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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>bus: rifsc: fix RIF configuration check for peripherals</title>
<updated>2026-05-23T11:09:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gatien Chevallier</name>
<email>gatien.chevallier@foss.st.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-29T12:56:17+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit d5ce3b4e951bc41a6ce877c8500bb4fe42146669 ]

Peripheral holding CID0 cannot be accessed, remove this completely
incorrect check. While there, fix  and simplify the semaphore checking
that should be performed when the CID filtering is enabled.

Fixes: a18208457253 ("bus: rifsc: introduce RIFSC firewall controller driver")
Signed-off-by: Gatien Chevallier &lt;gatien.chevallier@foss.st.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260129-fix_cid_check_rifsc-v1-1-ef280ccf764d@foss.st.com
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Torgue &lt;alexandre.torgue@foss.st.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit d5ce3b4e951bc41a6ce877c8500bb4fe42146669 ]

Peripheral holding CID0 cannot be accessed, remove this completely
incorrect check. While there, fix  and simplify the semaphore checking
that should be performed when the CID filtering is enabled.

Fixes: a18208457253 ("bus: rifsc: introduce RIFSC firewall controller driver")
Signed-off-by: Gatien Chevallier &lt;gatien.chevallier@foss.st.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260129-fix_cid_check_rifsc-v1-1-ef280ccf764d@foss.st.com
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Torgue &lt;alexandre.torgue@foss.st.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bus: fsl-mc: use generic driver_override infrastructure</title>
<updated>2026-05-23T11:08:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Danilo Krummrich</name>
<email>dakr@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-24T00:59:06+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 6c8dfb0362732bf1e4829867a2a5239fedc592d0 ]

When a driver is probed through __driver_attach(), the bus' match()
callback is called without the device lock held, thus accessing the
driver_override field without a lock, which can cause a UAF.

Fix this by using the driver-core driver_override infrastructure taking
care of proper locking internally.

Note that calling match() from __driver_attach() without the device lock
held is intentional. [1]

Tested-by: Ioana Ciornei &lt;ioana.ciornei@nxp.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ioana Ciornei &lt;ioana.ciornei@nxp.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) &lt;chleroy@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/driver-core/DGRGTIRHA62X.3RY09D9SOK77P@kernel.org/ [1]
Reported-by: Gui-Dong Han &lt;hanguidong02@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220789
Fixes: 1f86a00c1159 ("bus/fsl-mc: add support for 'driver_override' in the mc-bus")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260324005919.2408620-3-dakr@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich &lt;dakr@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 6c8dfb0362732bf1e4829867a2a5239fedc592d0 ]

When a driver is probed through __driver_attach(), the bus' match()
callback is called without the device lock held, thus accessing the
driver_override field without a lock, which can cause a UAF.

Fix this by using the driver-core driver_override infrastructure taking
care of proper locking internally.

Note that calling match() from __driver_attach() without the device lock
held is intentional. [1]

Tested-by: Ioana Ciornei &lt;ioana.ciornei@nxp.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ioana Ciornei &lt;ioana.ciornei@nxp.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP) &lt;chleroy@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/driver-core/DGRGTIRHA62X.3RY09D9SOK77P@kernel.org/ [1]
Reported-by: Gui-Dong Han &lt;hanguidong02@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220789
Fixes: 1f86a00c1159 ("bus/fsl-mc: add support for 'driver_override' in the mc-bus")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260324005919.2408620-3-dakr@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich &lt;dakr@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bus: mhi: host: pci_generic: Switch to async power up to avoid boot delays</title>
<updated>2026-05-07T04:14:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Qiang Yu</name>
<email>qiang.yu@oss.qualcomm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-03T09:02:13+00:00</published>
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commit cfdb41adf1c2822ad1b1791d4d11093edb5582b6 upstream.

Some modem devices can take significant time (up to 20 secs for sdx75) to
enter mission mode during initialization. Currently, mhi_sync_power_up()
waits for this entire process to complete, blocking other driver probes
and delaying system boot.

Switch to mhi_async_power_up() so probe can return immediately while MHI
initialization continues in the background. This eliminates lengthy boot
delays and allows other drivers to probe in parallel, improving overall
system boot performance.

Fixes: 5571519009d0 ("bus: mhi: host: pci_generic: Add SDX75 based modem support")
Signed-off-by: Qiang Yu &lt;qiang.yu@oss.qualcomm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam &lt;manivannan.sadhasivam@oss.qualcomm.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260303-b4-async_power_on-v2-1-d3db81eb457d@oss.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit cfdb41adf1c2822ad1b1791d4d11093edb5582b6 upstream.

Some modem devices can take significant time (up to 20 secs for sdx75) to
enter mission mode during initialization. Currently, mhi_sync_power_up()
waits for this entire process to complete, blocking other driver probes
and delaying system boot.

Switch to mhi_async_power_up() so probe can return immediately while MHI
initialization continues in the background. This eliminates lengthy boot
delays and allows other drivers to probe in parallel, improving overall
system boot performance.

Fixes: 5571519009d0 ("bus: mhi: host: pci_generic: Add SDX75 based modem support")
Signed-off-by: Qiang Yu &lt;qiang.yu@oss.qualcomm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam &lt;manivannan.sadhasivam@oss.qualcomm.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260303-b4-async_power_on-v2-1-d3db81eb457d@oss.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>device property: Make modifications of fwnode "flags" thread safe</title>
<updated>2026-05-07T04:13:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Douglas Anderson</name>
<email>dianders@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-17T16:01:20+00:00</published>
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commit f72e77c33e4b5657af35125e75bab249256030f3 upstream.

In various places in the kernel, we modify the fwnode "flags" member
by doing either:
  fwnode-&gt;flags |= SOME_FLAG;
  fwnode-&gt;flags &amp;= ~SOME_FLAG;

This type of modification is not thread-safe. If two threads are both
mucking with the flags at the same time then one can clobber the
other.

While flags are often modified while under the "fwnode_link_lock",
this is not universally true.

Create some accessor functions for setting, clearing, and testing the
FWNODE flags and move all users to these accessor functions. New
accessor functions use set_bit() and clear_bit(), which are
thread-safe.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: c2c724c868c4 ("driver core: Add fw_devlink_parse_fwtree()")
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang &lt;wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel) &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Saravana Kannan &lt;saravanak@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260317090112.v2.1.I0a4d03104ecd5103df3d76f66c8d21b1d15a2e38@changeid
[ Fix fwnode_clear_flag() argument alignment, restore dropped blank
  line in fwnode_dev_initialized(), and remove unnecessary parentheses
  around fwnode_test_flag() calls. - Danilo ]
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich &lt;dakr@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit f72e77c33e4b5657af35125e75bab249256030f3 upstream.

In various places in the kernel, we modify the fwnode "flags" member
by doing either:
  fwnode-&gt;flags |= SOME_FLAG;
  fwnode-&gt;flags &amp;= ~SOME_FLAG;

This type of modification is not thread-safe. If two threads are both
mucking with the flags at the same time then one can clobber the
other.

While flags are often modified while under the "fwnode_link_lock",
this is not universally true.

Create some accessor functions for setting, clearing, and testing the
FWNODE flags and move all users to these accessor functions. New
accessor functions use set_bit() and clear_bit(), which are
thread-safe.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: c2c724c868c4 ("driver core: Add fw_devlink_parse_fwtree()")
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang &lt;wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson &lt;dianders@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel) &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Saravana Kannan &lt;saravanak@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260317090112.v2.1.I0a4d03104ecd5103df3d76f66c8d21b1d15a2e38@changeid
[ Fix fwnode_clear_flag() argument alignment, restore dropped blank
  line in fwnode_dev_initialized(), and remove unnecessary parentheses
  around fwnode_test_flag() calls. - Danilo ]
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich &lt;dakr@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>driver core: platform: use generic driver_override infrastructure</title>
<updated>2026-03-17T19:30:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Danilo Krummrich</name>
<email>dakr@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-03T11:53:21+00:00</published>
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When a driver is probed through __driver_attach(), the bus' match()
callback is called without the device lock held, thus accessing the
driver_override field without a lock, which can cause a UAF.

Fix this by using the driver-core driver_override infrastructure taking
care of proper locking internally.

Note that calling match() from __driver_attach() without the device lock
held is intentional. [1]

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/driver-core/DGRGTIRHA62X.3RY09D9SOK77P@kernel.org/ [1]
Reported-by: Gui-Dong Han &lt;hanguidong02@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220789
Fixes: 3d713e0e382e ("driver core: platform: add device binding path 'driver_override'")
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260303115720.48783-5-dakr@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich &lt;dakr@kernel.org&gt;
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When a driver is probed through __driver_attach(), the bus' match()
callback is called without the device lock held, thus accessing the
driver_override field without a lock, which can cause a UAF.

Fix this by using the driver-core driver_override infrastructure taking
care of proper locking internally.

Note that calling match() from __driver_attach() without the device lock
held is intentional. [1]

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/driver-core/DGRGTIRHA62X.3RY09D9SOK77P@kernel.org/ [1]
Reported-by: Gui-Dong Han &lt;hanguidong02@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220789
Fixes: 3d713e0e382e ("driver core: platform: add device binding path 'driver_override'")
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260303115720.48783-5-dakr@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich &lt;dakr@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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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
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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<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;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_flex' 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>2026-02-22T01:06:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=323bbfcf1ef8836d0d2ad9e2c1f1c684f0e3b5b3'/>
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This is the exact same thing as the 'alloc_obj()' version, only much
smaller because there are a lot fewer users of the *alloc_flex()
interface.

As with alloc_obj() version, this was done entirely with mindless brute
force, using the same script, except using 'flex' in the pattern rather
than 'objs*'.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This is the exact same thing as the 'alloc_obj()' version, only much
smaller because there are a lot fewer users of the *alloc_flex()
interface.

As with alloc_obj() version, this was done entirely with mindless brute
force, using the same script, except using 'flex' in the pattern rather
than 'objs*'.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<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>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=bf4afc53b77aeaa48b5409da5c8da6bb4eff7f43'/>
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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>
</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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