linux/ipc, branch master

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51Z

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28Z

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

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-18-19-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-02-19T04:50:32Z

Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "mm/vmscan: fix demotion targets checks in reclaim/demotion" fixes a couple of issues in the demotion code - pages were failed demotion and were finding themselves demoted into disallowed nodes (Bing Jiao) - "Remove XA_ZERO from error recovery of dup_mmap()" fixes a rare mapledtree race and performs a number of cleanups (Liam Howlett) - "mm: add bitmap VMA flag helpers and convert all mmap_prepare to use them" implements a lot of cleanups following on from the conversion of the VMA flags into a bitmap (Lorenzo Stoakes) - "support batch checking of references and unmapping for large folios" implements batching to greatly improve the performance of reclaiming clean file-backed large folios (Baolin Wang) - "selftests/mm: add memory failure selftests" does as claimed (Miaohe Lin) * tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-18-19-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (36 commits) mm/page_alloc: clear page->private in free_pages_prepare() selftests/mm: add memory failure dirty pagecache test selftests/mm: add memory failure clean pagecache test selftests/mm: add memory failure anonymous page test mm: rmap: support batched unmapping for file large folios arm64: mm: implement the architecture-specific clear_flush_young_ptes() arm64: mm: support batch clearing of the young flag for large folios arm64: mm: factor out the address and ptep alignment into a new helper mm: rmap: support batched checks of the references for large folios tools/testing/vma: add VMA userland tests for VMA flag functions tools/testing/vma: separate out vma_internal.h into logical headers tools/testing/vma: separate VMA userland tests into separate files mm: make vm_area_desc utilise vma_flags_t only mm: update all remaining mmap_prepare users to use vma_flags_t mm: update shmem_[kernel]_file_*() functions to use vma_flags_t mm: update secretmem to use VMA flags on mmap_prepare mm: update hugetlbfs to use VMA flags on mmap_prepare mm: add basic VMA flag operation helper functions tools: bitmap: add missing bitmap_[subset(), andnot()] mm: add mk_vma_flags() bitmap flag macro helper ...

Merge tag 'kernel-7.0-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

2026-02-16T20:37:13Z

Pull pidfs updates from Christian Brauner: - pid: introduce task_ppid_vnr() helper - pidfs: convert rb-tree to rhashtable Mateusz reported performance penalties during task creation because pidfs uses pidmap_lock to add elements into the rbtree. Switch to an rhashtable to have separate fine-grained locking and to decouple from pidmap_lock moving all heavy manipulations outside of it Also move inode allocation outside of pidmap_lock. With this there's nothing happening for pidfs under pidmap_lock - pid: reorder fields in pid_namespace to reduce false sharing - Revert "pid: make __task_pid_nr_ns(ns => NULL) safe for zombie callers" - ipc: Add SPDX license id to mqueue.c * tag 'kernel-7.0-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: pid: introduce task_ppid_vnr() helper pidfs: implement ino allocation without the pidmap lock Revert "pid: make __task_pid_nr_ns(ns => NULL) safe for zombie callers" pid: reorder fields in pid_namespace to reduce false sharing pidfs: convert rb-tree to rhashtable ipc: Add SPDX license id to mqueue.c

mm: update shmem_[kernel]_file_*() functions to use vma_flags_t

2026-02-12T23:42:58Z

In order to be able to use only vma_flags_t in vm_area_desc we must adjust shmem file setup functions to operate in terms of vma_flags_t rather than vm_flags_t. This patch makes this change and updates all callers to use the new functions. No functional changes intended. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: comment fixes, per Baolin] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/736febd280eb484d79cef5cf55b8a6f79ad832d2.1769097829.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett Cc: Barry Song Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Dev Jain Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Zi Yan Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" Cc: Damien Le Moal Cc: Yury Norov Cc: Chris Mason Cc: Pedro Falcato Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm: update hugetlbfs to use VMA flags on mmap_prepare

2026-02-12T23:42:57Z

In order to update all mmap_prepare users to utilising the new VMA flags type vma_flags_t and associated helper functions, we start by updating hugetlbfs which has a lot of additional logic that requires updating to make this change. This is laying the groundwork for eliminating the vm_flags_t from struct vm_area_desc and using vma_flags_t only, which further lays the ground for removing the deprecated vm_flags_t type altogether. No functional changes intended. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/9226bec80c9aa3447cc2b83354f733841dba8a50.1769097829.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: Barry Song Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Dev Jain Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Zi Yan Cc: Damien Le Moal Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen Cc: Yury Norov Cc: Chris Mason Cc: Pedro Falcato Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-02-12T20:13:01Z

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 ->group_leader when it is "obviously unnecessary" (Oleg Nesterov) - "list private v2 & 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->group_leader drm/pan*: don't abuse current->group_leader drm/amd: kill the outdated "Only the pthreads threading model is supported" checks drm/amdgpu: don't abuse current->group_leader android/binder: use same_thread_group(proc->tsk, current) in binder_mmap() android/binder: don't abuse current->group_leader kho: skip memoryless NUMA nodes when reserving scratch areas ...

ipc: Add SPDX license id to mqueue.c

2026-02-10T10:39:30Z

Add GPL-2.0 license id to file, replacing reference to GPL in the header comment. Signed-off-by: Tim Bird Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260117202759.692347-1-tim.bird@sony.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

ipc: don't audit capability check in ipc_permissions()

2026-02-01T00:16:07Z

The IPC sysctls implement the ctl_table_root::permissions hook and they override the file access mode based on the CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE capability, which is being checked regardless of whether any access is actually denied or not, so if an LSM denies the capability, an audit record may be logged even when access is in fact granted. It wouldn't be viable to restructure the sysctl permission logic to only check the capability when the access would be actually denied if it's not granted. Thus, do the same as in net_ctl_permissions() (net/sysctl_net.c) - switch from ns_capable() to ns_capable_noaudit(), so that the check never emits an audit record. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260122141303.241133-1-omosnace@redhat.com Fixes: 0889f44e2810 ("ipc: Check permissions for checkpoint_restart sysctls at open time") Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek Acked-by: Alexey Gladkov Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Cc: Eric Biederman Cc: Paul Moore Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mqueue: switch to CLASS(filename)

2026-01-16T17:52:04Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro