kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/net/caif/cfserl.c, branch master

caif: remove CAIF NETWORK LAYER

2026-04-23T17:23:44+00:00

Remove CAIF (Communication CPU to Application CPU Interface), the ST-Ericsson modem protocol. The subsystem has been orphaned since 2013. The last meaningful changes from the maintainers were in March 2013: a8c7687bf216 ("caif_virtio: Check that vringh_config is not null") b2273be8d2df ("caif_virtio: Use vringh_notify_enable correctly") 0d2e1a2926b1 ("caif_virtio: Introduce caif over virtio") Not-so-coincidentally, according to "the Internet" ST-Ericsson officially shut down its modem joint venture in Aug 2013. If anyone is using this code please yell! In the 13 years since, the code has accumulated 200 non-merge commits, of which 71 were cross-tree API changes, 21 carried Fixes: tags, and the remaining ~110 were cleanups, doc conversions, treewide refactors, and one partial removal (caif_hsi, ca75bcf0a83b). We are still getting fixes to this code, in the last 10 days there were 3 reports on security@ about CAIF that I have been CCed on. UAPI constants (AF_CAIF, ARPHRD_CAIF, N_CAIF, VIRTIO_ID_CAIF) and the SELinux classmap entry are intentionally kept for ABI stability. Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260416182829.1440262-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

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

net: caif: remove redundant assignment to variable expectlen

2021-12-28T12:52:24+00:00

Variable expectlen is being assigned a value that is never read, the assignment occurs before a return statement. The assignment is redundant and can be removed. Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: caif: added cfserl_release function

2021-06-03T22:05:06+00:00

Added cfserl_release() function. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Pavel Skripkin Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 194

2019-05-30T18:29:22+00:00

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s): license terms gnu general public license gpl version 2 extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-only has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 161 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Allison Randal Reviewed-by: Alexios Zavras Reviewed-by: Steve Winslow Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190528170027.447718015@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

caif: Remove my bouncing email address.

2013-04-23T17:25:51+00:00

Remove my soon bouncing email address. Also remove the "Contact:" line in file header. The MAINTAINERS file is a better place to find the contact person anyway. Signed-off-by: Sjur Brændeland Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

CAIF: fix indentation for function arguments

2013-03-07T21:24:45+00:00

This lines up function arguments on second and subsequent lines at the first column after the openning parenthesis of the first line. Signed-off-by: Silviu-Mihai Popescu Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

caif: Remove unused enum and parameter in cfserl

2011-12-01T04:30:48+00:00

Remove unused enum cfcnfg_phy_type and the parameter to cfserl_create. Signed-off-by: Sjur Brændeland Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

caif: Remove OOM messages, use kzalloc

2011-08-28T21:16:13+00:00

Remove per site OOM messages because they duplicate the generic mm subsystem OOM message. Use kzalloc instead of kmalloc/memset when next to the OOM message removals. Reduces object size (allyesconfig ~2%) $ size -t drivers/net/caif/built-in.o.old net/caif/built-in.o.old text data bss dec hex filename 32297 700 8224 41221 a105 drivers/net/caif/built-in.o.old 72159 1317 20552 94028 16f4c net/caif/built-in.o.old 104456 2017 28776 135249 21051 (TOTALS) $ size -t drivers/net/caif/built-in.o.new net/caif/built-in.o.new text data bss dec hex filename 31975 700 8184 40859 9f9b drivers/net/caif/built-in.o.new 70748 1317 20152 92217 16839 net/caif/built-in.o.new 102723 2017 28336 133076 207d4 (TOTALS) Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

caif: Don't resend if dev_queue_xmit fails.

2011-04-11T22:08:48+00:00

If CAIF Link Layer returns an error, we no longer try to re-build the CAIF packet and resend it. Instead, we simply return any transmission errors to the socket client. Signed-off-by: Sjur Brændeland Signed-off-by: David S. Miller