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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c, branch v7.0-rc2</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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</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>dm mpath: make pg_init_delay_msecs settable</title>
<updated>2026-01-28T14:45:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Marzinski</name>
<email>bmarzins@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-28T00:12:24+00:00</published>
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"pg_init_delay_msecs X" can be passed as a feature in the multipath
table and is used to set m-&gt;pg_init_delay_msecs in parse_features().
However, alloc_multipath_stage2(), which is called after
parse_features(), resets m-&gt;pg_init_delay_msecs to its default value.
Instead, set m-&gt;pg_init_delay_msecs in alloc_multipath(), which is
called before parse_features(), to avoid overwriting a value passed in
by the table.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski &lt;bmarzins@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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"pg_init_delay_msecs X" can be passed as a feature in the multipath
table and is used to set m-&gt;pg_init_delay_msecs in parse_features().
However, alloc_multipath_stage2(), which is called after
parse_features(), resets m-&gt;pg_init_delay_msecs to its default value.
Instead, set m-&gt;pg_init_delay_msecs in alloc_multipath(), which is
called before parse_features(), to avoid overwriting a value passed in
by the table.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski &lt;bmarzins@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm mpath: Add missing dm_put_device when failing to get scsi dh name</title>
<updated>2026-01-28T14:43:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Marzinski</name>
<email>bmarzins@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-28T00:12:22+00:00</published>
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When commit fd81bc5cca8f ("scsi: device_handler: Return error pointer in
scsi_dh_attached_handler_name()") added code to fail parsing the path if
scsi_dh_attached_handler_name() failed with -ENOMEM, it didn't clean up
the reference to the path device that had just been taken. Fix this, and
steamline the error paths of parse_path() a little.

Fixes: fd81bc5cca8f ("scsi: device_handler: Return error pointer in scsi_dh_attached_handler_name()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski &lt;bmarzins@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
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When commit fd81bc5cca8f ("scsi: device_handler: Return error pointer in
scsi_dh_attached_handler_name()") added code to fail parsing the path if
scsi_dh_attached_handler_name() failed with -ENOMEM, it didn't clean up
the reference to the path device that had just been taken. Fix this, and
steamline the error paths of parse_path() a little.

Fixes: fd81bc5cca8f ("scsi: device_handler: Return error pointer in scsi_dh_attached_handler_name()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski &lt;bmarzins@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm: add WQ_PERCPU to alloc_workqueue users</title>
<updated>2026-01-14T12:16:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Crivellari</name>
<email>marco.crivellari@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-13T11:03:02+00:00</published>
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This continues the effort to refactor workqueue APIs, which began with
the introduction of new workqueues and a new alloc_workqueue flag in:

   commit 128ea9f6ccfb ("workqueue: Add system_percpu_wq and system_dfl_wq")
   commit 930c2ea566af ("workqueue: Add new WQ_PERCPU flag")

The refactoring is going to alter the default behavior of
alloc_workqueue() to be unbound by default.

With the introduction of the WQ_PERCPU flag (equivalent to !WQ_UNBOUND),
any alloc_workqueue() caller that doesn’t explicitly specify WQ_UNBOUND
must now use WQ_PERCPU. For more details see the Link tag below.

In order to keep alloc_workqueue() behavior identical, explicitly request
WQ_PERCPU.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250221112003.1dSuoGyc@linutronix.de/
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari &lt;marco.crivellari@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
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This continues the effort to refactor workqueue APIs, which began with
the introduction of new workqueues and a new alloc_workqueue flag in:

   commit 128ea9f6ccfb ("workqueue: Add system_percpu_wq and system_dfl_wq")
   commit 930c2ea566af ("workqueue: Add new WQ_PERCPU flag")

The refactoring is going to alter the default behavior of
alloc_workqueue() to be unbound by default.

With the introduction of the WQ_PERCPU flag (equivalent to !WQ_UNBOUND),
any alloc_workqueue() caller that doesn’t explicitly specify WQ_UNBOUND
must now use WQ_PERCPU. For more details see the Link tag below.

In order to keep alloc_workqueue() behavior identical, explicitly request
WQ_PERCPU.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250221112003.1dSuoGyc@linutronix.de/
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari &lt;marco.crivellari@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi</title>
<updated>2025-12-14T03:35:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-14T03:35:35+00:00</published>
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Pull SCSI fixes from James Bottomley:
 "The only core fix is in doc; all the others are in drivers, with the
  biggest impacts in libsas being the rollback on error handling and in
  ufs coming from a couple of error handling fixes, one causing a crash
  if it's activated before scanning and the other fixing W-LUN
  resumption"

* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi:
  scsi: ufs: qcom: Fix confusing cleanup.h syntax
  scsi: libsas: Add rollback handling when an error occurs
  scsi: device_handler: Return error pointer in scsi_dh_attached_handler_name()
  scsi: ufs: core: Fix a deadlock in the frequency scaling code
  scsi: ufs: core: Fix an error handler crash
  scsi: Revert "scsi: libsas: Fix exp-attached device scan after probe failure scanned in again after probe failed"
  scsi: ufs: core: Fix RPMB link error by reversing Kconfig dependencies
  scsi: qla4xxx: Use time conversion macros
  scsi: qla2xxx: Enable/disable IRQD_NO_BALANCING during reset
  scsi: ipr: Enable/disable IRQD_NO_BALANCING during reset
  scsi: imm: Fix use-after-free bug caused by unfinished delayed work
  scsi: target: sbp: Remove KMSG_COMPONENT macro
  scsi: core: Correct documentation for scsi_device_quiesce()
  scsi: mpi3mr: Prevent duplicate SAS/SATA device entries in channel 1
  scsi: target: Reset t_task_cdb pointer in error case
  scsi: ufs: core: Fix EH failure after W-LUN resume error
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Pull SCSI fixes from James Bottomley:
 "The only core fix is in doc; all the others are in drivers, with the
  biggest impacts in libsas being the rollback on error handling and in
  ufs coming from a couple of error handling fixes, one causing a crash
  if it's activated before scanning and the other fixing W-LUN
  resumption"

* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi:
  scsi: ufs: qcom: Fix confusing cleanup.h syntax
  scsi: libsas: Add rollback handling when an error occurs
  scsi: device_handler: Return error pointer in scsi_dh_attached_handler_name()
  scsi: ufs: core: Fix a deadlock in the frequency scaling code
  scsi: ufs: core: Fix an error handler crash
  scsi: Revert "scsi: libsas: Fix exp-attached device scan after probe failure scanned in again after probe failed"
  scsi: ufs: core: Fix RPMB link error by reversing Kconfig dependencies
  scsi: qla4xxx: Use time conversion macros
  scsi: qla2xxx: Enable/disable IRQD_NO_BALANCING during reset
  scsi: ipr: Enable/disable IRQD_NO_BALANCING during reset
  scsi: imm: Fix use-after-free bug caused by unfinished delayed work
  scsi: target: sbp: Remove KMSG_COMPONENT macro
  scsi: core: Correct documentation for scsi_device_quiesce()
  scsi: mpi3mr: Prevent duplicate SAS/SATA device entries in channel 1
  scsi: target: Reset t_task_cdb pointer in error case
  scsi: ufs: core: Fix EH failure after W-LUN resume error
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm-mpath: Simplify the setup_scsi_dh code</title>
<updated>2025-12-10T18:28:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Marzinski</name>
<email>bmarzins@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-21T23:49:52+00:00</published>
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There's no point to the MPATHF_RETAIN_ATTACHED_HW_HANDLER flag any more.
The way setup_scsi_dh() worked, if that flag wasn't set, it would
attempt to attach any passed in hardware handler. This would always fail
if a different hardware handler was attached, which caused
setup_scsi_dh() to rerun as if the flag was set. So the code would
already retain any attached handler, because attaching a different one
would always fail.

Also, the code had a bug. If attached_handler_name was NULL but there
was a scsi device handler attached (because either
scsi_dh_attached_handler_name failed() to allocate a name, a handler got
attached after it was called) the code would loop endlessly.

Instead, ignore MPATHF_RETAIN_ATTACHED_HW_HANDLER, and always free the
passed in handler if *attached_handler_name is set. This simplifies the
code, and avoids the endless loop bug, while keeping the functionality
the same.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski &lt;bmarzins@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
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There's no point to the MPATHF_RETAIN_ATTACHED_HW_HANDLER flag any more.
The way setup_scsi_dh() worked, if that flag wasn't set, it would
attempt to attach any passed in hardware handler. This would always fail
if a different hardware handler was attached, which caused
setup_scsi_dh() to rerun as if the flag was set. So the code would
already retain any attached handler, because attaching a different one
would always fail.

Also, the code had a bug. If attached_handler_name was NULL but there
was a scsi device handler attached (because either
scsi_dh_attached_handler_name failed() to allocate a name, a handler got
attached after it was called) the code would loop endlessly.

Instead, ignore MPATHF_RETAIN_ATTACHED_HW_HANDLER, and always free the
passed in handler if *attached_handler_name is set. This simplifies the
code, and avoids the endless loop bug, while keeping the functionality
the same.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski &lt;bmarzins@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>scsi: device_handler: Return error pointer in scsi_dh_attached_handler_name()</title>
<updated>2025-12-09T03:04:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Marzinski</name>
<email>bmarzins@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-06T01:00:15+00:00</published>
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If scsi_dh_attached_handler_name() fails to allocate the handler name,
dm-multipath (its only caller) assumes there is no attached device
handler, and sets the device up incorrectly. Return an error pointer
instead, so multipath can distinguish between failure, success where
there is no attached device handler, or when the path device is not a
SCSI device at all.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski &lt;bmarzins@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin Wilck &lt;mwilck@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206010015.1595225-1-bmarzins@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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If scsi_dh_attached_handler_name() fails to allocate the handler name,
dm-multipath (its only caller) assumes there is no attached device
handler, and sets the device up incorrectly. Return an error pointer
instead, so multipath can distinguish between failure, success where
there is no attached device handler, or when the path device is not a
SCSI device at all.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski &lt;bmarzins@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin Wilck &lt;mwilck@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251206010015.1595225-1-bmarzins@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dm mpath: enable DM_TARGET_ATOMIC_WRITES</title>
<updated>2025-11-18T17:24:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Garry</name>
<email>john.g.garry@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-28T15:08:05+00:00</published>
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Both the bio- and rq-based paths have no problem supporting REQ_ATOMIC,
so enable DM_TARGET_ATOMIC_WRITES.

Signed-off-by: John Garry &lt;john.g.garry@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
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Both the bio- and rq-based paths have no problem supporting REQ_ATOMIC,
so enable DM_TARGET_ATOMIC_WRITES.

Signed-off-by: John Garry &lt;john.g.garry@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mpatocka@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<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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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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