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>
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>
The string conversion frunctions provided by the WMI driver core
have no dependencies on the remaining WMI API, making them suitable
for unit tests.
Implement such a unit test using kunit. Those unit tests verify that
converting between WMI strings and UTF8 strings works as expected.
They also verify that edge cases are handled correctly.
Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260116204116.4030-5-W_Armin@gmx.de
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
The marshalling code used by the WMI driver core is implemented as
a separate component, suitable for unit tests.
Implmented such a unit test using KUnit. Those unit tests verify that
ACPI objects are correctly converted into WMI buffers and that WMI
strings are correctly converted into ACPI strings. They also verify
that invalid ACPI data (like nested packages) is rejected.
Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260116204116.4030-3-W_Armin@gmx.de
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
The Windows WMI-ACPI driver likely uses wmilib [1] to interact with
the WMI service in userspace. Said library uses plain byte buffers
for exchanging data, so the WMI-ACPI driver has to convert between
those byte buffers and ACPI objects returned by the ACPI firmware.
The format of the byte buffer is publicly documented [2], and after
some reverse eingineering of the WMI-ACPI driver using a set of custom
ACPI tables, the following conversion rules have been discovered:
- ACPI integers are always converted into a uint32
- ACPI strings are converted into special WMI strings
- ACPI buffers are copied as-is
- ACPI packages are unpacked
Extend the ACPI-WMI driver to also perform this kind of marshalling
for WMI data blocks, methods and events. Doing so gives us a number
of benefits:
- WMI drivers are not restricted to a fixed set of supported ACPI data
types anymore, see dell-wmi-aio (integer vs buffer) and
hp-wmi-sensors (string vs buffer)
- correct marshalling of WMI strings when data blocks are marked
as requiring ACPI strings instead of ACPI buffers
- development of WMI drivers without having to understand ACPI
This eventually should result in better compatibility with some
ACPI firmware implementations and in simpler WMI drivers. There are
however some differences between the original Windows driver and
the ACPI-WMI driver when it comes to ACPI object conversions:
- the Windows driver copies internal _ACPI_METHOD_ARGUMENT_V1 data
structures into the output buffer when encountering nested ACPI
packages. This is very likely an error inside the driver itself, so
we do not support nested ACPI packages.
- when converting WMI strings (UTF-16LE) into ACPI strings (ASCII),
the Windows driver replaces non-ascii characters (ä -> a, & -> ?)
instead of returning an error. This behavior is not documented
anywhere and might lead to severe errors in some cases (like
setting BIOS passwords over WMI), so we simply return an error.
As the current bus-based WMI API is based on ACPI buffers, a new
API is necessary. The legacy GUID-based WMI API is not extended to
support marshalling, as WMI drivers using said API are expected to
move to the bus-based WMI API in the future.
[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/de-de/windows-hardware/drivers/ddi/wmilib/
[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/kernel/
driver-defined-wmi-data-items
Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260116204116.4030-2-W_Armin@gmx.de
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
