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<title>linux-stable.git/arch/c6x/include/asm, branch linux-4.8.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>dma-mapping: use unsigned long for dma_attrs</title>
<updated>2016-08-04T12:50:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Krzysztof Kozlowski</name>
<email>k.kozlowski@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-03T20:46:00+00:00</published>
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The dma-mapping core and the implementations do not change the DMA
attributes passed by pointer.  Thus the pointer can point to const data.
However the attributes do not have to be a bitfield.  Instead unsigned
long will do fine:

1. This is just simpler.  Both in terms of reading the code and setting
   attributes.  Instead of initializing local attributes on the stack
   and passing pointer to it to dma_set_attr(), just set the bits.

2. It brings safeness and checking for const correctness because the
   attributes are passed by value.

Semantic patches for this change (at least most of them):

    virtual patch
    virtual context

    @r@
    identifier f, attrs;

    @@
    f(...,
    - struct dma_attrs *attrs
    + unsigned long attrs
    , ...)
    {
    ...
    }

    @@
    identifier r.f;
    @@
    f(...,
    - NULL
    + 0
     )

and

    // Options: --all-includes
    virtual patch
    virtual context

    @r@
    identifier f, attrs;
    type t;

    @@
    t f(..., struct dma_attrs *attrs);

    @@
    identifier r.f;
    @@
    f(...,
    - NULL
    + 0
     )

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468399300-5399-2-git-send-email-k.kozlowski@samsung.com
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;k.kozlowski@samsung.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Acked-by: Robin Murphy &lt;robin.murphy@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt &lt;egtvedt@samfundet.no&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt; [c6x]
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt; [cris]
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch&gt; [drm]
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt; [iommu]
Acked-by: Fabien Dessenne &lt;fabien.dessenne@st.com&gt; [bdisp]
Reviewed-by: Marek Szyprowski &lt;m.szyprowski@samsung.com&gt; [vb2-core]
Acked-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt; [xen]
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt; [xen swiotlb]
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt; [iommu]
Acked-by: Richard Kuo &lt;rkuo@codeaurora.org&gt; [hexagon]
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt; [m68k]
Acked-by: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com&gt; [s390]
Acked-by: Bjorn Andersson &lt;bjorn.andersson@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt &lt;egtvedt@samfundet.no&gt; [avr32]
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt; [arc]
Acked-by: Robin Murphy &lt;robin.murphy@arm.com&gt; [arm64 and dma-iommu]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
The dma-mapping core and the implementations do not change the DMA
attributes passed by pointer.  Thus the pointer can point to const data.
However the attributes do not have to be a bitfield.  Instead unsigned
long will do fine:

1. This is just simpler.  Both in terms of reading the code and setting
   attributes.  Instead of initializing local attributes on the stack
   and passing pointer to it to dma_set_attr(), just set the bits.

2. It brings safeness and checking for const correctness because the
   attributes are passed by value.

Semantic patches for this change (at least most of them):

    virtual patch
    virtual context

    @r@
    identifier f, attrs;

    @@
    f(...,
    - struct dma_attrs *attrs
    + unsigned long attrs
    , ...)
    {
    ...
    }

    @@
    identifier r.f;
    @@
    f(...,
    - NULL
    + 0
     )

and

    // Options: --all-includes
    virtual patch
    virtual context

    @r@
    identifier f, attrs;
    type t;

    @@
    t f(..., struct dma_attrs *attrs);

    @@
    identifier r.f;
    @@
    f(...,
    - NULL
    + 0
     )

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468399300-5399-2-git-send-email-k.kozlowski@samsung.com
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;k.kozlowski@samsung.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Acked-by: Robin Murphy &lt;robin.murphy@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt &lt;egtvedt@samfundet.no&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt; [c6x]
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt; [cris]
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch&gt; [drm]
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt; [iommu]
Acked-by: Fabien Dessenne &lt;fabien.dessenne@st.com&gt; [bdisp]
Reviewed-by: Marek Szyprowski &lt;m.szyprowski@samsung.com&gt; [vb2-core]
Acked-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt; [xen]
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt; [xen swiotlb]
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt; [iommu]
Acked-by: Richard Kuo &lt;rkuo@codeaurora.org&gt; [hexagon]
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt; [m68k]
Acked-by: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com&gt; [s390]
Acked-by: Bjorn Andersson &lt;bjorn.andersson@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt &lt;egtvedt@samfundet.no&gt; [avr32]
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt; [arc]
Acked-by: Robin Murphy &lt;robin.murphy@arm.com&gt; [arm64 and dma-iommu]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>c6x: Fix misspellings in comments.</title>
<updated>2016-04-18T10:45:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adam Buchbinder</name>
<email>adam.buchbinder@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-23T23:28:52+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Adam Buchbinder &lt;adam.buchbinder@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Adam Buchbinder &lt;adam.buchbinder@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ipv4: Update parameters for csum_tcpudp_magic to their original types</title>
<updated>2016-03-14T03:55:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Duyck</name>
<email>aduyck@mirantis.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-11T22:05:34+00:00</published>
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This patch updates all instances of csum_tcpudp_magic and
csum_tcpudp_nofold to reflect the types that are usually used as the source
inputs.  For example the protocol field is populated based on nexthdr which
is actually an unsigned 8 bit value.  The length is usually populated based
on skb-&gt;len which is an unsigned integer.

This addresses an issue in which the IPv6 function csum_ipv6_magic was
generating a checksum using the full 32b of skb-&gt;len while
csum_tcpudp_magic was only using the lower 16 bits.  As a result we could
run into issues when attempting to adjust the checksum as there was no
protocol agnostic way to update it.

With this change the value is still truncated as many architectures use
"(len + proto) &lt;&lt; 8", however this truncation only occurs for values
greater than 16776960 in length and as such is unlikely to occur as we stop
the inner headers at ~64K in size.

I did have to make a few minor changes in the arm, mn10300, nios2, and
score versions of the function in order to support these changes as they
were either using things such as an OR to combine the protocol and length,
or were using ntohs to convert the length which would have truncated the
value.

I also updated a few spots in terms of whitespace and type differences for
the addresses.  Most of this was just to make sure all of the definitions
were in sync going forward.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;aduyck@mirantis.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
This patch updates all instances of csum_tcpudp_magic and
csum_tcpudp_nofold to reflect the types that are usually used as the source
inputs.  For example the protocol field is populated based on nexthdr which
is actually an unsigned 8 bit value.  The length is usually populated based
on skb-&gt;len which is an unsigned integer.

This addresses an issue in which the IPv6 function csum_ipv6_magic was
generating a checksum using the full 32b of skb-&gt;len while
csum_tcpudp_magic was only using the lower 16 bits.  As a result we could
run into issues when attempting to adjust the checksum as there was no
protocol agnostic way to update it.

With this change the value is still truncated as many architectures use
"(len + proto) &lt;&lt; 8", however this truncation only occurs for values
greater than 16776960 in length and as such is unlikely to occur as we stop
the inner headers at ~64K in size.

I did have to make a few minor changes in the arm, mn10300, nios2, and
score versions of the function in order to support these changes as they
were either using things such as an OR to combine the protocol and length,
or were using ntohs to convert the length which would have truncated the
value.

I also updated a few spots in terms of whitespace and type differences for
the addresses.  Most of this was just to make sure all of the definitions
were in sync going forward.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;aduyck@mirantis.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dma-mapping: always provide the dma_map_ops based implementation</title>
<updated>2016-01-21T01:09:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-20T23:02:05+00:00</published>
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Move the generic implementation to &lt;linux/dma-mapping.h&gt; now that all
architectures support it and remove the HAVE_DMA_ATTR Kconfig symbol now
that everyone supports them.

[valentinrothberg@gmail.com: remove leftovers in Kconfig]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot &lt;a-jacquiot@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen &lt;hskinnemoen@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt &lt;egtvedt@samfundet.no&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Koichi Yasutake &lt;yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com&gt;
Cc: Ley Foon Tan &lt;lftan@altera.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mikael Starvik &lt;starvik@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Miao &lt;realmz6@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Ott &lt;sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg &lt;valentinrothberg@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Move the generic implementation to &lt;linux/dma-mapping.h&gt; now that all
architectures support it and remove the HAVE_DMA_ATTR Kconfig symbol now
that everyone supports them.

[valentinrothberg@gmail.com: remove leftovers in Kconfig]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot &lt;a-jacquiot@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen &lt;hskinnemoen@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt &lt;egtvedt@samfundet.no&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Koichi Yasutake &lt;yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com&gt;
Cc: Ley Foon Tan &lt;lftan@altera.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mikael Starvik &lt;starvik@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Miao &lt;realmz6@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Ott &lt;sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg &lt;valentinrothberg@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>c6x: convert to dma_map_ops</title>
<updated>2016-01-21T01:09:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-20T23:01:35+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
[dan.carpenter@oracle.com: C6X: fix build breakage]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot &lt;a-jacquiot@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Ott &lt;sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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[dan.carpenter@oracle.com: C6X: fix build breakage]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot &lt;a-jacquiot@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Ott &lt;sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linux-next' of git://linux-c6x.org/git/projects/linux-c6x-upstreaming</title>
<updated>2016-01-12T21:00:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-12T21:00:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=75777c1855e10c010c9c3a21611d95dd9be01ab1'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull tiny c6x update from Mark Salter.

* 'for-linux-next' of git://linux-c6x.org/git/projects/linux-c6x-upstreaming:
  c6x: Use generic clkdev.h header
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<pre>
Pull tiny c6x update from Mark Salter.

* 'for-linux-next' of git://linux-c6x.org/git/projects/linux-c6x-upstreaming:
  c6x: Use generic clkdev.h header
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking/cmpxchg, arch: Remove tas() definitions</title>
<updated>2015-12-04T10:39:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Davidlohr Bueso</name>
<email>dave@stgolabs.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-27T19:53:48+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=fbd35c0d2fb41b75863a0e45fe939c8440375b0a'/>
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<content type='text'>
It seems that commit 5dc12ddee93 ("Remove tas()") missed some files.
Correct this and fully drop this macro, for which we should be using
cmpxchg() like calls.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dbueso@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot &lt;a-jacquiot@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@re hat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Miao &lt;realmz6@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: dave@stgolabs.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445975631-17047-2-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
It seems that commit 5dc12ddee93 ("Remove tas()") missed some files.
Correct this and fully drop this macro, for which we should be using
cmpxchg() like calls.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dbueso@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot &lt;a-jacquiot@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@re hat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Miao &lt;realmz6@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: dave@stgolabs.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1445975631-17047-2-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile</title>
<updated>2015-10-04T15:31:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-04T15:31:13+00:00</published>
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Pull strscpy string copy function implementation from Chris Metcalf.

Chris sent this during the merge window, but I waffled back and forth on
the pull request, which is why it's going in only now.

The new "strscpy()" function is definitely easier to use and more secure
than either strncpy() or strlcpy(), both of which are horrible nasty
interfaces that have serious and irredeemable problems.

strncpy() has a useless return value, and doesn't NUL-terminate an
overlong result.  To make matters worse, it pads a short result with
zeroes, which is a performance disaster if you have big buffers.

strlcpy(), by contrast, is a mis-designed "fix" for strlcpy(), lacking
the insane NUL padding, but having a differently broken return value
which returns the original length of the source string.  Which means
that it will read characters past the count from the source buffer, and
you have to trust the source to be properly terminated.  It also makes
error handling fragile, since the test for overflow is unnecessarily
subtle.

strscpy() avoids both these problems, guaranteeing the NUL termination
(but not excessive padding) if the destination size wasn't zero, and
making the overflow condition very obvious by returning -E2BIG.  It also
doesn't read past the size of the source, and can thus be used for
untrusted source data too.

So why did I waffle about this for so long?

Every time we introduce a new-and-improved interface, people start doing
these interminable series of trivial conversion patches.

And every time that happens, somebody does some silly mistake, and the
conversion patch to the improved interface actually makes things worse.
Because the patch is mindnumbing and trivial, nobody has the attention
span to look at it carefully, and it's usually done over large swatches
of source code which means that not every conversion gets tested.

So I'm pulling the strscpy() support because it *is* a better interface.
But I will refuse to pull mindless conversion patches.  Use this in
places where it makes sense, but don't do trivial patches to fix things
that aren't actually known to be broken.

* 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
  tile: use global strscpy() rather than private copy
  string: provide strscpy()
  Make asm/word-at-a-time.h available on all architectures
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Pull strscpy string copy function implementation from Chris Metcalf.

Chris sent this during the merge window, but I waffled back and forth on
the pull request, which is why it's going in only now.

The new "strscpy()" function is definitely easier to use and more secure
than either strncpy() or strlcpy(), both of which are horrible nasty
interfaces that have serious and irredeemable problems.

strncpy() has a useless return value, and doesn't NUL-terminate an
overlong result.  To make matters worse, it pads a short result with
zeroes, which is a performance disaster if you have big buffers.

strlcpy(), by contrast, is a mis-designed "fix" for strlcpy(), lacking
the insane NUL padding, but having a differently broken return value
which returns the original length of the source string.  Which means
that it will read characters past the count from the source buffer, and
you have to trust the source to be properly terminated.  It also makes
error handling fragile, since the test for overflow is unnecessarily
subtle.

strscpy() avoids both these problems, guaranteeing the NUL termination
(but not excessive padding) if the destination size wasn't zero, and
making the overflow condition very obvious by returning -E2BIG.  It also
doesn't read past the size of the source, and can thus be used for
untrusted source data too.

So why did I waffle about this for so long?

Every time we introduce a new-and-improved interface, people start doing
these interminable series of trivial conversion patches.

And every time that happens, somebody does some silly mistake, and the
conversion patch to the improved interface actually makes things worse.
Because the patch is mindnumbing and trivial, nobody has the attention
span to look at it carefully, and it's usually done over large swatches
of source code which means that not every conversion gets tested.

So I'm pulling the strscpy() support because it *is* a better interface.
But I will refuse to pull mindless conversion patches.  Use this in
places where it makes sense, but don't do trivial patches to fix things
that aren't actually known to be broken.

* 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
  tile: use global strscpy() rather than private copy
  string: provide strscpy()
  Make asm/word-at-a-time.h available on all architectures
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<title>c6x: Use generic clkdev.h header</title>
<updated>2015-09-16T13:51:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Boyd</name>
<email>sboyd@codeaurora.org</email>
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<published>2015-09-15T23:09:22+00:00</published>
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The c6x clkdev.h header is the same as the asm-generic header, so
just use the asm-generic one.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
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The c6x clkdev.h header is the same as the asm-generic header, so
just use the asm-generic one.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: clean up per architecture MM hook header files</title>
<updated>2015-07-17T23:39:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Laurent Dufour</name>
<email>ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-17T23:23:58+00:00</published>
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Commit 2ae416b142b6 ("mm: new mm hook framework") introduced an empty
header file (mm-arch-hooks.h) for every architecture, even those which
doesn't need to define mm hooks.

As suggested by Geert Uytterhoeven, this could be cleaned through the use
of a generic header file included via each per architecture
asm/include/Kbuild file.

The PowerPC architecture is not impacted here since this architecture has
to defined the arch_remap MM hook.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour &lt;ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Commit 2ae416b142b6 ("mm: new mm hook framework") introduced an empty
header file (mm-arch-hooks.h) for every architecture, even those which
doesn't need to define mm hooks.

As suggested by Geert Uytterhoeven, this could be cleaned through the use
of a generic header file included via each per architecture
asm/include/Kbuild file.

The PowerPC architecture is not impacted here since this architecture has
to defined the arch_remap MM hook.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour &lt;ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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