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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/misc/ntsync.c, branch v7.0-rc5</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_flex' 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>2026-02-22T01:06:51+00:00</published>
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This is the exact same thing as the 'alloc_obj()' version, only much
smaller because there are a lot fewer users of the *alloc_flex()
interface.

As with alloc_obj() version, this was done entirely with mindless brute
force, using the same script, except using 'flex' in the pattern rather
than 'objs*'.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This is the exact same thing as the 'alloc_obj()' version, only much
smaller because there are a lot fewer users of the *alloc_flex()
interface.

As with alloc_obj() version, this was done entirely with mindless brute
force, using the same script, except using 'flex' in the pattern rather
than 'objs*'.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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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>
<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>
<title>ntsync: convert ntsync_obj_get_fd() to FD_PREPARE()</title>
<updated>2025-11-28T11:42:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-23T16:33:59+00:00</published>
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Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251123-work-fd-prepare-v4-41-b6efa1706cfd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251123-work-fd-prepare-v4-41-b6efa1706cfd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ntsync: Check wait count based on byte size.</title>
<updated>2025-02-21T10:57:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Elizabeth Figura</name>
<email>zfigura@codeweavers.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-20T19:23:34+00:00</published>
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GCC versions below 13 incorrectly detect the copy size as being static and too
small to fit in the "fds" array. Work around this by explicitly calculating the
size and returning EINVAL based on that, instead of based on the object count.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202502072019.LYoCR9bF-lkp@intel.com/
Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Elizabeth Figura &lt;zfigura@codeweavers.com&gt;

--

Suggested-by as per Arnd's request, but the only thing I changed was preserving
array_size() [as noted by Geert in the linked thread]. I tested and found no
regressions.

v2: Add missing sign-off
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250220192334.549167-1-zfigura@codeweavers.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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GCC versions below 13 incorrectly detect the copy size as being static and too
small to fit in the "fds" array. Work around this by explicitly calculating the
size and returning EINVAL based on that, instead of based on the object count.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202502072019.LYoCR9bF-lkp@intel.com/
Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Elizabeth Figura &lt;zfigura@codeweavers.com&gt;

--

Suggested-by as per Arnd's request, but the only thing I changed was preserving
array_size() [as noted by Geert in the linked thread]. I tested and found no
regressions.

v2: Add missing sign-off
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250220192334.549167-1-zfigura@codeweavers.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ntsync: Set the permissions to be 0666</title>
<updated>2025-02-19T14:23:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Lothian</name>
<email>mike@fireburn.co.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-14T12:28:00+00:00</published>
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This allows ntsync to be usuable by non-root processes out of the box

Signed-off-by: Mike Lothian &lt;mike@fireburn.co.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Elizabeth Figura &lt;zfigura@codeweavers.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250214122759.2629-2-mike@fireburn.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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This allows ntsync to be usuable by non-root processes out of the box

Signed-off-by: Mike Lothian &lt;mike@fireburn.co.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Elizabeth Figura &lt;zfigura@codeweavers.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250214122759.2629-2-mike@fireburn.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ntsync: Fix reference leaks in the remaining create ioctls.</title>
<updated>2025-01-17T12:10:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Elizabeth Figura</name>
<email>zfigura@codeweavers.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-16T19:07:17+00:00</published>
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When ntsync_obj_get_fd() fails, we free the ntsync object but forget to drop the
"file" member.

This was fixed for semaphores in 0e7d523b5f7a23b1dc6ceceb04e31a60e9e3321d, but
that commit did not fix the similar leak for events and mutexes, since they were
part of patches not yet in the mainline kernel. Fix those cases.

Fixes: 5bc2479a3585b "ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_CREATE_MUTEX."
Fixes: 4c7404b9c2b57 "ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_CREATE_EVENT."
Signed-off-by: Elizabeth Figura &lt;zfigura@codeweavers.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250116190717.8923-1-zfigura@codeweavers.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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When ntsync_obj_get_fd() fails, we free the ntsync object but forget to drop the
"file" member.

This was fixed for semaphores in 0e7d523b5f7a23b1dc6ceceb04e31a60e9e3321d, but
that commit did not fix the similar leak for events and mutexes, since they were
part of patches not yet in the mainline kernel. Fix those cases.

Fixes: 5bc2479a3585b "ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_CREATE_MUTEX."
Fixes: 4c7404b9c2b57 "ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_CREATE_EVENT."
Signed-off-by: Elizabeth Figura &lt;zfigura@codeweavers.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250116190717.8923-1-zfigura@codeweavers.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ntsync: fix a file reference leak in drivers/misc/ntsync.c</title>
<updated>2025-01-16T13:03:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-15T02:50:02+00:00</published>
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	struct ntsync_obj contains a reference to struct file
and that reference contributes to refcount - ntsync_alloc_obj()
grabs it.  Normally the object is destroyed (and reference
to obj-&gt;file dropped) in ntsync_obj_release().  However, in
case of ntsync_obj_get_fd() failure the object is destroyed
directly by its creator.

	That case should also drop obj-&gt;file; plain kfree(obj)
is not enough there - it ends up leaking struct file * reference.

	Take that logics into a helper (ntsync_free_obj()) and
use it in both codepaths that destroy ntsync_obj instances.

Fixes: b46271ec40a05 "ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_CREATE_SEM"
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Elizabeth Figura &lt;zfigura@codeweavers.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250115025002.GA1977892@ZenIV
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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	struct ntsync_obj contains a reference to struct file
and that reference contributes to refcount - ntsync_alloc_obj()
grabs it.  Normally the object is destroyed (and reference
to obj-&gt;file dropped) in ntsync_obj_release().  However, in
case of ntsync_obj_get_fd() failure the object is destroyed
directly by its creator.

	That case should also drop obj-&gt;file; plain kfree(obj)
is not enough there - it ends up leaking struct file * reference.

	Take that logics into a helper (ntsync_free_obj()) and
use it in both codepaths that destroy ntsync_obj instances.

Fixes: b46271ec40a05 "ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_CREATE_SEM"
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Elizabeth Figura &lt;zfigura@codeweavers.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250115025002.GA1977892@ZenIV
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ntsync: Introduce alertable waits.</title>
<updated>2025-01-08T12:18:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Elizabeth Figura</name>
<email>zfigura@codeweavers.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-13T19:34:56+00:00</published>
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NT waits can optionally be made "alertable". This is a special channel for
thread wakeup that is mildly similar to SIGIO. A thread has an internal single
bit of "alerted" state, and if a thread is alerted while an alertable wait, the
wait will return a special value, consume the "alerted" state, and will not
consume any of its objects.

Alerts are implemented using events; the user-space NT emulator is expected to
create an internal ntsync event for each thread and pass that event to wait
functions.

Signed-off-by: Elizabeth Figura &lt;zfigura@codeweavers.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241213193511.457338-16-zfigura@codeweavers.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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NT waits can optionally be made "alertable". This is a special channel for
thread wakeup that is mildly similar to SIGIO. A thread has an internal single
bit of "alerted" state, and if a thread is alerted while an alertable wait, the
wait will return a special value, consume the "alerted" state, and will not
consume any of its objects.

Alerts are implemented using events; the user-space NT emulator is expected to
create an internal ntsync event for each thread and pass that event to wait
functions.

Signed-off-by: Elizabeth Figura &lt;zfigura@codeweavers.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241213193511.457338-16-zfigura@codeweavers.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_EVENT_READ.</title>
<updated>2025-01-08T12:18:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Elizabeth Figura</name>
<email>zfigura@codeweavers.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-13T19:34:55+00:00</published>
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This corresponds to the NT syscall NtQueryEvent().

This returns the signaled state of the event and whether it is manual-reset.

Signed-off-by: Elizabeth Figura &lt;zfigura@codeweavers.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241213193511.457338-15-zfigura@codeweavers.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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This corresponds to the NT syscall NtQueryEvent().

This returns the signaled state of the event and whether it is manual-reset.

Signed-off-by: Elizabeth Figura &lt;zfigura@codeweavers.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241213193511.457338-15-zfigura@codeweavers.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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