linux.git/drivers/net/wireless, branch v4.7-rc2

remove lots of IS_ERR_VALUE abuses

2016-05-27T22:26:11+00:00

Most users of IS_ERR_VALUE() in the kernel are wrong, as they
pass an 'int' into a function that takes an 'unsigned long'
argument. This happens to work because the type is sign-extended
on 64-bit architectures before it gets converted into an
unsigned type.

However, anything that passes an 'unsigned short' or 'unsigned int'
argument into IS_ERR_VALUE() is guaranteed to be broken, as are
8-bit integers and types that are wider than 'unsigned long'.

Andrzej Hajda has already fixed a lot of the worst abusers that
were causing actual bugs, but it would be nice to prevent any
users that are not passing 'unsigned long' arguments.

This patch changes all users of IS_ERR_VALUE() that I could find
on 32-bit ARM randconfig builds and x86 allmodconfig. For the
moment, this doesn't change the definition of IS_ERR_VALUE()
because there are probably still architecture specific users
elsewhere.

Almost all the warnings I got are for files that are better off
using 'if (err)' or 'if (err < 0)'.
The only legitimate user I could find that we get a warning for
is the (32-bit only) freescale fman driver, so I did not remove
the IS_ERR_VALUE() there but changed the type to 'unsigned long'.
For 9pfs, I just worked around one user whose calling conventions
are so obscure that I did not dare change the behavior.

I was using this definition for testing:

 #define IS_ERR_VALUE(x) ((unsigned long*)NULL == (typeof (x)*)NULL && \
       unlikely((unsigned long long)(x) >= (unsigned long long)(typeof(x))-MAX_ERRNO))

which ends up making all 16-bit or wider types work correctly with
the most plausible interpretation of what IS_ERR_VALUE() was supposed
to return according to its users, but also causes a compile-time
warning for any users that do not pass an 'unsigned long' argument.

I suggested this approach earlier this year, but back then we ended
up deciding to just fix the users that are obviously broken. After
the initial warning that caused me to get involved in the discussion
(fs/gfs2/dir.c) showed up again in the mainline kernel, Linus
asked me to send the whole thing again.

[ Updated the 9p parts as per Al Viro  - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Andrzej Hajda 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/1/7/363
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/5/27/486
Acked-by: Srinivas Kandagatla  # For nvmem part
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'driver-core-4.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

2016-05-21T04:26:15+00:00

Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here's the "big" driver core update for 4.7-rc1.

  Mostly just debugfs changes, the long-known and messy races with
  removing debugfs files should be fixed thanks to the great work of
  Nicolai Stange.  We also have some isa updates in here (the x86
  maintainers told me to take it through this tree), a new warning when
  we run out of dynamic char major numbers, and a few other assorted
  changes, details in the shortlog.

  All have been in linux-next for some time with no reported issues"

* tag 'driver-core-4.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (32 commits)
  Revert "base: dd: don't remove driver_data in -EPROBE_DEFER case"
  gpio: ws16c48: Utilize the ISA bus driver
  gpio: 104-idio-16: Utilize the ISA bus driver
  gpio: 104-idi-48: Utilize the ISA bus driver
  gpio: 104-dio-48e: Utilize the ISA bus driver
  watchdog: ebc-c384_wdt: Utilize the ISA bus driver
  iio: stx104: Utilize the module_isa_driver and max_num_isa_dev macros
  iio: stx104: Add X86 dependency to STX104 Kconfig option
  Documentation: Add ISA bus driver documentation
  isa: Implement the max_num_isa_dev macro
  isa: Implement the module_isa_driver macro
  pnp: pnpbios: Add explicit X86_32 dependency to PNPBIOS
  isa: Decouple X86_32 dependency from the ISA Kconfig option
  driver-core: use 'dev' argument in dev_dbg_ratelimited stub
  base: dd: don't remove driver_data in -EPROBE_DEFER case
  kernfs: Move faulting copy_user operations outside of the mutex
  devcoredump: add scatterlist support
  debugfs: unproxify files created through debugfs_create_u32_array()
  debugfs: unproxify files created through debugfs_create_blob()
  debugfs: unproxify files created through debugfs_create_bool()
  ...

Merge tag 'wireless-drivers-next-for-davem-2016-05-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/wireless-drivers-next

2016-05-20T23:40:35+00:00

Kalle Valo says:

====================
wireless-drivers patches for 4.7

Major changes:

iwlwifi

* remove IWLWIFI_DEBUG_EXPERIMENTAL_UCODE kconfig option
* work for RX multiqueue continues
* dynamic queue allocation work continues
* add Luca as maintainer
* a bunch of fixes and improvements all over

brcmfmac

* add 4356 sdio support

ath6kl

* add ability to set debug uart baud rate with a module parameter

wil6210

* add debugfs file to configure firmware led functionality
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

iwlwifi: fix mis-merge that breaks the driver

2016-05-18T19:11:22+00:00

My laptop that uses the intel 7680 iwlwifi module would no longer
connects to the network.  It would fail with a "Microcode SW error
detected." and spew out register state over and over again without ever
connecting to the network.

The cause is mis-merge in commit 909b27f70643, where David seems to have
lost some of the changes to iwl_mvm_set_tx_cmd() from commit
5c08b0f5026f ("iwlwifi: mvm: don't override the rate with the AMSDU
len").

The reason seems to be a conflict with commit d8fe484470dd ("iwlwifi:
mvm: add support for new TX CMD API"), which touched a line adjacent to
the changes in 909b27f70643.

David missed the fact that "info->driver_data[0]" had become
"skb_info->driver_data[0]".  Then he removed the skb_info because it was
unused.

This just re-updates iwl_mvm_set_tx_cmd() with the lost two lines.

Reported-and-tested-by: Linus Torvalds 
Reported-by: Reinoud Koornstra 
Cc: Luciano Coelho 
Cc: Kalle Valo 
Cc: David Miller 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2016-05-18T00:05:30+00:00

Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (21 commits)
  gitignore: fix wording
  mfd: ab8500-debugfs: fix "between" in printk
  memstick: trivial fix of spelling mistake on management
  cpupowerutils: bench: fix "average"
  treewide: Fix typos in printk
  IB/mlx4: printk fix
  pinctrl: sirf/atlas7: fix printk spelling
  serial: mctrl_gpio: Grammar s/lines GPIOs/line GPIOs/, /sets/set/
  w1: comment spelling s/minmum/minimum/
  Blackfin: comment spelling s/divsor/divisor/
  metag: Fix misspellings in comments.
  ia64: Fix misspellings in comments.
  hexagon: Fix misspellings in comments.
  tools/perf: Fix misspellings in comments.
  cris: Fix misspellings in comments.
  c6x: Fix misspellings in comments.
  blackfin: Fix misspelling of 'register' in comment.
  avr32: Fix misspelling of 'definitions' in comment.
  treewide: Fix typos in printk
  Doc: treewide : Fix typos in DocBook/filesystem.xml
  ...

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2016-05-15T17:32:48+00:00

The nf_conntrack_core.c fix in 'net' is not relevant in 'net-next'
because we no longer have a per-netns conntrack hash.

The ip_gre.c conflict as well as the iwlwifi ones were cases of
overlapping changes.

Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c
	net/ipv4/ip_gre.c
	net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge ath-next from ath.git

2016-05-11T20:23:51+00:00

ath.git patches for 4.7. Major changes:

ath6kl

* add ability to set debug uart baud rate with a module parameter

wil6210

* add debugfs file to configure firmware led functionality

ath10k: Fix survey reporting with QCA4019

2016-05-11T19:53:10+00:00

In QCA4019, cycle counter wraparound in same fashion
as QCA988X. When the cycle counter wraparound it
resets to 0x7fffffff. Set has_shifted_cc_wraparound to
true for QCA4019 to enable the code path to handle cycle
counter wraparound for consistent survey report.

Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan 
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo

ath10k: suppress warnings when getting wmi peer_rate_code_list event

2016-05-11T19:53:06+00:00

In 10.4, fw sends WMI PEER_RATECODE_LIST_EVENTID after successful
peer_assoc cmd. As of now this event is not of much use and not
implemented. Change the debug level and messsage as appropriate
to suppress "Unknown eventid: 36898".

Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan 
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo

wil6210: add support for device led configuration

2016-05-11T19:45:20+00:00

Add the ability to configure the device led to be used for notifying
the AP activity (60G device supports leds 0-2).
The host can also configure the blinking frequency of the led in
three states.

Signed-off-by: Maya Erez 
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo