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<title>linux.git/drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio, branch master</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>cxgb4: Fix decode strings dump for T6 adapters</title>
<updated>2026-07-01T00:18:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gleb Markov</name>
<email>markov.gi@npc-ksb.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-29T13:08:54+00:00</published>
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Depending on the value of chip_version, the correct decode set is selected.
However, the subsequent matching with the t4 encoding type in the if-else
block results in a reassignment, which leads to the loss of support for
t6_decode as well as reinitializing of values t4_decode and t5_decode.

The component history shows that the if-else block previously used for
this purpose, as well as the execution order, was not affected by the
change.
Furthermore, it is suggested by the execution order that the scenario with
overwriting and loss of support will be implemented.

Delete the if-else block.

Fixes: 6df397539cb0 ("cxgb4: Update correct encoding of SGE Ingress DMA States for T6 adapter")
Signed-off-by: Gleb Markov &lt;markov.gi@npc-ksb.ru&gt;
Reviewed-by: Potnuri Bharat Teja &lt;bharat@chelsio.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260629130856.1168-1-markov.gi@npc-ksb.ru
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Depending on the value of chip_version, the correct decode set is selected.
However, the subsequent matching with the t4 encoding type in the if-else
block results in a reassignment, which leads to the loss of support for
t6_decode as well as reinitializing of values t4_decode and t5_decode.

The component history shows that the if-else block previously used for
this purpose, as well as the execution order, was not affected by the
change.
Furthermore, it is suggested by the execution order that the scenario with
overwriting and loss of support will be implemented.

Delete the if-else block.

Fixes: 6df397539cb0 ("cxgb4: Update correct encoding of SGE Ingress DMA States for T6 adapter")
Signed-off-by: Gleb Markov &lt;markov.gi@npc-ksb.ru&gt;
Reviewed-by: Potnuri Bharat Teja &lt;bharat@chelsio.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260629130856.1168-1-markov.gi@npc-ksb.ru
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tls: remove tls_toe and the related driver</title>
<updated>2026-06-12T23:43:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sabrina Dubroca</name>
<email>sd@queasysnail.net</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-11T10:21:33+00:00</published>
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The tls_toe feature and its single user (chelsio chtls) have been
unmaintained for multiple years. It also hooks into the core of the
TCP implementation, and bypasses most of the networking stack.

Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca &lt;sd@queasysnail.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/1f30e73275c07bf879f547589872d0916025a52e.1781165969.git.sd@queasysnail.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
The tls_toe feature and its single user (chelsio chtls) have been
unmaintained for multiple years. It also hooks into the core of the
TCP implementation, and bypasses most of the networking stack.

Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca &lt;sd@queasysnail.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/1f30e73275c07bf879f547589872d0916025a52e.1781165969.git.sd@queasysnail.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Consistently define pci_device_ids using named initializers</title>
<updated>2026-05-13T01:16:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub)</name>
<email>u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-11T09:00:24+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=733334d6bdafaaf1575ce09a04f1a40d2d46d0d3'/>
<id>733334d6bdafaaf1575ce09a04f1a40d2d46d0d3</id>
<content type='text'>
... and PCI device helpers.

The various struct pci_device_id arrays were initialized mostly by one
the PCI_DEVICE macros and then list expressions. The latter isn't easily
readable if you're not into PCI. Using named initializers is more
explicit and thus easier to parse.

Also use PCI_DEVICE* helper macros to assign .vendor, .device,
.subvendor and .subdevice where appropriate and skip explicit
assignments of 0 (which the compiler takes care of).

The secret plan is to make struct pci_device_id::driver_data an
anonymous union (similar to
https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1776579304.git.u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com/)
and that requires named initializers. But it's also a nice cleanup on
its own.

This change doesn't introduce changes to the compiled pci_device_id
arrays. Tested on x86 and arm64.

Reviewed-by: Jijie Shao &lt;shaojijie@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arend van Spriel &lt;arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov &lt;aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@nvidia.com&gt; # for mlxsw
Acked-by: Jacob Keller &lt;jacob.e.keller@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub) &lt;u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com&gt;
Forwarded: id:76da4f44d48bdde84580963862bf9616bee5c9e9.1778149923.git.u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com (v2)
Reviewed-by: Michael Grzeschik &lt;mgr@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260511090023.1634387-6-u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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... and PCI device helpers.

The various struct pci_device_id arrays were initialized mostly by one
the PCI_DEVICE macros and then list expressions. The latter isn't easily
readable if you're not into PCI. Using named initializers is more
explicit and thus easier to parse.

Also use PCI_DEVICE* helper macros to assign .vendor, .device,
.subvendor and .subdevice where appropriate and skip explicit
assignments of 0 (which the compiler takes care of).

The secret plan is to make struct pci_device_id::driver_data an
anonymous union (similar to
https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1776579304.git.u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com/)
and that requires named initializers. But it's also a nice cleanup on
its own.

This change doesn't introduce changes to the compiled pci_device_id
arrays. Tested on x86 and arm64.

Reviewed-by: Jijie Shao &lt;shaojijie@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arend van Spriel &lt;arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov &lt;aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@nvidia.com&gt; # for mlxsw
Acked-by: Jacob Keller &lt;jacob.e.keller@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub) &lt;u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com&gt;
Forwarded: id:76da4f44d48bdde84580963862bf9616bee5c9e9.1778149923.git.u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com (v2)
Reviewed-by: Michael Grzeschik &lt;mgr@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260511090023.1634387-6-u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipv6: convert CONFIG_IPV6 to built-in only and clean up Kconfigs</title>
<updated>2026-03-29T18:21:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fernando Fernandez Mancera</name>
<email>fmancera@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-25T12:08:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=309b905deee595619cc38719f48d63d57b8bff3d'/>
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<content type='text'>
Maintaining a modular IPv6 stack offers image size savings for specific
setups, this benefit is outweighed by the architectural burden it
imposes on the subsystems on implementation and maintenance. Therefore,
drop it.

Change CONFIG_IPV6 from tristate to bool. Remove all Kconfig
dependencies across the tree that explicitly checked for IPV6=m. In
addition, remove MODULE_DESCRIPTION(), MODULE_ALIAS(), MODULE_AUTHOR()
and MODULE_LICENSE().

This is also replacing module_init() by device_initcall(). It is not
possible to use fs_initcall() as IPv4 does because that creates a race
condition on IPv6 addrconf.

Finally, modify the default configs from CONFIG_IPV6=m to CONFIG_IPV6=y
except for m68k as according to the bloat-o-meter the image is
increasing by 330KB~ and that isn't acceptable. Instead, disable IPv6 on
this architecture by default. This is aligned with m68k RAM requirements
and recommendations [1].

[1] http://www.linux-m68k.org/faq/ram.html

Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera &lt;fmancera@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Ricardo B. Marlière &lt;rbm@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;krzk@kernel.org&gt; # arm64
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260325120928.15848-2-fmancera@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Maintaining a modular IPv6 stack offers image size savings for specific
setups, this benefit is outweighed by the architectural burden it
imposes on the subsystems on implementation and maintenance. Therefore,
drop it.

Change CONFIG_IPV6 from tristate to bool. Remove all Kconfig
dependencies across the tree that explicitly checked for IPV6=m. In
addition, remove MODULE_DESCRIPTION(), MODULE_ALIAS(), MODULE_AUTHOR()
and MODULE_LICENSE().

This is also replacing module_init() by device_initcall(). It is not
possible to use fs_initcall() as IPv4 does because that creates a race
condition on IPv6 addrconf.

Finally, modify the default configs from CONFIG_IPV6=m to CONFIG_IPV6=y
except for m68k as according to the bloat-o-meter the image is
increasing by 330KB~ and that isn't acceptable. Instead, disable IPv6 on
this architecture by default. This is aligned with m68k RAM requirements
and recommendations [1].

[1] http://www.linux-m68k.org/faq/ram.html

Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera &lt;fmancera@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Ricardo B. Marlière &lt;rbm@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;krzk@kernel.org&gt; # arm64
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260325120928.15848-2-fmancera@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: remove addr_len argument of recvmsg() handlers</title>
<updated>2026-03-03T02:17:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-27T15:11:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=8341c989ac77d712c7d6e2bce29e8a4bcb2eeae4'/>
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<content type='text'>
Use msg-&gt;msg_namelen as a place holder instead of a
temporary variable, notably in inet[6]_recvmsg().

This removes stack canaries and allows tail-calls.

$ scripts/bloat-o-meter -t vmlinux.old vmlinux
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 2/19 up/down: 26/-532 (-506)
Function                                     old     new   delta
rawv6_recvmsg                                744     767     +23
vsock_dgram_recvmsg                           55      58      +3
vsock_connectible_recvmsg                     50      47      -3
unix_stream_recvmsg                          161     158      -3
unix_seqpacket_recvmsg                        62      59      -3
unix_dgram_recvmsg                            42      39      -3
tcp_recvmsg                                  546     543      -3
mptcp_recvmsg                               1568    1565      -3
ping_recvmsg                                 806     800      -6
tcp_bpf_recvmsg_parser                       983     974      -9
ip_recv_error                                588     576     -12
ipv6_recv_rxpmtu                             442     428     -14
udp_recvmsg                                 1243    1224     -19
ipv6_recv_error                             1046    1024     -22
udpv6_recvmsg                               1487    1461     -26
raw_recvmsg                                  465     437     -28
udp_bpf_recvmsg                             1027     984     -43
sock_common_recvmsg                          103      27     -76
inet_recvmsg                                 257     175     -82
inet6_recvmsg                                257     175     -82
tcp_bpf_recvmsg                              663     568     -95
Total: Before=25143834, After=25143328, chg -0.00%

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260227151120.1346573-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Use msg-&gt;msg_namelen as a place holder instead of a
temporary variable, notably in inet[6]_recvmsg().

This removes stack canaries and allows tail-calls.

$ scripts/bloat-o-meter -t vmlinux.old vmlinux
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 2/19 up/down: 26/-532 (-506)
Function                                     old     new   delta
rawv6_recvmsg                                744     767     +23
vsock_dgram_recvmsg                           55      58      +3
vsock_connectible_recvmsg                     50      47      -3
unix_stream_recvmsg                          161     158      -3
unix_seqpacket_recvmsg                        62      59      -3
unix_dgram_recvmsg                            42      39      -3
tcp_recvmsg                                  546     543      -3
mptcp_recvmsg                               1568    1565      -3
ping_recvmsg                                 806     800      -6
tcp_bpf_recvmsg_parser                       983     974      -9
ip_recv_error                                588     576     -12
ipv6_recv_rxpmtu                             442     428     -14
udp_recvmsg                                 1243    1224     -19
ipv6_recv_error                             1046    1024     -22
udpv6_recvmsg                               1487    1461     -26
raw_recvmsg                                  465     437     -28
udp_bpf_recvmsg                             1027     984     -43
sock_common_recvmsg                          103      27     -76
inet_recvmsg                                 257     175     -82
inet6_recvmsg                                257     175     -82
tcp_bpf_recvmsg                              663     568     -95
Total: Before=25143834, After=25143328, chg -0.00%

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260227151120.1346573-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<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>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=189f164e573e18d9f8876dbd3ad8fcbe11f93037'/>
<id>189f164e573e18d9f8876dbd3ad8fcbe11f93037</id>
<content type='text'>
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;
</pre>
</div>
</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>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=32a92f8c89326985e05dce8b22d3f0aa07a3e1bd'/>
<id>32a92f8c89326985e05dce8b22d3f0aa07a3e1bd</id>
<content type='text'>
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;
</content>
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<pre>
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>
</div>
</content>
</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>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=323bbfcf1ef8836d0d2ad9e2c1f1c684f0e3b5b3'/>
<id>323bbfcf1ef8836d0d2ad9e2c1f1c684f0e3b5b3</id>
<content type='text'>
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;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
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>
</div>
</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;
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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>
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<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
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<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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