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<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<title>drbd: use get_random_u64() where appropriate</title>
<updated>2026-04-07T12:27:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Carlier</name>
<email>devnexen@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-05T15:47:04+00:00</published>
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Use the typed random integer helpers instead of
get_random_bytes() when filling a single integer variable.
The helpers return the value directly, require no pointer
or size argument, and better express intent.

Signed-off-by: David Carlier &lt;devnexen@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Böhmwalder &lt;christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260405154704.4610-1-devnexen@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Use the typed random integer helpers instead of
get_random_bytes() when filling a single integer variable.
The helpers return the value directly, require no pointer
or size argument, and better express intent.

Signed-off-by: David Carlier &lt;devnexen@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Böhmwalder &lt;christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260405154704.4610-1-devnexen@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>drbd: remove DRBD_GENLA_F_MANDATORY flag handling</title>
<updated>2026-04-07T02:21:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Böhmwalder</name>
<email>christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-03T13:29:53+00:00</published>
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DRBD used a custom mechanism to mark netlink attributes as "mandatory":
bit 14 of nla_type was repurposed as DRBD_GENLA_F_MANDATORY. Attributes
sent from userspace that had this bit present and that were unknown
to the kernel would lead to an error.

Since commit ef6243acb478 ("genetlink: optionally validate strictly/dumps"),
the generic netlink layer rejects unknown top-level attributes when
strict validation is enabled. DRBD never opted out of strict
validation, so unknown top-level attributes are already rejected by
the netlink core.

The mandatory flag mechanism was required for nested attributes, because
these are parsed liberally, silently dropping attributes unknown to the
kernel.

This prepares for the move to a new YNL-based family, which will use the
now-default strict parsing.
The current family is not expected to gain any new attributes, which
makes this change safe.

Old userspace that still sets bit 14 is unaffected: nla_type()
strips it before __nla_validate_parse() performs attribute validation,
so the bit never reaches DRBD.

Remove all references to the mandatory flag in DRBD.

Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Böhmwalder &lt;christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260403132953.2248751-1-christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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DRBD used a custom mechanism to mark netlink attributes as "mandatory":
bit 14 of nla_type was repurposed as DRBD_GENLA_F_MANDATORY. Attributes
sent from userspace that had this bit present and that were unknown
to the kernel would lead to an error.

Since commit ef6243acb478 ("genetlink: optionally validate strictly/dumps"),
the generic netlink layer rejects unknown top-level attributes when
strict validation is enabled. DRBD never opted out of strict
validation, so unknown top-level attributes are already rejected by
the netlink core.

The mandatory flag mechanism was required for nested attributes, because
these are parsed liberally, silently dropping attributes unknown to the
kernel.

This prepares for the move to a new YNL-based family, which will use the
now-default strict parsing.
The current family is not expected to gain any new attributes, which
makes this change safe.

Old userspace that still sets bit 14 is unaffected: nla_type()
strips it before __nla_validate_parse() performs attribute validation,
so the bit never reaches DRBD.

Remove all references to the mandatory flag in DRBD.

Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Böhmwalder &lt;christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260403132953.2248751-1-christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>drbd: Balance RCU calls in drbd_adm_dump_devices()</title>
<updated>2026-03-26T22:04:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bart Van Assche</name>
<email>bvanassche@acm.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-26T21:40:54+00:00</published>
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Make drbd_adm_dump_devices() call rcu_read_lock() before
rcu_read_unlock() is called. This has been detected by the Clang
thread-safety analyzer.

Tested-by: Christoph Böhmwalder &lt;christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: a55bbd375d18 ("drbd: Backport the "status" command")
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326214054.284593-1-bvanassche@acm.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Make drbd_adm_dump_devices() call rcu_read_lock() before
rcu_read_unlock() is called. This has been detected by the Clang
thread-safety analyzer.

Tested-by: Christoph Böhmwalder &lt;christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher &lt;agruenba@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: a55bbd375d18 ("drbd: Backport the "status" command")
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326214054.284593-1-bvanassche@acm.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>drbd: use genl pre_doit/post_doit</title>
<updated>2026-03-25T13:11:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Böhmwalder</name>
<email>christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-24T15:29:07+00:00</published>
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Every doit handler followed the same pattern: stack-allocate an
adm_ctx, call drbd_adm_prepare() at the top, call drbd_adm_finish()
at the bottom. This duplicated boilerplate across 25 handlers and
made error paths inconsistent, since some handlers could miss sending
the reply skb on early-exit paths.

The generic netlink framework already provides pre_doit/post_doit
hooks for exactly this purpose. An old comment even noted "this
would be a good candidate for a pre_doit hook".

Use them:

- pre_doit heap-allocates adm_ctx, looks up per-command flags from a
  new drbd_genl_cmd_flags[] table, runs drbd_adm_prepare(), and
  stores the context in info-&gt;user_ptr[0].
- post_doit sends the reply, drops kref references for
  device/connection/resource, and frees the adm_ctx.
- Handlers just receive adm_ctx from info-&gt;user_ptr[0], set
  reply_dh-&gt;ret_code, and return. All teardown is in post_doit.
- drbd_adm_finish() is removed, superseded by post_doit.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Böhmwalder &lt;christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260324152907.2840984-1-christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Every doit handler followed the same pattern: stack-allocate an
adm_ctx, call drbd_adm_prepare() at the top, call drbd_adm_finish()
at the bottom. This duplicated boilerplate across 25 handlers and
made error paths inconsistent, since some handlers could miss sending
the reply skb on early-exit paths.

The generic netlink framework already provides pre_doit/post_doit
hooks for exactly this purpose. An old comment even noted "this
would be a good candidate for a pre_doit hook".

Use them:

- pre_doit heap-allocates adm_ctx, looks up per-command flags from a
  new drbd_genl_cmd_flags[] table, runs drbd_adm_prepare(), and
  stores the context in info-&gt;user_ptr[0].
- post_doit sends the reply, drops kref references for
  device/connection/resource, and frees the adm_ctx.
- Handlers just receive adm_ctx from info-&gt;user_ptr[0], set
  reply_dh-&gt;ret_code, and return. All teardown is in post_doit.
- drbd_adm_finish() is removed, superseded by post_doit.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Böhmwalder &lt;christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260324152907.2840984-1-christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'block-7.0-20260227' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux</title>
<updated>2026-02-27T18:42:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-27T18:42:02+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Pull block fixes from Jens Axboe:
 "Two sets of fixes, one for drbd, and one for the zoned loop driver"

* tag 'block-7.0-20260227' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux:
  zloop: check for spurious options passed to remove
  zloop: advertise a volatile write cache
  drbd: fix null-pointer dereference on local read error
  drbd: Replace deprecated strcpy with strscpy
  drbd: fix "LOGIC BUG" in drbd_al_begin_io_nonblock()
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Pull block fixes from Jens Axboe:
 "Two sets of fixes, one for drbd, and one for the zoned loop driver"

* tag 'block-7.0-20260227' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux:
  zloop: check for spurious options passed to remove
  zloop: advertise a volatile write cache
  drbd: fix null-pointer dereference on local read error
  drbd: Replace deprecated strcpy with strscpy
  drbd: fix "LOGIC BUG" in drbd_al_begin_io_nonblock()
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00</published>
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This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines.  I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.

Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script.  I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.

So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.

The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines.  I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.

Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script.  I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.

So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.

The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</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;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<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;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>drbd: fix null-pointer dereference on local read error</title>
<updated>2026-02-20T14:09:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Böhmwalder</name>
<email>christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-20T11:39:37+00:00</published>
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In drbd_request_endio(), READ_COMPLETED_WITH_ERROR is passed to
__req_mod() with a NULL peer_device:

  __req_mod(req, what, NULL, &amp;m);

The READ_COMPLETED_WITH_ERROR handler then unconditionally passes this
NULL peer_device to drbd_set_out_of_sync(), which dereferences it,
causing a null-pointer dereference.

Fix this by obtaining the peer_device via first_peer_device(device),
matching how drbd_req_destroy() handles the same situation.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Tuo Li &lt;islituo@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20260104165355.151864-1-islituo@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christoph Böhmwalder &lt;christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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In drbd_request_endio(), READ_COMPLETED_WITH_ERROR is passed to
__req_mod() with a NULL peer_device:

  __req_mod(req, what, NULL, &amp;m);

The READ_COMPLETED_WITH_ERROR handler then unconditionally passes this
NULL peer_device to drbd_set_out_of_sync(), which dereferences it,
causing a null-pointer dereference.

Fix this by obtaining the peer_device via first_peer_device(device),
matching how drbd_req_destroy() handles the same situation.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Tuo Li &lt;islituo@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/20260104165355.151864-1-islituo@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christoph Böhmwalder &lt;christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>drbd: Replace deprecated strcpy with strscpy</title>
<updated>2026-02-19T15:22:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thorsten Blum</name>
<email>thorsten.blum@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-12T17:04:12+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]
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum &lt;thorsten.blum@linux.dev&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Böhmwalder &lt;christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&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]
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum &lt;thorsten.blum@linux.dev&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Böhmwalder &lt;christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
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