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<entry>
<title>random: add new ioctl RNDRESEEDCRNG</title>
<updated>2018-04-24T07:43:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-11T20:32:17+00:00</published>
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commit d848e5f8e1ebdb227d045db55fe4f825e82965fa upstream.

Add a new ioctl which forces the the crng to be reseeded.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit d848e5f8e1ebdb227d045db55fe4f825e82965fa upstream.

Add a new ioctl which forces the the crng to be reseeded.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>random: crng_reseed() should lock the crng instance that it is modifying</title>
<updated>2018-04-24T07:43:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-12T04:50:45+00:00</published>
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commit 0bb29a849a6433b72e249eea7695477b02056e94 upstream.

Reported-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Fixes: 1e7f583af67b ("random: make /dev/urandom scalable for silly...")
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 4.8+
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 0bb29a849a6433b72e249eea7695477b02056e94 upstream.

Reported-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Fixes: 1e7f583af67b ("random: make /dev/urandom scalable for silly...")
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 4.8+
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>random: use a different mixing algorithm for add_device_randomness()</title>
<updated>2018-04-24T07:43:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-11T18:58:27+00:00</published>
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commit dc12baacb95f205948f64dc936a47d89ee110117 upstream.

add_device_randomness() use of crng_fast_load() was highly
problematic.  Some callers of add_device_randomness() can pass in a
large amount of static information.  This would immediately promote
the crng_init state from 0 to 1, without really doing much to
initialize the primary_crng's internal state with something even
vaguely unpredictable.

Since we don't have the speed constraints of add_interrupt_randomness(),
we can do a better job mixing in the what unpredictability a device
driver or architecture maintainer might see fit to give us, and do it
in a way which does not bump the crng_init_cnt variable.

Also, since add_device_randomness() doesn't bump any entropy
accounting in crng_init state 0, mix the device randomness into the
input_pool entropy pool as well.  This is related to CVE-2018-1108.

Reported-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Fixes: ee7998c50c26 ("random: do not ignore early device randomness")
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 4.13+
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit dc12baacb95f205948f64dc936a47d89ee110117 upstream.

add_device_randomness() use of crng_fast_load() was highly
problematic.  Some callers of add_device_randomness() can pass in a
large amount of static information.  This would immediately promote
the crng_init state from 0 to 1, without really doing much to
initialize the primary_crng's internal state with something even
vaguely unpredictable.

Since we don't have the speed constraints of add_interrupt_randomness(),
we can do a better job mixing in the what unpredictability a device
driver or architecture maintainer might see fit to give us, and do it
in a way which does not bump the crng_init_cnt variable.

Also, since add_device_randomness() doesn't bump any entropy
accounting in crng_init state 0, mix the device randomness into the
input_pool entropy pool as well.  This is related to CVE-2018-1108.

Reported-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Fixes: ee7998c50c26 ("random: do not ignore early device randomness")
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 4.13+
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>random: fix crng_ready() test</title>
<updated>2018-04-24T07:43:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-11T17:27:52+00:00</published>
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commit 43838a23a05fbd13e47d750d3dfd77001536dd33 upstream.

The crng_init variable has three states:

0: The CRNG is not initialized at all
1: The CRNG has a small amount of entropy, hopefully good enough for
   early-boot, non-cryptographical use cases
2: The CRNG is fully initialized and we are sure it is safe for
   cryptographic use cases.

The crng_ready() function should only return true once we are in the
last state.  This addresses CVE-2018-1108.

Reported-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Fixes: e192be9d9a30 ("random: replace non-blocking pool...")
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 4.8+
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 43838a23a05fbd13e47d750d3dfd77001536dd33 upstream.

The crng_init variable has three states:

0: The CRNG is not initialized at all
1: The CRNG has a small amount of entropy, hopefully good enough for
   early-boot, non-cryptographical use cases
2: The CRNG is fully initialized and we are sure it is safe for
   cryptographic use cases.

The crng_ready() function should only return true once we are in the
last state.  This addresses CVE-2018-1108.

Reported-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Fixes: e192be9d9a30 ("random: replace non-blocking pool...")
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 4.8+
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>random: use a tighter cap in credit_entropy_bits_safe()</title>
<updated>2018-04-24T07:42:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-25T22:21:33+00:00</published>
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commit 9f886f4d1d292442b2f22a0a33321eae821bde40 upstream.

This fixes a harmless UBSAN where root could potentially end up
causing an overflow while bumping the entropy_total field (which is
ignored once the entropy pool has been initialized, and this generally
is completed during the boot sequence).

This is marginal for the stable kernel series, but it's a really
trivial patch, and it fixes UBSAN warning that might cause security
folks to get overly excited for no reason.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reported-by: Chen Feng &lt;puck.chen@hisilicon.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 9f886f4d1d292442b2f22a0a33321eae821bde40 upstream.

This fixes a harmless UBSAN where root could potentially end up
causing an overflow while bumping the entropy_total field (which is
ignored once the entropy pool has been initialized, and this generally
is completed during the boot sequence).

This is marginal for the stable kernel series, but it's a really
trivial patch, and it fixes UBSAN warning that might cause security
folks to get overly excited for no reason.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reported-by: Chen Feng &lt;puck.chen@hisilicon.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: do bulk POLL* -&gt; EPOLL* replacement</title>
<updated>2018-02-11T22:34:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-11T22:34:03+00:00</published>
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This is the mindless scripted replacement of kernel use of POLL*
variables as described by Al, done by this script:

    for V in IN OUT PRI ERR RDNORM RDBAND WRNORM WRBAND HUP RDHUP NVAL MSG; do
        L=`git grep -l -w POLL$V | grep -v '^t' | grep -v /um/ | grep -v '^sa' | grep -v '/poll.h$'|grep -v '^D'`
        for f in $L; do sed -i "-es/^\([^\"]*\)\(\&lt;POLL$V\&gt;\)/\\1E\\2/" $f; done
    done

with de-mangling cleanups yet to come.

NOTE! On almost all architectures, the EPOLL* constants have the same
values as the POLL* constants do.  But they keyword here is "almost".
For various bad reasons they aren't the same, and epoll() doesn't
actually work quite correctly in some cases due to this on Sparc et al.

The next patch from Al will sort out the final differences, and we
should be all done.

Scripted-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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This is the mindless scripted replacement of kernel use of POLL*
variables as described by Al, done by this script:

    for V in IN OUT PRI ERR RDNORM RDBAND WRNORM WRBAND HUP RDHUP NVAL MSG; do
        L=`git grep -l -w POLL$V | grep -v '^t' | grep -v /um/ | grep -v '^sa' | grep -v '/poll.h$'|grep -v '^D'`
        for f in $L; do sed -i "-es/^\([^\"]*\)\(\&lt;POLL$V\&gt;\)/\\1E\\2/" $f; done
    done

with de-mangling cleanups yet to come.

NOTE! On almost all architectures, the EPOLL* constants have the same
values as the POLL* constants do.  But they keyword here is "almost".
For various bad reasons they aren't the same, and epoll() doesn't
actually work quite correctly in some cases due to this on Sparc et al.

The next patch from Al will sort out the final differences, and we
should be all done.

Scripted-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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6</title>
<updated>2018-01-31T22:22:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-31T22:22:45+00:00</published>
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Pull crypto updates from Herbert Xu:
 "API:
   - Enforce the setting of keys for keyed aead/hash/skcipher
     algorithms.
   - Add multibuf speed tests in tcrypt.

  Algorithms:
   - Improve performance of sha3-generic.
   - Add native sha512 support on arm64.
   - Add v8.2 Crypto Extentions version of sha3/sm3 on arm64.
   - Avoid hmac nesting by requiring underlying algorithm to be unkeyed.
   - Add cryptd_max_cpu_qlen module parameter to cryptd.

  Drivers:
   - Add support for EIP97 engine in inside-secure.
   - Add inline IPsec support to chelsio.
   - Add RevB core support to crypto4xx.
   - Fix AEAD ICV check in crypto4xx.
   - Add stm32 crypto driver.
   - Add support for BCM63xx platforms in bcm2835 and remove bcm63xx.
   - Add Derived Key Protocol (DKP) support in caam.
   - Add Samsung Exynos True RNG driver.
   - Add support for Exynos5250+ SoCs in exynos PRNG driver"

* 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (166 commits)
  crypto: picoxcell - Fix error handling in spacc_probe()
  crypto: arm64/sha512 - fix/improve new v8.2 Crypto Extensions code
  crypto: arm64/sm3 - new v8.2 Crypto Extensions implementation
  crypto: arm64/sha3 - new v8.2 Crypto Extensions implementation
  crypto: testmgr - add new testcases for sha3
  crypto: sha3-generic - export init/update/final routines
  crypto: sha3-generic - simplify code
  crypto: sha3-generic - rewrite KECCAK transform to help the compiler optimize
  crypto: sha3-generic - fixes for alignment and big endian operation
  crypto: aesni - handle zero length dst buffer
  crypto: artpec6 - remove select on non-existing CRYPTO_SHA384
  hwrng: bcm2835 - Remove redundant dev_err call in bcm2835_rng_probe()
  crypto: stm32 - remove redundant dev_err call in stm32_cryp_probe()
  crypto: axis - remove unnecessary platform_get_resource() error check
  crypto: testmgr - test misuse of result in ahash
  crypto: inside-secure - make function safexcel_try_push_requests static
  crypto: aes-generic - fix aes-generic regression on powerpc
  crypto: chelsio - Fix indentation warning
  crypto: arm64/sha1-ce - get rid of literal pool
  crypto: arm64/sha2-ce - move the round constant table to .rodata section
  ...
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Pull crypto updates from Herbert Xu:
 "API:
   - Enforce the setting of keys for keyed aead/hash/skcipher
     algorithms.
   - Add multibuf speed tests in tcrypt.

  Algorithms:
   - Improve performance of sha3-generic.
   - Add native sha512 support on arm64.
   - Add v8.2 Crypto Extentions version of sha3/sm3 on arm64.
   - Avoid hmac nesting by requiring underlying algorithm to be unkeyed.
   - Add cryptd_max_cpu_qlen module parameter to cryptd.

  Drivers:
   - Add support for EIP97 engine in inside-secure.
   - Add inline IPsec support to chelsio.
   - Add RevB core support to crypto4xx.
   - Fix AEAD ICV check in crypto4xx.
   - Add stm32 crypto driver.
   - Add support for BCM63xx platforms in bcm2835 and remove bcm63xx.
   - Add Derived Key Protocol (DKP) support in caam.
   - Add Samsung Exynos True RNG driver.
   - Add support for Exynos5250+ SoCs in exynos PRNG driver"

* 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (166 commits)
  crypto: picoxcell - Fix error handling in spacc_probe()
  crypto: arm64/sha512 - fix/improve new v8.2 Crypto Extensions code
  crypto: arm64/sm3 - new v8.2 Crypto Extensions implementation
  crypto: arm64/sha3 - new v8.2 Crypto Extensions implementation
  crypto: testmgr - add new testcases for sha3
  crypto: sha3-generic - export init/update/final routines
  crypto: sha3-generic - simplify code
  crypto: sha3-generic - rewrite KECCAK transform to help the compiler optimize
  crypto: sha3-generic - fixes for alignment and big endian operation
  crypto: aesni - handle zero length dst buffer
  crypto: artpec6 - remove select on non-existing CRYPTO_SHA384
  hwrng: bcm2835 - Remove redundant dev_err call in bcm2835_rng_probe()
  crypto: stm32 - remove redundant dev_err call in stm32_cryp_probe()
  crypto: axis - remove unnecessary platform_get_resource() error check
  crypto: testmgr - test misuse of result in ahash
  crypto: inside-secure - make function safexcel_try_push_requests static
  crypto: aes-generic - fix aes-generic regression on powerpc
  crypto: chelsio - Fix indentation warning
  crypto: arm64/sha1-ce - get rid of literal pool
  crypto: arm64/sha2-ce - move the round constant table to .rodata section
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>crypto: chacha20 - Fix keystream alignment for chacha20_block()</title>
<updated>2017-11-29T06:33:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-22T19:51:39+00:00</published>
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When chacha20_block() outputs the keystream block, it uses 'u32' stores
directly.  However, the callers (crypto/chacha20_generic.c and
drivers/char/random.c) declare the keystream buffer as a 'u8' array,
which is not guaranteed to have the needed alignment.

Fix it by having both callers declare the keystream as a 'u32' array.
For now this is preferable to switching over to the unaligned access
macros because chacha20_block() is only being used in cases where we can
easily control the alignment (stack buffers).

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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When chacha20_block() outputs the keystream block, it uses 'u32' stores
directly.  However, the callers (crypto/chacha20_generic.c and
drivers/char/random.c) declare the keystream buffer as a 'u8' array,
which is not guaranteed to have the needed alignment.

Fix it by having both callers declare the keystream as a 'u32' array.
For now this is preferable to switching over to the unaligned access
macros because chacha20_block() is only being used in cases where we can
easily control the alignment (stack buffers).

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>the rest of drivers/*: annotate -&gt;poll() instances</title>
<updated>2017-11-28T16:06:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-03T10:39:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=afc9a42b7464f76e1388cad87d8543c69f6f74ed'/>
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<content type='text'>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kmemcheck: remove annotations</title>
<updated>2017-11-16T02:21:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)</name>
<email>alexander.levin@verizon.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-16T01:35:51+00:00</published>
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Patch series "kmemcheck: kill kmemcheck", v2.

As discussed at LSF/MM, kill kmemcheck.

KASan is a replacement that is able to work without the limitation of
kmemcheck (single CPU, slow).  KASan is already upstream.

We are also not aware of any users of kmemcheck (or users who don't
consider KASan as a suitable replacement).

The only objection was that since KASAN wasn't supported by all GCC
versions provided by distros at that time we should hold off for 2
years, and try again.

Now that 2 years have passed, and all distros provide gcc that supports
KASAN, kill kmemcheck again for the very same reasons.

This patch (of 4):

Remove kmemcheck annotations, and calls to kmemcheck from the kernel.

[alexander.levin@verizon.com: correctly remove kmemcheck call from dma_map_sg_attrs]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171012192151.26531-1-alexander.levin@verizon.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171007030159.22241-2-alexander.levin@verizon.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Tim Hansen &lt;devtimhansen@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegardno@ifi.uio.no&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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Patch series "kmemcheck: kill kmemcheck", v2.

As discussed at LSF/MM, kill kmemcheck.

KASan is a replacement that is able to work without the limitation of
kmemcheck (single CPU, slow).  KASan is already upstream.

We are also not aware of any users of kmemcheck (or users who don't
consider KASan as a suitable replacement).

The only objection was that since KASAN wasn't supported by all GCC
versions provided by distros at that time we should hold off for 2
years, and try again.

Now that 2 years have passed, and all distros provide gcc that supports
KASAN, kill kmemcheck again for the very same reasons.

This patch (of 4):

Remove kmemcheck annotations, and calls to kmemcheck from the kernel.

[alexander.levin@verizon.com: correctly remove kmemcheck call from dma_map_sg_attrs]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171012192151.26531-1-alexander.levin@verizon.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171007030159.22241-2-alexander.levin@verizon.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@verizon.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Tim Hansen &lt;devtimhansen@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Vegard Nossum &lt;vegardno@ifi.uio.no&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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