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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/net/ethernet/cavium/liquidio, branch master</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<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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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;
</pre>
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</content>
</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;
</pre>
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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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<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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: liquidio: Fix off-by-one error in VF setup_nic_devices() cleanup</title>
<updated>2026-01-30T03:27:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zilin Guan</name>
<email>zilin@seu.edu.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-28T15:44:40+00:00</published>
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In setup_nic_devices(), the initialization loop jumps to the label
setup_nic_dev_free on failure. The current cleanup loop while(i--)
skip the failing index i, causing a memory leak.

Fix this by changing the loop to iterate from the current index i
down to 0.

Compile tested only. Issue found using code review.

Fixes: 846b46873eeb ("liquidio CN23XX: VF offload features")
Suggested-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zilin Guan &lt;zilin@seu.edu.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kory Maincent &lt;kory.maincent@bootlin.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260128154440.278369-4-zilin@seu.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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In setup_nic_devices(), the initialization loop jumps to the label
setup_nic_dev_free on failure. The current cleanup loop while(i--)
skip the failing index i, causing a memory leak.

Fix this by changing the loop to iterate from the current index i
down to 0.

Compile tested only. Issue found using code review.

Fixes: 846b46873eeb ("liquidio CN23XX: VF offload features")
Suggested-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zilin Guan &lt;zilin@seu.edu.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kory Maincent &lt;kory.maincent@bootlin.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260128154440.278369-4-zilin@seu.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: liquidio: Fix off-by-one error in PF setup_nic_devices() cleanup</title>
<updated>2026-01-30T03:27:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zilin Guan</name>
<email>zilin@seu.edu.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-28T15:44:39+00:00</published>
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In setup_nic_devices(), the initialization loop jumps to the label
setup_nic_dev_free on failure. The current cleanup loop while(i--)
skip the failing index i, causing a memory leak.

Fix this by changing the loop to iterate from the current index i
down to 0.

Also, decrement i in the devlink_alloc failure path to point to the
last successfully allocated index.

Compile tested only. Issue found using code review.

Fixes: f21fb3ed364b ("Add support of Cavium Liquidio ethernet adapters")
Suggested-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zilin Guan &lt;zilin@seu.edu.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kory Maincent &lt;kory.maincent@bootlin.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260128154440.278369-3-zilin@seu.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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In setup_nic_devices(), the initialization loop jumps to the label
setup_nic_dev_free on failure. The current cleanup loop while(i--)
skip the failing index i, causing a memory leak.

Fix this by changing the loop to iterate from the current index i
down to 0.

Also, decrement i in the devlink_alloc failure path to point to the
last successfully allocated index.

Compile tested only. Issue found using code review.

Fixes: f21fb3ed364b ("Add support of Cavium Liquidio ethernet adapters")
Suggested-by: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zilin Guan &lt;zilin@seu.edu.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kory Maincent &lt;kory.maincent@bootlin.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260128154440.278369-3-zilin@seu.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: liquidio: Initialize netdev pointer before queue setup</title>
<updated>2026-01-30T03:27:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zilin Guan</name>
<email>zilin@seu.edu.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-28T15:44:38+00:00</published>
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In setup_nic_devices(), the netdev is allocated using alloc_etherdev_mq().
However, the pointer to this structure is stored in oct-&gt;props[i].netdev
only after the calls to netif_set_real_num_rx_queues() and
netif_set_real_num_tx_queues().

If either of these functions fails, setup_nic_devices() returns an error
without freeing the allocated netdev. Since oct-&gt;props[i].netdev is still
NULL at this point, the cleanup function liquidio_destroy_nic_device()
will fail to find and free the netdev, resulting in a memory leak.

Fix this by initializing oct-&gt;props[i].netdev before calling the queue
setup functions. This ensures that the netdev is properly accessible for
cleanup in case of errors.

Compile tested only. Issue found using a prototype static analysis tool
and code review.

Fixes: c33c997346c3 ("liquidio: enhanced ethtool --set-channels feature")
Signed-off-by: Zilin Guan &lt;zilin@seu.edu.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kory Maincent &lt;kory.maincent@bootlin.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260128154440.278369-2-zilin@seu.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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In setup_nic_devices(), the netdev is allocated using alloc_etherdev_mq().
However, the pointer to this structure is stored in oct-&gt;props[i].netdev
only after the calls to netif_set_real_num_rx_queues() and
netif_set_real_num_tx_queues().

If either of these functions fails, setup_nic_devices() returns an error
without freeing the allocated netdev. Since oct-&gt;props[i].netdev is still
NULL at this point, the cleanup function liquidio_destroy_nic_device()
will fail to find and free the netdev, resulting in a memory leak.

Fix this by initializing oct-&gt;props[i].netdev before calling the queue
setup functions. This ensures that the netdev is properly accessible for
cleanup in case of errors.

Compile tested only. Issue found using a prototype static analysis tool
and code review.

Fixes: c33c997346c3 ("liquidio: enhanced ethtool --set-channels feature")
Signed-off-by: Zilin Guan &lt;zilin@seu.edu.cn&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kory Maincent &lt;kory.maincent@bootlin.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260128154440.278369-2-zilin@seu.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: liquidio_vf: convert to use ndo_hwtstamp callbacks</title>
<updated>2025-11-05T01:43:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vadim Fedorenko</name>
<email>vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-03T15:09:48+00:00</published>
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The driver implemented SIOCSHWTSTAMP ioctl command only, but there is a
way to get configuration back. Implement both ndo_hwtstamp_set and
ndo_hwtstamp_set callbacks.

Reviewed-by: Kory Maincent &lt;kory.maincent@bootlin.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vadim Fedorenko &lt;vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251103150952.3538205-4-vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
The driver implemented SIOCSHWTSTAMP ioctl command only, but there is a
way to get configuration back. Implement both ndo_hwtstamp_set and
ndo_hwtstamp_set callbacks.

Reviewed-by: Kory Maincent &lt;kory.maincent@bootlin.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vadim Fedorenko &lt;vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251103150952.3538205-4-vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: liquidio: convert to use ndo_hwtstamp callbacks</title>
<updated>2025-11-05T01:43:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vadim Fedorenko</name>
<email>vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-03T15:09:47+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
The driver implemented SIOCSHWTSTAMP ioctl command only, but there is a
way to get configured status. Implement both ndo_hwtstamp_set and
ndo_hwtstamp_get callbacks.

Reviewed-by: Kory Maincent &lt;kory.maincent@bootlin.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vadim Fedorenko &lt;vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251103150952.3538205-3-vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
The driver implemented SIOCSHWTSTAMP ioctl command only, but there is a
way to get configured status. Implement both ndo_hwtstamp_set and
ndo_hwtstamp_get callbacks.

Reviewed-by: Kory Maincent &lt;kory.maincent@bootlin.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vadim Fedorenko &lt;vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251103150952.3538205-3-vadim.fedorenko@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: WQ_PERCPU added to alloc_workqueue users</title>
<updated>2025-09-23T00:40:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Crivellari</name>
<email>marco.crivellari@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-18T14:24:27+00:00</published>
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Currently if a user enqueue a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the
used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() use
WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies to
schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that makes use
again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.
This lack of consistentcy cannot be addressed without refactoring the API.

alloc_workqueue() treats all queues as per-CPU by default, while unbound
workqueues must opt-in via WQ_UNBOUND.

This default is suboptimal: most workloads benefit from unbound queues,
allowing the scheduler to place worker threads where they’re needed and
reducing noise when CPUs are isolated.

This change adds a new WQ_PERCPU flag at the network subsystem, to explicitly
request the use of the per-CPU behavior. Both flags coexist for one release
cycle to allow callers to transition their calls.

Once migration is complete, WQ_UNBOUND can be removed and unbound will
become the implicit 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.

All existing users have been updated accordingly.

Suggested-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari &lt;marco.crivellari@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250918142427.309519-4-marco.crivellari@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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Currently if a user enqueue a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the
used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() use
WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies to
schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that makes use
again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.
This lack of consistentcy cannot be addressed without refactoring the API.

alloc_workqueue() treats all queues as per-CPU by default, while unbound
workqueues must opt-in via WQ_UNBOUND.

This default is suboptimal: most workloads benefit from unbound queues,
allowing the scheduler to place worker threads where they’re needed and
reducing noise when CPUs are isolated.

This change adds a new WQ_PERCPU flag at the network subsystem, to explicitly
request the use of the per-CPU behavior. Both flags coexist for one release
cycle to allow callers to transition their calls.

Once migration is complete, WQ_UNBOUND can be removed and unbound will
become the implicit 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.

All existing users have been updated accordingly.

Suggested-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari &lt;marco.crivellari@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250918142427.309519-4-marco.crivellari@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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