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<title>speakup: keyhelp: guard letter_offsets possible out-of-range indexing</title>
<updated>2026-09-14T11:39:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Zhigulin</name>
<email>Pavel.Zhigulin@kaspersky.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-31T23:07:58+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 6a19ad4d68c95185308cd9e5d169b10a2cf236c8 ]

help_init() builds letter_offsets[] by using the first byte of each
function name as an index via `(start &amp; 31) - 1`. If function_names are
overridden from sysfs (root) with a name starting outside [a–z], the
index underflows or exceeds the array, leading to OOB write.

Function names can be overridden with the following commands as root:

    modprobe speakup_soft
    echo "0 _bad" &gt; /sys/accessibility/speakup/i18n/function_names
    # then press Insert+2 on /dev/tty

This fix checks the first letter in help_init(), and if it is not in the
[a–z] range the function returns an error to the caller. Eventually this
error is propagated to drivers/accessibility/speakup/main.c:2217, which
causes a bleep sound.

Fixes: c6e3fd22cd53 ("Staging: add speakup to the staging directory")
Signed-off-by: Pavel Zhigulin &lt;Pavel.Zhigulin@kaspersky.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault &lt;samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260531230804.254962-10-samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 6a19ad4d68c95185308cd9e5d169b10a2cf236c8 ]

help_init() builds letter_offsets[] by using the first byte of each
function name as an index via `(start &amp; 31) - 1`. If function_names are
overridden from sysfs (root) with a name starting outside [a–z], the
index underflows or exceeds the array, leading to OOB write.

Function names can be overridden with the following commands as root:

    modprobe speakup_soft
    echo "0 _bad" &gt; /sys/accessibility/speakup/i18n/function_names
    # then press Insert+2 on /dev/tty

This fix checks the first letter in help_init(), and if it is not in the
[a–z] range the function returns an error to the caller. Eventually this
error is propagated to drivers/accessibility/speakup/main.c:2217, which
causes a bleep sound.

Fixes: c6e3fd22cd53 ("Staging: add speakup to the staging directory")
Signed-off-by: Pavel Zhigulin &lt;Pavel.Zhigulin@kaspersky.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault &lt;samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260531230804.254962-10-samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>accessibility: speakup: Fix incorrect string length computation in report_char_chartab_status()</title>
<updated>2026-09-14T11:39:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe JAILLET</name>
<email>christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-31T23:07:53+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit bce0e640623372520d9d90c42f33ddbfb576ce69 ]

snprintf() returns the "number of characters which *would* be generated for
the given input", not the size *really* generated.

In order to avoid too large values for 'len' (and potential negative
values for "sizeof(buf) - (len - 1)") use scnprintf() instead of
snprintf().

Fixes: c6e3fd22cd53 ("Staging: add speakup to the staging directory")
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET &lt;christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault &lt;samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Samuel Thibault &lt;samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260531230804.254962-5-samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit bce0e640623372520d9d90c42f33ddbfb576ce69 ]

snprintf() returns the "number of characters which *would* be generated for
the given input", not the size *really* generated.

In order to avoid too large values for 'len' (and potential negative
values for "sizeof(buf) - (len - 1)") use scnprintf() instead of
snprintf().

Fixes: c6e3fd22cd53 ("Staging: add speakup to the staging directory")
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET &lt;christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault &lt;samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Samuel Thibault &lt;samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260531230804.254962-5-samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>accessibility: speakup: unregister tty ldisc on later init failures</title>
<updated>2026-09-02T12:33:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Haoxiang Li</name>
<email>lihaoxiang@isrc.iscas.ac.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-31T23:08:04+00:00</published>
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commit a76acbaec9b8fd74413646984d2e3626d0543e39 upstream.

The ldisc registration is intentionally non-fatal, since some synth
drivers do not use tty/ldisc.  However, once speakup_init() continues
past the registration point and later fails, the init unwind path should
mirror speakup_exit() and call spk_ttyio_unregister_ldisc().

Add the missing unregister call to the error path after synth_release(),
matching the normal module exit cleanup order.

Signed-off-by: Haoxiang Li &lt;lihaoxiang@isrc.iscas.ac.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault &lt;samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org&gt;
Fixes: e23a9b439ce9 ("staging: speakup: safely register and unregister ldisc")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260531230804.254962-16-samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit a76acbaec9b8fd74413646984d2e3626d0543e39 upstream.

The ldisc registration is intentionally non-fatal, since some synth
drivers do not use tty/ldisc.  However, once speakup_init() continues
past the registration point and later fails, the init unwind path should
mirror speakup_exit() and call spk_ttyio_unregister_ldisc().

Add the missing unregister call to the error path after synth_release(),
matching the normal module exit cleanup order.

Signed-off-by: Haoxiang Li &lt;lihaoxiang@isrc.iscas.ac.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault &lt;samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org&gt;
Fixes: e23a9b439ce9 ("staging: speakup: safely register and unregister ldisc")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260531230804.254962-16-samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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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;
</pre>
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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;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Switch/rename to timer_delete[_sync]()</title>
<updated>2025-04-05T08:30:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-05T08:17:26+00:00</published>
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timer_delete[_sync]() replaces del_timer[_sync](). Convert the whole tree
over and remove the historical wrapper inlines.

Conversion was done with coccinelle plus manual fixups where necessary.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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timer_delete[_sync]() replaces del_timer[_sync](). Convert the whole tree
over and remove the historical wrapper inlines.

Conversion was done with coccinelle plus manual fixups where necessary.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>speakup: use SPKDIR=$(src) to specify the source directory</title>
<updated>2024-11-04T08:53:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-17T14:16:37+00:00</published>
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Commit e68a558fb2af ("speakup: Fix building as extmod") was intended
to support building this as an external module.

Since commit b1992c3772e6 ("kbuild: use $(src) instead of
$(srctree)/$(src) for source directory"), $(src) consistently points
to the source directory, regardless of whether it is compiled as an
external module or not.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nicolas@fjasle.eu&gt;
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Commit e68a558fb2af ("speakup: Fix building as extmod") was intended
to support building this as an external module.

Since commit b1992c3772e6 ("kbuild: use $(src) instead of
$(srctree)/$(src) for source directory"), $(src) consistently points
to the source directory, regardless of whether it is compiled as an
external module or not.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nicolas@fjasle.eu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: remove unnecessary &lt;linux/version.h&gt; inclusion</title>
<updated>2024-08-12T09:36:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>masahiroy@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-07T17:47:28+00:00</published>
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These files do not use any macros defined in &lt;linux/version.h&gt;.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nicolas@fjasle.eu&gt;
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These files do not use any macros defined in &lt;linux/version.h&gt;.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier &lt;nicolas@fjasle.eu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'char-misc-6.10-rc1-fix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc</title>
<updated>2024-05-24T15:43:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-24T15:43:25+00:00</published>
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Pull char/misc fix from Greg KH:
 "Here is one remaining bugfix for 6.10-rc1 that missed the 6.9-final
  merge window, and has been sitting in my tree and linux-next for quite
  a while now, but wasn't sent to you (my fault, travels...)

  It is a bugfix to resolve an error in the speakup code that could
  overflow a buffer.

  It has been in linux-next for a while with no reported problems"

* tag 'char-misc-6.10-rc1-fix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc:
  speakup: Fix sizeof() vs ARRAY_SIZE() bug
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Pull char/misc fix from Greg KH:
 "Here is one remaining bugfix for 6.10-rc1 that missed the 6.9-final
  merge window, and has been sitting in my tree and linux-next for quite
  a while now, but wasn't sent to you (my fault, travels...)

  It is a bugfix to resolve an error in the speakup code that could
  overflow a buffer.

  It has been in linux-next for a while with no reported problems"

* tag 'char-misc-6.10-rc1-fix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc:
  speakup: Fix sizeof() vs ARRAY_SIZE() bug
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>speakup: Fix sizeof() vs ARRAY_SIZE() bug</title>
<updated>2024-05-08T18:44:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
<email>dan.carpenter@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-15T11:02:23+00:00</published>
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The "buf" pointer is an array of u16 values.  This code should be
using ARRAY_SIZE() (which is 256) instead of sizeof() (which is 512),
otherwise it can the still got out of bounds.

Fixes: c8d2f34ea96e ("speakup: Avoid crash on very long word")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Samuel Thibault &lt;samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d16f67d2-fd0a-4d45-adac-75ddd11001aa@moroto.mountain
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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The "buf" pointer is an array of u16 values.  This code should be
using ARRAY_SIZE() (which is 256) instead of sizeof() (which is 512),
otherwise it can the still got out of bounds.

Fixes: c8d2f34ea96e ("speakup: Avoid crash on very long word")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Samuel Thibault &lt;samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d16f67d2-fd0a-4d45-adac-75ddd11001aa@moroto.mountain
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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