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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/md, branch v6.7-rc1</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-11-01-14-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2023-11-03T05:38:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-03T05:38:47+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are
  included in this merge do the following:

   - Kemeng Shi has contributed some compation maintenance work in the
     series 'Fixes and cleanups to compaction'

   - Joel Fernandes has a patchset ('Optimize mremap during mutual
     alignment within PMD') which fixes an obscure issue with mremap()'s
     pagetable handling during a subsequent exec(), based upon an
     implementation which Linus suggested

   - More DAMON/DAMOS maintenance and feature work from SeongJae Park i
     the following patch series:

	mm/damon: misc fixups for documents, comments and its tracepoint
	mm/damon: add a tracepoint for damos apply target regions
	mm/damon: provide pseudo-moving sum based access rate
	mm/damon: implement DAMOS apply intervals
	mm/damon/core-test: Fix memory leaks in core-test
	mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: Do DAMOS tried regions update for only one apply interval

   - In the series 'Do not try to access unaccepted memory' Adrian
     Hunter provides some fixups for the recently-added 'unaccepted
     memory' feature. To increase the feature's checking coverage. 'Plug
     a few gaps where RAM is exposed without checking if it is
     unaccepted memory'

   - In the series 'cleanups for lockless slab shrink' Qi Zheng has done
     some maintenance work which is preparation for the lockless slab
     shrinking code

   - Qi Zheng has redone the earlier (and reverted) attempt to make slab
     shrinking lockless in the series 'use refcount+RCU method to
     implement lockless slab shrink'

   - David Hildenbrand contributes some maintenance work for the rmap
     code in the series 'Anon rmap cleanups'

   - Kefeng Wang does more folio conversions and some maintenance work
     in the migration code. Series 'mm: migrate: more folio conversion
     and unification'

   - Matthew Wilcox has fixed an issue in the buffer_head code which was
     causing long stalls under some heavy memory/IO loads. Some cleanups
     were added on the way. Series 'Add and use bdev_getblk()'

   - In the series 'Use nth_page() in place of direct struct page
     manipulation' Zi Yan has fixed a potential issue with the direct
     manipulation of hugetlb page frames

   - In the series 'mm: hugetlb: Skip initialization of gigantic tail
     struct pages if freed by HVO' has improved our handling of gigantic
     pages in the hugetlb vmmemmep optimizaton code. This provides
     significant boot time improvements when significant amounts of
     gigantic pages are in use

   - Matthew Wilcox has sent the series 'Small hugetlb cleanups' - code
     rationalization and folio conversions in the hugetlb code

   - Yin Fengwei has improved mlock()'s handling of large folios in the
     series 'support large folio for mlock'

   - In the series 'Expose swapcache stat for memcg v1' Liu Shixin has
     added statistics for memcg v1 users which are available (and
     useful) under memcg v2

   - Florent Revest has enhanced the MDWE (Memory-Deny-Write-Executable)
     prctl so that userspace may direct the kernel to not automatically
     propagate the denial to child processes. The series is named 'MDWE
     without inheritance'

   - Kefeng Wang has provided the series 'mm: convert numa balancing
     functions to use a folio' which does what it says

   - In the series 'mm/ksm: add fork-exec support for prctl' Stefan
     Roesch makes is possible for a process to propagate KSM treatment
     across exec()

   - Huang Ying has enhanced memory tiering's calculation of memory
     distances. This is used to permit the dax/kmem driver to use 'high
     bandwidth memory' in addition to Optane Data Center Persistent
     Memory Modules (DCPMM). The series is named 'memory tiering:
     calculate abstract distance based on ACPI HMAT'

   - In the series 'Smart scanning mode for KSM' Stefan Roesch has
     optimized KSM by teaching it to retain and use some historical
     information from previous scans

   - Yosry Ahmed has fixed some inconsistencies in memcg statistics in
     the series 'mm: memcg: fix tracking of pending stats updates
     values'

   - In the series 'Implement IOCTL to get and optionally clear info
     about PTEs' Peter Xu has added an ioctl to /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/pagemap
     which permits us to atomically read-then-clear page softdirty
     state. This is mainly used by CRIU

   - Hugh Dickins contributed the series 'shmem,tmpfs: general
     maintenance', a bunch of relatively minor maintenance tweaks to
     this code

   - Matthew Wilcox has increased the use of the VMA lock over
     file-backed page faults in the series 'Handle more faults under the
     VMA lock'. Some rationalizations of the fault path became possible
     as a result

   - In the series 'mm/rmap: convert page_move_anon_rmap() to
     folio_move_anon_rmap()' David Hildenbrand has implemented some
     cleanups and folio conversions

   - In the series 'various improvements to the GUP interface' Lorenzo
     Stoakes has simplified and improved the GUP interface with an eye
     to providing groundwork for future improvements

   - Andrey Konovalov has sent along the series 'kasan: assorted fixes
     and improvements' which does those things

   - Some page allocator maintenance work from Kemeng Shi in the series
     'Two minor cleanups to break_down_buddy_pages'

   - In thes series 'New selftest for mm' Breno Leitao has developed
     another MM self test which tickles a race we had between madvise()
     and page faults

   - In the series 'Add folio_end_read' Matthew Wilcox provides cleanups
     and an optimization to the core pagecache code

   - Nhat Pham has added memcg accounting for hugetlb memory in the
     series 'hugetlb memcg accounting'

   - Cleanups and rationalizations to the pagemap code from Lorenzo
     Stoakes, in the series 'Abstract vma_merge() and split_vma()'

   - Audra Mitchell has fixed issues in the procfs page_owner code's new
     timestamping feature which was causing some misbehaviours. In the
     series 'Fix page_owner's use of free timestamps'

   - Lorenzo Stoakes has fixed the handling of new mappings of sealed
     files in the series 'permit write-sealed memfd read-only shared
     mappings'

   - Mike Kravetz has optimized the hugetlb vmemmap optimization in the
     series 'Batch hugetlb vmemmap modification operations'

   - Some buffer_head folio conversions and cleanups from Matthew Wilcox
     in the series 'Finish the create_empty_buffers() transition'

   - As a page allocator performance optimization Huang Ying has added
     automatic tuning to the allocator's per-cpu-pages feature, in the
     series 'mm: PCP high auto-tuning'

   - Roman Gushchin has contributed the patchset 'mm: improve
     performance of accounted kernel memory allocations' which improves
     their performance by ~30% as measured by a micro-benchmark

   - folio conversions from Kefeng Wang in the series 'mm: convert page
     cpupid functions to folios'

   - Some kmemleak fixups in Liu Shixin's series 'Some bugfix about
     kmemleak'

   - Qi Zheng has improved our handling of memoryless nodes by keeping
     them off the allocation fallback list. This is done in the series
     'handle memoryless nodes more appropriately'

   - khugepaged conversions from Vishal Moola in the series 'Some
     khugepaged folio conversions'"

[ bcachefs conflicts with the dynamically allocated shrinkers have been
  resolved as per Stephen Rothwell in

     https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230913093553.4290421e@canb.auug.org.au/

  with help from Qi Zheng.

  The clone3 test filtering conflict was half-arsed by yours truly ]

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-11-01-14-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (406 commits)
  mm/damon/sysfs: update monitoring target regions for online input commit
  mm/damon/sysfs: remove requested targets when online-commit inputs
  selftests: add a sanity check for zswap
  Documentation: maple_tree: fix word spelling error
  mm/vmalloc: fix the unchecked dereference warning in vread_iter()
  zswap: export compression failure stats
  Documentation: ubsan: drop "the" from article title
  mempolicy: migration attempt to match interleave nodes
  mempolicy: mmap_lock is not needed while migrating folios
  mempolicy: alloc_pages_mpol() for NUMA policy without vma
  mm: add page_rmappable_folio() wrapper
  mempolicy: remove confusing MPOL_MF_LAZY dead code
  mempolicy: mpol_shared_policy_init() without pseudo-vma
  mempolicy trivia: use pgoff_t in shared mempolicy tree
  mempolicy trivia: slightly more consistent naming
  mempolicy trivia: delete those ancient pr_debug()s
  mempolicy: fix migrate_pages(2) syscall return nr_failed
  kernfs: drop shared NUMA mempolicy hooks
  hugetlbfs: drop shared NUMA mempolicy pretence
  mm/damon/sysfs-test: add a unit test for damon_sysfs_set_targets()
  ...
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<pre>
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are
  included in this merge do the following:

   - Kemeng Shi has contributed some compation maintenance work in the
     series 'Fixes and cleanups to compaction'

   - Joel Fernandes has a patchset ('Optimize mremap during mutual
     alignment within PMD') which fixes an obscure issue with mremap()'s
     pagetable handling during a subsequent exec(), based upon an
     implementation which Linus suggested

   - More DAMON/DAMOS maintenance and feature work from SeongJae Park i
     the following patch series:

	mm/damon: misc fixups for documents, comments and its tracepoint
	mm/damon: add a tracepoint for damos apply target regions
	mm/damon: provide pseudo-moving sum based access rate
	mm/damon: implement DAMOS apply intervals
	mm/damon/core-test: Fix memory leaks in core-test
	mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: Do DAMOS tried regions update for only one apply interval

   - In the series 'Do not try to access unaccepted memory' Adrian
     Hunter provides some fixups for the recently-added 'unaccepted
     memory' feature. To increase the feature's checking coverage. 'Plug
     a few gaps where RAM is exposed without checking if it is
     unaccepted memory'

   - In the series 'cleanups for lockless slab shrink' Qi Zheng has done
     some maintenance work which is preparation for the lockless slab
     shrinking code

   - Qi Zheng has redone the earlier (and reverted) attempt to make slab
     shrinking lockless in the series 'use refcount+RCU method to
     implement lockless slab shrink'

   - David Hildenbrand contributes some maintenance work for the rmap
     code in the series 'Anon rmap cleanups'

   - Kefeng Wang does more folio conversions and some maintenance work
     in the migration code. Series 'mm: migrate: more folio conversion
     and unification'

   - Matthew Wilcox has fixed an issue in the buffer_head code which was
     causing long stalls under some heavy memory/IO loads. Some cleanups
     were added on the way. Series 'Add and use bdev_getblk()'

   - In the series 'Use nth_page() in place of direct struct page
     manipulation' Zi Yan has fixed a potential issue with the direct
     manipulation of hugetlb page frames

   - In the series 'mm: hugetlb: Skip initialization of gigantic tail
     struct pages if freed by HVO' has improved our handling of gigantic
     pages in the hugetlb vmmemmep optimizaton code. This provides
     significant boot time improvements when significant amounts of
     gigantic pages are in use

   - Matthew Wilcox has sent the series 'Small hugetlb cleanups' - code
     rationalization and folio conversions in the hugetlb code

   - Yin Fengwei has improved mlock()'s handling of large folios in the
     series 'support large folio for mlock'

   - In the series 'Expose swapcache stat for memcg v1' Liu Shixin has
     added statistics for memcg v1 users which are available (and
     useful) under memcg v2

   - Florent Revest has enhanced the MDWE (Memory-Deny-Write-Executable)
     prctl so that userspace may direct the kernel to not automatically
     propagate the denial to child processes. The series is named 'MDWE
     without inheritance'

   - Kefeng Wang has provided the series 'mm: convert numa balancing
     functions to use a folio' which does what it says

   - In the series 'mm/ksm: add fork-exec support for prctl' Stefan
     Roesch makes is possible for a process to propagate KSM treatment
     across exec()

   - Huang Ying has enhanced memory tiering's calculation of memory
     distances. This is used to permit the dax/kmem driver to use 'high
     bandwidth memory' in addition to Optane Data Center Persistent
     Memory Modules (DCPMM). The series is named 'memory tiering:
     calculate abstract distance based on ACPI HMAT'

   - In the series 'Smart scanning mode for KSM' Stefan Roesch has
     optimized KSM by teaching it to retain and use some historical
     information from previous scans

   - Yosry Ahmed has fixed some inconsistencies in memcg statistics in
     the series 'mm: memcg: fix tracking of pending stats updates
     values'

   - In the series 'Implement IOCTL to get and optionally clear info
     about PTEs' Peter Xu has added an ioctl to /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/pagemap
     which permits us to atomically read-then-clear page softdirty
     state. This is mainly used by CRIU

   - Hugh Dickins contributed the series 'shmem,tmpfs: general
     maintenance', a bunch of relatively minor maintenance tweaks to
     this code

   - Matthew Wilcox has increased the use of the VMA lock over
     file-backed page faults in the series 'Handle more faults under the
     VMA lock'. Some rationalizations of the fault path became possible
     as a result

   - In the series 'mm/rmap: convert page_move_anon_rmap() to
     folio_move_anon_rmap()' David Hildenbrand has implemented some
     cleanups and folio conversions

   - In the series 'various improvements to the GUP interface' Lorenzo
     Stoakes has simplified and improved the GUP interface with an eye
     to providing groundwork for future improvements

   - Andrey Konovalov has sent along the series 'kasan: assorted fixes
     and improvements' which does those things

   - Some page allocator maintenance work from Kemeng Shi in the series
     'Two minor cleanups to break_down_buddy_pages'

   - In thes series 'New selftest for mm' Breno Leitao has developed
     another MM self test which tickles a race we had between madvise()
     and page faults

   - In the series 'Add folio_end_read' Matthew Wilcox provides cleanups
     and an optimization to the core pagecache code

   - Nhat Pham has added memcg accounting for hugetlb memory in the
     series 'hugetlb memcg accounting'

   - Cleanups and rationalizations to the pagemap code from Lorenzo
     Stoakes, in the series 'Abstract vma_merge() and split_vma()'

   - Audra Mitchell has fixed issues in the procfs page_owner code's new
     timestamping feature which was causing some misbehaviours. In the
     series 'Fix page_owner's use of free timestamps'

   - Lorenzo Stoakes has fixed the handling of new mappings of sealed
     files in the series 'permit write-sealed memfd read-only shared
     mappings'

   - Mike Kravetz has optimized the hugetlb vmemmap optimization in the
     series 'Batch hugetlb vmemmap modification operations'

   - Some buffer_head folio conversions and cleanups from Matthew Wilcox
     in the series 'Finish the create_empty_buffers() transition'

   - As a page allocator performance optimization Huang Ying has added
     automatic tuning to the allocator's per-cpu-pages feature, in the
     series 'mm: PCP high auto-tuning'

   - Roman Gushchin has contributed the patchset 'mm: improve
     performance of accounted kernel memory allocations' which improves
     their performance by ~30% as measured by a micro-benchmark

   - folio conversions from Kefeng Wang in the series 'mm: convert page
     cpupid functions to folios'

   - Some kmemleak fixups in Liu Shixin's series 'Some bugfix about
     kmemleak'

   - Qi Zheng has improved our handling of memoryless nodes by keeping
     them off the allocation fallback list. This is done in the series
     'handle memoryless nodes more appropriately'

   - khugepaged conversions from Vishal Moola in the series 'Some
     khugepaged folio conversions'"

[ bcachefs conflicts with the dynamically allocated shrinkers have been
  resolved as per Stephen Rothwell in

     https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230913093553.4290421e@canb.auug.org.au/

  with help from Qi Zheng.

  The clone3 test filtering conflict was half-arsed by yours truly ]

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-11-01-14-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (406 commits)
  mm/damon/sysfs: update monitoring target regions for online input commit
  mm/damon/sysfs: remove requested targets when online-commit inputs
  selftests: add a sanity check for zswap
  Documentation: maple_tree: fix word spelling error
  mm/vmalloc: fix the unchecked dereference warning in vread_iter()
  zswap: export compression failure stats
  Documentation: ubsan: drop "the" from article title
  mempolicy: migration attempt to match interleave nodes
  mempolicy: mmap_lock is not needed while migrating folios
  mempolicy: alloc_pages_mpol() for NUMA policy without vma
  mm: add page_rmappable_folio() wrapper
  mempolicy: remove confusing MPOL_MF_LAZY dead code
  mempolicy: mpol_shared_policy_init() without pseudo-vma
  mempolicy trivia: use pgoff_t in shared mempolicy tree
  mempolicy trivia: slightly more consistent naming
  mempolicy trivia: delete those ancient pr_debug()s
  mempolicy: fix migrate_pages(2) syscall return nr_failed
  kernfs: drop shared NUMA mempolicy hooks
  hugetlbfs: drop shared NUMA mempolicy pretence
  mm/damon/sysfs-test: add a unit test for damon_sysfs_set_targets()
  ...
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sysctl-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux</title>
<updated>2023-11-02T06:51:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-02T06:51:41+00:00</published>
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Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "To help make the move of sysctls out of kernel/sysctl.c not incur a
  size penalty sysctl has been changed to allow us to not require the
  sentinel, the final empty element on the sysctl array. Joel Granados
  has been doing all this work. On the v6.6 kernel we got the major
  infrastructure changes required to support this. For v6.7-rc1 we have
  all arch/ and drivers/ modified to remove the sentinel. Both arch and
  driver changes have been on linux-next for a bit less than a month. It
  is worth re-iterating the value:

   - this helps reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run
     time memory consumed by the kernel by about ~64 bytes per array

   - the extra 64-byte penalty is no longer inncurred now when we move
     sysctls out from kernel/sysctl.c to their own files

  For v6.8-rc1 expect removal of all the sentinels and also then the
  unneeded check for procname == NULL.

  The last two patches are fixes recently merged by Krister Johansen
  which allow us again to use softlockup_panic early on boot. This used
  to work but the alias work broke it. This is useful for folks who want
  to detect softlockups super early rather than wait and spend money on
  cloud solutions with nothing but an eventual hung kernel. Although
  this hadn't gone through linux-next it's also a stable fix, so we
  might as well roll through the fixes now"

* tag 'sysctl-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (23 commits)
  watchdog: move softlockup_panic back to early_param
  proc: sysctl: prevent aliased sysctls from getting passed to init
  intel drm: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  Drivers: hv: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  raid: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  fw loader: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  sgi-xp: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  vrf: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  char-misc: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  infiniband: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  macintosh: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  parport: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  scsi: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  tty: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  xen: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  hpet: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  c-sky: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_talbe array
  powerpc: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table arrays
  riscv: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  x86/vdso: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  ...
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<pre>
Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "To help make the move of sysctls out of kernel/sysctl.c not incur a
  size penalty sysctl has been changed to allow us to not require the
  sentinel, the final empty element on the sysctl array. Joel Granados
  has been doing all this work. On the v6.6 kernel we got the major
  infrastructure changes required to support this. For v6.7-rc1 we have
  all arch/ and drivers/ modified to remove the sentinel. Both arch and
  driver changes have been on linux-next for a bit less than a month. It
  is worth re-iterating the value:

   - this helps reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run
     time memory consumed by the kernel by about ~64 bytes per array

   - the extra 64-byte penalty is no longer inncurred now when we move
     sysctls out from kernel/sysctl.c to their own files

  For v6.8-rc1 expect removal of all the sentinels and also then the
  unneeded check for procname == NULL.

  The last two patches are fixes recently merged by Krister Johansen
  which allow us again to use softlockup_panic early on boot. This used
  to work but the alias work broke it. This is useful for folks who want
  to detect softlockups super early rather than wait and spend money on
  cloud solutions with nothing but an eventual hung kernel. Although
  this hadn't gone through linux-next it's also a stable fix, so we
  might as well roll through the fixes now"

* tag 'sysctl-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (23 commits)
  watchdog: move softlockup_panic back to early_param
  proc: sysctl: prevent aliased sysctls from getting passed to init
  intel drm: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  Drivers: hv: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  raid: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  fw loader: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  sgi-xp: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  vrf: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  char-misc: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  infiniband: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  macintosh: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  parport: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  scsi: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  tty: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  xen: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  hpet: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  c-sky: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_talbe array
  powerpc: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table arrays
  riscv: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  x86/vdso: Remove now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-6.7/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm</title>
<updated>2023-11-01T22:55:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-01T22:55:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=0364249d2073c32c5214f02866999ce940bc35a2'/>
<id>0364249d2073c32c5214f02866999ce940bc35a2</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:

 - Update DM core to directly call the map function for both the linear
   and stripe targets; which are provided by DM core

 - Various updates to use new safer string functions

 - Update DM core to respect REQ_NOWAIT flag in normal bios so that
   memory allocations are always attempted with GFP_NOWAIT

 - Add Mikulas Patocka to MAINTAINERS as a DM maintainer!

 - Improve DM delay target's handling of short delays (&lt; 50ms) by using
   a kthread to check expiration of IOs rather than timers and a wq

 - Update the DM error target so that it works with zoned storage. This
   helps xfstests to provide proper IO error handling coverage when
   testing a filesystem with native zoned storage support

 - Update both DM crypt and integrity targets to improve performance by
   using crypto_shash_digest() rather than init+update+final sequence

 - Fix DM crypt target by backfilling missing memory allocation
   accounting for compound pages

* tag 'for-6.7/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
  dm crypt: account large pages in cc-&gt;n_allocated_pages
  dm integrity: use crypto_shash_digest() in sb_mac()
  dm crypt: use crypto_shash_digest() in crypt_iv_tcw_whitening()
  dm error: Add support for zoned block devices
  dm delay: for short delays, use kthread instead of timers and wq
  MAINTAINERS: add Mikulas Patocka as a DM maintainer
  dm: respect REQ_NOWAIT flag in normal bios issued to DM
  dm: enhance alloc_multiple_bios() to be more versatile
  dm: make __send_duplicate_bios return unsigned int
  dm log userspace: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy
  dm ioctl: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy_pad
  dm crypt: replace open-coded kmemdup_nul
  dm cache metadata: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy
  dm: shortcut the calls to linear_map and stripe_map
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Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:

 - Update DM core to directly call the map function for both the linear
   and stripe targets; which are provided by DM core

 - Various updates to use new safer string functions

 - Update DM core to respect REQ_NOWAIT flag in normal bios so that
   memory allocations are always attempted with GFP_NOWAIT

 - Add Mikulas Patocka to MAINTAINERS as a DM maintainer!

 - Improve DM delay target's handling of short delays (&lt; 50ms) by using
   a kthread to check expiration of IOs rather than timers and a wq

 - Update the DM error target so that it works with zoned storage. This
   helps xfstests to provide proper IO error handling coverage when
   testing a filesystem with native zoned storage support

 - Update both DM crypt and integrity targets to improve performance by
   using crypto_shash_digest() rather than init+update+final sequence

 - Fix DM crypt target by backfilling missing memory allocation
   accounting for compound pages

* tag 'for-6.7/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
  dm crypt: account large pages in cc-&gt;n_allocated_pages
  dm integrity: use crypto_shash_digest() in sb_mac()
  dm crypt: use crypto_shash_digest() in crypt_iv_tcw_whitening()
  dm error: Add support for zoned block devices
  dm delay: for short delays, use kthread instead of timers and wq
  MAINTAINERS: add Mikulas Patocka as a DM maintainer
  dm: respect REQ_NOWAIT flag in normal bios issued to DM
  dm: enhance alloc_multiple_bios() to be more versatile
  dm: make __send_duplicate_bios return unsigned int
  dm log userspace: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy
  dm ioctl: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy_pad
  dm crypt: replace open-coded kmemdup_nul
  dm cache metadata: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy
  dm: shortcut the calls to linear_map and stripe_map
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-6.7/block-2023-10-30' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux</title>
<updated>2023-11-01T22:30:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-01T22:30:07+00:00</published>
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Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - Improvements to the queue_rqs() support, and adding null_blk support
   for that as well (Chengming)

 - Series improving badblocks support (Coly)

 - Key store support for sed-opal (Greg)

 - IBM partition string handling improvements (Jan)

 - Make number of ublk devices supported configurable (Mike)

 - Cancelation improvements for ublk (Ming)

 - MD pull requests via Song:
     - Handle timeout in md-cluster, by Denis Plotnikov
     - Cleanup pers-&gt;prepare_suspend, by Yu Kuai
     - Rewrite mddev_suspend(), by Yu Kuai
     - Simplify md_seq_ops, by Yu Kuai
     - Reduce unnecessary locking array_state_store(), by Mariusz
       Tkaczyk
     - Make rdev add/remove independent from daemon thread, by Yu Kuai
     - Refactor code around quiesce() and mddev_suspend(), by Yu Kuai

 - NVMe pull request via Keith:
     - nvme-auth updates (Mark)
     - nvme-tcp tls (Hannes)
     - nvme-fc annotaions (Kees)

 - Misc cleanups and improvements (Jiapeng, Joel)

* tag 'for-6.7/block-2023-10-30' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux: (95 commits)
  block: ublk_drv: Remove unused function
  md: cleanup pers-&gt;prepare_suspend()
  nvme-auth: allow mixing of secret and hash lengths
  nvme-auth: use transformed key size to create resp
  nvme-auth: alloc nvme_dhchap_key as single buffer
  nvmet-tcp: use 'spin_lock_bh' for state_lock()
  powerpc/pseries: PLPKS SED Opal keystore support
  block: sed-opal: keystore access for SED Opal keys
  block:sed-opal: SED Opal keystore
  ublk: simplify aborting request
  ublk: replace monitor with cancelable uring_cmd
  ublk: quiesce request queue when aborting queue
  ublk: rename mm_lock as lock
  ublk: move ublk_cancel_dev() out of ub-&gt;mutex
  ublk: make sure io cmd handled in submitter task context
  ublk: don't get ublk device reference in ublk_abort_queue()
  ublk: Make ublks_max configurable
  ublk: Limit dev_id/ub_number values
  md-cluster: check for timeout while a new disk adding
  nvme: rework NVME_AUTH Kconfig selection
  ...
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<pre>
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - Improvements to the queue_rqs() support, and adding null_blk support
   for that as well (Chengming)

 - Series improving badblocks support (Coly)

 - Key store support for sed-opal (Greg)

 - IBM partition string handling improvements (Jan)

 - Make number of ublk devices supported configurable (Mike)

 - Cancelation improvements for ublk (Ming)

 - MD pull requests via Song:
     - Handle timeout in md-cluster, by Denis Plotnikov
     - Cleanup pers-&gt;prepare_suspend, by Yu Kuai
     - Rewrite mddev_suspend(), by Yu Kuai
     - Simplify md_seq_ops, by Yu Kuai
     - Reduce unnecessary locking array_state_store(), by Mariusz
       Tkaczyk
     - Make rdev add/remove independent from daemon thread, by Yu Kuai
     - Refactor code around quiesce() and mddev_suspend(), by Yu Kuai

 - NVMe pull request via Keith:
     - nvme-auth updates (Mark)
     - nvme-tcp tls (Hannes)
     - nvme-fc annotaions (Kees)

 - Misc cleanups and improvements (Jiapeng, Joel)

* tag 'for-6.7/block-2023-10-30' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux: (95 commits)
  block: ublk_drv: Remove unused function
  md: cleanup pers-&gt;prepare_suspend()
  nvme-auth: allow mixing of secret and hash lengths
  nvme-auth: use transformed key size to create resp
  nvme-auth: alloc nvme_dhchap_key as single buffer
  nvmet-tcp: use 'spin_lock_bh' for state_lock()
  powerpc/pseries: PLPKS SED Opal keystore support
  block: sed-opal: keystore access for SED Opal keys
  block:sed-opal: SED Opal keystore
  ublk: simplify aborting request
  ublk: replace monitor with cancelable uring_cmd
  ublk: quiesce request queue when aborting queue
  ublk: rename mm_lock as lock
  ublk: move ublk_cancel_dev() out of ub-&gt;mutex
  ublk: make sure io cmd handled in submitter task context
  ublk: don't get ublk device reference in ublk_abort_queue()
  ublk: Make ublks_max configurable
  ublk: Limit dev_id/ub_number values
  md-cluster: check for timeout while a new disk adding
  nvme: rework NVME_AUTH Kconfig selection
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm crypt: account large pages in cc-&gt;n_allocated_pages</title>
<updated>2023-10-31T18:25:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mikulas Patocka</name>
<email>mpatocka@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-31T18:12:54+00:00</published>
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The commit 5054e778fcd9c ("dm crypt: allocate compound pages if
possible") changed dm-crypt to use compound pages to improve
performance. Unfortunately, there was an oversight: the allocation of
compound pages was not accounted at all. Normal pages are accounted in
a percpu counter cc-&gt;n_allocated_pages and dm-crypt is limited to
allocate at most 2% of memory. Because compound pages were not
accounted at all, dm-crypt could allocate memory over the 2% limit.

Fix this by adding the accounting of compound pages, so that memory
consumption of dm-crypt is properly limited.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: 5054e778fcd9c ("dm crypt: allocate compound pages if possible")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org	# v6.5+
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
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The commit 5054e778fcd9c ("dm crypt: allocate compound pages if
possible") changed dm-crypt to use compound pages to improve
performance. Unfortunately, there was an oversight: the allocation of
compound pages was not accounted at all. Normal pages are accounted in
a percpu counter cc-&gt;n_allocated_pages and dm-crypt is limited to
allocate at most 2% of memory. Because compound pages were not
accounted at all, dm-crypt could allocate memory over the 2% limit.

Fix this by adding the accounting of compound pages, so that memory
consumption of dm-crypt is properly limited.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: 5054e778fcd9c ("dm crypt: allocate compound pages if possible")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org	# v6.5+
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm integrity: use crypto_shash_digest() in sb_mac()</title>
<updated>2023-10-31T15:06:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-29T04:59:44+00:00</published>
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Simplify sb_mac() by using crypto_shash_digest() instead of an
init+update+final sequence.  This should also improve performance.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Simplify sb_mac() by using crypto_shash_digest() instead of an
init+update+final sequence.  This should also improve performance.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm crypt: use crypto_shash_digest() in crypt_iv_tcw_whitening()</title>
<updated>2023-10-31T15:06:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-29T04:59:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=6d0ee3b68092ef556703d7827ead3d1b7d275399'/>
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<content type='text'>
Simplify crypt_iv_tcw_whitening() by using crypto_shash_digest() instead
of an init+update+final sequence.  This should also improve performance.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Simplify crypt_iv_tcw_whitening() by using crypto_shash_digest() instead
of an init+update+final sequence.  This should also improve performance.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm error: Add support for zoned block devices</title>
<updated>2023-10-31T15:06:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Damien Le Moal</name>
<email>dlemoal@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-26T05:12:05+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
dm-error is used in several test cases in the xfstests test suite to
check the handling of IO errors in file systems. However, with several
file systems getting native support for zoned block devices (e.g.
btrfs and f2fs), dm-error's lack of zoned block device support creates
problems as the file system attempts executing zone commands (e.g. a
zone append operation) against a dm-error non-zoned block device,
which causes various issues in the block layer (e.g. WARN_ON
triggers).

This commit adds supports for zoned block devices to dm-error, allowing
a DM device table containing an error target to be exposed as a zoned
block device (if all targets have a compatible zoned model support and
mapping). This is done as follows:
1) Allow passing 2 arguments to an error target, similar to dm-linear:
   a backing device and a start sector. These arguments are optional and
   dm-error retains its characteristics if the arguments are not
   specified.
2) Implement the iterate_devices method so that dm-core can normally
   check the zone support and restrictions (e.g. zone alignment of the
   targets). When the backing device arguments are not specified, the
   iterate_devices method never calls the fn() argument.
When no backing device is specified, as before, we assume that the DM
device is not zoned. When the backing device arguments are specified,
the zoned model of the DM device will depend on the backing device
type:
 - If the backing device is zoned and its model and mapping is
   compatible with other targets of the device, the resulting device
   will be zoned, with the dm-error mapped portion always returning
   errors (similar to the default non-zoned case).
 - If the backing device is not zoned, then the DM device will not be
   either.

This zone support for dm-error requires the definition of a functional
report_zones operation so that dm_revalidate_zones() can operate
correctly and resources for emulating zone append operations
initialized. This is necessary for cases where dm-error is used to
partially map a device and have an overall correct handling of zone
append. This means that dm-error does not fail report zones operations.

Two changes that are not obvious are included to avoid issues:
1) dm_table_supports_zoned_model() is changed to directly check if
   the backing device of a wildcard target (= dm-error target) is
   zoned. Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to catch the invalid setup of
   dm-error without a backing device (non zoned case) being combined
   with zoned targets.
2) dm_table_supports_dax() is modified to return false if the wildcard
   target is found. Otherwise, when dm-error is set without a backing
   device, we end up with a NULL pointer dereference in
   set_dax_synchronous (dax_dev is NULL). This is consistent with the
   current behavior because dm_table_supports_dax() always returned
   false for targets that do not define the iterate_devices method.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
dm-error is used in several test cases in the xfstests test suite to
check the handling of IO errors in file systems. However, with several
file systems getting native support for zoned block devices (e.g.
btrfs and f2fs), dm-error's lack of zoned block device support creates
problems as the file system attempts executing zone commands (e.g. a
zone append operation) against a dm-error non-zoned block device,
which causes various issues in the block layer (e.g. WARN_ON
triggers).

This commit adds supports for zoned block devices to dm-error, allowing
a DM device table containing an error target to be exposed as a zoned
block device (if all targets have a compatible zoned model support and
mapping). This is done as follows:
1) Allow passing 2 arguments to an error target, similar to dm-linear:
   a backing device and a start sector. These arguments are optional and
   dm-error retains its characteristics if the arguments are not
   specified.
2) Implement the iterate_devices method so that dm-core can normally
   check the zone support and restrictions (e.g. zone alignment of the
   targets). When the backing device arguments are not specified, the
   iterate_devices method never calls the fn() argument.
When no backing device is specified, as before, we assume that the DM
device is not zoned. When the backing device arguments are specified,
the zoned model of the DM device will depend on the backing device
type:
 - If the backing device is zoned and its model and mapping is
   compatible with other targets of the device, the resulting device
   will be zoned, with the dm-error mapped portion always returning
   errors (similar to the default non-zoned case).
 - If the backing device is not zoned, then the DM device will not be
   either.

This zone support for dm-error requires the definition of a functional
report_zones operation so that dm_revalidate_zones() can operate
correctly and resources for emulating zone append operations
initialized. This is necessary for cases where dm-error is used to
partially map a device and have an overall correct handling of zone
append. This means that dm-error does not fail report zones operations.

Two changes that are not obvious are included to avoid issues:
1) dm_table_supports_zoned_model() is changed to directly check if
   the backing device of a wildcard target (= dm-error target) is
   zoned. Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to catch the invalid setup of
   dm-error without a backing device (non zoned case) being combined
   with zoned targets.
2) dm_table_supports_dax() is modified to return false if the wildcard
   target is found. Otherwise, when dm-error is set without a backing
   device, we end up with a NULL pointer dereference in
   set_dax_synchronous (dax_dev is NULL). This is consistent with the
   current behavior because dm_table_supports_dax() always returned
   false for targets that do not define the iterate_devices method.

Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm delay: for short delays, use kthread instead of timers and wq</title>
<updated>2023-10-31T15:06:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Loehle</name>
<email>christian.loehle@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-20T11:46:05+00:00</published>
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DM delay's current design of using timers and wq to realize the delays
is insufficient for delays below ~50ms.

This commit enhances the design to use a kthread to flush the expired
delays, trading some CPU time (in some cases) for better delay
accuracy and delays closer to what the user requested for smaller
delays. The new design is chosen as long as all the delays are below
50ms.

Since bios can't be completed in interrupt context using a kthread
is probably the most reasonable way to approach this.

Testing with
echo "0 2097152 zero" | dmsetup create dm-zeros
for i in $(seq 0 20);
do
  echo "0 2097152 delay /dev/mapper/dm-zeros 0 $i" | dmsetup create dm-delay-${i}ms;
done

Some performance numbers for comparison, on beaglebone black (single
core) CONFIG_HZ_1000=y:

fio --name=1msread --rw=randread --bs=4k --runtime=60 --time_based \
    --filename=/dev/mapper/dm-delay-1ms
Theoretical maximum: 1000 IOPS
Previous: 250 IOPS
Kthread: 500 IOPS

fio --name=10msread --rw=randread --bs=4k --runtime=60 --time_based \
    --filename=/dev/mapper/dm-delay-10ms
Theoretical maximum: 100 IOPS
Previous: 45 IOPS
Kthread: 50 IOPS

fio --name=1mswrite --rw=randwrite --direct=1 --bs=4k --runtime=60 \
    --time_based --filename=/dev/mapper/dm-delay-1ms
Theoretical maximum: 1000 IOPS
Previous: 498 IOPS
Kthread: 1000 IOPS

fio --name=10mswrite --rw=randwrite --direct=1 --bs=4k --runtime=60 \
    --time_based --filename=/dev/mapper/dm-delay-10ms
Theoretical maximum: 100 IOPS
Previous: 90 IOPS
Kthread: 100 IOPS

(This one is just to prove the new design isn't impacting throughput,
not really about delays):
fio --name=10mswriteasync --rw=randwrite --direct=1 --bs=4k \
    --runtime=60 --time_based --filename=/dev/mapper/dm-delay-10ms \
    --numjobs=32 --iodepth=64 --ioengine=libaio --group_reporting
Previous: 13.3k IOPS
Kthread: 13.3k IOPS

Signed-off-by: Christian Loehle &lt;christian.loehle@arm.com&gt;
[Harshit: kthread_create error handling fix in delay_ctr]
Signed-off-by: Harshit Mogalapalli &lt;harshit.m.mogalapalli@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
DM delay's current design of using timers and wq to realize the delays
is insufficient for delays below ~50ms.

This commit enhances the design to use a kthread to flush the expired
delays, trading some CPU time (in some cases) for better delay
accuracy and delays closer to what the user requested for smaller
delays. The new design is chosen as long as all the delays are below
50ms.

Since bios can't be completed in interrupt context using a kthread
is probably the most reasonable way to approach this.

Testing with
echo "0 2097152 zero" | dmsetup create dm-zeros
for i in $(seq 0 20);
do
  echo "0 2097152 delay /dev/mapper/dm-zeros 0 $i" | dmsetup create dm-delay-${i}ms;
done

Some performance numbers for comparison, on beaglebone black (single
core) CONFIG_HZ_1000=y:

fio --name=1msread --rw=randread --bs=4k --runtime=60 --time_based \
    --filename=/dev/mapper/dm-delay-1ms
Theoretical maximum: 1000 IOPS
Previous: 250 IOPS
Kthread: 500 IOPS

fio --name=10msread --rw=randread --bs=4k --runtime=60 --time_based \
    --filename=/dev/mapper/dm-delay-10ms
Theoretical maximum: 100 IOPS
Previous: 45 IOPS
Kthread: 50 IOPS

fio --name=1mswrite --rw=randwrite --direct=1 --bs=4k --runtime=60 \
    --time_based --filename=/dev/mapper/dm-delay-1ms
Theoretical maximum: 1000 IOPS
Previous: 498 IOPS
Kthread: 1000 IOPS

fio --name=10mswrite --rw=randwrite --direct=1 --bs=4k --runtime=60 \
    --time_based --filename=/dev/mapper/dm-delay-10ms
Theoretical maximum: 100 IOPS
Previous: 90 IOPS
Kthread: 100 IOPS

(This one is just to prove the new design isn't impacting throughput,
not really about delays):
fio --name=10mswriteasync --rw=randwrite --direct=1 --bs=4k \
    --runtime=60 --time_based --filename=/dev/mapper/dm-delay-10ms \
    --numjobs=32 --iodepth=64 --ioengine=libaio --group_reporting
Previous: 13.3k IOPS
Kthread: 13.3k IOPS

Signed-off-by: Christian Loehle &lt;christian.loehle@arm.com&gt;
[Harshit: kthread_create error handling fix in delay_ctr]
Signed-off-by: Harshit Mogalapalli &lt;harshit.m.mogalapalli@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'hardening-v6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2023-10-31T05:09:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-31T05:09:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=befaa609f4c784f505c02ea3ff036adf4f4aa814'/>
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Pull hardening updates from Kees Cook:
 "One of the more voluminous set of changes is for adding the new
  __counted_by annotation[1] to gain run-time bounds checking of
  dynamically sized arrays with UBSan.

   - Add LKDTM test for stuck CPUs (Mark Rutland)

   - Improve LKDTM selftest behavior under UBSan (Ricardo Cañuelo)

   - Refactor more 1-element arrays into flexible arrays (Gustavo A. R.
     Silva)

   - Analyze and replace strlcpy and strncpy uses (Justin Stitt, Azeem
     Shaikh)

   - Convert group_info.usage to refcount_t (Elena Reshetova)

   - Add __counted_by annotations (Kees Cook, Gustavo A. R. Silva)

   - Add Kconfig fragment for basic hardening options (Kees Cook, Lukas
     Bulwahn)

   - Fix randstruct GCC plugin performance mode to stay in groups (Kees
     Cook)

   - Fix strtomem() compile-time check for small sources (Kees Cook)"

* tag 'hardening-v6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (56 commits)
  hwmon: (acpi_power_meter) replace open-coded kmemdup_nul
  reset: Annotate struct reset_control_array with __counted_by
  kexec: Annotate struct crash_mem with __counted_by
  virtio_console: Annotate struct port_buffer with __counted_by
  ima: Add __counted_by for struct modsig and use struct_size()
  MAINTAINERS: Include stackleak paths in hardening entry
  string: Adjust strtomem() logic to allow for smaller sources
  hardening: x86: drop reference to removed config AMD_IOMMU_V2
  randstruct: Fix gcc-plugin performance mode to stay in group
  mailbox: zynqmp: Annotate struct zynqmp_ipi_pdata with __counted_by
  drivers: thermal: tsens: Annotate struct tsens_priv with __counted_by
  irqchip/imx-intmux: Annotate struct intmux_data with __counted_by
  KVM: Annotate struct kvm_irq_routing_table with __counted_by
  virt: acrn: Annotate struct vm_memory_region_batch with __counted_by
  hwmon: Annotate struct gsc_hwmon_platform_data with __counted_by
  sparc: Annotate struct cpuinfo_tree with __counted_by
  isdn: kcapi: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy_pad
  isdn: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy
  NFS/flexfiles: Annotate struct nfs4_ff_layout_segment with __counted_by
  nfs41: Annotate struct nfs4_file_layout_dsaddr with __counted_by
  ...
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Pull hardening updates from Kees Cook:
 "One of the more voluminous set of changes is for adding the new
  __counted_by annotation[1] to gain run-time bounds checking of
  dynamically sized arrays with UBSan.

   - Add LKDTM test for stuck CPUs (Mark Rutland)

   - Improve LKDTM selftest behavior under UBSan (Ricardo Cañuelo)

   - Refactor more 1-element arrays into flexible arrays (Gustavo A. R.
     Silva)

   - Analyze and replace strlcpy and strncpy uses (Justin Stitt, Azeem
     Shaikh)

   - Convert group_info.usage to refcount_t (Elena Reshetova)

   - Add __counted_by annotations (Kees Cook, Gustavo A. R. Silva)

   - Add Kconfig fragment for basic hardening options (Kees Cook, Lukas
     Bulwahn)

   - Fix randstruct GCC plugin performance mode to stay in groups (Kees
     Cook)

   - Fix strtomem() compile-time check for small sources (Kees Cook)"

* tag 'hardening-v6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (56 commits)
  hwmon: (acpi_power_meter) replace open-coded kmemdup_nul
  reset: Annotate struct reset_control_array with __counted_by
  kexec: Annotate struct crash_mem with __counted_by
  virtio_console: Annotate struct port_buffer with __counted_by
  ima: Add __counted_by for struct modsig and use struct_size()
  MAINTAINERS: Include stackleak paths in hardening entry
  string: Adjust strtomem() logic to allow for smaller sources
  hardening: x86: drop reference to removed config AMD_IOMMU_V2
  randstruct: Fix gcc-plugin performance mode to stay in group
  mailbox: zynqmp: Annotate struct zynqmp_ipi_pdata with __counted_by
  drivers: thermal: tsens: Annotate struct tsens_priv with __counted_by
  irqchip/imx-intmux: Annotate struct intmux_data with __counted_by
  KVM: Annotate struct kvm_irq_routing_table with __counted_by
  virt: acrn: Annotate struct vm_memory_region_batch with __counted_by
  hwmon: Annotate struct gsc_hwmon_platform_data with __counted_by
  sparc: Annotate struct cpuinfo_tree with __counted_by
  isdn: kcapi: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy_pad
  isdn: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy
  NFS/flexfiles: Annotate struct nfs4_ff_layout_segment with __counted_by
  nfs41: Annotate struct nfs4_file_layout_dsaddr with __counted_by
  ...
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