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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/sparc/kernel/chmc.c, branch linux-rolling-stable</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Get rid of 'remove_new' relic from platform driver struct</title>
<updated>2024-12-01T23:12:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-01T23:12:43+00:00</published>
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The continual trickle of small conversion patches is grating on me, and
is really not helping.  Just get rid of the 'remove_new' member
function, which is just an alias for the plain 'remove', and had a
comment to that effect:

  /*
   * .remove_new() is a relic from a prototype conversion of .remove().
   * New drivers are supposed to implement .remove(). Once all drivers are
   * converted to not use .remove_new any more, it will be dropped.
   */

This was just a tree-wide 'sed' script that replaced '.remove_new' with
'.remove', with some care taken to turn a subsequent tab into two tabs
to make things line up.

I did do some minimal manual whitespace adjustment for places that used
spaces to line things up.

Then I just removed the old (sic) .remove_new member function, and this
is the end result.  No more unnecessary conversion noise.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The continual trickle of small conversion patches is grating on me, and
is really not helping.  Just get rid of the 'remove_new' member
function, which is just an alias for the plain 'remove', and had a
comment to that effect:

  /*
   * .remove_new() is a relic from a prototype conversion of .remove().
   * New drivers are supposed to implement .remove(). Once all drivers are
   * converted to not use .remove_new any more, it will be dropped.
   */

This was just a tree-wide 'sed' script that replaced '.remove_new' with
'.remove', with some care taken to turn a subsequent tab into two tabs
to make things line up.

I did do some minimal manual whitespace adjustment for places that used
spaces to line things up.

Then I just removed the old (sic) .remove_new member function, and this
is the end result.  No more unnecessary conversion noise.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sparc: chmc: Convert to platform remove callback returning void</title>
<updated>2024-04-22T14:51:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Uwe Kleine-König</name>
<email>u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-10T13:35:07+00:00</published>
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The .remove() callback for a platform driver returns an int which makes
many driver authors wrongly assume it's possible to do error handling by
returning an error code. However the value returned is ignored (apart
from emitting a warning) and this typically results in resource leaks.

To improve here there is a quest to make the remove callback return
void. In the first step of this quest all drivers are converted to
.remove_new(), which already returns void. Eventually after all drivers
are converted, .remove_new() will be renamed to .remove().

Trivially convert this driver from always returning zero in the remove
callback to the void returning variant.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9fbd788bbca4efd2f596e3c56d045db450756c80.1712755381.git.u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
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The .remove() callback for a platform driver returns an int which makes
many driver authors wrongly assume it's possible to do error handling by
returning an error code. However the value returned is ignored (apart
from emitting a warning) and this typically results in resource leaks.

To improve here there is a quest to make the remove callback return
void. In the first step of this quest all drivers are converted to
.remove_new(), which already returns void. Eventually after all drivers
are converted, .remove_new() will be renamed to .remove().

Trivially convert this driver from always returning zero in the remove
callback to the void returning variant.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9fbd788bbca4efd2f596e3c56d045db450756c80.1712755381.git.u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Andreas Larsson &lt;andreas@gaisler.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Normalise "name (ad@dr)" MODULE_AUTHORs to "name &lt;ad@dr&gt;"</title>
<updated>2024-03-06T21:07:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ahelenia Ziemiańska</name>
<email>nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-13T14:54:04+00:00</published>
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Found with git grep 'MODULE_AUTHOR(".*([^)]*@'
Fixed with
  sed -i '/MODULE_AUTHOR(".*([^)]*@/{s/ (/ &lt;/g;s/)"/&gt;"/;s/)and/&gt; and/}' \
    $(git grep -l 'MODULE_AUTHOR(".*([^)]*@')

Also:
  in drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c normalise ", INC" to ", Inc";
     this is what every other MODULE_AUTHOR for this company says,
     and it's what the header says
  in drivers/sbus/char/openprom.c normalise a double-spaced separator;
     this is clearly copied from the copyright header,
     where the names are aligned on consecutive lines thusly:
      * Linux/SPARC PROM Configuration Driver
      * Copyright (C) 1996 Thomas K. Dyas (tdyas@noc.rutgers.edu)
      * Copyright (C) 1996 Eddie C. Dost  (ecd@skynet.be)
     but the authorship branding is single-line

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/mk3geln4azm5binjjlfsgjepow4o73domjv6ajybws3tz22vb3@tarta.nabijaczleweli.xyz
Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska &lt;nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Found with git grep 'MODULE_AUTHOR(".*([^)]*@'
Fixed with
  sed -i '/MODULE_AUTHOR(".*([^)]*@/{s/ (/ &lt;/g;s/)"/&gt;"/;s/)and/&gt; and/}' \
    $(git grep -l 'MODULE_AUTHOR(".*([^)]*@')

Also:
  in drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c normalise ", INC" to ", Inc";
     this is what every other MODULE_AUTHOR for this company says,
     and it's what the header says
  in drivers/sbus/char/openprom.c normalise a double-spaced separator;
     this is clearly copied from the copyright header,
     where the names are aligned on consecutive lines thusly:
      * Linux/SPARC PROM Configuration Driver
      * Copyright (C) 1996 Thomas K. Dyas (tdyas@noc.rutgers.edu)
      * Copyright (C) 1996 Eddie C. Dost  (ecd@skynet.be)
     but the authorship branding is single-line

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/mk3geln4azm5binjjlfsgjepow4o73domjv6ajybws3tz22vb3@tarta.nabijaczleweli.xyz
Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska &lt;nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sparc: Explicitly include correct DT includes</title>
<updated>2023-08-28T18:30:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rob Herring</name>
<email>robh@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-18T20:45:20+00:00</published>
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The DT of_device.h and of_platform.h date back to the separate
of_platform_bus_type before it was merged into the regular platform bus.
As part of that merge prepping Arm DT support 13 years ago, they
"temporarily" include each other. They also include platform_device.h
and of.h. As a result, there's a pretty much random mix of those include
files used throughout the tree. In order to detangle these headers and
replace the implicit includes with struct declarations, users need to
explicitly include the correct includes.

Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230718143211.1066810-1-robh@kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
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The DT of_device.h and of_platform.h date back to the separate
of_platform_bus_type before it was merged into the regular platform bus.
As part of that merge prepping Arm DT support 13 years ago, they
"temporarily" include each other. They also include platform_device.h
and of.h. As a result, there's a pretty much random mix of those include
files used throughout the tree. In order to detangle these headers and
replace the implicit includes with struct declarations, users need to
explicitly include the correct includes.

Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230718143211.1066810-1-robh@kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for more missed files</title>
<updated>2019-05-21T08:50:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-19T12:08:20+00:00</published>
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Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which:

 - Have no license information of any form

 - Have MODULE_LICENCE("GPL*") inside which was used in the initial
   scan/conversion to ignore the file

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

  GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which:

 - Have no license information of any form

 - Have MODULE_LICENCE("GPL*") inside which was used in the initial
   scan/conversion to ignore the file

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

  GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sparc: Convert to using %pOF instead of full_name</title>
<updated>2018-11-18T21:35:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rob Herring</name>
<email>robh@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-16T21:06:54+00:00</published>
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Now that we have a custom printf format specifier, convert users of
full_name to use %pOF instead. This is preparation to remove storing
of the full path string for each node.

Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Now that we have a custom printf format specifier, convert users of
full_name to use %pOF instead. This is preparation to remove storing
of the full path string for each node.

Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sparc: kernel: drop owner assignment from platform_drivers</title>
<updated>2014-10-20T14:20:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wolfram Sang</name>
<email>wsa@the-dreams.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-20T14:20:15+00:00</published>
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A platform_driver does not need to set an owner, it will be populated by the
driver core.

Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang &lt;wsa@the-dreams.de&gt;
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A platform_driver does not need to set an owner, it will be populated by the
driver core.

Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang &lt;wsa@the-dreams.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>SPARC: drivers: remove __dev* attributes.</title>
<updated>2013-01-03T23:57:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-21T22:03:26+00:00</published>
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CONFIG_HOTPLUG is going away as an option.  As a result, the __dev*
markings need to be removed.

This change removes the use of __devinit, __devexit_p, __devinitdata,
and __devexit from these drivers.

Based on patches originally written by Bill Pemberton, but redone by me
in order to handle some of the coding style issues better, by hand.

Cc: Bill Pemberton &lt;wfp5p@virginia.edu&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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CONFIG_HOTPLUG is going away as an option.  As a result, the __dev*
markings need to be removed.

This change removes the use of __devinit, __devexit_p, __devinitdata,
and __devexit from these drivers.

Based on patches originally written by Bill Pemberton, but redone by me
in order to handle some of the coding style issues better, by hand.

Cc: Bill Pemberton &lt;wfp5p@virginia.edu&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
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