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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/comedi, branch v7.0-rc1</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Convert remaining multi-line kmalloc_obj/flex GFP_KERNEL uses</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T16:26:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T07:46:04+00:00</published>
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Conversion performed via this Coccinelle script:

  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
  // Options: --include-headers-for-types --all-includes --include-headers --keep-comments
  virtual patch

  @gfp depends on patch &amp;&amp; !(file in "tools") &amp;&amp; !(file in "samples")@
  identifier ALLOC = {kmalloc_obj,kmalloc_objs,kmalloc_flex,
 		    kzalloc_obj,kzalloc_objs,kzalloc_flex,
		    kvmalloc_obj,kvmalloc_objs,kvmalloc_flex,
		    kvzalloc_obj,kvzalloc_objs,kvzalloc_flex};
  @@

  	ALLOC(...
  -		, GFP_KERNEL
  	)

  $ make coccicheck MODE=patch COCCI=gfp.cocci

Build and boot tested x86_64 with Fedora 42's GCC and Clang:

Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20260123 (Red Hat 15.2.1-7), GNU ld version 2.44-12.fc42) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01
Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (clang version 20.1.8 (Fedora 20.1.8-4.fc42), LLD 20.1.8) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Conversion performed via this Coccinelle script:

  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
  // Options: --include-headers-for-types --all-includes --include-headers --keep-comments
  virtual patch

  @gfp depends on patch &amp;&amp; !(file in "tools") &amp;&amp; !(file in "samples")@
  identifier ALLOC = {kmalloc_obj,kmalloc_objs,kmalloc_flex,
 		    kzalloc_obj,kzalloc_objs,kzalloc_flex,
		    kvmalloc_obj,kvmalloc_objs,kvmalloc_flex,
		    kvzalloc_obj,kvzalloc_objs,kvzalloc_flex};
  @@

  	ALLOC(...
  -		, GFP_KERNEL
  	)

  $ make coccicheck MODE=patch COCCI=gfp.cocci

Build and boot tested x86_64 with Fedora 42's GCC and Clang:

Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20260123 (Red Hat 15.2.1-7), GNU ld version 2.44-12.fc42) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01
Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (clang version 20.1.8 (Fedora 20.1.8-4.fc42), LLD 20.1.8) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00</published>
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This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines.  I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.

Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script.  I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.

So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.

The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines.  I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.

Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script.  I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.

So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.

The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<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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<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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<pre>
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;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'char-misc-7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc</title>
<updated>2026-02-17T17:11:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-17T17:11:04+00:00</published>
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Pull char/misc/IIO driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big set of char/misc/iio and other smaller driver
  subsystem changes for 7.0-rc1. Lots of little things in here,
  including:

   - Loads of iio driver changes and updates and additions

   - gpib driver updates

   - interconnect driver updates

   - i3c driver updates

   - hwtracing (coresight and intel) driver updates

   - deletion of the obsolete mwave driver

   - binder driver updates (rust and c versions)

   - mhi driver updates (causing a merge conflict, see below)

   - mei driver updates

   - fsi driver updates

   - eeprom driver updates

   - lots of other small char and misc driver updates and cleanups

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while, with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'char-misc-7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (297 commits)
  mux: mmio: fix regmap leak on probe failure
  rust_binder: return p from rust_binder_transaction_target_node()
  drivers: android: binder: Update ARef imports from sync::aref
  rust_binder: fix needless borrow in context.rs
  iio: magn: mmc5633: Fix Kconfig for combination of I3C as module and driver builtin
  iio: sca3000: Fix a resource leak in sca3000_probe()
  iio: proximity: rfd77402: Add interrupt handling support
  iio: proximity: rfd77402: Document device private data structure
  iio: proximity: rfd77402: Use devm-managed mutex initialization
  iio: proximity: rfd77402: Use kernel helper for result polling
  iio: proximity: rfd77402: Align polling timeout with datasheet
  iio: cros_ec: Allow enabling/disabling calibration mode
  iio: frequency: ad9523: correct kernel-doc bad line warning
  iio: buffer: buffer_impl.h: fix kernel-doc warnings
  iio: gyro: itg3200: Fix unchecked return value in read_raw
  MAINTAINERS: add entry for ADE9000 driver
  iio: accel: sca3000: remove unused last_timestamp field
  iio: accel: adxl372: remove unused int2_bitmask field
  iio: adc: ad7766: Use iio_trigger_generic_data_rdy_poll()
  iio: magnetometer: Remove IRQF_ONESHOT
  ...
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<pre>
Pull char/misc/IIO driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big set of char/misc/iio and other smaller driver
  subsystem changes for 7.0-rc1. Lots of little things in here,
  including:

   - Loads of iio driver changes and updates and additions

   - gpib driver updates

   - interconnect driver updates

   - i3c driver updates

   - hwtracing (coresight and intel) driver updates

   - deletion of the obsolete mwave driver

   - binder driver updates (rust and c versions)

   - mhi driver updates (causing a merge conflict, see below)

   - mei driver updates

   - fsi driver updates

   - eeprom driver updates

   - lots of other small char and misc driver updates and cleanups

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while, with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'char-misc-7.0-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (297 commits)
  mux: mmio: fix regmap leak on probe failure
  rust_binder: return p from rust_binder_transaction_target_node()
  drivers: android: binder: Update ARef imports from sync::aref
  rust_binder: fix needless borrow in context.rs
  iio: magn: mmc5633: Fix Kconfig for combination of I3C as module and driver builtin
  iio: sca3000: Fix a resource leak in sca3000_probe()
  iio: proximity: rfd77402: Add interrupt handling support
  iio: proximity: rfd77402: Document device private data structure
  iio: proximity: rfd77402: Use devm-managed mutex initialization
  iio: proximity: rfd77402: Use kernel helper for result polling
  iio: proximity: rfd77402: Align polling timeout with datasheet
  iio: cros_ec: Allow enabling/disabling calibration mode
  iio: frequency: ad9523: correct kernel-doc bad line warning
  iio: buffer: buffer_impl.h: fix kernel-doc warnings
  iio: gyro: itg3200: Fix unchecked return value in read_raw
  MAINTAINERS: add entry for ADE9000 driver
  iio: accel: sca3000: remove unused last_timestamp field
  iio: accel: adxl372: remove unused int2_bitmask field
  iio: adc: ad7766: Use iio_trigger_generic_data_rdy_poll()
  iio: magnetometer: Remove IRQF_ONESHOT
  ...
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2026-02-12T20:13:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-12T20:13:01+00:00</published>
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "ocfs2: give ocfs2 the ability to reclaim suballocator free bg" saves
   disk space by teaching ocfs2 to reclaim suballocator block group
   space (Heming Zhao)

 - "Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs" adds the
   ARRAY_END() macro and uses it in various places (Alejandro Colomar)

 - "vmcoreinfo: support VMCOREINFO_BYTES larger than PAGE_SIZE" makes
   the vmcore code future-safe, if VMCOREINFO_BYTES ever exceeds the
   page size (Pnina Feder)

 - "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing module buildid" cleans
   up kallsyms code related to module buildid and fixes an invalid
   access crash when printing backtraces (Petr Mladek)

 - "Address page fault in ima_restore_measurement_list()" fixes a
   kexec-related crash that can occur when booting the second-stage
   kernel on x86 (Harshit Mogalapalli)

 - "kho: ABI headers and Documentation updates" updates the kexec
   handover ABI documentation (Mike Rapoport)

 - "Align atomic storage" adds the __aligned attribute to atomic_t and
   atomic64_t definitions to get natural alignment of both types on
   csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc and sh (Finn Thain)

 - "kho: clean up page initialization logic" simplifies the page
   initialization logic in kho_restore_page() (Pratyush Yadav)

 - "Unload linux/kernel.h" moves several things out of kernel.h and into
   more appropriate places (Yury Norov)

 - "don't abuse task_struct.group_leader" removes the usage of
   -&gt;group_leader when it is "obviously unnecessary" (Oleg Nesterov)

 - "list private v2 &amp; luo flb" adds some infrastructure improvements to
   the live update orchestrator (Pasha Tatashin)

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (107 commits)
  watchdog/hardlockup: simplify perf event probe and remove per-cpu dependency
  procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat()
  watchdog/softlockup: fix sample ring index wrap in need_counting_irqs()
  kcsan, compiler_types: avoid duplicate type issues in BPF Type Format
  kho: fix doc for kho_restore_pages()
  tests/liveupdate: add in-kernel liveupdate test
  liveupdate: luo_flb: introduce File-Lifecycle-Bound global state
  liveupdate: luo_file: Use private list
  list: add kunit test for private list primitives
  list: add primitives for private list manipulations
  delayacct: fix uapi timespec64 definition
  panic: add panic_force_cpu= parameter to redirect panic to a specific CPU
  netclassid: use thread_group_leader(p) in update_classid_task()
  RDMA/umem: don't abuse current-&gt;group_leader
  drm/pan*: don't abuse current-&gt;group_leader
  drm/amd: kill the outdated "Only the pthreads threading model is supported" checks
  drm/amdgpu: don't abuse current-&gt;group_leader
  android/binder: use same_thread_group(proc-&gt;tsk, current) in binder_mmap()
  android/binder: don't abuse current-&gt;group_leader
  kho: skip memoryless NUMA nodes when reserving scratch areas
  ...
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<pre>
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "ocfs2: give ocfs2 the ability to reclaim suballocator free bg" saves
   disk space by teaching ocfs2 to reclaim suballocator block group
   space (Heming Zhao)

 - "Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs" adds the
   ARRAY_END() macro and uses it in various places (Alejandro Colomar)

 - "vmcoreinfo: support VMCOREINFO_BYTES larger than PAGE_SIZE" makes
   the vmcore code future-safe, if VMCOREINFO_BYTES ever exceeds the
   page size (Pnina Feder)

 - "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing module buildid" cleans
   up kallsyms code related to module buildid and fixes an invalid
   access crash when printing backtraces (Petr Mladek)

 - "Address page fault in ima_restore_measurement_list()" fixes a
   kexec-related crash that can occur when booting the second-stage
   kernel on x86 (Harshit Mogalapalli)

 - "kho: ABI headers and Documentation updates" updates the kexec
   handover ABI documentation (Mike Rapoport)

 - "Align atomic storage" adds the __aligned attribute to atomic_t and
   atomic64_t definitions to get natural alignment of both types on
   csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc and sh (Finn Thain)

 - "kho: clean up page initialization logic" simplifies the page
   initialization logic in kho_restore_page() (Pratyush Yadav)

 - "Unload linux/kernel.h" moves several things out of kernel.h and into
   more appropriate places (Yury Norov)

 - "don't abuse task_struct.group_leader" removes the usage of
   -&gt;group_leader when it is "obviously unnecessary" (Oleg Nesterov)

 - "list private v2 &amp; luo flb" adds some infrastructure improvements to
   the live update orchestrator (Pasha Tatashin)

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (107 commits)
  watchdog/hardlockup: simplify perf event probe and remove per-cpu dependency
  procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat()
  watchdog/softlockup: fix sample ring index wrap in need_counting_irqs()
  kcsan, compiler_types: avoid duplicate type issues in BPF Type Format
  kho: fix doc for kho_restore_pages()
  tests/liveupdate: add in-kernel liveupdate test
  liveupdate: luo_flb: introduce File-Lifecycle-Bound global state
  liveupdate: luo_file: Use private list
  list: add kunit test for private list primitives
  list: add primitives for private list manipulations
  delayacct: fix uapi timespec64 definition
  panic: add panic_force_cpu= parameter to redirect panic to a specific CPU
  netclassid: use thread_group_leader(p) in update_classid_task()
  RDMA/umem: don't abuse current-&gt;group_leader
  drm/pan*: don't abuse current-&gt;group_leader
  drm/amd: kill the outdated "Only the pthreads threading model is supported" checks
  drm/amdgpu: don't abuse current-&gt;group_leader
  android/binder: use same_thread_group(proc-&gt;tsk, current) in binder_mmap()
  android/binder: don't abuse current-&gt;group_leader
  kho: skip memoryless NUMA nodes when reserving scratch areas
  ...
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge 6.19-rc7 into char-misc-next</title>
<updated>2026-01-26T11:04:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-26T11:04:04+00:00</published>
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We need the char/misc/iio fixes in here as well.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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We need the char/misc/iio fixes in here as well.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kernel.h: drop hex.h and update all hex.h users</title>
<updated>2026-01-21T03:44:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>rdunlap@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-15T00:51:56+00:00</published>
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Remove &lt;linux/hex.h&gt; from &lt;linux/kernel.h&gt; and update all users/callers of
hex.h interfaces to directly #include &lt;linux/hex.h&gt; as part of the process
of putting kernel.h on a diet.

Removing hex.h from kernel.h means that 36K C source files don't have to
pay the price of parsing hex.h for the roughly 120 C source files that
need it.

This change has been build-tested with allmodconfig on most ARCHes.  Also,
all users/callers of &lt;linux/hex.h&gt; in the entire source tree have been
updated if needed (if not already #included).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251215005206.2362276-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) &lt;yury.norov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Remove &lt;linux/hex.h&gt; from &lt;linux/kernel.h&gt; and update all users/callers of
hex.h interfaces to directly #include &lt;linux/hex.h&gt; as part of the process
of putting kernel.h on a diet.

Removing hex.h from kernel.h means that 36K C source files don't have to
pay the price of parsing hex.h for the roughly 120 C source files that
need it.

This change has been build-tested with allmodconfig on most ARCHes.  Also,
all users/callers of &lt;linux/hex.h&gt; in the entire source tree have been
updated if needed (if not already #included).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251215005206.2362276-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) &lt;yury.norov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>comedi: dmm32at: serialize use of paged registers</title>
<updated>2026-01-16T15:43:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Abbott</name>
<email>abbotti@mev.co.uk</email>
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<published>2026-01-12T16:28:35+00:00</published>
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Some of the hardware registers of the DMM-32-AT board are multiplexed,
using the least significant two bits of the Miscellaneous Control
register to select the function of registers at offsets 12 to 15:

 00 =&gt; 8254 timer/counter registers are accessible
 01 =&gt; 8255 digital I/O registers are accessible
 10 =&gt; Reserved
 11 =&gt; Calibration registers are accessible

The interrupt service routine (`dmm32at_isr()`) clobbers the bottom two
bits of the register with value 00, which would interfere with access to
the 8255 registers by the `dm32at_8255_io()` function (used for Comedi
instruction handling on the digital I/O subdevice).

Make use of the generic Comedi device spin-lock `dev-&gt;spinlock` (which
is otherwise unused by this driver) to serialize access to the
miscellaneous control register and paged registers.

Fixes: 3c501880ac44 ("Staging: comedi: add dmm32at driver")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott &lt;abbotti@mev.co.uk&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260112162835.91688-1-abbotti@mev.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Some of the hardware registers of the DMM-32-AT board are multiplexed,
using the least significant two bits of the Miscellaneous Control
register to select the function of registers at offsets 12 to 15:

 00 =&gt; 8254 timer/counter registers are accessible
 01 =&gt; 8255 digital I/O registers are accessible
 10 =&gt; Reserved
 11 =&gt; Calibration registers are accessible

The interrupt service routine (`dmm32at_isr()`) clobbers the bottom two
bits of the register with value 00, which would interfere with access to
the 8255 registers by the `dm32at_8255_io()` function (used for Comedi
instruction handling on the digital I/O subdevice).

Make use of the generic Comedi device spin-lock `dev-&gt;spinlock` (which
is otherwise unused by this driver) to serialize access to the
miscellaneous control register and paged registers.

Fixes: 3c501880ac44 ("Staging: comedi: add dmm32at driver")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott &lt;abbotti@mev.co.uk&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260112162835.91688-1-abbotti@mev.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>comedi: Fix getting range information for subdevices 16 to 255</title>
<updated>2026-01-16T15:42:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Abbott</name>
<email>abbotti@mev.co.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-03T16:24:38+00:00</published>
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The `COMEDI_RANGEINFO` ioctl does not work properly for subdevice
indices above 15.  Currently, the only in-tree COMEDI drivers that
support more than 16 subdevices are the "8255" driver and the
"comedi_bond" driver.  Making the ioctl work for subdevice indices up to
255 is achievable.  It needs minor changes to the handling of the
`COMEDI_RANGEINFO` and `COMEDI_CHANINFO` ioctls that should be mostly
harmless to user-space, apart from making them less broken.  Details
follow...

The `COMEDI_RANGEINFO` ioctl command gets the list of supported ranges
(usually with units of volts or milliamps) for a COMEDI subdevice or
channel.  (Only some subdevices have per-channel range tables, indicated
by the `SDF_RANGETYPE` flag in the subdevice information.)  It uses a
`range_type` value and a user-space pointer, both supplied by
user-space, but the `range_type` value should match what was obtained
using the `COMEDI_CHANINFO` ioctl (if the subdevice has per-channel
range tables)  or `COMEDI_SUBDINFO` ioctl (if the subdevice uses a
single range table for all channels).  Bits 15 to 0 of the `range_type`
value contain the length of the range table, which is the only part that
user-space should care about (so it can use a suitably sized buffer to
fetch the range table).  Bits 23 to 16 store the channel index, which is
assumed to be no more than 255 if the subdevice has per-channel range
tables, and is set to 0 if the subdevice has a single range table.  For
`range_type` values produced by the `COMEDI_SUBDINFO` ioctl, bits 31 to
24 contain the subdevice index, which is assumed to be no more than 255.
But for `range_type` values produced by the `COMEDI_CHANINFO` ioctl,
bits 27 to 24 contain the subdevice index, which is assumed to be no
more than 15, and bits 31 to 28 contain the COMEDI device's minor device
number for some unknown reason lost in the mists of time.  The
`COMEDI_RANGEINFO` ioctl extract the length from bits 15 to 0 of the
user-supplied `range_type` value, extracts the channel index from bits
23 to 16 (only used if the subdevice has per-channel range tables),
extracts the subdevice index from bits 27 to 24, and ignores bits 31 to
28.  So for subdevice indices 16 to 255, the `COMEDI_SUBDINFO` or
`COMEDI_CHANINFO` ioctl will report a `range_type` value that doesn't
work with the `COMEDI_RANGEINFO` ioctl.  It will either get the range
table for the subdevice index modulo 16, or will fail with `-EINVAL`.

To fix this, always use bits 31 to 24 of the `range_type` value to hold
the subdevice index (assumed to be no more than 255).  This affects the
`COMEDI_CHANINFO` and `COMEDI_RANGEINFO` ioctls.  There should not be
anything in user-space that depends on the old, broken usage, although
it may now see different values in bits 31 to 28 of the `range_type`
values reported by the `COMEDI_CHANINFO` ioctl for subdevices that have
per-channel subdevices.  User-space should not be trying to decode bits
31 to 16 of the `range_type` values anyway.

Fixes: ed9eccbe8970 ("Staging: add comedi core")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org #5.17+
Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott &lt;abbotti@mev.co.uk&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251203162438.176841-1-abbotti@mev.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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The `COMEDI_RANGEINFO` ioctl does not work properly for subdevice
indices above 15.  Currently, the only in-tree COMEDI drivers that
support more than 16 subdevices are the "8255" driver and the
"comedi_bond" driver.  Making the ioctl work for subdevice indices up to
255 is achievable.  It needs minor changes to the handling of the
`COMEDI_RANGEINFO` and `COMEDI_CHANINFO` ioctls that should be mostly
harmless to user-space, apart from making them less broken.  Details
follow...

The `COMEDI_RANGEINFO` ioctl command gets the list of supported ranges
(usually with units of volts or milliamps) for a COMEDI subdevice or
channel.  (Only some subdevices have per-channel range tables, indicated
by the `SDF_RANGETYPE` flag in the subdevice information.)  It uses a
`range_type` value and a user-space pointer, both supplied by
user-space, but the `range_type` value should match what was obtained
using the `COMEDI_CHANINFO` ioctl (if the subdevice has per-channel
range tables)  or `COMEDI_SUBDINFO` ioctl (if the subdevice uses a
single range table for all channels).  Bits 15 to 0 of the `range_type`
value contain the length of the range table, which is the only part that
user-space should care about (so it can use a suitably sized buffer to
fetch the range table).  Bits 23 to 16 store the channel index, which is
assumed to be no more than 255 if the subdevice has per-channel range
tables, and is set to 0 if the subdevice has a single range table.  For
`range_type` values produced by the `COMEDI_SUBDINFO` ioctl, bits 31 to
24 contain the subdevice index, which is assumed to be no more than 255.
But for `range_type` values produced by the `COMEDI_CHANINFO` ioctl,
bits 27 to 24 contain the subdevice index, which is assumed to be no
more than 15, and bits 31 to 28 contain the COMEDI device's minor device
number for some unknown reason lost in the mists of time.  The
`COMEDI_RANGEINFO` ioctl extract the length from bits 15 to 0 of the
user-supplied `range_type` value, extracts the channel index from bits
23 to 16 (only used if the subdevice has per-channel range tables),
extracts the subdevice index from bits 27 to 24, and ignores bits 31 to
28.  So for subdevice indices 16 to 255, the `COMEDI_SUBDINFO` or
`COMEDI_CHANINFO` ioctl will report a `range_type` value that doesn't
work with the `COMEDI_RANGEINFO` ioctl.  It will either get the range
table for the subdevice index modulo 16, or will fail with `-EINVAL`.

To fix this, always use bits 31 to 24 of the `range_type` value to hold
the subdevice index (assumed to be no more than 255).  This affects the
`COMEDI_CHANINFO` and `COMEDI_RANGEINFO` ioctls.  There should not be
anything in user-space that depends on the old, broken usage, although
it may now see different values in bits 31 to 28 of the `range_type`
values reported by the `COMEDI_CHANINFO` ioctl for subdevices that have
per-channel subdevices.  User-space should not be trying to decode bits
31 to 16 of the `range_type` values anyway.

Fixes: ed9eccbe8970 ("Staging: add comedi core")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org #5.17+
Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott &lt;abbotti@mev.co.uk&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251203162438.176841-1-abbotti@mev.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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