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<title>parisc: sigaltstack doesn't round ss.ss_sp as required</title>
<updated>2013-01-07T22:06:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John David Anglin</name>
<email>dave.anglin@bell.net</email>
</author>
<published>2012-11-25T21:39:00+00:00</published>
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On 24-Nov-12, at 10:05 AM, John David Anglin wrote:

&gt; In trying to build the debian libsigsegv2 package, I found that sigaltstack
&gt; doesn't round ss.ss_sp. The tests intentionally pass an unaligned pointer.
&gt; This results in the two stack overflow tests failing.

The attached patch fixes this issue.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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On 24-Nov-12, at 10:05 AM, John David Anglin wrote:

&gt; In trying to build the debian libsigsegv2 package, I found that sigaltstack
&gt; doesn't round ss.ss_sp. The tests intentionally pass an unaligned pointer.
&gt; This results in the two stack overflow tests failing.

The attached patch fixes this issue.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>parisc: improve ptrace support for gdb single-step</title>
<updated>2013-01-07T22:06:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John David Anglin</name>
<email>dave.anglin@bell.net</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-28T23:18:01+00:00</published>
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Various GCC tests use gdb to simulate a multithreaded application. Many of
these tests have been failing on parisc linux.

GCC does this by using gdb to single-step the application, then gdb is used to
call other test specific code. Where this fails is when the application is
stepped into the delay slot of a taken branch. This sets the PSW B bit. When
the test specific code is executed, this usually clears the PSW B bit.
Currently, gdb is not allowed to set the B bit. So, the code falls through what
should be a taken branch.

The attached patch adds the PSW B bit to the set of bits that gdb is allowed to
set. In order to set the B bit, the trace system call must return using an
interrupt restore. The patch also modifies this code to use the saved IAOQ
values when they are saved by a ptrace syscall or interruption.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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Various GCC tests use gdb to simulate a multithreaded application. Many of
these tests have been failing on parisc linux.

GCC does this by using gdb to single-step the application, then gdb is used to
call other test specific code. Where this fails is when the application is
stepped into the delay slot of a taken branch. This sets the PSW B bit. When
the test specific code is executed, this usually clears the PSW B bit.
Currently, gdb is not allowed to set the B bit. So, the code falls through what
should be a taken branch.

The attached patch adds the PSW B bit to the set of bits that gdb is allowed to
set. In order to set the B bit, the trace system call must return using an
interrupt restore. The patch also modifies this code to use the saved IAOQ
values when they are saved by a ptrace syscall or interruption.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>parisc: don't claim cpu irqs more than once</title>
<updated>2013-01-07T22:06:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John David Anglin</name>
<email>dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-12T01:46:41+00:00</published>
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The CPU irqs (timer and IPI) are not shared and only need to be claimed once.
A mismatch error occurs if they are claimed more than once.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca&gt;
Cc: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@mcmartin.ca&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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The CPU irqs (timer and IPI) are not shared and only need to be claimed once.
A mismatch error occurs if they are claimed more than once.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca&gt;
Cc: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@mcmartin.ca&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARCH: drivers remove __dev* attributes.</title>
<updated>2013-01-03T23:57:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-21T22:06:37+00:00</published>
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This fixes up all of the smaller arches that had __dev* markings for
their platform-specific drivers.

CONFIG_HOTPLUG is going away as an option.  As a result, the __dev*
markings need to be removed.

This change removes the use of __devinit, __devexit_p, __devinitdata,
__devinitconst, and __devexit from these drivers.

Based on patches originally written by Bill Pemberton, but redone by me
in order to handle some of the coding style issues better, by hand.

Cc: Bill Pemberton &lt;wfp5p@virginia.edu&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@ghostprotocols.net&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen &lt;hskinnemoen@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt &lt;egtvedt@samfundet.no&gt;
Cc: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Cc: Mikael Starvik &lt;starvik@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hirokazu Takata &lt;takata@linux-m32r.org&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Koichi Yasutake &lt;yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Chen Liqin &lt;liqin.chen@sunplusct.com&gt;
Cc: Lennox Wu &lt;lennox.wu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Bob Liu &lt;lliubbo@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Srinivas Kandagatla &lt;srinivas.kandagatla@st.com&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: Myron Stowe &lt;myron.stowe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jesse Barnes &lt;jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;sebastian@breakpoint.cc&gt;
Cc: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thierry Reding &lt;thierry.reding@avionic-design.de&gt;
Cc: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@uclinux.org&gt;
Cc: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
Cc: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Yong Zhang &lt;yong.zhang0@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Holzheu &lt;holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Cornelia Huck &lt;cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Glauber &lt;jang@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Wei Yongjun &lt;yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn&gt;
Cc: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu &lt;nobuhiro.iwamatsu.yj@renesas.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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This fixes up all of the smaller arches that had __dev* markings for
their platform-specific drivers.

CONFIG_HOTPLUG is going away as an option.  As a result, the __dev*
markings need to be removed.

This change removes the use of __devinit, __devexit_p, __devinitdata,
__devinitconst, and __devexit from these drivers.

Based on patches originally written by Bill Pemberton, but redone by me
in order to handle some of the coding style issues better, by hand.

Cc: Bill Pemberton &lt;wfp5p@virginia.edu&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@ghostprotocols.net&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen &lt;hskinnemoen@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt &lt;egtvedt@samfundet.no&gt;
Cc: Mike Frysinger &lt;vapier@gentoo.org&gt;
Cc: Mikael Starvik &lt;starvik@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hirokazu Takata &lt;takata@linux-m32r.org&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Koichi Yasutake &lt;yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com&gt;
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Chen Liqin &lt;liqin.chen@sunplusct.com&gt;
Cc: Lennox Wu &lt;lennox.wu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mundt &lt;lethal@linux-sh.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@tilera.com&gt;
Cc: Guan Xuetao &lt;gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn&gt;
Cc: Bob Liu &lt;lliubbo@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Srinivas Kandagatla &lt;srinivas.kandagatla@st.com&gt;
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;
Cc: Myron Stowe &lt;myron.stowe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jesse Barnes &lt;jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;sebastian@breakpoint.cc&gt;
Cc: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thierry Reding &lt;thierry.reding@avionic-design.de&gt;
Cc: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@uclinux.org&gt;
Cc: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
Cc: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" &lt;srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Yong Zhang &lt;yong.zhang0@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Holzheu &lt;holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Cornelia Huck &lt;cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Glauber &lt;jang@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Wei Yongjun &lt;yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn&gt;
Cc: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu &lt;nobuhiro.iwamatsu.yj@renesas.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux</title>
<updated>2012-12-19T15:55:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-19T15:55:08+00:00</published>
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Pull module update from Rusty Russell:
 "Nothing all that exciting; a new module-from-fd syscall for those who
  want to verify the source of the module (ChromeOS) and/or use standard
  IMA on it or other security hooks."

* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
  MODSIGN: Fix kbuild output when using default extra_certificates
  MODSIGN: Avoid using .incbin in C source
  modules: don't hand 0 to vmalloc.
  module: Remove a extra null character at the top of module-&gt;strtab.
  ASN.1: Use the ASN1_LONG_TAG and ASN1_INDEFINITE_LENGTH constants
  ASN.1: Define indefinite length marker constant
  moduleparam: use __UNIQUE_ID()
  __UNIQUE_ID()
  MODSIGN: Add modules_sign make target
  powerpc: add finit_module syscall.
  ima: support new kernel module syscall
  add finit_module syscall to asm-generic
  ARM: add finit_module syscall to ARM
  security: introduce kernel_module_from_file hook
  module: add flags arg to sys_finit_module()
  module: add syscall to load module from fd
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Pull module update from Rusty Russell:
 "Nothing all that exciting; a new module-from-fd syscall for those who
  want to verify the source of the module (ChromeOS) and/or use standard
  IMA on it or other security hooks."

* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
  MODSIGN: Fix kbuild output when using default extra_certificates
  MODSIGN: Avoid using .incbin in C source
  modules: don't hand 0 to vmalloc.
  module: Remove a extra null character at the top of module-&gt;strtab.
  ASN.1: Use the ASN1_LONG_TAG and ASN1_INDEFINITE_LENGTH constants
  ASN.1: Define indefinite length marker constant
  moduleparam: use __UNIQUE_ID()
  __UNIQUE_ID()
  MODSIGN: Add modules_sign make target
  powerpc: add finit_module syscall.
  ima: support new kernel module syscall
  add finit_module syscall to asm-generic
  ARM: add finit_module syscall to ARM
  security: introduce kernel_module_from_file hook
  module: add flags arg to sys_finit_module()
  module: add syscall to load module from fd
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>modules: don't hand 0 to vmalloc.</title>
<updated>2012-12-14T02:36:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-10T23:08:33+00:00</published>
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In commit d0a21265dfb5fa8a David Rientjes unified various archs'
module_alloc implementation (including x86) and removed the graduitous
shortcut for size == 0.

Then, in commit de7d2b567d040e3b, Joe Perches added a warning for
zero-length vmallocs, which can happen without kallsyms on modules
with no init sections (eg. zlib_deflate).

Fix this once and for all; the module code has to handle zero length
anyway, so get it right at the caller and remove the now-gratuitous
checks within the arch-specific module_alloc implementations.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42608
Reported-by: Conrad Kostecki &lt;ConiKost@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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In commit d0a21265dfb5fa8a David Rientjes unified various archs'
module_alloc implementation (including x86) and removed the graduitous
shortcut for size == 0.

Then, in commit de7d2b567d040e3b, Joe Perches added a warning for
zero-length vmallocs, which can happen without kallsyms on modules
with no init sections (eg. zlib_deflate).

Fix this once and for all; the module code has to handle zero length
anyway, so get it right at the caller and remove the now-gratuitous
checks within the arch-specific module_alloc implementations.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42608
Reported-by: Conrad Kostecki &lt;ConiKost@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal</title>
<updated>2012-12-12T20:22:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-12T20:22:13+00:00</published>
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Pull big execve/kernel_thread/fork unification series from Al Viro:
 "All architectures are converted to new model.  Quite a bit of that
  stuff is actually shared with architecture trees; in such cases it's
  literally shared branch pulled by both, not a cherry-pick.

  A lot of ugliness and black magic is gone (-3KLoC total in this one):

   - kernel_thread()/kernel_execve()/sys_execve() redesign.

     We don't do syscalls from kernel anymore for either kernel_thread()
     or kernel_execve():

     kernel_thread() is essentially clone(2) with callback run before we
     return to userland, the callbacks either never return or do
     successful do_execve() before returning.

     kernel_execve() is a wrapper for do_execve() - it doesn't need to
     do transition to user mode anymore.

     As a result kernel_thread() and kernel_execve() are
     arch-independent now - they live in kernel/fork.c and fs/exec.c
     resp.  sys_execve() is also in fs/exec.c and it's completely
     architecture-independent.

   - daemonize() is gone, along with its parts in fs/*.c

   - struct pt_regs * is no longer passed to do_fork/copy_process/
     copy_thread/do_execve/search_binary_handler/-&gt;load_binary/do_coredump.

   - sys_fork()/sys_vfork()/sys_clone() unified; some architectures
     still need wrappers (ones with callee-saved registers not saved in
     pt_regs on syscall entry), but the main part of those suckers is in
     kernel/fork.c now."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (113 commits)
  do_coredump(): get rid of pt_regs argument
  print_fatal_signal(): get rid of pt_regs argument
  ptrace_signal(): get rid of unused arguments
  get rid of ptrace_signal_deliver() arguments
  new helper: signal_pt_regs()
  unify default ptrace_signal_deliver
  flagday: kill pt_regs argument of do_fork()
  death to idle_regs()
  don't pass regs to copy_process()
  flagday: don't pass regs to copy_thread()
  bfin: switch to generic vfork, get rid of pointless wrappers
  xtensa: switch to generic clone()
  openrisc: switch to use of generic fork and clone
  unicore32: switch to generic clone(2)
  score: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  c6x: sanitize copy_thread(), get rid of clone(2) wrapper, switch to generic clone()
  take sys_fork/sys_vfork/sys_clone prototypes to linux/syscalls.h
  mn10300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  h8300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  tile: switch to generic clone()
  ...

Conflicts:
	arch/microblaze/include/asm/Kbuild
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Pull big execve/kernel_thread/fork unification series from Al Viro:
 "All architectures are converted to new model.  Quite a bit of that
  stuff is actually shared with architecture trees; in such cases it's
  literally shared branch pulled by both, not a cherry-pick.

  A lot of ugliness and black magic is gone (-3KLoC total in this one):

   - kernel_thread()/kernel_execve()/sys_execve() redesign.

     We don't do syscalls from kernel anymore for either kernel_thread()
     or kernel_execve():

     kernel_thread() is essentially clone(2) with callback run before we
     return to userland, the callbacks either never return or do
     successful do_execve() before returning.

     kernel_execve() is a wrapper for do_execve() - it doesn't need to
     do transition to user mode anymore.

     As a result kernel_thread() and kernel_execve() are
     arch-independent now - they live in kernel/fork.c and fs/exec.c
     resp.  sys_execve() is also in fs/exec.c and it's completely
     architecture-independent.

   - daemonize() is gone, along with its parts in fs/*.c

   - struct pt_regs * is no longer passed to do_fork/copy_process/
     copy_thread/do_execve/search_binary_handler/-&gt;load_binary/do_coredump.

   - sys_fork()/sys_vfork()/sys_clone() unified; some architectures
     still need wrappers (ones with callee-saved registers not saved in
     pt_regs on syscall entry), but the main part of those suckers is in
     kernel/fork.c now."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (113 commits)
  do_coredump(): get rid of pt_regs argument
  print_fatal_signal(): get rid of pt_regs argument
  ptrace_signal(): get rid of unused arguments
  get rid of ptrace_signal_deliver() arguments
  new helper: signal_pt_regs()
  unify default ptrace_signal_deliver
  flagday: kill pt_regs argument of do_fork()
  death to idle_regs()
  don't pass regs to copy_process()
  flagday: don't pass regs to copy_thread()
  bfin: switch to generic vfork, get rid of pointless wrappers
  xtensa: switch to generic clone()
  openrisc: switch to use of generic fork and clone
  unicore32: switch to generic clone(2)
  score: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  c6x: sanitize copy_thread(), get rid of clone(2) wrapper, switch to generic clone()
  take sys_fork/sys_vfork/sys_clone prototypes to linux/syscalls.h
  mn10300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  h8300: switch to generic fork/vfork/clone
  tile: switch to generic clone()
  ...

Conflicts:
	arch/microblaze/include/asm/Kbuild
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'tty-3.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty</title>
<updated>2012-12-11T22:08:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-11T22:08:47+00:00</published>
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Pull TTY/Serial merge from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
 "Here's the big tty/serial tree set of changes for 3.8-rc1.

  Contained in here is a bunch more reworks of the tty port layer from
  Jiri and bugfixes from Alan, along with a number of other tty and
  serial driver updates by the various driver authors.

  Also, Jiri has been coerced^Wconvinced to be the co-maintainer of the
  TTY layer, which is much appreciated by me.

  All of these have been in the linux-next tree for a while.

  Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;"

Fixed up some trivial conflicts in the staging tree, due to the fwserial
driver having come in both ways (but fixed up a bit in the serial tree),
and the ioctl handling in the dgrp driver having been done slightly
differently (staging tree got that one right, and removed both
TIOCGSOFTCAR and TIOCSSOFTCAR).

* tag 'tty-3.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (146 commits)
  staging: sb105x: fix potential NULL pointer dereference in mp_chars_in_buffer()
  staging/fwserial: Remove superfluous free
  staging/fwserial: Use WARN_ONCE when port table is corrupted
  staging/fwserial: Destruct embedded tty_port on teardown
  staging/fwserial: Fix build breakage when !CONFIG_BUG
  staging: fwserial: Add TTY-over-Firewire serial driver
  drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c: clean up HIGH_BITS_OFFSET usage
  staging: dgrp: dgrp_tty.c: Audit the return values of get/put_user()
  staging: dgrp: dgrp_tty.c: Remove the TIOCSSOFTCAR ioctl handler from dgrp driver
  serial: ifx6x60: Add modem power off function in the platform reboot process
  serial: mxs-auart: unmap the scatter list before we copy the data
  serial: mxs-auart: disable the Receive Timeout Interrupt when DMA is enabled
  serial: max310x: Setup missing "can_sleep" field for GPIO
  tty/serial: fix ifx6x60.c declaration warning
  serial: samsung: add devicetree properties for non-Exynos SoCs
  serial: samsung: fix potential soft lockup during uart write
  tty: vt: Remove redundant null check before kfree.
  tty/8250 Add check for pci_ioremap_bar failure
  tty/8250 Add support for Commtech's Fastcom Async-335 and Fastcom Async-PCIe cards
  tty/8250 Add XR17D15x devices to the exar_handle_irq override
  ...
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Pull TTY/Serial merge from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
 "Here's the big tty/serial tree set of changes for 3.8-rc1.

  Contained in here is a bunch more reworks of the tty port layer from
  Jiri and bugfixes from Alan, along with a number of other tty and
  serial driver updates by the various driver authors.

  Also, Jiri has been coerced^Wconvinced to be the co-maintainer of the
  TTY layer, which is much appreciated by me.

  All of these have been in the linux-next tree for a while.

  Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;"

Fixed up some trivial conflicts in the staging tree, due to the fwserial
driver having come in both ways (but fixed up a bit in the serial tree),
and the ioctl handling in the dgrp driver having been done slightly
differently (staging tree got that one right, and removed both
TIOCGSOFTCAR and TIOCSSOFTCAR).

* tag 'tty-3.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (146 commits)
  staging: sb105x: fix potential NULL pointer dereference in mp_chars_in_buffer()
  staging/fwserial: Remove superfluous free
  staging/fwserial: Use WARN_ONCE when port table is corrupted
  staging/fwserial: Destruct embedded tty_port on teardown
  staging/fwserial: Fix build breakage when !CONFIG_BUG
  staging: fwserial: Add TTY-over-Firewire serial driver
  drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c: clean up HIGH_BITS_OFFSET usage
  staging: dgrp: dgrp_tty.c: Audit the return values of get/put_user()
  staging: dgrp: dgrp_tty.c: Remove the TIOCSSOFTCAR ioctl handler from dgrp driver
  serial: ifx6x60: Add modem power off function in the platform reboot process
  serial: mxs-auart: unmap the scatter list before we copy the data
  serial: mxs-auart: disable the Receive Timeout Interrupt when DMA is enabled
  serial: max310x: Setup missing "can_sleep" field for GPIO
  tty/serial: fix ifx6x60.c declaration warning
  serial: samsung: add devicetree properties for non-Exynos SoCs
  serial: samsung: fix potential soft lockup during uart write
  tty: vt: Remove redundant null check before kfree.
  tty/8250 Add check for pci_ioremap_bar failure
  tty/8250 Add support for Commtech's Fastcom Async-335 and Fastcom Async-PCIe cards
  tty/8250 Add XR17D15x devices to the exar_handle_irq override
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[parisc] open(2) compat bug</title>
<updated>2012-12-03T19:13:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-03T18:15:30+00:00</published>
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In commit 9d73fc2d641f ("open*(2) compat fixes (s390, arm64)") I said:
&gt;
&gt; 	The usual rules for open()/openat()/open_by_handle_at() are
&gt; 1) native 32bit - don't force O_LARGEFILE in flags
&gt; 2) native 64bit - force O_LARGEFILE in flags
&gt; 3) compat on 64bit host - as for native 32bit
&gt; 4) native 32bit ABI for 64bit system (mips/n32, x86/x32) - as for native 64bit
&gt;
&gt; There are only two exceptions - s390 compat has open() forcing O_LARGEFILE and
&gt; arm64 compat has open_by_handle_at() doing the same thing.  The same binaries
&gt; on native host (s390/31 and arm resp.) will *not* force O_LARGEFILE, so IMO
&gt; both are emulation bugs.

Three exceptions, actually - parisc open() is another case like that.
Native 32bit won't force O_LARGEFILE, the same binary on parisc64 will.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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In commit 9d73fc2d641f ("open*(2) compat fixes (s390, arm64)") I said:
&gt;
&gt; 	The usual rules for open()/openat()/open_by_handle_at() are
&gt; 1) native 32bit - don't force O_LARGEFILE in flags
&gt; 2) native 64bit - force O_LARGEFILE in flags
&gt; 3) compat on 64bit host - as for native 32bit
&gt; 4) native 32bit ABI for 64bit system (mips/n32, x86/x32) - as for native 64bit
&gt;
&gt; There are only two exceptions - s390 compat has open() forcing O_LARGEFILE and
&gt; arm64 compat has open_by_handle_at() doing the same thing.  The same binaries
&gt; on native host (s390/31 and arm resp.) will *not* force O_LARGEFILE, so IMO
&gt; both are emulation bugs.

Three exceptions, actually - parisc open() is another case like that.
Native 32bit won't force O_LARGEFILE, the same binary on parisc64 will.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>flagday: don't pass regs to copy_thread()</title>
<updated>2012-11-29T04:43:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-23T02:51:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=afa86fc426ff7e7f5477f15da9c405d08d5cf790'/>
<id>afa86fc426ff7e7f5477f15da9c405d08d5cf790</id>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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