lwn.git/drivers/net/ethernet/rocker/rocker_main.c, branch docs-fixes

Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments

2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00

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

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

rocker: fix memory leak in rocker_world_port_post_fini()

2026-01-27T03:28:34+00:00

In rocker_world_port_pre_init(), rocker_port->wpriv is allocated with kzalloc(wops->port_priv_size, GFP_KERNEL). However, in rocker_world_port_post_fini(), the memory is only freed when wops->port_post_fini callback is set: if (!wops->port_post_fini) return; wops->port_post_fini(rocker_port); kfree(rocker_port->wpriv); Since rocker_ofdpa_ops does not implement port_post_fini callback (it is NULL), the wpriv memory allocated for each port is never freed when ports are removed. This leads to a memory leak of sizeof(struct ofdpa_port) bytes per port on every device removal. Fix this by always calling kfree(rocker_port->wpriv) regardless of whether the port_post_fini callback exists. Fixes: e420114eef4a ("rocker: introduce worlds infrastructure") Signed-off-by: Kery Qi Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260123211030.2109-2-qikeyu2017@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: rename netns_local to netns_immutable

2025-03-04T11:44:48+00:00

The name 'netns_local' is confusing. A following commit will export it via netlink, so let's use a more explicit name. Reported-by: Eric Dumazet Suggested-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

rocker: fix link status detection in rocker_carrier_init()

2024-11-19T02:39:21+00:00

Since '1 << rocker_port->pport' may be undefined for port >= 32, cast the left operand to 'unsigned long long' like it's done in 'rocker_port_set_enable()' above. Compile tested only. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241114151946.519047-1-dmantipov@yandex.ru Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

netdev_features: convert NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL to dev->netns_local

2024-09-03T09:36:43+00:00

"Interface can't change network namespaces" is rather an attribute, not a feature, and it can't be changed via Ethtool. Make it a "cold" private flag instead of a netdev_feature and free one more bit. Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

net: annotate writes on dev->mtu from ndo_change_mtu()

2024-05-07T23:19:14+00:00

Simon reported that ndo_change_mtu() methods were never updated to use WRITE_ONCE(dev->mtu, new_mtu) as hinted in commit 501a90c94510 ("inet: protect against too small mtu values.") We read dev->mtu without holding RTNL in many places, with READ_ONCE() annotations. It is time to take care of ndo_change_mtu() methods to use corresponding WRITE_ONCE() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reported-by: Simon Horman Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20240505144608.GB67882@kernel.org/ Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Acked-by: Shannon Nelson Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240506102812.3025432-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

rocker: Don't bother filling in ethtool driver version

2024-02-24T02:03:53+00:00

The version is same as the default, so don't bother filling it in. Signed-off-by: John Garry Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240222090042.12609-2-john.g.garry@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

treewide: use get_random_bytes() when possible

2022-10-11T23:42:58+00:00

The prandom_bytes() function has been a deprecated inline wrapper around get_random_bytes() for several releases now, and compiles down to the exact same code. Replace the deprecated wrapper with a direct call to the real function. This was done as a basic find and replace. Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Reviewed-by: Yury Norov Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy # powerpc Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld