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<title>block: relax pgmap check in bio_add_page for compatible zone device pages</title>
<updated>2026-05-07T04:13:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naman Jain</name>
<email>namjain@linux.microsoft.com</email>
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<published>2026-04-10T15:34:14+00:00</published>
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commit 41c665aae2b5dbecddddcc8ace344caf630cc7a4 upstream.

bio_add_page() and bio_integrity_add_page() reject pages from different
dev_pagemaps entirely, returning 0 even when those pages have compatible
DMA mapping requirements. This forces callers to start a new bio when
buffers span pgmap boundaries, even though the pages could safely coexist
as separate bvec entries.

This matters for guests where memory is registered through
devm_memremap_pages() with MEMORY_DEVICE_GENERIC in multiple calls,
creating separate dev_pagemaps for each chunk. When a direct I/O buffer
spans two such chunks, bio_add_page() rejects the second page, forcing an
unnecessary bio split or I/O failure.

Introduce zone_device_pages_compatible() in blk.h to check whether two
pages can coexist in the same bio as separate bvec entries. The block DMA
iterator (blk_dma_map_iter_start) caches the P2PDMA mapping state from the
first segment and applies it to all others, so P2PDMA pages from different
pgmaps must not be mixed, and neither must P2PDMA and non-P2PDMA pages.
All other combinations (MEMORY_DEVICE_GENERIC pages from different pgmaps,
or MEMORY_DEVICE_GENERIC with normal RAM) use the same dma_map_phys path
and are safe.

Replace the blanket zone_device_pages_have_same_pgmap() rejection with
zone_device_pages_compatible(), while keeping
zone_device_pages_have_same_pgmap() as a merge guard.
Pages from different pgmaps can be added as separate bvec entries but
must not be coalesced into the same segment, as that would make
it impossible to recover the correct pgmap via page_pgmap().

Fixes: 49580e690755 ("block: add check when merging zone device pages")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Naman Jain &lt;namjain@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260410153414.4159050-3-namjain@linux.microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 41c665aae2b5dbecddddcc8ace344caf630cc7a4 upstream.

bio_add_page() and bio_integrity_add_page() reject pages from different
dev_pagemaps entirely, returning 0 even when those pages have compatible
DMA mapping requirements. This forces callers to start a new bio when
buffers span pgmap boundaries, even though the pages could safely coexist
as separate bvec entries.

This matters for guests where memory is registered through
devm_memremap_pages() with MEMORY_DEVICE_GENERIC in multiple calls,
creating separate dev_pagemaps for each chunk. When a direct I/O buffer
spans two such chunks, bio_add_page() rejects the second page, forcing an
unnecessary bio split or I/O failure.

Introduce zone_device_pages_compatible() in blk.h to check whether two
pages can coexist in the same bio as separate bvec entries. The block DMA
iterator (blk_dma_map_iter_start) caches the P2PDMA mapping state from the
first segment and applies it to all others, so P2PDMA pages from different
pgmaps must not be mixed, and neither must P2PDMA and non-P2PDMA pages.
All other combinations (MEMORY_DEVICE_GENERIC pages from different pgmaps,
or MEMORY_DEVICE_GENERIC with normal RAM) use the same dma_map_phys path
and are safe.

Replace the blanket zone_device_pages_have_same_pgmap() rejection with
zone_device_pages_compatible(), while keeping
zone_device_pages_have_same_pgmap() as a merge guard.
Pages from different pgmaps can be added as separate bvec entries but
must not be coalesced into the same segment, as that would make
it impossible to recover the correct pgmap via page_pgmap().

Fixes: 49580e690755 ("block: add check when merging zone device pages")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Naman Jain &lt;namjain@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260410153414.4159050-3-namjain@linux.microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: fix zone write plugs refcount handling in disk_zone_wplug_schedule_bio_work()</title>
<updated>2026-05-07T04:13:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Damien Le Moal</name>
<email>dlemoal@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-27T13:19:45+00:00</published>
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commit 0a8b8af896e0ef83e188e1fe20f98f2bbb1c2459 upstream.

The function disk_zone_wplug_schedule_bio_work() always takes a
reference on the zone write plug of the BIO work being scheduled. This
ensures that the zone write plug cannot be freed while the BIO work is
being scheduled but has not run yet. However, this unconditional
reference taking is fragile since the reference taken is released by the
BIO work blk_zone_wplug_bio_work() function, which implies that there
always must be a 1:1 relation between the work being scheduled and the
work running.

Make sure to drop the reference taken when scheduling the BIO work if
the work is already scheduled, that is, when queue_work() returns false.

Fixes: 9e78c38ab30b ("block: Hold a reference on zone write plugs to schedule submission")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 0a8b8af896e0ef83e188e1fe20f98f2bbb1c2459 upstream.

The function disk_zone_wplug_schedule_bio_work() always takes a
reference on the zone write plug of the BIO work being scheduled. This
ensures that the zone write plug cannot be freed while the BIO work is
being scheduled but has not run yet. However, this unconditional
reference taking is fragile since the reference taken is released by the
BIO work blk_zone_wplug_bio_work() function, which implies that there
always must be a 1:1 relation between the work being scheduled and the
work running.

Make sure to drop the reference taken when scheduling the BIO work if
the work is already scheduled, that is, when queue_work() returns false.

Fixes: 9e78c38ab30b ("block: Hold a reference on zone write plugs to schedule submission")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn &lt;johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'block-7.0-20260305' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux</title>
<updated>2026-03-06T16:36:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-06T16:36:18+00:00</published>
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Pull block fixes from Jens Axboe:

 - NVMe pull request via Keith:
      - Improve quirk visibility and configurability (Maurizio)
      - Fix runtime user modification to queue setup (Keith)
      - Fix multipath leak on try_module_get failure (Keith)
      - Ignore ambiguous spec definitions for better atomics support
        (John)
      - Fix admin queue leak on controller reset (Ming)
      - Fix large allocation in persistent reservation read keys
        (Sungwoo Kim)
      - Fix fcloop callback handling (Justin)
      - Securely free DHCHAP secrets (Daniel)
      - Various cleanups and typo fixes (John, Wilfred)

 - Avoid a circular lock dependency issue in the sysfs nr_requests or
   scheduler store handling

 - Fix a circular lock dependency with the pcpu mutex and the queue
   freeze lock

 - Cleanup for bio_copy_kern(), using __bio_add_page() rather than the
   bio_add_page(), as adding a page here cannot fail. The exiting code
   had broken cleanup for the error condition, so make it clear that the
   error condition cannot happen

 - Fix for a __this_cpu_read() in preemptible context splat

* tag 'block-7.0-20260305' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux:
  block: use trylock to avoid lockdep circular dependency in sysfs
  nvme: fix memory allocation in nvme_pr_read_keys()
  block: use __bio_add_page in bio_copy_kern
  block: break pcpu_alloc_mutex dependency on freeze_lock
  blktrace: fix __this_cpu_read/write in preemptible context
  nvme-multipath: fix leak on try_module_get failure
  nvmet-fcloop: Check remoteport port_state before calling done callback
  nvme-pci: do not try to add queue maps at runtime
  nvme-pci: cap queue creation to used queues
  nvme-pci: ensure we're polling a polled queue
  nvme: fix memory leak in quirks_param_set()
  nvme: correct comment about nvme_ns_remove()
  nvme: stop setting namespace gendisk device driver data
  nvme: add support for dynamic quirk configuration via module parameter
  nvme: fix admin queue leak on controller reset
  nvme-fabrics: use kfree_sensitive() for DHCHAP secrets
  nvme: stop using AWUPF
  nvme: expose active quirks in sysfs
  nvme/host: fixup some typos
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Pull block fixes from Jens Axboe:

 - NVMe pull request via Keith:
      - Improve quirk visibility and configurability (Maurizio)
      - Fix runtime user modification to queue setup (Keith)
      - Fix multipath leak on try_module_get failure (Keith)
      - Ignore ambiguous spec definitions for better atomics support
        (John)
      - Fix admin queue leak on controller reset (Ming)
      - Fix large allocation in persistent reservation read keys
        (Sungwoo Kim)
      - Fix fcloop callback handling (Justin)
      - Securely free DHCHAP secrets (Daniel)
      - Various cleanups and typo fixes (John, Wilfred)

 - Avoid a circular lock dependency issue in the sysfs nr_requests or
   scheduler store handling

 - Fix a circular lock dependency with the pcpu mutex and the queue
   freeze lock

 - Cleanup for bio_copy_kern(), using __bio_add_page() rather than the
   bio_add_page(), as adding a page here cannot fail. The exiting code
   had broken cleanup for the error condition, so make it clear that the
   error condition cannot happen

 - Fix for a __this_cpu_read() in preemptible context splat

* tag 'block-7.0-20260305' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux:
  block: use trylock to avoid lockdep circular dependency in sysfs
  nvme: fix memory allocation in nvme_pr_read_keys()
  block: use __bio_add_page in bio_copy_kern
  block: break pcpu_alloc_mutex dependency on freeze_lock
  blktrace: fix __this_cpu_read/write in preemptible context
  nvme-multipath: fix leak on try_module_get failure
  nvmet-fcloop: Check remoteport port_state before calling done callback
  nvme-pci: do not try to add queue maps at runtime
  nvme-pci: cap queue creation to used queues
  nvme-pci: ensure we're polling a polled queue
  nvme: fix memory leak in quirks_param_set()
  nvme: correct comment about nvme_ns_remove()
  nvme: stop setting namespace gendisk device driver data
  nvme: add support for dynamic quirk configuration via module parameter
  nvme: fix admin queue leak on controller reset
  nvme-fabrics: use kfree_sensitive() for DHCHAP secrets
  nvme: stop using AWUPF
  nvme: expose active quirks in sysfs
  nvme/host: fixup some typos
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: use trylock to avoid lockdep circular dependency in sysfs</title>
<updated>2026-03-05T11:01:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ming Lei</name>
<email>ming.lei@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-05T03:15:50+00:00</published>
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Use trylock instead of blocking lock acquisition for update_nr_hwq_lock
in queue_requests_store() and elv_iosched_store() to avoid circular lock
dependency with kernfs active reference during concurrent disk deletion:

  update_nr_hwq_lock -&gt; kn-&gt;active (via del_gendisk -&gt; kobject_del)
  kn-&gt;active -&gt; update_nr_hwq_lock (via sysfs write path)

Return -EBUSY when the lock is not immediately available.

Reported-and-tested-by: Yi Zhang &lt;yi.zhang@redhat.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/CAHj4cs-em-4acsHabMdT=jJhXkCzjnprD-aQH1OgrZo4nTnmMw@mail.gmail.com/
Fixes: 626ff4f8ebcb ("blk-mq: convert to serialize updating nr_requests with update_nr_hwq_lock")
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Yi Zhang &lt;yi.zhang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Use trylock instead of blocking lock acquisition for update_nr_hwq_lock
in queue_requests_store() and elv_iosched_store() to avoid circular lock
dependency with kernfs active reference during concurrent disk deletion:

  update_nr_hwq_lock -&gt; kn-&gt;active (via del_gendisk -&gt; kobject_del)
  kn-&gt;active -&gt; update_nr_hwq_lock (via sysfs write path)

Return -EBUSY when the lock is not immediately available.

Reported-and-tested-by: Yi Zhang &lt;yi.zhang@redhat.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/CAHj4cs-em-4acsHabMdT=jJhXkCzjnprD-aQH1OgrZo4nTnmMw@mail.gmail.com/
Fixes: 626ff4f8ebcb ("blk-mq: convert to serialize updating nr_requests with update_nr_hwq_lock")
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Yi Zhang &lt;yi.zhang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: use __bio_add_page in bio_copy_kern</title>
<updated>2026-03-04T13:59:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yang Xiuwei</name>
<email>yangxiuwei@kylinos.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-04T04:51:19+00:00</published>
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Since the bio is allocated with the exact number of pages needed via
blk_rq_map_bio_alloc(), and the loop iterates exactly that many times,
bio_add_page() cannot fail due to insufficient space.  Switch to
__bio_add_page() and remove the dead error handling code.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni &lt;kch@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yang Xiuwei &lt;yangxiuwei@kylinos.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Since the bio is allocated with the exact number of pages needed via
blk_rq_map_bio_alloc(), and the loop iterates exactly that many times,
bio_add_page() cannot fail due to insufficient space.  Switch to
__bio_add_page() and remove the dead error handling code.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni &lt;kch@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yang Xiuwei &lt;yangxiuwei@kylinos.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>block: break pcpu_alloc_mutex dependency on freeze_lock</title>
<updated>2026-03-02T16:23:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nilay Shroff</name>
<email>nilay@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-01T12:59:43+00:00</published>
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While nr_hw_update allocates tagset tags it acquires -&gt;pcpu_alloc_mutex
after -&gt;freeze_lock is acquired or queue is frozen. This potentially
creates a circular dependency involving -&gt;fs_reclaim if reclaim is
triggered simultaneously in a code path which first acquires -&gt;pcpu_
alloc_mutex. As the queue is already frozen while nr_hw_queue update
allocates tagsets, the reclaim can't forward progress and thus it could
cause a potential deadlock as reported in lockdep splat[1].

Fix this by pre-allocating tagset tags before we freeze queue during
nr_hw_queue update. Later the allocated tagset tags could be safely
installed and used after queue is frozen.

Reported-by: Yi Zhang &lt;yi.zhang@redhat.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHj4cs8F=OV9s3La2kEQ34YndgfZP-B5PHS4Z8_b9euKG6J4mw@mail.gmail.com/ [1]
Signed-off-by: Nilay Shroff &lt;nilay@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Yi Zhang &lt;yi.zhang@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yu Kuai &lt;yukuai@fnnas.com&gt;
[axboe: fix brace style issue]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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While nr_hw_update allocates tagset tags it acquires -&gt;pcpu_alloc_mutex
after -&gt;freeze_lock is acquired or queue is frozen. This potentially
creates a circular dependency involving -&gt;fs_reclaim if reclaim is
triggered simultaneously in a code path which first acquires -&gt;pcpu_
alloc_mutex. As the queue is already frozen while nr_hw_queue update
allocates tagsets, the reclaim can't forward progress and thus it could
cause a potential deadlock as reported in lockdep splat[1].

Fix this by pre-allocating tagset tags before we freeze queue during
nr_hw_queue update. Later the allocated tagset tags could be safely
installed and used after queue is frozen.

Reported-by: Yi Zhang &lt;yi.zhang@redhat.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHj4cs8F=OV9s3La2kEQ34YndgfZP-B5PHS4Z8_b9euKG6J4mw@mail.gmail.com/ [1]
Signed-off-by: Nilay Shroff &lt;nilay@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Yi Zhang &lt;yi.zhang@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Yu Kuai &lt;yukuai@fnnas.com&gt;
[axboe: fix brace style issue]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert remaining multi-line kmalloc_obj/flex GFP_KERNEL uses</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T16:26:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T07:46:04+00:00</published>
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Conversion performed via this Coccinelle script:

  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
  // Options: --include-headers-for-types --all-includes --include-headers --keep-comments
  virtual patch

  @gfp depends on patch &amp;&amp; !(file in "tools") &amp;&amp; !(file in "samples")@
  identifier ALLOC = {kmalloc_obj,kmalloc_objs,kmalloc_flex,
 		    kzalloc_obj,kzalloc_objs,kzalloc_flex,
		    kvmalloc_obj,kvmalloc_objs,kvmalloc_flex,
		    kvzalloc_obj,kvzalloc_objs,kvzalloc_flex};
  @@

  	ALLOC(...
  -		, GFP_KERNEL
  	)

  $ make coccicheck MODE=patch COCCI=gfp.cocci

Build and boot tested x86_64 with Fedora 42's GCC and Clang:

Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20260123 (Red Hat 15.2.1-7), GNU ld version 2.44-12.fc42) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01
Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (clang version 20.1.8 (Fedora 20.1.8-4.fc42), LLD 20.1.8) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Conversion performed via this Coccinelle script:

  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
  // Options: --include-headers-for-types --all-includes --include-headers --keep-comments
  virtual patch

  @gfp depends on patch &amp;&amp; !(file in "tools") &amp;&amp; !(file in "samples")@
  identifier ALLOC = {kmalloc_obj,kmalloc_objs,kmalloc_flex,
 		    kzalloc_obj,kzalloc_objs,kzalloc_flex,
		    kvmalloc_obj,kvmalloc_objs,kvmalloc_flex,
		    kvzalloc_obj,kvzalloc_objs,kvzalloc_flex};
  @@

  	ALLOC(...
  -		, GFP_KERNEL
  	)

  $ make coccicheck MODE=patch COCCI=gfp.cocci

Build and boot tested x86_64 with Fedora 42's GCC and Clang:

Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20260123 (Red Hat 15.2.1-7), GNU ld version 2.44-12.fc42) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01
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Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00</updated>
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<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00</published>
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This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines.  I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.

Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script.  I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.

So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.

The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines.  I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.

Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script.  I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.

So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.

The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<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>
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<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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<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>
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<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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