Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 6.11 merge window.

Merge tag 'v6.9' into next

Sync up with the mainline to bring in the new cleanup API.

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

Work that needs to land in drm-intel-gt-next depends on two patches only
present in drm-intel-next, absence of which is causing a merge conflict:

3b918f4

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

Work that needs to land in drm-intel-gt-next depends on two patches only
present in drm-intel-next, absence of which is causing a merge conflict:

3b918f4f0c8b ("drm/i915/pxp: Optimize GET_PARAM:PXP_STATUS")
ac765b7018f6 ("drm/i915/pxp/mtl: intel_pxp_init_hw needs runtime-pm inside pm-complete")

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

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Merge branch 'linus' into smp/core

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

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>

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

Signed-off-by: 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>

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

Sync to v6.6-rc1.

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

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

Forwarding to v6.6-rc1.

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

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-08-28-22-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

- An extensive rework of kexec and crash Kconfig from

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-08-28-22-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

- An extensive rework of kexec and crash Kconfig from Eric DeVolder
("refactor Kconfig to consolidate KEXEC and CRASH options")

- kernel.h slimming work from Andy Shevchenko ("kernel.h: Split out a
couple of macros to args.h")

- gdb feature work from Kuan-Ying Lee ("Add GDB memory helper
commands")

- vsprintf inclusion rationalization from Andy Shevchenko
("lib/vsprintf: Rework header inclusions")

- Switch the handling of kdump from a udev scheme to in-kernel
handling, by Eric DeVolder ("crash: Kernel handling of CPU and memory
hot un/plug")

- Many singleton patches to various parts of the tree

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-08-28-22-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (81 commits)
document while_each_thread(), change first_tid() to use for_each_thread()
drivers/char/mem.c: shrink character device's devlist[] array
x86/crash: optimize CPU changes
crash: change crash_prepare_elf64_headers() to for_each_possible_cpu()
crash: hotplug support for kexec_load()
x86/crash: add x86 crash hotplug support
crash: memory and CPU hotplug sysfs attributes
kexec: exclude elfcorehdr from the segment digest
crash: add generic infrastructure for crash hotplug support
crash: move a few code bits to setup support of crash hotplug
kstrtox: consistently use _tolower()
kill do_each_thread()
nilfs2: fix WARNING in mark_buffer_dirty due to discarded buffer reuse
scripts/bloat-o-meter: count weak symbol sizes
treewide: drop CONFIG_EMBEDDED
lockdep: fix static memory detection even more
lib/vsprintf: declare no_hash_pointers in sprintf.h
lib/vsprintf: split out sprintf() and friends
kernel/fork: stop playing lockless games for exe_file replacement
adfs: delete unused "union adfs_dirtail" definition
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treewide: drop CONFIG_EMBEDDED

There is only one Kconfig user of CONFIG_EMBEDDED and it can be switched
to EXPERT or "if !ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM" (suggested by Arnd).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20

treewide: drop CONFIG_EMBEDDED

There is only one Kconfig user of CONFIG_EMBEDDED and it can be switched
to EXPERT or "if !ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM" (suggested by Arnd).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230816055010.31534-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com> [RISC-V]
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> [powerpc]
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@kernel.org>
Cc: Brian Cain <bcain@quicinc.com>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi>
Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 5.15 merge window.

Merge tag 'v5.13' into next

Sync up with the mainline to get the latest parport API.

Merge branch 'for-5.14/amd-sfh' into for-linus

- support for Renoir and Cezanne SoCs
- support for Ambient Light Sensor
- support for Human Presence Detection sensor

all from Basavaraj Natikar

Merge tag 'v5.13-rc3' into asoc-5.13

Linux 5.13-rc3

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

Pulling in -rc2 fixes and TTM changes that next upcoming patches depend
on.

Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>

Merge tag 'v5.13-rc2' into spi-5.13

Linux 5.13-rc2

Merge branch 'fixes-rc1' into fixes

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

Time to get back in sync...

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

Merge tag 'kvmarm-fixes-5.13-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD

KVM/arm64 fixes for 5.13, take #1

- Fix regression with irqbypass not restarting the guest o

Merge tag 'kvmarm-fixes-5.13-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD

KVM/arm64 fixes for 5.13, take #1

- Fix regression with irqbypass not restarting the guest on failed connect
- Fix regression with debug register decoding resulting in overlapping access
- Commit exception state on exit to usrspace
- Fix the MMU notifier return values
- Add missing 'static' qualifiers in the new host stage-2 code

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

Backmerging to get v5.12 fixes. Requested for vmwgfx.

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

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

Start this new release drm-misc-fixes branch

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

Merge branch 'master' into next

Merge master back into next, this allows us to resolve some conflicts in
arch/powerpc/Kconfig, and also re-sort the symbols under config PPC so
that they are in alpha

Merge branch 'master' into next

Merge master back into next, this allows us to resolve some conflicts in
arch/powerpc/Kconfig, and also re-sort the symbols under config PPC so
that they are in alphabetical order again.

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Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge yet more updates from Andrew Morton:
"This is everything else from -mm for this merge window.

90 patches.

Subsystems affected by this patch ser

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge yet more updates from Andrew Morton:
"This is everything else from -mm for this merge window.

90 patches.

Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (cleanups and slub),
alpha, procfs, sysctl, misc, core-kernel, bitmap, lib, compat,
checkpatch, epoll, isofs, nilfs2, hpfs, exit, fork, kexec, gcov,
panic, delayacct, gdb, resource, selftests, async, initramfs, ipc,
drivers/char, and spelling"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (90 commits)
mm: fix typos in comments
mm: fix typos in comments
treewide: remove editor modelines and cruft
ipc/sem.c: spelling fix
fs: fat: fix spelling typo of values
kernel/sys.c: fix typo
kernel/up.c: fix typo
kernel/user_namespace.c: fix typos
kernel/umh.c: fix some spelling mistakes
include/linux/pgtable.h: few spelling fixes
mm/slab.c: fix spelling mistake "disired" -> "desired"
scripts/spelling.txt: add "overflw"
scripts/spelling.txt: Add "diabled" typo
scripts/spelling.txt: add "overlfow"
arm: print alloc free paths for address in registers
mm/vmalloc: remove vwrite()
mm: remove xlate_dev_kmem_ptr()
drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good
mm: fix some typos and code style problems
ipc/sem.c: mundane typo fixes
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drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good

Patch series "drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good".

Exploring /dev/kmem and /dev/mem in the context of memory hot(un)plug and
memory ballooning, I starte

drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good

Patch series "drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good".

Exploring /dev/kmem and /dev/mem in the context of memory hot(un)plug and
memory ballooning, I started questioning the existence of /dev/kmem.

Comparing it with the /proc/kcore implementation, it does not seem to be
able to deal with things like

a) Pages unmapped from the direct mapping (e.g., to be used by secretmem)
-> kern_addr_valid(). virt_addr_valid() is not sufficient.

b) Special cases like gart aperture memory that is not to be touched
-> mem_pfn_is_ram()

Unless I am missing something, it's at least broken in some cases and might
fault/crash the machine.

Looks like its existence has been questioned before in 2005 and 2010 [1],
after ~11 additional years, it might make sense to revive the discussion.

CONFIG_DEVKMEM is only enabled in a single defconfig (on purpose or by
mistake?). All distributions disable it: in Ubuntu it has been disabled
for more than 10 years, in Debian since 2.6.31, in Fedora at least
starting with FC3, in RHEL starting with RHEL4, in SUSE starting from
15sp2, and OpenSUSE has it disabled as well.

1) /dev/kmem was popular for rootkits [2] before it got disabled
basically everywhere. Ubuntu documents [3] "There is no modern user of
/dev/kmem any more beyond attackers using it to load kernel rootkits.".
RHEL documents in a BZ [5] "it served no practical purpose other than to
serve as a potential security problem or to enable binary module drivers
to access structures/functions they shouldn't be touching"

2) /proc/kcore is a decent interface to have a controlled way to read
kernel memory for debugging puposes. (will need some extensions to
deal with memory offlining/unplug, memory ballooning, and poisoned
pages, though)

3) It might be useful for corner case debugging [1]. KDB/KGDB might be a
better fit, especially, to write random memory; harder to shoot
yourself into the foot.

4) "Kernel Memory Editor" [4] hasn't seen any updates since 2000 and seems
to be incompatible with 64bit [1]. For educational purposes,
/proc/kcore might be used to monitor value updates -- or older
kernels can be used.

5) It's broken on arm64, and therefore, completely disabled there.

Looks like it's essentially unused and has been replaced by better
suited interfaces for individual tasks (/proc/kcore, KDB/KGDB). Let's
just remove it.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/147901/
[2] https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10505
[3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features#A.2Fdev.2Fkmem_disabled
[4] https://sourceforge.net/projects/kme/
[5] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=154796

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210324102351.6932-1-david@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210324102351.6932-2-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@al2klimov.de>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Andrey Zhizhikin <andrey.zhizhikin@leica-geosystems.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Brian Cain <bcain@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Corentin Labbe <clabbe@baylibre.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Greentime Hu <green.hu@gmail.com>
Cc: Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@bootlin.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: James Troup <james.troup@canonical.com>
Cc: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@redhat.com>
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Cc: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>
Cc: Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau@arm.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Cc: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@sonymobile.com>
Cc: openrisc@lists.librecores.org
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "Pavel Machek (CIP)" <pavel@denx.de>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Pierre Morel <pmorel@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Cc: Theodore Dubois <tblodt@icloud.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Cc: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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