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<title>string: add mem_is_zero() helper to check if memory area is all zeros</title>
<updated>2026-06-01T15:35:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jani Nikula</name>
<email>jani.nikula@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-14T10:00:34+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 3942bb49728ad9e1f94d953a88af169a8f5d8099 ]

Almost two thirds of the memchr_inv() usages check if the memory area is
all zeros, with no interest in where in the buffer the first non-zero
byte is located. Checking for !memchr_inv(s, 0, n) is also not very
intuitive or discoverable. Add an explicit mem_is_zero() helper for this
use case.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andy@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20240814100035.3100852-1-jani.nikula@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@intel.com&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 3e6ccd790ed6 ("gpio: cdev: check if uAPI v2 config attributes are correctly zeroed")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 3942bb49728ad9e1f94d953a88af169a8f5d8099 ]

Almost two thirds of the memchr_inv() usages check if the memory area is
all zeros, with no interest in where in the buffer the first non-zero
byte is located. Checking for !memchr_inv(s, 0, n) is also not very
intuitive or discoverable. Add an explicit mem_is_zero() helper for this
use case.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andy@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20240814100035.3100852-1-jani.nikula@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@intel.com&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 3e6ccd790ed6 ("gpio: cdev: check if uAPI v2 config attributes are correctly zeroed")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>device property: set fwnode-&gt;secondary to NULL in fwnode_init()</title>
<updated>2026-06-01T15:35:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bartosz Golaszewski</name>
<email>bartosz.golaszewski@oss.qualcomm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-06T11:57:00+00:00</published>
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commit 215c90ee656114f5e8c32408228d97082f8e0eef upstream.

If a firmware node is allocated on the stack (for instance: temporary
software node whose life-time we control) or on the heap - but using a
non-zeroing allocation function - and initialized using fwnode_init(),
its secondary pointer will contain uninitalized memory which likely will
be neither NULL nor IS_ERR() and so may end up being dereferenced (for
example: in dev_to_swnode()). Set fwnode-&gt;secondary to NULL on
initialization.

Cc: stable &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 01bb86b380a3 ("driver core: Add fwnode_init()")
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski &lt;bartosz.golaszewski@oss.qualcomm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel) &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sakari Ailus &lt;sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260506115701.23035-1-bartosz.golaszewski@oss.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 215c90ee656114f5e8c32408228d97082f8e0eef upstream.

If a firmware node is allocated on the stack (for instance: temporary
software node whose life-time we control) or on the heap - but using a
non-zeroing allocation function - and initialized using fwnode_init(),
its secondary pointer will contain uninitalized memory which likely will
be neither NULL nor IS_ERR() and so may end up being dereferenced (for
example: in dev_to_swnode()). Set fwnode-&gt;secondary to NULL on
initialization.

Cc: stable &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 01bb86b380a3 ("driver core: Add fwnode_init()")
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski &lt;bartosz.golaszewski@oss.qualcomm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel) &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sakari Ailus &lt;sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260506115701.23035-1-bartosz.golaszewski@oss.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>SUNRPC: Do not dereference non-socket transports in sysfs</title>
<updated>2026-06-01T15:35:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Trond Myklebust</name>
<email>trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-25T14:37:31+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 421ab1be43bd015ffe744f4ea25df4f19d1ce6fe ]

Do not cast the struct xprt to a sock_xprt unless we know it is a UDP or
TCP transport. Otherwise the call to lock the mutex will scribble over
whatever structure is actually there. This has been seen to cause hard
system lockups when the underlying transport was RDMA.

Fixes: b49ea673e119 ("SUNRPC: lock against -&gt;sock changing during sysfs read")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 421ab1be43bd015ffe744f4ea25df4f19d1ce6fe ]

Do not cast the struct xprt to a sock_xprt unless we know it is a UDP or
TCP transport. Otherwise the call to lock the mutex will scribble over
whatever structure is actually there. This has been seen to cause hard
system lockups when the underlying transport was RDMA.

Fixes: b49ea673e119 ("SUNRPC: lock against -&gt;sock changing during sysfs read")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cdrom, scsi: sr: propagate read-only status to block layer via set_disk_ro()</title>
<updated>2026-06-01T15:35:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daan De Meyer</name>
<email>daan@amutable.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-27T21:01:39+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 0898a817621a2f0cddca8122d9b974003fe5036d ]

The cdrom core never calls set_disk_ro() for a registered device, so
BLKROGET on a CD-ROM device always returns 0 (writable), even when the
drive has no write capabilities and writes will inevitably fail. This
causes problems for userspace that relies on BLKROGET to determine
whether a block device is read-only. For example, systemd's loop device
setup uses BLKROGET to decide whether to create a loop device with
LO_FLAGS_READ_ONLY. Without the read-only flag, writes pass through the
loop device to the CD-ROM and fail with I/O errors. systemd-fsck
similarly checks BLKROGET to decide whether to run fsck in no-repair
mode (-n).

The write-capability bits in cdi-&gt;mask come from two different sources:
CDC_DVD_RAM and CDC_CD_RW are populated by the driver from the MODE
SENSE capabilities page (page 0x2A) before register_cdrom() is called,
while CDC_MRW_W and CDC_RAM require the MMC GET CONFIGURATION command
and were only probed by cdrom_open_write() at device open time. This
meant that any attempt to compute the writable state from the full
mask at probe time was incorrect, because the GET CONFIGURATION bits
were still unset (and cdi-&gt;mask is initialized such that capabilities
are assumed present).

Fix this by factoring the GET CONFIGURATION probing out of
cdrom_open_write() into a new exported helper,
cdrom_probe_write_features(), and having sr call it from sr_probe()
right after get_capabilities() has populated the MODE SENSE bits.
register_cdrom() then calls set_disk_ro() based on the full
write-capability mask (CDC_DVD_RAM | CDC_MRW_W | CDC_RAM | CDC_CD_RW)
so the block layer reflects the drive's actual write support. The
feature queries used (CDF_MRW and CDF_RWRT via GET CONFIGURATION with
RT=00) report drive-level capabilities that are persistent across
media, so a single probe before register_cdrom() is sufficient and the
redundant probe at open time is dropped.

With set_disk_ro() now accurate, the long-vestigial cd-&gt;writeable flag
in sr can go: get_capabilities() used to set cd-&gt;writeable based on
the same four mask bits, but because CDC_MRW_W and CDC_RAM default to
"capability present" in cdi-&gt;mask and aren't touched by MODE SENSE,
the condition that gated cd-&gt;writeable was always true, making it
unconditionally 1. Replace the corresponding gate in sr_init_command()
with get_disk_ro(cd-&gt;disk), which turns a previously no-op check into
a real one and also catches kernel-internal bio writers that bypass
blkdev_write_iter()'s bdev_read_only() check.

The sd driver (SCSI disks) does not have this problem because it
checks the MODE SENSE Write Protect bit and calls set_disk_ro()
accordingly. The sr driver cannot use the same approach because the
MMC specification does not define the WP bit in the MODE SENSE
device-specific parameter byte for CD-ROM devices.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Daan De Meyer &lt;daan@amutable.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Phillip Potter &lt;phil@philpotter.co.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Phillip Potter &lt;phil@philpotter.co.uk&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260427210139.1400-2-phil@philpotter.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 0898a817621a2f0cddca8122d9b974003fe5036d ]

The cdrom core never calls set_disk_ro() for a registered device, so
BLKROGET on a CD-ROM device always returns 0 (writable), even when the
drive has no write capabilities and writes will inevitably fail. This
causes problems for userspace that relies on BLKROGET to determine
whether a block device is read-only. For example, systemd's loop device
setup uses BLKROGET to decide whether to create a loop device with
LO_FLAGS_READ_ONLY. Without the read-only flag, writes pass through the
loop device to the CD-ROM and fail with I/O errors. systemd-fsck
similarly checks BLKROGET to decide whether to run fsck in no-repair
mode (-n).

The write-capability bits in cdi-&gt;mask come from two different sources:
CDC_DVD_RAM and CDC_CD_RW are populated by the driver from the MODE
SENSE capabilities page (page 0x2A) before register_cdrom() is called,
while CDC_MRW_W and CDC_RAM require the MMC GET CONFIGURATION command
and were only probed by cdrom_open_write() at device open time. This
meant that any attempt to compute the writable state from the full
mask at probe time was incorrect, because the GET CONFIGURATION bits
were still unset (and cdi-&gt;mask is initialized such that capabilities
are assumed present).

Fix this by factoring the GET CONFIGURATION probing out of
cdrom_open_write() into a new exported helper,
cdrom_probe_write_features(), and having sr call it from sr_probe()
right after get_capabilities() has populated the MODE SENSE bits.
register_cdrom() then calls set_disk_ro() based on the full
write-capability mask (CDC_DVD_RAM | CDC_MRW_W | CDC_RAM | CDC_CD_RW)
so the block layer reflects the drive's actual write support. The
feature queries used (CDF_MRW and CDF_RWRT via GET CONFIGURATION with
RT=00) report drive-level capabilities that are persistent across
media, so a single probe before register_cdrom() is sufficient and the
redundant probe at open time is dropped.

With set_disk_ro() now accurate, the long-vestigial cd-&gt;writeable flag
in sr can go: get_capabilities() used to set cd-&gt;writeable based on
the same four mask bits, but because CDC_MRW_W and CDC_RAM default to
"capability present" in cdi-&gt;mask and aren't touched by MODE SENSE,
the condition that gated cd-&gt;writeable was always true, making it
unconditionally 1. Replace the corresponding gate in sr_init_command()
with get_disk_ro(cd-&gt;disk), which turns a previously no-op check into
a real one and also catches kernel-internal bio writers that bypass
blkdev_write_iter()'s bdev_read_only() check.

The sd driver (SCSI disks) does not have this problem because it
checks the MODE SENSE Write Protect bit and calls set_disk_ro()
accordingly. The sr driver cannot use the same approach because the
MMC specification does not define the WP bit in the MODE SENSE
device-specific parameter byte for CD-ROM devices.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Daan De Meyer &lt;daan@amutable.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Phillip Potter &lt;phil@philpotter.co.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Phillip Potter &lt;phil@philpotter.co.uk&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260427210139.1400-2-phil@philpotter.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>pppoe: drop PFC frames</title>
<updated>2026-06-01T15:35:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Qingfang Deng</name>
<email>qingfang.deng@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-15T02:24:51+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit cc1ff87bce1ccd38410ab10960f576dcd17db679 ]

RFC 2516 Section 7 states that Protocol Field Compression (PFC) is NOT
RECOMMENDED for PPPoE. In practice, pppd does not support negotiating
PFC for PPPoE sessions, and the current PPPoE driver assumes an
uncompressed (2-byte) protocol field. However, the generic PPP layer
function ppp_input() is not aware of the negotiation result, and still
accepts PFC frames.

If a peer with a broken implementation or an attacker sends a frame with
a compressed (1-byte) protocol field, the subsequent PPP payload is
shifted by one byte. This causes the network header to be 4-byte
misaligned, which may trigger unaligned access exceptions on some
architectures.

To reduce the attack surface, drop PPPoE PFC frames. Introduce
ppp_skb_is_compressed_proto() helper function to be used in both
ppp_generic.c and pppoe.c to avoid open-coding.

Fixes: 7fb1b8ca8fa1 ("ppp: Move PFC decompression to PPP generic layer")
Signed-off-by: Qingfang Deng &lt;qingfang.deng@linux.dev&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260415022456.141758-2-qingfang.deng@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit cc1ff87bce1ccd38410ab10960f576dcd17db679 ]

RFC 2516 Section 7 states that Protocol Field Compression (PFC) is NOT
RECOMMENDED for PPPoE. In practice, pppd does not support negotiating
PFC for PPPoE sessions, and the current PPPoE driver assumes an
uncompressed (2-byte) protocol field. However, the generic PPP layer
function ppp_input() is not aware of the negotiation result, and still
accepts PFC frames.

If a peer with a broken implementation or an attacker sends a frame with
a compressed (1-byte) protocol field, the subsequent PPP payload is
shifted by one byte. This causes the network header to be 4-byte
misaligned, which may trigger unaligned access exceptions on some
architectures.

To reduce the attack surface, drop PPPoE PFC frames. Introduce
ppp_skb_is_compressed_proto() helper function to be used in both
ppp_generic.c and pppoe.c to avoid open-coding.

Fixes: 7fb1b8ca8fa1 ("ppp: Move PFC decompression to PPP generic layer")
Signed-off-by: Qingfang Deng &lt;qingfang.deng@linux.dev&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260415022456.141758-2-qingfang.deng@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>flow_dissector: Add PPPoE dissectors</title>
<updated>2026-06-01T15:35:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wojciech Drewek</name>
<email>wojciech.drewek@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-18T12:18:10+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 46126db9c86110e5fc1e369b9bb89735ddefdae4 ]

Allow to dissect PPPoE specific fields which are:
- session ID (16 bits)
- ppp protocol (16 bits)
- type (16 bits) - this is PPPoE ethertype, for now only
  ETH_P_PPP_SES is supported, possible ETH_P_PPP_DISC
  in the future

The goal is to make the following TC command possible:

  # tc filter add dev ens6f0 ingress prio 1 protocol ppp_ses \
      flower \
        pppoe_sid 12 \
        ppp_proto ip \
      action drop

Note that only PPPoE Session is supported.

Signed-off-by: Wojciech Drewek &lt;wojciech.drewek@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Guillaume Nault &lt;gnault@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen &lt;anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com&gt;
Stable-dep-of: cc1ff87bce1c ("pppoe: drop PFC frames")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 46126db9c86110e5fc1e369b9bb89735ddefdae4 ]

Allow to dissect PPPoE specific fields which are:
- session ID (16 bits)
- ppp protocol (16 bits)
- type (16 bits) - this is PPPoE ethertype, for now only
  ETH_P_PPP_SES is supported, possible ETH_P_PPP_DISC
  in the future

The goal is to make the following TC command possible:

  # tc filter add dev ens6f0 ingress prio 1 protocol ppp_ses \
      flower \
        pppoe_sid 12 \
        ppp_proto ip \
      action drop

Note that only PPPoE Session is supported.

Signed-off-by: Wojciech Drewek &lt;wojciech.drewek@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Guillaume Nault &lt;gnault@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen &lt;anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com&gt;
Stable-dep-of: cc1ff87bce1c ("pppoe: drop PFC frames")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>lib/hexdump: print_hex_dump_bytes() calls print_hex_dump_debug()</title>
<updated>2026-06-01T15:35:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Geert Uytterhoeven</name>
<email>geert+renesas@glider.be</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-31T15:21:43+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 36776b7f8a8955b4e75b5d490a75fee0c7a2a7ef ]

print_hex_dump_bytes() claims to be a simple wrapper around
print_hex_dump(), but it actally calls print_hex_dump_debug(), which
means no output is printed if (dynamic) DEBUG is disabled.

Update the documentation to match the implementation.

Fixes: 091cb0994edd20d6 ("lib/hexdump: make print_hex_dump_bytes() a nop on !DEBUG builds")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/3d5c3069fd9102ecaf81d044b750cd613eb72a08.1774970392.git.geert+renesas@glider.be
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 36776b7f8a8955b4e75b5d490a75fee0c7a2a7ef ]

print_hex_dump_bytes() claims to be a simple wrapper around
print_hex_dump(), but it actally calls print_hex_dump_debug(), which
means no output is printed if (dynamic) DEBUG is disabled.

Update the documentation to match the implementation.

Fixes: 091cb0994edd20d6 ("lib/hexdump: make print_hex_dump_bytes() a nop on !DEBUG builds")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/3d5c3069fd9102ecaf81d044b750cd613eb72a08.1774970392.git.geert+renesas@glider.be
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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<title>dev_printk: add new dev_err_probe() helpers</title>
<updated>2026-06-01T15:35:35+00:00</updated>
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<name>Nuno Sa</name>
<email>nuno.sa@analog.com</email>
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<published>2024-06-06T07:22:37+00:00</published>
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This is similar to dev_err_probe() but for cases where an ERR_PTR() or
ERR_CAST() is to be returned simplifying patterns like:

	dev_err_probe(dev, ret, ...);
	return ERR_PTR(ret)
or
	dev_err_probe(dev, PTR_ERR(ptr), ...);
	return ERR_CAST(ptr)

Signed-off-by: Nuno Sa &lt;nuno.sa@analog.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240606-dev-add_dev_errp_probe-v3-1-51bb229edd79@analog.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron &lt;Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 797cc011ae02 ("backlight: sky81452-backlight: Check return value of devm_gpiod_get_optional() in sky81452_bl_parse_dt()")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit dbbe7eaf0e4795bf003ac06872aaf52b6b6b1310 ]

This is similar to dev_err_probe() but for cases where an ERR_PTR() or
ERR_CAST() is to be returned simplifying patterns like:

	dev_err_probe(dev, ret, ...);
	return ERR_PTR(ret)
or
	dev_err_probe(dev, PTR_ERR(ptr), ...);
	return ERR_CAST(ptr)

Signed-off-by: Nuno Sa &lt;nuno.sa@analog.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240606-dev-add_dev_errp_probe-v3-1-51bb229edd79@analog.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron &lt;Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 797cc011ae02 ("backlight: sky81452-backlight: Check return value of devm_gpiod_get_optional() in sky81452_bl_parse_dt()")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>driver core: Move dev_err_probe() to where it belogs</title>
<updated>2026-06-01T15:35:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Shevchenko</name>
<email>andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-21T13:13:09+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 9e0cace7a6254070159ebd86497eadc29ea307ca ]

dev_err_probe() belongs to the printing API, hence
move the definition from device.h to dev_printk.h.

There is no change to the callers at all, since:
1) implementation is located in the same core.c;
2) dev_printk.h is guaranteed to be included by device.h.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andi Shyti &lt;andi.shyti@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230721131309.16821-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 797cc011ae02 ("backlight: sky81452-backlight: Check return value of devm_gpiod_get_optional() in sky81452_bl_parse_dt()")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 9e0cace7a6254070159ebd86497eadc29ea307ca ]

dev_err_probe() belongs to the printing API, hence
move the definition from device.h to dev_printk.h.

There is no change to the callers at all, since:
1) implementation is located in the same core.c;
2) dev_printk.h is guaranteed to be included by device.h.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andi Shyti &lt;andi.shyti@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230721131309.16821-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 797cc011ae02 ("backlight: sky81452-backlight: Check return value of devm_gpiod_get_optional() in sky81452_bl_parse_dt()")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>driver core: device.h: remove extern from function prototypes</title>
<updated>2026-06-01T15:35:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-24T12:27:06+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit f43243c66e5e9ad839d235f82a58e73a7e7612af ]

The kernel coding style does not require 'extern' in function prototypes
in .h files, so remove them from include/linux/device.h as they are not
needed.

Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230324122711.2664537-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 797cc011ae02 ("backlight: sky81452-backlight: Check return value of devm_gpiod_get_optional() in sky81452_bl_parse_dt()")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit f43243c66e5e9ad839d235f82a58e73a7e7612af ]

The kernel coding style does not require 'extern' in function prototypes
in .h files, so remove them from include/linux/device.h as they are not
needed.

Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230324122711.2664537-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Stable-dep-of: 797cc011ae02 ("backlight: sky81452-backlight: Check return value of devm_gpiod_get_optional() in sky81452_bl_parse_dt()")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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