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<title>ptrace: Don't allow accessing an undumpable mm</title>
<updated>2017-01-06T09:40:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-22T18:06:50+00:00</published>
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commit 84d77d3f06e7e8dea057d10e8ec77ad71f721be3 upstream.

It is the reasonable expectation that if an executable file is not
readable there will be no way for a user without special privileges to
read the file.  This is enforced in ptrace_attach but if ptrace
is already attached before exec there is no enforcement for read-only
executables.

As the only way to read such an mm is through access_process_vm
spin a variant called ptrace_access_vm that will fail if the
target process is not being ptraced by the current process, or
the current process did not have sufficient privileges when ptracing
began to read the target processes mm.

In the ptrace implementations replace access_process_vm by
ptrace_access_vm.  There remain several ptrace sites that still use
access_process_vm as they are reading the target executables
instructions (for kernel consumption) or register stacks.  As such it
does not appear necessary to add a permission check to those calls.

This bug has always existed in Linux.

Fixes: v1.0
Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 84d77d3f06e7e8dea057d10e8ec77ad71f721be3 upstream.

It is the reasonable expectation that if an executable file is not
readable there will be no way for a user without special privileges to
read the file.  This is enforced in ptrace_attach but if ptrace
is already attached before exec there is no enforcement for read-only
executables.

As the only way to read such an mm is through access_process_vm
spin a variant called ptrace_access_vm that will fail if the
target process is not being ptraced by the current process, or
the current process did not have sufficient privileges when ptracing
began to read the target processes mm.

In the ptrace implementations replace access_process_vm by
ptrace_access_vm.  There remain several ptrace sites that still use
access_process_vm as they are reading the target executables
instructions (for kernel consumption) or register stacks.  As such it
does not appear necessary to add a permission check to those calls.

This bug has always existed in Linux.

Fixes: v1.0
Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'gup_flag-cleanups'</title>
<updated>2016-10-19T15:39:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-19T15:39:47+00:00</published>
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Merge the gup_flags cleanups from Lorenzo Stoakes:
 "This patch series adjusts functions in the get_user_pages* family such
  that desired FOLL_* flags are passed as an argument rather than
  implied by flags.

  The purpose of this change is to make the use of FOLL_FORCE explicit
  so it is easier to grep for and clearer to callers that this flag is
  being used.  The use of FOLL_FORCE is an issue as it overrides missing
  VM_READ/VM_WRITE flags for the VMA whose pages we are reading
  from/writing to, which can result in surprising behaviour.

  The patch series came out of the discussion around commit 38e088546522
  ("mm: check VMA flags to avoid invalid PROT_NONE NUMA balancing"),
  which addressed a BUG_ON() being triggered when a page was faulted in
  with PROT_NONE set but having been overridden by FOLL_FORCE.
  do_numa_page() was run on the assumption the page _must_ be one marked
  for NUMA node migration as an actual PROT_NONE page would have been
  dealt with prior to this code path, however FOLL_FORCE introduced a
  situation where this assumption did not hold.

  See

      https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&amp;m=147585445805166

  for the patch proposal"

Additionally, there's a fix for an ancient bug related to FOLL_FORCE and
FOLL_WRITE by me.

[ This branch was rebased recently to add a few more acked-by's and
  reviewed-by's ]

* gup_flag-cleanups:
  mm: replace access_process_vm() write parameter with gup_flags
  mm: replace access_remote_vm() write parameter with gup_flags
  mm: replace __access_remote_vm() write parameter with gup_flags
  mm: replace get_user_pages_remote() write/force parameters with gup_flags
  mm: replace get_user_pages() write/force parameters with gup_flags
  mm: replace get_vaddr_frames() write/force parameters with gup_flags
  mm: replace get_user_pages_locked() write/force parameters with gup_flags
  mm: replace get_user_pages_unlocked() write/force parameters with gup_flags
  mm: remove write/force parameters from __get_user_pages_unlocked()
  mm: remove write/force parameters from __get_user_pages_locked()
  mm: remove gup_flags FOLL_WRITE games from __get_user_pages()
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Merge the gup_flags cleanups from Lorenzo Stoakes:
 "This patch series adjusts functions in the get_user_pages* family such
  that desired FOLL_* flags are passed as an argument rather than
  implied by flags.

  The purpose of this change is to make the use of FOLL_FORCE explicit
  so it is easier to grep for and clearer to callers that this flag is
  being used.  The use of FOLL_FORCE is an issue as it overrides missing
  VM_READ/VM_WRITE flags for the VMA whose pages we are reading
  from/writing to, which can result in surprising behaviour.

  The patch series came out of the discussion around commit 38e088546522
  ("mm: check VMA flags to avoid invalid PROT_NONE NUMA balancing"),
  which addressed a BUG_ON() being triggered when a page was faulted in
  with PROT_NONE set but having been overridden by FOLL_FORCE.
  do_numa_page() was run on the assumption the page _must_ be one marked
  for NUMA node migration as an actual PROT_NONE page would have been
  dealt with prior to this code path, however FOLL_FORCE introduced a
  situation where this assumption did not hold.

  See

      https://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&amp;m=147585445805166

  for the patch proposal"

Additionally, there's a fix for an ancient bug related to FOLL_FORCE and
FOLL_WRITE by me.

[ This branch was rebased recently to add a few more acked-by's and
  reviewed-by's ]

* gup_flag-cleanups:
  mm: replace access_process_vm() write parameter with gup_flags
  mm: replace access_remote_vm() write parameter with gup_flags
  mm: replace __access_remote_vm() write parameter with gup_flags
  mm: replace get_user_pages_remote() write/force parameters with gup_flags
  mm: replace get_user_pages() write/force parameters with gup_flags
  mm: replace get_vaddr_frames() write/force parameters with gup_flags
  mm: replace get_user_pages_locked() write/force parameters with gup_flags
  mm: replace get_user_pages_unlocked() write/force parameters with gup_flags
  mm: remove write/force parameters from __get_user_pages_unlocked()
  mm: remove write/force parameters from __get_user_pages_locked()
  mm: remove gup_flags FOLL_WRITE games from __get_user_pages()
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<entry>
<title>mm: replace access_process_vm() write parameter with gup_flags</title>
<updated>2016-10-19T15:31:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lorenzo Stoakes</name>
<email>lstoakes@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-13T00:20:20+00:00</published>
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This removes the 'write' argument from access_process_vm() and replaces
it with 'gup_flags' as use of this function previously silently implied
FOLL_FORCE, whereas after this patch callers explicitly pass this flag.

We make this explicit as use of FOLL_FORCE can result in surprising
behaviour (and hence bugs) within the mm subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This removes the 'write' argument from access_process_vm() and replaces
it with 'gup_flags' as use of this function previously silently implied
FOLL_FORCE, whereas after this patch callers explicitly pass this flag.

We make this explicit as use of FOLL_FORCE can result in surprising
behaviour (and hence bugs) within the mm subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild</title>
<updated>2016-10-14T21:26:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-14T21:26:58+00:00</published>
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Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:

 - EXPORT_SYMBOL for asm source by Al Viro.

   This does bring a regression, because genksyms no longer generates
   checksums for these symbols (CONFIG_MODVERSIONS). Nick Piggin is
   working on a patch to fix this.

   Plus, we are talking about functions like strcpy(), which rarely
   change prototypes.

 - Fixes for PPC fallout of the above by Stephen Rothwell and Nick
   Piggin

 - fixdep speedup by Alexey Dobriyan.

 - preparatory work by Nick Piggin to allow architectures to build with
   -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and --gc-sections

 - CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVES support by Stephen Rothwell

 - fix for filenames with colons in the initramfs source by me.

* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: (22 commits)
  initramfs: Escape colons in depfile
  ppc: there is no clear_pages to export
  powerpc/64: whitelist unresolved modversions CRCs
  kbuild: -ffunction-sections fix for archs with conflicting sections
  kbuild: add arch specific post-link Makefile
  kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination
  kbuild: allow architectures to use thin archives instead of ld -r
  kbuild: Regenerate genksyms lexer
  kbuild: genksyms fix for typeof handling
  fixdep: faster CONFIG_ search
  ia64: move exports to definitions
  sparc32: debride memcpy.S a bit
  [sparc] unify 32bit and 64bit string.h
  sparc: move exports to definitions
  ppc: move exports to definitions
  arm: move exports to definitions
  s390: move exports to definitions
  m68k: move exports to definitions
  alpha: move exports to actual definitions
  x86: move exports to actual definitions
  ...
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Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:

 - EXPORT_SYMBOL for asm source by Al Viro.

   This does bring a regression, because genksyms no longer generates
   checksums for these symbols (CONFIG_MODVERSIONS). Nick Piggin is
   working on a patch to fix this.

   Plus, we are talking about functions like strcpy(), which rarely
   change prototypes.

 - Fixes for PPC fallout of the above by Stephen Rothwell and Nick
   Piggin

 - fixdep speedup by Alexey Dobriyan.

 - preparatory work by Nick Piggin to allow architectures to build with
   -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and --gc-sections

 - CONFIG_THIN_ARCHIVES support by Stephen Rothwell

 - fix for filenames with colons in the initramfs source by me.

* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: (22 commits)
  initramfs: Escape colons in depfile
  ppc: there is no clear_pages to export
  powerpc/64: whitelist unresolved modversions CRCs
  kbuild: -ffunction-sections fix for archs with conflicting sections
  kbuild: add arch specific post-link Makefile
  kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination
  kbuild: allow architectures to use thin archives instead of ld -r
  kbuild: Regenerate genksyms lexer
  kbuild: genksyms fix for typeof handling
  fixdep: faster CONFIG_ search
  ia64: move exports to definitions
  sparc32: debride memcpy.S a bit
  [sparc] unify 32bit and 64bit string.h
  sparc: move exports to definitions
  ppc: move exports to definitions
  arm: move exports to definitions
  s390: move exports to definitions
  m68k: move exports to definitions
  alpha: move exports to actual definitions
  x86: move exports to actual definitions
  ...
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<entry>
<title>nmi_backtrace: generate one-line reports for idle cpus</title>
<updated>2016-10-08T01:46:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@mellanox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-08T00:02:55+00:00</published>
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When doing an nmi backtrace of many cores, most of which are idle, the
output is a little overwhelming and very uninformative.  Suppress
messages for cpus that are idling when they are interrupted and just
emit one line, "NMI backtrace for N skipped: idling at pc 0xNNN".

We do this by grouping all the cpuidle code together into a new
.cpuidle.text section, and then checking the address of the interrupted
PC to see if it lies within that section.

This commit suitably tags x86 and tile idle routines, and only adds in
the minimal framework for other architectures.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472487169-14923-5-git-send-email-cmetcalf@mellanox.com
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@mellanox.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt; [arm]
Tested-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Aaron Tomlin &lt;atomlin@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&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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When doing an nmi backtrace of many cores, most of which are idle, the
output is a little overwhelming and very uninformative.  Suppress
messages for cpus that are idling when they are interrupted and just
emit one line, "NMI backtrace for N skipped: idling at pc 0xNNN".

We do this by grouping all the cpuidle code together into a new
.cpuidle.text section, and then checking the address of the interrupted
PC to see if it lies within that section.

This commit suitably tags x86 and tile idle routines, and only adds in
the minimal framework for other architectures.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472487169-14923-5-git-send-email-cmetcalf@mellanox.com
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@mellanox.com&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Daniel Thompson &lt;daniel.thompson@linaro.org&gt; [arm]
Tested-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Aaron Tomlin &lt;atomlin@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&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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<entry>
<title>alpha: move exports to actual definitions</title>
<updated>2016-08-08T03:47:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-11T14:51:29+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'rtc-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/abelloni/linux</title>
<updated>2016-08-05T13:48:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-05T13:48:22+00:00</published>
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Pull RTC updates from Alexandre Belloni:
 "RTC for 4.8

  Cleanups:
   - huge cleanup of rtc-generic and char/genrtc this allowed to cleanup
     rtc-cmos, rtc-sh, rtc-m68k, rtc-powerpc and rtc-parisc
   - move mn10300 to rtc-cmos

  Subsystem:
   - fix wakealarms after hibernate
   - multiples fixes for rctest
   - simplify implementations of .read_alarm

  New drivers:
   - Maxim MAX6916

  Drivers:
   - ds1307: fix weekday
   - m41t80: add wakeup support
   - pcf85063: add support for PCF85063A variant
   - rv8803: extend i2c fix and other fixes
   - s35390a: fix alarm reading, this fixes instant reboot after
     shutdown for QNAP TS-41x
   - s3c: clock fixes"

* tag 'rtc-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/abelloni/linux: (65 commits)
  rtc: rv8803: Clear V1F when setting the time
  rtc: rv8803: Stop the clock while setting the time
  rtc: rv8803: Always apply the I²C workaround
  rtc: rv8803: Fix read day of week
  rtc: rv8803: Remove the check for valid time
  rtc: rv8803: Kconfig: Indicate rx8900 support
  rtc: asm9260: remove .owner field for driver
  rtc: at91sam9: Fix missing spin_lock_init()
  rtc: m41t80: add suspend handlers for alarm IRQ
  rtc: m41t80: make it a real error message
  rtc: pcf85063: Add support for the PCF85063A device
  rtc: pcf85063: fix year range
  rtc: hym8563: in .read_alarm set .tm_sec to 0 to signal minute accuracy
  rtc: explicitly set tm_sec = 0 for drivers with minute accurancy
  rtc: s3c: Add s3c_rtc_{enable/disable}_clk in s3c_rtc_setfreq()
  rtc: s3c: Remove unnecessary call to disable already disabled clock
  rtc: abx80x: use devm_add_action_or_reset()
  rtc: m41t80: use devm_add_action_or_reset()
  rtc: fix a typo and reduce three empty lines to one
  rtc: s35390a: improve two comments in .set_alarm
  ...
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Pull RTC updates from Alexandre Belloni:
 "RTC for 4.8

  Cleanups:
   - huge cleanup of rtc-generic and char/genrtc this allowed to cleanup
     rtc-cmos, rtc-sh, rtc-m68k, rtc-powerpc and rtc-parisc
   - move mn10300 to rtc-cmos

  Subsystem:
   - fix wakealarms after hibernate
   - multiples fixes for rctest
   - simplify implementations of .read_alarm

  New drivers:
   - Maxim MAX6916

  Drivers:
   - ds1307: fix weekday
   - m41t80: add wakeup support
   - pcf85063: add support for PCF85063A variant
   - rv8803: extend i2c fix and other fixes
   - s35390a: fix alarm reading, this fixes instant reboot after
     shutdown for QNAP TS-41x
   - s3c: clock fixes"

* tag 'rtc-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/abelloni/linux: (65 commits)
  rtc: rv8803: Clear V1F when setting the time
  rtc: rv8803: Stop the clock while setting the time
  rtc: rv8803: Always apply the I²C workaround
  rtc: rv8803: Fix read day of week
  rtc: rv8803: Remove the check for valid time
  rtc: rv8803: Kconfig: Indicate rx8900 support
  rtc: asm9260: remove .owner field for driver
  rtc: at91sam9: Fix missing spin_lock_init()
  rtc: m41t80: add suspend handlers for alarm IRQ
  rtc: m41t80: make it a real error message
  rtc: pcf85063: Add support for the PCF85063A device
  rtc: pcf85063: fix year range
  rtc: hym8563: in .read_alarm set .tm_sec to 0 to signal minute accuracy
  rtc: explicitly set tm_sec = 0 for drivers with minute accurancy
  rtc: s3c: Add s3c_rtc_{enable/disable}_clk in s3c_rtc_setfreq()
  rtc: s3c: Remove unnecessary call to disable already disabled clock
  rtc: abx80x: use devm_add_action_or_reset()
  rtc: m41t80: use devm_add_action_or_reset()
  rtc: fix a typo and reduce three empty lines to one
  rtc: s35390a: improve two comments in .set_alarm
  ...
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dma-mapping: use unsigned long for dma_attrs</title>
<updated>2016-08-04T12:50:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Krzysztof Kozlowski</name>
<email>k.kozlowski@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-03T20:46:00+00:00</published>
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The dma-mapping core and the implementations do not change the DMA
attributes passed by pointer.  Thus the pointer can point to const data.
However the attributes do not have to be a bitfield.  Instead unsigned
long will do fine:

1. This is just simpler.  Both in terms of reading the code and setting
   attributes.  Instead of initializing local attributes on the stack
   and passing pointer to it to dma_set_attr(), just set the bits.

2. It brings safeness and checking for const correctness because the
   attributes are passed by value.

Semantic patches for this change (at least most of them):

    virtual patch
    virtual context

    @r@
    identifier f, attrs;

    @@
    f(...,
    - struct dma_attrs *attrs
    + unsigned long attrs
    , ...)
    {
    ...
    }

    @@
    identifier r.f;
    @@
    f(...,
    - NULL
    + 0
     )

and

    // Options: --all-includes
    virtual patch
    virtual context

    @r@
    identifier f, attrs;
    type t;

    @@
    t f(..., struct dma_attrs *attrs);

    @@
    identifier r.f;
    @@
    f(...,
    - NULL
    + 0
     )

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468399300-5399-2-git-send-email-k.kozlowski@samsung.com
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;k.kozlowski@samsung.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Acked-by: Robin Murphy &lt;robin.murphy@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt &lt;egtvedt@samfundet.no&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt; [c6x]
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt; [cris]
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch&gt; [drm]
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt; [iommu]
Acked-by: Fabien Dessenne &lt;fabien.dessenne@st.com&gt; [bdisp]
Reviewed-by: Marek Szyprowski &lt;m.szyprowski@samsung.com&gt; [vb2-core]
Acked-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt; [xen]
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt; [xen swiotlb]
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt; [iommu]
Acked-by: Richard Kuo &lt;rkuo@codeaurora.org&gt; [hexagon]
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt; [m68k]
Acked-by: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com&gt; [s390]
Acked-by: Bjorn Andersson &lt;bjorn.andersson@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt &lt;egtvedt@samfundet.no&gt; [avr32]
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt; [arc]
Acked-by: Robin Murphy &lt;robin.murphy@arm.com&gt; [arm64 and dma-iommu]
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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The dma-mapping core and the implementations do not change the DMA
attributes passed by pointer.  Thus the pointer can point to const data.
However the attributes do not have to be a bitfield.  Instead unsigned
long will do fine:

1. This is just simpler.  Both in terms of reading the code and setting
   attributes.  Instead of initializing local attributes on the stack
   and passing pointer to it to dma_set_attr(), just set the bits.

2. It brings safeness and checking for const correctness because the
   attributes are passed by value.

Semantic patches for this change (at least most of them):

    virtual patch
    virtual context

    @r@
    identifier f, attrs;

    @@
    f(...,
    - struct dma_attrs *attrs
    + unsigned long attrs
    , ...)
    {
    ...
    }

    @@
    identifier r.f;
    @@
    f(...,
    - NULL
    + 0
     )

and

    // Options: --all-includes
    virtual patch
    virtual context

    @r@
    identifier f, attrs;
    type t;

    @@
    t f(..., struct dma_attrs *attrs);

    @@
    identifier r.f;
    @@
    f(...,
    - NULL
    + 0
     )

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468399300-5399-2-git-send-email-k.kozlowski@samsung.com
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;k.kozlowski@samsung.com&gt;
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Acked-by: Robin Murphy &lt;robin.murphy@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt &lt;egtvedt@samfundet.no&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt; [c6x]
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt; [cris]
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch&gt; [drm]
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt; [iommu]
Acked-by: Fabien Dessenne &lt;fabien.dessenne@st.com&gt; [bdisp]
Reviewed-by: Marek Szyprowski &lt;m.szyprowski@samsung.com&gt; [vb2-core]
Acked-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt; [xen]
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt; [xen swiotlb]
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt; [iommu]
Acked-by: Richard Kuo &lt;rkuo@codeaurora.org&gt; [hexagon]
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt; [m68k]
Acked-by: Gerald Schaefer &lt;gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com&gt; [s390]
Acked-by: Bjorn Andersson &lt;bjorn.andersson@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt &lt;egtvedt@samfundet.no&gt; [avr32]
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt; [arc]
Acked-by: Robin Murphy &lt;robin.murphy@arm.com&gt; [arm64 and dma-iommu]
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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<entry>
<title>treewide: replace obsolete _refok by __ref</title>
<updated>2016-08-02T21:31:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fabian Frederick</name>
<email>fabf@skynet.be</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-02T21:03:33+00:00</published>
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There was only one use of __initdata_refok and __exit_refok

__init_refok was used 46 times against 82 for __ref.

Those definitions are obsolete since commit 312b1485fb50 ("Introduce new
section reference annotations tags: __ref, __refdata, __refconst")

This patch removes the following compatibility definitions and replaces
them treewide.

/* compatibility defines */
#define __init_refok     __ref
#define __initdata_refok __refdata
#define __exit_refok     __ref

I can also provide separate patches if necessary.
(One patch per tree and check in 1 month or 2 to remove old definitions)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466796271-3043-1-git-send-email-fabf@skynet.be
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick &lt;fabf@skynet.be&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&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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There was only one use of __initdata_refok and __exit_refok

__init_refok was used 46 times against 82 for __ref.

Those definitions are obsolete since commit 312b1485fb50 ("Introduce new
section reference annotations tags: __ref, __refdata, __refconst")

This patch removes the following compatibility definitions and replaces
them treewide.

/* compatibility defines */
#define __init_refok     __ref
#define __initdata_refok __refdata
#define __exit_refok     __ref

I can also provide separate patches if necessary.
(One patch per tree and check in 1 month or 2 to remove old definitions)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466796271-3043-1-git-send-email-fabf@skynet.be
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick &lt;fabf@skynet.be&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>char/genrtc: remove alpha support</title>
<updated>2016-06-03T22:23:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-30T18:57:53+00:00</published>
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The genrtc driver serves no purpose on Alpha because it drives the
same hardware as the original rtc.c driver, and the newer rtc-generic.c
or rtc-cmos.c drivers on architectures that use the asm-generic/rtc.h
header.

The defconfig uses CONFIG_RTC=y, so this driver is not used by default.
At one point it was used to abstract a quirk for the "Marvel" platform,
but it does not do this any more after the code was moved into yet
another driver in arch/alpha/kernel/rtc.c.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com&gt;
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The genrtc driver serves no purpose on Alpha because it drives the
same hardware as the original rtc.c driver, and the newer rtc-generic.c
or rtc-cmos.c drivers on architectures that use the asm-generic/rtc.h
header.

The defconfig uses CONFIG_RTC=y, so this driver is not used by default.
At one point it was used to abstract a quirk for the "Marvel" platform,
but it does not do this any more after the code was moved into yet
another driver in arch/alpha/kernel/rtc.c.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni &lt;alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com&gt;
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