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authorKees Cook <kees+treewide@kernel.org>2026-09-02 15:31:14 -0700
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This is another run of the Coccinelle script for converting kmalloc() family of allocations to kmalloc_obj() via the existing rules in scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci This catches both the set of kmalloc() uses added since the first kmalloc_obj() conversions in v7.0 and adds a large group missed in the first pass due to Coccinelle not interacting well with the cleanup.h scoped_...() family of macros[1]. I worked around this with spatch's "--macro-file" argument to a file with all the scoped_...() macros mapped to Coccinelle's YACFE_ITERATOR[2] as that was the closest viable control flow indicator I could find. Build tested allmodconfig on x86, arm64, arm, loongarch, mips, powerpc, riscv, and s390 with no new warnings. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202609021314.8A9C0B8@keescook/ [1] Link: https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle/blob/master/standard.h [2] Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees+treewide@kernel.org>
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
+
+================================
+Documentation for /proc/sys/abi/
+================================
+
+.. See scripts/check-sysctl-docs to keep this up to date:
+.. scripts/check-sysctl-docs -vtable="abi" \
+.. Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/abi.rst \
+.. $(git grep -l register_sysctl_)
+
+Copyright (c) 2020, Stephen Kitt
+
+For general info, see Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/index.rst.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+The files in ``/proc/sys/abi`` can be used to see and modify
+ABI-related settings.
+
+Currently, these files might (depending on your configuration)
+show up in ``/proc/sys/kernel``:
+
+.. contents:: :local:
+
+vsyscall32 (x86)
+================
+
+Determines whether the kernels maps a vDSO page into 32-bit processes;
+can be set to 1 to enable, or 0 to disable. Defaults to enabled if
+``CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO`` is set, disabled otherwise.
+
+This controls the same setting as the ``vdso32`` kernel boot
+parameter.