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<title>Merge tag 'audit-pr-20260410' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit</title>
<updated>2026-04-13T21:56:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2026-04-13T21:56:54+00:00</published>
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Pull audit updates from Paul Moore:

 - Improved handling of unknown status requests from userspace

   The current kernel code ignores unknown/unused request bits sent from
   userspace and returns an error code based on the results of the
   request(s) it does understand. The patch from Ricardo fixes this so
   that unknown requests return an -EINVAL to userspace, making
   compatibility a bit easier moving forward.

 - A number of small style and formatting cleanups

* tag 'audit-pr-20260410' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit:
  audit: handle unknown status requests in audit_receive_msg()
  audit: fix coding style issues
  audit: remove redundant initialization of static variables to 0
  audit: fix whitespace alignment in include/uapi/linux/audit.h
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Pull audit updates from Paul Moore:

 - Improved handling of unknown status requests from userspace

   The current kernel code ignores unknown/unused request bits sent from
   userspace and returns an error code based on the results of the
   request(s) it does understand. The patch from Ricardo fixes this so
   that unknown requests return an -EINVAL to userspace, making
   compatibility a bit easier moving forward.

 - A number of small style and formatting cleanups

* tag 'audit-pr-20260410' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit:
  audit: handle unknown status requests in audit_receive_msg()
  audit: fix coding style issues
  audit: remove redundant initialization of static variables to 0
  audit: fix whitespace alignment in include/uapi/linux/audit.h
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<entry>
<title>audit: handle unknown status requests in audit_receive_msg()</title>
<updated>2026-03-10T19:22:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ricardo Robaina</name>
<email>rrobaina@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-09T13:05:33+00:00</published>
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Currently, audit_receive_msg() ignores unknown status bits in AUDIT_SET
requests, incorrectly returning success to newer user space tools
querying unsupported features. This breaks forward compatibility.

Fix this by defining AUDIT_STATUS_ALL and returning -EINVAL if any
unrecognized bits are set (s.mask &amp; ~AUDIT_STATUS_ALL).
This ensures invalid requests are safely rejected, allowing user space
to reliably test for and gracefully handle feature detection on older
kernels.

Suggested-by: Steve Grubb &lt;sgrubb@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Robaina &lt;rrobaina@redhat.com&gt;
[PM: subject line tweak]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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Currently, audit_receive_msg() ignores unknown status bits in AUDIT_SET
requests, incorrectly returning success to newer user space tools
querying unsupported features. This breaks forward compatibility.

Fix this by defining AUDIT_STATUS_ALL and returning -EINVAL if any
unrecognized bits are set (s.mask &amp; ~AUDIT_STATUS_ALL).
This ensures invalid requests are safely rejected, allowing user space
to reliably test for and gracefully handle feature detection on older
kernels.

Suggested-by: Steve Grubb &lt;sgrubb@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Robaina &lt;rrobaina@redhat.com&gt;
[PM: subject line tweak]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>audit: widen ino fields to u64</title>
<updated>2026-03-06T13:31:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-04T15:32:32+00:00</published>
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inode-&gt;i_ino is being widened from unsigned long to u64. The audit
subsystem uses unsigned long ino in struct fields, function parameters,
and local variables that store inode numbers from arbitrary filesystems.
On 32-bit platforms this truncates inode numbers that exceed 32 bits,
which will cause incorrect audit log entries and broken watch/mark
comparisons.

Widen all audit ino fields, parameters, and locals to u64, and update
the inode format string from %lu to %llu to match.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260304-iino-u64-v3-2-2257ad83d372@kernel.org
Acked-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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inode-&gt;i_ino is being widened from unsigned long to u64. The audit
subsystem uses unsigned long ino in struct fields, function parameters,
and local variables that store inode numbers from arbitrary filesystems.
On 32-bit platforms this truncates inode numbers that exceed 32 bits,
which will cause incorrect audit log entries and broken watch/mark
comparisons.

Widen all audit ino fields, parameters, and locals to u64, and update
the inode format string from %lu to %llu to match.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260304-iino-u64-v3-2-2257ad83d372@kernel.org
Acked-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'net-next-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2026-02-12T03:31:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-12T03:31:52+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
 "Core &amp; protocols:

   - A significant effort all around the stack to guide the compiler to
     make the right choice when inlining code, to avoid unneeded calls
     for small helper and stack canary overhead in the fast-path.

     This generates better and faster code with very small or no text
     size increases, as in many cases the call generated more code than
     the actual inlined helper.

   - Extend AccECN implementation so that is now functionally complete,
     also allow the user-space enabling it on a per network namespace
     basis.

   - Add support for memory providers with large (above 4K) rx buffer.
     Paired with hw-gro, larger rx buffer sizes reduce the number of
     buffers traversing the stack, dincreasing single stream CPU usage
     by up to ~30%.

   - Do not add HBH header to Big TCP GSO packets. This simplifies the
     RX path, the TX path and the NIC drivers, and is possible because
     user-space taps can now interpret correctly such packets without
     the HBH hint.

   - Allow IPv6 routes to be configured with a gateway address that is
     resolved out of a different interface than the one specified,
     aligning IPv6 to IPv4 behavior.

   - Multi-queue aware sch_cake. This makes it possible to scale the
     rate shaper of sch_cake across multiple CPUs, while still enforcing
     a single global rate on the interface.

   - Add support for the nbcon (new buffer console) infrastructure to
     netconsole, enabling lock-free, priority-based console operations
     that are safer in crash scenarios.

   - Improve the TCP ipv6 output path to cache the flow information,
     saving cpu cycles, reducing cache line misses and stack use.

   - Improve netfilter packet tracker to resolve clashes for most
     protocols, avoiding unneeded drops on rare occasions.

   - Add IP6IP6 tunneling acceleration to the flowtable infrastructure.

   - Reduce tcp socket size by one cache line.

   - Notify neighbour changes atomically, avoiding inconsistencies
     between the notification sequence and the actual states sequence.

   - Add vsock namespace support, allowing complete isolation of vsocks
     across different network namespaces.

   - Improve xsk generic performances with cache-alignment-oriented
     optimizations.

   - Support netconsole automatic target recovery, allowing netconsole
     to reestablish targets when underlying low-level interface comes
     back online.

  Driver API:

   - Support for switching the working mode (automatic vs manual) of a
     DPLL device via netlink.

   - Introduce PHY ports representation to expose multiple front-facing
     media ports over a single MAC.

   - Introduce "rx-polarity" and "tx-polarity" device tree properties,
     to generalize polarity inversion requirements for differential
     signaling.

   - Add helper to create, prepare and enable managed clocks.

  Device drivers:

   - Add Huawei hinic3 PF etherner driver.

   - Add DWMAC glue driver for Motorcomm YT6801 PCIe ethernet
     controller.

   - Add ethernet driver for MaxLinear MxL862xx switches

   - Remove parallel-port Ethernet driver.

   - Convert existing driver timestamp configuration reporting to
     hwtstamp_get and remove legacy ioctl().

   - Convert existing drivers to .get_rx_ring_count(), simplifing the RX
     ring count retrieval. Also remove the legacy fallback path.

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
      - Broadcom (bnxt, bng):
         - bnxt: add FW interface update to support FEC stats histogram
           and NVRAM defragmentation
         - bng: add TSO and H/W GRO support
      - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
         - improve latency of channel restart operations, reducing the
           used H/W resources
         - add TSO support for UDP over GRE over VLAN
         - add flow counters support for hardware steering (HWS) rules
         - use a static memory area to store headers for H/W GRO,
           leading to 12% RX tput improvement
      - Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
         - ice: reorganizes layout of Tx and Rx rings for cacheline
           locality and utilizes __cacheline_group* macros on the new
           layouts
         - ice: introduces Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) support
      - Meta (fbnic):
         - adds debugfs for firmware mailbox and tx/rx rings vectors

   - Ethernet virtual:
      - geneve: introduce GRO/GSO support for double UDP encapsulation

   - Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
      - Synopsys (stmmac):
         - some code refactoring and cleanups
      - RealTek (r8169):
         - add support for RTL8127ATF (10G Fiber SFP)
         - add dash and LTR support
      - Airoha:
         - AN8811HB 2.5 Gbps phy support
      - Freescale (fec):
         - add XDP zero-copy support
      - Thunderbolt:
         - add get link setting support to allow bonding
      - Renesas:
         - add support for RZ/G3L GBETH SoC

   - Ethernet switches:
      - Maxlinear:
         - support R(G)MII slow rate configuration
         - add support for Intel GSW150
      - Motorcomm (yt921x):
         - add DCB/QoS support
      - TI:
         - icssm-prueth: support bridging (STP/RSTP) via the switchdev
           framework

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - Realtek:
         - enable SGMII and 2500Base-X in-band auto-negotiation
         - simplify and reunify C22/C45 drivers
      - Micrel: convert bindings to DT schema

   - CAN:
      - move skb headroom content into skb extensions, making CAN
        metadata access more robust

   - CAN drivers:
      - rcar_canfd:
         - add support for FD-only mode
         - add support for the RZ/T2H SoC
      - sja1000: cleanup the CAN state handling

   - WiFi:
      - implement EPPKE/802.1X over auth frames support
      - split up drop reasons better, removing generic RX_DROP
      - additional FTM capabilities: 6 GHz support, supported number of
        spatial streams and supported number of LTF repetitions
      - better mac80211 iterators to enumerate resources
      - initial UHR (Wi-Fi 8) support for cfg80211/mac80211

   - WiFi drivers:
      - Qualcomm/Atheros:
         - ath11k: support for Channel Frequency Response measurement
         - ath12k: a significant driver refactor to support multi-wiphy
           devices and and pave the way for future device support in the
           same driver (rather than splitting to ath13k)
         - ath12k: support for the QCC2072 chipset
      - Intel:
         - iwlwifi: partial Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) support
         - iwlwifi: initial support for U-NII-9 and IEEE 802.11bn
      - RealTek (rtw89):
         - preparations for RTL8922DE support

   - Bluetooth:
      - implement setsockopt(BT_PHY) to set the connection packet type/PHY
      - set link_policy on incoming ACL connections

   - Bluetooth drivers:
      - btusb: add support for MediaTek7920, Realtek RTL8761BU and 8851BE
      - btqca: add WCN6855 firmware priority selection feature"

* tag 'net-next-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1254 commits)
  bnge/bng_re: Add a new HSI
  net: macb: Fix tx/rx malfunction after phy link down and up
  af_unix: Fix memleak of newsk in unix_stream_connect().
  net: ti: icssg-prueth: Add optional dependency on HSR
  net: dsa: add basic initial driver for MxL862xx switches
  net: mdio: add unlocked mdiodev C45 bus accessors
  net: dsa: add tag format for MxL862xx switches
  dt-bindings: net: dsa: add MaxLinear MxL862xx
  selftests: drivers: net: hw: Modify toeplitz.c to poll for packets
  octeontx2-pf: Unregister devlink on probe failure
  net: renesas: rswitch: fix forwarding offload statemachine
  ionic: Rate limit unknown xcvr type messages
  tcp: inet6_csk_xmit() optimization
  tcp: populate inet-&gt;cork.fl.u.ip6 in tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock()
  tcp: populate inet-&gt;cork.fl.u.ip6 in tcp_v6_connect()
  ipv6: inet6_csk_xmit() and inet6_csk_update_pmtu() use inet-&gt;cork.fl.u.ip6
  ipv6: use inet-&gt;cork.fl.u.ip6 and np-&gt;final in ip6_datagram_dst_update()
  ipv6: use np-&gt;final in inet6_sk_rebuild_header()
  ipv6: add daddr/final storage in struct ipv6_pinfo
  net: stmmac: qcom-ethqos: fix qcom_ethqos_serdes_powerup()
  ...
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Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
 "Core &amp; protocols:

   - A significant effort all around the stack to guide the compiler to
     make the right choice when inlining code, to avoid unneeded calls
     for small helper and stack canary overhead in the fast-path.

     This generates better and faster code with very small or no text
     size increases, as in many cases the call generated more code than
     the actual inlined helper.

   - Extend AccECN implementation so that is now functionally complete,
     also allow the user-space enabling it on a per network namespace
     basis.

   - Add support for memory providers with large (above 4K) rx buffer.
     Paired with hw-gro, larger rx buffer sizes reduce the number of
     buffers traversing the stack, dincreasing single stream CPU usage
     by up to ~30%.

   - Do not add HBH header to Big TCP GSO packets. This simplifies the
     RX path, the TX path and the NIC drivers, and is possible because
     user-space taps can now interpret correctly such packets without
     the HBH hint.

   - Allow IPv6 routes to be configured with a gateway address that is
     resolved out of a different interface than the one specified,
     aligning IPv6 to IPv4 behavior.

   - Multi-queue aware sch_cake. This makes it possible to scale the
     rate shaper of sch_cake across multiple CPUs, while still enforcing
     a single global rate on the interface.

   - Add support for the nbcon (new buffer console) infrastructure to
     netconsole, enabling lock-free, priority-based console operations
     that are safer in crash scenarios.

   - Improve the TCP ipv6 output path to cache the flow information,
     saving cpu cycles, reducing cache line misses and stack use.

   - Improve netfilter packet tracker to resolve clashes for most
     protocols, avoiding unneeded drops on rare occasions.

   - Add IP6IP6 tunneling acceleration to the flowtable infrastructure.

   - Reduce tcp socket size by one cache line.

   - Notify neighbour changes atomically, avoiding inconsistencies
     between the notification sequence and the actual states sequence.

   - Add vsock namespace support, allowing complete isolation of vsocks
     across different network namespaces.

   - Improve xsk generic performances with cache-alignment-oriented
     optimizations.

   - Support netconsole automatic target recovery, allowing netconsole
     to reestablish targets when underlying low-level interface comes
     back online.

  Driver API:

   - Support for switching the working mode (automatic vs manual) of a
     DPLL device via netlink.

   - Introduce PHY ports representation to expose multiple front-facing
     media ports over a single MAC.

   - Introduce "rx-polarity" and "tx-polarity" device tree properties,
     to generalize polarity inversion requirements for differential
     signaling.

   - Add helper to create, prepare and enable managed clocks.

  Device drivers:

   - Add Huawei hinic3 PF etherner driver.

   - Add DWMAC glue driver for Motorcomm YT6801 PCIe ethernet
     controller.

   - Add ethernet driver for MaxLinear MxL862xx switches

   - Remove parallel-port Ethernet driver.

   - Convert existing driver timestamp configuration reporting to
     hwtstamp_get and remove legacy ioctl().

   - Convert existing drivers to .get_rx_ring_count(), simplifing the RX
     ring count retrieval. Also remove the legacy fallback path.

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
      - Broadcom (bnxt, bng):
         - bnxt: add FW interface update to support FEC stats histogram
           and NVRAM defragmentation
         - bng: add TSO and H/W GRO support
      - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
         - improve latency of channel restart operations, reducing the
           used H/W resources
         - add TSO support for UDP over GRE over VLAN
         - add flow counters support for hardware steering (HWS) rules
         - use a static memory area to store headers for H/W GRO,
           leading to 12% RX tput improvement
      - Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
         - ice: reorganizes layout of Tx and Rx rings for cacheline
           locality and utilizes __cacheline_group* macros on the new
           layouts
         - ice: introduces Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) support
      - Meta (fbnic):
         - adds debugfs for firmware mailbox and tx/rx rings vectors

   - Ethernet virtual:
      - geneve: introduce GRO/GSO support for double UDP encapsulation

   - Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
      - Synopsys (stmmac):
         - some code refactoring and cleanups
      - RealTek (r8169):
         - add support for RTL8127ATF (10G Fiber SFP)
         - add dash and LTR support
      - Airoha:
         - AN8811HB 2.5 Gbps phy support
      - Freescale (fec):
         - add XDP zero-copy support
      - Thunderbolt:
         - add get link setting support to allow bonding
      - Renesas:
         - add support for RZ/G3L GBETH SoC

   - Ethernet switches:
      - Maxlinear:
         - support R(G)MII slow rate configuration
         - add support for Intel GSW150
      - Motorcomm (yt921x):
         - add DCB/QoS support
      - TI:
         - icssm-prueth: support bridging (STP/RSTP) via the switchdev
           framework

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - Realtek:
         - enable SGMII and 2500Base-X in-band auto-negotiation
         - simplify and reunify C22/C45 drivers
      - Micrel: convert bindings to DT schema

   - CAN:
      - move skb headroom content into skb extensions, making CAN
        metadata access more robust

   - CAN drivers:
      - rcar_canfd:
         - add support for FD-only mode
         - add support for the RZ/T2H SoC
      - sja1000: cleanup the CAN state handling

   - WiFi:
      - implement EPPKE/802.1X over auth frames support
      - split up drop reasons better, removing generic RX_DROP
      - additional FTM capabilities: 6 GHz support, supported number of
        spatial streams and supported number of LTF repetitions
      - better mac80211 iterators to enumerate resources
      - initial UHR (Wi-Fi 8) support for cfg80211/mac80211

   - WiFi drivers:
      - Qualcomm/Atheros:
         - ath11k: support for Channel Frequency Response measurement
         - ath12k: a significant driver refactor to support multi-wiphy
           devices and and pave the way for future device support in the
           same driver (rather than splitting to ath13k)
         - ath12k: support for the QCC2072 chipset
      - Intel:
         - iwlwifi: partial Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) support
         - iwlwifi: initial support for U-NII-9 and IEEE 802.11bn
      - RealTek (rtw89):
         - preparations for RTL8922DE support

   - Bluetooth:
      - implement setsockopt(BT_PHY) to set the connection packet type/PHY
      - set link_policy on incoming ACL connections

   - Bluetooth drivers:
      - btusb: add support for MediaTek7920, Realtek RTL8761BU and 8851BE
      - btqca: add WCN6855 firmware priority selection feature"

* tag 'net-next-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1254 commits)
  bnge/bng_re: Add a new HSI
  net: macb: Fix tx/rx malfunction after phy link down and up
  af_unix: Fix memleak of newsk in unix_stream_connect().
  net: ti: icssg-prueth: Add optional dependency on HSR
  net: dsa: add basic initial driver for MxL862xx switches
  net: mdio: add unlocked mdiodev C45 bus accessors
  net: dsa: add tag format for MxL862xx switches
  dt-bindings: net: dsa: add MaxLinear MxL862xx
  selftests: drivers: net: hw: Modify toeplitz.c to poll for packets
  octeontx2-pf: Unregister devlink on probe failure
  net: renesas: rswitch: fix forwarding offload statemachine
  ionic: Rate limit unknown xcvr type messages
  tcp: inet6_csk_xmit() optimization
  tcp: populate inet-&gt;cork.fl.u.ip6 in tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock()
  tcp: populate inet-&gt;cork.fl.u.ip6 in tcp_v6_connect()
  ipv6: inet6_csk_xmit() and inet6_csk_update_pmtu() use inet-&gt;cork.fl.u.ip6
  ipv6: use inet-&gt;cork.fl.u.ip6 and np-&gt;final in ip6_datagram_dst_update()
  ipv6: use np-&gt;final in inet6_sk_rebuild_header()
  ipv6: add daddr/final storage in struct ipv6_pinfo
  net: stmmac: qcom-ethqos: fix qcom_ethqos_serdes_powerup()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pull-filename' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2026-02-10T00:58:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-10T00:58:28+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs 'struct filename' updates from Al Viro:
 "[Mostly] sanitize struct filename handling"

* tag 'pull-filename' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (68 commits)
  sysfs(2): fs_index() argument is _not_ a pathname
  alpha: switch osf_mount() to strndup_user()
  ksmbd: use CLASS(filename_kernel)
  mqueue: switch to CLASS(filename)
  user_statfs(): switch to CLASS(filename)
  statx: switch to CLASS(filename_maybe_null)
  quotactl_block(): switch to CLASS(filename)
  chroot(2): switch to CLASS(filename)
  move_mount(2): switch to CLASS(filename_maybe_null)
  namei.c: switch user pathname imports to CLASS(filename{,_flags})
  namei.c: convert getname_kernel() callers to CLASS(filename_kernel)
  do_f{chmod,chown,access}at(): use CLASS(filename_uflags)
  do_readlinkat(): switch to CLASS(filename_flags)
  do_sys_truncate(): switch to CLASS(filename)
  do_utimes_path(): switch to CLASS(filename_uflags)
  chdir(2): unspaghettify a bit...
  do_fchownat(): unspaghettify a bit...
  fspick(2): use CLASS(filename_flags)
  name_to_handle_at(): use CLASS(filename_uflags)
  vfs_open_tree(): use CLASS(filename_uflags)
  ...
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Pull vfs 'struct filename' updates from Al Viro:
 "[Mostly] sanitize struct filename handling"

* tag 'pull-filename' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (68 commits)
  sysfs(2): fs_index() argument is _not_ a pathname
  alpha: switch osf_mount() to strndup_user()
  ksmbd: use CLASS(filename_kernel)
  mqueue: switch to CLASS(filename)
  user_statfs(): switch to CLASS(filename)
  statx: switch to CLASS(filename_maybe_null)
  quotactl_block(): switch to CLASS(filename)
  chroot(2): switch to CLASS(filename)
  move_mount(2): switch to CLASS(filename_maybe_null)
  namei.c: switch user pathname imports to CLASS(filename{,_flags})
  namei.c: convert getname_kernel() callers to CLASS(filename_kernel)
  do_f{chmod,chown,access}at(): use CLASS(filename_uflags)
  do_readlinkat(): switch to CLASS(filename_flags)
  do_sys_truncate(): switch to CLASS(filename)
  do_utimes_path(): switch to CLASS(filename_uflags)
  chdir(2): unspaghettify a bit...
  do_fchownat(): unspaghettify a bit...
  fspick(2): use CLASS(filename_flags)
  name_to_handle_at(): use CLASS(filename_uflags)
  vfs_open_tree(): use CLASS(filename_uflags)
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfilter: don't include xt and nftables.h in unrelated subsystems</title>
<updated>2026-01-20T15:23:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-28T20:59:27+00:00</published>
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conntrack, xtables and nftables are distinct subsystems, don't use them
in other subystems.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
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conntrack, xtables and nftables are distinct subsystems, don't use them
in other subystems.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>get rid of audit_reusename()</title>
<updated>2026-01-13T20:16:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-01T05:54:52+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=41670a5900a8866b8cab52ab5936b5e9ef06fe91'/>
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Originally we tried to avoid multiple insertions into audit names array
during retry loop by a cute hack - memorize the userland pointer and
if there already is a match, just grab an extra reference to it.

Cute as it had been, it had problems - two identical pointers had
audit aux entries merged, two identical strings did not.  Having
different behaviour for syscalls that differ only by addresses of
otherwise identical string arguments is obviously wrong - if nothing
else, compiler can decide to merge identical string literals.

Besides, this hack does nothing for non-audited processes - they get
a fresh copy for retry.  It's not time-critical, but having behaviour
subtly differ that way is bogus.

These days we have very few places that import filename more than once
(9 functions total) and it's easy to massage them so we get rid of all
re-imports.  With that done, we don't need audit_reusename() anymore.
There's no need to memorize userland pointer either.

Acked-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Originally we tried to avoid multiple insertions into audit names array
during retry loop by a cute hack - memorize the userland pointer and
if there already is a match, just grab an extra reference to it.

Cute as it had been, it had problems - two identical pointers had
audit aux entries merged, two identical strings did not.  Having
different behaviour for syscalls that differ only by addresses of
otherwise identical string arguments is obviously wrong - if nothing
else, compiler can decide to merge identical string literals.

Besides, this hack does nothing for non-audited processes - they get
a fresh copy for retry.  It's not time-critical, but having behaviour
subtly differ that way is bogus.

These days we have very few places that import filename more than once
(9 functions total) and it's easy to massage them so we get rid of all
re-imports.  With that done, we don't need audit_reusename() anymore.
There's no need to memorize userland pointer either.

Acked-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>audit: move the compat_xxx_class[] extern declarations to audit_arch.h</title>
<updated>2026-01-09T21:37:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Dooks</name>
<email>ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-09T13:39:38+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=76489955c6d4a065ca69dc88faf7a50a59b66f35'/>
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The comapt_xxx_class symbols aren't declared in anything that
lib/comapt_audit.c is including (arm64 build) which is causing
the following sparse warnings:

lib/compat_audit.c:7:10: warning: symbol 'compat_dir_class'
  was not declared. Should it be static?
lib/compat_audit.c:12:10: warning: symbol 'compat_read_class'
  was not declared. Should it be static?
lib/compat_audit.c:17:10: warning: symbol 'compat_write_class'
  was not declared. Should it be static?
lib/compat_audit.c:22:10: warning: symbol 'compat_chattr_class'
  was not declared. Should it be static?
lib/compat_audit.c:27:10: warning: symbol 'compat_signal_class'
  was not declared. Should it be static?

Trying to fix this by chaning compat_audit.c to inclde &lt;linux/audit.h&gt;
does not work on arm64 due to compile errors with the extra includes
that changing this header makes. The simpler thing would be just to
move the definitons of these symbols out of &lt;linux/audit.h&gt; into
&lt;linux/audit_arch.h&gt; which is included.

Fixes: 4b58841149dca ("audit: Add generic compat syscall support")
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks &lt;ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk&gt;
[PM: rewrite subject line, fixed line length in description]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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The comapt_xxx_class symbols aren't declared in anything that
lib/comapt_audit.c is including (arm64 build) which is causing
the following sparse warnings:

lib/compat_audit.c:7:10: warning: symbol 'compat_dir_class'
  was not declared. Should it be static?
lib/compat_audit.c:12:10: warning: symbol 'compat_read_class'
  was not declared. Should it be static?
lib/compat_audit.c:17:10: warning: symbol 'compat_write_class'
  was not declared. Should it be static?
lib/compat_audit.c:22:10: warning: symbol 'compat_chattr_class'
  was not declared. Should it be static?
lib/compat_audit.c:27:10: warning: symbol 'compat_signal_class'
  was not declared. Should it be static?

Trying to fix this by chaning compat_audit.c to inclde &lt;linux/audit.h&gt;
does not work on arm64 due to compile errors with the extra includes
that changing this header makes. The simpler thing would be just to
move the definitons of these symbols out of &lt;linux/audit.h&gt; into
&lt;linux/audit_arch.h&gt; which is included.

Fixes: 4b58841149dca ("audit: Add generic compat syscall support")
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks &lt;ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk&gt;
[PM: rewrite subject line, fixed line length in description]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>audit: add audit_log_nf_skb helper function</title>
<updated>2025-12-16T16:04:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ricardo Robaina</name>
<email>rrobaina@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-14T12:36:16+00:00</published>
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Netfilter code (net/netfilter/nft_log.c and net/netfilter/xt_AUDIT.c)
have to be kept in sync. Both source files had duplicated versions of
audit_ip4() and audit_ip6() functions, which can result in lack of
consistency and/or duplicated work.

This patch adds a helper function in audit.c that can be called by
netfilter code commonly, aiming to improve maintainability and
consistency.

Suggested-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Suggested-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Robaina &lt;rrobaina@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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Netfilter code (net/netfilter/nft_log.c and net/netfilter/xt_AUDIT.c)
have to be kept in sync. Both source files had duplicated versions of
audit_ip4() and audit_ip6() functions, which can result in lack of
consistency and/or duplicated work.

This patch adds a helper function in audit.c that can be called by
netfilter code commonly, aiming to improve maintainability and
consistency.

Suggested-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Suggested-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Robaina &lt;rrobaina@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>audit: add record for multiple object contexts</title>
<updated>2025-08-30T14:15:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Casey Schaufler</name>
<email>casey@schaufler-ca.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-16T17:28:59+00:00</published>
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Create a new audit record AUDIT_MAC_OBJ_CONTEXTS.
An example of the MAC_OBJ_CONTEXTS record is:

    type=MAC_OBJ_CONTEXTS
      msg=audit(1601152467.009:1050):
      obj_selinux=unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0

When an audit event includes a AUDIT_MAC_OBJ_CONTEXTS record
the "obj=" field in other records in the event will be "obj=?".
An AUDIT_MAC_OBJ_CONTEXTS record is supplied when the system has
multiple security modules that may make access decisions based
on an object security context.

Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
[PM: subj tweak, audit example readability indents]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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Create a new audit record AUDIT_MAC_OBJ_CONTEXTS.
An example of the MAC_OBJ_CONTEXTS record is:

    type=MAC_OBJ_CONTEXTS
      msg=audit(1601152467.009:1050):
      obj_selinux=unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0

When an audit event includes a AUDIT_MAC_OBJ_CONTEXTS record
the "obj=" field in other records in the event will be "obj=?".
An AUDIT_MAC_OBJ_CONTEXTS record is supplied when the system has
multiple security modules that may make access decisions based
on an object security context.

Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
[PM: subj tweak, audit example readability indents]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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