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<title>kernel/linux.git/drivers/target/target_core_user.c, branch v7.1</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree (mirror)</subtitle>
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<updated>2026-04-05T20:53:44+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>uio: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare in uio_info</title>
<updated>2026-04-05T20:53:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle)</name>
<email>ljs@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-20T22:39:45+00:00</published>
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The f_op-&gt;mmap interface is deprecated, so update uio_info to use its
successor, mmap_prepare.

Therefore, replace the uio_info-&gt;mmap hook with a new
uio_info-&gt;mmap_prepare hook, and update its one user, target_core_user,
to both specify this new mmap_prepare hook and also to use the new
vm_ops-&gt;mapped() hook to continue to maintain a correct udev-&gt;kref
refcount.

Then update uio_mmap() to utilise the mmap_prepare compatibility layer to
invoke this callback from the uio mmap invocation.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/157583e4477705b496896c7acd4ac88a937b8fa6.1774045440.git.ljs@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) &lt;ljs@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) &lt;vbabka@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Shishkin &lt;alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Alexandre Torgue &lt;alexandre.torgue@foss.st.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Bodo Stroesser &lt;bostroesser@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Clemens Ladisch &lt;clemens@ladisch.de&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dexuan Cui &lt;decui@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Haiyang Zhang &lt;haiyangz@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan &lt;kys@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Liam Howlett &lt;liam.howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Long Li &lt;longli@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Maxime Coquelin &lt;mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Miquel Raynal &lt;miquel.raynal@bootlin.com&gt;
Cc: Pedro Falcato &lt;pfalcato@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vignesh Raghavendra &lt;vigneshr@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<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>
<title>treewide, timers: Rename from_timer() to timer_container_of()</title>
<updated>2025-06-08T07:07:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-09T05:51:14+00:00</published>
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Move this API to the canonical timer_*() namespace.

[ tglx: Redone against pre rc1 ]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aB2X0jCKQO56WdMt@gmail.com

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<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>
<title>Merge branch '6.13/scsi-queue' into 6.13/scsi-fixes</title>
<updated>2024-12-02T17:36:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin K. Petersen</name>
<email>martin.petersen@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-02T17:36:18+00:00</published>
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Pull in outstanding changes from 6.13/scsi-queue.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>scsi: target: tcmu: Constify some structures</title>
<updated>2024-11-21T02:55:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe JAILLET</name>
<email>christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-11T13:10:56+00:00</published>
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'struct nla_policy' and 'struct match_table_t' are not modified in this
driver.

Constifying these structures moves some data to a read-only section, so
increase overall security, especially when the structure holds some
function pointers, which is the case of struct nla_policy.

On a x86_64, with allmodconfig:
Before:
======
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  93188	   6933	    338	 100459	  1886b	drivers/target/target_core_user.o

After:
=====
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
  93508	   6581	    338	 100427	  1884b	drivers/target/target_core_user.o

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET &lt;christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f83cd8469cc17391178e1181e8c26c4c1fb6028f.1731330634.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr
Reviewed-by: Bodo Stroesser &lt;bostroesser@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>genetlink: hold RCU in genlmsg_mcast()</title>
<updated>2024-10-16T00:52:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-11T17:12:17+00:00</published>
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While running net selftests with CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_LIST=y I saw
one lockdep splat [1].

genlmsg_mcast() uses for_each_net_rcu(), and must therefore hold RCU.

Instead of letting all callers guard genlmsg_multicast_allns()
with a rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() pair, do it in genlmsg_mcast().

This also means the @flags parameter is useless, we need to always use
GFP_ATOMIC.

[1]
[10882.424136] =============================
[10882.424166] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
[10882.424309] 6.12.0-rc2-virtme #1156 Not tainted
[10882.424400] -----------------------------
[10882.424423] net/netlink/genetlink.c:1940 RCU-list traversed in non-reader section!!
[10882.424469]
other info that might help us debug this:

[10882.424500]
rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
[10882.424744] 2 locks held by ip/15677:
[10882.424791] #0: ffffffffb6b491b0 (cb_lock){++++}-{3:3}, at: genl_rcv (net/netlink/genetlink.c:1219)
[10882.426334] #1: ffffffffb6b49248 (genl_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: genl_rcv_msg (net/netlink/genetlink.c:61 net/netlink/genetlink.c:57 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1209)
[10882.426465]
stack backtrace:
[10882.426805] CPU: 14 UID: 0 PID: 15677 Comm: ip Not tainted 6.12.0-rc2-virtme #1156
[10882.426919] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
[10882.427046] Call Trace:
[10882.427131]  &lt;TASK&gt;
[10882.427244] dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:123)
[10882.427335] lockdep_rcu_suspicious (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6822)
[10882.427387] genlmsg_multicast_allns (net/netlink/genetlink.c:1940 (discriminator 7) net/netlink/genetlink.c:1977 (discriminator 7))
[10882.427436] l2tp_tunnel_notify.constprop.0 (net/l2tp/l2tp_netlink.c:119) l2tp_netlink
[10882.427683] l2tp_nl_cmd_tunnel_create (net/l2tp/l2tp_netlink.c:253) l2tp_netlink
[10882.427748] genl_family_rcv_msg_doit (net/netlink/genetlink.c:1115)
[10882.427834] genl_rcv_msg (net/netlink/genetlink.c:1195 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1210)
[10882.427877] ? __pfx_l2tp_nl_cmd_tunnel_create (net/l2tp/l2tp_netlink.c:186) l2tp_netlink
[10882.427927] ? __pfx_genl_rcv_msg (net/netlink/genetlink.c:1201)
[10882.427959] netlink_rcv_skb (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2551)
[10882.428069] genl_rcv (net/netlink/genetlink.c:1220)
[10882.428095] netlink_unicast (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1332 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1357)
[10882.428140] netlink_sendmsg (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1901)
[10882.428210] ____sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:729 (discriminator 1) net/socket.c:744 (discriminator 1) net/socket.c:2607 (discriminator 1))

Fixes: 33f72e6f0c67 ("l2tp : multicast notification to the registered listeners")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: James Chapman &lt;jchapman@katalix.com&gt;
Cc: Tom Parkin &lt;tparkin@katalix.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241011171217.3166614-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>scsi: target: tcmu: Annotate struct tcmu_tmr with __counted_by</title>
<updated>2023-09-27T15:28:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-22T17:53:01+00:00</published>
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Prepare for the coming implementation by GCC and Clang of the __counted_by
attribute. Flexible array members annotated with __counted_by can have
their accesses bounds-checked at run-time checking via CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS
(for array indexing) and CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE (for strcpy/memcpy-family
functions).

As found with Coccinelle[1], add __counted_by for struct tcmu_tmr.

[1] https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/blob/trunk/coccinelle/examples/counted_by.cocci

Cc: Bodo Stroesser &lt;bostroesser@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: target-devel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230922175300.work.148-kees@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" &lt;gustavoars@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bodo Stroesser &lt;bostroesser@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>scsi: target: tcmu: Replace strlcpy() with strscpy()</title>
<updated>2023-06-22T01:13:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Azeem Shaikh</name>
<email>azeemshaikh38@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-21T03:00:33+00:00</published>
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strlcpy() reads the entire source buffer first.  This read may exceed the
destination size limit.  This is both inefficient and can lead to linear
read overflows if a source string is not NUL-terminated [1].  In an effort
to remove strlcpy() completely [2], replace strlcpy() here with strscpy().

No return values were used, so direct replacement is safe.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strlcpy
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/89

Signed-off-by: Azeem Shaikh &lt;azeemshaikh38@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230621030033.3800351-3-azeemshaikh38@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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