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<title>kernel/linux.git/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/sunvnet.c, branch linux-7.0.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree (mirror)</subtitle>
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<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<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>
</author>
<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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<entry>
<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>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
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>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Switch/rename to timer_delete[_sync]()</title>
<updated>2025-04-05T08:30:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-05T08:17:26+00:00</published>
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timer_delete[_sync]() replaces del_timer[_sync](). Convert the whole tree
over and remove the historical wrapper inlines.

Conversion was done with coccinelle plus manual fixups where necessary.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: sunvnet: use ethtool_sprintf/puts</title>
<updated>2024-08-12T12:25:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rosen Penev</name>
<email>rosenp@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-09T20:55:18+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Simpler and allows avoiding manual pointer addition.

Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev &lt;rosenp@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Normalise "name (ad@dr)" MODULE_AUTHORs to "name &lt;ad@dr&gt;"</title>
<updated>2024-03-06T21:07:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ahelenia Ziemiańska</name>
<email>nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-13T14:54:04+00:00</published>
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<id>urn:sha1:6a57a21943dab509a04d911059d80a683d67c198</id>
<content type='text'>
Found with git grep 'MODULE_AUTHOR(".*([^)]*@'
Fixed with
  sed -i '/MODULE_AUTHOR(".*([^)]*@/{s/ (/ &lt;/g;s/)"/&gt;"/;s/)and/&gt; and/}' \
    $(git grep -l 'MODULE_AUTHOR(".*([^)]*@')

Also:
  in drivers/media/usb/siano/smsusb.c normalise ", INC" to ", Inc";
     this is what every other MODULE_AUTHOR for this company says,
     and it's what the header says
  in drivers/sbus/char/openprom.c normalise a double-spaced separator;
     this is clearly copied from the copyright header,
     where the names are aligned on consecutive lines thusly:
      * Linux/SPARC PROM Configuration Driver
      * Copyright (C) 1996 Thomas K. Dyas (tdyas@noc.rutgers.edu)
      * Copyright (C) 1996 Eddie C. Dost  (ecd@skynet.be)
     but the authorship branding is single-line

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/mk3geln4azm5binjjlfsgjepow4o73domjv6ajybws3tz22vb3@tarta.nabijaczleweli.xyz
Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska &lt;nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ethernet: sun: add check for the mdesc_grab()</title>
<updated>2023-03-17T07:47:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Liang He</name>
<email>windhl@126.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-15T06:00:21+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
In vnet_port_probe() and vsw_port_probe(), we should
check the return value of mdesc_grab() as it may
return NULL which can caused NPD bugs.

Fixes: 5d01fa0c6bd8 ("ldmvsw: Add ldmvsw.c driver code")
Fixes: 43fdf27470b2 ("[SPARC64]: Abstract out mdesc accesses for better MD update handling.")
Signed-off-by: Liang He &lt;windhl@126.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Piotr Raczynski &lt;piotr.raczynski@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Convert del_timer*() to timer_shutdown*()</title>
<updated>2022-12-25T21:38:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Google)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-20T18:45:19+00:00</published>
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Due to several bugs caused by timers being re-armed after they are
shutdown and just before they are freed, a new state of timers was added
called "shutdown".  After a timer is set to this state, then it can no
longer be re-armed.

The following script was run to find all the trivial locations where
del_timer() or del_timer_sync() is called in the same function that the
object holding the timer is freed.  It also ignores any locations where
the timer-&gt;function is modified between the del_timer*() and the free(),
as that is not considered a "trivial" case.

This was created by using a coccinelle script and the following
commands:

    $ cat timer.cocci
    @@
    expression ptr, slab;
    identifier timer, rfield;
    @@
    (
    -       del_timer(&amp;ptr-&gt;timer);
    +       timer_shutdown(&amp;ptr-&gt;timer);
    |
    -       del_timer_sync(&amp;ptr-&gt;timer);
    +       timer_shutdown_sync(&amp;ptr-&gt;timer);
    )
      ... when strict
          when != ptr-&gt;timer
    (
            kfree_rcu(ptr, rfield);
    |
            kmem_cache_free(slab, ptr);
    |
            kfree(ptr);
    )

    $ spatch timer.cocci . &gt; /tmp/t.patch
    $ patch -p1 &lt; /tmp/t.patch

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221123201306.823305113@linutronix.de/
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Acked-by: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt; [ LED ]
Acked-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@kernel.org&gt; [ wireless ]
Acked-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt; [ networking ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: drop the weight argument from netif_napi_add</title>
<updated>2022-09-29T01:57:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-27T13:27:53+00:00</published>
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We tell driver developers to always pass NAPI_POLL_WEIGHT
as the weight to netif_napi_add(). This may be confusing
to newcomers, drop the weight argument, those who really
need to tweak the weight can use netif_napi_add_weight().

Acked-by: Marc Kleine-Budde &lt;mkl@pengutronix.de&gt; # for CAN
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220927132753.750069-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: ethernet: move from strlcpy with unused retval to strscpy</title>
<updated>2022-08-31T21:11:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wolfram Sang</name>
<email>wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-30T20:14:54+00:00</published>
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Follow the advice of the below link and prefer 'strscpy' in this
subsystem. Conversion is 1:1 because the return value is not used.
Generated by a coccinelle script.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgfRnXz0W3D37d01q3JFkr_i_uTL=V6A6G1oUZcprmknw@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang &lt;wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Petr Machata &lt;petrm@nvidia.com&gt; # For drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw
Acked-by: Geoff Levand &lt;geoff@infradead.org&gt; # For ps3_gelic_net and spider_net_ethtool
Acked-by: Tom Lendacky &lt;thomas.lendacky@amd.com&gt; # For drivers/net/ethernet/amd/xgbe/xgbe-ethtool.c
Acked-by: Marcin Wojtas &lt;mw@semihalf.com&gt; # For drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mvpp2
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@nvidia.com&gt; # For drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx{4|5}
Reviewed-by: Shay Agroskin &lt;shayagr@amazon.com&gt; # For drivers/net/ethernet/amazon/ena
Acked-by: Krzysztof Hałasa &lt;khalasa@piap.pl&gt; # For IXP4xx Ethernet
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220830201457.7984-3-wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ethernet: use eth_hw_addr_set() in unmaintained drivers</title>
<updated>2021-10-18T12:20:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jakub Kicinski</name>
<email>kuba@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-15T21:53:04+00:00</published>
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Commit 406f42fa0d3c ("net-next: When a bond have a massive amount
of VLANs...") introduced a rbtree for faster Ethernet address look
up. To maintain netdev-&gt;dev_addr in this tree we need to make all
the writes to it got through appropriate helpers.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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