kernel/lib, branch linux-6.19.y

lib/bootconfig: check bounds before writing in __xbc_open_brace()

2026-03-19T15:15:28Z

commit 560f763baa0f2c9a44da4294c06af071405ac46f upstream. The bounds check for brace_index happens after the array write. While the current call pattern prevents an actual out-of-bounds access (the previous call would have returned an error), the write-before-check pattern is fragile and would become a real out-of-bounds write if the error return were ever not propagated. Move the bounds check before the array write so the function is self-contained and safe regardless of caller behavior. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260312191143.28719-3-objecting@objecting.org/ Fixes: ead1e19ad905 ("lib/bootconfig: Fix a bug of breaking existing tree nodes") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Josh Law Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

lib/bootconfig: fix snprintf truncation check in xbc_node_compose_key_after()

2026-03-19T15:15:27Z

commit 1120a36bb1e9b9e22de75ecb4ef0b998f73a97f1 upstream. snprintf() returns the number of characters that would have been written excluding the NUL terminator. Output is truncated when the return value is >= the buffer size, not just > the buffer size. When ret == size, the current code takes the non-truncated path, advancing buf by ret and reducing size to 0. This is wrong because the output was actually truncated (the last character was replaced by NUL). Fix by using >= so the truncation path is taken correctly. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260312191143.28719-4-objecting@objecting.org/ Fixes: 76db5a27a827 ("bootconfig: Add Extra Boot Config support") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Josh Law Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

lib/bootconfig: fix off-by-one in xbc_verify_tree() unclosed brace error

2026-03-19T15:15:27Z

commit 39ebc8d7f561e1b64eca87353ef9b18e2825e591 upstream. __xbc_open_brace() pushes entries with post-increment (open_brace[brace_index++]), so brace_index always points one past the last valid entry. xbc_verify_tree() reads open_brace[brace_index] to report which brace is unclosed, but this is one past the last pushed entry and contains stale/zero data, causing the error message to reference the wrong node. Use open_brace[brace_index - 1] to correctly identify the unclosed brace. brace_index is known to be > 0 here since we are inside the if (brace_index) guard. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260312191143.28719-2-objecting@objecting.org/ Fixes: ead1e19ad905 ("lib/bootconfig: Fix a bug of breaking existing tree nodes") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Josh Law Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

debugobject: Make it work with deferred page initialization - again

2026-03-12T11:09:06Z

[ Upstream commit fd3634312a04f336dcbfb481060219f0cd320738 ] debugobjects uses __GFP_HIGH for allocations as it might be invoked within locked regions. That worked perfectly fine until v6.18. It still works correctly when deferred page initialization is disabled and works by chance when no page allocation is required before deferred page initialization has completed. Since v6.18 allocations w/o a reclaim flag cause new_slab() to end up in alloc_frozen_pages_nolock_noprof(), which returns early when deferred page initialization has not yet completed. As the deferred page initialization takes quite a while the debugobject pool is depleted and debugobjects are disabled. This can be worked around when PREEMPT_COUNT is enabled as that allows debugobjects to add __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM to the GFP flags when the context is preemtible. When PREEMPT_COUNT is disabled the context is unknown and the reclaim bit can't be set because the caller might hold locks which might deadlock in the allocator. In preemptible context the reclaim bit is harmless and not a performance issue as that's usually invoked from slow path initialization context. That makes debugobjects depend on PREEMPT_COUNT || !DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT. Fixes: af92793e52c3 ("slab: Introduce kmalloc_nolock() and kfree_nolock().") Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Link: https://patch.msgid.link/87pl6gznti.ffs@tglx Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

Remove WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM kernel config option

2026-03-04T12:20:54Z

[ Upstream commit 7dff99b354601dd01829e1511711846e04340a69 ] This config option goes way back - it used to be an internal debug option to random.c (at that point called DEBUG_RANDOM_BOOT), then was renamed and exposed as a config option as CONFIG_WARN_UNSEEDED_RANDOM, and then further renamed to the current CONFIG_WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM. It was all done with the best of intentions: the more limited rate-limited reports were reporting some cases, but if you wanted to see all the gory details, you'd enable this "ALL" option. However, it turns out - perhaps not surprisingly - that when people don't care about and fix the first rate-limited cases, they most certainly don't care about any others either, and so warning about all of them isn't actually helping anything. And the non-ratelimited reporting causes problems, where well-meaning people enable debug options, but the excessive flood of messages that nobody cares about will hide actual real information when things go wrong. I just got a kernel bug report (which had nothing to do with randomness) where two thirds of the the truncated dmesg was just variations of random: get_random_u32 called from __get_random_u32_below+0x10/0x70 with crng_init=0 and in the process early boot messages had been lost (in addition to making the messages that _hadn't_ been lost harder to read). The proper way to find these things for the hypothetical developer that cares - if such a person exists - is almost certainly with boot time tracing. That gives you the option to get call graphs etc too, which is likely a requirement for fixing any problems anyway. See Documentation/trace/boottime-trace.rst for that option. And if we for some reason do want to re-introduce actual printing of these things, it will need to have some uniqueness filtering rather than this "just print it all" model. Fixes: cc1e127bfa95 ("random: remove ratelimiting for in-kernel unseeded randomness") Acked-by: Jason Donenfeld Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

objpool: fix the overestimation of object pooling metadata size

2026-02-26T23:01:29Z

[ Upstream commit 5ed4b6b37c647d168ae31035b3f61b705997e043 ] objpool uses struct objpool_head to store metadata information, and its cpu_slots member points to an array of pointers that store the addresses of the percpu ring arrays. However, the memory size allocated during the initialization of cpu_slots is nr_cpu_ids * sizeof(struct objpool_slot). On a 64-bit machine, the size of struct objpool_slot is 16 bytes, which is twice the size of the actual pointer required, and the extra memory is never be used, resulting in a waste of memory. Therefore, the memory size required for cpu_slots needs to be corrected. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260202132846.68257-1-zhouwenhao7600@gmail.com Fixes: b4edb8d2d464 ("lib: objpool added: ring-array based lockless MPMC") Signed-off-by: zhouwenhao Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" Cc: Matt Wu Cc: wuqiang.matt Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

lib/Kconfig.debug: fix BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC comment

2026-02-26T23:01:08Z

[ Upstream commit dbac35bee8fc844c2d8d6417af874a170a44d41f ] The comment for CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC says: Say N if unsure. but since commit 9544f9e6947f ("hung_task: panic when there are more than N hung tasks at the same time"), N is not a valid value for the option, leading to a warning at build time: .config:11736:warning: symbol value 'n' invalid for BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC as well as an error when given to menuconfig. Fix the comment to say '0' instead of 'N'. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260106140140.136446-1-tglozar@redhat.com Fixes: 9544f9e6947f ("hung_task: panic when there are more than N hung tasks at the same time") Signed-off-by: Tomas Glozar Reported-by: Johnny Mnemonic Reviewed-by: Lance Yang Cc: Li RongQing Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

lib/kstrtox: fix kstrtobool() docstring to mention enabled/disabled

2026-02-26T23:01:08Z

[ Upstream commit 1921044eebf1d6861a6de1a76e3f63729a45e712 ] Commit ae5b3500856f ("kstrtox: add support for enabled and disabled in kstrtobool()") added support for 'e'/'E' (enabled) and 'd'/'D' (disabled) inputs, but did not update the docstring accordingly. Update the docstring to include 'Ee' (for true) and 'Dd' (for false) in the list of accepted first characters. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251227092229.57330-1-chaitanyamishra.ai@gmail.com Fixes: ae5b3500856f ("kstrtox: add support for enabled and disabled in kstrtobool()") Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Mishra Cc: Mario Limonciello Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

procfs: avoid fetching build ID while holding VMA lock

2026-02-05T22:10:00Z

Fix PROCMAP_QUERY to fetch optional build ID only after dropping mmap_lock or per-VMA lock, whichever was used to lock VMA under question, to avoid deadlock reported by syzbot: -> #1 (&mm->mmap_lock){++++}-{4:4}: __might_fault+0xed/0x170 _copy_to_iter+0x118/0x1720 copy_page_to_iter+0x12d/0x1e0 filemap_read+0x720/0x10a0 blkdev_read_iter+0x2b5/0x4e0 vfs_read+0x7f4/0xae0 ksys_read+0x12a/0x250 do_syscall_64+0xcb/0xf80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f -> #0 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#8){++++}-{4:4}: __lock_acquire+0x1509/0x26d0 lock_acquire+0x185/0x340 down_read+0x98/0x490 blkdev_read_iter+0x2a7/0x4e0 __kernel_read+0x39a/0xa90 freader_fetch+0x1d5/0xa80 __build_id_parse.isra.0+0xea/0x6a0 do_procmap_query+0xd75/0x1050 procfs_procmap_ioctl+0x7a/0xb0 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x18e/0x210 do_syscall_64+0xcb/0xf80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f other info that might help us debug this: Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- rlock(&mm->mmap_lock); lock(&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#8); lock(&mm->mmap_lock); rlock(&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#8); *** DEADLOCK *** This seems to be exacerbated (as we haven't seen these syzbot reports before that) by the recent: 777a8560fd29 ("lib/buildid: use __kernel_read() for sleepable context") To make this safe, we need to grab file refcount while VMA is still locked, but other than that everything is pretty straightforward. Internal build_id_parse() API assumes VMA is passed, but it only needs the underlying file reference, so just add another variant build_id_parse_file() that expects file passed directly. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up kerneldoc] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260129215340.3742283-1-andrii@kernel.org Fixes: ed5d583a88a9 ("fs/procfs: implement efficient VMA querying API for /proc//maps") Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko Reported-by: Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan Tested-by: Suren Baghdasaryan Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Daniel Borkmann Cc: Eduard Zingerman Cc: Hao Luo Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: John Fastabend Cc: KP Singh Cc: Martin KaFai Lau Cc: Song Liu Cc: Stanislav Fomichev Cc: Yonghong Song Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

mm/zone_device: reinitialize large zone device private folios

2026-01-27T03:03:48Z

Reinitialize metadata for large zone device private folios in zone_device_page_init prior to creating a higher-order zone device private folio. This step is necessary when the folio's order changes dynamically between zone_device_page_init calls to avoid building a corrupt folio. As part of the metadata reinitialization, the dev_pagemap must be passed in from the caller because the pgmap stored in the folio page may have been overwritten with a compound head. Without this fix, individual pages could have invalid pgmap fields and flags (with PG_locked being notably problematic) due to prior different order allocations, which can, and will, result in kernel crashes. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260116111325.1736137-2-francois.dugast@intel.com Fixes: d245f9b4ab80 ("mm/zone_device: support large zone device private folios") Signed-off-by: Matthew Brost Signed-off-by: Francois Dugast Acked-by: Felix Kuehling Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Zi Yan Cc: Alistair Popple Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" Cc: Alex Deucher Cc: "Christian König" Cc: David Airlie Cc: Simona Vetter Cc: Maarten Lankhorst Cc: Maxime Ripard Cc: Thomas Zimmermann Cc: Lyude Paul Cc: Danilo Krummrich Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Leon Romanovsky Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes Cc: Liam R. Howlett Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton