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<title>linux-stable.git/drivers/platform/surface/surfacepro3_button.c, branch v7.0</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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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>
</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;
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<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;
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<entry>
<title>platform/surface: Replace deprecated strcpy() in surface_button_add()</title>
<updated>2026-01-06T08:50:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thorsten Blum</name>
<email>thorsten.blum@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-05T14:50:46+00:00</published>
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strcpy() has been deprecated [1] because it performs no bounds checking
on the destination buffer, which can lead to buffer overflows. Replace
it with the safer strscpy().  No functional changes.

Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strcpy [1]
Reviewed-by: Chen Yu &lt;yu.c.chen@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum &lt;thorsten.blum@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260105145045.52764-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
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strcpy() has been deprecated [1] because it performs no bounds checking
on the destination buffer, which can lead to buffer overflows. Replace
it with the safer strscpy().  No functional changes.

Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strcpy [1]
Reviewed-by: Chen Yu &lt;yu.c.chen@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum &lt;thorsten.blum@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260105145045.52764-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen &lt;ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ACPI: make remove callback of ACPI driver void</title>
<updated>2022-11-23T18:11:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dawei Li</name>
<email>set_pte_at@outlook.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-13T16:26:09+00:00</published>
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For bus-based driver, device removal is implemented as:
1 device_remove()-&gt;
2   bus-&gt;remove()-&gt;
3     driver-&gt;remove()

Driver core needs no inform from callee(bus driver) about the
result of remove callback. In that case, commit fc7a6209d571
("bus: Make remove callback return void") forces bus_type::remove
be void-returned.

Now we have the situation that both 1 &amp; 2 of calling chain are
void-returned, so it does not make much sense for 3(driver-&gt;remove)
to return non-void to its caller.

So the basic idea behind this change is making remove() callback of
any bus-based driver to be void-returned.

This change, for itself, is for device drivers based on acpi-bus.

Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Lee Jones &lt;lee@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede &lt;hdegoede@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dawei Li &lt;set_pte_at@outlook.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Maximilian Luz &lt;luzmaximilian@gmail.com&gt;  # for drivers/platform/surface/*
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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For bus-based driver, device removal is implemented as:
1 device_remove()-&gt;
2   bus-&gt;remove()-&gt;
3     driver-&gt;remove()

Driver core needs no inform from callee(bus driver) about the
result of remove callback. In that case, commit fc7a6209d571
("bus: Make remove callback return void") forces bus_type::remove
be void-returned.

Now we have the situation that both 1 &amp; 2 of calling chain are
void-returned, so it does not make much sense for 3(driver-&gt;remove)
to return non-void to its caller.

So the basic idea behind this change is making remove() callback of
any bus-based driver to be void-returned.

This change, for itself, is for device drivers based on acpi-bus.

Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König &lt;u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Lee Jones &lt;lee@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede &lt;hdegoede@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dawei Li &lt;set_pte_at@outlook.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Maximilian Luz &lt;luzmaximilian@gmail.com&gt;  # for drivers/platform/surface/*
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>platform: x86: ACPI: Get rid of ACPICA message printing</title>
<updated>2021-03-08T10:33:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-24T18:41:44+00:00</published>
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A few x86 platform drivers use ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT() or ACPI_EXCEPTION()
for printing messages, but that is questionable, because those macros
belong to ACPICA and they should not be used elsewhere.  In addition,
ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT() requires special enabling to allow it to actually
print the message, which is a nuisance, and the _COMPONENT symbol
generally needed for that is not defined in any of the files in
question.

For this reason, replace the ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT() in lg-laptop.c with
pr_debug() and the one in xo15-ebook.c with acpi_handle_debug()
(with the additional benefit that the source object can be identified
more easily after this change).

Also drop the ACPI_MODULE_NAME() definitions that are only used by
the ACPICA message printing macros from those files and from wmi.c
and surfacepro3_button.c (while at it).

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2074665.VPHYfYaQb6@kreacher
[hdegoede@redhat.com: Drop acer-wmi.c chunk, a similar patch was already merged]
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede &lt;hdegoede@redhat.com&gt;
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A few x86 platform drivers use ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT() or ACPI_EXCEPTION()
for printing messages, but that is questionable, because those macros
belong to ACPICA and they should not be used elsewhere.  In addition,
ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT() requires special enabling to allow it to actually
print the message, which is a nuisance, and the _COMPONENT symbol
generally needed for that is not defined in any of the files in
question.

For this reason, replace the ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT() in lg-laptop.c with
pr_debug() and the one in xo15-ebook.c with acpi_handle_debug()
(with the additional benefit that the source object can be identified
more easily after this change).

Also drop the ACPI_MODULE_NAME() definitions that are only used by
the ACPICA message printing macros from those files and from wmi.c
and surfacepro3_button.c (while at it).

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2074665.VPHYfYaQb6@kreacher
[hdegoede@redhat.com: Drop acer-wmi.c chunk, a similar patch was already merged]
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede &lt;hdegoede@redhat.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>platform/surface: Move Surface Pro 3 Button driver to platform/surface</title>
<updated>2020-10-27T11:51:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maximilian Luz</name>
<email>luzmaximilian@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-09T14:11:28+00:00</published>
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Move the Surface Pro 3 Button driver from platform/x86 to the newly
created platform/surface directory.

Signed-off-by: Maximilian Luz &lt;luzmaximilian@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andy.shevchenko@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Chen Yu &lt;yu.c.chen@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201009141128.683254-6-luzmaximilian@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede &lt;hdegoede@redhat.com&gt;
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Move the Surface Pro 3 Button driver from platform/x86 to the newly
created platform/surface directory.

Signed-off-by: Maximilian Luz &lt;luzmaximilian@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andy.shevchenko@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Chen Yu &lt;yu.c.chen@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201009141128.683254-6-luzmaximilian@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede &lt;hdegoede@redhat.com&gt;
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