kernel/linux.git/drivers/char/mspec.c, branch v5.7.4

char: mspec: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

2020-03-19T06:41:03+00:00

The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2], introduced in C99: struct foo { int stuff; struct boo array[]; }; By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on. Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by this change: "Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1] This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle. [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21 [3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour") Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200227184808.GA1925@embeddedor Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

char/mspec: remove SGI SN2 support

2019-08-16T18:33:56+00:00

The SGI SN2 support is about to be removed, so drop the bits specific to it from this driver. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-10-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 206

2019-05-30T18:29:53+00:00

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s): this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of version 2 of the gnu general public license as published by the free software foundation extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-only has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 107 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Allison Randal Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana Reviewed-by: Steve Winslow Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190528171438.615055994@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

char: mspec: change return type to vm_fault_t

2018-04-23T11:51:53+00:00

Use new return type vm_fault_t for the fault handler in struct vm_operations_struct. For now, this is just documenting that the function returns a VM_FAULT value rather than an errno. Once all instances are converted, vm_fault_t will become a distinct type. This driver failed to handle any error returned by vm_insert_pfn. Use the new vmf_insert_pfn function to return the correct value. Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

drivers, char: convert vma_data.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t

2017-03-23T12:57:19+00:00

refcount_t type and corresponding API should be used instead of atomic_t when the variable is used as a reference counter. This allows to avoid accidental refcounter overflows that might lead to use-after-free situations. Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova Signed-off-by: Hans Liljestrand Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: David Windsor Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm, fs: reduce fault, page_mkwrite, and pfn_mkwrite to take only vmf

2017-02-25T01:46:54+00:00

->fault(), ->page_mkwrite(), and ->pfn_mkwrite() calls do not need to take a vma and vmf parameter when the vma already resides in vmf. Remove the vma parameter to simplify things. [arnd@arndb.de: fix ARM build] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170125223558.1451224-1-arnd@arndb.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/148521301778.19116.10840599906674778980.stgit@djiang5-desk3.ch.intel.com Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler Cc: Theodore Ts'o Cc: Darrick J. Wong Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Dan Williams Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: use vmf->address instead of of vmf->virtual_address

2016-12-15T00:04:09+00:00

Every single user of vmf->virtual_address typed that entry to unsigned long before doing anything with it so the type of virtual_address does not really provide us any additional safety. Just use masked vmf->address which already has the appropriate type. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479460644-25076-3-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Ross Zwisler Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

tree wide: use kvfree() than conditional kfree()/vfree()

2016-01-23T01:02:18+00:00

There are many locations that do if (memory_was_allocated_by_vmalloc) vfree(ptr); else kfree(ptr); but kvfree() can handle both kmalloc()ed memory and vmalloc()ed memory using is_vmalloc_addr(). Unless callers have special reasons, we can replace this branch with kvfree(). Please check and reply if you found problems. Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Jan Kara Acked-by: Russell King Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Acked-by: David Rientjes Cc: "Luck, Tony" Cc: Oleg Drokin Cc: Boris Petkov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

char: Use vma_pages() to replace (vm_end - vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT

2013-05-21T17:07:54+00:00

(*->vm_end - *->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT operation is implemented as a inline funcion vma_pages() in linux/mm.h, so using it. Signed-off-by: Libin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: kill vma flag VM_RESERVED and mm->reserved_vm counter

2012-10-09T07:22:19+00:00

A long time ago, in v2.4, VM_RESERVED kept swapout process off VMA, currently it lost original meaning but still has some effects: | effect | alternative flags -+------------------------+--------------------------------------------- 1| account as reserved_vm | VM_IO 2| skip in core dump | VM_IO, VM_DONTDUMP 3| do not merge or expand | VM_IO, VM_DONTEXPAND, VM_HUGETLB, VM_PFNMAP 4| do not mlock | VM_IO, VM_DONTEXPAND, VM_HUGETLB, VM_PFNMAP This patch removes reserved_vm counter from mm_struct. Seems like nobody cares about it, it does not exported into userspace directly, it only reduces total_vm showed in proc. Thus VM_RESERVED can be replaced with VM_IO or pair VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP. remap_pfn_range() and io_remap_pfn_range() set VM_IO|VM_DONTEXPAND|VM_DONTDUMP. remap_vmalloc_range() set VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c fixup] Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Carsten Otte Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: Eric Paris Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: James Morris Cc: Jason Baron Cc: Kentaro Takeda Cc: Matt Helsley Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Robert Richter Cc: Suresh Siddha Cc: Tetsuo Handa Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds