kernel/git/stable/linux.git/Documentation/userspace-api, branch linux-rolling-lts

media: v4l2-ctrls: Allow unknown HDR10 white point and luminance

2026-09-11T09:49:26+00:00

commit 49af0c7cad889f7dabe5cf080b019392066122a3 upstream. SMPTE ST 2086 defines the nominal ranges for mastering display chromaticity and luminance values. Its Annex A also documents that CTA 861-G uses zero maximum and minimum luminance values to signal that the corresponding values are unknown, and the xy chromaticity coordinate (0, 0) to signal that the white point chromaticity is unknown. The V4L2 HDR10 mastering display compound control currently rejects these values. Consequently, an unknown white point or luminance value prevents the entire compound control from being updated, making the other valid mastering display metadata unavailable to userspace. Accept (0, 0) as an unknown white point and zero as an unknown maximum or minimum mastering luminance. Continue to reject partially zero white point coordinates and non-zero values outside the nominal ranges. Display primary validation remains unchanged. Document the newly accepted unknown values in the V4L2 userspace API. Fixes: 1ad0de78e794 ("media: v4l: Add HDR10 static metadata controls") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ming Qian Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

crypto: qat - remove unused character device and IOCTLs

2026-06-27T10:06:49+00:00

commit d237230728c567297f2f98b425d63156ab2ed17f upstream. The QAT driver exposes a character device (qat_adf_ctl) with IOCTLs for device configuration, start, stop, status query and enumeration. These IOCTLs are not part of any public uAPI header and have no known in-tree or out-of-tree users. Device lifecycle is already managed via sysfs. The ioctl interface also increases the attack surface and is the subject of a number of bug reports. Remove the character device, the IOCTL definitions, and the related data structures (adf_dev_status_info, adf_user_cfg_key_val, adf_user_cfg_section, adf_user_cfg_ctl_data). Drop the now-unused adf_cfg_user.h header and strip adf_ctl_drv.c down to the minimal module_init/module_exit hooks for workqueue, AER, and crypto/compression algorithm registration. Clean up leftover dead code that was only reachable from the removed IOCTL paths: adf_cfg_del_all(), adf_devmgr_verify_id(), adf_devmgr_get_num_dev(), adf_devmgr_get_dev_by_id(), adf_get_vf_real_id() and the unused ADF_CFG macros. Additionally, drop the entry associated to QAT IOCTLs in ioctl-number.rst. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: d8cba25d2c68 ("crypto: qat - Intel(R) QAT driver framework") Reported-by: Zhi Wang Reported-by: Bin Yu Reported-by: MingYu Wang Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/61d6d499.ab89.19b9b7f3186.Coremail.wangzhi_xd@stu.xidian.edu.cn/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260508034841.256794-1-w15303746062@163.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260508023542.256299-1-w15303746062@163.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260504025120.98242-1-w15303746062@163.com/ Signed-off-by: Giovanni Cabiddu Reviewed-by: Ahsan Atta Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

docs: netlink: Couple of intro-specs documentation fixes

2025-11-06T22:50:59+00:00

Fix typo "handul" to "handful" and remove outdated limitation stating only generic netlink is supported (we have netlink-raw). Reviewed-by: Carolina Jubran Signed-off-by: Gal Pressman Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251105192908.686458-1-gal@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Merge tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2025-10-04T00:16:13+00:00

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It has been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, with changes all over: - Bring the kernel memory-model docs into the Sphinx build in the "literal include" mode. - Lots of build-infrastructure work, further cleaning up long-term kernel-doc technical debt. The sphinx-pre-install tool has been converted to Python and updated for current systems. - A new tool to detect when documents have been moved and generate HTML redirects; this can be used on kernel.org (or any other site hosting the rendered docs) to avoid breaking links. - Automated processing of the YAML files describing the netlink protocol. - A significant update of the maintainer's PGP guide. ... and a seemingly endless series of typo fixes, build-problem fixes, etc" * tag 'docs-6.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (193 commits) Documentation/features: Update feature lists for 6.17-rc7 docs: remove cdomain.py Documentation/process: submitting-patches: fix typo in "were do" docs: dev-tools/lkmm: Fix typo of missing file extension Documentation: trace: histogram: Convert ftrace docs cross-reference Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Wrap introductory note in note:: directive Documentation: trace: historgram-design: Separate sched_waking histogram section heading and the following diagram Documentation: trace: histogram-design: Trim trailing vertices in diagram explanation text Documentation: trace: histogram: Fix histogram trigger subsection number order docs: driver-api: fix spelling of "buses". Documentation: fbcon: Use admonition directives Documentation: fbcon: Reindent 8th step of attach/detach/unload Documentation: fbcon: Add boot options and attach/detach/unload section headings docs: filesystems: sysfs: add remaining top level sysfs directory descriptions docs: filesystems: sysfs: clarify symlink destinations in dev and bus/devices descriptions docs: filesystems: sysfs: remove top level sysfs net directory docs: maintainer: Fix ambiguous subheading formatting docs: kdoc: a few more dump_typedef() tweaks docs: kdoc: remove redundant comment stripping in dump_typedef() docs: kdoc: remove some dead code in dump_typedef() ...

Merge tag 'net-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

2025-10-02T22:17:01+00:00

Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni: "Core & protocols: - Improve drop account scalability on NUMA hosts for RAW and UDP sockets and the backlog, almost doubling the Pps capacity under DoS - Optimize the UDP RX performance under stress, reducing contention, revisiting the binary layout of the involved data structs and implementing NUMA-aware locking. This improves UDP RX performance by an additional 50%, even more under extreme conditions - Add support for PSP encryption of TCP connections; this mechanism has some similarities with IPsec and TLS, but offers superior HW offloads capabilities - Ongoing work to support Accurate ECN for TCP. AccECN allows more than one congestion notification signal per RTT and is a building block for Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S) - Reorganize the TCP socket binary layout for data locality, reducing the number of touched cachelines in the fastpath - Refactor skb deferral free to better scale on large multi-NUMA hosts, this improves TCP and UDP RX performances significantly on such HW - Increase the default socket memory buffer limits from 256K to 4M to better fit modern link speeds - Improve handling of setups with a large number of nexthop, making dump operating scaling linearly and avoiding unneeded synchronize_rcu() on delete - Improve bridge handling of VLAN FDB, storing a single entry per bridge instead of one entry per port; this makes the dump order of magnitude faster on large switches - Restore IP ID correctly for encapsulated packets at GSO segmentation time, allowing GRO to merge packets in more scenarios - Improve netfilter matching performance on large sets - Improve MPTCP receive path performance by leveraging recently introduced core infrastructure (skb deferral free) and adopting recent TCP autotuning changes - Allow bridges to redirect to a backup port when the bridge port is administratively down - Introduce MPTCP 'laminar' endpoint that con be used only once per connection and simplify common MPTCP setups - Add RCU safety to dst->dev, closing a lot of possible races - A significant crypto library API for SCTP, MPTCP and IPv6 SR, reducing code duplication - Supports pulling data from an skb frag into the linear area of an XDP buffer Things we sprinkled into general kernel code: - Generate netlink documentation from YAML using an integrated YAML parser Driver API: - Support using IPv6 Flow Label in Rx hash computation and RSS queue selection - Introduce API for fetching the DMA device for a given queue, allowing TCP zerocopy RX on more H/W setups - Make XDP helpers compatible with unreadable memory, allowing more easily building DevMem-enabled drivers with a unified XDP/skbs datapath - Add a new dedicated ethtool callback enabling drivers to provide the number of RX rings directly, improving efficiency and clarity in RX ring queries and RSS configuration - Introduce a burst period for the health reporter, allowing better handling of multiple errors due to the same root cause - Support for DPLL phase offset exponential moving average, controlling the average smoothing factor Device drivers: - Add a new Huawei driver for 3rd gen NIC (hinic3) - Add a new SpacemiT driver for K1 ethernet MAC - Add a generic abstraction for shared memory communication devices (dibps) - Ethernet high-speed NICs: - nVidia/Mellanox: - Use multiple per-queue doorbell, to avoid MMIO contention issues - support adjacent functions, allowing them to delegate their SR-IOV VFs to sibling PFs - support RSS for IPSec offload - support exposing raw cycle counters in PTP and mlx5 - support for disabling host PFs. - Intel (100G, ice, idpf): - ice: support for SRIOV VFs over an Active-Active link aggregate - ice: support for firmware logging via debugfs - ice: support for Earliest TxTime First (ETF) hardware offload - idpf: support basic XDP functionalities and XSk - Broadcom (bnxt): - support Hyper-V VF ID - dynamic SRIOV resource allocations for RoCE - Meta (fbnic): - support queue API, zero-copy Rx and Tx - support basic XDP functionalities - devlink health support for FW crashes and OTP mem corruptions - expand hardware stats coverage to FEC, PHY, and Pause - Wangxun: - support ethtool coalesce options - support for multiple RSS contexts - Ethernet virtual: - Macsec: - replace custom netlink attribute checks with policy-level checks - Bonding: - support aggregator selection based on port priority - Microsoft vNIC: - use page pool fragments for RX buffers instead of full pages to improve memory efficiency - Ethernet NICs consumer, and embedded: - Qualcomm: support Ethernet function for IPQ9574 SoC - Airoha: implement wlan offloading via NPU - Freescale - enetc: add NETC timer PTP driver and add PTP support - fec: enable the Jumbo frame support for i.MX8QM - Renesas (R-Car S4): - support HW offloading for layer 2 switching - support for RZ/{T2H, N2H} SoCs - Cadence (macb): support TAPRIO traffic scheduling - TI: - support for Gigabit ICSS ethernet SoC (icssm-prueth) - Synopsys (stmmac): a lot of cleanups - Ethernet PHYs: - Support 10g-qxgmi phy-mode for AQR412C, Felix DSA and Lynx PCS driver - Support bcm63268 GPHY power control - Support for Micrel lan8842 PHY and PTP - Support for Aquantia AQR412 and AQR115 - CAN: - a large CAN-XL preparation work - reorganize raw_sock and uniqframe struct to minimize memory usage - rcar_canfd: update the CAN-FD handling - WiFi: - extended Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) support - S1G channel representation cleanup - improve S1G support - WiFi drivers: - Intel (iwlwifi): - major refactor and cleanup - Broadcom (brcm80211): - support for AP isolation - RealTek (rtw88/89) rtw88/89: - preparation work for RTL8922DE support - MediaTek (mt76): - HW restart improvements - MLO support - Qualcomm/Atheros (ath10k): - GTK rekey fixes - Bluetooth drivers: - btusb: support for several new IDs for MT7925 - btintel: support for BlazarIW core - btintel_pcie: support for _suspend() / _resume() - btintel_pcie: support for Scorpious, Panther Lake-H484 IDs" * tag 'net-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1536 commits) net: stmmac: Add support for Allwinner A523 GMAC200 dt-bindings: net: sun8i-emac: Add A523 GMAC200 compatible Revert "Documentation: net: add flow control guide and document ethtool API" octeontx2-pf: fix bitmap leak octeontx2-vf: fix bitmap leak net/mlx5e: Use extack in set rxfh callback net/mlx5e: Introduce mlx5e_rss_params for RSS configuration net/mlx5e: Introduce mlx5e_rss_init_params net/mlx5e: Remove unused mdev param from RSS indir init net/mlx5: Improve QoS error messages with actual depth values net/mlx5e: Prevent entering switchdev mode with inconsistent netns net/mlx5: HWS, Generalize complex matchers net/mlx5: Improve write-combining test reliability for ARM64 Grace CPUs selftests/net: add tcp_port_share to .gitignore Revert "net/mlx5e: Update and set Xon/Xoff upon MTU set" net: add NUMA awareness to skb_attempt_defer_free() net: use llist for sd->defer_list net: make softnet_data.defer_count an atomic selftests: drv-net: psp: add tests for destroying devices selftests: drv-net: psp: add test for auto-adjusting TCP MSS ...

Merge tag 'media/v6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media

2025-10-02T20:13:26+00:00

Pull media updates from Mauro Carvalho Chehab: - Added a new V4L2 clock helper - New camera sensor drivers - iris: Enable H.264/H.265 encoder support and fixes in iris driver common code - camss: add support for new SoC flavors - venus: add new SoC support - tc358743: support more infoframe types - Various fixes, driver improvements and cleanups * tag 'media/v6.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (439 commits) media: venus: pm_helpers: add fallback for the opp-table media: qcom: camss: vfe: Fix BPL alignment for QCM2290 media: tuner: xc5000: Fix use-after-free in xc5000_release media: i2c: tc358743: Fix use-after-free bugs caused by orphan timer in probe media: b2c2: Fix use-after-free causing by irq_check_work in flexcop_pci_remove media: vsp1: Export missing vsp1_isp_free_buffer symbol media: renesas: vsp1: Convert to SYSTEM_SLEEP/RUNTIME_PM_OPS() media: renesas: ceu: Convert to RUNTIME_PM_OPS() media: renesas: fdp1: Convert to RUNTIME_PM_OPS() media: renesas: rcar-vin: Convert to DEFINE_SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS() media: renesas: rcar_drif: Convert to DEFINE_SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS() media: uvcvideo: Mark invalid entities with id UVC_INVALID_ENTITY_ID media: uvcvideo: Support UVC_CROSXU_CONTROL_IQ_PROFILE media: uvcvideo: Run uvc_ctrl_init_ctrl for all controls media: uvcvideo: Shorten the transfer size non compliance message media: uvcvideo: Do not re-reference dev->udev media: uvcvideo: Use intf instead of udev for printks media: uvcvideo: Move video_device under video_queue media: uvcvideo: Drop stream->mutex media: uvcvideo: Move MSXU_CONTROL_METADATA definition to header ...

powerpc/pseries: Define papr-hvpipe ioctl

2025-09-15T08:08:39+00:00

PowerPC FW introduced HVPIPE RTAS calls such as ibm,send-hvpipe-msg and ibm,receive-hvpipe-msg for the user space to exchange information with different sources such as Hardware Management Consoles (HMC). HVPIPE_IOC_CREATE_HANDLE is defined to use /dev/papr-hvpipe interface for ibm,send-hvpipe-msg and ibm,receive-hvpipe-msg RTAS calls. Also defined papr_hvpipe_hdr which will added in the payload that is passed between the kernel and the user space. Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni Tested-by: Shashank MS Reviewed-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar Reviewed-by: Tyrel Datwyler Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250909084402.1488456-2-haren@linux.ibm.com

Documentation: update Hans Verkuil's email address

2025-09-09T13:58:51+00:00

Replace hverkuil@xs4all.nl by hverkuil@kernel.org. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab

Documentation: media: update Hans Verkuil's email address

2025-09-09T13:58:35+00:00

Replace hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl by hverkuil@kernel.org. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab

scripts: sphinx-build-wrapper: get rid of uapi/media Makefile

2025-08-29T21:54:43+00:00

Now that kernel-include directive supports parsing data structs directly, we can finally get rid of the horrible hack we added to support parsing media uAPI symbols. As a side effect, Documentation/output doesn't have anymore media auto-generated .rst files on it. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5dbb257a4b283697271c9c7b8f4713857e8191c8.1755872208.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org