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Pull kselftest fix from Shuah Khan:
"Fixes event-filter-function.tc tracing test failure caused when a
first run to sample events triggers kmem_cache_free which interferes
with the rest of the test.
Fix this by calling sample_events twice to eliminate the
kmem_cache_free related noise from the sampling"
* tag 'linux_kselftest-fixes-6.18-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest:
selftests/tracing: Run sample events to clear page cache events
Pull networking fixes from Paolo Abeni:
"Including fixes from Bluetooth and Wireless. No known outstanding
regressions.
Current release - regressions:
- eth:
- bonding: fix mii_status when slave is down
- mlx5e: fix missing error assignment in mlx5e_xfrm_add_state()
Previous releases - regressions:
- sched: limit try_bulk_dequeue_skb() batches
- ipv4: route: prevent rt_bind_exception() from rebinding stale fnhe
- af_unix: initialise scc_index in unix_add_edge()
- netpoll: fix incorrect refcount handling causing incorrect cleanup
- bluetooth: don't hold spin lock over sleeping functions
- hsr: Fix supervision frame sending on HSRv0
- sctp: prevent possible shift out-of-bounds
- tipc: fix use-after-free in tipc_mon_reinit_self().
- dsa: tag_brcm: do not mark link local traffic as offloaded
- eth: virtio-net: fix incorrect flags recording in big mode
Previous releases - always broken:
- sched: initialize struct tc_ife to fix kernel-infoleak
- wifi:
- mac80211: reject address change while connecting
- iwlwifi: avoid toggling links due to wrong element use
- bluetooth: cancel mesh send timer when hdev removed
- strparser: fix signed/unsigned mismatch bug
- handshake: fix memory leak in tls_handshake_accept()
Misc:
- selftests: mptcp: fix some flaky tests"
* tag 'net-6.18-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (60 commits)
hsr: Follow standard for HSRv0 supervision frames
hsr: Fix supervision frame sending on HSRv0
virtio-net: fix incorrect flags recording in big mode
ipv4: route: Prevent rt_bind_exception() from rebinding stale fnhe
wifi: iwlwifi: mld: always take beacon ies in link grading
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix beacon template/fixed rate
wifi: iwlwifi: fix aux ROC time event iterator usage
net_sched: limit try_bulk_dequeue_skb() batches
selftests: mptcp: join: properly kill background tasks
selftests: mptcp: connect: trunc: read all recv data
selftests: mptcp: join: userspace: longer transfer
selftests: mptcp: join: endpoints: longer transfer
selftests: mptcp: join: rm: set backup flag
selftests: mptcp: connect: fix fallback note due to OoO
ethtool: fix incorrect kernel-doc style comment in ethtool.h
mlx5: Fix default values in create CQ
Bluetooth: btrtl: Avoid loading the config file on security chips
net/mlx5e: Fix potentially misleading debug message
net/mlx5e: Fix wraparound in rate limiting for values above 255 Gbps
net/mlx5e: Fix maxrate wraparound in threshold between units
...
The tracing selftest "event-filter-function.tc" was failing because it
first runs the "sample_events" function that triggers the kmem_cache_free
event and it looks at what function was used during a call to "ls".
But the first time it calls this, it could trigger events that are used to
pull pages into the page cache.
The rest of the test uses the function it finds during that call to see if
it will be called in subsequent "sample_events" calls. But if there's no
need to pull pages into the page cache, it will not trigger that function
and the test will fail.
Call the "sample_events" twice to trigger all the page cache work before
it calls it to find a function to use in subsequent checks.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: eb50d0f250e96 ("selftests/ftrace: Choose target function for filter test from samples")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull erofs fixes from Gao Xiang:
- Add Chunhai Guo as a EROFS reviewer to get more eyes from interested
industry vendors
- Fix infinite loop caused by incomplete crafted zstd-compressed data
(thanks to Robert again!)
* tag 'erofs-for-6.18-rc6-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xiang/erofs:
erofs: avoid infinite loop due to incomplete zstd-compressed data
MAINTAINERS: erofs: add myself as reviewer
Felix Maurer says:
====================
hsr: Send correct HSRv0 supervision frames
Hangbin recently reported that the hsr selftests were failing and noted
that the entries in the node table were not merged, i.e., had
00:00:00:00:00:00 as MacAddressB forever [1].
This failure only occured with HSRv0 because it was not sending
supervision frames anymore. While debugging this I found that we were
not really following the HSRv0 standard for the supervision frames we
sent, so I additionally made a few changes to get closer to the standard
and restore a more correct behavior we had a while ago.
The selftests can still fail because they take a while and run into the
timeout. I did not include a change of the timeout because I have more
improvements to the selftests mostly ready that change the test duration
but are net-next material.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/aMONxDXkzBZZRfE5@fedora/
====================
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/cover.1762876095.git.fmaurer@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Fix warning caused from declaration under a case label. The proper way
is to declare variable at the beginning of the function. The warning
came from running clang using LLVM=1; and is as follows:
-test_cachestat.c:260:3: warning: label followed by a declaration is a C23 extension [-Wc23-extensions]
260 | char *map = mmap(NULL, filesize, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
|
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250929115405.25695-2-sidharthseela@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sidharth Seela <sidharthseela@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: wang lian <lianux.mm@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Acked-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull smb server fixes from Steve French:
- Fix smbdirect (RDMA) disconnect hang bug
- Fix potential Denial of Service when connection limit exceeded
- Fix smbdirect (RDMA) connection (potentially accessing freed memory)
bug
* tag 'v6.18-rc5-smb-server-fixes' of git://git.samba.org/ksmbd:
smb: server: let smb_direct_disconnect_rdma_connection() turn CREATED into DISCONNECTED
ksmbd: close accepted socket when per-IP limit rejects connection
smb: server: rdma: avoid unmapping posted recv on accept failure
Currently, the decompression logic incorrectly spins if compressed
data is truncated in crafted (deliberately corrupted) images.
Fixes: 7c35de4df105 ("erofs: Zstandard compression support")
Reported-by: Robert Morris <rtm@csail.mit.edu>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/50958.1761605413@localhost
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Chunhai Guo <guochunhai@vivo.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
The purpose of commit 703eec1b2422 ("virtio_net: fixing XDP for fully
checksummed packets handling") is to record the flags in advance, as
their value may be overwritten in the XDP case. However, the flags
recorded under big mode are incorrect, because in big mode, the passed
buf does not point to the rx buffer, but rather to the page of the
submitted buffer. This commit fixes this issue.
For the small mode, the commit c11a49d58ad2 ("virtio_net: Fix mismatched
buf address when unmapping for small packets") fixed it.
Tested-by: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
Fixes: 703eec1b2422 ("virtio_net: fixing XDP for fully checksummed packets handling")
Signed-off-by: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251111090828.23186-1-xuanzhuo@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
For HSRv0, the path_id has the following meaning:
- 0000: PRP supervision frame
- 0001-1001: HSR ring identifier
- 1010-1011: Frames from PRP network (A/B, with RedBoxes)
- 1111: HSR supervision frame
Follow the IEC 62439-3:2010 standard more closely by setting the right
path_id for HSRv0 supervision frames (actually, it is correctly set when
the frame is constructed, but hsr_set_path_id() overwrites it) and set a
fixed HSR ring identifier of 1. The ring identifier seems to be generally
unused and we ignore it anyways on reception, but some fixed identifier is
definitely better than using one identifier in one direction and a wrong
identifier in the other.
This was also the behavior before commit f266a683a480 ("net/hsr: Better
frame dispatch") which introduced the alternating path_id. This was later
moved to hsr_set_path_id() in commit 451d8123f897 ("net: prp: add packet
handling support").
The IEC 62439-3:2010 also contains 6 unused bytes after the MacAddressA in
the HSRv0 supervision frames. Adjust a TODO comment accordingly.
Fixes: f266a683a480 ("net/hsr: Better frame dispatch")
Fixes: 451d8123f897 ("net: prp: add packet handling support")
Signed-off-by: Felix Maurer <fmaurer@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/ea0d5133cd593856b2fa673d6e2067bf1d4d1794.1762876095.git.fmaurer@redhat.com
Tested-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Add the tmpshmcstat file to .gitignore to avoid
accidentally staging the build artifact
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251013095149.1386628-1-madhurkumar004@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Madhur Kumar <madhurkumar004@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull nfsd fixes from Chuck Lever:
"Address recently reported issues or issues found at the recent NFS
bake-a-thon held in Raleigh, NC.
Issues reported with v6.18-rc:
- Address a kernel build issue
- Reorder SEQUENCE processing to avoid spurious NFS4ERR_SEQ_MISORDERED
Issues that need expedient stable backports:
- Close a refcount leak exposure
- Report support for NFSv4.2 CLONE correctly
- Fix oops during COPY_NOTIFY processing
- Prevent rare crash after XDR encoding failure
- Prevent crash due to confused or malicious NFSv4.1 client"
* tag 'nfsd-6.18-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cel/linux:
Revert "SUNRPC: Make RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 select CRYPTO instead of depending on it"
nfsd: ensure SEQUENCE replay sends a valid reply.
NFSD: Never cache a COMPOUND when the SEQUENCE operation fails
NFSD: Skip close replay processing if XDR encoding fails
NFSD: free copynotify stateid in nfs4_free_ol_stateid()
nfsd: add missing FATTR4_WORD2_CLONE_BLKSIZE from supported attributes
nfsd: fix refcount leak in nfsd_set_fh_dentry()
When smb_direct_disconnect_rdma_connection() turns SMBDIRECT_SOCKET_CREATED
into SMBDIRECT_SOCKET_ERROR, we'll have the situation that
smb_direct_disconnect_rdma_work() will set SMBDIRECT_SOCKET_DISCONNECTING
and call rdma_disconnect(), which likely fails as we never reached
the RDMA_CM_EVENT_ESTABLISHED. it means that
wait_event(sc->status_wait, sc->status == SMBDIRECT_SOCKET_DISCONNECTED)
in free_transport() will hang forever in SMBDIRECT_SOCKET_DISCONNECTING
never reaching SMBDIRECT_SOCKET_DISCONNECTED.
So we directly go from SMBDIRECT_SOCKET_CREATED to
SMBDIRECT_SOCKET_DISCONNECTED.
Fixes: b3fd52a0d85c ("smb: server: let smb_direct_disconnect_rdma_connection() set SMBDIRECT_SOCKET_ERROR...")
Cc: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
Cc: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com>
Cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: samba-technical@lists.samba.org
Signed-off-by: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
Acked-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
In the past two years, I have focused on EROFS and contributed features
including the reserved buffer pool, configurable global buffer pool, and
the ongoing direct I/O support for compressed data.
I would like to continue contributing to EROFS and help with code
reviews. Please CC me on EROFS-related changes.
Signed-off-by: Chunhai Guo <guochunhai@vivo.com>
Acked-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Chao Yu <chao@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Hongbo Li <lihongbo22@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
Johannes Berg says:
====================
Couple more fixes:
- mwl8k: work around FW expecting a DSSS element in beacons
- ath11k: report correct TX status
- iwlwifi: avoid toggling links due to wrong element use
- iwlwifi: fix beacon template rate on older devices
- iwlwifi: fix loop iterator being used after loop
- mac80211: disallow address changes while using the address
- mac80211: avoid bad rate warning in monitor/sniffer mode
- hwsim: fix potential NULL deref (on monitor injection)
* tag 'wireless-2025-11-12' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless:
wifi: iwlwifi: mld: always take beacon ies in link grading
wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix beacon template/fixed rate
wifi: iwlwifi: fix aux ROC time event iterator usage
wifi: mwl8k: inject DSSS Parameter Set element into beacons if missing
wifi: mac80211_hwsim: Fix possible NULL dereference
wifi: mac80211: skip rate verification for not captured PSDUs
wifi: mac80211: reject address change while connecting
wifi: ath11k: zero init info->status in wmi_process_mgmt_tx_comp()
====================
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251112114621.15716-5-johannes@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
On HSRv0, no supervision frames were sent. The supervison frames were
generated successfully, but failed the check for a sufficiently long mac
header, i.e., at least sizeof(struct hsr_ethhdr), in hsr_fill_frame_info()
because the mac header only contained the ethernet header.
Fix this by including the HSR header in the mac header when generating HSR
supervision frames. Note that the mac header now also includes the TLV
fields. This matches how we set the headers on rx and also the size of
struct hsrv0_ethhdr_sp.
Reported-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/aMONxDXkzBZZRfE5@fedora/
Fixes: 9cfb5e7f0ded ("net: hsr: fix hsr_init_sk() vs network/transport headers.")
Signed-off-by: Felix Maurer <fmaurer@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/4354114fea9a642fe71f49aeeb6c6159d1d61840.1762876095.git.fmaurer@redhat.com
Tested-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>