kernel/linux.git/drivers/char/virtio_console.c, branch v7.1-rc5

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_flex' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

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

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

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

virtio_console: fix order of fields cols and rows

2025-04-18T14:08:11+00:00

According to section 5.3.6.2 (Multiport Device Operation) of the virtio spec(version 1.2) a control buffer with the event VIRTIO_CONSOLE_RESIZE is followed by a virtio_console_resize struct containing cols then rows. The kernel implements this the wrong way around (rows then cols) resulting in the two values being swapped. Signed-off-by: Maximilian Immanuel Brandtner Message-Id: <20250324144300.905535-1-maxbr@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin

virtio_console: fix missing byte order handling for cols and rows

2025-04-18T14:08:11+00:00

As per virtio spec the fields cols and rows are specified as little endian. Although there is no legacy interface requirement that would state that cols and rows need to be handled as native endian when legacy interface is used, unlike for the fields of the adjacent struct virtio_console_control, I decided to err on the side of caution based on some non-conclusive virtio spec repo archaeology and opt for using virtio16_to_cpu() much like for virtio_console_control.event. Strictly by the letter of the spec virtio_le_to_cpu() would have been sufficient. But when the legacy interface is not used, it boils down to the same. And when using the legacy interface, the device formatting these as little endian when the guest is big endian would surprise me more than it using guest native byte order (which would make it compatible with the current implementation). Nevertheless somebody trying to implement the spec following it to the letter could end up forcing little endian byte order when the legacy interface is in use. So IMHO this ultimately needs a judgement call by the maintainers. Fixes: 8345adbf96fc1 ("virtio: console: Accept console size along with resize control message") Signed-off-by: Halil Pasic Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.35+ Message-Id: <20250322002954.3129282-1-pasic@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin

Merge 6.14-rc6 into char-misc-next

2025-03-10T06:31:51+00:00

We need the fixes in here as well to build on top of. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fs/pipe: add simpler helpers for common cases

2025-03-07T04:25:35+00:00

The fix to atomically read the pipe head and tail state when not holding the pipe mutex has caused a number of headaches due to the size change of the involved types. It turns out that we don't have _that_ many places that access these fields directly and were affected, but we have more than we strictly should have, because our low-level helper functions have been designed to have intimate knowledge of how the pipes work. And as a result, that random noise of direct 'pipe->head' and 'pipe->tail' accesses makes it harder to pinpoint any actual potential problem spots remaining. For example, we didn't have a "is the pipe full" helper function, but instead had a "given these pipe buffer indexes and this pipe size, is the pipe full". That's because some low-level pipe code does actually want that much more complicated interface. But most other places literally just want a "is the pipe full" helper, and not having it meant that those places ended up being unnecessarily much too aware of this all. It would have been much better if only the very core pipe code that cared had been the one aware of this all. So let's fix it - better late than never. This just introduces the trivial wrappers for "is this pipe full or empty" and to get how many pipe buffers are used, so that instead of writing if (pipe_full(pipe->head, pipe->tail, pipe->max_usage)) the places that literally just want to know if a pipe is full can just say if (pipe_is_full(pipe)) instead. The existing trivial cases were converted with a 'sed' script. This cuts down on the places that access pipe->head and pipe->tail directly outside of the pipe code (and core splice code) quite a lot. The splice code in particular still revels in doing the direct low-level accesses, and the fuse fuse_dev_splice_write() code also seems a bit unnecessarily eager to go very low-level, but it's at least a bit better than it used to be. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

virtio_console: Get rid of unneeded temporary variable

2025-02-20T14:24:25+00:00

When compiling a kernel with GCC using `make W=1` with CONFIG_WERROR=y (which is default nowadays), the build fails: drivers/char/virtio_console.c:1427:9: note: ‘snprintf’ output between 9 and 27 bytes into a destination of size 16 Indeed, GCC can't see the limits of the variables that are in use. Fix this by using dev_name() of the newly created device that is luckily the same as the string used for the DebugFS node name. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko Reviewed-by: Amit Shah Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250210095946.4122771-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

virtio: console: Use str_yes_no() helper in port_debugfs_show()

2025-02-20T14:24:19+00:00

Remove hard-coded strings by using the str_yes_no() helper function. Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum Reviewed-by: Amit Shah Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250212114841.74650-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman