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<title>Merge tag 'net-6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net</title>
<updated>2025-01-30T20:24:20Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2025-01-30T20:24:20Z</published>
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Pull networking fixes from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Including fixes from IPSec, netfilter and Bluetooth.

  Nothing really stands out, but as usual there's a slight concentration
  of fixes for issues added in the last two weeks before the merge
  window, and driver bugs from 6.13 which tend to get discovered upon
  wider distribution.

  Current release - regressions:

   - net: revert RTNL changes in unregister_netdevice_many_notify()

   - Bluetooth: fix possible infinite recursion of btusb_reset

   - eth: adjust locking in some old drivers which protect their state
     with spinlocks to avoid sleeping in atomic; core protects netdev
     state with a mutex now

  Previous releases - regressions:

   - eth:
      - mlx5e: make sure we pass node ID, not CPU ID to kvzalloc_node()
      - bgmac: reduce max frame size to support just 1500 bytes; the
        jumbo frame support would previously cause OOB writes, but now
        fails outright

   - mptcp: blackhole only if 1st SYN retrans w/o MPC is accepted, avoid
     false detection of MPTCP blackholing

  Previous releases - always broken:

   - mptcp: handle fastopen disconnect correctly

   - xfrm:
      - make sure skb-&gt;sk is a full sock before accessing its fields
      - fix taking a lock with preempt disabled for RT kernels

   - usb: ipheth: improve safety of packet metadata parsing; prevent
     potential OOB accesses

   - eth: renesas: fix missing rtnl lock in suspend/resume path"

* tag 'net-6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (88 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add Neal to TCP maintainers
  net: revert RTNL changes in unregister_netdevice_many_notify()
  net: hsr: fix fill_frame_info() regression vs VLAN packets
  doc: mptcp: sysctl: blackhole_timeout is per-netns
  mptcp: blackhole only if 1st SYN retrans w/o MPC is accepted
  netfilter: nf_tables: reject mismatching sum of field_len with set key length
  net: sh_eth: Fix missing rtnl lock in suspend/resume path
  net: ravb: Fix missing rtnl lock in suspend/resume path
  selftests/net: Add test for loading devbound XDP program in generic mode
  net: xdp: Disallow attaching device-bound programs in generic mode
  tcp: correct handling of extreme memory squeeze
  bgmac: reduce max frame size to support just MTU 1500
  vsock/test: Add test for connect() retries
  vsock/test: Add test for UAF due to socket unbinding
  vsock/test: Introduce vsock_connect_fd()
  vsock/test: Introduce vsock_bind()
  vsock: Allow retrying on connect() failure
  vsock: Keep the binding until socket destruction
  Bluetooth: L2CAP: accept zero as a special value for MTU auto-selection
  Bluetooth: btnxpuart: Fix glitches seen in dual A2DP streaming
  ...
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<entry>
<title>ptp: Properly handle compat ioctls</title>
<updated>2025-01-28T11:01:26Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Weißschuh</name>
<email>linux@weissschuh.net</email>
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<published>2025-01-25T09:28:38Z</published>
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Pointer arguments passed to ioctls need to pass through compat_ptr() to
work correctly on s390; as explained in Documentation/driver-api/ioctl.rst.
Detect compat mode at runtime and call compat_ptr() for those commands
which do take pointer arguments.

Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1ba5d3a4-7931-455b-a3ce-85a968a7cb10@app.fastmail.com/
Fixes: d94ba80ebbea ("ptp: Added a brand new class driver for ptp clocks.")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250125-posix-clock-compat_ioctl-v2-1-11c865c500eb@weissschuh.net
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'char-misc-6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc</title>
<updated>2025-01-28T00:51:51Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-28T00:51:51Z</published>
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Pull Char/Misc/IIO driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the "big" set of char/misc/iio and other smaller driver
  subsystem updates for 6.14-rc1. Loads of different things in here this
  development cycle, highlights are:

   - ntsync "driver" to handle Windows locking types enabling Wine to
     work much better on many workloads (i.e. games). The driver
     framework was in 6.13, but now it's enabled and fully working
     properly. Should make many SteamOS users happy. Even comes with
     tests!

   - Large IIO driver updates and bugfixes

   - FPGA driver updates

   - Coresight driver updates

   - MHI driver updates

   - PPS driver updatesa

   - const bin_attribute reworking for many drivers

   - binder driver updates

   - smaller driver updates and fixes

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'char-misc-6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (311 commits)
  ntsync: Fix reference leaks in the remaining create ioctls.
  spmi: hisi-spmi-controller: Drop duplicated OF node assignment in spmi_controller_probe()
  spmi: Set fwnode for spmi devices
  ntsync: fix a file reference leak in drivers/misc/ntsync.c
  scripts/tags.sh: Don't tag usages of DECLARE_BITMAP
  dt-bindings: interconnect: qcom,msm8998-bwmon: Add SM8750 CPU BWMONs
  dt-bindings: interconnect: OSM L3: Document sm8650 OSM L3 compatible
  dt-bindings: interconnect: qcom-bwmon: Document QCS615 bwmon compatibles
  interconnect: sm8750: Add missing const to static qcom_icc_desc
  memstick: core: fix kernel-doc notation
  intel_th: core: fix kernel-doc warnings
  binder: log transaction code on failure
  iio: dac: ad3552r-hs: clear reset status flag
  iio: dac: ad3552r-common: fix ad3541/2r ranges
  iio: chemical: bme680: Fix uninitialized variable in __bme680_read_raw()
  misc: fastrpc: Fix copy buffer page size
  misc: fastrpc: Fix registered buffer page address
  misc: fastrpc: Deregister device nodes properly in error scenarios
  nvmem: core: improve range check for nvmem_cell_write()
  nvmem: qcom-spmi-sdam: Set size in struct nvmem_config
  ...
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<entry>
<title>ptp: Ensure info-&gt;enable callback is always set</title>
<updated>2025-01-27T22:29:25Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Weißschuh</name>
<email>linux@weissschuh.net</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-23T07:22:40Z</published>
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The ioctl and sysfs handlers unconditionally call the -&gt;enable callback.
Not all drivers implement that callback, leading to NULL dereferences.
Example of affected drivers: ptp_s390.c, ptp_vclock.c and ptp_mock.c.

Instead use a dummy callback if no better was specified by the driver.

Fixes: d94ba80ebbea ("ptp: Added a brand new class driver for ptp clocks.")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Acked-by: Richard Cochran &lt;richardcochran@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michal Swiatkowski &lt;michal.swiatkowski@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250123-ptp-enable-v1-1-b015834d3a47@weissschuh.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'net-next-6.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2025-01-22T16:28:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-22T16:28:57Z</published>
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Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
 "This is slightly smaller than usual, with the most interesting work
  being still around RTNL scope reduction.

  Core:

   - More core refactoring to reduce the RTNL lock contention, including
     preparatory work for the per-network namespace RTNL lock, replacing
     RTNL lock with a per device-one to protect NAPI-related net device
     data and moving synchronize_net() calls outside such lock.

   - Extend drop reasons usage, adding net scheduler, AF_UNIX, bridge
     and more specific TCP coverage.

   - Reduce network namespace tear-down time by removing per-subsystems
     synchronize_net() in tipc and sched.

   - Add flow label selector support for fib rules, allowing traffic
     redirection based on such header field.

  Netfilter:

   - Do not remove netdev basechain when last device is gone, allowing
     netdev basechains without devices.

   - Revisit the flowtable teardown strategy, dealing better with fin,
     reset and re-open events.

   - Scale-up IP-vs connection dumping by avoiding linear search on each
     restart.

  Protocols:

   - A significant XDP socket refactor, consolidating and optimizing
     several helpers into the core

   - Better scaling of ICMP rate-limiting, by removing false-sharing in
     inet peers handling.

   - Introduces netlink notifications for multicast IPv4 and IPv6
     address changes.

   - Add ipsec support for IP-TFS/AggFrag encapsulation, allowing
     aggregation and fragmentation of the inner IP.

   - Add sysctl to configure TIME-WAIT reuse delay for TCP sockets, to
     avoid local port exhaustion issues when the average connection
     lifetime is very short.

   - Support updating keys (re-keying) for connections using kernel TLS
     (for TLS 1.3 only).

   - Support ipv4-mapped ipv6 address clients in smc-r v2.

   - Add support for jumbo data packet transmission in RxRPC sockets,
     gluing multiple data packets in a single UDP packet.

   - Support RxRPC RACK-TLP to manage packet loss and retransmission in
     conjunction with the congestion control algorithm.

  Driver API:

   - Introduce a unified and structured interface for reporting PHY
     statistics, exposing consistent data across different H/W via
     ethtool.

   - Make timestamping selectable, allow the user to select the desired
     hwtstamp provider (PHY or MAC) administratively.

   - Add support for configuring a header-data-split threshold (HDS)
     value via ethtool, to deal with partial or buggy H/W
     implementation.

   - Consolidate DSA drivers Energy Efficiency Ethernet support.

   - Add EEE management to phylink, making use of the phylib
     implementation.

   - Add phylib support for in-band capabilities negotiation.

   - Simplify how phylib-enabled mac drivers expose the supported
     interfaces.

  Tests and tooling:

   - Make the YNL tool package-friendly to make it easier to deploy it
     separately from the kernel.

   - Increase TCP selftest coverage importing several packetdrill
     test-cases.

   - Regenerate the ethtool uapi header from the YNL spec, to ease
     maintenance and future development.

   - Add YNL support for decoding the link types used in net self-tests,
     allowing a single build to run both net and drivers/net.

  Drivers:

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
      - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
         - add cross E-Switch QoS support
         - add SW Steering support for ConnectX-8
         - implement support for HW-Managed Flow Steering, improving the
           rule deletion/insertion rate
         - support for multi-host LAG
      - Intel (ixgbe, ice, igb):
         - ice: add support for devlink health events
         - ixgbe: add initial support for E610 chipset variant
         - igb: add support for AF_XDP zero-copy
      - Meta:
         - add support for basic RSS config
         - allow changing the number of channels
         - add hardware monitoring support
      - Broadcom (bnxt):
         - implement TCP data split and HDS threshold ethtool support,
           enabling Device Memory TCP.
      - Marvell Octeon:
         - implement egress ipsec offload support for the cn10k family
      - Hisilicon (HIBMC):
         - implement unicast MAC filtering

   - Ethernet NICs embedded and virtual:
      - Convert UDP tunnel drivers to NETDEV_PCPU_STAT_DSTATS, avoiding
        contented atomic operations for drop counters
      - Freescale:
         - quicc: phylink conversion
         - enetc: support Tx and Rx checksum offload and improve TSO
           performances
      - MediaTek:
         - airoha: introduce support for ETS and HTB Qdisc offload
      - Microchip:
         - lan78XX USB: preparation work for phylink conversion
      - Synopsys (stmmac):
         - support DWMAC IP on NXP Automotive SoCs S32G2xx/S32G3xx/S32R45
         - refactor EEE support to leverage the new driver API
         - optimize DMA and cache access to increase raw RX performances
           by 40%
      - TI:
         - icssg-prueth: add multicast filtering support for VLAN
           interface
      - netkit:
         - add ability to configure head/tailroom
      - VXLAN:
         - accepts packets with user-defined reserved bit

   - Ethernet switches:
      - Microchip:
         - lan969x: add RGMII support
         - lan969x: improve TX and RX performance using the FDMA engine
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - move Tx header handling to PCI driver, to ease XDP support

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - Texas Instruments DP83822:
         - add support for GPIO2 clock output
      - Realtek:
         - 8169: add support for RTL8125D rev.b
         - rtl822x: add hwmon support for the temperature sensor
      - Microchip:
         - add support for RDS PTP hardware
         - consolidate periodic output signal generation

   - CAN:
      - several DT-bindings to DT schema conversions
      - tcan4x5x:
         - add HW standby support
         - support nWKRQ voltage selection
      - kvaser:
         - allowing Bus Error Reporting runtime configuration

   - WiFi:
      - the on-going Multi-Link Operation (MLO) effort continues,
        affecting both the stack and in drivers
      - mac80211/cfg80211:
         - Emergency Preparedness Communication Services (EPCS) station
           mode support
         - support for adding and removing station links for MLO
         - add support for WiFi 7/EHT mesh over 320 MHz channels
         - report Tx power info for each link
      - RealTek (rtw88):
         - enable USB Rx aggregation and USB 3 to improve performance
         - LED support
      - RealTek (rtw89):
         - refactor power save to support Multi-Link Operations
         - add support for RTL8922AE-VS variant
      - MediaTek (mt76):
         - single wiphy multiband support (preparation for MLO)
         - p2p device support
         - add TP-Link TXE50UH USB adapter support
      - Qualcomm (ath10k):
         - support for the QCA6698AQ IP core
      - Qualcomm (ath12k):
         - enable MLO for QCN9274

   - Bluetooth:
      - Allow sysfs to trigger hdev reset, to allow recovering devices
        not responsive from user-space
      - MediaTek: add support for MT7922, MT7925, MT7921e devices
      - Realtek: add support for RTL8851BE devices
      - Qualcomm: add support for WCN785x devices
      - ISO: allow BIG re-sync"

* tag 'net-next-6.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1386 commits)
  net/rose: prevent integer overflows in rose_setsockopt()
  net: phylink: fix regression when binding a PHY
  net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw: streamline TX queue creation and cleanup
  net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw: streamline RX queue creation and cleanup
  net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw: ensure proper channel cleanup in error path
  ipv6: Convert inet6_rtm_deladdr() to per-netns RTNL.
  ipv6: Convert inet6_rtm_newaddr() to per-netns RTNL.
  ipv6: Move lifetime validation to inet6_rtm_newaddr().
  ipv6: Set cfg.ifa_flags before device lookup in inet6_rtm_newaddr().
  ipv6: Pass dev to inet6_addr_add().
  ipv6: Convert inet6_ioctl() to per-netns RTNL.
  ipv6: Hold rtnl_net_lock() in addrconf_init() and addrconf_cleanup().
  ipv6: Hold rtnl_net_lock() in addrconf_dad_work().
  ipv6: Hold rtnl_net_lock() in addrconf_verify_work().
  ipv6: Convert net.ipv6.conf.${DEV}.XXX sysctl to per-netns RTNL.
  ipv6: Add __in6_dev_get_rtnl_net().
  net: stmmac: Drop redundant skb_mark_for_recycle() for SKB frags
  net: mii: Fix the Speed display when the network cable is not connected
  sysctl net: Remove macro checks for CONFIG_SYSCTL
  eth: bnxt: update header sizing defaults
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kthread-for-6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks</title>
<updated>2025-01-22T01:10:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-22T01:10:05Z</published>
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Pull kthread updates from Frederic Weisbecker:
 "Kthreads affinity follow either of 4 existing different patterns:

   1) Per-CPU kthreads must stay affine to a single CPU and never
      execute relevant code on any other CPU. This is currently handled
      by smpboot code which takes care of CPU-hotplug operations.
      Affinity here is a correctness constraint.

   2) Some kthreads _have_ to be affine to a specific set of CPUs and
      can't run anywhere else. The affinity is set through
      kthread_bind_mask() and the subsystem takes care by itself to
      handle CPU-hotplug operations. Affinity here is assumed to be a
      correctness constraint.

   3) Per-node kthreads _prefer_ to be affine to a specific NUMA node.
      This is not a correctness constraint but merely a preference in
      terms of memory locality. kswapd and kcompactd both fall into this
      category. The affinity is set manually like for any other task and
      CPU-hotplug is supposed to be handled by the relevant subsystem so
      that the task is properly reaffined whenever a given CPU from the
      node comes up. Also care should be taken so that the node affinity
      doesn't cross isolated (nohz_full) cpumask boundaries.

   4) Similar to the previous point except kthreads have a _preferred_
      affinity different than a node. Both RCU boost kthreads and RCU
      exp kworkers fall into this category as they refer to "RCU nodes"
      from a distinctly distributed tree.

  Currently the preferred affinity patterns (3 and 4) have at least 4
  identified users, with more or less success when it comes to handle
  CPU-hotplug operations and CPU isolation. Each of which do it in its
  own ad-hoc way.

  This is an infrastructure proposal to handle this with the following
  API changes:

   - kthread_create_on_node() automatically affines the created kthread
     to its target node unless it has been set as per-cpu or bound with
     kthread_bind[_mask]() before the first wake-up.

   - kthread_affine_preferred() is a new function that can be called
     right after kthread_create_on_node() to specify a preferred
     affinity different than the specified node.

  When the preferred affinity can't be applied because the possible
  targets are offline or isolated (nohz_full), the kthread is affine to
  the housekeeping CPUs (which means to all online CPUs most of the time
  or only the non-nohz_full CPUs when nohz_full= is set).

  kswapd, kcompactd, RCU boost kthreads and RCU exp kworkers have been
  converted, along with a few old drivers.

  Summary of the changes:

   - Consolidate a bunch of ad-hoc implementations of
     kthread_run_on_cpu()

   - Introduce task_cpu_fallback_mask() that defines the default last
     resort affinity of a task to become nohz_full aware

   - Add some correctness check to ensure kthread_bind() is always
     called before the first kthread wake up.

   - Default affine kthread to its preferred node.

   - Convert kswapd / kcompactd and remove their halfway working ad-hoc
     affinity implementation

   - Implement kthreads preferred affinity

   - Unify kthread worker and kthread API's style

   - Convert RCU kthreads to the new API and remove the ad-hoc affinity
     implementation"

* tag 'kthread-for-6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks:
  kthread: modify kernel-doc function name to match code
  rcu: Use kthread preferred affinity for RCU exp kworkers
  treewide: Introduce kthread_run_worker[_on_cpu]()
  kthread: Unify kthread_create_on_cpu() and kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() automatic format
  rcu: Use kthread preferred affinity for RCU boost
  kthread: Implement preferred affinity
  mm: Create/affine kswapd to its preferred node
  mm: Create/affine kcompactd to its preferred node
  kthread: Default affine kthread to its preferred NUMA node
  kthread: Make sure kthread hasn't started while binding it
  sched,arm64: Handle CPU isolation on last resort fallback rq selection
  arm64: Exclude nohz_full CPUs from 32bits el0 support
  lib: test_objpool: Use kthread_run_on_cpu()
  kallsyms: Use kthread_run_on_cpu()
  soc/qman: test: Use kthread_run_on_cpu()
  arm/bL_switcher: Use kthread_run_on_cpu()
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Introduce kthread_run_worker[_on_cpu]()</title>
<updated>2025-01-08T17:15:03Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-26T22:49:07Z</published>
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kthread_create() creates a kthread without running it yet. kthread_run()
creates a kthread and runs it.

On the other hand, kthread_create_worker() creates a kthread worker and
runs it.

This difference in behaviours is confusing. Also there is no way to
create a kthread worker and affine it using kthread_bind_mask() or
kthread_affine_preferred() before starting it.

Consolidate the behaviours and introduce kthread_run_worker[_on_cpu]()
that behaves just like kthread_run(). kthread_create_worker[_on_cpu]()
will now only create a kthread worker without starting it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@linaro.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>pps: Fix a use-after-free</title>
<updated>2025-01-07T14:16:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Calvin Owens</name>
<email>calvin@wbinvd.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-12T04:13:29Z</published>
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On a board running ntpd and gpsd, I'm seeing a consistent use-after-free
in sys_exit() from gpsd when rebooting:

    pps pps1: removed
    ------------[ cut here ]------------
    kobject: '(null)' (00000000db4bec24): is not initialized, yet kobject_put() is being called.
    WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 440 at lib/kobject.c:734 kobject_put+0x120/0x150
    CPU: 2 UID: 299 PID: 440 Comm: gpsd Not tainted 6.11.0-rc6-00308-gb31c44928842 #1
    Hardware name: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.1 (DT)
    pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
    pc : kobject_put+0x120/0x150
    lr : kobject_put+0x120/0x150
    sp : ffffffc0803d3ae0
    x29: ffffffc0803d3ae0 x28: ffffff8042dc9738 x27: 0000000000000001
    x26: 0000000000000000 x25: ffffff8042dc9040 x24: ffffff8042dc9440
    x23: ffffff80402a4620 x22: ffffff8042ef4bd0 x21: ffffff80405cb600
    x20: 000000000008001b x19: ffffff8040b3b6e0 x18: 0000000000000000
    x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 696e6920746f6e20
    x14: 7369203a29343263 x13: 205d303434542020 x12: 0000000000000000
    x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : 0000000000000000
    x8 : 0000000000000000 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000000
    x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000000
    x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 0000000000000000
    Call trace:
     kobject_put+0x120/0x150
     cdev_put+0x20/0x3c
     __fput+0x2c4/0x2d8
     ____fput+0x1c/0x38
     task_work_run+0x70/0xfc
     do_exit+0x2a0/0x924
     do_group_exit+0x34/0x90
     get_signal+0x7fc/0x8c0
     do_signal+0x128/0x13b4
     do_notify_resume+0xdc/0x160
     el0_svc+0xd4/0xf8
     el0t_64_sync_handler+0x140/0x14c
     el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194
    ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

...followed by more symptoms of corruption, with similar stacks:

    refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.
    kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:62!
    Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops - BUG: Fatal exception

This happens because pps_device_destruct() frees the pps_device with the
embedded cdev immediately after calling cdev_del(), but, as the comment
above cdev_del() notes, fops for previously opened cdevs are still
callable even after cdev_del() returns. I think this bug has always
been there: I can't explain why it suddenly started happening every time
I reboot this particular board.

In commit d953e0e837e6 ("pps: Fix a use-after free bug when
unregistering a source."), George Spelvin suggested removing the
embedded cdev. That seems like the simplest way to fix this, so I've
implemented his suggestion, using __register_chrdev() with pps_idr
becoming the source of truth for which minor corresponds to which
device.

But now that pps_idr defines userspace visibility instead of cdev_add(),
we need to be sure the pps-&gt;dev refcount can't reach zero while
userspace can still find it again. So, the idr_remove() call moves to
pps_unregister_cdev(), and pps_idr now holds a reference to pps-&gt;dev.

    pps_core: source serial1 got cdev (251:1)
    &lt;...&gt;
    pps pps1: removed
    pps_core: unregistering pps1
    pps_core: deallocating pps1

Fixes: d953e0e837e6 ("pps: Fix a use-after free bug when unregistering a source.")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Calvin Owens &lt;calvin@wbinvd.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michal Schmidt &lt;mschmidt@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a17975fd5ae99385791929e563f72564edbcf28f.1731383727.git.calvin@wbinvd.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ptp: ocp: constify 'struct bin_attribute'</title>
<updated>2025-01-03T01:10:27Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Weißschuh</name>
<email>linux@weissschuh.net</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-22T20:08:20Z</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.kobert.dev/pm24.git/commit/?id=be16b46f9ebd3270a4c4da81e5d7bb34b6f43384'/>
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The sysfs core now allows instances of 'struct bin_attribute' to be
moved into read-only memory. Make use of that to protect them against
accidental or malicious modifications.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vadim Fedorenko &lt;vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241222-sysfs-const-bin_attr-ptp-v1-1-5c1f3ee246fb@weissschuh.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ptp: kvm: x86: Return EOPNOTSUPP instead of ENODEV from kvm_arch_ptp_init()</title>
<updated>2024-12-07T01:38:11Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Weißschuh</name>
<email>linux@weissschuh.net</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-03T17:09:55Z</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.kobert.dev/pm24.git/commit/?id=5e7aa97c7acf171275ac02a8bb018c31b8918d13'/>
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The caller, ptp_kvm_init(), emits a warning if kvm_arch_ptp_init() exits
with any error which is not EOPNOTSUPP:

	"fail to initialize ptp_kvm"

Replace ENODEV with EOPNOTSUPP to avoid this spurious warning,
aligning with the ARM implementation.

Fixes: a86ed2cfa13c ("ptp: Don't print an error if ptp_kvm is not supported")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh &lt;linux@weissschuh.net&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241203-kvm_ptp-eopnotsuppp-v2-1-d1d060f27aa6@weissschuh.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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