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<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>btf: Support kernel parsing of BTF with layout info</title>
<updated>2026-03-26T20:53:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Maguire</name>
<email>alan.maguire@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-26T14:54:42+00:00</published>
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Validate layout if present, but because the kernel must be
strict in what it accepts, reject BTF with unsupported kinds,
even if they are in the layout information.

Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire &lt;alan.maguire@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260326145444.2076244-8-alan.maguire@oracle.com
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Validate layout if present, but because the kernel must be
strict in what it accepts, reject BTF with unsupported kinds,
even if they are in the layout information.

Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire &lt;alan.maguire@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260326145444.2076244-8-alan.maguire@oracle.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Support pointer param types via SCALAR_VALUE for trampolines</title>
<updated>2026-03-24T20:36:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Slava Imameev</name>
<email>slava.imameev@crowdstrike.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-14T08:21:26+00:00</published>
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Add BPF verifier support for single- and multi-level pointer
parameters and return values in BPF trampolines by treating these
parameters as SCALAR_VALUE.

This extends the existing support for int and void pointers that are
already treated as SCALAR_VALUE.

This provides consistent logic for single and multi-level pointers:
if a type is treated as SCALAR for a single-level pointer, the same
applies to multi-level pointers. The exception is pointer-to-struct,
which is currently PTR_TO_BTF_ID for single-level but treated as
scalar for multi-level pointers since the verifier lacks context
to infer the size of target memory regions.

Safety is ensured by existing BTF verification, which rejects invalid
pointer types at the BTF verification stage.

Signed-off-by: Slava Imameev &lt;slava.imameev@crowdstrike.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260314082127.7939-2-slava.imameev@crowdstrike.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Add BPF verifier support for single- and multi-level pointer
parameters and return values in BPF trampolines by treating these
parameters as SCALAR_VALUE.

This extends the existing support for int and void pointers that are
already treated as SCALAR_VALUE.

This provides consistent logic for single and multi-level pointers:
if a type is treated as SCALAR for a single-level pointer, the same
applies to multi-level pointers. The exception is pointer-to-struct,
which is currently PTR_TO_BTF_ID for single-level but treated as
scalar for multi-level pointers since the verifier lacks context
to infer the size of target memory regions.

Safety is ensured by existing BTF verification, which rejects invalid
pointer types at the BTF verification stage.

Signed-off-by: Slava Imameev &lt;slava.imameev@crowdstrike.com&gt;
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260314082127.7939-2-slava.imameev@crowdstrike.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Switch CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI</title>
<updated>2026-03-24T15:42:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Carlos Llamas</name>
<email>cmllamas@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-12T18:38:17+00:00</published>
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This was renamed in commit 23ef9d439769 ("kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG
to CONFIG_CFI") as it is now a compiler-agnostic option. Using the wrong
name results in the code getting compiled out. Meaning the CFI failures
for btf_dtor_kfunc_t would still trigger.

Fixes: 99fde4d06261 ("bpf, btf: Enforce destructor kfunc type with CFI")
Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas &lt;cmllamas@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yonghong.song@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260312183818.2721750-1-cmllamas@google.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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This was renamed in commit 23ef9d439769 ("kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG
to CONFIG_CFI") as it is now a compiler-agnostic option. Using the wrong
name results in the code getting compiled out. Meaning the CFI failures
for btf_dtor_kfunc_t would still trigger.

Fixes: 99fde4d06261 ("bpf, btf: Enforce destructor kfunc type with CFI")
Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas &lt;cmllamas@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Yonghong Song &lt;yonghong.song@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260312183818.2721750-1-cmllamas@google.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf 7.0-rc5</title>
<updated>2026-03-23T02:33:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexei Starovoitov</name>
<email>ast@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-23T02:31:37+00:00</published>
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Cross-merge BPF and other fixes after downstream PR.

Minor conflicts in:
  tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/exceptions_fail.c
  tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_bounds.c

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Cross-merge BPF and other fixes after downstream PR.

Minor conflicts in:
  tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/exceptions_fail.c
  tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_bounds.c

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Release module BTF IDR before module unload</title>
<updated>2026-03-19T00:26:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi</name>
<email>memxor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-12T20:53:07+00:00</published>
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Gregory reported in [0] that the global_map_resize test when run in
repeatedly ends up failing during program load. This stems from the fact
that BTF reference has not dropped to zero after the previous run's
module is unloaded, and the older module's BTF is still discoverable and
visible. Later, in libbpf, load_module_btfs() will find the ID for this
stale BTF, open its fd, and then it will be used during program load
where later steps taking module reference using btf_try_get_module()
fail since the underlying module for the BTF is gone.

Logically, once a module is unloaded, it's associated BTF artifacts
should become hidden. The BTF object inside the kernel may still remain
alive as long its reference counts are alive, but it should no longer be
discoverable.

To fix this, let us call btf_free_id() from the MODULE_STATE_GOING case
for the module unload to free the BTF associated IDR entry, and disable
its discovery once module unload returns to user space. If a race
happens during unload, the outcome is non-deterministic anyway. However,
user space should be able to rely on the guarantee that once it has
synchronously established a successful module unload, no more stale
artifacts associated with this module can be obtained subsequently.

Note that we must be careful to not invoke btf_free_id() in btf_put()
when btf_is_module() is true now. There could be a window where the
module unload drops a non-terminal reference, frees the IDR, but the
same ID gets reused and the second unconditional btf_free_id() ends up
releasing an unrelated entry.

To avoid a special case for btf_is_module() case, set btf-&gt;id to zero to
make btf_free_id() idempotent, such that we can unconditionally invoke it
from btf_put(), and also from the MODULE_STATE_GOING case. Since zero is
an invalid IDR, the idr_remove() should be a noop.

Note that we can be sure that by the time we reach final btf_put() for
btf_is_module() case, the btf_free_id() is already done, since the
module itself holds the BTF reference, and it will call this function
for the BTF before dropping its own reference.

  [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/cover.1773170190.git.grbell@redhat.com

Fixes: 36e68442d1af ("bpf: Load and verify kernel module BTFs")
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Gregory Bell &lt;grbell@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis &lt;emil@etsalapatis.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260312205307.1346991-1-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;

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Gregory reported in [0] that the global_map_resize test when run in
repeatedly ends up failing during program load. This stems from the fact
that BTF reference has not dropped to zero after the previous run's
module is unloaded, and the older module's BTF is still discoverable and
visible. Later, in libbpf, load_module_btfs() will find the ID for this
stale BTF, open its fd, and then it will be used during program load
where later steps taking module reference using btf_try_get_module()
fail since the underlying module for the BTF is gone.

Logically, once a module is unloaded, it's associated BTF artifacts
should become hidden. The BTF object inside the kernel may still remain
alive as long its reference counts are alive, but it should no longer be
discoverable.

To fix this, let us call btf_free_id() from the MODULE_STATE_GOING case
for the module unload to free the BTF associated IDR entry, and disable
its discovery once module unload returns to user space. If a race
happens during unload, the outcome is non-deterministic anyway. However,
user space should be able to rely on the guarantee that once it has
synchronously established a successful module unload, no more stale
artifacts associated with this module can be obtained subsequently.

Note that we must be careful to not invoke btf_free_id() in btf_put()
when btf_is_module() is true now. There could be a window where the
module unload drops a non-terminal reference, frees the IDR, but the
same ID gets reused and the second unconditional btf_free_id() ends up
releasing an unrelated entry.

To avoid a special case for btf_is_module() case, set btf-&gt;id to zero to
make btf_free_id() idempotent, such that we can unconditionally invoke it
from btf_put(), and also from the MODULE_STATE_GOING case. Since zero is
an invalid IDR, the idr_remove() should be a noop.

Note that we can be sure that by the time we reach final btf_put() for
btf_is_module() case, the btf_free_id() is already done, since the
module itself holds the BTF reference, and it will call this function
for the BTF before dropping its own reference.

  [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/cover.1773170190.git.grbell@redhat.com

Fixes: 36e68442d1af ("bpf: Load and verify kernel module BTFs")
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Martin KaFai Lau &lt;martin.lau@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Gregory Bell &lt;grbell@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis &lt;emil@etsalapatis.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260312205307.1346991-1-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Allow void global functions in the verifier</title>
<updated>2026-03-03T16:47:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Emil Tsalapatis</name>
<email>emil@etsalapatis.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-28T18:47:58+00:00</published>
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Global subprogs are currently not allowed to return void. Adjust
verifier logic to allow global functions with a void return type.

Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Emil Tsalapatis &lt;emil@etsalapatis.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260228184759.108145-5-emil@etsalapatis.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Global subprogs are currently not allowed to return void. Adjust
verifier logic to allow global functions with a void return type.

Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Emil Tsalapatis &lt;emil@etsalapatis.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260228184759.108145-5-emil@etsalapatis.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_flex' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T01:06:51+00:00</published>
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This is the exact same thing as the 'alloc_obj()' version, only much
smaller because there are a lot fewer users of the *alloc_flex()
interface.

As with alloc_obj() version, this was done entirely with mindless brute
force, using the same script, except using 'flex' in the pattern rather
than 'objs*'.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This is the exact same thing as the 'alloc_obj()' version, only much
smaller because there are a lot fewer users of the *alloc_flex()
interface.

As with alloc_obj() version, this was done entirely with mindless brute
force, using the same script, except using 'flex' in the pattern rather
than 'objs*'.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Replace snprintf("%s") with strscpy</title>
<updated>2026-02-03T02:43:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thorsten Blum</name>
<email>thorsten.blum@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-01T21:52:48+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d95d76aa772bf94df353b015b1cb38303d4a415d'/>
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<content type='text'>
Replace snprintf("%s") with the faster and more direct strscpy().

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum &lt;thorsten.blum@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260201215247.677121-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Replace snprintf("%s") with the faster and more direct strscpy().

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum &lt;thorsten.blum@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260201215247.677121-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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