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<title>keys: make keyring key-chunk byte order agree with keyring_diff_objects()</title>
<updated>2026-08-09T18:26:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Bommarito</name>
<email>michael.bommarito@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2026-07-19T16:15:04+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 58565eef0f8d861aae92abfb7658458d661cee17 ]

keyring_get_key_chunk() loads description bytes into the index chunk low
address first, while keyring_diff_objects() numbers the first differing
bit from the low end and folds the absolute byte index into the level
without removing the inline-prefix offset the level already carries.
The two disagree on byte order and bit position, so the array can be
told two keys first differ at a bit that does not differ in the chunk
the walker uses, letting crafted descriptions collide into one node.

Load the chunk in the order keyring_diff_objects() assumes and drop the
inline-prefix length when folding the byte index into the level.  This
only changes the in-memory ordering used to place keys within a keyring;
add, search and read of non-colliding keys are unaffected.

Fixes: f771fde82051 ("keys: Simplify key description management")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Michael Bommarito &lt;michael.bommarito@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260719161505.2423935-3-michael.bommarito@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 58565eef0f8d861aae92abfb7658458d661cee17 ]

keyring_get_key_chunk() loads description bytes into the index chunk low
address first, while keyring_diff_objects() numbers the first differing
bit from the low end and folds the absolute byte index into the level
without removing the inline-prefix offset the level already carries.
The two disagree on byte order and bit position, so the array can be
told two keys first differ at a bit that does not differ in the chunk
the walker uses, letting crafted descriptions collide into one node.

Load the chunk in the order keyring_diff_objects() assumes and drop the
inline-prefix length when folding the byte index into the level.  This
only changes the in-memory ordering used to place keys within a keyring;
add, search and read of non-colliding keys are unaffected.

Fixes: f771fde82051 ("keys: Simplify key description management")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Michael Bommarito &lt;michael.bommarito@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260719161505.2423935-3-michael.bommarito@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>keys: fix out-of-bounds read in keyring_get_key_chunk()</title>
<updated>2026-08-09T18:26:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Bommarito</name>
<email>michael.bommarito@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-07-19T16:15:03+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 63918731f9ae25b5deb022f118e941e6dddfcef4 ]

For description-level chunks keyring_get_key_chunk() advances the read
pointer by level * sizeof(long) past the inline prefix but only
bounds-checks the prefix, so a long enough key description is read past
its kmemdup(desc, desc_len + 1) allocation.  Compute the full byte
offset and bounds-check the description against it before reading.

The walk only reaches a description-level chunk when two keys collide
through the hash, x, type and domain_tag chunks, so this is reached from
an unprivileged add_key(2) with a crafted pair of same-type keys whose
index hashes collide; KASAN reports a slab-out-of-bounds read.

Fixes: f771fde82051 ("keys: Simplify key description management")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Michael Bommarito &lt;michael.bommarito@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260719161505.2423935-2-michael.bommarito@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 63918731f9ae25b5deb022f118e941e6dddfcef4 ]

For description-level chunks keyring_get_key_chunk() advances the read
pointer by level * sizeof(long) past the inline prefix but only
bounds-checks the prefix, so a long enough key description is read past
its kmemdup(desc, desc_len + 1) allocation.  Compute the full byte
offset and bounds-check the description against it before reading.

The walk only reaches a description-level chunk when two keys collide
through the hash, x, type and domain_tag chunks, so this is reached from
an unprivileged add_key(2) with a crafted pair of same-type keys whose
index hashes collide; KASAN reports a slab-out-of-bounds read.

Fixes: f771fde82051 ("keys: Simplify key description management")
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Michael Bommarito &lt;michael.bommarito@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260719161505.2423935-2-michael.bommarito@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>KEYS: trusted: dcp: fix key_len validation and calc_blob_len() return type</title>
<updated>2026-08-09T18:26:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fabrice Derepas</name>
<email>fabrice.derepas@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-07-22T16:22:30+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 35d661c98fe4733490f20b4311616a3c2c30abc0 ]

Two correctness and type-hygiene issues exist in the DCP trusted keys
implementation.

First, trusted_dcp_unseal() reads p-&gt;key_len from a user-supplied blob
without checking if it exceeds MAX_KEY_SIZE.  If a crafted blob provides a
payload_len larger than 128, the subsequent do_aead_crypto() call writes
past the end of the p-&gt;key array into the adjacent p-&gt;blob buffer within
the same struct trusted_key_payload -- the caller's own input, not
unrelated kernel memory.  While not exploitable, this violates strict array
bounds and triggers static analyzers.  Fix this by adding a validation
check against MIN_KEY_SIZE and MAX_KEY_SIZE immediately after reading the
length, matching the checks already done in trusted_core.c.

Second, calc_blob_len() calculates a sum in size_t that truncates to
unsigned int on 64-bit platforms.  Because the DCP hardware is only present
on 32-bit i.MX SoC platforms, size_t and unsigned int are functionally
equivalent in production, making this truncation harmless in practice.
Nevertheless, updating the return type to size_t (and subsequently updating
'blen' in the seal/unseal paths) resolves type-narrowing warnings and
improves overall code hygiene.

Fixes: 2e8a0f40a39c ("KEYS: trusted: Introduce NXP DCP-backed trusted keys")
Signed-off-by: Fabrice Derepas &lt;fabrice.derepas@canonical.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gstir &lt;david@sigma-star.at&gt;
Reviewed-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260719163939.3624767-1-fabrice.derepas@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 35d661c98fe4733490f20b4311616a3c2c30abc0 ]

Two correctness and type-hygiene issues exist in the DCP trusted keys
implementation.

First, trusted_dcp_unseal() reads p-&gt;key_len from a user-supplied blob
without checking if it exceeds MAX_KEY_SIZE.  If a crafted blob provides a
payload_len larger than 128, the subsequent do_aead_crypto() call writes
past the end of the p-&gt;key array into the adjacent p-&gt;blob buffer within
the same struct trusted_key_payload -- the caller's own input, not
unrelated kernel memory.  While not exploitable, this violates strict array
bounds and triggers static analyzers.  Fix this by adding a validation
check against MIN_KEY_SIZE and MAX_KEY_SIZE immediately after reading the
length, matching the checks already done in trusted_core.c.

Second, calc_blob_len() calculates a sum in size_t that truncates to
unsigned int on 64-bit platforms.  Because the DCP hardware is only present
on 32-bit i.MX SoC platforms, size_t and unsigned int are functionally
equivalent in production, making this truncation harmless in practice.
Nevertheless, updating the return type to size_t (and subsequently updating
'blen' in the seal/unseal paths) resolves type-narrowing warnings and
improves overall code hygiene.

Fixes: 2e8a0f40a39c ("KEYS: trusted: Introduce NXP DCP-backed trusted keys")
Signed-off-by: Fabrice Derepas &lt;fabrice.derepas@canonical.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Gstir &lt;david@sigma-star.at&gt;
Reviewed-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260719163939.3624767-1-fabrice.derepas@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KEYS: Use acquire when reading state in keyring search</title>
<updated>2026-07-24T14:19:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gui-Dong Han</name>
<email>hanguidong02@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-29T03:34:06+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit c1201b37f666f6466ab1fd3a381c2b7a4b7e9fee ]

The negative-key race fix added release/acquire ordering for key use.

Publish payload before state; read state before payload.

keyring_search_iterator() still uses READ_ONCE() before match callbacks.
An asymmetric match callback calls asymmetric_key_ids(), which reads
key-&gt;payload.data[asym_key_ids].

Use key_read_state() there to complete that ordering.

Fixes: 363b02dab09b ("KEYS: Fix race between updating and finding a negative key")
Signed-off-by: Gui-Dong Han &lt;hanguidong02@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260529033406.20673-1-hanguidong02@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit c1201b37f666f6466ab1fd3a381c2b7a4b7e9fee ]

The negative-key race fix added release/acquire ordering for key use.

Publish payload before state; read state before payload.

keyring_search_iterator() still uses READ_ONCE() before match callbacks.
An asymmetric match callback calls asymmetric_key_ids(), which reads
key-&gt;payload.data[asym_key_ids].

Use key_read_state() there to complete that ordering.

Fixes: 363b02dab09b ("KEYS: Fix race between updating and finding a negative key")
Signed-off-by: Gui-Dong Han &lt;hanguidong02@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260529033406.20673-1-hanguidong02@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>keys: Pin request_key_auth payload in instantiate paths</title>
<updated>2026-07-04T11:45:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shaomin Chen</name>
<email>eeesssooo020@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-10T10:10:05+00:00</published>
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commit fd15b457a86939c38aa12116adabd8ff686c5e51 upstream.

A: request_key()       B: KEYCTL_INSTANTIATE_IOV
================       =========================

create auth key
store rka in auth key
wait for helper
                       get auth key
                       load rka from auth key
                       copy user payload
                       sleep on #PF

helper completed
detach and free rka
destroy auth key
                       wake up
                       use rka-&gt;target_key
                       **USE-AFTER-FREE**

Give request_key_auth payloads a refcount.  Take a payload reference while
authkey-&gt;sem stabilizes the payload and revocation state.  Hold that
reference across the instantiate and reject paths.  Drop the auth key
owning reference from revoke and destroy.

[jarkko: Replaced the first two paragraphs of text with an actual
 concurrency scenario.]
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.10+
Fixes: b5f545c880a2 ("[PATCH] keys: Permit running process to instantiate keys")
Reported-by: Shaomin Chen &lt;eeesssooo020@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260519144403.436694-1-eeesssooo020@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Shaomin Chen &lt;eeesssooo020@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit fd15b457a86939c38aa12116adabd8ff686c5e51 upstream.

A: request_key()       B: KEYCTL_INSTANTIATE_IOV
================       =========================

create auth key
store rka in auth key
wait for helper
                       get auth key
                       load rka from auth key
                       copy user payload
                       sleep on #PF

helper completed
detach and free rka
destroy auth key
                       wake up
                       use rka-&gt;target_key
                       **USE-AFTER-FREE**

Give request_key_auth payloads a refcount.  Take a payload reference while
authkey-&gt;sem stabilizes the payload and revocation state.  Hold that
reference across the instantiate and reject paths.  Drop the auth key
owning reference from revoke and destroy.

[jarkko: Replaced the first two paragraphs of text with an actual
 concurrency scenario.]
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.10+
Fixes: b5f545c880a2 ("[PATCH] keys: Permit running process to instantiate keys")
Reported-by: Shaomin Chen &lt;eeesssooo020@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260519144403.436694-1-eeesssooo020@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Shaomin Chen &lt;eeesssooo020@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KEYS: fix overflow in keyctl_pkey_params_get_2()</title>
<updated>2026-07-04T11:45:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jarkko Sakkinen</name>
<email>jarkko@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-01T20:11:54+00:00</published>
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commit cb481e59ea6cae3b7796ac1d7a22b6b24c3f3c0b upstream.

The length for the internal output buffer is calculated incorrectly, which
can result overflow when a too small buffer is provided.

Fix the bug by allocating internal output with the size of the maximum
length of the cryptographic primitive instead of caller provided size.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/keyrings/20260531024914.3712130-1-jarkko@kernel.org/
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.20+
Fixes: 00d60fd3b932 ("KEYS: Provide keyctls to drive the new key type ops for asymmetric keys [ver #2]")
Reported-by: Alessandro Groppo &lt;ale.grpp@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Alessandro Groppo &lt;ale.grpp@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit cb481e59ea6cae3b7796ac1d7a22b6b24c3f3c0b upstream.

The length for the internal output buffer is calculated incorrectly, which
can result overflow when a too small buffer is provided.

Fix the bug by allocating internal output with the size of the maximum
length of the cryptographic primitive instead of caller provided size.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/keyrings/20260531024914.3712130-1-jarkko@kernel.org/
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.20+
Fixes: 00d60fd3b932 ("KEYS: Provide keyctls to drive the new key type ops for asymmetric keys [ver #2]")
Reported-by: Alessandro Groppo &lt;ale.grpp@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Alessandro Groppo &lt;ale.grpp@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>security/keys: fix missed RCU read section on lookup</title>
<updated>2026-05-28T18:45:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-28T18:45:41+00:00</published>
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Nicholas Carlini reports that the keyring code calls assoc_array_find()
in find_key_to_update() without holding the RCU read lock, while the
assoc_array_gc() code really is designed around removing the node from
the tree and then freeing it after an RCU grace-period.

The regular key handling doesn't see this because holding the keyring
semaphore hides any lifetime issues, but the persistent key handling
uses a different model.

Instead of extending the keyring locking, just do the simple RCU locking
that the assoc_array was designed for.

Reported-by: Nicholas Carlini &lt;npc@anthropic.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Cc: James Morris James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Nicholas Carlini reports that the keyring code calls assoc_array_find()
in find_key_to_update() without holding the RCU read lock, while the
assoc_array_gc() code really is designed around removing the node from
the tree and then freeing it after an RCU grace-period.

The regular key handling doesn't see this because holding the keyring
semaphore hides any lifetime issues, but the persistent key handling
uses a different model.

Instead of extending the keyring locking, just do the simple RCU locking
that the assoc_array was designed for.

Reported-by: Nicholas Carlini &lt;npc@anthropic.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Cc: James Morris James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</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;
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<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>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-18-19-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2026-02-19T04:50:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-19T04:50:32+00:00</published>
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Pull more MM  updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "mm/vmscan: fix demotion targets checks in reclaim/demotion" fixes a
   couple of issues in the demotion code - pages were failed demotion
   and were finding themselves demoted into disallowed nodes (Bing Jiao)

 - "Remove XA_ZERO from error recovery of dup_mmap()" fixes a rare
   mapledtree race and performs a number of cleanups (Liam Howlett)

 - "mm: add bitmap VMA flag helpers and convert all mmap_prepare to use
   them" implements a lot of cleanups following on from the conversion
   of the VMA flags into a bitmap (Lorenzo Stoakes)

 - "support batch checking of references and unmapping for large folios"
   implements batching to greatly improve the performance of reclaiming
   clean file-backed large folios (Baolin Wang)

 - "selftests/mm: add memory failure selftests" does as claimed (Miaohe
   Lin)

* tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-18-19-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (36 commits)
  mm/page_alloc: clear page-&gt;private in free_pages_prepare()
  selftests/mm: add memory failure dirty pagecache test
  selftests/mm: add memory failure clean pagecache test
  selftests/mm: add memory failure anonymous page test
  mm: rmap: support batched unmapping for file large folios
  arm64: mm: implement the architecture-specific clear_flush_young_ptes()
  arm64: mm: support batch clearing of the young flag for large folios
  arm64: mm: factor out the address and ptep alignment into a new helper
  mm: rmap: support batched checks of the references for large folios
  tools/testing/vma: add VMA userland tests for VMA flag functions
  tools/testing/vma: separate out vma_internal.h into logical headers
  tools/testing/vma: separate VMA userland tests into separate files
  mm: make vm_area_desc utilise vma_flags_t only
  mm: update all remaining mmap_prepare users to use vma_flags_t
  mm: update shmem_[kernel]_file_*() functions to use vma_flags_t
  mm: update secretmem to use VMA flags on mmap_prepare
  mm: update hugetlbfs to use VMA flags on mmap_prepare
  mm: add basic VMA flag operation helper functions
  tools: bitmap: add missing bitmap_[subset(), andnot()]
  mm: add mk_vma_flags() bitmap flag macro helper
  ...
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<pre>
Pull more MM  updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "mm/vmscan: fix demotion targets checks in reclaim/demotion" fixes a
   couple of issues in the demotion code - pages were failed demotion
   and were finding themselves demoted into disallowed nodes (Bing Jiao)

 - "Remove XA_ZERO from error recovery of dup_mmap()" fixes a rare
   mapledtree race and performs a number of cleanups (Liam Howlett)

 - "mm: add bitmap VMA flag helpers and convert all mmap_prepare to use
   them" implements a lot of cleanups following on from the conversion
   of the VMA flags into a bitmap (Lorenzo Stoakes)

 - "support batch checking of references and unmapping for large folios"
   implements batching to greatly improve the performance of reclaiming
   clean file-backed large folios (Baolin Wang)

 - "selftests/mm: add memory failure selftests" does as claimed (Miaohe
   Lin)

* tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-18-19-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (36 commits)
  mm/page_alloc: clear page-&gt;private in free_pages_prepare()
  selftests/mm: add memory failure dirty pagecache test
  selftests/mm: add memory failure clean pagecache test
  selftests/mm: add memory failure anonymous page test
  mm: rmap: support batched unmapping for file large folios
  arm64: mm: implement the architecture-specific clear_flush_young_ptes()
  arm64: mm: support batch clearing of the young flag for large folios
  arm64: mm: factor out the address and ptep alignment into a new helper
  mm: rmap: support batched checks of the references for large folios
  tools/testing/vma: add VMA userland tests for VMA flag functions
  tools/testing/vma: separate out vma_internal.h into logical headers
  tools/testing/vma: separate VMA userland tests into separate files
  mm: make vm_area_desc utilise vma_flags_t only
  mm: update all remaining mmap_prepare users to use vma_flags_t
  mm: update shmem_[kernel]_file_*() functions to use vma_flags_t
  mm: update secretmem to use VMA flags on mmap_prepare
  mm: update hugetlbfs to use VMA flags on mmap_prepare
  mm: add basic VMA flag operation helper functions
  tools: bitmap: add missing bitmap_[subset(), andnot()]
  mm: add mk_vma_flags() bitmap flag macro helper
  ...
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