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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
+
+=====
+BTRFS
+=====
+
+Btrfs is a copy on write filesystem for Linux aimed at implementing advanced
+features while focusing on fault tolerance, repair and easy administration.
+Jointly developed by several companies, licensed under the GPL and open for
+contribution from anyone.
+
+The main Btrfs features include:
+
+ * Extent based file storage (2^64 max file size)
+ * Space efficient packing of small files
+ * Space efficient indexed directories
+ * Dynamic inode allocation
+ * Writable snapshots
+ * Subvolumes (separate internal filesystem roots)
+ * Object level mirroring and striping
+ * Checksums on data and metadata (multiple algorithms available)
+ * Compression (multiple algorithms available)
+ * Reflink, deduplication
+ * Scrub (on-line checksum verification)
+ * Hierarchical quota groups (subvolume and snapshot support)
+ * Integrated multiple device support, with several raid algorithms
+ * Offline filesystem check
+ * Efficient incremental backup and FS mirroring (send/receive)
+ * Trim/discard
+ * Online filesystem defragmentation
+ * Swapfile support
+ * Zoned mode
+ * Read/write metadata verification
+ * Online resize (shrink, grow)
+
+For more information please refer to the documentation site or wiki
+
+ https://btrfs.readthedocs.io
+
+
+that maintains information about administration tasks, frequently asked
+questions, use cases, mount options, comprehensible changelogs, features,
+manual pages, source code repositories, contacts etc.