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2026-09-07dma-mapping: rename dma_opt_mapping_size()John Garry
Function dma_opt_mapping_size() implies from its name that it returns a target or sweet spot DMA mapping size. However, it is just an upper limit optimal DMA mapping size. Above this size, DMA mapping performance may significantly degrade. Rename to dma_max_opt_mapping_size() to reflect the real behaviour. Also rename the internal DMA mapping symbols to align with this. The DMA API documentation already described this behaviour properly (so there is nothing to update). Signed-off-by: John Garry <john.garry@linux.dev> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260831093620.3481337-1-john.g.garry@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
2026-09-07syscall_user_dispatch: Use CONFIG_SYSCTL for sysctl guardKarl Mehltretter
Commit 8d75c338f0bc ("sysctl: remove CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL, it just mirrors CONFIG_SYSCTL") removed CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL, but the sysctl added by commit 5b6e32ba7b59 ("syscall_user_dispatch: Add kernel.syscall_user_dispatch sysctl") is still guarded by it. Now that both commits are merged, kernel.syscall_user_dispatch is no longer registered. syscall_user_dispatch_allowed defaults to true. SUD therefore remains available, but administrators cannot disable new activations. Use CONFIG_SYSCTL for the guard and documentation. Fixes: 5b6e32ba7b59 ("syscall_user_dispatch: Add kernel.syscall_user_dispatch sysctl") Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6-sol Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Bradley Morgan <include@grrlz.net> Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
2026-09-07tick/broadcast: Plug clockevents replacement raceThomas Gleixner
朱恺乾 reported and decoded the following race condition when a broadcast device is replaced: CPUA CPUB __tick_broadcast_oneshot_control() bc = tick_broadcast_device.evtdev; tick_install_broadcast_device(dev) clockevents_exchange_device(cur, dev) shutdown(cur); detach(cur); cur->handler = noop; tick_broadcast_device.evtdev = dev; tick_broadcast_set_event(bc, next_event); <- FAIL: arms a detached device. If the original broadcast device has a restricted interrupt affinity mask and the last CPU in that mask goes offline then the BUG() in tick_cleanup_dead_cpu() triggers because the clockevent device is not in detached state. The reason for this is that tick_install_broadcast_device() is not serialized vs. tick broadcast operations. The obvious cure is to serialize tick_install_broadcast_device() with tick_broadcast_lock against a concurrent tick broadcast operation. That requires to split clockevents_exchange_device() into two parts, one which does the exchange, shutdown and detach operation and the other which drops the module reference count. This is required because the module reference cannot be dropped while holding tick_broadcast_lock. Let clockevents_exchange_device() do both operations as before, but let the broadcast device code take the two step approach and do the device exchange under tick_broadcast_lock and drop the module reference count after releasing it. Fixes: f8381cba04ba ("[PATCH] tick-management: broadcast functionality") Reported-by: 朱恺乾 <zhukaiqian@xiaomi.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Bradley Morgan <brads@mainlining.org> Tested-by: 刘术高 <liushugao@xiaomi.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/87cymdsu0r.ffs@tglx
2026-09-06Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf 7.3-rc2Alexei Starovoitov
Cross-merge BPF and other fixes after downstream PR. Conflicts: kernel/bpf/backtrack.c include/linux/bpf_verifier.h Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-09-06Merge tag 'trace-v7.3-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt: - Fix several tracefs files that did not take the trace_array reference A trace instance can be created and destroyed in the tracefs "instances" directory via mkdir and rmdir respectively. The instance is represented by a trace_array descriptor. Most tracefs files pass the trace_array as the private data of the inode to the open/read/write functions. Since there is no locking between the time a task opens a file and the deletion of the instance (and the freeing of the trace_array), each open needs to get a reference to the trace_array and each close must remove it. An instance can't be removed if there's any reference taken on its trace_array. The open function uses trace_array_get() that takes a lock (preventing removal of instances) and iterates the list of all existing trace_arrays and if it finds a match, it takes the reference and releases the lock. If it doesn't find a match, it causes the open to return -ENODEV. There were some added files that did not take the trace_array reference on open that needed to be fixed. Sashiko also correctly pointed out that there were some files that took an address of an field or element of the trace_array which had a pointer back to the trace_array to take its reference on open. But this leaves a slight race between referencing this element to get the trace_array as the element itself could be freed. To solve this, some helper functions were created to look for trace_arrays with this field or element in the search so that the element did not have to be dereferenced before the trace_array's reference was taken. - Add a lock around ftrace_ops initialization When a ftrace_ops is first used by ftrace, some internal initialization is performed on the ops. But if multiple tasks were calling functions that did this initialization, it could race and perform doing the initialization more than once, corrupting the internal data. Add a lock in the initialization code to prevent this from happening. - Fix splice reads on mmapped buffers The logic in the ring buffer splice code for mmapped buffers is supposed to do a copy of the memory as the mapped buffers can't be given to splice. But there was an if statement within the copy code that would return a -1 if a request for a full page was done and it wasn't a partial read. This is because this logic was written before mmapped buffers existed and this case didn't make sense at the time. For mmapped buffers it makes perfect sense and by returning early can drop a lot of pages unnecessarily. - Have the persistent ring buffer validation check nr_subbufs Sashiko reported that the validation code was relying on the saved nr_subbufs to match the calculated nr_pages + 1 and if they were off, that the code could cause corruption. Sashiko is correct, and the saved nr_subbufs should be validated before assuming it is correct. - Do not allow more than one instance with the same name on cmdline If an admin were to add more than one trace instances with the same name they all would be created, but only the first one would be accessible via tracefs. This used to not be allowed but some restructuring of code has since made it possible. - Fix the race between subbuf resize and trace_pipe_raw readers If a task was reading trace_pipe_raw while another task was changing the ring buffer subbuf size, it could crash the reader. The trace_pipe_raw readers do get their own copy of the page from the buffer, but the code needs some restructuring to not have the resize of the subbuffers cause issues. - Cap the size of the mapped (static) ring buffer nr_pages The meta data used for ring buffer mapped buffers is 32 bit in size. A normal ring buffer could (in theory) have more than 4 billion pages. But this is not allowed by mapped buffers, so enforce it. * tag 'trace-v7.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: ring-buffer: Use a macro for static buffer bits tracing: Fix comment in tracing_buffers_splice_read() ring-buffer: Prevent truncation of nr_pages / nr_subbufs ring-buffer: Cap static ring buffer nr_pages tracing: Fix subbuf resize races with trace_pipe_raw readers tracing: Fix to avoid creating trace instances with duplicate names ring-buffer: Add checking nr_subbufs to persistent ring buffer validation ring-buffer: Allow splice reads on static buffers tracing: Take trace_array reference when opening options file ftrace: Synchronize the initialization of ftrace_ops ftrace: Take trace_array reference before accessing its ftrace_ops tracing: Have show_event_filters/triggers files take trace array ref
2026-09-06Merge tag 'bpf-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpfLinus Torvalds
Pull bpf fixes from Alexei Starovoitov: "This mainly contains verifier fixes that address bugs reported by Nicholas Carlini. - Fix incorrect non-NULL inference in pointer comparisons: pointer types that may be NULL at runtime, pointers with unbounded offsets, JMP32 comparisons with zero, and imprecise zero registers (Eduard Zingerman) - Fix precision tracking for half-dead zero spills, ld_abs/ld_ind implicit subprog exit, bpf_loop() callbacks, linked scalar ids and NULL call arguments (Eduard Zingerman) - Reject BPF_PSEUDO_FUNC reference to the main program, fix zero extension of arena 32-bit cmpxchg, don't rewrite bpf_fastcall patterns entered by a jump (Eduard Zingerman) - Fix percpu map update and BPF_F_CPU validation with sparse CPU IDs (Hui Su) - Fix NULL-ptr-derefs in bpf_snprintf_btf() for void and VAR types, and reject key-less BTF for hash maps (Jiayuan Chen) - Various fixes (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi): - Fix out-of-bounds access in disassembler on invalid LDSX instruction - mark siginfo of signal tracepoints as scalar and sched_process_wait argument as nullable - mark faultable stack helpers as sleepable - reject tail calls and legacy packet loads from callbacks - enforce rbtree callback lock restrictions for resilient locks - require MEM_PERCPU for percpu kptr stores - clear NON_OWN_REF after RCU protection ends - mark NULL kptr stores precise - preserve inner map identity in callback frames - reject non-scalar bpf_loop() iteration counts - Fix trampoline allocation slowdown on x86 by using EXECMEM_MODULE_DATA (Mike Rapoport) - Keep bpf_refcount_acquire() nullable for borrowed RCU kptrs and reject untrusted allocated-object pointers (Ning Ding) - Fix special fields handling in recycled rhtab elements (Nuoqi Gui, Yuan Chen)" * tag 'bpf-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf: (86 commits) bpf, riscv: Make arena support depend on ZACAS selftests/bpf: Test pointer bpf_loop iteration count rejection bpf: Reject non-scalar bpf_loop iteration counts bpf: use mark_arg_precision() in check_mem_size_reg() bpf: propagate mark_chain_precision() errors out of loop_flag_is_zero() selftests/bpf: precision of a NULL global subprogram BTF_ID argument bpf: mark a NULL BTF_ID argument of a global subprogram precise selftests/bpf: precision of a NULL kfunc argument bpf: mark a NULL kfunc argument precise selftests/bpf: precision of a NULL global subprogram memory argument bpf: mark a NULL memory argument of a call precise selftests/bpf: precision of a NULL helper argument bpf: mark a NULL call argument precise selftests/bpf: Test inner map identities in callbacks bpf: Preserve inner map identity in callback frames selftests/bpf: Test imprecise scalar kptr stores bpf: Mark NULL kptr stores precise selftests/bpf: Test rhtab kptr cancellation semantics bpf: Cancel special fields when recycling rhtab elements selftests/bpf: Test timer field on recycled rhtab element ...
2026-09-06Merge tag 'sched-urgent-2026-09-06' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar: - Fix a timestamping bug in pick_task_fair() and yield_task_fair() (Zhan Xusheng) - Skip migrate-disabled tasks when picking a push candidate in the RT and DL schedulers (Seiji Nishikawa) - Skip rq->avg_idle update without a valid idle_stamp (Shubhang Kaushik) - Fix throttling bug in throttle_cfs_rq(), caused by the recent single-runqueue conversion (Wanwu Li) - Fix bandwidth calculation bug in distribute_cfs_runtime(), caused by the single-runqueue conversion (Wanwu Li) - Don't make x86 ITMT enablement depend on debugfs (Mario Limonciello) - Avoid creating misfits during cache-aware load-balancing on hybrid systems (Tim Chen) * tag 'sched-urgent-2026-09-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched/fair: Avoid creating misfits during cache-aware balancing x86/itmt: Don't make ITMT enablement depend on debugfs sched/fair: Use cfs_rq->h_curr in distribute_cfs_runtime() sched/fair: Use cfs_rq->h_curr in throttle_cfs_rq() sched/core: Skip rq->avg_idle update without a valid idle_stamp sched/rt,dl: Skip migrate-disabled tasks when picking a push candidate sched/fair: Use update_curr_eevdf() for the remaining root cfs_rq callers
2026-09-06Merge tag 'perf-urgent-2026-09-06' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull perf events fixes from Ingo Molnar: - Skip empty AUX records with only format flags (Leo Yan) - Fix use-after-free when perf mmap() revival races with the last munmap() (Yilin Zhang, Weiming Shi) * tag 'perf-urgent-2026-09-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: perf: Fix use-after-free when perf mmap() revival races with the last munmap() perf/core: Skip empty AUX records with only format flags
2026-09-06Merge tag 'locking-urgent-2026-09-06' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull locking fixes from Ingo Molnar: - Fix a softirq processing delay bug in local_interrupt_disable(), which should mostly only affect the Rust runtime (Boqun Feng) - Remove the hardirq_disable_count() function which caused the previous bug and is now unused & unnecessary (Boqun Feng) - lockdep: Invalidate stale class_cache entries for zapped classes (Eric Dumazet) - Fix rt_mutex specific futex scheduling helpers (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior) - Fix rcuwait use-after-free race during futex requeue PI (Yao Kai) * tag 'locking-urgent-2026-09-06' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: futex: Prevent rcuwait use-after-free during requeue PI futex: Provide rt_mutex_.*_schedule() equivalents for futex scheduling locking/lockdep: Invalidate stale class_cache entries for zapped classes preempt: Remove hardirq_disable_count() interrupt: Disable interrupt before modifying hardirq_disable counter
2026-09-05bpf: Reject non-scalar bpf_loop iteration countsKumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
bpf_loop() declares its nr_loops argument as ARG_ANYTHING. Privileged programs may pass pointer values to such arguments, so check_func_arg() lets a pointer-valued R1 reach the helper-specific checks. Since commit bb124da69c47 ("bpf: keep track of max number of bpf_loop callback iterations"), the verifier marks R1 precise and reads its upper bound to limit callback simulation. Precision backtracking only accepts scalar registers, so passing a pointer instead triggers the "backtracking misuse" verifier warning. Kernels with panic_on_warn enabled subsequently panic. Introduce ARG_SCALAR for helper arguments that only accept scalar values and use it for bpf_loop() nr_loops. Generic helper argument validation then rejects pointers before loop inlining and precision processing. Fixes: bb124da69c47 ("bpf: keep track of max number of bpf_loop callback iterations") Reported-by: syzbot+7b47f87674e9a1569110@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260905014735.1452988-2-memxor@gmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/6a9ad24c.b5d4176b.238c3e.0001.GAE@google.com/ Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
2026-09-05sched_ext: Use @prev's scheduler for the keep decisions in dispatch_one()Tejun Heo
dispatch_one() tests ops flags and bypass state against the root scheduler in both places where it decides to keep running @prev: the early keep of a @prev with slice left tests the root's bypass state, and the keep-last at the end tests the root's SCX_OPS_ENQ_LAST and bypass state. Both are properties of the scheduler @prev belongs to, and put_prev_task_scx(), which acts on the outcome, reads them from that scheduler. When @prev belongs to a sub-scheduler the two sides disagree. The keep-last case is visible. The root set SCX_OPS_ENQ_LAST, so a lone @prev of a sub-scheduler is not kept and is enqueued with SCX_ENQ_LAST to a sub-scheduler that never opted in. This trips the WARN_ON_ONCE in put_prev_task_scx() for the missing flag, and the sub-scheduler queues the task like any other and triggers no follow-up scheduling event, which can lead to stalls. Test SCX_OPS_ENQ_LAST and bypass state on @prev's sched in both places and charge SCX_EV_DISPATCH_KEEP_LAST to it. Read the sched at each decision, as the dispatch in between can drop the rq lock. Fixes: 88234b075c3f ("sched_ext: Introduce scx_task_sched[_rcu]()") Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-09-05sched_ext: Rename sch to root_sch in dispatch_one()Tejun Heo
dispatch_one() uses the root scheduler for everything it does, including the two decisions to keep running @prev, which are wrong when @prev belongs to a sub-scheduler. The function has to deal with @prev's scheduler too. Rename the root's local from sch to root_sch for clarity and to make room for it. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-09-05softirq: Remove redundant h->action from preempt_count mismatch errorEnlin Mu
When a preempt_count mismatch is detected in handle_softirqs(), the error message currently prints the softirq action handler (h->action). However, as Thomas Gleixner pointed out, the action handler for a given softirq vector is always a known, fixed function (e.g., run_timer_softirq for TIMER_SOFTIRQ). Printing it provides zero diagnostic value. The real issue typically lies in the functions invoked *within* that handler, not the handler entry point itself. Therefore, as suggested by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior, remove h->action from the print statement entirely to clean up the error message. Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Suggested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Enlin Mu <enlin.mu@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Bradley Morgan <include@grrlz.net> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260825011509.8505-1-enlin.mu@linux.dev
2026-09-04treewide: refresh kmalloc_obj() conversionsKees Cook
This is another run of the Coccinelle script for converting kmalloc() family of allocations to kmalloc_obj() via the existing rules in scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci This catches both the set of kmalloc() uses added since the first kmalloc_obj() conversions in v7.0 and adds a large group missed in the first pass due to Coccinelle not interacting well with the cleanup.h scoped_...() family of macros[1]. I worked around this with spatch's "--macro-file" argument to a file with all the scoped_...() macros mapped to Coccinelle's YACFE_ITERATOR[2] as that was the closest viable control flow indicator I could find. Build tested allmodconfig on x86, arm64, arm, loongarch, mips, powerpc, riscv, and s390 with no new warnings. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202609021314.8A9C0B8@keescook/ [1] Link: https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle/blob/master/standard.h [2] Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees+treewide@kernel.org>
2026-09-04bpf: use mark_arg_precision() in check_mem_size_reg()Eduard Zingerman
Use newly added mark_arg_precision() helper in check_mem_size_reg(). Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260904-register-is-null-precise-fixes-v1-10-0f5a360ff15d@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-09-04bpf: propagate mark_chain_precision() errors out of loop_flag_is_zero()Eduard Zingerman
Stop verification if mark_chain_precision() fails when called from loop_flag_is_zero(). No functional change intended for the paths where backtracking succeeds. Fixes: 1ade23711971 ("bpf: Inline calls to bpf_loop when callback is known") Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260904-register-is-null-precise-fixes-v1-9-0f5a360ff15d@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-09-04bpf: mark a NULL BTF_ID argument of a global subprogram preciseEduard Zingerman
btf_check_func_arg_match() accepts a NULL register for an ARG_PTR_TO_BTF_ID argument tagged __arg_nullable and skips check_reg_type() and check_func_arg_reg_off() without marking the register precise. Hence a checkpoint created on such a path would prune against arbitrary scalar value. Fixes: e2b3c4ff5d18 ("bpf: add __arg_trusted global func arg tag") Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260904-register-is-null-precise-fixes-v1-7-0f5a360ff15d@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-09-04bpf: mark a NULL kfunc argument preciseEduard Zingerman
check_kfunc_arg() allows bpf_register_is_null() for nullable arguments w/o marking the underlying scalar register precise. Hence a checkpoint created on such a path would prune against arbitrary scalar value. Fixes: 3bda08b63670 ("bpf: Allow NULL buffers in bpf_dynptr_slice(_rw)") Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260904-register-is-null-precise-fixes-v1-5-0f5a360ff15d@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-09-04bpf: mark a NULL memory argument of a call preciseEduard Zingerman
check_mem_reg() allows bpf_register_is_null() for nullable arguments w/o marking the underlying scalar register precise. Hence a checkpoint created on such a path would prune against arbitrary scalar value. The argument may live on the stack rather than in a register when a call has more than MAX_BPF_FUNC_REG_ARGS arguments, hence the new mark_arg_precision() helper. Fixes: e5069b9c23b3 ("bpf: Support pointers in global func args") Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260904-register-is-null-precise-fixes-v1-3-0f5a360ff15d@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-09-04bpf: mark a NULL call argument preciseEduard Zingerman
check_func_arg() allows bpf_register_is_null() for nullable arguments w/o marking the underlying scalar register precise. Hence a checkpoint created on such a path would prune against arbitrary scalar value. check_helper_call() enforces second parameter of the bpf_get_local_storage() to be zero, w/o marking the underlying scalar register precise. Hence a checkpoint created on such a path would prune against arbitrary scalar value. Grouping these two into one patch, as they share the same fixes tag. Fixes: b5dc0163d8fd ("bpf: precise scalar_value tracking") Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260904-register-is-null-precise-fixes-v1-1-0f5a360ff15d@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-09-04workqueue: Add workqueue_bh_budget_yield tracepointAaron Tomlin
Bottom-Half (BH) workqueues execute work items in softirq context. To prevent softirqs from starving user and kernel threads, bh_worker() enforces execution limits (i.e., BH_WORKER_JIFFIES and BH_WORKER_RESTARTS). When keep_working() is still true but either the time slice or restart count is exhausted, bh_worker() yields execution and re-raises the softirq via kick_bh_pool(). Currently, there is no observability into when a BH worker hits these limits and is forced to yield. Add the workqueue_bh_budget_yield tracepoint, emitted when bh_worker() exits the processing loop with pending work items remaining. It records, the worker pool ID, pool CPU, number of loop restarts consumed, a boolean flag indicating whether the yield was due to a time slice timeout, and a boolean flag indicating whether this is a high-priority BH pool. Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-09-04workqueue: Add workqueue_mayday and workqueue_rescued tracepointsAaron Tomlin
When a worker pool fails to create a new worker thread (e.g., typically under severe memory pressure where memory reclaim paths depend on pending work items), send_mayday() signals distress to the workqueue's rescuer thread. The rescuer then takes over processing the pending work items via assign_rescuer_work(). While pwq->stats[PWQ_STAT_MAYDAY] and pwq->stats[PWQ_STAT_RESCUED] track these occurrences cumulatively, there is currently no event-driven mechanism to observe exactly when mayday distress occurs or which work items require rescue. Add two new tracepoints namely workqueue_mayday and workqueue_rescued to make distress and rescuer execution easily observable (e.g., via Ftrace or eBPF). Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-09-04ring-buffer: Use a macro for static buffer bitsSteven Rostedt
Instead of hard coding 30 for the number of bits used for the static buffer ids in two places, create a macro. This way if it changes in the future, it will change in all the locations that use it. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260904151641.17eae0aa@gandalf.local.home Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-09-04workqueue: Add workqueue_cpu_intensive tracepointAaron Tomlin
When a concurrency-managed per-CPU work item runs continuously without sleeping for longer than wq_cpu_intensive_thresh_us, wq_worker_tick() marks the worker as WORKER_CPU_INTENSIVE and kicks it out of concurrency management so that pending work items on the pool are not starved. While CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT logs rate-limited warnings and pwq->stats[PWQ_STAT_CPU_INTENSIVE] maintains a cumulative counter, there is currently no tracepoint emitted at the moment of this transition. Therefore, add the workqueue_cpu_intensive tracepoint, recording the work_struct pointer and callback function pointer, workqueue name, executing CPU, and the runtime duration consumed in microseconds. This enables eBPF profilers, bpftrace, and Ftrace to immediately detect and attribute CPU-hogging work items in real time. Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-09-04tracing: Fix comment in tracing_buffers_splice_read()Steven Rostedt
The comment about returning an error if the read fails on the first iteration is slightly incorrect. It makes it sound like the only reason it could fail on a later iteration is if the subbuf order changed. That is incorrect, it could also fail if the length passed in was not a multiple of the subbuf size. Fix the comment. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260904143527.40e73d36@gandalf.local.home/ Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260904144902.506862a1@gandalf.local.home Fixes: dae8dda341d2 ("tracing: Fix subbuf resize races with trace_pipe_raw readers") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-09-04ring-buffer: Prevent truncation of nr_pages / nr_subbufsVincent Donnefort
Although ring_buffer_per_cpu::nr_pages is defined as unsigned long, it is capped to 32-bits in a few places, limiting the operations possible on a very large buffer. Use `unsigned long` where appropriate and prevent truncation of values using nr_pages (or nr_subbufs). While at it, subbuf_size must be at least `unsigned int`. Note that persistent, remote and user-mapped ring buffers are capping the number of pages to 30 bits already, making "int" safe in many places. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260904164450.1345852-5-vdonnefort@google.com Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-09-04ring-buffer: Cap static ring buffer nr_pagesVincent Donnefort
Static ring buffers (i.e. persistent, user-mapped and remote) rely on the bpage::id field. The number of pages for those ring buffers must fit into that variable. Enforce this limit on ring buffer creation or user-mapping. While at it, prevent nr_pages underflow when allocating a persistent buffer. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260904164450.1345852-4-vdonnefort@google.com Fixes: be68d63a139b ("ring-buffer: Add ring_buffer_alloc_range()") Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-09-04tracing: Fix subbuf resize races with trace_pipe_raw readersVincent Donnefort
Concurrent subbuffer resizes may crash trace_pipe_raw readers or leak uninitialized memory to userspace due to stale size values. Modify ring_buffer_alloc_read_page() to handle the resizing of an existing buffer_data_read_page if necessary and add a new ring_buffer_read_page_size(). This new function enables ring-buffer buffer_data_read_page users to not call the racy ring_buffer_subbuf_size_get(). This makes the spare_size member of ftrace_buffer_info redundant. Finally, handle buffer_data_read_page/reader_page order discrepancy in ring_buffer_read_page(). On a mismatch simply copy manually the data to the buffer_data_read_page. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260817140812.2C7D41F00A3A@smtp.kernel.org/ Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260904164450.1345852-3-vdonnefort@google.com Fixes: bce761d75745 ("ring-buffer: Read and write to ring buffers with custom sub buffer size") Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-09-04bpf: Preserve inner map identity in callback framesKumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
Callback frame constructors initialize map-typed argument registers with __mark_reg_known_zero() and then restore map_ptr. This clears map_uid, which is the only field distinguishing inner maps that share an inner_map_meta template. When a timer callback invokes bpf_for_each_map_elem() on a second inner map, both the saved first map and the second map value can reach the nested callback as the same template with map_uid zero. bpf_timer_init() then accepts pairing the timer from the second map with the first map. The runtime records the first map in the timer without taking a reference. Freeing that map does not find the timer stored in the second map, so a later timer callback dereferences the freed map. Copy map_uid from the same caller register as map_ptr when constructing for-each, timer/workqueue, and task-work callback arguments. The existing identity check can then reject mismatched inner maps while allowing a callback value to be paired with its actual map. Fixes: 3e8ce29850f1 ("bpf: Prevent pointer mismatch in bpf_timer_init.") Fixes: 69c087ba6225 ("bpf: Add bpf_for_each_map_elem() helper") Fixes: 5c8fd7e2b5b0 ("bpf: bpf task work plumbing") Reported-by: Nicholas Carlini <npc@anthropic.com> Suggested-by: Nicholas Carlini <npc@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260904104203.345917-8-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-09-04bpf: Mark NULL kptr stores preciseKumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
check_map_kptr_access() permits a scalar store into an untrusted kptr field only when the register is known to contain zero. Unlike other verifier checks whose outcome depends on a scalar value, it does not mark that register precise. A state checkpoint reached with an imprecise zero can therefore prune a second path that reaches the store with an arbitrary nonzero scalar. The program can write attacker-controlled bits into the kptr field and load them back as a PTR_TO_BTF_ID. Call mark_chain_precision() before accepting a known-zero register. This forces state equivalence to compare its scalar range and makes the verifier visit and reject a path carrying a nonzero value. Fixes: 61df10c7799e ("bpf: Allow storing unreferenced kptr in map") Reported-by: Nicholas Carlini <npc@anthropic.com> Suggested-by: Nicholas Carlini <npc@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260904104203.345917-6-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-09-04bpf: Cancel special fields when recycling rhtab elementsNuoqi Gui
rhtab_map_update_existing() and rhtab_delete_elem() call bpf_obj_free_fields() when replacing or deleting a value. These map operations can run from BPF programs in NMI context, where releasing a referenced kptr or another complex field is not generally safe. Array and hash maps avoid that problem by cancelling only the asynchronous fields which can be stopped safely in the caller context. Other ownership state remains attached to the allocation until its memory allocator destructor performs the final cleanup. Use bpf_obj_cancel_fields() for the corresponding rhtab paths as well. This cancels timers, workqueues, and task work while allowing rhtab_mem_dtor() to release referenced kptrs when the allocation is eventually destroyed. Fixes: 6905f8601298 ("bpf: Allow special fields in resizable hashtab") Signed-off-by: Nuoqi Gui <gnq25@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn> Acked-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com> [ kkd: Rebased, used direct helper calls, and rewrote the commit log ] Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260904104203.345917-4-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-09-04bpf: Preserve special fields in recycled rhtab elementsYuan Chen
rhtab_map_update_elem() initializes special fields after obtaining an element from bpf_mem_cache_alloc(). The allocator can return a fresh, zeroed unit, or recycle one from its RCU-pending lists before the registered destructor has run. A BPF program can retain a map-value pointer after deleting its element and initialize and arm a timer through that pointer. If the deleted unit is recycled, check_and_init_map_value() clears the only pointer to the timer. Neither a later deletion nor rhtab_mem_dtor() can then cancel it, and the callback can run with its key and value pointing into freed memory. Do not reinitialize special fields on insertion. Fresh allocator units are already zeroed. For recycled units, the special fields are ownership state that must remain visible to the eventual destructor. copy_map_value() already skips those fields, matching the non-preallocated hash-map path and the lifecycle established by commit 275c30bcee66 ("bpf: Don't reinit map value in prealloc_lru_pop"). Fixes: 6905f8601298 ("bpf: Allow special fields in resizable hashtab") Reported-by: Nicholas Carlini <npc@anthropic.com> Suggested-by: Nicholas Carlini <npc@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Yuan Chen <chenyuan@kylinos.cn> [ kkd: Split out the fix and rewrote the commit log ] Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260904104203.345917-2-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-09-04bpf: add BPF_JIT_KASAN for KASAN instrumentation of JITed programsAlexis Lothoré (eBPF Foundation)
Add a new Kconfig option CONFIG_BPF_JIT_KASAN that automatically enables generic KASAN (Kernel Address SANitizer) memory access checks for JIT-compiled BPF programs as well, when both KASAN (and more specifically, generic KASAN with KASAN_VMALLOC) and JIT compiler are enabled. This new Kconfig is not a user selectable one: it is automatically enabled if KASAN is enabled on a compatible platform. When enabled, the JIT compiler will emit shadow memory checks before memory loads and stores to detect use-after-free or out-of-bounds accesses at runtime. The option is gated behind HAVE_EBPF_JIT_KASAN, as it needs proper arch-specific implementation. Acked-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Alexis Lothoré (eBPF Foundation) <alexis.lothore@bootlin.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260903-kasan-v9-2-2407fe99255a@bootlin.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-09-04bpf: mark instructions accessing program stackAlexis Lothoré (eBPF Foundation)
In order to prepare to emit KASAN checks in JITed programs, JIT compilers need to be aware about whether some load/store instructions are targeting the bpf program stack, as those should not be monitored (we already have guard pages for that, and it is difficult anyway to correctly monitor any kind of data passed on stack). To support this need, make the BPF verifier mark the instructions depending on whether they could access or not memory other than stack. As different states in the verifier could lead to different memory types for the same access, just marking an instruction as accessing stack only is not enough (it could be some other memory type in another verifier state), so the algorithm rather sets by default any load/store instruction as stack only, and if _any_ state leads to any memory access type other than PTR_TO_STACK, it overrides this setting. It also takes care about shifting back the instruction marking in adjust_insn_aux_data if the verifier patches instructions. However, if the verifier generates new BPF_ST/BPF_STX/BPF_LDX while patching some instructions, those new ones are systematically marked as non-stack-accessing: this may over-instrument a few memory accessing instructions, but it allows making sure that we will not miss accidentally any. Signed-off-by: Alexis Lothoré (eBPF Foundation) <alexis.lothore@bootlin.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260903-kasan-v9-1-2407fe99255a@bootlin.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-09-04tracing: Fix to avoid creating trace instances with duplicate namesMasami Hiramatsu (Google)
Since commit e645535a954a ("tracing: Add option to use memmapped memory for trace boot instance") changed trace_array_get_by_name() to trace_array_create_systems(), enable_instances() does not reuse the same name instance. Therefore, if an administrator mistakenly specifies multiple `trace_instance=` options with duplicate names, all are created but only the first is accessible via tracefs. Check whether an instance with the same name already exists before creating a new one, and reject duplicates with a warning. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/178847790399.283263.5313150997200138426.stgit@devnote2 Fixes: e645535a954a ("tracing: Add option to use memmapped memory for trace boot instance") Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2026-09-04Merge tag 'probes-fixes-v7.3-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace Pull probes fixes from Masami Hiramatsu: - Protect kprobe_blacklist with RCU RCU-protect kprobe_blacklist and use kfree_rcu() to prevent UAF races during module unloading and enable safe atomic lookups. - Fix multi-probe field use-after-free Duplicate field and type strings on trace_probe_event to prevent UAF when freeing primary probe - Fix probe BTF member lookup: Check the containing inner struct/union kflag when resolving anonymous members to ensure correct bitfield offset calculation Prevent unnamed bitfields from being pushed to anon_stack in btf_find_struct_member(), avoiding false lookup errors Fix code block indentation in get_bitoffset_of_field() - uprobes error pointer safety Guard free_trace_uprobe() with IS_ERR_OR_NULL() to avoid crashing during automatic cleanup when an error pointer is returned * tag 'probes-fixes-v7.3-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: kprobes: Protect kprobe_blacklist with RCU tracing/probes: Fix use-after-free on field name/type of events with multiple probes tracing/probes: Fix code indent in get_bitoffset_of_field() tracing/probes: Fix BTF kflag check for anonymous struct member access tracing/probes: Fix anon_stack check for unnamed bitfields in btf_find_struct_member uprobes: guard trace cleanup against error pointers
2026-09-04bpf: Clear NON_OWN_REF after RCU protection endsKumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
A local kptr load of an object containing a graph node is marked MEM_RCU and NON_OWN_REF while protected by RCU. When the last RCU read-side critical section ends, invalidate_rcu_protected_refs() removes MEM_RCU and marks the pointer PTR_UNTRUSTED, but leaves NON_OWN_REF set. The stale flag lets graph kfunc argument checks continue treating the pointer as a live borrowed reference. In particular, bpf_rbtree_remove() can accept a pointer after its protection ended and return it as a new owning reference, even though the object may already have been freed. Clear NON_OWN_REF when an RCU-protected pointer is demoted. A spin lock also provides implicit RCU protection, so invalidate non-owning references before demoting RCU-protected pointers when releasing the lock. Otherwise the demotion would clear the flag before invalidate_non_owning_refs() can find and invalidate those aliases. The demoted pointer remains available for fault-protected reads. Exempt such reads from the allocated-object reference-state assertion; writes through a fault-prone pointer are already rejected, and bpf_may_fault_on_deref() makes the surviving loads use BPF_PROBE_MEM. Fixes: 1b12171533a9 ("bpf: Mark direct ld of stashed bpf_{rb,list}_node as non-owning ref") Reported-by: Nicholas Carlini <npc@anthropic.com> Suggested-by: Nicholas Carlini <npc@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260904084325.52250-6-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-09-04bpf: Keep refcount_acquire nullable for borrowed RCU kptrsNing Ding
bpf_refcount_acquire() is fallible for a borrowed reference because the object may have reached a zero refcount. The verifier therefore keeps KF_RET_NULL on the return value unless the argument is an owning reference. An RCU-protected load of a local kptr is marked MEM_ALLOC, but it only receives NON_OWN_REF when the pointee contains a graph node. A refcounted object without a graph node consequently looks like an owning reference even though the loaded register has no acquired reference state. If the program drops the last real reference while remaining in the RCU critical section, refcount_inc_not_zero() returns NULL while the verifier treats the result as non-NULL. Only classify the argument as owning when it is backed by a verifier-tracked reference. This retains the non-NULL return for pointers from bpf_obj_new(), bpf_kptr_xchg(), or an earlier successful acquisition, while requiring a NULL check for borrowed RCU kptrs. Fixes: 1b12171533a9 ("bpf: Mark direct ld of stashed bpf_{rb,list}_node as non-owning ref") Reported-by: Nicholas Carlini <npc@anthropic.com> Suggested-by: Nicholas Carlini <npc@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Ning Ding <dingning04@gmail.com> [ kkd: Rewrote commit log ] Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260904084325.52250-4-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-09-04bpf: Require MEM_PERCPU for percpu kptr storesKumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
map_kptr_match_type() treats perm_flags as the set of register type flags that a kptr field permits. Adding MEM_PERCPU to that set for BPF_KPTR_PERCPU does not require the source register to carry it, however. The subset test consequently accepts both a plain bpf_obj_new() allocation and a referenced kernel pointer into a __percpu_kptr map field. Loads from the field are always marked MEM_PERCPU. Consumers then treat the stored value as the cookie returned by bpf_percpu_obj_new(): per-CPU pointer helpers relocate it, and map teardown selects the per-CPU free path. A plain allocation can therefore provide an arbitrary kernel read/write, while a kernel pointer can be relocated into an invalid address or sent through a missing destructor. Require the source MEM_PERCPU flag to match the destination field kind. This preserves valid bpf_percpu_obj_new() stores and rejects both the program-BTF and kernel-BTF variants. Fixes: 36d8bdf75a93 ("bpf: Add alloc/xchg/direct_access support for local percpu kptr") Reported-by: Nicholas Carlini <npc@anthropic.com> Suggested-by: Nicholas Carlini <npc@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260904084325.52250-2-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2026-09-04bpf: Mark the zero register precise for a register-form NULL checkEduard Zingerman
check_cond_jmp_op() accepts "if rA <op> rB" as a NULL check for a nullable pointer rA when rB is a scalar known to be zero, lifts PTR_MAYBE_NULL from rA in the corresponding branch and does not mark rB precise. Consider the following program: r0 = bpf_get_prandom_u32(); r6 = 1; /* the r6 == 0 path is explored first */ if (r0 == 0) goto 1f; r6 = 0; 1: r0 = bpf_map_lookup_elem(map, &0); /* absent, NULL at runtime */ if (r0 == r6) goto 2f; /* taken as a NULL check for r0 */ *(u8 *)(r0 + 0); /* verifier: map value; runtime: zero */ 2: return 0; The r6 == 0 path is explored first and the dereference is accepted. The r6 == 1 path is pruned at the checkpoint recorded for (1), so the comparison is never verified with a non-zero r6. At runtime a failed lookup returns NULL, NULL != 1 takes the non-NULL edge and the program dereferences a pointer that is zero. Fixes: 2f4cb53eed44 ("bpf: detect non null pointer with register operand in JEQ/JNE.") Reported-by: Nicholas Carlini <npc@anthropic.com> Suggested-by: Nicholas Carlini <npc@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260904083325.2083493-7-eddyz87@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
2026-09-04bpf: Don't predict JMP32 pointer vs zero comparisonsEduard Zingerman
Consider the following program: r1 = map_value; /* low 32 bits are zero at runtime */ r6 = 0xdead000000000000; if w1 != 0 goto l1; l0: r1 += r6; r2 = *(u64 *)(r1 + 0); exit; l1: r6 = 0; goto l0; At the moment is_branch_taken() reports the jump as always taken, because it does not distinguish between BPF_JMP and BPF_JMP32 comparisons when processing 'if w1 != 0 ...'. Fixes: cac616db39c2 ("bpf: Verifier track null pointer branch_taken with JNE and JEQ") Reported-by: Nicholas Carlini <npc@anthropic.com> Suggested-by: Nicholas Carlini <npc@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260904083325.2083493-5-eddyz87@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
2026-09-04bpf: Don't resurrect a scalar id dropped by collect_linked_regs()Eduard Zingerman
check_cond_jmp_op() copies the compared registers into env->{false,true}_reg{1,2} before collect_linked_regs() runs and copies those snapshots back into both branch states afterwards. collect_linked_regs() records at most LINKED_REGS_MAX members of a linked registers group in the jump history and calls clear_scalar_id() for every member that does not fit. The compared register is not exempt from that. As a consequence, sync_linked_regs() might adjust ranges for more registers than bpf_bt_sync_linked_regs() can propagate precision to. Collect the linked registers before the snapshots are taken instead. This might lead to some unnecessary clear_scalar_id's, but from previous testing situations with many linked registers are extremely rare. Fixes: ec1d77cb0ee9 ("bpf: Use bpf_verifier_env buffers for reg_set_min_max") Reported-by: Nicholas Carlini <npc@anthropic.com> Suggested-by: Nicholas Carlini <npc@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260904083325.2083493-3-eddyz87@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
2026-09-04bpf: Don't infer non-NULL from a pointer with an unbounded offsetEduard Zingerman
reg_not_null() decides that a register holds a non-NULL value by looking at its type alone. For pointer types that allow arithmetic the type only guarantees a non-NULL base, in case of an unbound offset the runtime offset value might still add up to NULL. Consider the followng program: r6 = bpf_map_lookup_elem(map, &0); /* present */ if (r6 == 0) return 0; r7 = bpf_map_lookup_elem(map, &1); /* absent, NULL at runtime */ r8 = r7; r8 -= r6; /* pointer - pointer: unknown scalar, -r6 */ r8 <<= 1; r8 >>= 1; /* any non-negative offset is accepted by */ /* check_reg_sane_offset_ptr() */ r6 += r8; /* verifier: map value; runtime: zero */ if (r7 != r6) return 0; *(u8 *)(r7 + 0); /* r7 is inferred non-NULL, both are zero */ At runtime both registers are zero, the comparison is true and the load faults with NULL pointer dereference. Require the offset to be within +-BPF_MAX_VAR_OFF in reg_not_null(). Fixes: cac616db39c2 ("bpf: Verifier track null pointer branch_taken with JNE and JEQ") Reported-by: Nicholas Carlini <npc@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260904083325.2083493-1-eddyz87@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
2026-09-04uts: drop BUG_ON() in copy_utsname()Shaojie Sun
The sole caller, create_new_namespaces(), always passes a valid uts namespace pointer from the task's nsproxy. The other copy_*_ns() helpers, e.g. copy_time_ns() and copy_pid_ns(), don't perform such a check either. Drop the BUG_ON() for consistency with them. Signed-off-by: Shaojie Sun <sunshaojie@kylinos.cn> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260903064828.126643-3-sunshaojie@kylinos.cn Reviewed-by: Bradley Morgan <brads@mainlining.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-09-04exit: hold a reference to thread_pid across proc_flush_pidDaehyeon Ko
Commit 0a36bad01731 ("release_task: kill the no longer needed get/put_pid(thread_pid)") removed the reference around proc_flush_pid(). It assumed that free_pids(post.pids) at the end of release_task() would keep thread_pid alive until then. That assumption is wrong. __change_pid() only records a detached PID in post.pids when pid_has_task() is false for every PIDTYPE. If another task still uses the exiting task's PID as its process group or session ID, __unhash_process() removes the exiting task's PIDTYPE_PID link but leaves the PID out of post.pids. release_task() therefore holds no reference to it after dropping tasklist_lock. The other task can then remove the remaining PIDTYPE links. Its free_pids() call schedules delayed_put_pid(), and the RCU callback can free the PID before the first release_task() reaches proc_flush_pid(). An unprivileged reproducer races wait4(-1) against setsid() to trigger this ordering. Three of three fresh v7.2 KASAN boots reported: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in proc_invalidate_siblings_dcache+0x3e2/0x3f0 Read of size 8 by task h7_pid_reaper/1921 Call Trace: proc_invalidate_siblings_dcache release_task wait_consider_task __do_wait do_wait kernel_wait4 Freed by task 0: kmem_cache_free put_pid delayed_put_pid rcu_core Last potentially related work creation: __call_rcu_common free_pids ksys_setsid KASAN identified a 144-byte object from the pid cache and located the bad read 80 bytes into the freed object, matching pid->inodes. With an explicit reference, three of three fresh boots completed without a KASAN report. The concurrent RCU callback dropped its reference while proc_flush_pid() was protected, and the balancing put_pid() performed the final free afterward. Take a reference before __unhash_process() clears p->thread_pid and release it after proc_flush_pid() completes. A tested source reproducer is available privately on request. No controlled read or write, information leak, or privilege escalation is claimed. The mainline patch applies directly to v6.19.y and newer; v6.16.y through v6.18.y need a context-adjusted backport. Fixes: 0a36bad01731 ("release_task: kill the no longer needed get/put_pid(thread_pid)") Reported-by: syzbot+0aee5e8066eddbbe7397@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=0aee5e8066eddbbe7397 Reported-by: syzbot+e8b3520b53e78e90034e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=e8b3520b53e78e90034e Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # see patch description, needs adjustments for 6.16.y-6.18.y Signed-off-by: Daehyeon Ko <4ncienth@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260831001221.3755948-1-4ncienth@gmail.com Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Bradley Morgan <brads@mainlining.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-09-04livepatch: Fix UAF of unregistered patch kobjectsYafang Shao
The kobjects of a livepatch are released via kobject_put(). When CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE is enabled, kobject_put() does not release the kobject synchronously but schedules a delayed release with a random delay of up to 4 seconds (see kobject_release() in lib/kobject.c). klp_free_patch_finish() only waits for the release of the patch kobject: klp_free_patch_finish(): kobject_put(&patch->kobj); wait_for_completion(&patch->finish); patch->finish is completed by the patch kobject's release callback. If the patch kobject was never added to sysfs, or if some child kobjects were initialized but never added to sysfs (e.g. when klp_enable_patch() fails after klp_init_patch_early()), those un-added children do not hold a reference on the patch kobject. kobject_add() is what takes the parent reference, so the patch kobject can be released first, completing patch->finish while the child releases are still pending. The caller then unloads the livepatch module, which destroys the static klp_object and klp_func structures. The delayed child release callbacks later access this freed memory, causing a use-after-free. Fix it by making every child kobject hold an explicit reference on its parent from the moment the object is initialized: klp_init_object_early() takes a reference on the patch kobject and klp_init_func_early() takes a reference on the object kobject. Unlike the reference taken by kobject_add(), these references also exist for objects that are never added to sysfs, and the release callbacks drop them unconditionally. This guarantees the patch kobject is released only after all child kobjects have been released, so patch->finish cannot be completed before the static structures are safe to free. Because kobj->parent is set only by kobject_add(), add explicit back-pointers, obj->patch and func->obj, so the release callbacks can find the parent. Dynamic objects and nop functions are freed by their release callbacks; save the parent pointer before freeing and drop the parent reference afterwards. Reported-by: sashiko-bot <sashiko-bot@kernel.org> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260809094046.50ED31F000E9@smtp.kernel.org/ Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Tested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260830054857.64758-2-laoar.shao@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
2026-09-04genirq: Discard cpumask of irqaffinity= boot parameter if parsing failsLukas Beckmann
irq_affinity_setup() ignores the return value of cpulist_parse(). This can result in using a "half parsed" cpulist. E.g. on a system with 8 cores, the parameter "irqaffinity=0,1,6-10,4" would result in using only CPU 0 and 1, since the parsing fails at 6-10. Other boot parameters which take a cpulist (e.g. isolcpus=, workqueue.unbound_cpus=) already handle this by falling back to a default. Check the return value of cpulist_parse() and let init_irq_default_affinity() set the default in early_irq_init() later, if parsing fails. Signed-off-by: Lukas Beckmann <lbckmnn@mailbox.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Radu Rendec <radu@rendec.net> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260822160502.4665-1-lbckmnn@mailbox.org
2026-09-04futex: Prevent rcuwait use-after-free during requeue PIYao Kai
On PREEMPT_RT, FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI can trigger a KASAN report (slab-out-of-bounds) in futex_requeue_pi_complete() invocation of rcuwait_wake_up(). The futex_q used by futex_wait_requeue_pi() is allocated on the waiter's stack. An early wakeup can race with a PI requeue as follows: waiter requeue task ------ ------------ futex_wait_requeue_pi() futex_do_wait() schedule() futex_requeue futex_proxy_trylock_atomic() futex_requeue_pi_prepare() Q_REQUEUE_PI_NONE -> Q_REQUEUE_PI_IN_PROGRESS * timeout/ signal wakes waiter * futex_requeue_pi_wakeup_sync() Q_REQUEUE_PI_IN_PROGRESS -> Q_REQUEUE_PI_WAIT requeue_pi_wake_futex futex_requeue_pi_complete() cmpxchg Q_REQUEUE_PI_WAIT -> Q_REQUEUE_PI_LOCKED rcuwait_wait_event() if (atomic_read(&q->requeue_state) != Q_REQUEUE_PI_WAIT) break /* no schedule() */ /* q.pi_state->owner == current */ futex_private_hash_put() /* return from syscall */ rcuwait_wake_up(&q->requeue_wait) /* q is gone */ futex_requeue_pi_complete() publishes Q_REQUEUE_PI_LOCKED before calling rcuwait_wake_up(). The waiter observes this state in rcuwait_wait_event() before invoking schedule() in rcuwait_wait_event(). Here, the waiter is free leave the syscall before requeue task can complete the wake. To address this race skip rcuwait_wake_up() in the Q_REQUEUE_PI_LOCKED case. This state is only published by requeue_pi_wake_futex(), which saves q->task before futex_requeue_pi_complete() and wakes the waiter via wake_up_state(). This wake is intended to wake the waiter from its futex_do_wait() sleep. If the waiter is still sleeping there, it can not get into the Q_REQUEUE_PI_WAIT state (and require this removed wake). Should the waiter be woken up from futex_do_wait() by other means (as in this example) and sleep in futex_requeue_pi_wakeup_sync() then the wake_up_state() from requeue_pi_wake_futex() will wake it, too. Should the waiter task terminate before wake_up_state() had a chance to wake the task then the task pointer does not become invalid because the futex_hash_bucket::lock is held and the task pointer is RCU protected. [bigeasy: Updated comment and commit message] Fixes: 07d91ef510fb1 ("futex: Prevent requeue_pi() lock nesting issue on RT") Signed-off-by: Yao Kai <yaokai34@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260901135453.3121948-3-bigeasy@linutronix.de
2026-09-04futex: Provide rt_mutex_.*_schedule() equivalents for futex schedulingSebastian Andrzej Siewior
There is rt_mutex_{pre|post}_schedule() around rt_mutex_wait_proxy_lock() to ensure that sched_submit_work()/ sched_update_worker() is invoked before we schedule out and block on rt_mutex while waiting for it become available. The reason is that blocking on rt_mutex assigns a pi_waiter for the PI chain and sched_submit_work() will also assign a pi_waiter if it blocks on lock but a this point we already have a waiter assigned. We can't skip sched_submit_work() entirely because I/O relies on the fact that I/O queue is flushed while it blocks on a sleeping lock. Therefore sched_submit_work() is moved before we block on the lock. Sleeping lock in this context means mutex or rw_semaphore not spinlock_t on PREEMPT_RT. Because the mutex abstraction on PREEMPT_RT uses the same abstraction as the futex proxy lock, the futex code ended up using rt_mutex_{pre|post}_schedule(), too. Using it is/ was just to keep the task_struct::sched_rt_mutex assertion happy. Futex proxy lock is used only in the syscall context of a task. At this point it never got any I/O that needs to be flushed and it can't be a workqueue that needs to notify that it will be scheduled out. Therefore sched_submit_work() does nothing here. By mistake futex_wait_requeue_pi() -> rt_mutex_wait_proxy_lock() did not get the rt_mutex_{pre|post}_schedule() annotation. This was not noticed because in this callchain the lock is (usually) not contended and so rt_mutex_slowlock_block() does not schedule, triggering the assert. Adding rt_mutex_pre_schedule() here looks wrong (as noted by PeterZ) because at this point there is a pi_waiter recorded and invoking sched_submit_work() with a possible lock contention would be wrong. Add rt_mutex_futex_{pre|post}_schedule() which toggles the sched_rt_mutex assert and does not involve sched_submit_work(). Add asserts here to ensure that sched_submit_work() would do nothing. Use it only in futex proxy lock case which is rt_mutex_wait_proxy_lock(). Remove it from futex_lock_pi(). Fixes: d14f9e930b90 ("locking/rtmutex: Use rt_mutex specific scheduler helpers") Reported-by: Yao Kai <yaokai34@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260901135453.3121948-2-bigeasy@linutronix.de Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260717084922.4153317-2-yaokai34@huawei.com
2026-09-03bpf: Reject legacy packet loads from callbacksKumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
check_ld_abs() models a failed BPF_LD_ABS or BPF_LD_IND in a subprogram as an implicit return with R0 set to zero. It calls prepare_func_exit() to explore this synthesized path. When the load is reached directly from a synchronous callback, prepare_func_exit() enforces the callback return contract and marks R0 precise. R0 is not derived from a real instruction on this path, so precision backtracking reaches the callback call with R0 still requested and triggers the "callback unexpected regs" verifier bug. A privileged program loader can therefore cause a verifier warning and an -EFAULT BPF_PROG_LOAD. These legacy packet-load instructions are deprecated. Reject them from callbacks rather than complicating their implicit-return model. Check all active frames before constructing the implicit return so nested static subprograms cannot hide the callback context. Global functions are verified independently with a fresh frame zero, so an active-frame check cannot identify a global function called from a callback. Also check the complete subprogram call graph during stack-depth validation and reject a function containing a legacy load when any caller is a callback. This covers global and static descendants without making has_ld_abs transitive, preserving its per-function BTF return-type check. Ordinary uses outside callbacks remain supported. Fixes: ee861486e377 ("bpf: Fix ld_{abs,ind} failure path analysis in subprogs") Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260903152147.C0E241F00A3A@smtp.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260903214758.2727663-8-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>