Ping-Ke Shih [Thu, 8 Jan 2026 12:03:16 +0000 (20:03 +0800)]
wifi: rtw89: mac: define preload_init for generations
The preload_init is to define preload size from memory to transmitting
buffer. The different generations should call its callback respectively
but suddenly it is missed. However, the register definitions of WiFi 6/7
are the same, things are well. For the coming RTL8922D, settings are
different, so abstract it.
Ping-Ke Shih [Thu, 8 Jan 2026 12:03:14 +0000 (20:03 +0800)]
wifi: rtw89: mac: update MPDU quota according to chip DLE definition
MPDU quota is to define number of memory used to handle packets in DLE
(Data Link Engine). All chips use the same value before, but the RTL8922D
need to use chip specific value.
Ping-Ke Shih [Thu, 8 Jan 2026 12:03:09 +0000 (20:03 +0800)]
wifi: rtw89: coex: update scoreboard value according to power state for two BT
Assign timeslot to WiFi if power state is on. Since firmware isn't working
at this moment, write scoreboard register to notify BT. Extend the code to
support two BT for coming chips.
Ping-Ke Shih [Thu, 8 Jan 2026 12:03:08 +0000 (20:03 +0800)]
wifi: rtw89: coex: make coex scoreboard as chip info
The coex scoreboard is to exchange WiFi and BT profiles, and the coming
chip 8922D changes the design including extend to two scoreboards and
individual register for cfg/get. Follow the changes to abstract current
code, but not change logic for existing chips at all.
Ping-Ke Shih [Tue, 6 Jan 2026 03:09:10 +0000 (11:09 +0800)]
wifi: rtw89: fw: consider hardware AID for firmware elements
The coming chip RTL8922D has variant of hardware with different AID. Add
AID field to header of firmware elements, and compare AID with the value
read from hardware.
Currently, apply this rule to BB and RF parameters.
Ping-Ke Shih [Tue, 6 Jan 2026 03:09:08 +0000 (11:09 +0800)]
wifi: rtw89: fw: add CMAC H2C command for TX time for RTL8922D
CMAC H2C command is to configure CMAC such as TX retry and padding. Add to
update CMAC function block when BT-coex want shorter TX time due to
timeslot assignment, or when MCC want higher retry time to improve
connection rate.
Kuan-Chung Chen [Wed, 31 Dec 2025 09:06:46 +0000 (17:06 +0800)]
wifi: rtw89: fix potential zero beacon interval in beacon tracking
During fuzz testing, it was discovered that bss_conf->beacon_int
might be zero, which could result in a division by zero error in
subsequent calculations. Set a default value of 100 TU if the
interval is zero to ensure stability.
Chih-Kang Chang [Wed, 31 Dec 2025 09:06:45 +0000 (17:06 +0800)]
wifi: rtw89: rfk: update rtw89_fw_h2c_rf_pre_ntfy_mcc format
The H2C command rtw89_fw_h2c_rf_pre_ntfy_mcc have different format.
8922A after FW 0.35.49.0 use v0, after FW 0.35.84.0 use v1. The coming
8922D will use v2.
Zong-Zhe Yang [Wed, 31 Dec 2025 09:06:44 +0000 (17:06 +0800)]
wifi: rtw89: fw: change WITH_RFK_PRE_NOTIFY to be a FW feature group
Actually, WITH_RFK_PRE_NOTIFY means supporting one of RFK_PRE_NOTIFY_Vx.
So, change it to be a FW feature group which contains RFK_PRE_NOTIFY_Vx.
Then, because WITH_RFK_PRE_NOTIFY is abandoned after some FW versions by
chip, disable WITH_RFK_PRE_NOTIFY correspondingly in FW feature table.
In the FW feature table, V0 and V1 was configured by lt, less than. So, V1
flag was also set in the range of V0. However, in RFK_PRE_NOTIFY handling,
rtw89_fw_h2c_rf_pre_ntfy, V1 is tested before V0. Things would process as
V1 even if V0 should be used.
Tweak FW feature configuration by ge, greater or equal, to align handling.
Zong-Zhe Yang [Wed, 31 Dec 2025 09:06:41 +0000 (17:06 +0800)]
wifi: rtw89: fw: introduce helper for disabling FW feature configuration
Some FW features (groups) may be valid only in a range of FW versions,
i.e. after some FW versions, they can no longer be used. So, introduce
some helper macros to configure this kind of things in FW feature table.
Zong-Zhe Yang [Wed, 31 Dec 2025 09:06:40 +0000 (17:06 +0800)]
wifi: rtw89: fw: change FW feature map to a BITMAP
Originally, FW feature map was declared as a u32. But, the number of FW
feature flags is going to be over than 32. So, change it to a BITMAP and
update the corresponding macros.
Zong-Zhe Yang [Wed, 31 Dec 2025 09:06:39 +0000 (17:06 +0800)]
wifi: rtw89: pre-handle RF calibration on link when needed
The Wi-Fi 7 RF calibration flow has a new design which mainly affect
MLO cases. Before, old RFK H2C command can just send the used channels
and MLO mode even if there are multiple active links. After, each RFK
H2C command should send one channel corresponding to one active link.
For example, connect MLD AP (channel X) and then activate second link
(channel X + channel Y)
Before:
RFK#1: channel X (path A + path B)
RFK#2: channel X (path A) + channel Y (path B)
After:
RFK#1: channel X (path A + path B)
[set MLO mode to focus on 2nd link/channel]
RFK#2: channel Y (path A + path B)
[set MLO mode back to target case]
Ping-Ke Shih [Wed, 31 Dec 2025 09:06:37 +0000 (17:06 +0800)]
wifi: rtw89: rfk: update RFK pre info V2 for RTL8922D
The H2C command of RFK pre info is to tell current operating channels to
firmware, so RF calibrations can rely on these information as arguments
to configure hardware.
Dian-Syuan Yang [Mon, 29 Dec 2025 03:09:26 +0000 (11:09 +0800)]
wifi: rtw89: enhance connection stability when triggering beacon loss
If the driver supports ack status reports of TX frames, mac80211 allows it
to detect AP if it's alive and determine whether the client can maintain
the connection by sending null-data. Therefore, refine the flow to let
driver inform mac80211 to enable beacon loss work to track AP's status
upon receiving beacon loss event.
Zong-Zhe Yang [Mon, 29 Dec 2025 03:09:25 +0000 (11:09 +0800)]
wifi: rtw89: regd: 6 GHz power type marks default when inactive
When inactive, 6 GHz power type has been assigned to the default one,
but missed to mark the local control variable, dflt, true. Then, this
might let some 6 GHz power info of disconnected APs keep being taken
into account under certain cases.
Chih-Kang Chang [Mon, 29 Dec 2025 03:09:23 +0000 (11:09 +0800)]
wifi: rtw89: refine TX nulldata judgement when scan with 2 OP channels
When scan with 2 OP channels, for the case like
not-connect(macid 0) + GO(macid 1) or not-connect(macid 0) + GC(macid 1),
the macid 0 doesn't offload NULL data packet to FW. Therefore, refine the
NULL data judgement to let interfaces that only connected and non-AP mode
need to TX nulldata.
Kuan-Chung Chen [Mon, 29 Dec 2025 03:09:19 +0000 (11:09 +0800)]
wifi: rtw89: define TX/RX aggregation and MPDU capability per chip
Since TX/RX aggregation is different from chip to chip, define individual
number according to hardware ability. Also the coming chip RTL8922DE
can get expected performance.
Ping-Ke Shih [Mon, 29 Dec 2025 03:09:16 +0000 (11:09 +0800)]
wifi: rtw89: wow: change type of WoWLAN pattern mask to __le32
The WoWLAN pattern mask is generated in byte stream, and actually firmware
expects to see the same byte stream too. Since these byte stream is sent
to firmware with 32-bit stream in little-endian order. Change to mask
to __le32, and just do assignment instead of le32 conversion to wkfm fields
of H2C command.
For little-endian machine, it doesn't change logic at all.
Ali Tariq [Thu, 25 Dec 2025 11:54:29 +0000 (11:54 +0000)]
wifi: rtl8xxxu: fix slab-out-of-bounds in rtl8xxxu_sta_add
The driver does not set hw->sta_data_size, which causes mac80211 to
allocate insufficient space for driver private station data in
__sta_info_alloc(). When rtl8xxxu_sta_add() accesses members of
struct rtl8xxxu_sta_info through sta->drv_priv, this results in a
slab-out-of-bounds write.
KASAN report on RISC-V (VisionFive 2) with RTL8192EU adapter:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in rtl8xxxu_sta_add+0x31c/0x346
Write of size 8 at addr ffffffd6d3e9ae88 by task kworker/u16:0/12
Set hw->sta_data_size to sizeof(struct rtl8xxxu_sta_info) during
probe, similar to how hw->vif_data_size is configured. This ensures
mac80211 allocates sufficient space for the driver's per-station
private data.
Tested on StarFive VisionFive 2 v1.2A board.
Fixes: eef55f1545c9 ("wifi: rtl8xxxu: support multiple interfaces in {add,remove}_interface()") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ali Tariq <alitariq45892@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com> Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251225115430.13011-1-alitariq45892@gmail.com
Bitterblue Smith [Tue, 23 Dec 2025 23:26:45 +0000 (01:26 +0200)]
wifi: rtw88: Fix inadvertent sharing of struct ieee80211_supported_band data
Internally wiphy writes to individual channels in this structure,
so we must not share one static definition of channel list between
multiple device instances, because that causes hard to debug
breakage.
For example, with two rtw88 driven devices in the system, channel
information may get incoherent, preventing channel use.
Copied from commit 0ae36391c804 ("wifi: rtw89: Fix inadverent sharing
of struct ieee80211_supported_band data").
Martin Hrůza [Tue, 23 Dec 2025 23:19:00 +0000 (01:19 +0200)]
wifi: rtw88: Increase the RX gain before scanning
The driver reduces the RX gain while connected to a network located
close by. In this condition scans return few results because the more
distant networks can't be heard.
Temporarily increase the RX gain before scanning in order to detect
all available networks. Reset the RX gain back to the last recorded
value once the scan finishes.
Chih-Kang Chang [Tue, 23 Dec 2025 03:06:51 +0000 (11:06 +0800)]
wifi: rtw89: mcc: reset probe counter when receiving beacon
For BE chips, needs to transmit QoS null data periodically to ensure
the connection with AP in GC+STA mode. However, in environments
with interference, the Qos null data might fail to transmit
successfully. Therefore, when receive the beacon from AP will
reset the QoS null data failure counter to avoid unnecessary
disconnection.
Chih-Kang Chang [Tue, 23 Dec 2025 03:06:50 +0000 (11:06 +0800)]
wifi: rtw89: setting TBTT AGG number when mac port initialization
When initializing mac port, needs to set TBTT AGG number to trigger TBTT
related interrupts. Otherwise, after sending join info H2C command with
disconnection mode, firmware will clear TBTT AGG number. Without the
setting from mac port initialization after that, this port will not be
able to transmit beacons.
Ping-Ke Shih [Tue, 23 Dec 2025 03:06:49 +0000 (11:06 +0800)]
wifi: rtw89: warn unexpected polling value of XTAL SI
XTAL SI is an indirect serial interface to access registers in another
hardware domain. When BT driver initializes UART interface, firmware might
rarely control XTAL SI at the same time causing access racing.
Current is to adjust initialization flow to avoid the racing. To make
the racing visible if it still presents, add a message to address this.
USB adapters might be unplugged suddenly, causing flooding messages. Check
RTW89_FLAG_UNPLUGGED flag to avoid them.
Chih-Kang Chang [Tue, 23 Dec 2025 03:06:48 +0000 (11:06 +0800)]
wifi: rtw89: refine C2H reg event polling timeout for LPS
The each of C2H reg event have different polling timeout. Refine the
LPS C2H reg event polling timeout. Otherwise, during SER, the FW has
already crashed, the leave LPS check will wait until timeout expires,
causing the SER recovery to take too long.
Zong-Zhe Yang [Tue, 23 Dec 2025 03:06:47 +0000 (11:06 +0800)]
wifi: rtw89: debug: support SER L0/L1 simulation via halt H2C
Original methods of SER (system error recovery) L0/L1 simulations need
to leave PS mode before working. Introduce new methods to simulate SER
L0/L1 and they can work under PS. Since new methods require FW support,
so add a FW feature flag and configure the supported chips.
Zong-Zhe Yang [Tue, 23 Dec 2025 03:06:45 +0000 (11:06 +0800)]
wifi: rtw89: ser: L1 skip polling status if FW runs event mode
Originally, polling FW status was required during recovering from L1.
Now, because newer FW support event mode, the polling can be skipped.
Add a FW feature flag and configure the supported chips.
Ping-Ke Shih [Tue, 23 Dec 2025 03:06:43 +0000 (11:06 +0800)]
wifi: rtw89: mac: reset power state before switching to power on
To run power on function properly, reset power states (off/on/PS) to
initial state. Otherwise, it might be unusable due to fail to power on.
Since a USB adapter might play as USB mass storage with driver and then
switch to WiFi adapter, causing it stays on power-on state when doing WiFi
USB probe. Exclude this case.
Kuan-Chung Chen [Tue, 23 Dec 2025 03:06:42 +0000 (11:06 +0800)]
wifi: rtw89: mlo: fix incorrect link address in management frames
Deauth frames used wrong link address after switching from default link
to another, causing AP to reject subsequent auth frames. This affected
not only deauth but all management frames. Fixed by setting correct
mac_id to let header conversion references correct address CAM.
Kuan-Chung Chen [Tue, 23 Dec 2025 03:06:41 +0000 (11:06 +0800)]
wifi: rtw89: mlo: fix missing TX null-data 1 during link switch
Fix missing null-data 1 when switching links. The FW should send a
null-data 1 to notify AP before disabling the old link. Adjust the
position of the H2C rtw89_fw_h2c_mlo_link_cfg to ensure proper FW
behavior during link transition.
Ping-Ke Shih [Wed, 17 Dec 2025 07:26:46 +0000 (15:26 +0800)]
wifi: rtw89: correct use sequence of driver_data in skb->info
As ieee80211_tx_info is used to assist filling TX descriptor, and layout of
IEEE80211_SKB_CB(skb)->driver_data (accessing by RTW89_TX_SKB_CB()) is
union, so driver_data must be used by/after rtw89_hci_tx_write() or just
before calling rtw89_hci_tx_write(). Otherwise, ieee80211_tx_info::control
data is overwritten.
Found this by using injected packets which uses ieee80211_tx_info::control,
but always sending incorrect data rate.
Cc: Fedor Pchelkin <pchelkin@ispras.ru> Fixes: d5da3d9fb05f ("wifi: rtw89: process TX wait skbs for USB via C2H handler") Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com> Tested-by: Fedor Pchelkin <pchelkin@ispras.ru> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251217072646.43209-1-pkshih@realtek.com
Marco Crivellari [Wed, 10 Dec 2025 10:12:09 +0000 (11:12 +0100)]
wifi: rtw89: add WQ_PERCPU to alloc_workqueue users
This continues the effort to refactor workqueue APIs, which began with
the introduction of new workqueues and a new alloc_workqueue flag in:
commit 128ea9f6ccfb ("workqueue: Add system_percpu_wq and system_dfl_wq")
commit 930c2ea566af ("workqueue: Add new WQ_PERCPU flag")
The refactoring is going to alter the default behavior of
alloc_workqueue() to be unbound by default.
With the introduction of the WQ_PERCPU flag (equivalent to !WQ_UNBOUND),
any alloc_workqueue() caller that doesn’t explicitly specify WQ_UNBOUND
must now use WQ_PERCPU. For more details see the Link tag below.
In order to keep alloc_workqueue() behavior identical, explicitly request
WQ_PERCPU.
wifi: rtw89: 8922a: set random mac if efuse contains zeroes
I have some rtl8922ae devices with no permanent mac stored in efuse.
It could be properly saved and/or configured from user tools like
NetworkManager, but it would be desirable to be able to initialize it
somehow to get the device working by default.
So, in the same way as with other devices, if the mac address read from
efuse contains zeros, a random mac address is assigned to at least allow
operation, and the user is warned about this in case any action needs to
be considered.
Bitterblue Smith [Sun, 30 Nov 2025 14:50:31 +0000 (16:50 +0200)]
wifi: rtw88: 8822b: Avoid WARNING in rtw8822b_config_trx_mode()
rtw8822b_set_antenna() can be called from userspace when the chip is
powered off. In that case a WARNING is triggered in
rtw8822b_config_trx_mode() because trying to read the RF registers
when the chip is powered off returns an unexpected value.
Call rtw8822b_config_trx_mode() in rtw8822b_set_antenna() only when
the chip is powered on.
Roman Peshkichev [Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:09:37 +0000 (23:09 +0500)]
wifi: rtw88: fix DTIM period handling when conf->dtim_period is zero
The function rtw_set_dtim_period() accepted an 'int' dtim_period parameter,
while mac80211 provides dtim_period as 'u8' in struct ieee80211_bss_conf.
In IBSS (ad-hoc) mode mac80211 may set dtim_period to 0.
The driver unconditionally wrote (dtim_period - 1) to
REG_DTIM_COUNTER_ROOT, which resulted in 0xFF when dtim_period was 0. This
caused delays in broadcast/multicast traffic processing and issues with
ad-hoc operation.
Convert the function parameter to u8 to match ieee80211_bss_conf and avoid
the underflow by writing 0 when dtim_period is 0.
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 4 Dec 2025 01:24:33 +0000 (17:24 -0800)]
Merge tag 'net-next-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core & protocols:
- Replace busylock at the Tx queuing layer with a lockless list.
Resulting in a 300% (4x) improvement on heavy TX workloads, sending
twice the number of packets per second, for half the cpu cycles.
- Allow constantly busy flows to migrate to a more suitable CPU/NIC
queue.
Normally we perform queue re-selection when flow comes out of idle,
but under extreme circumstances the flows may be constantly busy.
Add sysctl to allow periodic rehashing even if it'd risk packet
reordering.
- Optimize the NAPI skb cache, make it larger, use it in more paths.
- Attempt returning Tx skbs to the originating CPU (like we already
did for Rx skbs).
- Various data structure layout and prefetch optimizations from Eric.
- Remove ktime_get() from the recvmsg() fast path, ktime_get() is
sadly quite expensive on recent AMD machines.
- Extend threaded NAPI polling to allow the kthread busy poll for
packets.
- Make MPTCP use Rx backlog processing. This lowers the lock
pressure, improving the Rx performance.
- Support memcg accounting of MPTCP socket memory.
- Allow admin to opt sockets out of global protocol memory accounting
(using a sysctl or BPF-based policy). The global limits are a poor
fit for modern container workloads, where limits are imposed using
cgroups.
- Improve heuristics for when to kick off AF_UNIX garbage collection.
- Allow users to control TCP SACK compression, and default to 33% of
RTT.
- Add tcp_rcvbuf_low_rtt sysctl to let datacenter users avoid
unnecessarily aggressive rcvbuf growth and overshot when the
connection RTT is low.
- Preserve skb metadata space across skb_push / skb_pull operations.
- Support for IPIP encapsulation in the nftables flowtable offload.
- Support appending IP interface information to ICMP messages (RFC
5837).
- Support setting max record size in TLS (RFC 8449).
- Remove taking rtnl_lock from RTM_GETNEIGHTBL and RTM_SETNEIGHTBL.
- Use a dedicated lock (and RCU) in MPLS, instead of rtnl_lock.
- Let users configure the number of write buffers in SMC.
- Add new struct sockaddr_unsized for sockaddr of unknown length,
from Kees.
- Some conversions away from the crypto_ahash API, from Eric Biggers.
- Some preparations for slimming down struct page.
- YAML Netlink protocol spec for WireGuard.
- Add a tool on top of YAML Netlink specs/lib for reporting commonly
computed derived statistics and summarized system state.
Driver API:
- Add CAN XL support to the CAN Netlink interface.
- Add uAPI for reporting PHY Mean Square Error (MSE) diagnostics, as
defined by the OPEN Alliance's "Advanced diagnostic features for
100BASE-T1 automotive Ethernet PHYs" specification.
- Add DPLL phase-adjust-gran pin attribute (and implement it in
zl3073x).
- Refactor xfrm_input lock to reduce contention when NIC offloads
IPsec and performs RSS.
- Add info to devlink params whether the current setting is the
default or a user override. Allow resetting back to default.
- Add standard device stats for PSP crypto offload.
- Leverage DSA frame broadcast to implement simple HSR frame
duplication for a lot of switches without dedicated HSR offload.
- Convert drivers to support dedicated ops for timestamping control,
and away from the direct IOCTL handling. While at it support GET
operations for PHY timestamping.
- Add (and convert most drivers to) a dedicated ethtool callback for
reading the Rx ring count.
- Significant refactoring efforts in the STMMAC driver, which
supports Synopsys turn-key MAC IP integrated into a ton of SoCs.
- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- support PPS in/out on all pins
- Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
- ice: implement standard ethtool and timestamping stats
- i40e: support setting the max number of MAC addresses per VF
- iavf: support RSS of GTP tunnels for 5G and LTE deployments
- nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
- reduce downtime on interface reconfiguration
- disable being an XDP redirect target by default (same as
other drivers) to avoid wasting resources if feature is
unused
- Meta (fbnic):
- add support for Linux-managed PCS on 25G, 50G, and 100G links
- Wangxun:
- support Rx descriptor merge, and Tx head writeback
- support Rx coalescing offload
- support 25G SPF and 40G QSFP modules
- Ethernet virtual:
- Google (gve):
- allow ethtool to configure rx_buf_len
- implement XDP HW RX Timestamping support for DQ descriptor
format
- Microsoft vNIC (mana):
- support HW link state events
- handle hardware recovery events when probing the device
- Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
- usbnet: add support for Byte Queue Limits (BQL)
- AMD (amd-xgbe):
- add device selftests
- NXP (enetc):
- add i.MX94 support
- Broadcom integrated MACs (bcmgenet, bcmasp):
- bcmasp: add support for PHY-based Wake-on-LAN
- Broadcom switches (b53):
- support port isolation
- support BCM5389/97/98 and BCM63XX ARL formats
- Lantiq/MaxLinear switches:
- support bridge FDB entries on the CPU port
- use regmap for register access
- allow user to enable/disable learning
- support Energy Efficient Ethernet
- support configuring RMII clock delays
- add tagging driver for MaxLinear GSW1xx switches
- Synopsys (stmmac):
- support using the HW clock in free running mode
- add Eswin EIC7700 support
- add Rockchip RK3506 support
- add Altera Agilex5 support
- Cadence (macb):
- cleanup and consolidate descriptor and DMA address handling
- add EyeQ5 support
- TI:
- icssg-prueth: support AF_XDP
- Airoha access points:
- add missing Ethernet stats and link state callback
- add AN7583 support
- support out-of-order Tx completion processing
- Power over Ethernet:
- pd692x0: preserve PSE configuration across reboots
- add support for TPS23881B devices
- Ethernet PHYs:
- Open Alliance OATC14 10BASE-T1S PHY cable diagnostic support
- Support 50G SerDes and 100G interfaces in Linux-managed PHYs
- micrel:
- support for non PTP SKUs of lan8814
- enable in-band auto-negotiation on lan8814
- realtek:
- cable testing support on RTL8224
- interrupt support on RTL8221B
- motorcomm: support for PHY LEDs on YT853
- microchip: support for LAN867X Rev.D0 PHYs w/ SQI and cable diag
- mscc: support for PHY LED control
- CAN drivers:
- m_can: add support for optional reset and system wake up
- remove can_change_mtu() obsoleted by core handling
- mcp251xfd: support GPIO controller functionality
- Bluetooth:
- add initial support for PASTa
- WiFi:
- split ieee80211.h file, it's way too big
- improvements in VHT radiotap reporting, S1G, Channel Switch
Announcement handling, rate tracking in mesh networks
- improve multi-radio monitor mode support, and add a cfg80211
debugfs interface for it
- HT action frame handling on 6 GHz
- initial chanctx work towards NAN
- MU-MIMO sniffer improvements
- WiFi drivers:
- RealTek (rtw89):
- support USB devices RTL8852AU and RTL8852CU
- initial work for RTL8922DE
- improved injection support
- Intel:
- iwlwifi: new sniffer API support
- MediaTek (mt76):
- WED support for >32-bit DMA
- airoha NPU support
- regdomain improvements
- continued WiFi7/MLO work
- Qualcomm/Atheros:
- ath10k: factory test support
- ath11k: TX power insertion support
- ath12k: BSS color change support
- ath12k: statistics improvements
- brcmfmac: Acer A1 840 tablet quirk
- rtl8xxxu: 40 MHz connection fixes/support"
* tag 'net-next-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1381 commits)
net: page_pool: sanitise allocation order
net: page pool: xa init with destroy on pp init
net/mlx5e: Support XDP target xmit with dummy program
net/mlx5e: Update XDP features in switch channels
selftests/tc-testing: Test CAKE scheduler when enqueue drops packets
net/sched: sch_cake: Fix incorrect qlen reduction in cake_drop
wireguard: netlink: generate netlink code
wireguard: uapi: generate header with ynl-gen
wireguard: uapi: move flag enums
wireguard: uapi: move enum wg_cmd
wireguard: netlink: add YNL specification
selftests: drv-net: Fix tolerance calculation in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py
selftests: drv-net: Fix and clarify TC bandwidth split in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py
selftests: drv-net: Set shell=True for sysfs writes in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py
selftests: drv-net: Use Iperf3Runner in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py
selftests: drv-net: introduce Iperf3Runner for measurement use cases
selftests: drv-net: Add devlink_rate_tc_bw.py to TEST_PROGS
net: ps3_gelic_net: Use napi_alloc_skb() and napi_gro_receive()
Documentation: net: dsa: mention simple HSR offload helpers
Documentation: net: dsa: mention availability of RedBox
...
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 4 Dec 2025 00:54:54 +0000 (16:54 -0800)]
Merge tag 'bpf-next-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next
Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov:
- Convert selftests/bpf/test_tc_edt and test_tc_tunnel from .sh to
test_progs runner (Alexis Lothoré)
- Convert selftests/bpf/test_xsk to test_progs runner (Bastien
Curutchet)
- Replace bpf memory allocator with kmalloc_nolock() in
bpf_local_storage (Amery Hung), and in bpf streams and range tree
(Puranjay Mohan)
- Introduce support for indirect jumps in BPF verifier and x86 JIT
(Anton Protopopov) and arm64 JIT (Puranjay Mohan)
- Remove runqslower bpf tool (Hoyeon Lee)
- Fix corner cases in the verifier to close several syzbot reports
(Eduard Zingerman, KaFai Wan)
- Several improvements in deadlock detection in rqspinlock (Kumar
Kartikeya Dwivedi)
- Implement "jmp" mode for BPF trampoline and corresponding
DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_JMP. It improves "fexit" program type performance
from 80 M/s to 136 M/s. With Steven's Ack. (Menglong Dong)
- Add ability to test non-linear skbs in BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN (Paul
Chaignon)
- Do not let BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN emit invalid GSO types to stack (Daniel
Borkmann)
- Generalize buildid reader into bpf_dynptr (Mykyta Yatsenko)
- Optimize bpf_map_update_elem() for map-in-map types (Ritesh
Oedayrajsingh Varma)
- Introduce overwrite mode for BPF ring buffer (Xu Kuohai)
* tag 'bpf-next-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (169 commits)
bpf: optimize bpf_map_update_elem() for map-in-map types
bpf: make kprobe_multi_link_prog_run always_inline
selftests/bpf: do not hardcode target rate in test_tc_edt BPF program
selftests/bpf: remove test_tc_edt.sh
selftests/bpf: integrate test_tc_edt into test_progs
selftests/bpf: rename test_tc_edt.bpf.c section to expose program type
selftests/bpf: Add success stats to rqspinlock stress test
rqspinlock: Precede non-head waiter queueing with AA check
rqspinlock: Disable spinning for trylock fallback
rqspinlock: Use trylock fallback when per-CPU rqnode is busy
rqspinlock: Perform AA checks immediately
rqspinlock: Enclose lock/unlock within lock entry acquisitions
bpf: Remove runqslower tool
selftests/bpf: Remove usage of lsm/file_alloc_security in selftest
bpf: Disable file_alloc_security hook
bpf: check for insn arrays in check_ptr_alignment
bpf: force BPF_F_RDONLY_PROG on insn array creation
bpf: Fix exclusive map memory leak
selftests/bpf: Make CS length configurable for rqspinlock stress test
selftests/bpf: Add lock wait time stats to rqspinlock stress test
...
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 3 Dec 2025 23:50:11 +0000 (15:50 -0800)]
Merge tag 'linux_kselftest-kunit-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest
Pull kunit updates from Shuah Khan:
- Make filter parameters configurable via Kconfig
- Add description of kunit.enable parameter to documentation
* tag 'linux_kselftest-kunit-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest:
kunit: Make filter parameters configurable via Kconfig
Documentation: kunit: add description of kunit.enable parameter
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 3 Dec 2025 23:08:18 +0000 (15:08 -0800)]
Merge tag 'linux_kselftest-next-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest
Pull kselftest updates from Shuah Khan:
- Add basic test for trace_marker_raw file to tracing selftest
- Fix invalid array access in printf dma_map_benchmark selftest
- Add tprobe enable/disable testcase to tracing selftest
- Update fprobe selftest for ftrace based fprobe
* tag 'linux_kselftest-next-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest:
selftests: tracing: Update fprobe selftest for ftrace based fprobe
selftests: tracing: Add tprobe enable/disable testcase
selftests/run_kselftest.sh: exit with error if tests fail
selftests/dma: fix invalid array access in printf
selftests/tracing: Add basic test for trace_marker_raw file
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 3 Dec 2025 22:42:21 +0000 (14:42 -0800)]
Merge tag 'kbuild-6.19-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux
Pull Kbuild updates from Nicolas Schier:
- Enable -fms-extensions, allowing anonymous use of tagged struct or
union in struct/union (tag kbuild-ms-extensions-6.19). An exemplary
conversion patch is added here, too (btrfs).
[ Editor's note: the core of this actually came in early through a
shared branch and a few other trees - Linus ]
- Introduce architecture-specific CC_CAN_LINK and flags for userprogs
- Add new packaging target 'modules-cpio-pkg' for building a initramfs
cpio w/ kmods
- Handle included .c files in gen_compile_commands
- Minor kbuild changes:
- Use objtree for module signing key path, fixing oot kmod signing
- Improve documentation of KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP
- Reuse KBUILD_USERCFLAGS for UAPI, instead of defining twice
- Rename scripts/Makefile.extrawarn to Makefile.warn
- Drop obsolete types.h check from headers_check.pl
- Remove outdated config leak ignore entries
* tag 'kbuild-6.19-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux:
kbuild: add target to build a cpio containing modules
initramfs: add gen_init_cpio to hostprogs unconditionally
kbuild: allow architectures to override CC_CAN_LINK
init: deduplicate cc-can-link.sh invocations
kbuild: don't enable CC_CAN_LINK if the dummy program generates warnings
scripts: headers_install.sh: Remove two outdated config leak ignore entries
scripts/clang-tools: Handle included .c files in gen_compile_commands
kbuild: uapi: Drop types.h check from headers_check.pl
kbuild: Rename Makefile.extrawarn to Makefile.warn
MAINTAINERS, .mailmap: Update mail address for Nicolas Schier
kbuild: uapi: reuse KBUILD_USERCFLAGS
kbuild: doc: improve KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP documentation
kbuild: Use objtree for module signing key path
btrfs: send: make use of -fms-extensions for defining struct fs_path
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 3 Dec 2025 22:16:49 +0000 (14:16 -0800)]
Merge tag 'rust-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ojeda/linux
Pull Rust updates from Miguel Ojeda:
"Toolchain and infrastructure:
- Add support for 'syn'.
Syn is a parsing library for parsing a stream of Rust tokens into a
syntax tree of Rust source code.
Currently this library is geared toward use in Rust procedural
macros, but contains some APIs that may be useful more generally.
'syn' allows us to greatly simplify writing complex macros such as
'pin-init' (Benno has already prepared the 'syn'-based version). We
will use it in the 'macros' crate too.
'syn' is the most downloaded Rust crate (according to crates.io),
and it is also used by the Rust compiler itself. While the amount
of code is substantial, there should not be many updates needed for
these crates, and even if there are, they should not be too big,
e.g. +7k -3k lines across the 3 crates in the last year.
'syn' requires two smaller dependencies: 'quote' and 'proc-macro2'.
I only modified their code to remove a third dependency
('unicode-ident') and to add the SPDX identifiers. The code can be
easily verified to exactly match upstream with the provided
scripts.
They are all licensed under "Apache-2.0 OR MIT", like the other
vendored 'alloc' crate we had for a while.
Please see the merge commit with the cover letter for more context.
- Allow 'unreachable_pub' and 'clippy::disallowed_names' for
doctests.
Examples (i.e. doctests) may want to do things like show public
items and use names such as 'foo'.
Nevertheless, we still try to keep examples as close to real code
as possible (this is part of why running Clippy on doctests is
important for us, e.g. for safety comments, which userspace Rust
does not support yet but we are stricter).
'kernel' crate:
- Replace our custom 'CStr' type with 'core::ffi::CStr'.
Using the standard library type reduces our custom code footprint,
and we retain needed custom functionality through an extension
trait and a new 'fmt!' macro which replaces the previous 'core'
import.
This started in 6.17 and continued in 6.18, and we finally land the
replacement now. This required quite some stamina from Tamir, who
split the changes in steps to prepare for the flag day change here.
- Replace 'kernel::c_str!' with C string literals.
C string literals were added in Rust 1.77, which produce '&CStr's
(the 'core' one), so now we can write:
c"hi"
instead of:
c_str!("hi")
- Add 'num' module for numerical features.
It includes the 'Integer' trait, implemented for all primitive
integer types.
It also includes the 'Bounded' integer wrapping type: an integer
value that requires only the 'N' least significant bits of the
wrapped type to be encoded:
// An unsigned 8-bit integer, of which only the 4 LSBs are used.
let v = Bounded::<u8, 4>::new::<15>();
assert_eq!(v.get(), 15);
'Bounded' is useful to e.g. enforce guarantees when working with
bitfields that have an arbitrary number of bits.
Values can also be constructed from simple non-constant expressions
or, for more complex ones, validated at runtime.
'Bounded' also comes with comparison and arithmetic operations
(with both their backing type and other 'Bounded's with a
compatible backing type), casts to change the backing type,
extending/shrinking and infallible/fallible conversions from/to
primitives as applicable.
It enables to use just an immutable tree reference where
appropriate. The existing fully-featured mutable cursor is renamed
to 'CursorMut'.
kallsyms:
- Fix wrong "big" kernel symbol type read from procfs.
'pin-init' crate:
- A couple minor fixes (Benno asked me to pick these patches up for
him this cycle).
Documentation:
- Quick Start guide: add Debian 13 (Trixie).
Debian Stable is now able to build Linux, since Debian 13 (released
2025-08-09) packages Rust 1.85.0, which is recent enough.
We are planning to propose that the minimum supported Rust version
in Linux follows Debian Stable releases, with Debian 13 being the
first one we upgrade to, i.e. Rust 1.85.
MAINTAINERS:
- Add entry for the new 'num' module.
- Remove Alex as Rust maintainer: he hasn't had the time to
contribute for a few years now, so it is a no-op change in
practice.
And a few other cleanups and improvements"
* tag 'rust-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ojeda/linux: (53 commits)
rust: macros: support `proc-macro2`, `quote` and `syn`
rust: syn: enable support in kbuild
rust: syn: add `README.md`
rust: syn: remove `unicode-ident` dependency
rust: syn: add SPDX License Identifiers
rust: syn: import crate
rust: quote: enable support in kbuild
rust: quote: add `README.md`
rust: quote: add SPDX License Identifiers
rust: quote: import crate
rust: proc-macro2: enable support in kbuild
rust: proc-macro2: add `README.md`
rust: proc-macro2: remove `unicode_ident` dependency
rust: proc-macro2: add SPDX License Identifiers
rust: proc-macro2: import crate
rust: kbuild: support using libraries in `rustc_procmacro`
rust: kbuild: support skipping flags in `rustc_test_library`
rust: kbuild: add proc macro library support
rust: kbuild: simplify `--cfg` handling
rust: kbuild: introduce `core-flags` and `core-skip_flags`
...
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 3 Dec 2025 21:46:48 +0000 (13:46 -0800)]
Merge tag 'livepatching-for-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/livepatching/livepatching
Pull livepatching updates from Petr Mladek:
- Support both paths where tracefs is typically mounted in selftests
- Make old_sympos 0 and 1 equal. They both are valid when there is only
one symbol with the given name.
* tag 'livepatching-for-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/livepatching/livepatching:
selftests: livepatch: use canonical ftrace path
livepatch: Match old_sympos 0 and 1 in klp_find_func()
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 3 Dec 2025 21:25:39 +0000 (13:25 -0800)]
Merge tag 'sched_ext-for-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext
Pull sched_ext updates from Tejun Heo:
- Improve recovery from misbehaving BPF schedulers.
When a scheduler puts many tasks with varying affinity restrictions
on a shared DSQ, CPUs scanning through tasks they cannot run can
overwhelm the system, causing lockups.
Bypass mode now uses per-CPU DSQs with a load balancer to avoid this,
and hooks into the hardlockup detector to attempt recovery.
Add scx_cpu0 example scheduler to demonstrate this scenario.
- Add lockless peek operation for DSQs to reduce lock contention for
schedulers that need to query queue state during load balancing.
- Allow scx_bpf_reenqueue_local() to be called from anywhere in
preparation for deprecating cpu_acquire/release() callbacks in favor
of generic BPF hooks.
- Prepare for hierarchical scheduler support: add
scx_bpf_task_set_slice() and scx_bpf_task_set_dsq_vtime() kfuncs,
make scx_bpf_dsq_insert*() return bool, and wrap kfunc args in
structs for future aux__prog parameter.
- Implement cgroup_set_idle() callback to notify BPF schedulers when a
cgroup's idle state changes.
- Fix migration tasks being incorrectly downgraded from
stop_sched_class to rt_sched_class across sched_ext enable/disable.
Applied late as the fix is low risk and the bug subtle but needs
stable backporting.
- Various fixes and cleanups including cgroup exit ordering,
SCX_KICK_WAIT reliability, and backward compatibility improvements.
* tag 'sched_ext-for-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext: (44 commits)
sched_ext: Fix incorrect sched_class settings for per-cpu migration tasks
sched_ext: tools: Removing duplicate targets during non-cross compilation
sched_ext: Use kvfree_rcu() to release per-cpu ksyncs object
sched_ext: Pass locked CPU parameter to scx_hardlockup() and add docs
sched_ext: Update comments replacing breather with aborting mechanism
sched_ext: Implement load balancer for bypass mode
sched_ext: Factor out abbreviated dispatch dequeue into dispatch_dequeue_locked()
sched_ext: Factor out scx_dsq_list_node cursor initialization into INIT_DSQ_LIST_CURSOR
sched_ext: Add scx_cpu0 example scheduler
sched_ext: Hook up hardlockup detector
sched_ext: Make handle_lockup() propagate scx_verror() result
sched_ext: Refactor lockup handlers into handle_lockup()
sched_ext: Make scx_exit() and scx_vexit() return bool
sched_ext: Exit dispatch and move operations immediately when aborting
sched_ext: Simplify breather mechanism with scx_aborting flag
sched_ext: Use per-CPU DSQs instead of per-node global DSQs in bypass mode
sched_ext: Refactor do_enqueue_task() local and global DSQ paths
sched_ext: Use shorter slice in bypass mode
sched_ext: Mark racy bitfields to prevent adding fields that can't tolerate races
sched_ext: Minor cleanups to scx_task_iter
...
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 3 Dec 2025 21:04:07 +0000 (13:04 -0800)]
Merge tag 'cgroup-for-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
- Defer task cgroup unlink until after the dying task's final context
switch so that controllers see the cgroup properly populated until
the task is truly gone
- cpuset cleanups and simplifications.
Enforce that domain isolated CPUs stay in root or isolated partitions
and fail if isolated+nohz_full would leave no housekeeping CPU. Fix
sched/deadline root domain handling during CPU hot-unplug and race
for tasks in attaching cpusets
- Misc fixes including memory reclaim protection documentation and
selftest KTAP conformance
* tag 'cgroup-for-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (21 commits)
cpuset: Treat cpusets in attaching as populated
sched/deadline: Walk up cpuset hierarchy to decide root domain when hot-unplug
cgroup/cpuset: Introduce cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked()
docs: cgroup: No special handling of unpopulated memcgs
docs: cgroup: Note about sibling relative reclaim protection
docs: cgroup: Explain reclaim protection target
selftests/cgroup: conform test to KTAP format output
cpuset: remove need_rebuild_sched_domains
cpuset: remove global remote_children list
cpuset: simplify node setting on error
cgroup: include missing header for struct irq_work
cgroup: Fix sleeping from invalid context warning on PREEMPT_RT
cgroup/cpuset: Globally track isolated_cpus update
cgroup/cpuset: Ensure domain isolated CPUs stay in root or isolated partition
cgroup/cpuset: Move up prstate_housekeeping_conflict() helper
cgroup/cpuset: Fail if isolated and nohz_full don't leave any housekeeping
cgroup/cpuset: Rename update_unbound_workqueue_cpumask() to update_isolation_cpumasks()
cgroup: Defer task cgroup unlink until after the task is done switching out
cgroup: Move dying_tasks cleanup from cgroup_task_release() to cgroup_task_free()
cgroup: Rename cgroup lifecycle hooks to cgroup_task_*()
...
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 3 Dec 2025 20:50:10 +0000 (12:50 -0800)]
Merge tag 'wq-for-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo:
- Rescuer affinity management: Affinity is now updated only when
detached using wq_unbound_cpumask consistently. DISASSOCIATED workers
also follow unbound cpumask changes to avoid breaking CPU isolation
- Rescuer cleanups preparing for fetching work items one by one from
pool list: Work assignment factored out, optimized to skip pwqs no
longer needing rescue, and shutdown logic simplified
* tag 'wq-for-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
workqueue: Don't rely on wq->rescuer to stop rescuer
workqueue: Only assign rescuer work when really needed
workqueue: Factor out assign_rescuer_work()
workqueue: Init rescuer's affinities as wq_unbound_cpumask
workqueue: Let DISASSOCIATED workers follow unbound wq cpumask changes
workqueue: Update the rescuer's affinity only when it is detached
workqueue: Remove unused assert_rcu_or_wq_mutex_or_pool_mutex
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 3 Dec 2025 20:42:36 +0000 (12:42 -0800)]
Merge tag 'printk-for-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux
Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:
- Allow creaing nbcon console drivers with an unsafe write_atomic()
callback that can only be called by the final nbcon_atomic_flush_unsafe().
Otherwise, the driver would rely on the kthread.
It is going to be used as the-best-effort approach for an
experimental nbcon netconsole driver, see
In an ideal world, all networking drivers would be fixed first and
the atomic flush would be blocked only in NMI context. But it brings
the question how reliable networking drivers are when the system is
in a bad state. They might block flushing more reliable serial
consoles which are more suitable for serious debugging anyway.
- Allow to use the last 4 bytes of the printk ring buffer.
- Prevent queuing IRQ work and block printk kthreads when consoles are
suspended. Otherwise, they create non-necessary churn or even block
the suspend.
- Release console_lock() between each record in the kthread used for
legacy consoles on RT. It might significantly speed up the boot.
- Release nbcon context between each record in the atomic flush. It
prevents stalls of the related printk kthread after it has lost the
ownership in the middle of a record
- Add support for NBCON consoles into KDB
- Add %ptsP modifier for printing struct timespec64 and use it where
possible
- Misc code clean up
* tag 'printk-for-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux: (48 commits)
printk: Use console_is_usable on console_unblank
arch: um: kmsg_dump: Use console_is_usable
drivers: serial: kgdboc: Drop checks for CON_ENABLED and CON_BOOT
lib/vsprintf: Unify FORMAT_STATE_NUM handlers
printk: Avoid irq_work for printk_deferred() on suspend
printk: Avoid scheduling irq_work on suspend
printk: Allow printk_trigger_flush() to flush all types
tracing: Switch to use %ptSp
scsi: snic: Switch to use %ptSp
scsi: fnic: Switch to use %ptSp
s390/dasd: Switch to use %ptSp
ptp: ocp: Switch to use %ptSp
pps: Switch to use %ptSp
PCI: epf-test: Switch to use %ptSp
net: dsa: sja1105: Switch to use %ptSp
mmc: mmc_test: Switch to use %ptSp
media: av7110: Switch to use %ptSp
ipmi: Switch to use %ptSp
igb: Switch to use %ptSp
e1000e: Switch to use %ptSp
...
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 3 Dec 2025 20:41:00 +0000 (12:41 -0800)]
Merge tag 'lkmm.2025.12.01a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu
Pull lkmm documentation update from Paul McKenney:
- Sort the memory-barriers.txt file's wait_event* and wait_on_bit* list
alphabetically
* tag 'lkmm.2025.12.01a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu:
memory-barriers.txt: Sort wait_event* and wait_on_bit* list alphabetically
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 3 Dec 2025 20:18:07 +0000 (12:18 -0800)]
Merge tag 'rcu.release.v6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux
Pull RCU updates from Frederic Weisbecker:
"SRCU:
- Properly handle SRCU readers within IRQ disabled sections in tiny
SRCU
- Preparation to reimplement RCU Tasks Trace on top of SRCU fast:
- Introduce API to expedite a grace period and test it through
rcutorture
- Split srcu-fast in two flavours: SRCU-fast and SRCU-fast-updown.
Both are still targeted toward faster readers (without full
barriers on LOCK and UNLOCK) at the expense of heavier write
side (using full RCU grace period ordering instead of simply
full ordering) as compared to "traditional" non-fast SRCU. But
those srcu-fast flavours are going to be optimized in two
different ways:
- SRCU-fast will become the reimplementation basis for
RCU-TASK-TRACE for consolidation. Since RCU-TASK-TRACE must
be NMI safe, SRCU-fast must be as well.
- SRCU-fast-updown will be needed for uretprobes code in order
to get rid of the read-side memory barriers while still
allowing entering the reader at task level while exiting it
in a timer handler. It is considered semaphore-like in that
it can have different owners between LOCK and UNLOCK.
However it is not NMI-safe.
The actual optimizations are work in progress for the next
cycle. Only the new interfaces are added for now, along with
related torture and scalability test code.
- Create/document/debug/torture new proper initializers for RCU fast:
DEFINE_SRCU_FAST() and init_srcu_struct_fast()
This allows for using right away the proper ordering on the write
side (either full ordering or full RCU grace period ordering)
without waiting for the read side to tell which to use.
This also optimizes the read side altogether with moving flavour
debug checks under debug config and with removing a costly RmW
operation on their first call.
- Make some diagnostic functions tracing safe
Refscale:
- Add performance testing for common context synchronizations
(Preemption, IRQ, Softirq) and per-cpu increments. Those are
relevant comparisons against SRCU-fast read side APIs, especially
as they are planned to synchronize further tracing fast-path code
Miscellanous:
- In order to prepare the layout for nohz_full work deferral to user
exit, the context tracking state must shrink the counter of
transitions to/from RCU not watching. The only possible hazard is
to trigger wrap-around more easily, delaying a bit grace periods
when that happens. This should be a rare event though. Yet add
debugging and torture code to test that assumption
- Fix memory leak on locktorture module
- Annotate accesses in rculist_nulls.h to prevent from KCSAN
warnings. On recent discussions, we also concluded that all those
WRITE_ONCE() and READ_ONCE() on list APIs deserve appropriate
comments. Something to be expected for the next cycle
- Provide a script to apply several configs to several commits with
torture
- Allow torture to reuse a build directory in order to save needless
rebuild time
- Various cleanups"
* tag 'rcu.release.v6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux: (29 commits)
refscale: Add SRCU-fast-updown readers
refscale: Exercise DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU_FAST() and init_srcu_struct_fast()
rcutorture: Make srcu{,d}_torture_init() announce the SRCU type
srcu: Create an SRCU-fast-updown API
refscale: Do not disable interrupts for tests involving local_bh_enable()
refscale: Add non-atomic per-CPU increment readers
refscale: Add this_cpu_inc() readers
refscale: Add preempt_disable() readers
refscale: Add local_bh_disable() readers
refscale: Add local_irq_disable() and local_irq_save() readers
torture: Permit negative kvm.sh --kconfig numberic arguments
srcu: Add SRCU_READ_FLAVOR_FAST_UPDOWN CPP macro
rcu: Mark diagnostic functions as notrace
rcutorture: Make TREE04 use CONFIG_RCU_DYNTICKS_TORTURE
rcutorture: Remove redundant rcutorture_one_extend() from rcu_torture_one_read()
rcutorture: Permit kvm-again.sh to re-use the build directory
torture: Add kvm-series.sh to test commit/scenario combination
rcu: use WRITE_ONCE() for ->next and ->pprev of hlist_nulls
locktorture: Fix memory leak in param_set_cpumask()
doc: Update for SRCU-fast definitions and initialization
...
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 3 Dec 2025 19:53:47 +0000 (11:53 -0800)]
Merge tag 'slab-for-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab
Pull slab updates from Vlastimil Babka:
- mempool_alloc_bulk() support for upcoming users in the block layer
that need to allocate multiple objects at once with the mempool's
guaranteed progress semantics, which is not achievable with an
allocation single objects in a loop. Along with refactoring and
various improvements (Christoph Hellwig)
- Preparations for the upcoming separation of struct slab from struct
page, mostly by removing the struct folio layer, as the purpose of
struct folio has shifted since it became used in slab code (Matthew
Wilcox)
- Modernisation of slab's boot param API usage, which removes some
unexpected parsing corner cases (Petr Tesarik)
- Refactoring of freelist_aba_t (now struct freelist_counters) and
associated functions for double cmpxchg, enabled by -fms-extensions
(Vlastimil Babka)
- Cleanups and improvements related to sheaves caching layer, that were
part of the full conversion to sheaves, which is planned for the next
release (Vlastimil Babka)
* tag 'slab-for-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vbabka/slab: (42 commits)
slab: Remove unnecessary call to compound_head() in alloc_from_pcs()
mempool: clarify behavior of mempool_alloc_preallocated()
mempool: drop the file name in the top of file comment
mempool: de-typedef
mempool: remove mempool_{init,create}_kvmalloc_pool
mempool: legitimize the io_schedule_timeout in mempool_alloc_from_pool
mempool: add mempool_{alloc,free}_bulk
mempool: factor out a mempool_alloc_from_pool helper
slab: Remove references to folios from virt_to_slab()
kasan: Remove references to folio in __kasan_mempool_poison_object()
memcg: Convert mem_cgroup_from_obj_folio() to mem_cgroup_from_obj_slab()
mempool: factor out a mempool_adjust_gfp helper
mempool: add error injection support
mempool: improve kerneldoc comments
mm: improve kerneldoc comments for __alloc_pages_bulk
fault-inject: make enum fault_flags available unconditionally
usercopy: Remove folio references from check_heap_object()
slab: Remove folio references from kfree_nolock()
slab: Remove folio references from kfree_rcu_sheaf()
slab: Remove folio references from build_detached_freelist()
...
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 3 Dec 2025 19:34:28 +0000 (11:34 -0800)]
Merge tag 'docs-6.19' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"This has been another busy cycle for documentation, with a lot of
build-system thrashing. That work should slow down from here on out.
- The various scripts and tools for documentation were spread out in
several directories; now they are (almost) all coalesced under
tools/docs/. The holdout is the kernel-doc script, which cannot be
easily moved without some further thought.
- As the amount of Python code increases, we are accumulating modules
that are imported by multiple programs. These modules have been
pulled together under tools/lib/python/ -- at least, for
documentation-related programs. There is other Python code in the
tree that might eventually want to move toward this organization.
- The Perl kernel-doc.pl script has been removed. It is no longer
used by default, and nobody has missed it, least of all anybody who
actually had to look at it.
- The docs build was controlled by a complex mess of makefilese that
few dared to touch. Mauro has moved that logic into a new program
(tools/docs/sphinx-build-wrapper) that, with any luck at all, will
be far easier to understand and maintain.
- The get_feat.pl program, used to access information under
Documentation/features/, has been rewritten in Python, bringing an
end to the use of Perl in the docs subsystem.
- The top-level README file has been reorganized into a more
reader-friendly presentation.
- A lot of Chinese translation additions
- Typo fixes and documentation updates as usual"
* tag 'docs-6.19' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (164 commits)
docs: makefile: move rustdoc check to the build wrapper
README: restructure with role-based documentation and guidelines
docs: kdoc: various fixes for grammar, spelling, punctuation
docs: kdoc_parser: use '@' for Excess enum value
docs: submitting-patches: Clarify that removal of Acks needs explanation too
docs: kdoc_parser: add data/function attributes to ignore
docs: MAINTAINERS: update Mauro's files/paths
docs/zh_CN: Add wd719x.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: Add libsas.rst translation
get_feat.pl: remove it, as it got replaced by get_feat.py
Documentation/sphinx/kernel_feat.py: use class directly
tools/docs/get_feat.py: convert get_feat.pl to Python
Documentation/admin-guide: fix typo and comment in cscope example
docs/zh_CN: Add data-integrity.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: Add blk-mq.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: Add block/index.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: Update the Chinese translation of kbuild.rst
docs: bring some order to our Python module hierarchy
docs: Move the python libraries to tools/lib/python
Documentation/kernel-parameters: Move the kernel build options
...
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 3 Dec 2025 19:28:38 +0000 (11:28 -0800)]
Merge tag 'v6.19-p1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6
Pull crypto updates from Herbert Xu:
"API:
- Rewrite memcpy_sglist from scratch
- Add on-stack AEAD request allocation
- Fix partial block processing in ahash
Algorithms:
- Remove ansi_cprng
- Remove tcrypt tests for poly1305
- Fix EINPROGRESS processing in authenc
- Fix double-free in zstd
Drivers:
- Use drbg ctr helper when reseeding xilinx-trng
- Add support for PCI device 0x115A to ccp
- Add support of paes in caam
- Add support for aes-xts in dthev2
Others:
- Use likely in rhashtable lookup
- Fix lockdep false-positive in padata by removing a helper"
* tag 'v6.19-p1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (71 commits)
crypto: zstd - fix double-free in per-CPU stream cleanup
crypto: ahash - Zero positive err value in ahash_update_finish
crypto: ahash - Fix crypto_ahash_import with partial block data
crypto: lib/mpi - use min() instead of min_t()
crypto: ccp - use min() instead of min_t()
hwrng: core - use min3() instead of nested min_t()
crypto: aesni - ctr_crypt() use min() instead of min_t()
crypto: drbg - Delete unused ctx from struct sdesc
crypto: testmgr - Add missing DES weak and semi-weak key tests
Revert "crypto: scatterwalk - Move skcipher walk and use it for memcpy_sglist"
crypto: scatterwalk - Fix memcpy_sglist() to always succeed
crypto: iaa - Request to add Kanchana P Sridhar to Maintainers.
crypto: tcrypt - Remove unused poly1305 support
crypto: ansi_cprng - Remove unused ansi_cprng algorithm
crypto: asymmetric_keys - fix uninitialized pointers with free attribute
KEYS: Avoid -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warning
crypto: ccree - Correctly handle return of sg_nents_for_len
crypto: starfive - Correctly handle return of sg_nents_for_len
crypto: iaa - Fix incorrect return value in save_iaa_wq()
crypto: zstd - Remove unnecessary size_t cast
...
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 3 Dec 2025 19:19:34 +0000 (11:19 -0800)]
Merge tag 'ipe-pr-20251202' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wufan/ipe
Pull IPE udates from Fan Wu:
"The primary change is the addition of support for the AT_EXECVE_CHECK
flag. This allows interpreters to signal the kernel to perform IPE
security checks on script files before execution, extending IPE
enforcement to indirectly executed scripts.
Update documentation for it, and also fix a comment"
* tag 'ipe-pr-20251202' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wufan/ipe:
ipe: Update documentation for script enforcement
ipe: Add AT_EXECVE_CHECK support for script enforcement
ipe: Drop a duplicated CONFIG_ prefix in the ifdeffery
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 3 Dec 2025 19:08:03 +0000 (11:08 -0800)]
Merge tag 'integrity-v6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/linux-integrity
Pull integrity updates from Mimi Zohar:
"Bug fixes:
- defer credentials checking from the bprm_check_security hook to the
bprm_creds_from_file security hook
- properly ignore IMA policy rules based on undefined SELinux labels
IMA policy rule extensions:
- extend IMA to limit including file hashes in the audit logs
(dont_audit action)
- define a new filesystem subtype policy option (fs_subtype)
Misc:
- extend IMA to support in-kernel module decompression by deferring
the IMA signature verification in kernel_read_file() to after the
kernel module is decompressed"
* tag 'integrity-v6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/linux-integrity:
ima: Handle error code returned by ima_filter_rule_match()
ima: Access decompressed kernel module to verify appended signature
ima: add fs_subtype condition for distinguishing FUSE instances
ima: add dont_audit action to suppress audit actions
ima: Attach CREDS_CHECK IMA hook to bprm_creds_from_file LSM hook
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 3 Dec 2025 18:52:01 +0000 (10:52 -0800)]
Merge tag 'audit-pr-20251201' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit
Pull audit updates from Paul Moore:
- Consolidate the loops in __audit_inode_child() to improve performance
When logging a child inode in __audit_inode_child(), we first run
through the list of recorded inodes looking for the parent and then
we repeat the search looking for a matching child entry. This pull
request consolidates both searches into one pass through the recorded
inodes, resuling in approximately a 50% reduction in audit overhead.
See the commit description for the testing details.
- Combine kmalloc()/memset() into kzalloc() in audit_krule_to_data()
- Comment fixes
* tag 'audit-pr-20251201' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit:
audit: merge loops in __audit_inode_child()
audit: Use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc()/memset() in audit_krule_to_data()
audit: fix comment misindentation in audit.h
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 3 Dec 2025 18:45:47 +0000 (10:45 -0800)]
Merge tag 'selinux-pr-20251201' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/selinux
Pull selinux updates from Paul Moore:
- Improve the granularity of SELinux labeling for memfd files
Currently when creating a memfd file, SELinux treats it the same as
any other tmpfs, or hugetlbfs, file. While simple, the drawback is
that it is not possible to differentiate between memfd and tmpfs
files.
This adds a call to the security_inode_init_security_anon() LSM hook
and wires up SELinux to provide a set of memfd specific access
controls, including the ability to control the execution of memfds.
As usual, the commit message has more information.
- Improve the SELinux AVC lookup performance
Adopt MurmurHash3 for the SELinux AVC hash function instead of the
custom hash function currently used. MurmurHash3 is already used for
the SELinux access vector table so the impact to the code is minimal,
and performance tests have shown improvements in both hash
distribution and latency.
See the commit message for the performance measurments.
- Introduce a Kconfig option for the SELinux AVC bucket/slot size
While we have the ability to grow the number of AVC hash buckets
today, the size of the buckets (slot size) is fixed at 512. This pull
request makes that slot size configurable at build time through a new
Kconfig knob, CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_AVC_HASH_BITS.
* tag 'selinux-pr-20251201' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/selinux:
selinux: improve bucket distribution uniformity of avc_hash()
selinux: Move avtab_hash() to a shared location for future reuse
selinux: Introduce a new config to make avc cache slot size adjustable
memfd,selinux: call security_inode_init_security_anon()
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 3 Dec 2025 17:53:48 +0000 (09:53 -0800)]
Merge tag 'lsm-pr-20251201' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm
Pull LSM updates from Paul Moore:
- Rework the LSM initialization code
What started as a "quick" patch to enable a notification event once
all of the individual LSMs were initialized, snowballed a bit into a
30+ patch patchset when everything was done. Most of the patches, and
diffstat, is due to splitting out the initialization code into
security/lsm_init.c and cleaning up some of the mess that was there.
While not strictly necessary, it does cleanup the code signficantly,
and hopefully makes the upkeep a bit easier in the future.
Aside from the new LSM_STARTED_ALL notification, these changes also
ensure that individual LSM initcalls are only called when the LSM is
enabled at boot time. There should be a minor reduction in boot times
for those who build multiple LSMs into their kernels, but only enable
a subset at boot.
It is worth mentioning that nothing at present makes use of the
LSM_STARTED_ALL notification, but there is work in progress which is
dependent upon LSM_STARTED_ALL.
- Make better use of the seq_put*() helpers in device_cgroup
* tag 'lsm-pr-20251201' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm: (36 commits)
lsm: use unrcu_pointer() for current->cred in security_init()
device_cgroup: Refactor devcgroup_seq_show to use seq_put* helpers
lsm: add a LSM_STARTED_ALL notification event
lsm: consolidate all of the LSM framework initcalls
selinux: move initcalls to the LSM framework
ima,evm: move initcalls to the LSM framework
lockdown: move initcalls to the LSM framework
apparmor: move initcalls to the LSM framework
safesetid: move initcalls to the LSM framework
tomoyo: move initcalls to the LSM framework
smack: move initcalls to the LSM framework
ipe: move initcalls to the LSM framework
loadpin: move initcalls to the LSM framework
lsm: introduce an initcall mechanism into the LSM framework
lsm: group lsm_order_parse() with the other lsm_order_*() functions
lsm: output available LSMs when debugging
lsm: cleanup the debug and console output in lsm_init.c
lsm: add/tweak function header comment blocks in lsm_init.c
lsm: fold lsm_init_ordered() into security_init()
lsm: cleanup initialize_lsm() and rename to lsm_init_single()
...
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 3 Dec 2025 17:45:23 +0000 (09:45 -0800)]
Merge tag 'keys-trusted-next-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jarkko/linux-tpmdd
Pull trusted key updates from Jarkko Sakkinen:
- Remove duplicate 'tpm2_hash_map' in favor of 'tpm2_find_hash_alg()'
- Fix a memory leak on failure paths of 'tpm2_load_cmd'
* tag 'keys-trusted-next-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jarkko/linux-tpmdd:
KEYS: trusted: Fix a memory leak in tpm2_load_cmd
KEYS: trusted: Replace a redundant instance of tpm2_hash_map
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 3 Dec 2025 17:41:04 +0000 (09:41 -0800)]
Merge tag 'keys-next-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jarkko/linux-tpmdd
Pull keys update from Jarkko Sakkinen:
"This contains only three fixes"
* tag 'keys-next-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jarkko/linux-tpmdd:
keys: Fix grammar and formatting in 'struct key_type' comments
keys: Replace deprecated strncpy in ecryptfs_fill_auth_tok
keys: Remove redundant less-than-zero checks
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 3 Dec 2025 17:23:25 +0000 (09:23 -0800)]
Merge tag 'nolibc-20251130-for-6.19-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nolibc/linux-nolibc
Pull nolibc updates from Thomas Weißschuh:
- Preparations to the use of nolibc in UML:
- Cleanup of sparse warnings
- Library mode without _start()
- More consistency when disabling errno
- Unconditional installation of all architecture support files
- Always 64-bit wide ino_t and off_t
- Various cleanups and bug fixes
* tag 'nolibc-20251130-for-6.19-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nolibc/linux-nolibc: (25 commits)
selftests/nolibc: error out on linker warnings
selftests/nolibc: use lld to link loongarch binaries
tools/nolibc: remove more __nolibc_enosys() fallbacks
tools/nolibc: remove now superfluous overflow check in llseek
tools/nolibc: use 64-bit off_t
tools/nolibc: prefer the llseek syscall
tools/nolibc: handle 64-bit off_t for llseek
tools/nolibc: use 64-bit ino_t
tools/nolibc: avoid using plain integer as NULL pointer
tools/nolibc: add support for fchdir()
tools/nolibc: clean up outdated comments in generic arch.h
tools/nolibc: make the "headers" target install all supported archs
tools/nolibc: add the more portable inttypes.h
tools/nolibc: provide the portable sys/select.h
tools/nolibc: add missing memchr() to string.h
tools/nolibc: fix misleading help message regarding installation path
tools/nolibc: add uio.h with readv and writev
tools/nolibc: add option to disable runtime
tools/nolibc: use __fallthrough__ rather than fallthrough
tools/nolibc: implement %m if errno is not defined
...
dt-bindings: thermal: qcom-tsens: Remove invalid tab character
Commit 1ee90870ce79 ("dt-bindings: thermal: tsens: Add QCS8300
compatible") uses a tab character which is illegal in YAML (at the
beginning of a line). The original patch was correct, so this got
corrupted when applied.
Yanzhu Huang [Wed, 5 Nov 2025 23:26:15 +0000 (23:26 +0000)]
ipe: Update documentation for script enforcement
This patch adds explanation of script enforcement mechanism in admin
guide documentation. Describes how IPE supports integrity enforcement
for indirectly executed scripts through the AT_EXECVE_CHECK flag, and
how this differs from kernel enforcement for compiled executables.
Signed-off-by: Yanzhu Huang <yanzhuhuang@linux.microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Fan Wu <wufan@kernel.org>
Yanzhu Huang [Wed, 5 Nov 2025 23:26:14 +0000 (23:26 +0000)]
ipe: Add AT_EXECVE_CHECK support for script enforcement
This patch adds a new ipe_bprm_creds_for_exec() hook that integrates
with the AT_EXECVE_CHECK mechanism. To enable script enforcement,
interpreters need to incorporate the AT_EXECVE_CHECK flag when
calling execveat() on script files before execution.
When a userspace interpreter calls execveat() with the AT_EXECVE_CHECK
flag, this hook triggers IPE policy evaluation on the script file. The
hook only triggers IPE when bprm->is_check is true, ensuring it's
being called from an AT_EXECVE_CHECK context. It then builds an
evaluation context for an IPE_OP_EXEC operation and invokes IPE policy.
The kernel returns the policy decision to the interpreter, which can
then decide whether to proceed with script execution.
This extends IPE enforcement to indirectly executed scripts, permitting
trusted scripts to execute while denying untrusted ones.
Signed-off-by: Yanzhu Huang <yanzhuhuang@linux.microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Fan Wu <wufan@kernel.org>
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 3 Dec 2025 03:00:26 +0000 (19:00 -0800)]
Merge tag 'random-6.19-rc1-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random
Pull random number generator updates from Jason Donenfeld:
- Dynamically allocate cpumasks off of the stack if the kernel is
configured for a lot of CPUs, to handle a -Wframe-larger-than case
- The removal of next_pseudo_random32() after the last user was
switched over to the prandom interface
- The removal of get_random_u{8,16,32,64}_wait() functions, as there
were no users of those at all
- Some house keeping changes - a few grammar cleanups in the
comments, system_unbound_wq was renamed to system_dfl_wq, and
static_key_initialized no longer needs to be checked
* tag 'random-6.19-rc1-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/crng/random:
random: complete sentence of comment
random: drop check for static_key_initialized
random: remove unused get_random_var_wait functions
random: replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq
random: use offstack cpumask when necessary
prandom: remove next_pseudo_random32
media: vivid: use prandom
random: add missing words in function comments
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 3 Dec 2025 02:53:50 +0000 (18:53 -0800)]
Merge tag 'fpsimd-on-stack-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux
Pull arm64 FPSIMD on-stack buffer updates from Eric Biggers:
"This is a core arm64 change. However, I was asked to take this because
most uses of kernel-mode FPSIMD are in crypto or CRC code.
In v6.8, the size of task_struct on arm64 increased by 528 bytes due
to the new 'kernel_fpsimd_state' field. This field was added to allow
kernel-mode FPSIMD code to be preempted.
Unfortunately, 528 bytes is kind of a lot for task_struct. This
regression in the task_struct size was noticed and reported.
Recover that space by making this state be allocated on the stack at
the beginning of each kernel-mode FPSIMD section.
To make it easier for all the users of kernel-mode FPSIMD to do that
correctly, introduce and use a 'scoped_ksimd' abstraction"
* tag 'fpsimd-on-stack-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux: (23 commits)
lib/crypto: arm64: Move remaining algorithms to scoped ksimd API
lib/crypto: arm/blake2b: Move to scoped ksimd API
arm64/fpsimd: Allocate kernel mode FP/SIMD buffers on the stack
arm64/fpu: Enforce task-context only for generic kernel mode FPU
net/mlx5: Switch to more abstract scoped ksimd guard API on arm64
arm64/xorblocks: Switch to 'ksimd' scoped guard API
crypto/arm64: sm4 - Switch to 'ksimd' scoped guard API
crypto/arm64: sm3 - Switch to 'ksimd' scoped guard API
crypto/arm64: sha3 - Switch to 'ksimd' scoped guard API
crypto/arm64: polyval - Switch to 'ksimd' scoped guard API
crypto/arm64: nhpoly1305 - Switch to 'ksimd' scoped guard API
crypto/arm64: aes-gcm - Switch to 'ksimd' scoped guard API
crypto/arm64: aes-blk - Switch to 'ksimd' scoped guard API
crypto/arm64: aes-ccm - Switch to 'ksimd' scoped guard API
raid6: Move to more abstract 'ksimd' guard API
crypto: aegis128-neon - Move to more abstract 'ksimd' guard API
crypto/arm64: sm4-ce-gcm - Avoid pointless yield of the NEON unit
crypto/arm64: sm4-ce-ccm - Avoid pointless yield of the NEON unit
crypto/arm64: aes-ce-ccm - Avoid pointless yield of the NEON unit
lib/crc: Switch ARM and arm64 to 'ksimd' scoped guard API
...
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 3 Dec 2025 02:26:54 +0000 (18:26 -0800)]
Merge tag 'libcrypto-at-least-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux
Pull 'at_least' array size update from Eric Biggers:
"C supports lower bounds on the sizes of array parameters, using the
static keyword as follows: 'void f(int a[static 32]);'. This allows
the compiler to warn about a too-small array being passed.
As discussed, this reuse of the 'static' keyword, while standard, is a
bit obscure. Therefore, add an alias 'at_least' to compiler_types.h.
Then, add this 'at_least' annotation to the array parameters of
various crypto library functions"
* tag 'libcrypto-at-least-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux:
lib/crypto: sha2: Add at_least decoration to fixed-size array params
lib/crypto: sha1: Add at_least decoration to fixed-size array params
lib/crypto: poly1305: Add at_least decoration to fixed-size array params
lib/crypto: md5: Add at_least decoration to fixed-size array params
lib/crypto: curve25519: Add at_least decoration to fixed-size array params
lib/crypto: chacha: Add at_least decoration to fixed-size array params
lib/crypto: chacha20poly1305: Statically check fixed array lengths
compiler_types: introduce at_least parameter decoration pseudo keyword
wifi: iwlwifi: trans: rename at_least variable to min_mode
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 3 Dec 2025 02:24:35 +0000 (18:24 -0800)]
Merge tag 'aes-gcm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux
Pull AES-GCM optimizations from Eric Biggers:
"More optimizations and cleanups for the x86_64 AES-GCM code:
- Add a VAES+AVX2 optimized implementation of AES-GCM. This is very
helpful on CPUs that have VAES but not AVX512, such as AMD Zen 3.
- Make the VAES+AVX512 optimized implementation of AES-GCM handle
large amounts of associated data efficiently.
- Remove the "avx10_256" implementation of AES-GCM. It's superseded
by the VAES+AVX2 optimized implementation.
- Rename the "avx10_512" implementation to "avx512"
Overall, this fills in a gap where AES-GCM wasn't fully optimized on
some recent CPUs. It also drops code that won't be as useful as
initially expected due to AVX10/256 being dropped from the AVX10 spec"
* tag 'aes-gcm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiggers/linux:
crypto: x86/aes-gcm-vaes-avx2 - initialize full %rax return register
crypto: x86/aes-gcm - optimize long AAD processing with AVX512
crypto: x86/aes-gcm - optimize AVX512 precomputation of H^2 from H^1
crypto: x86/aes-gcm - revise some comments in AVX512 code
crypto: x86/aes-gcm - reorder AVX512 precompute and aad_update functions
crypto: x86/aes-gcm - clean up AVX512 code to assume 512-bit vectors
crypto: x86/aes-gcm - rename avx10 and avx10_512 to avx512
crypto: x86/aes-gcm - remove VAES+AVX10/256 optimized code
crypto: x86/aes-gcm - add VAES+AVX2 optimized code