linux/scripts/checkpatch.pl, branch v6.15

Merge tag 'kbuild-v6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

2025-04-05T22:46:50Z

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - Improve performance in gendwarfksyms - Remove deprecated EXTRA_*FLAGS and KBUILD_ENABLE_EXTRA_GCC_CHECKS - Support CONFIG_HEADERS_INSTALL for ARCH=um - Use more relative paths to sources files for better reproducibility - Support the loong64 Debian architecture - Add Kbuild bash completion - Introduce intermediate vmlinux.unstripped for architectures that need static relocations to be stripped from the final vmlinux - Fix versioning in Debian packages for -rc releases - Treat missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() as an error - Convert Nios2 Makefiles to use the generic rule for built-in DTB - Add debuginfo support to the RPM package * tag 'kbuild-v6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (40 commits) kbuild: rpm-pkg: build a debuginfo RPM kconfig: merge_config: use an empty file as initfile nios2: migrate to the generic rule for built-in DTB rust: kbuild: skip `--remap-path-prefix` for `rustdoc` kbuild: pacman-pkg: hardcode module installation path kbuild: deb-pkg: don't set KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION unconditionally modpost: require a MODULE_DESCRIPTION() kbuild: make all file references relative to source root x86: drop unnecessary prefix map configuration kbuild: deb-pkg: add comment about future removal of KDEB_COMPRESS kbuild: Add a help message for "headers" kbuild: deb-pkg: remove "version" variable in mkdebian kbuild: deb-pkg: fix versioning for -rc releases Documentation/kbuild: Fix indentation in modules.rst example x86: Get rid of Makefile.postlink kbuild: Create intermediate vmlinux build with relocations preserved kbuild: Introduce Kconfig symbol for linking vmlinux with relocations kbuild: link-vmlinux.sh: Make output file name configurable kbuild: do not generate .tmp_vmlinux*.map when CONFIG_VMLINUX_MAP=y Revert "kheaders: Ignore silly-rename files" ...

checkpatch: describe --min-conf-desc-length

2025-03-17T19:17:00Z

Neither the warning nor the help message gives any hint on the unit for length: Could be meters, inches, bytes, characters or ... lines. Extend the output of `--help` to name the unit "lines" and the default: - --min-conf-desc-length=n set the min description length, if shorter, warn + --min-conf-desc-length=n set the minimum description length for config symbols + in lines, if shorter, warn (default 4) Include the minimum number of lines as other error messages already do: - WARNING: please write a help paragraph that fully describes the config symbol + WARNING: please write a help paragraph that fully describes the config symbol with at least 4 lines Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c71c170c90eba26265951e248adfedd3245fe575.1741605695.git.p.hahn@avm.de Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn Cc: Andy Whitcroft Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Dwaipayan Ray Cc: Lukas Bulwahn Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

kbuild: remove EXTRA_*FLAGS support

2025-03-15T12:16:21Z

Commit f77bf01425b1 ("kbuild: introduce ccflags-y, asflags-y and ldflags-y") deprecated these in 2007. The migration should have been completed by now. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-01-24-23-16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-01-27T01:50:53Z

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: "Mainly individually changelogged singleton patches. The patch series in this pull are: - "lib min_heap: Improve min_heap safety, testing, and documentation" from Kuan-Wei Chiu provides various tightenings to the min_heap library code - "xarray: extract __xa_cmpxchg_raw" from Tamir Duberstein preforms some cleanup and Rust preparation in the xarray library code - "Update reference to include/asm-" from Geert Uytterhoeven fixes pathnames in some code comments - "Converge on using secs_to_jiffies()" from Easwar Hariharan uses the new secs_to_jiffies() in various places where that is appropriate - "ocfs2, dlmfs: convert to the new mount API" from Eric Sandeen switches two filesystems to the new mount API - "Convert ocfs2 to use folios" from Matthew Wilcox does that - "Remove get_task_comm() and print task comm directly" from Yafang Shao removes now-unneeded calls to get_task_comm() in various places - "squashfs: reduce memory usage and update docs" from Phillip Lougher implements some memory savings in squashfs and performs some maintainability work - "lib: clarify comparison function requirements" from Kuan-Wei Chiu tightens the sort code's behaviour and adds some maintenance work - "nilfs2: protect busy buffer heads from being force-cleared" from Ryusuke Konishi fixes an issues in nlifs when the fs is presented with a corrupted image - "nilfs2: fix kernel-doc comments for function return values" from Ryusuke Konishi fixes some nilfs kerneldoc - "nilfs2: fix issues with rename operations" from Ryusuke Konishi addresses some nilfs BUG_ONs which syzbot was able to trigger - "minmax.h: Cleanups and minor optimisations" from David Laight does some maintenance work on the min/max library code - "Fixes and cleanups to xarray" from Kemeng Shi does maintenance work on the xarray library code" * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-01-24-23-16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (131 commits) ocfs2: use str_yes_no() and str_no_yes() helper functions include/linux/lz4.h: add some missing macros Xarray: use xa_mark_t in xas_squash_marks() to keep code consistent Xarray: remove repeat check in xas_squash_marks() Xarray: distinguish large entries correctly in xas_split_alloc() Xarray: move forward index correctly in xas_pause() Xarray: do not return sibling entries from xas_find_marked() ipc/util.c: complete the kernel-doc function descriptions gcov: clang: use correct function param names latencytop: use correct kernel-doc format for func params minmax.h: remove some #defines that are only expanded once minmax.h: simplify the variants of clamp() minmax.h: move all the clamp() definitions after the min/max() ones minmax.h: use BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG() for the lo < hi test in clamp() minmax.h: reduce the #define expansion of min(), max() and clamp() minmax.h: update some comments minmax.h: add whitespace around operators and after commas nilfs2: do not update mtime of renamed directory that is not moved nilfs2: handle errors that nilfs_prepare_chunk() may return CREDITS: fix spelling mistake ...

checkpatch: don't warn about extra parentheses in staging/

2025-01-25T06:47:24Z

This "Unnecessary parentheses" warning is disabled for drivers/staging unless the --strict option is used. Really, we don't want it at all even if the --strict option is used. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c7278d21-d96c-4c1e-b3bf-f82b8decc5df@stanley.mountain Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Andy Whitcroft Cc: Dwaipayan Ray Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Lukas Bulwahn Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

checkpatch: remove migrated RCU APIs from deprecated_apis

2025-01-25T06:47:24Z

The deprecated_apis map was created in [1] so checkpatch would flag deprecated RCU APIs. These deprecated APIs have since been removed from the kernel. This patch removes them from this map so checkpatch doesn't waste time looking for them, and so readers of checkpatch looking for deprecated APIs don't waste time searching for them. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20181111192904.3199-13-paulmck@linux.ibm.com/ [1] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250108192456.47871-1-me@davidreaver.com Signed-off-by: David Reaver Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Kuan-Wei Chiu Acked-by: Joe Perches Cc: Andy Whitcroft Cc: Dwaipayan Ray Cc: Krister Johansen Cc: Lukas Bulwahn Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'net-next-6.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

2025-01-22T16:28:57Z

Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni: "This is slightly smaller than usual, with the most interesting work being still around RTNL scope reduction. Core: - More core refactoring to reduce the RTNL lock contention, including preparatory work for the per-network namespace RTNL lock, replacing RTNL lock with a per device-one to protect NAPI-related net device data and moving synchronize_net() calls outside such lock. - Extend drop reasons usage, adding net scheduler, AF_UNIX, bridge and more specific TCP coverage. - Reduce network namespace tear-down time by removing per-subsystems synchronize_net() in tipc and sched. - Add flow label selector support for fib rules, allowing traffic redirection based on such header field. Netfilter: - Do not remove netdev basechain when last device is gone, allowing netdev basechains without devices. - Revisit the flowtable teardown strategy, dealing better with fin, reset and re-open events. - Scale-up IP-vs connection dumping by avoiding linear search on each restart. Protocols: - A significant XDP socket refactor, consolidating and optimizing several helpers into the core - Better scaling of ICMP rate-limiting, by removing false-sharing in inet peers handling. - Introduces netlink notifications for multicast IPv4 and IPv6 address changes. - Add ipsec support for IP-TFS/AggFrag encapsulation, allowing aggregation and fragmentation of the inner IP. - Add sysctl to configure TIME-WAIT reuse delay for TCP sockets, to avoid local port exhaustion issues when the average connection lifetime is very short. - Support updating keys (re-keying) for connections using kernel TLS (for TLS 1.3 only). - Support ipv4-mapped ipv6 address clients in smc-r v2. - Add support for jumbo data packet transmission in RxRPC sockets, gluing multiple data packets in a single UDP packet. - Support RxRPC RACK-TLP to manage packet loss and retransmission in conjunction with the congestion control algorithm. Driver API: - Introduce a unified and structured interface for reporting PHY statistics, exposing consistent data across different H/W via ethtool. - Make timestamping selectable, allow the user to select the desired hwtstamp provider (PHY or MAC) administratively. - Add support for configuring a header-data-split threshold (HDS) value via ethtool, to deal with partial or buggy H/W implementation. - Consolidate DSA drivers Energy Efficiency Ethernet support. - Add EEE management to phylink, making use of the phylib implementation. - Add phylib support for in-band capabilities negotiation. - Simplify how phylib-enabled mac drivers expose the supported interfaces. Tests and tooling: - Make the YNL tool package-friendly to make it easier to deploy it separately from the kernel. - Increase TCP selftest coverage importing several packetdrill test-cases. - Regenerate the ethtool uapi header from the YNL spec, to ease maintenance and future development. - Add YNL support for decoding the link types used in net self-tests, allowing a single build to run both net and drivers/net. Drivers: - Ethernet high-speed NICs: - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5): - add cross E-Switch QoS support - add SW Steering support for ConnectX-8 - implement support for HW-Managed Flow Steering, improving the rule deletion/insertion rate - support for multi-host LAG - Intel (ixgbe, ice, igb): - ice: add support for devlink health events - ixgbe: add initial support for E610 chipset variant - igb: add support for AF_XDP zero-copy - Meta: - add support for basic RSS config - allow changing the number of channels - add hardware monitoring support - Broadcom (bnxt): - implement TCP data split and HDS threshold ethtool support, enabling Device Memory TCP. - Marvell Octeon: - implement egress ipsec offload support for the cn10k family - Hisilicon (HIBMC): - implement unicast MAC filtering - Ethernet NICs embedded and virtual: - Convert UDP tunnel drivers to NETDEV_PCPU_STAT_DSTATS, avoiding contented atomic operations for drop counters - Freescale: - quicc: phylink conversion - enetc: support Tx and Rx checksum offload and improve TSO performances - MediaTek: - airoha: introduce support for ETS and HTB Qdisc offload - Microchip: - lan78XX USB: preparation work for phylink conversion - Synopsys (stmmac): - support DWMAC IP on NXP Automotive SoCs S32G2xx/S32G3xx/S32R45 - refactor EEE support to leverage the new driver API - optimize DMA and cache access to increase raw RX performances by 40% - TI: - icssg-prueth: add multicast filtering support for VLAN interface - netkit: - add ability to configure head/tailroom - VXLAN: - accepts packets with user-defined reserved bit - Ethernet switches: - Microchip: - lan969x: add RGMII support - lan969x: improve TX and RX performance using the FDMA engine - nVidia/Mellanox: - move Tx header handling to PCI driver, to ease XDP support - Ethernet PHYs: - Texas Instruments DP83822: - add support for GPIO2 clock output - Realtek: - 8169: add support for RTL8125D rev.b - rtl822x: add hwmon support for the temperature sensor - Microchip: - add support for RDS PTP hardware - consolidate periodic output signal generation - CAN: - several DT-bindings to DT schema conversions - tcan4x5x: - add HW standby support - support nWKRQ voltage selection - kvaser: - allowing Bus Error Reporting runtime configuration - WiFi: - the on-going Multi-Link Operation (MLO) effort continues, affecting both the stack and in drivers - mac80211/cfg80211: - Emergency Preparedness Communication Services (EPCS) station mode support - support for adding and removing station links for MLO - add support for WiFi 7/EHT mesh over 320 MHz channels - report Tx power info for each link - RealTek (rtw88): - enable USB Rx aggregation and USB 3 to improve performance - LED support - RealTek (rtw89): - refactor power save to support Multi-Link Operations - add support for RTL8922AE-VS variant - MediaTek (mt76): - single wiphy multiband support (preparation for MLO) - p2p device support - add TP-Link TXE50UH USB adapter support - Qualcomm (ath10k): - support for the QCA6698AQ IP core - Qualcomm (ath12k): - enable MLO for QCN9274 - Bluetooth: - Allow sysfs to trigger hdev reset, to allow recovering devices not responsive from user-space - MediaTek: add support for MT7922, MT7925, MT7921e devices - Realtek: add support for RTL8851BE devices - Qualcomm: add support for WCN785x devices - ISO: allow BIG re-sync" * tag 'net-next-6.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1386 commits) net/rose: prevent integer overflows in rose_setsockopt() net: phylink: fix regression when binding a PHY net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw: streamline TX queue creation and cleanup net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw: streamline RX queue creation and cleanup net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw: ensure proper channel cleanup in error path ipv6: Convert inet6_rtm_deladdr() to per-netns RTNL. ipv6: Convert inet6_rtm_newaddr() to per-netns RTNL. ipv6: Move lifetime validation to inet6_rtm_newaddr(). ipv6: Set cfg.ifa_flags before device lookup in inet6_rtm_newaddr(). ipv6: Pass dev to inet6_addr_add(). ipv6: Convert inet6_ioctl() to per-netns RTNL. ipv6: Hold rtnl_net_lock() in addrconf_init() and addrconf_cleanup(). ipv6: Hold rtnl_net_lock() in addrconf_dad_work(). ipv6: Hold rtnl_net_lock() in addrconf_verify_work(). ipv6: Convert net.ipv6.conf.${DEV}.XXX sysctl to per-netns RTNL. ipv6: Add __in6_dev_get_rtnl_net(). net: stmmac: Drop redundant skb_mark_for_recycle() for SKB frags net: mii: Fix the Speed display when the network cable is not connected sysctl net: Remove macro checks for CONFIG_SYSCTL eth: bnxt: update header sizing defaults ...

checkpatch: check return of `git_commit_info`

2025-01-13T04:21:00Z

Avoid string concatenation with an undefined variable when a reference to a missing commit is contained in a `Fixes` tag. Given this patch: : From: Tamir Duberstein : Subject: Test patch : Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 19:30:51 -0400 : : This is a test patch. : : Fixes: deadbeef111 : Signed-off-by: Tamir Duberstein : --- /dev/null : +++ b/new-file : @@ -0,0 +1 @@ : +Test. Before: WARNING: Please use correct Fixes: style 'Fixes: <12 chars of sha1> ("")' - ie: 'Fixes: ("commit title")' WARNING: Unknown commit id 'deadbeef111', maybe rebased or not pulled? Use of uninitialized value $cid in concatenation (.) or string at scripts/checkpatch.pl line 3242. After: WARNING: Unknown commit id 'deadbeef111', maybe rebased or not pulled? This patch also reduce duplication slightly. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/12 chars of sha1/12+ chars of sha1/, per Jon] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87o70kt232.fsf@trenco.lwn.net Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241204-checkpatch-missing-commit-v1-1-68b34c94944e@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@gmail.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> </article> <article> <h1>checkpatch: update reference to include/asm-<arch></h1> <p>2025-01-13T04:20:59Z</p> Patch series "Update reference to include/asm-<arch>". Despite "include/asm-<arch>" having been replaced by "arch/<arch>/include/asm" 15 years ago, there are still several references left. This patch series updates the most visible ones. This patch (of 3): "include/asm-<arch>" was replaced by "arch/<arch>/include/asm" a long time ago. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1733404444.git.geert+renesas@glider.be Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2c4a75726a976d117055055b68a31c40dcab044e.1733404444.git.geert+renesas@glider.be Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Cc: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@fjasle.eu> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Cc: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> </article> <article> <h1>Align git commit ID abbreviation guidelines and checks</h1> <p>2024-12-30T18:40:45Z</p> The guidelines for git commit ID abbreviation are inconsistent: some places state to use 12 characters exactly, while other places recommend 12 characters or more. The same issue is present in the checkpatch.pl script. E.g. Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst says: **GIT_COMMIT_ID** The proper way to reference a commit id is: commit <12+ chars of sha1> ("<title line>") However, scripts/checkpatch.pl has two different checks: one warning check accepting 12 characters exactly: # Check Fixes: styles is correct Please use correct Fixes: style 'Fixes: <12 chars of sha1> (\"<title line>\")' and a second error check accepting 12-40 characters: # Check for git id commit length and improperly formed commit descriptions # A correctly formed commit description is: # commit <SHA-1 hash length 12+ chars> ("Complete commit subject") Please use git commit description style 'commit <12+ chars of sha1> Hence patches containing commit IDs with more than 12 characters are flagged by checkpatch, and sometimes rejected by maintainers or reviewers. This is becoming more important with the growth of the repository, as git may decide to use more characters in case of local conflicts. Fix this by settling on at least 12 characters, in both the documentation and in the checkpatch.pl script. Fixes: bd17e036b495bebb ("checkpatch: warn for non-standard fixes tag style") Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1c244040bf6ce304656e31036e5178b4b9dfb719.1733421037.git.geert+renesas@glider.be Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> </article> </main></body></html>