include/linux/jiffies.h:138:26: note: expanded from macro 'time_before'
    138 | #define time_before(a,b)        time_after(b,a)
        |                                 ^
  include/linux/jiffies.h:128:3: note: expanded from macro 'time_after'
    128 |         (typecheck(unsigned long, a) &amp;&amp; \
        |          ^
  include/linux/typecheck.h:11:12: note: expanded from macro 'typecheck'
     11 |         typeof(x) __dummy2; \
        |                   ^

  include/linux/list.h:409:27: warning: default initialization of an object of type 'union (unnamed union at include/linux/list.h:409:27)' with const member leaves the object uninitialized [-Wdefault-const-init-field-unsafe]
    409 |         struct list_head *next = smp_load_acquire(&amp;head-&gt;next);
        |                                  ^
  include/asm-generic/barrier.h:176:29: note: expanded from macro 'smp_load_acquire'
    176 | #define smp_load_acquire(p) __smp_load_acquire(p)
        |                             ^
  arch/arm64/include/asm/barrier.h:164:59: note: expanded from macro '__smp_load_acquire'
    164 |         union { __unqual_scalar_typeof(*p) __val; char __c[1]; } __u;   \
        |                                                                  ^
  include/linux/list.h:409:27: note: member '__val' declared 'const' here

  crypto/scatterwalk.c:66:22: error: default initialization of an object of type 'struct scatter_walk' with const member leaves the object uninitialized [-Werror,-Wdefault-const-init-field-unsafe]
     66 |         struct scatter_walk walk;
        |                             ^
  include/crypto/algapi.h:112:15: note: member 'addr' declared 'const' here
    112 |                 void *const addr;
        |                             ^

  fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c:733:24: error: default initialization of an object of type 'struct vm_area_struct' with const member leaves the object uninitialized [-Werror,-Wdefault-const-init-field-unsafe]
    733 |         struct vm_area_struct pseudo_vma;
        |                               ^
  include/linux/mm_types.h:803:20: note: member 'vm_flags' declared 'const' here
    803 |                 const vm_flags_t vm_flags;
        |                                  ^

Silencing the instances from typecheck.h is difficult because '= {}' is
not available in older but supported compilers and '= {0}' would cause
warnings about a literal 0 being treated as NULL. While it might be
possible to come up with a local hack to silence the warning for
clang-21+, it may not be worth it since -Wuninitialized will still
trigger if an uninitialized const variable is actually used.

In all audited cases of the "field" variant of the warning, the members
are either not used in the particular call path, modified through other
means such as memset() / memcpy() because the containing object is not
const, or are within a union with other non-const members.

Since this warning does not appear to have a high signal to noise ratio,
just disable it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/576161cb6069e2c7656a8ef530727a0f4aefff30 [1]
Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing &lt;lkft@linaro.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/CA+G9fYuNjKcxFKS_MKPRuga32XbndkLGcY-PVuoSwzv6VWbY=w@mail.gmail.com/
Reported-by: Marcus Seyfarth &lt;m.seyfarth@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/2088
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: rpm-pkg: Add (elfutils-devel or libdw-devel) to BuildRequires</title>
<updated>2025-05-12T06:03:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>WangYuli</name>
<email>wangyuli@uniontech.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-22T10:54:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=5bd6bdd0f76e257c029ff34100f2959cd4992486'/>
<id>5bd6bdd0f76e257c029ff34100f2959cd4992486</id>
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The dwarf.h header, which is included by
scripts/gendwarfksyms/gendwarfksyms.h, resides within elfutils-devel
or libdw-devel package.

This portion of the code is compiled under the condition that
CONFIG_GENDWARFKSYMS is enabled.

Consequently, add (elfutils-devel or libdw-devel) to BuildRequires to
prevent unforeseen compilation failures.

Fix follow possible error:
  In file included from scripts/gendwarfksyms/cache.c:6:
  scripts/gendwarfksyms/gendwarfksyms.h:6:10: fatal error: 'dwarf.h' file not found
      6 | #include &lt;dwarf.h&gt;
        |          ^~~~~~~~~

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/3e52d80d-0c60-4df5-8cb5-21d4b1fce7b7@suse.com/
Fixes: f28568841ae0 ("tools: Add gendwarfksyms")
Suggested-by: Petr Pavlu &lt;petr.pavlu@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: WangYuli &lt;wangyuli@uniontech.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;n.schier@avm.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
The dwarf.h header, which is included by
scripts/gendwarfksyms/gendwarfksyms.h, resides within elfutils-devel
or libdw-devel package.

This portion of the code is compiled under the condition that
CONFIG_GENDWARFKSYMS is enabled.

Consequently, add (elfutils-devel or libdw-devel) to BuildRequires to
prevent unforeseen compilation failures.

Fix follow possible error:
  In file included from scripts/gendwarfksyms/cache.c:6:
  scripts/gendwarfksyms/gendwarfksyms.h:6:10: fatal error: 'dwarf.h' file not found
      6 | #include &lt;dwarf.h&gt;
        |          ^~~~~~~~~

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/3e52d80d-0c60-4df5-8cb5-21d4b1fce7b7@suse.com/
Fixes: f28568841ae0 ("tools: Add gendwarfksyms")
Suggested-by: Petr Pavlu &lt;petr.pavlu@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: WangYuli &lt;wangyuli@uniontech.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;n.schier@avm.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: deb-pkg: Add libdw-dev:native to Build-Depends-Arch</title>
<updated>2025-05-12T06:03:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>WangYuli</name>
<email>wangyuli@uniontech.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-22T10:54:01+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=657f96cb7c06a2ef85d166f1b055baeb6511c324'/>
<id>657f96cb7c06a2ef85d166f1b055baeb6511c324</id>
<content type='text'>
The dwarf.h header, which is included by
scripts/gendwarfksyms/gendwarfksyms.h, resides within the libdw-dev
package.

This portion of the code is compiled under the condition that
CONFIG_GENDWARFKSYMS is enabled.

Consequently, add libdw-dev to Build-Depends-Arch to prevent
unforeseen compilation failures.

Fix follow possible error:
  In file included from scripts/gendwarfksyms/symbols.c:6:
  scripts/gendwarfksyms/gendwarfksyms.h:6:10: fatal error: 'dwarf.h' file not found
      6 | #include &lt;dwarf.h&gt;
        |          ^~~~~~~~~

Fixes: f28568841ae0 ("tools: Add gendwarfksyms")
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: WangYuli &lt;wangyuli@uniontech.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;n.schier@avm.de&gt;
Tested-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;n.schier@avm.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The dwarf.h header, which is included by
scripts/gendwarfksyms/gendwarfksyms.h, resides within the libdw-dev
package.

This portion of the code is compiled under the condition that
CONFIG_GENDWARFKSYMS is enabled.

Consequently, add libdw-dev to Build-Depends-Arch to prevent
unforeseen compilation failures.

Fix follow possible error:
  In file included from scripts/gendwarfksyms/symbols.c:6:
  scripts/gendwarfksyms/gendwarfksyms.h:6:10: fatal error: 'dwarf.h' file not found
      6 | #include &lt;dwarf.h&gt;
        |          ^~~~~~~~~

Fixes: f28568841ae0 ("tools: Add gendwarfksyms")
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: WangYuli &lt;wangyuli@uniontech.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;n.schier@avm.de&gt;
Tested-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;n.schier@avm.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>scripts: Do not strip .rela.dyn section</title>
<updated>2025-05-08T12:01:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexandre Ghiti</name>
<email>alexghiti@rivosinc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-08T07:28:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=e9d86b8e17e725ee6088970981ab99f29abd1997'/>
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<content type='text'>
The .rela.dyn section contains runtime relocations and is only emitted
for a relocatable kernel.

riscv uses this section to relocate the kernel at runtime but that section
is stripped from vmlinux. That prevents kexec to successfully load vmlinux
since it does not contain the relocations info needed.

Fixes: 559d1e45a16d ("riscv: Use --emit-relocs in order to move .rela.dyn in init")
Tested-by: Björn Töpel &lt;bjorn@rivosinc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Björn Töpel &lt;bjorn@rivosinc.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250408072851.90275-1-alexghiti@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alexghiti@rivosinc.com&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The .rela.dyn section contains runtime relocations and is only emitted
for a relocatable kernel.

riscv uses this section to relocate the kernel at runtime but that section
is stripped from vmlinux. That prevents kexec to successfully load vmlinux
since it does not contain the relocations info needed.

Fixes: 559d1e45a16d ("riscv: Use --emit-relocs in order to move .rela.dyn in init")
Tested-by: Björn Töpel &lt;bjorn@rivosinc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Björn Töpel &lt;bjorn@rivosinc.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250408072851.90275-1-alexghiti@rivosinc.com
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti &lt;alexghiti@rivosinc.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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