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# a940daa5 17-Oct-2023 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Merge branch 'linus' into smp/core

Pull in upstream to get the fixes so depending changes can be applied.


# 57390019 11-Oct-2023 Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Updating drm-misc-next to the state of Linux v6.6-rc2.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>


# de801933 03-Oct-2023 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge tag 'v6.6-rc4' into perf/core, to pick up fixes

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 6f23fc47 18-Sep-2023 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Merge tag 'v6.6-rc2' into locking/core, to pick up fixes

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# a3f9e4bc 15-Sep-2023 Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Sync to v6.6-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>


# c900529f 12-Sep-2023 Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes

Forwarding to v6.6-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>


# 1ac731c5 30-Aug-2023 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.6 merge window.


# daa22f5a 30-Aug-2023 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'modules-6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux

Pull modules updates from Luis Chamberlain:
"Summary of the changes worth highlighting from most interestin

Merge tag 'modules-6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux

Pull modules updates from Luis Chamberlain:
"Summary of the changes worth highlighting from most interesting to
boring below:

- Christoph Hellwig's symbol_get() fix to Nvidia's efforts to
circumvent the protection he put in place in year 2020 to prevent
proprietary modules from using GPL only symbols, and also ensuring
proprietary modules which export symbols grandfather their taint.

That was done through year 2020 commit 262e6ae7081d ("modules:
inherit TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE"). Christoph's new fix is done by
clarifing __symbol_get() was only ever intended to prevent module
reference loops by Linux kernel modules and so making it only find
symbols exported via EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(). The circumvention tactic
used by Nvidia was to use symbol_get() to purposely swift through
proprietary module symbols and completely bypass our traditional
EXPORT_SYMBOL*() annotations and community agreed upon
restrictions.

A small set of preamble patches fix up a few symbols which just
needed adjusting for this on two modules, the rtc ds1685 and the
networking enetc module. Two other modules just needed some build
fixing and removal of use of __symbol_get() as they can't ever be
modular, as was done by Arnd on the ARM pxa module and Christoph
did on the mmc au1xmmc driver.

This is a good reminder to us that symbol_get() is just a hack to
address things which should be fixed through Kconfig at build time
as was done in the later patches, and so ultimately it should just
go.

- Extremely late minor fix for old module layout 055f23b74b20
("module: check for exit sections in layout_sections() instead of
module_init_section()") by James Morse for arm64. Note that this
layout thing is old, it is *not* Song Liu's commit ac3b43283923
("module: replace module_layout with module_memory"). The issue
however is very odd to run into and so there was no hurry to get
this in fast.

- Although the fix did not go through the modules tree I'd like to
highlight the fix by Peter Zijlstra in commit 54097309620e
("x86/static_call: Fix __static_call_fixup()") now merged in your
tree which came out of what was originally suspected to be a
fallout of the the newer module layout changes by Song Liu commit
ac3b43283923 ("module: replace module_layout with module_memory")
instead of module_init_section()"). Thanks to the report by
Christian Bricart and the debugging by Song Liu & Peter that turned
to be noted as a kernel regression in place since v5.19 through
commit ee88d363d156 ("x86,static_call: Use alternative RET
encoding").

I highlight this to reflect and clarify that we haven't seen more
fallout from ac3b43283923 ("module: replace module_layout with
module_memory").

- RISC-V toolchain got mapping symbol support which prefix symbols
with "$" to help with alignment considerations for disassembly.

This is used to differentiate between incompatible instruction
encodings when disassembling. RISC-V just matches what ARM/AARCH64
did for alignment considerations and Palmer Dabbelt extended
is_mapping_symbol() to accept these symbols for RISC-V. We already
had support for this for all architectures but it also checked for
the second character, the RISC-V check Dabbelt added was just for
the "$". After a bit of testing and fallout on linux-next and based
on feedback from Masahiro Yamada it was decided to simplify the
check and treat the first char "$" as unique for all architectures,
and so we no make is_mapping_symbol() for all archs if the symbol
starts with "$".

The most relevant commit for this for RISC-V on binutils was:

https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2021-July/117350.html

- A late fix by Andrea Righi (today) to make module zstd
decompression use vmalloc() instead of kmalloc() to account for
large compressed modules. I suspect we'll see similar things for
other decompression algorithms soon.

- samples/hw_breakpoint minor fixes by Rong Tao, Arnd Bergmann and
Chen Jiahao"

* tag 'modules-6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux:
module/decompress: use vmalloc() for zstd decompression workspace
kallsyms: Add more debug output for selftest
ARM: module: Use module_init_layout_section() to spot init sections
arm64: module: Use module_init_layout_section() to spot init sections
module: Expose module_init_layout_section()
modules: only allow symbol_get of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL modules
rtc: ds1685: use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for ds1685_rtc_poweroff
net: enetc: use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for enetc_phc_index
mmc: au1xmmc: force non-modular build and remove symbol_get usage
ARM: pxa: remove use of symbol_get()
samples/hw_breakpoint: mark sample_hbp as static
samples/hw_breakpoint: fix building without module unloading
samples/hw_breakpoint: Fix kernel BUG 'invalid opcode: 0000'
modpost, kallsyms: Treat add '$'-prefixed symbols as mapping symbols
kernel: params: Remove unnecessary ‘0’ values from err
module: Ignore RISC-V mapping symbols too

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# ff09f6fd 21-Jul-2023 Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>

modpost, kallsyms: Treat add '$'-prefixed symbols as mapping symbols

Trying to restrict the '$'-prefix change to RISC-V caused some fallout,
so let's just treat all those symbols as special.

Fixes:

modpost, kallsyms: Treat add '$'-prefixed symbols as mapping symbols

Trying to restrict the '$'-prefix change to RISC-V caused some fallout,
so let's just treat all those symbols as special.

Fixes: c05780ef3c190 ("module: Ignore RISC-V mapping symbols too")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230712015747.77263-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com/
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>

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# 50501936 17-Jul-2023 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge tag 'v6.4' into next

Sync up with mainline to bring in updates to shared infrastructure.


# c05780ef 07-Jul-2023 Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>

module: Ignore RISC-V mapping symbols too

RISC-V has an extended form of mapping symbols that we use to encode
the ISA when it changes in the middle of an ELF. This trips up modpost
as a build fail

module: Ignore RISC-V mapping symbols too

RISC-V has an extended form of mapping symbols that we use to encode
the ISA when it changes in the middle of an ELF. This trips up modpost
as a build failure, I haven't yet verified it yet but I believe the
kallsyms difference should result in stacks looking sane again.

Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/9d9e2902-5489-4bf0-d9cb-556c8e5d71c2@infradead.org/
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> # build-tested
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>

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# e80b5003 27-Jun-2023 Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

Merge branch 'for-6.5/apple' into for-linus

- improved support for Keychron K8 keyboard (Lasse Brun)


# db6da59c 15-Jun-2023 Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next-fixes

Backmerging to sync drm-misc-next-fixes with drm-misc-next.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>


# 03c60192 12-Jun-2023 Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org>

Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm into msm-next-lumag-base

Merge the drm-next tree to pick up the DRM DSC helpers (merged via
drm-intel-next tree). MSM DSC v1.2 patche

Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm into msm-next-lumag-base

Merge the drm-next tree to pick up the DRM DSC helpers (merged via
drm-intel-next tree). MSM DSC v1.2 patches depend on these helpers.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@linaro.org>

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Revision tags: v6.4-rc6
# 5c680050 06-Jun-2023 Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>

Merge tag 'v6.4-rc4' into wpan-next/staging

Linux 6.4-rc4


# 9ff17e6b 05-Jun-2023 Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

For conflict avoidance we need the following commit:

c9a9f18d3ad8 drm/i915/huc: use const struct bus_type pointers

Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-gt-next

For conflict avoidance we need the following commit:

c9a9f18d3ad8 drm/i915/huc: use const struct bus_type pointers

Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>

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Revision tags: v6.4-rc5, v6.4-rc4, v6.4-rc3
# 9c3a985f 17-May-2023 Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next

Backmerge to get some hwmon dependencies.

Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>


Revision tags: v6.4-rc2
# 50282fd5 12-May-2023 Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>

Merge drm/drm-fixes into drm-misc-fixes

Let's bring 6.4-rc1 in drm-misc-fixes to start the new fix cycle.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>


# ff32fcca 09-May-2023 Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>

Merge drm/drm-next into drm-misc-next

Start the 6.5 release cycle.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>


Revision tags: v6.4-rc1
# b6a78285 27-Apr-2023 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Merge tag 'modules-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux

Pull module updates from Luis Chamberlain:
"The summary of the changes for this pull requests is:

- Son

Merge tag 'modules-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux

Pull module updates from Luis Chamberlain:
"The summary of the changes for this pull requests is:

- Song Liu's new struct module_memory replacement

- Nick Alcock's MODULE_LICENSE() removal for non-modules

- My cleanups and enhancements to reduce the areas where we vmalloc
module memory for duplicates, and the respective debug code which
proves the remaining vmalloc pressure comes from userspace.

Most of the changes have been in linux-next for quite some time except
the minor fixes I made to check if a module was already loaded prior
to allocating the final module memory with vmalloc and the respective
debug code it introduces to help clarify the issue. Although the
functional change is small it is rather safe as it can only *help*
reduce vmalloc space for duplicates and is confirmed to fix a bootup
issue with over 400 CPUs with KASAN enabled. I don't expect stable
kernels to pick up that fix as the cleanups would have also had to
have been picked up. Folks on larger CPU systems with modules will
want to just upgrade if vmalloc space has been an issue on bootup.

Given the size of this request, here's some more elaborate details:

The functional change change in this pull request is the very first
patch from Song Liu which replaces the 'struct module_layout' with a
new 'struct module_memory'. The old data structure tried to put
together all types of supported module memory types in one data
structure, the new one abstracts the differences in memory types in a
module to allow each one to provide their own set of details. This
paves the way in the future so we can deal with them in a cleaner way.
If you look at changes they also provide a nice cleanup of how we
handle these different memory areas in a module. This change has been
in linux-next since before the merge window opened for v6.3 so to
provide more than a full kernel cycle of testing. It's a good thing as
quite a bit of fixes have been found for it.

Jason Baron then made dynamic debug a first class citizen module user
by using module notifier callbacks to allocate / remove module
specific dynamic debug information.

Nick Alcock has done quite a bit of work cross-tree to remove module
license tags from things which cannot possibly be module at my request
so to:

a) help him with his longer term tooling goals which require a
deterministic evaluation if a piece a symbol code could ever be
part of a module or not. But quite recently it is has been made
clear that tooling is not the only one that would benefit.
Disambiguating symbols also helps efforts such as live patching,
kprobes and BPF, but for other reasons and R&D on this area is
active with no clear solution in sight.

b) help us inch closer to the now generally accepted long term goal
of automating all the MODULE_LICENSE() tags from SPDX license tags

In so far as a) is concerned, although module license tags are a no-op
for non-modules, tools which would want create a mapping of possible
modules can only rely on the module license tag after the commit
8b41fc4454e ("kbuild: create modules.builtin without
Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf").

Nick has been working on this *for years* and AFAICT I was the only
one to suggest two alternatives to this approach for tooling. The
complexity in one of my suggested approaches lies in that we'd need a
possible-obj-m and a could-be-module which would check if the object
being built is part of any kconfig build which could ever lead to it
being part of a module, and if so define a new define
-DPOSSIBLE_MODULE [0].

A more obvious yet theoretical approach I've suggested would be to
have a tristate in kconfig imply the same new -DPOSSIBLE_MODULE as
well but that means getting kconfig symbol names mapping to modules
always, and I don't think that's the case today. I am not aware of
Nick or anyone exploring either of these options. Quite recently Josh
Poimboeuf has pointed out that live patching, kprobes and BPF would
benefit from resolving some part of the disambiguation as well but for
other reasons. The function granularity KASLR (fgkaslr) patches were
mentioned but Joe Lawrence has clarified this effort has been dropped
with no clear solution in sight [1].

In the meantime removing module license tags from code which could
never be modules is welcomed for both objectives mentioned above. Some
developers have also welcomed these changes as it has helped clarify
when a module was never possible and they forgot to clean this up, and
so you'll see quite a bit of Nick's patches in other pull requests for
this merge window. I just picked up the stragglers after rc3. LWN has
good coverage on the motivation behind this work [2] and the typical
cross-tree issues he ran into along the way. The only concrete blocker
issue he ran into was that we should not remove the MODULE_LICENSE()
tags from files which have no SPDX tags yet, even if they can never be
modules. Nick ended up giving up on his efforts due to having to do
this vetting and backlash he ran into from folks who really did *not
understand* the core of the issue nor were providing any alternative /
guidance. I've gone through his changes and dropped the patches which
dropped the module license tags where an SPDX license tag was missing,
it only consisted of 11 drivers. To see if a pull request deals with a
file which lacks SPDX tags you can just use:

./scripts/spdxcheck.py -f \
$(git diff --name-only commid-id | xargs echo)

You'll see a core module file in this pull request for the above, but
that's not related to his changes. WE just need to add the SPDX
license tag for the kernel/module/kmod.c file in the future but it
demonstrates the effectiveness of the script.

Most of Nick's changes were spread out through different trees, and I
just picked up the slack after rc3 for the last kernel was out. Those
changes have been in linux-next for over two weeks.

The cleanups, debug code I added and final fix I added for modules
were motivated by David Hildenbrand's report of boot failing on a
systems with over 400 CPUs when KASAN was enabled due to running out
of virtual memory space. Although the functional change only consists
of 3 lines in the patch "module: avoid allocation if module is already
present and ready", proving that this was the best we can do on the
modules side took quite a bit of effort and new debug code.

The initial cleanups I did on the modules side of things has been in
linux-next since around rc3 of the last kernel, the actual final fix
for and debug code however have only been in linux-next for about a
week or so but I think it is worth getting that code in for this merge
window as it does help fix / prove / evaluate the issues reported with
larger number of CPUs. Userspace is not yet fixed as it is taking a
bit of time for folks to understand the crux of the issue and find a
proper resolution. Worst come to worst, I have a kludge-of-concept [3]
of how to make kernel_read*() calls for modules unique / converge
them, but I'm currently inclined to just see if userspace can fix this
instead"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y/kXDqW+7d71C4wz@bombadil.infradead.org/ [0]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/025f2151-ce7c-5630-9b90-98742c97ac65@redhat.com [1]
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/927569/ [2]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230414052840.1994456-3-mcgrof@kernel.org [3]

* tag 'modules-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (121 commits)
module: add debugging auto-load duplicate module support
module: stats: fix invalid_mod_bytes typo
module: remove use of uninitialized variable len
module: fix building stats for 32-bit targets
module: stats: include uapi/linux/module.h
module: avoid allocation if module is already present and ready
module: add debug stats to help identify memory pressure
module: extract patient module check into helper
modules/kmod: replace implementation with a semaphore
Change DEFINE_SEMAPHORE() to take a number argument
module: fix kmemleak annotations for non init ELF sections
module: Ignore L0 and rename is_arm_mapping_symbol()
module: Move is_arm_mapping_symbol() to module_symbol.h
module: Sync code of is_arm_mapping_symbol()
scripts/gdb: use mem instead of core_layout to get the module address
interconnect: remove module-related code
interconnect: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
zswap: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
zpool: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
x86/mm/dump_pagetables: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
...

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Revision tags: v6.3, v6.3-rc7, v6.3-rc6, v6.3-rc5
# 0a3bf860 31-Mar-2023 Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>

module: Ignore L0 and rename is_arm_mapping_symbol()

The L0 symbol is generated when build module on LoongArch, ignore it in
modpost and when looking at module symbols, otherwise we can not see the

module: Ignore L0 and rename is_arm_mapping_symbol()

The L0 symbol is generated when build module on LoongArch, ignore it in
modpost and when looking at module symbols, otherwise we can not see the
expected call trace.

Now is_arm_mapping_symbol() is not only for ARM, in order to reflect the
reality, rename is_arm_mapping_symbol() to is_mapping_symbol().

This is related with commit c17a2538704f ("mksysmap: Fix the mismatch of
'L0' symbols in System.map").

(1) Simple test case

[loongson@linux hello]$ cat hello.c
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/printk.h>

static void test_func(void)
{
pr_info("This is a test\n");
dump_stack();
}

static int __init hello_init(void)
{
pr_warn("Hello, world\n");
test_func();

return 0;
}

static void __exit hello_exit(void)
{
pr_warn("Goodbye\n");
}

module_init(hello_init);
module_exit(hello_exit);
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
[loongson@linux hello]$ cat Makefile
obj-m:=hello.o

ccflags-y += -g -Og

all:
make -C /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build/ M=$(PWD) modules
clean:
make -C /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build/ M=$(PWD) clean

(2) Test environment

system: LoongArch CLFS 5.5
https://github.com/sunhaiyong1978/CLFS-for-LoongArch/releases/tag/5.0
It needs to update grub to avoid booting error "invalid magic number".

kernel: 6.3-rc1 with loongson3_defconfig + CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE=y

(3) Test result

Without this patch:

[root@linux hello]# insmod hello.ko
[root@linux hello]# dmesg
...
Hello, world
This is a test
...
Call Trace:
[<9000000000223728>] show_stack+0x68/0x18c
[<90000000013374cc>] dump_stack_lvl+0x60/0x88
[<ffff800002050028>] L0\x01+0x20/0x2c [hello]
[<ffff800002058028>] L0\x01+0x20/0x30 [hello]
[<900000000022097c>] do_one_initcall+0x88/0x288
[<90000000002df890>] do_init_module+0x54/0x200
[<90000000002e1e18>] __do_sys_finit_module+0xc4/0x114
[<90000000013382e8>] do_syscall+0x7c/0x94
[<9000000000221e3c>] handle_syscall+0xbc/0x158

With this patch:

[root@linux hello]# insmod hello.ko
[root@linux hello]# dmesg
...
Hello, world
This is a test
...
Call Trace:
[<9000000000223728>] show_stack+0x68/0x18c
[<90000000013374cc>] dump_stack_lvl+0x60/0x88
[<ffff800002050028>] test_func+0x28/0x34 [hello]
[<ffff800002058028>] hello_init+0x28/0x38 [hello]
[<900000000022097c>] do_one_initcall+0x88/0x288
[<90000000002df890>] do_init_module+0x54/0x200
[<90000000002e1e18>] __do_sys_finit_module+0xc4/0x114
[<90000000013382e8>] do_syscall+0x7c/0x94
[<9000000000221e3c>] handle_syscall+0xbc/0x158

Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Tested-by: Youling Tang <tangyouling@loongson.cn> # for LoongArch
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>

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# 987d2e0a 31-Mar-2023 Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>

module: Move is_arm_mapping_symbol() to module_symbol.h

In order to avoid duplicated code, move is_arm_mapping_symbol() to
include/linux/module_symbol.h, then remove is_arm_mapping_symbol()
in the o

module: Move is_arm_mapping_symbol() to module_symbol.h

In order to avoid duplicated code, move is_arm_mapping_symbol() to
include/linux/module_symbol.h, then remove is_arm_mapping_symbol()
in the other places.

Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>

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