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<title>x86-64/arm64/powerpc: clean up and rename __copy_from_user_flushcache</title>
<updated>2026-03-30T22:05:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-30T21:52:45+00:00</published>
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This finishes the work on these odd functions that were only implemented
by a handful of architectures.

The 'flushcache' function was only used from the iterator code, and
let's make it do the same thing that the nontemporal version does:
remove the two underscores and add the user address checking.

Yes, yes, the user address checking is also done at iovec import time,
but we have long since walked away from the old double-underscore thing
where we try to avoid address checking overhead at access time, and
these functions shouldn't be so special and old-fashioned.

The arm64 version already did the address check, in fact, so there it's
just a matter of renaming it.  For powerpc and x86-64 we now do the
proper user access boilerplate.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This finishes the work on these odd functions that were only implemented
by a handful of architectures.

The 'flushcache' function was only used from the iterator code, and
let's make it do the same thing that the nontemporal version does:
remove the two underscores and add the user address checking.

Yes, yes, the user address checking is also done at iovec import time,
but we have long since walked away from the old double-underscore thing
where we try to avoid address checking overhead at access time, and
these functions shouldn't be so special and old-fashioned.

The arm64 version already did the address check, in fact, so there it's
just a matter of renaming it.  For powerpc and x86-64 we now do the
proper user access boilerplate.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>x86: rename and clean up __copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache()</title>
<updated>2026-03-30T22:05:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-30T20:11:07+00:00</published>
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Similarly to the previous commit, this renames the somewhat confusingly
named function.  But in this case, it was at least less confusing: the
__copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache is indeed copying from user memory,
and it is indeed ok to be used in an atomic context, so it will not warn
about it.

But the previous commit also removed the NTB mis-use of the
__copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache() function, and as a result every
call-site is now _actually_ doing a real user copy.  That means that we
can now do the proper user pointer verification too.

End result: add proper address checking, remove the double underscores,
and change the "nocache" to "nontemporal" to more accurately describe
what this x86-only function actually does.  It might be worth noting
that only the target is non-temporal: the actual user accesses are
normal memory accesses.

Also worth noting is that non-x86 targets (and on older 32-bit x86 CPU's
before XMM2 in the Pentium III) we end up just falling back on a regular
user copy, so nothing can actually depend on the non-temporal semantics,
but that has always been true.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Similarly to the previous commit, this renames the somewhat confusingly
named function.  But in this case, it was at least less confusing: the
__copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache is indeed copying from user memory,
and it is indeed ok to be used in an atomic context, so it will not warn
about it.

But the previous commit also removed the NTB mis-use of the
__copy_from_user_inatomic_nocache() function, and as a result every
call-site is now _actually_ doing a real user copy.  That means that we
can now do the proper user pointer verification too.

End result: add proper address checking, remove the double underscores,
and change the "nocache" to "nontemporal" to more accurately describe
what this x86-only function actually does.  It might be worth noting
that only the target is non-temporal: the actual user accesses are
normal memory accesses.

Also worth noting is that non-x86 targets (and on older 32-bit x86 CPU's
before XMM2 in the Pentium III) we end up just falling back on a regular
user copy, so nothing can actually depend on the non-temporal semantics,
but that has always been true.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>x86-64: rename misleadingly named '__copy_user_nocache()' function</title>
<updated>2026-03-30T22:05:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-30T17:39:09+00:00</published>
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This function was a masterclass in bad naming, for various historical
reasons.

It claimed to be a non-cached user copy.  It is literally _neither_ of
those things.  It's a specialty memory copy routine that uses
non-temporal stores for the destination (but not the source), and that
does exception handling for both source and destination accesses.

Also note that while it works for unaligned targets, any unaligned parts
(whether at beginning or end) will not use non-temporal stores, since
only words and quadwords can be non-temporal on x86.

The exception handling means that it _can_ be used for user space
accesses, but not on its own - it needs all the normal "start user space
access" logic around it.

But typically the user space access would be the source, not the
non-temporal destination.  That was the original intention of this,
where the destination was some fragile persistent memory target that
needed non-temporal stores in order to catch machine check exceptions
synchronously and deal with them gracefully.

Thus that non-descriptive name: one use case was to copy from user space
into a non-cached kernel buffer.  However, the existing users are a mix
of that intended use-case, and a couple of random drivers that just did
this as a performance tweak.

Some of those random drivers then actively misused the user copying
version (with STAC/CLAC and all) to do kernel copies without ever even
caring about the exception handling, _just_ for the non-temporal
destination.

Rename it as a first small step to actually make it halfway sane, and
change the prototype to be more normal: it doesn't take a user pointer
unless the caller has done the proper conversion, and the argument size
is the full size_t (it still won't actually copy more than 4GB in one
go, but there's also no reason to silently truncate the size argument in
the caller).

Finally, use this now sanely named function in the NTB code, which
mis-used a user copy version (with STAC/CLAC and all) of this interface
despite it not actually being a user copy at all.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This function was a masterclass in bad naming, for various historical
reasons.

It claimed to be a non-cached user copy.  It is literally _neither_ of
those things.  It's a specialty memory copy routine that uses
non-temporal stores for the destination (but not the source), and that
does exception handling for both source and destination accesses.

Also note that while it works for unaligned targets, any unaligned parts
(whether at beginning or end) will not use non-temporal stores, since
only words and quadwords can be non-temporal on x86.

The exception handling means that it _can_ be used for user space
accesses, but not on its own - it needs all the normal "start user space
access" logic around it.

But typically the user space access would be the source, not the
non-temporal destination.  That was the original intention of this,
where the destination was some fragile persistent memory target that
needed non-temporal stores in order to catch machine check exceptions
synchronously and deal with them gracefully.

Thus that non-descriptive name: one use case was to copy from user space
into a non-cached kernel buffer.  However, the existing users are a mix
of that intended use-case, and a couple of random drivers that just did
this as a performance tweak.

Some of those random drivers then actively misused the user copying
version (with STAC/CLAC and all) to do kernel copies without ever even
caring about the exception handling, _just_ for the non-temporal
destination.

Rename it as a first small step to actually make it halfway sane, and
change the prototype to be more normal: it doesn't take a user pointer
unless the caller has done the proper conversion, and the argument size
is the full size_t (it still won't actually copy more than 4GB in one
go, but there's also no reason to silently truncate the size argument in
the caller).

Finally, use this now sanely named function in the NTB code, which
mis-used a user copy version (with STAC/CLAC and all) of this interface
despite it not actually being a user copy at all.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Linux 6.19</title>
<updated>2026-02-08T21:03:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-08T21:03:27+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'i2c-for-6.19-final' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux</title>
<updated>2026-02-08T17:17:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-08T17:17:46+00:00</published>
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Pull i2c fix from Wolfram Sang:

 - imx: preserve error state during SMBus block read length handling

* tag 'i2c-for-6.19-final' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux:
  i2c: imx: preserve error state in block data length handler
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Pull i2c fix from Wolfram Sang:

 - imx: preserve error state during SMBus block read length handling

* tag 'i2c-for-6.19-final' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux:
  i2c: imx: preserve error state in block data length handler
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'spi-fix-v6.19-rc8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi</title>
<updated>2026-02-07T17:37:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-07T17:37:34+00:00</published>
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Pull spi fixes from Mark Brown:
 "One final batch of fixes for the Tegra SPI drivers, the main one is a
  batch of fixes for races with the interrupts in the Tegra210 QSPI
  driver that Breno has been working on for a while"

* tag 'spi-fix-v6.19-rc8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi:
  spi: tegra114: Preserve SPI mode bits in def_command1_reg
  spi: tegra: Fix a memory leak in tegra_slink_probe()
  spi: tegra210-quad: Protect curr_xfer check in IRQ handler
  spi: tegra210-quad: Protect curr_xfer clearing in tegra_qspi_non_combined_seq_xfer
  spi: tegra210-quad: Protect curr_xfer in tegra_qspi_combined_seq_xfer
  spi: tegra210-quad: Protect curr_xfer assignment in tegra_qspi_setup_transfer_one
  spi: tegra210-quad: Move curr_xfer read inside spinlock
  spi: tegra210-quad: Return IRQ_HANDLED when timeout already processed transfer
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Pull spi fixes from Mark Brown:
 "One final batch of fixes for the Tegra SPI drivers, the main one is a
  batch of fixes for races with the interrupts in the Tegra210 QSPI
  driver that Breno has been working on for a while"

* tag 'spi-fix-v6.19-rc8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi:
  spi: tegra114: Preserve SPI mode bits in def_command1_reg
  spi: tegra: Fix a memory leak in tegra_slink_probe()
  spi: tegra210-quad: Protect curr_xfer check in IRQ handler
  spi: tegra210-quad: Protect curr_xfer clearing in tegra_qspi_non_combined_seq_xfer
  spi: tegra210-quad: Protect curr_xfer in tegra_qspi_combined_seq_xfer
  spi: tegra210-quad: Protect curr_xfer assignment in tegra_qspi_setup_transfer_one
  spi: tegra210-quad: Move curr_xfer read inside spinlock
  spi: tegra210-quad: Return IRQ_HANDLED when timeout already processed transfer
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'regulator-fix-v6.19-rc8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regulator</title>
<updated>2026-02-07T17:34:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-07T17:34:49+00:00</published>
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Pull regulator fix from Mark Brown:
 "One last fix for v6.19: the voltages for the SpaceMIT P1 were not
  described correctly"

* tag 'regulator-fix-v6.19-rc8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regulator:
  regulator: spacemit-p1: Fix n_voltages for BUCK and LDO regulators
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Pull regulator fix from Mark Brown:
 "One last fix for v6.19: the voltages for the SpaceMIT P1 were not
  described correctly"

* tag 'regulator-fix-v6.19-rc8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regulator:
  regulator: spacemit-p1: Fix n_voltages for BUCK and LDO regulators
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<title>Merge tag 'char-misc-6.19-final' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc</title>
<updated>2026-02-07T17:27:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-07T17:27:57+00:00</published>
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Pull binder fixes from Greg KH:
 "Here are some small, last-minute binder C and Rust driver fixes for
  reported issues. They include a number of fixes for reported crashes
  and other problems.

  All of these have been in linux-next this week, and longer"

* tag 'char-misc-6.19-final' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc:
  binderfs: fix ida_alloc_max() upper bound
  rust_binderfs: fix ida_alloc_max() upper bound
  binder: fix BR_FROZEN_REPLY error log
  rust_binder: add additional alignment checks
  binder: fix UAF in binder_netlink_report()
  rust_binder: correctly handle FDA objects of length zero
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Pull binder fixes from Greg KH:
 "Here are some small, last-minute binder C and Rust driver fixes for
  reported issues. They include a number of fixes for reported crashes
  and other problems.

  All of these have been in linux-next this week, and longer"

* tag 'char-misc-6.19-final' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc:
  binderfs: fix ida_alloc_max() upper bound
  rust_binderfs: fix ida_alloc_max() upper bound
  binder: fix BR_FROZEN_REPLY error log
  rust_binder: add additional alignment checks
  binder: fix UAF in binder_netlink_report()
  rust_binder: correctly handle FDA objects of length zero
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<title>Merge tag 'sched-urgent-2026-02-07' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2026-02-07T17:10:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-07T17:10:42+00:00</published>
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Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Miscellaneous MMCID fixes to address bugs and performance regressions
  in the recent rewrite of the SCHED_MM_CID management code:

   - Fix livelock triggered by BPF CI testing

   - Fix hard lockup on weakly ordered systems

   - Simplify the dropping of CIDs in the exit path by removing an
     unintended transition phase

   - Fix performance/scalability regression on a thread-pool benchmark
     by optimizing transitional CIDs when scheduling out"

* tag 'sched-urgent-2026-02-07' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/mmcid: Optimize transitional CIDs when scheduling out
  sched/mmcid: Drop per CPU CID immediately when switching to per task mode
  sched/mmcid: Protect transition on weakly ordered systems
  sched/mmcid: Prevent live lock on task to CPU mode transition
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Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Miscellaneous MMCID fixes to address bugs and performance regressions
  in the recent rewrite of the SCHED_MM_CID management code:

   - Fix livelock triggered by BPF CI testing

   - Fix hard lockup on weakly ordered systems

   - Simplify the dropping of CIDs in the exit path by removing an
     unintended transition phase

   - Fix performance/scalability regression on a thread-pool benchmark
     by optimizing transitional CIDs when scheduling out"

* tag 'sched-urgent-2026-02-07' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/mmcid: Optimize transitional CIDs when scheduling out
  sched/mmcid: Drop per CPU CID immediately when switching to per task mode
  sched/mmcid: Protect transition on weakly ordered systems
  sched/mmcid: Prevent live lock on task to CPU mode transition
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'objtool-urgent-2026-02-07' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2026-02-07T16:21:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-07T16:21:21+00:00</published>
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Pull objtool fixes from Ingo Molnar::

 - Bump up the Clang minimum version requirements for livepatch
   builds, due to Clang assembler section handling bugs causing
   silent miscompilations

 - Strip livepatching symbol artifacts from non-livepatch modules

 - Fix livepatch build warnings when certain Clang LTO options
   are enabled

 - Fix livepatch build error when CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_DEBUG=y

* tag 'objtool-urgent-2026-02-07' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  objtool/klp: Fix unexported static call key access for manually built livepatch modules
  objtool/klp: Fix symbol correlation for orphaned local symbols
  livepatch: Free klp_{object,func}_ext data after initialization
  livepatch: Fix having __klp_objects relics in non-livepatch modules
  livepatch/klp-build: Require Clang assembler &gt;= 20
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Pull objtool fixes from Ingo Molnar::

 - Bump up the Clang minimum version requirements for livepatch
   builds, due to Clang assembler section handling bugs causing
   silent miscompilations

 - Strip livepatching symbol artifacts from non-livepatch modules

 - Fix livepatch build warnings when certain Clang LTO options
   are enabled

 - Fix livepatch build error when CONFIG_MEM_ALLOC_PROFILING_DEBUG=y

* tag 'objtool-urgent-2026-02-07' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  objtool/klp: Fix unexported static call key access for manually built livepatch modules
  objtool/klp: Fix symbol correlation for orphaned local symbols
  livepatch: Free klp_{object,func}_ext data after initialization
  livepatch: Fix having __klp_objects relics in non-livepatch modules
  livepatch/klp-build: Require Clang assembler &gt;= 20
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