kernel/git/stable/linux.git/drivers/misc/ibmasm/module.c, branch master

misc: ibmasm: Remove obsolete IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter driver

2026-08-06T09:12:07+00:00

The IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter (RSA) and RSA II were out-of-band management PCI/ISA cards introduced in the early 2000s for ancient IBM eServer xSeries machines. IBM deprecated the RSA family and replaced it with the Integrated Management Module (IMM) around 2008. IBM subsequently sold its x86 server business to Lenovo in 2014, and modern systems use entirely different BMC architectures. This hardware has been completely obsolete and out of production for over 15 years. Surviving physical servers using this specific hardware would be running ancient 32-bit processors vastly unsuited for modern kernels. A review of the recent git history shows that aside from mechanical treewide VFS API updates, the only recent activities are out-of-bounds fixes in command_file_write and MFA handling. These fixes address userspace-triggered security vulnerabilities and fuzzer-discovered MMIO bugs rather than functional issues reported by active hardware users. Keeping this obsolete driver in the tree leaves an unnecessary attack surface and acts as a "fuzzing honeypot", forcing core maintainers to endlessly review CVEs and OOB fixes for dead hardware, while also paying a maintenance tax to drag it through modern API refactorings. Remove the driver entirely. Signed-off-by: Mingyu Wang <25181214217@stu.xidian.edu.cn> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260801070756.161698-1-25181214217@stu.xidian.edu.cn Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

misc: Unify code style for various *_device_id arrays

2026-07-31T12:20:50+00:00

- Add a trailing comma for initializers unless the closing brace is on the same line and for the list terminator; - Use a single space in the list terminator; - A space after an opening { and before a closing }; - Use the PCI_DEVICE* macro in two drivers for pci_device_id entry which is usual for these arrays - No explicit zeros in the list terminator; None of these changes introduces changes to the compiled result. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub) Acked-by: Michał Mirosław Link: https://patch.msgid.link/583653bc7b9ae19707bc28be69a20e66b8c3720a.1784299069.git.u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

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

misc/libmasm/module: Fix two use after free in ibmasm_init_one

2021-05-14T11:46:48+00:00

In ibmasm_init_one, it calls ibmasm_init_remote_input_dev(). Inside ibmasm_init_remote_input_dev, mouse_dev and keybd_dev are allocated by input_allocate_device(), and assigned to sp->remote.mouse_dev and sp->remote.keybd_dev respectively. In the err_free_devices error branch of ibmasm_init_one, mouse_dev and keybd_dev are freed by input_free_device(), and return error. Then the execution runs into error_send_message error branch of ibmasm_init_one, where ibmasm_free_remote_input_dev(sp) is called to unregister the freed sp->remote.mouse_dev and sp->remote.keybd_dev. My patch add a "error_init_remote" label to handle the error of ibmasm_init_remote_input_dev(), to avoid the uaf bugs. Signed-off-by: Lv Yunlong Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210426170620.10546-1-lyl2019@mail.ustc.edu.cn Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 156

2019-05-30T18:26:35+00:00

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s): this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at your option any later version this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along with this program if not write to the free software foundation inc 59 temple place suite 330 boston ma 02111 1307 usa extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-or-later has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 1334 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Allison Randal Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070033.113240726@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

misc: ibmasm: Return error on error path

2017-10-12T13:37:19+00:00

If ibmasm_event_buffer_init() or ibmasm_heartbeat_init() fails, then ibmasm_init_one() release all resources and return 0 on error path. The patch adds corresponding error for fails. Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org). Signed-off-by: Anton Vasilyev Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

misc: ibmasm: fix typo in error message

2016-12-14T09:54:29+00:00

Trivial fix to typo "repsonse" to "response" in error message. Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

misc: ibmasm: remove unnecessary pci_set_drvdata()

2013-09-26T16:13:54+00:00

The driver core clears the driver data to NULL after device_release or on probe failure. Thus, it is not needed to manually clear the device driver data to NULL. Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

misc: ibmasm: Remove casting the return value which is a void pointer

2013-09-26T15:53:23+00:00

Casting the return value which is a void pointer is redundant. The conversion from void pointer to any other pointer type is guaranteed by the C programming language. Signed-off-by: Jingoo Han Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman