lwn.git/drivers/mtd/maps/sa1100-flash.c, branch docs-mw

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

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

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

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

mtd: Switch back to struct platform_driver::remove()

2024-10-21T09:58:07+00:00

After commit 0edb555a65d1 ("platform: Make platform_driver::remove() return void") .remove() is (again) the right callback to implement for platform drivers. Convert all platform drivers below drivers/mtd to use .remove(), with the eventual goal to drop struct platform_driver::remove_new(). As .remove() and .remove_new() have the same prototypes, conversion is done by just changing the structure member name in the driver initializer. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20241007205803.444994-10-u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com

mtd: maps: sa1100-flash: Prefer struct_size over open coded arithmetic

2024-04-09T06:35:37+00:00

This is an effort to get rid of all multiplications from allocation functions in order to prevent integer overflows [1][2]. As the "info" variable is a pointer to "struct sa_info" and this structure ends in a flexible array: struct sa_info { [...] struct sa_subdev_info subdev[]; }; the preferred way in the kernel is to use the struct_size() helper to do the arithmetic instead of the calculation "size + size * count" in the kzalloc() function. This way, the code is more readable and safer. This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle, and audited and modified manually. Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments [1] Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/160 [2] Signed-off-by: Erick Archer Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/AS8PR02MB7237AC633B0D1D2EBD3C40E98B392@AS8PR02MB7237.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com

mtd: maps: sa1100-flash: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

2023-10-16T08:56:48+00:00

The .remove() callback for a platform driver returns an int which makes many driver authors wrongly assume it's possible to do error handling by returning an error code. However the value returned is ignored (apart from emitting a warning) and this typically results in resource leaks. To improve here there is a quest to make the remove callback return void. In the first step of this quest all drivers are converted to .remove_new(), which already returns void. Eventually after all drivers are converted, .remove_new() will be renamed to .remove(). Trivially convert this driver from always returning zero in the remove callback to the void returning variant. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal Acked-by: Tudor Ambarus Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20231008200143.196369-17-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de

mtd: Convert fallthrough comments into statements

2020-03-30T08:14:54+00:00

Use Joe Perches cvt_fallthrough.pl script to convert /* fallthrough */ comments (and its derivatives) into a fallthrough; statement. This automatically drops useless ones. Do it MTD-wide. Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal Acked-by: Vignesh Raghavendra Acked-by: Tudor Ambarus Acked-by: Richard Weinberger Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20200325212115.14170-1-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com

mtd: maps: sa1100-flash: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

2020-03-24T22:02:30+00:00

The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2], introduced in C99: struct foo { int stuff; struct boo array[]; }; By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on. Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by this change: "Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1] This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle. [1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html [2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21 [3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour") Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20200319224200.GA25162@embeddedor.com

mtd: sa1100: Mark expected switch fall-through

2019-08-21T00:43:15+00:00

Mark switch cases where we are expecting to fall through. Fix the following warning (Building: assabet_defconfig arm): drivers/mtd/maps/sa1100-flash.c: In function ‘sa1100_probe_subdev’: drivers/mtd/maps/sa1100-flash.c:82:3: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=] printk(KERN_WARNING "SA1100 flash: unknown base address " ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "0x%08lx, assuming CS0\n", phys); ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ drivers/mtd/maps/sa1100-flash.c:85:2: note: here case SA1100_CS0_PHYS: ^~~~ Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva

treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for more missed files

2019-05-21T08:50:45+00:00

Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which: - Have no license information of any form - Have MODULE_LICENCE("GPL*") inside which was used in the initial scan/conversion to ignore the file These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX license identifier is: GPL-2.0-only Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman