linux/Documentation/userspace-api, branch v6.8

Merge tag 'fbdev-for-6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/linux-fbdev

2024-01-12T22:38:08Z

Pull fbdev updates from Helge Deller: "Three fbdev drivers (~8500 lines of code) removed. The Carillo Ranch fbdev driver is for an Intel product which was never shipped, and for the intelfb and the amba-clcd drivers the drm drivers can be used instead. The other code changes are minor: some fb_deferred_io flushing fixes, imxfb margin fixes and stifb cleanups. Summary: - Remove intelfb fbdev driver (Thomas Zimmermann) - Remove amba-clcd fbdev driver (Linus Walleij) - Remove vmlfb Carillo Ranch fbdev driver (Matthew Wilcox) - fb_deferred_io flushing fixes (Nam Cao) - imxfb code fixes and cleanups (Dario Binacchi) - stifb primary screen detection cleanups (Thomas Zimmermann)" * tag 'fbdev-for-6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/linux-fbdev: (28 commits) fbdev/intelfb: Remove driver fbdev/hyperv_fb: Do not clear global screen_info firmware/sysfb: Clear screen_info state after consuming it fbdev/hyperv_fb: Remove firmware framebuffers with aperture helpers drm/hyperv: Remove firmware framebuffers with aperture helper fbdev/sis: Remove dependency on screen_info video/logo: use %u format specifier for unsigned int values video/sticore: Remove info field from STI struct arch/parisc: Detect primary video device from device instance fbdev/stifb: Allocate fb_info instance with framebuffer_alloc() video/sticore: Store ROM device in STI struct fbdev: flush deferred IO before closing fbdev: flush deferred work in fb_deferred_io_fsync() fbdev: amba-clcd: Delete the old CLCD driver fbdev: Remove support for Carillo Ranch driver fbdev: hgafb: fix kernel-doc comments fbdev: mmp: Fix typo and wording in code comment fbdev: fsl-diu-fb: Fix sparse warning due to virt_to_phys() prototype change fbdev: imxfb: add '*/' on a separate line in block comment fbdev: imxfb: use __func__ for function name ...

Merge tag 'media/v6.8-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media

2024-01-12T22:29:48Z

Pull media updates from Mauro Carvalho Chehab: - v4l core: subdev frame interval now supports which field - v4l kapi: moves and renames the init_cfg pad op to init_state as an internal op. - new sensor drivers: gc0308, gc2145, Avnet Alvium, ov64a40, tw9900 - new camera driver: STM32 DCMIPP - s5p-mfc has gained MFC v12 support - new ISP driver added to staging: Starfive - new stateful encoder/decoded: Wave5 codec It is found on the J721S2 SoC, JH7100 SoC, ssd202d SoC. Etc. - fwnode gained support for MIPI "DisCo for Imaging" (https://www.mipi.org/specifications/mipi-disco-imaging) - as usual, lots of cleanups, fixups and driver improvements. * tag 'media/v6.8-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (309 commits) media: i2c: thp7312: select CONFIG_FW_LOADER media: i2c: mt9m114: use fsleep() in place of udelay() media: videobuf2: core: Rename min_buffers_needed field in vb2_queue media: i2c: thp7312: Store frame interval in subdev state media: docs: uAPI: Fix documentation of 'which' field for routing ioctls media: docs: uAPI: Expand error documentation for invalid 'which' value media: docs: uAPI: Clarify error documentation for invalid 'which' value media: v4l2-subdev: Store frame interval in subdev state media: v4l2-subdev: Add which field to struct v4l2_subdev_frame_interval media: v4l2-subdev: Turn .[gs]_frame_interval into pad operations media: v4l: subdev: Move out subdev state lock macros outside CONFIG_MEDIA_CONTROLLER media: s5p-mfc: DPB Count Independent of VIDIOC_REQBUF media: s5p-mfc: Load firmware for each run in MFCv12. media: s5p-mfc: Set context for valid case before calling try_run media: s5p-mfc: Add support for DMABUF for encoder media: s5p-mfc: Add support for UHD encoding. media: s5p-mfc: Add support for rate controls in MFCv12 media: s5p-mfc: Add YV12 and I420 multiplanar format support media: s5p-mfc: Add initial support for MFCv12 media: s5p-mfc: Rename IS_MFCV10 macro ...

fbdev/intelfb: Remove driver

2024-01-12T11:38:37Z

From looking at the PCI IDs, every device supported by intelfb is also supported by i915. Anyone still using intelfb should please move on to i915, which does everything intelfb does but better. Removing intelfb is motivated by the driver's excessive use of the global screen_info state. The state belongs to architecture and firmware code; device drivers should not attempt to access it. But fixing intelfb would require a significant change in the driver's probing logic. As intelfb has been obsolete for nearly 2 decades, it is probably not worth the effort. Let's just remove it. Also remove the related documentation. Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann Acked-by: Maik Broemme Signed-off-by: Helge Deller

Merge tag 'docs-6.8' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2024-01-12T03:46:52Z

Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet: "Another moderately busy cycle for documentation, including: - The minimum Sphinx requirement has been raised to 2.4.4, following a warning that was added in 6.2 - Some reworking of the Documentation/process front page to, hopefully, make it more useful - Various kernel-doc tweaks to, for example, make it deal properly with __counted_by annotations - We have also restored a warning for documentation of nonexistent structure members that disappeared a while back. That had the delightful consequence of adding some 600 warnings to the docs build. A sustained effort by Randy, Vegard, and myself has addressed almost all of those, bringing the documentation back into sync with the code. The fixes are going through the appropriate maintainer trees - Various improvements to the HTML rendered docs, including automatic links to Git revisions and a nice new pulldown to make translations easy to access - Speaking of translations, more of those for Spanish and Chinese ... plus the usual stream of documentation updates and typo fixes" * tag 'docs-6.8' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (57 commits) MAINTAINERS: use tabs for indent of CONFIDENTIAL COMPUTING THREAT MODEL A reworked process/index.rst ring-buffer/Documentation: Add documentation on buffer_percent file Translated the RISC-V architecture boot documentation. Docs: remove mentions of fdformat from util-linux Docs/zh_CN: Fix the meaning of DEBUG to pr_debug() Documentation: move driver-api/dcdbas to userspace-api/ Documentation: move driver-api/isapnp to userspace-api/ Documentation/core-api : fix typo in workqueue Documentation/trace: Fixed typos in the ftrace FLAGS section kernel-doc: handle a void function without producing a warning scripts/get_abi.pl: ignore some temp files docs: kernel_abi.py: fix command injection scripts/get_abi: fix source path leak CREDITS, MAINTAINERS, docs/process/howto: Update man-pages' maintainer docs: translations: add translations links when they exist kernel-doc: Align quick help and the code MAINTAINERS: add reviewer for Spanish translations docs: ignore __counted_by attribute in structure definitions scripts: kernel-doc: Clarify missing struct member description ..

Merge tag 'net-next-6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

2024-01-11T18:07:29Z

Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni: "The most interesting thing is probably the networking structs reorganization and a significant amount of changes is around self-tests. Core & protocols: - Analyze and reorganize core networking structs (socks, netdev, netns, mibs) to optimize cacheline consumption and set up build time warnings to safeguard against future header changes This improves TCP performances with many concurrent connections up to 40% - Add page-pool netlink-based introspection, exposing the memory usage and recycling stats. This helps indentify bad PP users and possible leaks - Refine TCP/DCCP source port selection to no longer favor even source port at connect() time when IP_LOCAL_PORT_RANGE is set. This lowers the time taken by connect() for hosts having many active connections to the same destination - Refactor the TCP bind conflict code, shrinking related socket structs - Refactor TCP SYN-Cookie handling, as a preparation step to allow arbitrary SYN-Cookie processing via eBPF - Tune optmem_max for 0-copy usage, increasing the default value to 128KB and namespecifying it - Allow coalescing for cloned skbs coming from page pools, improving RX performances with some common configurations - Reduce extension header parsing overhead at GRO time - Add bridge MDB bulk deletion support, allowing user-space to request the deletion of matching entries - Reorder nftables struct members, to keep data accessed by the datapath first - Introduce TC block ports tracking and use. This allows supporting multicast-like behavior at the TC layer - Remove UAPI support for retired TC qdiscs (dsmark, CBQ and ATM) and classifiers (RSVP and tcindex) - More data-race annotations - Extend the diag interface to dump TCP bound-only sockets - Conditional notification of events for TC qdisc class and actions - Support for WPAN dynamic associations with nearby devices, to form a sub-network using a specific PAN ID - Implement SMCv2.1 virtual ISM device support - Add support for Batman-avd mulicast packet type BPF: - Tons of verifier improvements: - BPF register bounds logic and range support along with a large test suite - log improvements - complete precision tracking support for register spills - track aligned STACK_ZERO cases as imprecise spilled registers. This improves the verifier "instructions processed" metric from single digit to 50-60% for some programs - support for user's global BPF subprogram arguments with few commonly requested annotations for a better developer experience - support tracking of BPF_JNE which helps cases when the compiler transforms (unsigned) "a > 0" into "if a == 0 goto xxx" and the like - several fixes - Add initial TX metadata implementation for AF_XDP with support in mlx5 and stmmac drivers. Two types of offloads are supported right now, that is, TX timestamp and TX checksum offload - Fix kCFI bugs in BPF all forms of indirect calls from BPF into kernel and from kernel into BPF work with CFI enabled. This allows BPF to work with CONFIG_FINEIBT=y - Change BPF verifier logic to validate global subprograms lazily instead of unconditionally before the main program, so they can be guarded using BPF CO-RE techniques - Support uid/gid options when mounting bpffs - Add a new kfunc which acquires the associated cgroup of a task within a specific cgroup v1 hierarchy where the latter is identified by its id - Extend verifier to allow bpf_refcount_acquire() of a map value field obtained via direct load which is a use-case needed in sched_ext - Add BPF link_info support for uprobe multi link along with bpftool integration for the latter - Support for VLAN tag in XDP hints - Remove deprecated bpfilter kernel leftovers given the project is developed in user-space (https://github.com/facebook/bpfilter) Misc: - Support for parellel TC self-tests execution - Increase MPTCP self-tests coverage - Updated the bridge documentation, including several so-far undocumented features - Convert all the net self-tests to run in unique netns, to avoid random failures due to conflict and allow concurrent runs - Add TCP-AO self-tests - Add kunit tests for both cfg80211 and mac80211 - Autogenerate Netlink families documentation from YAML spec - Add yml-gen support for fixed headers and recursive nests, the tool can now generate user-space code for all genetlink families for which we have specs - A bunch of additional module descriptions fixes - Catch incorrect freeing of pages belonging to a page pool Driver API: - Rust abstractions for network PHY drivers; do not cover yet the full C API, but already allow implementing functional PHY drivers in rust - Introduce queue and NAPI support in the netdev Netlink interface, allowing complete access to the device <> NAPIs <> queues relationship - Introduce notifications filtering for devlink to allow control application scale to thousands of instances - Improve PHY validation, requesting rate matching information for each ethtool link mode supported by both the PHY and host - Add support for ethtool symmetric-xor RSS hash - ACPI based Wifi band RFI (WBRF) mitigation feature for the AMD platform - Expose pin fractional frequency offset value over new DPLL generic netlink attribute - Convert older drivers to platform remove callback returning void - Add support for PHY package MMD read/write New hardware / drivers: - Ethernet: - Octeon CN10K devices - Broadcom 5760X P7 - Qualcomm SM8550 SoC - Texas Instrument DP83TG720S PHY - Bluetooth: - IMC Networks Bluetooth radio Removed: - WiFi: - libertas 16-bit PCMCIA support - Atmel at76c50x drivers - HostAP ISA/PCMCIA style 802.11b driver - zd1201 802.11b USB dongles - Orinoco ISA/PCMCIA 802.11b driver - Aviator/Raytheon driver - Planet WL3501 driver - RNDIS USB 802.11b driver Driver updates: - Ethernet high-speed NICs: - Intel (100G, ice, idpf): - allow one by one port representors creation and removal - add temperature and clock information reporting - add get/set for ethtool's header split ringparam - add again FW logging - adds support switchdev hardware packet mirroring - iavf: implement symmetric-xor RSS hash - igc: add support for concurrent physical and free-running timers - i40e: increase the allowable descriptors - nVidia/Mellanox: - Preparation for Socket-Direct multi-dev netdev. That will allow in future releases combining multiple PFs devices attached to different NUMA nodes under the same netdev - Broadcom (bnxt): - TX completion handling improvements - add basic ntuple filter support - reduce MSIX vectors usage for MQPRIO offload - add VXLAN support, USO offload and TX coalesce completion for P7 - Marvell Octeon EP: - xmit-more support - add PF-VF mailbox support and use it for FW notifications for VFs - Wangxun (ngbe/txgbe): - implement ethtool functions to operate pause param, ring param, coalesce channel number and msglevel - Netronome/Corigine (nfp): - add flow-steering support - support UDP segmentation offload - Ethernet NICs embedded, slower, virtual: - Xilinx AXI: remove duplicate DMA code adopting the dma engine driver - stmmac: add support for HW-accelerated VLAN stripping - TI AM654x sw: add mqprio, frame preemption & coalescing - gve: add support for non-4k page sizes. - virtio-net: support dynamic coalescing moderation - nVidia/Mellanox Ethernet datacenter switches: - allow firmware upgrade without a reboot - more flexible support for bridge flooding via the compressed FID flooding mode - Ethernet embedded switches: - Microchip: - fine-tune flow control and speed configurations in KSZ8xxx - KSZ88X3: enable setting rmii reference - Renesas: - add jumbo frames support - Marvell: - 88E6xxx: add "eth-mac" and "rmon" stats support - Ethernet PHYs: - aquantia: add firmware load support - at803x: refactor the driver to simplify adding support for more chip variants - NXP C45 TJA11xx: Add MACsec offload support - Wifi: - MediaTek (mt76): - NVMEM EEPROM improvements - mt7996 Extremely High Throughput (EHT) improvements - mt7996 Wireless Ethernet Dispatcher (WED) support - mt7996 36-bit DMA support - Qualcomm (ath12k): - support for a single MSI vector - WCN7850: support AP mode - Intel (iwlwifi): - new debugfs file fw_dbg_clear - allow concurrent P2P operation on DFS channels - Bluetooth: - QCA2066: support HFP offload - ISO: more broadcast-related improvements - NXP: better recovery in case receiver/transmitter get out of sync" * tag 'net-next-6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1714 commits) lan78xx: remove redundant statement in lan78xx_get_eee lan743x: remove redundant statement in lan743x_ethtool_get_eee bnxt_en: Fix RCU locking for ntuple filters in bnxt_rx_flow_steer() bnxt_en: Fix RCU locking for ntuple filters in bnxt_srxclsrldel() bnxt_en: Remove unneeded variable in bnxt_hwrm_clear_vnic_filter() tcp: Revert no longer abort SYN_SENT when receiving some ICMP Revert "mlx5 updates 2023-12-20" Revert "net: stmmac: Enable Per DMA Channel interrupt" ipvlan: Remove usage of the deprecated ida_simple_xx() API ipvlan: Fix a typo in a comment net/sched: Remove ipt action tests net: stmmac: Use interrupt mode INTM=1 for per channel irq net: stmmac: Add support for TX/RX channel interrupt net: stmmac: Make MSI interrupt routine generic dt-bindings: net: snps,dwmac: per channel irq net: phy: at803x: make read_status more generic net: phy: at803x: add support for cdt cross short test for qca808x net: phy: at803x: refactor qca808x cable test get status function net: phy: at803x: generalize cdt fault length function net: ethernet: cortina: Drop TSO support ...

Merge tag 'lsm-pr-20240105' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm

2024-01-09T20:57:46Z

Pull security module updates from Paul Moore: - Add three new syscalls: lsm_list_modules(), lsm_get_self_attr(), and lsm_set_self_attr(). The first syscall simply lists the LSMs enabled, while the second and third get and set the current process' LSM attributes. Yes, these syscalls may provide similar functionality to what can be found under /proc or /sys, but they were designed to support multiple, simultaneaous (stacked) LSMs from the start as opposed to the current /proc based solutions which were created at a time when only one LSM was allowed to be active at a given time. We have spent considerable time discussing ways to extend the existing /proc interfaces to support multiple, simultaneaous LSMs and even our best ideas have been far too ugly to support as a kernel API; after +20 years in the kernel, I felt the LSM layer had established itself enough to justify a handful of syscalls. Support amongst the individual LSM developers has been nearly unanimous, with a single objection coming from Tetsuo (TOMOYO) as he is worried that the LSM_ID_XXX token concept will make it more difficult for out-of-tree LSMs to survive. Several members of the LSM community have demonstrated the ability for out-of-tree LSMs to continue to exist by picking high/unused LSM_ID values as well as pointing out that many kernel APIs rely on integer identifiers, e.g. syscalls (!), but unfortunately Tetsuo's objections remain. My personal opinion is that while I have no interest in penalizing out-of-tree LSMs, I'm not going to penalize in-tree development to support out-of-tree development, and I view this as a necessary step forward to support the push for expanded LSM stacking and reduce our reliance on /proc and /sys which has occassionally been problematic for some container users. Finally, we have included the linux-api folks on (all?) recent revisions of the patchset and addressed all of their concerns. - Add a new security_file_ioctl_compat() LSM hook to handle the 32-bit ioctls on 64-bit systems problem. This patch includes support for all of the existing LSMs which provide ioctl hooks, although it turns out only SELinux actually cares about the individual ioctls. It is worth noting that while Casey (Smack) and Tetsuo (TOMOYO) did not give explicit ACKs to this patch, they did both indicate they are okay with the changes. - Fix a potential memory leak in the CALIPSO code when IPv6 is disabled at boot. While it's good that we are fixing this, I doubt this is something users are seeing in the wild as you need to both disable IPv6 and then attempt to configure IPv6 labeled networking via NetLabel/CALIPSO; that just doesn't make much sense. Normally this would go through netdev, but Jakub asked me to take this patch and of all the trees I maintain, the LSM tree seemed like the best fit. - Update the LSM MAINTAINERS entry with additional information about our process docs, patchwork, bug reporting, etc. I also noticed that the Lockdown LSM is missing a dedicated MAINTAINERS entry so I've added that to the pull request. I've been working with one of the major Lockdown authors/contributors to see if they are willing to step up and assume a Lockdown maintainer role; hopefully that will happen soon, but in the meantime I'll continue to look after it. - Add a handful of mailmap entries for Serge Hallyn and myself. * tag 'lsm-pr-20240105' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm: (27 commits) lsm: new security_file_ioctl_compat() hook lsm: Add a __counted_by() annotation to lsm_ctx.ctx calipso: fix memory leak in netlbl_calipso_add_pass() selftests: remove the LSM_ID_IMA check in lsm/lsm_list_modules_test MAINTAINERS: add an entry for the lockdown LSM MAINTAINERS: update the LSM entry mailmap: add entries for Serge Hallyn's dead accounts mailmap: update/replace my old email addresses lsm: mark the lsm_id variables are marked as static lsm: convert security_setselfattr() to use memdup_user() lsm: align based on pointer length in lsm_fill_user_ctx() lsm: consolidate buffer size handling into lsm_fill_user_ctx() lsm: correct error codes in security_getselfattr() lsm: cleanup the size counters in security_getselfattr() lsm: don't yet account for IMA in LSM_CONFIG_COUNT calculation lsm: drop LSM_ID_IMA LSM: selftests for Linux Security Module syscalls SELinux: Add selfattr hooks AppArmor: Add selfattr hooks Smack: implement setselfattr and getselfattr hooks ...

Documentation: move driver-api/dcdbas to userspace-api/

2024-01-03T21:17:40Z

This file documents a sysfs interface that is intended for systems management software. It does NOT document any kind of kernel driver API. It is also not meant to be used directly by system administrators or users. Cc: Stuart Hayes Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum Acked-by: Hans de Goede Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231221124816.2978000-3-vegard.nossum@oracle.com

Documentation: move driver-api/isapnp to userspace-api/

2024-01-03T21:17:39Z

driver-api/isapnp documents /proc interfaces for interfacing directly with ISA Plug & Play devices, not any kind of API for kernel developers, and should thus also live under userspace-api/. Also fix a few issues while we're at it. Cc: Jaroslav Kysela Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Alexandre Belloni Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231221124816.2978000-2-vegard.nossum@oracle.com

doc/netlink: Document the sub-message format for netlink-raw

2023-12-18T22:39:43Z

Document the spec format used by netlink-raw families like rt and tc. Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Donald Hunter Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231215093720.18774-4-donald.hunter@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

media: docs: uAPI: Fix documentation of 'which' field for routing ioctls

2023-12-13T15:52:35Z

The routing ioctls documentation incorrectly describes the 'which' field, due to a bad copy & paste. Fix it. Fixes: ea73eda50813 ("media: Documentation: Add GS_ROUTING documentation") Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil