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<title>linux-stable.git/drivers/char/misc.c, branch v6.14</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>char: misc: deallocate static minor in error path</title>
<updated>2025-02-20T14:21:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo</name>
<email>cascardo@igalia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-23T12:32:49+00:00</published>
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When creating sysfs files fail, the allocated minor must be freed such that
it can be later reused. That is specially harmful for static minor numbers,
since those would always fail to register later on.

Fixes: 6d04d2b554b1 ("misc: misc_minor_alloc to use ida for all dynamic/misc dynamic minors")
Cc: stable &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo &lt;cascardo@igalia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250123123249.4081674-5-cascardo@igalia.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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When creating sysfs files fail, the allocated minor must be freed such that
it can be later reused. That is specially harmful for static minor numbers,
since those would always fail to register later on.

Fixes: 6d04d2b554b1 ("misc: misc_minor_alloc to use ida for all dynamic/misc dynamic minors")
Cc: stable &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo &lt;cascardo@igalia.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250123123249.4081674-5-cascardo@igalia.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>misc: misc_minor_alloc to use ida for all dynamic/misc dynamic minors</title>
<updated>2025-01-08T12:18:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vimal Agrawal</name>
<email>vimal.agrawal@sophos.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-21T13:38:12+00:00</published>
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misc_minor_alloc was allocating id using ida for minor only in case of
MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR but misc_minor_free was always freeing ids
using ida_free causing a mismatch and following warn:
&gt; &gt; WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 159 at lib/idr.c:525 ida_free+0x3e0/0x41f
&gt; &gt; ida_free called for id=127 which is not allocated.
&gt; &gt; &lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;
...
&gt; &gt; [&lt;60941eb4&gt;] ida_free+0x3e0/0x41f
&gt; &gt; [&lt;605ac993&gt;] misc_minor_free+0x3e/0xbc
&gt; &gt; [&lt;605acb82&gt;] misc_deregister+0x171/0x1b3

misc_minor_alloc is changed to allocate id from ida for all minors
falling in the range of dynamic/ misc dynamic minors

Fixes: ab760791c0cf ("char: misc: Increase the maximum number of dynamic misc devices to 1048448")
Signed-off-by: Vimal Agrawal &lt;vimal.agrawal@sophos.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dirk VanDerMerwe &lt;dirk.vandermerwe@sophos.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241021133812.23703-1-vimal.agrawal@sophos.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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misc_minor_alloc was allocating id using ida for minor only in case of
MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR but misc_minor_free was always freeing ids
using ida_free causing a mismatch and following warn:
&gt; &gt; WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 159 at lib/idr.c:525 ida_free+0x3e0/0x41f
&gt; &gt; ida_free called for id=127 which is not allocated.
&gt; &gt; &lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;
...
&gt; &gt; [&lt;60941eb4&gt;] ida_free+0x3e0/0x41f
&gt; &gt; [&lt;605ac993&gt;] misc_minor_free+0x3e/0xbc
&gt; &gt; [&lt;605acb82&gt;] misc_deregister+0x171/0x1b3

misc_minor_alloc is changed to allocate id from ida for all minors
falling in the range of dynamic/ misc dynamic minors

Fixes: ab760791c0cf ("char: misc: Increase the maximum number of dynamic misc devices to 1048448")
Signed-off-by: Vimal Agrawal &lt;vimal.agrawal@sophos.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dirk VanDerMerwe &lt;dirk.vandermerwe@sophos.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241021133812.23703-1-vimal.agrawal@sophos.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>char: misc: make misc_class a static const structure</title>
<updated>2023-06-23T08:27:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ivan Orlov</name>
<email>ivan.orlov0322@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-20T14:37:56+00:00</published>
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Now that the driver core allows for struct class to be in read-only
memory, move the misc_class structure to be declared at build time
placing it into read-only memory, instead of having to be dynamically
allocated at load time.

Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ivan Orlov &lt;ivan.orlov0322@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230620143751.578239-14-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Now that the driver core allows for struct class to be in read-only
memory, move the misc_class structure to be declared at build time
placing it into read-only memory, instead of having to be dynamically
allocated at load time.

Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ivan Orlov &lt;ivan.orlov0322@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230620143751.578239-14-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>driver core: class: remove module * from class_create()</title>
<updated>2023-03-17T14:16:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-13T18:18:35+00:00</published>
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The module pointer in class_create() never actually did anything, and it
shouldn't have been requred to be set as a parameter even if it did
something.  So just remove it and fix up all callers of the function in
the kernel tree at the same time.

Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Tissoires &lt;benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313181843.1207845-4-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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The module pointer in class_create() never actually did anything, and it
shouldn't have been requred to be set as a parameter even if it did
something.  So just remove it and fix up all callers of the function in
the kernel tree at the same time.

Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Tissoires &lt;benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313181843.1207845-4-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'driver-core-6.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core</title>
<updated>2022-12-16T11:54:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-16T11:54:54+00:00</published>
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Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the set of driver core and kernfs changes for 6.2-rc1.

  The "big" change in here is the addition of a new macro,
  container_of_const() that will preserve the "const-ness" of a pointer
  passed into it.

  The "problem" of the current container_of() macro is that if you pass
  in a "const *", out of it can comes a non-const pointer unless you
  specifically ask for it. For many usages, we want to preserve the
  "const" attribute by using the same call. For a specific example, this
  series changes the kobj_to_dev() macro to use it, allowing it to be
  used no matter what the const value is. This prevents every subsystem
  from having to declare 2 different individual macros (i.e.
  kobj_const_to_dev() and kobj_to_dev()) and having the compiler enforce
  the const value at build time, which having 2 macros would not do
  either.

  The driver for all of this have been discussions with the Rust kernel
  developers as to how to properly mark driver core, and kobject,
  objects as being "non-mutable". The changes to the kobject and driver
  core in this pull request are the result of that, as there are lots of
  paths where kobjects and device pointers are not modified at all, so
  marking them as "const" allows the compiler to enforce this.

  So, a nice side affect of the Rust development effort has been already
  to clean up the driver core code to be more obvious about object
  rules.

  All of this has been bike-shedded in quite a lot of detail on lkml
  with different names and implementations resulting in the tiny version
  we have in here, much better than my original proposal. Lots of
  subsystem maintainers have acked the changes as well.

  Other than this change, included in here are smaller stuff like:

   - kernfs fixes and updates to handle lock contention better

   - vmlinux.lds.h fixes and updates

   - sysfs and debugfs documentation updates

   - device property updates

  All of these have been in the linux-next tree for quite a while with
  no problems"

* tag 'driver-core-6.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (58 commits)
  device property: Fix documentation for fwnode_get_next_parent()
  firmware_loader: fix up to_fw_sysfs() to preserve const
  usb.h: take advantage of container_of_const()
  device.h: move kobj_to_dev() to use container_of_const()
  container_of: add container_of_const() that preserves const-ness of the pointer
  driver core: fix up missed drivers/s390/char/hmcdrv_dev.c class.devnode() conversion.
  driver core: fix up missed scsi/cxlflash class.devnode() conversion.
  driver core: fix up some missing class.devnode() conversions.
  driver core: make struct class.devnode() take a const *
  driver core: make struct class.dev_uevent() take a const *
  cacheinfo: Remove of_node_put() for fw_token
  device property: Add a blank line in Kconfig of tests
  device property: Rename goto label to be more precise
  device property: Move PROPERTY_ENTRY_BOOL() a bit down
  device property: Get rid of __PROPERTY_ENTRY_ARRAY_EL*SIZE*()
  kernfs: fix all kernel-doc warnings and multiple typos
  driver core: pass a const * into of_device_uevent()
  kobject: kset_uevent_ops: make name() callback take a const *
  kobject: kset_uevent_ops: make filter() callback take a const *
  kobject: make kobject_namespace take a const *
  ...
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Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the set of driver core and kernfs changes for 6.2-rc1.

  The "big" change in here is the addition of a new macro,
  container_of_const() that will preserve the "const-ness" of a pointer
  passed into it.

  The "problem" of the current container_of() macro is that if you pass
  in a "const *", out of it can comes a non-const pointer unless you
  specifically ask for it. For many usages, we want to preserve the
  "const" attribute by using the same call. For a specific example, this
  series changes the kobj_to_dev() macro to use it, allowing it to be
  used no matter what the const value is. This prevents every subsystem
  from having to declare 2 different individual macros (i.e.
  kobj_const_to_dev() and kobj_to_dev()) and having the compiler enforce
  the const value at build time, which having 2 macros would not do
  either.

  The driver for all of this have been discussions with the Rust kernel
  developers as to how to properly mark driver core, and kobject,
  objects as being "non-mutable". The changes to the kobject and driver
  core in this pull request are the result of that, as there are lots of
  paths where kobjects and device pointers are not modified at all, so
  marking them as "const" allows the compiler to enforce this.

  So, a nice side affect of the Rust development effort has been already
  to clean up the driver core code to be more obvious about object
  rules.

  All of this has been bike-shedded in quite a lot of detail on lkml
  with different names and implementations resulting in the tiny version
  we have in here, much better than my original proposal. Lots of
  subsystem maintainers have acked the changes as well.

  Other than this change, included in here are smaller stuff like:

   - kernfs fixes and updates to handle lock contention better

   - vmlinux.lds.h fixes and updates

   - sysfs and debugfs documentation updates

   - device property updates

  All of these have been in the linux-next tree for quite a while with
  no problems"

* tag 'driver-core-6.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (58 commits)
  device property: Fix documentation for fwnode_get_next_parent()
  firmware_loader: fix up to_fw_sysfs() to preserve const
  usb.h: take advantage of container_of_const()
  device.h: move kobj_to_dev() to use container_of_const()
  container_of: add container_of_const() that preserves const-ness of the pointer
  driver core: fix up missed drivers/s390/char/hmcdrv_dev.c class.devnode() conversion.
  driver core: fix up missed scsi/cxlflash class.devnode() conversion.
  driver core: fix up some missing class.devnode() conversions.
  driver core: make struct class.devnode() take a const *
  driver core: make struct class.dev_uevent() take a const *
  cacheinfo: Remove of_node_put() for fw_token
  device property: Add a blank line in Kconfig of tests
  device property: Rename goto label to be more precise
  device property: Move PROPERTY_ENTRY_BOOL() a bit down
  device property: Get rid of __PROPERTY_ENTRY_ARRAY_EL*SIZE*()
  kernfs: fix all kernel-doc warnings and multiple typos
  driver core: pass a const * into of_device_uevent()
  kobject: kset_uevent_ops: make name() callback take a const *
  kobject: kset_uevent_ops: make filter() callback take a const *
  kobject: make kobject_namespace take a const *
  ...
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<entry>
<title>driver core: make struct class.devnode() take a const *</title>
<updated>2022-11-24T16:12:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-23T12:25:20+00:00</published>
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The devnode() in struct class should not be modifying the device that is
passed into it, so mark it as a const * and propagate the function
signature changes out into all relevant subsystems that use this
callback.

Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Reinette Chatre &lt;reinette.chatre@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Justin Sanders &lt;justin@coraid.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Sumit Semwal &lt;sumit.semwal@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Gaignard &lt;benjamin.gaignard@collabora.com&gt;
Cc: Liam Mark &lt;lmark@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Brian Starkey &lt;Brian.Starkey@arm.com&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;jstultz@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Christian König" &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst &lt;maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Maxime Ripard &lt;mripard@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann &lt;tzimmermann@suse.de&gt;
Cc: David Airlie &lt;airlied@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel@ffwll.ch&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leon@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dennis Dalessandro &lt;dennis.dalessandro@cornelisnetworks.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Sean Young &lt;sean@mess.org&gt;
Cc: Frank Haverkamp &lt;haver@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jirislaby@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Williamson &lt;alex.williamson@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Cornelia Huck &lt;cohuck@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Anton Vorontsov &lt;anton@enomsg.org&gt;
Cc: Colin Cross &lt;ccross@android.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela &lt;perex@perex.cz&gt;
Cc: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Hans Verkuil &lt;hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl&gt;
Cc: Christophe JAILLET &lt;christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr&gt;
Cc: Xie Yongji &lt;xieyongji@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Gautam Dawar &lt;gautam.dawar@xilinx.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Carpenter &lt;error27@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Eli Cohen &lt;elic@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Parav Pandit &lt;parav@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Maxime Coquelin &lt;maxime.coquelin@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123122523.1332370-2-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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The devnode() in struct class should not be modifying the device that is
passed into it, so mark it as a const * and propagate the function
signature changes out into all relevant subsystems that use this
callback.

Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Reinette Chatre &lt;reinette.chatre@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Hansen &lt;dave.hansen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Justin Sanders &lt;justin@coraid.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Sumit Semwal &lt;sumit.semwal@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Gaignard &lt;benjamin.gaignard@collabora.com&gt;
Cc: Liam Mark &lt;lmark@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Laura Abbott &lt;labbott@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Brian Starkey &lt;Brian.Starkey@arm.com&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;jstultz@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Christian König" &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst &lt;maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Maxime Ripard &lt;mripard@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann &lt;tzimmermann@suse.de&gt;
Cc: David Airlie &lt;airlied@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel@ffwll.ch&gt;
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@ziepe.ca&gt;
Cc: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leon@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dennis Dalessandro &lt;dennis.dalessandro@cornelisnetworks.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Sean Young &lt;sean@mess.org&gt;
Cc: Frank Haverkamp &lt;haver@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jirislaby@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Williamson &lt;alex.williamson@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Cornelia Huck &lt;cohuck@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Anton Vorontsov &lt;anton@enomsg.org&gt;
Cc: Colin Cross &lt;ccross@android.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela &lt;perex@perex.cz&gt;
Cc: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Hans Verkuil &lt;hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl&gt;
Cc: Christophe JAILLET &lt;christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr&gt;
Cc: Xie Yongji &lt;xieyongji@bytedance.com&gt;
Cc: Gautam Dawar &lt;gautam.dawar@xilinx.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Carpenter &lt;error27@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Eli Cohen &lt;elic@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Parav Pandit &lt;parav@nvidia.com&gt;
Cc: Maxime Coquelin &lt;maxime.coquelin@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123122523.1332370-2-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>char: misc: Increase the maximum number of dynamic misc devices to 1048448</title>
<updated>2022-11-23T18:57:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>D Scott Phillips</name>
<email>scott@os.amperecomputing.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-14T21:22:12+00:00</published>
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On AmpereOne, 128 dynamic misc devices is not enough for the per-cpu
coresight_tmc devices.  Switch the dynamic minors allocator to an ida and
add logic to allocate in the ranges [0..127] and [256..1048575], leaving
[128..255] for static misc devices.  Dynamic allocations start from 127
growing downwards and then increasing from 256, so device numbering for the
first 128 devices remain the same as before.

Signed-off-by: D Scott Phillips &lt;scott@os.amperecomputing.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221114212212.9279-1-scott@os.amperecomputing.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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On AmpereOne, 128 dynamic misc devices is not enough for the per-cpu
coresight_tmc devices.  Switch the dynamic minors allocator to an ida and
add logic to allocate in the ranges [0..127] and [256..1048575], leaving
[128..255] for static misc devices.  Dynamic allocations start from 127
growing downwards and then increasing from 256, so device numbering for the
first 128 devices remain the same as before.

Signed-off-by: D Scott Phillips &lt;scott@os.amperecomputing.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221114212212.9279-1-scott@os.amperecomputing.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>char: misc: remove usage of list iterator past the loop body</title>
<updated>2022-04-24T15:15:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakob Koschel</name>
<email>jakobkoschel@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-19T20:14:54+00:00</published>
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In preparation to limit the scope of the list iterator to the list
traversal loop, use a dedicated pointer pointing to the found element [1].

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/YhdfEIwI4EdtHdym@kroah.com/
Signed-off-by: Jakob Koschel &lt;jakobkoschel@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220319201454.2511733-1-jakobkoschel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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In preparation to limit the scope of the list iterator to the list
traversal loop, use a dedicated pointer pointing to the found element [1].

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/YhdfEIwI4EdtHdym@kroah.com/
Signed-off-by: Jakob Koschel &lt;jakobkoschel@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220319201454.2511733-1-jakobkoschel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>char: misc: increase DYNAMIC_MINORS value</title>
<updated>2020-11-03T08:52:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sangmoon Kim</name>
<email>sangmoon.kim@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-29T06:28:55+00:00</published>
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DYNAMIC_MINORS value has been set to 64.
Due to this reason, we are facing a module loading fail problem of
device driver like below.

 [   45.712771] pdic_misc_init - return error : -16

We need to increase this value for registering more misc devices.

Signed-off-by: Sangmoon Kim &lt;sangmoon.kim@samsung.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201029062855.19757-1-sangmoon.kim@samsung.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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DYNAMIC_MINORS value has been set to 64.
Due to this reason, we are facing a module loading fail problem of
device driver like below.

 [   45.712771] pdic_misc_init - return error : -16

We need to increase this value for registering more misc devices.

Signed-off-by: Sangmoon Kim &lt;sangmoon.kim@samsung.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201029062855.19757-1-sangmoon.kim@samsung.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>char: misc: Move EXPORT_SYMBOL immediately next to the functions/varibles</title>
<updated>2019-05-24T16:00:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Naveen Kumar Parna</name>
<email>parna.naveenkumar@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-17T04:34:55+00:00</published>
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According to checkpatch: EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately follow its
function/variable.

This patch fixes the following checkpatch.pl issues in drivers/char/misc.c:
WARNING: EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately follow its function/variable

Signed-off-by: Naveen Kumar Parna &lt;parna.naveenkumar@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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According to checkpatch: EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately follow its
function/variable.

This patch fixes the following checkpatch.pl issues in drivers/char/misc.c:
WARNING: EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately follow its function/variable

Signed-off-by: Naveen Kumar Parna &lt;parna.naveenkumar@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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