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<title>kernel/linux.git/fs/dlm/lock.c, branch v7.0.10</title>
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<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
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<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>
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<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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<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>
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<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>Merge tag 'locking-core-2026-02-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2026-02-10T20:28:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-10T20:28:44+00:00</published>
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Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Lock debugging:

   - Implement compiler-driven static analysis locking context checking,
     using the upcoming Clang 22 compiler's context analysis features
     (Marco Elver)

     We removed Sparse context analysis support, because prior to
     removal even a defconfig kernel produced 1,700+ context tracking
     Sparse warnings, the overwhelming majority of which are false
     positives. On an allmodconfig kernel the number of false positive
     context tracking Sparse warnings grows to over 5,200... On the plus
     side of the balance actual locking bugs found by Sparse context
     analysis is also rather ... sparse: I found only 3 such commits in
     the last 3 years. So the rate of false positives and the
     maintenance overhead is rather high and there appears to be no
     active policy in place to achieve a zero-warnings baseline to move
     the annotations &amp; fixers to developers who introduce new code.

     Clang context analysis is more complete and more aggressive in
     trying to find bugs, at least in principle. Plus it has a different
     model to enabling it: it's enabled subsystem by subsystem, which
     results in zero warnings on all relevant kernel builds (as far as
     our testing managed to cover it). Which allowed us to enable it by
     default, similar to other compiler warnings, with the expectation
     that there are no warnings going forward. This enforces a
     zero-warnings baseline on clang-22+ builds (Which are still limited
     in distribution, admittedly)

     Hopefully the Clang approach can lead to a more maintainable
     zero-warnings status quo and policy, with more and more subsystems
     and drivers enabling the feature. Context tracking can be enabled
     for all kernel code via WARN_CONTEXT_ANALYSIS_ALL=y (default
     disabled), but this will generate a lot of false positives.

     ( Having said that, Sparse support could still be added back,
       if anyone is interested - the removal patch is still
       relatively straightforward to revert at this stage. )

  Rust integration updates: (Alice Ryhl, Fujita Tomonori, Boqun Feng)

    - Add support for Atomic&lt;i8/i16/bool&gt; and replace most Rust native
      AtomicBool usages with Atomic&lt;bool&gt;

    - Clean up LockClassKey and improve its documentation

    - Add missing Send and Sync trait implementation for SetOnce

    - Make ARef Unpin as it is supposed to be

    - Add __rust_helper to a few Rust helpers as a preparation for
      helper LTO

    - Inline various lock related functions to avoid additional function
      calls

  WW mutexes:

    - Extend ww_mutex tests and other test-ww_mutex updates (John
      Stultz)

  Misc fixes and cleanups:

    - rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline (Arnd
      Bergmann)

    - locking/local_lock: Include more missing headers (Peter Zijlstra)

    - seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc (Randy Dunlap)

    - rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings (Tamir
      Duberstein)"

* tag 'locking-core-2026-02-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (90 commits)
  locking/rwlock: Fix write_trylock_irqsave() with CONFIG_INLINE_WRITE_TRYLOCK
  rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline
  compiler-context-analysis: Remove __assume_ctx_lock from initializers
  tomoyo: Use scoped init guard
  crypto: Use scoped init guard
  kcov: Use scoped init guard
  compiler-context-analysis: Introduce scoped init guards
  cleanup: Make __DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD handle commas in initializers
  seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc
  tools: Update context analysis macros in compiler_types.h
  rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
  rust: sync: Inline various lock related methods
  rust: helpers: Move #define __rust_helper out of atomic.c
  rust: wait: Add __rust_helper to helpers
  rust: time: Add __rust_helper to helpers
  rust: task: Add __rust_helper to helpers
  rust: sync: Add __rust_helper to helpers
  rust: refcount: Add __rust_helper to helpers
  rust: rcu: Add __rust_helper to helpers
  rust: processor: Add __rust_helper to helpers
  ...
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<title>dlm: validate length in dlm_search_rsb_tree</title>
<updated>2026-01-20T18:07:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ezrak1e</name>
<email>ezrakiez@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-20T15:35:06+00:00</published>
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The len parameter in dlm_dump_rsb_name() is not validated and comes
from network messages. When it exceeds DLM_RESNAME_MAXLEN, it can
cause out-of-bounds write in dlm_search_rsb_tree().

Add length validation to prevent potential buffer overflow.

Signed-off-by: Ezrak1e &lt;ezrakiez@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>dlm: fix recovery pending middle conversion</title>
<updated>2026-01-20T17:33:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Aring</name>
<email>aahringo@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-20T15:35:05+00:00</published>
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During a workload involving conversions between lock modes PR and CW,
lock recovery can create a "conversion deadlock" state between locks
that have been recovered.  When this occurs, kernel warning messages
are logged, e.g.

  "dlm: WARN: pending deadlock 1e node 0 2 1bf21"

  "dlm: receive_rcom_lock_args 2e middle convert gr 3 rq 2 remote 2 1e"

After this occurs, the deadlocked conversions both appear on the convert
queue of the resource being locked, and the conversion requests do not
complete.

Outside of recovery, conversions that would produce a deadlock are
resolved immediately, and return -EDEADLK.  The locks are not placed
on the convert queue in the deadlocked state.

To fix this problem, an lkb under conversion between PR/CW is rebuilt
during recovery on a new master's granted queue, with the currently
granted mode, rather than being rebuilt on the new master's convert
queue, with the currently granted mode and the newly requested mode.
The in-progress convert is then resent to the new master after
recovery, so the conversion deadlock will be processed outside of
the recovery context and handled as described above.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>compiler-context-analysis: Change __cond_acquires to take return value</title>
<updated>2026-01-05T15:43:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Elver</name>
<email>elver@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-19T15:39:58+00:00</published>
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While Sparse is oblivious to the return value of conditional acquire
functions, Clang's context analysis needs to know the return value
which indicates successful acquisition.

Add the additional argument, and convert existing uses.

Notably, Clang's interpretation of the value merely relates to the use
in a later conditional branch, i.e. 1 ==&gt; context lock acquired in
branch taken if condition non-zero, and 0 ==&gt; context lock acquired in
branch taken if condition is zero. Given the precise value does not
matter, introduce symbolic variants to use instead of either 0 or 1,
which should be more intuitive.

No functional change intended.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-10-elver@google.com
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<title>dlm: move to rinfo for all middle conversion cases</title>
<updated>2025-08-14T20:16:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Aring</name>
<email>aahringo@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-08-14T15:22:12+00:00</published>
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Since commit f74dacb4c8116 ("dlm: fix recovery of middle conversions")
we introduced additional debugging information if we hit the middle
conversion by using log_limit(). The DLM log_limit() functionality
requires a DLM debug option being enabled. As this case is so rarely and
excempt any potential introduced new issue with recovery we switching it
to log_rinfo() ad this is ratelimited under normal DLM loglevel.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&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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<title>dlm: fix error if active rsb is not hashed</title>
<updated>2025-03-01T00:24:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Aring</name>
<email>aahringo@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-28T22:48:51+00:00</published>
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If an active rsb is not hashed anymore and this could occur because we
releases and acquired locks we need to signal the followed code that
the lookup failed. Since the lookup was successful, but it isn't part of
the rsb hash anymore we need to signal it by setting error to -EBADR as
dlm_search_rsb_tree() does it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 5be323b0c64d ("dlm: move dlm_search_rsb_tree() out of lock")
Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>dlm: fix error if inactive rsb is not hashed</title>
<updated>2025-03-01T00:24:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Aring</name>
<email>aahringo@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-28T22:48:50+00:00</published>
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If an inactive rsb is not hashed anymore and this could occur because we
releases and acquired locks we need to signal the followed code that the
lookup failed. Since the lookup was successful, but it isn't part of the
rsb hash anymore we need to signal it by setting error to -EBADR as
dlm_search_rsb_tree() does it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 01fdeca1cc2d ("dlm: use rcu to avoid an extra rsb struct lookup")
Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring &lt;aahringo@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Teigland &lt;teigland@redhat.com&gt;
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