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<title>Merge tag 'vfs-7.3-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2026-08-17T19:56:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2026-08-17T19:56:12+00:00</published>
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "Bigger cleanups:

   - The lockref dead-count handling is tidied up.

     The open-coded check for a count below zero as the dead marker
     relies on information the caller should not have.

   - make put_mnt_ns() leave mounts connected. Destroying a mount
     namespace disconnected its mounts from their mount points. So a
     file descriptor still open on the parent of a mount point could be
     used to peek under it.

     Locked mounts were already kept connected to prevent exactly that.
     But a mount is only locked when its tree is copied across a user
     namespace boundary. So a mount namespace set up by a privileged
     component had no locked mounts and its mounts were disconnected.
     Passing UMOUNT_CONNECTED keeps every mount connected and prevents
     that bug.

   - vfs_prepare_mode() passes S_IFDIR for directories. I meant to fix
     that ago but didn't get to it. So now someone finally did it.

     This kills the exception where the mode could be 0 when a directory
     was created whereas every other creation operation passed it
     explicitly already.

   - move long delayed work for ufs, jffs2, hfsplus, hfs and affs from
     the per-cpu system_long_wq to the new unbound system_dfl_long_wq.

     None of that work relies on per-cpu state and the work item is
     enqueued with queue_delayed_work() whose timer is global anyway. So
     it may as well benefit from scheduler task placement.

  Smaller fixes and cleanups:

   - unlock_buffer() and journal_end_buffer_io_sync() use
     clear_and_wake_up_bit()

   - the pipe page pools are unified into a single per-pipe pool and the
     extra wake_up(rd_wait) is limited to EPOLLET consumers

   - eventpoll now computes its timer slack lazily in ep_poll()

   - shrink_dcache_for_umount() keeps making progress on busy roots

   - excess xarray nodes are freed in clear_inode()

   - romfs detects hard link cycles

   - the user path of nested backing files is fixed

   - pidfd holds exec_update_lock around the namespace ioctl

   - non-memcg-aware nr_cached_objects is skipped during memcg slab
     shrink

   - iomap_write_iter() always returns status

   - mangle_path() is renamed to seq_mangle_path()

   - inode timestamp accessors are annotated

   - new regression test for pipe-&gt;poll_usage.

   - a few documentation, kernel-doc and selftest fixes"

* tag 'vfs-7.3-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (67 commits)
  selftests/namespaces: Fix racy pipe handshake in timens and pidns_separate
  selftests/epoll: add a regression test for pipe-&gt;poll_usage
  pipe: only enable the extra wake_up(rd_wait) for EPOLLET consumers
  pidfd: hold exec_update_lock around namespace ioctl
  fs: fix user path of nested backing files
  fs: remove stale inode_insert5() kernel-doc parameter
  fs: fix switch/case indentation in sysfs() syscall
  fs: document semantics of kstat::{uid,gid} fields
  dcache: keep shrink_dcache_for_umount() making progress on busy roots
  seq_file: rename mangle_path to seq_mangle_path
  nstree: add/fix struct ns_id_req kernel-doc member fields
  dcache: use lockref routines for dead count checks
  lockref: tidy up dead count handling
  initramfs: fix typo in reserve_initrd_mem comment
  fs/pipe: unify the page pools into a single per-pipe pool
  fs: annotate inode timestamp accessors
  eventpoll: compute timer slack lazily in ep_poll()
  selftests/filesystems: add mntns cleanup test
  put_mnt_ns(): leave mounts connected
  affs: Move long delayed work on system_dfl_long_wq
  ...
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "Bigger cleanups:

   - The lockref dead-count handling is tidied up.

     The open-coded check for a count below zero as the dead marker
     relies on information the caller should not have.

   - make put_mnt_ns() leave mounts connected. Destroying a mount
     namespace disconnected its mounts from their mount points. So a
     file descriptor still open on the parent of a mount point could be
     used to peek under it.

     Locked mounts were already kept connected to prevent exactly that.
     But a mount is only locked when its tree is copied across a user
     namespace boundary. So a mount namespace set up by a privileged
     component had no locked mounts and its mounts were disconnected.
     Passing UMOUNT_CONNECTED keeps every mount connected and prevents
     that bug.

   - vfs_prepare_mode() passes S_IFDIR for directories. I meant to fix
     that ago but didn't get to it. So now someone finally did it.

     This kills the exception where the mode could be 0 when a directory
     was created whereas every other creation operation passed it
     explicitly already.

   - move long delayed work for ufs, jffs2, hfsplus, hfs and affs from
     the per-cpu system_long_wq to the new unbound system_dfl_long_wq.

     None of that work relies on per-cpu state and the work item is
     enqueued with queue_delayed_work() whose timer is global anyway. So
     it may as well benefit from scheduler task placement.

  Smaller fixes and cleanups:

   - unlock_buffer() and journal_end_buffer_io_sync() use
     clear_and_wake_up_bit()

   - the pipe page pools are unified into a single per-pipe pool and the
     extra wake_up(rd_wait) is limited to EPOLLET consumers

   - eventpoll now computes its timer slack lazily in ep_poll()

   - shrink_dcache_for_umount() keeps making progress on busy roots

   - excess xarray nodes are freed in clear_inode()

   - romfs detects hard link cycles

   - the user path of nested backing files is fixed

   - pidfd holds exec_update_lock around the namespace ioctl

   - non-memcg-aware nr_cached_objects is skipped during memcg slab
     shrink

   - iomap_write_iter() always returns status

   - mangle_path() is renamed to seq_mangle_path()

   - inode timestamp accessors are annotated

   - new regression test for pipe-&gt;poll_usage.

   - a few documentation, kernel-doc and selftest fixes"

* tag 'vfs-7.3-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (67 commits)
  selftests/namespaces: Fix racy pipe handshake in timens and pidns_separate
  selftests/epoll: add a regression test for pipe-&gt;poll_usage
  pipe: only enable the extra wake_up(rd_wait) for EPOLLET consumers
  pidfd: hold exec_update_lock around namespace ioctl
  fs: fix user path of nested backing files
  fs: remove stale inode_insert5() kernel-doc parameter
  fs: fix switch/case indentation in sysfs() syscall
  fs: document semantics of kstat::{uid,gid} fields
  dcache: keep shrink_dcache_for_umount() making progress on busy roots
  seq_file: rename mangle_path to seq_mangle_path
  nstree: add/fix struct ns_id_req kernel-doc member fields
  dcache: use lockref routines for dead count checks
  lockref: tidy up dead count handling
  initramfs: fix typo in reserve_initrd_mem comment
  fs/pipe: unify the page pools into a single per-pipe pool
  fs: annotate inode timestamp accessors
  eventpoll: compute timer slack lazily in ep_poll()
  selftests/filesystems: add mntns cleanup test
  put_mnt_ns(): leave mounts connected
  affs: Move long delayed work on system_dfl_long_wq
  ...
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<title>Remove excl arg to -&gt;create inode_operation</title>
<updated>2026-07-31T08:18:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neil@brown.name</email>
</author>
<published>2026-07-01T11:51:55+00:00</published>
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The only time that 'false' is passed as the 'excl' arg to the -&gt;create
inode_operation is in lookup_open() when -&gt;atomic_open is not provided
by the parent directory.
*all* directory inode_operations which do not have -&gt;atomic_open
completely ignore the 'excl' arg.

Therefore we don't need the 'excl' arg.  Those few -&gt;create operations
which pay attention to the arg are only ever called with a value of
'true'.

We remove that arg and change all -&gt;create operations to behave as those
thhe arg were 'true'.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neil@brown.name&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/178290671516.27465.15984496764174914338@noble.neil.brown.name
Reviewed-by: Jori Koolstra &lt;jkoolstra@xs4all.nl&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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The only time that 'false' is passed as the 'excl' arg to the -&gt;create
inode_operation is in lookup_open() when -&gt;atomic_open is not provided
by the parent directory.
*all* directory inode_operations which do not have -&gt;atomic_open
completely ignore the 'excl' arg.

Therefore we don't need the 'excl' arg.  Those few -&gt;create operations
which pay attention to the arg are only ever called with a value of
'true'.

We remove that arg and change all -&gt;create operations to behave as those
thhe arg were 'true'.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neil@brown.name&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/178290671516.27465.15984496764174914338@noble.neil.brown.name
Reviewed-by: Jori Koolstra &lt;jkoolstra@xs4all.nl&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>omfs: drop redundant S_IFDIR from mkdir</title>
<updated>2026-07-01T10:50:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jori Koolstra</name>
<email>jkoolstra@xs4all.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-30T10:53:52+00:00</published>
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vfs_mkdir() now sets the S_IFDIR type bit in the mode it passes to
-&gt;mkdir(), so OR-ing S_IFDIR into the mode again in omfs_mkdir() is
redundant. Drop it.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Jori Koolstra &lt;jkoolstra@xs4all.nl&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260630105400.68459-24-jkoolstra@xs4all.nl
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown &lt;neil@brown.name&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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vfs_mkdir() now sets the S_IFDIR type bit in the mode it passes to
-&gt;mkdir(), so OR-ing S_IFDIR into the mode again in omfs_mkdir() is
redundant. Drop it.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Jori Koolstra &lt;jkoolstra@xs4all.nl&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260630105400.68459-24-jkoolstra@xs4all.nl
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown &lt;neil@brown.name&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>omfs: handle set_blocksize failures</title>
<updated>2026-05-21T11:39:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2026-05-11T07:16:55+00:00</published>
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omfs uses buffer_heads, which don't handle block size &gt; PAGE_SIZE well.
Without this, mounting we will hit the

        BUG_ON(offset &gt;= folio_size(folio));

in folio_set_bh on the first __bread_gfp call.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260511071701.2456211-11-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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omfs uses buffer_heads, which don't handle block size &gt; PAGE_SIZE well.
Without this, mounting we will hit the

        BUG_ON(offset &gt;= folio_size(folio));

in folio_set_bh on the first __bread_gfp call.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260511071701.2456211-11-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2026-04-13T21:20:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-13T21:20:11+00:00</published>
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "Features:
   - coredump: add tracepoint for coredump events
   - fs: hide file and bfile caches behind runtime const machinery

  Fixes:
   - fix architecture-specific compat_ftruncate64 implementations
   - dcache: Limit the minimal number of bucket to two
   - fs/omfs: reject s_sys_blocksize smaller than OMFS_DIR_START
   - fs/mbcache: cancel shrink work before destroying the cache
   - dcache: permit dynamic_dname()s up to NAME_MAX

  Cleanups:
   - remove or unexport unused fs_context infrastructure
   - trivial -&gt;setattr cleanups
   - selftests/filesystems: Assume that TIOCGPTPEER is defined
   - writeback: fix kernel-doc function name mismatch for wb_put_many()
   - autofs: replace manual symlink buffer allocation in autofs_dir_symlink
   - init/initramfs.c: trivial fix: FSM -&gt; Finite-state machine
   - fs: remove stale and duplicate forward declarations
   - readdir: Introduce dirent_size()
   - fs: Replace user_access_{begin/end} by scoped user access
   - kernel: acct: fix duplicate word in comment
   - fs: write a better comment in step_into() concerning .mnt assignment
   - fs: attr: fix comment formatting and spelling issues"

* tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (28 commits)
  dcache: permit dynamic_dname()s up to NAME_MAX
  fs: attr: fix comment formatting and spelling issues
  fs: hide file and bfile caches behind runtime const machinery
  fs: write a better comment in step_into() concerning .mnt assignment
  proc: rename proc_notify_change to proc_setattr
  proc: rename proc_setattr to proc_nochmod_setattr
  affs: rename affs_notify_change to affs_setattr
  adfs: rename adfs_notify_change to adfs_setattr
  hfs: update comments on hfs_inode_setattr
  kernel: acct: fix duplicate word in comment
  fs: Replace user_access_{begin/end} by scoped user access
  readdir: Introduce dirent_size()
  coredump: add tracepoint for coredump events
  fs: remove do_sys_truncate
  fs: pass on FTRUNCATE_* flags to do_truncate
  fs: fix archiecture-specific compat_ftruncate64
  fs: remove stale and duplicate forward declarations
  init/initramfs.c: trivial fix: FSM -&gt; Finite-state machine
  autofs: replace manual symlink buffer allocation in autofs_dir_symlink
  fs/mbcache: cancel shrink work before destroying the cache
  ...
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "Features:
   - coredump: add tracepoint for coredump events
   - fs: hide file and bfile caches behind runtime const machinery

  Fixes:
   - fix architecture-specific compat_ftruncate64 implementations
   - dcache: Limit the minimal number of bucket to two
   - fs/omfs: reject s_sys_blocksize smaller than OMFS_DIR_START
   - fs/mbcache: cancel shrink work before destroying the cache
   - dcache: permit dynamic_dname()s up to NAME_MAX

  Cleanups:
   - remove or unexport unused fs_context infrastructure
   - trivial -&gt;setattr cleanups
   - selftests/filesystems: Assume that TIOCGPTPEER is defined
   - writeback: fix kernel-doc function name mismatch for wb_put_many()
   - autofs: replace manual symlink buffer allocation in autofs_dir_symlink
   - init/initramfs.c: trivial fix: FSM -&gt; Finite-state machine
   - fs: remove stale and duplicate forward declarations
   - readdir: Introduce dirent_size()
   - fs: Replace user_access_{begin/end} by scoped user access
   - kernel: acct: fix duplicate word in comment
   - fs: write a better comment in step_into() concerning .mnt assignment
   - fs: attr: fix comment formatting and spelling issues"

* tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (28 commits)
  dcache: permit dynamic_dname()s up to NAME_MAX
  fs: attr: fix comment formatting and spelling issues
  fs: hide file and bfile caches behind runtime const machinery
  fs: write a better comment in step_into() concerning .mnt assignment
  proc: rename proc_notify_change to proc_setattr
  proc: rename proc_setattr to proc_nochmod_setattr
  affs: rename affs_notify_change to affs_setattr
  adfs: rename adfs_notify_change to adfs_setattr
  hfs: update comments on hfs_inode_setattr
  kernel: acct: fix duplicate word in comment
  fs: Replace user_access_{begin/end} by scoped user access
  readdir: Introduce dirent_size()
  coredump: add tracepoint for coredump events
  fs: remove do_sys_truncate
  fs: pass on FTRUNCATE_* flags to do_truncate
  fs: fix archiecture-specific compat_ftruncate64
  fs: remove stale and duplicate forward declarations
  init/initramfs.c: trivial fix: FSM -&gt; Finite-state machine
  autofs: replace manual symlink buffer allocation in autofs_dir_symlink
  fs/mbcache: cancel shrink work before destroying the cache
  ...
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<entry>
<title>fs: Rename generic_file_fsync() to simple_fsync()</title>
<updated>2026-03-26T14:03:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-26T09:54:08+00:00</published>
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The implementation is now really basic so rename generic_file_fsync()
simple_fsync() and __generic_file_fsync() to simple_fsync_noflush().

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326095354.16340-56-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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The implementation is now really basic so rename generic_file_fsync()
simple_fsync() and __generic_file_fsync() to simple_fsync_noflush().

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260326095354.16340-56-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs/omfs: reject s_sys_blocksize smaller than OMFS_DIR_START</title>
<updated>2026-03-17T14:35:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>HyungJung Joo</name>
<email>jhj140711@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-17T05:48:27+00:00</published>
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omfs_fill_super() rejects oversized s_sys_blocksize values (&gt; PAGE_SIZE),
but it does not reject values smaller than OMFS_DIR_START (0x1b8 = 440).

Later, omfs_make_empty() uses

    sbi-&gt;s_sys_blocksize - OMFS_DIR_START

as the length argument to memset().  Since s_sys_blocksize is u32,
a crafted filesystem image with s_sys_blocksize &lt; OMFS_DIR_START causes
an unsigned underflow there, wrapping to a value near 2^32.  That drives
a ~4 GiB memset() from bh-&gt;b_data + OMFS_DIR_START and overwrites kernel
memory far beyond the backing block buffer.

Add the corresponding lower-bound check alongside the existing upper-bound
check in omfs_fill_super(), so that malformed images are rejected during
superblock validation before any filesystem data is processed.

Fixes: a3ab7155ea21 ("omfs: add directory routines")
Signed-off-by: Hyungjung Joo &lt;jhj140711@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260317054827.1822061-1-jhj140711@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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omfs_fill_super() rejects oversized s_sys_blocksize values (&gt; PAGE_SIZE),
but it does not reject values smaller than OMFS_DIR_START (0x1b8 = 440).

Later, omfs_make_empty() uses

    sbi-&gt;s_sys_blocksize - OMFS_DIR_START

as the length argument to memset().  Since s_sys_blocksize is u32,
a crafted filesystem image with s_sys_blocksize &lt; OMFS_DIR_START causes
an unsigned underflow there, wrapping to a value near 2^32.  That drives
a ~4 GiB memset() from bh-&gt;b_data + OMFS_DIR_START and overwrites kernel
memory far beyond the backing block buffer.

Add the corresponding lower-bound check alongside the existing upper-bound
check in omfs_fill_super(), so that malformed images are rejected during
superblock validation before any filesystem data is processed.

Fixes: a3ab7155ea21 ("omfs: add directory routines")
Signed-off-by: Hyungjung Joo &lt;jhj140711@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260317054827.1822061-1-jhj140711@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.fs_header' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-12-01T22:18:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-01T22:18:01+00:00</published>
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Pull fs header updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains initial work to start splitting up fs.h.

  Begin the long-overdue work of splitting up the monolithic fs.h
  header. The header has grown to over 3000 lines and includes types and
  functions for many different subsystems, making it difficult to
  navigate and causing excessive compilation dependencies.

  This series introduces new focused headers for superblock-related
  code:

   - Rename fs_types.h to fs_dirent.h to better reflect its actual
     content (directory entry types)

   - Add fs/super_types.h containing superblock type definitions

   - Add fs/super.h containing superblock function declarations

  This is the first step in a longer effort to modularize the VFS
  headers.

  Cleanups:

   - Inode Field Layout Optimization (Mateusz Guzik)

     Move inode fields used during fast path lookup closer together to
     improve cache locality during path resolution.

   - current_umask() Optimization (Mateusz Guzik)

     Inline current_umask() and move it to fs_struct.h. This improves
     performance by avoiding function call overhead for this
     frequently-used function, and places it in a more appropriate
     header since it operates on fs_struct"

* tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.fs_header' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  fs: move inode fields used during fast path lookup closer together
  fs: inline current_umask() and move it to fs_struct.h
  fs: add fs/super.h header
  fs: add fs/super_types.h header
  fs: rename fs_types.h to fs_dirent.h
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Pull fs header updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains initial work to start splitting up fs.h.

  Begin the long-overdue work of splitting up the monolithic fs.h
  header. The header has grown to over 3000 lines and includes types and
  functions for many different subsystems, making it difficult to
  navigate and causing excessive compilation dependencies.

  This series introduces new focused headers for superblock-related
  code:

   - Rename fs_types.h to fs_dirent.h to better reflect its actual
     content (directory entry types)

   - Add fs/super_types.h containing superblock type definitions

   - Add fs/super.h containing superblock function declarations

  This is the first step in a longer effort to modularize the VFS
  headers.

  Cleanups:

   - Inode Field Layout Optimization (Mateusz Guzik)

     Move inode fields used during fast path lookup closer together to
     improve cache locality during path resolution.

   - current_umask() Optimization (Mateusz Guzik)

     Inline current_umask() and move it to fs_struct.h. This improves
     performance by avoiding function call overhead for this
     frequently-used function, and places it in a more appropriate
     header since it operates on fs_struct"

* tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.fs_header' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  fs: move inode fields used during fast path lookup closer together
  fs: inline current_umask() and move it to fs_struct.h
  fs: add fs/super.h header
  fs: add fs/super_types.h header
  fs: rename fs_types.h to fs_dirent.h
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