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<title>unshare: fix unshare_fs() handling</title>
<updated>2026-03-19T15:08:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2026-02-07T08:25:24+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 6c4b2243cb6c0755159bd567130d5e12e7b10d9f ]

There's an unpleasant corner case in unshare(2), when we have a
CLONE_NEWNS in flags and current-&gt;fs hadn't been shared at all; in that
case copy_mnt_ns() gets passed current-&gt;fs instead of a private copy,
which causes interesting warts in proof of correctness]

&gt; I guess if private means fs-&gt;users == 1, the condition could still be true.

Unfortunately, it's worse than just a convoluted proof of correctness.
Consider the case when we have CLONE_NEWCGROUP in addition to CLONE_NEWNS
(and current-&gt;fs-&gt;users == 1).

We pass current-&gt;fs to copy_mnt_ns(), all right.  Suppose it succeeds and
flips current-&gt;fs-&gt;{pwd,root} to corresponding locations in the new namespace.
Now we proceed to copy_cgroup_ns(), which fails (e.g. with -ENOMEM).
We call put_mnt_ns() on the namespace created by copy_mnt_ns(), it's
destroyed and its mount tree is dissolved, but...  current-&gt;fs-&gt;root and
current-&gt;fs-&gt;pwd are both left pointing to now detached mounts.

They are pinning those, so it's not a UAF, but it leaves the calling
process with unshare(2) failing with -ENOMEM _and_ leaving it with
pwd and root on detached isolated mounts.  The last part is clearly a bug.

There is other fun related to that mess (races with pivot_root(), including
the one between pivot_root() and fork(), of all things), but this one
is easy to isolate and fix - treat CLONE_NEWNS as "allocate a new
fs_struct even if it hadn't been shared in the first place".  Sure, we could
go for something like "if both CLONE_NEWNS *and* one of the things that might
end up failing after copy_mnt_ns() call in create_new_namespaces() are set,
force allocation of new fs_struct", but let's keep it simple - the cost
of copy_fs_struct() is trivial.

Another benefit is that copy_mnt_ns() with CLONE_NEWNS *always* gets
a freshly allocated fs_struct, yet to be attached to anything.  That
seriously simplifies the analysis...

FWIW, that bug had been there since the introduction of unshare(2) ;-/

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260207082524.GE3183987@ZenIV
Tested-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 6c4b2243cb6c0755159bd567130d5e12e7b10d9f ]

There's an unpleasant corner case in unshare(2), when we have a
CLONE_NEWNS in flags and current-&gt;fs hadn't been shared at all; in that
case copy_mnt_ns() gets passed current-&gt;fs instead of a private copy,
which causes interesting warts in proof of correctness]

&gt; I guess if private means fs-&gt;users == 1, the condition could still be true.

Unfortunately, it's worse than just a convoluted proof of correctness.
Consider the case when we have CLONE_NEWCGROUP in addition to CLONE_NEWNS
(and current-&gt;fs-&gt;users == 1).

We pass current-&gt;fs to copy_mnt_ns(), all right.  Suppose it succeeds and
flips current-&gt;fs-&gt;{pwd,root} to corresponding locations in the new namespace.
Now we proceed to copy_cgroup_ns(), which fails (e.g. with -ENOMEM).
We call put_mnt_ns() on the namespace created by copy_mnt_ns(), it's
destroyed and its mount tree is dissolved, but...  current-&gt;fs-&gt;root and
current-&gt;fs-&gt;pwd are both left pointing to now detached mounts.

They are pinning those, so it's not a UAF, but it leaves the calling
process with unshare(2) failing with -ENOMEM _and_ leaving it with
pwd and root on detached isolated mounts.  The last part is clearly a bug.

There is other fun related to that mess (races with pivot_root(), including
the one between pivot_root() and fork(), of all things), but this one
is easy to isolate and fix - treat CLONE_NEWNS as "allocate a new
fs_struct even if it hadn't been shared in the first place".  Sure, we could
go for something like "if both CLONE_NEWNS *and* one of the things that might
end up failing after copy_mnt_ns() call in create_new_namespaces() are set,
force allocation of new fs_struct", but let's keep it simple - the cost
of copy_fs_struct() is trivial.

Another benefit is that copy_mnt_ns() with CLONE_NEWNS *always* gets
a freshly allocated fs_struct, yet to be attached to anything.  That
seriously simplifies the analysis...

FWIW, that bug had been there since the introduction of unshare(2) ;-/

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260207082524.GE3183987@ZenIV
Tested-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-10-02-15-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-10-03T01:44:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-03T01:44:54+00:00</published>
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "ida: Remove the ida_simple_xxx() API" from Christophe Jaillet
   completes the removal of this legacy IDR API

 - "panic: introduce panic status function family" from Jinchao Wang
   provides a number of cleanups to the panic code and its various
   helpers, which were rather ad-hoc and scattered all over the place

 - "tools/delaytop: implement real-time keyboard interaction support"
   from Fan Yu adds a few nice user-facing usability changes to the
   delaytop monitoring tool

 - "efi: Fix EFI boot with kexec handover (KHO)" from Evangelos
   Petrongonas fixes a panic which was happening with the combination of
   EFI and KHO

 - "Squashfs: performance improvement and a sanity check" from Phillip
   Lougher teaches squashfs's lseek() about SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE. A mere
   150x speedup was measured for a well-chosen microbenchmark

 - plus another 50-odd singleton patches all over the place

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-10-02-15-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (75 commits)
  Squashfs: reject negative file sizes in squashfs_read_inode()
  kallsyms: use kmalloc_array() instead of kmalloc()
  MAINTAINERS: update Sibi Sankar's email address
  Squashfs: add SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE support
  Squashfs: add additional inode sanity checking
  lib/genalloc: fix device leak in of_gen_pool_get()
  panic: remove CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
  ocfs2: fix double free in user_cluster_connect()
  checkpatch: suppress strscpy warnings for userspace tools
  cramfs: fix incorrect physical page address calculation
  kernel: prevent prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG) from racing with parent process exit
  Squashfs: fix uninit-value in squashfs_get_parent
  kho: only fill kimage if KHO is finalized
  ocfs2: avoid extra calls to strlen() after ocfs2_sprintf_system_inode_name()
  kernel/sys.c: fix the racy usage of task_lock(tsk-&gt;group_leader) in sys_prlimit64() paths
  sched/task.h: fix the wrong comment on task_lock() nesting with tasklist_lock
  coccinelle: platform_no_drv_owner: handle also built-in drivers
  coccinelle: of_table: handle SPI device ID tables
  lib/decompress: use designated initializers for struct compress_format
  efi: support booting with kexec handover (KHO)
  ...
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "ida: Remove the ida_simple_xxx() API" from Christophe Jaillet
   completes the removal of this legacy IDR API

 - "panic: introduce panic status function family" from Jinchao Wang
   provides a number of cleanups to the panic code and its various
   helpers, which were rather ad-hoc and scattered all over the place

 - "tools/delaytop: implement real-time keyboard interaction support"
   from Fan Yu adds a few nice user-facing usability changes to the
   delaytop monitoring tool

 - "efi: Fix EFI boot with kexec handover (KHO)" from Evangelos
   Petrongonas fixes a panic which was happening with the combination of
   EFI and KHO

 - "Squashfs: performance improvement and a sanity check" from Phillip
   Lougher teaches squashfs's lseek() about SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE. A mere
   150x speedup was measured for a well-chosen microbenchmark

 - plus another 50-odd singleton patches all over the place

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-10-02-15-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (75 commits)
  Squashfs: reject negative file sizes in squashfs_read_inode()
  kallsyms: use kmalloc_array() instead of kmalloc()
  MAINTAINERS: update Sibi Sankar's email address
  Squashfs: add SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE support
  Squashfs: add additional inode sanity checking
  lib/genalloc: fix device leak in of_gen_pool_get()
  panic: remove CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
  ocfs2: fix double free in user_cluster_connect()
  checkpatch: suppress strscpy warnings for userspace tools
  cramfs: fix incorrect physical page address calculation
  kernel: prevent prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG) from racing with parent process exit
  Squashfs: fix uninit-value in squashfs_get_parent
  kho: only fill kimage if KHO is finalized
  ocfs2: avoid extra calls to strlen() after ocfs2_sprintf_system_inode_name()
  kernel/sys.c: fix the racy usage of task_lock(tsk-&gt;group_leader) in sys_prlimit64() paths
  sched/task.h: fix the wrong comment on task_lock() nesting with tasklist_lock
  coccinelle: platform_no_drv_owner: handle also built-in drivers
  coccinelle: of_table: handle SPI device ID tables
  lib/decompress: use designated initializers for struct compress_format
  efi: support booting with kexec handover (KHO)
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-10-03T01:18:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-03T01:18:33+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from Kairui Song improves
   performance and reduces the failure rate of swap cluster allocation

 - "support large align and nid in Rust allocators" from Vitaly Wool
   permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large alignment when
   perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs

 - "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from Yueyang Pan extend
   DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets for virtual
   address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters

 - "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock" from Suren
   Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of
   /proc/pid/maps

 - "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache checking" from Kairui Song
   performs some cleanup in the swap code

 - "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David Hildenbrand provides
   code cleanup in the pagemap code

 - "add persistent huge zero folio support" from Pankaj Raghav provides
   a block layer speedup by optionalls making the
   huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount
   falls to zero

 - "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a few touchups to
   the recently added Kexec Handover feature

 - "mm: make mm-&gt;flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all arches" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To end the constant
   struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with 64-bit's
   needs

 - "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li cleans up some swap
   code

 - "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip unsupported tests" from
   Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests code

 - "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised"
   from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes to opt-out of
   THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other workloads on the
   system".

   It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations

 - "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox gets us started on
   the memdesc project. Please see

      https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and
      https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc

 - "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from Chi Zhiling
   improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path

 - "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi Yan improves our
   folio splitting selftest code

 - "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang adds some rmap
   selftests

 - "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig removes that
   function and converts its two remaining callers

 - "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain fixes some UFFD
   selftests issues

 - "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris Burkov introduces
   the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these permits btrfs to
   account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather than to the
   cgroups of random inappropriate tasks

 - "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some pageblock handling" from
   Wei Yang provides some readability improvements to the page allocator
   code

 - "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae Park teaches DAMON
   to understand arm32 highmem

 - "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for vma/maple tests" from
   Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and deduplication under
   tools/testing/

 - "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from Liam Howlett fixes
   a couple of 32-bit issues in tools/testing/radix-tree.c

 - "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific
   implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN arch-specific
   initialization code into a common arch-neutral implementation

 - "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes zspool - an
   indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing
   (zsmalloc)

 - "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from Pasha Tatashin makes a
   couple of cleanups in the fork code

 - "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand makes rather a lot of
   adjustments at various nth_page() callsites, eventually permitting
   the removal of that undesirable helper function

 - "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from Yeoreum Yun
   creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that architecture's
   memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode KASAN is
   suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only

 - "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation" from Kefeng Wang does
   some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code

 - "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer parameters" from Max
   Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API functions more accurate
   about the constness of their arguments. This was getting in the way
   of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they attempt to improving
   their own const/non-const accuracy

 - "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola fixes a number of
   code sites which were confused over when to use free_pages() vs
   __free_pages()

 - "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice Ryhl makes the
   mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau and by its
   forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver

 - "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test: split_pte_mapped_thp
   improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and some cleanups to
   the thp selftesting code

 - "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache (phase I)" from Chris
   Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the path to implementing
   "swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation and state tracking
   which is expected to yield speed and space improvements. This
   patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit in some situations

 - "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes the new memdesc
   layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little

 - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from Chunyu Hu fixes some
   issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code

 - "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from Suren Baghdasaryan
   addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new memory
   allocation profiling feature

 - "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few cleanups in
   preparation for more memdesc work

 - "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" from
   Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in furtherance of supporting
   arm highmem

 - "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix warnings" from Muhammad
   Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code and fixes the
   fallout, by removing dead code

 - "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM Reaper Traversal
   Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements in the OOM
   killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim threads so
   they can release resources

 - "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18" from SeongJae Park
   is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON

 - "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization check function" from
   SeongJae Park implement reliability and maintainability improvements
   to a recently-added bug fix

 - "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and non-idle ages" from
   SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to userspace clients
   of the DAMON_STAT information

 - "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse" from Dev Jain removes
   some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of anon VMAs. It also
   increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against an anon vma

 - "mm: do not assume file == vma-&gt;vm_file in compat_vma_mmap_prepare()"
   from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards removal of
   file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon clearing up
   the treatment of stacked filesystems

 - "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from Kiryl Shutsemau
   provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking of large
   folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate

 - "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters during fork" from
   Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats inaccuracies across
   forks and adds selftest code to verify these counters

 - "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei Yang addresses
   some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's mm_slot handling

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (372 commits)
  mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA
  mm: convert folio_page() back to a macro
  mm/khugepaged: use start_addr/addr for improved readability
  hugetlbfs: skip VMAs without shareable locks in hugetlb_vmdelete_list
  alloc_tag: fix boot failure due to NULL pointer dereference
  mm: silence data-race in update_hiwater_rss
  mm/memory-failure: don't select MEMORY_ISOLATION
  mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot
  mm/ksm: get mm_slot by mm_slot_entry() when slot is !NULL
  hugetlb: increase number of reserving hugepages via cmdline
  selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging_pages counter
  mm/ksm: fix incorrect KSM counter handling in mm_struct during fork
  drivers/base/node: fix double free in register_one_node()
  mm: remove PMD alignment constraint in execmem_vmalloc()
  mm/memory_hotplug: fix typo 'esecially' -&gt; 'especially'
  mm/rmap: improve mlock tracking for large folios
  mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround
  mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault()
  mm/rmap: mlock large folios in try_to_unmap_one()
  mm/rmap: fix a mlock race condition in folio_referenced_one()
  ...
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from Kairui Song improves
   performance and reduces the failure rate of swap cluster allocation

 - "support large align and nid in Rust allocators" from Vitaly Wool
   permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large alignment when
   perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs

 - "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from Yueyang Pan extend
   DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets for virtual
   address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters

 - "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock" from Suren
   Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of
   /proc/pid/maps

 - "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache checking" from Kairui Song
   performs some cleanup in the swap code

 - "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David Hildenbrand provides
   code cleanup in the pagemap code

 - "add persistent huge zero folio support" from Pankaj Raghav provides
   a block layer speedup by optionalls making the
   huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount
   falls to zero

 - "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a few touchups to
   the recently added Kexec Handover feature

 - "mm: make mm-&gt;flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all arches" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To end the constant
   struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with 64-bit's
   needs

 - "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li cleans up some swap
   code

 - "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip unsupported tests" from
   Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests code

 - "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised"
   from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes to opt-out of
   THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other workloads on the
   system".

   It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations

 - "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox gets us started on
   the memdesc project. Please see

      https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and
      https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc

 - "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from Chi Zhiling
   improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path

 - "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi Yan improves our
   folio splitting selftest code

 - "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang adds some rmap
   selftests

 - "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig removes that
   function and converts its two remaining callers

 - "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain fixes some UFFD
   selftests issues

 - "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris Burkov introduces
   the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these permits btrfs to
   account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather than to the
   cgroups of random inappropriate tasks

 - "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some pageblock handling" from
   Wei Yang provides some readability improvements to the page allocator
   code

 - "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae Park teaches DAMON
   to understand arm32 highmem

 - "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for vma/maple tests" from
   Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and deduplication under
   tools/testing/

 - "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from Liam Howlett fixes
   a couple of 32-bit issues in tools/testing/radix-tree.c

 - "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific
   implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN arch-specific
   initialization code into a common arch-neutral implementation

 - "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes zspool - an
   indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing
   (zsmalloc)

 - "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from Pasha Tatashin makes a
   couple of cleanups in the fork code

 - "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand makes rather a lot of
   adjustments at various nth_page() callsites, eventually permitting
   the removal of that undesirable helper function

 - "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from Yeoreum Yun
   creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that architecture's
   memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode KASAN is
   suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only

 - "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation" from Kefeng Wang does
   some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code

 - "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer parameters" from Max
   Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API functions more accurate
   about the constness of their arguments. This was getting in the way
   of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they attempt to improving
   their own const/non-const accuracy

 - "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola fixes a number of
   code sites which were confused over when to use free_pages() vs
   __free_pages()

 - "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice Ryhl makes the
   mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau and by its
   forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver

 - "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test: split_pte_mapped_thp
   improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and some cleanups to
   the thp selftesting code

 - "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache (phase I)" from Chris
   Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the path to implementing
   "swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation and state tracking
   which is expected to yield speed and space improvements. This
   patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit in some situations

 - "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes the new memdesc
   layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little

 - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from Chunyu Hu fixes some
   issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code

 - "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from Suren Baghdasaryan
   addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new memory
   allocation profiling feature

 - "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few cleanups in
   preparation for more memdesc work

 - "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" from
   Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in furtherance of supporting
   arm highmem

 - "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix warnings" from Muhammad
   Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code and fixes the
   fallout, by removing dead code

 - "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM Reaper Traversal
   Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements in the OOM
   killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim threads so
   they can release resources

 - "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18" from SeongJae Park
   is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON

 - "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization check function" from
   SeongJae Park implement reliability and maintainability improvements
   to a recently-added bug fix

 - "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and non-idle ages" from
   SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to userspace clients
   of the DAMON_STAT information

 - "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse" from Dev Jain removes
   some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of anon VMAs. It also
   increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against an anon vma

 - "mm: do not assume file == vma-&gt;vm_file in compat_vma_mmap_prepare()"
   from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards removal of
   file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon clearing up
   the treatment of stacked filesystems

 - "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from Kiryl Shutsemau
   provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking of large
   folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate

 - "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters during fork" from
   Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats inaccuracies across
   forks and adds selftest code to verify these counters

 - "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei Yang addresses
   some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's mm_slot handling

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (372 commits)
  mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA
  mm: convert folio_page() back to a macro
  mm/khugepaged: use start_addr/addr for improved readability
  hugetlbfs: skip VMAs without shareable locks in hugetlb_vmdelete_list
  alloc_tag: fix boot failure due to NULL pointer dereference
  mm: silence data-race in update_hiwater_rss
  mm/memory-failure: don't select MEMORY_ISOLATION
  mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot
  mm/ksm: get mm_slot by mm_slot_entry() when slot is !NULL
  hugetlb: increase number of reserving hugepages via cmdline
  selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging_pages counter
  mm/ksm: fix incorrect KSM counter handling in mm_struct during fork
  drivers/base/node: fix double free in register_one_node()
  mm: remove PMD alignment constraint in execmem_vmalloc()
  mm/memory_hotplug: fix typo 'esecially' -&gt; 'especially'
  mm/rmap: improve mlock tracking for large folios
  mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround
  mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault()
  mm/rmap: mlock large folios in try_to_unmap_one()
  mm/rmap: fix a mlock race condition in folio_referenced_one()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'perf-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-09-30T18:11:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-30T18:11:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=e4dcbdff114e2c0a8059c396e233aa5d9637afce'/>
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Pull performance events updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Core perf code updates:

   - Convert mmap() related reference counts to refcount_t. This is in
     reaction to the recently fixed refcount bugs, which could have been
     detected earlier and could have mitigated the bug somewhat (Thomas
     Gleixner, Peter Zijlstra)

   - Clean up and simplify the callchain code, in preparation for
     sframes (Steven Rostedt, Josh Poimboeuf)

  Uprobes updates:

   - Add support to optimize usdt probes on x86-64, which gives a
     substantial speedup (Jiri Olsa)

   - Cleanups and fixes on x86 (Peter Zijlstra)

  PMU driver updates:

   - Various optimizations and fixes to the Intel PMU driver (Dapeng Mi)

  Misc cleanups and fixes:

   - Remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN (Qianfeng Rong)"

* tag 'perf-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (57 commits)
  selftests/bpf: Fix uprobe_sigill test for uprobe syscall error value
  uprobes/x86: Return error from uprobe syscall when not called from trampoline
  perf: Skip user unwind if the task is a kernel thread
  perf: Simplify get_perf_callchain() user logic
  perf: Use current-&gt;flags &amp; PF_KTHREAD|PF_USER_WORKER instead of current-&gt;mm == NULL
  perf: Have get_perf_callchain() return NULL if crosstask and user are set
  perf: Remove get_perf_callchain() init_nr argument
  perf/x86: Print PMU counters bitmap in x86_pmu_show_pmu_cap()
  perf/x86/intel: Add ICL_FIXED_0_ADAPTIVE bit into INTEL_FIXED_BITS_MASK
  perf/x86/intel: Change macro GLOBAL_CTRL_EN_PERF_METRICS to BIT_ULL(48)
  perf/x86: Add PERF_CAP_PEBS_TIMING_INFO flag
  perf/x86/intel: Fix IA32_PMC_x_CFG_B MSRs access error
  perf/x86/intel: Use early_initcall() to hook bts_init()
  uprobes: Remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN
  selftests/seccomp: validate uprobe syscall passes through seccomp
  seccomp: passthrough uprobe systemcall without filtering
  selftests/bpf: Fix uprobe syscall shadow stack test
  selftests/bpf: Change test_uretprobe_regs_change for uprobe and uretprobe
  selftests/bpf: Add uprobe_regs_equal test
  selftests/bpf: Add optimized usdt variant for basic usdt test
  ...
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Pull performance events updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Core perf code updates:

   - Convert mmap() related reference counts to refcount_t. This is in
     reaction to the recently fixed refcount bugs, which could have been
     detected earlier and could have mitigated the bug somewhat (Thomas
     Gleixner, Peter Zijlstra)

   - Clean up and simplify the callchain code, in preparation for
     sframes (Steven Rostedt, Josh Poimboeuf)

  Uprobes updates:

   - Add support to optimize usdt probes on x86-64, which gives a
     substantial speedup (Jiri Olsa)

   - Cleanups and fixes on x86 (Peter Zijlstra)

  PMU driver updates:

   - Various optimizations and fixes to the Intel PMU driver (Dapeng Mi)

  Misc cleanups and fixes:

   - Remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN (Qianfeng Rong)"

* tag 'perf-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (57 commits)
  selftests/bpf: Fix uprobe_sigill test for uprobe syscall error value
  uprobes/x86: Return error from uprobe syscall when not called from trampoline
  perf: Skip user unwind if the task is a kernel thread
  perf: Simplify get_perf_callchain() user logic
  perf: Use current-&gt;flags &amp; PF_KTHREAD|PF_USER_WORKER instead of current-&gt;mm == NULL
  perf: Have get_perf_callchain() return NULL if crosstask and user are set
  perf: Remove get_perf_callchain() init_nr argument
  perf/x86: Print PMU counters bitmap in x86_pmu_show_pmu_cap()
  perf/x86/intel: Add ICL_FIXED_0_ADAPTIVE bit into INTEL_FIXED_BITS_MASK
  perf/x86/intel: Change macro GLOBAL_CTRL_EN_PERF_METRICS to BIT_ULL(48)
  perf/x86: Add PERF_CAP_PEBS_TIMING_INFO flag
  perf/x86/intel: Fix IA32_PMC_x_CFG_B MSRs access error
  perf/x86/intel: Use early_initcall() to hook bts_init()
  uprobes: Remove redundant __GFP_NOWARN
  selftests/seccomp: validate uprobe syscall passes through seccomp
  seccomp: passthrough uprobe systemcall without filtering
  selftests/bpf: Fix uprobe syscall shadow stack test
  selftests/bpf: Change test_uretprobe_regs_change for uprobe and uretprobe
  selftests/bpf: Add uprobe_regs_equal test
  selftests/bpf: Add optimized usdt variant for basic usdt test
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'cgroup-for-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup</title>
<updated>2025-09-30T16:55:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-30T16:55:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=755fa5b4fb36627796af19932a432d343220ec63'/>
<id>755fa5b4fb36627796af19932a432d343220ec63</id>
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Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:

 - Extensive cpuset code cleanup and refactoring work with no functional
   changes: CPU mask computation logic refactoring, introducing new
   helpers, removing redundant code paths, and improving error handling
   for better maintainability.

 - A few bug fixes to cpuset including fixes for partition creation
   failures when isolcpus is in use, missing error returns, and null
   pointer access prevention in free_tmpmasks().

 - Core cgroup changes include replacing the global percpu_rwsem with
   per-threadgroup rwsem when writing to cgroup.procs for better
   scalability, workqueue conversions to use WQ_PERCPU and
   system_percpu_wq to prepare for workqueue default switching from
   percpu to unbound, and removal of unused code including the
   post_attach callback.

 - New cgroup.stat.local time accounting feature that tracks frozen time
   duration.

 - Misc changes including selftests updates (new freezer time tests and
   backward compatibility fixes), documentation sync, string function
   safety improvements, and 64-bit division fixes.

* tag 'cgroup-for-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (39 commits)
  cpuset: remove is_prs_invalid helper
  cpuset: remove impossible warning in update_parent_effective_cpumask
  cpuset: remove redundant special case for null input in node mask update
  cpuset: fix missing error return in update_cpumask
  cpuset: Use new excpus for nocpu error check when enabling root partition
  cpuset: fix failure to enable isolated partition when containing isolcpus
  Documentation: cgroup-v2: Sync manual toctree
  cpuset: use partition_cpus_change for setting exclusive cpus
  cpuset: use parse_cpulist for setting cpus.exclusive
  cpuset: introduce partition_cpus_change
  cpuset: refactor cpus_allowed_validate_change
  cpuset: refactor out validate_partition
  cpuset: introduce cpus_excl_conflict and mems_excl_conflict helpers
  cpuset: refactor CPU mask buffer parsing logic
  cpuset: Refactor exclusive CPU mask computation logic
  cpuset: change return type of is_partition_[in]valid to bool
  cpuset: remove unused assignment to trialcs-&gt;partition_root_state
  cpuset: move the root cpuset write check earlier
  cgroup/cpuset: Remove redundant rcu_read_lock/unlock() in spin_lock
  cgroup: Remove redundant rcu_read_lock/unlock() in spin_lock
  ...
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Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:

 - Extensive cpuset code cleanup and refactoring work with no functional
   changes: CPU mask computation logic refactoring, introducing new
   helpers, removing redundant code paths, and improving error handling
   for better maintainability.

 - A few bug fixes to cpuset including fixes for partition creation
   failures when isolcpus is in use, missing error returns, and null
   pointer access prevention in free_tmpmasks().

 - Core cgroup changes include replacing the global percpu_rwsem with
   per-threadgroup rwsem when writing to cgroup.procs for better
   scalability, workqueue conversions to use WQ_PERCPU and
   system_percpu_wq to prepare for workqueue default switching from
   percpu to unbound, and removal of unused code including the
   post_attach callback.

 - New cgroup.stat.local time accounting feature that tracks frozen time
   duration.

 - Misc changes including selftests updates (new freezer time tests and
   backward compatibility fixes), documentation sync, string function
   safety improvements, and 64-bit division fixes.

* tag 'cgroup-for-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (39 commits)
  cpuset: remove is_prs_invalid helper
  cpuset: remove impossible warning in update_parent_effective_cpumask
  cpuset: remove redundant special case for null input in node mask update
  cpuset: fix missing error return in update_cpumask
  cpuset: Use new excpus for nocpu error check when enabling root partition
  cpuset: fix failure to enable isolated partition when containing isolcpus
  Documentation: cgroup-v2: Sync manual toctree
  cpuset: use partition_cpus_change for setting exclusive cpus
  cpuset: use parse_cpulist for setting cpus.exclusive
  cpuset: introduce partition_cpus_change
  cpuset: refactor cpus_allowed_validate_change
  cpuset: refactor out validate_partition
  cpuset: introduce cpus_excl_conflict and mems_excl_conflict helpers
  cpuset: refactor CPU mask buffer parsing logic
  cpuset: Refactor exclusive CPU mask computation logic
  cpuset: change return type of is_partition_[in]valid to bool
  cpuset: remove unused assignment to trialcs-&gt;partition_root_state
  cpuset: move the root cpuset write check earlier
  cgroup/cpuset: Remove redundant rcu_read_lock/unlock() in spin_lock
  cgroup: Remove redundant rcu_read_lock/unlock() in spin_lock
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kernel-6.18-rc1.clone3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-09-29T17:36:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-29T17:36:50+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=722df25ddf4f13e303dcc4cd65b3df5b197a79e6'/>
<id>722df25ddf4f13e303dcc4cd65b3df5b197a79e6</id>
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Pull copy_process updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the changes to enable support for clone3() on nios2
  which apparently is still a thing.

  The more exciting part of this is that it cleans up the inconsistency
  in how the 64-bit flag argument is passed from copy_process() into the
  various other copy_*() helpers"

[ Fixed up rv ltl_monitor 32-bit support as per Sasha Levin in the merge ]

* tag 'kernel-6.18-rc1.clone3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  nios2: implement architecture-specific portion of sys_clone3
  arch: copy_thread: pass clone_flags as u64
  copy_process: pass clone_flags as u64 across calltree
  copy_sighand: Handle architectures where sizeof(unsigned long) &lt; sizeof(u64)
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Pull copy_process updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the changes to enable support for clone3() on nios2
  which apparently is still a thing.

  The more exciting part of this is that it cleans up the inconsistency
  in how the 64-bit flag argument is passed from copy_process() into the
  various other copy_*() helpers"

[ Fixed up rv ltl_monitor 32-bit support as per Sasha Levin in the merge ]

* tag 'kernel-6.18-rc1.clone3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  nios2: implement architecture-specific portion of sys_clone3
  arch: copy_thread: pass clone_flags as u64
  copy_process: pass clone_flags as u64 across calltree
  copy_sighand: Handle architectures where sizeof(unsigned long) &lt; sizeof(u64)
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>futex: Use correct exit on failure from futex_hash_allocate_default()</title>
<updated>2025-09-24T07:20:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sebastian Andrzej Siewior</name>
<email>bigeasy@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-18T13:09:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=4ec3c15462b9f44562f45723a92e2807746ba7d1'/>
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copy_process() uses the wrong error exit path from futex_hash_allocate_default().
After exiting from futex_hash_allocate_default(), neither tasklist_lock
nor siglock has been acquired. The exit label bad_fork_core_free unlocks
both of these locks which is wrong.

The next exit label, bad_fork_cancel_cgroup, is the correct exit.
sched_cgroup_fork() did not allocate any resources that need to freed.

Use bad_fork_cancel_cgroup on error exit from futex_hash_allocate_default().

Fixes: 7c4f75a21f636 ("futex: Allow automatic allocation of process wide futex hash")
Reported-by: syzbot+80cb3cc5c14fad191a10@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/68cb1cbd.050a0220.2ff435.0599.GAE@google.com
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copy_process() uses the wrong error exit path from futex_hash_allocate_default().
After exiting from futex_hash_allocate_default(), neither tasklist_lock
nor siglock has been acquired. The exit label bad_fork_core_free unlocks
both of these locks which is wrong.

The next exit label, bad_fork_cancel_cgroup, is the correct exit.
sched_cgroup_fork() did not allocate any resources that need to freed.

Use bad_fork_cancel_cgroup on error exit from futex_hash_allocate_default().

Fixes: 7c4f75a21f636 ("futex: Allow automatic allocation of process wide futex hash")
Reported-by: syzbot+80cb3cc5c14fad191a10@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/68cb1cbd.050a0220.2ff435.0599.GAE@google.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fork: check charging success before zeroing stack</title>
<updated>2025-09-21T21:22:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pasha Tatashin</name>
<email>pasha.tatashin@soleen.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-29T11:44:40+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=1bca7359d72f759f2b119fc324c138372d3a2cc0'/>
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Patch series "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups".

These are some small cleanups for the fork code that was split off from
Pasha:s dynamic stack patch series, they are generally nice on their own
so let's propose them for merging.


This patch (of 2):

No need to do zero cached stack if memcg charge fails, so move the
charging attempt before the memset operation.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250829-fork-cleanups-for-dynstack-v1-0-3bbaadce1f00@linaro.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250829-fork-cleanups-for-dynstack-v1-1-3bbaadce1f00@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20240311164638.2015063-6-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Ben Segall &lt;bsegall@google.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Valentin Schneider &lt;vschneid@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Patch series "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups".

These are some small cleanups for the fork code that was split off from
Pasha:s dynamic stack patch series, they are generally nice on their own
so let's propose them for merging.


This patch (of 2):

No need to do zero cached stack if memcg charge fails, so move the
charging attempt before the memset operation.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250829-fork-cleanups-for-dynstack-v1-0-3bbaadce1f00@linaro.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250829-fork-cleanups-for-dynstack-v1-1-3bbaadce1f00@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin &lt;pasha.tatashin@soleen.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20240311164638.2015063-6-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Ben Segall &lt;bsegall@google.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Valentin Schneider &lt;vschneid@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fork: kill the pointless lower_32_bits() in create_io_thread(), kernel_thread(), and user_mode_thread()</title>
<updated>2025-09-14T00:32:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-20T16:39:46+00:00</published>
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Unlike sys_clone(), these helpers have only in kernel users which should
pass the correct "flags" argument.  lower_32_bits(flags) just adds the
unnecessary confusion and doesn't allow to use the CLONE_ flags which
don't fit into 32 bits.

create_io_thread() looks especially confusing because:

	- "flags" is a compile-time constant, so lower_32_bits() simply
	  has no effect

	- .exit_signal = (lower_32_bits(flags) &amp; CSIGNAL) is harmless but
	  doesn't look right, copy_process(CLONE_THREAD) will ignore this
	  argument anyway.

None of these helpers actually need CLONE_UNTRACED or "&amp; ~CSIGNAL", but
their presence does not add any confusion and improves code clarity.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250820163946.GA18549@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Unlike sys_clone(), these helpers have only in kernel users which should
pass the correct "flags" argument.  lower_32_bits(flags) just adds the
unnecessary confusion and doesn't allow to use the CLONE_ flags which
don't fit into 32 bits.

create_io_thread() looks especially confusing because:

	- "flags" is a compile-time constant, so lower_32_bits() simply
	  has no effect

	- .exit_signal = (lower_32_bits(flags) &amp; CSIGNAL) is harmless but
	  doesn't look right, copy_process(CLONE_THREAD) will ignore this
	  argument anyway.

None of these helpers actually need CLONE_UNTRACED or "&amp; ~CSIGNAL", but
their presence does not add any confusion and improves code clarity.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250820163946.GA18549@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fork: remove #ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP in copy_process()</title>
<updated>2025-09-14T00:32:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tio Zhang</name>
<email>tiozhang@didiglobal.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-20T10:18:46+00:00</published>
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lockdep_init_task() is defined as an empty when CONFIG_LOCKDEP is not set.
So the #ifdef here is redundant, remove it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250820101826.GA2484@didi-ThinkCentre-M930t-N000
Signed-off-by: Tio Zhang &lt;tiozhang@didiglobal.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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lockdep_init_task() is defined as an empty when CONFIG_LOCKDEP is not set.
So the #ifdef here is redundant, remove it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250820101826.GA2484@didi-ThinkCentre-M930t-N000
Signed-off-by: Tio Zhang &lt;tiozhang@didiglobal.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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