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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/mips/kernel, branch v4.10</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2016-12-25T22:30:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-25T22:30:04+00:00</published>
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Pull timer type cleanups from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This series does a tree wide cleanup of types related to
  timers/timekeeping.

   - Get rid of cycles_t and use a plain u64. The type is not really
     helpful and caused more confusion than clarity

   - Get rid of the ktime union. The union has become useless as we use
     the scalar nanoseconds storage unconditionally now. The 32bit
     timespec alike storage got removed due to the Y2038 limitations
     some time ago.

     That leaves the odd union access around for no reason. Clean it up.

  Both changes have been done with coccinelle and a small amount of
  manual mopping up"

* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  ktime: Get rid of ktime_equal()
  ktime: Cleanup ktime_set() usage
  ktime: Get rid of the union
  clocksource: Use a plain u64 instead of cycle_t
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Pull timer type cleanups from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This series does a tree wide cleanup of types related to
  timers/timekeeping.

   - Get rid of cycles_t and use a plain u64. The type is not really
     helpful and caused more confusion than clarity

   - Get rid of the ktime union. The union has become useless as we use
     the scalar nanoseconds storage unconditionally now. The 32bit
     timespec alike storage got removed due to the Y2038 limitations
     some time ago.

     That leaves the odd union access around for no reason. Clean it up.

  Both changes have been done with coccinelle and a small amount of
  manual mopping up"

* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  ktime: Get rid of ktime_equal()
  ktime: Cleanup ktime_set() usage
  ktime: Get rid of the union
  clocksource: Use a plain u64 instead of cycle_t
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'smp-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2016-12-25T22:05:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-25T22:05:56+00:00</published>
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Pull SMP hotplug notifier removal from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This is the final cleanup of the hotplug notifier infrastructure. The
  series has been reintgrated in the last two days because there came a
  new driver using the old infrastructure via the SCSI tree.

  Summary:

   - convert the last leftover drivers utilizing notifiers

   - fixup for a completely broken hotplug user

   - prevent setup of already used states

   - removal of the notifiers

   - treewide cleanup of hotplug state names

   - consolidation of state space

  There is a sphinx based documentation pending, but that needs review
  from the documentation folks"

* 'smp-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  irqchip/armada-xp: Consolidate hotplug state space
  irqchip/gic: Consolidate hotplug state space
  coresight/etm3/4x: Consolidate hotplug state space
  cpu/hotplug: Cleanup state names
  cpu/hotplug: Remove obsolete cpu hotplug register/unregister functions
  staging/lustre/libcfs: Convert to hotplug state machine
  scsi/bnx2i: Convert to hotplug state machine
  scsi/bnx2fc: Convert to hotplug state machine
  cpu/hotplug: Prevent overwriting of callbacks
  x86/msr: Remove bogus cleanup from the error path
  bus: arm-ccn: Prevent hotplug callback leak
  perf/x86/intel/cstate: Prevent hotplug callback leak
  ARM/imx/mmcd: Fix broken cpu hotplug handling
  scsi: qedi: Convert to hotplug state machine
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Pull SMP hotplug notifier removal from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This is the final cleanup of the hotplug notifier infrastructure. The
  series has been reintgrated in the last two days because there came a
  new driver using the old infrastructure via the SCSI tree.

  Summary:

   - convert the last leftover drivers utilizing notifiers

   - fixup for a completely broken hotplug user

   - prevent setup of already used states

   - removal of the notifiers

   - treewide cleanup of hotplug state names

   - consolidation of state space

  There is a sphinx based documentation pending, but that needs review
  from the documentation folks"

* 'smp-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  irqchip/armada-xp: Consolidate hotplug state space
  irqchip/gic: Consolidate hotplug state space
  coresight/etm3/4x: Consolidate hotplug state space
  cpu/hotplug: Cleanup state names
  cpu/hotplug: Remove obsolete cpu hotplug register/unregister functions
  staging/lustre/libcfs: Convert to hotplug state machine
  scsi/bnx2i: Convert to hotplug state machine
  scsi/bnx2fc: Convert to hotplug state machine
  cpu/hotplug: Prevent overwriting of callbacks
  x86/msr: Remove bogus cleanup from the error path
  bus: arm-ccn: Prevent hotplug callback leak
  perf/x86/intel/cstate: Prevent hotplug callback leak
  ARM/imx/mmcd: Fix broken cpu hotplug handling
  scsi: qedi: Convert to hotplug state machine
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<entry>
<title>clocksource: Use a plain u64 instead of cycle_t</title>
<updated>2016-12-25T10:04:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-21T19:32:01+00:00</published>
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There is no point in having an extra type for extra confusion. u64 is
unambiguous.

Conversion was done with the following coccinelle script:

@rem@
@@
-typedef u64 cycle_t;

@fix@
typedef cycle_t;
@@
-cycle_t
+u64

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
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There is no point in having an extra type for extra confusion. u64 is
unambiguous.

Conversion was done with the following coccinelle script:

@rem@
@@
-typedef u64 cycle_t;

@fix@
typedef cycle_t;
@@
-cycle_t
+u64

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;john.stultz@linaro.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpu/hotplug: Cleanup state names</title>
<updated>2016-12-25T09:47:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-21T19:19:54+00:00</published>
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When the state names got added a script was used to add the extra argument
to the calls. The script basically converted the state constant to a
string, but the cleanup to convert these strings into meaningful ones did
not happen.

Replace all the useless strings with 'subsys/xxx/yyy:state' strings which
are used in all the other places already.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161221192112.085444152@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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When the state names got added a script was used to add the extra argument
to the calls. The script basically converted the state constant to a
string, but the cleanup to convert these strings into meaningful ones did
not happen.

Replace all the useless strings with 'subsys/xxx/yyy:state' strings which
are used in all the other places already.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161221192112.085444152@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Replace &lt;asm/uaccess.h&gt; with &lt;linux/uaccess.h&gt; globally</title>
<updated>2016-12-24T19:46:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-24T19:46:01+00:00</published>
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This was entirely automated, using the script by Al:

  PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*&lt;asm/uaccess.h&gt;'
  sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include &lt;linux/uaccess.h&gt;!" \
        $(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h)

to do the replacement at the end of the merge window.

Requested-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This was entirely automated, using the script by Al:

  PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*&lt;asm/uaccess.h&gt;'
  sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include &lt;linux/uaccess.h&gt;!" \
        $(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h)

to do the replacement at the end of the merge window.

Requested-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2016-12-14T22:09:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-14T22:09:48+00:00</published>
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Pull namespace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "After a lot of discussion and work we have finally reachanged a basic
  understanding of what is necessary to make unprivileged mounts safe in
  the presence of EVM and IMA xattrs which the last commit in this
  series reflects. While technically it is a revert the comments it adds
  are important for people not getting confused in the future. Clearing
  up that confusion allows us to seriously work on unprivileged mounts
  of fuse in the next development cycle.

  The rest of the fixes in this set are in the intersection of user
  namespaces, ptrace, and exec. I started with the first fix which
  started a feedback cycle of finding additional issues during review
  and fixing them. Culiminating in a fix for a bug that has been present
  since at least Linux v1.0.

  Potentially these fixes were candidates for being merged during the rc
  cycle, and are certainly backport candidates but enough little things
  turned up during review and testing that I decided they should be
  handled as part of the normal development process just to be certain
  there were not any great surprises when it came time to backport some
  of these fixes"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  Revert "evm: Translate user/group ids relative to s_user_ns when computing HMAC"
  exec: Ensure mm-&gt;user_ns contains the execed files
  ptrace: Don't allow accessing an undumpable mm
  ptrace: Capture the ptracer's creds not PT_PTRACE_CAP
  mm: Add a user_ns owner to mm_struct and fix ptrace permission checks
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Pull namespace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "After a lot of discussion and work we have finally reachanged a basic
  understanding of what is necessary to make unprivileged mounts safe in
  the presence of EVM and IMA xattrs which the last commit in this
  series reflects. While technically it is a revert the comments it adds
  are important for people not getting confused in the future. Clearing
  up that confusion allows us to seriously work on unprivileged mounts
  of fuse in the next development cycle.

  The rest of the fixes in this set are in the intersection of user
  namespaces, ptrace, and exec. I started with the first fix which
  started a feedback cycle of finding additional issues during review
  and fixing them. Culiminating in a fix for a bug that has been present
  since at least Linux v1.0.

  Potentially these fixes were candidates for being merged during the rc
  cycle, and are certainly backport candidates but enough little things
  turned up during review and testing that I decided they should be
  handled as part of the normal development process just to be certain
  there were not any great surprises when it came time to backport some
  of these fixes"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  Revert "evm: Translate user/group ids relative to s_user_ns when computing HMAC"
  exec: Ensure mm-&gt;user_ns contains the execed files
  ptrace: Don't allow accessing an undumpable mm
  ptrace: Capture the ptracer's creds not PT_PTRACE_CAP
  mm: Add a user_ns owner to mm_struct and fix ptrace permission checks
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial</title>
<updated>2016-12-14T19:12:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-14T19:12:25+00:00</published>
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Pull trivial updates from Jiri Kosina.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial:
  NTB: correct ntb_spad_count comment typo
  misc: ibmasm: fix typo in error message
  Remove references to dead make variable LINUX_INCLUDE
  Remove last traces of ikconfig.h
  treewide: Fix printk() message errors
  Documentation/device-mapper: s/getsize/getsz/
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Pull trivial updates from Jiri Kosina.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial:
  NTB: correct ntb_spad_count comment typo
  misc: ibmasm: fix typo in error message
  Remove references to dead make variable LINUX_INCLUDE
  Remove last traces of ikconfig.h
  treewide: Fix printk() message errors
  Documentation/device-mapper: s/getsize/getsz/
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Fix printk() message errors</title>
<updated>2016-12-14T09:54:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masanari Iida</name>
<email>standby24x7@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-17T14:44:17+00:00</published>
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This patch fix spelling typos in printk and kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida &lt;standby24x7@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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This patch fix spelling typos in printk and kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida &lt;standby24x7@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: Return -ENODEV from weak implementation of rtc_mips_set_time</title>
<updated>2016-12-11T10:19:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luuk Paulussen</name>
<email>luuk.paulussen@alliedtelesis.co.nz</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-07T22:43:34+00:00</published>
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The sync_cmos_clock function in kernel/time/ntp.c first tries to update
the internal clock of the cpu by calling the "update_persistent_clock64"
architecture specific function.  If this returns -ENODEV, it then tries
to update an external RTC using "rtc_set_ntp_time".

On the mips architecture, the weak implementation of the underlying
function would return 0 if it wasn't overridden.  This meant that the
sync_cmos_clock function would never try to update an external RTC
(if both CONFIG_GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE and CONFIG_RTC_SYSTOHC are
configured)

Returning -ENODEV instead, means that an external RTC will be tried.

Signed-off-by: Luuk Paulussen &lt;luuk.paulussen@alliedtelesis.co.nz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Richard Laing &lt;richard.laing@alliedtelesis.co.nz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Scott Parlane &lt;scott.parlane@alliedtelesis.co.nz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chris Packham &lt;chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14649/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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The sync_cmos_clock function in kernel/time/ntp.c first tries to update
the internal clock of the cpu by calling the "update_persistent_clock64"
architecture specific function.  If this returns -ENODEV, it then tries
to update an external RTC using "rtc_set_ntp_time".

On the mips architecture, the weak implementation of the underlying
function would return 0 if it wasn't overridden.  This meant that the
sync_cmos_clock function would never try to update an external RTC
(if both CONFIG_GENERIC_CMOS_UPDATE and CONFIG_RTC_SYSTOHC are
configured)

Returning -ENODEV instead, means that an external RTC will be tried.

Signed-off-by: Luuk Paulussen &lt;luuk.paulussen@alliedtelesis.co.nz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Richard Laing &lt;richard.laing@alliedtelesis.co.nz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Scott Parlane &lt;scott.parlane@alliedtelesis.co.nz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Chris Packham &lt;chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14649/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ptrace: Don't allow accessing an undumpable mm</title>
<updated>2016-11-22T18:57:38+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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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
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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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
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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