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<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-08-22-16-57' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2026-08-23T15:07:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-23T15:07:11+00:00</published>
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "ocfs2/dlm: bound peer-controlled lengths in the o2dlm" (Bryam
   Vargas)

   Validate and bound all input lengths and count fields in the o2dlm
   migration and recovery receive handlers to prevent memory corruption
   and kernel panics from malformed cluster messages

 - "ocfs2: validate xattr entry bounds" (Cen Zhang)

   Validate OCFS2 extended attribute entry name and value bounds during
   metadata reads to prevent out-of-range memory accesses during
   retrieval or listing operations.

 - "taskstats: fix cgroupstats invalid fd handling and add selftests"
   (Yiyang Chen)

   Return -EBADF when cgroupstats receives an invalid file descriptor to
   prevent caller hangs and misleading success ACKs. Add a kselftest to
   validate valid cgroup v1 queries and verify proper error handling
   across different Netlink flag combinations.

 - "misc lib/raid/ improvements v2" (Christoph Hellwig)

   Improve benchmark-based algorithm selection for the XOR and RAID6
   libraries, add KUnit benchmark tests, and cleanup minor
   implementation details.

 - "ocfs2: cluster: o2hb_region_pin() fixes" (Joseph Qi)

   Fix sleeping-in-atomic, lock order inversion and error-path cleanup
   bugs in o2hb_region_pin() by releasing o2hb_live_lock across sleeping
   configfs_depend_item() calls and using unlocked variants from
   callback context. Ensure failed pin attempts properly decrement user
   counts and unpin partially initialized heartbeat regions to prevent
   memory leaks and unprotected states.

 - "lib/ucs2_string.c: fix out-of-bounds read in ucs2_strnlen()"
   (Vincent Mailhol)

   Fix an off-by-one which could cause an out-of-bounds read.

 - "ocfs2: harden heartbeat teardown races" (Cen Zhang)

   Fix two OCFS2 heartbeat/o2net teardown races found by KASAN.

 - "taskstats: tidy up the cpumask command path" *Bradley Morgan)

   make two small cleanups in kernel/taskstats.c.

 - "ocfs2: validate active orphan slots during inode read" (ZhengYuan
   Huang)

   Validate active ordinary and append-DIO orphan slots read from OCFS2
   dinodes at the metadata boundary to prevent corrupted slot indices
   from causing out-of-bounds array accesses.

 - "ocfs2: bound-check both readdir re-validation scans" (Zhan Xusheng)

   Enforce strict boundary checks on directory entry record lengths and
   offset calculations during OCFS2 directory re-scans to prevent
   out-of-bounds memory reads and directory position corruption.

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-08-22-16-57' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (95 commits)
  mailmap: fix bouncing address for Taniya Das
  ocfs2: bound-check dir entries in the inline-data re-validation scan
  ocfs2: bound-check dir entries in the readdir re-validation scan
  squashfs: avoid thundering-herd cache wakeups
  prctl: fix PR_SET_MM_AUXV losing the forced AT_NULL terminator
  mailmap: update email address for Linfeng Sun
  lib/interval_tree: fix allocation warning messages
  checkpatch: add NOKPROBE_SYMBOL to the whitelist of lines that can occur immediately after functions
  Squashfs: check block offset is not negative
  signal: factor out the kernel reserved si_code check
  ocfs2: fix readdir position truncation on 32-bit kernels
  ocfs2: fix cached cluster count after suballocator reclaim
  ocfs2: fix circular locking dependency in ocfs2_init_acl()
  ocfs2: validate DIO orphan slot during inode read
  ocfs2: validate orphan slot during inode read
  selftests/prctl: fix non-anonymous VMA mapping in set-anon-vma-name test
  MAINTAINERS: add IRC and patchwork for LTP
  include/linux/list.h: mark list_add and __list_add as __always_inline
  tools/mm: prevent page_owner_sort from truncating input
  hung_task: update DETECT_HUNG_TASK_BLOCKER Kconfig help
  ...
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "ocfs2/dlm: bound peer-controlled lengths in the o2dlm" (Bryam
   Vargas)

   Validate and bound all input lengths and count fields in the o2dlm
   migration and recovery receive handlers to prevent memory corruption
   and kernel panics from malformed cluster messages

 - "ocfs2: validate xattr entry bounds" (Cen Zhang)

   Validate OCFS2 extended attribute entry name and value bounds during
   metadata reads to prevent out-of-range memory accesses during
   retrieval or listing operations.

 - "taskstats: fix cgroupstats invalid fd handling and add selftests"
   (Yiyang Chen)

   Return -EBADF when cgroupstats receives an invalid file descriptor to
   prevent caller hangs and misleading success ACKs. Add a kselftest to
   validate valid cgroup v1 queries and verify proper error handling
   across different Netlink flag combinations.

 - "misc lib/raid/ improvements v2" (Christoph Hellwig)

   Improve benchmark-based algorithm selection for the XOR and RAID6
   libraries, add KUnit benchmark tests, and cleanup minor
   implementation details.

 - "ocfs2: cluster: o2hb_region_pin() fixes" (Joseph Qi)

   Fix sleeping-in-atomic, lock order inversion and error-path cleanup
   bugs in o2hb_region_pin() by releasing o2hb_live_lock across sleeping
   configfs_depend_item() calls and using unlocked variants from
   callback context. Ensure failed pin attempts properly decrement user
   counts and unpin partially initialized heartbeat regions to prevent
   memory leaks and unprotected states.

 - "lib/ucs2_string.c: fix out-of-bounds read in ucs2_strnlen()"
   (Vincent Mailhol)

   Fix an off-by-one which could cause an out-of-bounds read.

 - "ocfs2: harden heartbeat teardown races" (Cen Zhang)

   Fix two OCFS2 heartbeat/o2net teardown races found by KASAN.

 - "taskstats: tidy up the cpumask command path" *Bradley Morgan)

   make two small cleanups in kernel/taskstats.c.

 - "ocfs2: validate active orphan slots during inode read" (ZhengYuan
   Huang)

   Validate active ordinary and append-DIO orphan slots read from OCFS2
   dinodes at the metadata boundary to prevent corrupted slot indices
   from causing out-of-bounds array accesses.

 - "ocfs2: bound-check both readdir re-validation scans" (Zhan Xusheng)

   Enforce strict boundary checks on directory entry record lengths and
   offset calculations during OCFS2 directory re-scans to prevent
   out-of-bounds memory reads and directory position corruption.

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-08-22-16-57' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (95 commits)
  mailmap: fix bouncing address for Taniya Das
  ocfs2: bound-check dir entries in the inline-data re-validation scan
  ocfs2: bound-check dir entries in the readdir re-validation scan
  squashfs: avoid thundering-herd cache wakeups
  prctl: fix PR_SET_MM_AUXV losing the forced AT_NULL terminator
  mailmap: update email address for Linfeng Sun
  lib/interval_tree: fix allocation warning messages
  checkpatch: add NOKPROBE_SYMBOL to the whitelist of lines that can occur immediately after functions
  Squashfs: check block offset is not negative
  signal: factor out the kernel reserved si_code check
  ocfs2: fix readdir position truncation on 32-bit kernels
  ocfs2: fix cached cluster count after suballocator reclaim
  ocfs2: fix circular locking dependency in ocfs2_init_acl()
  ocfs2: validate DIO orphan slot during inode read
  ocfs2: validate orphan slot during inode read
  selftests/prctl: fix non-anonymous VMA mapping in set-anon-vma-name test
  MAINTAINERS: add IRC and patchwork for LTP
  include/linux/list.h: mark list_add and __list_add as __always_inline
  tools/mm: prevent page_owner_sort from truncating input
  hung_task: update DETECT_HUNG_TASK_BLOCKER Kconfig help
  ...
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<title>params: fix charp corruption on allocation failure</title>
<updated>2026-08-06T14:44:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiacheng Yu</name>
<email>yujiacheng3@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-07-29T12:32:43+00:00</published>
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param_set_charp() stores charp parameters in allocated memory after slab is
available, and releases the previous value when the parameter is updated.

The previous value is released before the replacement allocation succeeds.
If kmalloc_parameter() fails, the setter returns -ENOMEM with the parameter
left as NULL.

Failing zswap's compressor update before zswap is initialized can later
trigger:

  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
  RIP: 0010:strcmp+0x10/0x30
  Call Trace:
    zswap_setup+0x3b1/0x490
    zswap_enabled_param_set+0x5b/0xa0
    param_attr_store+0x93/0xe0
    module_attr_store+0x1c/0x30
    kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x116/0x1f0

Allocate and copy the replacement first, then replace the parameter value
only after allocation succeeds.

Fixes: e180a6b7759a ("param: fix charp parameters set via sysfs")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiacheng Yu &lt;yujiacheng3@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu &lt;petr.pavlu@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu &lt;petr.pavlu@suse.com&gt;
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param_set_charp() stores charp parameters in allocated memory after slab is
available, and releases the previous value when the parameter is updated.

The previous value is released before the replacement allocation succeeds.
If kmalloc_parameter() fails, the setter returns -ENOMEM with the parameter
left as NULL.

Failing zswap's compressor update before zswap is initialized can later
trigger:

  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
  RIP: 0010:strcmp+0x10/0x30
  Call Trace:
    zswap_setup+0x3b1/0x490
    zswap_enabled_param_set+0x5b/0xa0
    param_attr_store+0x93/0xe0
    module_attr_store+0x1c/0x30
    kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x116/0x1f0

Allocate and copy the replacement first, then replace the parameter value
only after allocation succeeds.

Fixes: e180a6b7759a ("param: fix charp parameters set via sysfs")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiacheng Yu &lt;yujiacheng3@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu &lt;petr.pavlu@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu &lt;petr.pavlu@suse.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>params: fix path of /sys/module/XYZ/parameters/ in comment</title>
<updated>2026-08-06T11:29:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zenghui Yu</name>
<email>zenghui.yu@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-21T08:22:23+00:00</published>
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The comment wrongly references to /sys/modules/XYZ/parameters/ directory
instead of /sys/module/XYZ/parameters/. Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Zenghui Yu &lt;zenghui.yu@linux.dev&gt;
Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin &lt;atomlin@atomlin.com&gt;
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu &lt;petr.pavlu@suse.com&gt;
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The comment wrongly references to /sys/modules/XYZ/parameters/ directory
instead of /sys/module/XYZ/parameters/. Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Zenghui Yu &lt;zenghui.yu@linux.dev&gt;
Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin &lt;atomlin@atomlin.com&gt;
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu &lt;petr.pavlu@suse.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kernel/params: fix a pr_debug(" %p ") in parse_one()</title>
<updated>2026-08-04T04:10:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jim Cromie</name>
<email>jim.cromie@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-18T19:07:15+00:00</published>
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Inside parse_one(), the core parameter-parsing engine prints the address
of the parameter-set callback function using %p: pr_debug("handling %s
with %p\n", param, params[i].ops-&gt;set);

Since the string value of the parameter being parsed (val) is already
available, print the parameter name and its value instead, and avoid
tainting the kernel by exposing a kernel-ptr.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260618190715.3563047-1-jim.cromie@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie &lt;jim.cromie@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Inside parse_one(), the core parameter-parsing engine prints the address
of the parameter-set callback function using %p: pr_debug("handling %s
with %p\n", param, params[i].ops-&gt;set);

Since the string value of the parameter being parsed (val) is already
available, print the parameter name and its value instead, and avoid
tainting the kernel by exposing a kernel-ptr.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260618190715.3563047-1-jim.cromie@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie &lt;jim.cromie@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kernel: param: initialize module_kset in a pure_initcall</title>
<updated>2026-06-08T21:27:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shashank Balaji</name>
<email>shashank.mahadasyam@sony.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-01T10:19:41+00:00</published>
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Commit "driver core: platform: set mod_name in driver registration" will
set struct device_driver's mod_name member for platform driver
registration. For a driver to be registered with its mod_name set,
module_kset needs to be initialized, which currently happens in a
subsys_initcall in param_sysfs_init().  The tegra cbb drivers register
themselves before module_kset init, in a core_initcall. This works
currently because lookup_or_create_module_kobject(), which dereferences
module_kset via kset_find_obj(), is not called if mod_name is not set,
which is the case now.

So in preparation for the commit "driver core: platform: set mod_name in
driver registration", move module_kset init to pure_initcall level,
ensuring it happens before tegra cbb driver registration.

Suggested-by: Gary Guo &lt;gary@garyguo.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo &lt;gary@garyguo.net&gt;
Co-developed-by: Rahul Bukte &lt;rahul.bukte@sony.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rahul Bukte &lt;rahul.bukte@sony.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shashank Balaji &lt;shashank.mahadasyam@sony.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260601101942.4002661-1-shashank.mahadasyam@sony.com
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich &lt;dakr@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit "driver core: platform: set mod_name in driver registration" will
set struct device_driver's mod_name member for platform driver
registration. For a driver to be registered with its mod_name set,
module_kset needs to be initialized, which currently happens in a
subsys_initcall in param_sysfs_init().  The tegra cbb drivers register
themselves before module_kset init, in a core_initcall. This works
currently because lookup_or_create_module_kobject(), which dereferences
module_kset via kset_find_obj(), is not called if mod_name is not set,
which is the case now.

So in preparation for the commit "driver core: platform: set mod_name in
driver registration", move module_kset init to pure_initcall level,
ensuring it happens before tegra cbb driver registration.

Suggested-by: Gary Guo &lt;gary@garyguo.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo &lt;gary@garyguo.net&gt;
Co-developed-by: Rahul Bukte &lt;rahul.bukte@sony.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rahul Bukte &lt;rahul.bukte@sony.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shashank Balaji &lt;shashank.mahadasyam@sony.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260601101942.4002661-1-shashank.mahadasyam@sony.com
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich &lt;dakr@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>module: Clean up parse_args() arguments</title>
<updated>2026-03-18T21:43:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Pavlu</name>
<email>petr.pavlu@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-13T13:48:03+00:00</published>
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* Use the preferred `unsigned int` over plain `unsigned` for the `num`
  parameter.
* Synchronize the parameter names in moduleparam.h with the ones used by
  the implementation in params.c.

Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu &lt;petr.pavlu@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
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* Use the preferred `unsigned int` over plain `unsigned` for the `num`
  parameter.
* Synchronize the parameter names in moduleparam.h with the ones used by
  the implementation in params.c.

Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu &lt;petr.pavlu@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>module: Fix freeing of charp module parameters when CONFIG_SYSFS=n</title>
<updated>2026-03-18T21:43:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Pavlu</name>
<email>petr.pavlu@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-13T13:48:02+00:00</published>
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When setting a charp module parameter, the param_set_charp() function
allocates memory to store a copy of the input value. Later, when the module
is potentially unloaded, the destroy_params() function is called to free
this allocated memory.

However, destroy_params() is available only when CONFIG_SYSFS=y, otherwise
only a dummy variant is present. In the unlikely case that the kernel is
configured with CONFIG_MODULES=y and CONFIG_SYSFS=n, this results in
a memory leak of charp values when a module is unloaded.

Fix this issue by making destroy_params() always available when
CONFIG_MODULES=y. Rename the function to module_destroy_params() to clarify
that it is intended for use by the module loader.

Fixes: e180a6b7759a ("param: fix charp parameters set via sysfs")
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu &lt;petr.pavlu@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
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When setting a charp module parameter, the param_set_charp() function
allocates memory to store a copy of the input value. Later, when the module
is potentially unloaded, the destroy_params() function is called to free
this allocated memory.

However, destroy_params() is available only when CONFIG_SYSFS=y, otherwise
only a dummy variant is present. In the unlikely case that the kernel is
configured with CONFIG_MODULES=y and CONFIG_SYSFS=n, this results in
a memory leak of charp values when a module is unloaded.

Fix this issue by making destroy_params() always available when
CONFIG_MODULES=y. Rename the function to module_destroy_params() to clarify
that it is intended for use by the module loader.

Fixes: e180a6b7759a ("param: fix charp parameters set via sysfs")
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu &lt;petr.pavlu@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00</published>
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This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines.  I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</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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