kernel/linux.git/drivers/usb/misc/cytherm.c, branch linux-7.1.y

USB: cytherm: drop redundant device reference

2026-03-11T14:14:35+00:00

Driver core holds a reference to the USB interface and its parent USB device while the interface is bound to a driver and there is no need to take additional references unless the structures are needed after disconnect. Drop the redundant device reference to reduce cargo culting, make it easier to spot drivers where an extra reference is needed, and reduce the risk of memory leaks when drivers fail to release it. Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260305111511.18386-3-johan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

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

USB: misc: Remove unnecessary NULL values

2023-08-04T12:48:55+00:00

The NULL initialization of the pointers assigned by kzalloc() first is not necessary, because if the kzalloc() failed, the pointers will be assigned NULL, otherwise it works as usual. so remove it. Signed-off-by: Ruan Jinjie Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230804093253.91647-3-ruanjinjie@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

USB: cytherm: Correct the code style issue of redundant spaces

2023-08-04T12:46:30+00:00

Ther are many redundant spaces, which is not consistent with the kernel code style, so remove it. Signed-off-by: Ruan Jinjie Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230804091713.41503-1-ruanjinjie@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

USB: cytherm: convert to use dev_groups

2019-08-09T05:55:44+00:00

USB drivers now support the ability for the driver core to handle the creation and removal of device-specific sysfs files in a race-free manner. Take advantage of that by converting the driver to use this by moving the sysfs attributes into a group and assigning the dev_groups pointer to it. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190806144502.17792-9-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

USB: misc: fix up some remaining DEVICE_ATTR() usages

2018-01-24T07:49:52+00:00

For all of these, a simple DEVICE_ATTR_*() macro should be used instead, so convert the drivers to use them. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

USB: misc: Remove redundant license text

2017-11-04T10:55:38+00:00

Now that the SPDX tag is in all USB files, that identifies the license in a specific and legally-defined manner. So the extra GPL text wording can be removed as it is no longer needed at all. This is done on a quest to remove the 700+ different ways that files in the kernel describe the GPL license text. And there's unneeded stuff like the address (sometimes incorrect) for the FSF which is never needed. No copyright headers or other non-license-description text was removed. Cc: Keith Packard Cc: Juergen Stuber Cc: Cesar Miquel Cc: Richard Leitner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

USB: add SPDX identifiers to all remaining files in drivers/usb/

2017-11-04T10:48:02+00:00

It's good to have SPDX identifiers in all files to make it easier to audit the kernel tree for correct licenses. Update the drivers/usb/ and include/linux/usb* files with the correct SPDX license identifier based on the license text in the file itself. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This work is based on a script and data from Thomas Gleixner, Philippe Ombredanne, and Kate Stewart. Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Kate Stewart Cc: Philippe Ombredanne Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: Felipe Balbi Acked-by: Johan Hovold Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

USB: misc: remove unneeded MODULE_VERSION() usage

2017-07-22T13:56:52+00:00

MODULE_VERSION is useless for in-kernel drivers, so just remove all usage of it in the USB misc drivers. Along with this, some DRIVER_VERSION macros were removed as they are also pointless. Cc: Keith Packard Cc: Juergen Stuber Cc: Cesar Miquel Acked-by: Richard Leitner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman