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<updated>2026-03-25T10:13:25+00:00</updated>
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<title>af_unix: Give up GC if MSG_PEEK intervened.</title>
<updated>2026-03-25T10:13:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kuniyuki Iwashima</name>
<email>kuniyu@google.com</email>
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<published>2026-03-11T05:40:40+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit e5b31d988a41549037b8d8721a3c3cae893d8670 ]

Igor Ushakov reported that GC purged the receive queue of
an alive socket due to a race with MSG_PEEK with a nice repro.

This is the exact same issue previously fixed by commit
cbcf01128d0a ("af_unix: fix garbage collect vs MSG_PEEK").

After GC was replaced with the current algorithm, the cited
commit removed the locking dance in unix_peek_fds() and
reintroduced the same issue.

The problem is that MSG_PEEK bumps a file refcount without
interacting with GC.

Consider an SCC containing sk-A and sk-B, where sk-A is
close()d but can be recv()ed via sk-B.

The bad thing happens if sk-A is recv()ed with MSG_PEEK from
sk-B and sk-B is close()d while GC is checking unix_vertex_dead()
for sk-A and sk-B.

  GC thread                    User thread
  ---------                    -----------
  unix_vertex_dead(sk-A)
  -&gt; true   &lt;------.
                    \
                     `------   recv(sk-B, MSG_PEEK)
              invalidate !!    -&gt; sk-A's file refcount : 1 -&gt; 2

                               close(sk-B)
                               -&gt; sk-B's file refcount : 2 -&gt; 1
  unix_vertex_dead(sk-B)
  -&gt; true

Initially, sk-A's file refcount is 1 by the inflight fd in sk-B
recvq.  GC thinks sk-A is dead because the file refcount is the
same as the number of its inflight fds.

However, sk-A's file refcount is bumped silently by MSG_PEEK,
which invalidates the previous evaluation.

At this moment, sk-B's file refcount is 2; one by the open fd,
and one by the inflight fd in sk-A.  The subsequent close()
releases one refcount by the former.

Finally, GC incorrectly concludes that both sk-A and sk-B are dead.

One option is to restore the locking dance in unix_peek_fds(),
but we can resolve this more elegantly thanks to the new algorithm.

The point is that the issue does not occur without the subsequent
close() and we actually do not need to synchronise MSG_PEEK with
the dead SCC detection.

When the issue occurs, close() and GC touch the same file refcount.
If GC sees the refcount being decremented by close(), it can just
give up garbage-collecting the SCC.

Therefore, we only need to signal the race during MSG_PEEK with
a proper memory barrier to make it visible to the GC.

Let's use seqcount_t to notify GC when MSG_PEEK occurs and let
it defer the SCC to the next run.

This way no locking is needed on the MSG_PEEK side, and we can
avoid imposing a penalty on every MSG_PEEK unnecessarily.

Note that we can retry within unix_scc_dead() if MSG_PEEK is
detected, but we do not do so to avoid hung task splat from
abusive MSG_PEEK calls.

Fixes: 118f457da9ed ("af_unix: Remove lock dance in unix_peek_fds().")
Reported-by: Igor Ushakov &lt;sysroot314@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260311054043.1231316-1-kuniyu@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: annotate data-races around sk-&gt;sk_{data_ready,write_space}</title>
<updated>2026-03-12T11:09:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-25T13:15:47+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 2ef2b20cf4e04ac8a6ba68493f8780776ff84300 ]

skmsg (and probably other layers) are changing these pointers
while other cpus might read them concurrently.

Add corresponding READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() annotations
for UDP, TCP and AF_UNIX.

Fixes: 604326b41a6f ("bpf, sockmap: convert to generic sk_msg interface")
Reported-by: syzbot+87f770387a9e5dc6b79b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/699ee9fc.050a0220.1cd54b.0009.GAE@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Cc: John Fastabend &lt;john.fastabend@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jakub Sitnicki &lt;jakub@cloudflare.com&gt;
Cc: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260225131547.1085509-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>af_unix: Fix memleak of newsk in unix_stream_connect().</title>
<updated>2026-02-26T23:01:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kuniyuki Iwashima</name>
<email>kuniyu@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-07T23:22:34+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 6884028cd7f275f8bcb854a347265cb1fb0e4bea ]

When prepare_peercred() fails in unix_stream_connect(),
unix_release_sock() is not called for newsk, and the memory
is leaked.

Let's move prepare_peercred() before unix_create1().

Fixes: fd0a109a0f6b ("net, pidfs: prepare for handing out pidfds for reaped sk-&gt;sk_peer_pid")
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260207232236.2557549-1-kuniyu@google.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>net: do not write to msg_get_inq in callee</title>
<updated>2026-01-08T16:45:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Willem de Bruijn</name>
<email>willemb@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-06T15:05:46+00:00</published>
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NULL pointer dereference fix.

msg_get_inq is an input field from caller to callee. Don't set it in
the callee, as the caller may not clear it on struct reuse.

This is a kernel-internal variant of msghdr only, and the only user
does reinitialize the field. So this is not critical for that reason.
But it is more robust to avoid the write, and slightly simpler code.
And it fixes a bug, see below.

Callers set msg_get_inq to request the input queue length to be
returned in msg_inq. This is equivalent to but independent from the
SO_INQ request to return that same info as a cmsg (tp-&gt;recvmsg_inq).
To reduce branching in the hot path the second also sets the msg_inq.
That is WAI.

This is a fix to commit 4d1442979e4a ("af_unix: don't post cmsg for
SO_INQ unless explicitly asked for"), which fixed the inverse.

Also avoid NULL pointer dereference in unix_stream_read_generic if
state-&gt;msg is NULL and msg-&gt;msg_get_inq is written. A NULL state-&gt;msg
can happen when splicing as of commit 2b514574f7e8 ("net: af_unix:
implement splice for stream af_unix sockets").

Also collapse two branches using a bitwise or.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 4d1442979e4a ("af_unix: don't post cmsg for SO_INQ unless explicitly asked for")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/willemdebruijn.kernel.24d8030f7a3de@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260106150626.3944363-1-willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>af_unix: don't post cmsg for SO_INQ unless explicitly asked for</title>
<updated>2025-12-28T15:11:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-18T22:21:28+00:00</published>
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A previous commit added SO_INQ support for AF_UNIX (SOCK_STREAM), but it
posts a SCM_INQ cmsg even if just msg-&gt;msg_get_inq is set. This is
incorrect, as -&gt;msg_get_inq is just the caller asking for the remainder
to be passed back in msg-&gt;msg_inq, it has nothing to do with cmsg. The
original commit states that this is done to make sockets
io_uring-friendly", but it's actually incorrect as io_uring doesn't use
cmsg headers internally at all, and it's actively wrong as this means
that cmsg's are always posted if someone does recvmsg via io_uring.

Fix that up by only posting a cmsg if u-&gt;recvmsg_inq is set.

Additionally, mirror how TCP handles inquiry handling in that it should
only be done for a successful return. This makes the logic for the two
identical.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: df30285b3670 ("af_unix: Introduce SO_INQ.")
Reported-by: Julian Orth &lt;ju.orth@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://github.com/axboe/liburing/issues/1509
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/07adc0c2-2c3b-4d08-8af1-1c466a40b6a8@kernel.dk
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;

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<entry>
<title>af_unix: annotate unix_gc_lock with __cacheline_aligned_in_smp</title>
<updated>2025-12-09T07:43:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mateusz Guzik</name>
<email>mjguzik@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-03T10:01:22+00:00</published>
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Otherwise the lock is susceptible to ever-changing false-sharing due to
unrelated changes. This in particular popped up here where an unrelated
change improved performance:
https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202511281306.51105b46-lkp@intel.com/

Stabilize it with an explicit annotation which also has a side effect
of furher improving scalability:
&gt; in our oiginal report, 284922f4c5 has a 6.1% performance improvement comparing
&gt; to parent 17d85f33a8.
&gt; we applied your patch directly upon 284922f4c5. as below, now by
&gt; "284922f4c5 + your patch"
&gt; we observe a 12.8% performance improvements (still comparing to 17d85f33a8).

Note nothing was done for the other fields, so some fluctuation is still
possible.

Tested-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mjguzik@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251203100122.291550-1-mjguzik@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'net-next-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2025-12-04T01:24:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-04T01:24:33+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
 "Core &amp; protocols:

   - Replace busylock at the Tx queuing layer with a lockless list.

     Resulting in a 300% (4x) improvement on heavy TX workloads, sending
     twice the number of packets per second, for half the cpu cycles.

   - Allow constantly busy flows to migrate to a more suitable CPU/NIC
     queue.

     Normally we perform queue re-selection when flow comes out of idle,
     but under extreme circumstances the flows may be constantly busy.

     Add sysctl to allow periodic rehashing even if it'd risk packet
     reordering.

   - Optimize the NAPI skb cache, make it larger, use it in more paths.

   - Attempt returning Tx skbs to the originating CPU (like we already
     did for Rx skbs).

   - Various data structure layout and prefetch optimizations from Eric.

   - Remove ktime_get() from the recvmsg() fast path, ktime_get() is
     sadly quite expensive on recent AMD machines.

   - Extend threaded NAPI polling to allow the kthread busy poll for
     packets.

   - Make MPTCP use Rx backlog processing. This lowers the lock
     pressure, improving the Rx performance.

   - Support memcg accounting of MPTCP socket memory.

   - Allow admin to opt sockets out of global protocol memory accounting
     (using a sysctl or BPF-based policy). The global limits are a poor
     fit for modern container workloads, where limits are imposed using
     cgroups.

   - Improve heuristics for when to kick off AF_UNIX garbage collection.

   - Allow users to control TCP SACK compression, and default to 33% of
     RTT.

   - Add tcp_rcvbuf_low_rtt sysctl to let datacenter users avoid
     unnecessarily aggressive rcvbuf growth and overshot when the
     connection RTT is low.

   - Preserve skb metadata space across skb_push / skb_pull operations.

   - Support for IPIP encapsulation in the nftables flowtable offload.

   - Support appending IP interface information to ICMP messages (RFC
     5837).

   - Support setting max record size in TLS (RFC 8449).

   - Remove taking rtnl_lock from RTM_GETNEIGHTBL and RTM_SETNEIGHTBL.

   - Use a dedicated lock (and RCU) in MPLS, instead of rtnl_lock.

   - Let users configure the number of write buffers in SMC.

   - Add new struct sockaddr_unsized for sockaddr of unknown length,
     from Kees.

   - Some conversions away from the crypto_ahash API, from Eric Biggers.

   - Some preparations for slimming down struct page.

   - YAML Netlink protocol spec for WireGuard.

   - Add a tool on top of YAML Netlink specs/lib for reporting commonly
     computed derived statistics and summarized system state.

  Driver API:

   - Add CAN XL support to the CAN Netlink interface.

   - Add uAPI for reporting PHY Mean Square Error (MSE) diagnostics, as
     defined by the OPEN Alliance's "Advanced diagnostic features for
     100BASE-T1 automotive Ethernet PHYs" specification.

   - Add DPLL phase-adjust-gran pin attribute (and implement it in
     zl3073x).

   - Refactor xfrm_input lock to reduce contention when NIC offloads
     IPsec and performs RSS.

   - Add info to devlink params whether the current setting is the
     default or a user override. Allow resetting back to default.

   - Add standard device stats for PSP crypto offload.

   - Leverage DSA frame broadcast to implement simple HSR frame
     duplication for a lot of switches without dedicated HSR offload.

   - Add uAPI defines for 1.6Tbps link modes.

  Device drivers:

   - Add Motorcomm YT921x gigabit Ethernet switch support.

   - Add MUCSE driver for N500/N210 1GbE NIC series.

   - Convert drivers to support dedicated ops for timestamping control,
     and away from the direct IOCTL handling. While at it support GET
     operations for PHY timestamping.

   - Add (and convert most drivers to) a dedicated ethtool callback for
     reading the Rx ring count.

   - Significant refactoring efforts in the STMMAC driver, which
     supports Synopsys turn-key MAC IP integrated into a ton of SoCs.

   - Ethernet high-speed NICs:
      - Broadcom (bnxt):
         - support PPS in/out on all pins
      - Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
         - ice: implement standard ethtool and timestamping stats
         - i40e: support setting the max number of MAC addresses per VF
         - iavf: support RSS of GTP tunnels for 5G and LTE deployments
      - nVidia/Mellanox (mlx5):
         - reduce downtime on interface reconfiguration
         - disable being an XDP redirect target by default (same as
           other drivers) to avoid wasting resources if feature is
           unused
      - Meta (fbnic):
         - add support for Linux-managed PCS on 25G, 50G, and 100G links
      - Wangxun:
         - support Rx descriptor merge, and Tx head writeback
         - support Rx coalescing offload
         - support 25G SPF and 40G QSFP modules

   - Ethernet virtual:
      - Google (gve):
         - allow ethtool to configure rx_buf_len
         - implement XDP HW RX Timestamping support for DQ descriptor
           format
      - Microsoft vNIC (mana):
         - support HW link state events
         - handle hardware recovery events when probing the device

   - Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded:
      - usbnet: add support for Byte Queue Limits (BQL)
      - AMD (amd-xgbe):
         - add device selftests
      - NXP (enetc):
         - add i.MX94 support
      - Broadcom integrated MACs (bcmgenet, bcmasp):
         - bcmasp: add support for PHY-based Wake-on-LAN
      - Broadcom switches (b53):
         - support port isolation
         - support BCM5389/97/98 and BCM63XX ARL formats
      - Lantiq/MaxLinear switches:
         - support bridge FDB entries on the CPU port
         - use regmap for register access
         - allow user to enable/disable learning
         - support Energy Efficient Ethernet
         - support configuring RMII clock delays
         - add tagging driver for MaxLinear GSW1xx switches
      - Synopsys (stmmac):
         - support using the HW clock in free running mode
         - add Eswin EIC7700 support
         - add Rockchip RK3506 support
         - add Altera Agilex5 support
      - Cadence (macb):
         - cleanup and consolidate descriptor and DMA address handling
         - add EyeQ5 support
      - TI:
         - icssg-prueth: support AF_XDP
      - Airoha access points:
         - add missing Ethernet stats and link state callback
         - add AN7583 support
         - support out-of-order Tx completion processing
      - Power over Ethernet:
         - pd692x0: preserve PSE configuration across reboots
         - add support for TPS23881B devices

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - Open Alliance OATC14 10BASE-T1S PHY cable diagnostic support
      - Support 50G SerDes and 100G interfaces in Linux-managed PHYs
      - micrel:
         - support for non PTP SKUs of lan8814
         - enable in-band auto-negotiation on lan8814
      - realtek:
         - cable testing support on RTL8224
         - interrupt support on RTL8221B
      - motorcomm: support for PHY LEDs on YT853
      - microchip: support for LAN867X Rev.D0 PHYs w/ SQI and cable diag
      - mscc: support for PHY LED control

   - CAN drivers:
      - m_can: add support for optional reset and system wake up
      - remove can_change_mtu() obsoleted by core handling
      - mcp251xfd: support GPIO controller functionality

   - Bluetooth:
      - add initial support for PASTa

   - WiFi:
      - split ieee80211.h file, it's way too big
      - improvements in VHT radiotap reporting, S1G, Channel Switch
        Announcement handling, rate tracking in mesh networks
      - improve multi-radio monitor mode support, and add a cfg80211
        debugfs interface for it
      - HT action frame handling on 6 GHz
      - initial chanctx work towards NAN
      - MU-MIMO sniffer improvements

   - WiFi drivers:
      - RealTek (rtw89):
         - support USB devices RTL8852AU and RTL8852CU
         - initial work for RTL8922DE
         - improved injection support
      - Intel:
         - iwlwifi: new sniffer API support
      - MediaTek (mt76):
         - WED support for &gt;32-bit DMA
         - airoha NPU support
         - regdomain improvements
         - continued WiFi7/MLO work
      - Qualcomm/Atheros:
         - ath10k: factory test support
         - ath11k: TX power insertion support
         - ath12k: BSS color change support
         - ath12k: statistics improvements
      - brcmfmac: Acer A1 840 tablet quirk
      - rtl8xxxu: 40 MHz connection fixes/support"

* tag 'net-next-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1381 commits)
  net: page_pool: sanitise allocation order
  net: page pool: xa init with destroy on pp init
  net/mlx5e: Support XDP target xmit with dummy program
  net/mlx5e: Update XDP features in switch channels
  selftests/tc-testing: Test CAKE scheduler when enqueue drops packets
  net/sched: sch_cake: Fix incorrect qlen reduction in cake_drop
  wireguard: netlink: generate netlink code
  wireguard: uapi: generate header with ynl-gen
  wireguard: uapi: move flag enums
  wireguard: uapi: move enum wg_cmd
  wireguard: netlink: add YNL specification
  selftests: drv-net: Fix tolerance calculation in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py
  selftests: drv-net: Fix and clarify TC bandwidth split in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py
  selftests: drv-net: Set shell=True for sysfs writes in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py
  selftests: drv-net: Use Iperf3Runner in devlink_rate_tc_bw.py
  selftests: drv-net: introduce Iperf3Runner for measurement use cases
  selftests: drv-net: Add devlink_rate_tc_bw.py to TEST_PROGS
  net: ps3_gelic_net: Use napi_alloc_skb() and napi_gro_receive()
  Documentation: net: dsa: mention simple HSR offload helpers
  Documentation: net: dsa: mention availability of RedBox
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.fd_prepare.fs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-12-02T01:32:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-02T01:32:07+00:00</published>
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Pull fd prepare updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This adds the FD_ADD() and FD_PREPARE() primitive. They simplify the
  common pattern of get_unused_fd_flags() + create file + fd_install()
  that is used extensively throughout the kernel and currently requires
  cumbersome cleanup paths.

  FD_ADD() - For simple cases where a file is installed immediately:

      fd = FD_ADD(O_CLOEXEC, vfio_device_open_file(device));
      if (fd &lt; 0)
          vfio_device_put_registration(device);
      return fd;

  FD_PREPARE() - For cases requiring access to the fd or file, or
  additional work before publishing:

      FD_PREPARE(fdf, O_CLOEXEC, sync_file-&gt;file);
      if (fdf.err) {
          fput(sync_file-&gt;file);
          return fdf.err;
      }

      data.fence = fd_prepare_fd(fdf);
      if (copy_to_user((void __user *)arg, &amp;data, sizeof(data)))
          return -EFAULT;

      return fd_publish(fdf);

  The primitives are centered around struct fd_prepare. FD_PREPARE()
  encapsulates all allocation and cleanup logic and must be followed by
  a call to fd_publish() which associates the fd with the file and
  installs it into the caller's fdtable. If fd_publish() isn't called,
  both are deallocated automatically. FD_ADD() is a shorthand that does
  fd_publish() immediately and never exposes the struct to the caller.

  I've implemented this in a way that it's compatible with the cleanup
  infrastructure while also being usable separately. IOW, it's centered
  around struct fd_prepare which is aliased to class_fd_prepare_t and so
  we can make use of all the basica guard infrastructure"

* tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.fd_prepare.fs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (42 commits)
  io_uring: convert io_create_mock_file() to FD_PREPARE()
  file: convert replace_fd() to FD_PREPARE()
  vfio: convert vfio_group_ioctl_get_device_fd() to FD_ADD()
  tty: convert ptm_open_peer() to FD_ADD()
  ntsync: convert ntsync_obj_get_fd() to FD_PREPARE()
  media: convert media_request_alloc() to FD_PREPARE()
  hv: convert mshv_ioctl_create_partition() to FD_ADD()
  gpio: convert linehandle_create() to FD_PREPARE()
  pseries: port papr_rtas_setup_file_interface() to FD_ADD()
  pseries: convert papr_platform_dump_create_handle() to FD_ADD()
  spufs: convert spufs_gang_open() to FD_PREPARE()
  papr-hvpipe: convert papr_hvpipe_dev_create_handle() to FD_PREPARE()
  spufs: convert spufs_context_open() to FD_PREPARE()
  net/socket: convert __sys_accept4_file() to FD_ADD()
  net/socket: convert sock_map_fd() to FD_ADD()
  net/kcm: convert kcm_ioctl() to FD_PREPARE()
  net/handshake: convert handshake_nl_accept_doit() to FD_PREPARE()
  secretmem: convert memfd_secret() to FD_ADD()
  memfd: convert memfd_create() to FD_ADD()
  bpf: convert bpf_token_create() to FD_PREPARE()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.directory.delegations' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-12-01T23:34:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-01T23:34:41+00:00</published>
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Pull directory delegations update from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the work for recall-only directory delegations for
  knfsd.

  Add support for simple, recallable-only directory delegations. This
  was decided at the fall NFS Bakeathon where the NFS client and server
  maintainers discussed how to merge directory delegation support.

  The approach starts with recallable-only delegations for several reasons:

   1. RFC8881 has gaps that are being addressed in RFC8881bis. In
      particular, it requires directory position information for
      CB_NOTIFY callbacks, which is difficult to implement properly
      under Linux. The spec is being extended to allow that information
      to be omitted.

   2. Client-side support for CB_NOTIFY still lags. The client side
      involves heuristics about when to request a delegation.

   3. Early indication shows simple, recallable-only delegations can
      help performance. Anna Schumaker mentioned seeing a multi-minute
      speedup in xfstests runs with them enabled.

  With these changes, userspace can also request a read lease on a
  directory that will be recalled on conflicting accesses. This may be
  useful for applications like Samba. Users can disable leases
  altogether via the fs.leases-enable sysctl if needed.

  VFS changes:

   - Dedicated Type for Delegations

     Introduce struct delegated_inode to track inodes that may have
     delegations that need to be broken. This replaces the previous
     approach of passing raw inode pointers through the delegation
     breaking code paths, providing better type safety and clearer
     semantics for the delegation machinery.

   - Break parent directory delegations in open(..., O_CREAT) codepath

   - Allow mkdir to wait for delegation break on parent

   - Allow rmdir to wait for delegation break on parent

   - Add try_break_deleg calls for parents to vfs_link(), vfs_rename(),
     and vfs_unlink()

   - Make vfs_create(), vfs_mknod(), and vfs_symlink() break delegations
     on parent directory

   - Clean up argument list for vfs_create()

   - Expose delegation support to userland

  Filelock changes:

   - Make lease_alloc() take a flags argument

   - Rework the __break_lease API to use flags

   - Add struct delegated_inode

   - Push the S_ISREG check down to -&gt;setlease handlers

   - Lift the ban on directory leases in generic_setlease

  NFSD changes:

   - Allow filecache to hold S_IFDIR files

   - Allow DELEGRETURN on directories

   - Wire up GET_DIR_DELEGATION handling

  Fixes:

   - Fix kernel-doc warnings in __fcntl_getlease

   - Add needed headers for new struct delegation definition"

* tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.directory.delegations' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  vfs: add needed headers for new struct delegation definition
  filelock: __fcntl_getlease: fix kernel-doc warnings
  vfs: expose delegation support to userland
  nfsd: wire up GET_DIR_DELEGATION handling
  nfsd: allow DELEGRETURN on directories
  nfsd: allow filecache to hold S_IFDIR files
  filelock: lift the ban on directory leases in generic_setlease
  vfs: make vfs_symlink break delegations on parent dir
  vfs: make vfs_mknod break delegations on parent directory
  vfs: make vfs_create break delegations on parent directory
  vfs: clean up argument list for vfs_create()
  vfs: break parent dir delegations in open(..., O_CREAT) codepath
  vfs: allow rmdir to wait for delegation break on parent
  vfs: allow mkdir to wait for delegation break on parent
  vfs: add try_break_deleg calls for parents to vfs_{link,rename,unlink}
  filelock: push the S_ISREG check down to -&gt;setlease handlers
  filelock: add struct delegated_inode
  filelock: rework the __break_lease API to use flags
  filelock: make lease_alloc() take a flags argument
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kernel-6.19-rc1.cred' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-12-01T21:45:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-01T21:45:41+00:00</published>
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Pull cred guard updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains substantial credential infrastructure improvements
  adding guard-based credential management that simplifies code and
  eliminates manual reference counting in many subsystems.

  Features:

   - Kernel Credential Guards

     Add with_kernel_creds() and scoped_with_kernel_creds() guards that
     allow using the kernel credentials without allocating and copying
     them. This was requested by Linus after seeing repeated
     prepare_kernel_creds() calls that duplicate the kernel credentials
     only to drop them again later.

     The new guards completely avoid the allocation and never expose the
     temporary variable to hold the kernel credentials anywhere in
     callers.

   - Generic Credential Guards

     Add scoped_with_creds() guards for the common override_creds() and
     revert_creds() pattern. This builds on earlier work that made
     override_creds()/revert_creds() completely reference count free.

   - Prepare Credential Guards

     Add prepare credential guards for the more complex pattern of
     preparing a new set of credentials and overriding the current
     credentials with them:
      - prepare_creds()
      - modify new creds
      - override_creds()
      - revert_creds()
      - put_cred()

  Cleanups:

   - Make init_cred static since it should not be directly accessed

   - Add kernel_cred() helper to properly access the kernel credentials

   - Fix scoped_class() macro that was introduced two cycles ago

   - coredump: split out do_coredump() from vfs_coredump() for cleaner
     credential handling

   - coredump: move revert_cred() before coredump_cleanup()

   - coredump: mark struct mm_struct as const

   - coredump: pass struct linux_binfmt as const

   - sev-dev: use guard for path"

* tag 'kernel-6.19-rc1.cred' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (36 commits)
  trace: use override credential guard
  trace: use prepare credential guard
  coredump: use override credential guard
  coredump: use prepare credential guard
  coredump: split out do_coredump() from vfs_coredump()
  coredump: mark struct mm_struct as const
  coredump: pass struct linux_binfmt as const
  coredump: move revert_cred() before coredump_cleanup()
  sev-dev: use override credential guards
  sev-dev: use prepare credential guard
  sev-dev: use guard for path
  cred: add prepare credential guard
  net/dns_resolver: use credential guards in dns_query()
  cgroup: use credential guards in cgroup_attach_permissions()
  act: use credential guards in acct_write_process()
  smb: use credential guards in cifs_get_spnego_key()
  nfs: use credential guards in nfs_idmap_get_key()
  nfs: use credential guards in nfs_local_call_write()
  nfs: use credential guards in nfs_local_call_read()
  erofs: use credential guards
  ...
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