kernel/linux.git/Documentation/core-api, branch v6.12.80

module: Provide EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FOR_MODULES() helper

2025-07-10T14:05:08+00:00

[ Upstream commit 707f853d7fa3ce323a6875487890c213e34d81a0 ] Helper macro to more easily limit the export of a symbol to a given list of modules. Eg: EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FOR_MODULES(preempt_notifier_inc, "kvm"); will limit the use of said function to kvm.ko, any other module trying to use this symbol will refure to load (and get modpost build failures). Requested-by: Masahiro Yamada Requested-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Stable-dep-of: cbe4134ea4bc ("fs: export anon_inode_make_secure_inode() and fix secretmem LSM bypass") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

module: Convert default symbol namespace to string literal

2025-02-08T08:57:05+00:00

[ Upstream commit ceb8bf2ceaa77fe222fe8fe32cb7789c9099ddf1 ] Commit cdd30ebb1b9f ("module: Convert symbol namespace to string literal") only converted MODULE_IMPORT_NS() and EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS(), leaving DEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE as a macro expansion. This commit converts DEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE in the same way to avoid annoyance for the default namespace as well. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Reviewed-by: Uwe Kleine-König Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Stable-dep-of: 2505f87eb3af ("hwmon: (nct6775): Actually make use of the HWMON_NCT6775 symbol namespace") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

Merge tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux

2024-10-17T16:51:03+00:00

Pull arm64 fixes from Will Deacon: - Disable software tag-based KASAN when compiling with GCC, as functions are incorrectly instrumented leading to a crash early during boot - Fix pkey configuration for kernel threads when POE is enabled - Fix invalid memory accesses in uprobes when targetting load-literal instructions * tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: kasan: Disable Software Tag-Based KASAN with GCC Documentation/protection-keys: add AArch64 to documentation arm64: set POR_EL0 for kernel threads arm64: probes: Fix uprobes for big-endian kernels arm64: probes: Fix simulate_ldr*_literal() arm64: probes: Remove broken LDR (literal) uprobe support

Documentation/protection-keys: add AArch64 to documentation

2024-10-14T16:27:48+00:00

As POE support was recently added, update the documentation. Also note that kernel threads have a default protection key register value. Signed-off-by: Joey Gouly Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Jonathan Corbet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241001133618.1547996-3-joey.gouly@arm.com [will: Adjusted wording based on feedback from Kevin] Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

Merge tag 'vfs-6.12-rc2.fixes.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

2024-10-03T16:22:50+00:00

Pull vfs fixes from Christian Brauner: "vfs: - Ensure that iter_folioq_get_pages() advances to the next slot otherwise it will end up using the same folio with an out-of-bound offset. iomap: - Dont unshare delalloc extents which can't be reflinked, and thus can't be shared. - Constrain the file range passed to iomap_file_unshare() directly in iomap instead of requiring the callers to do it. netfs: - Use folioq_count instead of folioq_nr_slot to prevent an unitialized value warning in netfs_clear_buffer(). - Fix missing wakeup after issuing writes by scheduling the write collector only if all the subrequest queues are empty and thus no writes are pending. - Fix two minor documentation bugs" * tag 'vfs-6.12-rc2.fixes.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: iomap: constrain the file range passed to iomap_file_unshare iomap: don't bother unsharing delalloc extents netfs: Fix missing wakeup after issuing writes Documentation: add missing folio_queue entry folio_queue: fix documentation netfs: Fix a KMSAN uninit-value error in netfs_clear_buffer iov_iter: fix advancing slot in iter_folioq_get_pages()

Merge tag 'pull-work.unaligned' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2024-10-02T23:42:28+00:00

Pull generic unaligned.h cleanups from Al Viro: "Get rid of architecture-specific includes, replacing them with a single generic header file. It's the second largest (after asm/io.h) class of asm/* includes, and all but two architectures actually end up using exact same file. Massage the remaining two (arc and parisc) to do the same and just move the thing to from asm-generic/unaligned.h to linux/unaligned.h" [ This is one of those things that we're better off doing outside the merge window, and would only cause extra conflict noise if it was in linux-next for the next release due to all the trivial #include line updates. Rip off the band-aid. - Linus ] * tag 'pull-work.unaligned' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: move asm/unaligned.h to linux/unaligned.h arc: get rid of private asm/unaligned.h parisc: get rid of private asm/unaligned.h

move asm/unaligned.h to linux/unaligned.h

2024-10-02T21:23:23+00:00

asm/unaligned.h is always an include of asm-generic/unaligned.h; might as well move that thing to linux/unaligned.h and include that - there's nothing arch-specific in that header. auto-generated by the following: for i in `git grep -l -w asm/unaligned.h`; do sed -i -e "s/asm\/unaligned.h/linux\/unaligned.h/" $i done for i in `git grep -l -w asm-generic/unaligned.h`; do sed -i -e "s/asm-generic\/unaligned.h/linux\/unaligned.h/" $i done git mv include/asm-generic/unaligned.h include/linux/unaligned.h git mv tools/include/asm-generic/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h sed -i -e "/unaligned.h/d" include/asm-generic/Kbuild sed -i -e "s/__ASM_GENERIC/__LINUX/" include/linux/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h

Documentation: add missing folio_queue entry

2024-10-01T15:04:32+00:00

Add missing folio_queue entry. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241001133920.6e28637b@canb.auug.org.au Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

Merge tag 'vfs-6.12-rc2.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

2024-09-30T17:59:44+00:00

Pull vfs fixes from Christian Brauner: "afs: - Fix setting of the server responding flag - Remove unused struct afs_address_list and afs_put_address_list() function - Fix infinite loop because of unresponsive servers - Ensure that afs_retry_request() function is correctly added to the afs_req_ops netfs operations table netfs: - Fix netfs_folio tracepoint handling to handle NULL mappings - Add a missing folio_queue API documentation - Ensure that netfs_write_folio() correctly advances the iterator via iov_iter_advance() - Fix a dentry leak during concurrent cull and cookie lookup operations in cachefiles pidfs: - Correctly handle accessing another task's pid namespace" * tag 'vfs-6.12-rc2.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: netfs: Fix the netfs_folio tracepoint to handle NULL mapping netfs: Add folio_queue API documentation netfs: Advance iterator correctly rather than jumping it afs: Fix the setting of the server responding flag afs: Remove unused struct and function prototype afs: Fix possible infinite loop with unresponsive servers pidfs: check for valid pid namespace afs: Fix missing wire-up of afs_retry_request() cachefiles: fix dentry leak in cachefiles_open_file()

netfs: Add folio_queue API documentation

2024-09-30T12:10:51+00:00

Add API documentation for folio_queue. Signed-off-by: David Howells Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2912369.1727691281@warthog.procyon.org.uk cc: Jeff Layton cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner