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<title>Merge tag 'net-next-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2025-07-30T15:58:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-30T15:58:55+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core &amp; protocols:

   - Wrap datapath globals into net_aligned_data, to avoid false sharing

   - Preserve MSG_ZEROCOPY in forwarding (e.g. out of a container)

   - Add SO_INQ and SCM_INQ support to AF_UNIX

   - Add SIOCINQ support to AF_VSOCK

   - Add TCP_MAXSEG sockopt to MPTCP

   - Add IPv6 force_forwarding sysctl to enable forwarding per interface

   - Make TCP validation of whether packet fully fits in the receive
     window and the rcv_buf more strict. With increased use of HW
     aggregation a single "packet" can be multiple 100s of kB

   - Add MSG_MORE flag to optimize large TCP transmissions via sockmap,
     improves latency up to 33% for sockmap users

   - Convert TCP send queue handling from tasklet to BH workque

   - Improve BPF iteration over TCP sockets to see each socket exactly
     once

   - Remove obsolete and unused TCP RFC3517/RFC6675 loss recovery code

   - Support enabling kernel threads for NAPI processing on per-NAPI
     instance basis rather than a whole device. Fully stop the kernel
     NAPI thread when threaded NAPI gets disabled. Previously thread
     would stick around until ifdown due to tricky synchronization

   - Allow multicast routing to take effect on locally-generated packets

   - Add output interface argument for End.X in segment routing

   - MCTP: add support for gateway routing, improve bind() handling

   - Don't require rtnl_lock when fetching an IPv6 neighbor over Netlink

   - Add a new neighbor flag ("extern_valid"), which cedes refresh
     responsibilities to userspace. This is needed for EVPN multi-homing
     where a neighbor entry for a multi-homed host needs to be synced
     across all the VTEPs among which the host is multi-homed

   - Support NUD_PERMANENT for proxy neighbor entries

   - Add a new queuing discipline for IETF RFC9332 DualQ Coupled AQM

   - Add sequence numbers to netconsole messages. Unregister
     netconsole's console when all net targets are removed. Code
     refactoring. Add a number of selftests

   - Align IPSec inbound SA lookup to RFC 4301. Only SPI and protocol
     should be used for an inbound SA lookup

   - Support inspecting ref_tracker state via DebugFS

   - Don't force bonding advertisement frames tx to ~333 ms boundaries.
     Add broadcast_neighbor option to send ARP/ND on all bonded links

   - Allow providing upcall pid for the 'execute' command in openvswitch

   - Remove DCCP support from Netfilter's conntrack

   - Disallow multiple packet duplications in the queuing layer

   - Prevent use of deprecated iptables code on PREEMPT_RT

  Driver API:

   - Support RSS and hashing configuration over ethtool Netlink

   - Add dedicated ethtool callbacks for getting and setting hashing
     fields

   - Add support for power budget evaluation strategy in PSE /
     Power-over-Ethernet. Generate Netlink events for overcurrent etc

   - Support DPLL phase offset monitoring across all device inputs.
     Support providing clock reference and SYNC over separate DPLL
     inputs

   - Support traffic classes in devlink rate API for bandwidth
     management

   - Remove rtnl_lock dependency from UDP tunnel port configuration

  Device drivers:

   - Add a new Broadcom driver for 800G Ethernet (bnge)

   - Add a standalone driver for Microchip ZL3073x DPLL

   - Remove IBM's NETIUCV device driver

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
      - Broadcom (bnxt):
         - support zero-copy Tx of DMABUF memory
         - take page size into account for page pool recycling rings
      - Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
         - idpf: XDP and AF_XDP support preparations
         - idpf: add flow steering
         - add link_down_events statistic
         - clean up the TSPLL code
         - preparations for live VM migration
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - support zero-copy Rx/Tx interfaces (DMABUF and io_uring)
         - optimize context memory usage for matchers
         - expose serial numbers in devlink info
         - support PCIe congestion metrics
      - Meta (fbnic):
         - add 25G, 50G, and 100G link modes to phylink
         - support dumping FW logs
      - Marvell/Cavium:
         - support for CN20K generation of the Octeon chips
      - Amazon:
         - add HW clock (without timestamping, just hypervisor time access)

   - Ethernet virtual:
      - VirtIO net:
         - support segmentation of UDP-tunnel-encapsulated packets
      - Google (gve):
         - support packet timestamping and clock synchronization
      - Microsoft vNIC:
         - add handler for device-originated servicing events
         - allow dynamic MSI-X vector allocation
         - support Tx bandwidth clamping

   - Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
      - AMD:
         - amd-xgbe: hardware timestamping and PTP clock support
      - Broadcom integrated MACs (bcmgenet, bcmasp):
         - use napi_complete_done() return value to support NAPI polling
         - add support for re-starting auto-negotiation
      - Broadcom switches (b53):
         - support BCM5325 switches
         - add bcm63xx EPHY power control
      - Synopsys (stmmac):
         - lots of code refactoring and cleanups
      - TI:
         - icssg-prueth: read firmware-names from device tree
         - icssg: PRP offload support
      - Microchip:
         - lan78xx: convert to PHYLINK for improved PHY and MAC management
         - ksz: add KSZ8463 switch support
      - Intel:
         - support similar queue priority scheme in multi-queue and
           time-sensitive networking (taprio)
         - support packet pre-emption in both
      - RealTek (r8169):
         - enable EEE at 5Gbps on RTL8126
      - Airoha:
         - add PPPoE offload support
         - MDIO bus controller for Airoha AN7583

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - support for the IPQ5018 internal GE PHY
      - micrel KSZ9477 switch-integrated PHYs:
         - add MDI/MDI-X control support
         - add RX error counters
         - add cable test support
         - add Signal Quality Indicator (SQI) reporting
      - dp83tg720: improve reset handling and reduce link recovery time
      - support bcm54811 (and its MII-Lite interface type)
      - air_en8811h: support resume/suspend
      - support PHY counters for QCA807x and QCA808x
      - support WoL for QCA807x

   - CAN drivers:
      - rcar_canfd: support for Transceiver Delay Compensation
      - kvaser: report FW versions via devlink dev info

   - WiFi:
      - extended regulatory info support (6 GHz)
      - add statistics and beacon monitor for Multi-Link Operation (MLO)
      - support S1G aggregation, improve S1G support
      - add Radio Measurement action fields
      - support per-radio RTS threshold
      - some work around how FIPS affects wifi, which was wrong (RC4 is
        used by TKIP, not only WEP)
      - improvements for unsolicited probe response handling

   - WiFi drivers:
      - RealTek (rtw88):
         - IBSS mode for SDIO devices
      - RealTek (rtw89):
         - BT coexistence for MLO/WiFi7
         - concurrent station + P2P support
         - support for USB devices RTL8851BU/RTL8852BU
      - Intel (iwlwifi):
         - use embedded PNVM in (to be released) FW images to fix
           compatibility issues
         - many cleanups (unused FW APIs, PCIe code, WoWLAN)
         - some FIPS interoperability
      - MediaTek (mt76):
         - firmware recovery improvements
         - more MLO work
      - Qualcomm/Atheros (ath12k):
         - fix scan on multi-radio devices
         - more EHT/Wi-Fi 7 features
         - encapsulation/decapsulation offload
      - Broadcom (brcm80211):
         - support SDIO 43751 device

   - Bluetooth:
      - hci_event: add support for handling LE BIG Sync Lost event
      - ISO: add socket option to report packet seqnum via CMSG
      - ISO: support SCM_TIMESTAMPING for ISO TS

   - Bluetooth drivers:
      - intel_pcie: support Function Level Reset
      - nxpuart: add support for 4M baudrate
      - nxpuart: implement powerup sequence, reset, FW dump, and FW loading"

* tag 'net-next-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1742 commits)
  dpll: zl3073x: Fix build failure
  selftests: bpf: fix legacy netfilter options
  ipv6: annotate data-races around rt-&gt;fib6_nsiblings
  ipv6: fix possible infinite loop in fib6_info_uses_dev()
  ipv6: prevent infinite loop in rt6_nlmsg_size()
  ipv6: add a retry logic in net6_rt_notify()
  vrf: Drop existing dst reference in vrf_ip6_input_dst
  net/sched: taprio: align entry index attr validation with mqprio
  net: fsl_pq_mdio: use dev_err_probe
  selftests: rtnetlink.sh: remove esp4_offload after test
  vsock: remove unnecessary null check in vsock_getname()
  igb: xsk: solve negative overflow of nb_pkts in zerocopy mode
  stmmac: xsk: fix negative overflow of budget in zerocopy mode
  dt-bindings: ieee802154: Convert at86rf230.txt yaml format
  net: dsa: microchip: Disable PTP function of KSZ8463
  net: dsa: microchip: Setup fiber ports for KSZ8463
  net: dsa: microchip: Write switch MAC address differently for KSZ8463
  net: dsa: microchip: Use different registers for KSZ8463
  net: dsa: microchip: Add KSZ8463 switch support to KSZ DSA driver
  dt-bindings: net: dsa: microchip: Add KSZ8463 switch support
  ...
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<pre>
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core &amp; protocols:

   - Wrap datapath globals into net_aligned_data, to avoid false sharing

   - Preserve MSG_ZEROCOPY in forwarding (e.g. out of a container)

   - Add SO_INQ and SCM_INQ support to AF_UNIX

   - Add SIOCINQ support to AF_VSOCK

   - Add TCP_MAXSEG sockopt to MPTCP

   - Add IPv6 force_forwarding sysctl to enable forwarding per interface

   - Make TCP validation of whether packet fully fits in the receive
     window and the rcv_buf more strict. With increased use of HW
     aggregation a single "packet" can be multiple 100s of kB

   - Add MSG_MORE flag to optimize large TCP transmissions via sockmap,
     improves latency up to 33% for sockmap users

   - Convert TCP send queue handling from tasklet to BH workque

   - Improve BPF iteration over TCP sockets to see each socket exactly
     once

   - Remove obsolete and unused TCP RFC3517/RFC6675 loss recovery code

   - Support enabling kernel threads for NAPI processing on per-NAPI
     instance basis rather than a whole device. Fully stop the kernel
     NAPI thread when threaded NAPI gets disabled. Previously thread
     would stick around until ifdown due to tricky synchronization

   - Allow multicast routing to take effect on locally-generated packets

   - Add output interface argument for End.X in segment routing

   - MCTP: add support for gateway routing, improve bind() handling

   - Don't require rtnl_lock when fetching an IPv6 neighbor over Netlink

   - Add a new neighbor flag ("extern_valid"), which cedes refresh
     responsibilities to userspace. This is needed for EVPN multi-homing
     where a neighbor entry for a multi-homed host needs to be synced
     across all the VTEPs among which the host is multi-homed

   - Support NUD_PERMANENT for proxy neighbor entries

   - Add a new queuing discipline for IETF RFC9332 DualQ Coupled AQM

   - Add sequence numbers to netconsole messages. Unregister
     netconsole's console when all net targets are removed. Code
     refactoring. Add a number of selftests

   - Align IPSec inbound SA lookup to RFC 4301. Only SPI and protocol
     should be used for an inbound SA lookup

   - Support inspecting ref_tracker state via DebugFS

   - Don't force bonding advertisement frames tx to ~333 ms boundaries.
     Add broadcast_neighbor option to send ARP/ND on all bonded links

   - Allow providing upcall pid for the 'execute' command in openvswitch

   - Remove DCCP support from Netfilter's conntrack

   - Disallow multiple packet duplications in the queuing layer

   - Prevent use of deprecated iptables code on PREEMPT_RT

  Driver API:

   - Support RSS and hashing configuration over ethtool Netlink

   - Add dedicated ethtool callbacks for getting and setting hashing
     fields

   - Add support for power budget evaluation strategy in PSE /
     Power-over-Ethernet. Generate Netlink events for overcurrent etc

   - Support DPLL phase offset monitoring across all device inputs.
     Support providing clock reference and SYNC over separate DPLL
     inputs

   - Support traffic classes in devlink rate API for bandwidth
     management

   - Remove rtnl_lock dependency from UDP tunnel port configuration

  Device drivers:

   - Add a new Broadcom driver for 800G Ethernet (bnge)

   - Add a standalone driver for Microchip ZL3073x DPLL

   - Remove IBM's NETIUCV device driver

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
      - Broadcom (bnxt):
         - support zero-copy Tx of DMABUF memory
         - take page size into account for page pool recycling rings
      - Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
         - idpf: XDP and AF_XDP support preparations
         - idpf: add flow steering
         - add link_down_events statistic
         - clean up the TSPLL code
         - preparations for live VM migration
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - support zero-copy Rx/Tx interfaces (DMABUF and io_uring)
         - optimize context memory usage for matchers
         - expose serial numbers in devlink info
         - support PCIe congestion metrics
      - Meta (fbnic):
         - add 25G, 50G, and 100G link modes to phylink
         - support dumping FW logs
      - Marvell/Cavium:
         - support for CN20K generation of the Octeon chips
      - Amazon:
         - add HW clock (without timestamping, just hypervisor time access)

   - Ethernet virtual:
      - VirtIO net:
         - support segmentation of UDP-tunnel-encapsulated packets
      - Google (gve):
         - support packet timestamping and clock synchronization
      - Microsoft vNIC:
         - add handler for device-originated servicing events
         - allow dynamic MSI-X vector allocation
         - support Tx bandwidth clamping

   - Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
      - AMD:
         - amd-xgbe: hardware timestamping and PTP clock support
      - Broadcom integrated MACs (bcmgenet, bcmasp):
         - use napi_complete_done() return value to support NAPI polling
         - add support for re-starting auto-negotiation
      - Broadcom switches (b53):
         - support BCM5325 switches
         - add bcm63xx EPHY power control
      - Synopsys (stmmac):
         - lots of code refactoring and cleanups
      - TI:
         - icssg-prueth: read firmware-names from device tree
         - icssg: PRP offload support
      - Microchip:
         - lan78xx: convert to PHYLINK for improved PHY and MAC management
         - ksz: add KSZ8463 switch support
      - Intel:
         - support similar queue priority scheme in multi-queue and
           time-sensitive networking (taprio)
         - support packet pre-emption in both
      - RealTek (r8169):
         - enable EEE at 5Gbps on RTL8126
      - Airoha:
         - add PPPoE offload support
         - MDIO bus controller for Airoha AN7583

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - support for the IPQ5018 internal GE PHY
      - micrel KSZ9477 switch-integrated PHYs:
         - add MDI/MDI-X control support
         - add RX error counters
         - add cable test support
         - add Signal Quality Indicator (SQI) reporting
      - dp83tg720: improve reset handling and reduce link recovery time
      - support bcm54811 (and its MII-Lite interface type)
      - air_en8811h: support resume/suspend
      - support PHY counters for QCA807x and QCA808x
      - support WoL for QCA807x

   - CAN drivers:
      - rcar_canfd: support for Transceiver Delay Compensation
      - kvaser: report FW versions via devlink dev info

   - WiFi:
      - extended regulatory info support (6 GHz)
      - add statistics and beacon monitor for Multi-Link Operation (MLO)
      - support S1G aggregation, improve S1G support
      - add Radio Measurement action fields
      - support per-radio RTS threshold
      - some work around how FIPS affects wifi, which was wrong (RC4 is
        used by TKIP, not only WEP)
      - improvements for unsolicited probe response handling

   - WiFi drivers:
      - RealTek (rtw88):
         - IBSS mode for SDIO devices
      - RealTek (rtw89):
         - BT coexistence for MLO/WiFi7
         - concurrent station + P2P support
         - support for USB devices RTL8851BU/RTL8852BU
      - Intel (iwlwifi):
         - use embedded PNVM in (to be released) FW images to fix
           compatibility issues
         - many cleanups (unused FW APIs, PCIe code, WoWLAN)
         - some FIPS interoperability
      - MediaTek (mt76):
         - firmware recovery improvements
         - more MLO work
      - Qualcomm/Atheros (ath12k):
         - fix scan on multi-radio devices
         - more EHT/Wi-Fi 7 features
         - encapsulation/decapsulation offload
      - Broadcom (brcm80211):
         - support SDIO 43751 device

   - Bluetooth:
      - hci_event: add support for handling LE BIG Sync Lost event
      - ISO: add socket option to report packet seqnum via CMSG
      - ISO: support SCM_TIMESTAMPING for ISO TS

   - Bluetooth drivers:
      - intel_pcie: support Function Level Reset
      - nxpuart: add support for 4M baudrate
      - nxpuart: implement powerup sequence, reset, FW dump, and FW loading"

* tag 'net-next-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1742 commits)
  dpll: zl3073x: Fix build failure
  selftests: bpf: fix legacy netfilter options
  ipv6: annotate data-races around rt-&gt;fib6_nsiblings
  ipv6: fix possible infinite loop in fib6_info_uses_dev()
  ipv6: prevent infinite loop in rt6_nlmsg_size()
  ipv6: add a retry logic in net6_rt_notify()
  vrf: Drop existing dst reference in vrf_ip6_input_dst
  net/sched: taprio: align entry index attr validation with mqprio
  net: fsl_pq_mdio: use dev_err_probe
  selftests: rtnetlink.sh: remove esp4_offload after test
  vsock: remove unnecessary null check in vsock_getname()
  igb: xsk: solve negative overflow of nb_pkts in zerocopy mode
  stmmac: xsk: fix negative overflow of budget in zerocopy mode
  dt-bindings: ieee802154: Convert at86rf230.txt yaml format
  net: dsa: microchip: Disable PTP function of KSZ8463
  net: dsa: microchip: Setup fiber ports for KSZ8463
  net: dsa: microchip: Write switch MAC address differently for KSZ8463
  net: dsa: microchip: Use different registers for KSZ8463
  net: dsa: microchip: Add KSZ8463 switch support to KSZ DSA driver
  dt-bindings: net: dsa: microchip: Add KSZ8463 switch support
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.fileattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-07-28T22:24:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-28T22:24:14+00:00</published>
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Pull fileattr updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This introduces the new file_getattr() and file_setattr() system calls
  after lengthy discussions.

  Both system calls serve as successors and extensible companions to
  the FS_IOC_FSGETXATTR and FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR system calls which have
  started to show their age in addition to being named in a way that
  makes it easy to conflate them with extended attribute related
  operations.

  These syscalls allow userspace to set filesystem inode attributes on
  special files. One of the usage examples is the XFS quota projects.

  XFS has project quotas which could be attached to a directory. All new
  inodes in these directories inherit project ID set on parent
  directory.

  The project is created from userspace by opening and calling
  FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR on each inode. This is not possible for special
  files such as FIFO, SOCK, BLK etc. Therefore, some inodes are left
  with empty project ID. Those inodes then are not shown in the quota
  accounting but still exist in the directory. This is not critical but
  in the case when special files are created in the directory with
  already existing project quota, these new inodes inherit extended
  attributes. This creates a mix of special files with and without
  attributes. Moreover, special files with attributes don't have a
  possibility to become clear or change the attributes. This, in turn,
  prevents userspace from re-creating quota project on these existing
  files.

  In addition, these new system calls allow the implementation of
  additional attributes that we couldn't or didn't want to fit into the
  legacy ioctls anymore"

* tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.fileattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  fs: tighten a sanity check in file_attr_to_fileattr()
  tree-wide: s/struct fileattr/struct file_kattr/g
  fs: introduce file_getattr and file_setattr syscalls
  fs: prepare for extending file_get/setattr()
  fs: make vfs_fileattr_[get|set] return -EOPNOTSUPP
  selinux: implement inode_file_[g|s]etattr hooks
  lsm: introduce new hooks for setting/getting inode fsxattr
  fs: split fileattr related helpers into separate file
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<pre>
Pull fileattr updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This introduces the new file_getattr() and file_setattr() system calls
  after lengthy discussions.

  Both system calls serve as successors and extensible companions to
  the FS_IOC_FSGETXATTR and FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR system calls which have
  started to show their age in addition to being named in a way that
  makes it easy to conflate them with extended attribute related
  operations.

  These syscalls allow userspace to set filesystem inode attributes on
  special files. One of the usage examples is the XFS quota projects.

  XFS has project quotas which could be attached to a directory. All new
  inodes in these directories inherit project ID set on parent
  directory.

  The project is created from userspace by opening and calling
  FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR on each inode. This is not possible for special
  files such as FIFO, SOCK, BLK etc. Therefore, some inodes are left
  with empty project ID. Those inodes then are not shown in the quota
  accounting but still exist in the directory. This is not critical but
  in the case when special files are created in the directory with
  already existing project quota, these new inodes inherit extended
  attributes. This creates a mix of special files with and without
  attributes. Moreover, special files with attributes don't have a
  possibility to become clear or change the attributes. This, in turn,
  prevents userspace from re-creating quota project on these existing
  files.

  In addition, these new system calls allow the implementation of
  additional attributes that we couldn't or didn't want to fit into the
  legacy ioctls anymore"

* tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.fileattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  fs: tighten a sanity check in file_attr_to_fileattr()
  tree-wide: s/struct fileattr/struct file_kattr/g
  fs: introduce file_getattr and file_setattr syscalls
  fs: prepare for extending file_get/setattr()
  fs: make vfs_fileattr_[get|set] return -EOPNOTSUPP
  selinux: implement inode_file_[g|s]etattr hooks
  lsm: introduce new hooks for setting/getting inode fsxattr
  fs: split fileattr related helpers into separate file
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>af_unix: Introduce SO_INQ.</title>
<updated>2025-07-09T01:05:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kuniyuki Iwashima</name>
<email>kuniyu@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-02T22:35:18+00:00</published>
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We have an application that uses almost the same code for TCP and
AF_UNIX (SOCK_STREAM).

TCP can use TCP_INQ, but AF_UNIX doesn't have it and requires an
extra syscall, ioctl(SIOCINQ) or getsockopt(SO_MEMINFO) as an
alternative.

Let's introduce the generic version of TCP_INQ.

If SO_INQ is enabled, recvmsg() will put a cmsg of SCM_INQ that
contains the exact value of ioctl(SIOCINQ).  The cmsg is also
included when msg-&gt;msg_get_inq is non-zero to make sockets
io_uring-friendly.

Note that SOCK_CUSTOM_SOCKOPT is flagged only for SOCK_STREAM to
override setsockopt() for SOL_SOCKET.

By having the flag in struct unix_sock, instead of struct sock, we
can later add SO_INQ support for TCP and reuse tcp_sk(sk)-&gt;recvmsg_inq.

Note also that supporting custom getsockopt() for SOL_SOCKET will need
preparation for other SOCK_CUSTOM_SOCKOPT users (UDP, vsock, MPTCP).

Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250702223606.1054680-7-kuniyu@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
We have an application that uses almost the same code for TCP and
AF_UNIX (SOCK_STREAM).

TCP can use TCP_INQ, but AF_UNIX doesn't have it and requires an
extra syscall, ioctl(SIOCINQ) or getsockopt(SO_MEMINFO) as an
alternative.

Let's introduce the generic version of TCP_INQ.

If SO_INQ is enabled, recvmsg() will put a cmsg of SCM_INQ that
contains the exact value of ioctl(SIOCINQ).  The cmsg is also
included when msg-&gt;msg_get_inq is non-zero to make sockets
io_uring-friendly.

Note that SOCK_CUSTOM_SOCKOPT is flagged only for SOCK_STREAM to
override setsockopt() for SOL_SOCKET.

By having the flag in struct unix_sock, instead of struct sock, we
can later add SO_INQ support for TCP and reuse tcp_sk(sk)-&gt;recvmsg_inq.

Note also that supporting custom getsockopt() for SOL_SOCKET will need
preparation for other SOCK_CUSTOM_SOCKOPT users (UDP, vsock, MPTCP).

Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250702223606.1054680-7-kuniyu@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: introduce file_getattr and file_setattr syscalls</title>
<updated>2025-07-02T15:05:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrey Albershteyn</name>
<email>aalbersh@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-30T16:20:16+00:00</published>
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Introduce file_getattr() and file_setattr() syscalls to manipulate inode
extended attributes. The syscalls takes pair of file descriptor and
pathname. Then it operates on inode opened accroding to openat()
semantics. The struct file_attr is passed to obtain/change extended
attributes.

This is an alternative to FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR ioctl with a difference
that file don't need to be open as we can reference it with a path
instead of fd. By having this we can manipulated inode extended
attributes not only on regular files but also on special ones. This
is not possible with FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR ioctl as with special files
we can not call ioctl() directly on the filesystem inode using fd.

This patch adds two new syscalls which allows userspace to get/set
extended inode attributes on special files by using parent directory
and a path - *at() like syscall.

CC: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andrey Albershteyn &lt;aalbersh@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250630-xattrat-syscall-v6-6-c4e3bc35227b@kernel.org
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Introduce file_getattr() and file_setattr() syscalls to manipulate inode
extended attributes. The syscalls takes pair of file descriptor and
pathname. Then it operates on inode opened accroding to openat()
semantics. The struct file_attr is passed to obtain/change extended
attributes.

This is an alternative to FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR ioctl with a difference
that file don't need to be open as we can reference it with a path
instead of fd. By having this we can manipulated inode extended
attributes not only on regular files but also on special ones. This
is not possible with FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR ioctl as with special files
we can not call ioctl() directly on the filesystem inode using fd.

This patch adds two new syscalls which allows userspace to get/set
extended inode attributes on special files by using parent directory
and a path - *at() like syscall.

CC: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andrey Albershteyn &lt;aalbersh@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250630-xattrat-syscall-v6-6-c4e3bc35227b@kernel.org
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>alpha: regularize the situation with asm/param.h</title>
<updated>2025-06-25T02:02:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-02T00:28:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=f65bbf05392b44714ccdcc4b5b1bebfd471d2665'/>
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The only reason why alpha can't do what sparc et.al. are doing
is that include/asm-generic/param.h relies upon the value of HZ
set for userland header in uapi/asm/param.h being 100.

We need that value to define USER_HZ and we need that definition
to outlive the redefinition of HZ kernel-side.  And alpha needs
it to be 1024, not 100 like everybody else.

So let's add __USER_HZ to uapi/asm-generic/param.h, defaulting to
100 and used to define HZ.  That way include/asm-generic/param.h
can use that thing instead of open-coding it - it won't be affected
by undefining and redefining HZ.

That done, alpha asm/param.h can be removed and uapi/asm/param.h
switched to defining __USER_HZ and EXEC_PAGESIZE and then including
&lt;asm-generic/param.h&gt; - asm/param.h will resolve to uapi/asm/param.h,
which pulls &lt;asm-generic/param.h&gt;, which will do the right thing
both in the kernel and userland contexts.

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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The only reason why alpha can't do what sparc et.al. are doing
is that include/asm-generic/param.h relies upon the value of HZ
set for userland header in uapi/asm/param.h being 100.

We need that value to define USER_HZ and we need that definition
to outlive the redefinition of HZ kernel-side.  And alpha needs
it to be 1024, not 100 like everybody else.

So let's add __USER_HZ to uapi/asm-generic/param.h, defaulting to
100 and used to define HZ.  That way include/asm-generic/param.h
can use that thing instead of open-coding it - it won't be affected
by undefining and redefining HZ.

That done, alpha asm/param.h can be removed and uapi/asm/param.h
switched to defining __USER_HZ and EXEC_PAGESIZE and then including
&lt;asm-generic/param.h&gt; - asm/param.h will resolve to uapi/asm/param.h,
which pulls &lt;asm-generic/param.h&gt;, which will do the right thing
both in the kernel and userland contexts.

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>af_unix: Introduce SO_PASSRIGHTS.</title>
<updated>2025-05-23T09:24:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kuniyuki Iwashima</name>
<email>kuniyu@amazon.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-19T20:57:59+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=77cbe1a6d8730a07f99f9263c2d5f2304cf5e830'/>
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<content type='text'>
As long as recvmsg() or recvmmsg() is used with cmsg, it is not
possible to avoid receiving file descriptors via SCM_RIGHTS.

This behaviour has occasionally been flagged as problematic, as
it can be (ab)used to trigger DoS during close(), for example, by
passing a FUSE-controlled fd or a hung NFS fd.

For instance, as noted on the uAPI Group page [0], an untrusted peer
could send a file descriptor pointing to a hung NFS mount and then
close it.  Once the receiver calls recvmsg() with msg_control, the
descriptor is automatically installed, and then the responsibility
for the final close() now falls on the receiver, which may result
in blocking the process for a long time.

Regarding this, systemd calls cmsg_close_all() [1] after each
recvmsg() to close() unwanted file descriptors sent via SCM_RIGHTS.

However, this cannot work around the issue at all, because the final
fput() may still occur on the receiver's side once sendmsg() with
SCM_RIGHTS succeeds.  Also, even filtering by LSM at recvmsg() does
not work for the same reason.

Thus, we need a better way to refuse SCM_RIGHTS at sendmsg().

Let's introduce SO_PASSRIGHTS to disable SCM_RIGHTS.

Note that this option is enabled by default for backward
compatibility.

Link: https://uapi-group.org/kernel-features/#disabling-reception-of-scm_rights-for-af_unix-sockets #[0]
Link: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/v257.5/src/basic/fd-util.c#L612-L628 #[1]
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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As long as recvmsg() or recvmmsg() is used with cmsg, it is not
possible to avoid receiving file descriptors via SCM_RIGHTS.

This behaviour has occasionally been flagged as problematic, as
it can be (ab)used to trigger DoS during close(), for example, by
passing a FUSE-controlled fd or a hung NFS fd.

For instance, as noted on the uAPI Group page [0], an untrusted peer
could send a file descriptor pointing to a hung NFS mount and then
close it.  Once the receiver calls recvmsg() with msg_control, the
descriptor is automatically installed, and then the responsibility
for the final close() now falls on the receiver, which may result
in blocking the process for a long time.

Regarding this, systemd calls cmsg_close_all() [1] after each
recvmsg() to close() unwanted file descriptors sent via SCM_RIGHTS.

However, this cannot work around the issue at all, because the final
fput() may still occur on the receiver's side once sendmsg() with
SCM_RIGHTS succeeds.  Also, even filtering by LSM at recvmsg() does
not work for the same reason.

Thus, we need a better way to refuse SCM_RIGHTS at sendmsg().

Let's introduce SO_PASSRIGHTS to disable SCM_RIGHTS.

Note that this option is enabled by default for backward
compatibility.

Link: https://uapi-group.org/kernel-features/#disabling-reception-of-scm_rights-for-af_unix-sockets #[0]
Link: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/v257.5/src/basic/fd-util.c#L612-L628 #[1]
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux</title>
<updated>2025-03-25T20:16:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-25T20:16:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=2d09a9449ecd9a2b9fdac62408c12ee20b6307d2'/>
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Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:
 "Nothing major this time around.

  Apart from the usual perf/PMU updates, some page table cleanups, the
  notable features are average CPU frequency based on the AMUv1
  counters, CONFIG_HOTPLUG_SMT and MOPS instructions (memcpy/memset) in
  the uaccess routines.

  Perf and PMUs:

   - Support for the 'Rainier' CPU PMU from Arm

   - Preparatory driver changes and cleanups that pave the way for BRBE
     support

   - Support for partial virtualisation of the Apple-M1 PMU

   - Support for the second event filter in Arm CSPMU designs

   - Minor fixes and cleanups (CMN and DWC PMUs)

   - Enable EL2 requirements for FEAT_PMUv3p9

  Power, CPU topology:

   - Support for AMUv1-based average CPU frequency

   - Run-time SMT control wired up for arm64 (CONFIG_HOTPLUG_SMT). It
     adds a generic topology_is_primary_thread() function overridden by
     x86 and powerpc

  New(ish) features:

   - MOPS (memcpy/memset) support for the uaccess routines

  Security/confidential compute:

   - Fix the DMA address for devices used in Realms with Arm CCA. The
     CCA architecture uses the address bit to differentiate between
     shared and private addresses

   - Spectre-BHB: assume CPUs Linux doesn't know about vulnerable by
     default

  Memory management clean-ups:

   - Drop the P*D_TABLE_BIT definition in preparation for 128-bit PTEs

   - Some minor page table accessor clean-ups

   - PIE/POE (permission indirection/overlay) helpers clean-up

  Kselftests:

   - MTE: skip hugetlb tests if MTE is not supported on such mappings
     and user correct naming for sync/async tag checking modes

  Miscellaneous:

   - Add a PKEY_UNRESTRICTED definition as 0 to uapi (toolchain people
     request)

   - Sysreg updates for new register fields

   - CPU type info for some Qualcomm Kryo cores"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (72 commits)
  arm64: mm: Don't use %pK through printk
  perf/arm_cspmu: Fix missing io.h include
  arm64: errata: Add newer ARM cores to the spectre_bhb_loop_affected() lists
  arm64: cputype: Add MIDR_CORTEX_A76AE
  arm64: errata: Add KRYO 2XX/3XX/4XX silver cores to Spectre BHB safe list
  arm64: errata: Assume that unknown CPUs _are_ vulnerable to Spectre BHB
  arm64: errata: Add QCOM_KRYO_4XX_GOLD to the spectre_bhb_k24_list
  arm64/sysreg: Enforce whole word match for open/close tokens
  arm64/sysreg: Fix unbalanced closing block
  arm64: Kconfig: Enable HOTPLUG_SMT
  arm64: topology: Support SMT control on ACPI based system
  arch_topology: Support SMT control for OF based system
  cpu/SMT: Provide a default topology_is_primary_thread()
  arm64/mm: Define PTDESC_ORDER
  perf/arm_cspmu: Add PMEVFILT2R support
  perf/arm_cspmu: Generalise event filtering
  perf/arm_cspmu: Move register definitons to header
  arm64/kernel: Always use level 2 or higher for early mappings
  arm64/mm: Drop PXD_TABLE_BIT
  arm64/mm: Check pmd_table() in pmd_trans_huge()
  ...
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Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:
 "Nothing major this time around.

  Apart from the usual perf/PMU updates, some page table cleanups, the
  notable features are average CPU frequency based on the AMUv1
  counters, CONFIG_HOTPLUG_SMT and MOPS instructions (memcpy/memset) in
  the uaccess routines.

  Perf and PMUs:

   - Support for the 'Rainier' CPU PMU from Arm

   - Preparatory driver changes and cleanups that pave the way for BRBE
     support

   - Support for partial virtualisation of the Apple-M1 PMU

   - Support for the second event filter in Arm CSPMU designs

   - Minor fixes and cleanups (CMN and DWC PMUs)

   - Enable EL2 requirements for FEAT_PMUv3p9

  Power, CPU topology:

   - Support for AMUv1-based average CPU frequency

   - Run-time SMT control wired up for arm64 (CONFIG_HOTPLUG_SMT). It
     adds a generic topology_is_primary_thread() function overridden by
     x86 and powerpc

  New(ish) features:

   - MOPS (memcpy/memset) support for the uaccess routines

  Security/confidential compute:

   - Fix the DMA address for devices used in Realms with Arm CCA. The
     CCA architecture uses the address bit to differentiate between
     shared and private addresses

   - Spectre-BHB: assume CPUs Linux doesn't know about vulnerable by
     default

  Memory management clean-ups:

   - Drop the P*D_TABLE_BIT definition in preparation for 128-bit PTEs

   - Some minor page table accessor clean-ups

   - PIE/POE (permission indirection/overlay) helpers clean-up

  Kselftests:

   - MTE: skip hugetlb tests if MTE is not supported on such mappings
     and user correct naming for sync/async tag checking modes

  Miscellaneous:

   - Add a PKEY_UNRESTRICTED definition as 0 to uapi (toolchain people
     request)

   - Sysreg updates for new register fields

   - CPU type info for some Qualcomm Kryo cores"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (72 commits)
  arm64: mm: Don't use %pK through printk
  perf/arm_cspmu: Fix missing io.h include
  arm64: errata: Add newer ARM cores to the spectre_bhb_loop_affected() lists
  arm64: cputype: Add MIDR_CORTEX_A76AE
  arm64: errata: Add KRYO 2XX/3XX/4XX silver cores to Spectre BHB safe list
  arm64: errata: Assume that unknown CPUs _are_ vulnerable to Spectre BHB
  arm64: errata: Add QCOM_KRYO_4XX_GOLD to the spectre_bhb_k24_list
  arm64/sysreg: Enforce whole word match for open/close tokens
  arm64/sysreg: Fix unbalanced closing block
  arm64: Kconfig: Enable HOTPLUG_SMT
  arm64: topology: Support SMT control on ACPI based system
  arch_topology: Support SMT control for OF based system
  cpu/SMT: Provide a default topology_is_primary_thread()
  arm64/mm: Define PTDESC_ORDER
  perf/arm_cspmu: Add PMEVFILT2R support
  perf/arm_cspmu: Generalise event filtering
  perf/arm_cspmu: Move register definitons to header
  arm64/kernel: Always use level 2 or higher for early mappings
  arm64/mm: Drop PXD_TABLE_BIT
  arm64/mm: Check pmd_table() in pmd_trans_huge()
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/pkey: Add PKEY_UNRESTRICTED macro</title>
<updated>2025-02-17T18:11:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yury Khrustalev</name>
<email>yury.khrustalev@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-13T17:06:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=6d61527d931ba07bca691f204cdf3201b280879d'/>
<id>6d61527d931ba07bca691f204cdf3201b280879d</id>
<content type='text'>
Memory protection keys (pkeys) uapi has two macros for pkeys restrictions:

 - PKEY_DISABLE_ACCESS 0x1
 - PKEY_DISABLE_WRITE  0x2

with implicit literal value of 0x0 that means "unrestricted". Code that
works with pkeys has to use this literal value when implying that a pkey
imposes no restrictions. This may reduce readability because 0 can be
written in various ways (e.g. 0x0 or 0) and also because 0 in the context
of pkeys can be mistaken for "no permissions" (akin PROT_NONE) while it
actually means "no restrictions". This is important because pkeys are
oftentimes used near mprotect() that uses PROT_ macros.

This patch adds PKEY_UNRESTRICTED macro defined as 0x0.

Signed-off-by: Yury Khrustalev &lt;yury.khrustalev@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kevin Brodsky &lt;kevin.brodsky@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250113170619.484698-2-yury.khrustalev@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Memory protection keys (pkeys) uapi has two macros for pkeys restrictions:

 - PKEY_DISABLE_ACCESS 0x1
 - PKEY_DISABLE_WRITE  0x2

with implicit literal value of 0x0 that means "unrestricted". Code that
works with pkeys has to use this literal value when implying that a pkey
imposes no restrictions. This may reduce readability because 0 can be
written in various ways (e.g. 0x0 or 0) and also because 0 in the context
of pkeys can be mistaken for "no permissions" (akin PROT_NONE) while it
actually means "no restrictions". This is important because pkeys are
oftentimes used near mprotect() that uses PROT_ macros.

This patch adds PKEY_UNRESTRICTED macro defined as 0x0.

Signed-off-by: Yury Khrustalev &lt;yury.khrustalev@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kevin Brodsky &lt;kevin.brodsky@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250113170619.484698-2-yury.khrustalev@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: add open_tree_attr()</title>
<updated>2025-02-12T11:12:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-28T10:33:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=c4a16820d90199409c9bf01c4f794e1e9e8d8fd8'/>
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Add open_tree_attr() which allow to atomically create a detached mount
tree and set mount options on it. If OPEN_TREE_CLONE is used this will
allow the creation of a detached mount with a new set of mount options
without it ever being exposed to userspace without that set of mount
options applied.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250128-work-mnt_idmap-update-v2-v1-3-c25feb0d2eb3@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: "Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean)" &lt;sforshee@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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Add open_tree_attr() which allow to atomically create a detached mount
tree and set mount options on it. If OPEN_TREE_CLONE is used this will
allow the creation of a detached mount with a new set of mount options
without it ever being exposed to userspace without that set of mount
options applied.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250128-work-mnt_idmap-update-v2-v1-3-c25feb0d2eb3@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: "Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean)" &lt;sforshee@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'fsnotify_hsm_for_v6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs</title>
<updated>2025-01-23T21:36:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-23T21:36:06+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=8883957b3c9de2087fb6cf9691c1188cccf1ac9c'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull fsnotify pre-content notification support from Jan Kara:
 "This introduces a new fsnotify event (FS_PRE_ACCESS) that gets
  generated before a file contents is accessed.

  The event is synchronous so if there is listener for this event, the
  kernel waits for reply. On success the execution continues as usual,
  on failure we propagate the error to userspace. This allows userspace
  to fill in file content on demand from slow storage. The context in
  which the events are generated has been picked so that we don't hold
  any locks and thus there's no risk of a deadlock for the userspace
  handler.

  The new pre-content event is available only for users with global
  CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability (similarly to other parts of fanotify
  functionality) and it is an administrator responsibility to make sure
  the userspace event handler doesn't do stupid stuff that can DoS the
  system.

  Based on your feedback from the last submission, fsnotify code has
  been improved and now file-&gt;f_mode encodes whether pre-content event
  needs to be generated for the file so the fast path when nobody wants
  pre-content event for the file just grows the additional file-&gt;f_mode
  check. As a bonus this also removes the checks whether the old
  FS_ACCESS event needs to be generated from the fast path. Also the
  place where the event is generated during page fault has been moved so
  now filemap_fault() generates the event if and only if there is no
  uptodate folio in the page cache.

  Also we have dropped FS_PRE_MODIFY event as current real-world users
  of the pre-content functionality don't really use it so let's start
  with the minimal useful feature set"

* tag 'fsnotify_hsm_for_v6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs: (21 commits)
  fanotify: Fix crash in fanotify_init(2)
  fs: don't block write during exec on pre-content watched files
  fs: enable pre-content events on supported file systems
  ext4: add pre-content fsnotify hook for DAX faults
  btrfs: disable defrag on pre-content watched files
  xfs: add pre-content fsnotify hook for DAX faults
  fsnotify: generate pre-content permission event on page fault
  mm: don't allow huge faults for files with pre content watches
  fanotify: disable readahead if we have pre-content watches
  fanotify: allow to set errno in FAN_DENY permission response
  fanotify: report file range info with pre-content events
  fanotify: introduce FAN_PRE_ACCESS permission event
  fsnotify: generate pre-content permission event on truncate
  fsnotify: pass optional file access range in pre-content event
  fsnotify: introduce pre-content permission events
  fanotify: reserve event bit of deprecated FAN_DIR_MODIFY
  fanotify: rename a misnamed constant
  fanotify: don't skip extra event info if no info_mode is set
  fsnotify: check if file is actually being watched for pre-content events on open
  fsnotify: opt-in for permission events at file open time
  ...
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Pull fsnotify pre-content notification support from Jan Kara:
 "This introduces a new fsnotify event (FS_PRE_ACCESS) that gets
  generated before a file contents is accessed.

  The event is synchronous so if there is listener for this event, the
  kernel waits for reply. On success the execution continues as usual,
  on failure we propagate the error to userspace. This allows userspace
  to fill in file content on demand from slow storage. The context in
  which the events are generated has been picked so that we don't hold
  any locks and thus there's no risk of a deadlock for the userspace
  handler.

  The new pre-content event is available only for users with global
  CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability (similarly to other parts of fanotify
  functionality) and it is an administrator responsibility to make sure
  the userspace event handler doesn't do stupid stuff that can DoS the
  system.

  Based on your feedback from the last submission, fsnotify code has
  been improved and now file-&gt;f_mode encodes whether pre-content event
  needs to be generated for the file so the fast path when nobody wants
  pre-content event for the file just grows the additional file-&gt;f_mode
  check. As a bonus this also removes the checks whether the old
  FS_ACCESS event needs to be generated from the fast path. Also the
  place where the event is generated during page fault has been moved so
  now filemap_fault() generates the event if and only if there is no
  uptodate folio in the page cache.

  Also we have dropped FS_PRE_MODIFY event as current real-world users
  of the pre-content functionality don't really use it so let's start
  with the minimal useful feature set"

* tag 'fsnotify_hsm_for_v6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs: (21 commits)
  fanotify: Fix crash in fanotify_init(2)
  fs: don't block write during exec on pre-content watched files
  fs: enable pre-content events on supported file systems
  ext4: add pre-content fsnotify hook for DAX faults
  btrfs: disable defrag on pre-content watched files
  xfs: add pre-content fsnotify hook for DAX faults
  fsnotify: generate pre-content permission event on page fault
  mm: don't allow huge faults for files with pre content watches
  fanotify: disable readahead if we have pre-content watches
  fanotify: allow to set errno in FAN_DENY permission response
  fanotify: report file range info with pre-content events
  fanotify: introduce FAN_PRE_ACCESS permission event
  fsnotify: generate pre-content permission event on truncate
  fsnotify: pass optional file access range in pre-content event
  fsnotify: introduce pre-content permission events
  fanotify: reserve event bit of deprecated FAN_DIR_MODIFY
  fanotify: rename a misnamed constant
  fanotify: don't skip extra event info if no info_mode is set
  fsnotify: check if file is actually being watched for pre-content events on open
  fsnotify: opt-in for permission events at file open time
  ...
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