+ init-use-kmalloc-in-do_initcalls.patch added to mm-nonmm-unstable branch

+ init-use-kmalloc-in-do_initcalls.patch added to mm-nonmm-unstable branch

[Andrew Morton]

The patch titled
     Subject: init: use kmalloc() in do_initcalls()
has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     init-use-kmalloc-in-do_initcalls.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/init-use-kmalloc-in-do_initcalls.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Thorsten Blum <blum@kernel.org>
Subject: init: use kmalloc() in do_initcalls()
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2026 12:52:30 +0100

Use kmalloc() since strscpy() already NUL-terminates command_line.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20261114115230.30345-4-blum@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <blum@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Cc: Sang-Heon Jeon <ekffu200098@gmail.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Wilson Felipe Pereira <wfelipe@google.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>

 init/main.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/init/main.c~init-use-kmalloc-in-do_initcalls
+++ a/init/main.c
@@ -1487,7 +1487,7 @@ static void __init do_initcalls(void)
 	size_t len = saved_command_line_len + 1;
 	char *command_line;
 
-	command_line = kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
+	command_line = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!command_line)
 		panic("%s: Failed to allocate %zu bytes\n", __func__, len);
 
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from blum@kernel.org are

init-reject-bare-rodata-parameter-before-architecture-parsing.patch
init-use-strscpy-in-do_initcalls.patch
init-use-kmalloc-in-do_initcalls.patch