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<title>linux-toradex.git/fs/pstore/blk.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>pstore/blk: trivial typo fixes</title>
<updated>2025-01-08T22:38:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eugen Hristev</name>
<email>eugen.hristev@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-01T11:19:21+00:00</published>
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Fix trivial typos in comments.

Fixes: 2a03ddbde1e1 ("pstore/blk: Move verify_size() macro out of function")
Fixes: 17639f67c1d6 ("pstore/blk: Introduce backend for block devices")
Signed-off-by: Eugen Hristev &lt;eugen.hristev@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250101111921.850406-1-eugen.hristev@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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Fix trivial typos in comments.

Fixes: 2a03ddbde1e1 ("pstore/blk: Move verify_size() macro out of function")
Fixes: 17639f67c1d6 ("pstore/blk: Introduce backend for block devices")
Signed-off-by: Eugen Hristev &lt;eugen.hristev@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250101111921.850406-1-eugen.hristev@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>pstore/blk: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy</title>
<updated>2024-04-11T16:37:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Justin Stitt</name>
<email>justinstitt@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-28T20:54:16+00:00</published>
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strncpy() is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
[1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string
interfaces.

We know that info-device should be NUL-terminated based on its use with
strlen():
|	static int __init mtdpstore_init(void)
|	{
|		int ret;
|		struct mtdpstore_context *cxt = &amp;oops_cxt;
|		struct pstore_blk_config *info = &amp;cxt-&gt;info;
|
|		ret = pstore_blk_get_config(info);
|		if (unlikely(ret))
|			return ret;
|
|		if (strlen(info-&gt;device) == 0) {
|			pr_err("mtd device must be supplied (device name is empty)\n");
...

Considering the above, a suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to
the fact that it guarantees NUL-termination on the destination buffer.

Note that this patch relies on the _new_ 2-argument version of strscpy()
introduced in Commit e6584c3964f2f ("string: Allow 2-argument strscpy()").

Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html [2]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
Cc:  &lt;linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt &lt;justinstitt@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240328-strncpy-fs-pstore-blk-c-v1-1-5748cdc22a53@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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strncpy() is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings
[1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string
interfaces.

We know that info-device should be NUL-terminated based on its use with
strlen():
|	static int __init mtdpstore_init(void)
|	{
|		int ret;
|		struct mtdpstore_context *cxt = &amp;oops_cxt;
|		struct pstore_blk_config *info = &amp;cxt-&gt;info;
|
|		ret = pstore_blk_get_config(info);
|		if (unlikely(ret))
|			return ret;
|
|		if (strlen(info-&gt;device) == 0) {
|			pr_err("mtd device must be supplied (device name is empty)\n");
...

Considering the above, a suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to
the fact that it guarantees NUL-termination on the destination buffer.

Note that this patch relies on the _new_ 2-argument version of strscpy()
introduced in Commit e6584c3964f2f ("string: Allow 2-argument strscpy()").

Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1]
Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html [2]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90
Cc:  &lt;linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt &lt;justinstitt@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240328-strncpy-fs-pstore-blk-c-v1-1-5748cdc22a53@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>init: improve the name_to_dev_t interface</title>
<updated>2023-06-05T16:56:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-31T12:55:24+00:00</published>
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name_to_dev_t has a very misleading name, that doesn't make clear
it should only be used by the early init code, and also has a bad
calling convention that doesn't allow returning different kinds of
errors.  Rename it to early_lookup_bdev to make the use case clear,
and return an errno, where -EINVAL means the string could not be
parsed, and -ENODEV means it the string was valid, but there was
no device found for it.

Also stub out the whole call for !CONFIG_BLOCK as all the non-block
root cases are always covered in the caller.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230531125535.676098-14-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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name_to_dev_t has a very misleading name, that doesn't make clear
it should only be used by the early init code, and also has a bad
calling convention that doesn't allow returning different kinds of
errors.  Rename it to early_lookup_bdev to make the use case clear,
and return an errno, where -EINVAL means the string could not be
parsed, and -ENODEV means it the string was valid, but there was
no device found for it.

Also stub out the whole call for !CONFIG_BLOCK as all the non-block
root cases are always covered in the caller.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230531125535.676098-14-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>pstore/blk: Use "%lu" to format unsigned long</title>
<updated>2021-11-21T17:44:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Geert Uytterhoeven</name>
<email>geert@linux-m68k.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-18T18:26:21+00:00</published>
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On 32-bit:

    fs/pstore/blk.c: In function ‘__best_effort_init’:
    include/linux/kern_levels.h:5:18: warning: format ‘%zu’ expects argument of type ‘size_t’, but argument 3 has type ‘long unsigned int’ [-Wformat=]
	5 | #define KERN_SOH "\001"  /* ASCII Start Of Header */
	  |                  ^~~~~~
    include/linux/kern_levels.h:14:19: note: in expansion of macro ‘KERN_SOH’
       14 | #define KERN_INFO KERN_SOH "6" /* informational */
	  |                   ^~~~~~~~
    include/linux/printk.h:373:9: note: in expansion of macro ‘KERN_INFO’
      373 |  printk(KERN_INFO pr_fmt(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__)
	  |         ^~~~~~~~~
    fs/pstore/blk.c:314:3: note: in expansion of macro ‘pr_info’
      314 |   pr_info("attached %s (%zu) (no dedicated panic_write!)\n",
	  |   ^~~~~~~

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 7bb9557b48fcabaa ("pstore/blk: Use the normal block device I/O path")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210629103700.1935012-1-geert@linux-m68k.org
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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On 32-bit:

    fs/pstore/blk.c: In function ‘__best_effort_init’:
    include/linux/kern_levels.h:5:18: warning: format ‘%zu’ expects argument of type ‘size_t’, but argument 3 has type ‘long unsigned int’ [-Wformat=]
	5 | #define KERN_SOH "\001"  /* ASCII Start Of Header */
	  |                  ^~~~~~
    include/linux/kern_levels.h:14:19: note: in expansion of macro ‘KERN_SOH’
       14 | #define KERN_INFO KERN_SOH "6" /* informational */
	  |                   ^~~~~~~~
    include/linux/printk.h:373:9: note: in expansion of macro ‘KERN_INFO’
      373 |  printk(KERN_INFO pr_fmt(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__)
	  |         ^~~~~~~~~
    fs/pstore/blk.c:314:3: note: in expansion of macro ‘pr_info’
      314 |   pr_info("attached %s (%zu) (no dedicated panic_write!)\n",
	  |   ^~~~~~~

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 7bb9557b48fcabaa ("pstore/blk: Use the normal block device I/O path")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210629103700.1935012-1-geert@linux-m68k.org
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>pstore/blk: use bdev_nr_bytes instead of open coding it</title>
<updated>2021-10-18T20:43:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-18T10:11:21+00:00</published>
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Use the proper helper to read the block device size.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211018101130.1838532-22-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Use the proper helper to read the block device size.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211018101130.1838532-22-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>pstore/blk: Include zone in pstore_device_info</title>
<updated>2021-06-17T04:09:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-15T17:19:13+00:00</published>
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Information was redundant between struct pstore_zone_info and struct
pstore_device_info. Use struct pstore_zone_info, with member name "zone".

Additionally untangle the logic for the "best effort" block device
instance.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Fixed-by: Pu Lehui &lt;pulehui@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210617005424.182305-1-pulehui@huawei.com
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Information was redundant between struct pstore_zone_info and struct
pstore_device_info. Use struct pstore_zone_info, with member name "zone".

Additionally untangle the logic for the "best effort" block device
instance.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Fixed-by: Pu Lehui &lt;pulehui@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210617005424.182305-1-pulehui@huawei.com
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>pstore/blk: Fix kerndoc and redundancy on blkdev param</title>
<updated>2021-06-16T16:27:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-15T17:33:00+00:00</published>
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Remove redundant details of blkdev and fix up resulting kerndoc.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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Remove redundant details of blkdev and fix up resulting kerndoc.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>pstore/blk: Use the normal block device I/O path</title>
<updated>2021-06-16T16:26:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-14T19:39:51+00:00</published>
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Stop poking into block layer internals and just open the block device
file an use kernel_read and kernel_write on it. Note that this means
the transformation from name_to_dev_t can't be used anymore when
pstore_blk is loaded as a module: a full filesystem device path name
must be used instead. Additionally removes ":internal:" kerndoc link,
since no such documentation remains.

Co-developed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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Stop poking into block layer internals and just open the block device
file an use kernel_read and kernel_write on it. Note that this means
the transformation from name_to_dev_t can't be used anymore when
pstore_blk is loaded as a module: a full filesystem device path name
must be used instead. Additionally removes ":internal:" kerndoc link,
since no such documentation remains.

Co-developed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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