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Pull i2c fixes from Wolfram Sang:
- i801: drop superfluous WDT entry for Birch
- rtl9300:
- fix channel number check in probe
- check data length boundaries in xfer
- drop broken SMBus quick operation
* tag 'i2c-for-6.17-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux:
i2c: rtl9300: remove broken SMBus Quick operation support
i2c: rtl9300: ensure data length is within supported range
i2c: rtl9300: fix channel number bound check
i2c: i801: Hide Intel Birch Stream SoC TCO WDT
Pull EDAC fix from Borislav Petkov:
- Remove a misplaced dma_free_coherent() call in altera_edac
* tag 'edac_urgent_for_v6.17_rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ras/ras:
EDAC/altera: Delete an inappropriate dma_free_coherent() call
i2c-host-fixes for v6.17-rc5
- i801: fix device IDs
- in rtl9300:
- fix channel number check in probe
- check data length boundaries in xfer
- drop unsupported SMBus quick operation
Pull timer fix from Ingo Molnar:
"Fix a severe slowdown regression in the timer vDSO code related to the
while() loop in __iter_div_u64_rem(), when the AUX-clock is enabled"
* tag 'timers-urgent-2025-09-07' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
vdso/vsyscall: Avoid slow division loop in auxiliary clock update
dma_free_coherent() must only be called if the corresponding
dma_alloc_coherent() call has succeeded. Calling it when the allocation fails
leads to undefined behavior.
Delete the wrong call.
[ bp: Massage commit message. ]
Fixes: 71bcada88b0f3 ("edac: altera: Add Altera SDRAM EDAC support")
Signed-off-by: Salah Triki <salah.triki@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/aIrfzzqh4IzYtDVC@pc
Remove the SMBus Quick operation from this driver because it is not
natively supported by the hardware and is wrongly implemented in the
driver.
The I2C controllers in Realtek RTL9300 and RTL9310 are SMBus-compliant
but there doesn't seem to be native support for the SMBus Quick
operation. It is not explicitly mentioned in the documentation but
looking at the registers which configure an SMBus transaction, one can
see that the data length cannot be set to 0. This suggests that the
hardware doesn't allow any SMBus message without data bytes (except for
those it does on it's own, see SMBus Block Read).
The current implementation of SMBus Quick operation passes a length of
0 (which is actually invalid). Before the fix of a bug in a previous
commit, this led to a read operation of 16 bytes from any register (the
one of a former transaction or any other value.
This caused issues like soft-bricked SFP modules after a simple probe
with i2cdetect which uses Quick by default. Running this with SFP
modules whose EEPROM isn't write-protected, some of the initial bytes
are overwritten because a 16-byte write operation is executed instead of
a Quick Write. (This temporarily soft-bricked one of my DAC cables.)
Because SMBus Quick operation is obviously not supported on these
controllers (because a length of 0 cannot be set, even when no register
address is set), remove that instead of claiming there is support. There
also shouldn't be any kind of emulated 'Quick' which just does another
kind of operation in the background. Otherwise, specific issues occur
in case of a 'Quick' Write which actually writes unknown data to an
unknown register.
Fixes: c366be720235 ("i2c: Add driver for the RTL9300 I2C controller")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.13+
Signed-off-by: Jonas Jelonek <jelonek.jonas@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Reviewed-by: Chris Packham <chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
Tested-by: Chris Packham <chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz> # On RTL9302C based board
Tested-by: Markus Stockhausen <markus.stockhausen@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250831100457.3114-4-jelonek.jonas@gmail.com
Pull locking fix from Ingo Molnar:
"Fix an 'allocation from atomic context' regression in the futex
vmalloc variant"
* tag 'locking-urgent-2025-09-07' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
futex: Move futex_hash_free() back to __mmput()
The call to __iter_div_u64_rem() in vdso_time_update_aux() is a wrapper
around subtraction. It cannot be used to divide large numbers, as that
introduces long, computationally expensive delays. A regular u64 division
is also not possible in the timekeeper update path as it can be too slow.
Instead of splitting the ktime_t offset into into second and subsecond
components during the timekeeper update fast-path, do it together with the
adjustment of tk->offs_aux in the slow-path. Equivalent to the handling of
offs_boot and monotonic_to_boot.
Reuse the storage of monotonic_to_boot for the new field, as it is not used
by auxiliary timekeepers.
Fixes: 380b84e168e5 ("vdso/vsyscall: Update auxiliary clock data in the datapage")
Reported-by: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250825-vdso-auxclock-division-v1-1-a1d32a16a313@linutronix.de
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/aKwsNNWsHJg8IKzj@localhost/
Pull i2c fixes from Wolfram Sang:
- hisi: update maintainership
- fix several issues in rtl9300 xfer:
- check message length boundaries
- correct multi-byte value composition on write
- increase polling timeout
- fix block transfer protocol
* tag 'i2c-for-6.17-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux:
i2c: rtl9300: Add missing count byte for SMBus Block Ops
i2c: rtl9300: Increase timeout for transfer polling
i2c: rtl9300: Fix multi-byte I2C write
i2c: rtl9300: Fix out-of-bounds bug in rtl9300_i2c_smbus_xfer
MAINTAINERS: i2c: Update i2c_hisi entry
Add an explicit check for the xfer length to 'rtl9300_i2c_config_xfer'
to ensure the data length isn't within the supported range. In
particular a data length of 0 is not supported by the hardware and
causes unintended or destructive behaviour.
This limitation becomes obvious when looking at the register
documentation [1]. 4 bits are reserved for DATA_WIDTH and the value
of these 4 bits is used as N + 1, allowing a data length range of
1 <= len <= 16.
Affected by this is the SMBus Quick Operation which works with a data
length of 0. Passing 0 as the length causes an underflow of the value
due to:
(len - 1) & 0xf
and effectively specifying a transfer length of 16 via the registers.
This causes a 16-byte write operation instead of a Quick Write. For
example, on SFP modules without write-protected EEPROM this soft-bricks
them by overwriting some initial bytes.
For completeness, also add a quirk for the zero length.
[1] https://svanheule.net/realtek/longan/register/i2c_mst1_ctrl2
Fixes: c366be720235 ("i2c: Add driver for the RTL9300 I2C controller")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.13+
Signed-off-by: Jonas Jelonek <jelonek.jonas@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Reviewed-by: Chris Packham <chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
Tested-by: Chris Packham <chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz> # On RTL9302C based board
Tested-by: Markus Stockhausen <markus.stockhausen@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250831100457.3114-3-jelonek.jonas@gmail.com
Pull perf event fix from Ingo Molnar:
"Fix regression where PERF_EVENT_IOC_REFRESH counters miss a PMU-stop"
* tag 'perf-urgent-2025-09-07' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf: Fix the POLL_HUP delivery breakage
To avoid a memory leak via mm_alloc() + mmdrop() the futex cleanup code
has been moved to __mmdrop(). This resulted in a warnings if the futex
hash table has been allocated via vmalloc() the mmdrop() was invoked
from atomic context.
The free path must stay in __mmput() to ensure it is invoked from
preemptible context.
In order to avoid the memory leak, delay the allocation of
mm_struct::mm->futex_ref to futex_hash_allocate(). This works because
neither the per-CPU counter nor the private hash has been allocated and
therefore
- futex_private_hash() callers (such as exit_pi_state_list()) don't
acquire reference if there is no private hash yet. There is also no
reference put.
- Regular callers (futex_hash()) fallback to global hash. No reference
counting here.
The futex_ref member can be allocated in futex_hash_allocate() before
the private hash itself is allocated. This happens either while the
first thread is created or on request. In both cases the process has
just a single thread so there can be either futex operation in progress
or the request to create a private hash.
Move futex_hash_free() back to __mmput();
Move the allocation of mm_struct::futex_ref to futex_hash_allocate().
[ bp: Fold a follow-up fix to prevent a use-after-free:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250830213806.sEKuuGSm@linutronix.de ]
Fixes: e703b7e247503 ("futex: Move futex cleanup to __mmdrop()")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250821102721.6deae493@kernel.org/
Reported-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250822141238.PfnkTjFb@linutronix.de
Pull perf fix from Borislav Petkov:
- Fix a case where the events throttling logic operates on inactive
events
* tag 'perf_urgent_for_v6.17_rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf: Avoid undefined behavior from stopping/starting inactive events
i2c-host-fixes for v6.17-rc3
- hisi: update maintainership
- rtl9300: fix several issues in xfer
- check message length boundaries
- correct multi-byte value composition on write
- increase polling timeout
- fix block transfer protocol
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