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<title>linux-stable.git/include/net, branch v5.4.249</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>ip_tunnels: allow VXLAN/GENEVE to inherit TOS/TTL from VLAN</title>
<updated>2023-06-28T08:18:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthias May</name>
<email>matthias.may@westermo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-21T20:27:19+00:00</published>
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commit 7074732c8faee201a245a6f983008a5789c0be33 upstream.

The current code allows for VXLAN and GENEVE to inherit the TOS
respective the TTL when skb-protocol is ETH_P_IP or ETH_P_IPV6.
However when the payload is VLAN encapsulated, then this inheriting
does not work, because the visible skb-protocol is of type
ETH_P_8021Q or ETH_P_8021AD.

Instead of skb-&gt;protocol use skb_protocol().

Signed-off-by: Matthias May &lt;matthias.may@westermo.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220721202718.10092-1-matthias.may@westermo.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nicolas Dichtel &lt;nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 7074732c8faee201a245a6f983008a5789c0be33 upstream.

The current code allows for VXLAN and GENEVE to inherit the TOS
respective the TTL when skb-protocol is ETH_P_IP or ETH_P_IPV6.
However when the payload is VLAN encapsulated, then this inheriting
does not work, because the visible skb-protocol is of type
ETH_P_8021Q or ETH_P_8021AD.

Instead of skb-&gt;protocol use skb_protocol().

Signed-off-by: Matthias May &lt;matthias.may@westermo.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220721202718.10092-1-matthias.may@westermo.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Nicolas Dichtel &lt;nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>neighbour: delete neigh_lookup_nodev as not used</title>
<updated>2023-06-21T13:44:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leon Romanovsky</name>
<email>leonro@nvidia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-08T09:23:13+00:00</published>
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commit 76b9bf965c98c9b53ef7420b3b11438dbd764f92 upstream.

neigh_lookup_nodev isn't used in the kernel after removal
of DECnet. So let's remove it.

Fixes: 1202cdd66531 ("Remove DECnet support from kernel")
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;razor@blackwall.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/eb5656200d7964b2d177a36b77efa3c597d6d72d.1678267343.git.leonro@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 76b9bf965c98c9b53ef7420b3b11438dbd764f92 upstream.

neigh_lookup_nodev isn't used in the kernel after removal
of DECnet. So let's remove it.

Fixes: 1202cdd66531 ("Remove DECnet support from kernel")
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky &lt;leonro@nvidia.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;razor@blackwall.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/eb5656200d7964b2d177a36b77efa3c597d6d72d.1678267343.git.leonro@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Remove unused inline function dst_hold_and_use()</title>
<updated>2023-06-21T13:44:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gaosheng Cui</name>
<email>cuigaosheng1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-22T08:38:57+00:00</published>
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commit 0b81882ddf8ac2743f657afb001beec7fc3929af upstream.

All uses of dst_hold_and_use() have
been removed since commit 1202cdd66531 ("Remove DECnet support
from kernel"), so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Gaosheng Cui &lt;cuigaosheng1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 0b81882ddf8ac2743f657afb001beec7fc3929af upstream.

All uses of dst_hold_and_use() have
been removed since commit 1202cdd66531 ("Remove DECnet support
from kernel"), so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Gaosheng Cui &lt;cuigaosheng1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>neighbour: Remove unused inline function neigh_key_eq16()</title>
<updated>2023-06-21T13:44:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gaosheng Cui</name>
<email>cuigaosheng1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-22T08:38:55+00:00</published>
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commit c8f01a4a54473f88f8cc0d9046ec9eb5a99815d5 upstream.

All uses of neigh_key_eq16() have
been removed since commit 1202cdd66531 ("Remove DECnet support
from kernel"), so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Gaosheng Cui &lt;cuigaosheng1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit c8f01a4a54473f88f8cc0d9046ec9eb5a99815d5 upstream.

All uses of neigh_key_eq16() have
been removed since commit 1202cdd66531 ("Remove DECnet support
from kernel"), so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Gaosheng Cui &lt;cuigaosheng1@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Remove DECnet support from kernel</title>
<updated>2023-06-21T13:44:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Hemminger</name>
<email>stephen@networkplumber.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-18T00:43:21+00:00</published>
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commit 1202cdd665315c525b5237e96e0bedc76d7e754f upstream.

DECnet is an obsolete network protocol that receives more attention
from kernel janitors than users. It belongs in computer protocol
history museum not in Linux kernel.

It has been "Orphaned" in kernel since 2010. The iproute2 support
for DECnet was dropped in 5.0 release. The documentation link on
Sourceforge says it is abandoned there as well.

Leave the UAPI alone to keep userspace programs compiling.
This means that there is still an empty neighbour table
for AF_DECNET.

The table of /proc/sys/net entries was updated to match
current directories and reformatted to be alphabetical.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;stephen@networkplumber.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;razor@blackwall.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 1202cdd665315c525b5237e96e0bedc76d7e754f upstream.

DECnet is an obsolete network protocol that receives more attention
from kernel janitors than users. It belongs in computer protocol
history museum not in Linux kernel.

It has been "Orphaned" in kernel since 2010. The iproute2 support
for DECnet was dropped in 5.0 release. The documentation link on
Sourceforge says it is abandoned there as well.

Leave the UAPI alone to keep userspace programs compiling.
This means that there is still an empty neighbour table
for AF_DECNET.

The table of /proc/sys/net entries was updated to match
current directories and reformatted to be alphabetical.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger &lt;stephen@networkplumber.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Ahern &lt;dsahern@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;razor@blackwall.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>bonding (gcc13): synchronize bond_{a,t}lb_xmit() types</title>
<updated>2023-06-14T08:59:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Slaby (SUSE)</name>
<email>jirislaby@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-31T11:44:09+00:00</published>
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commit 777fa87c7682228e155cf0892ba61cb2ab1fe3ae upstream.

Both bond_alb_xmit() and bond_tlb_xmit() produce a valid warning with
gcc-13:
  drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c:1409:13: error: conflicting types for 'bond_tlb_xmit' due to enum/integer mismatch; have 'netdev_tx_t(struct sk_buff *, struct net_device *)' ...
  include/net/bond_alb.h:160:5: note: previous declaration of 'bond_tlb_xmit' with type 'int(struct sk_buff *, struct net_device *)'

  drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c:1523:13: error: conflicting types for 'bond_alb_xmit' due to enum/integer mismatch; have 'netdev_tx_t(struct sk_buff *, struct net_device *)' ...
  include/net/bond_alb.h:159:5: note: previous declaration of 'bond_alb_xmit' with type 'int(struct sk_buff *, struct net_device *)'

I.e. the return type of the declaration is int, while the definitions
spell netdev_tx_t. Synchronize both of them to the latter.

Cc: Martin Liska &lt;mliska@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jay Vosburgh &lt;j.vosburgh@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Veaceslav Falico &lt;vfalico@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Gospodarek &lt;andy@greyhouse.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby (SUSE) &lt;jirislaby@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221031114409.10417-1-jirislaby@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 777fa87c7682228e155cf0892ba61cb2ab1fe3ae upstream.

Both bond_alb_xmit() and bond_tlb_xmit() produce a valid warning with
gcc-13:
  drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c:1409:13: error: conflicting types for 'bond_tlb_xmit' due to enum/integer mismatch; have 'netdev_tx_t(struct sk_buff *, struct net_device *)' ...
  include/net/bond_alb.h:160:5: note: previous declaration of 'bond_tlb_xmit' with type 'int(struct sk_buff *, struct net_device *)'

  drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c:1523:13: error: conflicting types for 'bond_alb_xmit' due to enum/integer mismatch; have 'netdev_tx_t(struct sk_buff *, struct net_device *)' ...
  include/net/bond_alb.h:159:5: note: previous declaration of 'bond_alb_xmit' with type 'int(struct sk_buff *, struct net_device *)'

I.e. the return type of the declaration is int, while the definitions
spell netdev_tx_t. Synchronize both of them to the latter.

Cc: Martin Liska &lt;mliska@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jay Vosburgh &lt;j.vosburgh@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Veaceslav Falico &lt;vfalico@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Gospodarek &lt;andy@greyhouse.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby (SUSE) &lt;jirislaby@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221031114409.10417-1-jirislaby@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: sched: move rtm_tca_policy declaration to include file</title>
<updated>2023-06-14T08:59:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-06T11:42:33+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 886bc7d6ed3357975c5f1d3c784da96000d4bbb4 ]

rtm_tca_policy is used from net/sched/sch_api.c and net/sched/cls_api.c,
thus should be declared in an include file.

This fixes the following sparse warning:
net/sched/sch_api.c:1434:25: warning: symbol 'rtm_tca_policy' was not declared. Should it be static?

Fixes: e331473fee3d ("net/sched: cls_api: add missing validation of netlink attributes")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim &lt;jhs@mojatatu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 886bc7d6ed3357975c5f1d3c784da96000d4bbb4 ]

rtm_tca_policy is used from net/sched/sch_api.c and net/sched/cls_api.c,
thus should be declared in an include file.

This fixes the following sparse warning:
net/sched/sch_api.c:1434:25: warning: symbol 'rtm_tca_policy' was not declared. Should it be static?

Fixes: e331473fee3d ("net/sched: cls_api: add missing validation of netlink attributes")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim &lt;jhs@mojatatu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rfs: annotate lockless accesses to sk-&gt;sk_rxhash</title>
<updated>2023-06-14T08:59:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-06T07:41:14+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 1e5c647c3f6d4f8497dedcd226204e1880e0ffb3 ]

Add READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() on accesses to sk-&gt;sk_rxhash.

This also prevents a (smart ?) compiler to remove the condition in:

if (sk-&gt;sk_rxhash != newval)
	sk-&gt;sk_rxhash = newval;

We need the condition to avoid dirtying a shared cache line.

Fixes: fec5e652e58f ("rfs: Receive Flow Steering")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;simon.horman@corigine.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 1e5c647c3f6d4f8497dedcd226204e1880e0ffb3 ]

Add READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() on accesses to sk-&gt;sk_rxhash.

This also prevents a (smart ?) compiler to remove the condition in:

if (sk-&gt;sk_rxhash != newval)
	sk-&gt;sk_rxhash = newval;

We need the condition to avoid dirtying a shared cache line.

Fixes: fec5e652e58f ("rfs: Receive Flow Steering")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman &lt;simon.horman@corigine.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima &lt;kuniyu@amazon.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>neighbour: fix unaligned access to pneigh_entry</title>
<updated>2023-06-14T08:59:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Qingfang DENG</name>
<email>qingfang.deng@siflower.com.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-01T01:54:32+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit ed779fe4c9b5a20b4ab4fd6f3e19807445bb78c7 ]

After the blamed commit, the member key is longer 4-byte aligned. On
platforms that do not support unaligned access, e.g., MIPS32R2 with
unaligned_action set to 1, this will trigger a crash when accessing
an IPv6 pneigh_entry, as the key is cast to an in6_addr pointer.

Change the type of the key to u32 to make it aligned.

Fixes: 62dd93181aaa ("[IPV6] NDISC: Set per-entry is_router flag in Proxy NA.")
Signed-off-by: Qingfang DENG &lt;qingfang.deng@siflower.com.cn&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230601015432.159066-1-dqfext@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit ed779fe4c9b5a20b4ab4fd6f3e19807445bb78c7 ]

After the blamed commit, the member key is longer 4-byte aligned. On
platforms that do not support unaligned access, e.g., MIPS32R2 with
unaligned_action set to 1, this will trigger a crash when accessing
an IPv6 pneigh_entry, as the key is cast to an in6_addr pointer.

Change the type of the key to u32 to make it aligned.

Fixes: 62dd93181aaa ("[IPV6] NDISC: Set per-entry is_router flag in Proxy NA.")
Signed-off-by: Qingfang DENG &lt;qingfang.deng@siflower.com.cn&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230601015432.159066-1-dqfext@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>neighbour: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member</title>
<updated>2023-06-14T08:59:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gustavo A. R. Silva</name>
<email>gustavo@embeddedor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-29T01:05:02+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 08ca27d027c238ed3f9b9968d349cebde44d99a6 ]

The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language
extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare
variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2],
introduced in C99:

struct foo {
        int stuff;
        struct boo array[];
};

By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning
in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which
will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being
inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.

Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by
this change:

"Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator
may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of
zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1]

This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21
[3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Stable-dep-of: ed779fe4c9b5 ("neighbour: fix unaligned access to pneigh_entry")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language
extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare
variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2],
introduced in C99:

struct foo {
        int stuff;
        struct boo array[];
};

By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning
in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which
will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being
inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.

Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by
this change:

"Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator
may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of
zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1]

This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21
[3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva &lt;gustavo@embeddedor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Stable-dep-of: ed779fe4c9b5 ("neighbour: fix unaligned access to pneigh_entry")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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