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<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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<entry>
<title>genirq: Remove irq argument from irq flow handlers</title>
<updated>2015-09-16T13:47:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-14T08:42:37+00:00</published>
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Most interrupt flow handlers do not use the irq argument. Those few
which use it can retrieve the irq number from the irq descriptor.

Remove the argument.

Search and replace was done with coccinelle and some extra helper
scripts around it. Thanks to Julia for her help!

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Julia Lawall &lt;Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr&gt;
Cc: Jiang Liu &lt;jiang.liu@linux.intel.com&gt;
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Most interrupt flow handlers do not use the irq argument. Those few
which use it can retrieve the irq number from the irq descriptor.

Remove the argument.

Search and replace was done with coccinelle and some extra helper
scripts around it. Thanks to Julia for her help!

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Julia Lawall &lt;Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr&gt;
Cc: Jiang Liu &lt;jiang.liu@linux.intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2015-09-01T21:33:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-01T21:33:35+00:00</published>
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Pull irq updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This updated pull request does not contain the last few GIC related
  patches which were reported to cause a regression.  There is a fix
  available, but I let it breed for a couple of days first.

  The irq departement provides:

   - new infrastructure to support non PCI based MSI interrupts
   - a couple of new irq chip drivers
   - the usual pile of fixlets and updates to irq chip drivers
   - preparatory changes for removal of the irq argument from interrupt
     flow handlers
   - preparatory changes to remove IRQF_VALID"

* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (129 commits)
  irqchip/imx-gpcv2: IMX GPCv2 driver for wakeup sources
  irqchip: Add bcm2836 interrupt controller for Raspberry Pi 2
  irqchip: Add documentation for the bcm2836 interrupt controller
  irqchip/bcm2835: Add support for being used as a second level controller
  irqchip/bcm2835: Refactor handle_IRQ() calls out of MAKE_HWIRQ
  PCI: xilinx: Fix typo in function name
  irqchip/gic: Ensure gic_cpu_if_up/down() programs correct GIC instance
  irqchip/gic: Only allow the primary GIC to set the CPU map
  PCI/MSI: pci-xgene-msi: Consolidate chained IRQ handler install/remove
  unicore32/irq: Prepare puv3_gpio_handler for irq argument removal
  tile/pci_gx: Prepare trio_handle_level_irq for irq argument removal
  m68k/irq: Prepare irq handlers for irq argument removal
  C6X/megamode-pic: Prepare megamod_irq_cascade for irq argument removal
  blackfin: Prepare irq handlers for irq argument removal
  arc/irq: Prepare idu_cascade_isr for irq argument removal
  sparc/irq: Use access helper irq_data_get_affinity_mask()
  sparc/irq: Use helper irq_data_get_irq_handler_data()
  parisc/irq: Use access helper irq_data_get_affinity_mask()
  mn10300/irq: Use access helper irq_data_get_affinity_mask()
  irqchip/i8259: Prepare i8259_irq_dispatch for irq argument removal
  ...
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Pull irq updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This updated pull request does not contain the last few GIC related
  patches which were reported to cause a regression.  There is a fix
  available, but I let it breed for a couple of days first.

  The irq departement provides:

   - new infrastructure to support non PCI based MSI interrupts
   - a couple of new irq chip drivers
   - the usual pile of fixlets and updates to irq chip drivers
   - preparatory changes for removal of the irq argument from interrupt
     flow handlers
   - preparatory changes to remove IRQF_VALID"

* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (129 commits)
  irqchip/imx-gpcv2: IMX GPCv2 driver for wakeup sources
  irqchip: Add bcm2836 interrupt controller for Raspberry Pi 2
  irqchip: Add documentation for the bcm2836 interrupt controller
  irqchip/bcm2835: Add support for being used as a second level controller
  irqchip/bcm2835: Refactor handle_IRQ() calls out of MAKE_HWIRQ
  PCI: xilinx: Fix typo in function name
  irqchip/gic: Ensure gic_cpu_if_up/down() programs correct GIC instance
  irqchip/gic: Only allow the primary GIC to set the CPU map
  PCI/MSI: pci-xgene-msi: Consolidate chained IRQ handler install/remove
  unicore32/irq: Prepare puv3_gpio_handler for irq argument removal
  tile/pci_gx: Prepare trio_handle_level_irq for irq argument removal
  m68k/irq: Prepare irq handlers for irq argument removal
  C6X/megamode-pic: Prepare megamod_irq_cascade for irq argument removal
  blackfin: Prepare irq handlers for irq argument removal
  arc/irq: Prepare idu_cascade_isr for irq argument removal
  sparc/irq: Use access helper irq_data_get_affinity_mask()
  sparc/irq: Use helper irq_data_get_irq_handler_data()
  parisc/irq: Use access helper irq_data_get_affinity_mask()
  mn10300/irq: Use access helper irq_data_get_affinity_mask()
  irqchip/i8259: Prepare i8259_irq_dispatch for irq argument removal
  ...
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<entry>
<title>c6x/timer64: Migrate to new 'set-state' interface</title>
<updated>2015-08-10T09:41:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Viresh Kumar</name>
<email>viresh.kumar@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-16T11:26:17+00:00</published>
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Migrate c6x driver to the new 'set-state' interface provided by
clockevents core, the earlier 'set-mode' interface is marked obsolete
now.

This also enables us to implement callbacks for new states of clockevent
devices, for example: ONESHOT_STOPPED.

We weren't doing anything in -&gt;set_mode(RESUME) and so tick_resume()
isn't implemented.

Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot &lt;a-jacquiot@ti.com&gt;
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
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Migrate c6x driver to the new 'set-state' interface provided by
clockevents core, the earlier 'set-mode' interface is marked obsolete
now.

This also enables us to implement callbacks for new states of clockevent
devices, for example: ONESHOT_STOPPED.

We weren't doing anything in -&gt;set_mode(RESUME) and so tick_resume()
isn't implemented.

Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot &lt;a-jacquiot@ti.com&gt;
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>C6X/megamode-pic: Prepare megamod_irq_cascade for irq argument removal</title>
<updated>2015-07-31T20:20:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-31T19:53:12+00:00</published>
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The irq argument of most interrupt flow handlers is unused or merily
used instead of a local variable. The handlers which need the irq
argument can retrieve the irq number from the irq descriptor.

Search and update was done with coccinelle and the invaluable help of
Julia Lawall.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Julia Lawall &lt;Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
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The irq argument of most interrupt flow handlers is unused or merily
used instead of a local variable. The handlers which need the irq
argument can retrieve the irq number from the irq descriptor.

Search and update was done with coccinelle and the invaluable help of
Julia Lawall.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Julia Lawall &lt;Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'linus' into irq/core</title>
<updated>2015-07-29T22:13:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-29T22:13:24+00:00</published>
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Pull in upstream fixes before applying conflicting changes
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Pull in upstream fixes before applying conflicting changes
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<title>C6X/meagmod-pic: Consolidate chained IRQ handler install/remove</title>
<updated>2015-07-27T11:36:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-13T20:38:38+00:00</published>
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Chained irq handlers usually set up handler data as well. We now have
a function to set both under irq_desc-&gt;lock. Replace the two calls
with one.

Search and conversion was done with coccinelle.

Reported-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot &lt;a-jacquiot@ti.com&gt;
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: Julia Lawall &lt;Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150713130429.697731509@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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Chained irq handlers usually set up handler data as well. We now have
a function to set both under irq_desc-&gt;lock. Replace the two calls
with one.

Search and conversion was done with coccinelle.

Reported-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot &lt;a-jacquiot@ti.com&gt;
Cc: linux-c6x-dev@linux-c6x.org
Cc: Julia Lawall &lt;Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150713130429.697731509@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Make asm/word-at-a-time.h available on all architectures</title>
<updated>2015-07-08T20:41:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@ezchip.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-29T16:48:40+00:00</published>
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Added the x86 implementation of word-at-a-time to the
generic version, which previously only supported big-endian.

Omitted the x86-specific load_unaligned_zeropad(), which in
any case is also not present for the existing BE-only
implementation of a word-at-a-time, and is only used under
CONFIG_DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS.

Added as a "generic-y" to the Kbuilds of all architectures
that didn't previously have it.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
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Added the x86 implementation of word-at-a-time to the
generic version, which previously only supported big-endian.

Omitted the x86-specific load_unaligned_zeropad(), which in
any case is also not present for the existing BE-only
implementation of a word-at-a-time, and is only used under
CONFIG_DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS.

Added as a "generic-y" to the Kbuilds of all architectures
that didn't previously have it.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.2/sg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2015-06-25T22:22:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-25T22:22:36+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=ad90fb97515b732bc27a0109baa10af636c3c8cd'/>
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Pull asm/scatterlist.h removal from Jens Axboe:
 "We don't have any specific arch scatterlist anymore, since parisc
  finally switched over.  Kill the include"

* 'for-4.2/sg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  remove scatterlist.h generation from arch Kbuild files
  remove &lt;asm/scatterlist.h&gt;
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Pull asm/scatterlist.h removal from Jens Axboe:
 "We don't have any specific arch scatterlist anymore, since parisc
  finally switched over.  Kill the include"

* 'for-4.2/sg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  remove scatterlist.h generation from arch Kbuild files
  remove &lt;asm/scatterlist.h&gt;
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