[merged mm-nonmm-stable] kernelh-move-verify_octal_permissions-to-sysfsh.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged mm-nonmm-stable] kernelh-move-verify_octal_permissions-to-sysfsh.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: kernel.h: move VERIFY_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS() to sysfs.h
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     kernelh-move-verify_octal_permissions-to-sysfsh.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-nonmm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Yury Norov <ynorov@nvidia.com>
Subject: kernel.h: move VERIFY_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS() to sysfs.h
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 23:25:06 -0500

The macro is related to sysfs, but is defined in kernel.h.  Move it to the
proper header, and unload the generic kernel.h.

Now that the macro is removed from kernel.h, linux/moduleparam.h is
decoupled, and kernel.h inclusion can be removed.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260116042510.241009-4-ynorov@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <ynorov@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Cc: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
Cc: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) <chleroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst |    2 +-
 include/linux/kernel.h              |   12 ------------
 include/linux/moduleparam.h         |    2 +-
 include/linux/sysfs.h               |   13 +++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

--- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst~kernelh-move-verify_octal_permissions-to-sysfsh
+++ a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.rst
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ is equivalent to doing::
 	    .store = store_foo,
     };
 
-Note as stated in include/linux/kernel.h "OTHER_WRITABLE?  Generally
+Note as stated in include/linux/sysfs.h "OTHER_WRITABLE?  Generally
 considered a bad idea." so trying to set a sysfs file writable for
 everyone will fail reverting to RO mode for "Others".
 
--- a/include/linux/kernel.h~kernelh-move-verify_octal_permissions-to-sysfsh
+++ a/include/linux/kernel.h
@@ -388,16 +388,4 @@ static inline void ftrace_dump(enum ftra
 # define REBUILD_DUE_TO_DYNAMIC_FTRACE
 #endif
 
-/* Permissions on a sysfs file: you didn't miss the 0 prefix did you? */
-#define VERIFY_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS(perms)						\
-	(BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO((perms) < 0) +					\
-	 BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO((perms) > 0777) +					\
-	 /* USER_READABLE >= GROUP_READABLE >= OTHER_READABLE */		\
-	 BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO((((perms) >> 6) & 4) < (((perms) >> 3) & 4)) +	\
-	 BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO((((perms) >> 3) & 4) < ((perms) & 4)) +		\
-	 /* USER_WRITABLE >= GROUP_WRITABLE */					\
-	 BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO((((perms) >> 6) & 2) < (((perms) >> 3) & 2)) +	\
-	 /* OTHER_WRITABLE?  Generally considered a bad idea. */		\
-	 BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO((perms) & 2) +					\
-	 (perms))
 #endif
--- a/include/linux/moduleparam.h~kernelh-move-verify_octal_permissions-to-sysfsh
+++ a/include/linux/moduleparam.h
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 #include <linux/compiler.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/stringify.h>
-#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/sysfs.h>
 #include <linux/types.h>
 
 /*
--- a/include/linux/sysfs.h~kernelh-move-verify_octal_permissions-to-sysfsh
+++ a/include/linux/sysfs.h
@@ -808,4 +808,17 @@ static inline void sysfs_put(struct kern
 	kernfs_put(kn);
 }
 
+/* Permissions on a sysfs file: you didn't miss the 0 prefix did you? */
+#define VERIFY_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS(perms)						\
+	(BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO((perms) < 0) +					\
+	 BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO((perms) > 0777) +					\
+	 /* USER_READABLE >= GROUP_READABLE >= OTHER_READABLE */		\
+	 BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO((((perms) >> 6) & 4) < (((perms) >> 3) & 4)) +	\
+	 BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO((((perms) >> 3) & 4) < ((perms) & 4)) +		\
+	 /* USER_WRITABLE >= GROUP_WRITABLE */					\
+	 BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO((((perms) >> 6) & 2) < (((perms) >> 3) & 2)) +	\
+	 /* OTHER_WRITABLE?  Generally considered a bad idea. */		\
+	 BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO((perms) & 2) +					\
+	 (perms))
+
 #endif /* _SYSFS_H_ */
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from ynorov@nvidia.com are