kernel/linux.git/CREDITS, branch master

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

2026-04-24T16:41:58+00:00

Pull networking deletions from Jakub Kicinski: "Delete some obsolete networking code Old code like amateur radio and NFC have long been a burden to core networking developers. syzbot loves to find bugs in BKL-era code, and noobs try to fix them. If we want to have a fighting chance of surviving the LLM-pocalypse this code needs to find a dedicated owner or get deleted. We've talked about these deletions multiple times in the past and every time someone wanted the code to stay. It is never very clear to me how many of those people actually use the code vs are just nostalgic to see it go. Amateur radio did have occasional users (or so I think) but most users switched to user space implementations since its all super slow stuff. Nobody stepped up to maintain the kernel code. We were lucky enough to find someone who wants to help with NFC so we're giving that a chance. Let's try to put the rest of this code behind us" * tag 'net-deletions' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: drivers: net: 8390: wd80x3: Remove this driver drivers: net: 8390: ultra: Remove this driver drivers: net: 8390: AX88190: Remove this driver drivers: net: fujitsu: fmvj18x: Remove this driver drivers: net: smsc: smc91c92: Remove this driver drivers: net: smsc: smc9194: Remove this driver drivers: net: amd: nmclan: Remove this driver drivers: net: amd: lance: Remove this driver drivers: net: 3com: 3c589: Remove this driver drivers: net: 3com: 3c574: Remove this driver drivers: net: 3com: 3c515: Remove this driver drivers: net: 3com: 3c509: Remove this driver net: packetengines: remove obsolete yellowfin driver and vendor dir net: packetengines: remove obsolete hamachi driver net: remove unused ATM protocols and legacy ATM device drivers net: remove ax25 and amateur radio (hamradio) subsystem net: remove ISDN subsystem and Bluetooth CMTP caif: remove CAIF NETWORK LAYER

net: remove ISDN subsystem and Bluetooth CMTP

2026-04-23T17:24:02+00:00

Remove the ISDN (mISDN, CAPI) subsystem and Bluetooth CMTP protocol from the kernel tree. ISDN is a pretty old technology and it's unclear whether anyone still uses it. I went over the last few years of git history and all the commits are either tree-wide conversions or syzbot/static analyzer fixes. When we discussed removal in the past IIRC there were some concerns about ISDN still being used in parts of Germany. Unfortunately, the code base is quite old, none of the current maintainers are familiar with it and AI tools will have a field day finding bugs here. Delete this code and preserve it in an out-of-tree repository for any remaining users: https://github.com/linux-netdev/mod-orphan UAPI constants AF_ISDN/PF_ISDN and the SELinux isdn_socket class are preserved for ABI stability, but the rest of uAPI is removed. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger Acked-by: Luiz Augusto von Dentz Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260421022108.1299678-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-18-02-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-04-19T15:01:17+00:00

Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "Eliminate Dying Memory Cgroup" (Qi Zheng and Muchun Song) Address the longstanding "dying memcg problem". A situation wherein a no-longer-used memory control group will hang around for an extended period pointlessly consuming memory - "fix unexpected type conversions and potential overflows" (Qi Zheng) Fix a couple of potential 32-bit/64-bit issues which were identified during review of the "Eliminate Dying Memory Cgroup" series - "kho: history: track previous kernel version and kexec boot count" (Breno Leitao) Use Kexec Handover (KHO) to pass the previous kernel's version string and the number of kexec reboots since the last cold boot to the next kernel, and print it at boot time - "liveupdate: prevent double preservation" (Pasha Tatashin) Teach LUO to avoid managing the same file across different active sessions - "liveupdate: Fix module unloading and unregister API" (Pasha Tatashin) Address an issue with how LUO handles module reference counting and unregistration during module unloading - "zswap pool per-CPU acomp_ctx simplifications" (Kanchana Sridhar) Simplify and clean up the zswap crypto compression handling and improve the lifecycle management of zswap pool's per-CPU acomp_ctx resources - "mm/damon/core: fix damon_call()/damos_walk() vs kdmond exit race" (SeongJae Park) Address unlikely but possible leaks and deadlocks in damon_call() and damon_walk() - "mm/damon/core: validate damos_quota_goal->nid" (SeongJae Park) Fix a couple of root-only wild pointer dereferences - "Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon: warn commit_inputs vs other params race" (SeongJae Park) Update the DAMON documentation to warn operators about potential races which can occur if the commit_inputs parameter is altered at the wrong time - "Minor hmm_test fixes and cleanups" (Alistair Popple) Bugfixes and a cleanup for the HMM kernel selftests - "Modify memfd_luo code" (Chenghao Duan) Cleanups, simplifications and speedups to the memfd_lou code - "mm, kvm: allow uffd support in guest_memfd" (Mike Rapoport) Support for userfaultfd in guest_memfd - "selftests/mm: skip several tests when thp is not available" (Chunyu Hu) Fix several issues in the selftests code which were causing breakage when the tests were run on CONFIG_THP=n kernels - "mm/mprotect: micro-optimization work" (Pedro Falcato) A couple of nice speedups for mprotect() - "MAINTAINERS: update KHO and LIVE UPDATE entries" (Pratyush Yadav) Document upcoming changes in the maintenance of KHO, LUO, memfd_luo, kexec, crash, kdump and probably other kexec-based things - they are being moved out of mm.git and into a new git tree * tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-18-02-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (121 commits) MAINTAINERS: add page cache reviewer mm/vmscan: avoid false-positive -Wuninitialized warning MAINTAINERS: update Dave's kdump reviewer email address MAINTAINERS: drop include/linux/liveupdate from LIVE UPDATE MAINTAINERS: drop include/linux/kho/abi/ from KHO MAINTAINERS: update KHO and LIVE UPDATE maintainers MAINTAINERS: update kexec/kdump maintainers entries mm/migrate_device: remove dead migration entry check in migrate_vma_collect_huge_pmd() selftests: mm: skip charge_reserved_hugetlb without killall userfaultfd: allow registration of ranges below mmap_min_addr mm/vmstat: fix vmstat_shepherd double-scheduling vmstat_update mm/hugetlb: fix early boot crash on parameters without '=' separator zram: reject unrecognized type= values in recompress_store() docs: proc: document ProtectionKey in smaps mm/mprotect: special-case small folios when applying permissions mm/mprotect: move softleaf code out of the main function mm: remove '!root_reclaim' checking in should_abort_scan() mm/sparse: fix comment for section map alignment mm/page_io: use sio->len for PSWPIN accounting in sio_read_complete() selftests/mm: transhuge_stress: skip the test when thp not available ...

MAINTAINERS: update KHO and LIVE UPDATE maintainers

2026-04-18T07:10:56+00:00

Patch series "MAINTAINERS: update KHO and LIVE UPDATE entries". This series contains some updates for the Kexec Handover (KHO) and Live update entries. Patch 1 updates the maintainers list and adds the liveupdate tree. Patches 2 and 3 clean up stale files in the list. This patch (of 3): I have been helping out with reviewing and developing KHO. I would also like to help maintain it. Change my entry from R to M for KHO and live update. Alex has been inactive for a while, so to avoid over-crowding the KHO entry and to keep the information up-to-date, move his entry from M to R. We also now have a tree for KHO and live update at liveupdate/linux.git where we plan to start maintaining those subsystems and start queuing the patches. List that in the entries as well. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260414121752.1912847-1-pratyush@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260414121752.1912847-2-pratyush@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) Reviewed-by: Alexander Graf Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Cc: Baoquan He Cc: David Hildenbrand Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

MAINTAINERS: update kexec/kdump maintainers entries

2026-04-18T07:10:56+00:00

Update KEXEC and KDUMP maintainer entries by adding the live update group maintainers. Remove Vivek Goyal due to inactivity to keep the MAINTAINERS file up-to-date, and add Vivek to the CREDITS file to recognize their contributions. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260413121146.49215-1-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin Acked-by: Pratyush Yadav Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) Cc: Diego Viola Cc: Jakub Kacinski Cc: Magnus Karlsson Cc: Mark Brown Cc: Martin Kepplinger Cc: Masahiro Yamada Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'ntfs-for-7.1-rc1-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linkinjeon/ntfs

2026-04-17T23:35:49+00:00

Pull ntfs resurrection from Namjae Jeon: "Ever since Kari Argillander’s 2022 report [1] regarding the state of the ntfs3 driver, I have spent the last 4 years working to provide full write support and current trends (iomap, no buffer head, folio), enhanced performance, stable maintenance, utility support including fsck for NTFS in Linux. This new implementation is built upon the clean foundation of the original read-only NTFS driver, adding: - Write support: Implemented full write support based on the classic read-only NTFS driver. Added delayed allocation to improve write performance through multi-cluster allocation and reduced fragmentation of the cluster bitmap. - iomap conversion: Switched buffered IO (reads/writes), direct IO, file extent mapping, readpages, and writepages to use iomap. - Remove buffer_head: Completely removed buffer_head usage by converting to folios. As a result, the dependency on CONFIG_BUFFER_HEAD has been removed from Kconfig. - Stability improvements: The new ntfs driver passes 326 xfstests, compared to 273 for ntfs3. All tests passed by ntfs3 are a complete subset of the tests passed by this implementation. Added support for fallocate, idmapped mounts, permissions, and more. xfstests Results report: Total tests run: 787 Passed : 326 Failed : 38 Skipped : 423 Failed tests breakdown: - 34 tests require metadata journaling - 4 other tests: 094: No unwritten extent concept in NTFS on-disk format 563: cgroup v2 aware writeback accounting not supported 631: RENAME_WHITEOUT support required 787: NFS delegation test" Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/da20d32b-5185-f40b-48b8-2986922d8b25@stargateuniverse.net/ [1] [ Let's see if this undead filesystem ends up being of the "Easter miracle" kind, or the "Nosferatu of filesystems" kind... ] * tag 'ntfs-for-7.1-rc1-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linkinjeon/ntfs: (46 commits) ntfs: remove redundant out-of-bound checks ntfs: add bound checking to ntfs_external_attr_find ntfs: add bound checking to ntfs_attr_find ntfs: fix ignoring unreachable code warnings ntfs: fix inconsistent indenting warnings ntfs: fix variable dereferenced before check warnings ntfs: prefer IS_ERR_OR_NULL() over manual NULL check ntfs: harden ntfs_listxattr against EA entries ntfs: harden ntfs_ea_lookup against malformed EA entries ntfs: check $EA query-length in ntfs_ea_get ntfs: validate WSL EA payload sizes ntfs: fix WSL ea restore condition ntfs: add missing newlines to pr_err() messages ntfs: fix pointer/integer casting warnings ntfs: use ->mft_no instead of ->i_ino in prints ntfs: change mft_no type to u64 ntfs: select FS_IOMAP in Kconfig ntfs: add MODULE_ALIAS_FS ntfs: reduce stack usage in ntfs_write_mft_block() ntfs: fix sysctl table registration and path ...

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-04-15-04-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-04-17T03:11:56+00:00

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "pid: make sub-init creation retryable" (Oleg Nesterov) Make creation of init in a new namespace more robust by clearing away some historical cruft which is no longer needed. Also some documentation fixups - "selftests/fchmodat2: Error handling and general" (Mark Brown) Fix and a cleanup for the fchmodat2() syscall selftest - "lib: polynomial: Move to math/ and clean up" (Andy Shevchenko) - "hung_task: Provide runtime reset interface for hung task detector" (Aaron Tomlin) Give administrators the ability to zero out /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_detect_count - "tools/getdelays: use the static UAPI headers from tools/include/uapi" (Thomas Weißschuh) Teach getdelays to use the in-kernel UAPI headers rather than the system-provided ones - "watchdog/hardlockup: Improvements to hardlockup" (Mayank Rungta) Several cleanups and fixups to the hardlockup detector code and its documentation - "lib/bch: fix undefined behavior from signed left-shifts" (Josh Law) A couple of small/theoretical fixes in the bch code - "ocfs2/dlm: fix two bugs in dlm_match_regions()" (Junrui Luo) - "cleanup the RAID5 XOR library" (Christoph Hellwig) A quite far-reaching cleanup to this code. I can't do better than to quote Christoph: "The XOR library used for the RAID5 parity is a bit of a mess right now. The main file sits in crypto/ despite not being cryptography and not using the crypto API, with the generic implementations sitting in include/asm-generic and the arch implementations sitting in an asm/ header in theory. The latter doesn't work for many cases, so architectures often build the code directly into the core kernel, or create another module for the architecture code. Change this to a single module in lib/ that also contains the architecture optimizations, similar to the library work Eric Biggers has done for the CRC and crypto libraries later. After that it changes to better calling conventions that allow for smarter architecture implementations (although none is contained here yet), and uses static_call to avoid indirection function call overhead" - "lib/list_sort: Clean up list_sort() scheduling workarounds" (Kuan-Wei Chiu) Clean up this library code by removing a hacky thing which was added for UBIFS, which UBIFS doesn't actually need - "Fix bugs in extract_iter_to_sg()" (Christian Ehrhardt) Fix a few bugs in the scatterlist code, add in-kernel tests for the now-fixed bugs and fix a leak in the test itself - "kdump: Enable LUKS-encrypted dump target support in ARM64 and PowerPC" (Coiby Xu) Enable support of the LUKS-encrypted device dump target on arm64 and powerpc - "ocfs2: consolidate extent list validation into block read callbacks" (Joseph Qi) Cleanup, simplify, and make more robust ocfs2's validation of extent list fields (Kernel test robot loves mounting corrupted fs images!) * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-04-15-04-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (127 commits) ocfs2: validate group add input before caching ocfs2: validate bg_bits during freefrag scan ocfs2: fix listxattr handling when the buffer is full doc: watchdog: fix typos etc update Sean's email address ocfs2: use get_random_u32() where appropriate ocfs2: split transactions in dio completion to avoid credit exhaustion ocfs2: remove redundant l_next_free_rec check in __ocfs2_find_path() ocfs2: validate extent block list fields during block read ocfs2: remove empty extent list check in ocfs2_dx_dir_lookup_rec() ocfs2: validate dx_root extent list fields during block read ocfs2: fix use-after-free in ocfs2_fault() when VM_FAULT_RETRY ocfs2: handle invalid dinode in ocfs2_group_extend .get_maintainer.ignore: add Askar ocfs2: validate bg_list extent bounds in discontig groups checkpatch: exclude forward declarations of const structs tools/accounting: handle truncated taskstats netlink messages taskstats: set version in TGID exit notifications ocfs2/heartbeat: fix slot mapping rollback leaks on error paths arm64,ppc64le/kdump: pass dm-crypt keys to kdump kernel ...

MAINTAINERS: Remove Salil Mehta as HiSilicon HNS3/HNS Ethernet maintainer

2026-04-09T20:22:31+00:00

Closing this chapter and a long wonderful journey with my team, I sign off one last time with my Huawei email address. Remove my maintainer entry for the HiSilicon HNS and HNS3 10G/100G Ethernet drivers, and add a CREDITS entry for my co-authorship and maintenance contributions to these drivers. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/259cd032-2ccb-452b-8524-75bc7162e138@huawei.com/ Cc: Jian Shen Signed-off-by: Salil Mehta Acked-by: Jijie Shao Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260409000430.7217-1-salil.mehta@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

CREDITS: simplify the end-of-file alphabetical order comment

2026-03-28T04:19:45+00:00

The existing comment references specific individuals by name which becomes outdated as new entries are added. Simplify it to state the alphabetical ordering rule clearly without depending on who happens to be the last entry. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260312011741.846664-2-hisamshar@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Hisam Mehboob Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Jakub Kacinski Cc: Simon Horman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

MAINTAINERS: remove Thomas Falcon from IBM ibmvnic

2026-03-05T15:35:45+00:00

We have not seen emails or tags from Thomas's IBM address (tlfalcon@linux.ibm.com) in over 5 years. Looks like Thomas is active in perf tooling at Intel (thomas.falcon@intel.com). Subsystem IBM Power SRIOV Virtual NIC Device Driver Changes 49 / 134 (36%) Last activity: 2025-08-26 Haren Myneni : Tags 3c14917953a5 2025-08-26 00:00:00 2 Rick Lindsley : Nick Child : Author d93a6caab5d7 2025-03-25 00:00:00 14 Tags d93a6caab5d7 2025-03-25 00:00:00 16 Thomas Falcon : Top reviewers: [22]: drt@linux.ibm.com [13]: horms@kernel.org [9]: ricklind@linux.vnet.ibm.com [3]: davemarq@linux.ibm.com INACTIVE MAINTAINER Thomas Falcon Move Thomas to CREDITS as the initial author of ibmvnic. Acked-by: Thomas Falcon Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260303215339.2333548-12-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski