kernel/linux.git/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvbdev.c, branch v7.0-rc7

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

media: dvbdev: Use %pe format specifier

2025-10-17T09:31:15+00:00

The %pe format specifier is designed to print error pointers. It prints a symbolic error name (eg. -EINVAL) and it makes the code simpler by omitting PTR_ERR() This patch fixes this cocci report: ./dvb-core/dvbdev.c:575:48-55: WARNING: Consider using %pe to print PTR_ERR() Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Acked-by: Sakari Ailus Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil

media: dvbdev: fix the logic when DVB_DYNAMIC_MINORS is not set

2024-11-06T21:32:52+00:00

When CONFIG_DVB_DYNAMIC_MINORS, ret is not initialized, and a semaphore is left at the wrong state, in case of errors. Make the code simpler and avoid mistakes by having just one error check logic used weather DVB_DYNAMIC_MINORS is used or not. Reported-by: kernel test robot Reported-by: Dan Carpenter Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202410201717.ULWWdJv8-lkp@intel.com/ Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9e067488d8935b8cf00959764a1fa5de85d65725.1730926254.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org

media: dvbdev: prevent the risk of out of memory access

2024-10-18T08:43:03+00:00

The dvbdev contains a static variable used to store dvb minors. The behavior of it depends if CONFIG_DVB_DYNAMIC_MINORS is set or not. When not set, dvb_register_device() won't check for boundaries, as it will rely that a previous call to dvb_register_adapter() would already be enforcing it. On a similar way, dvb_device_open() uses the assumption that the register functions already did the needed checks. This can be fragile if some device ends using different calls. This also generate warnings on static check analysers like Coverity. So, add explicit guards to prevent potential risk of OOM issues. Fixes: 5dd3f3071070 ("V4L/DVB (9361): Dynamic DVB minor allocation") Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab

media: dvbdev: Initialize sbuf

2024-04-08T11:48:19+00:00

Because the size passed to copy_from_user() cannot be known beforehand, it needs to be checked during runtime with check_object_size. That makes gcc believe that the content of sbuf can be used before init. Fix: ./include/linux/thread_info.h:215:17: warning: ‘sbuf’ may be used uninitialized [-Wmaybe-uninitialized] Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil

media: edia: dvbdev: fix a use-after-free

2024-02-07T05:06:03+00:00

In dvb_register_device, *pdvbdev is set equal to dvbdev, which is freed in several error-handling paths. However, *pdvbdev is not set to NULL after dvbdev's deallocation, causing use-after-frees in many places, for example, in the following call chain: budget_register |-> dvb_dmxdev_init |-> dvb_register_device |-> dvb_dmxdev_release |-> dvb_unregister_device |-> dvb_remove_device |-> dvb_device_put |-> kref_put When calling dvb_unregister_device, dmxdev->dvbdev (i.e. *pdvbdev in dvb_register_device) could point to memory that had been freed in dvb_register_device. Thereafter, this pointer is transferred to kref_put and triggering a use-after-free. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20240203134046.3120099-1-alexious@zju.edu.cn Fixes: b61901024776 ("V4L/DVB (5244): Dvbdev: fix illegal re-usage of fileoperations struct") Signed-off-by: Zhipeng Lu Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab

media: dvbdev: drop refcount on error path in dvb_device_open()

2023-12-13T10:04:46+00:00

If call to file->f_op->open() fails, then call dvb_device_put(dvbdev). Fixes: 0fc044b2b5e2 ("media: dvbdev: adopts refcnt to avoid UAF") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil

media: mc: Make media_get_pad_index() use pad type flag

2023-05-25T14:21:22+00:00

Use the pad flag specifying the pad type instead of a boolean in preparation for internal source pads. Also make the loop variable unsigned. Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil