Pull SPDX update from Greg KH:
"Here is a single SPDX-like change for 7.1-rc1. It explicitly allows
the use of SPDX-FileCopyrightText which has been used already in many
files.
At the same time, update checkpatch to catch any "non allowed" spdx
identifiers as we don't want to go overboard here.
This has been in linux-next for a long time with no reported problems"
* tag 'spdx-7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/spdx:
LICENSES: Explicitly allow SPDX-FileCopyrightText
Limit checkpatch warnings for normally-const structs by excluding patterns
consistent with forward declarations.
For example, the forward declaration `struct regmap_access_table;` in a
header file currently generates a warning recommending that it is
generally declared as const; however, this would apply a useless type
qualifier in the empty declaration `const struct regmap_access_table;`,
and subsequently generate compiler warnings.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260331181509.1258693-1-tknelms@google.com
Signed-off-by: Taylor Nelms <tknelms@google.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The Assisted-by tag was introduced in
Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst for attributing AI tool
contributions to kernel patches. However, checkpatch.pl did not recognize
this tag, causing two issues:
WARNING: Non-standard signature: Assisted-by:
ERROR: Unrecognized email address: 'AGENT_NAME:MODEL_VERSION'
Fix this by:
1. Adding Assisted-by to the recognized $signature_tags list
2. Skipping email validation for Assisted-by lines since they use the
AGENT_NAME:MODEL_VERSION format instead of an email address
3. Warning when the Assisted-by value doesn't match the expected format
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260311215818.518930-1-sashal@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Sources already have SPDX-FileCopyrightText (~40 instances) and more
appear on the mailing list, so document that it is allowed. On the
other hand SPDX defines several other tags like SPDX-FileType, so add
checkpatch rule to narrow desired tags only to two of them - license and
copyright. That way no new tags would sneak in to the kernel unnoticed.
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@oss.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Patches which both remove and add/modify DT binding files are
incorrectly flagged as needing to split the patch. The issue is the
check sees "dev/null" as one of the files in the patch which is not a DT
binding file. Add "dev/null" to the skipped files.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260121212715.144495-1-robh@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring (Arm) <robh@kernel.org>
Pull virtio updates from Michael Tsirkin:
- in-order support in virtio core
- multiple address space support in vduse
- fixes, cleanups all over the place, notably dma alignment fixes for
non-cache-coherent systems
* tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost: (59 commits)
vduse: avoid adding implicit padding
vhost: fix caching attributes of MMIO regions by setting them explicitly
vdpa/mlx5: update MAC address handling in mlx5_vdpa_set_attr()
vdpa/mlx5: reuse common function for MAC address updates
vdpa/mlx5: update mlx_features with driver state check
crypto: virtio: Replace package id with numa node id
crypto: virtio: Remove duplicated virtqueue_kick in virtio_crypto_skcipher_crypt_req
crypto: virtio: Add spinlock protection with virtqueue notification
Documentation: Add documentation for VDUSE Address Space IDs
vduse: bump version number
vduse: add vq group asid support
vduse: merge tree search logic of IOTLB_GET_FD and IOTLB_GET_INFO ioctls
vduse: take out allocations from vduse_dev_alloc_coherent
vduse: remove unused vaddr parameter of vduse_domain_free_coherent
vduse: refactor vdpa_dev_add for goto err handling
vhost: forbid change vq groups ASID if DRIVER_OK is set
vdpa: document set_group_asid thread safety
vduse: return internal vq group struct as map token
vduse: add vq group support
vduse: add v1 API definition
...
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "ocfs2: give ocfs2 the ability to reclaim suballocator free bg" saves
disk space by teaching ocfs2 to reclaim suballocator block group
space (Heming Zhao)
- "Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs" adds the
ARRAY_END() macro and uses it in various places (Alejandro Colomar)
- "vmcoreinfo: support VMCOREINFO_BYTES larger than PAGE_SIZE" makes
the vmcore code future-safe, if VMCOREINFO_BYTES ever exceeds the
page size (Pnina Feder)
- "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing module buildid" cleans
up kallsyms code related to module buildid and fixes an invalid
access crash when printing backtraces (Petr Mladek)
- "Address page fault in ima_restore_measurement_list()" fixes a
kexec-related crash that can occur when booting the second-stage
kernel on x86 (Harshit Mogalapalli)
- "kho: ABI headers and Documentation updates" updates the kexec
handover ABI documentation (Mike Rapoport)
- "Align atomic storage" adds the __aligned attribute to atomic_t and
atomic64_t definitions to get natural alignment of both types on
csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc and sh (Finn Thain)
- "kho: clean up page initialization logic" simplifies the page
initialization logic in kho_restore_page() (Pratyush Yadav)
- "Unload linux/kernel.h" moves several things out of kernel.h and into
more appropriate places (Yury Norov)
- "don't abuse task_struct.group_leader" removes the usage of
->group_leader when it is "obviously unnecessary" (Oleg Nesterov)
- "list private v2 & luo flb" adds some infrastructure improvements to
the live update orchestrator (Pasha Tatashin)
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (107 commits)
watchdog/hardlockup: simplify perf event probe and remove per-cpu dependency
procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat()
watchdog/softlockup: fix sample ring index wrap in need_counting_irqs()
kcsan, compiler_types: avoid duplicate type issues in BPF Type Format
kho: fix doc for kho_restore_pages()
tests/liveupdate: add in-kernel liveupdate test
liveupdate: luo_flb: introduce File-Lifecycle-Bound global state
liveupdate: luo_file: Use private list
list: add kunit test for private list primitives
list: add primitives for private list manipulations
delayacct: fix uapi timespec64 definition
panic: add panic_force_cpu= parameter to redirect panic to a specific CPU
netclassid: use thread_group_leader(p) in update_classid_task()
RDMA/umem: don't abuse current->group_leader
drm/pan*: don't abuse current->group_leader
drm/amd: kill the outdated "Only the pthreads threading model is supported" checks
drm/amdgpu: don't abuse current->group_leader
android/binder: use same_thread_group(proc->tsk, current) in binder_mmap()
android/binder: don't abuse current->group_leader
kho: skip memoryless NUMA nodes when reserving scratch areas
...
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Lock debugging:
- Implement compiler-driven static analysis locking context checking,
using the upcoming Clang 22 compiler's context analysis features
(Marco Elver)
We removed Sparse context analysis support, because prior to
removal even a defconfig kernel produced 1,700+ context tracking
Sparse warnings, the overwhelming majority of which are false
positives. On an allmodconfig kernel the number of false positive
context tracking Sparse warnings grows to over 5,200... On the plus
side of the balance actual locking bugs found by Sparse context
analysis is also rather ... sparse: I found only 3 such commits in
the last 3 years. So the rate of false positives and the
maintenance overhead is rather high and there appears to be no
active policy in place to achieve a zero-warnings baseline to move
the annotations & fixers to developers who introduce new code.
Clang context analysis is more complete and more aggressive in
trying to find bugs, at least in principle. Plus it has a different
model to enabling it: it's enabled subsystem by subsystem, which
results in zero warnings on all relevant kernel builds (as far as
our testing managed to cover it). Which allowed us to enable it by
default, similar to other compiler warnings, with the expectation
that there are no warnings going forward. This enforces a
zero-warnings baseline on clang-22+ builds (Which are still limited
in distribution, admittedly)
Hopefully the Clang approach can lead to a more maintainable
zero-warnings status quo and policy, with more and more subsystems
and drivers enabling the feature. Context tracking can be enabled
for all kernel code via WARN_CONTEXT_ANALYSIS_ALL=y (default
disabled), but this will generate a lot of false positives.
( Having said that, Sparse support could still be added back,
if anyone is interested - the removal patch is still
relatively straightforward to revert at this stage. )
Rust integration updates: (Alice Ryhl, Fujita Tomonori, Boqun Feng)
- Add support for Atomic<i8/i16/bool> and replace most Rust native
AtomicBool usages with Atomic<bool>
- Clean up LockClassKey and improve its documentation
- Add missing Send and Sync trait implementation for SetOnce
- Make ARef Unpin as it is supposed to be
- Add __rust_helper to a few Rust helpers as a preparation for
helper LTO
- Inline various lock related functions to avoid additional function
calls
WW mutexes:
- Extend ww_mutex tests and other test-ww_mutex updates (John
Stultz)
Misc fixes and cleanups:
- rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline (Arnd
Bergmann)
- locking/local_lock: Include more missing headers (Peter Zijlstra)
- seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc (Randy Dunlap)
- rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings (Tamir
Duberstein)"
* tag 'locking-core-2026-02-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (90 commits)
locking/rwlock: Fix write_trylock_irqsave() with CONFIG_INLINE_WRITE_TRYLOCK
rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline
compiler-context-analysis: Remove __assume_ctx_lock from initializers
tomoyo: Use scoped init guard
crypto: Use scoped init guard
kcov: Use scoped init guard
compiler-context-analysis: Introduce scoped init guards
cleanup: Make __DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD handle commas in initializers
seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc
tools: Update context analysis macros in compiler_types.h
rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
rust: sync: Inline various lock related methods
rust: helpers: Move #define __rust_helper out of atomic.c
rust: wait: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: time: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: task: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: sync: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: refcount: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: rcu: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: processor: Add __rust_helper to helpers
...
Pull kmalloc_obj updates from Kees Cook:
"Introduce the kmalloc_obj* family of APIs for switching to type-based
kmalloc allocations, away from purely size-based allocations.
Discussed on lkml, with you, and at Linux Plumbers. It's been in -next
for the entire dev cycle.
Before the merge window closes, I'd like to send the treewide
change (generated from the Coccinelle script included here), which
mechanically converts almost 20k callsites from kmalloc* to
kmalloc_obj*:
8007 files changed, 19980 insertions(+), 20838 deletions(-)
This change needed fixes for mismatched types (since now the return
type from allocations is a pointer to the requested type, not "void
*"), and I've been fixing these over the last 4 releases.
These fixes have mostly been trivial mismatches with const qualifiers
or accidentally identical sizes (e.g. same object size: "struct kvec"
vs "struct iovec", or differing pointers to pointers), but I did catch
one case of too-small allocation.
Summary:
- Introduce kmalloc_obj*() family of type-based allocator APIs
- checkpatch: Suggest kmalloc_obj family for sizeof allocations
- coccinelle: Add kmalloc_objs conversion script"
* tag 'kmalloc_obj-v7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
coccinelle: Add kmalloc_objs conversion script
slab: Introduce kmalloc_flex() and family
compiler_types: Introduce __flex_counter() and family
checkpatch: Suggest kmalloc_obj family for sizeof allocations
slab: Introduce kmalloc_obj() and family
Currently, cacheline group macros trigger checkpatch warnings.
For example:
$ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -g ba7e025a6c84aed012421468d83639e5dae982b0
WARNING: Missing a blank line after declarations
#58: FILE: drivers/gpio/gpio-virtio.c:32:
+ struct virtio_gpio_response res;
+ __dma_from_device_group_end();
$ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -g 5d4cc87414
WARNING: Missing a blank line after declarations
#267: FILE: include/net/sock.h:431:
+ int sk_rcvlowat;
+ __cacheline_group_end(sock_read_rx);
But these are not actually statements - the following macros
all expand to zero-length fields:
__cacheline_group_begin()
__cacheline_group_end()
__cacheline_group_begin_aligned()
__cacheline_group_end_aligned()
__dma_from_device_group_begin()
__dma_from_device_group_end()
Add them to $declaration_macros so checkpatch recognizes this fact.
Message-ID: <b345bb7e2d4e23672e3e5d1b283754dc11c7d8cd.1767647872.git.mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"Significant patch series in this pull request:
- "squashfs: Remove page->mapping references" (Matthew Wilcox) gets
us closer to being able to remove page->mapping
- "relayfs: misc changes" (Jason Xing) does some maintenance and
minor feature addition work in relayfs
- "kdump: crashkernel reservation from CMA" (Jiri Bohac) switches
us from static preallocation of the kdump crashkernel's working
memory over to dynamic allocation. So the difficulty of a-priori
estimation of the second kernel's needs is removed and the first
kernel obtains extra memory
- "generalize panic_print's dump function to be used by other
kernel parts" (Feng Tang) implements some consolidation and
rationalization of the various ways in which a failing kernel
splats information at the operator
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-08-03-12-47' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (80 commits)
tools/getdelays: add backward compatibility for taskstats version
kho: add test for kexec handover
delaytop: enhance error logging and add PSI feature description
samples: Kconfig: fix spelling mistake "instancess" -> "instances"
fat: fix too many log in fat_chain_add()
scripts/spelling.txt: add notifer||notifier to spelling.txt
xen/xenbus: fix typo "notifer"
net: mvneta: fix typo "notifer"
drm/xe: fix typo "notifer"
cxl: mce: fix typo "notifer"
KVM: x86: fix typo "notifer"
MAINTAINERS: add maintainers for delaytop
ucount: use atomic_long_try_cmpxchg() in atomic_long_inc_below()
ucount: fix atomic_long_inc_below() argument type
kexec: enable CMA based contiguous allocation
stackdepot: make max number of pools boot-time configurable
lib/xxhash: remove unused functions
init/Kconfig: restore CONFIG_BROKEN help text
lib/raid6: update recov_rvv.c zero page usage
docs: update docs after introducing delaytop
...
Pull RCU updates from Neeraj Upadhyay:
"Expedited grace period updates:
- Protect against early RCU exp quiescent state reporting during exp
grace period initialization
- Remove superfluous barrier in task unblock path
- Remove the CPU online quiescent state report optimization, which is
error prone for certain scenarios
- Add warning for unexpected pending requested expedited quiescent
state on dying CPU
Core:
- Robustify rcu_is_cpu_rrupt_from_idle() by using more accurate
indicators of the actual context tracking state of a CPU
- Handle ->defer_qs_iw_pending field data race
- Enable rcu_normal_wake_from_gp by default on systems with <= 16
CPUs
- Fix lockup in rcu_read_unlock() due to recursive irq_exit() calls
- Refactor expedited handling condition in rcu_read_unlock_special()
- Documentation updates for hotplug and GP init scan ordering,
separation of rcu_state and rnp's gp_seq states, quiescent state
reporting for offline CPUs
torture-scripts:
- Cleanup and improve scripts : remove superfluous warnings for
disabled tests; better handling of kvm.sh --kconfig arg; suppress
some confusing diagnostics; tolerate bad kvm.sh args; add new
diagnostic for build output; fail allmodconfig testing on warnings
- Include RCU_TORTURE_TEST_CHK_RDR_STATE config for KCSAN kernels
- Disable default RCU-tasks and clocksource-wdog testing on arm64
- Add EXPERT Kconfig option for arm64 KCSAN runs
- Remove SRCU-lite testing
rcutorture:
- Start torture writer threads creation after reader threads to
handle race in SRCU-P scenario
- Add SRCU down_read()/up_read() test
- Add diagnostics for delayed SRCU up_read(), unmatched up_read(),
print number of up/down readers and the number of such readers
which migrated to other CPU
- Ignore certain unsupported configurations for trivial RCU test
- Fix splats in RT kernels due to inaccurate checks for BH-disabled
context
- Enable checks and logs to capture intentionally exercised
unexpected scenarios (too short readers) for BUSTED test
- Remove SRCU-lite testing
srcu:
- Expedite SRCU-fast grace periods
- Remove SRCU-lite implementation
- Add guards for SRCU-fast readers
rcu nocb:
- Dump NOCB group leader state on stall detection
- Robustify nocb_cb_kthread pointer accesses
- Fix delayed execution of hurry callbacks when LAZY_RCU is enabled
refscale:
- Fix multiplication overflow in "loops" and "nreaders" calculations"
* tag 'rcu.release.v6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux: (49 commits)
rcu: Document concurrent quiescent state reporting for offline CPUs
rcu: Document separation of rcu_state and rnp's gp_seq
rcu: Document GP init vs hotplug-scan ordering requirements
srcu: Add guards for SRCU-fast readers
rcu: Fix delayed execution of hurry callbacks
rcu: Refactor expedited handling check in rcu_read_unlock_special()
checkpatch: Remove SRCU-lite deprecation
srcu: Remove SRCU-lite implementation
srcu: Expedite SRCU-fast grace periods
rcutorture: Remove support for SRCU-lite
rcutorture: Remove SRCU-lite scenarios
torture: Remove support for SRCU-lite
torture: Make torture.sh --allmodconfig testing fail on warnings
torture: Add "ERROR" diagnostic for testing kernel-build output
torture: Make torture.sh tolerate runs having bad kvm.sh arguments
torture: Add textid.txt file to --do-allmodconfig and --do-rcu-rust runs
torture: Extract testid.txt generation to separate script
torture: Suppress "find" diagnostics from torture.sh --do-none run
torture: Provide EXPERT Kconfig option for arm64 KCSAN torture.sh runs
rcu: Fix rcu_read_unlock() deadloop due to IRQ work
...
Now that SRCU-lite has been removed from the kernel, let's remove the
now-redundant deprecation from checkpatch.pl.
Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
All of the ID tables based on <linux/mod_devicetable.h> (of_device_id,
pci_device_id, ...) require their arrays to end in an empty sentinel
value. That's usually spelled with an empty initializer entry (e.g.,
"{}"), but also sometimes with explicit 0 entries, field initializers
(e.g., '.id = ""'), or even a macro entry (like PCMCIA_DEVICE_NULL).
Without a sentinel, device-matching code may read out of bounds.
I've found a number of such bugs in driver reviews, and we even
occasionally commit one to the tree. See commit 5751eee5c6 ("i2c:
nomadik: Add missing sentinel to match table") for example.
Teach checkpatch to find these ID tables, and complain if it looks like
there wasn't a sentinel value.
Test output:
$ git format-patch -1 a0d15cc47f --stdout | scripts/checkpatch.pl -
ERROR: missing sentinel in ID array
#57: FILE: drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-nomadik.c:1073:
+static const struct of_device_id nmk_i2c_eyeq_match_table[] = {
{
.compatible = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
.data = (void *)(NMK_I2C_EYEQ_FLAG_32B_BUS | NMK_I2C_EYEQ_FLAG_IS_EYEQ5),
},
};
total: 1 errors, 0 warnings, 66 lines checked
NOTE: For some of the reported defects, checkpatch may be able to
mechanically convert to the typical style using --fix or --fix-inplace.
"[PATCH] i2c: nomadik: switch from of_device_is_compatible() to" has style problems, please review.
NOTE: If any of the errors are false positives, please report
them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.
When run across the entire tree (scripts/checkpatch.pl -q --types
MISSING_SENTINEL -f ...), false positives exist:
* where macros are used that hide the table from analysis
(e.g., drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_drv.c / radeon_PCI_IDS).
There are fewer than 5 of these.
* where such tables are processed correctly via ARRAY_SIZE() (fewer than
5 instances). This is by far not the typical usage of *_device_id
arrays.
* some odd parsing artifacts, where ctx_statement_block() seems to quit
in the middle of a block due to #if/#else/#endif.
Also, not every "struct *_device_id" is in fact a sentinel-requiring
structure, but even with such types, false positives are very rare.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250702235245.1007351-1-briannorris@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds
Taylor NelmsandAndrew Morton
Sasha LevinandAndrew Morton
Krzysztof KozlowskiandGreg Kroah-Hartman
Rob Herring (Arm)
Joe PerchesandAndrew Morton
Michael S. Tsirkin
Kees Cook
Marco ElverandPeter Zijlstra
Paul E. McKenneyandBoqun Feng
Ally HeevandAndrew Morton
Carlos LópezandAndrew Morton
Onur ÖzkanandAndrew Morton
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Brian NorrisandAndrew Morton
Antonio BorneoandAndrew Morton