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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/x86/net, branch master</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>x86/cfi: Fix CFI rewrite for odd alignments</title>
<updated>2026-02-23T10:19:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-11T12:59:43+00:00</published>
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Rustam reported his clang builds did not boot properly; turns out his
.config has: CONFIG_DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_64B=y set.

Fix up the FineIBT code to deal with this unusual alignment.

Fixes: 931ab63664f0 ("x86/ibt: Implement FineIBT")
Reported-by: Rustam Kovhaev &lt;rkovhaev@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Rustam Kovhaev &lt;rkovhaev@gmail.com&gt;
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Rustam reported his clang builds did not boot properly; turns out his
.config has: CONFIG_DEBUG_FORCE_FUNCTION_ALIGN_64B=y set.

Fix up the FineIBT code to deal with this unusual alignment.

Fixes: 931ab63664f0 ("x86/ibt: Implement FineIBT")
Reported-by: Rustam Kovhaev &lt;rkovhaev@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Rustam Kovhaev &lt;rkovhaev@gmail.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

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

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

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

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

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

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

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

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Add bpf_jit_supports_fsession()</title>
<updated>2026-01-31T21:51:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leon Hwang</name>
<email>leon.hwang@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-31T14:49:48+00:00</published>
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The added fsession does not prevent running on those architectures, that
haven't added fsession support.

For example, try to run fsession tests on arm64:

test_fsession_basic:PASS:fsession_test__open_and_load 0 nsec
test_fsession_basic:PASS:fsession_attach 0 nsec
check_result:FAIL:test_run_opts err unexpected error: -14 (errno 14)

In order to prevent such errors, add bpf_jit_supports_fsession() to guard
those architectures.

Fixes: 2d419c44658f ("bpf: add fsession support")
Acked-by: Puranjay Mohan &lt;puranjay@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Puranjay Mohan &lt;puranjay@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang &lt;leon.hwang@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260131144950.16294-2-leon.hwang@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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The added fsession does not prevent running on those architectures, that
haven't added fsession support.

For example, try to run fsession tests on arm64:

test_fsession_basic:PASS:fsession_test__open_and_load 0 nsec
test_fsession_basic:PASS:fsession_attach 0 nsec
check_result:FAIL:test_run_opts err unexpected error: -14 (errno 14)

In order to prevent such errors, add bpf_jit_supports_fsession() to guard
those architectures.

Fixes: 2d419c44658f ("bpf: add fsession support")
Acked-by: Puranjay Mohan &lt;puranjay@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Puranjay Mohan &lt;puranjay@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang &lt;leon.hwang@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260131144950.16294-2-leon.hwang@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf,x86: add fsession support for x86_64</title>
<updated>2026-01-25T02:49:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Menglong Dong</name>
<email>menglong8.dong@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-24T06:20:02+00:00</published>
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Add BPF_TRACE_FSESSION supporting to x86_64, including:

1. clear the return value in the stack before fentry to make the fentry
   of the fsession can only get 0 with bpf_get_func_ret().

2. clear all the session cookies' value in the stack.

2. store the index of the cookie to ctx[-1] before the calling to fsession

3. store the "is_return" flag to ctx[-1] before the calling to fexit of
   the fsession.

Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong &lt;dongml2@chinatelecom.cn&gt;
Co-developed-by: Leon Hwang &lt;leon.hwang@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang &lt;leon.hwang@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260124062008.8657-8-dongml2@chinatelecom.cn
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Add BPF_TRACE_FSESSION supporting to x86_64, including:

1. clear the return value in the stack before fentry to make the fentry
   of the fsession can only get 0 with bpf_get_func_ret().

2. clear all the session cookies' value in the stack.

2. store the index of the cookie to ctx[-1] before the calling to fsession

3. store the "is_return" flag to ctx[-1] before the calling to fexit of
   the fsession.

Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong &lt;dongml2@chinatelecom.cn&gt;
Co-developed-by: Leon Hwang &lt;leon.hwang@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Leon Hwang &lt;leon.hwang@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260124062008.8657-8-dongml2@chinatelecom.cn
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf,x86: introduce emit_store_stack_imm64() for trampoline</title>
<updated>2026-01-25T02:49:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Menglong Dong</name>
<email>menglong8.dong@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-24T06:20:01+00:00</published>
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Introduce the helper emit_store_stack_imm64(), which is used to store a
imm64 to the stack with the help of a register.

Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong &lt;dongml2@chinatelecom.cn&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260124062008.8657-7-dongml2@chinatelecom.cn
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Introduce the helper emit_store_stack_imm64(), which is used to store a
imm64 to the stack with the help of a register.

Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong &lt;dongml2@chinatelecom.cn&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260124062008.8657-7-dongml2@chinatelecom.cn
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86/bpf: Avoid emitting LOCK prefix for XCHG atomic ops</title>
<updated>2025-12-21T18:55:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Uros Bizjak</name>
<email>ubizjak@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-08T16:33:34+00:00</published>
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The x86 XCHG instruction is implicitly locked when one of the
operands is a memory location, making an explicit LOCK prefix
unnecessary.

Stop emitting the LOCK prefix for BPF_XCHG in the JIT atomic
read-modify-write helpers. This avoids redundant instruction
prefixes while preserving correct atomic semantics.

No functional change for other atomic operations.

Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251208163420.7643-1-ubizjak@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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The x86 XCHG instruction is implicitly locked when one of the
operands is a memory location, making an explicit LOCK prefix
unnecessary.

Stop emitting the LOCK prefix for BPF_XCHG in the JIT atomic
read-modify-write helpers. This avoids redundant instruction
prefixes while preserving correct atomic semantics.

No functional change for other atomic operations.

Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak &lt;ubizjak@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251208163420.7643-1-ubizjak@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Add bpf_has_frame_pointer()</title>
<updated>2025-12-10T07:29:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josh Poimboeuf</name>
<email>jpoimboe@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-04T03:32:15+00:00</published>
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Introduce a bpf_has_frame_pointer() helper that unwinders can call to
determine whether a given instruction pointer is within the valid frame
pointer region of a BPF JIT program or trampoline (i.e., after the
prologue, before the epilogue).

This will enable livepatch (with the ORC unwinder) to reliably unwind
through BPF JIT frames.

Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-and-tested-by: Andrey Grodzovsky &lt;andrey.grodzovsky@crowdstrike.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/fd2bc5b4e261a680774b28f6100509fd5ebad2f0.1764818927.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
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Introduce a bpf_has_frame_pointer() helper that unwinders can call to
determine whether a given instruction pointer is within the valid frame
pointer region of a BPF JIT program or trampoline (i.e., after the
prologue, before the epilogue).

This will enable livepatch (with the ORC unwinder) to reliably unwind
through BPF JIT frames.

Acked-by: Song Liu &lt;song@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-and-tested-by: Andrey Grodzovsky &lt;andrey.grodzovsky@crowdstrike.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/fd2bc5b4e261a680774b28f6100509fd5ebad2f0.1764818927.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: specify the old and new poke_type for bpf_arch_text_poke</title>
<updated>2025-11-24T17:47:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Menglong Dong</name>
<email>menglong8.dong@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-18T12:36:33+00:00</published>
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In the origin logic, the bpf_arch_text_poke() assume that the old and new
instructions have the same opcode. However, they can have different opcode
if we want to replace a "call" insn with a "jmp" insn.

Therefore, add the new function parameter "old_t" along with the "new_t",
which are used to indicate the old and new poke type. Meanwhile, adjust
the implement of bpf_arch_text_poke() for all the archs.

"BPF_MOD_NOP" is added to make the code more readable. In
bpf_arch_text_poke(), we still check if the new and old address is NULL to
determine if nop insn should be used, which I think is more safe.

Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong &lt;dongml2@chinatelecom.cn&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251118123639.688444-6-dongml2@chinatelecom.cn
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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In the origin logic, the bpf_arch_text_poke() assume that the old and new
instructions have the same opcode. However, they can have different opcode
if we want to replace a "call" insn with a "jmp" insn.

Therefore, add the new function parameter "old_t" along with the "new_t",
which are used to indicate the old and new poke type. Meanwhile, adjust
the implement of bpf_arch_text_poke() for all the archs.

"BPF_MOD_NOP" is added to make the code more readable. In
bpf_arch_text_poke(), we still check if the new and old address is NULL to
determine if nop insn should be used, which I think is more safe.

Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong &lt;dongml2@chinatelecom.cn&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251118123639.688444-6-dongml2@chinatelecom.cn
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf,x86: adjust the "jmp" mode for bpf trampoline</title>
<updated>2025-11-24T17:47:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Menglong Dong</name>
<email>menglong8.dong@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-18T12:36:32+00:00</published>
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In the origin call case, if BPF_TRAMP_F_SKIP_FRAME is not set, it means
that the trampoline is not called, but "jmp".

Introduce the function bpf_trampoline_use_jmp() to check if the trampoline
is in "jmp" mode.

Do some adjustment on the "jmp" mode for the x86_64. The main adjustment
that we make is for the stack parameter passing case, as the stack
alignment logic changes in the "jmp" mode without the "rip". What's more,
the location of the parameters on the stack also changes.

Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong &lt;dongml2@chinatelecom.cn&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251118123639.688444-5-dongml2@chinatelecom.cn
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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In the origin call case, if BPF_TRAMP_F_SKIP_FRAME is not set, it means
that the trampoline is not called, but "jmp".

Introduce the function bpf_trampoline_use_jmp() to check if the trampoline
is in "jmp" mode.

Do some adjustment on the "jmp" mode for the x86_64. The main adjustment
that we make is for the stack parameter passing case, as the stack
alignment logic changes in the "jmp" mode without the "rip". What's more,
the location of the parameters on the stack also changes.

Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong &lt;dongml2@chinatelecom.cn&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251118123639.688444-5-dongml2@chinatelecom.cn
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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