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<title>linux.git/net/devlink/core.c, branch v7.1-rc2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>devlink: allow devlink instance allocation without a backing device</title>
<updated>2026-03-14T20:08:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Pirko</name>
<email>jiri@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-12T10:04:04+00:00</published>
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Allow devlink_alloc_ns() to be called with dev=NULL to support
device-less devlink instances. When dev is NULL, the instance is
identified over netlink using "devlink_index" as bus_name and
the decimal index value as dev_name.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260312100407.551173-11-jiri@resnulli.us
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Allow devlink_alloc_ns() to be called with dev=NULL to support
device-less devlink instances. When dev is NULL, the instance is
identified over netlink using "devlink_index" as bus_name and
the decimal index value as dev_name.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260312100407.551173-11-jiri@resnulli.us
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>devlink: add devlink_dev_driver_name() helper and use it in trace events</title>
<updated>2026-03-14T20:08:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Pirko</name>
<email>jiri@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-12T10:04:02+00:00</published>
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In preparation to dev-less devlinks, add devlink_dev_driver_name()
that returns the driver name stored in devlink struct, and use it in
all trace events.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260312100407.551173-9-jiri@resnulli.us
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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In preparation to dev-less devlinks, add devlink_dev_driver_name()
that returns the driver name stored in devlink struct, and use it in
all trace events.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260312100407.551173-9-jiri@resnulli.us
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>devlink: introduce __devlink_alloc() with dev driver pointer</title>
<updated>2026-03-14T20:08:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Pirko</name>
<email>jiri@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-12T10:04:01+00:00</published>
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Introduce __devlink_alloc() as an internal devlink allocator that
accepts a struct device_driver pointer and stores it in the devlink
instance. This allows internal devlink code (e.g. shared instances)
to associate a driver with a devlink instance without need to pass dev
pointer.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260312100407.551173-8-jiri@resnulli.us
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Introduce __devlink_alloc() as an internal devlink allocator that
accepts a struct device_driver pointer and stores it in the devlink
instance. This allows internal devlink code (e.g. shared instances)
to associate a driver with a devlink instance without need to pass dev
pointer.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260312100407.551173-8-jiri@resnulli.us
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>devlink: allow to use devlink index as a command handle</title>
<updated>2026-03-14T20:08:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Pirko</name>
<email>jiri@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-12T10:03:58+00:00</published>
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Currently devlink instances are addressed bus_name/dev_name tuple.
Allow the newly introduced DEVLINK_ATTR_INDEX to be used as
an alternative handle for all devlink commands.

When DEVLINK_ATTR_INDEX is present in the request, use it for a direct
xarray lookup instead of iterating over all instances comparing
bus_name/dev_name strings.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260312100407.551173-5-jiri@resnulli.us
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Currently devlink instances are addressed bus_name/dev_name tuple.
Allow the newly introduced DEVLINK_ATTR_INDEX to be used as
an alternative handle for all devlink commands.

When DEVLINK_ATTR_INDEX is present in the request, use it for a direct
xarray lookup instead of iterating over all instances comparing
bus_name/dev_name strings.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260312100407.551173-5-jiri@resnulli.us
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>devlink: add helpers to get bus_name/dev_name</title>
<updated>2026-03-14T20:08:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Pirko</name>
<email>jiri@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-12T10:03:56+00:00</published>
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Introduce devlink_bus_name() and devlink_dev_name() helpers and
convert all direct accesses to devlink-&gt;dev-&gt;bus-&gt;name and
dev_name(devlink-&gt;dev) to use them.

This prepares for dev-less devlink instances where these helpers
will be extended to handle the missing device.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260312100407.551173-3-jiri@resnulli.us
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Introduce devlink_bus_name() and devlink_dev_name() helpers and
convert all direct accesses to devlink-&gt;dev-&gt;bus-&gt;name and
dev_name(devlink-&gt;dev) to use them.

This prepares for dev-less devlink instances where these helpers
will be extended to handle the missing device.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260312100407.551173-3-jiri@resnulli.us
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_flex' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T01:06:51+00:00</published>
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This is the exact same thing as the 'alloc_obj()' version, only much
smaller because there are a lot fewer users of the *alloc_flex()
interface.

As with alloc_obj() version, this was done entirely with mindless brute
force, using the same script, except using 'flex' in the pattern rather
than 'objs*'.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This is the exact same thing as the 'alloc_obj()' version, only much
smaller because there are a lot fewer users of the *alloc_flex()
interface.

As with alloc_obj() version, this was done entirely with mindless brute
force, using the same script, except using 'flex' in the pattern rather
than 'objs*'.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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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;
</pre>
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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;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>devlink: Refactor devlink_rate_nodes_check</title>
<updated>2026-02-03T04:05:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cosmin Ratiu</name>
<email>cratiu@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-28T11:25:35+00:00</published>
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devlink_rate_nodes_check() was used to verify there are no devlink rate
nodes created when switching the esw mode.

Rate management code is about to become more complex, so refactor this
function:
- remove unused param 'mode'.
- add a new 'rate_filter' param.
- rename to devlink_rates_check().
- expose devlink_rate_is_node() to be used as a rate filter.

This makes it more usable from multiple places, so use it from those
places as well.

Signed-off-by: Cosmin Ratiu &lt;cratiu@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Carolina Jubran &lt;cjubran@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260128112544.1661250-6-tariqt@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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devlink_rate_nodes_check() was used to verify there are no devlink rate
nodes created when switching the esw mode.

Rate management code is about to become more complex, so refactor this
function:
- remove unused param 'mode'.
- add a new 'rate_filter' param.
- rename to devlink_rates_check().
- expose devlink_rate_is_node() to be used as a rate filter.

This makes it more usable from multiple places, so use it from those
places as well.

Signed-off-by: Cosmin Ratiu &lt;cratiu@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Carolina Jubran &lt;cjubran@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260128112544.1661250-6-tariqt@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>devlink: Reverse locking order for nested instances</title>
<updated>2026-02-03T04:05:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cosmin Ratiu</name>
<email>cratiu@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-28T11:25:33+00:00</published>
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Commit [1] defined the locking expectations for nested devlink
instances: the nested-in devlink instance lock needs to be acquired
before the nested devlink instance lock. The code handling devlink rels
was architected with that assumption in mind.

There are no actual users of double locking yet but that is about to
change in the upcoming patches in the series.

Code operating on nested devlink instances will require also obtaining
the nested-in instance lock, but such code may already be called from a
variety of places with the nested devlink instance lock. Then, there's
no way to acquire the nested-in lock other than making sure that all
callers acquire it first.

Reversing the nested lock order allows incrementally acquiring the
nested-in instance lock when needed (perhaps even a chain of locks up to
the root) without affecting any caller.

The only affected use of nesting is devlink_nl_nested_fill(), which
iterates over nested devlink instances with the RCU lock, without
locking them, so there's no possibility of deadlock.

So this commit just updates a comment regarding the nested locks.

[1] commit c137743bce02b ("devlink: introduce object and nested devlink
relationship infra")

Signed-off-by: Cosmin Ratiu &lt;cratiu@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260128112544.1661250-4-tariqt@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit [1] defined the locking expectations for nested devlink
instances: the nested-in devlink instance lock needs to be acquired
before the nested devlink instance lock. The code handling devlink rels
was architected with that assumption in mind.

There are no actual users of double locking yet but that is about to
change in the upcoming patches in the series.

Code operating on nested devlink instances will require also obtaining
the nested-in instance lock, but such code may already be called from a
variety of places with the nested devlink instance lock. Then, there's
no way to acquire the nested-in lock other than making sure that all
callers acquire it first.

Reversing the nested lock order allows incrementally acquiring the
nested-in instance lock when needed (perhaps even a chain of locks up to
the root) without affecting any caller.

The only affected use of nesting is devlink_nl_nested_fill(), which
iterates over nested devlink instances with the RCU lock, without
locking them, so there's no possibility of deadlock.

So this commit just updates a comment regarding the nested locks.

[1] commit c137743bce02b ("devlink: introduce object and nested devlink
relationship infra")

Signed-off-by: Cosmin Ratiu &lt;cratiu@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260128112544.1661250-4-tariqt@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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