kernel/linux.git/drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c, branch v7.1-rc5

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

Merge tag 'char-misc-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc

2023-11-04T00:51:08+00:00

Pull char/misc updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big set of char/misc and other small driver subsystem changes for 6.7-rc1. Included in here are: - IIO subsystem driver updates and additions (largest part of this pull request) - FPGA subsystem driver updates - Counter subsystem driver updates - ICC subsystem driver updates - extcon subsystem driver updates - mei driver updates and additions - nvmem subsystem driver updates and additions - comedi subsystem dependency fixes - parport driver fixups - cdx subsystem driver and core updates - splice support for /dev/zero and /dev/full - other smaller driver cleanups All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'char-misc-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (326 commits) cdx: add sysfs for subsystem, class and revision cdx: add sysfs for bus reset cdx: add support for bus enable and disable cdx: Register cdx bus as a device on cdx subsystem cdx: Create symbol namespaces for cdx subsystem cdx: Introduce lock to protect controller ops cdx: Remove cdx controller list from cdx bus system dts: ti: k3-am625-beagleplay: Add beaglecc1352 greybus: Add BeaglePlay Linux Driver dt-bindings: net: Add ti,cc1352p7 dt-bindings: eeprom: at24: allow NVMEM cells based on old syntax dt-bindings: nvmem: SID: allow NVMEM cells based on old syntax Revert "nvmem: add new config option" MAINTAINERS: coresight: Add missing Coresight files misc: pci_endpoint_test: Add deviceID for J721S2 PCIe EP device support firmware: xilinx: Move EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL next to zynqmp_pm_feature definition uacce: make uacce_class constant ocxl: make ocxl_class constant cxl: make cxl_class constant misc: phantom: make phantom_class constant ...

misc: convert to new timestamp accessors

2023-10-18T11:26:16+00:00

Convert to using the new inode timestamp accessor functions. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231004185347.80880-7-jlayton@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

ibmvmc: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy

2023-10-05T11:34:04+00:00

`strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string interfaces. A suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it guarantees NUL-termination on the destination buffer without unnecessarily NUL-padding. Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1] Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html [2] Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90 Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230927-strncpy-drivers-misc-ibmvmc-c-v1-1-29f56cd3a269@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ibm: convert to ctime accessor functions

2023-07-13T08:28:02+00:00

In later patches, we're going to change how the inode's ctime field is used. Switch to using accessor functions instead of raw accesses of inode->i_ctime. Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Message-Id: <20230705190309.579783-17-jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

ibmvmc: update ctime in conjunction with mtime on write

2023-07-10T08:04:51+00:00

POSIX says: "Upon successful completion, where nbyte is greater than 0, write() shall mark for update the last data modification and last file status change timestamps of the file..." Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Message-Id: <20230705190309.579783-1-jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

ibmvmc: don't open-code file_inode()

2022-09-01T21:42:27+00:00

badly, at that... Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) Signed-off-by: Al Viro

vio: make remove callback return void

2021-03-02T11:41:23+00:00

The driver core ignores the return value of struct bus_type::remove() because there is only little that can be done. To simplify the quest to make this function return void, let struct vio_driver::remove() return void, too. All users already unconditionally return 0, this commit makes it obvious that returning an error code is a bad idea. Note there are two nominally different implementations for a vio bus: one in arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c and the other in arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/vio.c. This patch only adapts the powerpc one. Before this patch for a device that was bound to a driver without a remove callback vio_cmo_bus_remove(viodev) wasn't called. As the device core still considers the device unbound after vio_bus_remove() returns calling this unconditionally is the consistent behaviour which is implemented here. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König Reviewed-by: Tyrel Datwyler Acked-by: Lijun Pan Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman [mpe: Drop unneeded hvcs_remove() forward declaration, squash in change from sfr to drop ibmvnic_remove() forward declaration] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210225221834.160083-1-uwe@kleine-koenig.org

mm, treewide: rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive()

2020-08-07T18:33:22+00:00

As said by Linus: A symmetric naming is only helpful if it implies symmetries in use. Otherwise it's actively misleading. In "kzalloc()", the z is meaningful and an important part of what the caller wants. In "kzfree()", the z is actively detrimental, because maybe in the future we really _might_ want to use that "memfill(0xdeadbeef)" or something. The "zero" part of the interface isn't even _relevant_. The main reason that kzfree() exists is to clear sensitive information that should not be leaked to other future users of the same memory objects. Rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive() to follow the example of the recently added kvfree_sensitive() and make the intention of the API more explicit. In addition, memzero_explicit() is used to clear the memory to make sure that it won't get optimized away by the compiler. The renaming is done by using the command sequence: git grep -w --name-only kzfree |\ xargs sed -i 's/kzfree/kfree_sensitive/' followed by some editing of the kfree_sensitive() kerneldoc and adding a kzfree backward compatibility macro in slab.h. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fs/crypto/inline_crypt.c needs linux/slab.h] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/crypto/inline_crypt.c some more] Suggested-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Waiman Long Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Acked-by: David Howells Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen Cc: James Morris Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" Cc: Joe Perches Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Dan Carpenter Cc: "Jason A . Donenfeld" Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200616154311.12314-3-longman@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds