user/sven/linux.git/Documentation/process, branch v6.7.9

docs: netdev: try to guide people on dealing with silence

2023-11-21T22:35:43Z

There has been more than a few threads which went idle before the merge window and now people came back to them and started asking about next steps. We currently tell people to be patient and not to repost too often. Our "not too often", however, is still a few orders of magnitude faster than other subsystems. Or so I feel after hearing people talk about review rates at LPC. Clarify in the doc that if the discussion went idle for a week on netdev, 95% of the time there's no point waiting longer. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231120200109.620392-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge tag 'driver-core-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

2023-11-04T01:15:47Z

Pull driver core updates from Greg KH: "Here is the set of driver core updates for 6.7-rc1. Nothing major in here at all, just a small number of changes including: - minor cleanups and updates from Andy Shevchenko - __counted_by addition - firmware_loader update for aborting loads cleaner - other minor changes, details in the shortlog - documentation update All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'driver-core-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (21 commits) firmware_loader: Abort all upcoming firmware load request once reboot triggered firmware_loader: Refactor kill_pending_fw_fallback_reqs() Documentation: security-bugs.rst: linux-distros relaxed their rules driver core: Release all resources during unbind before updating device links driver core: class: remove boilerplate code driver core: platform: Annotate struct irq_affinity_devres with __counted_by resource: Constify resource crosscheck APIs resource: Unify next_resource() and next_resource_skip_children() resource: Reuse for_each_resource() macro PCI: Implement custom llseek for sysfs resource entries kernfs: sysfs: support custom llseek method for sysfs entries debugfs: Fix __rcu type comparison warning device property: Replace custom implementation of COUNT_ARGS() drivers: base: test: Make property entry API test modular driver core: Add missing parameter description to __fwnode_link_add() device property: Clarify usage scope of some struct fwnode_handle members devres: rename the first parameter of devm_add_action(_or_reset) driver core: platform: Unify the firmware node type check driver core: platform: Use temporary variable in platform_device_add() driver core: platform: Refactor error path in a couple places ...

Merge tag 'char-misc-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc

2023-11-04T00:51:08Z

Pull char/misc updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big set of char/misc and other small driver subsystem changes for 6.7-rc1. Included in here are: - IIO subsystem driver updates and additions (largest part of this pull request) - FPGA subsystem driver updates - Counter subsystem driver updates - ICC subsystem driver updates - extcon subsystem driver updates - mei driver updates and additions - nvmem subsystem driver updates and additions - comedi subsystem dependency fixes - parport driver fixups - cdx subsystem driver and core updates - splice support for /dev/zero and /dev/full - other smaller driver cleanups All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'char-misc-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (326 commits) cdx: add sysfs for subsystem, class and revision cdx: add sysfs for bus reset cdx: add support for bus enable and disable cdx: Register cdx bus as a device on cdx subsystem cdx: Create symbol namespaces for cdx subsystem cdx: Introduce lock to protect controller ops cdx: Remove cdx controller list from cdx bus system dts: ti: k3-am625-beagleplay: Add beaglecc1352 greybus: Add BeaglePlay Linux Driver dt-bindings: net: Add ti,cc1352p7 dt-bindings: eeprom: at24: allow NVMEM cells based on old syntax dt-bindings: nvmem: SID: allow NVMEM cells based on old syntax Revert "nvmem: add new config option" MAINTAINERS: coresight: Add missing Coresight files misc: pci_endpoint_test: Add deviceID for J721S2 PCIe EP device support firmware: xilinx: Move EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL next to zynqmp_pm_feature definition uacce: make uacce_class constant ocxl: make ocxl_class constant cxl: make cxl_class constant misc: phantom: make phantom_class constant ...

Merge tag 'docs-6.7' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2023-11-02T03:11:41Z

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "The number of commits for documentation is not huge this time around, but there are some significant changes nonetheless: - Some more Spanish-language and Chinese translations - The much-discussed documentation of the confidential-computing threat model - Powerpc and RISCV documentation move under Documentation/arch - these complete this particular bit of documentation churn - A large traditional-Chinese documentation update - A new document on backporting and conflict resolution - Some kernel-doc and Sphinx fixes Plus the usual smattering of smaller updates and typo fixes" * tag 'docs-6.7' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (40 commits) scripts/kernel-doc: Fix the regex for matching -Werror flag docs: backporting: address feedback Documentation: driver-api: pps: Update PPS generator documentation speakup: Document USB support doc: blk-ioprio: Bring the doc in line with the implementation docs: usb: fix reference to nonexistent file in UVC Gadget docs: doc-guide: mention 'make refcheckdocs' Documentation: fix typo in dynamic-debug howto scripts/kernel-doc: match -Werror flag strictly Documentation/sphinx: Remove the repeated word "the" in comments. docs: sparse: add SPDX-License-Identifier docs/zh_CN: Add subsystem-apis Chinese translation docs/zh_TW: update contents for zh_TW docs: submitting-patches: encourage direct notifications to commenters docs: add backporting and conflict resolution document docs: move riscv under arch docs: update link to powerpc/vmemmap_dedup.rst mm/memory-hotplug: fix typo in documentation docs: move powerpc under arch PCI: Update the devres documentation regarding to pcim_*() ...

Merge tag 'net-next-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

2023-10-31T15:10:11Z

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "Core & protocols: - Support usec resolution of TCP timestamps, enabled selectively by a route attribute. - Defer regular TCP ACK while processing socket backlog, try to send a cumulative ACK at the end. Increase single TCP flow performance on a 200Gbit NIC by 20% (100Gbit -> 120Gbit). - The Fair Queuing (FQ) packet scheduler: - add built-in 3 band prio / WRR scheduling - support bypass if the qdisc is mostly idle (5% speed up for TCP RR) - improve inactive flow reporting - optimize the layout of structures for better cache locality - Support TCP Authentication Option (RFC 5925, TCP-AO), a more modern replacement for the old MD5 option. - Add more retransmission timeout (RTO) related statistics to TCP_INFO. - Support sending fragmented skbs over vsock sockets. - Make sure we send SIGPIPE for vsock sockets if socket was shutdown(). - Add sysctl for ignoring lower limit on lifetime in Router Advertisement PIO, based on an in-progress IETF draft. - Add sysctl to control activation of TCP ping-pong mode. - Add sysctl to make connection timeout in MPTCP configurable. - Support rcvlowat and notsent_lowat on MPTCP sockets, to help apps limit the number of wakeups. - Support netlink GET for MDB (multicast forwarding), allowing user space to request a single MDB entry instead of dumping the entire table. - Support selective FDB flushing in the VXLAN tunnel driver. - Allow limiting learned FDB entries in bridges, prevent OOM attacks. - Allow controlling via configfs netconsole targets which were created via the kernel cmdline at boot, rather than via configfs at runtime. - Support multiple PTP timestamp event queue readers with different filters. - MCTP over I3C. BPF: - Add new veth-like netdevice where BPF program defines the logic of the xmit routine. It can operate in L3 and L2 mode. - Support exceptions - allow asserting conditions which should never be true but are hard for the verifier to infer. With some extra flexibility around handling of the exit / failure: https://lwn.net/Articles/938435/ - Add support for local per-cpu kptr, allow allocating and storing per-cpu objects in maps. Access to those objects operates on the value for the current CPU. This allows to deprecate local one-off implementations of per-CPU storage like BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERCPU_CGROUP_STORAGE maps. - Extend cgroup BPF sockaddr hooks for UNIX sockets. The use case is for systemd to re-implement the LogNamespace feature which allows running multiple instances of systemd-journald to process the logs of different services. - Enable open-coded task_vma iteration, after maple tree conversion made it hard to directly walk VMAs in tracing programs. - Add open-coded task, css_task and css iterator support. One of the use cases is customizable OOM victim selection via BPF. - Allow source address selection with bpf_*_fib_lookup(). - Add ability to pin BPF timer to the current CPU. - Prevent creation of infinite loops by combining tail calls and fentry/fexit programs. - Add missed stats for kprobes to retrieve the number of missed kprobe executions and subsequent executions of BPF programs. - Inherit system settings for CPU security mitigations. - Add BPF v4 CPU instruction support for arm32 and s390x. Changes to common code: - overflow: add DEFINE_FLEX() for on-stack definition of structs with flexible array members. - Process doc update with more guidance for reviewers. Driver API: - Simplify locking in WiFi (cfg80211 and mac80211 layers), use wiphy mutex in most places and remove a lot of smaller locks. - Create a common DPLL configuration API. Allow configuring and querying state of PLL circuits used for clock syntonization, in network time distribution. - Unify fragmented and full page allocation APIs in page pool code. Let drivers be ignorant of PAGE_SIZE. - Rework PHY state machine to avoid races with calls to phy_stop(). - Notify DSA drivers of MAC address changes on user ports, improve correctness of offloads which depend on matching port MAC addresses. - Allow antenna control on injected WiFi frames. - Reduce the number of variants of napi_schedule(). - Simplify error handling when composing devlink health messages. Misc: - A lot of KCSAN data race "fixes", from Eric. - A lot of __counted_by() annotations, from Kees. - A lot of strncpy -> strscpy and printf format fixes. - Replace master/slave terminology with conduit/user in DSA drivers. - Handful of KUnit tests for netdev and WiFi core. Removed: - AppleTalk COPS. - AppleTalk ipddp. - TI AR7 CPMAC Ethernet driver. Drivers: - Ethernet high-speed NICs: - Intel (100G, ice, idpf): - add a driver for the Intel E2000 IPUs - make CRC/FCS stripping configurable - cross-timestamping for E823 devices - basic support for E830 devices - use aux-bus for managing client drivers - i40e: report firmware versions via devlink - nVidia/Mellanox: - support 4-port NICs - increase max number of channels to 256 - optimize / parallelize SF creation flow - Broadcom (bnxt): - enhance NIC temperature reporting - support PAM4 speeds and lane configuration - Marvell OcteonTX2: - PTP pulse-per-second output support - enable hardware timestamping for VFs - Solarflare/AMD: - conntrack NAT offload and offload for tunnels - Wangxun (ngbe/txgbe): - expose HW statistics - Pensando/AMD: - support PCI level reset - narrow down the condition under which skbs are linearized - Netronome/Corigine (nfp): - support CHACHA20-POLY1305 crypto in IPsec offload - Ethernet NICs embedded, slower, virtual: - Synopsys (stmmac): - add Loongson-1 SoC support - enable use of HW queues with no offload capabilities - enable PPS input support on all 5 channels - increase TX coalesce timer to 5ms - RealTek USB (r8152): improve efficiency of Rx by using GRO frags - xen: support SW packet timestamping - add drivers for implementations based on TI's PRUSS (AM64x EVM) - nVidia/Mellanox Ethernet datacenter switches: - avoid poor HW resource use on Spectrum-4 by better block selection for IPv6 multicast forwarding and ordering of blocks in ACL region - Ethernet embedded switches: - Microchip: - support configuring the drive strength for EMI compliance - ksz9477: partial ACL support - ksz9477: HSR offload - ksz9477: Wake on LAN - Realtek: - rtl8366rb: respect device tree config of the CPU port - Ethernet PHYs: - support Broadcom BCM5221 PHYs - TI dp83867: support hardware LED blinking - CAN: - add support for Linux-PHY based CAN transceivers - at91_can: clean up and use rx-offload helpers - WiFi: - MediaTek (mt76): - new sub-driver for mt7925 USB/PCIe devices - HW wireless <> Ethernet bridging in MT7988 chips - mt7603/mt7628 stability improvements - Qualcomm (ath12k): - WCN7850: - enable 320 MHz channels in 6 GHz band - hardware rfkill support - enable IEEE80211_HW_SINGLE_SCAN_ON_ALL_BANDS to make scan faster - read board data variant name from SMBIOS - QCN9274: mesh support - RealTek (rtw89): - TDMA-based multi-channel concurrency (MCC) - Silicon Labs (wfx): - Remain-On-Channel (ROC) support - Bluetooth: - ISO: many improvements for broadcast support - mark BCM4378/BCM4387 as BROKEN_LE_CODED - add support for QCA2066 - btmtksdio: enable Bluetooth wakeup from suspend" * tag 'net-next-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1816 commits) net: pcs: xpcs: Add 2500BASE-X case in get state for XPCS drivers net: bpf: Use sockopt_lock_sock() in ip_sock_set_tos() net: mana: Use xdp_set_features_flag instead of direct assignment vxlan: Cleanup IFLA_VXLAN_PORT_RANGE entry in vxlan_get_size() iavf: delete the iavf client interface iavf: add a common function for undoing the interrupt scheme iavf: use unregister_netdev iavf: rely on netdev's own registered state iavf: fix the waiting time for initial reset iavf: in iavf_down, don't queue watchdog_task if comms failed iavf: simplify mutex_trylock+sleep loops iavf: fix comments about old bit locks doc/netlink: Update schema to support cmd-cnt-name and cmd-max-name tools: ynl: introduce option to process unknown attributes or types ipvlan: properly track tx_errors netdevsim: Block until all devices are released nfp: using napi_build_skb() to replace build_skb() net: dsa: microchip: ksz9477: Fix spelling mistake "Enery" -> "Energy" net: dsa: microchip: Ensure Stable PME Pin State for Wake-on-LAN net: dsa: microchip: Refactor switch shutdown routine for WoL preparation ...

Merge tag 'rust-6.7' of https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux

2023-10-31T06:30:49Z

Pull rust updates from Miguel Ojeda: "A small one compared to the previous one in terms of features. In terms of lines, as usual, the 'alloc' version upgrade accounts for most of them. Toolchain and infrastructure: - Upgrade to Rust 1.73.0 This time around, due to how the kernel and Rust schedules have aligned, there are two upgrades in fact. They contain the fixes for a few issues we reported to the Rust project. In addition, a few cleanups indicated by the upgraded compiler or possible thanks to it. For instance, the compiler now detects redundant explicit links. - A couple changes to the Rust 'Makefile' so that it can be used with toybox tools, allowing Rust to be used in the Android kernel build. x86: - Enable IBT if enabled in C Documentation: - Add "The Rust experiment" section to the Rust index page MAINTAINERS: - Add Maintainer Entry Profile field ('P:'). - Update our 'W:' field to point to the webpage we have been building this year" * tag 'rust-6.7' of https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux: docs: rust: add "The Rust experiment" section x86: Enable IBT in Rust if enabled in C rust: Use grep -Ev rather than relying on GNU grep rust: Use awk instead of recent xargs rust: upgrade to Rust 1.73.0 rust: print: use explicit link in documentation rust: task: remove redundant explicit link rust: kernel: remove `#[allow(clippy::new_ret_no_self)]` MAINTAINERS: add Maintainer Entry Profile field for Rust MAINTAINERS: update Rust webpage rust: upgrade to Rust 1.72.1 rust: arc: add explicit `drop()` around `Box::from_raw()`

docs: backporting: address feedback

2023-10-26T17:49:16Z

This addresses a few comments/issues in my v2 submission: - repeated word: 'run' from kernel test robot - emacs/ediff mode from Jon Corbet - various comments from Willy Tarreau - more backporting advice from Ben Hutchings - a couple more cherry-pick tips from Harshit Mogalapalli - add a bit about stable submissions Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231023135722.949510-1-vegard.nossum@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Documentation: security-bugs.rst: linux-distros relaxed their rules

2023-10-24T09:25:01Z

The linux-distros list relaxed their rules to try to adapt better to how the Linux kernel works. Let's update the Coordination part to explain why and when to contact them or not to and how to avoid trouble in the future. Link: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/08/4 Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Solar Designer Cc: Vegard Nossum Acked-by: Jiri Kosina Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231015130959.26242-1-w@1wt.eu Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2023-10-19T20:29:01Z

Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR. net/mac80211/key.c 02e0e426a2fb ("wifi: mac80211: fix error path key leak") 2a8b665e6bcc ("wifi: mac80211: remove key_mtx") 7d6904bf26b9 ("Merge wireless into wireless-next") https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231012113648.46eea5ec@canb.auug.org.au/ Adjacent changes: drivers/net/ethernet/ti/Kconfig a602ee3176a8 ("net: ethernet: ti: Fix mixed module-builtin object") 98bdeae9502b ("net: cpmac: remove driver to prepare for platform removal") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge 6.6-rc6 into char-misc-next

2023-10-16T18:46:20Z

We need the char/misc fixes in here as well, to build on for other changes. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman