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

misc: ibmvmc: Use named initializers for vio_device_id array

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

While being less compact, using named initializers allows to more easily see which members of the structs are assigned which value without having to lookup the declaration of the struct. And it's also more robust against changes to the struct definition. While touching this array, also simplify the list terminator. This change doesn't introduce differences to the compiled result. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub) Link: https://patch.msgid.link/a451863ca59ab700b6e65b76a17a8b6eb1431e6b.1784299069.git.u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

misc: ibmvmc: reject oversized inbound messages

2026-07-17T13:50:03+00:00

ibmvmc_recv_msg() trusts the message length from the CRQ. It passes that length directly to h_copy_rdma(). The destination buffer is only max_mtu bytes. A larger length can overrun it before userspace reads the message. Validate the CRQ length before issuing the RDMA copy. Signed-off-by: Yousef Alhouseen Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260624175139.7981-1-alhouseenyousef@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

misc: ibmvmc: release send buffer on write errors

2026-07-17T13:50:01+00:00

ibmvmc_get_valid_hmc_buffer() marks the selected send buffer busy before ibmvmc_write() validates the backing storage or copies data from user space. Error exits after that point leave the buffer permanently busy. Keep the buffer pointer until ownership is handed to the hypervisor, and mark it free again on local write failures. Also report an RDMA send failure instead of returning a successful byte count. Signed-off-by: Yousef Alhouseen Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260624185925.2133-1-alhouseenyousef@gmail.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

Merge tag 'char-misc-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc

2023-11-04T00:51:08+00:00

Pull char/misc updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big set of char/misc and other small driver subsystem changes for 6.7-rc1. Included in here are: - IIO subsystem driver updates and additions (largest part of this pull request) - FPGA subsystem driver updates - Counter subsystem driver updates - ICC subsystem driver updates - extcon subsystem driver updates - mei driver updates and additions - nvmem subsystem driver updates and additions - comedi subsystem dependency fixes - parport driver fixups - cdx subsystem driver and core updates - splice support for /dev/zero and /dev/full - other smaller driver cleanups All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'char-misc-6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (326 commits) cdx: add sysfs for subsystem, class and revision cdx: add sysfs for bus reset cdx: add support for bus enable and disable cdx: Register cdx bus as a device on cdx subsystem cdx: Create symbol namespaces for cdx subsystem cdx: Introduce lock to protect controller ops cdx: Remove cdx controller list from cdx bus system dts: ti: k3-am625-beagleplay: Add beaglecc1352 greybus: Add BeaglePlay Linux Driver dt-bindings: net: Add ti,cc1352p7 dt-bindings: eeprom: at24: allow NVMEM cells based on old syntax dt-bindings: nvmem: SID: allow NVMEM cells based on old syntax Revert "nvmem: add new config option" MAINTAINERS: coresight: Add missing Coresight files misc: pci_endpoint_test: Add deviceID for J721S2 PCIe EP device support firmware: xilinx: Move EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL next to zynqmp_pm_feature definition uacce: make uacce_class constant ocxl: make ocxl_class constant cxl: make cxl_class constant misc: phantom: make phantom_class constant ...

misc: convert to new timestamp accessors

2023-10-18T11:26:16+00:00

Convert to using the new inode timestamp accessor functions. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231004185347.80880-7-jlayton@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

ibmvmc: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy

2023-10-05T11:34:04+00:00

`strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string interfaces. A suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it guarantees NUL-termination on the destination buffer without unnecessarily NUL-padding. 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: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230927-strncpy-drivers-misc-ibmvmc-c-v1-1-29f56cd3a269@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ibm: convert to ctime accessor functions

2023-07-13T08:28:02+00:00

In later patches, we're going to change how the inode's ctime field is used. Switch to using accessor functions instead of raw accesses of inode->i_ctime. Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Message-Id: <20230705190309.579783-17-jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

ibmvmc: update ctime in conjunction with mtime on write

2023-07-10T08:04:51+00:00

POSIX says: "Upon successful completion, where nbyte is greater than 0, write() shall mark for update the last data modification and last file status change timestamps of the file..." Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Message-Id: <20230705190309.579783-1-jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner