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<title>Merge tag 'bpf-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf</title>
<updated>2026-09-06T20:49:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-09-06T20:49:44+00:00</published>
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Pull bpf fixes from Alexei Starovoitov:
 "This mainly contains verifier fixes that address bugs reported by
  Nicholas Carlini.

   - Fix incorrect non-NULL inference in pointer comparisons: pointer
     types that may be NULL at runtime, pointers with unbounded offsets,
     JMP32 comparisons with zero, and imprecise zero registers (Eduard
     Zingerman)

   - Fix precision tracking for half-dead zero spills, ld_abs/ld_ind
     implicit subprog exit, bpf_loop() callbacks, linked scalar ids and
     NULL call arguments (Eduard Zingerman)

   - Reject BPF_PSEUDO_FUNC reference to the main program, fix zero
     extension of arena 32-bit cmpxchg, don't rewrite bpf_fastcall
     patterns entered by a jump (Eduard Zingerman)

   - Fix percpu map update and BPF_F_CPU validation with sparse CPU IDs
     (Hui Su)

   - Fix NULL-ptr-derefs in bpf_snprintf_btf() for void and VAR types,
     and reject key-less BTF for hash maps (Jiayuan Chen)

   - Various fixes (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi):
       - Fix out-of-bounds access in disassembler on invalid LDSX
         instruction
       - mark siginfo of signal tracepoints as scalar and
         sched_process_wait argument as nullable
       - mark faultable stack helpers as sleepable
       - reject tail calls and legacy packet loads from callbacks
       - enforce rbtree callback lock restrictions for resilient locks
       - require MEM_PERCPU for percpu kptr stores
       - clear NON_OWN_REF after RCU protection ends
       - mark NULL kptr stores precise
       - preserve inner map identity in callback frames
       - reject non-scalar bpf_loop() iteration counts

   - Fix trampoline allocation slowdown on x86 by using
     EXECMEM_MODULE_DATA (Mike Rapoport)

   - Keep bpf_refcount_acquire() nullable for borrowed RCU kptrs and
     reject untrusted allocated-object pointers (Ning Ding)

   - Fix special fields handling in recycled rhtab elements (Nuoqi Gui,
     Yuan Chen)"

* tag 'bpf-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf: (86 commits)
  bpf, riscv: Make arena support depend on ZACAS
  selftests/bpf: Test pointer bpf_loop iteration count rejection
  bpf: Reject non-scalar bpf_loop iteration counts
  bpf: use mark_arg_precision() in check_mem_size_reg()
  bpf: propagate mark_chain_precision() errors out of loop_flag_is_zero()
  selftests/bpf: precision of a NULL global subprogram BTF_ID argument
  bpf: mark a NULL BTF_ID argument of a global subprogram precise
  selftests/bpf: precision of a NULL kfunc argument
  bpf: mark a NULL kfunc argument precise
  selftests/bpf: precision of a NULL global subprogram memory argument
  bpf: mark a NULL memory argument of a call precise
  selftests/bpf: precision of a NULL helper argument
  bpf: mark a NULL call argument precise
  selftests/bpf: Test inner map identities in callbacks
  bpf: Preserve inner map identity in callback frames
  selftests/bpf: Test imprecise scalar kptr stores
  bpf: Mark NULL kptr stores precise
  selftests/bpf: Test rhtab kptr cancellation semantics
  bpf: Cancel special fields when recycling rhtab elements
  selftests/bpf: Test timer field on recycled rhtab element
  ...
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Pull bpf fixes from Alexei Starovoitov:
 "This mainly contains verifier fixes that address bugs reported by
  Nicholas Carlini.

   - Fix incorrect non-NULL inference in pointer comparisons: pointer
     types that may be NULL at runtime, pointers with unbounded offsets,
     JMP32 comparisons with zero, and imprecise zero registers (Eduard
     Zingerman)

   - Fix precision tracking for half-dead zero spills, ld_abs/ld_ind
     implicit subprog exit, bpf_loop() callbacks, linked scalar ids and
     NULL call arguments (Eduard Zingerman)

   - Reject BPF_PSEUDO_FUNC reference to the main program, fix zero
     extension of arena 32-bit cmpxchg, don't rewrite bpf_fastcall
     patterns entered by a jump (Eduard Zingerman)

   - Fix percpu map update and BPF_F_CPU validation with sparse CPU IDs
     (Hui Su)

   - Fix NULL-ptr-derefs in bpf_snprintf_btf() for void and VAR types,
     and reject key-less BTF for hash maps (Jiayuan Chen)

   - Various fixes (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi):
       - Fix out-of-bounds access in disassembler on invalid LDSX
         instruction
       - mark siginfo of signal tracepoints as scalar and
         sched_process_wait argument as nullable
       - mark faultable stack helpers as sleepable
       - reject tail calls and legacy packet loads from callbacks
       - enforce rbtree callback lock restrictions for resilient locks
       - require MEM_PERCPU for percpu kptr stores
       - clear NON_OWN_REF after RCU protection ends
       - mark NULL kptr stores precise
       - preserve inner map identity in callback frames
       - reject non-scalar bpf_loop() iteration counts

   - Fix trampoline allocation slowdown on x86 by using
     EXECMEM_MODULE_DATA (Mike Rapoport)

   - Keep bpf_refcount_acquire() nullable for borrowed RCU kptrs and
     reject untrusted allocated-object pointers (Ning Ding)

   - Fix special fields handling in recycled rhtab elements (Nuoqi Gui,
     Yuan Chen)"

* tag 'bpf-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf: (86 commits)
  bpf, riscv: Make arena support depend on ZACAS
  selftests/bpf: Test pointer bpf_loop iteration count rejection
  bpf: Reject non-scalar bpf_loop iteration counts
  bpf: use mark_arg_precision() in check_mem_size_reg()
  bpf: propagate mark_chain_precision() errors out of loop_flag_is_zero()
  selftests/bpf: precision of a NULL global subprogram BTF_ID argument
  bpf: mark a NULL BTF_ID argument of a global subprogram precise
  selftests/bpf: precision of a NULL kfunc argument
  bpf: mark a NULL kfunc argument precise
  selftests/bpf: precision of a NULL global subprogram memory argument
  bpf: mark a NULL memory argument of a call precise
  selftests/bpf: precision of a NULL helper argument
  bpf: mark a NULL call argument precise
  selftests/bpf: Test inner map identities in callbacks
  bpf: Preserve inner map identity in callback frames
  selftests/bpf: Test imprecise scalar kptr stores
  bpf: Mark NULL kptr stores precise
  selftests/bpf: Test rhtab kptr cancellation semantics
  bpf: Cancel special fields when recycling rhtab elements
  selftests/bpf: Test timer field on recycled rhtab element
  ...
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<entry>
<title>selftests/bpf: Test inner map identities in callbacks</title>
<updated>2026-09-04T19:24:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi</name>
<email>memxor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-09-04T10:41:59+00:00</published>
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Add load-only timer_mim coverage for inner map identities propagated
through nested timer and bpf_for_each_map_elem() callbacks.

The negative case initializes a timer in the second inner map with the map
saved from the first inner map timer callback. The positive case pairs the
timer value with the map supplied to the same for-each callback.

Without the verifier fix, the mismatched-map program is accepted while the
same-map control is rejected. Preserving map_uid reverses both verdicts.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260904104203.345917-9-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;

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Add load-only timer_mim coverage for inner map identities propagated
through nested timer and bpf_for_each_map_elem() callbacks.

The negative case initializes a timer in the second inner map with the map
saved from the first inner map timer callback. The positive case pairs the
timer value with the map supplied to the same for-each callback.

Without the verifier fix, the mismatched-map program is accepted while the
same-map control is rejected. Preserving map_uid reverses both verdicts.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260904104203.345917-9-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>selftests/bpf: Test rhtab kptr cancellation semantics</title>
<updated>2026-09-04T19:24:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nuoqi Gui</name>
<email>gnq25@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2026-09-04T10:41:55+00:00</published>
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Resizable hash-map updates and deletions must not perform full special-field
destruction in their caller context. In particular, a referenced kptr must
remain attached to the allocation until the memory allocator destructor can
release it safely.

Add separate coverage for both affected paths. The update test stores a task
kptr, replaces the ordinary value bytes with BPF_EXIST, and verifies that the
kptr survived. The delete test removes an element and exchanges its kptr
through the still-valid map-value pointer before the allocation is reclaimed.

Both cases observe a NULL kptr when rhtab uses bpf_obj_free_fields(). They
recover and release the reference after rhtab switches to cancellation
semantics.

Signed-off-by: Nuoqi Gui &lt;gnq25@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn&gt;
[ kkd: Split update and delete coverage and rewrote the commit log ]
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260904104203.345917-5-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;

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Resizable hash-map updates and deletions must not perform full special-field
destruction in their caller context. In particular, a referenced kptr must
remain attached to the allocation until the memory allocator destructor can
release it safely.

Add separate coverage for both affected paths. The update test stores a task
kptr, replaces the ordinary value bytes with BPF_EXIST, and verifies that the
kptr survived. The delete test removes an element and exchanges its kptr
through the still-valid map-value pointer before the allocation is reclaimed.

Both cases observe a NULL kptr when rhtab uses bpf_obj_free_fields(). They
recover and release the reference after rhtab switches to cancellation
semantics.

Signed-off-by: Nuoqi Gui &lt;gnq25@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn&gt;
[ kkd: Split update and delete coverage and rewrote the commit log ]
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260904104203.345917-5-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>selftests/bpf: Test timer field on recycled rhtab element</title>
<updated>2026-09-04T19:24:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi</name>
<email>memxor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-09-04T10:41:53+00:00</published>
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Exercise the rhtab special-field lifecycle with the sequence from the
original report. A bpf_for_each_map_elem() callback deletes the sole
element, then initializes and arms a timer through the callback value
pointer while it remains valid.

Use a one-element map and pin userspace and BPF execution to one CPU.
Repeated delete-and-replace cycles drain the per-CPU allocator cache, and
periodic RCU synchronization makes the deleted units available for
recycling.

After each replacement, a second BPF program calls bpf_timer_cancel()
on its value. A successful cancellation proves both that a timer-bearing
unit was recycled and that insertion preserved the timer field. Without
the fix, insertion clears that field and cancellation keeps returning
-EINVAL. A long expiration keeps the timer callback out of the test, so
the regression is detected without accessing freed memory.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260904104203.345917-3-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;

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Exercise the rhtab special-field lifecycle with the sequence from the
original report. A bpf_for_each_map_elem() callback deletes the sole
element, then initializes and arms a timer through the callback value
pointer while it remains valid.

Use a one-element map and pin userspace and BPF execution to one CPU.
Repeated delete-and-replace cycles drain the per-CPU allocator cache, and
periodic RCU synchronization makes the deleted units available for
recycling.

After each replacement, a second BPF program calls bpf_timer_cancel()
on its value. A successful cancellation proves both that a timer-bearing
unit was recycled and that insertion preserved the timer field. Without
the fix, insertion clears that field and cancellation keeps returning
-EINVAL. A long expiration keeps the timer callback out of the test, so
the regression is detected without accessing freed memory.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260904104203.345917-3-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;

</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>selftests/bpf: Add test for showing a void BTF type</title>
<updated>2026-09-03T16:31:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiayuan Chen</name>
<email>jiayuan.chen@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2026-09-01T10:47:39+00:00</published>
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Extend the snprintf_btf test with type_ids from the vmlinux BTF that
used to NULL-deref in the BTF show path: a "const void", checked to
render the "&lt;unsupported kind:0&gt;" placeholder, and a BTF_KIND_VAR,
checked to resolve and render without error.

The program renders from its own buffer and the test picks a VAR whose
resolved type fits it, so the render stays in bounds.

Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen &lt;jiayuan.chen@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260901104924.346187-6-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;

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Extend the snprintf_btf test with type_ids from the vmlinux BTF that
used to NULL-deref in the BTF show path: a "const void", checked to
render the "&lt;unsupported kind:0&gt;" placeholder, and a BTF_KIND_VAR,
checked to resolve and render without error.

The program renders from its own buffer and the test picks a VAR whose
resolved type fits it, so the render stays in bounds.

Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen &lt;jiayuan.chen@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260901104924.346187-6-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>selftests/bpf: Add test for key-less BTF hash map</title>
<updated>2026-09-03T16:31:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiayuan Chen</name>
<email>jiayuan.chen@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2026-09-01T10:47:38+00:00</published>
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Create a hash and an rhash map with btf_key_type_id == 0 and expect
bpf_map_create() to fail with -EINVAL; a positive control with a real
key type confirms the rejection is about the key-less BTF and not some
unrelated failure.

Such a map used to be accepted and then NULL-deref in btf_type_show()
when dumped through bpffs.

Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen &lt;jiayuan.chen@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260901104924.346187-5-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;

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Create a hash and an rhash map with btf_key_type_id == 0 and expect
bpf_map_create() to fail with -EINVAL; a positive control with a real
key type confirms the rejection is about the key-less BTF and not some
unrelated failure.

Such a map used to be accepted and then NULL-deref in btf_type_show()
when dumped through bpffs.

Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen &lt;jiayuan.chen@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260901104924.346187-5-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'loongarch-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chenhuacai/linux-loongson</title>
<updated>2026-08-20T21:46:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-20T21:46:50+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=caf325ab81be0bc22adf75248ecd22f52f01ad21'/>
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Pull LoongArch updates from Huacai Chen:

 - Add DIRECT_MAP_PHYSMEM_END definition

 - Expand module virtual address space to 2GB

 - Use current_stack_pointer in current_pt_regs()

 - BPF JIT enhancements such as kptr_xchg and timed may_goto

 - Some bug fixes and other small changes

* tag 'loongarch-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chenhuacai/linux-loongson:
  selftests/bpf: Enable kptr_xchg_inline test on LoongArch
  LoongArch: BPF: Add arch_bpf_stack_walk() implementation
  LoongArch: BPF: Add timed may_goto implementation
  LoongArch: BPF: Resolve per-CPU addrs for internal-only MOV
  LoongArch: BPF: Advertise JIT support for kptr xchg inline
  LoongArch: BPF: Align value-returning atomics with LKMM
  LoongArch: BPF: Split unconditional branch JA paths statically
  LoongArch: BPF: Remove dead move_imm() call in BPF_NEG path
  LoongArch: BPF: Remove redundant zext jumping in move_imm()
  LoongArch: BPF: Implement branchless conditional move for TCC
  LoongArch: BPF: Refactor jump offset calculation in tail call
  LoongArch: BPF: Move arena register slot below TCC context
  LoongArch: BPF: Optimize redundant TCC loads in epilogue
  LoongArch: Use current_stack_pointer in current_pt_regs()
  LoongArch: Use generic cmp_int() instead of custom cmp_3way()
  LoongArch: Expand module virtual address space to 2GB
  LoongArch: Add DIRECT_MAP_PHYSMEM_END definition
  LoongArch: Fix acpi_package_ids[] array overflow
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Pull LoongArch updates from Huacai Chen:

 - Add DIRECT_MAP_PHYSMEM_END definition

 - Expand module virtual address space to 2GB

 - Use current_stack_pointer in current_pt_regs()

 - BPF JIT enhancements such as kptr_xchg and timed may_goto

 - Some bug fixes and other small changes

* tag 'loongarch-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chenhuacai/linux-loongson:
  selftests/bpf: Enable kptr_xchg_inline test on LoongArch
  LoongArch: BPF: Add arch_bpf_stack_walk() implementation
  LoongArch: BPF: Add timed may_goto implementation
  LoongArch: BPF: Resolve per-CPU addrs for internal-only MOV
  LoongArch: BPF: Advertise JIT support for kptr xchg inline
  LoongArch: BPF: Align value-returning atomics with LKMM
  LoongArch: BPF: Split unconditional branch JA paths statically
  LoongArch: BPF: Remove dead move_imm() call in BPF_NEG path
  LoongArch: BPF: Remove redundant zext jumping in move_imm()
  LoongArch: BPF: Implement branchless conditional move for TCC
  LoongArch: BPF: Refactor jump offset calculation in tail call
  LoongArch: BPF: Move arena register slot below TCC context
  LoongArch: BPF: Optimize redundant TCC loads in epilogue
  LoongArch: Use current_stack_pointer in current_pt_regs()
  LoongArch: Use generic cmp_int() instead of custom cmp_3way()
  LoongArch: Expand module virtual address space to 2GB
  LoongArch: Add DIRECT_MAP_PHYSMEM_END definition
  LoongArch: Fix acpi_package_ids[] array overflow
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'net-next-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2026-08-20T15:16:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-20T15:16:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=91ec2035134982b98fab0609a9fd8480e8217dc1'/>
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Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "One of the 'small improvements all over the place' releases for us.

  It's hard to draw any direct comparisons because summer vacations
  disrupted our patch processing (and presumably - generation) quite a
  bit.

  Quick and dirty count suggests we (Paolo and I) merged a very similar
  number of net (632) and net-next (648) patches. This is not telling
  the full story either because 1/3 to 1/2 of the net-next patches also
  *seem* like AI-driven low priority fixes, cleanups and clarifications.

  We are completely overwhelmed, of course. The glimmer of hope is that
  we secured sufficient LLM budget and access (thank you Meta!) to run
  reviews with multiple frontier models on each patch. This eliminates
  some hallucinations. That said, in terms of review, the LLMs can only
  do so much.

  The sad truth is that our APIs (especially for rare events like PCIe
  errors, timeouts etc) have always been racy, and now LLMs don't let us
  ignore that. I expect our direction for the next release will be to
  tweak the reviews a little bit more, but start shifting focus to
  letting the LLMs take care of the busy work - managing patchwork,
  automating common process complaints, editing commit messages, and
  maybe applying patches which already got "reviewed-by" tags from
  people we trust...

  Core &amp; protocols:

   - A few steps lowering rtnl_lock dependence:
      - per-netns netdev unregistration for select SW drivers (e.g.
        veth, ipvlan, tunnels)
      - rtnl_lock-less FIB rule changes (RTM_NEWRULE and RTM_DELRULE)
      - prepare software drivers and TC qdiscs for rtnl_lock-less GET

   - Support BIG TCP (&gt;64kB TSO) in UDP tunnels (vxlan, geneve)

   - Support buffers larger than PAGE_SIZE in devmem zero-copy API

   - Improve MPTCP handling of extreme memory pressure handling, when
     out-of-order queue had to be pruned

   - Report the per-group user count via RTM_GETMULTICAST

   - Expose the route deletion reason in RTM_DELROUTE

   - Add a SO_RIGHTS_NOTRUNC option to UNIX sockets to enable more
     useful handling of LSM denials when receiving SCM_RIGHTS messages:
     instead of truncating the message at the first blocked fd, keep
     every fd slot and store the LSM errno in the blocked slot

   - IPv6 Segment Routing - support looking up the post-encap SID
     (address) in a different/specified routing table

   - Support PRP RedBox (interlink) creation

   - Support per-nexthop UDP dst port in VXLAN

   - Continue converting getsockopt callbacks in a number of protocols
     to iov_iter

  Ethernet:

   - Merge initial CXL support for AMD/Solarflare NICs (shared branch
     with the CXL tree)

   - New drivers:
      - ADIN1140 10BASE-T1S MACPHY
      - Initial skeleton of Intel iXD and ZTE Dinghai drivers

   - High-speed NICs:
      - AMD/Pensando:
         - support firmware flashing
      - Cisco (enic):
         - SR-IOV V2 admin channel and MBOX protocol
      - Huawei (hns3):
         - support for ethtool pfc_prevention_tout
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - support sharing bandwidth control across interfaces
           of the same device
      - Marvell (octeontx2-pf):
         - link RQ page pools to netdev for Netlink stats
      - Google vNIC:
         - XDP metadata support for DQ RDA
      - Microsoft vNIC:
         - support forcing full-page RX buffers

   - Other NICs:
      - Synopsys IP:
         - eic7700: support for eth1
      - Microchip (lan743x):
         - support for RMII interface
      - Wangxun:
         - support for ethtool -G and -C for VFs
         - add Tx timeout and PCIe error handling
      - Intel (igb/igc):
         - RSS key get/set support
         - support for forcing link speed without auto-negotiation

   - Switches:
      - NXP (dpaa2):
         - support bonding/LAG offload
      - Mediatek:
         - mt7530: EN7528 support
         - initial support for MT7628
      - Micrel (ksz8/9):
         - refactoring work to move towards library model
         - PTP support for KSZ8463
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - support rtnl-lock-less ethtool callbacks
      - Realtek:
         - rtl8366rb: use generic RTL83xx code
         - support SGMII and HSGMII for RTL8367S

   - PHYs:
      - Airoha:
         - EcoNet EN7528 PHY support
      - DAPU Telecom
         - DAPU Telecom DAP8211R(I) Gigabit PHY support
      - Realtek:
         - support RTL8261C_CG
         - support RTL8261D

  Wireless:

   - nl80211: per-link statistics support for multi-link operation

   - mac80211: AQL/airtime-fairness support for multicast

   - Merge Peripheral Authentication Service (PAS) / TEE support for
     ath12k (shared branch with the firmware/qcom tree)

   - New drivers:
      - mm81x for Morse Micro Long-Range S1G devices
      - nxpwifi for NXP devices (mostly forked off from mwifiex)

   - Driver changes:
      - Broadcom (brcmfmac):
         - DPP support, some Cypress part update
      - MediaTek (mt76):
         - mt7928 support
         - mt7925 NAN support
         - mt7996 AP powersave improvements
      - Qualcomm (ath12k):
         - much kernel infrastructure integration work
         - AHB platform MultiPD support
      - Realtek (rt89):
         - LED support
         - RTL8922DE support
         - dual-BT coex for RTL8922D
      - Intel:
         - new FW version support

  Bluetooth:

   - HCI: add support for Shorter Connection Interval (SCI) feature

   - af_bluetooth: add minimal context analysis annotations

   - Driver changes:
      - Intel:
         - add Bluetooth SAR revision 2 support
         - add vendor_reset PCI sysfs for PLDR
      - Mediatek:
         - add USB IDs for MT7902 and MT7922 devices
      - Realtek:
         - add USB IDs for 8761CU and 8852BE devices
      - NXP:
         - add M.2 Bluetooth device support using pwrseq

  Misc:

   - DPLL support for manual/numerical oscillator control (NCO)
     (implement in zl3073x)

   - MCTP support for MCTP over USB v1.1 (DMTF DSP0283)

   - Power-over-Ethernet: support Realtek PSE controllers

   - Remove the IBM EHEA driver

   - Remove tulip/xircom_cb driver"

* tag 'net-next-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1433 commits)
  net/mlx5e: do not HW-GRO coalesce small frames
  net: openvswitch: fix nf_connlabels leak in ovs_ct_init
  net: add missing ref_tracker_dir_exit() to alloc_netdev_mqs()
  net: openvswitch: fix flow mask use-after-free on flow deletion
  sctp: stop processing a packet once its association is deleted
  dpll: zl3073x: add PTP clock support
  dpll: zl3073x: add channel ToD, phase step and TIE operations
  dpll: zl3073x: scale poll interval proportionally to timeout
  ptp: vmclock: prevent read-only mappings from becoming writable
  ipv4: reject undersized MTUs in ip_do_fragment()
  bonding: initialize err for empty target lists
  net: dsa: initial support for MT7628 embedded switch
  net: dsa: initial MT7628 tagging driver
  net: phy: mediatek: add phy driver for MT7628 built-in Fast Ethernet PHYs
  dt-bindings: net: dsa: add MT7628 ESW
  net: pse-pd: realtek-pse-mcu: add UART transport
  net: pse-pd: realtek-pse-mcu: add I2C transport
  net: pse-pd: add Realtek PSE MCU core
  dt-bindings: net: pse-pd: add bindings for Realtek PSE MCU
  vsock: use sock_error() to consume sk_err after a failed connect
  ...
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<pre>
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "One of the 'small improvements all over the place' releases for us.

  It's hard to draw any direct comparisons because summer vacations
  disrupted our patch processing (and presumably - generation) quite a
  bit.

  Quick and dirty count suggests we (Paolo and I) merged a very similar
  number of net (632) and net-next (648) patches. This is not telling
  the full story either because 1/3 to 1/2 of the net-next patches also
  *seem* like AI-driven low priority fixes, cleanups and clarifications.

  We are completely overwhelmed, of course. The glimmer of hope is that
  we secured sufficient LLM budget and access (thank you Meta!) to run
  reviews with multiple frontier models on each patch. This eliminates
  some hallucinations. That said, in terms of review, the LLMs can only
  do so much.

  The sad truth is that our APIs (especially for rare events like PCIe
  errors, timeouts etc) have always been racy, and now LLMs don't let us
  ignore that. I expect our direction for the next release will be to
  tweak the reviews a little bit more, but start shifting focus to
  letting the LLMs take care of the busy work - managing patchwork,
  automating common process complaints, editing commit messages, and
  maybe applying patches which already got "reviewed-by" tags from
  people we trust...

  Core &amp; protocols:

   - A few steps lowering rtnl_lock dependence:
      - per-netns netdev unregistration for select SW drivers (e.g.
        veth, ipvlan, tunnels)
      - rtnl_lock-less FIB rule changes (RTM_NEWRULE and RTM_DELRULE)
      - prepare software drivers and TC qdiscs for rtnl_lock-less GET

   - Support BIG TCP (&gt;64kB TSO) in UDP tunnels (vxlan, geneve)

   - Support buffers larger than PAGE_SIZE in devmem zero-copy API

   - Improve MPTCP handling of extreme memory pressure handling, when
     out-of-order queue had to be pruned

   - Report the per-group user count via RTM_GETMULTICAST

   - Expose the route deletion reason in RTM_DELROUTE

   - Add a SO_RIGHTS_NOTRUNC option to UNIX sockets to enable more
     useful handling of LSM denials when receiving SCM_RIGHTS messages:
     instead of truncating the message at the first blocked fd, keep
     every fd slot and store the LSM errno in the blocked slot

   - IPv6 Segment Routing - support looking up the post-encap SID
     (address) in a different/specified routing table

   - Support PRP RedBox (interlink) creation

   - Support per-nexthop UDP dst port in VXLAN

   - Continue converting getsockopt callbacks in a number of protocols
     to iov_iter

  Ethernet:

   - Merge initial CXL support for AMD/Solarflare NICs (shared branch
     with the CXL tree)

   - New drivers:
      - ADIN1140 10BASE-T1S MACPHY
      - Initial skeleton of Intel iXD and ZTE Dinghai drivers

   - High-speed NICs:
      - AMD/Pensando:
         - support firmware flashing
      - Cisco (enic):
         - SR-IOV V2 admin channel and MBOX protocol
      - Huawei (hns3):
         - support for ethtool pfc_prevention_tout
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - support sharing bandwidth control across interfaces
           of the same device
      - Marvell (octeontx2-pf):
         - link RQ page pools to netdev for Netlink stats
      - Google vNIC:
         - XDP metadata support for DQ RDA
      - Microsoft vNIC:
         - support forcing full-page RX buffers

   - Other NICs:
      - Synopsys IP:
         - eic7700: support for eth1
      - Microchip (lan743x):
         - support for RMII interface
      - Wangxun:
         - support for ethtool -G and -C for VFs
         - add Tx timeout and PCIe error handling
      - Intel (igb/igc):
         - RSS key get/set support
         - support for forcing link speed without auto-negotiation

   - Switches:
      - NXP (dpaa2):
         - support bonding/LAG offload
      - Mediatek:
         - mt7530: EN7528 support
         - initial support for MT7628
      - Micrel (ksz8/9):
         - refactoring work to move towards library model
         - PTP support for KSZ8463
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - support rtnl-lock-less ethtool callbacks
      - Realtek:
         - rtl8366rb: use generic RTL83xx code
         - support SGMII and HSGMII for RTL8367S

   - PHYs:
      - Airoha:
         - EcoNet EN7528 PHY support
      - DAPU Telecom
         - DAPU Telecom DAP8211R(I) Gigabit PHY support
      - Realtek:
         - support RTL8261C_CG
         - support RTL8261D

  Wireless:

   - nl80211: per-link statistics support for multi-link operation

   - mac80211: AQL/airtime-fairness support for multicast

   - Merge Peripheral Authentication Service (PAS) / TEE support for
     ath12k (shared branch with the firmware/qcom tree)

   - New drivers:
      - mm81x for Morse Micro Long-Range S1G devices
      - nxpwifi for NXP devices (mostly forked off from mwifiex)

   - Driver changes:
      - Broadcom (brcmfmac):
         - DPP support, some Cypress part update
      - MediaTek (mt76):
         - mt7928 support
         - mt7925 NAN support
         - mt7996 AP powersave improvements
      - Qualcomm (ath12k):
         - much kernel infrastructure integration work
         - AHB platform MultiPD support
      - Realtek (rt89):
         - LED support
         - RTL8922DE support
         - dual-BT coex for RTL8922D
      - Intel:
         - new FW version support

  Bluetooth:

   - HCI: add support for Shorter Connection Interval (SCI) feature

   - af_bluetooth: add minimal context analysis annotations

   - Driver changes:
      - Intel:
         - add Bluetooth SAR revision 2 support
         - add vendor_reset PCI sysfs for PLDR
      - Mediatek:
         - add USB IDs for MT7902 and MT7922 devices
      - Realtek:
         - add USB IDs for 8761CU and 8852BE devices
      - NXP:
         - add M.2 Bluetooth device support using pwrseq

  Misc:

   - DPLL support for manual/numerical oscillator control (NCO)
     (implement in zl3073x)

   - MCTP support for MCTP over USB v1.1 (DMTF DSP0283)

   - Power-over-Ethernet: support Realtek PSE controllers

   - Remove the IBM EHEA driver

   - Remove tulip/xircom_cb driver"

* tag 'net-next-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1433 commits)
  net/mlx5e: do not HW-GRO coalesce small frames
  net: openvswitch: fix nf_connlabels leak in ovs_ct_init
  net: add missing ref_tracker_dir_exit() to alloc_netdev_mqs()
  net: openvswitch: fix flow mask use-after-free on flow deletion
  sctp: stop processing a packet once its association is deleted
  dpll: zl3073x: add PTP clock support
  dpll: zl3073x: add channel ToD, phase step and TIE operations
  dpll: zl3073x: scale poll interval proportionally to timeout
  ptp: vmclock: prevent read-only mappings from becoming writable
  ipv4: reject undersized MTUs in ip_do_fragment()
  bonding: initialize err for empty target lists
  net: dsa: initial support for MT7628 embedded switch
  net: dsa: initial MT7628 tagging driver
  net: phy: mediatek: add phy driver for MT7628 built-in Fast Ethernet PHYs
  dt-bindings: net: dsa: add MT7628 ESW
  net: pse-pd: realtek-pse-mcu: add UART transport
  net: pse-pd: realtek-pse-mcu: add I2C transport
  net: pse-pd: add Realtek PSE MCU core
  dt-bindings: net: pse-pd: add bindings for Realtek PSE MCU
  vsock: use sock_error() to consume sk_err after a failed connect
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'bpf-next-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next</title>
<updated>2026-08-20T14:36:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-20T14:36:20+00:00</published>
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Pull bpf updates from Daniel Borkmann:
 "Major changes:

   - Redesign the verifier error reporting: failures now carry source
     and instruction annotations along with the causal event history
     that led to them, making program rejections far easier to debug and
     repair (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi)

   - Add arena argument support to kfuncs and struct_ops through the new
     __arena and __arena__nullable suffixes (Tejun Heo, Puranjay Mohan,
     Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi, Ihor Solodrai)

   - Signed BPF program loader rework to accommodate both BPF and
     security community needs where the kernel runs the signature
     verification at BPF_PROG_LOAD time before the LSM admission hook
     (Daniel Borkmann)

   - Add a set of ksock kfuncs which let BPF LSM and syscall programs
     create, connect and send on UDP sockets in order to emit telemetry
     data (Mahe Tardy)

   - Unify helper and kfunc call argument verification and classify
     kfunc arguments purely from BTF into a generated bpf_func_proto
     which is computed once at add-call time (Amery Hung)

  Other features and fixes:

   - Enable EXECMEM_ROX_CACHE for BPF allocations on x86 (Mike Rapoport)

   - Add bidirectional VLAN support to bpf_fib_lookup() through the new
     BPF_FIB_LOOKUP_VLAN and BPF_FIB_LOOKUP_VLAN_INPUT flags (Avinash
     Duduskar)

   - Infer zext_dst from static register liveness analysis to fix 32-bit
     zero-extension semantics, and remove the artificial limitations on
     pointer types eligible for spilling (Eduard Zingerman)

   - Inline the numeric open-coded iterator kfuncs so that bpf_for()
     loops no longer pay a kfunc call on every iteration (Puranjay
     Mohan)

   - Add an arena-based bitmap data structure to libarena along with
     serial and parallel selftests (Emil Tsalapatis)

   - Teach resolve_btfids to discover kfuncs from the kernel's BTF ID
     sets and to emit kfunc BTF decl tags, reducing the kernel build's
     dependency on pahole features (Ihor Solodrai)

   - Add BPF_F_ADJ_ROOM_DECAP_* flags to bpf_skb_adjust_room() so that
     tunnel decapsulation can update the GSO and encapsulation state of
     the skb (Nick Hudson)

   - Fix the ring buffer pending_pos walk and the available-data
     accounting on 32-bit position wrap (Israel Téllez García)

   - Add memory usage accounting for arena maps and fix an mmap_lock
     deadlock on arena lock failure (Jiayuan Chen)

   - Add tracing_multi link info support to the kernel UAPI and bpftool,
     and refactor the stack map code to run with preemption disabled
     (Jiri Olsa)

   - Support BPF_F_EGRESS in bpf_redirect_peer() to emit the skb in the
     egress direction of the target's peer device (Jordan Rife)

   - Add a KF_SPINLOCK_SAFE kfunc flag so that providers, in particular
     modules, can declare kfuncs safe to call under bpf_spin_lock
     instead of relying on the verifier's hard-coded allowlist (Kaitao
     Cheng)

   - Introduce global percpu data for BPF programs with libbpf probing
     and bpftool skeleton support, and stop exposing uninitialized
     kernel heap memory when copying per-CPU map values (Leon Hwang)

   - Add s390 JIT support for load-acquire and store-release
     instructions (Maxim Khmelevskii)

   - Fix a CFI mismatch in the task work callback and an arm64 KASAN
     false positive after bpf_throw() (Mykyta Yatsenko)

   - Reject writes through untrusted BTF pointers and bound the
     rdonly/rdwr_buf_size kfunc arguments (Nicholas Dudar)

   - Invalidate RCU pointers only after the final spin unlock and
     account for preempt and IRQ disabled regions as overlapping RCU
     protection (Ning Ding)

   - Support mixing bpf2bpf calls and tail calls on RV64, add signed
     operations and 32-bit atomics to the RV32 JIT, and add timed
     may_goto support (Pu Lehui, Kuan-Wei Chiu, Feng Jiang)

   - Fix a use-after-free on mm_struct in bpf_find_vma() for foreign
     tasks and an mmap_lock leak in the irq_work path (Sanghyun Park)

   - Populate mmap-able BPF array map memory lazily which makes mmap()
     O(1) instead of proportional to the map size (Song Liu)

   - Introduce a jit_required flag and reject programs with inlined
     helpers when no JIT is available, where the interpreter would
     otherwise jump into an invalid address (Tiezhu Yang)

   - Fix the x86 JIT per-CPU address resolution into an extended
     register where the REX prefix dropped the high destination register
     bit (Vineet Gupta)

   - Reject MEM_ALLOC BTF accesses past object bounds, arena frees below
     the arena base, and mixed arena and ordinary atomic paths (Yiyang
     Chen)

   - Fix the trampoline handling of 128-bit arguments and of return
     values larger than 8 bytes (Yonghong Song)

   - Ensure that any fault prone load is rewritten with exception table
     handling, and fix the arena load-acquire and atomic fetch handling
     in the x86, arm64, riscv and s390 JITs (Daniel Borkmann)

   - Many more fixes and cleanups across the verifier, arena,
     trampolines, sockmap, cgroup, ring buffer, x86/arm64/riscv/s390
     JITs, libbpf, bpftool, resolve_btfids and selftests"

* tag 'bpf-next-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (373 commits)
  selftests/bpf: Add tests for a store on a fault prone qdisc pointer
  selftests/bpf: Add tests for fault prone loads out of RCU pointers
  selftests/bpf: Add tests for pointer type merge at a shared load
  selftests/bpf: Remove duplicate copies of the arena spinlock qnodes
  selftests/bpf: Retry stat generation in cgroup_iter_memcg
  selftests/bpf: Test pseudo-function policy diagnostics
  bpf: Distinguish function references in policy diagnostics
  bpf: Preserve source attribution without source text
  selftests/bpf: Test kfunc argument diagnostics
  bpf: Correct kfunc argument diagnostics
  bpf: Use canonical stack argument names in diagnostics
  bpf: Preserve R0 lineage across helper calls
  selftests/bpf: Exercise negative optlen in cgroup getsockopt hook
  bpf: Reject negative optlen in cgroup getsockopt hook
  selftests/bpf: tc_tunnel - validate decap GSO and encapsulation state
  bpf: Clear decap state on skb_adjust_room shrink path
  bpf: Allow new DECAP flags and add guard rails
  bpf: Add BPF_F_ADJ_ROOM_DECAP_* flags for tunnel decapsulation
  bpf: Refactor masks for ADJ_ROOM flags and encap validation
  bpf: Name the enum for BPF_FUNC_skb_adjust_room flags
  ...
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<pre>
Pull bpf updates from Daniel Borkmann:
 "Major changes:

   - Redesign the verifier error reporting: failures now carry source
     and instruction annotations along with the causal event history
     that led to them, making program rejections far easier to debug and
     repair (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi)

   - Add arena argument support to kfuncs and struct_ops through the new
     __arena and __arena__nullable suffixes (Tejun Heo, Puranjay Mohan,
     Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi, Ihor Solodrai)

   - Signed BPF program loader rework to accommodate both BPF and
     security community needs where the kernel runs the signature
     verification at BPF_PROG_LOAD time before the LSM admission hook
     (Daniel Borkmann)

   - Add a set of ksock kfuncs which let BPF LSM and syscall programs
     create, connect and send on UDP sockets in order to emit telemetry
     data (Mahe Tardy)

   - Unify helper and kfunc call argument verification and classify
     kfunc arguments purely from BTF into a generated bpf_func_proto
     which is computed once at add-call time (Amery Hung)

  Other features and fixes:

   - Enable EXECMEM_ROX_CACHE for BPF allocations on x86 (Mike Rapoport)

   - Add bidirectional VLAN support to bpf_fib_lookup() through the new
     BPF_FIB_LOOKUP_VLAN and BPF_FIB_LOOKUP_VLAN_INPUT flags (Avinash
     Duduskar)

   - Infer zext_dst from static register liveness analysis to fix 32-bit
     zero-extension semantics, and remove the artificial limitations on
     pointer types eligible for spilling (Eduard Zingerman)

   - Inline the numeric open-coded iterator kfuncs so that bpf_for()
     loops no longer pay a kfunc call on every iteration (Puranjay
     Mohan)

   - Add an arena-based bitmap data structure to libarena along with
     serial and parallel selftests (Emil Tsalapatis)

   - Teach resolve_btfids to discover kfuncs from the kernel's BTF ID
     sets and to emit kfunc BTF decl tags, reducing the kernel build's
     dependency on pahole features (Ihor Solodrai)

   - Add BPF_F_ADJ_ROOM_DECAP_* flags to bpf_skb_adjust_room() so that
     tunnel decapsulation can update the GSO and encapsulation state of
     the skb (Nick Hudson)

   - Fix the ring buffer pending_pos walk and the available-data
     accounting on 32-bit position wrap (Israel Téllez García)

   - Add memory usage accounting for arena maps and fix an mmap_lock
     deadlock on arena lock failure (Jiayuan Chen)

   - Add tracing_multi link info support to the kernel UAPI and bpftool,
     and refactor the stack map code to run with preemption disabled
     (Jiri Olsa)

   - Support BPF_F_EGRESS in bpf_redirect_peer() to emit the skb in the
     egress direction of the target's peer device (Jordan Rife)

   - Add a KF_SPINLOCK_SAFE kfunc flag so that providers, in particular
     modules, can declare kfuncs safe to call under bpf_spin_lock
     instead of relying on the verifier's hard-coded allowlist (Kaitao
     Cheng)

   - Introduce global percpu data for BPF programs with libbpf probing
     and bpftool skeleton support, and stop exposing uninitialized
     kernel heap memory when copying per-CPU map values (Leon Hwang)

   - Add s390 JIT support for load-acquire and store-release
     instructions (Maxim Khmelevskii)

   - Fix a CFI mismatch in the task work callback and an arm64 KASAN
     false positive after bpf_throw() (Mykyta Yatsenko)

   - Reject writes through untrusted BTF pointers and bound the
     rdonly/rdwr_buf_size kfunc arguments (Nicholas Dudar)

   - Invalidate RCU pointers only after the final spin unlock and
     account for preempt and IRQ disabled regions as overlapping RCU
     protection (Ning Ding)

   - Support mixing bpf2bpf calls and tail calls on RV64, add signed
     operations and 32-bit atomics to the RV32 JIT, and add timed
     may_goto support (Pu Lehui, Kuan-Wei Chiu, Feng Jiang)

   - Fix a use-after-free on mm_struct in bpf_find_vma() for foreign
     tasks and an mmap_lock leak in the irq_work path (Sanghyun Park)

   - Populate mmap-able BPF array map memory lazily which makes mmap()
     O(1) instead of proportional to the map size (Song Liu)

   - Introduce a jit_required flag and reject programs with inlined
     helpers when no JIT is available, where the interpreter would
     otherwise jump into an invalid address (Tiezhu Yang)

   - Fix the x86 JIT per-CPU address resolution into an extended
     register where the REX prefix dropped the high destination register
     bit (Vineet Gupta)

   - Reject MEM_ALLOC BTF accesses past object bounds, arena frees below
     the arena base, and mixed arena and ordinary atomic paths (Yiyang
     Chen)

   - Fix the trampoline handling of 128-bit arguments and of return
     values larger than 8 bytes (Yonghong Song)

   - Ensure that any fault prone load is rewritten with exception table
     handling, and fix the arena load-acquire and atomic fetch handling
     in the x86, arm64, riscv and s390 JITs (Daniel Borkmann)

   - Many more fixes and cleanups across the verifier, arena,
     trampolines, sockmap, cgroup, ring buffer, x86/arm64/riscv/s390
     JITs, libbpf, bpftool, resolve_btfids and selftests"

* tag 'bpf-next-7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (373 commits)
  selftests/bpf: Add tests for a store on a fault prone qdisc pointer
  selftests/bpf: Add tests for fault prone loads out of RCU pointers
  selftests/bpf: Add tests for pointer type merge at a shared load
  selftests/bpf: Remove duplicate copies of the arena spinlock qnodes
  selftests/bpf: Retry stat generation in cgroup_iter_memcg
  selftests/bpf: Test pseudo-function policy diagnostics
  bpf: Distinguish function references in policy diagnostics
  bpf: Preserve source attribution without source text
  selftests/bpf: Test kfunc argument diagnostics
  bpf: Correct kfunc argument diagnostics
  bpf: Use canonical stack argument names in diagnostics
  bpf: Preserve R0 lineage across helper calls
  selftests/bpf: Exercise negative optlen in cgroup getsockopt hook
  bpf: Reject negative optlen in cgroup getsockopt hook
  selftests/bpf: tc_tunnel - validate decap GSO and encapsulation state
  bpf: Clear decap state on skb_adjust_room shrink path
  bpf: Allow new DECAP flags and add guard rails
  bpf: Add BPF_F_ADJ_ROOM_DECAP_* flags for tunnel decapsulation
  bpf: Refactor masks for ADJ_ROOM flags and encap validation
  bpf: Name the enum for BPF_FUNC_skb_adjust_room flags
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'trace-v7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2026-08-19T21:06:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-19T21:06:14+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Expose btf_ids to trace events

   In order to allow BPF programs to attach to system call trace events
   (which are actually pseudo trace events built on top of raw_syscall
   events), expose the BTF ID of the events. This will allow BPF
   programs better precision in attaching to events.

 - Use "u64" to assign to hist_field-&gt;type

   Instead of using kstrdup("u64", GFP_KERNEL) to assign the
   hist_field-&gt;type, just point it to "u64" instead. The
   hist_field-&gt;type is freed via kfree_const().

 - Replace kmalloc()/strcpy() with kstrdup() for trace_printk

   Instead of having two calls to copy the module format string, just
   use kstrdup().

 - Use __free() in trace event histograms and triggres where possible

 - Use seq_buf in trace event code instead of strcat()

   Instead of calculating the size of the buffer to use and filling it
   with strcat(), use the seq_buf infrastructure that takes care of
   making sure not to overflow the string size.

 - Reject invalid preemptirq_delay_test CPU affinity

   The preempt_delay_test module can take an invalid CPU affinity mask
   and create confusing output. Simply have the module reject invalid
   affinity masks.

 - Prevent division by zero in ftrace_ops sample module code

   If the ftrace_ops sample module code receives the module parameter
   nr_function_calls set to zero, it can cause a division by zero error.

 - Warn when an event dereferences a parameter in TP_printk()

   On boot up and module load, the trace event TP_printk() is scanned
   for possible bugs. As the TP_printk() code is executed when the user
   reads the "trace" file and processes the data written when the
   trace_event executed, the data it reads can be literally days old.
   The scan currently checks for dereferencing printk formats like
   "%pI6". But it does not check if the parameters themselves have a
   dereference like:

	TP_printk("offset %08x: value %08x",
		(u32)(__entry-&gt;addr - __entry-&gt;edma-&gt;membase), __entry-&gt;value)

   __entry represents the pointer to the event on the ring buffer. The
   __entry-&gt;edma-&gt;membase is dereferencing a pointer on the ring buffer
   to find membase, but the __entry-&gt;edma may no longer be a valid
   pointer.

   Warn on this case too.

 - Replace some strcpy() with strscpy()

 - Clean up mmiotrace events to use assign_type() macro

   The assign_type() macro makes sure the event type is indeed the type
   that is being parsed. The mmiotrace trace was written before that
   macro was created so it just simply typecasted the pointer.

   Replace the typecasting with the macro.

 - Have the ENUM processing to numbers only process what is added

   The code that converts ENUMs to their numbers in the trace events
   scanned all events to do the processing. This was true when a module
   was loaded too. That is, instead of processing just the events for
   the module, it processed *all* events. Even the builtin ones that
   were processed at boot up.

   Add a check for the event-&gt;module matching mod if it is a module
   before processing it.

* tag 'trace-v7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (21 commits)
  tracing: Have trace_event_update_all() only handle module that is loading
  tracing: Cleanup event_enable_trigger_parse() by using __free()
  tracing: Report every TP_printk double dereference
  tracing/mmiotrace: Use trace_assign_type() in mmio_print_mark()
  tracing: Make per-template BTF id lists file-local
  tracing: Use seq_buf for string concatenation
  tracing: Use strscpy() instead of strcpy() in trace_sched_switch
  tracing: Warn when an event dereferences a pointer in TP_printk()
  samples/ftrace: Prevent division by zero when nr_function_calls is zero
  tracing: Reject invalid preemptirq_delay_test CPU affinity
  fgraph: Use trace_seq_putc() in print_graph_return()
  tracing/user_events: Replace a seq_printf() call by seq_puts() in user_seq_show()
  tracing/user_events: Use seq_putc() in two functions
  tracing: Bound histogram expression strings with seq_buf
  tracing: Return ERR_PTR() from expr_str()
  tracing: Use __free() for expr_str() buffer
  kernel/trace/trace_printk: Use kstrdup() instead of kmalloc() and strcpy()
  tracing: Point constant hist field type to string literal
  selftests/bpf: Add test for tracepoint btf_ids tracefs file
  tracing: Expose tracepoint BTF ids via tracefs
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<pre>
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Expose btf_ids to trace events

   In order to allow BPF programs to attach to system call trace events
   (which are actually pseudo trace events built on top of raw_syscall
   events), expose the BTF ID of the events. This will allow BPF
   programs better precision in attaching to events.

 - Use "u64" to assign to hist_field-&gt;type

   Instead of using kstrdup("u64", GFP_KERNEL) to assign the
   hist_field-&gt;type, just point it to "u64" instead. The
   hist_field-&gt;type is freed via kfree_const().

 - Replace kmalloc()/strcpy() with kstrdup() for trace_printk

   Instead of having two calls to copy the module format string, just
   use kstrdup().

 - Use __free() in trace event histograms and triggres where possible

 - Use seq_buf in trace event code instead of strcat()

   Instead of calculating the size of the buffer to use and filling it
   with strcat(), use the seq_buf infrastructure that takes care of
   making sure not to overflow the string size.

 - Reject invalid preemptirq_delay_test CPU affinity

   The preempt_delay_test module can take an invalid CPU affinity mask
   and create confusing output. Simply have the module reject invalid
   affinity masks.

 - Prevent division by zero in ftrace_ops sample module code

   If the ftrace_ops sample module code receives the module parameter
   nr_function_calls set to zero, it can cause a division by zero error.

 - Warn when an event dereferences a parameter in TP_printk()

   On boot up and module load, the trace event TP_printk() is scanned
   for possible bugs. As the TP_printk() code is executed when the user
   reads the "trace" file and processes the data written when the
   trace_event executed, the data it reads can be literally days old.
   The scan currently checks for dereferencing printk formats like
   "%pI6". But it does not check if the parameters themselves have a
   dereference like:

	TP_printk("offset %08x: value %08x",
		(u32)(__entry-&gt;addr - __entry-&gt;edma-&gt;membase), __entry-&gt;value)

   __entry represents the pointer to the event on the ring buffer. The
   __entry-&gt;edma-&gt;membase is dereferencing a pointer on the ring buffer
   to find membase, but the __entry-&gt;edma may no longer be a valid
   pointer.

   Warn on this case too.

 - Replace some strcpy() with strscpy()

 - Clean up mmiotrace events to use assign_type() macro

   The assign_type() macro makes sure the event type is indeed the type
   that is being parsed. The mmiotrace trace was written before that
   macro was created so it just simply typecasted the pointer.

   Replace the typecasting with the macro.

 - Have the ENUM processing to numbers only process what is added

   The code that converts ENUMs to their numbers in the trace events
   scanned all events to do the processing. This was true when a module
   was loaded too. That is, instead of processing just the events for
   the module, it processed *all* events. Even the builtin ones that
   were processed at boot up.

   Add a check for the event-&gt;module matching mod if it is a module
   before processing it.

* tag 'trace-v7.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (21 commits)
  tracing: Have trace_event_update_all() only handle module that is loading
  tracing: Cleanup event_enable_trigger_parse() by using __free()
  tracing: Report every TP_printk double dereference
  tracing/mmiotrace: Use trace_assign_type() in mmio_print_mark()
  tracing: Make per-template BTF id lists file-local
  tracing: Use seq_buf for string concatenation
  tracing: Use strscpy() instead of strcpy() in trace_sched_switch
  tracing: Warn when an event dereferences a pointer in TP_printk()
  samples/ftrace: Prevent division by zero when nr_function_calls is zero
  tracing: Reject invalid preemptirq_delay_test CPU affinity
  fgraph: Use trace_seq_putc() in print_graph_return()
  tracing/user_events: Replace a seq_printf() call by seq_puts() in user_seq_show()
  tracing/user_events: Use seq_putc() in two functions
  tracing: Bound histogram expression strings with seq_buf
  tracing: Return ERR_PTR() from expr_str()
  tracing: Use __free() for expr_str() buffer
  kernel/trace/trace_printk: Use kstrdup() instead of kmalloc() and strcpy()
  tracing: Point constant hist field type to string literal
  selftests/bpf: Add test for tracepoint btf_ids tracefs file
  tracing: Expose tracepoint BTF ids via tracefs
  ...
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