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<title>linux.git/lib/Kconfig.debug, branch v6.18.21</title>
<subtitle>Clone of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>debugobject: Make it work with deferred page initialization - again</title>
<updated>2026-03-12T11:09:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-07T13:27:05+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit fd3634312a04f336dcbfb481060219f0cd320738 ]

debugobjects uses __GFP_HIGH for allocations as it might be invoked
within locked regions. That worked perfectly fine until v6.18. It still
works correctly when deferred page initialization is disabled and works
by chance when no page allocation is required before deferred page
initialization has completed.

Since v6.18 allocations w/o a reclaim flag cause new_slab() to end up in
alloc_frozen_pages_nolock_noprof(), which returns early when deferred
page initialization has not yet completed. As the deferred page
initialization takes quite a while the debugobject pool is depleted and
debugobjects are disabled.

This can be worked around when PREEMPT_COUNT is enabled as that allows
debugobjects to add __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM to the GFP flags when the context
is preemtible. When PREEMPT_COUNT is disabled the context is unknown and
the reclaim bit can't be set because the caller might hold locks which
might deadlock in the allocator.

In preemptible context the reclaim bit is harmless and not a performance
issue as that's usually invoked from slow path initialization context.

That makes debugobjects depend on PREEMPT_COUNT || !DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT.

Fixes: af92793e52c3 ("slab: Introduce kmalloc_nolock() and kfree_nolock().")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/87pl6gznti.ffs@tglx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit fd3634312a04f336dcbfb481060219f0cd320738 ]

debugobjects uses __GFP_HIGH for allocations as it might be invoked
within locked regions. That worked perfectly fine until v6.18. It still
works correctly when deferred page initialization is disabled and works
by chance when no page allocation is required before deferred page
initialization has completed.

Since v6.18 allocations w/o a reclaim flag cause new_slab() to end up in
alloc_frozen_pages_nolock_noprof(), which returns early when deferred
page initialization has not yet completed. As the deferred page
initialization takes quite a while the debugobject pool is depleted and
debugobjects are disabled.

This can be worked around when PREEMPT_COUNT is enabled as that allows
debugobjects to add __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM to the GFP flags when the context
is preemtible. When PREEMPT_COUNT is disabled the context is unknown and
the reclaim bit can't be set because the caller might hold locks which
might deadlock in the allocator.

In preemptible context the reclaim bit is harmless and not a performance
issue as that's usually invoked from slow path initialization context.

That makes debugobjects depend on PREEMPT_COUNT || !DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT.

Fixes: af92793e52c3 ("slab: Introduce kmalloc_nolock() and kfree_nolock().")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/87pl6gznti.ffs@tglx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Remove WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM kernel config option</title>
<updated>2026-03-04T12:20:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-23T19:18:48+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 7dff99b354601dd01829e1511711846e04340a69 ]

This config option goes way back - it used to be an internal debug
option to random.c (at that point called DEBUG_RANDOM_BOOT), then was
renamed and exposed as a config option as CONFIG_WARN_UNSEEDED_RANDOM,
and then further renamed to the current CONFIG_WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM.

It was all done with the best of intentions: the more limited
rate-limited reports were reporting some cases, but if you wanted to see
all the gory details, you'd enable this "ALL" option.

However, it turns out - perhaps not surprisingly - that when people
don't care about and fix the first rate-limited cases, they most
certainly don't care about any others either, and so warning about all
of them isn't actually helping anything.

And the non-ratelimited reporting causes problems, where well-meaning
people enable debug options, but the excessive flood of messages that
nobody cares about will hide actual real information when things go
wrong.

I just got a kernel bug report (which had nothing to do with randomness)
where two thirds of the the truncated dmesg was just variations of

   random: get_random_u32 called from __get_random_u32_below+0x10/0x70 with crng_init=0

and in the process early boot messages had been lost (in addition to
making the messages that _hadn't_ been lost harder to read).

The proper way to find these things for the hypothetical developer that
cares - if such a person exists - is almost certainly with boot time
tracing.  That gives you the option to get call graphs etc too, which is
likely a requirement for fixing any problems anyway.

See Documentation/trace/boottime-trace.rst for that option.

And if we for some reason do want to re-introduce actual printing of
these things, it will need to have some uniqueness filtering rather than
this "just print it all" model.

Fixes: cc1e127bfa95 ("random: remove ratelimiting for in-kernel unseeded randomness")
Acked-by: Jason Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 7dff99b354601dd01829e1511711846e04340a69 ]

This config option goes way back - it used to be an internal debug
option to random.c (at that point called DEBUG_RANDOM_BOOT), then was
renamed and exposed as a config option as CONFIG_WARN_UNSEEDED_RANDOM,
and then further renamed to the current CONFIG_WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM.

It was all done with the best of intentions: the more limited
rate-limited reports were reporting some cases, but if you wanted to see
all the gory details, you'd enable this "ALL" option.

However, it turns out - perhaps not surprisingly - that when people
don't care about and fix the first rate-limited cases, they most
certainly don't care about any others either, and so warning about all
of them isn't actually helping anything.

And the non-ratelimited reporting causes problems, where well-meaning
people enable debug options, but the excessive flood of messages that
nobody cares about will hide actual real information when things go
wrong.

I just got a kernel bug report (which had nothing to do with randomness)
where two thirds of the the truncated dmesg was just variations of

   random: get_random_u32 called from __get_random_u32_below+0x10/0x70 with crng_init=0

and in the process early boot messages had been lost (in addition to
making the messages that _hadn't_ been lost harder to read).

The proper way to find these things for the hypothetical developer that
cares - if such a person exists - is almost certainly with boot time
tracing.  That gives you the option to get call graphs etc too, which is
likely a requirement for fixing any problems anyway.

See Documentation/trace/boottime-trace.rst for that option.

And if we for some reason do want to re-introduce actual printing of
these things, it will need to have some uniqueness filtering rather than
this "just print it all" model.

Fixes: cc1e127bfa95 ("random: remove ratelimiting for in-kernel unseeded randomness")
Acked-by: Jason Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Increase the default 32-bit build frame size warning limit to 1280 bytes</title>
<updated>2025-11-26T20:11:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-26T20:11:28+00:00</published>
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That was already the limit with KASAN enabled, and the 32-bit x86 build
ends up having a couple of drm cases that have stack frames _just_ over
1kB on my allmodconfig test.  So the minimal fix for this build issue
for now is to just bump the limit and make it independent of KASAN.

[ Side note: XTENSA already used 1.5k and PARISC uses 2k, so 1280 is
  still relatively conservative ]

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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That was already the limit with KASAN enabled, and the 32-bit x86 build
ends up having a couple of drm cases that have stack frames _just_ over
1kB on my allmodconfig test.  So the minimal fix for this build issue
for now is to just bump the limit and make it independent of KASAN.

[ Side note: XTENSA already used 1.5k and PARISC uses 2k, so 1280 is
  still relatively conservative ]

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<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 'bitmap-for-6.18' of https://github.com/norov/linux</title>
<updated>2025-10-02T15:57:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-02T15:57:03+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=77633c77eee37ddc160493a4cf6070c166f47dc0'/>
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Pull bitmap updates from Yury Norov:

 - FIELD_PREP_WM16() consolidation (Nicolas)

 - bitmaps for Rust (Burak)

 - __fls() fix for arc (Kees)

* tag 'bitmap-for-6.18' of https://github.com/norov/linux: (25 commits)
  rust: add dynamic ID pool abstraction for bitmap
  rust: add find_bit_benchmark_rust module.
  rust: add bitmap API.
  rust: add bindings for bitops.h
  rust: add bindings for bitmap.h
  phy: rockchip-pcie: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  clk: sp7021: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  PCI: dw-rockchip: Switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  PCI: rockchip: Switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16* macros
  net: stmmac: dwmac-rk: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  ASoC: rockchip: i2s-tdm: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16_CONST macro
  drm/rockchip: dw_hdmi: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16* macros
  phy: rockchip-usb: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  drm/rockchip: inno-hdmi: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  drm/rockchip: dw_hdmi_qp: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  phy: rockchip-samsung-dcphy: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  drm/rockchip: vop2: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  drm/rockchip: dsi: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16* macros
  phy: rockchip-emmc: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  drm/rockchip: lvds: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  ...
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Pull bitmap updates from Yury Norov:

 - FIELD_PREP_WM16() consolidation (Nicolas)

 - bitmaps for Rust (Burak)

 - __fls() fix for arc (Kees)

* tag 'bitmap-for-6.18' of https://github.com/norov/linux: (25 commits)
  rust: add dynamic ID pool abstraction for bitmap
  rust: add find_bit_benchmark_rust module.
  rust: add bitmap API.
  rust: add bindings for bitops.h
  rust: add bindings for bitmap.h
  phy: rockchip-pcie: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  clk: sp7021: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  PCI: dw-rockchip: Switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  PCI: rockchip: Switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16* macros
  net: stmmac: dwmac-rk: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  ASoC: rockchip: i2s-tdm: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16_CONST macro
  drm/rockchip: dw_hdmi: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16* macros
  phy: rockchip-usb: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  drm/rockchip: inno-hdmi: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  drm/rockchip: dw_hdmi_qp: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  phy: rockchip-samsung-dcphy: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  drm/rockchip: vop2: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  drm/rockchip: dsi: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16* macros
  phy: rockchip-emmc: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  drm/rockchip: lvds: switch to FIELD_PREP_WM16 macro
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux</title>
<updated>2025-10-02T03:58:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-02T03:58:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=7f7072574127c9e971cad83a0274e86f6275c0d5'/>
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Pull Kbuild updates from Nathan Chancellor:

 - Extend modules.builtin.modinfo to include module aliases from
   MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE for builtin modules so that userspace tools (such
   as kmod) can verify that a particular module alias will be handled by
   a builtin module

 - Bump the minimum version of LLVM for building the kernel to 15.0.0

 - Upgrade several userspace API checks in headers_check.pl to errors

 - Unify and consolidate CONFIG_WERROR / W=e handling

 - Turn assembler and linker warnings into errors with CONFIG_WERROR /
   W=e

 - Respect CONFIG_WERROR / W=e when building userspace programs
   (userprogs)

 - Enable -Werror unconditionally when building host programs
   (hostprogs)

 - Support copy_file_range() and data segment alignment in gen_init_cpio
   to improve performance on filesystems that support reflinks such as
   btrfs and XFS

 - Miscellaneous small changes to scripts and configuration files

* tag 'kbuild-6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux: (47 commits)
  modpost: Initialize builtin_modname to stop SIGSEGVs
  Documentation: kbuild: note CONFIG_DEBUG_EFI in reproducible builds
  kbuild: vmlinux.unstripped should always depend on .vmlinux.export.o
  modpost: Create modalias for builtin modules
  modpost: Add modname to mod_device_table alias
  scsi: Always define blogic_pci_tbl structure
  kbuild: extract modules.builtin.modinfo from vmlinux.unstripped
  kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped
  kbuild: always create intermediate vmlinux.unstripped
  s390: vmlinux.lds.S: Reorder sections
  KMSAN: Remove tautological checks
  objtool: Drop noinstr hack for KCSAN_WEAK_MEMORY
  lib/Kconfig.debug: Drop CLANG_VERSION check from DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT
  riscv: Remove ld.lld version checks from many TOOLCHAIN_HAS configs
  riscv: Unconditionally use linker relaxation
  riscv: Remove version check for LTO_CLANG selects
  powerpc: Drop unnecessary initializations in __copy_inst_from_kernel_nofault()
  mips: Unconditionally select ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER
  arm64: Remove tautological LLVM Kconfig conditions
  ARM: Clean up definition of ARM_HAS_GROUP_RELOCS
  ...
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Pull Kbuild updates from Nathan Chancellor:

 - Extend modules.builtin.modinfo to include module aliases from
   MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE for builtin modules so that userspace tools (such
   as kmod) can verify that a particular module alias will be handled by
   a builtin module

 - Bump the minimum version of LLVM for building the kernel to 15.0.0

 - Upgrade several userspace API checks in headers_check.pl to errors

 - Unify and consolidate CONFIG_WERROR / W=e handling

 - Turn assembler and linker warnings into errors with CONFIG_WERROR /
   W=e

 - Respect CONFIG_WERROR / W=e when building userspace programs
   (userprogs)

 - Enable -Werror unconditionally when building host programs
   (hostprogs)

 - Support copy_file_range() and data segment alignment in gen_init_cpio
   to improve performance on filesystems that support reflinks such as
   btrfs and XFS

 - Miscellaneous small changes to scripts and configuration files

* tag 'kbuild-6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux: (47 commits)
  modpost: Initialize builtin_modname to stop SIGSEGVs
  Documentation: kbuild: note CONFIG_DEBUG_EFI in reproducible builds
  kbuild: vmlinux.unstripped should always depend on .vmlinux.export.o
  modpost: Create modalias for builtin modules
  modpost: Add modname to mod_device_table alias
  scsi: Always define blogic_pci_tbl structure
  kbuild: extract modules.builtin.modinfo from vmlinux.unstripped
  kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped
  kbuild: always create intermediate vmlinux.unstripped
  s390: vmlinux.lds.S: Reorder sections
  KMSAN: Remove tautological checks
  objtool: Drop noinstr hack for KCSAN_WEAK_MEMORY
  lib/Kconfig.debug: Drop CLANG_VERSION check from DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT
  riscv: Remove ld.lld version checks from many TOOLCHAIN_HAS configs
  riscv: Unconditionally use linker relaxation
  riscv: Remove version check for LTO_CLANG selects
  powerpc: Drop unnecessary initializations in __copy_inst_from_kernel_nofault()
  mips: Unconditionally select ARCH_HAS_CURRENT_STACK_POINTER
  arm64: Remove tautological LLVM Kconfig conditions
  ARM: Clean up definition of ARM_HAS_GROUP_RELOCS
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'hardening-v6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2025-09-30T00:48:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-30T00:48:27+00:00</published>
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Pull hardening updates from Kees Cook:
 "One notable addition is the creation of the 'transitional' keyword for
  kconfig so CONFIG renaming can go more smoothly.

  This has been a long-standing deficiency, and with the renaming of
  CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI (since GCC will soon have KCFI
  support), this came up again.

  The breadth of the diffstat is mainly this renaming.

   - Clean up usage of TRAILING_OVERLAP() (Gustavo A. R. Silva)

   - lkdtm: fortify: Fix potential NULL dereference on kmalloc failure
     (Junjie Cao)

   - Add str_assert_deassert() helper (Lad Prabhakar)

   - gcc-plugins: Remove TODO_verify_il for GCC &gt;= 16

   - kconfig: Fix BrokenPipeError warnings in selftests

   - kconfig: Add transitional symbol attribute for migration support

   - kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI"

* tag 'hardening-v6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  lib/string_choices: Add str_assert_deassert() helper
  kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI
  kconfig: Add transitional symbol attribute for migration support
  kconfig: Fix BrokenPipeError warnings in selftests
  gcc-plugins: Remove TODO_verify_il for GCC &gt;= 16
  stddef: Introduce __TRAILING_OVERLAP()
  stddef: Remove token-pasting in TRAILING_OVERLAP()
  lkdtm: fortify: Fix potential NULL dereference on kmalloc failure
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Pull hardening updates from Kees Cook:
 "One notable addition is the creation of the 'transitional' keyword for
  kconfig so CONFIG renaming can go more smoothly.

  This has been a long-standing deficiency, and with the renaming of
  CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI (since GCC will soon have KCFI
  support), this came up again.

  The breadth of the diffstat is mainly this renaming.

   - Clean up usage of TRAILING_OVERLAP() (Gustavo A. R. Silva)

   - lkdtm: fortify: Fix potential NULL dereference on kmalloc failure
     (Junjie Cao)

   - Add str_assert_deassert() helper (Lad Prabhakar)

   - gcc-plugins: Remove TODO_verify_il for GCC &gt;= 16

   - kconfig: Fix BrokenPipeError warnings in selftests

   - kconfig: Add transitional symbol attribute for migration support

   - kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI"

* tag 'hardening-v6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  lib/string_choices: Add str_assert_deassert() helper
  kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI
  kconfig: Add transitional symbol attribute for migration support
  kconfig: Fix BrokenPipeError warnings in selftests
  gcc-plugins: Remove TODO_verify_il for GCC &gt;= 16
  stddef: Introduce __TRAILING_OVERLAP()
  stddef: Remove token-pasting in TRAILING_OVERLAP()
  lkdtm: fortify: Fix potential NULL dereference on kmalloc failure
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<entry>
<title>panic: remove CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE</title>
<updated>2025-09-28T18:36:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-24T09:43:04+00:00</published>
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There's really no need for this since it's 0 or 1 when
CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS is disabled/enabled, so just use IS_ENABLED()
instead.  The extra symbol goes back to the original code adding it in
commit 2a01bb3885c9 ("panic: Make panic_on_oops configurable").

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250924094303.18521-2-johannes@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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There's really no need for this since it's 0 or 1 when
CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS is disabled/enabled, so just use IS_ENABLED()
instead.  The extra symbol goes back to the original code adding it in
commit 2a01bb3885c9 ("panic: Make panic_on_oops configurable").

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250924094303.18521-2-johannes@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kcfi: Rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI</title>
<updated>2025-09-24T21:29:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-23T21:34:19+00:00</published>
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The kernel's CFI implementation uses the KCFI ABI specifically, and is
not strictly tied to a particular compiler. In preparation for GCC
supporting KCFI, rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI (along with
associated options).

Use new "transitional" Kconfig option for old CONFIG_CFI_CLANG that will
enable CONFIG_CFI during olddefconfig.

Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250923213422.1105654-3-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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The kernel's CFI implementation uses the KCFI ABI specifically, and is
not strictly tied to a particular compiler. In preparation for GCC
supporting KCFI, rename CONFIG_CFI_CLANG to CONFIG_CFI (along with
associated options).

Use new "transitional" Kconfig option for old CONFIG_CFI_CLANG that will
enable CONFIG_CFI during olddefconfig.

Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linus.walleij@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250923213422.1105654-3-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rust: add find_bit_benchmark_rust module.</title>
<updated>2025-09-22T19:52:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Burak Emir</name>
<email>bqe@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-08T07:21:54+00:00</published>
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Microbenchmark protected by a config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK_RUST,
following `find_bit_benchmark.c` but testing the Rust Bitmap API.

We add a fill_random() method protected by the config in order to
maintain the abstraction.

The sample output from the benchmark, both C and Rust version:

find_bit_benchmark.c output:
```
Start testing find_bit() with random-filled bitmap
[  438.101937] find_next_bit:                  860188 ns, 163419 iterations
[  438.109471] find_next_zero_bit:             912342 ns, 164262 iterations
[  438.116820] find_last_bit:                  726003 ns, 163419 iterations
[  438.130509] find_nth_bit:                  7056993 ns,  16269 iterations
[  438.139099] find_first_bit:                1963272 ns,  16270 iterations
[  438.173043] find_first_and_bit:           27314224 ns,  32654 iterations
[  438.180065] find_next_and_bit:              398752 ns,  73705 iterations
[  438.186689]
               Start testing find_bit() with sparse bitmap
[  438.193375] find_next_bit:                    9675 ns,    656 iterations
[  438.201765] find_next_zero_bit:            1766136 ns, 327025 iterations
[  438.208429] find_last_bit:                    9017 ns,    656 iterations
[  438.217816] find_nth_bit:                  2749742 ns,    655 iterations
[  438.225168] find_first_bit:                 721799 ns,    656 iterations
[  438.231797] find_first_and_bit:               2819 ns,      1 iterations
[  438.238441] find_next_and_bit:                3159 ns,      1 iterations
```

find_bit_benchmark_rust.rs output:
```
[  451.182459] find_bit_benchmark_rust:
[  451.186688] Start testing find_bit() Rust with random-filled bitmap
[  451.194450] next_bit:                       777950 ns, 163644 iterations
[  451.201997] next_zero_bit:                  918889 ns, 164036 iterations
[  451.208642] Start testing find_bit() Rust with sparse bitmap
[  451.214300] next_bit:                         9181 ns,    654 iterations
[  451.222806] next_zero_bit:                 1855504 ns, 327026 iterations
```

Here are the results from 32 samples, with 95% confidence interval.
The microbenchmark was built with RUST_BITMAP_HARDENED=n and run on a
machine that did not execute other processes.

Random-filled bitmap:
+-----------+-------+-----------+--------------+-----------+-----------+
| Benchmark | Lang  | Mean (ms) | Std Dev (ms) | 95% CI Lo | 95% CI Hi |
+-----------+-------+-----------+--------------+-----------+-----------+
| find_bit/ | C     |    825.07 |        53.89 |    806.40 |    843.74 |
| next_bit  | Rust  |    870.91 |        46.29 |    854.88 |    886.95 |
+-----------+-------+-----------+--------------+-----------+-----------+
| find_zero/| C     |    933.56 |        56.34 |    914.04 |    953.08 |
| next_zero | Rust  |    945.85 |        60.44 |    924.91 |    966.79 |
+-----------+-------+-----------+--------------+-----------+-----------+

Rust appears 5.5% slower for next_bit, 1.3% slower for next_zero.

Sparse bitmap:
+-----------+-------+-----------+--------------+-----------+-----------+
| Benchmark | Lang  | Mean (ms) | Std Dev (ms) | 95% CI Lo | 95% CI Hi |
+-----------+-------+-----------+--------------+-----------+-----------+
| find_bit/ | C     |     13.17 |         6.21 |     11.01 |     15.32 |
| next_bit  | Rust  |     14.30 |         8.27 |     11.43 |     17.17 |
+-----------+-------+-----------+--------------+-----------+-----------+
| find_zero/| C     |   1859.31 |        82.30 |   1830.80 |   1887.83 |
| next_zero | Rust  |   1908.09 |       139.82 |   1859.65 |   1956.54 |
+-----------+-------+-----------+--------------+-----------+-----------+

Rust appears 8.5% slower for next_bit, 2.6% slower for next_zero.

In summary, taking the arithmetic mean of all slow-downs, we can say
the Rust API has a 4.5% slowdown.

Suggested-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) &lt;yury.norov@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) &lt;yury.norov@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Burak Emir &lt;bqe@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) &lt;yury.norov@gmail.com&gt;
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Microbenchmark protected by a config FIND_BIT_BENCHMARK_RUST,
following `find_bit_benchmark.c` but testing the Rust Bitmap API.

We add a fill_random() method protected by the config in order to
maintain the abstraction.

The sample output from the benchmark, both C and Rust version:

find_bit_benchmark.c output:
```
Start testing find_bit() with random-filled bitmap
[  438.101937] find_next_bit:                  860188 ns, 163419 iterations
[  438.109471] find_next_zero_bit:             912342 ns, 164262 iterations
[  438.116820] find_last_bit:                  726003 ns, 163419 iterations
[  438.130509] find_nth_bit:                  7056993 ns,  16269 iterations
[  438.139099] find_first_bit:                1963272 ns,  16270 iterations
[  438.173043] find_first_and_bit:           27314224 ns,  32654 iterations
[  438.180065] find_next_and_bit:              398752 ns,  73705 iterations
[  438.186689]
               Start testing find_bit() with sparse bitmap
[  438.193375] find_next_bit:                    9675 ns,    656 iterations
[  438.201765] find_next_zero_bit:            1766136 ns, 327025 iterations
[  438.208429] find_last_bit:                    9017 ns,    656 iterations
[  438.217816] find_nth_bit:                  2749742 ns,    655 iterations
[  438.225168] find_first_bit:                 721799 ns,    656 iterations
[  438.231797] find_first_and_bit:               2819 ns,      1 iterations
[  438.238441] find_next_and_bit:                3159 ns,      1 iterations
```

find_bit_benchmark_rust.rs output:
```
[  451.182459] find_bit_benchmark_rust:
[  451.186688] Start testing find_bit() Rust with random-filled bitmap
[  451.194450] next_bit:                       777950 ns, 163644 iterations
[  451.201997] next_zero_bit:                  918889 ns, 164036 iterations
[  451.208642] Start testing find_bit() Rust with sparse bitmap
[  451.214300] next_bit:                         9181 ns,    654 iterations
[  451.222806] next_zero_bit:                 1855504 ns, 327026 iterations
```

Here are the results from 32 samples, with 95% confidence interval.
The microbenchmark was built with RUST_BITMAP_HARDENED=n and run on a
machine that did not execute other processes.

Random-filled bitmap:
+-----------+-------+-----------+--------------+-----------+-----------+
| Benchmark | Lang  | Mean (ms) | Std Dev (ms) | 95% CI Lo | 95% CI Hi |
+-----------+-------+-----------+--------------+-----------+-----------+
| find_bit/ | C     |    825.07 |        53.89 |    806.40 |    843.74 |
| next_bit  | Rust  |    870.91 |        46.29 |    854.88 |    886.95 |
+-----------+-------+-----------+--------------+-----------+-----------+
| find_zero/| C     |    933.56 |        56.34 |    914.04 |    953.08 |
| next_zero | Rust  |    945.85 |        60.44 |    924.91 |    966.79 |
+-----------+-------+-----------+--------------+-----------+-----------+

Rust appears 5.5% slower for next_bit, 1.3% slower for next_zero.

Sparse bitmap:
+-----------+-------+-----------+--------------+-----------+-----------+
| Benchmark | Lang  | Mean (ms) | Std Dev (ms) | 95% CI Lo | 95% CI Hi |
+-----------+-------+-----------+--------------+-----------+-----------+
| find_bit/ | C     |     13.17 |         6.21 |     11.01 |     15.32 |
| next_bit  | Rust  |     14.30 |         8.27 |     11.43 |     17.17 |
+-----------+-------+-----------+--------------+-----------+-----------+
| find_zero/| C     |   1859.31 |        82.30 |   1830.80 |   1887.83 |
| next_zero | Rust  |   1908.09 |       139.82 |   1859.65 |   1956.54 |
+-----------+-------+-----------+--------------+-----------+-----------+

Rust appears 8.5% slower for next_bit, 2.6% slower for next_zero.

In summary, taking the arithmetic mean of all slow-downs, we can say
the Rust API has a 4.5% slowdown.

Suggested-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) &lt;yury.norov@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) &lt;yury.norov@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl &lt;aliceryhl@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Burak Emir &lt;bqe@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) &lt;yury.norov@gmail.com&gt;
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