kernel/linux.git/arch/um/drivers, branch v7.0-rc7

ubd: Use pointer-to-pointers for io_thread_req arrays

2026-02-23T22:35:16+00:00

Having an unbounded array for irq_req_buffer and io_req_buffer doesn't provide any bounds safety, and confuses the needed allocation type, which is returning a pointer to pointers. Instead of the implicit cast, switch the variable types. Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor Reported-by: Guenter Roeck Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/b04b6c13-7d0e-4a89-9e68-b572b6c686ac@roeck-us.net Fixes: 69050f8d6d07 ("treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types") Acked-by: Richard Weinberger Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260223214341.work.846-kees@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

Convert remaining multi-line kmalloc_obj/flex GFP_KERNEL uses

2026-02-22T16:26:33+00:00

Conversion performed via this Coccinelle script: // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only // Options: --include-headers-for-types --all-includes --include-headers --keep-comments virtual patch @gfp depends on patch && !(file in "tools") && !(file in "samples")@ identifier ALLOC = {kmalloc_obj,kmalloc_objs,kmalloc_flex, kzalloc_obj,kzalloc_objs,kzalloc_flex, kvmalloc_obj,kvmalloc_objs,kvmalloc_flex, kvzalloc_obj,kvzalloc_objs,kvzalloc_flex}; @@ ALLOC(... - , GFP_KERNEL ) $ make coccicheck MODE=patch COCCI=gfp.cocci Build and boot tested x86_64 with Fedora 42's GCC and Clang: Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20260123 (Red Hat 15.2.1-7), GNU ld version 2.44-12.fc42) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01 Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (clang version 20.1.8 (Fedora 20.1.8-4.fc42), LLD 20.1.8) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01 Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments

2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00

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

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

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

Merge tag 'uml-for-7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/uml/linux

2026-02-13T19:24:38+00:00

Pull UML updates from Johannes Berg: "UML was _really_ quiet, with just four small commits: - two signal handling fixes - dynamic addition of virtio devices - a single code cleanup" * tag 'uml-for-7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/uml/linux: arch/um: remove unused varible err in remove_files_and_dir() um: virtio_uml: Support adding devices via mconsole um: Handle SIGCHLD in seccomp mode like other IRQ signals um: Preserve errno within signal handler

kernel.h: drop hex.h and update all hex.h users

2026-01-21T03:44:19+00:00

Remove from and update all users/callers of hex.h interfaces to directly #include 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 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 Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

um: virtio_uml: Support adding devices via mconsole

2026-01-13T18:39:48+00:00

It can be used when we want to add virtio devices to UML while it's up and running. Virtio devices can be added to UML using the same syntax as the command line option: (mconsole) config virtio_uml.device=:[:] Signed-off-by: Tiwei Bie Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260106004259.1604736-1-tiwei.btw@antgroup.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

um: drivers: virtio: use string choices helper

2025-11-24T13:12:09+00:00

Remove hard-coded strings by using the string helper functions Signed-off-by: Kuninori Morimoto Link: https://patch.msgid.link/87h5uywtwp.wl-kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

um: Remove file-based iomem emulation support

2025-10-27T15:37:12+00:00

The file-based iomem emulation was introduced to support writing paravirtualized drivers based on emulated iomem regions. However, the only driver that makes use of it is an example driver called mmapper, which was written over two decades ago. We now have several modern device emulation mechanisms, such as vhost-user-based virtio-uml. Remove the file-based iomem emulation support to reduce the maintenance burden. Signed-off-by: Tiwei Bie Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027054519.1996090-5-tiwei.bie@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg