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Linus Torvalds daa22f5a78 Modules changes for v6.6-rc1 
Summary of the changes worth highlighting from most interesting to boring below:
 
   * Christoph Hellwig's symbol_get() fix to Nvidia's efforts to circumvent the
     protection he put in place in year 2020 to prevent proprietary modules from
     using GPL only symbols, and also ensuring proprietary modules which export
     symbols grandfather their taint. That was done through year 2020 commit
     262e6ae708 ("modules: inherit TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE"). Christoph's new
     fix is done by clarifing __symbol_get() was only ever intended to prevent
     module reference loops by Linux kernel modules and so making it only find
     symbols exported via EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(). The circumvention tactic used
     by Nvidia was to use symbol_get() to purposely swift through proprietary
     module symbols and completley bypass our traditional EXPORT_SYMBOL*()
     annotations and community agreed upon restrictions.
 
     A small set of preamble patches fix up a few symbols which just needed
     adjusting for this on two modules, the rtc ds1685 and the networking enetc
     module. Two other modules just needed some build fixing and removal of use
     of __symbol_get() as they can't ever be modular, as was done by Arnd on
     the ARM pxa module and Christoph did on the mmc au1xmmc driver.
 
     This is a good reminder to us that symbol_get() is just a hack to address
     things which should be fixed through Kconfig at build time as was done in
     the later patches, and so ultimately it should just go.
 
   * Extremely late minor fix for old module layout 055f23b74b ("module: check
     for exit sections in layout_sections() instead of module_init_section()") by
     James Morse for arm64. Note that this layout thing is old, it is *not*
     Song Liu's commit ac3b432839 ("module: replace module_layout with
     module_memory"). The issue however is very odd to run into and so there was
     no hurry to get this in fast.
 
   * Although the fix did not go through the modules tree I'd like to highlight
     the fix by Peter Zijlstra in commit 5409730962 ("x86/static_call: Fix
     __static_call_fixup()") now merged in your tree which came out of what
     was originally suspected to be a fallout of the the newer module layout
     changes by Song Liu commit ac3b432839 ("module: replace module_layout
     with module_memory") instead of module_init_section()"). Thanks to the report
     by Christian Bricart and the debugging by Song Liu & Peter that turned to
     be noted as a kernel regression in place since v5.19 through commit
     ee88d363d1 ("x86,static_call: Use alternative RET encoding").
 
     I highlight this to reflect and clarify that we haven't seen more fallout
     from ac3b432839 ("module: replace module_layout with module_memory").
 
   * RISC-V toolchain got mapping symbol support which prefix symbols with "$"
     to help with alignment considerations for disassembly. This is used to
     differentiate between incompatible instruction encodings when disassembling.
     RISC-V just matches what ARM/AARCH64 did for alignment considerations and
     Palmer Dabbelt extended is_mapping_symbol() to accept these symbols for
     RISC-V. We already had support for this for all architectures but it also
     checked for the second character, the RISC-V check Dabbelt added was just
     for the "$". After a bit of testing and fallout on linux-next and based on
     feedback from Masahiro Yamada it was decided to simplify the check and treat
     the first char "$" as unique for all architectures, and so we no make
     is_mapping_symbol() for all archs if the symbol starts with "$".
 
     The most relevant commit for this for RISC-V on binutils was:
 
     https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2021-July/117350.html
 
   * A late fix by Andrea Righi (today) to make module zstd decompression use
     vmalloc() instead of kmalloc() to account for large compressed modules. I
     suspect we'll see similar things for other decompression algorithms soon.
 
   * samples/hw_breakpoint minor fixes by Rong Tao, Arnd Bergmann and Chen Jiahao
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Merge tag 'modules-6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux

Pull modules updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "Summary of the changes worth highlighting from most interesting to
  boring below:

   - Christoph Hellwig's symbol_get() fix to Nvidia's efforts to
     circumvent the protection he put in place in year 2020 to prevent
     proprietary modules from using GPL only symbols, and also ensuring
     proprietary modules which export symbols grandfather their taint.

     That was done through year 2020 commit 262e6ae708 ("modules:
     inherit TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE"). Christoph's new fix is done by
     clarifing __symbol_get() was only ever intended to prevent module
     reference loops by Linux kernel modules and so making it only find
     symbols exported via EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(). The circumvention tactic
     used by Nvidia was to use symbol_get() to purposely swift through
     proprietary module symbols and completely bypass our traditional
     EXPORT_SYMBOL*() annotations and community agreed upon
     restrictions.

     A small set of preamble patches fix up a few symbols which just
     needed adjusting for this on two modules, the rtc ds1685 and the
     networking enetc module. Two other modules just needed some build
     fixing and removal of use of __symbol_get() as they can't ever be
     modular, as was done by Arnd on the ARM pxa module and Christoph
     did on the mmc au1xmmc driver.

     This is a good reminder to us that symbol_get() is just a hack to
     address things which should be fixed through Kconfig at build time
     as was done in the later patches, and so ultimately it should just
     go.

   - Extremely late minor fix for old module layout 055f23b74b
     ("module: check for exit sections in layout_sections() instead of
     module_init_section()") by James Morse for arm64. Note that this
     layout thing is old, it is *not* Song Liu's commit ac3b432839
     ("module: replace module_layout with module_memory"). The issue
     however is very odd to run into and so there was no hurry to get
     this in fast.

   - Although the fix did not go through the modules tree I'd like to
     highlight the fix by Peter Zijlstra in commit 5409730962
     ("x86/static_call: Fix __static_call_fixup()") now merged in your
     tree which came out of what was originally suspected to be a
     fallout of the the newer module layout changes by Song Liu commit
     ac3b432839 ("module: replace module_layout with module_memory")
     instead of module_init_section()"). Thanks to the report by
     Christian Bricart and the debugging by Song Liu & Peter that turned
     to be noted as a kernel regression in place since v5.19 through
     commit ee88d363d1 ("x86,static_call: Use alternative RET
     encoding").

     I highlight this to reflect and clarify that we haven't seen more
     fallout from ac3b432839 ("module: replace module_layout with
     module_memory").

   - RISC-V toolchain got mapping symbol support which prefix symbols
     with "$" to help with alignment considerations for disassembly.

     This is used to differentiate between incompatible instruction
     encodings when disassembling. RISC-V just matches what ARM/AARCH64
     did for alignment considerations and Palmer Dabbelt extended
     is_mapping_symbol() to accept these symbols for RISC-V. We already
     had support for this for all architectures but it also checked for
     the second character, the RISC-V check Dabbelt added was just for
     the "$". After a bit of testing and fallout on linux-next and based
     on feedback from Masahiro Yamada it was decided to simplify the
     check and treat the first char "$" as unique for all architectures,
     and so we no make is_mapping_symbol() for all archs if the symbol
     starts with "$".

     The most relevant commit for this for RISC-V on binutils was:

       https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2021-July/117350.html

   - A late fix by Andrea Righi (today) to make module zstd
     decompression use vmalloc() instead of kmalloc() to account for
     large compressed modules. I suspect we'll see similar things for
     other decompression algorithms soon.

   - samples/hw_breakpoint minor fixes by Rong Tao, Arnd Bergmann and
     Chen Jiahao"

* tag 'modules-6.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux:
  module/decompress: use vmalloc() for zstd decompression workspace
  kallsyms: Add more debug output for selftest
  ARM: module: Use module_init_layout_section() to spot init sections
  arm64: module: Use module_init_layout_section() to spot init sections
  module: Expose module_init_layout_section()
  modules: only allow symbol_get of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL modules
  rtc: ds1685: use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for ds1685_rtc_poweroff
  net: enetc: use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for enetc_phc_index
  mmc: au1xmmc: force non-modular build and remove symbol_get usage
  ARM: pxa: remove use of symbol_get()
  samples/hw_breakpoint: mark sample_hbp as static
  samples/hw_breakpoint: fix building without module unloading
  samples/hw_breakpoint: Fix kernel BUG 'invalid opcode: 0000'
  modpost, kallsyms: Treat add '$'-prefixed symbols as mapping symbols
  kernel: params: Remove unnecessary ‘0’ values from err
  module: Ignore RISC-V mapping symbols too
2023-08-29 17:32:32 -07:00
arch Modules changes for v6.6-rc1 2023-08-29 17:32:32 -07:00
block v6.6-vfs.super 2023-08-28 11:04:18 -07:00
certs certs: Reference revocation list for all keyrings 2023-08-17 20:12:41 +00:00
crypto This update includes the following changes: 2023-08-29 11:23:29 -07:00
Documentation - An extensive rework of kexec and crash Kconfig from Eric DeVolder 2023-08-29 14:53:51 -07:00
drivers Modules changes for v6.6-rc1 2023-08-29 17:32:32 -07:00
fs - An extensive rework of kexec and crash Kconfig from Eric DeVolder 2023-08-29 14:53:51 -07:00
include Modules changes for v6.6-rc1 2023-08-29 17:32:32 -07:00
init - An extensive rework of kexec and crash Kconfig from Eric DeVolder 2023-08-29 14:53:51 -07:00
io_uring - Some swap cleanups from Ma Wupeng ("fix WARN_ON in add_to_avail_list") 2023-08-29 14:25:26 -07:00
ipc - An extensive rework of kexec and crash Kconfig from Eric DeVolder 2023-08-29 14:53:51 -07:00
kernel Modules changes for v6.6-rc1 2023-08-29 17:32:32 -07:00
lib - An extensive rework of kexec and crash Kconfig from Eric DeVolder 2023-08-29 14:53:51 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm - An extensive rework of kexec and crash Kconfig from Eric DeVolder 2023-08-29 14:53:51 -07:00
net - Some swap cleanups from Ma Wupeng ("fix WARN_ON in add_to_avail_list") 2023-08-29 14:25:26 -07:00
rust Rust changes for v6.6 2023-08-29 08:19:46 -07:00
samples Modules changes for v6.6-rc1 2023-08-29 17:32:32 -07:00
scripts - An extensive rework of kexec and crash Kconfig from Eric DeVolder 2023-08-29 14:53:51 -07:00
security - Some swap cleanups from Ma Wupeng ("fix WARN_ON in add_to_avail_list") 2023-08-29 14:25:26 -07:00
sound regmap: Updates for v6.6 2023-08-29 09:26:04 -07:00
tools - An extensive rework of kexec and crash Kconfig from Eric DeVolder 2023-08-29 14:53:51 -07:00
usr initramfs: Encode dependency on KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP 2023-06-06 17:54:49 +09:00
virt kvm: explicitly set FOLL_HONOR_NUMA_FAULT in hva_to_pfn_slow() 2023-08-21 14:28:41 -07:00
.clang-format iommu: Add for_each_group_device() 2023-05-23 08:15:51 +02:00
.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore Revert ".gitignore: ignore *.cover and *.mbx" 2023-07-04 15:05:12 -07:00
.mailmap mailmap: add entries for Simon Horman 2023-08-16 09:53:10 +01:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS - Address -Wmissing-prototype warnings 2023-06-26 16:43:54 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS - Some swap cleanups from Ma Wupeng ("fix WARN_ON in add_to_avail_list") 2023-08-29 14:25:26 -07:00
Makefile Rust changes for v6.6 2023-08-29 08:19:46 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.