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<title>kernel/linux.git/drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c, branch v7.0-rc7</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree (mirror)</subtitle>
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<updated>2026-02-22T16:26:33+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>Convert remaining multi-line kmalloc_obj/flex GFP_KERNEL uses</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T16:26:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T07:46:04+00:00</published>
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Conversion performed via this Coccinelle script:

  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
  // Options: --include-headers-for-types --all-includes --include-headers --keep-comments
  virtual patch

  @gfp depends on patch &amp;&amp; !(file in "tools") &amp;&amp; !(file in "samples")@
  identifier ALLOC = {kmalloc_obj,kmalloc_objs,kmalloc_flex,
 		    kzalloc_obj,kzalloc_objs,kzalloc_flex,
		    kvmalloc_obj,kvmalloc_objs,kvmalloc_flex,
		    kvzalloc_obj,kvzalloc_objs,kvzalloc_flex};
  @@

  	ALLOC(...
  -		, GFP_KERNEL
  	)

  $ make coccicheck MODE=patch COCCI=gfp.cocci

Build and boot tested x86_64 with Fedora 42's GCC and Clang:

Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20260123 (Red Hat 15.2.1-7), GNU ld version 2.44-12.fc42) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01
Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (clang version 20.1.8 (Fedora 20.1.8-4.fc42), LLD 20.1.8) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<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>
<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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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;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2026-02-12T20:13:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-12T20:13:01+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "ocfs2: give ocfs2 the ability to reclaim suballocator free bg" saves
   disk space by teaching ocfs2 to reclaim suballocator block group
   space (Heming Zhao)

 - "Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs" adds the
   ARRAY_END() macro and uses it in various places (Alejandro Colomar)

 - "vmcoreinfo: support VMCOREINFO_BYTES larger than PAGE_SIZE" makes
   the vmcore code future-safe, if VMCOREINFO_BYTES ever exceeds the
   page size (Pnina Feder)

 - "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing module buildid" cleans
   up kallsyms code related to module buildid and fixes an invalid
   access crash when printing backtraces (Petr Mladek)

 - "Address page fault in ima_restore_measurement_list()" fixes a
   kexec-related crash that can occur when booting the second-stage
   kernel on x86 (Harshit Mogalapalli)

 - "kho: ABI headers and Documentation updates" updates the kexec
   handover ABI documentation (Mike Rapoport)

 - "Align atomic storage" adds the __aligned attribute to atomic_t and
   atomic64_t definitions to get natural alignment of both types on
   csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc and sh (Finn Thain)

 - "kho: clean up page initialization logic" simplifies the page
   initialization logic in kho_restore_page() (Pratyush Yadav)

 - "Unload linux/kernel.h" moves several things out of kernel.h and into
   more appropriate places (Yury Norov)

 - "don't abuse task_struct.group_leader" removes the usage of
   -&gt;group_leader when it is "obviously unnecessary" (Oleg Nesterov)

 - "list private v2 &amp; luo flb" adds some infrastructure improvements to
   the live update orchestrator (Pasha Tatashin)

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (107 commits)
  watchdog/hardlockup: simplify perf event probe and remove per-cpu dependency
  procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat()
  watchdog/softlockup: fix sample ring index wrap in need_counting_irqs()
  kcsan, compiler_types: avoid duplicate type issues in BPF Type Format
  kho: fix doc for kho_restore_pages()
  tests/liveupdate: add in-kernel liveupdate test
  liveupdate: luo_flb: introduce File-Lifecycle-Bound global state
  liveupdate: luo_file: Use private list
  list: add kunit test for private list primitives
  list: add primitives for private list manipulations
  delayacct: fix uapi timespec64 definition
  panic: add panic_force_cpu= parameter to redirect panic to a specific CPU
  netclassid: use thread_group_leader(p) in update_classid_task()
  RDMA/umem: don't abuse current-&gt;group_leader
  drm/pan*: don't abuse current-&gt;group_leader
  drm/amd: kill the outdated "Only the pthreads threading model is supported" checks
  drm/amdgpu: don't abuse current-&gt;group_leader
  android/binder: use same_thread_group(proc-&gt;tsk, current) in binder_mmap()
  android/binder: don't abuse current-&gt;group_leader
  kho: skip memoryless NUMA nodes when reserving scratch areas
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel.h: drop hex.h and update all hex.h users</title>
<updated>2026-01-21T03:44:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>rdunlap@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-15T00:51:56+00:00</published>
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Remove &lt;linux/hex.h&gt; from &lt;linux/kernel.h&gt; and update all users/callers of
hex.h interfaces to directly #include &lt;linux/hex.h&gt; as part of the process
of putting kernel.h on a diet.

Removing hex.h from kernel.h means that 36K C source files don't have to
pay the price of parsing hex.h for the roughly 120 C source files that
need it.

This change has been build-tested with allmodconfig on most ARCHes.  Also,
all users/callers of &lt;linux/hex.h&gt; in the entire source tree have been
updated if needed (if not already #included).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251215005206.2362276-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) &lt;yury.norov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netdevsim: fix a race issue related to the operation on bpf_bound_progs list</title>
<updated>2026-01-20T16:18:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yun Lu</name>
<email>luyun@kylinos.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-16T09:53:08+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
The netdevsim driver lacks a protection mechanism for operations on the
bpf_bound_progs list. When the nsim_bpf_create_prog() performs
list_add_tail, it is possible that nsim_bpf_destroy_prog() is
simultaneously performs list_del. Concurrent operations on the list may
lead to list corruption and trigger a kernel crash as follows:

[  417.290971] kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:62!
[  417.290983] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
[  417.290992] CPU: 10 PID: 168 Comm: kworker/10:1 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.19.0-rc5 #1
[  417.291003] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
[  417.291007] Workqueue: events bpf_prog_free_deferred
[  417.291021] RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0xa7/0xc0
[  417.291034] Code: a8 ff 0f 0b 48 89 fe 48 89 ca 48 c7 c7 48 a1 eb ae e8 ed fb a8 ff 0f 0b 48 89 fe 48 89 c2 48 c7 c7 80 a1 eb ae e8 d9 fb a8 ff &lt;0f&gt; 0b 48 89 d1 48 c7 c7 d0 a1 eb ae 48 89 f2 48 89 c6 e8 c2 fb a8
[  417.291040] RSP: 0018:ffffb16a40807df8 EFLAGS: 00010246
[  417.291046] RAX: 000000000000006d RBX: ffff8e589866f500 RCX: 0000000000000000
[  417.291051] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff8e59f7b23180 RDI: ffff8e59f7b23180
[  417.291055] RBP: ffffb16a412c9000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000003
[  417.291059] R10: ffffb16a40807c80 R11: ffffffffaf9edce8 R12: ffff8e594427ac20
[  417.291063] R13: ffff8e59f7b44780 R14: ffff8e58800b7a05 R15: 0000000000000000
[  417.291074] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8e59f7b00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[  417.291079] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[  417.291083] CR2: 00007fc4083efe08 CR3: 00000001c3626006 CR4: 0000000000770ee0
[  417.291088] PKRU: 55555554
[  417.291091] Call Trace:
[  417.291096]  &lt;TASK&gt;
[  417.291103]  nsim_bpf_destroy_prog+0x31/0x80 [netdevsim]
[  417.291154]  __bpf_prog_offload_destroy+0x2a/0x80
[  417.291163]  bpf_prog_dev_bound_destroy+0x6f/0xb0
[  417.291171]  bpf_prog_free_deferred+0x18e/0x1a0
[  417.291178]  process_one_work+0x18a/0x3a0
[  417.291188]  worker_thread+0x27b/0x3a0
[  417.291197]  ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
[  417.291207]  kthread+0xe5/0x120
[  417.291214]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[  417.291221]  ret_from_fork+0x31/0x50
[  417.291230]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[  417.291236]  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
[  417.291246]  &lt;/TASK&gt;

Add a mutex lock, to prevent simultaneous addition and deletion operations
on the list.

Fixes: 31d3ad832948 ("netdevsim: add bpf offload support")
Reported-by: Yinhao Hu &lt;dddddd@hust.edu.cn&gt;
Reported-by: Kaiyan Mei &lt;M202472210@hust.edu.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yun Lu &lt;luyun@kylinos.cn&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260116095308.11441-1-luyun_611@163.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;

</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netdevsim: register a new devlink param with default value interface</title>
<updated>2025-11-21T03:01:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Zahka</name>
<email>daniel.zahka@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-19T02:50:35+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Create a new devlink param, test2, that supports default param actions
via the devlink_param::get_default() and
devlink_param::reset_default() functions.

Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov &lt;aleksandr.loktionov@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Zahka &lt;daniel.zahka@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119025038.651131-6-daniel.zahka@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq</title>
<updated>2025-09-23T00:40:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Crivellari</name>
<email>marco.crivellari@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-18T14:24:25+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Currently if a user enqueue a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the
used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() use
WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies to
schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that makes use
again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.

This lack of consistentcy cannot be addressed without refactoring the API.

system_unbound_wq should be the default workqueue so as not to enforce
locality constraints for random work whenever it's not required.

Adding system_dfl_wq to encourage its use when unbound work should be used.

The old system_unbound_wq will be kept for a few release cycles.

Suggested-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari &lt;marco.crivellari@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250918142427.309519-2-marco.crivellari@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>netdevsim: add fw_update_flash_chunk_time_ms debugfs knobs</title>
<updated>2025-07-24T00:08:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Pirko</name>
<email>jiri@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-22T09:19:45+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Netdevsim emulates firmware update and it takes 5 seconds to complete.
For some use cases, this is too long and unnecessary. Allow user to
configure the time by exposing debugfs a knob to set chunk time.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250722091945.79506-1-jiri@resnulli.us
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: netdevsim: Support setting dev-&gt;perm_addr on port creation</title>
<updated>2025-07-12T00:00:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Toke Høiland-Jørgensen</name>
<email>toke@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-10T11:18:33+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Network management daemons that match on the device permanent address
currently have no virtual interface types to test against.
NetworkManager, in particular, has carried an out of tree patch to set
the permanent address on netdevsim devices to use in its CI for this
purpose.

To support this use case, support setting netdev-&gt;perm_addr when
creating a netdevsim port.

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen &lt;toke@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250710-netdevsim-perm_addr-v4-1-c9db2fecf3bf@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
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