kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/drivers/md/dm-switch.c, branch master

dm-switch: use WRITE_ONCE() in switch_region_table_write()

2026-07-15T13:52:19+00:00

switch_region_table_read() accesses the region table with READ_ONCE() and is called from the lockless switch_map() IO path. However, switch_region_table_write() stores to the same array with a plain assignment. This results in an inconsistent access pattern for a lockless shared variable and may trigger data race reports. Use WRITE_ONCE() to pair with the existing READ_ONCE() in switch_region_table_read(). Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 99eb1908e643 ("dm switch: factor out switch_region_table_read") Signed-off-by: Haotian Zhang Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka

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

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

dm: use vmalloc_array() to simplify code

2025-08-19T09:12:50+00:00

Remove array_size() calls and replace vmalloc() with vmalloc_array() to simplify the code. Signed-off-by: Qianfeng Rong Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka

dm: Allow .prepare_ioctl to handle ioctls directly

2025-05-04T09:35:05+00:00

This adds a 'bool *forward' parameter to .prepare_ioctl, which allows device mapper targets to accept ioctls to themselves instead of the underlying device. If the target already fully handled the ioctl, it sets *forward to false and device mapper won't forward it to the underlying device any more. In order for targets to actually know what the ioctl is about and how to handle it, pass also cmd and arg. As long as targets restrict themselves to interpreting ioctls of type DM_IOCTL, this is a backwards compatible change because previously, any such ioctl would have been passed down through all device mapper layers until it reached a device that can't understand the ioctl and would return an error. Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf Reviewed-by: Benjamin Marzinski Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka

dm: add helper macro for simple DM target module init and exit

2023-04-11T16:09:08+00:00

Eliminate duplicate boilerplate code for simple modules that contain a single DM target driver without any additional setup code. Add a new module_dm() macro, which replaces the module_init() and module_exit() with template functions that call dm_register_target() and dm_unregister_target() respectively. Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm: push error reporting down to dm_register_target()

2023-04-11T16:01:01+00:00

Simplifies each DM target's init method by making dm_register_target() responsible for its error reporting (on behalf of targets). Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm: change "unsigned" to "unsigned int"

2023-02-14T19:23:06+00:00

Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm: add missing SPDX-License-Indentifiers

2023-02-14T19:23:06+00:00

'GPL-2.0-only' is used instead of 'GPL-2.0' because SPDX has deprecated its use. Suggested-by: John Wiele Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

dm: use bdev_nr_sectors and bdev_nr_bytes instead of open coding them

2021-10-18T20:43:22+00:00

Use the proper helpers to read the block device size. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Acked-by: Mike Snitzer Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211018101130.1838532-6-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe