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<title>MIPS: ip27: Disable qlge driver in defconfig</title>
<updated>2017-06-05T20:13:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-03T16:43:50+00:00</published>
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commit b617649468390713db1515ea79fc772d2eb897a8 upstream.

One of the last remaining failures in kernelci.org is for a gcc bug:

drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_main.c:4819:1: error: insn does not satisfy its constraints:
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_main.c:4819:1: internal compiler error: in extract_constrain_insn, at recog.c:2190

This is apparently broken in gcc-6 but fixed in gcc-7, and I cannot
reproduce the problem here. However, it is clear that ip27_defconfig
does not actually need this driver as the platform has only PCI-X but
not PCIe, and the qlge adapter in turn is PCIe-only.

The driver was originally enabled in 2010 along with lots of other
drivers.

Fixes: 59d302b342e5 ("MIPS: IP27: Make defconfig useful again.")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/15197/
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit b617649468390713db1515ea79fc772d2eb897a8 upstream.

One of the last remaining failures in kernelci.org is for a gcc bug:

drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_main.c:4819:1: error: insn does not satisfy its constraints:
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_main.c:4819:1: internal compiler error: in extract_constrain_insn, at recog.c:2190

This is apparently broken in gcc-6 but fixed in gcc-7, and I cannot
reproduce the problem here. However, it is clear that ip27_defconfig
does not actually need this driver as the platform has only PCI-X but
not PCIe, and the qlge adapter in turn is PCIe-only.

The driver was originally enabled in 2010 along with lots of other
drivers.

Fixes: 59d302b342e5 ("MIPS: IP27: Make defconfig useful again.")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/15197/
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: OCTEON: Fix copy_from_user fault handling for large buffers</title>
<updated>2017-06-05T20:13:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Cowgill</name>
<email>James.Cowgill@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-09T16:52:28+00:00</published>
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commit 884b426917e4b3c85f33b382c792a94305dfdd62 upstream.

If copy_from_user is called with a large buffer (&gt;= 128 bytes) and the
userspace buffer refers partially to unreadable memory, then it is
possible for Octeon's copy_from_user to report the wrong number of bytes
have been copied. In the case where the buffer size is an exact multiple
of 128 and the fault occurs in the last 64 bytes, copy_from_user will
report that all the bytes were copied successfully but leave some
garbage in the destination buffer.

The bug is in the main __copy_user_common loop in octeon-memcpy.S where
in the middle of the loop, src and dst are incremented by 128 bytes. The
l_exc_copy fault handler is used after this but that assumes that
"src &lt; THREAD_BUADDR($28)". This is not the case if src has already been
incremented.

Fix by adding an extra fault handler which rewinds the src and dst
pointers 128 bytes before falling though to l_exc_copy.

Thanks to the pwritev test from the strace test suite for originally
highlighting this bug!

Fixes: 5b3b16880f40 ("MIPS: Add Cavium OCTEON processor support ...")
Signed-off-by: James Cowgill &lt;James.Cowgill@imgtec.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Daney &lt;david.daney@cavium.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14978/
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 884b426917e4b3c85f33b382c792a94305dfdd62 upstream.

If copy_from_user is called with a large buffer (&gt;= 128 bytes) and the
userspace buffer refers partially to unreadable memory, then it is
possible for Octeon's copy_from_user to report the wrong number of bytes
have been copied. In the case where the buffer size is an exact multiple
of 128 and the fault occurs in the last 64 bytes, copy_from_user will
report that all the bytes were copied successfully but leave some
garbage in the destination buffer.

The bug is in the main __copy_user_common loop in octeon-memcpy.S where
in the middle of the loop, src and dst are incremented by 128 bytes. The
l_exc_copy fault handler is used after this but that assumes that
"src &lt; THREAD_BUADDR($28)". This is not the case if src has already been
incremented.

Fix by adding an extra fault handler which rewinds the src and dst
pointers 128 bytes before falling though to l_exc_copy.

Thanks to the pwritev test from the strace test suite for originally
highlighting this bug!

Fixes: 5b3b16880f40 ("MIPS: Add Cavium OCTEON processor support ...")
Signed-off-by: James Cowgill &lt;James.Cowgill@imgtec.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Daney &lt;david.daney@cavium.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14978/
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Fix special case in 64 bit IP checksumming.</title>
<updated>2017-06-05T20:13:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ralf Baechle</name>
<email>ralf@linux-mips.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-26T01:16:47+00:00</published>
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commit 66fd848cadaa6be974a8c780fbeb328f0af4d3bd upstream.

For certain arguments such as saddr = 0xc0a8fd60, daddr = 0xc0a8fda1,
len = 80, proto = 17, sum = 0x7eae049d there will be a carry when
folding the intermediate 64 bit checksum to 32 bit but the code doesn't
add the carry back to the one's complement sum, thus an incorrect result
will be generated.

Reported-by: Mark Zhang &lt;bomb.zhang@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 66fd848cadaa6be974a8c780fbeb328f0af4d3bd upstream.

For certain arguments such as saddr = 0xc0a8fd60, daddr = 0xc0a8fda1,
len = 80, proto = 17, sum = 0x7eae049d there will be a carry when
folding the intermediate 64 bit checksum to 32 bit but the code doesn't
add the carry back to the one's complement sum, thus an incorrect result
will be generated.

Reported-by: Mark Zhang &lt;bomb.zhang@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: 'make -s' should be silent</title>
<updated>2017-06-05T20:13:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-17T15:18:37+00:00</published>
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commit 8c9b23ffb3f92ffa4cbe37b1bab4542586e0bfd1 upstream.

A clean mips64 build produces no output except for two lines:

  Checking missing-syscalls for N32
  Checking missing-syscalls for O32

On other architectures, there is no output at all, so let's do the
same here for the sake of build testing. The 'kecho' macro is used
to print the message on a normal build but skip it with 'make -s'.

Fixes: e48ce6b8df5b ("[MIPS] Simplify missing-syscalls for N32 and O32")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: Maarten ter Huurne &lt;maarten@treewalker.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/15040/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 8c9b23ffb3f92ffa4cbe37b1bab4542586e0bfd1 upstream.

A clean mips64 build produces no output except for two lines:

  Checking missing-syscalls for N32
  Checking missing-syscalls for O32

On other architectures, there is no output at all, so let's do the
same here for the sake of build testing. The 'kecho' macro is used
to print the message on a normal build but skip it with 'make -s'.

Fixes: e48ce6b8df5b ("[MIPS] Simplify missing-syscalls for N32 and O32")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhc@lemote.com&gt;
Cc: Maarten ter Huurne &lt;maarten@treewalker.org&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/15040/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KEYS: 64-bit MIPS needs to use compat_sys_keyctl for 32-bit userspace</title>
<updated>2016-11-20T01:01:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-27T10:43:37+00:00</published>
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commit 20f06ed9f61a185c6dabd662c310bed6189470df upstream.

MIPS64 needs to use compat_sys_keyctl for 32-bit userspace rather than
calling sys_keyctl.  The latter will work in a lot of cases, thereby hiding
the issue.

Reported-by: Stephan Mueller &lt;smueller@chronox.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Cc: keyrings@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/13832/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 20f06ed9f61a185c6dabd662c310bed6189470df upstream.

MIPS64 needs to use compat_sys_keyctl for 32-bit userspace rather than
calling sys_keyctl.  The latter will work in a lot of cases, thereby hiding
the issue.

Reported-by: Stephan Mueller &lt;smueller@chronox.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Cc: keyrings@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/13832/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: RM7000: Double locking bug in rm7k_tc_disable()</title>
<updated>2016-11-20T01:01:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
<email>dan.carpenter@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-15T11:16:44+00:00</published>
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commit 58a7e1c140f3ad61646bc0cd9a1f6a9cafc0b225 upstream.

We obviously intended to enable IRQs again at the end.

Fixes: 745aef5df1e2 ('MIPS: RM7000: Add support for tertiary cache')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/13815/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 58a7e1c140f3ad61646bc0cd9a1f6a9cafc0b225 upstream.

We obviously intended to enable IRQs again at the end.

Fixes: 745aef5df1e2 ('MIPS: RM7000: Add support for tertiary cache')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/13815/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Adjust set_pte() SMP fix to handle R10000_LLSC_WAR</title>
<updated>2016-08-22T21:37:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joshua Kinard</name>
<email>kumba@gentoo.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-07T10:42:30+00:00</published>
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commit 128639395b2ceacc6a56a0141d0261012bfe04d3 upstream.

Update the recent changes to set_pte() that were added in 46011e6ea392
to handle R10000_LLSC_WAR, and format the assembly to match other areas
of the MIPS tree using the same WAR.

This also incorporates a patch recently sent in my Markos Chandras,
"Remove local LL/SC preprocessor variants", so that patch doesn't need
to be applied if this one is accepted.

Signed-off-by: Joshua Kinard &lt;kumba@gentoo.org&gt;
Fixes: 46011e6ea392 ("MIPS: Make set_pte() SMP safe.)
Cc: David Daney &lt;david.daney@cavium.com&gt;
Cc: Linux/MIPS &lt;linux-mips@linux-mips.org&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/11103/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Use {LL,SC}_INSN not __{LL,SC}
 - Use literal arch=r4000 instead of MIPS_ISA_ARCH_LEVEL since R6 is not
   supported]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 128639395b2ceacc6a56a0141d0261012bfe04d3 upstream.

Update the recent changes to set_pte() that were added in 46011e6ea392
to handle R10000_LLSC_WAR, and format the assembly to match other areas
of the MIPS tree using the same WAR.

This also incorporates a patch recently sent in my Markos Chandras,
"Remove local LL/SC preprocessor variants", so that patch doesn't need
to be applied if this one is accepted.

Signed-off-by: Joshua Kinard &lt;kumba@gentoo.org&gt;
Fixes: 46011e6ea392 ("MIPS: Make set_pte() SMP safe.)
Cc: David Daney &lt;david.daney@cavium.com&gt;
Cc: Linux/MIPS &lt;linux-mips@linux-mips.org&gt;
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/11103/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2:
 - Use {LL,SC}_INSN not __{LL,SC}
 - Use literal arch=r4000 instead of MIPS_ISA_ARCH_LEVEL since R6 is not
   supported]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: traps: Fix SIGFPE information leak from `do_ov' and `do_trap_or_bp'</title>
<updated>2016-04-01T00:54:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maciej W. Rozycki</name>
<email>macro@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-04T01:42:49+00:00</published>
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commit e723e3f7f9591b79e8c56b3d7c5a204a9c571b55 upstream.

Avoid sending a partially initialised `siginfo_t' structure along SIGFPE
signals issued from `do_ov' and `do_trap_or_bp', leading to information
leaking from the kernel stack.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@imgtec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit e723e3f7f9591b79e8c56b3d7c5a204a9c571b55 upstream.

Avoid sending a partially initialised `siginfo_t' structure along SIGFPE
signals issued from `do_ov' and `do_trap_or_bp', leading to information
leaking from the kernel stack.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@imgtec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Fix restart of indirect syscalls</title>
<updated>2016-01-22T21:40:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ed Swierk</name>
<email>eswierk@skyportsystems.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-13T05:10:30+00:00</published>
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commit e967ef022e00bb7c2e5b1a42007abfdd52055050 upstream.

When 32-bit MIPS userspace invokes a syscall indirectly via syscall(number,
arg1, ..., arg7), the kernel looks up the actual syscall based on the given
number, shifts the other arguments to the left, and jumps to the syscall.

If the syscall is interrupted by a signal and indicates it needs to be
restarted by the kernel (by returning ERESTARTNOINTR for example), the
syscall must be called directly, since the number is no longer the first
argument, and the other arguments are now staged for a direct call.

Before shifting the arguments, store the syscall number in pt_regs-&gt;regs[2].
This gets copied temporarily into pt_regs-&gt;regs[0] after the syscall returns.
If the syscall needs to be restarted, handle_signal()/do_signal() copies the
number back to pt_regs-&gt;reg[2], which ends up in $v0 once control returns to
userspace.

Signed-off-by: Ed Swierk &lt;eswierk@skyportsystems.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/8929/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit e967ef022e00bb7c2e5b1a42007abfdd52055050 upstream.

When 32-bit MIPS userspace invokes a syscall indirectly via syscall(number,
arg1, ..., arg7), the kernel looks up the actual syscall based on the given
number, shifts the other arguments to the left, and jumps to the syscall.

If the syscall is interrupted by a signal and indicates it needs to be
restarted by the kernel (by returning ERESTARTNOINTR for example), the
syscall must be called directly, since the number is no longer the first
argument, and the other arguments are now staged for a direct call.

Before shifting the arguments, store the syscall number in pt_regs-&gt;regs[2].
This gets copied temporarily into pt_regs-&gt;regs[0] after the syscall returns.
If the syscall needs to be restarted, handle_signal()/do_signal() copies the
number back to pt_regs-&gt;reg[2], which ends up in $v0 once control returns to
userspace.

Signed-off-by: Ed Swierk &lt;eswierk@skyportsystems.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/8929/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<title>MIPS: atomic: Fix comment describing atomic64_add_unless's return value.</title>
<updated>2015-11-27T12:48:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ralf Baechle</name>
<email>ralf@linux-mips.org</email>
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<published>2015-10-16T21:09:57+00:00</published>
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commit f25319d2cb439249a6859f53ad42ffa332b0acba upstream.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Fixes: f24219b4e90cf70ec4a211b17fbabc725a0ddf3c
(cherry picked from commit f0a232cde7be18a207fd057dd79bbac8a0a45dec)
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit f25319d2cb439249a6859f53ad42ffa332b0acba upstream.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Fixes: f24219b4e90cf70ec4a211b17fbabc725a0ddf3c
(cherry picked from commit f0a232cde7be18a207fd057dd79bbac8a0a45dec)
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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