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Pull clk fixes from Stephen Boyd:
"Fixes to the Allwinner and Renesas clk drivers:
- Do the math properly in Allwinner's ccu_mp_recalc_rate() so clk
rates aren't bogus
- Fix a clock domain regression on Renesas R-Car M1A, R-Car H1,
and RZ/A1 by registering the domain after the pmdomain bus is
registered instead of before"
* tag 'clk-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/clk/linux:
clk: sunxi-ng: mp: Fix dual-divider clock rate readback
clk: renesas: mstp: Add genpd OF provider at postcore_initcall()
Pull a few more btrfs fixes from David Sterba:
- in tree-checker, fix wrong size of check for inode ref item
- in ref-verify, handle combination of mount options that allow
partially damaged extent tree (reported by syzbot)
- additional validation of compression mount option to catch invalid
string as level
* tag 'for-6.17-rc6-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux:
btrfs: reject invalid compression level
btrfs: ref-verify: handle damaged extent root tree
btrfs: tree-checker: fix the incorrect inode ref size check
Pull an Allwinner clk driver fix from Chen-Yu Tsai:
- One fix for the clock rate readback on the recently added dual
divider clocks
* tag 'sunxi-clk-fixes-for-6.17' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sunxi/linux:
clk: sunxi-ng: mp: Fix dual-divider clock rate readback
Pull SCSI fix from James Bottomley:
"One driver fix for a dma error checking thinko"
* tag 'scsi-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi:
scsi: ufs: mcq: Fix memory allocation checks for SQE and CQE
Inspired by recent changes to compression level parsing in
6db1df415d73fc ("btrfs: accept and ignore compression level for lzo")
it turns out that we do not do any extra validation for compression
level input string, thus allowing things like "compress=lzo:invalid" to
be accepted without warnings.
Although we accept levels that are beyond the supported algorithm
ranges, accepting completely invalid level specification is not correct.
Fix the too loose checks for compression level, by doing proper error
handling of kstrtoint(), so that we will reject not only too large
values (beyond int range) but also completely wrong levels like
"lzo:invalid".
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Pull a Renesas clk driver fix from Geert Uytterhoeven:
- Fix a Clock Domain regression on R-Car M1A, R-Car H1, and RZ/A1
* tag 'renesas-clk-fixes-for-v6.17-tag1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/renesas-drivers:
clk: renesas: mstp: Add genpd OF provider at postcore_initcall()
When dual-divider clock support was introduced, the P divider offset was
left out of the .recalc_rate readback function. This causes the clock
rate to become bogus or even zero (possibly due to the P divider being
1, leading to a divide-by-zero).
Fix this by incorporating the P divider offset into the calculation.
Fixes: 45717804b75e ("clk: sunxi-ng: mp: introduce dual-divider clock")
Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250830170901.1996227-4-wens@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>
Pull firewire fix from Takashi Sakamoto:
"When new structures and events were added to UAPI in v6.5 kernel, the
required update to the subsystem ABI version returned to userspace
client was overlooked. The version is now updated"
* tag 'firewire-fixes-6.17-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394:
firewire: core: fix overlooked update of subsystem ABI version
Previous checks incorrectly tested the DMA addresses (dma_handle) for
NULL. Since dma_alloc_coherent() returns the CPU (virtual) address, the
NULL check should be performed on the *_base_addr pointer to correctly
detect allocation failures.
Update the checks to validate sqe_base_addr and cqe_base_addr instead of
sqe_dma_addr and cqe_dma_addr.
Fixes: 4682abfae2eb ("scsi: ufs: core: mcq: Allocate memory for MCQ mode")
Signed-off-by: Alok Tiwari <alok.a.tiwari@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Alim Akhtar <alim.akhtar@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Wang <peter.wang@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Syzbot hits a problem with enabled ref-verify, ignorebadroots and a
fuzzed/damaged extent tree. There's no fallback option like in other
places that can deal with it so disable the whole ref-verify as it is
just a debugging feature.
Reported-by: syzbot+9c3e0cdfbfe351b0bc0e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/0000000000001b6052062139be1c@google.com/
Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Genpd OF providers must now be registered after genpd bus registration.
However, cpg_mstp_add_clk_domain() is only called from CLK_OF_DECLARE(),
which is too early. Hence on R-Car M1A, R-Car H1, and RZ/A1, the
CPG/MSTP Clock Domain fails to register, and any devices residing in
that clock domain fail to probe.
Fix this by splitting initialization into two steps:
- The first part keeps on registering the PM domain with genpd at
CLK_OF_DECLARE(),
- The second and new part moves the registration of the genpd OF
provider to a postcore_initcall().
See also commit c5ae5a0c61120d0c ("pmdomain: renesas: rcar-sysc: Add
genpd OF provider at postcore_initcall").
Fixes: 18a3a510ecfd0e50 ("pmdomain: core: Add the genpd->dev to the genpd provider bus")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Reviewed-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/81ef5f8d5d31374b7852b05453c52d2f735062a2.1755073087.git.geert+renesas@glider.be
Pull x86 fix from Ingo Molnar:
"Fix a SEV-SNP regression when CONFIG_KVM_AMD_SEV is disabled"
* tag 'x86-urgent-2025-09-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/sev: Guard sev_evict_cache() with CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT
In kernel v6.5, several functions were added to the cdev layer. This
required updating the default version of subsystem ABI up to 6, but
this requirement was overlooked.
This commit updates the version accordingly.
Fixes: 6add87e9764d ("firewire: cdev: add new version of ABI to notify time stamp at request/response subaction of transaction#")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250920025148.163402-1-o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp
Signed-off-by: Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>
Reinstate the rotational media flag for the CD-ROM driver. The flag has
been cleared since commit bd4a633b6f7c ("block: move the nonrot flag to
queue_limits") and this breaks some applications.
Move queue limit configuration from get_sectorsize() to
sr_revalidate_disk() and set the rotational flag.
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Fixes: bd4a633b6f7c ("block: move the nonrot flag to queue_limits")
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250827113550.2614535-1-ming.lei@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
[BUG]
Inside check_inode_ref(), we need to make sure every structure,
including the btrfs_inode_extref header, is covered by the item. But
our code is incorrectly using "sizeof(iref)", where @iref is just a
pointer.
This means "sizeof(iref)" will always be "sizeof(void *)", which is much
smaller than "sizeof(struct btrfs_inode_extref)".
This will allow some bad inode extrefs to sneak in, defeating tree-checker.
[FIX]
Fix the typo by calling "sizeof(*iref)", which is the same as
"sizeof(struct btrfs_inode_extref)", and will be the correct behavior we
want.
Fixes: 71bf92a9b877 ("btrfs: tree-checker: Add check for INODE_REF")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.1+
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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