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<title>linux-stable.git/drivers/parport, branch master</title>
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<title>parport: Fix race between port and client registration</title>
<updated>2026-05-22T10:19:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Hutchings</name>
<email>benh@debian.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-05T18:45:12+00:00</published>
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The parport subsystem registers port devices before they are fully
initialised, resulting in a race condition where client drivers such
as lp can attach to ports that are not completely initialised or even
being torn down.

When the port and client drivers are built as modules and loaded
around the same time during boot, this occasionally results in a
crash.  I was able to make this happen reliably in a VM with a
PC-style parallel port by patching parport_pc to fail probing:

&gt; --- a/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c
&gt; +++ b/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c
&gt; @@ -2069,7 +2069,7 @@ static struct parport *__parport_pc_probe_port(unsigned long int base,
&gt;  	if (!p)
&gt;  		goto out3;
&gt;
&gt; -	base_res = request_region(base, 3, p-&gt;name);
&gt; +	base_res = NULL;
&gt;  	if (!base_res)
&gt;  		goto out4;
&gt;

and then running:

    while true; do
        modprobe lp &amp; modprobe parport_pc
	wait
	rmmod lp parport_pc
    done

for a few seconds.

In the long term I think port registration should be changed to put
the call to device_add() inside parport_announce_port(), but since the
latter currently cannot fail this will require changing all port
drivers.

For now, add a flag to indicate whether a port has been "announced"
and only try to attach client drivers to ports when the flag is set.

Fixes: 6fa45a226897 ("parport: add device-model to parport subsystem")
Closes: https://bugs.debian.org/1130365
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/6ba903ad-9897-42bb-8c2d-337385cc3746@molgen.mpg.de/
Cc: stable &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;benh@debian.org&gt;
Acked-by: Sudip Mukherjee &lt;sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/afo6uBv68GDevbMD@decadent.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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The parport subsystem registers port devices before they are fully
initialised, resulting in a race condition where client drivers such
as lp can attach to ports that are not completely initialised or even
being torn down.

When the port and client drivers are built as modules and loaded
around the same time during boot, this occasionally results in a
crash.  I was able to make this happen reliably in a VM with a
PC-style parallel port by patching parport_pc to fail probing:

&gt; --- a/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c
&gt; +++ b/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c
&gt; @@ -2069,7 +2069,7 @@ static struct parport *__parport_pc_probe_port(unsigned long int base,
&gt;  	if (!p)
&gt;  		goto out3;
&gt;
&gt; -	base_res = request_region(base, 3, p-&gt;name);
&gt; +	base_res = NULL;
&gt;  	if (!base_res)
&gt;  		goto out4;
&gt;

and then running:

    while true; do
        modprobe lp &amp; modprobe parport_pc
	wait
	rmmod lp parport_pc
    done

for a few seconds.

In the long term I think port registration should be changed to put
the call to device_add() inside parport_announce_port(), but since the
latter currently cannot fail this will require changing all port
drivers.

For now, add a flag to indicate whether a port has been "announced"
and only try to attach client drivers to ports when the flag is set.

Fixes: 6fa45a226897 ("parport: add device-model to parport subsystem")
Closes: https://bugs.debian.org/1130365
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/6ba903ad-9897-42bb-8c2d-337385cc3746@molgen.mpg.de/
Cc: stable &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;benh@debian.org&gt;
Acked-by: Sudip Mukherjee &lt;sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/afo6uBv68GDevbMD@decadent.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>parport: Remove completed item from to-do list</title>
<updated>2026-04-02T15:05:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ethan Nelson-Moore</name>
<email>enelsonmoore@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-31T03:24:03+00:00</published>
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A driver for the Sun BPP hardware exists in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore &lt;enelsonmoore@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260131032403.11118-1-enelsonmoore@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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A driver for the Sun BPP hardware exists in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore &lt;enelsonmoore@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260131032403.11118-1-enelsonmoore@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</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>
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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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</content>
</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, timers: Rename from_timer() to timer_container_of()</title>
<updated>2025-06-08T07:07:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-09T05:51:14+00:00</published>
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Move this API to the canonical timer_*() namespace.

[ tglx: Redone against pre rc1 ]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aB2X0jCKQO56WdMt@gmail.com

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Move this API to the canonical timer_*() namespace.

[ tglx: Redone against pre rc1 ]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aB2X0jCKQO56WdMt@gmail.com

</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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<content type='text'>
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>serial: 8250_pci: Share WCH IDs with parport_serial driver</title>
<updated>2024-12-04T15:42:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Shevchenko</name>
<email>andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-04T03:09:22+00:00</published>
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parport_serial driver uses subset of WCH IDs that are present in 8250_pci.
Share them via pci_ids.h and switch parport_serial to use defined constants.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241204031114.1029882-3-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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parport_serial driver uses subset of WCH IDs that are present in 8250_pci.
Share them via pci_ids.h and switch parport_serial to use defined constants.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241204031114.1029882-3-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Get rid of 'remove_new' relic from platform driver struct</title>
<updated>2024-12-01T23:12:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-01T23:12:43+00:00</published>
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The continual trickle of small conversion patches is grating on me, and
is really not helping.  Just get rid of the 'remove_new' member
function, which is just an alias for the plain 'remove', and had a
comment to that effect:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>parport: Proper fix for array out-of-bounds access</title>
<updated>2024-10-13T16:17:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-20T10:32:19+00:00</published>
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The recent fix for array out-of-bounds accesses replaced sprintf()
calls blindly with snprintf().  However, since snprintf() returns the
would-be-printed size, not the actually output size, the length
calculation can still go over the given limit.

Use scnprintf() instead of snprintf(), which returns the actually
output letters, for addressing the potential out-of-bounds access
properly.

Fixes: ab11dac93d2d ("dev/parport: fix the array out-of-bounds risk")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240920103318.19271-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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The recent fix for array out-of-bounds accesses replaced sprintf()
calls blindly with snprintf().  However, since snprintf() returns the
would-be-printed size, not the actually output size, the length
calculation can still go over the given limit.

Use scnprintf() instead of snprintf(), which returns the actually
output letters, for addressing the potential out-of-bounds access
properly.

Fixes: ab11dac93d2d ("dev/parport: fix the array out-of-bounds risk")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240920103318.19271-1-tiwai@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'constfy-sysctl-6.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl</title>
<updated>2024-07-25T19:58:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-25T19:58:36+00:00</published>
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Pull sysctl constification from Joel Granados:
 "Treewide constification of the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers
  using a coccinelle script and some manual code formatting fixups.

  This is a prerequisite to moving the static ctl_table structs into
  read-only data section which will ensure that proc_handler function
  pointers cannot be modified"

* tag 'constfy-sysctl-6.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl:
  sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers
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Pull sysctl constification from Joel Granados:
 "Treewide constification of the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers
  using a coccinelle script and some manual code formatting fixups.

  This is a prerequisite to moving the static ctl_table structs into
  read-only data section which will ensure that proc_handler function
  pointers cannot be modified"

* tag 'constfy-sysctl-6.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl:
  sysctl: treewide: constify the ctl_table argument of proc_handlers
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