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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>drm/virtio: use uninterruptible resv lock for plane updates</title>
<updated>2026-05-20T15:12:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Deepanshu Kartikey</name>
<email>kartikey406@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-19T08:22:47+00:00</published>
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virtio_gpu_cursor_plane_update() and virtio_gpu_resource_flush() lock
the framebuffer BO's dma_resv via virtio_gpu_array_lock_resv() and
ignore its return value. The function can fail with -EINTR from
dma_resv_lock_interruptible() (signal during lock wait) or with
-ENOMEM from dma_resv_reserve_fences() (fence slot allocation),
leaving the resv lock not held. The queue path then walks the object
array and calls dma_resv_add_fence(), which requires the lock held;
with lockdep enabled this trips dma_resv_assert_held():

  WARNING: drivers/dma-buf/dma-resv.c:296 at dma_resv_add_fence+0x71e/0x840
  Call Trace:
   virtio_gpu_array_add_fence
   virtio_gpu_queue_ctrl_sgs
   virtio_gpu_queue_fenced_ctrl_buffer
   virtio_gpu_cursor_plane_update
   drm_atomic_helper_commit_planes
   drm_atomic_helper_commit_tail
   commit_tail
   drm_atomic_helper_commit
   drm_atomic_commit
   drm_atomic_helper_update_plane
   __setplane_atomic
   drm_mode_cursor_universal
   drm_mode_cursor_common
   drm_mode_cursor_ioctl
   drm_ioctl
   __x64_sys_ioctl

Beyond the WARN, mutating the dma_resv fence list without the lock
races with concurrent readers/writers and can corrupt the list.

Both call sites run inside the .atomic_update plane callback, which
DRM atomic helpers do not allow to fail (by the time it runs, the
commit has been signed off to userspace and there is no clean
rollback path). Moving the lock acquisition to .prepare_fb was
rejected because the broader lock scope deadlocks against other BO
locking paths in the same atomic commit.

Introduce virtio_gpu_lock_one_resv_uninterruptible() that uses
dma_resv_lock() instead of dma_resv_lock_interruptible(). This
eliminates the -EINTR failure mode -- the realistic syzbot trigger
-- without extending the lock hold across the commit. The helper
locks a single BO and rejects nents &gt; 1 with -EINVAL; both fix
sites lock exactly one BO.

Use it from virtio_gpu_cursor_plane_update() and
virtio_gpu_resource_flush(); check the return value to handle the
remaining -ENOMEM case from dma_resv_reserve_fences() by freeing
the objs and skipping the plane update for that frame. The
framebuffer BOs touched here are not shared with other contexts
and lock contention is expected to be brief, so the loss of
signal-interruptibility is acceptable.

Other callers of virtio_gpu_array_lock_resv() (the ioctl paths)
continue to use the interruptible variant.

The bug was reported by syzbot, triggered via fault injection
(fail_nth) on the DRM_IOCTL_MODE_CURSOR path, which forces the
-ENOMEM branch in dma_resv_reserve_fences().

Reported-by: syzbot+72bd3dd3a5d5f39a0271@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=72bd3dd3a5d5f39a0271
Fixes: 5cfd31c5b3a3 ("drm/virtio: fix virtio_gpu_cursor_plane_update().")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey &lt;kartikey406@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko &lt;dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260519082247.34470-1-kartikey406@gmail.com
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virtio_gpu_cursor_plane_update() and virtio_gpu_resource_flush() lock
the framebuffer BO's dma_resv via virtio_gpu_array_lock_resv() and
ignore its return value. The function can fail with -EINTR from
dma_resv_lock_interruptible() (signal during lock wait) or with
-ENOMEM from dma_resv_reserve_fences() (fence slot allocation),
leaving the resv lock not held. The queue path then walks the object
array and calls dma_resv_add_fence(), which requires the lock held;
with lockdep enabled this trips dma_resv_assert_held():

  WARNING: drivers/dma-buf/dma-resv.c:296 at dma_resv_add_fence+0x71e/0x840
  Call Trace:
   virtio_gpu_array_add_fence
   virtio_gpu_queue_ctrl_sgs
   virtio_gpu_queue_fenced_ctrl_buffer
   virtio_gpu_cursor_plane_update
   drm_atomic_helper_commit_planes
   drm_atomic_helper_commit_tail
   commit_tail
   drm_atomic_helper_commit
   drm_atomic_commit
   drm_atomic_helper_update_plane
   __setplane_atomic
   drm_mode_cursor_universal
   drm_mode_cursor_common
   drm_mode_cursor_ioctl
   drm_ioctl
   __x64_sys_ioctl

Beyond the WARN, mutating the dma_resv fence list without the lock
races with concurrent readers/writers and can corrupt the list.

Both call sites run inside the .atomic_update plane callback, which
DRM atomic helpers do not allow to fail (by the time it runs, the
commit has been signed off to userspace and there is no clean
rollback path). Moving the lock acquisition to .prepare_fb was
rejected because the broader lock scope deadlocks against other BO
locking paths in the same atomic commit.

Introduce virtio_gpu_lock_one_resv_uninterruptible() that uses
dma_resv_lock() instead of dma_resv_lock_interruptible(). This
eliminates the -EINTR failure mode -- the realistic syzbot trigger
-- without extending the lock hold across the commit. The helper
locks a single BO and rejects nents &gt; 1 with -EINVAL; both fix
sites lock exactly one BO.

Use it from virtio_gpu_cursor_plane_update() and
virtio_gpu_resource_flush(); check the return value to handle the
remaining -ENOMEM case from dma_resv_reserve_fences() by freeing
the objs and skipping the plane update for that frame. The
framebuffer BOs touched here are not shared with other contexts
and lock contention is expected to be brief, so the loss of
signal-interruptibility is acceptable.

Other callers of virtio_gpu_array_lock_resv() (the ioctl paths)
continue to use the interruptible variant.

The bug was reported by syzbot, triggered via fault injection
(fail_nth) on the DRM_IOCTL_MODE_CURSOR path, which forces the
-ENOMEM branch in dma_resv_reserve_fences().

Reported-by: syzbot+72bd3dd3a5d5f39a0271@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=72bd3dd3a5d5f39a0271
Fixes: 5cfd31c5b3a3 ("drm/virtio: fix virtio_gpu_cursor_plane_update().")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey &lt;kartikey406@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko &lt;dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260519082247.34470-1-kartikey406@gmail.com
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<entry>
<title>Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next</title>
<updated>2026-02-23T10:48:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maxime Ripard</name>
<email>mripard@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-23T10:48:20+00:00</published>
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Let's merge 7.0-rc1 to start the new drm-misc-next window

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard &lt;mripard@kernel.org&gt;
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Let's merge 7.0-rc1 to start the new drm-misc-next window

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard &lt;mripard@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00</published>
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This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines.  I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.

Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script.  I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.

So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.

The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines.  I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.

Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script.  I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.

So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.

The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_flex' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T01:06:51+00:00</published>
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This is the exact same thing as the 'alloc_obj()' version, only much
smaller because there are a lot fewer users of the *alloc_flex()
interface.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

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

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

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

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

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

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

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

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>drm/virtio: Allow importing prime buffers when 3D is enabled</title>
<updated>2026-02-11T23:30:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Val Packett</name>
<email>val@invisiblethingslab.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-10T15:39:23+00:00</published>
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This functionality was added for using a KMS-only virtgpu with a physical
(or SR-IOV) headless GPU in passthrough, but it should not be restricted
to KMS-only mode. It can be used with cross-domain to pass guest memfds
to the host compositor with zero copies (using udmabuf on both sides).

Drop the check for the absence of virgl_3d to allow for more use cases.

Fixes: ca77f27a2665 ("drm/virtio: Import prime buffers from other devices as guest blobs")
Signed-off-by: Val Packett &lt;val@invisiblethingslab.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Osipenko &lt;dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko &lt;dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251210154755.1119861-2-val@invisiblethingslab.com
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This functionality was added for using a KMS-only virtgpu with a physical
(or SR-IOV) headless GPU in passthrough, but it should not be restricted
to KMS-only mode. It can be used with cross-domain to pass guest memfds
to the host compositor with zero copies (using udmabuf on both sides).

Drop the check for the absence of virgl_3d to allow for more use cases.

Fixes: ca77f27a2665 ("drm/virtio: Import prime buffers from other devices as guest blobs")
Signed-off-by: Val Packett &lt;val@invisiblethingslab.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Osipenko &lt;dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko &lt;dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251210154755.1119861-2-val@invisiblethingslab.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dma-buf: Rename .move_notify() callback to a clearer identifier</title>
<updated>2026-01-27T09:43:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leon Romanovsky</name>
<email>leonro@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-24T19:14:13+00:00</published>
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Rename the .move_notify() callback to .invalidate_mappings() to make its
purpose explicit and highlight that it is responsible for invalidating
existing mappings.

Suggested-by: Christian König &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christian König &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260124-dmabuf-revoke-v5-1-f98fca917e96@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Christian König &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
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Rename the .move_notify() callback to .invalidate_mappings() to make its
purpose explicit and highlight that it is responsible for invalidating
existing mappings.

Suggested-by: Christian König &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christian König &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260124-dmabuf-revoke-v5-1-f98fca917e96@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Christian König &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>drm: include drm_print.h where needed</title>
<updated>2025-10-31T08:34:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jani Nikula</name>
<email>jani.nikula@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-29T10:39:45+00:00</published>
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There are a gazillion files that depend on drm_print.h being indirectly
included via drm_buddy.h, drm_mm.h, or ttm/ttm_resource.h. In
preparation for removing those includes, explicitly include drm_print.h
where needed.

Cc: Thomas Zimmermann &lt;tzimmermann@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann &lt;tzimmermann@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5fe67395907be33eb5199ea6d540e29fddee71c8.1761734313.git.jani.nikula@intel.com
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There are a gazillion files that depend on drm_print.h being indirectly
included via drm_buddy.h, drm_mm.h, or ttm/ttm_resource.h. In
preparation for removing those includes, explicitly include drm_print.h
where needed.

Cc: Thomas Zimmermann &lt;tzimmermann@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann &lt;tzimmermann@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5fe67395907be33eb5199ea6d540e29fddee71c8.1761734313.git.jani.nikula@intel.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>drm/virtgpu: Use vblank timer</title>
<updated>2025-10-09T03:07:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Zimmermann</name>
<email>tzimmermann@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-08T13:06:51+00:00</published>
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Use a vblank timer to simulate the vblank interrupt. The DRM vblank
helpers provide an implementation on top of Linux' hrtimer. Virtgpu
enables and disables the timer as part of the CRTC. The atomic_flush
callback sets up the event. Like vblank interrupts, the vblank timer
fires at the rate of the display refresh.

Most userspace limits its page flip rate according to the DRM vblank
event. Virtgpu's virtual hardware does not provide vblank interrupts, so
DRM sends each event ASAP. With the fast access times of virtual display
memory, the event rate is much higher than the display mode's refresh
rate; creating the next page flip almost immediately. This leads to
excessive CPU overhead from even small display updates, such as moving
the mouse pointer.

This problem affects virtgpu and all other virtual displays. See [1] for
a discussion in the context of hypervdrm.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann &lt;tzimmermann@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/SN6PR02MB415702B00D6D52B0EE962C98D46CA@SN6PR02MB4157.namprd02.prod.outlook.com/ # [1]
Acked-by: Gerd Hoffmann &lt;kraxel@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Osipenko &lt;dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dmitry Osipenko &lt;dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko &lt;dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251008130701.246988-1-tzimmermann@suse.de
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Use a vblank timer to simulate the vblank interrupt. The DRM vblank
helpers provide an implementation on top of Linux' hrtimer. Virtgpu
enables and disables the timer as part of the CRTC. The atomic_flush
callback sets up the event. Like vblank interrupts, the vblank timer
fires at the rate of the display refresh.

Most userspace limits its page flip rate according to the DRM vblank
event. Virtgpu's virtual hardware does not provide vblank interrupts, so
DRM sends each event ASAP. With the fast access times of virtual display
memory, the event rate is much higher than the display mode's refresh
rate; creating the next page flip almost immediately. This leads to
excessive CPU overhead from even small display updates, such as moving
the mouse pointer.

This problem affects virtgpu and all other virtual displays. See [1] for
a discussion in the context of hypervdrm.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann &lt;tzimmermann@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/SN6PR02MB415702B00D6D52B0EE962C98D46CA@SN6PR02MB4157.namprd02.prod.outlook.com/ # [1]
Acked-by: Gerd Hoffmann &lt;kraxel@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Osipenko &lt;dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dmitry Osipenko &lt;dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko &lt;dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251008130701.246988-1-tzimmermann@suse.de
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