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<title>kbuild: align modinfo section for Secureboot Authenticode EDK2 compat</title>
<updated>2025-10-27T23:21:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dimitri John Ledkov</name>
<email>dimitri.ledkov@surgut.co.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-26T20:21:00+00:00</published>
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Previously linker scripts would always generate vmlinuz that has sections
aligned. And thus padded (correct Authenticode calculation) and unpadded
calculation would be same. As in https://github.com/rhboot/pesign userspace
tool would produce the same authenticode digest for both of the following
commands:

    pesign --padding --hash --in ./arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage
    pesign --nopadding --hash --in ./arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage

The commit 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in
vmlinux.unstripped") added .modinfo section of variable length. Depending
on kernel configuration it may or may not be aligned.

All userspace signing tooling correctly pads such section to calculation
spec compliant authenticode digest.

However, if bzImage is not further processed and is attempted to be loaded
directly by EDK2 firmware, it calculates unpadded Authenticode digest and
fails to correct accept/reject such kernel builds even when propoer
Authenticode values are enrolled in db/dbx. One can say EDK2 requires
aligned/padded kernels in Secureboot.

Thus add ALIGN(8) to the .modinfo section, to esure kernels irrespective of
modinfo contents can be loaded by all existing EDK2 firmware builds.

Fixes: 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dimitri John Ledkov &lt;dimitri.ledkov@surgut.co.uk&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251026202100.679989-1-dimitri.ledkov@surgut.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
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Previously linker scripts would always generate vmlinuz that has sections
aligned. And thus padded (correct Authenticode calculation) and unpadded
calculation would be same. As in https://github.com/rhboot/pesign userspace
tool would produce the same authenticode digest for both of the following
commands:

    pesign --padding --hash --in ./arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage
    pesign --nopadding --hash --in ./arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage

The commit 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in
vmlinux.unstripped") added .modinfo section of variable length. Depending
on kernel configuration it may or may not be aligned.

All userspace signing tooling correctly pads such section to calculation
spec compliant authenticode digest.

However, if bzImage is not further processed and is attempted to be loaded
directly by EDK2 firmware, it calculates unpadded Authenticode digest and
fails to correct accept/reject such kernel builds even when propoer
Authenticode values are enrolled in db/dbx. One can say EDK2 requires
aligned/padded kernels in Secureboot.

Thus add ALIGN(8) to the .modinfo section, to esure kernels irrespective of
modinfo contents can be loaded by all existing EDK2 firmware builds.

Fixes: 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dimitri John Ledkov &lt;dimitri.ledkov@surgut.co.uk&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251026202100.679989-1-dimitri.ledkov@surgut.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'hyperv-next-signed-20251006' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hyperv/linux</title>
<updated>2025-10-07T15:40:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-07T15:40:15+00:00</published>
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Pull hyperv updates from Wei Liu:

 - Unify guest entry code for KVM and MSHV (Sean Christopherson)

 - Switch Hyper-V MSI domain to use msi_create_parent_irq_domain()
   (Nam Cao)

 - Add CONFIG_HYPERV_VMBUS and limit the semantics of CONFIG_HYPERV
   (Mukesh Rathor)

 - Add kexec/kdump support on Azure CVMs (Vitaly Kuznetsov)

 - Deprecate hyperv_fb in favor of Hyper-V DRM driver (Prasanna
   Kumar T S M)

 - Miscellaneous enhancements, fixes and cleanups (Abhishek Tiwari,
   Alok Tiwari, Nuno Das Neves, Wei Liu, Roman Kisel, Michael Kelley)

* tag 'hyperv-next-signed-20251006' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hyperv/linux:
  hyperv: Remove the spurious null directive line
  MAINTAINERS: Mark hyperv_fb driver Obsolete
  fbdev/hyperv_fb: deprecate this in favor of Hyper-V DRM driver
  Drivers: hv: Make CONFIG_HYPERV bool
  Drivers: hv: Add CONFIG_HYPERV_VMBUS option
  Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix typos in vmbus_drv.c
  Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix sysfs output format for ring buffer index
  Drivers: hv: vmbus: Clean up sscanf format specifier in target_cpu_store()
  x86/hyperv: Switch to msi_create_parent_irq_domain()
  mshv: Use common "entry virt" APIs to do work in root before running guest
  entry: Rename "kvm" entry code assets to "virt" to genericize APIs
  entry/kvm: KVM: Move KVM details related to signal/-EINTR into KVM proper
  mshv: Handle NEED_RESCHED_LAZY before transferring to guest
  x86/hyperv: Add kexec/kdump support on Azure CVMs
  Drivers: hv: Simplify data structures for VMBus channel close message
  Drivers: hv: util: Cosmetic changes for hv_utils_transport.c
  mshv: Add support for a new parent partition configuration
  clocksource: hyper-v: Skip unnecessary checks for the root partition
  hyperv: Add missing field to hv_output_map_device_interrupt
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Pull hyperv updates from Wei Liu:

 - Unify guest entry code for KVM and MSHV (Sean Christopherson)

 - Switch Hyper-V MSI domain to use msi_create_parent_irq_domain()
   (Nam Cao)

 - Add CONFIG_HYPERV_VMBUS and limit the semantics of CONFIG_HYPERV
   (Mukesh Rathor)

 - Add kexec/kdump support on Azure CVMs (Vitaly Kuznetsov)

 - Deprecate hyperv_fb in favor of Hyper-V DRM driver (Prasanna
   Kumar T S M)

 - Miscellaneous enhancements, fixes and cleanups (Abhishek Tiwari,
   Alok Tiwari, Nuno Das Neves, Wei Liu, Roman Kisel, Michael Kelley)

* tag 'hyperv-next-signed-20251006' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hyperv/linux:
  hyperv: Remove the spurious null directive line
  MAINTAINERS: Mark hyperv_fb driver Obsolete
  fbdev/hyperv_fb: deprecate this in favor of Hyper-V DRM driver
  Drivers: hv: Make CONFIG_HYPERV bool
  Drivers: hv: Add CONFIG_HYPERV_VMBUS option
  Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix typos in vmbus_drv.c
  Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix sysfs output format for ring buffer index
  Drivers: hv: vmbus: Clean up sscanf format specifier in target_cpu_store()
  x86/hyperv: Switch to msi_create_parent_irq_domain()
  mshv: Use common "entry virt" APIs to do work in root before running guest
  entry: Rename "kvm" entry code assets to "virt" to genericize APIs
  entry/kvm: KVM: Move KVM details related to signal/-EINTR into KVM proper
  mshv: Handle NEED_RESCHED_LAZY before transferring to guest
  x86/hyperv: Add kexec/kdump support on Azure CVMs
  Drivers: hv: Simplify data structures for VMBus channel close message
  Drivers: hv: util: Cosmetic changes for hv_utils_transport.c
  mshv: Add support for a new parent partition configuration
  clocksource: hyper-v: Skip unnecessary checks for the root partition
  hyperv: Add missing field to hv_output_map_device_interrupt
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-10-03T01:18:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-03T01:18:33+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from Kairui Song improves
   performance and reduces the failure rate of swap cluster allocation

 - "support large align and nid in Rust allocators" from Vitaly Wool
   permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large alignment when
   perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs

 - "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from Yueyang Pan extend
   DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets for virtual
   address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters

 - "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock" from Suren
   Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of
   /proc/pid/maps

 - "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache checking" from Kairui Song
   performs some cleanup in the swap code

 - "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David Hildenbrand provides
   code cleanup in the pagemap code

 - "add persistent huge zero folio support" from Pankaj Raghav provides
   a block layer speedup by optionalls making the
   huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount
   falls to zero

 - "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a few touchups to
   the recently added Kexec Handover feature

 - "mm: make mm-&gt;flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all arches" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To end the constant
   struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with 64-bit's
   needs

 - "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li cleans up some swap
   code

 - "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip unsupported tests" from
   Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests code

 - "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised"
   from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes to opt-out of
   THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other workloads on the
   system".

   It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations

 - "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox gets us started on
   the memdesc project. Please see

      https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and
      https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc

 - "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from Chi Zhiling
   improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path

 - "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi Yan improves our
   folio splitting selftest code

 - "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang adds some rmap
   selftests

 - "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig removes that
   function and converts its two remaining callers

 - "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain fixes some UFFD
   selftests issues

 - "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris Burkov introduces
   the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these permits btrfs to
   account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather than to the
   cgroups of random inappropriate tasks

 - "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some pageblock handling" from
   Wei Yang provides some readability improvements to the page allocator
   code

 - "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae Park teaches DAMON
   to understand arm32 highmem

 - "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for vma/maple tests" from
   Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and deduplication under
   tools/testing/

 - "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from Liam Howlett fixes
   a couple of 32-bit issues in tools/testing/radix-tree.c

 - "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific
   implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN arch-specific
   initialization code into a common arch-neutral implementation

 - "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes zspool - an
   indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing
   (zsmalloc)

 - "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from Pasha Tatashin makes a
   couple of cleanups in the fork code

 - "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand makes rather a lot of
   adjustments at various nth_page() callsites, eventually permitting
   the removal of that undesirable helper function

 - "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from Yeoreum Yun
   creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that architecture's
   memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode KASAN is
   suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only

 - "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation" from Kefeng Wang does
   some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code

 - "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer parameters" from Max
   Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API functions more accurate
   about the constness of their arguments. This was getting in the way
   of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they attempt to improving
   their own const/non-const accuracy

 - "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola fixes a number of
   code sites which were confused over when to use free_pages() vs
   __free_pages()

 - "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice Ryhl makes the
   mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau and by its
   forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver

 - "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test: split_pte_mapped_thp
   improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and some cleanups to
   the thp selftesting code

 - "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache (phase I)" from Chris
   Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the path to implementing
   "swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation and state tracking
   which is expected to yield speed and space improvements. This
   patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit in some situations

 - "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes the new memdesc
   layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little

 - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from Chunyu Hu fixes some
   issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code

 - "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from Suren Baghdasaryan
   addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new memory
   allocation profiling feature

 - "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few cleanups in
   preparation for more memdesc work

 - "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" from
   Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in furtherance of supporting
   arm highmem

 - "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix warnings" from Muhammad
   Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code and fixes the
   fallout, by removing dead code

 - "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM Reaper Traversal
   Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements in the OOM
   killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim threads so
   they can release resources

 - "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18" from SeongJae Park
   is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON

 - "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization check function" from
   SeongJae Park implement reliability and maintainability improvements
   to a recently-added bug fix

 - "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and non-idle ages" from
   SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to userspace clients
   of the DAMON_STAT information

 - "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse" from Dev Jain removes
   some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of anon VMAs. It also
   increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against an anon vma

 - "mm: do not assume file == vma-&gt;vm_file in compat_vma_mmap_prepare()"
   from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards removal of
   file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon clearing up
   the treatment of stacked filesystems

 - "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from Kiryl Shutsemau
   provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking of large
   folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate

 - "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters during fork" from
   Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats inaccuracies across
   forks and adds selftest code to verify these counters

 - "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei Yang addresses
   some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's mm_slot handling

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (372 commits)
  mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA
  mm: convert folio_page() back to a macro
  mm/khugepaged: use start_addr/addr for improved readability
  hugetlbfs: skip VMAs without shareable locks in hugetlb_vmdelete_list
  alloc_tag: fix boot failure due to NULL pointer dereference
  mm: silence data-race in update_hiwater_rss
  mm/memory-failure: don't select MEMORY_ISOLATION
  mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot
  mm/ksm: get mm_slot by mm_slot_entry() when slot is !NULL
  hugetlb: increase number of reserving hugepages via cmdline
  selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging_pages counter
  mm/ksm: fix incorrect KSM counter handling in mm_struct during fork
  drivers/base/node: fix double free in register_one_node()
  mm: remove PMD alignment constraint in execmem_vmalloc()
  mm/memory_hotplug: fix typo 'esecially' -&gt; 'especially'
  mm/rmap: improve mlock tracking for large folios
  mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround
  mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault()
  mm/rmap: mlock large folios in try_to_unmap_one()
  mm/rmap: fix a mlock race condition in folio_referenced_one()
  ...
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<pre>
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from Kairui Song improves
   performance and reduces the failure rate of swap cluster allocation

 - "support large align and nid in Rust allocators" from Vitaly Wool
   permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large alignment when
   perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs

 - "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from Yueyang Pan extend
   DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets for virtual
   address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters

 - "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock" from Suren
   Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of
   /proc/pid/maps

 - "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache checking" from Kairui Song
   performs some cleanup in the swap code

 - "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David Hildenbrand provides
   code cleanup in the pagemap code

 - "add persistent huge zero folio support" from Pankaj Raghav provides
   a block layer speedup by optionalls making the
   huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount
   falls to zero

 - "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a few touchups to
   the recently added Kexec Handover feature

 - "mm: make mm-&gt;flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all arches" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To end the constant
   struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with 64-bit's
   needs

 - "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li cleans up some swap
   code

 - "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip unsupported tests" from
   Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests code

 - "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised"
   from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes to opt-out of
   THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other workloads on the
   system".

   It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations

 - "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox gets us started on
   the memdesc project. Please see

      https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and
      https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc

 - "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from Chi Zhiling
   improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path

 - "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi Yan improves our
   folio splitting selftest code

 - "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang adds some rmap
   selftests

 - "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig removes that
   function and converts its two remaining callers

 - "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain fixes some UFFD
   selftests issues

 - "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris Burkov introduces
   the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these permits btrfs to
   account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather than to the
   cgroups of random inappropriate tasks

 - "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some pageblock handling" from
   Wei Yang provides some readability improvements to the page allocator
   code

 - "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae Park teaches DAMON
   to understand arm32 highmem

 - "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for vma/maple tests" from
   Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and deduplication under
   tools/testing/

 - "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from Liam Howlett fixes
   a couple of 32-bit issues in tools/testing/radix-tree.c

 - "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific
   implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN arch-specific
   initialization code into a common arch-neutral implementation

 - "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes zspool - an
   indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing
   (zsmalloc)

 - "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from Pasha Tatashin makes a
   couple of cleanups in the fork code

 - "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand makes rather a lot of
   adjustments at various nth_page() callsites, eventually permitting
   the removal of that undesirable helper function

 - "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from Yeoreum Yun
   creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that architecture's
   memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode KASAN is
   suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only

 - "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation" from Kefeng Wang does
   some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code

 - "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer parameters" from Max
   Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API functions more accurate
   about the constness of their arguments. This was getting in the way
   of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they attempt to improving
   their own const/non-const accuracy

 - "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola fixes a number of
   code sites which were confused over when to use free_pages() vs
   __free_pages()

 - "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice Ryhl makes the
   mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau and by its
   forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver

 - "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test: split_pte_mapped_thp
   improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and some cleanups to
   the thp selftesting code

 - "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache (phase I)" from Chris
   Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the path to implementing
   "swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation and state tracking
   which is expected to yield speed and space improvements. This
   patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit in some situations

 - "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes the new memdesc
   layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little

 - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from Chunyu Hu fixes some
   issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code

 - "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from Suren Baghdasaryan
   addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new memory
   allocation profiling feature

 - "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few cleanups in
   preparation for more memdesc work

 - "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" from
   Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in furtherance of supporting
   arm highmem

 - "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix warnings" from Muhammad
   Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code and fixes the
   fallout, by removing dead code

 - "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM Reaper Traversal
   Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements in the OOM
   killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim threads so
   they can release resources

 - "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18" from SeongJae Park
   is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON

 - "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization check function" from
   SeongJae Park implement reliability and maintainability improvements
   to a recently-added bug fix

 - "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and non-idle ages" from
   SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to userspace clients
   of the DAMON_STAT information

 - "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse" from Dev Jain removes
   some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of anon VMAs. It also
   increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against an anon vma

 - "mm: do not assume file == vma-&gt;vm_file in compat_vma_mmap_prepare()"
   from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards removal of
   file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon clearing up
   the treatment of stacked filesystems

 - "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from Kiryl Shutsemau
   provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking of large
   folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate

 - "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters during fork" from
   Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats inaccuracies across
   forks and adds selftest code to verify these counters

 - "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei Yang addresses
   some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's mm_slot handling

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (372 commits)
  mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA
  mm: convert folio_page() back to a macro
  mm/khugepaged: use start_addr/addr for improved readability
  hugetlbfs: skip VMAs without shareable locks in hugetlb_vmdelete_list
  alloc_tag: fix boot failure due to NULL pointer dereference
  mm: silence data-race in update_hiwater_rss
  mm/memory-failure: don't select MEMORY_ISOLATION
  mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot
  mm/ksm: get mm_slot by mm_slot_entry() when slot is !NULL
  hugetlb: increase number of reserving hugepages via cmdline
  selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging_pages counter
  mm/ksm: fix incorrect KSM counter handling in mm_struct during fork
  drivers/base/node: fix double free in register_one_node()
  mm: remove PMD alignment constraint in execmem_vmalloc()
  mm/memory_hotplug: fix typo 'esecially' -&gt; 'especially'
  mm/rmap: improve mlock tracking for large folios
  mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround
  mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault()
  mm/rmap: mlock large folios in try_to_unmap_one()
  mm/rmap: fix a mlock race condition in folio_referenced_one()
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux</title>
<updated>2025-10-02T03:58:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-02T03:58:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=7f7072574127c9e971cad83a0274e86f6275c0d5'/>
<id>7f7072574127c9e971cad83a0274e86f6275c0d5</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull Kbuild updates from Nathan Chancellor:

 - Extend modules.builtin.modinfo to include module aliases from
   MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE for builtin modules so that userspace tools (such
   as kmod) can verify that a particular module alias will be handled by
   a builtin module

 - Bump the minimum version of LLVM for building the kernel to 15.0.0

 - Upgrade several userspace API checks in headers_check.pl to errors

 - Unify and consolidate CONFIG_WERROR / W=e handling

 - Turn assembler and linker warnings into errors with CONFIG_WERROR /
   W=e

 - Respect CONFIG_WERROR / W=e when building userspace programs
   (userprogs)

 - Enable -Werror unconditionally when building host programs
   (hostprogs)

 - Support copy_file_range() and data segment alignment in gen_init_cpio
   to improve performance on filesystems that support reflinks such as
   btrfs and XFS

 - Miscellaneous small changes to scripts and configuration files

* tag 'kbuild-6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux: (47 commits)
  modpost: Initialize builtin_modname to stop SIGSEGVs
  Documentation: kbuild: note CONFIG_DEBUG_EFI in reproducible builds
  kbuild: vmlinux.unstripped should always depend on .vmlinux.export.o
  modpost: Create modalias for builtin modules
  modpost: Add modname to mod_device_table alias
  scsi: Always define blogic_pci_tbl structure
  kbuild: extract modules.builtin.modinfo from vmlinux.unstripped
  kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped
  kbuild: always create intermediate vmlinux.unstripped
  s390: vmlinux.lds.S: Reorder sections
  KMSAN: Remove tautological checks
  objtool: Drop noinstr hack for KCSAN_WEAK_MEMORY
  lib/Kconfig.debug: Drop CLANG_VERSION check from DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT
  riscv: Remove ld.lld version checks from many TOOLCHAIN_HAS configs
  riscv: Unconditionally use linker relaxation
  riscv: Remove version check for LTO_CLANG selects
  powerpc: Drop unnecessary initializations in __copy_inst_from_kernel_nofault()
  mips: Unconditionally select ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER
  arm64: Remove tautological LLVM Kconfig conditions
  ARM: Clean up definition of ARM_HAS_GROUP_RELOCS
  ...
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<pre>
Pull Kbuild updates from Nathan Chancellor:

 - Extend modules.builtin.modinfo to include module aliases from
   MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE for builtin modules so that userspace tools (such
   as kmod) can verify that a particular module alias will be handled by
   a builtin module

 - Bump the minimum version of LLVM for building the kernel to 15.0.0

 - Upgrade several userspace API checks in headers_check.pl to errors

 - Unify and consolidate CONFIG_WERROR / W=e handling

 - Turn assembler and linker warnings into errors with CONFIG_WERROR /
   W=e

 - Respect CONFIG_WERROR / W=e when building userspace programs
   (userprogs)

 - Enable -Werror unconditionally when building host programs
   (hostprogs)

 - Support copy_file_range() and data segment alignment in gen_init_cpio
   to improve performance on filesystems that support reflinks such as
   btrfs and XFS

 - Miscellaneous small changes to scripts and configuration files

* tag 'kbuild-6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux: (47 commits)
  modpost: Initialize builtin_modname to stop SIGSEGVs
  Documentation: kbuild: note CONFIG_DEBUG_EFI in reproducible builds
  kbuild: vmlinux.unstripped should always depend on .vmlinux.export.o
  modpost: Create modalias for builtin modules
  modpost: Add modname to mod_device_table alias
  scsi: Always define blogic_pci_tbl structure
  kbuild: extract modules.builtin.modinfo from vmlinux.unstripped
  kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped
  kbuild: always create intermediate vmlinux.unstripped
  s390: vmlinux.lds.S: Reorder sections
  KMSAN: Remove tautological checks
  objtool: Drop noinstr hack for KCSAN_WEAK_MEMORY
  lib/Kconfig.debug: Drop CLANG_VERSION check from DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT
  riscv: Remove ld.lld version checks from many TOOLCHAIN_HAS configs
  riscv: Unconditionally use linker relaxation
  riscv: Remove version check for LTO_CLANG selects
  powerpc: Drop unnecessary initializations in __copy_inst_from_kernel_nofault()
  mips: Unconditionally select ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER
  arm64: Remove tautological LLVM Kconfig conditions
  ARM: Clean up definition of ARM_HAS_GROUP_RELOCS
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'asm-generic-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic</title>
<updated>2025-10-02T00:47:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-02T00:47:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d2b2fea3503e5e12b2e28784152937e48bcca6ff'/>
<id>d2b2fea3503e5e12b2e28784152937e48bcca6ff</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann:
 "Two small patches for the asm-generic header files: Varad Gautam
  improves the MMIO tracing to be faster when the tracepoints are built
  into the kernel but disabled, while Qi Xi updates the DO_ONCE logic so
  that clearing the WARN_ONCE() flags does not change the other DO_ONCE
  users"

* tag 'asm-generic-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
  once: fix race by moving DO_ONCE to separate section
  asm-generic/io.h: Skip trace helpers if rwmmio events are disabled
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann:
 "Two small patches for the asm-generic header files: Varad Gautam
  improves the MMIO tracing to be faster when the tracepoints are built
  into the kernel but disabled, while Qi Xi updates the DO_ONCE logic so
  that clearing the WARN_ONCE() flags does not change the other DO_ONCE
  users"

* tag 'asm-generic-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
  once: fix race by moving DO_ONCE to separate section
  asm-generic/io.h: Skip trace helpers if rwmmio events are disabled
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Drivers: hv: Add CONFIG_HYPERV_VMBUS option</title>
<updated>2025-10-01T00:00:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mukesh Rathor</name>
<email>mrathor@linux.microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-15T23:46:03+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=94b04355e6397a0a70b69c2571fa5c7d9990b835'/>
<id>94b04355e6397a0a70b69c2571fa5c7d9990b835</id>
<content type='text'>
At present VMBus driver is hinged off of CONFIG_HYPERV which entails
lot of builtin code and encompasses too much. It's not always clear
what depends on builtin hv code and what depends on VMBus. Setting
CONFIG_HYPERV as a module and fudging the Makefile to switch to builtin
adds even more confusion. VMBus is an independent module and should have
its own config option. Also, there are scenarios like baremetal dom0/root
where support is built in with CONFIG_HYPERV but without VMBus. Lastly,
there are more features coming down that use CONFIG_HYPERV and add more
dependencies on it.

So, create a fine grained HYPERV_VMBUS option and update Kconfigs for
dependency on VMBus.

Signed-off-by: Mukesh Rathor &lt;mrathor@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;	# drivers/pci
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu@kernel.org&gt;
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
At present VMBus driver is hinged off of CONFIG_HYPERV which entails
lot of builtin code and encompasses too much. It's not always clear
what depends on builtin hv code and what depends on VMBus. Setting
CONFIG_HYPERV as a module and fudging the Makefile to switch to builtin
adds even more confusion. VMBus is an independent module and should have
its own config option. Also, there are scenarios like baremetal dom0/root
where support is built in with CONFIG_HYPERV but without VMBus. Lastly,
there are more features coming down that use CONFIG_HYPERV and add more
dependencies on it.

So, create a fine grained HYPERV_VMBUS option and update Kconfigs for
dependency on VMBus.

Signed-off-by: Mukesh Rathor &lt;mrathor@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;	# drivers/pci
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'timers-vdso-2025-09-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-09-30T23:58:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-30T23:58:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=4b81e2eb9e4db8f6094c077d0c8b27c264901c1b'/>
<id>4b81e2eb9e4db8f6094c077d0c8b27c264901c1b</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull VDSO updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Further consolidation of the VDSO infrastructure and the common data
   store

 - Simplification of the related Kconfig logic

 - Improve the VDSO selftest suite

* tag 'timers-vdso-2025-09-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  selftests: vDSO: Drop vdso_test_clock_getres
  selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Add tests for clock_gettime64()
  selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Test CPUTIME clocks
  selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Use explicit indices for name array
  selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Drop clock availability tests
  selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Use ksft_finished()
  selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Correctly skip whole test with missing vDSO
  selftests: vDSO: Fix -Wunitialized in powerpc VDSO_CALL() wrapper
  vdso: Add struct __kernel_old_timeval forward declaration to gettime.h
  vdso: Gate VDSO_GETRANDOM behind HAVE_GENERIC_VDSO
  vdso: Drop Kconfig GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS
  vdso: Drop Kconfig GENERIC_VDSO_DATA_STORE
  vdso: Drop kconfig GENERIC_COMPAT_VDSO
  vdso: Drop kconfig GENERIC_VDSO_32
  riscv: vdso: Untangle Kconfig logic
  time: Build generic update_vsyscall() only with generic time vDSO
  vdso/gettimeofday: Remove !CONFIG_TIME_NS stubs
  vdso: Move ENABLE_COMPAT_VDSO from core to arm64
  ARM: VDSO: Remove cntvct_ok global variable
  vdso/datastore: Gate time data behind CONFIG_GENERIC_GETTIMEOFDAY
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull VDSO updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Further consolidation of the VDSO infrastructure and the common data
   store

 - Simplification of the related Kconfig logic

 - Improve the VDSO selftest suite

* tag 'timers-vdso-2025-09-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  selftests: vDSO: Drop vdso_test_clock_getres
  selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Add tests for clock_gettime64()
  selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Test CPUTIME clocks
  selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Use explicit indices for name array
  selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Drop clock availability tests
  selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Use ksft_finished()
  selftests: vDSO: vdso_test_abi: Correctly skip whole test with missing vDSO
  selftests: vDSO: Fix -Wunitialized in powerpc VDSO_CALL() wrapper
  vdso: Add struct __kernel_old_timeval forward declaration to gettime.h
  vdso: Gate VDSO_GETRANDOM behind HAVE_GENERIC_VDSO
  vdso: Drop Kconfig GENERIC_VDSO_TIME_NS
  vdso: Drop Kconfig GENERIC_VDSO_DATA_STORE
  vdso: Drop kconfig GENERIC_COMPAT_VDSO
  vdso: Drop kconfig GENERIC_VDSO_32
  riscv: vdso: Untangle Kconfig logic
  time: Build generic update_vsyscall() only with generic time vDSO
  vdso/gettimeofday: Remove !CONFIG_TIME_NS stubs
  vdso: Move ENABLE_COMPAT_VDSO from core to arm64
  ARM: VDSO: Remove cntvct_ok global variable
  vdso/datastore: Gate time data behind CONFIG_GENERIC_GETTIMEOFDAY
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'core-core-2025-09-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-09-30T21:36:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-30T21:36:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=7601d18be06943d5ac2b1802899ff6c303544936'/>
<id>7601d18be06943d5ac2b1802899ff6c303544936</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull TIF bit unification updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A set of changes to consolidate the generic TIF (thread info flag)
  bits accross architectures.

  All architectures define the same set of generic TIF bits. This makes
  it pointlessly hard to add a new generic TIF bit or to change an
  existing one.

  Provide a generic variant and convert the architectures which utilize
  the generic entry code over to use it. The TIF space is divided into
  16 generic bits and 16 architecture specific bits, which turned out to
  provide enough space on both sides"

* tag 'core-core-2025-09-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  LoongArch: Fix bitflag conflict for TIF_FIXADE
  riscv: Use generic TIF bits
  loongarch: Use generic TIF bits
  s390/entry: Remove unused TIF flags
  s390: Use generic TIF bits
  x86: Use generic TIF bits
  asm-generic: Provide generic TIF infrastructure
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull TIF bit unification updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A set of changes to consolidate the generic TIF (thread info flag)
  bits accross architectures.

  All architectures define the same set of generic TIF bits. This makes
  it pointlessly hard to add a new generic TIF bit or to change an
  existing one.

  Provide a generic variant and convert the architectures which utilize
  the generic entry code over to use it. The TIF space is divided into
  16 generic bits and 16 architecture specific bits, which turned out to
  provide enough space on both sides"

* tag 'core-core-2025-09-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  LoongArch: Fix bitflag conflict for TIF_FIXADE
  riscv: Use generic TIF bits
  loongarch: Use generic TIF bits
  s390/entry: Remove unused TIF flags
  s390: Use generic TIF bits
  x86: Use generic TIF bits
  asm-generic: Provide generic TIF infrastructure
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'hardening-v6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2025-09-30T00:48:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-30T00:48:27+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=a5ba183bdeeeedd5f5b683c02561072848258496'/>
<id>a5ba183bdeeeedd5f5b683c02561072848258496</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull hardening updates from Kees Cook:
 "One notable addition is the creation of the 'transitional' keyword for
  kconfig so CONFIG renaming can go more smoothly.

  This has been a long-standing deficiency, and with the renaming of
  CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI (since GCC will soon have KCFI
  support), this came up again.

  The breadth of the diffstat is mainly this renaming.

   - Clean up usage of TRAILING_OVERLAP() (Gustavo A. R. Silva)

   - lkdtm: fortify: Fix potential NULL dereference on kmalloc failure
     (Junjie Cao)

   - Add str_assert_deassert() helper (Lad Prabhakar)

   - gcc-plugins: Remove TODO_verify_il for GCC &gt;= 16

   - kconfig: Fix BrokenPipeError warnings in selftests

   - kconfig: Add transitional symbol attribute for migration support

   - kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI"

* tag 'hardening-v6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  lib/string_choices: Add str_assert_deassert() helper
  kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI
  kconfig: Add transitional symbol attribute for migration support
  kconfig: Fix BrokenPipeError warnings in selftests
  gcc-plugins: Remove TODO_verify_il for GCC &gt;= 16
  stddef: Introduce __TRAILING_OVERLAP()
  stddef: Remove token-pasting in TRAILING_OVERLAP()
  lkdtm: fortify: Fix potential NULL dereference on kmalloc failure
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull hardening updates from Kees Cook:
 "One notable addition is the creation of the 'transitional' keyword for
  kconfig so CONFIG renaming can go more smoothly.

  This has been a long-standing deficiency, and with the renaming of
  CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI (since GCC will soon have KCFI
  support), this came up again.

  The breadth of the diffstat is mainly this renaming.

   - Clean up usage of TRAILING_OVERLAP() (Gustavo A. R. Silva)

   - lkdtm: fortify: Fix potential NULL dereference on kmalloc failure
     (Junjie Cao)

   - Add str_assert_deassert() helper (Lad Prabhakar)

   - gcc-plugins: Remove TODO_verify_il for GCC &gt;= 16

   - kconfig: Fix BrokenPipeError warnings in selftests

   - kconfig: Add transitional symbol attribute for migration support

   - kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI"

* tag 'hardening-v6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  lib/string_choices: Add str_assert_deassert() helper
  kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI
  kconfig: Add transitional symbol attribute for migration support
  kconfig: Fix BrokenPipeError warnings in selftests
  gcc-plugins: Remove TODO_verify_il for GCC &gt;= 16
  stddef: Introduce __TRAILING_OVERLAP()
  stddef: Remove token-pasting in TRAILING_OVERLAP()
  lkdtm: fortify: Fix potential NULL dereference on kmalloc failure
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>once: fix race by moving DO_ONCE to separate section</title>
<updated>2025-09-25T06:01:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Qi Xi</name>
<email>xiqi2@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-09T11:29:10+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=edcc8a38b5ac1a3dbd05e113a38a25b937ebefe5'/>
<id>edcc8a38b5ac1a3dbd05e113a38a25b937ebefe5</id>
<content type='text'>
The commit c2c60ea37e5b ("once: use __section(".data.once")") moved
DO_ONCE's ___done variable to .data.once section, which conflicts with
DO_ONCE_LITE() that also uses the same section.

This creates a race condition when clear_warn_once is used:

Thread 1 (DO_ONCE)             Thread 2 (DO_ONCE)
__do_once_start
    read ___done (false)
    acquire once_lock
execute func
__do_once_done
    write ___done (true)      __do_once_start
    release once_lock             // Thread 3 clear_warn_once reset ___done
                                  read ___done (false)
                                  acquire once_lock
                              execute func
schedule once_work            __do_once_done
once_deferred: OK             write ___done (true)
static_branch_disable         release once_lock
                              schedule once_work
                              once_deferred:
                                  BUG_ON(!static_key_enabled)

DO_ONCE_LITE() in once_lite.h is used by WARN_ON_ONCE() and other warning
macros. Keep its ___done flag in the .data..once section and allow resetting
by clear_warn_once, as originally intended.

In contrast, DO_ONCE() is used for functions like get_random_once() and
relies on its ___done flag for internal synchronization. We should not reset
DO_ONCE() by clear_warn_once.

Fix it by isolating DO_ONCE's ___done into a separate .data..do_once section,
shielding it from clear_warn_once.

Fixes: c2c60ea37e5b ("once: use __section(".data.once")")
Reported-by: Hulk Robot &lt;hulkci@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Qi Xi &lt;xiqi2@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The commit c2c60ea37e5b ("once: use __section(".data.once")") moved
DO_ONCE's ___done variable to .data.once section, which conflicts with
DO_ONCE_LITE() that also uses the same section.

This creates a race condition when clear_warn_once is used:

Thread 1 (DO_ONCE)             Thread 2 (DO_ONCE)
__do_once_start
    read ___done (false)
    acquire once_lock
execute func
__do_once_done
    write ___done (true)      __do_once_start
    release once_lock             // Thread 3 clear_warn_once reset ___done
                                  read ___done (false)
                                  acquire once_lock
                              execute func
schedule once_work            __do_once_done
once_deferred: OK             write ___done (true)
static_branch_disable         release once_lock
                              schedule once_work
                              once_deferred:
                                  BUG_ON(!static_key_enabled)

DO_ONCE_LITE() in once_lite.h is used by WARN_ON_ONCE() and other warning
macros. Keep its ___done flag in the .data..once section and allow resetting
by clear_warn_once, as originally intended.

In contrast, DO_ONCE() is used for functions like get_random_once() and
relies on its ___done flag for internal synchronization. We should not reset
DO_ONCE() by clear_warn_once.

Fix it by isolating DO_ONCE's ___done into a separate .data..do_once section,
shielding it from clear_warn_once.

Fixes: c2c60ea37e5b ("once: use __section(".data.once")")
Reported-by: Hulk Robot &lt;hulkci@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Qi Xi &lt;xiqi2@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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