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<title>kernel/linux.git/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/debug.c, branch linux-7.0.y</title>
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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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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>wifi: ath5k: remove phydir check from ath5k_debug_init_device()</title>
<updated>2023-07-25T14:30:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Minjie Du</name>
<email>duminjie@vivo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-24T10:11:07+00:00</published>
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'phydir' returned from debugfs_create_dir() is checked against NULL.
As the debugfs API returns an error pointer,
the returned value can never be NULL.

Therefore, as the documentation suggests that the check is unnecessary
and other debugfs calls have no operation in error cases,
it is advisable to completely eliminate the check.

Signed-off-by: Minjie Du &lt;duminjie@vivo.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jirislaby@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;quic_kvalo@quicinc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230714081619.2032-1-duminjie@vivo.com
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<entry>
<title>ath5k: convert to use DEFINE_SEQ_ATTRIBUTE macro</title>
<updated>2020-09-22T07:46:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Liu Shixin</name>
<email>liushixin2@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-16T02:50:15+00:00</published>
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Use DEFINE_SEQ_ATTRIBUTE macro to simplify the code.

Signed-off-by: Liu Shixin &lt;liushixin2@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200916025015.3992315-1-liushixin2@huawei.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ath5k: Use scnprintf() for avoiding potential buffer overflow</title>
<updated>2020-03-12T08:21:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-11T08:47:08+00:00</published>
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Since snprintf() returns the would-be-output size instead of the
actual output size, the succeeding calls may go beyond the given
buffer limit.  Fix it by replacing with scnprintf().

Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jirislaby@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Kossifidis &lt;mickflemm@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ath5k: Remove unused BUG_ON</title>
<updated>2018-10-01T15:32:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Chancellor</name>
<email>natechancellor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-21T19:32:36+00:00</published>
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Clang warns that the address of a pointer will always evaluated as true
in a boolean context:

drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/debug.c:1031:14: warning: address of
array 'ah-&gt;sbands' will always evaluate to 'true'
[-Wpointer-bool-conversion]
        BUG_ON(!ah-&gt;sbands);
               ~~~~~^~~~~~
./include/asm-generic/bug.h:61:45: note: expanded from macro 'BUG_ON'
#define BUG_ON(condition) do { if (unlikely(condition)) BUG(); } while (0)
                                            ^~~~~~~~~
./include/linux/compiler.h:77:42: note: expanded from macro 'unlikely'
# define unlikely(x)    __builtin_expect(!!(x), 0)
                                            ^
1 warning generated.

Given that this condition is always false because of the logical not,
just remove it.

Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/130
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Use array_size() in vmalloc()</title>
<updated>2018-06-12T23:19:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-12T21:27:11+00:00</published>
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The vmalloc() function has no 2-factor argument form, so multiplication
factors need to be wrapped in array_size(). This patch replaces cases of:

        vmalloc(a * b)

with:
        vmalloc(array_size(a, b))

as well as handling cases of:

        vmalloc(a * b * c)

with:

        vmalloc(array3_size(a, b, c))

This does, however, attempt to ignore constant size factors like:

        vmalloc(4 * 1024)

though any constants defined via macros get caught up in the conversion.

Any factors with a sizeof() of "unsigned char", "char", and "u8" were
dropped, since they're redundant.

The Coccinelle script used for this was:

// Fix redundant parens around sizeof().
@@
type TYPE;
expression THING, E;
@@

(
  vmalloc(
-	(sizeof(TYPE)) * E
+	sizeof(TYPE) * E
  , ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	(sizeof(THING)) * E
+	sizeof(THING) * E
  , ...)
)

// Drop single-byte sizes and redundant parens.
@@
expression COUNT;
typedef u8;
typedef __u8;
@@

(
  vmalloc(
-	sizeof(u8) * (COUNT)
+	COUNT
  , ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	sizeof(__u8) * (COUNT)
+	COUNT
  , ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	sizeof(char) * (COUNT)
+	COUNT
  , ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	sizeof(unsigned char) * (COUNT)
+	COUNT
  , ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	sizeof(u8) * COUNT
+	COUNT
  , ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	sizeof(__u8) * COUNT
+	COUNT
  , ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	sizeof(char) * COUNT
+	COUNT
  , ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	sizeof(unsigned char) * COUNT
+	COUNT
  , ...)
)

// 2-factor product with sizeof(type/expression) and identifier or constant.
@@
type TYPE;
expression THING;
identifier COUNT_ID;
constant COUNT_CONST;
@@

(
  vmalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT_ID)
+	array_size(COUNT_ID, sizeof(TYPE))
  , ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT_ID
+	array_size(COUNT_ID, sizeof(TYPE))
  , ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT_CONST)
+	array_size(COUNT_CONST, sizeof(TYPE))
  , ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT_CONST
+	array_size(COUNT_CONST, sizeof(TYPE))
  , ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	sizeof(THING) * (COUNT_ID)
+	array_size(COUNT_ID, sizeof(THING))
  , ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	sizeof(THING) * COUNT_ID
+	array_size(COUNT_ID, sizeof(THING))
  , ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	sizeof(THING) * (COUNT_CONST)
+	array_size(COUNT_CONST, sizeof(THING))
  , ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	sizeof(THING) * COUNT_CONST
+	array_size(COUNT_CONST, sizeof(THING))
  , ...)
)

// 2-factor product, only identifiers.
@@
identifier SIZE, COUNT;
@@

  vmalloc(
-	SIZE * COUNT
+	array_size(COUNT, SIZE)
  , ...)

// 3-factor product with 1 sizeof(type) or sizeof(expression), with
// redundant parens removed.
@@
expression THING;
identifier STRIDE, COUNT;
type TYPE;
@@

(
  vmalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT) * (STRIDE)
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE))
  , ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT) * STRIDE
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE))
  , ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT * (STRIDE)
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE))
  , ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT * STRIDE
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE))
  , ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	sizeof(THING) * (COUNT) * (STRIDE)
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING))
  , ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	sizeof(THING) * (COUNT) * STRIDE
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING))
  , ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	sizeof(THING) * COUNT * (STRIDE)
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING))
  , ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	sizeof(THING) * COUNT * STRIDE
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING))
  , ...)
)

// 3-factor product with 2 sizeof(variable), with redundant parens removed.
@@
expression THING1, THING2;
identifier COUNT;
type TYPE1, TYPE2;
@@

(
  vmalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(TYPE2) * COUNT
+	array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(TYPE2))
  , ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(THING2) * (COUNT)
+	array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(TYPE2))
  , ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	sizeof(THING1) * sizeof(THING2) * COUNT
+	array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(THING1), sizeof(THING2))
  , ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	sizeof(THING1) * sizeof(THING2) * (COUNT)
+	array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(THING1), sizeof(THING2))
  , ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(THING2) * COUNT
+	array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(THING2))
  , ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(THING2) * (COUNT)
+	array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(THING2))
  , ...)
)

// 3-factor product, only identifiers, with redundant parens removed.
@@
identifier STRIDE, SIZE, COUNT;
@@

(
  vmalloc(
-	(COUNT) * STRIDE * SIZE
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
  , ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	COUNT * (STRIDE) * SIZE
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
  , ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	COUNT * STRIDE * (SIZE)
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
  , ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	(COUNT) * (STRIDE) * SIZE
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
  , ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	COUNT * (STRIDE) * (SIZE)
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
  , ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	(COUNT) * STRIDE * (SIZE)
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
  , ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	(COUNT) * (STRIDE) * (SIZE)
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
  , ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	COUNT * STRIDE * SIZE
+	array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE)
  , ...)
)

// Any remaining multi-factor products, first at least 3-factor products
// when they're not all constants...
@@
expression E1, E2, E3;
constant C1, C2, C3;
@@

(
  vmalloc(C1 * C2 * C3, ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	E1 * E2 * E3
+	array3_size(E1, E2, E3)
  , ...)
)

// And then all remaining 2 factors products when they're not all constants.
@@
expression E1, E2;
constant C1, C2;
@@

(
  vmalloc(C1 * C2, ...)
|
  vmalloc(
-	E1 * E2
+	array_size(E1, E2)
  , ...)
)

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>wireless: Use octal not symbolic permissions</title>
<updated>2018-03-27T08:01:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Perches</name>
<email>joe@perches.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-23T22:54:37+00:00</published>
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Prefer the direct use of octal for permissions.

Done with checkpatch -f --types=SYMBOLIC_PERMS --fix-inplace
and some typing.

Miscellanea:

o Whitespace neatening around these conversions.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@codeaurora.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ath5k: fix memory leak on buf on failed eeprom read</title>
<updated>2017-05-19T07:51:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Colin Ian King</name>
<email>colin.king@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-03T14:26:00+00:00</published>
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The AR5K_EEPROM_READ macro returns with -EIO if a read error
occurs causing a memory leak on the allocated buffer buf. Fix
this by explicitly calling ath5k_hw_nvram_read and exiting on
the via the freebuf label that performs the necessary free'ing
of buf when a read error occurs.

Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1248782 ("Resource Leak")

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ath5k: drop duplicate header vmalloc.h</title>
<updated>2016-12-01T11:23:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Geliang Tang</name>
<email>geliangtang@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-24T13:58:28+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Drop duplicate header vmalloc.h from ath5k/debug.c.

Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang &lt;geliangtang@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo &lt;kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com&gt;
</content>
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