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<title>linux.git/drivers/block, branch v7.0-rc2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<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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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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<entry>
<title>zloop: check for spurious options passed to remove</title>
<updated>2026-02-24T21:50:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-24T14:21:45+00:00</published>
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Zloop uses a command option parser for all control commands,
but most options are only valid for adding a new device.  Check
for incorrectly specified options in the remove handler.

Fixes: eb0570c7df23 ("block: new zoned loop block device driver")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Zloop uses a command option parser for all control commands,
but most options are only valid for adding a new device.  Check
for incorrectly specified options in the remove handler.

Fixes: eb0570c7df23 ("block: new zoned loop block device driver")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<title>zloop: advertise a volatile write cache</title>
<updated>2026-02-24T21:50:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-24T14:21:44+00:00</published>
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Zloop is file system backed and thus needs to sync the underlying file
system to persist data.  Set BLK_FEAT_WRITE_CACHE so that the block
layer actually send flush commands, and fix the flush implementation
as sync_filesystem requires s_umount to be held and the code currently
misses that.

Fixes: eb0570c7df23 ("block: new zoned loop block device driver")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Zloop is file system backed and thus needs to sync the underlying file
system to persist data.  Set BLK_FEAT_WRITE_CACHE so that the block
layer actually send flush commands, and fix the flush implementation
as sync_filesystem requires s_umount to be held and the code currently
misses that.

Fixes: eb0570c7df23 ("block: new zoned loop block device driver")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal &lt;dlemoal@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Convert remaining multi-line kmalloc_obj/flex GFP_KERNEL uses</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T16:26:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T07:46:04+00:00</published>
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Conversion performed via this Coccinelle script:

  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
  // Options: --include-headers-for-types --all-includes --include-headers --keep-comments
  virtual patch

  @gfp depends on patch &amp;&amp; !(file in "tools") &amp;&amp; !(file in "samples")@
  identifier ALLOC = {kmalloc_obj,kmalloc_objs,kmalloc_flex,
 		    kzalloc_obj,kzalloc_objs,kzalloc_flex,
		    kvmalloc_obj,kvmalloc_objs,kvmalloc_flex,
		    kvzalloc_obj,kvzalloc_objs,kvzalloc_flex};
  @@

  	ALLOC(...
  -		, GFP_KERNEL
  	)

  $ make coccicheck MODE=patch COCCI=gfp.cocci

Build and boot tested x86_64 with Fedora 42's GCC and Clang:

Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20260123 (Red Hat 15.2.1-7), GNU ld version 2.44-12.fc42) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01
Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (clang version 20.1.8 (Fedora 20.1.8-4.fc42), LLD 20.1.8) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Conversion performed via this Coccinelle script:

  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
  // Options: --include-headers-for-types --all-includes --include-headers --keep-comments
  virtual patch

  @gfp depends on patch &amp;&amp; !(file in "tools") &amp;&amp; !(file in "samples")@
  identifier ALLOC = {kmalloc_obj,kmalloc_objs,kmalloc_flex,
 		    kzalloc_obj,kzalloc_objs,kzalloc_flex,
		    kvmalloc_obj,kvmalloc_objs,kvmalloc_flex,
		    kvzalloc_obj,kvzalloc_objs,kvzalloc_flex};
  @@

  	ALLOC(...
  -		, GFP_KERNEL
  	)

  $ make coccicheck MODE=patch COCCI=gfp.cocci

Build and boot tested x86_64 with Fedora 42's GCC and Clang:

Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20260123 (Red Hat 15.2.1-7), GNU ld version 2.44-12.fc42) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01
Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (clang version 20.1.8 (Fedora 20.1.8-4.fc42), LLD 20.1.8) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_flex' 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>2026-02-22T01:06:51+00:00</published>
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This is the exact same thing as the 'alloc_obj()' version, only much
smaller because there are a lot fewer users of the *alloc_flex()
interface.

As with alloc_obj() version, this was done entirely with mindless brute
force, using the same script, except using 'flex' in the pattern rather
than 'objs*'.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This is the exact same thing as the 'alloc_obj()' version, only much
smaller because there are a lot fewer users of the *alloc_flex()
interface.

As with alloc_obj() version, this was done entirely with mindless brute
force, using the same script, except using 'flex' in the pattern rather
than 'objs*'.

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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kmalloc_obj-treewide-v7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T19:02:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T19:02:58+00:00</published>
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Pull kmalloc_obj conversion from Kees Cook:
 "This does the tree-wide conversion to kmalloc_obj() and friends using
  coccinelle, with a subsequent small manual cleanup of whitespace
  alignment that coccinelle does not handle.

  This uncovered a clang bug in __builtin_counted_by_ref(), so the
  conversion is preceded by disabling that for current versions of
  clang.  The imminent clang 22.1 release has the fix.

  I've done allmodconfig build tests for x86_64, arm64, i386, and arm. I
  did defconfig builds for alpha, m68k, mips, parisc, powerpc, riscv,
  s390, sparc, sh, arc, csky, xtensa, hexagon, and openrisc"

* tag 'kmalloc_obj-treewide-v7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  kmalloc_obj: Clean up after treewide replacements
  treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types
  compiler_types: Disable __builtin_counted_by_ref for Clang
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Pull kmalloc_obj conversion from Kees Cook:
 "This does the tree-wide conversion to kmalloc_obj() and friends using
  coccinelle, with a subsequent small manual cleanup of whitespace
  alignment that coccinelle does not handle.

  This uncovered a clang bug in __builtin_counted_by_ref(), so the
  conversion is preceded by disabling that for current versions of
  clang.  The imminent clang 22.1 release has the fix.

  I've done allmodconfig build tests for x86_64, arm64, i386, and arm. I
  did defconfig builds for alpha, m68k, mips, parisc, powerpc, riscv,
  s390, sparc, sh, arc, csky, xtensa, hexagon, and openrisc"

* tag 'kmalloc_obj-treewide-v7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  kmalloc_obj: Clean up after treewide replacements
  treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types
  compiler_types: Disable __builtin_counted_by_ref for Clang
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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;
</pre>
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</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>
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