From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.18 0/4] Backport the one-arg k*alloc_obj() APIs
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2026 00:32:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260709043301.142931-1-ebiggers@kernel.org> (raw)
Two of my recent commits failed to build when cherry-picked to 6.18
solely because of their use of kzalloc_obj(size). The two-argument
kzalloc_obj(size, gfp) was already backported to 6.18, but not the
one-argument "overload".
It seems likely that this is a very common issue. These are core kernel
APIs that almost everyone uses.
Thus, this series adds the single-argument version to 6.18, in a
backport-friendly way by omitting the flex counter support.
After this is applied, dd015b566d50 and 696c030e1e34 will be clean
cherry-picks, so please cherry-pick those afterwards.
Kees Cook (1):
slab: Introduce kmalloc_flex() and family
Linus Torvalds (2):
add default_gfp() helper macro and use it in the new *alloc_obj()
helpers
default_gfp(): avoid using the "newfangled" __VA_OPT__ trick
Randy Dunlap (1):
slab: recognize @GFP parameter as optional in kernel-doc
Documentation/process/deprecated.rst | 7 +++
include/linux/gfp.h | 4 ++
include/linux/slab.h | 78 +++++++++++++++++++++-------
3 files changed, 71 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
base-commit: e46dc0adfe39724bcf52cea47b8f9c9aed86a394
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2.55.0
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-09 4:32 Eric Biggers [this message]
2026-07-09 4:32 ` [PATCH 6.18 1/4] slab: Introduce kmalloc_flex() and family Eric Biggers
2026-07-09 4:32 ` [PATCH 6.18 2/4] add default_gfp() helper macro and use it in the new *alloc_obj() helpers Eric Biggers
2026-07-09 4:33 ` [PATCH 6.18 3/4] default_gfp(): avoid using the "newfangled" __VA_OPT__ trick Eric Biggers
2026-07-09 4:33 ` [PATCH 6.18 4/4] slab: recognize @GFP parameter as optional in kernel-doc Eric Biggers
2026-07-09 13:07 ` Greg KH
2026-07-10 21:03 ` [PATCH 6.18 0/4] Backport the one-arg k*alloc_obj() APIs Sasha Levin
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