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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/s390/hypfs, branch master</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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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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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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</content>
</entry>
<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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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>Merge tag 'pull-persistency' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-12-05T22:36:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-05T22:36:21+00:00</published>
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Pull persistent dentry infrastructure and conversion from Al Viro:
 "Some filesystems use a kinda-sorta controlled dentry refcount leak to
  pin dentries of created objects in dcache (and undo it when removing
  those). A reference is grabbed and not released, but it's not actually
  _stored_ anywhere.

  That works, but it's hard to follow and verify; among other things, we
  have no way to tell _which_ of the increments is intended to be an
  unpaired one. Worse, on removal we need to decide whether the
  reference had already been dropped, which can be non-trivial if that
  removal is on umount and we need to figure out if this dentry is
  pinned due to e.g. unlink() not done. Usually that is handled by using
  kill_litter_super() as -&gt;kill_sb(), but there are open-coded special
  cases of the same (consider e.g. /proc/self).

  Things get simpler if we introduce a new dentry flag
  (DCACHE_PERSISTENT) marking those "leaked" dentries. Having it set
  claims responsibility for +1 in refcount.

  The end result this series is aiming for:

   - get these unbalanced dget() and dput() replaced with new primitives
     that would, in addition to adjusting refcount, set and clear
     persistency flag.

   - instead of having kill_litter_super() mess with removing the
     remaining "leaked" references (e.g. for all tmpfs files that hadn't
     been removed prior to umount), have the regular
     shrink_dcache_for_umount() strip DCACHE_PERSISTENT of all dentries,
     dropping the corresponding reference if it had been set. After that
     kill_litter_super() becomes an equivalent of kill_anon_super().

  Doing that in a single step is not feasible - it would affect too many
  places in too many filesystems. It has to be split into a series.

  This work has really started early in 2024; quite a few preliminary
  pieces have already gone into mainline. This chunk is finally getting
  to the meat of that stuff - infrastructure and most of the conversions
  to it.

  Some pieces are still sitting in the local branches, but the bulk of
  that stuff is here"

* tag 'pull-persistency' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (54 commits)
  d_make_discardable(): warn if given a non-persistent dentry
  kill securityfs_recursive_remove()
  convert securityfs
  get rid of kill_litter_super()
  convert rust_binderfs
  convert nfsctl
  convert rpc_pipefs
  convert hypfs
  hypfs: swich hypfs_create_u64() to returning int
  hypfs: switch hypfs_create_str() to returning int
  hypfs: don't pin dentries twice
  convert gadgetfs
  gadgetfs: switch to simple_remove_by_name()
  convert functionfs
  functionfs: switch to simple_remove_by_name()
  functionfs: fix the open/removal races
  functionfs: need to cancel -&gt;reset_work in -&gt;kill_sb()
  functionfs: don't bother with ffs-&gt;ref in ffs_data_{opened,closed}()
  functionfs: don't abuse ffs_data_closed() on fs shutdown
  convert selinuxfs
  ...
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Pull persistent dentry infrastructure and conversion from Al Viro:
 "Some filesystems use a kinda-sorta controlled dentry refcount leak to
  pin dentries of created objects in dcache (and undo it when removing
  those). A reference is grabbed and not released, but it's not actually
  _stored_ anywhere.

  That works, but it's hard to follow and verify; among other things, we
  have no way to tell _which_ of the increments is intended to be an
  unpaired one. Worse, on removal we need to decide whether the
  reference had already been dropped, which can be non-trivial if that
  removal is on umount and we need to figure out if this dentry is
  pinned due to e.g. unlink() not done. Usually that is handled by using
  kill_litter_super() as -&gt;kill_sb(), but there are open-coded special
  cases of the same (consider e.g. /proc/self).

  Things get simpler if we introduce a new dentry flag
  (DCACHE_PERSISTENT) marking those "leaked" dentries. Having it set
  claims responsibility for +1 in refcount.

  The end result this series is aiming for:

   - get these unbalanced dget() and dput() replaced with new primitives
     that would, in addition to adjusting refcount, set and clear
     persistency flag.

   - instead of having kill_litter_super() mess with removing the
     remaining "leaked" references (e.g. for all tmpfs files that hadn't
     been removed prior to umount), have the regular
     shrink_dcache_for_umount() strip DCACHE_PERSISTENT of all dentries,
     dropping the corresponding reference if it had been set. After that
     kill_litter_super() becomes an equivalent of kill_anon_super().

  Doing that in a single step is not feasible - it would affect too many
  places in too many filesystems. It has to be split into a series.

  This work has really started early in 2024; quite a few preliminary
  pieces have already gone into mainline. This chunk is finally getting
  to the meat of that stuff - infrastructure and most of the conversions
  to it.

  Some pieces are still sitting in the local branches, but the bulk of
  that stuff is here"

* tag 'pull-persistency' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (54 commits)
  d_make_discardable(): warn if given a non-persistent dentry
  kill securityfs_recursive_remove()
  convert securityfs
  get rid of kill_litter_super()
  convert rust_binderfs
  convert nfsctl
  convert rpc_pipefs
  convert hypfs
  hypfs: swich hypfs_create_u64() to returning int
  hypfs: switch hypfs_create_str() to returning int
  hypfs: don't pin dentries twice
  convert gadgetfs
  gadgetfs: switch to simple_remove_by_name()
  convert functionfs
  functionfs: switch to simple_remove_by_name()
  functionfs: fix the open/removal races
  functionfs: need to cancel -&gt;reset_work in -&gt;kill_sb()
  functionfs: don't bother with ffs-&gt;ref in ffs_data_{opened,closed}()
  functionfs: don't abuse ffs_data_closed() on fs shutdown
  convert selinuxfs
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390: Remove KMSG_COMPONENT macro</title>
<updated>2025-11-24T10:45:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>hca@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-20T15:30:53+00:00</published>
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The KMSG_COMPONENT macro is a leftover of the s390 specific "kernel
message catalog" which never made it upstream.

Remove the macro in order to get rid of a pointless indirection. Replace
all users with the string it defines. In almost all cases this leads to a
simple replacement like this:

 - #define KMSG_COMPONENT "appldata"
 - #define pr_fmt(fmt) KMSG_COMPONENT ": " fmt
 + #define pr_fmt(fmt) "appldata: " fmt

Except for some special cases this is just mechanical/scripted work.

Acked-by: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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The KMSG_COMPONENT macro is a leftover of the s390 specific "kernel
message catalog" which never made it upstream.

Remove the macro in order to get rid of a pointless indirection. Replace
all users with the string it defines. In almost all cases this leads to a
simple replacement like this:

 - #define KMSG_COMPONENT "appldata"
 - #define pr_fmt(fmt) KMSG_COMPONENT ": " fmt
 + #define pr_fmt(fmt) "appldata: " fmt

Except for some special cases this is just mechanical/scripted work.

Acked-by: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>convert hypfs</title>
<updated>2025-11-18T04:59:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-09T19:55:34+00:00</published>
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just have hypfs_create_file() do the usual simple_start_creating()/
d_make_persistent()/simple_done_creating() and that's it

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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just have hypfs_create_file() do the usual simple_start_creating()/
d_make_persistent()/simple_done_creating() and that's it

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>hypfs: swich hypfs_create_u64() to returning int</title>
<updated>2025-11-18T04:59:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-18T04:30:57+00:00</published>
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same story as for hypfs_create_str()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<pre>
same story as for hypfs_create_str()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>hypfs: switch hypfs_create_str() to returning int</title>
<updated>2025-11-18T04:59:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-18T03:10:49+00:00</published>
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Every single caller only cares about PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO() of return value...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Every single caller only cares about PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO() of return value...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>hypfs: don't pin dentries twice</title>
<updated>2025-11-18T04:59:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-09T20:00:48+00:00</published>
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hypfs dentries end up with refcount 2 when they are not busy.
Refcount 1 is enough to keep them pinned, and going that way
allows to simplify things nicely:
	* don't need to drop an extra reference before the
call of kill_litter_super() in -&gt;kill_sb(); all we need
there is to reset the cleanup list - everything on it will
be taken out automatically.
	* we can make use of simple_recursive_removal() on
tree rebuilds; just make sure that only children of root
end up in the cleanup list and hypfs_delete_tree() becomes
much simpler

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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hypfs dentries end up with refcount 2 when they are not busy.
Refcount 1 is enough to keep them pinned, and going that way
allows to simplify things nicely:
	* don't need to drop an extra reference before the
call of kill_litter_super() in -&gt;kill_sb(); all we need
there is to reset the cleanup list - everything on it will
be taken out automatically.
	* we can make use of simple_recursive_removal() on
tree rebuilds; just make sure that only children of root
end up in the cleanup list and hypfs_delete_tree() becomes
much simpler

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390: Remove compat support</title>
<updated>2025-11-17T10:10:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heiko Carstens</name>
<email>hca@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-10T18:54:37+00:00</published>
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There shouldn't be any 31 bit code around anymore that matters.
Remove the compat layer support required to run 31 bit code.

Reason for removal is code simplification and reduced test effort.

Note that this comes without any deprecation warnings added to config
options, or kernel messages, since most likely those would be ignored
anyway.

If it turns out there is still a reason to keep the compat layer this
can be reverted at any time in the future.

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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<pre>
There shouldn't be any 31 bit code around anymore that matters.
Remove the compat layer support required to run 31 bit code.

Reason for removal is code simplification and reduced test effort.

Note that this comes without any deprecation warnings added to config
options, or kernel messages, since most likely those would be ignored
anyway.

If it turns out there is still a reason to keep the compat layer this
can be reverted at any time in the future.

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 's390-6.18-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux</title>
<updated>2025-10-09T17:51:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-09T17:51:43+00:00</published>
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Pull more s390 updates from Alexander Gordeev:

 - Compile the decompressor with -Wno-pointer-sign flag to avoid a clang
   warning

 - Fix incomplete conversion to flag output macros in __xsch(), to avoid
   always zero return value instead of the expected condition code

 - Remove superfluous newlines from inline assemblies to improve
   compiler inlining decisions

 - Expose firmware provided UID Checking state in sysfs regardless of
   the device presence or state

 - CIO does not unregister subchannels when the attached device is
   invalid or unavailable. Update the purge function to remove I/O
   subchannels if the device number is found on cio_ignore list

 - Consolidate PAI crypto allocation and cleanup paths

 - The uv_get_secret_metadata() function has been removed some few
   months ago, remove also the function mention it in a comment

* tag 's390-6.18-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux:
  s390/uv: Fix comment of uv_find_secret() function
  s390/pai_crypto: Consolidate PAI crypto allocation and cleanup paths
  s390/cio: Update purge function to unregister the unused subchannels
  s390/pci: Expose firmware provided UID Checking state in sysfs
  s390: Remove superfluous newlines from inline assemblies
  s390/cio/ioasm: Fix __xsch() condition code handling
  s390: Add -Wno-pointer-sign to KBUILD_CFLAGS_DECOMPRESSOR
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Pull more s390 updates from Alexander Gordeev:

 - Compile the decompressor with -Wno-pointer-sign flag to avoid a clang
   warning

 - Fix incomplete conversion to flag output macros in __xsch(), to avoid
   always zero return value instead of the expected condition code

 - Remove superfluous newlines from inline assemblies to improve
   compiler inlining decisions

 - Expose firmware provided UID Checking state in sysfs regardless of
   the device presence or state

 - CIO does not unregister subchannels when the attached device is
   invalid or unavailable. Update the purge function to remove I/O
   subchannels if the device number is found on cio_ignore list

 - Consolidate PAI crypto allocation and cleanup paths

 - The uv_get_secret_metadata() function has been removed some few
   months ago, remove also the function mention it in a comment

* tag 's390-6.18-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux:
  s390/uv: Fix comment of uv_find_secret() function
  s390/pai_crypto: Consolidate PAI crypto allocation and cleanup paths
  s390/cio: Update purge function to unregister the unused subchannels
  s390/pci: Expose firmware provided UID Checking state in sysfs
  s390: Remove superfluous newlines from inline assemblies
  s390/cio/ioasm: Fix __xsch() condition code handling
  s390: Add -Wno-pointer-sign to KBUILD_CFLAGS_DECOMPRESSOR
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