kernel/linux.git/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.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

tty: introduce and use tty_port_tty_vhangup() helper

2025-06-17T11:42:33+00:00

This code (tty_get -> vhangup -> tty_put) is repeated on few places. Introduce a helper similar to tty_port_tty_hangup() (asynchronous) to handle even vhangup (synchronous). And use it on those places. In fact, reuse the tty_port_tty_hangup()'s code and call tty_vhangup() depending on a new bool parameter. Signed-off-by: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" Cc: Karsten Keil Cc: David Lin Cc: Johan Hovold Cc: Alex Elder Cc: Oliver Neukum Cc: Marcel Holtmann Cc: Johan Hedberg Cc: Luiz Augusto von Dentz Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250611100319.186924-2-jirislaby@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

USB: make single lock for all usb dynamic id lists

2024-11-14T16:05:20+00:00

There are a number of places where we accidentally pass in a constant structure to later cast it off to a dynamic one, and then attempt to grab a lock on it, which is not a good idea. To help resolve this, move the dynamic id lock out of the dynamic id structure for the driver and into one single lock for all USB dynamic ids. As this lock should never have any real contention (it's only every accessed when a device is added or removed, which is always serialized) there should not be any difference except for some memory savings. Note, this just converts the existing use of the dynamic id lock to the new static lock, there is one place that is accessing the dynamic id list without grabbing the lock, that will be fixed up in a follow-on change. Cc: Johan Hovold Cc: Herve Codina Cc: Rob Herring Cc: Alan Stern Cc: Grant Grundler Cc: Oliver Neukum Cc: Yajun Deng Cc: Douglas Anderson Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2024111322-kindly-finalist-d247@gregkh Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

USB: serial: set driver owner when registering drivers

2024-08-26T13:28:24+00:00

Modules registering drivers with usb_serial_register_drivers() might forget to set .owner field. The field is used by some of other kernel parts for reference counting (try_module_get()), so it is expected that drivers will set it. Solve the problem by moving this task away from the drivers to the core USB serial code, just like we did for platform_driver in commit 9447057eaff8 ("platform_device: use a macro instead of platform_driver_register"). Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski [ johan: amend commit summary ] Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold

USB: core: Use device_driver directly in struct usb_driver and usb_device_driver

2024-01-04T15:06:32+00:00

There is usbdrv_wrap in struct usb_driver and usb_device_driver, it contains device_driver and for_devices. for_devices is used to distinguish between device drivers and interface drivers. Like the is_usb_device(), it tests the type of the device. We can test that if the probe of device_driver is equal to usb_probe_device in is_usb_device_driver(), and then the struct usbdrv_wrap is no longer needed. Clean up struct usbdrv_wrap, use device_driver directly in struct usb_driver and usb_device_driver. This makes the code cleaner. Signed-off-by: Yajun Deng Acked-by: Alan Stern Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240104032822.1896596-1-yajun.deng@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: make tty_operations::write()'s count size_t

2023-08-11T19:12:46+00:00

Unify with the rest of the code. Use size_t for counts and ssize_t for retval. Signed-off-by: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230810091510.13006-30-jirislaby@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: propagate u8 data to tty_operations::write()

2023-08-11T19:12:46+00:00

Data are now typed as u8. Propagate this change to tty_operations::write(). Signed-off-by: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Anton Ivanov Cc: Johannes Berg Cc: Chris Zankel Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Vaibhav Gupta Cc: Jens Taprogge Cc: Karsten Keil Cc: Scott Branden Cc: Ulf Hansson Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Jakub Kicinski Cc: Paolo Abeni Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Sven Schnelle Cc: David Lin Cc: Johan Hovold Cc: Alex Elder Cc: Laurentiu Tudor Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: David Sterba Cc: Shawn Guo Cc: Sascha Hauer Cc: Pengutronix Kernel Team Cc: Fabio Estevam Cc: NXP Linux Team Cc: Arnaud Pouliquen Cc: Oliver Neukum Cc: Mathias Nyman Cc: Marcel Holtmann Cc: Johan Hedberg Cc: Luiz Augusto von Dentz Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230810091510.13006-28-jirislaby@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

USB: serial: report unsupported break signalling

2023-06-07T15:00:24+00:00

Instead of returning success when a driver does not support break signalling, return an error to let user space know and to avoid waiting when break is not supported. Tested-by: Corey Minyard Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold

USB: serial: return errors from break handling

2023-06-07T15:00:23+00:00

Start propagating errors to user space when setting the break state fails. This will be used by follow-on changes to also report when a driver or device does not support break control. Tested-by: Corey Minyard Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold