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<title>driver core: platform: fix u32 greater or equal to zero comparison</title>
<updated>2020-02-24T07:38:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Colin Ian King</name>
<email>colin.king@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-16T17:57:58+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 0707cfa5c3ef58effb143db9db6d6e20503f9dec ]

Currently the check that a u32 variable i is &gt;= 0 is always true because
the unsigned variable will never be negative, causing the loop to run
forever.  Fix this by changing the pre-decrement check to a zero check on
i followed by a decrement of i.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Unsigned compared against 0")
Fixes: 39cc539f90d0 ("driver core: platform: Prevent resouce overflow from causing infinite loops")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200116175758.88396-1-colin.king@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 0707cfa5c3ef58effb143db9db6d6e20503f9dec ]

Currently the check that a u32 variable i is &gt;= 0 is always true because
the unsigned variable will never be negative, causing the loop to run
forever.  Fix this by changing the pre-decrement check to a zero check on
i followed by a decrement of i.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Unsigned compared against 0")
Fixes: 39cc539f90d0 ("driver core: platform: Prevent resouce overflow from causing infinite loops")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200116175758.88396-1-colin.king@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>driver core: Print device when resources present in really_probe()</title>
<updated>2020-02-24T07:38:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Geert Uytterhoeven</name>
<email>geert+renesas@glider.be</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-06T13:22:19+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 7c35e699c88bd60734277b26962783c60e04b494 ]

If a device already has devres items attached before probing, a warning
backtrace is printed.  However, this backtrace does not reveal the
offending device, leaving the user uninformed.  Furthermore, using
WARN_ON() causes systems with panic-on-warn to reboot.

Fix this by replacing the WARN_ON() by a dev_crit() message.
Abort probing the device, to prevent doing more damage to the device's
resources.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191206132219.28908-1-geert+renesas@glider.be
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 7c35e699c88bd60734277b26962783c60e04b494 ]

If a device already has devres items attached before probing, a warning
backtrace is printed.  However, this backtrace does not reveal the
offending device, leaving the user uninformed.  Furthermore, using
WARN_ON() causes systems with panic-on-warn to reboot.

Fix this by replacing the WARN_ON() by a dev_crit() message.
Abort probing the device, to prevent doing more damage to the device's
resources.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert+renesas@glider.be&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191206132219.28908-1-geert+renesas@glider.be
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>driver core: platform: Prevent resouce overflow from causing infinite loops</title>
<updated>2020-02-24T07:38:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Simon Schwartz</name>
<email>kern.simon@theschwartz.xyz</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-10T22:41:37+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 39cc539f90d035a293240c9443af50be55ee81b8 ]

num_resources in the platform_device struct is declared as a u32.  The
for loops that iterate over num_resources use an int as the counter,
which can cause infinite loops on architectures with smaller ints.
Change the loop counters to u32.

Signed-off-by: Simon Schwartz &lt;kern.simon@theschwartz.xyz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2201ce63a2a171ffd2ed14e867875316efcf71db.camel@theschwartz.xyz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 39cc539f90d035a293240c9443af50be55ee81b8 ]

num_resources in the platform_device struct is declared as a u32.  The
for loops that iterate over num_resources use an int as the counter,
which can cause infinite loops on architectures with smaller ints.
Change the loop counters to u32.

Signed-off-by: Simon Schwartz &lt;kern.simon@theschwartz.xyz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2201ce63a2a171ffd2ed14e867875316efcf71db.camel@theschwartz.xyz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>regmap: fix writes to non incrementing registers</title>
<updated>2020-02-14T21:53:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Whitten</name>
<email>ben.whitten@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-18T20:56:24+00:00</published>
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commit 2e31aab08bad0d4ee3d3d890a7b74cb6293e0a41 upstream.

When checking if a register block is writable we must ensure that the
block does not start with or contain a non incrementing register.

Fixes: 8b9f9d4dc511 ("regmap: verify if register is writeable before writing operations")
Signed-off-by: Ben Whitten &lt;ben.whitten@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200118205625.14532-1-ben.whitten@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 2e31aab08bad0d4ee3d3d890a7b74cb6293e0a41 upstream.

When checking if a register block is writable we must ensure that the
block does not start with or contain a non incrementing register.

Fixes: 8b9f9d4dc511 ("regmap: verify if register is writeable before writing operations")
Signed-off-by: Ben Whitten &lt;ben.whitten@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200118205625.14532-1-ben.whitten@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>PM: core: Fix handling of devices deleted during system-wide resume</title>
<updated>2020-02-11T12:36:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-22T23:11:24+00:00</published>
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commit 0552e05fdfea191a2cf3a0abd33574b5ef9ca818 upstream.

If a device is deleted by one of its system-wide resume callbacks
(for example, because it does not appear to be present or accessible
any more) along with its children, the resume of the children may
continue leading to use-after-free errors and other issues
(potentially).

Namely, if the device's children are resumed asynchronously, their
resume may have been scheduled already before the device's callback
runs and so the device may be deleted while dpm_wait_for_superior()
is being executed for them.  The memory taken up by the parent device
object may be freed then while dpm_wait() is waiting for the parent's
resume callback to complete, which leads to a use-after-free.
Moreover, the resume of the children is really not expected to
continue after they have been unregistered, so it must be terminated
right away in that case.

To address this problem, modify dpm_wait_for_superior() to check
if the target device is still there in the system-wide PM list of
devices and if so, to increment its parent's reference counter, both
under dpm_list_mtx which prevents device_del() running for the child
from dropping the parent's reference counter prematurely.

If the device is not present in the system-wide PM list of devices
any more, the resume of it cannot continue, so check that again after
dpm_wait() returns, which means that the parent's callback has been
completed, and pass the result of that check to the caller of
dpm_wait_for_superior() to allow it to abort the device's resume
if it is not there any more.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/1579568452-27253-1-git-send-email-chanho.min@lge.com
Reported-by: Chanho Min &lt;chanho.min@lge.com&gt;
Cc: All applicable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 0552e05fdfea191a2cf3a0abd33574b5ef9ca818 upstream.

If a device is deleted by one of its system-wide resume callbacks
(for example, because it does not appear to be present or accessible
any more) along with its children, the resume of the children may
continue leading to use-after-free errors and other issues
(potentially).

Namely, if the device's children are resumed asynchronously, their
resume may have been scheduled already before the device's callback
runs and so the device may be deleted while dpm_wait_for_superior()
is being executed for them.  The memory taken up by the parent device
object may be freed then while dpm_wait() is waiting for the parent's
resume callback to complete, which leads to a use-after-free.
Moreover, the resume of the children is really not expected to
continue after they have been unregistered, so it must be terminated
right away in that case.

To address this problem, modify dpm_wait_for_superior() to check
if the target device is still there in the system-wide PM list of
devices and if so, to increment its parent's reference counter, both
under dpm_list_mtx which prevents device_del() running for the child
from dropping the parent's reference counter prematurely.

If the device is not present in the system-wide PM list of devices
any more, the resume of it cannot continue, so check that again after
dpm_wait() returns, which means that the parent's callback has been
completed, and pass the result of that check to the caller of
dpm_wait_for_superior() to allow it to abort the device's resume
if it is not there any more.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/1579568452-27253-1-git-send-email-chanho.min@lge.com
Reported-by: Chanho Min &lt;chanho.min@lge.com&gt;
Cc: All applicable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>driver core: Fix test_async_driver_probe if NUMA is disabled</title>
<updated>2020-02-01T09:32:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guenter Roeck</name>
<email>linux@roeck-us.net</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-27T20:24:53+00:00</published>
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commit 264d25275a46fce5da501874fa48a2ae5ec571c8 upstream.

Since commit 57ea974fb871 ("driver core: Rewrite test_async_driver_probe
to cover serialization and NUMA affinity"), running the test with NUMA
disabled results in warning messages similar to the following.

test_async_driver test_async_driver.12: NUMA node mismatch -1 != 0

If CONFIG_NUMA=n, dev_to_node(dev) returns -1, and numa_node_id()
returns 0. Both are widely used, so it appears risky to change return
values. Augment the check with IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NUMA) instead
to fix the problem.

Cc: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com&gt;
Fixes: 57ea974fb871 ("driver core: Rewrite test_async_driver_probe to cover serialization and NUMA affinity")
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191127202453.28087-1-linux@roeck-us.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 264d25275a46fce5da501874fa48a2ae5ec571c8 upstream.

Since commit 57ea974fb871 ("driver core: Rewrite test_async_driver_probe
to cover serialization and NUMA affinity"), running the test with NUMA
disabled results in warning messages similar to the following.

test_async_driver test_async_driver.12: NUMA node mismatch -1 != 0

If CONFIG_NUMA=n, dev_to_node(dev) returns -1, and numa_node_id()
returns 0. Both are widely used, so it appears risky to change return
values. Augment the check with IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NUMA) instead
to fix the problem.

Cc: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com&gt;
Fixes: 57ea974fb871 ("driver core: Rewrite test_async_driver_probe to cover serialization and NUMA affinity")
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191127202453.28087-1-linux@roeck-us.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>component: do not dereference opaque pointer in debugfs</title>
<updated>2020-02-01T09:32:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lubomir Rintel</name>
<email>lkundrak@v3.sk</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-18T11:54:31+00:00</published>
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commit ef9ffc1e5f1ac73ecd2fb3b70db2a3b2472ff2f7 upstream.

The match data does not have to be a struct device pointer, and indeed
very often is not. Attempt to treat it as such easily results in a
crash.

For the components that are not registered, we don't know which device
is missing. Once it it is there, we can use the struct component to get
the device and whether it's bound or not.

Fixes: 59e73854b5fd ('component: add debugfs support')
Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel &lt;lkundrak@v3.sk&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaud Pouliquen &lt;arnaud.pouliquen@st.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191118115431.63626-1-lkundrak@v3.sk
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit ef9ffc1e5f1ac73ecd2fb3b70db2a3b2472ff2f7 upstream.

The match data does not have to be a struct device pointer, and indeed
very often is not. Attempt to treat it as such easily results in a
crash.

For the components that are not registered, we don't know which device
is missing. Once it it is there, we can use the struct component to get
the device and whether it's bound or not.

Fixes: 59e73854b5fd ('component: add debugfs support')
Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel &lt;lkundrak@v3.sk&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaud Pouliquen &lt;arnaud.pouliquen@st.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191118115431.63626-1-lkundrak@v3.sk
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Fix built-in early-load Intel microcode alignment</title>
<updated>2020-01-15T19:50:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jari Ruusu</name>
<email>jari.ruusu@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-12T13:00:53+00:00</published>
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Intel Software Developer's Manual, volume 3, chapter 9.11.6 says:

 "Note that the microcode update must be aligned on a 16-byte boundary
  and the size of the microcode update must be 1-KByte granular"

When early-load Intel microcode is loaded from initramfs, userspace tool
'iucode_tool' has already 16-byte aligned those microcode bits in that
initramfs image.  Image that was created something like this:

 iucode_tool --write-earlyfw=FOO.cpio microcode-files...

However, when early-load Intel microcode is loaded from built-in
firmware BLOB using CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE= kernel config option, that
16-byte alignment is not guaranteed.

Fix this by forcing all built-in firmware BLOBs to 16-byte alignment.

[ If we end up having other firmware with much bigger alignment
  requirements, we might need to introduce some method for the firmware
  to specify it, this is the minimal "just increase the alignment a bit
  to account for this one special case" patch    - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Jari Ruusu &lt;jari.ruusu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Intel Software Developer's Manual, volume 3, chapter 9.11.6 says:

 "Note that the microcode update must be aligned on a 16-byte boundary
  and the size of the microcode update must be 1-KByte granular"

When early-load Intel microcode is loaded from initramfs, userspace tool
'iucode_tool' has already 16-byte aligned those microcode bits in that
initramfs image.  Image that was created something like this:

 iucode_tool --write-earlyfw=FOO.cpio microcode-files...

However, when early-load Intel microcode is loaded from built-in
firmware BLOB using CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE= kernel config option, that
16-byte alignment is not guaranteed.

Fix this by forcing all built-in firmware BLOBs to 16-byte alignment.

[ If we end up having other firmware with much bigger alignment
  requirements, we might need to introduce some method for the firmware
  to specify it, this is the minimal "just increase the alignment a bit
  to account for this one special case" patch    - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Jari Ruusu &lt;jari.ruusu@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'remove-ksys-mount-dup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/linux</title>
<updated>2019-12-15T19:36:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-15T19:36:12+00:00</published>
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Pull ksys_mount() and ksys_dup() removal from Dominik Brodowski:
 "This small series replaces all in-kernel calls to the
  userspace-focused ksys_mount() and ksys_dup() with calls to
  kernel-centric functions:

  For each replacement of ksys_mount() with do_mount(), one needs to
  verify that the first and third parameter (char *dev_name, char *type)
  are strings allocated in kernelspace and that the fifth parameter
  (void *data) is either NULL or refers to a full page (only occurence
  in init/do_mounts.c::do_mount_root()). The second and fourth
  parameters (char *dir_name, unsigned long flags) are passed by
  ksys_mount() to do_mount() unchanged, and therefore do not require
  particular care.

  Moreover, instead of pretending to be userspace, the opening of
  /dev/console as stdin/stdout/stderr can be implemented using in-kernel
  functions as well. Thereby, ksys_dup() can be removed for good"

[ This doesn't get rid of the special "kernel init runs with KERNEL_DS"
  case, but it at least removes _some_ of the users of "treat kernel
  pointers as user pointers for our magical init sequence".

  One day we'll hopefully be rid of it all, and can initialize our
  init_thread addr_limit to USER_DS.    - Linus ]

* 'remove-ksys-mount-dup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/linux:
  fs: remove ksys_dup()
  init: unify opening /dev/console as stdin/stdout/stderr
  init: use do_mount() instead of ksys_mount()
  initrd: use do_mount() instead of ksys_mount()
  devtmpfs: use do_mount() instead of ksys_mount()
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Pull ksys_mount() and ksys_dup() removal from Dominik Brodowski:
 "This small series replaces all in-kernel calls to the
  userspace-focused ksys_mount() and ksys_dup() with calls to
  kernel-centric functions:

  For each replacement of ksys_mount() with do_mount(), one needs to
  verify that the first and third parameter (char *dev_name, char *type)
  are strings allocated in kernelspace and that the fifth parameter
  (void *data) is either NULL or refers to a full page (only occurence
  in init/do_mounts.c::do_mount_root()). The second and fourth
  parameters (char *dir_name, unsigned long flags) are passed by
  ksys_mount() to do_mount() unchanged, and therefore do not require
  particular care.

  Moreover, instead of pretending to be userspace, the opening of
  /dev/console as stdin/stdout/stderr can be implemented using in-kernel
  functions as well. Thereby, ksys_dup() can be removed for good"

[ This doesn't get rid of the special "kernel init runs with KERNEL_DS"
  case, but it at least removes _some_ of the users of "treat kernel
  pointers as user pointers for our magical init sequence".

  One day we'll hopefully be rid of it all, and can initialize our
  init_thread addr_limit to USER_DS.    - Linus ]

* 'remove-ksys-mount-dup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/linux:
  fs: remove ksys_dup()
  init: unify opening /dev/console as stdin/stdout/stderr
  init: use do_mount() instead of ksys_mount()
  initrd: use do_mount() instead of ksys_mount()
  devtmpfs: use do_mount() instead of ksys_mount()
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<title>devtmpfs: use do_mount() instead of ksys_mount()</title>
<updated>2019-12-12T13:49:57+00:00</updated>
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<name>Dominik Brodowski</name>
<email>linux@dominikbrodowski.net</email>
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<published>2018-10-23T20:10:35+00:00</published>
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In devtmpfs, do_mount() can be called directly instead of complex wrapping
by ksys_mount():
- the first and third arguments are const strings in the kernel,
  and do not need to be copied over from userspace;
- the fifth argument is NULL, and therefore no page needs to be
  copied over from userspace;
- the second and fourth argument are passed through anyway.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski &lt;linux@dominikbrodowski.net&gt;
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In devtmpfs, do_mount() can be called directly instead of complex wrapping
by ksys_mount():
- the first and third arguments are const strings in the kernel,
  and do not need to be copied over from userspace;
- the fifth argument is NULL, and therefore no page needs to be
  copied over from userspace;
- the second and fourth argument are passed through anyway.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski &lt;linux@dominikbrodowski.net&gt;
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