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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/dma-buf/heaps, branch master</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>dma-buf: move system_cc_shared heap under separate Kconfig</title>
<updated>2026-06-11T14:51:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-10T14:23:29+00:00</published>
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While system heap and system_cc_shared heap share a lot of code
and hence the same source file, their users have different needs.

system heap users need it to be a loadable module, while
system_cc_shared heap users don't.

Building as a loadable module breaks system_cc_shared heap on
powerpc and s390 due to un-exported set_memory_encrypted /
set_memory_decrypted functions.

Fix these by reorganising code to put the system_cc_shared heap
under a new Kconfig symbol, which allows either building both
into the kernel, or leave encryption up to the consumers of the
system heap.

Fixes: fd55edff8a0a ("dma-buf: heaps: system: Turn the heap into a module")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal &lt;sumit.semwal@linaro.org&gt;
  [sumits: updated DMABUF_HEAPS_CC_SYSTEM to DMABUF_HEAPS_SYSTEM_CC_SHARED]
Reviewed-by: T.J. Mercier &lt;tjmercier@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Maxime Ripard &lt;mripard@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260610142329.3836808-1-sumit.semwal@linaro.org
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While system heap and system_cc_shared heap share a lot of code
and hence the same source file, their users have different needs.

system heap users need it to be a loadable module, while
system_cc_shared heap users don't.

Building as a loadable module breaks system_cc_shared heap on
powerpc and s390 due to un-exported set_memory_encrypted /
set_memory_decrypted functions.

Fix these by reorganising code to put the system_cc_shared heap
under a new Kconfig symbol, which allows either building both
into the kernel, or leave encryption up to the consumers of the
system heap.

Fixes: fd55edff8a0a ("dma-buf: heaps: system: Turn the heap into a module")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal &lt;sumit.semwal@linaro.org&gt;
  [sumits: updated DMABUF_HEAPS_CC_SYSTEM to DMABUF_HEAPS_SYSTEM_CC_SHARED]
Reviewed-by: T.J. Mercier &lt;tjmercier@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Maxime Ripard &lt;mripard@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260610142329.3836808-1-sumit.semwal@linaro.org
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<entry>
<title>dma-buf: heaps: system: Turn the heap into a module</title>
<updated>2026-05-21T15:27:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maxime Ripard</name>
<email>mripard@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-27T10:04:59+00:00</published>
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The system heap can be easily turned into a module by adding the usual
MODULE_* macros, importing the proper namespaces and changing the
Kconfig symbol to a tristate.

This heap won't be able to unload though, since we're missing a lot of
infrastructure to make it safe.

Reviewed-by: T.J. Mercier &lt;tjmercier@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrew Davis &lt;afd@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard &lt;mripard@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal &lt;sumit.semwal@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260427-dma-buf-heaps-as-modules-v5-3-b6f5678feefc@kernel.org
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The system heap can be easily turned into a module by adding the usual
MODULE_* macros, importing the proper namespaces and changing the
Kconfig symbol to a tristate.

This heap won't be able to unload though, since we're missing a lot of
infrastructure to make it safe.

Reviewed-by: T.J. Mercier &lt;tjmercier@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrew Davis &lt;afd@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard &lt;mripard@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal &lt;sumit.semwal@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260427-dma-buf-heaps-as-modules-v5-3-b6f5678feefc@kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>dma-buf: heaps: cma: Turn the heap into a module</title>
<updated>2026-05-21T15:27:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maxime Ripard</name>
<email>mripard@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-27T10:04:58+00:00</published>
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All the symbols used by the CMA heap are already exported, so turning it
into a module is straightforward. We only need to add the usual MODULE_*
macros, import the proper namespaces and change the Kconfig symbol to a
tristate.

This heap won't be able to unload though, since we're missing a lot of
infrastructure to make it safe.

Reviewed-by: T.J. Mercier &lt;tjmercier@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrew Davis &lt;afd@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard &lt;mripard@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal &lt;sumit.semwal@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260427-dma-buf-heaps-as-modules-v5-2-b6f5678feefc@kernel.org
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All the symbols used by the CMA heap are already exported, so turning it
into a module is straightforward. We only need to add the usual MODULE_*
macros, import the proper namespaces and change the Kconfig symbol to a
tristate.

This heap won't be able to unload though, since we're missing a lot of
infrastructure to make it safe.

Reviewed-by: T.J. Mercier &lt;tjmercier@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrew Davis &lt;afd@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard &lt;mripard@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal &lt;sumit.semwal@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260427-dma-buf-heaps-as-modules-v5-2-b6f5678feefc@kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'dma-mapping-7.1-2026-04-16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszyprowski/linux</title>
<updated>2026-04-17T18:12:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-04-17T18:12:42+00:00</published>
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Pull dma-mapping updates from Marek Szyprowski:

 - added support for batched cache sync, what improves performance of
   dma_map/unmap_sg() operations on ARM64 architecture (Barry Song)

 - introduced DMA_ATTR_CC_SHARED attribute for explicitly shared memory
   used in confidential computing (Jiri Pirko)

 - refactored spaghetti-like code in drivers/of/of_reserved_mem.c and
   its clients (Marek Szyprowski, shared branch with device-tree updates
   to avoid merge conflicts)

 - prepared Contiguous Memory Allocator related code for making dma-buf
   drivers modularized (Maxime Ripard)

 - added support for benchmarking dma_map_sg() calls to tools/dma
   utility (Qinxin Xia)

* tag 'dma-mapping-7.1-2026-04-16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszyprowski/linux: (24 commits)
  dma-buf: heaps: system: document system_cc_shared heap
  dma-buf: heaps: system: add system_cc_shared heap for explicitly shared memory
  dma-mapping: introduce DMA_ATTR_CC_SHARED for shared memory
  mm: cma: Export cma_alloc(), cma_release() and cma_get_name()
  dma: contiguous: Export dev_get_cma_area()
  dma: contiguous: Make dma_contiguous_default_area static
  dma: contiguous: Make dev_get_cma_area() a proper function
  dma: contiguous: Turn heap registration logic around
  of: reserved_mem: rework fdt_init_reserved_mem_node()
  of: reserved_mem: clarify fdt_scan_reserved_mem*() functions
  of: reserved_mem: rearrange code a bit
  of: reserved_mem: replace CMA quirks by generic methods
  of: reserved_mem: switch to ops based OF_DECLARE()
  of: reserved_mem: use -ENODEV instead of -ENOENT
  of: reserved_mem: remove fdt node from the structure
  dma-mapping: fix false kernel-doc comment marker
  dma-mapping: Support batch mode for dma_direct_{map,unmap}_sg
  dma-mapping: Separate DMA sync issuing and completion waiting
  arm64: Provide dcache_inval_poc_nosync helper
  arm64: Provide dcache_clean_poc_nosync helper
  ...
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Pull dma-mapping updates from Marek Szyprowski:

 - added support for batched cache sync, what improves performance of
   dma_map/unmap_sg() operations on ARM64 architecture (Barry Song)

 - introduced DMA_ATTR_CC_SHARED attribute for explicitly shared memory
   used in confidential computing (Jiri Pirko)

 - refactored spaghetti-like code in drivers/of/of_reserved_mem.c and
   its clients (Marek Szyprowski, shared branch with device-tree updates
   to avoid merge conflicts)

 - prepared Contiguous Memory Allocator related code for making dma-buf
   drivers modularized (Maxime Ripard)

 - added support for benchmarking dma_map_sg() calls to tools/dma
   utility (Qinxin Xia)

* tag 'dma-mapping-7.1-2026-04-16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszyprowski/linux: (24 commits)
  dma-buf: heaps: system: document system_cc_shared heap
  dma-buf: heaps: system: add system_cc_shared heap for explicitly shared memory
  dma-mapping: introduce DMA_ATTR_CC_SHARED for shared memory
  mm: cma: Export cma_alloc(), cma_release() and cma_get_name()
  dma: contiguous: Export dev_get_cma_area()
  dma: contiguous: Make dma_contiguous_default_area static
  dma: contiguous: Make dev_get_cma_area() a proper function
  dma: contiguous: Turn heap registration logic around
  of: reserved_mem: rework fdt_init_reserved_mem_node()
  of: reserved_mem: clarify fdt_scan_reserved_mem*() functions
  of: reserved_mem: rearrange code a bit
  of: reserved_mem: replace CMA quirks by generic methods
  of: reserved_mem: switch to ops based OF_DECLARE()
  of: reserved_mem: use -ENODEV instead of -ENOENT
  of: reserved_mem: remove fdt node from the structure
  dma-mapping: fix false kernel-doc comment marker
  dma-mapping: Support batch mode for dma_direct_{map,unmap}_sg
  dma-mapping: Separate DMA sync issuing and completion waiting
  arm64: Provide dcache_inval_poc_nosync helper
  arm64: Provide dcache_clean_poc_nosync helper
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dma-buf: heaps: system: add system_cc_shared heap for explicitly shared memory</title>
<updated>2026-04-02T05:29:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Pirko</name>
<email>jiri@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-25T19:23:52+00:00</published>
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Add a new "system_cc_shared" dma-buf heap to allow userspace to
allocate shared (decrypted) memory for confidential computing (CoCo)
VMs.

On CoCo VMs, guest memory is private by default. The hardware uses an
encryption bit in page table entries (C-bit on AMD SEV, "shared" bit on
Intel TDX) to control whether a given memory access is private or
shared. The kernel's direct map is set up as private,
so pages returned by alloc_pages() are private in the direct map
by default. To make this memory usable for devices that do not support
DMA to private memory (no TDISP support), it has to be explicitly
shared. A couple of things are needed to properly handle
shared memory for the dma-buf use case:

- set_memory_decrypted() on the direct map after allocation:
  Besides clearing the encryption bit in the direct map PTEs, this
  also notifies the hypervisor about the page state change. On free,
  the inverse set_memory_encrypted() must be called before returning
  pages to the allocator. If re-encryption fails, pages
  are intentionally leaked to prevent shared memory from being
  reused as private.

- pgprot_decrypted() for userspace and kernel virtual mappings:
  Any new mapping of the shared pages, be it to userspace via
  mmap or to kernel vmalloc space via vmap, creates PTEs independent
  of the direct map. These must also have the encryption bit cleared,
  otherwise accesses through them would see encrypted (garbage) data.

- DMA_ATTR_CC_SHARED for DMA mapping:
  Since the pages are already shared, the DMA API needs to be
  informed via DMA_ATTR_CC_SHARED so it can map them correctly
  as unencrypted for device access.

On non-CoCo VMs, the system_cc_shared heap is not registered
to prevent misuse by userspace that does not understand
the security implications of explicitly shared memory.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: T.J. Mercier &lt;tjmercier@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Sumit Semwal &lt;sumit.semwal@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski &lt;m.szyprowski@samsung.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260325192352.437608-3-jiri@resnulli.us
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Add a new "system_cc_shared" dma-buf heap to allow userspace to
allocate shared (decrypted) memory for confidential computing (CoCo)
VMs.

On CoCo VMs, guest memory is private by default. The hardware uses an
encryption bit in page table entries (C-bit on AMD SEV, "shared" bit on
Intel TDX) to control whether a given memory access is private or
shared. The kernel's direct map is set up as private,
so pages returned by alloc_pages() are private in the direct map
by default. To make this memory usable for devices that do not support
DMA to private memory (no TDISP support), it has to be explicitly
shared. A couple of things are needed to properly handle
shared memory for the dma-buf use case:

- set_memory_decrypted() on the direct map after allocation:
  Besides clearing the encryption bit in the direct map PTEs, this
  also notifies the hypervisor about the page state change. On free,
  the inverse set_memory_encrypted() must be called before returning
  pages to the allocator. If re-encryption fails, pages
  are intentionally leaked to prevent shared memory from being
  reused as private.

- pgprot_decrypted() for userspace and kernel virtual mappings:
  Any new mapping of the shared pages, be it to userspace via
  mmap or to kernel vmalloc space via vmap, creates PTEs independent
  of the direct map. These must also have the encryption bit cleared,
  otherwise accesses through them would see encrypted (garbage) data.

- DMA_ATTR_CC_SHARED for DMA mapping:
  Since the pages are already shared, the DMA API needs to be
  informed via DMA_ATTR_CC_SHARED so it can map them correctly
  as unencrypted for device access.

On non-CoCo VMs, the system_cc_shared heap is not registered
to prevent misuse by userspace that does not understand
the security implications of explicitly shared memory.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko &lt;jiri@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: T.J. Mercier &lt;tjmercier@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
Acked-by: Sumit Semwal &lt;sumit.semwal@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski &lt;m.szyprowski@samsung.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260325192352.437608-3-jiri@resnulli.us
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<entry>
<title>dma: contiguous: Turn heap registration logic around</title>
<updated>2026-03-31T11:27:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maxime Ripard</name>
<email>mripard@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-31T10:00:10+00:00</published>
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The CMA heap instantiation was initially developed by having the
contiguous DMA code call into the CMA heap to create a new instance
every time a reserved memory area is probed.

Turning the CMA heap into a module would create a dependency of the
kernel on a module, which doesn't work.

Let's turn the logic around and do the opposite: store all the reserved
memory CMA regions into the contiguous DMA code, and provide an iterator
for the heap to use when it probes.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard &lt;mripard@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski &lt;m.szyprowski@samsung.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260331-dma-buf-heaps-as-modules-v4-1-e18fda504419@kernel.org
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The CMA heap instantiation was initially developed by having the
contiguous DMA code call into the CMA heap to create a new instance
every time a reserved memory area is probed.

Turning the CMA heap into a module would create a dependency of the
kernel on a module, which doesn't work.

Let's turn the logic around and do the opposite: store all the reserved
memory CMA regions into the contiguous DMA code, and provide an iterator
for the heap to use when it probes.

Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard &lt;mripard@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski &lt;m.szyprowski@samsung.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260331-dma-buf-heaps-as-modules-v4-1-e18fda504419@kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>dma-buf: heaps: Clear CMA highages using helper</title>
<updated>2026-03-11T09:06:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Walleij</name>
<email>linusw@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-10T08:53:12+00:00</published>
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Currently the CMA allocator clears highmem pages using
kmap()-&gt;clear_page()-&gt;kunmap(), but there is a helper
static inline in &lt;linux/highmem.h&gt; that does the same for
us so use clear_highpage() instead of open coding this.

Suggested-by: T.J. Mercier &lt;tjmercier@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: T.J. Mercier &lt;tjmercier@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christian König &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Maxime Ripard &lt;mripard@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linusw@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260310-cma-heap-clear-pages-v2-2-ecbbed3d7e6d@kernel.org
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Currently the CMA allocator clears highmem pages using
kmap()-&gt;clear_page()-&gt;kunmap(), but there is a helper
static inline in &lt;linux/highmem.h&gt; that does the same for
us so use clear_highpage() instead of open coding this.

Suggested-by: T.J. Mercier &lt;tjmercier@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: T.J. Mercier &lt;tjmercier@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christian König &lt;christian.koenig@amd.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Maxime Ripard &lt;mripard@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linusw@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260310-cma-heap-clear-pages-v2-2-ecbbed3d7e6d@kernel.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dma-buf: heaps: Clear CMA pages with clear_pages()</title>
<updated>2026-03-11T09:06:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Walleij</name>
<email>linusw@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-10T08:53:11+00:00</published>
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As of commit 62a9f5a85b98
"mm: introduce clear_pages() and clear_user_pages()" we can
clear a range of pages with a potentially assembly-optimized
call.

Instead of using a memset, use this helper to clear the whole
range of pages from the CMA allocation.

Reviewed-by: T.J. Mercier &lt;tjmercier@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Maxime Ripard &lt;mripard@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linusw@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260310-cma-heap-clear-pages-v2-1-ecbbed3d7e6d@kernel.org
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As of commit 62a9f5a85b98
"mm: introduce clear_pages() and clear_user_pages()" we can
clear a range of pages with a potentially assembly-optimized
call.

Instead of using a memset, use this helper to clear the whole
range of pages from the CMA allocation.

Reviewed-by: T.J. Mercier &lt;tjmercier@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Maxime Ripard &lt;mripard@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij &lt;linusw@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260310-cma-heap-clear-pages-v2-1-ecbbed3d7e6d@kernel.org
</pre>
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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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<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
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<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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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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