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Author SHA1 Message Date
Christian Brauner e3b2cf6e5d kernfs: pass struct ns_common instead of const void * for namespace tags
kernfs has historically used const void * to pass around namespace tags
used for directory-level namespace filtering. The only current user of
this is sysfs network namespace tagging where struct net pointers are
cast to void *.

Replace all const void * namespace parameters with const struct
ns_common * throughout the kernfs, sysfs, and kobject namespace layers.
This includes the kobj_ns_type_operations callbacks, kobject_namespace(),
and all sysfs/kernfs APIs that accept or return namespace tags.

Passing struct ns_common is needed because various codepaths require
access to the underlying namespace. A struct ns_common can always be
converted back to the concrete namespace type (e.g., struct net) via
container_of() or to_ns_common() in the reverse direction.

This is a preparatory change for switching to ns_id-based directory
iteration to prevent a KASLR pointer leak through the current use of
raw namespace pointers as hash seeds and comparison keys.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-04-09 14:36:52 +02:00
Linus Torvalds bf4afc53b7 Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument
This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\<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 <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
Kees Cook 69050f8d6d treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types
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 <kees@kernel.org>
2026-02-21 01:02:28 -08:00
Dr. David Alan GilbertandGreg Kroah-Hartman ee9c69388e kobject: Remove unused functions
kobj_ns_initial() and kobj_ns_netlink() were adde din 2010 by
commit bc451f2058 ("kobj: Add basic infrastructure for dealing with
namespaces.")
but have remained unused.

Remove them.

Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250112144907.270272-1-linux@treblig.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2025-01-14 19:45:35 +01:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 3ca8fbabcc Revert "kobject: Remove redundant checks for whether ktype is NULL"
This reverts commit 1b28cb81da.

It is reported to cause problems, so revert it for now until the root
cause can be found.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Fixes: 1b28cb81da ("kobject: Remove redundant checks for whether ktype is NULL")
Cc: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202402071403.e302e33a-oliver.sang@intel.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2024020849-consensus-length-6264@gregkh
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2024-02-08 16:39:25 +00:00
Zhen LeiandGreg Kroah-Hartman 1b28cb81da kobject: Remove redundant checks for whether ktype is NULL
When adding koject or kset, we have made sure that ktype cannot be NULL.
Therefore, after adding koject or kset, there is no need to worry about
ktype being NULL. Clear all ktype-related redundancy checks.

Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230805084114.1298-3-thunder.leizhen@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-08-19 19:37:53 +02:00
Zhen LeiandGreg Kroah-Hartman 4d0fe8c52b kobject: Add sanity check for kset->kobj.ktype in kset_register()
When I register a kset in the following way:
	static struct kset my_kset;
	kobject_set_name(&my_kset.kobj, "my_kset");
        ret = kset_register(&my_kset);

A null pointer dereference exception is occurred:
[ 4453.568337] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at \
virtual address 0000000000000028
... ...
[ 4453.810361] Call trace:
[ 4453.813062]  kobject_get_ownership+0xc/0x34
[ 4453.817493]  kobject_add_internal+0x98/0x274
[ 4453.822005]  kset_register+0x5c/0xb4
[ 4453.825820]  my_kobj_init+0x44/0x1000 [my_kset]
... ...

Because I didn't initialize my_kset.kobj.ktype.

According to the description in Documentation/core-api/kobject.rst:
 - A ktype is the type of object that embeds a kobject.  Every structure
   that embeds a kobject needs a corresponding ktype.

So add sanity check to make sure kset->kobj.ktype is not NULL.

Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230805084114.1298-2-thunder.leizhen@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-08-19 19:37:53 +02:00
Zhen LeiandGreg Kroah-Hartman e2dfa1d522 kobject: Add helper kobj_ns_type_is_valid()
There are too many "(type > KOBJ_NS_TYPE_NONE) && (type < KOBJ_NS_TYPES)"
and "(type <= KOBJ_NS_TYPE_NONE) || (type >= KOBJ_NS_TYPES)", add helper
kobj_ns_type_is_valid() to eliminate duplicate code and improve
readability.

Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230726062508.950-1-thunder.leizhen@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-08-05 08:31:41 +02:00
Andy ShevchenkoandKees Cook b2f10148ec kobject: Use return value of strreplace()
Since strreplace() returns the pointer to the string itself,
we may use it directly in the code.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230605170553.7835-4-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
2023-06-05 15:31:12 -07:00
Thomas WeißschuhandGreg Kroah-Hartman 64414da25b kobject: align stacktrace levels to logging message
Without an explicit level the stacktraces are printed at a default
level.
If this level does not match the one from the logging level it may
happen that the stacktrace is shown without the message or vice versa.

Both these cases are confusing, so make sure the user always sees both,
the message and the stacktrace.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230311-kobject-warning-v1-2-1ebba4f71fb5@weissschuh.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-03-17 15:15:23 +01:00
Thomas WeißschuhandGreg Kroah-Hartman 984063339e kobject: define common logging prefix
All log messages start with the prefix "kobject: ".
Deduplicate this by using the pr_fmt() facility.

This makes the very long log strings shorter.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230311-kobject-warning-v1-1-1ebba4f71fb5@weissschuh.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-03-17 15:15:19 +01:00
Thomas WeißschuhandGreg Kroah-Hartman dda6b81f17 kobject: make dynamic_kobj_ktype and kset_ktype const
Since commit ee6d3dd4ed ("driver core: make kobj_type constant.")
the driver core allows the usage of const struct kobj_type.

Take advantage of this to constify the structure definitions to prevent
modification at runtime.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230204-kobj_type-kobj-v1-1-ddd1b4ef8ab5@weissschuh.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-02-08 13:34:20 +01:00
Wang HaiandGreg Kroah-Hartman 3bb2a01caa kobject: Fix slab-out-of-bounds in fill_kobj_path()
In kobject_get_path(), if kobj->name is changed between calls
get_kobj_path_length() and fill_kobj_path() and the length becomes
longer, then fill_kobj_path() will have an out-of-bounds bug.

The actual current problem occurs when the ixgbe probe.

In ixgbe_mii_bus_init(), if the length of netdev->dev.kobj.name
length becomes longer, out-of-bounds will occur.

cpu0                                         cpu1
ixgbe_probe
 register_netdev(netdev)
  netdev_register_kobject
   device_add
    kobject_uevent // Sending ADD events
                                             systemd-udevd // rename netdev
                                              dev_change_name
                                               device_rename
                                                kobject_rename
 ixgbe_mii_bus_init                             |
  mdiobus_register                              |
   __mdiobus_register                           |
    device_register                             |
     device_add                                 |
      kobject_uevent                            |
       kobject_get_path                         |
        len = get_kobj_path_length // old name  |
        path = kzalloc(len, gfp_mask);          |
                                                kobj->name = name;
                                                /* name length becomes
                                                 * longer
                                                 */
        fill_kobj_path /* kobj path length is
                        * longer than path,
                        * resulting in out of
                        * bounds when filling path
                        */

This is the kasan report:

==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in fill_kobj_path+0x50/0xc0
Write of size 7 at addr ff1100090573d1fd by task kworker/28:1/673

 Workqueue: events work_for_cpu_fn
 Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x48
 print_address_description.constprop.0+0x86/0x1e7
 print_report+0x36/0x4f
 kasan_report+0xad/0x130
 kasan_check_range+0x35/0x1c0
 memcpy+0x39/0x60
 fill_kobj_path+0x50/0xc0
 kobject_get_path+0x5a/0xc0
 kobject_uevent_env+0x140/0x460
 device_add+0x5c7/0x910
 __mdiobus_register+0x14e/0x490
 ixgbe_probe.cold+0x441/0x574 [ixgbe]
 local_pci_probe+0x78/0xc0
 work_for_cpu_fn+0x26/0x40
 process_one_work+0x3b6/0x6a0
 worker_thread+0x368/0x520
 kthread+0x165/0x1a0
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30

This reproducer triggers that bug:

while:
do
    rmmod ixgbe
    sleep 0.5
    modprobe ixgbe
    sleep 0.5

When calling fill_kobj_path() to fill path, if the name length of
kobj becomes longer, return failure and retry. This fixes the problem.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Wang Hai <wanghai38@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221220012143.52141-1-wanghai38@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-01-11 16:09:36 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 71a7507afb Merge tag 'driver-core-6.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the set of driver core and kernfs changes for 6.2-rc1.

  The "big" change in here is the addition of a new macro,
  container_of_const() that will preserve the "const-ness" of a pointer
  passed into it.

  The "problem" of the current container_of() macro is that if you pass
  in a "const *", out of it can comes a non-const pointer unless you
  specifically ask for it. For many usages, we want to preserve the
  "const" attribute by using the same call. For a specific example, this
  series changes the kobj_to_dev() macro to use it, allowing it to be
  used no matter what the const value is. This prevents every subsystem
  from having to declare 2 different individual macros (i.e.
  kobj_const_to_dev() and kobj_to_dev()) and having the compiler enforce
  the const value at build time, which having 2 macros would not do
  either.

  The driver for all of this have been discussions with the Rust kernel
  developers as to how to properly mark driver core, and kobject,
  objects as being "non-mutable". The changes to the kobject and driver
  core in this pull request are the result of that, as there are lots of
  paths where kobjects and device pointers are not modified at all, so
  marking them as "const" allows the compiler to enforce this.

  So, a nice side affect of the Rust development effort has been already
  to clean up the driver core code to be more obvious about object
  rules.

  All of this has been bike-shedded in quite a lot of detail on lkml
  with different names and implementations resulting in the tiny version
  we have in here, much better than my original proposal. Lots of
  subsystem maintainers have acked the changes as well.

  Other than this change, included in here are smaller stuff like:

   - kernfs fixes and updates to handle lock contention better

   - vmlinux.lds.h fixes and updates

   - sysfs and debugfs documentation updates

   - device property updates

  All of these have been in the linux-next tree for quite a while with
  no problems"

* tag 'driver-core-6.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (58 commits)
  device property: Fix documentation for fwnode_get_next_parent()
  firmware_loader: fix up to_fw_sysfs() to preserve const
  usb.h: take advantage of container_of_const()
  device.h: move kobj_to_dev() to use container_of_const()
  container_of: add container_of_const() that preserves const-ness of the pointer
  driver core: fix up missed drivers/s390/char/hmcdrv_dev.c class.devnode() conversion.
  driver core: fix up missed scsi/cxlflash class.devnode() conversion.
  driver core: fix up some missing class.devnode() conversions.
  driver core: make struct class.devnode() take a const *
  driver core: make struct class.dev_uevent() take a const *
  cacheinfo: Remove of_node_put() for fw_token
  device property: Add a blank line in Kconfig of tests
  device property: Rename goto label to be more precise
  device property: Move PROPERTY_ENTRY_BOOL() a bit down
  device property: Get rid of __PROPERTY_ENTRY_ARRAY_EL*SIZE*()
  kernfs: fix all kernel-doc warnings and multiple typos
  driver core: pass a const * into of_device_uevent()
  kobject: kset_uevent_ops: make name() callback take a const *
  kobject: kset_uevent_ops: make filter() callback take a const *
  kobject: make kobject_namespace take a const *
  ...
2022-12-16 03:54:54 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 542aa24646 kobject: make kobject_namespace take a const *
kobject_namespace() should take a const *kobject as it does not modify
the kobject passed to it.  Change that, and the functions
kobj_child_ns_ops() and kobj_ns_ops() needed to also be changed to const
*.

Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221121094649.1556002-2-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-11-22 17:34:43 +01:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 02a476d932 kobject: make kobject_get_ownership() take a constant kobject *
The call, kobject_get_ownership(), does not modify the kobject passed
into it, so make it const.  This propagates down into the kobj_type
function callbacks so make the kobject passed into them also const,
ensuring that nothing in the kobject is being changed here.

This helps make it more obvious what calls and callbacks do, and do not,
modify structures passed to them.

Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Cc: Anna Schumaker <anna@kernel.org>
Cc: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@nvidia.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221121094649.1556002-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-11-22 17:34:29 +01:00
Jason A. Donenfeld 8032bf1233 treewide: use get_random_u32_below() instead of deprecated function
This is a simple mechanical transformation done by:

@@
expression E;
@@
- prandom_u32_max
+ get_random_u32_below
  (E)

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> # for xfs
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> # for damon
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> # for infiniband
Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> # for arm
Acked-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> # for mmc
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
2022-11-18 02:15:15 +01:00
Yang YingliangandGreg Kroah-Hartman 1662cea462 kset: fix memory leak when kset_register() returns error
Inject fault while loading module, kset_register() may fail.
If it fails, the kset.kobj.name allocated by kobject_set_name()
which must be called before a call to kset_register() may be
leaked, since refcount of kobj was set in kset_init().

To mitigate this, we free the name in kset_register() when an
error is encountered, i.e. when kset_register() returns an error.

A kset may be embedded in a larger structure which may be dynamically
allocated in callers, it needs to be freed in ktype.release() or error
path in callers, in this case, we can not call kset_put() in kset_register(),
or it will cause double free, so just call kfree_const() to free the
name and set it to NULL to avoid accessing bad pointer in callers.

With this fix, the callers don't need care about freeing the name
and may call kset_put() if kset_register() fails.

Suggested-by: Luben Tuikov <luben.tuikov@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: <luben.tuikov@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221025071549.1280528-1-yangyingliang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-10-25 18:57:09 +02:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 33a0a1e3b3 kobject: modify kobject_get_path() to take a const *
kobject_get_path() does not modify the kobject passed to it, so make the
pointer constant.

Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221001165315.2690141-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-10-22 09:54:57 +02:00
Jason A. Donenfeld 81895a65ec treewide: use prandom_u32_max() when possible, part 1
Rather than incurring a division or requesting too many random bytes for
the given range, use the prandom_u32_max() function, which only takes
the minimum required bytes from the RNG and avoids divisions. This was
done mechanically with this coccinelle script:

@basic@
expression E;
type T;
identifier get_random_u32 =~ "get_random_int|prandom_u32|get_random_u32";
typedef u64;
@@
(
- ((T)get_random_u32() % (E))
+ prandom_u32_max(E)
|
- ((T)get_random_u32() & ((E) - 1))
+ prandom_u32_max(E * XXX_MAKE_SURE_E_IS_POW2)
|
- ((u64)(E) * get_random_u32() >> 32)
+ prandom_u32_max(E)
|
- ((T)get_random_u32() & ~PAGE_MASK)
+ prandom_u32_max(PAGE_SIZE)
)

@multi_line@
identifier get_random_u32 =~ "get_random_int|prandom_u32|get_random_u32";
identifier RAND;
expression E;
@@

-       RAND = get_random_u32();
        ... when != RAND
-       RAND %= (E);
+       RAND = prandom_u32_max(E);

// Find a potential literal
@literal_mask@
expression LITERAL;
type T;
identifier get_random_u32 =~ "get_random_int|prandom_u32|get_random_u32";
position p;
@@

        ((T)get_random_u32()@p & (LITERAL))

// Add one to the literal.
@script:python add_one@
literal << literal_mask.LITERAL;
RESULT;
@@

value = None
if literal.startswith('0x'):
        value = int(literal, 16)
elif literal[0] in '123456789':
        value = int(literal, 10)
if value is None:
        print("I don't know how to handle %s" % (literal))
        cocci.include_match(False)
elif value == 2**32 - 1 or value == 2**31 - 1 or value == 2**24 - 1 or value == 2**16 - 1 or value == 2**8 - 1:
        print("Skipping 0x%x for cleanup elsewhere" % (value))
        cocci.include_match(False)
elif value & (value + 1) != 0:
        print("Skipping 0x%x because it's not a power of two minus one" % (value))
        cocci.include_match(False)
elif literal.startswith('0x'):
        coccinelle.RESULT = cocci.make_expr("0x%x" % (value + 1))
else:
        coccinelle.RESULT = cocci.make_expr("%d" % (value + 1))

// Replace the literal mask with the calculated result.
@plus_one@
expression literal_mask.LITERAL;
position literal_mask.p;
expression add_one.RESULT;
identifier FUNC;
@@

-       (FUNC()@p & (LITERAL))
+       prandom_u32_max(RESULT)

@collapse_ret@
type T;
identifier VAR;
expression E;
@@

 {
-       T VAR;
-       VAR = (E);
-       return VAR;
+       return E;
 }

@drop_var@
type T;
identifier VAR;
@@

 {
-       T VAR;
        ... when != VAR
 }

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> # for ext4 and sbitmap
Reviewed-by: Christoph Böhmwalder <christoph.boehmwalder@linbit.com> # for drbd
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> # for s390
Acked-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org> # for mmc
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> # for xfs
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
2022-10-11 17:42:55 -06:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman cdb4f26a63 kobject: kobj_type: remove default_attrs
Now that all in-kernel users of default_attrs for the kobj_type are gone
and converted to properly use the default_groups pointer instead, it can
be safely removed.

There is one standard way to create sysfs files in a kobj_type, and not
two like before, causing confusion as to which should be used.

Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220106133151.607703-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-04-05 15:39:19 +02:00
Wedson Almeida FilhoandGreg Kroah-Hartman ee6d3dd4ed driver core: make kobj_type constant.
This way instances of kobj_type (which contain function pointers) can be
stored in .rodata, which means that they cannot be [easily/accidentally]
modified at runtime.

Signed-off-by: Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211224231345.777370-1-wedsonaf@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-12-27 10:40:00 +01:00
Qu WenruoandGreg Kroah-Hartman 8988bacd60 kobject: unexport kobject_create() in kobject.h
The function kobject_create() is only used by one caller,
kobject_create_and_add(), no other driver uses it, nor is exported to
other modules.

However it's still exported in kobject.h, and can sometimes confuse
users of kobject.h.

Since all users should call kobject_create_and_add(), or if extra
attributes are needed, should alloc the memory manually then call
kobject_init_and_add().

Signed-off-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210831093044.110729-1-wqu@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-09-14 11:28:32 +02:00
Andy ShevchenkoandGreg Kroah-Hartman 07ecc6693f kobject: Drop unneeded conditional in __kobject_del()
__kobject_del() is called from two places, in one where kobj is dereferenced
before and thus can't be NULL, and in the other the NULL check is done before
call. Drop unneeded conditional in __kobject_del().

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200803083520.5460-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-09-07 11:24:17 +02:00
Andy ShevchenkoandGreg Kroah-Hartman 40b8b826a6 kobject: Restore old behaviour of kobject_del(NULL)
The commit 079ad2fb4b ("kobject: Avoid premature parent object freeing in
kobject_cleanup()") inadvertently dropped a possibility to call kobject_del()
with NULL pointer. Restore the old behaviour.

Fixes: 079ad2fb4b ("kobject: Avoid premature parent object freeing in kobject_cleanup()")
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo.btrfs@gmx.com>
Cc: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200803082706.65347-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-08-28 12:32:52 +02:00