linux-stable.git/kernel/debug, branch master

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

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

Merge tag 'spdx-7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/spdx

2026-02-17T17:46:03+00:00

Pull SPDX updates from Greg KH:
 "Here are two small changes that add some missing SPDX license lines to
  some core kernel files. These are:

   - adding SPDX license lines to kdb files

   - adding SPDX license lines to the remaining kernel/ files

  Both of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'spdx-7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/spdx:
  kernel: debug: Add SPDX license ids to kdb files
  kernel: add SPDX-License-Identifier lines

kernel: debug: Add SPDX license ids to kdb files

2026-01-27T14:57:20+00:00

Add GPL-2.0 license id to some files related to kdb and kgdb,
replacing references to GPL or COPYING.

These files were introduced into the kernel in 2008 and 2010.

Signed-off-by: Tim Bird 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kernel.h: drop hex.h and update all hex.h users

2026-01-21T03:44:19+00:00

Remove  from  and update all users/callers of
hex.h interfaces to directly #include  as part of the process
of putting kernel.h on a diet.

Removing hex.h from kernel.h means that 36K C source files don't have to
pay the price of parsing hex.h for the roughly 120 C source files that
need it.

This change has been build-tested with allmodconfig on most ARCHes.  Also,
all users/callers of  in the entire source tree have been
updated if needed (if not already #included).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251215005206.2362276-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

kdb: Adapt kdb_msg_write to work with NBCON consoles

2025-10-24T10:56:20+00:00

Function kdb_msg_write was calling con->write for any found console,
but it won't work on NBCON consoles. In this case we should acquire the
ownership of the console using NBCON_PRIO_EMERGENCY, since printing
kdb messages should only be interrupted by a panic.

At this point, the console is required to use the atomic callback. The
console is skipped if the write_atomic callback is not set or if the
context could not be acquired. The validation of NBCON is done by the
console_is_usable helper. The context is released right after
write_atomic finishes.

The oops_in_progress handling is only needed in the legacy consoles,
so it was moved around the con->write callback.

Suggested-by: Petr Mladek 
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek 
Reviewed-by: John Ogness 
Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza 
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251016-nbcon-kgdboc-v6-5-866aac60a80e@suse.com
[pmladek@suse.com: Fixed compilation with !CONFIG_PRINTK.]
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek

kdb: remove redundant check for scancode 0xe0

2025-09-20T20:19:09+00:00

The check for scancode 0xe0 is always false because earlier on
the scan code is masked with 0x7f so there are never going to
be values greater than 0x7f. Remove the redundant check.

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King 
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson 
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson (RISCstar)

kdb: Replace deprecated strcpy() with helper function in kdb_defcmd()

2025-09-20T18:56:28+00:00

strcpy() is deprecated; use the new helper function kdb_strdup_dequote()
instead. In addition to string duplication similar to kdb_strdup(), it
also trims surrounding quotes from the input string if present.

kdb_strdup_dequote() also checks for a trailing quote in the input
string which was previously not checked.

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/88
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson 
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum 
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson (RISCstar)

kdb: Replace deprecated strcpy() with memcpy() in parse_grep()

2025-09-20T18:56:28+00:00

strcpy() is deprecated; use memcpy() instead.

We can safely use memcpy() because we already know the length of the
source string 'cp' and that it is guaranteed to be NUL-terminated within
the first KDB_GREP_STRLEN bytes.

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/88
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson 
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum 
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson (RISCstar)

kdb: Replace deprecated strcpy() with memmove() in vkdb_printf()

2025-09-20T18:56:28+00:00

strcpy() is deprecated and its behavior is undefined when the source and
destination buffers overlap. Use memmove() instead to avoid any
undefined behavior.

Adjust comments for clarity.

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/88
Fixes: 5d5314d6795f ("kdb: core for kgdb back end (1 of 2)")
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson 
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum 
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson (RISCstar)

kdb: Replace deprecated strcpy() with memcpy() in kdb_strdup()

2025-09-20T18:56:28+00:00

strcpy() is deprecated; use memcpy() instead.

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/88
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson 
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum 
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson (RISCstar)