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<title>scsi: target: iscsi: Validate CHAP_R length before base64 decode</title>
<updated>2026-05-23T03:06:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexandru Hossu</name>
<email>hossu.alexandru@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-21T15:11:21+00:00</published>
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chap_server_compute_hash() allocates client_digest as
kzalloc(chap-&gt;digest_size) and then, for BASE64-encoded responses,
passes chap_r directly to chap_base64_decode() without checking whether
the input length could produce more than digest_size bytes of output.

chap_base64_decode() writes to the destination unconditionally as long
as there is input to consume. With MAX_RESPONSE_LENGTH set to 128 and
the "0b" prefix stripped by extract_param(), up to 127 base64 characters
can reach the decoder. 127 characters decode to 95 bytes. For SHA-256
(digest_size=32) this overflows client_digest by 63 bytes; for MD5
(digest_size=16) the overflow is 79 bytes.

The length check at line 344 fires after the write has already happened.

The HEX branch in the same switch statement already validates the length
up front. Apply the same approach to the BASE64 branch: strip trailing
base64 padding characters, then reject any input whose data length
exceeds DIV_ROUND_UP(digest_size * 4, 3) before calling the decoder.

Stripping trailing '=' before the comparison handles both padded and
unpadded encodings. chap_base64_decode() already returns early on '=',
so the full original string is still passed to the decoder unchanged.

The mutual CHAP path decodes CHAP_C into initiatorchg_binhex, which is
kzalloc(CHAP_CHALLENGE_STR_LEN). extract_param() caps initiatorchg at
CHAP_CHALLENGE_STR_LEN characters, so at most CHAP_CHALLENGE_STR_LEN-1
base64 characters reach the decoder. The maximum decoded size,
DIV_ROUND_UP((CHAP_CHALLENGE_STR_LEN-1) * 3, 4), is less than
CHAP_CHALLENGE_STR_LEN, so no overflow is possible there. A comment is
added at the call site to document this.

Fixes: 1e5733883421 ("scsi: target: iscsi: Support base64 in CHAP")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexandru Hossu &lt;hossu.alexandru@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Disseldorp &lt;ddiss@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260521151121.808477-1-hossu.alexandru@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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chap_server_compute_hash() allocates client_digest as
kzalloc(chap-&gt;digest_size) and then, for BASE64-encoded responses,
passes chap_r directly to chap_base64_decode() without checking whether
the input length could produce more than digest_size bytes of output.

chap_base64_decode() writes to the destination unconditionally as long
as there is input to consume. With MAX_RESPONSE_LENGTH set to 128 and
the "0b" prefix stripped by extract_param(), up to 127 base64 characters
can reach the decoder. 127 characters decode to 95 bytes. For SHA-256
(digest_size=32) this overflows client_digest by 63 bytes; for MD5
(digest_size=16) the overflow is 79 bytes.

The length check at line 344 fires after the write has already happened.

The HEX branch in the same switch statement already validates the length
up front. Apply the same approach to the BASE64 branch: strip trailing
base64 padding characters, then reject any input whose data length
exceeds DIV_ROUND_UP(digest_size * 4, 3) before calling the decoder.

Stripping trailing '=' before the comparison handles both padded and
unpadded encodings. chap_base64_decode() already returns early on '=',
so the full original string is still passed to the decoder unchanged.

The mutual CHAP path decodes CHAP_C into initiatorchg_binhex, which is
kzalloc(CHAP_CHALLENGE_STR_LEN). extract_param() caps initiatorchg at
CHAP_CHALLENGE_STR_LEN characters, so at most CHAP_CHALLENGE_STR_LEN-1
base64 characters reach the decoder. The maximum decoded size,
DIV_ROUND_UP((CHAP_CHALLENGE_STR_LEN-1) * 3, 4), is less than
CHAP_CHALLENGE_STR_LEN, so no overflow is possible there. A comment is
added at the call site to document this.

Fixes: 1e5733883421 ("scsi: target: iscsi: Support base64 in CHAP")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexandru Hossu &lt;hossu.alexandru@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Disseldorp &lt;ddiss@suse.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260521151121.808477-1-hossu.alexandru@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>scsi: target: iscsi: Bound iscsi_encode_text_output() appends to rsp_buf</title>
<updated>2026-05-23T03:04:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Bommarito</name>
<email>michael.bommarito@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-11T18:49:14+00:00</published>
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iscsi_encode_text_output() concatenates "key=value\0" records into
login-&gt;rsp_buf, an 8192-byte kzalloc(MAX_KEY_VALUE_PAIRS) buffer
allocated in iscsit_alloc_login_setup_buffer(). The three sprintf() call
sites in this function (lines 1398, 1411, 1424 in v7.1-rc2) never check
the remaining buffer capacity:

	*length += sprintf(output_buf, "%s=%s", er-&gt;key, er-&gt;value);
	*length += 1;
	output_buf = textbuf + *length;

The 8192-byte ceiling at iscsi_target_check_login_request() bounds the
*input* Login PDU payload, but a single PDU can carry up to 2048 minimal
four-byte "a=b\0" pairs, each unknown key expanding to a 16-byte
"a=NotUnderstood\0" output record via iscsi_add_notunderstood_response().
2048 * 16 = 32 KiB of output into an 8 KiB buffer, producing a ~24 KiB
heap overrun in the kmalloc-8k slab.

The fix introduces a static iscsi_encode_text_record() helper that uses
snprintf() with a per-call bounds check against the remaining buffer,
and threads a u32 textbuf_size parameter through
iscsi_encode_text_output(). Both call sites in
iscsi_target_handle_csg_zero() (PHASE_SECURITY) and
iscsi_target_handle_csg_one() (PHASE_OPERATIONAL) pass
MAX_KEY_VALUE_PAIRS. On overflow the encoder logs the condition, calls
iscsi_release_extra_responses() to drop queued records, and returns -1;
both caller sites now emit ISCSI_STATUS_CLS_INITIATOR_ERR /
ISCSI_LOGIN_STATUS_INIT_ERR via iscsit_tx_login_rsp() before returning,
so the initiator sees an explicit failed-login response rather than a
silent connection drop. (Prior to this patch only the PHASE_OPERATIONAL
caller did that; the PHASE_SECURITY caller is converted to the same
shape.)

Fixes: e48354ce078c ("iscsi-target: Add iSCSI fabric support for target v4.1")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Michael Bommarito &lt;michael.bommarito@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: John Garry &lt;john.g.garry@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: John Garry &lt;john.g.garry@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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iscsi_encode_text_output() concatenates "key=value\0" records into
login-&gt;rsp_buf, an 8192-byte kzalloc(MAX_KEY_VALUE_PAIRS) buffer
allocated in iscsit_alloc_login_setup_buffer(). The three sprintf() call
sites in this function (lines 1398, 1411, 1424 in v7.1-rc2) never check
the remaining buffer capacity:

	*length += sprintf(output_buf, "%s=%s", er-&gt;key, er-&gt;value);
	*length += 1;
	output_buf = textbuf + *length;

The 8192-byte ceiling at iscsi_target_check_login_request() bounds the
*input* Login PDU payload, but a single PDU can carry up to 2048 minimal
four-byte "a=b\0" pairs, each unknown key expanding to a 16-byte
"a=NotUnderstood\0" output record via iscsi_add_notunderstood_response().
2048 * 16 = 32 KiB of output into an 8 KiB buffer, producing a ~24 KiB
heap overrun in the kmalloc-8k slab.

The fix introduces a static iscsi_encode_text_record() helper that uses
snprintf() with a per-call bounds check against the remaining buffer,
and threads a u32 textbuf_size parameter through
iscsi_encode_text_output(). Both call sites in
iscsi_target_handle_csg_zero() (PHASE_SECURITY) and
iscsi_target_handle_csg_one() (PHASE_OPERATIONAL) pass
MAX_KEY_VALUE_PAIRS. On overflow the encoder logs the condition, calls
iscsi_release_extra_responses() to drop queued records, and returns -1;
both caller sites now emit ISCSI_STATUS_CLS_INITIATOR_ERR /
ISCSI_LOGIN_STATUS_INIT_ERR via iscsit_tx_login_rsp() before returning,
so the initiator sees an explicit failed-login response rather than a
silent connection drop. (Prior to this patch only the PHASE_OPERATIONAL
caller did that; the PHASE_SECURITY caller is converted to the same
shape.)

Fixes: e48354ce078c ("iscsi-target: Add iSCSI fabric support for target v4.1")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Michael Bommarito &lt;michael.bommarito@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: John Garry &lt;john.g.garry@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: John Garry &lt;john.g.garry@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>scsi: target: iscsi: Fix CRC overread and double-free in iscsit_handle_text_cmd()</title>
<updated>2026-05-23T02:24:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Bommarito</name>
<email>michael.bommarito@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-18T15:49:27+00:00</published>
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Two latent bugs in the Text-phase handler, both present since the
original LIO integration in commit e48354ce078c ("iscsi-target: Add
iSCSI fabric support for target v4.1"):

1) DataDigest CRC buffer overread (4 bytes past text_in).

   text_in is kzalloc()'d at ALIGN(payload_length, 4).  rx_size is then
   incremented by ISCSI_CRC_LEN to make room for the received DataDigest
   in the iovec, but the same (now-bumped) rx_size is passed as the
   buffer length to iscsit_crc_buf():

       if (conn-&gt;conn_ops-&gt;DataDigest) {
               ...
               rx_size += ISCSI_CRC_LEN;
       }
       ...
       if (conn-&gt;conn_ops-&gt;DataDigest) {
               data_crc = iscsit_crc_buf(text_in, rx_size, 0, NULL);

   iscsit_crc_buf() walks rx_size bytes of text_in with crc32c(), so
   when DataDigest is negotiated it reads 4 bytes past the end of the
   text_in allocation.  KASAN reproduces this directly on the unpatched
   mainline tree as slab-out-of-bounds in crc32c() called from the Text
   PDU path.  The OOB bytes feed crc32c() and are then compared against
   the initiator-supplied checksum, so the value does not flow back to
   the attacker, but the kernel does read past the buffer on every Text
   PDU with DataDigest=CRC32C.

   Fix by passing the actual padded payload length
   (ALIGN(payload_length, 4)) that was used for the kzalloc().

2) Stale cmd-&gt;text_in_ptr re-free (double-free) on ERL&gt;0 bad DataDigest
   drop.

   On DataDigest mismatch with ErrorRecoveryLevel &gt; 0 the handler
   silently drops the PDU and lets the initiator plug the CmdSN gap:

               kfree(text_in);
               return 0;

   cmd-&gt;text_in_ptr still points at the freed buffer.  The next Text
   Request on the same ITT re-enters iscsit_setup_text_cmd(), which
   unconditionally does

       kfree(cmd-&gt;text_in_ptr);
       cmd-&gt;text_in_ptr = NULL;

   freeing the same pointer a second time.  Session teardown via
   iscsit_release_cmd() has the same shape and hits the same double-free
   if the connection is dropped before a second Text Request arrives.

   On an unmodified mainline tree the bug-1 CRC overread fires first on
   the initial valid Text Request and perturbs the subsequent state, so
   #4 was isolated by building a kernel with only the bug-1 hunk of this
   patch applied plus temporary printk() observability around the three
   relevant kfree() sites.  The observability prints are not part of
   this patch.  On that build, a three-PDU Text Request sequence after
   login produces two back-to-back splats:

       BUG: KASAN: double-free in iscsit_setup_text_cmd+0x??
       BUG: KASAN: double-free in iscsit_release_cmd+0x??

   showing the same pointer freed in the ERL&gt;0 drop path and again in
   iscsit_setup_text_cmd() (next Text Request on the same ITT) and once
   more in iscsit_release_cmd() (session teardown).  On distro kernels
   with CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED=y (default) the double-free
   becomes a remote kernel BUG(); on non-hardened kernels it corrupts
   the slab freelist.

   Fix by clearing cmd-&gt;text_in_ptr after the kfree() in the ERL&gt;0 drop
   path.  With both hunks applied #4 is directly observable on the stock
   tree without observability printks; fixing bug-1 alone would mask #4
   less, not more, so the hunks are submitted together.

Both fixes are one-liners.  The Text PDU state machine is unchanged and
the wire protocol is unaffected.

Fixes: e48354ce078c ("iscsi-target: Add iSCSI fabric support for target v4.1")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Michael Bommarito &lt;michael.bommarito@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: John Garry &lt;john.g.garry@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: John Garry &lt;john.g.garry@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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Two latent bugs in the Text-phase handler, both present since the
original LIO integration in commit e48354ce078c ("iscsi-target: Add
iSCSI fabric support for target v4.1"):

1) DataDigest CRC buffer overread (4 bytes past text_in).

   text_in is kzalloc()'d at ALIGN(payload_length, 4).  rx_size is then
   incremented by ISCSI_CRC_LEN to make room for the received DataDigest
   in the iovec, but the same (now-bumped) rx_size is passed as the
   buffer length to iscsit_crc_buf():

       if (conn-&gt;conn_ops-&gt;DataDigest) {
               ...
               rx_size += ISCSI_CRC_LEN;
       }
       ...
       if (conn-&gt;conn_ops-&gt;DataDigest) {
               data_crc = iscsit_crc_buf(text_in, rx_size, 0, NULL);

   iscsit_crc_buf() walks rx_size bytes of text_in with crc32c(), so
   when DataDigest is negotiated it reads 4 bytes past the end of the
   text_in allocation.  KASAN reproduces this directly on the unpatched
   mainline tree as slab-out-of-bounds in crc32c() called from the Text
   PDU path.  The OOB bytes feed crc32c() and are then compared against
   the initiator-supplied checksum, so the value does not flow back to
   the attacker, but the kernel does read past the buffer on every Text
   PDU with DataDigest=CRC32C.

   Fix by passing the actual padded payload length
   (ALIGN(payload_length, 4)) that was used for the kzalloc().

2) Stale cmd-&gt;text_in_ptr re-free (double-free) on ERL&gt;0 bad DataDigest
   drop.

   On DataDigest mismatch with ErrorRecoveryLevel &gt; 0 the handler
   silently drops the PDU and lets the initiator plug the CmdSN gap:

               kfree(text_in);
               return 0;

   cmd-&gt;text_in_ptr still points at the freed buffer.  The next Text
   Request on the same ITT re-enters iscsit_setup_text_cmd(), which
   unconditionally does

       kfree(cmd-&gt;text_in_ptr);
       cmd-&gt;text_in_ptr = NULL;

   freeing the same pointer a second time.  Session teardown via
   iscsit_release_cmd() has the same shape and hits the same double-free
   if the connection is dropped before a second Text Request arrives.

   On an unmodified mainline tree the bug-1 CRC overread fires first on
   the initial valid Text Request and perturbs the subsequent state, so
   #4 was isolated by building a kernel with only the bug-1 hunk of this
   patch applied plus temporary printk() observability around the three
   relevant kfree() sites.  The observability prints are not part of
   this patch.  On that build, a three-PDU Text Request sequence after
   login produces two back-to-back splats:

       BUG: KASAN: double-free in iscsit_setup_text_cmd+0x??
       BUG: KASAN: double-free in iscsit_release_cmd+0x??

   showing the same pointer freed in the ERL&gt;0 drop path and again in
   iscsit_setup_text_cmd() (next Text Request on the same ITT) and once
   more in iscsit_release_cmd() (session teardown).  On distro kernels
   with CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED=y (default) the double-free
   becomes a remote kernel BUG(); on non-hardened kernels it corrupts
   the slab freelist.

   Fix by clearing cmd-&gt;text_in_ptr after the kfree() in the ERL&gt;0 drop
   path.  With both hunks applied #4 is directly observable on the stock
   tree without observability printks; fixing bug-1 alone would mask #4
   less, not more, so the hunks are submitted together.

Both fixes are one-liners.  The Text PDU state machine is unchanged and
the wire protocol is unaffected.

Fixes: e48354ce078c ("iscsi-target: Add iSCSI fabric support for target v4.1")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Michael Bommarito &lt;michael.bommarito@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: John Garry &lt;john.g.garry@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: John Garry &lt;john.g.garry@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>scsi: target: iscsi: reject invalid size Extended CDB AHS</title>
<updated>2026-04-22T01:08:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Carlos Bilbao</name>
<email>carlos.bilbao@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-15T04:07:28+00:00</published>
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If ecdb_ahdr-&gt;ahslength is zero, two bugs follow:

  kmalloc(be16_to_cpu(ecdb_ahdr-&gt;ahslength) + 15, ...)

allocates 15 bytes, but the immediately following memcpy writes
ISCSI_CDB_SIZE (16) bytes into it, a one-byte heap overflow. Also:

  memcpy(cdb + ISCSI_CDB_SIZE, ecdb_ahdr-&gt;ecdb,
           be16_to_cpu(ecdb_ahdr-&gt;ahslength) - 1);

(u16)0 - 1 promotes to (int)-1 which converts to SIZE_MAX as size_t,
causing a massive out-of-bounds write.

Reject ahslength == 0 with ISCSI_REASON_PROTOCOL_ERROR before the kmalloc.
Also reject ahslength values that exceed the actual AHS buffer advertised.

Fixes: 8f1f7d297bce ("scsi: target: iscsi: Add support for extended CDB AHS")
Signed-off-by: Carlos Bilbao &lt;carlos.bilbao@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Bogdanov &lt;d.bogdanov@yadro.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260415040728.187680-1-carlos.bilbao@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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If ecdb_ahdr-&gt;ahslength is zero, two bugs follow:

  kmalloc(be16_to_cpu(ecdb_ahdr-&gt;ahslength) + 15, ...)

allocates 15 bytes, but the immediately following memcpy writes
ISCSI_CDB_SIZE (16) bytes into it, a one-byte heap overflow. Also:

  memcpy(cdb + ISCSI_CDB_SIZE, ecdb_ahdr-&gt;ecdb,
           be16_to_cpu(ecdb_ahdr-&gt;ahslength) - 1);

(u16)0 - 1 promotes to (int)-1 which converts to SIZE_MAX as size_t,
causing a massive out-of-bounds write.

Reject ahslength == 0 with ISCSI_REASON_PROTOCOL_ERROR before the kmalloc.
Also reject ahslength values that exceed the actual AHS buffer advertised.

Fixes: 8f1f7d297bce ("scsi: target: iscsi: Add support for extended CDB AHS")
Signed-off-by: Carlos Bilbao &lt;carlos.bilbao@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Bogdanov &lt;d.bogdanov@yadro.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260415040728.187680-1-carlos.bilbao@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>scsi: target: Use driver completion preference by default</title>
<updated>2026-03-01T02:04:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Christie</name>
<email>michael.christie@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T23:27:02+00:00</published>
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This has us use the driver's completion preference by default. There is
no behavior changes with this patch and we queue completion to LIO's
completion workqueue by default.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie &lt;michael.christie@oracle.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260222232946.7637-3-michael.christie@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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This has us use the driver's completion preference by default. There is
no behavior changes with this patch and we queue completion to LIO's
completion workqueue by default.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie &lt;michael.christie@oracle.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260222232946.7637-3-michael.christie@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&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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</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;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2026-02-12T20:13:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-12T20:13:01+00:00</published>
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "ocfs2: give ocfs2 the ability to reclaim suballocator free bg" saves
   disk space by teaching ocfs2 to reclaim suballocator block group
   space (Heming Zhao)

 - "Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs" adds the
   ARRAY_END() macro and uses it in various places (Alejandro Colomar)

 - "vmcoreinfo: support VMCOREINFO_BYTES larger than PAGE_SIZE" makes
   the vmcore code future-safe, if VMCOREINFO_BYTES ever exceeds the
   page size (Pnina Feder)

 - "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing module buildid" cleans
   up kallsyms code related to module buildid and fixes an invalid
   access crash when printing backtraces (Petr Mladek)

 - "Address page fault in ima_restore_measurement_list()" fixes a
   kexec-related crash that can occur when booting the second-stage
   kernel on x86 (Harshit Mogalapalli)

 - "kho: ABI headers and Documentation updates" updates the kexec
   handover ABI documentation (Mike Rapoport)

 - "Align atomic storage" adds the __aligned attribute to atomic_t and
   atomic64_t definitions to get natural alignment of both types on
   csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc and sh (Finn Thain)

 - "kho: clean up page initialization logic" simplifies the page
   initialization logic in kho_restore_page() (Pratyush Yadav)

 - "Unload linux/kernel.h" moves several things out of kernel.h and into
   more appropriate places (Yury Norov)

 - "don't abuse task_struct.group_leader" removes the usage of
   -&gt;group_leader when it is "obviously unnecessary" (Oleg Nesterov)

 - "list private v2 &amp; luo flb" adds some infrastructure improvements to
   the live update orchestrator (Pasha Tatashin)

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (107 commits)
  watchdog/hardlockup: simplify perf event probe and remove per-cpu dependency
  procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat()
  watchdog/softlockup: fix sample ring index wrap in need_counting_irqs()
  kcsan, compiler_types: avoid duplicate type issues in BPF Type Format
  kho: fix doc for kho_restore_pages()
  tests/liveupdate: add in-kernel liveupdate test
  liveupdate: luo_flb: introduce File-Lifecycle-Bound global state
  liveupdate: luo_file: Use private list
  list: add kunit test for private list primitives
  list: add primitives for private list manipulations
  delayacct: fix uapi timespec64 definition
  panic: add panic_force_cpu= parameter to redirect panic to a specific CPU
  netclassid: use thread_group_leader(p) in update_classid_task()
  RDMA/umem: don't abuse current-&gt;group_leader
  drm/pan*: don't abuse current-&gt;group_leader
  drm/amd: kill the outdated "Only the pthreads threading model is supported" checks
  drm/amdgpu: don't abuse current-&gt;group_leader
  android/binder: use same_thread_group(proc-&gt;tsk, current) in binder_mmap()
  android/binder: don't abuse current-&gt;group_leader
  kho: skip memoryless NUMA nodes when reserving scratch areas
  ...
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "ocfs2: give ocfs2 the ability to reclaim suballocator free bg" saves
   disk space by teaching ocfs2 to reclaim suballocator block group
   space (Heming Zhao)

 - "Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs" adds the
   ARRAY_END() macro and uses it in various places (Alejandro Colomar)

 - "vmcoreinfo: support VMCOREINFO_BYTES larger than PAGE_SIZE" makes
   the vmcore code future-safe, if VMCOREINFO_BYTES ever exceeds the
   page size (Pnina Feder)

 - "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing module buildid" cleans
   up kallsyms code related to module buildid and fixes an invalid
   access crash when printing backtraces (Petr Mladek)

 - "Address page fault in ima_restore_measurement_list()" fixes a
   kexec-related crash that can occur when booting the second-stage
   kernel on x86 (Harshit Mogalapalli)

 - "kho: ABI headers and Documentation updates" updates the kexec
   handover ABI documentation (Mike Rapoport)

 - "Align atomic storage" adds the __aligned attribute to atomic_t and
   atomic64_t definitions to get natural alignment of both types on
   csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc and sh (Finn Thain)

 - "kho: clean up page initialization logic" simplifies the page
   initialization logic in kho_restore_page() (Pratyush Yadav)

 - "Unload linux/kernel.h" moves several things out of kernel.h and into
   more appropriate places (Yury Norov)

 - "don't abuse task_struct.group_leader" removes the usage of
   -&gt;group_leader when it is "obviously unnecessary" (Oleg Nesterov)

 - "list private v2 &amp; luo flb" adds some infrastructure improvements to
   the live update orchestrator (Pasha Tatashin)

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (107 commits)
  watchdog/hardlockup: simplify perf event probe and remove per-cpu dependency
  procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat()
  watchdog/softlockup: fix sample ring index wrap in need_counting_irqs()
  kcsan, compiler_types: avoid duplicate type issues in BPF Type Format
  kho: fix doc for kho_restore_pages()
  tests/liveupdate: add in-kernel liveupdate test
  liveupdate: luo_flb: introduce File-Lifecycle-Bound global state
  liveupdate: luo_file: Use private list
  list: add kunit test for private list primitives
  list: add primitives for private list manipulations
  delayacct: fix uapi timespec64 definition
  panic: add panic_force_cpu= parameter to redirect panic to a specific CPU
  netclassid: use thread_group_leader(p) in update_classid_task()
  RDMA/umem: don't abuse current-&gt;group_leader
  drm/pan*: don't abuse current-&gt;group_leader
  drm/amd: kill the outdated "Only the pthreads threading model is supported" checks
  drm/amdgpu: don't abuse current-&gt;group_leader
  android/binder: use same_thread_group(proc-&gt;tsk, current) in binder_mmap()
  android/binder: don't abuse current-&gt;group_leader
  kho: skip memoryless NUMA nodes when reserving scratch areas
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel.h: drop hex.h and update all hex.h users</title>
<updated>2026-01-21T03:44:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>rdunlap@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-15T00:51:56+00:00</published>
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Remove &lt;linux/hex.h&gt; from &lt;linux/kernel.h&gt; and update all users/callers of
hex.h interfaces to directly #include &lt;linux/hex.h&gt; as part of the process
of putting kernel.h on a diet.

Removing hex.h from kernel.h means that 36K C source files don't have to
pay the price of parsing hex.h for the roughly 120 C source files that
need it.

This change has been build-tested with allmodconfig on most ARCHes.  Also,
all users/callers of &lt;linux/hex.h&gt; in the entire source tree have been
updated if needed (if not already #included).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251215005206.2362276-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) &lt;yury.norov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Remove &lt;linux/hex.h&gt; from &lt;linux/kernel.h&gt; and update all users/callers of
hex.h interfaces to directly #include &lt;linux/hex.h&gt; as part of the process
of putting kernel.h on a diet.

Removing hex.h from kernel.h means that 36K C source files don't have to
pay the price of parsing hex.h for the roughly 120 C source files that
need it.

This change has been build-tested with allmodconfig on most ARCHes.  Also,
all users/callers of &lt;linux/hex.h&gt; in the entire source tree have been
updated if needed (if not already #included).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251215005206.2362276-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) &lt;yury.norov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>scsi: target: iscsi: Fix use-after-free in iscsit_dec_session_usage_count()</title>
<updated>2026-01-17T04:02:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maurizio Lombardi</name>
<email>mlombard@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-12T16:53:52+00:00</published>
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In iscsit_dec_session_usage_count(), the function calls complete() while
holding the sess-&gt;session_usage_lock. Similar to the connection usage count
logic, the waiter signaled by complete() (e.g., in the session release
path) may wake up and free the iscsit_session structure immediately.

This creates a race condition where the current thread may attempt to
execute spin_unlock_bh() on a session structure that has already been
deallocated, resulting in a KASAN slab-use-after-free.

To resolve this, release the session_usage_lock before calling complete()
to ensure all dereferences of the sess pointer are finished before the
waiter is allowed to proceed with deallocation.

Signed-off-by: Maurizio Lombardi &lt;mlombard@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Zhaojuan Guo &lt;zguo@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Christie &lt;michael.christie@oracle.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260112165352.138606-3-mlombard@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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In iscsit_dec_session_usage_count(), the function calls complete() while
holding the sess-&gt;session_usage_lock. Similar to the connection usage count
logic, the waiter signaled by complete() (e.g., in the session release
path) may wake up and free the iscsit_session structure immediately.

This creates a race condition where the current thread may attempt to
execute spin_unlock_bh() on a session structure that has already been
deallocated, resulting in a KASAN slab-use-after-free.

To resolve this, release the session_usage_lock before calling complete()
to ensure all dereferences of the sess pointer are finished before the
waiter is allowed to proceed with deallocation.

Signed-off-by: Maurizio Lombardi &lt;mlombard@redhat.com&gt;
Reported-by: Zhaojuan Guo &lt;zguo@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Christie &lt;michael.christie@oracle.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260112165352.138606-3-mlombard@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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