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<title>linux.git/lib/kobject_uevent.c, branch v7.0</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>kernfs: pass struct ns_common instead of const void * for namespace tags</title>
<updated>2026-04-09T12:36:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-01T10:15:58+00:00</published>
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kernfs has historically used const void * to pass around namespace tags
used for directory-level namespace filtering. The only current user of
this is sysfs network namespace tagging where struct net pointers are
cast to void *.

Replace all const void * namespace parameters with const struct
ns_common * throughout the kernfs, sysfs, and kobject namespace layers.
This includes the kobj_ns_type_operations callbacks, kobject_namespace(),
and all sysfs/kernfs APIs that accept or return namespace tags.

Passing struct ns_common is needed because various codepaths require
access to the underlying namespace. A struct ns_common can always be
converted back to the concrete namespace type (e.g., struct net) via
container_of() or to_ns_common() in the reverse direction.

This is a preparatory change for switching to ns_id-based directory
iteration to prevent a KASLR pointer leak through the current use of
raw namespace pointers as hash seeds and comparison keys.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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kernfs has historically used const void * to pass around namespace tags
used for directory-level namespace filtering. The only current user of
this is sysfs network namespace tagging where struct net pointers are
cast to void *.

Replace all const void * namespace parameters with const struct
ns_common * throughout the kernfs, sysfs, and kobject namespace layers.
This includes the kobj_ns_type_operations callbacks, kobject_namespace(),
and all sysfs/kernfs APIs that accept or return namespace tags.

Passing struct ns_common is needed because various codepaths require
access to the underlying namespace. A struct ns_common can always be
converted back to the concrete namespace type (e.g., struct net) via
container_of() or to_ns_common() in the reverse direction.

This is a preparatory change for switching to ns_id-based directory
iteration to prevent a KASLR pointer leak through the current use of
raw namespace pointers as hash seeds and comparison keys.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>uevent: mv uevent_helper into kobject_uevent.c</title>
<updated>2025-07-23T09:56:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Granados</name>
<email>joel.granados@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-06-27T07:29:56+00:00</published>
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Move both uevent_helper table into lib/kobject_uevent.c. Place the
registration early in the initcall order with postcore_initcall.

This is part of a greater effort to move ctl tables into their
respective subsystems which will reduce the merge conflicts in
kernel/sysctl.c.

Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;joel.granados@kernel.org&gt;
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Move both uevent_helper table into lib/kobject_uevent.c. Place the
registration early in the initcall order with postcore_initcall.

This is part of a greater effort to move ctl tables into their
respective subsystems which will reduce the merge conflicts in
kernel/sysctl.c.

Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;joel.granados@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kobject_uevent: Fix OOB access within zap_modalias_env()</title>
<updated>2024-06-12T11:24:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zijun Hu</name>
<email>quic_zijuhu@quicinc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-30T13:14:37+00:00</published>
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zap_modalias_env() wrongly calculates size of memory block to move, so
will cause OOB memory access issue if variable MODALIAS is not the last
one within its @env parameter, fixed by correcting size to memmove.

Fixes: 9b3fa47d4a76 ("kobject: fix suppressing modalias in uevents delivered over netlink")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Zijun Hu &lt;quic_zijuhu@quicinc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lk Sii &lt;lk_sii@163.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1717074877-11352-1-git-send-email-quic_zijuhu@quicinc.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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zap_modalias_env() wrongly calculates size of memory block to move, so
will cause OOB memory access issue if variable MODALIAS is not the last
one within its @env parameter, fixed by correcting size to memmove.

Fixes: 9b3fa47d4a76 ("kobject: fix suppressing modalias in uevents delivered over netlink")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Zijun Hu &lt;quic_zijuhu@quicinc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lk Sii &lt;lk_sii@163.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1717074877-11352-1-git-send-email-quic_zijuhu@quicinc.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kobject: reduce uevent_sock_mutex scope</title>
<updated>2024-02-17T15:20:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-14T08:48:29+00:00</published>
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This is a followup of commit a3498436b3a0 ("netns: restrict uevents")

- uevent_sock_mutex no longer protects uevent_seqnum thanks
  to prior patch in the series.

- uevent_net_broadcast() can run without holding uevent_sock_mutex.

- Instead of grabbing uevent_sock_mutex before calling
  kobject_uevent_net_broadcast(), we can move the
  mutex_lock(&amp;uevent_sock_mutex) to the place we iterate over
  uevent_sock_list : uevent_net_broadcast_untagged().

After this patch, typical netdevice creations and destructions
calling uevent_net_broadcast_tagged() no longer need to acquire
uevent_sock_mutex.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240214084829.684541-3-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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This is a followup of commit a3498436b3a0 ("netns: restrict uevents")

- uevent_sock_mutex no longer protects uevent_seqnum thanks
  to prior patch in the series.

- uevent_net_broadcast() can run without holding uevent_sock_mutex.

- Instead of grabbing uevent_sock_mutex before calling
  kobject_uevent_net_broadcast(), we can move the
  mutex_lock(&amp;uevent_sock_mutex) to the place we iterate over
  uevent_sock_list : uevent_net_broadcast_untagged().

After this patch, typical netdevice creations and destructions
calling uevent_net_broadcast_tagged() no longer need to acquire
uevent_sock_mutex.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240214084829.684541-3-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kobject: make uevent_seqnum atomic</title>
<updated>2024-02-17T15:20:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-14T08:48:28+00:00</published>
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We will soon no longer acquire uevent_sock_mutex
for most kobject_uevent_net_broadcast() calls,
and also while calling uevent_net_broadcast().

Make uevent_seqnum an atomic64_t to get its own protection.

This fixes a race while reading /sys/kernel/uevent_seqnum.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240214084829.684541-2-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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We will soon no longer acquire uevent_sock_mutex
for most kobject_uevent_net_broadcast() calls,
and also while calling uevent_net_broadcast().

Make uevent_seqnum an atomic64_t to get its own protection.

This fixes a race while reading /sys/kernel/uevent_seqnum.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240214084829.684541-2-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kobject: Replace strlcpy with strscpy</title>
<updated>2023-09-22T16:50:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Azeem Shaikh</name>
<email>azeemshaikh38@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-31T14:01:04+00:00</published>
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strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first.
This read may exceed the destination size limit.
This is both inefficient and can lead to linear read
overflows if a source string is not NUL-terminated [1].
In an effort to remove strlcpy() completely [2], replace
strlcpy() here with strscpy().

Direct replacement is safe here since return value of -errno
is used to check for truncation instead of sizeof(dest).

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89

Signed-off-by: Azeem Shaikh &lt;azeemshaikh38@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230831140104.207019-1-azeemshaikh38@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first.
This read may exceed the destination size limit.
This is both inefficient and can lead to linear read
overflows if a source string is not NUL-terminated [1].
In an effort to remove strlcpy() completely [2], replace
strlcpy() here with strscpy().

Direct replacement is safe here since return value of -errno
is used to check for truncation instead of sizeof(dest).

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89

Signed-off-by: Azeem Shaikh &lt;azeemshaikh38@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230831140104.207019-1-azeemshaikh38@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kobject: remove kset from struct kset_uevent_ops callbacks</title>
<updated>2021-12-28T10:26:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-27T16:39:24+00:00</published>
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There is no need to pass the pointer to the kset in the struct
kset_uevent_ops callbacks as no one uses it, so just remove that pointer
entirely.

Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Wedson Almeida Filho &lt;wedsonaf@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211227163924.3970661-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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There is no need to pass the pointer to the kset in the struct
kset_uevent_ops callbacks as no one uses it, so just remove that pointer
entirely.

Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Wedson Almeida Filho &lt;wedsonaf@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211227163924.3970661-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kobject_uevent: remove warning in init_uevent_argv()</title>
<updated>2021-04-10T09:09:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-05T09:48:52+00:00</published>
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syzbot can trigger the WARN() in init_uevent_argv() which isn't the
nicest as the code does properly recover and handle the error.  So
change the WARN() call to pr_warn() and provide some more information on
what the buffer size that was needed.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201107082206.GA19079@kroah.com
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: syzbot+92340f7b2b4789907fdb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210405094852.1348499-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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syzbot can trigger the WARN() in init_uevent_argv() which isn't the
nicest as the code does properly recover and handle the error.  So
change the WARN() call to pr_warn() and provide some more information on
what the buffer size that was needed.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201107082206.GA19079@kroah.com
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: syzbot+92340f7b2b4789907fdb@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210405094852.1348499-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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