kernel/linux.git/include/linux/list.h, branch v7.3-rc1

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-08-22-16-57' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-08-23T15:07:11+00:00

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "ocfs2/dlm: bound peer-controlled lengths in the o2dlm" (Bryam Vargas) Validate and bound all input lengths and count fields in the o2dlm migration and recovery receive handlers to prevent memory corruption and kernel panics from malformed cluster messages - "ocfs2: validate xattr entry bounds" (Cen Zhang) Validate OCFS2 extended attribute entry name and value bounds during metadata reads to prevent out-of-range memory accesses during retrieval or listing operations. - "taskstats: fix cgroupstats invalid fd handling and add selftests" (Yiyang Chen) Return -EBADF when cgroupstats receives an invalid file descriptor to prevent caller hangs and misleading success ACKs. Add a kselftest to validate valid cgroup v1 queries and verify proper error handling across different Netlink flag combinations. - "misc lib/raid/ improvements v2" (Christoph Hellwig) Improve benchmark-based algorithm selection for the XOR and RAID6 libraries, add KUnit benchmark tests, and cleanup minor implementation details. - "ocfs2: cluster: o2hb_region_pin() fixes" (Joseph Qi) Fix sleeping-in-atomic, lock order inversion and error-path cleanup bugs in o2hb_region_pin() by releasing o2hb_live_lock across sleeping configfs_depend_item() calls and using unlocked variants from callback context. Ensure failed pin attempts properly decrement user counts and unpin partially initialized heartbeat regions to prevent memory leaks and unprotected states. - "lib/ucs2_string.c: fix out-of-bounds read in ucs2_strnlen()" (Vincent Mailhol) Fix an off-by-one which could cause an out-of-bounds read. - "ocfs2: harden heartbeat teardown races" (Cen Zhang) Fix two OCFS2 heartbeat/o2net teardown races found by KASAN. - "taskstats: tidy up the cpumask command path" *Bradley Morgan) make two small cleanups in kernel/taskstats.c. - "ocfs2: validate active orphan slots during inode read" (ZhengYuan Huang) Validate active ordinary and append-DIO orphan slots read from OCFS2 dinodes at the metadata boundary to prevent corrupted slot indices from causing out-of-bounds array accesses. - "ocfs2: bound-check both readdir re-validation scans" (Zhan Xusheng) Enforce strict boundary checks on directory entry record lengths and offset calculations during OCFS2 directory re-scans to prevent out-of-bounds memory reads and directory position corruption. * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-08-22-16-57' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (95 commits) mailmap: fix bouncing address for Taniya Das ocfs2: bound-check dir entries in the inline-data re-validation scan ocfs2: bound-check dir entries in the readdir re-validation scan squashfs: avoid thundering-herd cache wakeups prctl: fix PR_SET_MM_AUXV losing the forced AT_NULL terminator mailmap: update email address for Linfeng Sun lib/interval_tree: fix allocation warning messages checkpatch: add NOKPROBE_SYMBOL to the whitelist of lines that can occur immediately after functions Squashfs: check block offset is not negative signal: factor out the kernel reserved si_code check ocfs2: fix readdir position truncation on 32-bit kernels ocfs2: fix cached cluster count after suballocator reclaim ocfs2: fix circular locking dependency in ocfs2_init_acl() ocfs2: validate DIO orphan slot during inode read ocfs2: validate orphan slot during inode read selftests/prctl: fix non-anonymous VMA mapping in set-anon-vma-name test MAINTAINERS: add IRC and patchwork for LTP include/linux/list.h: mark list_add and __list_add as __always_inline tools/mm: prevent page_owner_sort from truncating input hung_task: update DETECT_HUNG_TASK_BLOCKER Kconfig help ...

include/linux/list.h: mark list_add and __list_add as __always_inline

2026-08-13T22:42:06+00:00

This commit resolves an issue where modpost section verification fails due to section mismatches between list_add and its callers. At present, list_add (and its internal __list_add) are called from both .text and .init code sections. Since inlining can vary per call site, list_add can be 4 different states: list_add in text with arguments to non-.init.data values list_add in init with arguments to static .init.data values list_add in init with arguments to non-.init.data values list_add in text with arguments to static .init.data values It is last instance that ends up causing the section mismatch caused by constant propagation of the address of static libs inside the `dir_add` as seen below (with the dir_list being defined statically in initramfs.c, resting in .init.data). WARNING: modpost: vmlinux.o: section mismatch in reference: __list_add (section: .text.unlikely.) -> dir_list (section: .init.data) Because of these section matching requirements, semantically, __list_add and list_add MUST be inlined. This will then ensure callers inside .init will receive a list_add that exists and refers to only .init data, and list_add code in .text sections will only refer to non-init data. This issue manifests predominently in AutoFDO with clang, which is very hesitant to inline cold functions such as list_add even when marked `inline`. Marking them as `__always_inline` therefore matches the existing semantic constraints imposed by modpost's section mismatch checks. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260731-always-inline-list-add-v1-1-d29f54ce5477@google.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CANn89iJVQe=wedLheJmjZjOTJsWHijT0jZs=iRxKssJZbjAxHw@mail.gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Jordan R Abrahams-Whitehead Suggested-by: Nathan Chancellor Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers Reported-by: Giuliano Procida Reported-by: Yabin Cui Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/2173 Cc: Bill Wendling Cc: Justin Stitt Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

list: Permit context-unguarded access with list_empty_careful()

2026-07-28T17:36:47+00:00

With Context Analysis (viz. Clang's Thread Safety Analysis), list_heads that are __guarded_by(..) require holding the appropriate context lock when accessing and manipulating them via the list API. Because Clang's warning diagnostics do not perform inter-procedural analysis, this is enforced by Clang with -Wthread-safety-pointer in the caller at the call boundary; a warning is produced when passing a pointer to a guarded variable without holding the appropriate context locks: warning: passing pointer to variable 'list' requires holding [...] [-Wthread-safety-pointer] if (list_empty(&ctrl->list)) An exception is list_empty_careful(), which is like list_empty(), except that it is permitted to use without holding any context lock (carefully). Mark list_empty_careful() __context_unsafe, which disables context analysis within list_empty_careful(), but also suppresses warnings generated in callers related to its pointer arguments. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Marco Elver Signed-off-by: Nilay Shroff Signed-off-by: Keith Busch

list: introduce LIST_HEAD_GUARDED

2026-07-28T17:36:15+00:00

Introduce LIST_HEAD_GUARDED(name, lock) to define a struct list_head annotated with __guarded_by(lock). This provides a convenient shorthand for defining lock-protected list heads and allows compiler context analysis to validate accesses to the list against the associated lock. The new helper also reduces boilerplate and improves consistency across callers that annotate struct list_head objects with __guarded_by(). This is a preparatory change for subsequent patches that annotate LIST_HEAD() instances with their protecting lock. Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Nilay Shroff Signed-off-by: Keith Busch

netfs: Fix missing barriers when accessing stream->subrequests locklessly

2026-05-12T12:42:29+00:00

The list of subrequests attached to stream->subrequests is accessed without locks by netfs_collect_read_results() and netfs_collect_write_results(), and then they access subreq->flags without taking a barrier after getting the subreq pointer from the list. Relatedly, the functions that build the list don't use any sort of write barrier when constructing the list to make sure that the NETFS_SREQ_IN_PROGRESS flag is perceived to be set first if no lock is taken. Fix this by: (1) Add a new list_add_tail_release() function that uses a release barrier to set the pointer to the new member of the list. (2) Add a new list_first_entry_or_null_acquire() function that uses an acquire barrier to read the pointer to the first member in a list (or return NULL). (3) Use list_add_tail_release() when adding a subreq to ->subrequests. (4) Use list_first_entry_or_null_acquire() when initially accessing the front of the list (when an item is removed, the pointer to the new front iterm is obtained under the same lock). Fixes: e2d46f2ec332 ("netfs: Change the read result collector to only use one work item") Fixes: 288ace2f57c9 ("netfs: New writeback implementation") Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260326104544.509518-1-dhowells%40redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Howells Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260512123404.719402-4-dhowells@redhat.com cc: Paulo Alcantara cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

Merge tag 'rcu.2025.09.26a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux

2025-10-04T18:28:45+00:00

Pull RCU updates from Paul McKenney: "Documentation updates: - Update whatisRCU.rst and checklist.rst for recent RCU API additions - Fix RCU documentation formatting and typos - Replace dead Ottawa Linux Symposium links in RTFP.txt Miscellaneous RCU updates: - Document that rcu_barrier() hurries RCU_LAZY callbacks - Remove redundant interrupt disabling from rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_handler() - Move list_for_each_rcu from list.h to rculist.h, and adjust the include directive in kernel/cgroup/dmem.c accordingly - Make initial set of changes to accommodate upcoming system_percpu_wq changes SRCU updates: - Create an srcu_read_lock_fast_notrace() for eventual use in tracing, including adding guards - Document the reliance on per-CPU operations as implicit RCU readers in __srcu_read_{,un}lock_fast() - Document the srcu_flip() function's memory-barrier D's relationship to SRCU-fast readers - Remove a redundant preempt_disable() and preempt_enable() pair from srcu_gp_start_if_needed() Torture-test updates: - Fix jitter.sh spin time so that it actually varies as advertised. It is still quite coarse-grained, but at least it does now vary - Update torture.sh help text to include the not-so-new --do-normal parameter, which permits (for example) testing KCSAN kernels without doing non-debug kernels - Fix a number of false-positive diagnostics that were being triggered by rcutorture starting before boot completed. Running multiple near-CPU-bound rcutorture processes when there is only the boot CPU is after all a bit excessive - Substitute kcalloc() for kzalloc() - Remove a redundant kfree() and NULL out kfree()ed objects" * tag 'rcu.2025.09.26a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux: (31 commits) rcu: WQ_UNBOUND added to sync_wq workqueue rcu: WQ_PERCPU added to alloc_workqueue users rcu: replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq refperf: Set reader_tasks to NULL after kfree() refperf: Remove redundant kfree() after torture_stop_kthread() srcu/tiny: Remove preempt_disable/enable() in srcu_gp_start_if_needed() srcu: Document srcu_flip() memory-barrier D relation to SRCU-fast srcu: Document __srcu_read_{,un}lock_fast() implicit RCU readers rculist: move list_for_each_rcu() to where it belongs refscale: Use kcalloc() instead of kzalloc() rcutorture: Use kcalloc() instead of kzalloc() docs: rcu: Replace multiple dead OLS links in RTFP.txt doc: Fix typo in RCU's torture.rst documentation Documentation: RCU: Retitle toctree index Documentation: RCU: Reduce toctree depth Documentation: RCU: Wrap kvm-remote.sh rerun snippet in literal code block rcu: docs: Requirements.rst: Abide by conventions of kernel documentation doc: Add RCU guards to checklist.rst doc: Update whatisRCU.rst for recent RCU API additions rcutorture: Delay forward-progress testing until boot completes ...

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-10-02-15-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-10-03T01:44:54+00:00

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "ida: Remove the ida_simple_xxx() API" from Christophe Jaillet completes the removal of this legacy IDR API - "panic: introduce panic status function family" from Jinchao Wang provides a number of cleanups to the panic code and its various helpers, which were rather ad-hoc and scattered all over the place - "tools/delaytop: implement real-time keyboard interaction support" from Fan Yu adds a few nice user-facing usability changes to the delaytop monitoring tool - "efi: Fix EFI boot with kexec handover (KHO)" from Evangelos Petrongonas fixes a panic which was happening with the combination of EFI and KHO - "Squashfs: performance improvement and a sanity check" from Phillip Lougher teaches squashfs's lseek() about SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE. A mere 150x speedup was measured for a well-chosen microbenchmark - plus another 50-odd singleton patches all over the place * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-10-02-15-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (75 commits) Squashfs: reject negative file sizes in squashfs_read_inode() kallsyms: use kmalloc_array() instead of kmalloc() MAINTAINERS: update Sibi Sankar's email address Squashfs: add SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE support Squashfs: add additional inode sanity checking lib/genalloc: fix device leak in of_gen_pool_get() panic: remove CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE ocfs2: fix double free in user_cluster_connect() checkpatch: suppress strscpy warnings for userspace tools cramfs: fix incorrect physical page address calculation kernel: prevent prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG) from racing with parent process exit Squashfs: fix uninit-value in squashfs_get_parent kho: only fill kimage if KHO is finalized ocfs2: avoid extra calls to strlen() after ocfs2_sprintf_system_inode_name() kernel/sys.c: fix the racy usage of task_lock(tsk->group_leader) in sys_prlimit64() paths sched/task.h: fix the wrong comment on task_lock() nesting with tasklist_lock coccinelle: platform_no_drv_owner: handle also built-in drivers coccinelle: of_table: handle SPI device ID tables lib/decompress: use designated initializers for struct compress_format efi: support booting with kexec handover (KHO) ...

list.h: add missing kernel-doc for basic macros

2025-09-14T00:32:48+00:00

kernel-doc for the basic LIST_HEAD() and LIST_HEAD_INIT() macros has been missing forever (i.e., since git). Add them for completeness. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250819075507.113639-1-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Nicolas Frattaroli Cc: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

list: add list_last_entry_or_null()

2025-09-02T09:38:29+00:00

Add an equivalent of list_first_entry_or_null() to obtain the last element of a list. Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250801-drm-bridge-alloc-getput-drm_bridge_get_next_bridge-v2-1-888912b0be13@bootlin.com Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli

rculist: move list_for_each_rcu() to where it belongs

2025-08-25T17:13:26+00:00

The list_for_each_rcu() relies on the rcu_dereference() API which is not provided by the list.h. At the same time list.h is a low-level basic header that must not have dependencies like RCU, besides the fact of the potential circular dependencies in some cases. With all that said, move RCU related API to the rculist.h where it belongs. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko Reviewed-by: Simona Vetter Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney"