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<title>kernel/linux.git/drivers/md/dm-dust.c, branch linux-7.1.y</title>
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<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
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<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>
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<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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<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>
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<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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<entry>
<title>dm: Allow .prepare_ioctl to handle ioctls directly</title>
<updated>2025-05-04T09:35:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kevin Wolf</name>
<email>kwolf@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-29T16:50:17+00:00</published>
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This adds a 'bool *forward' parameter to .prepare_ioctl, which allows
device mapper targets to accept ioctls to themselves instead of the
underlying device. If the target already fully handled the ioctl, it
sets *forward to false and device mapper won't forward it to the
underlying device any more.

In order for targets to actually know what the ioctl is about and how to
handle it, pass also cmd and arg.

As long as targets restrict themselves to interpreting ioctls of type
DM_IOCTL, this is a backwards compatible change because previously, any
such ioctl would have been passed down through all device mapper layers
until it reached a device that can't understand the ioctl and would
return an error.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf &lt;kwolf@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Marzinski &lt;bmarzins@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm: update relevant MODULE_AUTHOR entries to latest dm-devel mailing list</title>
<updated>2024-02-20T19:22:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Snitzer</name>
<email>snitzer@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-07T20:51:24+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm: add helper macro for simple DM target module init and exit</title>
<updated>2023-04-11T16:09:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yangtao Li</name>
<email>frank.li@vivo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-09T16:43:37+00:00</published>
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Eliminate duplicate boilerplate code for simple modules that contain
a single DM target driver without any additional setup code.

Add a new module_dm() macro, which replaces the module_init() and
module_exit() with template functions that call dm_register_target()
and dm_unregister_target() respectively.

Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li &lt;frank.li@vivo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm: push error reporting down to dm_register_target()</title>
<updated>2023-04-11T16:01:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yangtao Li</name>
<email>frank.li@vivo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-18T13:16:33+00:00</published>
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Simplifies each DM target's init method by making dm_register_target()
responsible for its error reporting (on behalf of targets).

Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li &lt;frank.li@vivo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm: add missing SPDX-License-Indentifiers</title>
<updated>2023-02-14T19:23:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heinz Mauelshagen</name>
<email>heinzm@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-25T20:00:44+00:00</published>
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'GPL-2.0-only' is used instead of 'GPL-2.0' because SPDX has
deprecated its use.

Suggested-by: John Wiele &lt;jwiele@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen &lt;heinzm@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm: use bdev_nr_sectors and bdev_nr_bytes instead of open coding them</title>
<updated>2021-10-18T20:43:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-18T10:11:05+00:00</published>
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Use the proper helpers to read the block device size.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211018101130.1838532-6-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm: update target status functions to support IMA measurement</title>
<updated>2021-08-10T17:34:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tushar Sugandhi</name>
<email>tusharsu@linux.microsoft.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-13T00:49:03+00:00</published>
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For device mapper targets to take advantage of IMA's measurement
capabilities, the status functions for the individual targets need to be
updated to handle the status_type_t case for value STATUSTYPE_IMA.

Update status functions for the following target types, to log their
respective attributes to be measured using IMA.
 01. cache
 02. crypt
 03. integrity
 04. linear
 05. mirror
 06. multipath
 07. raid
 08. snapshot
 09. striped
 10. verity

For rest of the targets, handle the STATUSTYPE_IMA case by setting the
measurement buffer to NULL.

For IMA to measure the data on a given system, the IMA policy on the
system needs to be updated to have the following line, and the system
needs to be restarted for the measurements to take effect.

/etc/ima/ima-policy
 measure func=CRITICAL_DATA label=device-mapper template=ima-buf

The measurements will be reflected in the IMA logs, which are located at:

/sys/kernel/security/integrity/ima/ascii_runtime_measurements
/sys/kernel/security/integrity/ima/binary_runtime_measurements

These IMA logs can later be consumed by various attestation clients
running on the system, and send them to external services for attesting
the system.

The DM target data measured by IMA subsystem can alternatively
be queried from userspace by setting DM_IMA_MEASUREMENT_FLAG with
DM_TABLE_STATUS_CMD.

Signed-off-by: Tushar Sugandhi &lt;tusharsu@linux.microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>dm dust: remove h from printk format specifier</title>
<updated>2021-02-03T15:10:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tom Rix</name>
<email>trix@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-15T21:31:25+00:00</published>
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See Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst.

commit cbacb5ab0aa0 ("docs: printk-formats: Stop encouraging use of unnecessary %h[xudi] and %hh[xudi]")

Standard integer promotion is already done and %hx and %hhx is useless
so do not encourage the use of %hh[xudi] or %h[xudi].

Signed-off-by: Tom Rix &lt;trix@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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