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<title>parisc: drivers: switch to dynamic root device</title>
<updated>2026-04-28T15:18:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johan Hovold</name>
<email>johan@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2026-04-24T10:32:11+00:00</published>
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Driver core expects devices to be dynamically allocated and will, for
example, complain loudly if a device that lacks a release function
is ever freed.

Use root_device_register() to allocate and register the root device
instead of open coding using a static device.

While at it, drop the redundant additional reference taken at init.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold &lt;johan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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Driver core expects devices to be dynamically allocated and will, for
example, complain loudly if a device that lacks a release function
is ever freed.

Use root_device_register() to allocate and register the root device
instead of open coding using a static device.

While at it, drop the redundant additional reference taken at init.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold &lt;johan@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<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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<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>parisc: Fix module path output in qemu tables</title>
<updated>2026-02-06T23:45:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-28T14:20:25+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>parisc: Export model name for MPE/ix</title>
<updated>2026-02-06T23:45:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-28T12:31:31+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>parisc: kernel: replace kfree() with put_device() in create_tree_node()</title>
<updated>2026-02-06T23:45:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Haoxiang Li</name>
<email>lihaoxiang@isrc.iscas.ac.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-19T13:19:26+00:00</published>
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If device_register() fails, put_device() is the correct way to
drop the device reference.

Found by code review.

Fixes: 1070c9655b90 ("[PA-RISC] Fix must_check warnings in drivers.c")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Haoxiang Li &lt;lihaoxiang@isrc.iscas.ac.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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If device_register() fails, put_device() is the correct way to
drop the device reference.

Found by code review.

Fixes: 1070c9655b90 ("[PA-RISC] Fix must_check warnings in drivers.c")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Haoxiang Li &lt;lihaoxiang@isrc.iscas.ac.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<title>parisc: Drop padding fields and layers entries from inventory log</title>
<updated>2025-10-13T19:37:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-11T09:57:17+00:00</published>
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Drop those, as they are zero and not used by HPPA-SeaBIOS.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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Drop those, as they are zero and not used by HPPA-SeaBIOS.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>parisc: Fix iodc and device path return values on old machines</title>
<updated>2025-10-09T21:45:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-09T21:37:28+00:00</published>
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Older machines may not fully initialize the return values when asking for IODC
and device path data when building the inventory.  Work around possible
firmware leaks by proper initialization of the variables.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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Older machines may not fully initialize the return values when asking for IODC
and device path data when building the inventory.  Work around possible
firmware leaks by proper initialization of the variables.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>driver core: have match() callback in struct bus_type take a const *</title>
<updated>2024-07-03T13:16:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-01T12:07:37+00:00</published>
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In the match() callback, the struct device_driver * should not be
changed, so change the function callback to be a const *.  This is one
step of many towards making the driver core safe to have struct
device_driver in read-only memory.

Because the match() callback is in all busses, all busses are modified
to handle this properly.  This does entail switching some container_of()
calls to container_of_const() to properly handle the constant *.

For some busses, like PCI and USB and HV, the const * is cast away in
the match callback as those busses do want to modify those structures at
this point in time (they have a local lock in the driver structure.)
That will have to be changed in the future if they wish to have their
struct device * in read-only-memory.

Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder &lt;elder@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Sumit Garg &lt;sumit.garg@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2024070136-wrongdoer-busily-01e8@gregkh
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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In the match() callback, the struct device_driver * should not be
changed, so change the function callback to be a const *.  This is one
step of many towards making the driver core safe to have struct
device_driver in read-only memory.

Because the match() callback is in all busses, all busses are modified
to handle this properly.  This does entail switching some container_of()
calls to container_of_const() to properly handle the constant *.

For some busses, like PCI and USB and HV, the const * is cast away in
the match callback as those busses do want to modify those structures at
this point in time (they have a local lock in the driver structure.)
That will have to be changed in the future if they wish to have their
struct device * in read-only-memory.

Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder &lt;elder@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Sumit Garg &lt;sumit.garg@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2024070136-wrongdoer-busily-01e8@gregkh
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>parisc: make parisc_bus_type const</title>
<updated>2024-02-27T21:51:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ricardo B. Marliere</name>
<email>ricardo@marliere.net</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-13T14:38:02+00:00</published>
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Since commit d492cc2573a0 ("driver core: device.h: make struct
bus_type a const *"), the driver core can properly handle constant
struct bus_type, move the parisc_bus_type variable to be a constant
structure as well, placing it into read-only memory which can not be
modified at runtime.

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ricardo B. Marliere &lt;ricardo@marliere.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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Since commit d492cc2573a0 ("driver core: device.h: make struct
bus_type a const *"), the driver core can properly handle constant
struct bus_type, move the parisc_bus_type variable to be a constant
structure as well, placing it into read-only memory which can not be
modified at runtime.

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ricardo B. Marliere &lt;ricardo@marliere.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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