kernel.git/drivers/net/wireless/quantenna/qtnfmac/core.c, branch master

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51Z

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28Z

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

wifi: qtnfmac: add WQ_PERCPU to alloc_workqueue users

2025-11-20T09:25:28Z

Currently if a user enqueues a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() use WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies to schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that makes use again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND. This lack of consistency cannot be addressed without refactoring the API. For more details see the Link tag below. alloc_workqueue() treats all queues as per-CPU by default, while unbound workqueues must opt-in via WQ_UNBOUND. This default is suboptimal: most workloads benefit from unbound queues, allowing the scheduler to place worker threads where they’re needed and reducing noise when CPUs are isolated. This continues the effort to refactor workqueue APIs, which began with the introduction of new workqueues and a new alloc_workqueue flag in: commit 128ea9f6ccfb ("workqueue: Add system_percpu_wq and system_dfl_wq") commit 930c2ea566af ("workqueue: Add new WQ_PERCPU flag") This change adds a new WQ_PERCPU flag to explicitly request alloc_workqueue() to be per-cpu when WQ_UNBOUND has not been specified. With the introduction of the WQ_PERCPU flag (equivalent to !WQ_UNBOUND), any alloc_workqueue() caller that doesn’t explicitly specify WQ_UNBOUND must now use WQ_PERCPU. Once migration is complete, WQ_UNBOUND can be removed and unbound will become the implicit default. Suggested-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250221112003.1dSuoGyc@linutronix.de/ Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251113160035.376524-1-marco.crivellari@suse.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: qtnfmac: Remove generic .ndo_get_stats64

2024-05-02T07:20:04Z

Commit 3e2f544dd8a33 ("net: get stats64 if device if driver is configured") moved the callback to dev_get_tstats64() to net core, so, unless the driver is doing some custom stats collection, it does not need to set .ndo_get_stats64. Since this driver is now relying in NETDEV_PCPU_STAT_TSTATS, then, it doesn't need to set the dev_get_tstats64() generic .ndo_get_stats64 function pointer. Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo Link: https://msgid.link/20240426093156.2002258-2-leitao@debian.org

wifi: qtnfmac: Move stats allocation to core

2024-05-02T07:20:04Z

With commit 34d21de99cea9 ("net: Move {l,t,d}stats allocation to core and convert veth & vrf"), stats allocation could be done on net core instead of this driver. With this new approach, the driver doesn't have to bother with error handling (allocation failure checking, making sure free happens in the right spot, etc). This is core responsibility now. Move qtnfmac driver to leverage the core allocation. Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo Link: https://msgid.link/20240426093156.2002258-1-leitao@debian.org

wifi: cfg80211: annotate iftype_data pointer with sparse

2023-09-11T09:27:23Z

There were are a number of cases in mac80211 and iwlwifi (at least) that used the sband->iftype_data pointer directly, instead of using the accessors to find the right array entry to use. Make sparse warn when such a thing is done. To not have a lot of casts, add two helper functions/macros - ieee80211_set_sband_iftype_data() - for_each_sband_iftype_data() Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wireless: use eth_hw_addr_set() instead of ether_addr_copy()

2021-10-20T09:39:42Z

Commit 406f42fa0d3c ("net-next: When a bond have a massive amount of VLANs...") introduced a rbtree for faster Ethernet address look up. To maintain netdev->dev_addr in this tree we need to make all the writes to it got through appropriate helpers. Convert wireless from ether_addr_copy() to eth_hw_addr_set(): @@ expression dev, np; @@ - ether_addr_copy(dev->dev_addr, np) + eth_hw_addr_set(dev, np) Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211018235021.1279697-3-kuba@kernel.org

wireless: use eth_hw_addr_set()

2021-10-20T09:39:42Z

Convert all WiFi drivers from memcpy(... ETH_ADDR) to eth_hw_addr_set(): @@ expression dev, np; @@ - memcpy(dev->dev_addr, np, ETH_ALEN) + eth_hw_addr_set(dev, np) Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211018235021.1279697-2-kuba@kernel.org

wireless: Remove redundant 'flush_workqueue()' calls

2021-10-13T06:22:19Z

'destroy_workqueue()' already drains the queue before destroying it, so there is no need to flush it explicitly. Remove the redundant 'flush_workqueue()' calls. This was generated with coccinelle: @@ expression E; @@ - flush_workqueue(E); destroy_workqueue(E); Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0855d51423578ad019c0264dad3fe47a2e8af9c7.1633849511.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr

cfg80211: avoid holding the RTNL when calling the driver

2021-01-26T10:55:50Z

Currently, _everything_ in cfg80211 holds the RTNL, and if you have a slow USB device (or a few) you can get some bad lock contention on that. Fix that by re-adding a mutex to each wiphy/rdev as we had at some point, so we have locking for the wireless_dev lists and all the other things in there, and also so that drivers still don't have to worry too much about it (they still won't get parallel calls for a single device). Then, we can restrict the RTNL to a few cases where we add or remove interfaces and really need the added protection. Some of the global list management still also uses the RTNL, since we need to have it anyway for netdev management, but we only hold the RTNL for very short periods of time here. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210122161942.81df9f5e047a.I4a8e1a60b18863ea8c5e6d3a0faeafb2d45b2f40@changeid Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski [marvell driver issues] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg