linux/kernel/liveupdate, branch master

liveupdate: luo_file: remember retrieve() status

2026-02-24T19:13:26Z

LUO keeps track of successful retrieve attempts on a LUO file. It does so to avoid multiple retrievals of the same file. Multiple retrievals cause problems because once the file is retrieved, the serialized data structures are likely freed and the file is likely in a very different state from what the code expects. The retrieve boolean in struct luo_file keeps track of this, and is passed to the finish callback so it knows what work was already done and what it has left to do. All this works well when retrieve succeeds. When it fails, luo_retrieve_file() returns the error immediately, without ever storing anywhere that a retrieve was attempted or what its error code was. This results in an errored LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_RETRIEVE_FD ioctl to userspace, but nothing prevents it from trying this again. The retry is problematic for much of the same reasons listed above. The file is likely in a very different state than what the retrieve logic normally expects, and it might even have freed some serialization data structures. Attempting to access them or free them again is going to break things. For example, if memfd managed to restore 8 of its 10 folios, but fails on the 9th, a subsequent retrieve attempt will try to call kho_restore_folio() on the first folio again, and that will fail with a warning since it is an invalid operation. Apart from the retry, finish() also breaks. Since on failure the retrieved bool in luo_file is never touched, the finish() call on session close will tell the file handler that retrieve was never attempted, and it will try to access or free the data structures that might not exist, much in the same way as the retry attempt. There is no sane way of attempting the retrieve again. Remember the error retrieve returned and directly return it on a retry. Also pass this status code to finish() so it can make the right decision on the work it needs to do. This is done by changing the bool to an integer. A value of 0 means retrieve was never attempted, a positive value means it succeeded, and a negative value means it failed and the error code is the value. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260216132221.987987-1-pratyush@kernel.org Fixes: 7c722a7f44e0 ("liveupdate: luo_file: implement file systems callbacks") Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Cc: Pasha Tatashin Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

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-nonmm-stable-2026-02-18-19-56' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-02-19T05:40:16Z

Pull more non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "two fixes in kho_populate()" fixes a couple of not-major issues in the kexec handover code (Ran Xiaokai) - misc singletons * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-18-19-56' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: lib/group_cpus: handle const qualifier from clusters allocation type kho: remove unnecessary WARN_ON(err) in kho_populate() kho: fix missing early_memunmap() call in kho_populate() scripts/gdb: implement x86_page_ops in mm.py objpool: fix the overestimation of object pooling metadata size selftests/memfd: use IPC semaphore instead of SIGSTOP/SIGCONT delayacct: fix build regression on accounting tool

kho: remove unnecessary WARN_ON(err) in kho_populate()

2026-02-12T23:45:58Z

The following pr_warn() provides detailed error and location information, WARN_ON(err) adds no additional debugging value, so remove the redundant WARN_ON() call. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260212111146.210086-3-ranxiaokai627@163.com Signed-off-by: Ran Xiaokai Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin Cc: Alexander Graf Cc: Mike Rapoport Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

kho: fix missing early_memunmap() call in kho_populate()

2026-02-12T23:45:57Z

Patch series "two fixes in kho_populate()", v3. This patch (of 2): kho_populate() returns without calling early_memunmap() on success path, this will cause early ioremap virtual address space leak. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260212111146.210086-1-ranxiaokai627@163.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260212111146.210086-2-ranxiaokai627@163.com Fixes: b50634c5e84a ("kho: cleanup error handling in kho_populate()") Signed-off-by: Ran Xiaokai Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav Cc: Alexander Graf Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Pasha Tatashin 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 ...

kho: fix doc for kho_restore_pages()

2026-02-08T08:13:34Z

This function returns NULL if kho_restore_page() returns NULL, which happens in a couple of corner cases. It never returns an error code. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260123190506.1058669-1-tycho@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tycho Andersen (AMD) Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav Cc: Alexander Graf Cc: Pasha Tatashin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

tests/liveupdate: add in-kernel liveupdate test

2026-02-08T08:13:33Z

Introduce an in-kernel test module to validate the core logic of the Live Update Orchestrator's File-Lifecycle-Bound feature. This provides a low-level, controlled environment to test FLB registration and callback invocation without requiring userspace interaction or actual kexec reboots. The test is enabled by the CONFIG_LIVEUPDATE_TEST Kconfig option. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251218155752.3045808-6-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin Cc: Alexander Graf Cc: David Gow Cc: David Matlack Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Petr Mladek Cc: Pratyush Yadav Cc: Samiullah Khawaja Cc: Tamir Duberstein Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

liveupdate: luo_flb: introduce File-Lifecycle-Bound global state

2026-02-08T08:13:33Z

Introduce a mechanism for managing global kernel state whose lifecycle is tied to the preservation of one or more files. This is necessary for subsystems where multiple preserved file descriptors depend on a single, shared underlying resource. An example is HugeTLB, where multiple file descriptors such as memfd and guest_memfd may rely on the state of a single HugeTLB subsystem. Preserving this state for each individual file would be redundant and incorrect. The state should be preserved only once when the first file is preserved, and restored/finished only once the last file is handled. This patch introduces File-Lifecycle-Bound (FLB) objects to solve this problem. An FLB is a global, reference-counted object with a defined set of operations: - A file handler (struct liveupdate_file_handler) declares a dependency on one or more FLBs via a new registration function, liveupdate_register_flb(). - When the first file depending on an FLB is preserved, the FLB's .preserve() callback is invoked to save the shared global state. The reference count is then incremented for each subsequent file. - Conversely, when the last file is unpreserved (before reboot) or finished (after reboot), the FLB's .unpreserve() or .finish() callback is invoked to clean up the global resource. The implementation includes: - A new set of ABI definitions (luo_flb_ser, luo_flb_head_ser) and a corresponding FDT node (luo-flb) to serialize the state of all active FLBs and pass them via Kexec Handover. - Core logic in luo_flb.c to manage FLB registration, reference counting, and the invocation of lifecycle callbacks. - An API (liveupdate_flb_get/_incoming/_outgoing) for other kernel subsystems to safely access the live object managed by an FLB, both before and after the live update. This framework provides the necessary infrastructure for more complex subsystems like IOMMU, VFIO, and KVM to integrate with the Live Update Orchestrator. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251218155752.3045808-5-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin Cc: Alexander Graf Cc: David Gow Cc: David Matlack Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Petr Mladek Cc: Pratyush Yadav Cc: Samiullah Khawaja Cc: Tamir Duberstein Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton