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<title>Convert remaining multi-line kmalloc_obj/flex GFP_KERNEL uses</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T16:26:33Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2026-02-22T07:46:04Z</published>
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Conversion performed via this Coccinelle script:

  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
  // Options: --include-headers-for-types --all-includes --include-headers --keep-comments
  virtual patch

  @gfp depends on patch &amp;&amp; !(file in "tools") &amp;&amp; !(file in "samples")@
  identifier ALLOC = {kmalloc_obj,kmalloc_objs,kmalloc_flex,
 		    kzalloc_obj,kzalloc_objs,kzalloc_flex,
		    kvmalloc_obj,kvmalloc_objs,kvmalloc_flex,
		    kvzalloc_obj,kvzalloc_objs,kvzalloc_flex};
  @@

  	ALLOC(...
  -		, GFP_KERNEL
  	)

  $ make coccicheck MODE=patch COCCI=gfp.cocci

Build and boot tested x86_64 with Fedora 42's GCC and Clang:

Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20260123 (Red Hat 15.2.1-7), GNU ld version 2.44-12.fc42) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01
Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (clang version 20.1.8 (Fedora 20.1.8-4.fc42), LLD 20.1.8) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T04:03:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T04:03:00Z</published>
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This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines.  I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.

Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script.  I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.

So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.

The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_flex' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T01:06:51Z</published>
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This is the exact same thing as the 'alloc_obj()' version, only much
smaller because there are a lot fewer users of the *alloc_flex()
interface.

As with alloc_obj() version, this was done entirely with mindless brute
force, using the same script, except using 'flex' in the pattern rather
than 'objs*'.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42Z</published>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23Z</published>
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'net-7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net</title>
<updated>2026-02-19T18:39:08Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-19T18:39:08Z</published>
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Pull networking fixes from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Including fixes from Netfilter.

  Current release - new code bugs:

   - net: fix backlog_unlock_irq_restore() vs CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT

   - eth: mlx5e: XSK, Fix unintended ICOSQ change

   - phy_port: correctly recompute the port's linkmodes

   - vsock: prevent child netns mode switch from local to global

   - couple of kconfig fixes for new symbols

  Previous releases - regressions:

   - nfc: nci: fix false-positive parameter validation for packet data

   - net: do not delay zero-copy skbs in skb_attempt_defer_free()

  Previous releases - always broken:

   - mctp: ensure our nlmsg responses to user space are zero-initialised

   - ipv6: ioam: fix heap buffer overflow in __ioam6_fill_trace_data()

   - fixes for ICMP rate limiting

  Misc:

   - intel: fix PCI device ID conflict between i40e and ipw2200"

* tag 'net-7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (85 commits)
  net: nfc: nci: Fix parameter validation for packet data
  net/mlx5e: Use unsigned for mlx5e_get_max_num_channels
  net/mlx5e: Fix deadlocks between devlink and netdev instance locks
  net/mlx5e: MACsec, add ASO poll loop in macsec_aso_set_arm_event
  net/mlx5: Fix misidentification of write combining CQE during poll loop
  net/mlx5e: Fix misidentification of ASO CQE during poll loop
  net/mlx5: Fix multiport device check over light SFs
  bonding: alb: fix UAF in rlb_arp_recv during bond up/down
  bnge: fix reserving resources from FW
  eth: fbnic: Advertise supported XDP features.
  rds: tcp: fix uninit-value in __inet_bind
  net/rds: Fix NULL pointer dereference in rds_tcp_accept_one
  octeontx2-af: Fix default entries mcam entry action
  net/mlx5e: XSK, Fix unintended ICOSQ change
  ipv6: icmp: icmpv6_xrlim_allow() optimization if net.ipv6.icmp.ratelimit is zero
  ipv4: icmp: icmpv4_xrlim_allow() optimization if net.ipv4.icmp_ratelimit is zero
  ipv6: icmp: remove obsolete code in icmpv6_xrlim_allow()
  inet: move icmp_global_{credit,stamp} to a separate cache line
  icmp: prevent possible overflow in icmp_global_allow()
  selftests/net: packetdrill: add ipv4-mapped-ipv6 tests
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: intel: fix PCI device ID conflict between i40e and ipw2200</title>
<updated>2026-02-13T02:42:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ethan Nelson-Moore</name>
<email>enelsonmoore@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-10T02:12:34Z</published>
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The ID 8086:104f is matched by both i40e and ipw2200. The same device
ID should not be in more than one driver, because in that case, which
driver is used is unpredictable. Fix this by taking advantage of the
fact that i40e devices use PCI_CLASS_NETWORK_ETHERNET and ipw2200
devices use PCI_CLASS_NETWORK_OTHER to differentiate the devices.

Fixes: 2e45d3f4677a ("i40e: Add support for X710 B/P &amp; SFP+ cards")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore &lt;enelsonmoore@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov &lt;aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260210021235.16315-1-enelsonmoore@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2026-02-12T20:13:01Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-12T20:13:01Z</published>
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "ocfs2: give ocfs2 the ability to reclaim suballocator free bg" saves
   disk space by teaching ocfs2 to reclaim suballocator block group
   space (Heming Zhao)

 - "Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs" adds the
   ARRAY_END() macro and uses it in various places (Alejandro Colomar)

 - "vmcoreinfo: support VMCOREINFO_BYTES larger than PAGE_SIZE" makes
   the vmcore code future-safe, if VMCOREINFO_BYTES ever exceeds the
   page size (Pnina Feder)

 - "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing module buildid" cleans
   up kallsyms code related to module buildid and fixes an invalid
   access crash when printing backtraces (Petr Mladek)

 - "Address page fault in ima_restore_measurement_list()" fixes a
   kexec-related crash that can occur when booting the second-stage
   kernel on x86 (Harshit Mogalapalli)

 - "kho: ABI headers and Documentation updates" updates the kexec
   handover ABI documentation (Mike Rapoport)

 - "Align atomic storage" adds the __aligned attribute to atomic_t and
   atomic64_t definitions to get natural alignment of both types on
   csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc and sh (Finn Thain)

 - "kho: clean up page initialization logic" simplifies the page
   initialization logic in kho_restore_page() (Pratyush Yadav)

 - "Unload linux/kernel.h" moves several things out of kernel.h and into
   more appropriate places (Yury Norov)

 - "don't abuse task_struct.group_leader" removes the usage of
   -&gt;group_leader when it is "obviously unnecessary" (Oleg Nesterov)

 - "list private v2 &amp; luo flb" adds some infrastructure improvements to
   the live update orchestrator (Pasha Tatashin)

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (107 commits)
  watchdog/hardlockup: simplify perf event probe and remove per-cpu dependency
  procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat()
  watchdog/softlockup: fix sample ring index wrap in need_counting_irqs()
  kcsan, compiler_types: avoid duplicate type issues in BPF Type Format
  kho: fix doc for kho_restore_pages()
  tests/liveupdate: add in-kernel liveupdate test
  liveupdate: luo_flb: introduce File-Lifecycle-Bound global state
  liveupdate: luo_file: Use private list
  list: add kunit test for private list primitives
  list: add primitives for private list manipulations
  delayacct: fix uapi timespec64 definition
  panic: add panic_force_cpu= parameter to redirect panic to a specific CPU
  netclassid: use thread_group_leader(p) in update_classid_task()
  RDMA/umem: don't abuse current-&gt;group_leader
  drm/pan*: don't abuse current-&gt;group_leader
  drm/amd: kill the outdated "Only the pthreads threading model is supported" checks
  drm/amdgpu: don't abuse current-&gt;group_leader
  android/binder: use same_thread_group(proc-&gt;tsk, current) in binder_mmap()
  android/binder: don't abuse current-&gt;group_leader
  kho: skip memoryless NUMA nodes when reserving scratch areas
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'net-next-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2026-02-12T03:31:52Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-12T03:31:52Z</published>
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Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
 "Core &amp; protocols:

   - A significant effort all around the stack to guide the compiler to
     make the right choice when inlining code, to avoid unneeded calls
     for small helper and stack canary overhead in the fast-path.

     This generates better and faster code with very small or no text
     size increases, as in many cases the call generated more code than
     the actual inlined helper.

   - Extend AccECN implementation so that is now functionally complete,
     also allow the user-space enabling it on a per network namespace
     basis.

   - Add support for memory providers with large (above 4K) rx buffer.
     Paired with hw-gro, larger rx buffer sizes reduce the number of
     buffers traversing the stack, dincreasing single stream CPU usage
     by up to ~30%.

   - Do not add HBH header to Big TCP GSO packets. This simplifies the
     RX path, the TX path and the NIC drivers, and is possible because
     user-space taps can now interpret correctly such packets without
     the HBH hint.

   - Allow IPv6 routes to be configured with a gateway address that is
     resolved out of a different interface than the one specified,
     aligning IPv6 to IPv4 behavior.

   - Multi-queue aware sch_cake. This makes it possible to scale the
     rate shaper of sch_cake across multiple CPUs, while still enforcing
     a single global rate on the interface.

   - Add support for the nbcon (new buffer console) infrastructure to
     netconsole, enabling lock-free, priority-based console operations
     that are safer in crash scenarios.

   - Improve the TCP ipv6 output path to cache the flow information,
     saving cpu cycles, reducing cache line misses and stack use.

   - Improve netfilter packet tracker to resolve clashes for most
     protocols, avoiding unneeded drops on rare occasions.

   - Add IP6IP6 tunneling acceleration to the flowtable infrastructure.

   - Reduce tcp socket size by one cache line.

   - Notify neighbour changes atomically, avoiding inconsistencies
     between the notification sequence and the actual states sequence.

   - Add vsock namespace support, allowing complete isolation of vsocks
     across different network namespaces.

   - Improve xsk generic performances with cache-alignment-oriented
     optimizations.

   - Support netconsole automatic target recovery, allowing netconsole
     to reestablish targets when underlying low-level interface comes
     back online.

  Driver API:

   - Support for switching the working mode (automatic vs manual) of a
     DPLL device via netlink.

   - Introduce PHY ports representation to expose multiple front-facing
     media ports over a single MAC.

   - Introduce "rx-polarity" and "tx-polarity" device tree properties,
     to generalize polarity inversion requirements for differential
     signaling.

   - Add helper to create, prepare and enable managed clocks.

  Device drivers:

   - Add Huawei hinic3 PF etherner driver.

   - Add DWMAC glue driver for Motorcomm YT6801 PCIe ethernet
     controller.

   - Add ethernet driver for MaxLinear MxL862xx switches

   - Remove parallel-port Ethernet driver.

   - Convert existing driver timestamp configuration reporting to
     hwtstamp_get and remove legacy ioctl().

   - Convert existing drivers to .get_rx_ring_count(), simplifing the RX
     ring count retrieval. Also remove the legacy fallback path.

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
      - Broadcom (bnxt, bng):
         - bnxt: add FW interface update to support FEC stats histogram
           and NVRAM defragmentation
         - bng: add TSO and H/W GRO support
      - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
         - improve latency of channel restart operations, reducing the
           used H/W resources
         - add TSO support for UDP over GRE over VLAN
         - add flow counters support for hardware steering (HWS) rules
         - use a static memory area to store headers for H/W GRO,
           leading to 12% RX tput improvement
      - Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
         - ice: reorganizes layout of Tx and Rx rings for cacheline
           locality and utilizes __cacheline_group* macros on the new
           layouts
         - ice: introduces Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) support
      - Meta (fbnic):
         - adds debugfs for firmware mailbox and tx/rx rings vectors

   - Ethernet virtual:
      - geneve: introduce GRO/GSO support for double UDP encapsulation

   - Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
      - Synopsys (stmmac):
         - some code refactoring and cleanups
      - RealTek (r8169):
         - add support for RTL8127ATF (10G Fiber SFP)
         - add dash and LTR support
      - Airoha:
         - AN8811HB 2.5 Gbps phy support
      - Freescale (fec):
         - add XDP zero-copy support
      - Thunderbolt:
         - add get link setting support to allow bonding
      - Renesas:
         - add support for RZ/G3L GBETH SoC

   - Ethernet switches:
      - Maxlinear:
         - support R(G)MII slow rate configuration
         - add support for Intel GSW150
      - Motorcomm (yt921x):
         - add DCB/QoS support
      - TI:
         - icssm-prueth: support bridging (STP/RSTP) via the switchdev
           framework

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - Realtek:
         - enable SGMII and 2500Base-X in-band auto-negotiation
         - simplify and reunify C22/C45 drivers
      - Micrel: convert bindings to DT schema

   - CAN:
      - move skb headroom content into skb extensions, making CAN
        metadata access more robust

   - CAN drivers:
      - rcar_canfd:
         - add support for FD-only mode
         - add support for the RZ/T2H SoC
      - sja1000: cleanup the CAN state handling

   - WiFi:
      - implement EPPKE/802.1X over auth frames support
      - split up drop reasons better, removing generic RX_DROP
      - additional FTM capabilities: 6 GHz support, supported number of
        spatial streams and supported number of LTF repetitions
      - better mac80211 iterators to enumerate resources
      - initial UHR (Wi-Fi 8) support for cfg80211/mac80211

   - WiFi drivers:
      - Qualcomm/Atheros:
         - ath11k: support for Channel Frequency Response measurement
         - ath12k: a significant driver refactor to support multi-wiphy
           devices and and pave the way for future device support in the
           same driver (rather than splitting to ath13k)
         - ath12k: support for the QCC2072 chipset
      - Intel:
         - iwlwifi: partial Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) support
         - iwlwifi: initial support for U-NII-9 and IEEE 802.11bn
      - RealTek (rtw89):
         - preparations for RTL8922DE support

   - Bluetooth:
      - implement setsockopt(BT_PHY) to set the connection packet type/PHY
      - set link_policy on incoming ACL connections

   - Bluetooth drivers:
      - btusb: add support for MediaTek7920, Realtek RTL8761BU and 8851BE
      - btqca: add WCN6855 firmware priority selection feature"

* tag 'net-next-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1254 commits)
  bnge/bng_re: Add a new HSI
  net: macb: Fix tx/rx malfunction after phy link down and up
  af_unix: Fix memleak of newsk in unix_stream_connect().
  net: ti: icssg-prueth: Add optional dependency on HSR
  net: dsa: add basic initial driver for MxL862xx switches
  net: mdio: add unlocked mdiodev C45 bus accessors
  net: dsa: add tag format for MxL862xx switches
  dt-bindings: net: dsa: add MaxLinear MxL862xx
  selftests: drivers: net: hw: Modify toeplitz.c to poll for packets
  octeontx2-pf: Unregister devlink on probe failure
  net: renesas: rswitch: fix forwarding offload statemachine
  ionic: Rate limit unknown xcvr type messages
  tcp: inet6_csk_xmit() optimization
  tcp: populate inet-&gt;cork.fl.u.ip6 in tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock()
  tcp: populate inet-&gt;cork.fl.u.ip6 in tcp_v6_connect()
  ipv6: inet6_csk_xmit() and inet6_csk_update_pmtu() use inet-&gt;cork.fl.u.ip6
  ipv6: use inet-&gt;cork.fl.u.ip6 and np-&gt;final in ip6_datagram_dst_update()
  ipv6: use np-&gt;final in inet6_sk_rebuild_header()
  ipv6: add daddr/final storage in struct ipv6_pinfo
  net: stmmac: qcom-ethqos: fix qcom_ethqos_serdes_powerup()
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'locking-core-2026-02-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2026-02-10T20:28:44Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-10T20:28:44Z</published>
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Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Lock debugging:

   - Implement compiler-driven static analysis locking context checking,
     using the upcoming Clang 22 compiler's context analysis features
     (Marco Elver)

     We removed Sparse context analysis support, because prior to
     removal even a defconfig kernel produced 1,700+ context tracking
     Sparse warnings, the overwhelming majority of which are false
     positives. On an allmodconfig kernel the number of false positive
     context tracking Sparse warnings grows to over 5,200... On the plus
     side of the balance actual locking bugs found by Sparse context
     analysis is also rather ... sparse: I found only 3 such commits in
     the last 3 years. So the rate of false positives and the
     maintenance overhead is rather high and there appears to be no
     active policy in place to achieve a zero-warnings baseline to move
     the annotations &amp; fixers to developers who introduce new code.

     Clang context analysis is more complete and more aggressive in
     trying to find bugs, at least in principle. Plus it has a different
     model to enabling it: it's enabled subsystem by subsystem, which
     results in zero warnings on all relevant kernel builds (as far as
     our testing managed to cover it). Which allowed us to enable it by
     default, similar to other compiler warnings, with the expectation
     that there are no warnings going forward. This enforces a
     zero-warnings baseline on clang-22+ builds (Which are still limited
     in distribution, admittedly)

     Hopefully the Clang approach can lead to a more maintainable
     zero-warnings status quo and policy, with more and more subsystems
     and drivers enabling the feature. Context tracking can be enabled
     for all kernel code via WARN_CONTEXT_ANALYSIS_ALL=y (default
     disabled), but this will generate a lot of false positives.

     ( Having said that, Sparse support could still be added back,
       if anyone is interested - the removal patch is still
       relatively straightforward to revert at this stage. )

  Rust integration updates: (Alice Ryhl, Fujita Tomonori, Boqun Feng)

    - Add support for Atomic&lt;i8/i16/bool&gt; and replace most Rust native
      AtomicBool usages with Atomic&lt;bool&gt;

    - Clean up LockClassKey and improve its documentation

    - Add missing Send and Sync trait implementation for SetOnce

    - Make ARef Unpin as it is supposed to be

    - Add __rust_helper to a few Rust helpers as a preparation for
      helper LTO

    - Inline various lock related functions to avoid additional function
      calls

  WW mutexes:

    - Extend ww_mutex tests and other test-ww_mutex updates (John
      Stultz)

  Misc fixes and cleanups:

    - rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline (Arnd
      Bergmann)

    - locking/local_lock: Include more missing headers (Peter Zijlstra)

    - seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc (Randy Dunlap)

    - rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings (Tamir
      Duberstein)"

* tag 'locking-core-2026-02-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (90 commits)
  locking/rwlock: Fix write_trylock_irqsave() with CONFIG_INLINE_WRITE_TRYLOCK
  rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline
  compiler-context-analysis: Remove __assume_ctx_lock from initializers
  tomoyo: Use scoped init guard
  crypto: Use scoped init guard
  kcov: Use scoped init guard
  compiler-context-analysis: Introduce scoped init guards
  cleanup: Make __DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD handle commas in initializers
  seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc
  tools: Update context analysis macros in compiler_types.h
  rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  rust: sync: Inline various lock related methods
  rust: helpers: Move #define __rust_helper out of atomic.c
  rust: wait: Add __rust_helper to helpers
  rust: time: Add __rust_helper to helpers
  rust: task: Add __rust_helper to helpers
  rust: sync: Add __rust_helper to helpers
  rust: refcount: Add __rust_helper to helpers
  rust: rcu: Add __rust_helper to helpers
  rust: processor: Add __rust_helper to helpers
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