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<title>tools headers UAPI: Sync linux/kvm.h with the kernel sources</title>
<updated>2025-11-03T16:10:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo</name>
<email>acme@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-03T13:53:46+00:00</published>
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To pick the changes in:

  fe2bf6234e947bf5 ("KVM: guest_memfd: Add INIT_SHARED flag, reject user page faults if not set")
  d2042d8f96ddefde ("KVM: Rework KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_MMAP into KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_FLAGS")
  3d3a04fad25a6621 ("KVM: Allow and advertise support for host mmap() on guest_memfd files")

That just rebuilds perf, as these patches don't add any new KVM ioctl to
be harvested for the 'perf trace' ioctl syscall argument beautifiers.

This addresses this perf build warning:

  Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
    diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h include/uapi/linux/kvm.h

Please see tools/include/uapi/README for further details.

Cc: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Fuad Tabba &lt;tabba@google.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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To pick the changes in:

  fe2bf6234e947bf5 ("KVM: guest_memfd: Add INIT_SHARED flag, reject user page faults if not set")
  d2042d8f96ddefde ("KVM: Rework KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_MMAP into KVM_CAP_GUEST_MEMFD_FLAGS")
  3d3a04fad25a6621 ("KVM: Allow and advertise support for host mmap() on guest_memfd files")

That just rebuilds perf, as these patches don't add any new KVM ioctl to
be harvested for the 'perf trace' ioctl syscall argument beautifiers.

This addresses this perf build warning:

  Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
    diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h include/uapi/linux/kvm.h

Please see tools/include/uapi/README for further details.

Cc: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Fuad Tabba &lt;tabba@google.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'bpf-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf</title>
<updated>2025-10-11T17:31:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-11T17:31:38+00:00</published>
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Pull bpf fixes from Alexei Starovoitov:

 - Finish constification of 1st parameter of bpf_d_path() (Rong Tao)

 - Harden userspace-supplied xdp_desc validation (Alexander Lobakin)

 - Fix metadata_dst leak in __bpf_redirect_neigh_v{4,6}() (Daniel
   Borkmann)

 - Fix undefined behavior in {get,put}_unaligned_be32() (Eric Biggers)

 - Use correct context to unpin bpf hash map with special types (KaFai
   Wan)

* tag 'bpf-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf:
  selftests/bpf: Add test for unpinning htab with internal timer struct
  bpf: Avoid RCU context warning when unpinning htab with internal structs
  xsk: Harden userspace-supplied xdp_desc validation
  bpf: Fix metadata_dst leak __bpf_redirect_neigh_v{4,6}
  libbpf: Fix undefined behavior in {get,put}_unaligned_be32()
  bpf: Finish constification of 1st parameter of bpf_d_path()
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Pull bpf fixes from Alexei Starovoitov:

 - Finish constification of 1st parameter of bpf_d_path() (Rong Tao)

 - Harden userspace-supplied xdp_desc validation (Alexander Lobakin)

 - Fix metadata_dst leak in __bpf_redirect_neigh_v{4,6}() (Daniel
   Borkmann)

 - Fix undefined behavior in {get,put}_unaligned_be32() (Eric Biggers)

 - Use correct context to unpin bpf hash map with special types (KaFai
   Wan)

* tag 'bpf-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf:
  selftests/bpf: Add test for unpinning htab with internal timer struct
  bpf: Avoid RCU context warning when unpinning htab with internal structs
  xsk: Harden userspace-supplied xdp_desc validation
  bpf: Fix metadata_dst leak __bpf_redirect_neigh_v{4,6}
  libbpf: Fix undefined behavior in {get,put}_unaligned_be32()
  bpf: Finish constification of 1st parameter of bpf_d_path()
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.18-1-2025-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools</title>
<updated>2025-10-09T02:24:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-09T02:24:24+00:00</published>
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Pull perf tools updates from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

 - Extended 'perf annotate' with DWARF type information
   (--code-with-type) integration in the TUI, including a 'T'
   hotkey to toggle it

 - Enhanced 'perf bench mem' with new mmap() workloads and control
   over page/chunk sizes

 - Fix 'perf stat' error handling to correctly display unsupported
   events

 - Improved support for Clang cross-compilation

 - Refactored LLVM and Capstone disasm for modularity

 - Introduced the :X modifier to exclude an event from automatic
   regrouping

 - Adjusted KVM sampling defaults to use the "cycles" event to prevent
   failures

 - Added comprehensive support for decoding PowerPC Dispatch Trace Log
   (DTL)

 - Updated Arm SPE tracing logic for better analysis of memory and snoop
   details

 - Synchronized Intel PMU events and metrics with TMA 5.1 across
   multiple processor generations

 - Converted dependencies like libperl and libtracefs to be opt-in

 - Handle more Rust symbols in kallsyms ('N', debugging)

 - Improve the python binding to allow for python based tools to use
   more of the libraries, add a 'ilist' utility to test those new
   bindings

 - Various 'perf test' fixes

 - Kan Liang no longer a perf tools reviewer

* tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.18-1-2025-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (192 commits)
  perf tools: Fix arm64 libjvmti build by generating unistd_64.h
  perf tests: Don't retest sections in "Object code reading"
  perf docs: Document building with Clang
  perf build: Support build with clang
  perf test coresight: Dismiss clang warning for unroll loop thread
  perf test coresight: Dismiss clang warning for thread loop
  perf test coresight: Dismiss clang warning for memcpy thread
  perf build: Disable thread safety analysis for perl header
  perf build: Correct CROSS_ARCH for clang
  perf python: split Clang options when invoking Popen
  tools build: Align warning options with perf
  perf disasm: Remove unused evsel from 'struct annotate_args'
  perf srcline: Fallback between addr2line implementations
  perf disasm: Make ins__scnprintf() and ins__is_nop() static
  perf dso: Clean up read_symbol() error handling
  perf dso: Support BPF programs in dso__read_symbol()
  perf dso: Move read_symbol() from llvm/capstone to dso
  perf llvm: Reduce LLVM initialization
  perf check: Add libLLVM feature
  perf parse-events: Fix parsing of &gt;30kb event strings
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Pull perf tools updates from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:

 - Extended 'perf annotate' with DWARF type information
   (--code-with-type) integration in the TUI, including a 'T'
   hotkey to toggle it

 - Enhanced 'perf bench mem' with new mmap() workloads and control
   over page/chunk sizes

 - Fix 'perf stat' error handling to correctly display unsupported
   events

 - Improved support for Clang cross-compilation

 - Refactored LLVM and Capstone disasm for modularity

 - Introduced the :X modifier to exclude an event from automatic
   regrouping

 - Adjusted KVM sampling defaults to use the "cycles" event to prevent
   failures

 - Added comprehensive support for decoding PowerPC Dispatch Trace Log
   (DTL)

 - Updated Arm SPE tracing logic for better analysis of memory and snoop
   details

 - Synchronized Intel PMU events and metrics with TMA 5.1 across
   multiple processor generations

 - Converted dependencies like libperl and libtracefs to be opt-in

 - Handle more Rust symbols in kallsyms ('N', debugging)

 - Improve the python binding to allow for python based tools to use
   more of the libraries, add a 'ilist' utility to test those new
   bindings

 - Various 'perf test' fixes

 - Kan Liang no longer a perf tools reviewer

* tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.18-1-2025-10-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (192 commits)
  perf tools: Fix arm64 libjvmti build by generating unistd_64.h
  perf tests: Don't retest sections in "Object code reading"
  perf docs: Document building with Clang
  perf build: Support build with clang
  perf test coresight: Dismiss clang warning for unroll loop thread
  perf test coresight: Dismiss clang warning for thread loop
  perf test coresight: Dismiss clang warning for memcpy thread
  perf build: Disable thread safety analysis for perl header
  perf build: Correct CROSS_ARCH for clang
  perf python: split Clang options when invoking Popen
  tools build: Align warning options with perf
  perf disasm: Remove unused evsel from 'struct annotate_args'
  perf srcline: Fallback between addr2line implementations
  perf disasm: Make ins__scnprintf() and ins__is_nop() static
  perf dso: Clean up read_symbol() error handling
  perf dso: Support BPF programs in dso__read_symbol()
  perf dso: Move read_symbol() from llvm/capstone to dso
  perf llvm: Reduce LLVM initialization
  perf check: Add libLLVM feature
  perf parse-events: Fix parsing of &gt;30kb event strings
  ...
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<title>bpf: Finish constification of 1st parameter of bpf_d_path()</title>
<updated>2025-10-04T16:05:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rong Tao</name>
<email>rongtao@cestc.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-04T14:23:29+00:00</published>
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The commit 1b8abbb12128 ("bpf...d_path(): constify path argument")
constified the first parameter of the bpf_d_path(), but failed to
update it in all places. Finish constification.

Otherwise the selftest fail to build:
.../selftests/bpf/bpf_experimental.h:222:12: error: conflicting types for 'bpf_path_d_path'
  222 | extern int bpf_path_d_path(const struct path *path, char *buf, size_t buf__sz) __ksym;
      |            ^
.../selftests/bpf/tools/include/vmlinux.h:153922:12: note: previous declaration is here
 153922 | extern int bpf_path_d_path(struct path *path, char *buf, size_t buf__sz) __weak __ksym;

Fixes: 1b8abbb12128 ("bpf...d_path(): constify path argument")
Signed-off-by: Rong Tao &lt;rongtao@cestc.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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The commit 1b8abbb12128 ("bpf...d_path(): constify path argument")
constified the first parameter of the bpf_d_path(), but failed to
update it in all places. Finish constification.

Otherwise the selftest fail to build:
.../selftests/bpf/bpf_experimental.h:222:12: error: conflicting types for 'bpf_path_d_path'
  222 | extern int bpf_path_d_path(const struct path *path, char *buf, size_t buf__sz) __ksym;
      |            ^
.../selftests/bpf/tools/include/vmlinux.h:153922:12: note: previous declaration is here
 153922 | extern int bpf_path_d_path(struct path *path, char *buf, size_t buf__sz) __weak __ksym;

Fixes: 1b8abbb12128 ("bpf...d_path(): constify path argument")
Signed-off-by: Rong Tao &lt;rongtao@cestc.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tools include: Add headers to make tools builds more hermetic</title>
<updated>2025-10-02T18:13:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Rogers</name>
<email>irogers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-05T22:47:08+00:00</published>
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tools/lib/bpf/netlink.c depends on rtnetlink.h and genetlink.h (via
nlattr.h) which then depends on if_addr.h.

tools/bpf/bpftool/link.c depends on netfilter_arp.h which then depends
on netfilter.h.

Update check-headers.sh to keep these in sync.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: André Almeida &lt;andrealmeid@igalia.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: Darren Hart &lt;dvhart@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim &lt;jhs@mojatatu.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Xing &lt;kerneljasonxing@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jonas Gottlieb &lt;jonas.gottlieb@stackit.cloud&gt;
Cc: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Maurice Lambert &lt;mauricelambert434@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Yury Norov &lt;yury.norov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Yuyang Huang &lt;yuyanghuang@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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tools/lib/bpf/netlink.c depends on rtnetlink.h and genetlink.h (via
nlattr.h) which then depends on if_addr.h.

tools/bpf/bpftool/link.c depends on netfilter_arp.h which then depends
on netfilter.h.

Update check-headers.sh to keep these in sync.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers &lt;irogers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: André Almeida &lt;andrealmeid@igalia.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: Darren Hart &lt;dvhart@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: Ido Schimmel &lt;idosch@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim &lt;jhs@mojatatu.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Xing &lt;kerneljasonxing@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jonas Gottlieb &lt;jonas.gottlieb@stackit.cloud&gt;
Cc: Kan Liang &lt;kan.liang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Maurice Lambert &lt;mauricelambert434@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Yury Norov &lt;yury.norov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Yuyang Huang &lt;yuyanghuang@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'bpf-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next</title>
<updated>2025-10-01T00:58:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-01T00:58:11+00:00</published>
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Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov:

 - Support pulling non-linear xdp data with bpf_xdp_pull_data() kfunc
   (Amery Hung)

   Applied as a stable branch in bpf-next and net-next trees.

 - Support reading skb metadata via bpf_dynptr (Jakub Sitnicki)

   Also a stable branch in bpf-next and net-next trees.

 - Enforce expected_attach_type for tailcall compatibility (Daniel
   Borkmann)

 - Replace path-sensitive with path-insensitive live stack analysis in
   the verifier (Eduard Zingerman)

   This is a significant change in the verification logic. More details,
   motivation, long term plans are in the cover letter/merge commit.

 - Support signed BPF programs (KP Singh)

   This is another major feature that took years to materialize.

   Algorithm details are in the cover letter/marge commit

 - Add support for may_goto instruction to s390 JIT (Ilya Leoshkevich)

 - Add support for may_goto instruction to arm64 JIT (Puranjay Mohan)

 - Fix USDT SIB argument handling in libbpf (Jiawei Zhao)

 - Allow uprobe-bpf program to change context registers (Jiri Olsa)

 - Support signed loads from BPF arena (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi and
   Puranjay Mohan)

 - Allow access to union arguments in tracing programs (Leon Hwang)

 - Optimize rcu_read_lock() + migrate_disable() combination where it's
   used in BPF subsystem (Menglong Dong)

 - Introduce bpf_task_work_schedule*() kfuncs to schedule deferred
   execution of BPF callback in the context of a specific task using the
   kernel’s task_work infrastructure (Mykyta Yatsenko)

 - Enforce RCU protection for KF_RCU_PROTECTED kfuncs (Kumar Kartikeya
   Dwivedi)

 - Add stress test for rqspinlock in NMI (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi)

 - Improve the precision of tnum multiplier verifier operation
   (Nandakumar Edamana)

 - Use tnums to improve is_branch_taken() logic (Paul Chaignon)

 - Add support for atomic operations in arena in riscv JIT (Pu Lehui)

 - Report arena faults to BPF error stream (Puranjay Mohan)

 - Search for tracefs at /sys/kernel/tracing first in bpftool (Quentin
   Monnet)

 - Add bpf_strcasecmp() kfunc (Rong Tao)

 - Support lookup_and_delete_elem command in BPF_MAP_STACK_TRACE (Tao
   Chen)

* tag 'bpf-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (197 commits)
  libbpf: Replace AF_ALG with open coded SHA-256
  selftests/bpf: Add stress test for rqspinlock in NMI
  selftests/bpf: Add test case for different expected_attach_type
  bpf: Enforce expected_attach_type for tailcall compatibility
  bpftool: Remove duplicate string.h header
  bpf: Remove duplicate crypto/sha2.h header
  libbpf: Fix error when st-prefix_ops and ops from differ btf
  selftests/bpf: Test changing packet data from kfunc
  selftests/bpf: Add stacktrace map lookup_and_delete_elem test case
  selftests/bpf: Refactor stacktrace_map case with skeleton
  bpf: Add lookup_and_delete_elem for BPF_MAP_STACK_TRACE
  selftests/bpf: Fix flaky bpf_cookie selftest
  selftests/bpf: Test changing packet data from global functions with a kfunc
  bpf: Emit struct bpf_xdp_sock type in vmlinux BTF
  selftests/bpf: Task_work selftest cleanup fixes
  MAINTAINERS: Delete inactive maintainers from AF_XDP
  bpf: Mark kfuncs as __noclone
  selftests/bpf: Add kprobe multi write ctx attach test
  selftests/bpf: Add kprobe write ctx attach test
  selftests/bpf: Add uprobe context ip register change test
  ...
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Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov:

 - Support pulling non-linear xdp data with bpf_xdp_pull_data() kfunc
   (Amery Hung)

   Applied as a stable branch in bpf-next and net-next trees.

 - Support reading skb metadata via bpf_dynptr (Jakub Sitnicki)

   Also a stable branch in bpf-next and net-next trees.

 - Enforce expected_attach_type for tailcall compatibility (Daniel
   Borkmann)

 - Replace path-sensitive with path-insensitive live stack analysis in
   the verifier (Eduard Zingerman)

   This is a significant change in the verification logic. More details,
   motivation, long term plans are in the cover letter/merge commit.

 - Support signed BPF programs (KP Singh)

   This is another major feature that took years to materialize.

   Algorithm details are in the cover letter/marge commit

 - Add support for may_goto instruction to s390 JIT (Ilya Leoshkevich)

 - Add support for may_goto instruction to arm64 JIT (Puranjay Mohan)

 - Fix USDT SIB argument handling in libbpf (Jiawei Zhao)

 - Allow uprobe-bpf program to change context registers (Jiri Olsa)

 - Support signed loads from BPF arena (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi and
   Puranjay Mohan)

 - Allow access to union arguments in tracing programs (Leon Hwang)

 - Optimize rcu_read_lock() + migrate_disable() combination where it's
   used in BPF subsystem (Menglong Dong)

 - Introduce bpf_task_work_schedule*() kfuncs to schedule deferred
   execution of BPF callback in the context of a specific task using the
   kernel’s task_work infrastructure (Mykyta Yatsenko)

 - Enforce RCU protection for KF_RCU_PROTECTED kfuncs (Kumar Kartikeya
   Dwivedi)

 - Add stress test for rqspinlock in NMI (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi)

 - Improve the precision of tnum multiplier verifier operation
   (Nandakumar Edamana)

 - Use tnums to improve is_branch_taken() logic (Paul Chaignon)

 - Add support for atomic operations in arena in riscv JIT (Pu Lehui)

 - Report arena faults to BPF error stream (Puranjay Mohan)

 - Search for tracefs at /sys/kernel/tracing first in bpftool (Quentin
   Monnet)

 - Add bpf_strcasecmp() kfunc (Rong Tao)

 - Support lookup_and_delete_elem command in BPF_MAP_STACK_TRACE (Tao
   Chen)

* tag 'bpf-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (197 commits)
  libbpf: Replace AF_ALG with open coded SHA-256
  selftests/bpf: Add stress test for rqspinlock in NMI
  selftests/bpf: Add test case for different expected_attach_type
  bpf: Enforce expected_attach_type for tailcall compatibility
  bpftool: Remove duplicate string.h header
  bpf: Remove duplicate crypto/sha2.h header
  libbpf: Fix error when st-prefix_ops and ops from differ btf
  selftests/bpf: Test changing packet data from kfunc
  selftests/bpf: Add stacktrace map lookup_and_delete_elem test case
  selftests/bpf: Refactor stacktrace_map case with skeleton
  bpf: Add lookup_and_delete_elem for BPF_MAP_STACK_TRACE
  selftests/bpf: Fix flaky bpf_cookie selftest
  selftests/bpf: Test changing packet data from global functions with a kfunc
  bpf: Emit struct bpf_xdp_sock type in vmlinux BTF
  selftests/bpf: Task_work selftest cleanup fixes
  MAINTAINERS: Delete inactive maintainers from AF_XDP
  bpf: Mark kfuncs as __noclone
  selftests/bpf: Add kprobe multi write ctx attach test
  selftests/bpf: Add kprobe write ctx attach test
  selftests/bpf: Add uprobe context ip register change test
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: bpf task work plumbing</title>
<updated>2025-09-23T14:34:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mykyta Yatsenko</name>
<email>yatsenko@meta.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-23T11:24:00+00:00</published>
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This patch adds necessary plumbing in verifier, syscall and maps to
support handling new kfunc bpf_task_work_schedule and kernel structure
bpf_task_work. The idea is similar to how we already handle bpf_wq and
bpf_timer.
verifier changes validate calls to bpf_task_work_schedule to make sure
it is safe and expected invariants hold.
btf part is required to detect bpf_task_work structure inside map value
and store its offset, which will be used in the next patch to calculate
key and value addresses.
arraymap and hashtab changes are needed to handle freeing of the
bpf_task_work: run code needed to deinitialize it, for example cancel
task_work callback if possible.
The use of bpf_task_work and proper implementation for kfuncs are
introduced in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko &lt;yatsenko@meta.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250923112404.668720-6-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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This patch adds necessary plumbing in verifier, syscall and maps to
support handling new kfunc bpf_task_work_schedule and kernel structure
bpf_task_work. The idea is similar to how we already handle bpf_wq and
bpf_timer.
verifier changes validate calls to bpf_task_work_schedule to make sure
it is safe and expected invariants hold.
btf part is required to detect bpf_task_work structure inside map value
and store its offset, which will be used in the next patch to calculate
key and value addresses.
arraymap and hashtab changes are needed to handle freeing of the
bpf_task_work: run code needed to deinitialize it, for example cancel
task_work callback if possible.
The use of bpf_task_work and proper implementation for kfuncs are
introduced in the next patch.

Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko &lt;yatsenko@meta.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman &lt;eddyz87@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250923112404.668720-6-mykyta.yatsenko5@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Implement signature verification for BPF programs</title>
<updated>2025-09-23T01:58:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>KP Singh</name>
<email>kpsingh@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-21T16:01:16+00:00</published>
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This patch extends the BPF_PROG_LOAD command by adding three new fields
to `union bpf_attr` in the user-space API:

  - signature: A pointer to the signature blob.
  - signature_size: The size of the signature blob.
  - keyring_id: The serial number of a loaded kernel keyring (e.g.,
    the user or session keyring) containing the trusted public keys.

When a BPF program is loaded with a signature, the kernel:

1.  Retrieves the trusted keyring using the provided `keyring_id`.
2.  Verifies the supplied signature against the BPF program's
    instruction buffer.
3.  If the signature is valid and was generated by a key in the trusted
    keyring, the program load proceeds.
4.  If no signature is provided, the load proceeds as before, allowing
    for backward compatibility. LSMs can chose to restrict unsigned
    programs and implement a security policy.
5.  If signature verification fails for any reason,
    the program is not loaded.

Tested-by: syzbot@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: KP Singh &lt;kpsingh@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250921160120.9711-2-kpsingh@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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This patch extends the BPF_PROG_LOAD command by adding three new fields
to `union bpf_attr` in the user-space API:

  - signature: A pointer to the signature blob.
  - signature_size: The size of the signature blob.
  - keyring_id: The serial number of a loaded kernel keyring (e.g.,
    the user or session keyring) containing the trusted public keys.

When a BPF program is loaded with a signature, the kernel:

1.  Retrieves the trusted keyring using the provided `keyring_id`.
2.  Verifies the supplied signature against the BPF program's
    instruction buffer.
3.  If the signature is valid and was generated by a key in the trusted
    keyring, the program load proceeds.
4.  If no signature is provided, the load proceeds as before, allowing
    for backward compatibility. LSMs can chose to restrict unsigned
    programs and implement a security policy.
5.  If signature verification fails for any reason,
    the program is not loaded.

Tested-by: syzbot@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: KP Singh &lt;kpsingh@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250921160120.9711-2-kpsingh@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tools: update nsfs.h uapi header</title>
<updated>2025-09-19T12:26:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-12T11:52:54+00:00</published>
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Update the nsfs.h tools header to the uapi/nsfs.h header so we can rely
on it in the selftests.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Update the nsfs.h tools header to the uapi/nsfs.h header so we can rely
on it in the selftests.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Return hashes of maps in BPF_OBJ_GET_INFO_BY_FD</title>
<updated>2025-09-19T02:11:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>KP Singh</name>
<email>kpsingh@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-14T21:51:35+00:00</published>
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Currently only array maps are supported, but the implementation can be
extended for other maps and objects. The hash is memoized only for
exclusive and frozen maps as their content is stable until the exclusive
program modifies the map.

This is required for BPF signing, enabling a trusted loader program to
verify a map's integrity. The loader retrieves
the map's runtime hash from the kernel and compares it against an
expected hash computed at build time.

Signed-off-by: KP Singh &lt;kpsingh@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250914215141.15144-7-kpsingh@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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Currently only array maps are supported, but the implementation can be
extended for other maps and objects. The hash is memoized only for
exclusive and frozen maps as their content is stable until the exclusive
program modifies the map.

This is required for BPF signing, enabling a trusted loader program to
verify a map's integrity. The loader retrieves
the map's runtime hash from the kernel and compares it against an
expected hash computed at build time.

Signed-off-by: KP Singh &lt;kpsingh@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250914215141.15144-7-kpsingh@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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