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<title>linux-toradex.git/arch/parisc, branch v5.0</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>parisc: Fix ptrace syscall number modification</title>
<updated>2019-02-21T19:10:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry V. Levin</name>
<email>ldv@altlinux.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-16T13:10:39+00:00</published>
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Commit 910cd32e552e ("parisc: Fix and enable seccomp filter support")
introduced a regression in ptrace-based syscall tampering: when tracer
changes syscall number to -1, the kernel fails to initialize %r28 with
-ENOSYS and subsequently fails to return the error code of the failed
syscall to userspace.

This erroneous behaviour could be observed with a simple strace syscall
fault injection command which is expected to print something like this:

$ strace -a0 -ewrite -einject=write:error=enospc echo hello
write(1, "hello\n", 6) = -1 ENOSPC (No space left on device) (INJECTED)
write(2, "echo: ", 6) = -1 ENOSPC (No space left on device) (INJECTED)
write(2, "write error", 11) = -1 ENOSPC (No space left on device) (INJECTED)
write(2, "\n", 1) = -1 ENOSPC (No space left on device) (INJECTED)
+++ exited with 1 +++

After commit 910cd32e552ea09caa89cdbe328e468979b030dd it loops printing
something like this instead:

write(1, "hello\n", 6../strace: Failed to tamper with process 12345: unexpectedly got no error (return value 0, error 0)
) = 0 (INJECTED)

This bug was found by strace test suite.

Fixes: 910cd32e552e ("parisc: Fix and enable seccomp filter support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.5+
Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin &lt;ldv@altlinux.org&gt;
Tested-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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Commit 910cd32e552e ("parisc: Fix and enable seccomp filter support")
introduced a regression in ptrace-based syscall tampering: when tracer
changes syscall number to -1, the kernel fails to initialize %r28 with
-ENOSYS and subsequently fails to return the error code of the failed
syscall to userspace.

This erroneous behaviour could be observed with a simple strace syscall
fault injection command which is expected to print something like this:

$ strace -a0 -ewrite -einject=write:error=enospc echo hello
write(1, "hello\n", 6) = -1 ENOSPC (No space left on device) (INJECTED)
write(2, "echo: ", 6) = -1 ENOSPC (No space left on device) (INJECTED)
write(2, "write error", 11) = -1 ENOSPC (No space left on device) (INJECTED)
write(2, "\n", 1) = -1 ENOSPC (No space left on device) (INJECTED)
+++ exited with 1 +++

After commit 910cd32e552ea09caa89cdbe328e468979b030dd it loops printing
something like this instead:

write(1, "hello\n", 6../strace: Failed to tamper with process 12345: unexpectedly got no error (return value 0, error 0)
) = 0 (INJECTED)

This bug was found by strace test suite.

Fixes: 910cd32e552e ("parisc: Fix and enable seccomp filter support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.5+
Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin &lt;ldv@altlinux.org&gt;
Tested-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>arch: remove redundant UAPI generic-y defines</title>
<updated>2019-01-06T01:22:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-03T01:10:39+00:00</published>
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Now that Kbuild automatically creates asm-generic wrappers for missing
mandatory headers, it is redundant to list the same headers in
generic-y and mandatory-y.

Suggested-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
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Now that Kbuild automatically creates asm-generic wrappers for missing
mandatory headers, it is redundant to list the same headers in
generic-y and mandatory-y.

Suggested-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch: remove stale comments "UAPI Header export list"</title>
<updated>2019-01-06T00:46:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-03T01:10:37+00:00</published>
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These comments are leftovers of commit fcc8487d477a ("uapi: export all
headers under uapi directories").

Prior to that commit, exported headers must be explicitly added to
header-y. Now, all headers under the uapi/ directories are exported.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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These comments are leftovers of commit fcc8487d477a ("uapi: export all
headers under uapi directories").

Prior to that commit, exported headers must be explicitly added to
header-y. Now, all headers under the uapi/ directories are exported.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'parisc-4.21-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux</title>
<updated>2019-01-05T19:44:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-05T19:44:20+00:00</published>
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Pull parisc fix from Helge Deller:
 "Fix boot issues with a series of parisc servers since kernel 4.20.

  Remapping kernel text with set_kernel_text_rw() missed to remap from
  lowest up until the highest huge-page aligned kernel text addresss"

* 'parisc-4.21-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
  parisc: Remap hugepage-aligned pages in set_kernel_text_rw()
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Pull parisc fix from Helge Deller:
 "Fix boot issues with a series of parisc servers since kernel 4.20.

  Remapping kernel text with set_kernel_text_rw() missed to remap from
  lowest up until the highest huge-page aligned kernel text addresss"

* 'parisc-4.21-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
  parisc: Remap hugepage-aligned pages in set_kernel_text_rw()
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2019-01-05T17:16:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-05T17:16:18+00:00</published>
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:

 - procfs updates

 - various misc bits

 - lib/ updates

 - epoll updates

 - autofs

 - fatfs

 - a few more MM bits

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (58 commits)
  mm/page_io.c: fix polled swap page in
  checkpatch: add Co-developed-by to signature tags
  docs: fix Co-Developed-by docs
  drivers/base/platform.c: kmemleak ignore a known leak
  fs: don't open code lru_to_page()
  fs/: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions
  mm/: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions
  arch/arc/mm/fault.c: remove caller signal_pending_branch predictions
  kernel/sched/: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions
  kernel/locking/mutex.c: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions
  mm: select HAVE_MOVE_PMD on x86 for faster mremap
  mm: speed up mremap by 20x on large regions
  mm: treewide: remove unused address argument from pte_alloc functions
  initramfs: cleanup incomplete rootfs
  scripts/gdb: fix lx-version string output
  kernel/kcov.c: mark write_comp_data() as notrace
  kernel/sysctl: add panic_print into sysctl
  panic: add options to print system info when panic happens
  bfs: extra sanity checking and static inode bitmap
  exec: separate MM_ANONPAGES and RLIMIT_STACK accounting
  ...
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:

 - procfs updates

 - various misc bits

 - lib/ updates

 - epoll updates

 - autofs

 - fatfs

 - a few more MM bits

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (58 commits)
  mm/page_io.c: fix polled swap page in
  checkpatch: add Co-developed-by to signature tags
  docs: fix Co-Developed-by docs
  drivers/base/platform.c: kmemleak ignore a known leak
  fs: don't open code lru_to_page()
  fs/: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions
  mm/: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions
  arch/arc/mm/fault.c: remove caller signal_pending_branch predictions
  kernel/sched/: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions
  kernel/locking/mutex.c: remove caller signal_pending branch predictions
  mm: select HAVE_MOVE_PMD on x86 for faster mremap
  mm: speed up mremap by 20x on large regions
  mm: treewide: remove unused address argument from pte_alloc functions
  initramfs: cleanup incomplete rootfs
  scripts/gdb: fix lx-version string output
  kernel/kcov.c: mark write_comp_data() as notrace
  kernel/sysctl: add panic_print into sysctl
  panic: add options to print system info when panic happens
  bfs: extra sanity checking and static inode bitmap
  exec: separate MM_ANONPAGES and RLIMIT_STACK accounting
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: Remap hugepage-aligned pages in set_kernel_text_rw()</title>
<updated>2019-01-04T23:39:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-04T22:32:53+00:00</published>
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The alternative coding patch for parisc in kernel 4.20 broke booting
machines with PA8500-PA8700 CPUs. The problem is, that for such machines
the parisc kernel automatically utilizes huge pages to access kernel
text code, but the set_kernel_text_rw() function, which is used shortly
before applying any alternative patches, didn't used the correctly
hugepage-aligned addresses to remap the kernel text read-writeable.

Fixes: 3847dab77421 ("parisc: Add alternative coding infrastructure")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[4.20]
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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The alternative coding patch for parisc in kernel 4.20 broke booting
machines with PA8500-PA8700 CPUs. The problem is, that for such machines
the parisc kernel automatically utilizes huge pages to access kernel
text code, but the set_kernel_text_rw() function, which is used shortly
before applying any alternative patches, didn't used the correctly
hugepage-aligned addresses to remap the kernel text read-writeable.

Fixes: 3847dab77421 ("parisc: Add alternative coding infrastructure")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[4.20]
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: treewide: remove unused address argument from pte_alloc functions</title>
<updated>2019-01-04T21:13:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Fernandes (Google)</name>
<email>joel@joelfernandes.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-03T23:28:34+00:00</published>
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Patch series "Add support for fast mremap".

This series speeds up the mremap(2) syscall by copying page tables at
the PMD level even for non-THP systems.  There is concern that the extra
'address' argument that mremap passes to pte_alloc may do something
subtle architecture related in the future that may make the scheme not
work.  Also we find that there is no point in passing the 'address' to
pte_alloc since its unused.  This patch therefore removes this argument
tree-wide resulting in a nice negative diff as well.  Also ensuring
along the way that the enabled architectures do not do anything funky
with the 'address' argument that goes unnoticed by the optimization.

Build and boot tested on x86-64.  Build tested on arm64.  The config
enablement patch for arm64 will be posted in the future after more
testing.

The changes were obtained by applying the following Coccinelle script.
(thanks Julia for answering all Coccinelle questions!).
Following fix ups were done manually:
* Removal of address argument from  pte_fragment_alloc
* Removal of pte_alloc_one_fast definitions from m68k and microblaze.

// Options: --include-headers --no-includes
// Note: I split the 'identifier fn' line, so if you are manually
// running it, please unsplit it so it runs for you.

virtual patch

@pte_alloc_func_def depends on patch exists@
identifier E2;
identifier fn =~
"^(__pte_alloc|pte_alloc_one|pte_alloc|__pte_alloc_kernel|pte_alloc_one_kernel)$";
type T2;
@@

 fn(...
- , T2 E2
 )
 { ... }

@pte_alloc_func_proto_noarg depends on patch exists@
type T1, T2, T3, T4;
identifier fn =~ "^(__pte_alloc|pte_alloc_one|pte_alloc|__pte_alloc_kernel|pte_alloc_one_kernel)$";
@@

(
- T3 fn(T1, T2);
+ T3 fn(T1);
|
- T3 fn(T1, T2, T4);
+ T3 fn(T1, T2);
)

@pte_alloc_func_proto depends on patch exists@
identifier E1, E2, E4;
type T1, T2, T3, T4;
identifier fn =~
"^(__pte_alloc|pte_alloc_one|pte_alloc|__pte_alloc_kernel|pte_alloc_one_kernel)$";
@@

(
- T3 fn(T1 E1, T2 E2);
+ T3 fn(T1 E1);
|
- T3 fn(T1 E1, T2 E2, T4 E4);
+ T3 fn(T1 E1, T2 E2);
)

@pte_alloc_func_call depends on patch exists@
expression E2;
identifier fn =~
"^(__pte_alloc|pte_alloc_one|pte_alloc|__pte_alloc_kernel|pte_alloc_one_kernel)$";
@@

 fn(...
-,  E2
 )

@pte_alloc_macro depends on patch exists@
identifier fn =~
"^(__pte_alloc|pte_alloc_one|pte_alloc|__pte_alloc_kernel|pte_alloc_one_kernel)$";
identifier a, b, c;
expression e;
position p;
@@

(
- #define fn(a, b, c) e
+ #define fn(a, b) e
|
- #define fn(a, b) e
+ #define fn(a) e
)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181108181201.88826-2-joelaf@google.com
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Julia Lawall &lt;Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: William Kucharski &lt;william.kucharski@oracle.com&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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Patch series "Add support for fast mremap".

This series speeds up the mremap(2) syscall by copying page tables at
the PMD level even for non-THP systems.  There is concern that the extra
'address' argument that mremap passes to pte_alloc may do something
subtle architecture related in the future that may make the scheme not
work.  Also we find that there is no point in passing the 'address' to
pte_alloc since its unused.  This patch therefore removes this argument
tree-wide resulting in a nice negative diff as well.  Also ensuring
along the way that the enabled architectures do not do anything funky
with the 'address' argument that goes unnoticed by the optimization.

Build and boot tested on x86-64.  Build tested on arm64.  The config
enablement patch for arm64 will be posted in the future after more
testing.

The changes were obtained by applying the following Coccinelle script.
(thanks Julia for answering all Coccinelle questions!).
Following fix ups were done manually:
* Removal of address argument from  pte_fragment_alloc
* Removal of pte_alloc_one_fast definitions from m68k and microblaze.

// Options: --include-headers --no-includes
// Note: I split the 'identifier fn' line, so if you are manually
// running it, please unsplit it so it runs for you.

virtual patch

@pte_alloc_func_def depends on patch exists@
identifier E2;
identifier fn =~
"^(__pte_alloc|pte_alloc_one|pte_alloc|__pte_alloc_kernel|pte_alloc_one_kernel)$";
type T2;
@@

 fn(...
- , T2 E2
 )
 { ... }

@pte_alloc_func_proto_noarg depends on patch exists@
type T1, T2, T3, T4;
identifier fn =~ "^(__pte_alloc|pte_alloc_one|pte_alloc|__pte_alloc_kernel|pte_alloc_one_kernel)$";
@@

(
- T3 fn(T1, T2);
+ T3 fn(T1);
|
- T3 fn(T1, T2, T4);
+ T3 fn(T1, T2);
)

@pte_alloc_func_proto depends on patch exists@
identifier E1, E2, E4;
type T1, T2, T3, T4;
identifier fn =~
"^(__pte_alloc|pte_alloc_one|pte_alloc|__pte_alloc_kernel|pte_alloc_one_kernel)$";
@@

(
- T3 fn(T1 E1, T2 E2);
+ T3 fn(T1 E1);
|
- T3 fn(T1 E1, T2 E2, T4 E4);
+ T3 fn(T1 E1, T2 E2);
)

@pte_alloc_func_call depends on patch exists@
expression E2;
identifier fn =~
"^(__pte_alloc|pte_alloc_one|pte_alloc|__pte_alloc_kernel|pte_alloc_one_kernel)$";
@@

 fn(...
-,  E2
 )

@pte_alloc_macro depends on patch exists@
identifier fn =~
"^(__pte_alloc|pte_alloc_one|pte_alloc|__pte_alloc_kernel|pte_alloc_one_kernel)$";
identifier a, b, c;
expression e;
position p;
@@

(
- #define fn(a, b, c) e
+ #define fn(a, b) e
|
- #define fn(a, b) e
+ #define fn(a) e
)

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181108181201.88826-2-joelaf@google.com
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Julia Lawall &lt;Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: William Kucharski &lt;william.kucharski@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fls: change parameter to unsigned int</title>
<updated>2019-01-04T21:13:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-03T23:26:41+00:00</published>
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When testing in userspace, UBSAN pointed out that shifting into the sign
bit is undefined behaviour.  It doesn't really make sense to ask for the
highest set bit of a negative value, so just turn the argument type into
an unsigned int.

Some architectures (eg ppc) already had it declared as an unsigned int,
so I don't expect too many problems.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181105221117.31828-1-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.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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When testing in userspace, UBSAN pointed out that shifting into the sign
bit is undefined behaviour.  It doesn't really make sense to ask for the
highest set bit of a negative value, so just turn the argument type into
an unsigned int.

Some architectures (eg ppc) already had it declared as an unsigned int,
so I don't expect too many problems.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181105221117.31828-1-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-arch@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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<title>Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function</title>
<updated>2019-01-04T02:57:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2019-01-04T02:57:57+00:00</published>
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Nobody has actually used the type (VERIFY_READ vs VERIFY_WRITE) argument
of the user address range verification function since we got rid of the
old racy i386-only code to walk page tables by hand.

It existed because the original 80386 would not honor the write protect
bit when in kernel mode, so you had to do COW by hand before doing any
user access.  But we haven't supported that in a long time, and these
days the 'type' argument is a purely historical artifact.

A discussion about extending 'user_access_begin()' to do the range
checking resulted this patch, because there is no way we're going to
move the old VERIFY_xyz interface to that model.  And it's best done at
the end of the merge window when I've done most of my merges, so let's
just get this done once and for all.

This patch was mostly done with a sed-script, with manual fix-ups for
the cases that weren't of the trivial 'access_ok(VERIFY_xyz' form.

There were a couple of notable cases:

 - csky still had the old "verify_area()" name as an alias.

 - the iter_iov code had magical hardcoded knowledge of the actual
   values of VERIFY_{READ,WRITE} (not that they mattered, since nothing
   really used it)

 - microblaze used the type argument for a debug printout

but other than those oddities this should be a total no-op patch.

I tried to fix up all architectures, did fairly extensive grepping for
access_ok() uses, and the changes are trivial, but I may have missed
something.  Any missed conversion should be trivially fixable, though.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Nobody has actually used the type (VERIFY_READ vs VERIFY_WRITE) argument
of the user address range verification function since we got rid of the
old racy i386-only code to walk page tables by hand.

It existed because the original 80386 would not honor the write protect
bit when in kernel mode, so you had to do COW by hand before doing any
user access.  But we haven't supported that in a long time, and these
days the 'type' argument is a purely historical artifact.

A discussion about extending 'user_access_begin()' to do the range
checking resulted this patch, because there is no way we're going to
move the old VERIFY_xyz interface to that model.  And it's best done at
the end of the merge window when I've done most of my merges, so let's
just get this done once and for all.

This patch was mostly done with a sed-script, with manual fix-ups for
the cases that weren't of the trivial 'access_ok(VERIFY_xyz' form.

There were a couple of notable cases:

 - csky still had the old "verify_area()" name as an alias.

 - the iter_iov code had magical hardcoded knowledge of the actual
   values of VERIFY_{READ,WRITE} (not that they mattered, since nothing
   really used it)

 - microblaze used the type argument for a debug printout

but other than those oddities this should be a total no-op patch.

I tried to fix up all architectures, did fairly extensive grepping for
access_ok() uses, and the changes are trivial, but I may have missed
something.  Any missed conversion should be trivially fixable, though.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kconfig-v4.21-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2018-12-29T21:40:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-29T21:40:29+00:00</published>
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Pull Kconfig file consolidation from Masahiro Yamada:
 "Consolidation of bus (PCI, PCMCIA, EISA, RapidIO) config entries by
  Christoph Hellwig.

  Currently, every architecture that wants to provide common peripheral
  busses needs to add some boilerplate code and include the right
  Kconfig files. This series instead just selects the presence (when
  needed) and then handles everything in the bus-specific Kconfig file
  under drivers/"

* tag 'kconfig-v4.21-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  pcmcia: remove per-arch PCMCIA config entry
  eisa: consolidate EISA Kconfig entry in drivers/eisa
  rapidio: consolidate RAPIDIO config entry in drivers/rapidio
  pcmcia: allow PCMCIA support independent of the architecture
  PCI: consolidate the PCI_SYSCALL symbol
  PCI: consolidate the PCI_DOMAINS and PCI_DOMAINS_GENERIC config options
  PCI: consolidate PCI config entry in drivers/pci
  MIPS: remove the HT_PCI config option
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Pull Kconfig file consolidation from Masahiro Yamada:
 "Consolidation of bus (PCI, PCMCIA, EISA, RapidIO) config entries by
  Christoph Hellwig.

  Currently, every architecture that wants to provide common peripheral
  busses needs to add some boilerplate code and include the right
  Kconfig files. This series instead just selects the presence (when
  needed) and then handles everything in the bus-specific Kconfig file
  under drivers/"

* tag 'kconfig-v4.21-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  pcmcia: remove per-arch PCMCIA config entry
  eisa: consolidate EISA Kconfig entry in drivers/eisa
  rapidio: consolidate RAPIDIO config entry in drivers/rapidio
  pcmcia: allow PCMCIA support independent of the architecture
  PCI: consolidate the PCI_SYSCALL symbol
  PCI: consolidate the PCI_DOMAINS and PCI_DOMAINS_GENERIC config options
  PCI: consolidate PCI config entry in drivers/pci
  MIPS: remove the HT_PCI config option
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