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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>media: atomisp: ov2680: Stop using half pixelclock for binned modes</title>
<updated>2023-07-19T14:36:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hans de Goede</name>
<email>hdegoede@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-04T16:14:03+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 7d45a432251a30ed0252655177e708229b163291 ]

Stop using half pixelclock for binned modes this fixes:
1. The exposure being twice as high for binned mods (due to the half clk)
2. The framerate being 15 fps instead of 30 fps

The original code with fixed per mode register lists did use half pixel
clk, but this should be combined with using half for the VTS value too.

Using half VTS fixes the framerate issue, but this has the undesired
side-effect of change the exposure ctrl range (half the range, double
the amount of exposure per step).

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230604161406.69369-3-hdegoede@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede &lt;hdegoede@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andy.shevchenko@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 7d45a432251a30ed0252655177e708229b163291 ]

Stop using half pixelclock for binned modes this fixes:
1. The exposure being twice as high for binned mods (due to the half clk)
2. The framerate being 15 fps instead of 30 fps

The original code with fixed per mode register lists did use half pixel
clk, but this should be combined with using half for the VTS value too.

Using half VTS fixes the framerate issue, but this has the undesired
side-effect of change the exposure ctrl range (half the range, double
the amount of exposure per step).

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230604161406.69369-3-hdegoede@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede &lt;hdegoede@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andy.shevchenko@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>media: atomisp: gmin_platform: fix out_len in gmin_get_config_dsm_var()</title>
<updated>2023-07-19T14:36:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
<email>dan.carpenter@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-26T11:53:23+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 1657f2934daf89e8d9fa4b2697008909eb22c73e ]

Ideally, strlen(cur-&gt;string.pointer) and strlen(out) would be the same.
But this code is using strscpy() to avoid a potential buffer overflow.
So in the same way we should take the strlen() of the smaller string to
avoid a buffer overflow in the caller, gmin_get_var_int().

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/26124bcd-8132-4483-9d67-225c87d424e8@kili.mountain

Fixes: 387041cda44e ("media: atomisp: improve sensor detection code to use _DSM table")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede &lt;hdegoede@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 1657f2934daf89e8d9fa4b2697008909eb22c73e ]

Ideally, strlen(cur-&gt;string.pointer) and strlen(out) would be the same.
But this code is using strscpy() to avoid a potential buffer overflow.
So in the same way we should take the strlen() of the smaller string to
avoid a buffer overflow in the caller, gmin_get_var_int().

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/26124bcd-8132-4483-9d67-225c87d424e8@kili.mountain

Fixes: 387041cda44e ("media: atomisp: improve sensor detection code to use _DSM table")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede &lt;hdegoede@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>media: atomisp: gc0310: Fix double free in gc0310_remove()</title>
<updated>2023-07-19T14:36:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hans de Goede</name>
<email>hdegoede@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-18T14:15:07+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 2746a966f9f05fdb0727f4e1e8f2d51ec79e071d ]

gc0310_remove() must not call kfree(dev) since the gc0310_device struct
is devm managed so explicitly freeing it causes a double free.

While at it add a missing mutex_destroy() call for the input_lock.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230518153214.194976-6-hdegoede@redhat.com

Fixes: 340b4dd6c183 ("media: atomisp: gc0310: Use devm_kzalloc() for data struct")
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andy.shevchenko@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede &lt;hdegoede@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 2746a966f9f05fdb0727f4e1e8f2d51ec79e071d ]

gc0310_remove() must not call kfree(dev) since the gc0310_device struct
is devm managed so explicitly freeing it causes a double free.

While at it add a missing mutex_destroy() call for the input_lock.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230518153214.194976-6-hdegoede@redhat.com

Fixes: 340b4dd6c183 ("media: atomisp: gc0310: Use devm_kzalloc() for data struct")
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andy.shevchenko@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede &lt;hdegoede@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>staging: vchiq_arm: mark vchiq_platform_init() static</title>
<updated>2023-07-19T14:36:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-16T20:25:55+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit e152c58d7a48194d6b530d8e004d650fd01568b6 ]

This function has no callers from other files, and the declaration
was removed a while ago, causing a W=1 warning:

drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c:465:5: error: no previous prototype for 'vchiq_platform_init'

Marking it static solves this problem but introduces a new warning
since gcc determines that 'g_fragments_base' is never initialized
in some kernel configurations:

In file included from include/linux/string.h:254,
                 from include/linux/bitmap.h:11,
                 from include/linux/cpumask.h:12,
                 from include/linux/mm_types_task.h:14,
                 from include/linux/mm_types.h:5,
                 from include/linux/buildid.h:5,
                 from include/linux/module.h:14,
                 from drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c:8:
In function 'memcpy_to_page',
    inlined from 'free_pagelist' at drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c:433:4:
include/linux/fortify-string.h:57:33: error: argument 2 null where non-null expected [-Werror=nonnull]
include/linux/highmem.h:427:9: note: in expansion of macro 'memcpy'
  427 |         memcpy(to + offset, from, len);
      |         ^~~~~~

Add a NULL pointer check for this in addition to the static annotation
to avoid both.

Fixes: 89cc4218f640 ("staging: vchiq_arm: drop unnecessary declarations")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;florian.fainelli@broadcom.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Umang Jain &lt;umang.jain@ideasonboard.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230516202603.560554-1-arnd@kernel.org
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 e152c58d7a48194d6b530d8e004d650fd01568b6 ]

This function has no callers from other files, and the declaration
was removed a while ago, causing a W=1 warning:

drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c:465:5: error: no previous prototype for 'vchiq_platform_init'

Marking it static solves this problem but introduces a new warning
since gcc determines that 'g_fragments_base' is never initialized
in some kernel configurations:

In file included from include/linux/string.h:254,
                 from include/linux/bitmap.h:11,
                 from include/linux/cpumask.h:12,
                 from include/linux/mm_types_task.h:14,
                 from include/linux/mm_types.h:5,
                 from include/linux/buildid.h:5,
                 from include/linux/module.h:14,
                 from drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c:8:
In function 'memcpy_to_page',
    inlined from 'free_pagelist' at drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c:433:4:
include/linux/fortify-string.h:57:33: error: argument 2 null where non-null expected [-Werror=nonnull]
include/linux/highmem.h:427:9: note: in expansion of macro 'memcpy'
  427 |         memcpy(to + offset, from, len);
      |         ^~~~~~

Add a NULL pointer check for this in addition to the static annotation
to avoid both.

Fixes: 89cc4218f640 ("staging: vchiq_arm: drop unnecessary declarations")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;florian.fainelli@broadcom.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Umang Jain &lt;umang.jain@ideasonboard.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230516202603.560554-1-arnd@kernel.org
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>
<title>Merge tag 'staging-6.4-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging</title>
<updated>2023-06-17T18:04:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-17T18:04:10+00:00</published>
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Pull staging driver fix from Greg KH:
 "Here is a single staging driver "fix" for 6.4-rc7. I've been sitting
  on it in my tree for many weeks as it is just a simple documentation
  update, with the hope that maybe some other staging driver fixes would
  need to be merged for 6.4-final, but that does not seem to be the
  case.

  So please, pull in this one documentation update so that Aaro doesn't
  get emails going forward that he can't do anything about"

* tag 'staging-6.4-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging:
  staging: octeon: delete my name from TODO contact
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Pull staging driver fix from Greg KH:
 "Here is a single staging driver "fix" for 6.4-rc7. I've been sitting
  on it in my tree for many weeks as it is just a simple documentation
  update, with the hope that maybe some other staging driver fixes would
  need to be merged for 6.4-final, but that does not seem to be the
  case.

  So please, pull in this one documentation update so that Aaro doesn't
  get emails going forward that he can't do anything about"

* tag 'staging-6.4-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging:
  staging: octeon: delete my name from TODO contact
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>media: staging: media: imx: initialize hs_settle to avoid warning</title>
<updated>2023-06-02T17:45:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hans Verkuil</name>
<email>hverkuil@xs4all.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-18T07:46:52+00:00</published>
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Initialize hs_settle to 0 to avoid this compiler warning:

imx8mq-mipi-csi2.c: In function 'imx8mq_mipi_csi_start_stream.part.0':
imx8mq-mipi-csi2.c:91:55: warning: 'hs_settle' may be used uninitialized [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
   91 | #define GPR_CSI2_1_S_PRG_RXHS_SETTLE(x) (((x) &amp; 0x3f) &lt;&lt; 2)
      |                                                       ^~
imx8mq-mipi-csi2.c:357:13: note: 'hs_settle' was declared here
  357 |         u32 hs_settle;
      |             ^~~~~~~~~

It's a false positive, but it is too complicated for the compiler to detect that.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil &lt;hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin Kepplinger &lt;martink@posteo.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus &lt;sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@kernel.org&gt;
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Initialize hs_settle to 0 to avoid this compiler warning:

imx8mq-mipi-csi2.c: In function 'imx8mq_mipi_csi_start_stream.part.0':
imx8mq-mipi-csi2.c:91:55: warning: 'hs_settle' may be used uninitialized [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
   91 | #define GPR_CSI2_1_S_PRG_RXHS_SETTLE(x) (((x) &amp; 0x3f) &lt;&lt; 2)
      |                                                       ^~
imx8mq-mipi-csi2.c:357:13: note: 'hs_settle' was declared here
  357 |         u32 hs_settle;
      |             ^~~~~~~~~

It's a false positive, but it is too complicated for the compiler to detect that.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil &lt;hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl&gt;
Reviewed-by: Martin Kepplinger &lt;martink@posteo.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus &lt;sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>media: staging: media: atomisp: init high &amp; low vars</title>
<updated>2023-05-26T09:52:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hans Verkuil</name>
<email>hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-19T07:06:02+00:00</published>
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Fix a compiler warning:

include/linux/dev_printk.h: In function 'ov2680_probe':
include/linux/dev_printk.h:144:31: warning: 'high' may be used uninitialized [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
  144 |         dev_printk_index_wrap(_dev_err, KERN_ERR, dev, dev_fmt(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__)
      |                               ^~~~~~~~
In function 'ov2680_detect',
    inlined from 'ov2680_s_config' at drivers/staging/media/atomisp/i2c/atomisp-ov2680.c:468:8,
    inlined from 'ov2680_probe' at drivers/staging/media/atomisp/i2c/atomisp-ov2680.c:647:8:
drivers/staging/media/atomisp/i2c/atomisp-ov2680.c:376:13: note: 'high' was declared here
  376 |         u32 high, low;
      |             ^~~~

'high' is indeed uninitialized after the ov_read_reg8() call failed, so there is no
point showing the value. Just say that the read failed. But low can also be used
uninitialized later, so just make it more robust and properly zero the high and low
variables.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil &lt;hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede &lt;hdegoede@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@kernel.org&gt;
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Fix a compiler warning:

include/linux/dev_printk.h: In function 'ov2680_probe':
include/linux/dev_printk.h:144:31: warning: 'high' may be used uninitialized [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
  144 |         dev_printk_index_wrap(_dev_err, KERN_ERR, dev, dev_fmt(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__)
      |                               ^~~~~~~~
In function 'ov2680_detect',
    inlined from 'ov2680_s_config' at drivers/staging/media/atomisp/i2c/atomisp-ov2680.c:468:8,
    inlined from 'ov2680_probe' at drivers/staging/media/atomisp/i2c/atomisp-ov2680.c:647:8:
drivers/staging/media/atomisp/i2c/atomisp-ov2680.c:376:13: note: 'high' was declared here
  376 |         u32 high, low;
      |             ^~~~

'high' is indeed uninitialized after the ov_read_reg8() call failed, so there is no
point showing the value. Just say that the read failed. But low can also be used
uninitialized later, so just make it more robust and properly zero the high and low
variables.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil &lt;hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede &lt;hdegoede@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>staging: octeon: delete my name from TODO contact</title>
<updated>2023-05-08T14:09:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aaro Koskinen</name>
<email>aaro.koskinen@iki.fi</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-27T21:16:06+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=b3dad076a058916c443c93074dc3ee80baaff4ea'/>
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<content type='text'>
I gave up using MIPS OCTEON hardware after the drivers were deleted from
staging in 2019. Afterwards, the driver seems to be added back but the TODO
contact name was not updated accordingly. Delete my name, as I still get
mails from people asking help with the driver and their systems.

Fixes: 422d97b8b05e ("Revert "staging: octeon: delete driver"")
Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen &lt;aaro.koskinen@iki.fi&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230427211606.GD881984@darkstar.musicnaut.iki.fi
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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I gave up using MIPS OCTEON hardware after the drivers were deleted from
staging in 2019. Afterwards, the driver seems to be added back but the TODO
contact name was not updated accordingly. Delete my name, as I still get
mails from people asking help with the driver and their systems.

Fixes: 422d97b8b05e ("Revert "staging: octeon: delete driver"")
Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen &lt;aaro.koskinen@iki.fi&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230427211606.GD881984@darkstar.musicnaut.iki.fi
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'modules-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux</title>
<updated>2023-04-27T23:36:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-27T23:36:55+00:00</published>
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Pull module updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "The summary of the changes for this pull requests is:

   - Song Liu's new struct module_memory replacement

   - Nick Alcock's MODULE_LICENSE() removal for non-modules

   - My cleanups and enhancements to reduce the areas where we vmalloc
     module memory for duplicates, and the respective debug code which
     proves the remaining vmalloc pressure comes from userspace.

  Most of the changes have been in linux-next for quite some time except
  the minor fixes I made to check if a module was already loaded prior
  to allocating the final module memory with vmalloc and the respective
  debug code it introduces to help clarify the issue. Although the
  functional change is small it is rather safe as it can only *help*
  reduce vmalloc space for duplicates and is confirmed to fix a bootup
  issue with over 400 CPUs with KASAN enabled. I don't expect stable
  kernels to pick up that fix as the cleanups would have also had to
  have been picked up. Folks on larger CPU systems with modules will
  want to just upgrade if vmalloc space has been an issue on bootup.

  Given the size of this request, here's some more elaborate details:

  The functional change change in this pull request is the very first
  patch from Song Liu which replaces the 'struct module_layout' with a
  new 'struct module_memory'. The old data structure tried to put
  together all types of supported module memory types in one data
  structure, the new one abstracts the differences in memory types in a
  module to allow each one to provide their own set of details. This
  paves the way in the future so we can deal with them in a cleaner way.
  If you look at changes they also provide a nice cleanup of how we
  handle these different memory areas in a module. This change has been
  in linux-next since before the merge window opened for v6.3 so to
  provide more than a full kernel cycle of testing. It's a good thing as
  quite a bit of fixes have been found for it.

  Jason Baron then made dynamic debug a first class citizen module user
  by using module notifier callbacks to allocate / remove module
  specific dynamic debug information.

  Nick Alcock has done quite a bit of work cross-tree to remove module
  license tags from things which cannot possibly be module at my request
  so to:

   a) help him with his longer term tooling goals which require a
      deterministic evaluation if a piece a symbol code could ever be
      part of a module or not. But quite recently it is has been made
      clear that tooling is not the only one that would benefit.
      Disambiguating symbols also helps efforts such as live patching,
      kprobes and BPF, but for other reasons and R&amp;D on this area is
      active with no clear solution in sight.

   b) help us inch closer to the now generally accepted long term goal
      of automating all the MODULE_LICENSE() tags from SPDX license tags

  In so far as a) is concerned, although module license tags are a no-op
  for non-modules, tools which would want create a mapping of possible
  modules can only rely on the module license tag after the commit
  8b41fc4454e ("kbuild: create modules.builtin without
  Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf").

  Nick has been working on this *for years* and AFAICT I was the only
  one to suggest two alternatives to this approach for tooling. The
  complexity in one of my suggested approaches lies in that we'd need a
  possible-obj-m and a could-be-module which would check if the object
  being built is part of any kconfig build which could ever lead to it
  being part of a module, and if so define a new define
  -DPOSSIBLE_MODULE [0].

  A more obvious yet theoretical approach I've suggested would be to
  have a tristate in kconfig imply the same new -DPOSSIBLE_MODULE as
  well but that means getting kconfig symbol names mapping to modules
  always, and I don't think that's the case today. I am not aware of
  Nick or anyone exploring either of these options. Quite recently Josh
  Poimboeuf has pointed out that live patching, kprobes and BPF would
  benefit from resolving some part of the disambiguation as well but for
  other reasons. The function granularity KASLR (fgkaslr) patches were
  mentioned but Joe Lawrence has clarified this effort has been dropped
  with no clear solution in sight [1].

  In the meantime removing module license tags from code which could
  never be modules is welcomed for both objectives mentioned above. Some
  developers have also welcomed these changes as it has helped clarify
  when a module was never possible and they forgot to clean this up, and
  so you'll see quite a bit of Nick's patches in other pull requests for
  this merge window. I just picked up the stragglers after rc3. LWN has
  good coverage on the motivation behind this work [2] and the typical
  cross-tree issues he ran into along the way. The only concrete blocker
  issue he ran into was that we should not remove the MODULE_LICENSE()
  tags from files which have no SPDX tags yet, even if they can never be
  modules. Nick ended up giving up on his efforts due to having to do
  this vetting and backlash he ran into from folks who really did *not
  understand* the core of the issue nor were providing any alternative /
  guidance. I've gone through his changes and dropped the patches which
  dropped the module license tags where an SPDX license tag was missing,
  it only consisted of 11 drivers. To see if a pull request deals with a
  file which lacks SPDX tags you can just use:

    ./scripts/spdxcheck.py -f \
	$(git diff --name-only commid-id | xargs echo)

  You'll see a core module file in this pull request for the above, but
  that's not related to his changes. WE just need to add the SPDX
  license tag for the kernel/module/kmod.c file in the future but it
  demonstrates the effectiveness of the script.

  Most of Nick's changes were spread out through different trees, and I
  just picked up the slack after rc3 for the last kernel was out. Those
  changes have been in linux-next for over two weeks.

  The cleanups, debug code I added and final fix I added for modules
  were motivated by David Hildenbrand's report of boot failing on a
  systems with over 400 CPUs when KASAN was enabled due to running out
  of virtual memory space. Although the functional change only consists
  of 3 lines in the patch "module: avoid allocation if module is already
  present and ready", proving that this was the best we can do on the
  modules side took quite a bit of effort and new debug code.

  The initial cleanups I did on the modules side of things has been in
  linux-next since around rc3 of the last kernel, the actual final fix
  for and debug code however have only been in linux-next for about a
  week or so but I think it is worth getting that code in for this merge
  window as it does help fix / prove / evaluate the issues reported with
  larger number of CPUs. Userspace is not yet fixed as it is taking a
  bit of time for folks to understand the crux of the issue and find a
  proper resolution. Worst come to worst, I have a kludge-of-concept [3]
  of how to make kernel_read*() calls for modules unique / converge
  them, but I'm currently inclined to just see if userspace can fix this
  instead"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y/kXDqW+7d71C4wz@bombadil.infradead.org/ [0]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/025f2151-ce7c-5630-9b90-98742c97ac65@redhat.com [1]
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/927569/ [2]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230414052840.1994456-3-mcgrof@kernel.org [3]

* tag 'modules-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (121 commits)
  module: add debugging auto-load duplicate module support
  module: stats: fix invalid_mod_bytes typo
  module: remove use of uninitialized variable len
  module: fix building stats for 32-bit targets
  module: stats: include uapi/linux/module.h
  module: avoid allocation if module is already present and ready
  module: add debug stats to help identify memory pressure
  module: extract patient module check into helper
  modules/kmod: replace implementation with a semaphore
  Change DEFINE_SEMAPHORE() to take a number argument
  module: fix kmemleak annotations for non init ELF sections
  module: Ignore L0 and rename is_arm_mapping_symbol()
  module: Move is_arm_mapping_symbol() to module_symbol.h
  module: Sync code of is_arm_mapping_symbol()
  scripts/gdb: use mem instead of core_layout to get the module address
  interconnect: remove module-related code
  interconnect: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  zswap: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  zpool: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  x86/mm/dump_pagetables: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  ...
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Pull module updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "The summary of the changes for this pull requests is:

   - Song Liu's new struct module_memory replacement

   - Nick Alcock's MODULE_LICENSE() removal for non-modules

   - My cleanups and enhancements to reduce the areas where we vmalloc
     module memory for duplicates, and the respective debug code which
     proves the remaining vmalloc pressure comes from userspace.

  Most of the changes have been in linux-next for quite some time except
  the minor fixes I made to check if a module was already loaded prior
  to allocating the final module memory with vmalloc and the respective
  debug code it introduces to help clarify the issue. Although the
  functional change is small it is rather safe as it can only *help*
  reduce vmalloc space for duplicates and is confirmed to fix a bootup
  issue with over 400 CPUs with KASAN enabled. I don't expect stable
  kernels to pick up that fix as the cleanups would have also had to
  have been picked up. Folks on larger CPU systems with modules will
  want to just upgrade if vmalloc space has been an issue on bootup.

  Given the size of this request, here's some more elaborate details:

  The functional change change in this pull request is the very first
  patch from Song Liu which replaces the 'struct module_layout' with a
  new 'struct module_memory'. The old data structure tried to put
  together all types of supported module memory types in one data
  structure, the new one abstracts the differences in memory types in a
  module to allow each one to provide their own set of details. This
  paves the way in the future so we can deal with them in a cleaner way.
  If you look at changes they also provide a nice cleanup of how we
  handle these different memory areas in a module. This change has been
  in linux-next since before the merge window opened for v6.3 so to
  provide more than a full kernel cycle of testing. It's a good thing as
  quite a bit of fixes have been found for it.

  Jason Baron then made dynamic debug a first class citizen module user
  by using module notifier callbacks to allocate / remove module
  specific dynamic debug information.

  Nick Alcock has done quite a bit of work cross-tree to remove module
  license tags from things which cannot possibly be module at my request
  so to:

   a) help him with his longer term tooling goals which require a
      deterministic evaluation if a piece a symbol code could ever be
      part of a module or not. But quite recently it is has been made
      clear that tooling is not the only one that would benefit.
      Disambiguating symbols also helps efforts such as live patching,
      kprobes and BPF, but for other reasons and R&amp;D on this area is
      active with no clear solution in sight.

   b) help us inch closer to the now generally accepted long term goal
      of automating all the MODULE_LICENSE() tags from SPDX license tags

  In so far as a) is concerned, although module license tags are a no-op
  for non-modules, tools which would want create a mapping of possible
  modules can only rely on the module license tag after the commit
  8b41fc4454e ("kbuild: create modules.builtin without
  Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf").

  Nick has been working on this *for years* and AFAICT I was the only
  one to suggest two alternatives to this approach for tooling. The
  complexity in one of my suggested approaches lies in that we'd need a
  possible-obj-m and a could-be-module which would check if the object
  being built is part of any kconfig build which could ever lead to it
  being part of a module, and if so define a new define
  -DPOSSIBLE_MODULE [0].

  A more obvious yet theoretical approach I've suggested would be to
  have a tristate in kconfig imply the same new -DPOSSIBLE_MODULE as
  well but that means getting kconfig symbol names mapping to modules
  always, and I don't think that's the case today. I am not aware of
  Nick or anyone exploring either of these options. Quite recently Josh
  Poimboeuf has pointed out that live patching, kprobes and BPF would
  benefit from resolving some part of the disambiguation as well but for
  other reasons. The function granularity KASLR (fgkaslr) patches were
  mentioned but Joe Lawrence has clarified this effort has been dropped
  with no clear solution in sight [1].

  In the meantime removing module license tags from code which could
  never be modules is welcomed for both objectives mentioned above. Some
  developers have also welcomed these changes as it has helped clarify
  when a module was never possible and they forgot to clean this up, and
  so you'll see quite a bit of Nick's patches in other pull requests for
  this merge window. I just picked up the stragglers after rc3. LWN has
  good coverage on the motivation behind this work [2] and the typical
  cross-tree issues he ran into along the way. The only concrete blocker
  issue he ran into was that we should not remove the MODULE_LICENSE()
  tags from files which have no SPDX tags yet, even if they can never be
  modules. Nick ended up giving up on his efforts due to having to do
  this vetting and backlash he ran into from folks who really did *not
  understand* the core of the issue nor were providing any alternative /
  guidance. I've gone through his changes and dropped the patches which
  dropped the module license tags where an SPDX license tag was missing,
  it only consisted of 11 drivers. To see if a pull request deals with a
  file which lacks SPDX tags you can just use:

    ./scripts/spdxcheck.py -f \
	$(git diff --name-only commid-id | xargs echo)

  You'll see a core module file in this pull request for the above, but
  that's not related to his changes. WE just need to add the SPDX
  license tag for the kernel/module/kmod.c file in the future but it
  demonstrates the effectiveness of the script.

  Most of Nick's changes were spread out through different trees, and I
  just picked up the slack after rc3 for the last kernel was out. Those
  changes have been in linux-next for over two weeks.

  The cleanups, debug code I added and final fix I added for modules
  were motivated by David Hildenbrand's report of boot failing on a
  systems with over 400 CPUs when KASAN was enabled due to running out
  of virtual memory space. Although the functional change only consists
  of 3 lines in the patch "module: avoid allocation if module is already
  present and ready", proving that this was the best we can do on the
  modules side took quite a bit of effort and new debug code.

  The initial cleanups I did on the modules side of things has been in
  linux-next since around rc3 of the last kernel, the actual final fix
  for and debug code however have only been in linux-next for about a
  week or so but I think it is worth getting that code in for this merge
  window as it does help fix / prove / evaluate the issues reported with
  larger number of CPUs. Userspace is not yet fixed as it is taking a
  bit of time for folks to understand the crux of the issue and find a
  proper resolution. Worst come to worst, I have a kludge-of-concept [3]
  of how to make kernel_read*() calls for modules unique / converge
  them, but I'm currently inclined to just see if userspace can fix this
  instead"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y/kXDqW+7d71C4wz@bombadil.infradead.org/ [0]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/025f2151-ce7c-5630-9b90-98742c97ac65@redhat.com [1]
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/927569/ [2]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230414052840.1994456-3-mcgrof@kernel.org [3]

* tag 'modules-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (121 commits)
  module: add debugging auto-load duplicate module support
  module: stats: fix invalid_mod_bytes typo
  module: remove use of uninitialized variable len
  module: fix building stats for 32-bit targets
  module: stats: include uapi/linux/module.h
  module: avoid allocation if module is already present and ready
  module: add debug stats to help identify memory pressure
  module: extract patient module check into helper
  modules/kmod: replace implementation with a semaphore
  Change DEFINE_SEMAPHORE() to take a number argument
  module: fix kmemleak annotations for non init ELF sections
  module: Ignore L0 and rename is_arm_mapping_symbol()
  module: Move is_arm_mapping_symbol() to module_symbol.h
  module: Sync code of is_arm_mapping_symbol()
  scripts/gdb: use mem instead of core_layout to get the module address
  interconnect: remove module-related code
  interconnect: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  zswap: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  zpool: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  x86/mm/dump_pagetables: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'char-misc-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc</title>
<updated>2023-04-27T19:07:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-27T19:07:50+00:00</published>
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Pull char/misc drivers updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the "big" set of char/misc and other driver subsystems for
  6.4-rc1.

  It's pretty big, but due to the removal of pcmcia drivers, almost
  breaks even for number of lines added vs. removed, a nice change.

  Included in here are:

   - removal of unused PCMCIA drivers (finally!)

   - Interconnect driver updates and additions

   - Lots of IIO driver updates and additions

   - MHI driver updates

   - Coresight driver updates

   - NVMEM driver updates, which required some OF updates

   - W1 driver updates and a new maintainer to manage the subsystem

   - FPGA driver updates

   - New driver subsystem, CDX, for AMD systems

   - lots of other small driver updates and additions

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'char-misc-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (196 commits)
  mcb-lpc: Reallocate memory region to avoid memory overlapping
  mcb-pci: Reallocate memory region to avoid memory overlapping
  mcb: Return actual parsed size when reading chameleon table
  kernel/configs: Drop Android config fragments
  virt: acrn: Replace obsolete memalign() with posix_memalign()
  spmi: Add a check for remove callback when removing a SPMI driver
  spmi: fix W=1 kernel-doc warnings
  spmi: mtk-pmif: Drop of_match_ptr for ID table
  spmi: pmic-arb: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  spmi: mtk-pmif: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  spmi: hisi-spmi-controller: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  w1: gpio: remove unnecessary ENOMEM messages
  w1: omap-hdq: remove unnecessary ENOMEM messages
  w1: omap-hdq: add SPDX tag
  w1: omap-hdq: allow compile testing
  w1: matrox: remove unnecessary ENOMEM messages
  w1: matrox: use inline over __inline__
  w1: matrox: switch from asm to linux header
  w1: ds2482: do not use assignment in if condition
  w1: ds2482: drop unnecessary header
  ...
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Pull char/misc drivers updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the "big" set of char/misc and other driver subsystems for
  6.4-rc1.

  It's pretty big, but due to the removal of pcmcia drivers, almost
  breaks even for number of lines added vs. removed, a nice change.

  Included in here are:

   - removal of unused PCMCIA drivers (finally!)

   - Interconnect driver updates and additions

   - Lots of IIO driver updates and additions

   - MHI driver updates

   - Coresight driver updates

   - NVMEM driver updates, which required some OF updates

   - W1 driver updates and a new maintainer to manage the subsystem

   - FPGA driver updates

   - New driver subsystem, CDX, for AMD systems

   - lots of other small driver updates and additions

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'char-misc-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (196 commits)
  mcb-lpc: Reallocate memory region to avoid memory overlapping
  mcb-pci: Reallocate memory region to avoid memory overlapping
  mcb: Return actual parsed size when reading chameleon table
  kernel/configs: Drop Android config fragments
  virt: acrn: Replace obsolete memalign() with posix_memalign()
  spmi: Add a check for remove callback when removing a SPMI driver
  spmi: fix W=1 kernel-doc warnings
  spmi: mtk-pmif: Drop of_match_ptr for ID table
  spmi: pmic-arb: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  spmi: mtk-pmif: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  spmi: hisi-spmi-controller: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
  w1: gpio: remove unnecessary ENOMEM messages
  w1: omap-hdq: remove unnecessary ENOMEM messages
  w1: omap-hdq: add SPDX tag
  w1: omap-hdq: allow compile testing
  w1: matrox: remove unnecessary ENOMEM messages
  w1: matrox: use inline over __inline__
  w1: matrox: switch from asm to linux header
  w1: ds2482: do not use assignment in if condition
  w1: ds2482: drop unnecessary header
  ...
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