linux.git/scripts, branch v6.18-rc2

Merge tag 'kbuild-fixes-6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux

2025-10-11T22:47:12+00:00

Pull Kbuild fixes from Nathan Chancellor:

 - Fix UAPI types check in headers_check.pl

 - Only enable -Werror for hostprogs with CONFIG_WERROR / W=e

 - Ignore fsync() error when output of gen_init_cpio is a pipe

 - Several little build fixes for recent modules.builtin.modinfo series

* tag 'kbuild-fixes-6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux:
  kbuild: Use '--strip-unneeded-symbol' for removing module device table symbols
  s390/vmlinux.lds.S: Move .vmlinux.info to end of allocatable sections
  kbuild: Add '.rel.*' strip pattern for vmlinux
  kbuild: Restore pattern to avoid stripping .rela.dyn from vmlinux
  gen_init_cpio: Ignore fsync() returning EINVAL on pipes
  scripts/Makefile.extrawarn: Respect CONFIG_WERROR / W=e for hostprogs
  kbuild: uapi: Strip comments before size type check

Merge tag 'bpf-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf

2025-10-11T17:31:38+00:00

Pull bpf fixes from Alexei Starovoitov:

 - Finish constification of 1st parameter of bpf_d_path() (Rong Tao)

 - Harden userspace-supplied xdp_desc validation (Alexander Lobakin)

 - Fix metadata_dst leak in __bpf_redirect_neigh_v{4,6}() (Daniel
   Borkmann)

 - Fix undefined behavior in {get,put}_unaligned_be32() (Eric Biggers)

 - Use correct context to unpin bpf hash map with special types (KaFai
   Wan)

* tag 'bpf-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf:
  selftests/bpf: Add test for unpinning htab with internal timer struct
  bpf: Avoid RCU context warning when unpinning htab with internal structs
  xsk: Harden userspace-supplied xdp_desc validation
  bpf: Fix metadata_dst leak __bpf_redirect_neigh_v{4,6}
  libbpf: Fix undefined behavior in {get,put}_unaligned_be32()
  bpf: Finish constification of 1st parameter of bpf_d_path()

kbuild: Use '--strip-unneeded-symbol' for removing module device table symbols

2025-10-10T21:50:35+00:00

After commit 5ab23c7923a1 ("modpost: Create modalias for builtin
modules"), relocatable RISC-V kernels with CONFIG_KASAN=y start failing
when attempting to strip the module device table symbols:

  riscv64-linux-objcopy: not stripping symbol `__mod_device_table__kmod_irq_starfive_jh8100_intc__of__starfive_intc_irqchip_match_table' because it is named in a relocation
  make[4]: *** [scripts/Makefile.vmlinux:97: vmlinux] Error 1

The relocation appears to come from .LASANLOC5 in .data.rel.local:

  $ llvm-objdump --disassemble-symbols=.LASANLOC5 --disassemble-all -r drivers/irqchip/irq-starfive-jh8100-intc.o

  drivers/irqchip/irq-starfive-jh8100-intc.o:   file format elf64-littleriscv

  Disassembly of section .data.rel.local:

  0000000000000180 <.LASANLOC5>:
  ...
       1d0: 0000          unimp
                  00000000000001d0:  R_RISCV_64   __mod_device_table__kmod_irq_starfive_jh8100_intc__of__starfive_intc_irqchip_match_table
  ...

This section appears to come from GCC for including additional
information about global variables that may be protected by KASAN.

There appears to be no way to opt out of the generation of these symbols
through either a flag or attribute. Attempting to remove '.LASANLOC*'
with '--strip-symbol' results in the same error as above because these
symbols may refer to (thus have relocation between) each other.

Avoid this build breakage by switching to '--strip-unneeded-symbol' for
removing __mod_device_table__ symbols, as it will only remove the symbol
when there is no relocation pointing to it. While this may result in a
little more bloat in the symbol table in certain configurations, it is
not as bad as outright build failures.

Fixes: 5ab23c7923a1 ("modpost: Create modalias for builtin modules")
Reported-by: Charles Mirabile 
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/20251007011637.2512413-1-cmirabil@redhat.com/
Suggested-by: Alexey Gladkov 
Tested-by: Nicolas Schier 
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor

kbuild: Add '.rel.*' strip pattern for vmlinux

2025-10-10T17:22:08+00:00

Prior to binutils commit c12d9fa2afe ("Support objcopy
--remove-section=.relaFOO") [1] in 2.32, stripping relocation sections
required the trailing period (i.e., '.rel.*') to work properly.

After commit 3e86e4d74c04 ("kbuild: keep .modinfo section in
vmlinux.unstripped"), there is an error with binutils 2.31.1 or earlier
because these sections are not properly removed:

  s390-linux-objcopy: st6tO8Ev: symbol `.modinfo' required but not present
  s390-linux-objcopy:st6tO8Ev: no symbols

Add the old pattern to resolve this issue (along with a comment to allow
cleaning this when binutils 2.32 or newer is the minimum supported
version). While the aforementioned kbuild change exposes this, the
pattern was originally changed by commit 71d815bf5dfd ("kbuild: Strip
runtime const RELA sections correctly"), where it would still be
incorrect with binutils older than 2.32.

Fixes: 71d815bf5dfd ("kbuild: Strip runtime const RELA sections correctly")
Link: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=c12d9fa2afe7abcbe407a00e15719e1a1350c2a7 [1]
Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing 
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/CA+G9fYvVktRhFtZXdNgVOL8j+ArsJDpvMLgCitaQvQmCx=hwOQ@mail.gmail.com/
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel 
Acked-by: Alexey Gladkov 
Acked-by: Nicolas Schier 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251008-kbuild-fix-modinfo-regressions-v1-2-9fc776c5887c@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor

kbuild: Restore pattern to avoid stripping .rela.dyn from vmlinux

2025-10-10T17:22:07+00:00

Commit 0ce5139fd96e ("kbuild: always create intermediate
vmlinux.unstripped") removed the pattern to avoid stripping .rela.dyn
sections added by commit e9d86b8e17e7 ("scripts: Do not strip .rela.dyn
section"). Restore it so that .rela.dyn sections remain in the final
vmlinux.

Fixes: 0ce5139fd96e ("kbuild: always create intermediate vmlinux.unstripped")
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel 
Acked-by: Alexey Gladkov 
Acked-by: Nicolas Schier 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251008-kbuild-fix-modinfo-regressions-v1-1-9fc776c5887c@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor

scripts/Makefile.extrawarn: Respect CONFIG_WERROR / W=e for hostprogs

2025-10-07T16:46:04+00:00

Commit 27758d8c2583 ("kbuild: enable -Werror for hostprogs")
unconditionally enabled -Werror for the compiler, assembler, and linker
when building the host programs, as the build footprint of the host
programs is small (thus risk of build failures from warnings are low)
and that stage of the build may not have Kconfig values (thus
CONFIG_WERROR could not be used as a precondition).

While turning warnings into errors unconditionally happens in a few
places within the kernel, it can be disruptive to people who may be
building with newer compilers, such as while doing a bisect. While it is
possible to avoid this behavior by passing HOSTCFLAGS=-w or
HOSTCFLAGS=-Wno-error, it may not be the most intuitive for regular
users not intimately familiar with Kbuild.

Avoid being disruptive to the entire build by depending on the explicit
opt-in of CONFIG_WERROR or W=e to enable -Werror and the like while
building the host programs. While this means there is a small portion of
the build that does not have -Werror enabled (namely scripts/kconfig/*
and scripts/basic/fixdep), it is better than not having it altogether.

Fixes: 27758d8c2583 ("kbuild: enable -Werror for hostprogs")
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda 
Reported-by: Askar Safin 
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/20251005011100.1035272-1-safinaskar@gmail.com/
Reviewed-by: Thomas Weißschuh 
Tested-by: Miguel Ojeda  # Rust
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251006-kbuild-hostprogs-werror-fix-v1-1-23cf1ffced5c@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor

kconfig: Avoid prompting for transitional symbols

2025-10-07T15:21:23+00:00

The "transitional" symbol keyword, while working with the "olddefconfig"
target, was prompting during "oldconfig". This occurred because these
symbols were not being marked as user-defined when they received values
from transitional symbols that had user values. The "olddefconfig" target
explicitly doesn't prompt for anything, so this deficiency wasn't noticed.

The issue manifested when a symbol's value came from a transitional
symbol's user value but the receiving symbol wasn't marked with
SYMBOL_DEF_USER. Thus the "oldconfig" logic would then prompt for these
symbols unnecessarily.

Check after value calculation whether a symbol without a user value
gets its value from a single transitional symbol that does have a user
value. In such cases, mark the receiving symbol as user-defined to
prevent prompting.

Update regression tests to verify that symbols with transitional defaults
are not prompted in "oldconfig", except when conditional defaults evaluate
to 'no' and should legitimately be prompted.

Build tested with "make testconfig".

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds 
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wgZjUk4Cy2XgNkTrQoO8XCmNUHrTe5D519Fij1POK+3qw@mail.gmail.com/
Fixes: f9afce4f32e9 ("kconfig: Add transitional symbol attribute for migration support")
Cc: Vegard Nossum 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250930154514.it.623-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

bpf: Finish constification of 1st parameter of bpf_d_path()

2025-10-04T16:05:23+00:00

The commit 1b8abbb12128 ("bpf...d_path(): constify path argument")
constified the first parameter of the bpf_d_path(), but failed to
update it in all places. Finish constification.

Otherwise the selftest fail to build:
.../selftests/bpf/bpf_experimental.h:222:12: error: conflicting types for 'bpf_path_d_path'
  222 | extern int bpf_path_d_path(const struct path *path, char *buf, size_t buf__sz) __ksym;
      |            ^
.../selftests/bpf/tools/include/vmlinux.h:153922:12: note: previous declaration is here
 153922 | extern int bpf_path_d_path(struct path *path, char *buf, size_t buf__sz) __weak __ksym;

Fixes: 1b8abbb12128 ("bpf...d_path(): constify path argument")
Signed-off-by: Rong Tao 
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov

Merge tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2025-10-04T00:16:13+00:00

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It has been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, with changes all
  over:

   - Bring the kernel memory-model docs into the Sphinx build in the
     "literal include" mode.

   - Lots of build-infrastructure work, further cleaning up long-term
     kernel-doc technical debt. The sphinx-pre-install tool has been
     converted to Python and updated for current systems.

   - A new tool to detect when documents have been moved and generate
     HTML redirects; this can be used on kernel.org (or any other site
     hosting the rendered docs) to avoid breaking links.

   - Automated processing of the YAML files describing the netlink
     protocol.

   - A significant update of the maintainer's PGP guide.

  ... and a seemingly endless series of typo fixes, build-problem fixes,
  etc"

* tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (193 commits)
  Documentation/features: Update feature lists for 6.17-rc7
  docs: remove cdomain.py
  Documentation/process: submitting-patches: fix typo in "were do"
  docs: dev-tools/lkmm: Fix typo of missing file extension
  Documentation: trace: histogram: Convert ftrace docs cross-reference
  Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Wrap introductory note in note:: directive
  Documentation: trace: historgram-design: Separate sched_waking histogram section heading and the following diagram
  Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Trim trailing vertices in diagram explanation text
  Documentation: trace: histogram: Fix histogram trigger subsection number order
  docs: driver-api: fix spelling of "buses".
  Documentation: fbcon: Use admonition directives
  Documentation: fbcon: Reindent 8th step of attach/detach/unload
  Documentation: fbcon: Add boot options and attach/detach/unload section headings
  docs: filesystems: sysfs: add remaining top level sysfs directory descriptions
  docs: filesystems: sysfs: clarify symlink destinations in dev and bus/devices descriptions
  docs: filesystems: sysfs: remove top level sysfs net directory
  docs: maintainer: Fix ambiguous subheading formatting
  docs: kdoc: a few more dump_typedef() tweaks
  docs: kdoc: remove redundant comment stripping in dump_typedef()
  docs: kdoc: remove some dead code in dump_typedef()
  ...

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-10-02-15-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-10-03T01:44:54+00:00

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "ida: Remove the ida_simple_xxx() API" from Christophe Jaillet
   completes the removal of this legacy IDR API

 - "panic: introduce panic status function family" from Jinchao Wang
   provides a number of cleanups to the panic code and its various
   helpers, which were rather ad-hoc and scattered all over the place

 - "tools/delaytop: implement real-time keyboard interaction support"
   from Fan Yu adds a few nice user-facing usability changes to the
   delaytop monitoring tool

 - "efi: Fix EFI boot with kexec handover (KHO)" from Evangelos
   Petrongonas fixes a panic which was happening with the combination of
   EFI and KHO

 - "Squashfs: performance improvement and a sanity check" from Phillip
   Lougher teaches squashfs's lseek() about SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE. A mere
   150x speedup was measured for a well-chosen microbenchmark

 - plus another 50-odd singleton patches all over the place

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-10-02-15-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (75 commits)
  Squashfs: reject negative file sizes in squashfs_read_inode()
  kallsyms: use kmalloc_array() instead of kmalloc()
  MAINTAINERS: update Sibi Sankar's email address
  Squashfs: add SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE support
  Squashfs: add additional inode sanity checking
  lib/genalloc: fix device leak in of_gen_pool_get()
  panic: remove CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
  ocfs2: fix double free in user_cluster_connect()
  checkpatch: suppress strscpy warnings for userspace tools
  cramfs: fix incorrect physical page address calculation
  kernel: prevent prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG) from racing with parent process exit
  Squashfs: fix uninit-value in squashfs_get_parent
  kho: only fill kimage if KHO is finalized
  ocfs2: avoid extra calls to strlen() after ocfs2_sprintf_system_inode_name()
  kernel/sys.c: fix the racy usage of task_lock(tsk->group_leader) in sys_prlimit64() paths
  sched/task.h: fix the wrong comment on task_lock() nesting with tasklist_lock
  coccinelle: platform_no_drv_owner: handle also built-in drivers
  coccinelle: of_table: handle SPI device ID tables
  lib/decompress: use designated initializers for struct compress_format
  efi: support booting with kexec handover (KHO)
  ...