kernel/linux.git/drivers/base/attribute_container.c, branch v7.0-rc7

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

driver core: attribute_container: change return type to void

2026-01-16T15:46:14+00:00

attribute_container_register() has always returned 0 since its introduction in commit 06ff5a987e ("Add attribute container to generic device model") in the historical Linux tree [1]. Convert the return type to void and update all callers. This removes dead code where callers checked for errors that could never occur. Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git [1] Signed-off-by: Daniel Gomez Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251220-dev-attribute-container-linux-scsi-v1-1-d58fcd03bf21@samsung.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: attribute_container: Remove unused functions

2024-09-13T13:41:42+00:00

I can't find any use of 'attribute_container_add_class_device_adapter' or 'attribute_container_trigger' in git history. Their export decls went in 2006: commit 1740757e8f94 ("[PATCH] Driver Core: remove unused exports") and their docs disappeared in 2016: commit 47cb398dd75a ("Docs: sphinxify device-drivers.tmpl") Remove them. Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240913010955.1393995-1-linux@treblig.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: attribute_container: fix W=1 warnings

2021-05-14T11:37:10+00:00

Fix the following make W=1 kernel build warnings: drivers/base/attribute_container.c:304: warning: Function parameter or member 'fn' not described in 'attribute_container_device_trigger_safe' drivers/base/attribute_container.c:304: warning: Function parameter or member 'undo' not described in 'attribute_container_device_trigger_safe' drivers/base/attribute_container.c:357: warning: Function parameter or member 'fn' not described in 'attribute_container_device_trigger' Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210512072233.3817056-1-yangyingliang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: attribute_container: remove kernel-doc warnings

2021-04-02T14:40:07+00:00

Remove make W=1 warnings drivers/base/attribute_container.c:471: warning: Function parameter or member 'cont' not described in 'attribute_container_add_class_device_adapter' drivers/base/attribute_container.c:471: warning: Function parameter or member 'dev' not described in 'attribute_container_add_class_device_adapter' drivers/base/attribute_container.c:471: warning: Function parameter or member 'classdev' not described in 'attribute_container_add_class_device_adapter' Signed-off-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210331232614.304591-3-pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

scsi: drivers: base: Support atomic version of attribute_container_device_trigger

2020-01-16T03:55:36+00:00

attribute_container_device_trigger invokes callbacks that may fail for one or more classdevs, for instance, the transport_add_class_device callback, called during transport creation, does memory allocation. This information, though, is not propagated to upper layers, and any driver using the attribute_container_device_trigger API will not know whether any, some, or all callbacks succeeded. This patch implements a safe version of this dispatcher, to either succeed all the callbacks or revert to the original state. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200106185817.640331-2-krisman@collabora.com Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen

driver core: Remove redundant license text

2017-12-07T17:36:44+00:00

Now that the SPDX tag is in all driver core files, that identifies the license in a specific and legally-defined manner. So the extra GPL text wording can be removed as it is no longer needed at all. This is done on a quest to remove the 700+ different ways that files in the kernel describe the GPL license text. And there's unneeded stuff like the address (sometimes incorrect) for the FSF which is never needed. No copyright headers or other non-license-description text was removed. Cc: Johannes Berg Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

driver core: add SPDX identifiers to all driver core files

2017-12-07T17:36:43+00:00

It's good to have SPDX identifiers in all files to make it easier to audit the kernel tree for correct licenses. Update the driver core files files with the correct SPDX license identifier based on the license text in the file itself. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This work is based on a script and data from Thomas Gleixner, Philippe Ombredanne, and Kate Stewart. Cc: Johannes Berg Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: William Breathitt Gray Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Kate Stewart Cc: Philippe Ombredanne Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

attribute_container: Fix typo

2016-08-31T13:13:56+00:00

The 't' in "function" was missing, this patch fixes this typo: s/funcion/function/g Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman