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<title>mm: change huge_ptep_clear_flush() to return the original pte</title>
<updated>2022-05-13T23:48:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Baolin Wang</name>
<email>baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-13T23:48:55+00:00</published>
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Patch series "Fix CONT-PTE/PMD size hugetlb issue when unmapping or migrating", v4.

presently, migrating a hugetlb page or unmapping a poisoned hugetlb page,
we'll use ptep_clear_flush() and set_pte_at() to nuke the page table entry
and remap it, and this is incorrect for CONT-PTE or CONT-PMD size hugetlb
page, which will cause potential data consistent issue.  This patch set
will change to use hugetlb related APIs to fix this issue.

Note: Mike pointed out the huge_ptep_get() will only return the one
specific value, and it would not take into account the dirty or young bits
of CONT-PTE/PMDs like the huge_ptep_get_and_clear() [1].  This
inconsistent issue is not introduced by this patch set, and this issue
will be addressed in another thread [2].  Meanwhile the uffd for hugetlb
case [3] pointed out by Gerald also needs another patch to address.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/85bd80b4-b4fd-0d3f-a2e5-149559f2f387@oracle.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1651998586.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20220503120343.6264e126@thinkpad/


This patch (of 3):

It is incorrect to use ptep_clear_flush() to nuke a hugetlb page table
when unmapping or migrating a hugetlb page, and will change to use
huge_ptep_clear_flush() instead in the following patches.

So this is a preparation patch, which changes the huge_ptep_clear_flush()
to return the original pte to help to nuke a hugetlb page table.

[baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com: fix build in several more architectures]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0009a4cd-2826-e8be-e671-f050d4f18d5d@linux.alibaba.com
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fixup]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220511181531.7f27a5c1@canb.auug.org.au
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1652270205.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20f77ddab90baa249bd24504c413189b82acde69.1652270205.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1652147571.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/dcf065868cce35bceaf138613ad27f17bb7c0c19.1652147571.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song &lt;songmuchun@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.osdn.me&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Patch series "Fix CONT-PTE/PMD size hugetlb issue when unmapping or migrating", v4.

presently, migrating a hugetlb page or unmapping a poisoned hugetlb page,
we'll use ptep_clear_flush() and set_pte_at() to nuke the page table entry
and remap it, and this is incorrect for CONT-PTE or CONT-PMD size hugetlb
page, which will cause potential data consistent issue.  This patch set
will change to use hugetlb related APIs to fix this issue.

Note: Mike pointed out the huge_ptep_get() will only return the one
specific value, and it would not take into account the dirty or young bits
of CONT-PTE/PMDs like the huge_ptep_get_and_clear() [1].  This
inconsistent issue is not introduced by this patch set, and this issue
will be addressed in another thread [2].  Meanwhile the uffd for hugetlb
case [3] pointed out by Gerald also needs another patch to address.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/85bd80b4-b4fd-0d3f-a2e5-149559f2f387@oracle.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1651998586.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20220503120343.6264e126@thinkpad/


This patch (of 3):

It is incorrect to use ptep_clear_flush() to nuke a hugetlb page table
when unmapping or migrating a hugetlb page, and will change to use
huge_ptep_clear_flush() instead in the following patches.

So this is a preparation patch, which changes the huge_ptep_clear_flush()
to return the original pte to help to nuke a hugetlb page table.

[baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com: fix build in several more architectures]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0009a4cd-2826-e8be-e671-f050d4f18d5d@linux.alibaba.com
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fixup]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220511181531.7f27a5c1@canb.auug.org.au
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1652270205.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20f77ddab90baa249bd24504c413189b82acde69.1652270205.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1652147571.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/dcf065868cce35bceaf138613ad27f17bb7c0c19.1652147571.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song &lt;songmuchun@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vasily Gorbik &lt;gor@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Gordeev &lt;agordeev@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.osdn.me&gt;
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2022-04-02T02:57:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-02T02:57:03+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "Assorted bits and pieces"

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  aio: drop needless assignment in aio_read()
  clean overflow checks in count_mounts() a bit
  seq_file: fix NULL pointer arithmetic warning
  uml/x86: use x86 load_unaligned_zeropad()
  asm/user.h: killed unused macros
  constify struct path argument of finish_automount()/do_add_mount()
  fs: Remove FIXME comment in generic_write_checks()
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Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "Assorted bits and pieces"

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  aio: drop needless assignment in aio_read()
  clean overflow checks in count_mounts() a bit
  seq_file: fix NULL pointer arithmetic warning
  uml/x86: use x86 load_unaligned_zeropad()
  asm/user.h: killed unused macros
  constify struct path argument of finish_automount()/do_add_mount()
  fs: Remove FIXME comment in generic_write_checks()
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'flexible-array-transformations-5.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gustavoars/linux</title>
<updated>2022-03-24T18:39:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-24T18:39:32+00:00</published>
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Pull flexible-array transformations from Gustavo Silva:
 "Treewide patch that replaces zero-length arrays with flexible-array
  members.

  This has been baking in linux-next for a whole development cycle"

* tag 'flexible-array-transformations-5.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gustavoars/linux:
  treewide: Replace zero-length arrays with flexible-array members
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<pre>
Pull flexible-array transformations from Gustavo Silva:
 "Treewide patch that replaces zero-length arrays with flexible-array
  members.

  This has been baking in linux-next for a whole development cycle"

* tag 'flexible-array-transformations-5.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gustavoars/linux:
  treewide: Replace zero-length arrays with flexible-array members
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'asm-generic-5.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic</title>
<updated>2022-03-24T01:03:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-24T01:03:08+00:00</published>
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Pull asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann:
 "There are three sets of updates for 5.18 in the asm-generic tree:

   - The set_fs()/get_fs() infrastructure gets removed for good.

     This was already gone from all major architectures, but now we can
     finally remove it everywhere, which loses some particularly tricky
     and error-prone code. There is a small merge conflict against a
     parisc cleanup, the solution is to use their new version.

   - The nds32 architecture ends its tenure in the Linux kernel.

     The hardware is still used and the code is in reasonable shape, but
     the mainline port is not actively maintained any more, as all
     remaining users are thought to run vendor kernels that would never
     be updated to a future release.

   - A series from Masahiro Yamada cleans up some of the uapi header
     files to pass the compile-time checks"

* tag 'asm-generic-5.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: (27 commits)
  nds32: Remove the architecture
  uaccess: remove CONFIG_SET_FS
  ia64: remove CONFIG_SET_FS support
  sh: remove CONFIG_SET_FS support
  sparc64: remove CONFIG_SET_FS support
  lib/test_lockup: fix kernel pointer check for separate address spaces
  uaccess: generalize access_ok()
  uaccess: fix type mismatch warnings from access_ok()
  arm64: simplify access_ok()
  m68k: fix access_ok for coldfire
  MIPS: use simpler access_ok()
  MIPS: Handle address errors for accesses above CPU max virtual user address
  uaccess: add generic __{get,put}_kernel_nofault
  nios2: drop access_ok() check from __put_user()
  x86: use more conventional access_ok() definition
  x86: remove __range_not_ok()
  sparc64: add __{get,put}_kernel_nofault()
  nds32: fix access_ok() checks in get/put_user
  uaccess: fix nios2 and microblaze get_user_8()
  sparc64: fix building assembly files
  ...
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Pull asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann:
 "There are three sets of updates for 5.18 in the asm-generic tree:

   - The set_fs()/get_fs() infrastructure gets removed for good.

     This was already gone from all major architectures, but now we can
     finally remove it everywhere, which loses some particularly tricky
     and error-prone code. There is a small merge conflict against a
     parisc cleanup, the solution is to use their new version.

   - The nds32 architecture ends its tenure in the Linux kernel.

     The hardware is still used and the code is in reasonable shape, but
     the mainline port is not actively maintained any more, as all
     remaining users are thought to run vendor kernels that would never
     be updated to a future release.

   - A series from Masahiro Yamada cleans up some of the uapi header
     files to pass the compile-time checks"

* tag 'asm-generic-5.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: (27 commits)
  nds32: Remove the architecture
  uaccess: remove CONFIG_SET_FS
  ia64: remove CONFIG_SET_FS support
  sh: remove CONFIG_SET_FS support
  sparc64: remove CONFIG_SET_FS support
  lib/test_lockup: fix kernel pointer check for separate address spaces
  uaccess: generalize access_ok()
  uaccess: fix type mismatch warnings from access_ok()
  arm64: simplify access_ok()
  m68k: fix access_ok for coldfire
  MIPS: use simpler access_ok()
  MIPS: Handle address errors for accesses above CPU max virtual user address
  uaccess: add generic __{get,put}_kernel_nofault
  nios2: drop access_ok() check from __put_user()
  x86: use more conventional access_ok() definition
  x86: remove __range_not_ok()
  sparc64: add __{get,put}_kernel_nofault()
  nds32: fix access_ok() checks in get/put_user
  uaccess: fix nios2 and microblaze get_user_8()
  sparc64: fix building assembly files
  ...
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<entry>
<title>arch: Add pmd_pfn() where it is missing</title>
<updated>2022-03-21T16:59:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Rapoport</name>
<email>rppt@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-04T18:49:20+00:00</published>
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We need to use this function in common code, so define it for
architectures and/or configrations that miss it.  The result of
pmd_pfn() will only be used if TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE is enabled,
but a function or macro called pmd_pfn() must be defined, even
on machines with two level page tables.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
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We need to use this function in common code, so define it for
architectures and/or configrations that miss it.  The result of
pmd_pfn() will only be used if TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE is enabled,
but a function or macro called pmd_pfn() must be defined, even
on machines with two level page tables.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sh: remove CONFIG_SET_FS support</title>
<updated>2022-02-25T08:36:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-11T16:26:42+00:00</published>
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sh uses set_fs/get_fs only in one file, to handle address
errors in both user and kernel memory.

It already has an abstraction to differentiate between I/O
and memory, so adding a third class for kernel memory fits
into the same scheme and lets us kill off CONFIG_SET_FS.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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sh uses set_fs/get_fs only in one file, to handle address
errors in both user and kernel memory.

It already has an abstraction to differentiate between I/O
and memory, so adding a third class for kernel memory fits
into the same scheme and lets us kill off CONFIG_SET_FS.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>uaccess: generalize access_ok()</title>
<updated>2022-02-25T08:36:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-15T16:55:04+00:00</published>
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There are many different ways that access_ok() is defined across
architectures, but in the end, they all just compare against the
user_addr_max() value or they accept anything.

Provide one definition that works for most architectures, checking
against TASK_SIZE_MAX for user processes or skipping the check inside
of uaccess_kernel() sections.

For architectures without CONFIG_SET_FS(), this should be the fastest
check, as it comes down to a single comparison of a pointer against a
compile-time constant, while the architecture specific versions tend to
do something more complex for historic reasons or get something wrong.

Type checking for __user annotations is handled inconsistently across
architectures, but this is easily simplified as well by using an inline
function that takes a 'const void __user *' argument. A handful of
callers need an extra __user annotation for this.

Some architectures had trick to use 33-bit or 65-bit arithmetic on the
addresses to calculate the overflow, however this simpler version uses
fewer registers, which means it can produce better object code in the
end despite needing a second (statically predicted) branch.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt; [arm64, asm-generic]
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Acked-by: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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There are many different ways that access_ok() is defined across
architectures, but in the end, they all just compare against the
user_addr_max() value or they accept anything.

Provide one definition that works for most architectures, checking
against TASK_SIZE_MAX for user processes or skipping the check inside
of uaccess_kernel() sections.

For architectures without CONFIG_SET_FS(), this should be the fastest
check, as it comes down to a single comparison of a pointer against a
compile-time constant, while the architecture specific versions tend to
do something more complex for historic reasons or get something wrong.

Type checking for __user annotations is handled inconsistently across
architectures, but this is easily simplified as well by using an inline
function that takes a 'const void __user *' argument. A handful of
callers need an extra __user annotation for this.

Some architectures had trick to use 33-bit or 65-bit arithmetic on the
addresses to calculate the overflow, however this simpler version uses
fewer registers, which means it can produce better object code in the
end despite needing a second (statically predicted) branch.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt; [arm64, asm-generic]
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Acked-by: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen &lt;dinguyen@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace zero-length arrays with flexible-array members</title>
<updated>2022-02-17T13:00:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gustavo A. R. Silva</name>
<email>gustavoars@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-02-15T01:11:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=5224f79096170bf7b92cc8fe42a12f44b91e5f62'/>
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There is a regular need in the kernel to provide a way to declare
having a dynamically sized set of trailing elements in a structure.
Kernel code should always use “flexible array members”[1] for these
cases. The older style of one-element or zero-length arrays should
no longer be used[2].

This code was transformed with the help of Coccinelle:
(next-20220214$ spatch --jobs $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) --sp-file script.cocci --include-headers --dir . &gt; output.patch)

@@
identifier S, member, array;
type T1, T2;
@@

struct S {
  ...
  T1 member;
  T2 array[
- 0
  ];
};

UAPI and wireless changes were intentionally excluded from this patch
and will be sent out separately.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.16/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/78
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavoars@kernel.org&gt;
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There is a regular need in the kernel to provide a way to declare
having a dynamically sized set of trailing elements in a structure.
Kernel code should always use “flexible array members”[1] for these
cases. The older style of one-element or zero-length arrays should
no longer be used[2].

This code was transformed with the help of Coccinelle:
(next-20220214$ spatch --jobs $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN) --sp-file script.cocci --include-headers --dir . &gt; output.patch)

@@
identifier S, member, array;
type T1, T2;
@@

struct S {
  ...
  T1 member;
  T2 array[
- 0
  ];
};

UAPI and wireless changes were intentionally excluded from this patch
and will be sent out separately.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.16/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/78
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavoars@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>asm/user.h: killed unused macros</title>
<updated>2022-01-31T02:17:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-04T18:59:47+00:00</published>
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Some of them used to be used by libbfd for a.out coredump handling.
Seeing that
	* libbfd has their copies anyway
	* we don't export them into userland headers
	* we don't support a.out coredumps anymore
let's bury the definitions.  They never had in-kernel
users anyway...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Some of them used to be used by libbfd for a.out coredump handling.
Seeing that
	* libbfd has their copies anyway
	* we don't export them into userland headers
	* we don't support a.out coredumps anymore
let's bury the definitions.  They never had in-kernel
users anyway...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'bitmap-5.17-rc1' of git://github.com/norov/linux</title>
<updated>2022-01-23T04:20:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-23T04:20:44+00:00</published>
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Pull bitmap updates from Yury Norov:

 - introduce for_each_set_bitrange()

 - use find_first_*_bit() instead of find_next_*_bit() where possible

 - unify for_each_bit() macros

* tag 'bitmap-5.17-rc1' of git://github.com/norov/linux:
  vsprintf: rework bitmap_list_string
  lib: bitmap: add performance test for bitmap_print_to_pagebuf
  bitmap: unify find_bit operations
  mm/percpu: micro-optimize pcpu_is_populated()
  Replace for_each_*_bit_from() with for_each_*_bit() where appropriate
  find: micro-optimize for_each_{set,clear}_bit()
  include/linux: move for_each_bit() macros from bitops.h to find.h
  cpumask: replace cpumask_next_* with cpumask_first_* where appropriate
  tools: sync tools/bitmap with mother linux
  all: replace find_next{,_zero}_bit with find_first{,_zero}_bit where appropriate
  cpumask: use find_first_and_bit()
  lib: add find_first_and_bit()
  arch: remove GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT entirely
  include: move find.h from asm_generic to linux
  bitops: move find_bit_*_le functions from le.h to find.h
  bitops: protect find_first_{,zero}_bit properly
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Pull bitmap updates from Yury Norov:

 - introduce for_each_set_bitrange()

 - use find_first_*_bit() instead of find_next_*_bit() where possible

 - unify for_each_bit() macros

* tag 'bitmap-5.17-rc1' of git://github.com/norov/linux:
  vsprintf: rework bitmap_list_string
  lib: bitmap: add performance test for bitmap_print_to_pagebuf
  bitmap: unify find_bit operations
  mm/percpu: micro-optimize pcpu_is_populated()
  Replace for_each_*_bit_from() with for_each_*_bit() where appropriate
  find: micro-optimize for_each_{set,clear}_bit()
  include/linux: move for_each_bit() macros from bitops.h to find.h
  cpumask: replace cpumask_next_* with cpumask_first_* where appropriate
  tools: sync tools/bitmap with mother linux
  all: replace find_next{,_zero}_bit with find_first{,_zero}_bit where appropriate
  cpumask: use find_first_and_bit()
  lib: add find_first_and_bit()
  arch: remove GENERIC_FIND_FIRST_BIT entirely
  include: move find.h from asm_generic to linux
  bitops: move find_bit_*_le functions from le.h to find.h
  bitops: protect find_first_{,zero}_bit properly
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