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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>
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<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>nios2: add Max10 defconfig</title>
<updated>2015-09-08T10:16:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chee Nouk Phoon</name>
<email>cnphoon@altera.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-08T10:08:56+00:00</published>
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Max10 is a FPGA device. This patch adds defconfig based on Max10 hardware
reference design. Design is intended to run on Max10 development kit.

Signed-off-by: Chee Nouk Phoon &lt;cnphoon@altera.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ley Foon Tan &lt;lftan@altera.com&gt;
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Max10 is a FPGA device. This patch adds defconfig based on Max10 hardware
reference design. Design is intended to run on Max10 development kit.

Signed-off-by: Chee Nouk Phoon &lt;cnphoon@altera.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ley Foon Tan &lt;lftan@altera.com&gt;
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<title>nios2: Add Max10 device tree</title>
<updated>2015-09-08T10:15:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chee Nouk Phoon</name>
<email>cnphoon@altera.com</email>
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<published>2015-09-08T10:07:44+00:00</published>
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Max10 is a FPGA device. This patch adds Nios2 support for Max10.
This device tree is based on Max10 hardware reference design.

Signed-off-by: Chee Nouk Phoon &lt;cnphoon@altera.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ley Foon Tan &lt;lftan@altera.com&gt;
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Max10 is a FPGA device. This patch adds Nios2 support for Max10.
This device tree is based on Max10 hardware reference design.

Signed-off-by: Chee Nouk Phoon &lt;cnphoon@altera.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ley Foon Tan &lt;lftan@altera.com&gt;
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<title>nios2: remove unused statistic counters</title>
<updated>2015-09-07T17:32:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bernd Weiberg</name>
<email>bernd.weiberg@siemens.com</email>
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<published>2015-09-04T08:59:45+00:00</published>
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Removed some statistic counters to improve the performance of the handler.

Signed-off-by: Bernd Weiberg &lt;bernd.weiberg@siemens.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ley Foon Tan &lt;lftan@altera.com&gt;
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Removed some statistic counters to improve the performance of the handler.

Signed-off-by: Bernd Weiberg &lt;bernd.weiberg@siemens.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ley Foon Tan &lt;lftan@altera.com&gt;
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<title>nios2: fixed variable imm16 to s16</title>
<updated>2015-09-07T17:32:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bernd Weiberg</name>
<email>bernd.weiberg@siemens.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-04T09:03:03+00:00</published>
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Fxid variable imm16 to s16 instead of u16, offset might be negative.

Signed-off-by: Bernd Weiberg &lt;bernd.weiberg@siemens.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ley Foon Tan &lt;lftan@altera.com&gt;
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Fxid variable imm16 to s16 instead of u16, offset might be negative.

Signed-off-by: Bernd Weiberg &lt;bernd.weiberg@siemens.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ley Foon Tan &lt;lftan@altera.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>nios2/time: Migrate to new 'set-state' interface</title>
<updated>2015-09-07T17:30:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Viresh Kumar</name>
<email>viresh.kumar@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-18T05:59:28+00:00</published>
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Migrate nios2 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.

Cc: Ley Foon Tan &lt;lftan@altera.com&gt;
Cc: Tobias Klauser &lt;tklauser@distanz.ch&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dtor@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: nios2-dev@lists.rocketboards.org
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ley Foon Tan &lt;lftan@altera.com&gt;
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Migrate nios2 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.

Cc: Ley Foon Tan &lt;lftan@altera.com&gt;
Cc: Tobias Klauser &lt;tklauser@distanz.ch&gt;
Cc: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dtor@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: nios2-dev@lists.rocketboards.org
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ley Foon Tan &lt;lftan@altera.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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<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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<title>Merge tag 'nios2-v4.2' of git://git.rocketboards.org/linux-socfpga-next</title>
<updated>2015-07-03T19:22:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-03T19:22:49+00:00</published>
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Pull nios2 update from Ley Foon Tan:
 "Check number of timer instances"

* tag 'nios2-v4.2' of git://git.rocketboards.org/linux-socfpga-next:
  nios2: check number of timer instances
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Pull nios2 update from Ley Foon Tan:
 "Check number of timer instances"

* tag 'nios2-v4.2' of git://git.rocketboards.org/linux-socfpga-next:
  nios2: check number of timer instances
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<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>
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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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