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2026-07-10ring-buffer: Allow sparse CPU masks in ring_buffer_desc()Vincent Donnefort
No user currently relies on sparse CPU masks, but the descriptor logic already supports them via linear fallback. Remove the arbitrary limitation. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260709160017.1729517-4-vdonnefort@google.com Fixes: 2e67fabd8b77 ("ring-buffer: Introduce ring-buffer remotes") Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-07-10tracing/remotes: Fix struct_len in trace_remote_alloc_buffer()Vincent Donnefort
Pre-calculate desc->struct_len up-front in trace_remote_alloc_buffer() with trace_buffer_desc_size() to fix double-counting. While at it, use the accessor __first_ring_buffer_desc(). Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260709160017.1729517-3-vdonnefort@google.com Fixes: 96e43537af54 ("tracing: Introduce trace remotes") Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-07-10tracing/remotes: Fix leak in trace_remote_alloc_buffer() error pathVincent Donnefort
If page allocation fails in trace_remote_alloc_buffer(), desc->nr_cpus is not yet incremented for the current CPU. As a consequence, on error, half-allocated rb_desc will not be freed in trace_remote_free_buffer(). Increment desc->nr_cpus as soon as the first allocation for the current CPU has succeeded. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260709160017.1729517-2-vdonnefort@google.com Fixes: 96e43537af54 ("tracing: Introduce trace remotes") Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-07-10sched_ext: Skip ops.set_weight() for disabled tasksKuba Piecuch
When switching a task's sched_class away from sched_ext, we get the following sequence of events in __sched_setscheduler(): sched_change_begin() switched_from_scx() scx_disable_task(p) ops.disable(p) __setscheduler_params() set_load_weight() reweight_task_scx(p) ops.set_weight(p) p->sched_class = next_class; sched_change_end() ... Notably, ops.set_weight() is called _after_ ops.disable(). This violates the expected semantics of the callbacks, the expectation being that ops.disable() can only be followed by ops.exit_task() or ops.enable(). Skipping the weight adjustment for disabled tasks should be harmless since the weight will be recalculated in scx_enable_task() if the task ever rejoins SCX. Fixes: 637b0682821b ("sched: Fold sched_class::switch{ing,ed}_{to,from}() into the change pattern") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.19+ Signed-off-by: Kuba Piecuch <jpiecuch@google.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-07-10sched_ext: Add tracepoint for scheduler exitPat Somaru
sched_ext schedulers have state in BPF programs and kernel. scx_dump provides kernel state and BPF program state on error, but this is static in what it can provide. Add a sched_ext_exit tracepoint in scx_claim_exit() so that BPF programs can dynamically inspect scheduler specific state at the moment of exit. Pass the exiting scx_sched so attached programs can read its state, and, since exits propagate through a hierarchy of sub-schedulers, identify which scheduler each event belongs to. Signed-off-by: Pat Somaru <patso@likewhatevs.io> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-07-10perf/aux: Fix page UAF in map_range()Lee Jia Jie
map_range() reads rb->aux_pages[], rb->aux_nr_pages and rb->aux_pgoff via perf_mmap_to_page() while holding only event->mmap_mutex. Those fields are serialized by rb->aux_mutex, and mmap_mutex is per event. Thus, two events sharing one rb via PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_OUTPUT can race rb_alloc_aux() with map_range(), leading to a page-UAF scenario as follows: CPU 0 CPU 1 ===== ===== rb_alloc_aux() map_range() [1]: allocate rb->aux_pages[0] [2]: rb->aux_nr_pages++ [3]: perf_mmap_to_page() returns rb->aux_pages[0] [4]: map it as VM_PFNMAP [5]: rb->aux_pgoff = 1 munmap the page [6]: free rb->aux_pages[0] Pages mapped as VM_PFNMAP have no refcount protection, so CPU 1 holds a mapping to a freed physical frame. Fix this by taking rb->aux_mutex across the page walk in map_range(). Fixes: b709eb872e19 ("perf: map pages in advance") Signed-off-by: Lee Jia Jie <jiajie.lee@starlabs.sg> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
2026-07-10ntp: Remove tick_length_base, use tick_length directlyDavid Woodhouse
Now that nothing inflates tick_length beyond tick_length_base (the adjtime path was converted to use time_offset in the previous commit), the two fields are always equal. Remove tick_length_base and keep tick_length as the single field. Remove the per-second reset and the delta update in ntp_update_frequency() since there is no separate base to track. No functional change intended. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Assisted-by: Kiro:claude-opus-4.6-1m Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260621220051.1030462-8-dwmw2@infradead.org
2026-07-10timekeeping: Settle competing time_offset and time_adjust skewDavid Woodhouse
time_offset (the exponential PLL phase slew) and time_adjust (the linear adjtime() slew) can be asked to move the clock in opposite directions. second_overflow() folds only their *net* into the per-tick skew_delta, so the cancelling overlap would never be drained from either tracker by the per-tick code — and if they cancel exactly, skew_delta is zero and neither converges at all. Arguably we could just let one of them entirely cancel out the other immediately, but that would be a change in userspace-visible behaviour. Instead, preserve the existing behaviour by calculating the "conflict" portion between the opposing skew each second, and transferring that amount directly from one tracker to the other. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Assisted-by: Kiro:claude-opus-4.8 Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260621220051.1030462-7-dwmw2@infradead.org
2026-07-10timekeeping: Drive time_adjust skew via per-tick ntp_error transferDavid Woodhouse
The legacy adjtime() slew (ADJ_OFFSET_SINGLESHOT) was the last user of tick_length != tick_length_base: it slewed the clock by inflating tick_length directly, which delivered the correction imprecisely (e.g. delivering only 4997.5µs when asked for a 5ms skew). Deliver it accurately through the same per-tick mechanism that is now used for time_offset, allowing it to contribute to skew_delta and thus drive the delivery through ntp_error and mult selection. To allow for accurate accounting, store the sub-microsecond part of time_adjust is separately, while keeping time_adjust in microseconds as that's the external API. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Assisted-by: Kiro:claude-opus-4.8 Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260621220051.1030462-6-dwmw2@infradead.org
2026-07-10timekeeping: Drive time_offset skew via per-tick ntp_error transferDavid Woodhouse
Currently, the phase offset of time_offset and time_adjust is delivered by adjusting tick_length in second_overflow(), and immediately draining time_offset/time_adjust by the amount that the tick_length adjustment is *estimated* to cause. This is fairly approximate, in part because it is not always correct to assume that precisely NTP_INTERVAL_FREQ ticks will occur between one call to second_overflow() and the next. It could also over and under-run in the final second of delivery. Instead of inflating tick_length, transfer the intended skew directly into ntp_error each tick to achieve the desired rate. In second_overflow(), calculate skew_delta which is the per-tick slew rate, in the same units as time_offset: (ns << NTP_SCALE_SHIFT) / HZ. In logarithmic_accumulation(), drain up to 'skew_delta' time units from time_offset into ntp_error to drive the overall effective rate. The new ntp_drain_skew() function returns the amount which is actually 'claimed' by time_offset (and in a future patch, time_adjust). Any overrun which is delivered by the changed 'mult' (as described below) but not claimed by ntp_drain_skew() will remain in ntp_error to be corrected away in subsequent ticks. Simply transferring the precise amount from time_offset to ntp_error would be sufficent to make the time *eventually* converge, however the skew delivered is limited by the choice of { mult, mult+1 } each tick and thus the convergence would be extremely slow. In theory we could inflate ntp_err_mult with the magnitude of ntp_error in the general case — but that would cause overcorrection in a tickless kernel. Instead, in timekeeping_adjust(), take skew_delta into account when calculating 'mult', such that the available {mult, mult+1} choices bracket the overall effective rate *including* the skew, to avoid the delta just building up in ntp_error. The effect is that the inflated 'mult' causes ntp_error to grow because xtime_interval is (e.g.) longer than the true tick_length. But then the same delta is removed again as it's drained from time_offset. This gives behaviour equivalent to the old tick_length += delta approach but with exact per-tick accounting of the time_offset actually imparted to the clock, and no overrun. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Assisted-by: Kiro:claude-opus-4.8 Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260621220051.1030462-5-dwmw2@infradead.org
2026-07-10timekeeping: Account for clocksource tick quantisation via NTPDavid Woodhouse
cycle_interval is an integer number of counter cycles per NTP interval, so the real time it represents differs from the nominal NTP_INTERVAL_LENGTH by up to half a counter period. For coarse clocksources this is significant: the 3.579545 MHz ACPI PM timer at HZ=1000 rounds 3579.545 cycles up to 3580, making each tick 1.000127 ms (+127 PPM). Commit a386b5af8edd ("time: Compensate for rounding on odd-frequency clocksources") introduced xtime_remainder to compensate for exactly this, citing the same 127 PPM ACPI PM example. The compensation is correct and necessary, but it was applied inside the timekeeping accumulation in timekeeping.c: subtracted in the mult computation in timekeeping_adjust() and folded into the ntp_error update in logarithmic_accumulation(). That keeps the base rate correct and leaves NTP its full symmetric +/-MAXFREQ range rather than +373/-627 PPM, but the NTP code in ntp.c never sees it: tick_length is computed without the correction, so ntp.c's notion of how long a tick is disagrees with the rate timekeeping actually produces. Make the offset an explicit part of the NTP tick_length instead. Add ntp_data::cs_tick_adj, a fixed per-second addend that ntp_update_frequency() includes alongside ntp_tick_adj and time_freq. tk_setup_internals() computes it from the difference between the real cycle_interval duration and the nominal interval, stores it in the timekeeper, and hands it to NTP through a new argument to ntp_clear() -- which already recomputes the frequency and is invoked after every clocksource (re)configuration. timekeeping_init() now uses TK_UPDATE_ALL for this; clearing NTP there is otherwise redundant since ntp_init() has just initialised it. ntp.c now computes the true tick rate, giving a single source of truth. Like ntp_tick_adj, cs_tick_adj stays internal to the kernel: userspace still sees the nominal 1.000000 ms tick via adjtimex and is unaware of the addends. timekeeping_adjust() and logarithmic_accumulation() use ntp_tick / xtime_interval directly, and xtime_remainder is removed. The base-rate arithmetic is unchanged: ntp_tick becomes xtime_interval << ntp_error_shift, so the mult division yields the same base mult and the ntp_error accumulation still nets to zero per tick. Beyond the cleanup of treating all the tick_length contributions (nominal interval, ntp_tick_adj, cs_tick_adj, time_freq) consistently as addends in one place, it also prepares for feed-forward discipline: a future timekeeping_set_reference() will set tick_length to track an absolute external reference such as a vmclock, and that path needs ntp.c to own a tick_length that already reflects the clocksource quantisation, with no hidden correction applied elsewhere. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Assisted-by: Kiro:claude-opus-4.8 Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260621220051.1030462-4-dwmw2@infradead.org
2026-07-09sched_ext: Keep rq tracking accurate in the consume pathAndrea Righi
consume_remote_task() drops this_rq before unlinking a remote task from its DSQ and locking src_rq. When called from ops.dispatch(), scx_locked_rq() keeps pointing to this_rq across the lock dance. The subsequent switch_rq_lock(src_rq, this_rq) cannot update the tracking because its guard does not match, leaving the tracking stale while src_rq is held. Keep this_rq locked until the task has been unlinked and the DSQ lock released, then use switch_rq_lock() to switch directly to src_rq. Use the same helper to restore this_rq after losing the dequeue race. The successful path already switches back through move_remote_task_to_local_dsq(), so scx_locked_rq() now follows the actually held rq throughout the consume path. Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/455e701bca66bdecde530d225f4dba0a@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-07-09sched_ext: Make scx_bpf_kick_cid() return voidTejun Heo
scx_bpf_kick_cid() returned an error code, but the value conveys nothing actionable and no caller consumes it. The kick is asynchronous, so a successful return only means it was queued. An invalid @cid is already reported through scx_error() by scx_cid_to_cpu(), and a missing scheduler leaves nothing to kick. Make scx_bpf_kick_cid() return void to match scx_bpf_kick_cpu(). The cid-form kfuncs are not in practical use yet, so the ABI change is safe. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-07-09sched_ext: Reject direct slice and dsq_vtime writes for cid-form schedulersTejun Heo
Direct writes to p->scx.slice and p->scx.dsq_vtime bypass scx_bpf_task_set_slice/dsq_vtime() and the authority checks they carry. Those checks exist for sub-schedulers, which attach only through the cid-form struct_ops, so the direct writes only need to be closed there. Give sched_ext_ops_cid its own verifier ops that reject the two fields. cid-form is a new interface with no legacy users, so there is no compatibility to keep. The cpu-form keeps direct writes, and the deprecation warning they carried is dropped. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-07-09sched_ext: Rename extra_enq_flags to remote_activate_enq_flagsTejun Heo
scx_rq.extra_enq_flags carries scx-specific enqueue flags across the activate_task() boundary during a cross-rq task move in move_remote_task_to_local_dsq(). Rename it to remote_activate_enq_flags to name that role, and fix the stale comment that referenced the old move_task_to_local_dsq() name. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-07-09sched_ext: Add SCX_CALL_CID_OP_TASK() for cid-form op dispatchTejun Heo
The cid-form ops overlay their cpu-form siblings at the same struct slot. Ops whose signature matches the sibling are invoked through the cpu-form call sites unchanged, but set_cmask() takes an arena cmask address rather than a cpumask, so scx_call_op_set_cpumask() calls ops_cid.set_cmask() directly and hand-rolled the kf_tasks[] and locked_rq bracket that SCX_CALL_OP_TASK() provides. The hand-rolled bracket reset locked_rq to NULL on exit instead of restoring the saved value, so a nested call would clobber the outer op's locked-rq tracking. Parameterize the dispatch macros by the ops-table member and add SCX_CALL_CID_OP_TASK(), which routes through sch->ops_cid. Convert scx_call_op_set_cpumask() to it and drop the hand-rolled bracket. The only behavioral change is that locked_rq is now saved and restored like every other op call site. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-07-09sched_ext: Use READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE in cmask word ops and drop _RACY variantsTejun Heo
The cmask ops can operate on BPF-arena cmasks which BPF programs may read and write concurrently. The _RACY op variants existed to make such lockless reads explicit but this turned out to be too restrictive. Mark the word accesses in all the two-cmask ops with READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE instead and drop the _RACY variants. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-07-09Merge branch 'for-7.2-fixes' into for-7.3Tejun Heo
Pull to receive: db4e9defd2e8 ("sched_ext: Record an error on errno-only sub-enable failure") 49b3378a750c ("sched_ext: Fix premature ops->priv publication in scx_alloc_and_add_sched()") e6979d05c6a6 ("tools/sched_ext: scx - Fix cmask_subset(), cmask_equal() and cmask_weight()") for further sub-sched changes and to resolve the conflicts with the sub-sched updates on for-7.3. db4e9defd2e8 adds scx_error() to the sub-enable err_disable sink which for-7.3 moved from ext.c into sub.c. Resolved by applying the fix to scx_sub_enable_workfn() in sub.c. 49b3378a750c drops RCU_INIT_POINTER() from an scx_alloc_and_add_sched() unwind label whose body changed with for-7.3's stall_cpus addition. Resolved by dropping the line from the updated unwind. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-07-09sched_ext: Fix premature ops->priv publication in scx_alloc_and_add_sched()Tejun Heo
scx_alloc_and_add_sched() publishes @sch through ops->priv before allocating the cgroup path. If that allocation fails, the unwind path clears ops->priv and frees @sch immediately. scx_prog_sched() callers can dereference ops->priv from RCU context the moment it is set, so freeing without a grace period can use-after-free a concurrent kfunc caller. Move the publication below the cgroup path allocation so that every failure path after publication frees @sch through kobject_put(), whose release path defers the freeing by a grace period. Fixes: 105dcd005be2 ("sched_ext: Introduce scx_prog_sched()") Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-07-09sched_ext: Record an error on errno-only sub-enable failureTejun Heo
scx_sub_enable_workfn() has several failure paths that only return an errno (e.g. -ENOMEM from an allocation) and jump to err_disable without calling scx_error(). scx_flush_disable_work() runs the disable, and thus ops.exit(), only when an error has been recorded, so an errno-only failure leaves the half-initialized sub-scheduler linked. Record an error at the err_disable sink so every errno-only failure runs the disable path. Fixes: ebeca1f930ea ("sched_ext: Introduce cgroup sub-sched support") Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-07-09sched_ext: Fix typo in scx_bpf_dsq_insert() commentLiang Luo
The comment for scx_bpf_dsq_insert() references "@dsp_id" in the description body, but the parameter is named "@dsq_id" in both the parameter list and the function signature. Signed-off-by: Liang Luo <luoliang@kylinos.cn> Acked-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-07-09bpf: Reject rdonly/rdwr_buf_size kfunc arguments that exceed u32 maxNicholas Dudar
check_kfunc_args() detects a kfunc argument named rdonly_buf_size or rdwr_buf_size and stores reg->var_off.value into meta->r0_size, a u64, and does not bound it. check_kfunc_call() later copies that value into the returned register's mem_size field: meta->r0_size = reg->var_off.value; ... regs[BPF_REG_0].mem_size = meta.r0_size; regs[BPF_REG_0].mem_size is u32. A constant whose upper 32 bits are set gets truncated instead of causing a load-time rejection, so the verifier records a PTR_TO_MEM register with an approximately 4 GiB mem_size for whatever allocation the kfunc returned. A later access check against that register uses the truncated, wrong bound. Reject rdonly_buf_size/rdwr_buf_size values that exceed U32_MAX at the point meta->r0_size is set. Fixes: eb1f7f71c126 ("bpf/verifier: allow kfunc to return an allocated mem") Signed-off-by: Nicholas Dudar <main.kalliope@gmail.com> Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260709155837.1879230-2-main.kalliope@gmail.com Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8 Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
2026-07-09bpf: Drop scalar id on sign-extending narrowing stack fillsDaniel Borkmann
When a spilled scalar is filled back with a sign-extending narrowing load (BPF_MEMSX), check_stack_read_fixed_off() copies the spilled register including its scalar id, but coerce_reg_to_size_sx() then sign-extends the filled register's value. If the same slot is also filled with a plain zero-extending load (BPF_MEM), both destination registers share the id yet hold different values. A later 'if <zext-reg> == const' then refines the sign-extended register through sync_linked_regs() to a value it does not have at runtime (e.g. the verifier believes 0x80000000 while the register is 0xffffffff80000000), which can be turned into an out-of-bounds access. Drop the shared scalar id at the sign-extension site in check_mem_access() when sign extension actually changes the value, mirroring the BPF_MOVSX handling in check_alu_op() (no_sext = reg_umax < 2^(size*8-1)). Fixes: 3cd5c890652b ("bpf: Let the verifier assign ids on stack fills") Reported-by: STAR Labs SG <info@starlabs.sg> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
2026-07-09printk: Fix possible console use-after-freeJohn Ogness
When emitting a record via legacy printing, it is possible that a handover to another legacy printing context occurs. When a context has performed a handover, the console SRCU read lock is released and the pointer to the console struct might now be invalid. Therefore, after calling nbcon_legacy_emit_next_record() or console_emit_next_record(), it is necessary to check if a handover occurred _before_ further @con usage. Sashiko pointed out that console_flush_one_record() was not doing this. In console_flush_one_record(), after emitting a record, move the further usage of @con after the handover check. Fixes: c158834b223f ("printk: nbcon: Use nbcon consoles in console_flush_all()") Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260630170903.099D61F000E9@smtp.kernel.org Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260703141521.202813-1-john.ogness@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
2026-07-09bpf: Fix security_bpf_map_create error handlingDaniel Borkmann
Commit 5816bf4273ed ("lsm,selinux: Add LSM blob support for BPF objects") made the LSM hook wrappers for BPF object creation clean up the LSM state internally upon denial, e.g. security_bpf_map_create() internally calls security_bpf_map_free() when the bpf_map_create hook returns an error. map_create() however still routes a denial to its free_map_sec label, which invokes security_bpf_map_free() a second time, so the bpf_map_free hook fires twice for a single denied map. In-tree LSMs are unaffected in practice since the blob kfree() inside security_bpf_map_free() is NULL-safe and idempotent and none of them implement bpf_map_free, but a BPF LSM program attached to that hook observes double invocations. Route the denial to free_map instead. Fixes: 5816bf4273ed ("lsm,selinux: Add LSM blob support for BPF objects") Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260709073422.379247-1-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
2026-07-08bpf: Reject programs with inlined helpers if JIT is not availableTiezhu Yang
When an architecture (such as LoongArch, ARM64, and RISC-V) implements bpf_jit_inlines_helper_call(), the verifier skips rewriting the helper call offset (insn->imm) in bpf_do_misc_fixups(). This is because the helper is expected to be inlined by the JIT compiler later. Therefore, insn->imm remains as the raw helper enum ID. However, if JIT is disabled at runtime (net.core.bpf_jit_enable=0) or if JIT compilation fails dynamically (e.g., due to OOM), the program falls back to the BPF interpreter. When the interpreter executes (__bpf_call_base + insn->imm) with the unpatched raw ID, it jumps into an invalid address space, triggering an instruction alignment fault or a kernel panic. Although these helpers have valid C implementations in the kernel, the omission of offset rewriting makes runtime interpreter fallback fatal. Fix this by setting 'prog->jit_required = 1' when helper call rewriting is skipped for JIT inlining. This ensures that such programs are safely rejected if JIT is not available, preventing the runtime kernel panic. Fixes: 2ddec2c80b44 ("riscv, bpf: inline bpf_get_smp_processor_id()") Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Suggested-by: KaFai Wan <kafai.wan@linux.dev> Acked-by: Leon Hwang <leon.hwang@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn> Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
2026-07-08bpf: Introduce jit_required flag and remove bpf_prog_has_kfunc_call()Tiezhu Yang
Introduce a 'jit_required' bitfield flag in struct bpf_prog to track whether a BPF program strictly requires the JIT compiler to run. This prevents a dangerous runtime fallback to the interpreter for features that are only implemented in the JIT compiler. Currently, bpf_prog_has_kfunc_call() is used only for kernel function calls, replace the kfunc-specific helper with the new 'jit_required' flag. This makes it easy to support other JIT-only BPF features, such as inlined helpers. Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Suggested-by: KaFai Wan <kafai.wan@linux.dev> Suggested-by: Leon Hwang <leon.hwang@linux.dev> Acked-by: Leon Hwang <leon.hwang@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn> Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
2026-07-09bpf: Fix use-after-free on mm_struct in bpf_find_vma()Sanghyun Park
bpf_find_vma() reads task->mm and calls mmap_read_trylock(mm) without holding a reference on the mm. On a foreign task, a concurrent exit_mm() can free the mm_struct between the lockless read and the trylock, resulting in a use-after-free. mm_struct is not SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU. For the current task, task->mm is stable. For a foreign task, pin the mm under task->alloc_lock and release it with mmput_async(), mirroring commit d8e27d2d22b6 ("bpf: fix mm lifecycle in open-coded task_vma iterator"). Use spin_trylock() instead of get_task_mm() so BPF context does not block on alloc_lock. Reject irqs-disabled contexts and !CONFIG_MMU on the foreign-task path because dropping the mm reference is not safe there. Race: CPU0 (BPF program) CPU1 (exiting task) ============================ ========================== bpf_find_vma(foreign_task): mm = task->mm exit_mm(): task->mm = NULL mmput(mm) -> frees mm_struct mmap_read_trylock(mm) // UAF on mm Fixes: 7c7e3d31e785 ("bpf: Introduce helper bpf_find_vma") Signed-off-by: Sanghyun Park <sanghyun.park.cnu@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Puranjay Mohan <puranjay@kernel.org> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260708072106.199637-2-sanghyun.park.cnu@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
2026-07-09bpf: Account scratch buffer in bpf_prog_calc_tagDaniel Borkmann
bpf_prog_calc_tag() copies the instructions into a plain vmalloc() scratch buffer to blind the map fds before hashing. The buffer scales with the program, up to ~8MB at the 1M instruction limit, and is allocated on every program load, but unlike the rest of the load-time scratch memory it is not charged to the loader's memcg. Use GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT to account it like the other allocations scoped to the verification/load. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260708211537.371874-5-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
2026-07-09bpf: Account insn_aux_data allocation in bpf_checkDaniel Borkmann
The insn_aux_data array is allocated with a plain vzalloc(), while every other allocation scoped to the verification - verifier states, explored states, the cfg/scc arrays, liveness masks, jump history - is charged to the loader's memcg via GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT. At 136 bytes per instruction it is one of the largest verification-time buffers, in the range of ~130MB for a program at the 1M instruction limit (worst case), and it lives across the whole verification. The buffer is also inconsistent with itself: when instruction patching grows it, the vrealloc() in bpf_patch_insn_data() already passes GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260708211537.371874-4-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
2026-07-09bpf: Give vmlinux BTF init its own mutexDaniel Borkmann
bpf_get_btf_vmlinux() serializes the lazy vmlinux BTF parse with bpf_verifier_lock, the same mutex bpf_check() holds across the whole verification of an unprivileged program (if enabled; it's disabled by default). The latter can potentially stall the mutex holder for a long time (e.g. via userfaultfd), and therefore block first-time bpf_get_btf_vmlinux() caller from any context, including privileged program loads. Give the vmlinux BTF initialization a dedicated btf_vmlinux_lock so it is independent of the unprivileged verification mutex. The parse only needs mutual exclusion against itself. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260708211537.371874-3-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
2026-07-09bpf: Fix vmlinux BTF prep race in bpf_get_btf_vmlinuxDaniel Borkmann
bpf_get_btf_vmlinux() lazily parses the vmlinux BTF under the bpf_verifier_lock, but publishes the result through a plain store and re-checks it through a plain lockless load. Nothing orders the stores initializing the struct btf inside btf_parse_vmlinux() against the store publishing the pointer: On a weakly ordered arch, a concurrent first-time caller taking the lockless fast path could in principle observe the pointer before the parsed contents are visible. The mutex_unlock() does not help such a reader given it only synchronizes with a later acquisition of the same lock. Thus, publish the pointer with smp_store_release() and read it on the fast path with smp_load_acquire(). Acquire semantics are needed rather than a dependency-ordered READ_ONCE(): btf_parse_vmlinux() also populates globals outside the returned object (e.g. bpf_ctx_convert.t). An address dependency would only order accesses performed through the pointer and not cover other globals. Fixes: 8580ac9404f6 ("bpf: Process in-kernel BTF") Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260708211537.371874-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
2026-07-08sched_ext: Enable tick for finite slices on nohz_fullAndrea Righi
set_next_task_scx() updates the tick dependency before __schedule() updates rq->curr. When switching from a non-EXT task, such as idle, to an EXT task with a finite slice, sched_update_tick_dependency() checks the outgoing task and can allow the tick to remain stopped. The dependency can also be lost without a slice-type transition. After a finite-slice task leaves the CPU idle, the enqueue path can clear the dependency against the idle rq->curr. SCX_RQ_CAN_STOP_TICK still records a finite slice, so another finite task skips the transition block and can run without the ticks needed to expire its slice. The reverse mismatch can also happen when the last finite-slice EXT task is dequeued: sub_nr_running() updates the dependency before rq->curr changes, so the outgoing task state can keep the dependency set after the CPU goes idle. Fix this by unconditionally enabling the scheduler tick whenever a finite-slice EXT task is selected on a nohz_full CPU. Moreover, when the last runnable EXT task leaves, ignore the outgoing EXT slice state so the generic scheduler can correctly re-evaluate and clear the tick dependency. Fixes: 22a920209ab6 ("sched_ext: Implement tickless support") Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-07-08audit: fix potential integer overflow in audit_log_n_hex()Ricardo Robaina
The function calculates new_len as len << 1 for hex encoding. This has two overflow risks: the shift itself can overflow when len is large, and the result can be truncated when assigned to new_len (declared as int) from the size_t calculation. Fix by using check_shl_overflow() to catch shift overflow and changing new_len and loop counter i to size_t to prevent truncation. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 168b7173959f ("AUDIT: Clean up logging of untrusted strings") Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Robaina <rrobaina@redhat.com> [PM: remove vertical whitspace noise] Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
2026-07-08sched_ext: Preserve rq tracking across local DSQ dispatchAndrea Righi
dispatch_to_local_dsq() can run from scx_bpf_dsq_move_to_local() while ops.dispatch() has recorded the current rq. Moving a task to a local DSQ may switch to the source or destination rq before synchronously invoking ops.dequeue() through the following path: SCX_CALL_OP(dispatch, rq) ops.dispatch() scx_bpf_dsq_move_to_local() scx_flush_dispatch_buf() finish_dispatch() dispatch_to_local_dsq() scx_dispatch_enqueue() local_dsq_post_enq() call_task_dequeue() SCX_CALL_OP_TASK(dequeue, locked_rq, ...) The nested callback saves the recorded rq and restores it on return. If the rq tracking does not follow the lock switch, update_locked_rq() can trigger the following lockdep assertion while restoring an rq which is no longer held: WARNING: kernel/sched/sched.h:1641 at call_task_dequeue+0x160/0x170 Call Trace: scx_dispatch_enqueue+0x2b0/0x460 dispatch_to_local_dsq+0x138/0x230 scx_flush_dispatch_buf+0x1af/0x220 scx_bpf_dsq_move_to_local___v2+0xe2/0x1c0 bpf__sched_ext_ops_dispatch+0x4b/0xa7 do_pick_task_scx+0x3b6/0x910 __pick_next_task+0x105/0x1f0 __schedule+0x3e7/0x1980 Introduce switch_rq_lock() to update the tracking state together with each rq lock handoff. Use it in dispatch_to_local_dsq(), move_remote_task_to_local_dsq() and the in-balance paths of scx_dsq_move(), ensuring that scx_locked_rq() consistently refers to the rq whose lock is actually held throughout the lock dance. Fixes: 7fb39e4eb4c3 ("sched_ext: Save and restore scx_locked_rq across SCX_CALL_OP") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 7.1+ Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-07-08libbpf: Drop in-loader metadata check for load-time verificationDaniel Borkmann
The signed gen_loader used to police its own metadata map from within BPF: emit_signature_match() read the kernel-cached map->sha[] back through hardcoded struct bpf_map offsets and compared it against a hash that compute_sha_update_offsets() baked into the signed instructions, after a BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_FD round-trip to populate map->sha[]. The kernel now verifies the metadata at BPF_PROG_LOAD time by folding the frozen contents of the loader's exclusive fd_array maps into the signature, so the loader no longer checks anything itself. Generated loaders thus carry no verification logic of their own anymore: Nothing in the signing chain depends on emitted loader bytecode doing the right thing. On the loading side, skel_internal.h now sets fd_array_cnt for a signed load so the kernel scans fd_array for the exclusive metadata map - still frozen, as the kernel requires - and the BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_FD round-trip to populate map->sha[] is gone. The struct bpf_map layout BUILD_BUG_ON()s on the kernel side are removed as well: they only pinned the ABI for the in-BPF read of map->sha[] that is no longer needed. Same for the map->excl member. Note: gen_hash is retained; it still marks a loader as signed so an untrusted host cannot re-dimension maps or override initial values now covered by the signature. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260708075343.358712-4-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
2026-07-08bpf: Verify signed loader metadata at load timeDaniel Borkmann
A signed gen_loader program carries the programs, maps and relocations it installs in a metadata array map. The loader instructions are covered by the PKCS#7 signature, but the metadata map is not: Today the loader compares the map contents from within BPF against a hash baked into its (signed) instructions, using the kernel-cached map hash. The kernel itself never actually attests that the metadata the loader installs is the metadata that was signed. This split is the core of the long-standing objection to the BPF signing scheme from the LSM / integrity side: the integrity check of a light skeleton only completes once the loader program runs, that is, after the security_bpf_prog_load() hook, so at admission time an LSM observes a program whose payload has not yet been verified. Auditing the chain link is also not a purely cryptographic operation: whoever signs or reviews an lskel has to disassemble the loader's preamble to convince themselves that the embedded hash check is present and correct [0][1]. Two acceptable fixes were identified in those threads: Complete the integrity check before the admission hook fires, or add a second hook that collects the verification result after the loader ran [2]. Covering both the loader and its maps directly with the PKCS#7 signature is what Blaise Boscaccy's patchsets proposed in several forms. Let's implement the former, without growing the UAPI, and in particular as a single unified scheme where the signature spans the raw bytes rather than derived hashes. A signed loader binds its metadata map(s) through the existing fd_array, and an exclusive map is already bound to a program digest (excl_prog_hash). So when a signature is present, collect the exclusive maps from fd_array and append their frozen contents to the instructions before verification: The signature now covers insns || metadata_0 || metadata_1 || [...] in the fd_array order, and verification completes in bpf_check(), once the fd_array maps are resolved into used_maps, before the LSM admission hook and the rest of verification. A program is either BPF_SIG_UNSIGNED or BPF_SIG_VERIFIED, with nothing in between. While folding the fd_array maps, a non-exclusive map bound to a signed program is rejected, so every map folded into the signature is exclusive. A signed loader that fails to cover its metadata thus does not load, and BPF_SIG_VERIFIED always means the instructions and every exclusive map are authentic. The maps must be frozen so the hashed bytes cannot change before the loader runs; the map <-> program digest binding is enforced by the verifier for every used map. Binding maps through fd_array_cnt makes the verifier resolve and excl-check them (excl_prog_sha vs prog->digest) before it would otherwise compute the digest, so compute prog->digest up front in bpf_check(), over the unmodified instructions the signature covers, for a load that folds metadata. Unsigned programs are not affected by the signature path; for them the LSM admission hook merely moves below fd_array resolution, with minimal bounded work in between. Note, signed loaders generated by older libbpf/ bpftool versions need to be regenerated; some of the recent fixes we've had on the signed loader side require the latter already to close gaps. Finally, some remarks around the security_bpf_prog_load() placement given there was discussion on whether a new hook is needed or the existing security_bpf_prog() hook should be reused [3]: For a new hook it would mean that just for loading a single BPF program it has to pass through four layers of LSM hooks: 1) security_bpf (cmd=PROG_LOAD): for gating various bpf subcmds 2) security_bpf_prog_load: historical admission hook (CAP/token, prog_type, attach point), pre-verification 3) security_bpf_prog_verify_signature: newly asked admission hook, same role as 2), plus the BPF signature verdict 4) security_bpf_prog: gate handing the prog fd back to userspace, verification done & signature verified The use-cases of 2) and 3) conflate, thus BPF community prefers to just keep a total of 3 LSM hooks (as-is today): 3) makes 2) incoherent given they are the /same class/ of hook, that is, access-control admission on the load and split only by _what_ they can see. Worse, with the split, for a signed BPF program security_bpf_prog_load 2) admits a program whose signature has not been checked, so a policy gating at 2) is structurally unable to express "admit only verified" and every such policy is forced onto 3) *anyway*. In other words, one doesn't get two complementary hooks, but rather, one real admission hook aka 3) plus a now-degraded /legacy/ hook 2) that can't answer the question operators actually want to ask. Reusing security_bpf_prog() 4) for admission is no alternative either: it fires only after the entire verifier (and JIT) pipeline ran, so denying a not-yet-verified program at that point burns exactly the work a denial is supposed to avoid, and by then the program has an id assigned and the kallsyms/perf/audit load events fired. Policies are free to also consume the signature verdict at 4), but admission control belongs into security_bpf_prog_load(). Hence the latter remains the only admission hook, merely moved past signature verification; with moving large allocations further down into the BPF verifier, there is now only minimal work between the old and new location: The preparation work in bpf_check() is reordered such that only the minimally necessary setup happens up front: Allocating the env, initializing the verifier log and resolving the fd_array that a signed BPF metadata map needs. The worst case allocation up until security_bpf_prog_load() is ~90K which is the env itself (~54K) plus the continuous fd_array cache (at most 32K). The insn_aux_data array is moved into a later stage in the verification. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/2f71d6c03698eb17d51f7247efde777627ee578a.camel@HansenPartnership.com [0] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ecf0521ed302db672672ebfbc670ecfba36a6e00.camel@HansenPartnership.com [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/88703f00d5b7a779728451008626efa45e42db3d.camel@HansenPartnership.com [2] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/DJOFY21DYUI4.19WKQ3NPZ4H5R@gmail.com [3] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260708075343.358712-3-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
2026-07-08bpf: Resolve and cache fd_array objects at load timeDaniel Borkmann
The fd_array passed to BPF_PROG_LOAD carries the map and module BTF file descriptors a program binds. The verifier reads it more than once during a load: process_fd_array() walks it to bind the maps and BTFs, and check_and_resolve_insns() and the kfunc BTF resolver later read it again to resolve the program's BPF_PSEUDO_MAP_IDX* and module kfunc refs. For signed BPF, we need these upfront in memory, thus resolve each fd to its object once and cache it by fd_array index, then bind that cached object for the rest of the load. env->fd_array becomes a small per-slot {map, btf} cache rather than a bpfptr_t; every later reference is then an in-bounds lookup of an already-resolved object, and an index outside the cache is rejected instead of read from user memory: - continuous (fd_array_cnt given): the caller declares the length and every entry is resolved and bound up front (used also by the BPF signed loader) - sparse (no fd_array_cnt): left as the legacy path with no fd_array cache; each reference reads its fd from the caller's fd_array and resolves it on the spot. Deduplication in used_maps and the kfunc BTF table keeps this correct, and only unsigned programs use this shape. Split these into separate helpers to make it easier to follow. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Anton Protopopov <a.s.protopopov@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260708075343.358712-2-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
2026-07-08tick: Remove arch_needs_cpuMete Durlu
Remove unused arch_needs_cpu() hook. No architectures use it after s390 removed its use case. Suggested-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Mete Durlu <meted@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel) <rafael@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
2026-07-08lockdep: Enable the printing of held locks of remote running tasks and print ↵Ingo Molnar
task CPU Background: ========== Currently lockdep does not print out the held locks of non-current tasks that are running on some other CPU, due to the fact that the held locks array is in flux and may be unreliable to print. Syzkaller on the other hand found it that the analysis of locking bugs is easier if we print this information too, because the more locking information the merrier. In particular races are bound to have multiple tasks running on different CPUs, and the exclusion of their held locks information is unnecessarily limiting. So while it's still true that printing out their held locks array is racy, it's not as bad as it seems. There's 16 internal callers to lockdep_print_held_locks(): - 14 callers call it with the current task, which should be safe out of box. - 1 caller, debug_show_all_locks(), calls it with RCU held, which should guarantee that 'p' cannot go away under us. - 1 caller, debug_show_held_locks(), exposes the internal API with the constraint that it should only be called by drivers or platform code if the task isn't actively running - we can assume that if it nevertheless does, it will be Their Problem™. As for held locks being changed from under debug_show_held_locks(), while the task cannot go away, so the held-locks array itself is safe (although potentially non-stable), AFAICS the worst-case race can be garbage printed out by print_lock(), not any actual crashes. In particular: unsigned int class_idx = hlock->class_idx; may be stale (belong to a lock that already got released on another CPU), but it should still be a valid class index bound by MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS, and thus the lock_classes_in_use bitmap use should be safe. The other two accesses are ::acquire_ip and ::instance: printk(KERN_CONT "%px", hlock->instance); print_lock_name(hlock, lock); printk(KERN_CONT ", at: %pS\n", (void *)hlock->acquire_ip); But both are printed out as pointers, so no risk of dereference of a dangling pointer. We may print a garbage pointer. Also note that the check itself doesn't protect debug_show_held_locks() from printing garbage, as there's nothing that keeps a task from becoming runnable a nanosecond after we've run the task_is_running() check. In fact I'd argue that it's better to make this function *more* racy, for the simple robustness reason that we absolutely do not want it to crash even in the racy case. TL;DR: it should be fine to print the held locks of running tasks too, as long as we print out the information as well that a task is running, so that users are aware of any racy output. Implementation: ============== Implement that change. Also re-flow the function and streamline the printout into a single statement for all cases, which changes the 'no locks held by' / '%d lock[s] held by' phrasing that had a dependency on English spelling of plurals, to a uniform: locks held by bash/1234: %d Which spells correctly for 0, 1 and higher values, and should also be easier to parse both for humans and for scripts. Finally, print out the last CPU a task has ran on. This is very useful information for races and for locking bugs in particular. This basically extends the 'on CPU#%d' message we print for running tasks to all tasks we print. Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Suggested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Tested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun@kernel.org> Cc: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/akoeSIQGwqd9cZwd@gmail.com
2026-07-08syscall_user_dispatch: Add kernel.syscall_user_dispatch sysctlGregory Price
Add a matching sysctl to go with CONFIG_SYSCALL_USER_DISPATCH. kernel.syscall_user_dispatch (default 1 - allow) controls whether userspace may arm syscall user dispatch (both via prctl and ptrace). Disarming is always permitted - same semantics as comparable knobs. Disabling while a task has armed syscall user dispatch does not cause it to become inactive - instead it remains active until the user attempts to disable/re-enable via prctl or ptrace. On the next attempt to re-enable, the prctl/ptrace call fails gracefully. The alternative would cause programs translating non-linux syscalls to interpret those syscalls as linux syscalls, resulting in undefined userland behavior. Signed-off-by: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260706140020.873735-3-gourry@gourry.net
2026-07-08syscall_user_dispatch: Make it configurable in KconfigGregory Price
Syscall User Dispatch is presently built under CONFIG_GENERIC_SYSCALL and cannot be disabled independently. Add CONFIG_SYSCALL_USER_DISPATCH to make it an optional feature. Signed-off-by: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260706140020.873735-2-gourry@gourry.net
2026-07-08bpf: Reject writes through untrusted BTF pointersNicholas Dudar
check_ptr_to_btf_access() lets program-type btf_struct_access callbacks validate writes before the default BTF access path rejects non-read accesses. That bypasses the read-only policy for untrusted BTF pointers created by helpers such as bpf_rdonly_cast(). Reject non-read accesses through PTR_UNTRUSTED BTF pointers at the common entry point, before the callback branch to handle all cases. Fixes: 282de143ead9 ("bpf: Introduce allocated objects support") Signed-off-by: Nicholas Dudar <main.kalliope@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Amery Hung <ameryhung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
2026-07-08bpf: Remove artificial limitations on pointer types eligible for spillingEduard Zingerman
The verifier loses precision when simulating stack spills for the following register types: - PTR_TO_TP_BUFFER - PTR_TO_INSN - CONST_PTR_TO_DYNPTR These types are not allow-listed in the is_spillable_regtype(), because of that check_stack_write_fixed_off() takes the branch that marks the slots STACK_MISC. There are no technical reasons for this limitation. This commit replaces an explicit list of pointer types in is_spillable_regtype() with explicit list of non-pointer types. The function is renamed to is_pointer_regtype() for clarity. Reported-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260707-missing-spillable-types-v1-1-44a92121dc41@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
2026-07-08timekeeping: Account for monotonicity adjustment in ntp_errorDavid Woodhouse
timekeeping_apply_adjustment() modifies xtime_nsec to ensure monotonicity when mult changes: xtime_nsec -= offset This ensures that the time reported to userspace does not jump when the multiplier is adjusted from one tick to the next. However, the ntp_error accumulator which tracks the difference between intended and actual clock position was not being updated to reflect this additional discrepancy. An earlier attempt at this compensation existed as: ntp_error -= (interval - offset) << ntp_error_shift but was removed in commit c2cda2a5bda9 ("timekeeping/ntp: Don't align NTP frequency adjustments to ticks") because it was a major source of NTP error. That's because (interval - offset) was wrong: the subtraction of "interval" prematurely accounted for the changed xtime_interval of the next tick, which would be correctly accounted in the next accumulation anyway — a double subtraction. What is actually needed is just the "offset" part: ntp_error must be told that xtime_nsec moved by "offset" without a corresponding change in the intended position. For the normal ±1 mult dithering this is negligible (the adjustments cancel over time), but for larger mult changes — such as when an external reference clock sets a new frequency — the one-time uncompensated offset is significant. Fix by adjusting ntp_error by the correct amount: ntp_error += offset << ntp_error_shift This keeps ntp_error consistent with the actual xtime_nsec position after the adjustment, and ensures the discrepancy is correctly smoothed away over time and the clock returns to where it should have been. Fixes: c2cda2a5bda9 ("timekeeping/ntp: Don't align NTP frequency adjustments to ticks") Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Assisted-by: Kiro:claude-opus-4.6-1m Acked-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260621220051.1030462-3-dwmw2@infradead.org
2026-07-07time: Respect COMPAT_32BIT_TIME for old time type functionsThomas Weißschuh
The "old" time types use 32-bit seconds which are not y2038-safe. Respect COMPAT_32BIT_TIME for functions using those types. time(), stime() and gettimeofday() are disabled completely. settimeofday() is kept as it is required to do the initial timewarping after boot. However the 'tv' argument will be rejected. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/e9487ebe-3730-438a-9c23-e45f75986ecc@app.fastmail.com/ Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260702-vdso-compat_32bit_time-v3-1-db9f36d8d432@linutronix.de
2026-07-07vdso/datastore: Explicitly prevent remote access to timens vvar pageThomas Weißschuh
The fault handler for the timens page does not have access to the target task and therefore can not be invoked remotely. Currently the handler relies on the fact that the vvar mapping is marked as VM_IO and VM_PFNMAP for which the mm core always prevents remote access. However the VM_IO and VM_PFNMAP flags are going to be removed. Add an explicit check to prevent remote access to the mapping. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Tested-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260630-vdso-mlockall-v4-4-6c93708ce723@linutronix.de
2026-07-07timekeeping: Move the vDSO update declarations into a private headerThomas Weißschuh
All architectures are now fully using the generic vDSO infrastructure. They don't need these declarations anymore to implement the functions in architecture-specific code. Move them to the private header. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260707-timekeeping-header-cleanup-v1-2-e85ad96409a9@linutronix.de
2026-07-07hrtimer: Explicitly include linux/hrtimer_bases.hThomas Weißschuh (Schneider Electric)
This header uses some definitions from linux/hrtimer_bases.h. Currently this header is included transitively, which will change. Include the header explicitly. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh (Schneider Electric) <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260702-hrtimer-header-dependencies-v1-5-c50b19bda473@linutronix.de
2026-07-07tick: Explicitly include linux/hrtimer_bases.hThomas Weißschuh (Schneider Electric)
This header uses some definitions from linux/hrtimer_bases.h. Currently this header is included transitively, which will change. Include the header explicitly. Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh (Schneider Electric) <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260702-hrtimer-header-dependencies-v1-4-c50b19bda473@linutronix.de