kernel/linux.git/drivers/net/slip/slip.c, branch linux-7.0.y

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

treewide, timers: Rename from_timer() to timer_container_of()

2025-06-08T07:07:37+00:00

Move this API to the canonical timer_*() namespace. [ tglx: Redone against pre rc1 ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aB2X0jCKQO56WdMt@gmail.com

treewide: Switch/rename to timer_delete[_sync]()

2025-04-05T08:30:12+00:00

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 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

net: annotate writes on dev->mtu from ndo_change_mtu()

2024-05-07T23:19:14+00:00

Simon reported that ndo_change_mtu() methods were never updated to use WRITE_ONCE(dev->mtu, new_mtu) as hinted in commit 501a90c94510 ("inet: protect against too small mtu values.") We read dev->mtu without holding RTNL in many places, with READ_ONCE() annotations. It is time to take care of ndo_change_mtu() methods to use corresponding WRITE_ONCE() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reported-by: Simon Horman Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20240505144608.GB67882@kernel.org/ Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Acked-by: Shannon Nelson Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240506102812.3025432-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: fill in MODULE_DESCRIPTION()s for SLIP

2024-01-12T00:16:08+00:00

W=1 builds now warn if module is built without a MODULE_DESCRIPTION(). Add descriptions to the Serial Line (SLIP) protocol modules. Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240108181610.2697017-3-leitao@debian.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

tty: use u8 for flags

2023-08-11T19:12:45+00:00

This makes all those 'char's an explicit 'u8'. This is part of the continuing unification of chars and flags to be consistent u8. This approaches tty_port_default_receive_buf(). Note that we do not change signedness as we compile with -funsigned-char. Signed-off-by: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" Cc: William Hubbs Cc: Chris Brannon Cc: Kirk Reiser Cc: Samuel Thibault Cc: Marcel Holtmann Cc: Johan Hedberg Cc: Luiz Augusto von Dentz Cc: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Jakub Kicinski Cc: Paolo Abeni Cc: Max Staudt Cc: Wolfgang Grandegger Cc: Marc Kleine-Budde Cc: Dario Binacchi Cc: Andreas Koensgen Cc: Jeremy Kerr Cc: Matt Johnston Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski Cc: Liam Girdwood Cc: Mark Brown Cc: Jaroslav Kysela Cc: Takashi Iwai Acked-by: Mark Brown Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230810091510.13006-18-jirislaby@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: use u8 for chars

2023-08-11T19:12:45+00:00

This makes all those 'unsigned char's an explicit 'u8'. This is part of the continuing unification of chars and flags to be consistent u8. This approaches tty_port_default_receive_buf(). Flags to be next. Signed-off-by: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" Cc: William Hubbs Cc: Chris Brannon Cc: Kirk Reiser Cc: Samuel Thibault Cc: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Max Staudt Cc: Wolfgang Grandegger Cc: Marc Kleine-Budde Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Jakub Kicinski Cc: Paolo Abeni Cc: Dario Binacchi Cc: Andreas Koensgen Cc: Jeremy Kerr Cc: Matt Johnston Cc: Liam Girdwood Cc: Mark Brown Cc: Jaroslav Kysela Cc: Takashi Iwai Cc: Peter Ujfalusi Acked-by: Mark Brown Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230810091510.13006-17-jirislaby@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: make tty_ldisc_ops::buf() hooks operate on size_t

2023-08-11T19:12:45+00:00

Count passed to tty_ldisc_ops::receive_buf*(), ::lookahead_buf(), and returned from ::receive_buf2() is expected to be size_t. So set it to size_t to unify with the rest of the code. Signed-off-by: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" Cc: William Hubbs Cc: Chris Brannon Cc: Kirk Reiser Cc: Samuel Thibault Cc: Marcel Holtmann Cc: Johan Hedberg Cc: Luiz Augusto von Dentz Cc: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Jakub Kicinski Cc: Paolo Abeni Cc: Max Staudt Cc: Wolfgang Grandegger Cc: Marc Kleine-Budde Cc: Dario Binacchi Cc: Andreas Koensgen Cc: Jeremy Kerr Cc: Matt Johnston Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski Cc: Liam Girdwood Cc: Mark Brown Cc: Jaroslav Kysela Cc: Takashi Iwai Acked-by: Mark Brown Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230810091510.13006-16-jirislaby@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

drivers: net: slip: fix NPD bug in sl_tx_timeout()

2022-04-07T06:00:16+00:00

When a slip driver is detaching, the slip_close() will act to cleanup necessary resources and sl->tty is set to NULL in slip_close(). Meanwhile, the packet we transmit is blocked, sl_tx_timeout() will be called. Although slip_close() and sl_tx_timeout() use sl->lock to synchronize, we don`t judge whether sl->tty equals to NULL in sl_tx_timeout() and the null pointer dereference bug will happen. (Thread 1) | (Thread 2) | slip_close() | spin_lock_bh(&sl->lock) | ... ... | sl->tty = NULL //(1) sl_tx_timeout() | spin_unlock_bh(&sl->lock) spin_lock(&sl->lock); | ... | ... tty_chars_in_buffer(sl->tty)| if (tty->ops->..) //(2) | ... | synchronize_rcu() We set NULL to sl->tty in position (1) and dereference sl->tty in position (2). This patch adds check in sl_tx_timeout(). If sl->tty equals to NULL, sl_tx_timeout() will goto out. Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220405132206.55291-1-duoming@zju.edu.cn Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

kernel/linux.git/drivers/net/slip/slip.c, branch linux-7.0.y

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

treewide, timers: Rename from_timer() to timer_container_of()

treewide: Switch/rename to timer_delete[_sync]()

net: annotate writes on dev->mtu from ndo_change_mtu()

net: fill in MODULE_DESCRIPTION()s for SLIP

tty: use u8 for flags

tty: use u8 for chars

tty: make tty_ldisc_ops::*buf*() hooks operate on size_t

drivers: net: slip: fix NPD bug in sl_tx_timeout()

tty: make tty_ldisc_ops::buf() hooks operate on size_t