[GIT PULL] hardening fixes for v7.0-rc6

From: Kees Cook

Date: Wed Mar 25 2026 - 17:21:27 EST


Hi Linus,

Please pull these two small hardening fixes for v7.0-rc6.

Thanks!

-Kees

The following changes since commit 11439c4635edd669ae435eec308f4ab8a0804808:

Linux 7.0-rc2 (2026-03-01 15:39:31 -0800)

are available in the Git repository at:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git tags/hardening-v7.0-rc6

for you to fetch changes up to 7a618ca9b9c4769fc5adf7344bb1dd98f823da22:

init/Kconfig: Require a release version of clang-22 for CC_HAS_COUNTED_BY_PTR (2026-03-20 11:51:48 -0700)

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hardening fixes for v7.0-rc6

- fix required Clang version for CC_HAS_COUNTED_BY_PTR (Nathan Chancellor)

- update Coccinelle script used for kmalloc_obj

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Kees Cook (1):
coccinelle: kmalloc_obj: Remove default GFP_KERNEL arg

Nathan Chancellor (1):
init/Kconfig: Require a release version of clang-22 for CC_HAS_COUNTED_BY_PTR

init/Kconfig | 2 +-
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci | 11 +++++++++++
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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Kees Cook