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<title>arch: remove tile port</title>
<updated>2018-03-16T09:56:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-09T13:13:42+00:00</published>
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The Tile architecture port was added by Chris Metcalf in 2010, and
maintained until early 2018 when he orphaned it due to his departure
from Mellanox, and nobody else stepped up to maintain it. The product
line is still around in the form of the BlueField SoC, but no longer
uses the Tile architecture.

There are also still products for sale with Tile-GX SoCs, notably the
Mikrotik CCR router family. The products all use old (linux-3.3) kernels
with lots of patches and won't be upgraded by their manufacturers. There
have been efforts to port both OpenWRT and Debian to these, but both
projects have stalled and are very unlikely to be continued in the future.

Given that we are reasonably sure that nobody is still using the port
with an upstream kernel any more, it seems better to remove it now while
the port is in a good shape than to let it bitrot for a few years first.

Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;chris.d.metcalf@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz &lt;glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de&gt;
Link: http://www.mellanox.com/page/npu_multicore_overview
Link: https://jenkins.debian.net/view/rebootstrap/job/rebootstrap_tilegx_gcc7/
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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The Tile architecture port was added by Chris Metcalf in 2010, and
maintained until early 2018 when he orphaned it due to his departure
from Mellanox, and nobody else stepped up to maintain it. The product
line is still around in the form of the BlueField SoC, but no longer
uses the Tile architecture.

There are also still products for sale with Tile-GX SoCs, notably the
Mikrotik CCR router family. The products all use old (linux-3.3) kernels
with lots of patches and won't be upgraded by their manufacturers. There
have been efforts to port both OpenWRT and Debian to these, but both
projects have stalled and are very unlikely to be continued in the future.

Given that we are reasonably sure that nobody is still using the port
with an upstream kernel any more, it seems better to remove it now while
the port is in a good shape than to let it bitrot for a few years first.

Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;chris.d.metcalf@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz &lt;glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de&gt;
Link: http://www.mellanox.com/page/npu_multicore_overview
Link: https://jenkins.debian.net/view/rebootstrap/job/rebootstrap_tilegx_gcc7/
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'clk-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/clk/linux</title>
<updated>2018-02-02T00:56:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-02T00:56:07+00:00</published>
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Pull clk updates from Stephen Boyd:
 "The core framework has a handful of patches this time around, mostly
  due to the clk rate protection support added by Jerome Brunet.

  This feature will allow consumers to lock in a certain rate on the
  output of a clk so that things like audio playback don't hear pops
  when the clk frequency changes due to shared parent clks changing
  rates. Currently the clk API doesn't guarantee the rate of a clk stays
  at the rate you request after clk_set_rate() is called, so this new
  API will allow drivers to express that requirement.

  Beyond this, the core got some debugfs pretty printing patches and a
  couple minor non-critical fixes.

  Looking outside of the core framework diff we have some new driver
  additions and the removal of a legacy TI clk driver. Both of these hit
  high in the dirstat. Also, the removal of the asm-generic/clkdev.h
  file causes small one-liners in all the architecture Kbuild files.

  Overall, the driver diff seems to be the normal stuff that comes all
  the time to fix little problems here and there and to support new
  hardware.

  Summary:

  Core:
   - Clk rate protection
   - Symbolic clk flags in debugfs output
   - Clk registration enabled clks while doing bookkeeping updates

  New Drivers:
   - Spreadtrum SC9860
   - HiSilicon hi3660 stub
   - Qualcomm A53 PLL, SPMI clkdiv, and MSM8916 APCS
   - Amlogic Meson-AXG
   - ASPEED BMC

  Removed Drivers:
   - TI OMAP 3xxx legacy clk (non-DT) support
   - asm*/clkdev.h got removed (not really a driver)

  Updates:
   - Renesas FDP1-0 module clock on R-Car M3-W
   - Renesas LVDS module clock on R-Car V3M
   - Misc fixes to pr_err() prints
   - Qualcomm MSM8916 audio fixes
   - Qualcomm IPQ8074 rounded out support for more peripherals
   - Qualcomm Alpha PLL variants
   - Divider code was using container_of() on bad pointers
   - Allwinner DE2 clks on H3
   - Amlogic minor data fixes and dropping of CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED
   - Mediatek clk driver compile test support
   - AT91 PMC clk suspend/resume restoration support
   - PLL issues fixed on si5351
   - Broadcom IProc PLL calculation updates
   - DVFS support for Armada mvebu CPU clks
   - Allwinner fixed post-divider support
   - TI clkctrl fixes and support for newer SoCs"

* tag 'clk-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/clk/linux: (125 commits)
  clk: aspeed: Handle inverse polarity of USB port 1 clock gate
  clk: aspeed: Fix return value check in aspeed_cc_init()
  clk: aspeed: Add reset controller
  clk: aspeed: Register gated clocks
  clk: aspeed: Add platform driver and register PLLs
  clk: aspeed: Register core clocks
  clk: Add clock driver for ASPEED BMC SoCs
  clk: mediatek: adjust dependency of reset.c to avoid unexpectedly being built
  clk: fix reentrancy of clk_enable() on UP systems
  clk: meson-axg: fix potential NULL dereference in axg_clkc_probe()
  clk: Simplify debugfs registration
  clk: Fix debugfs_create_*() usage
  clk: Show symbolic clock flags in debugfs
  clk: renesas: r8a7796: Add FDP clock
  clk: Move __clk_{get,put}() into private clk.h API
  clk: sunxi: Use CLK_IS_CRITICAL flag for critical clks
  clk: Improve flags doc for of_clk_detect_critical()
  arch: Remove clkdev.h asm-generic from Kbuild
  clk: sunxi-ng: a83t: Add M divider to TCON1 clock
  clk: Prepare to remove asm-generic/clkdev.h
  ...
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Pull clk updates from Stephen Boyd:
 "The core framework has a handful of patches this time around, mostly
  due to the clk rate protection support added by Jerome Brunet.

  This feature will allow consumers to lock in a certain rate on the
  output of a clk so that things like audio playback don't hear pops
  when the clk frequency changes due to shared parent clks changing
  rates. Currently the clk API doesn't guarantee the rate of a clk stays
  at the rate you request after clk_set_rate() is called, so this new
  API will allow drivers to express that requirement.

  Beyond this, the core got some debugfs pretty printing patches and a
  couple minor non-critical fixes.

  Looking outside of the core framework diff we have some new driver
  additions and the removal of a legacy TI clk driver. Both of these hit
  high in the dirstat. Also, the removal of the asm-generic/clkdev.h
  file causes small one-liners in all the architecture Kbuild files.

  Overall, the driver diff seems to be the normal stuff that comes all
  the time to fix little problems here and there and to support new
  hardware.

  Summary:

  Core:
   - Clk rate protection
   - Symbolic clk flags in debugfs output
   - Clk registration enabled clks while doing bookkeeping updates

  New Drivers:
   - Spreadtrum SC9860
   - HiSilicon hi3660 stub
   - Qualcomm A53 PLL, SPMI clkdiv, and MSM8916 APCS
   - Amlogic Meson-AXG
   - ASPEED BMC

  Removed Drivers:
   - TI OMAP 3xxx legacy clk (non-DT) support
   - asm*/clkdev.h got removed (not really a driver)

  Updates:
   - Renesas FDP1-0 module clock on R-Car M3-W
   - Renesas LVDS module clock on R-Car V3M
   - Misc fixes to pr_err() prints
   - Qualcomm MSM8916 audio fixes
   - Qualcomm IPQ8074 rounded out support for more peripherals
   - Qualcomm Alpha PLL variants
   - Divider code was using container_of() on bad pointers
   - Allwinner DE2 clks on H3
   - Amlogic minor data fixes and dropping of CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED
   - Mediatek clk driver compile test support
   - AT91 PMC clk suspend/resume restoration support
   - PLL issues fixed on si5351
   - Broadcom IProc PLL calculation updates
   - DVFS support for Armada mvebu CPU clks
   - Allwinner fixed post-divider support
   - TI clkctrl fixes and support for newer SoCs"

* tag 'clk-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/clk/linux: (125 commits)
  clk: aspeed: Handle inverse polarity of USB port 1 clock gate
  clk: aspeed: Fix return value check in aspeed_cc_init()
  clk: aspeed: Add reset controller
  clk: aspeed: Register gated clocks
  clk: aspeed: Add platform driver and register PLLs
  clk: aspeed: Register core clocks
  clk: Add clock driver for ASPEED BMC SoCs
  clk: mediatek: adjust dependency of reset.c to avoid unexpectedly being built
  clk: fix reentrancy of clk_enable() on UP systems
  clk: meson-axg: fix potential NULL dereference in axg_clkc_probe()
  clk: Simplify debugfs registration
  clk: Fix debugfs_create_*() usage
  clk: Show symbolic clock flags in debugfs
  clk: renesas: r8a7796: Add FDP clock
  clk: Move __clk_{get,put}() into private clk.h API
  clk: sunxi: Use CLK_IS_CRITICAL flag for critical clks
  clk: Improve flags doc for of_clk_detect_critical()
  arch: Remove clkdev.h asm-generic from Kbuild
  clk: sunxi-ng: a83t: Add M divider to TCON1 clock
  clk: Prepare to remove asm-generic/clkdev.h
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'driver-core-4.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core</title>
<updated>2018-02-01T18:00:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-01T18:00:28+00:00</published>
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Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the set of "big" driver core patches for 4.16-rc1.

  The majority of the work here is in the firmware subsystem, with
  reworks to try to attempt to make the code easier to handle in the
  long run, but no functional change. There's also some tree-wide sysfs
  attribute fixups with lots of acks from the various subsystem
  maintainers, as well as a handful of other normal fixes and changes.

  And finally, some license cleanups for the driver core and sysfs code.

  All have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues"

* tag 'driver-core-4.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (48 commits)
  device property: Define type of PROPERTY_ENRTY_*() macros
  device property: Reuse property_entry_free_data()
  device property: Move property_entry_free_data() upper
  firmware: Fix up docs referring to FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL
  firmware: Drop FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL Kconfig option
  USB: serial: keyspan: Drop firmware Kconfig options
  sysfs: remove DEBUG defines
  sysfs: use SPDX identifiers
  drivers: base: add coredump driver ops
  sysfs: add attribute specification for /sysfs/devices/.../coredump
  test_firmware: fix missing unlock on error in config_num_requests_store()
  test_firmware: make local symbol test_fw_config static
  sysfs: turn WARN() into pr_warn()
  firmware: Fix a typo in fallback-mechanisms.rst
  treewide: Use DEVICE_ATTR_WO
  treewide: Use DEVICE_ATTR_RO
  treewide: Use DEVICE_ATTR_RW
  sysfs.h: Use octal permissions
  component: add debugfs support
  bus: simple-pm-bus: convert bool SIMPLE_PM_BUS to tristate
  ...
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Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the set of "big" driver core patches for 4.16-rc1.

  The majority of the work here is in the firmware subsystem, with
  reworks to try to attempt to make the code easier to handle in the
  long run, but no functional change. There's also some tree-wide sysfs
  attribute fixups with lots of acks from the various subsystem
  maintainers, as well as a handful of other normal fixes and changes.

  And finally, some license cleanups for the driver core and sysfs code.

  All have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues"

* tag 'driver-core-4.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (48 commits)
  device property: Define type of PROPERTY_ENRTY_*() macros
  device property: Reuse property_entry_free_data()
  device property: Move property_entry_free_data() upper
  firmware: Fix up docs referring to FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL
  firmware: Drop FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL Kconfig option
  USB: serial: keyspan: Drop firmware Kconfig options
  sysfs: remove DEBUG defines
  sysfs: use SPDX identifiers
  drivers: base: add coredump driver ops
  sysfs: add attribute specification for /sysfs/devices/.../coredump
  test_firmware: fix missing unlock on error in config_num_requests_store()
  test_firmware: make local symbol test_fw_config static
  sysfs: turn WARN() into pr_warn()
  firmware: Fix a typo in fallback-mechanisms.rst
  treewide: Use DEVICE_ATTR_WO
  treewide: Use DEVICE_ATTR_RO
  treewide: Use DEVICE_ATTR_RW
  sysfs.h: Use octal permissions
  component: add debugfs support
  bus: simple-pm-bus: convert bool SIMPLE_PM_BUS to tristate
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'dma-mapping-4.16' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping</title>
<updated>2018-01-31T19:32:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-31T19:32:27+00:00</published>
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Pull dma mapping updates from Christoph Hellwig:
 "Except for a runtime warning fix from Christian this is all about
  consolidation of the generic no-IOMMU code, a well as the glue code
  for swiotlb.

  All the code is based on the x86 implementation with hooks to allow
  all architectures that aren't cache coherent to use it.

  The x86 conversion itself has been deferred because the x86
  maintainers were a little busy in the last months"

* tag 'dma-mapping-4.16' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping: (57 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add the iommu list for swiotlb and xen-swiotlb
  arm64: use swiotlb_alloc and swiotlb_free
  arm64: replace ZONE_DMA with ZONE_DMA32
  mips: use swiotlb_{alloc,free}
  mips/netlogic: remove swiotlb support
  tile: use generic swiotlb_ops
  tile: replace ZONE_DMA with ZONE_DMA32
  unicore32: use generic swiotlb_ops
  ia64: remove an ifdef around the content of pci-dma.c
  ia64: clean up swiotlb support
  ia64: use generic swiotlb_ops
  ia64: replace ZONE_DMA with ZONE_DMA32
  swiotlb: remove various exports
  swiotlb: refactor coherent buffer allocation
  swiotlb: refactor coherent buffer freeing
  swiotlb: wire up -&gt;dma_supported in swiotlb_dma_ops
  swiotlb: add common swiotlb_map_ops
  swiotlb: rename swiotlb_free to swiotlb_exit
  x86: rename swiotlb_dma_ops
  powerpc: rename swiotlb_dma_ops
  ...
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Pull dma mapping updates from Christoph Hellwig:
 "Except for a runtime warning fix from Christian this is all about
  consolidation of the generic no-IOMMU code, a well as the glue code
  for swiotlb.

  All the code is based on the x86 implementation with hooks to allow
  all architectures that aren't cache coherent to use it.

  The x86 conversion itself has been deferred because the x86
  maintainers were a little busy in the last months"

* tag 'dma-mapping-4.16' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping: (57 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add the iommu list for swiotlb and xen-swiotlb
  arm64: use swiotlb_alloc and swiotlb_free
  arm64: replace ZONE_DMA with ZONE_DMA32
  mips: use swiotlb_{alloc,free}
  mips/netlogic: remove swiotlb support
  tile: use generic swiotlb_ops
  tile: replace ZONE_DMA with ZONE_DMA32
  unicore32: use generic swiotlb_ops
  ia64: remove an ifdef around the content of pci-dma.c
  ia64: clean up swiotlb support
  ia64: use generic swiotlb_ops
  ia64: replace ZONE_DMA with ZONE_DMA32
  swiotlb: remove various exports
  swiotlb: refactor coherent buffer allocation
  swiotlb: refactor coherent buffer freeing
  swiotlb: wire up -&gt;dma_supported in swiotlb_dma_ops
  swiotlb: add common swiotlb_map_ops
  swiotlb: rename swiotlb_free to swiotlb_exit
  x86: rename swiotlb_dma_ops
  powerpc: rename swiotlb_dma_ops
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2018-01-30T22:18:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-30T22:18:52+00:00</published>
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Pull siginfo cleanups from Eric Biederman:
 "Long ago when 2.4 was just a testing release copy_siginfo_to_user was
  made to copy individual fields to userspace, possibly for efficiency
  and to ensure initialized values were not copied to userspace.

  Unfortunately the design was complex, it's assumptions unstated, and
  humans are fallible and so while it worked much of the time that
  design failed to ensure unitialized memory is not copied to userspace.

  This set of changes is part of a new design to clean up siginfo and
  simplify things, and hopefully make the siginfo handling robust enough
  that a simple inspection of the code can be made to ensure we don't
  copy any unitializied fields to userspace.

  The design is to unify struct siginfo and struct compat_siginfo into a
  single definition that is shared between all architectures so that
  anyone adding to the set of information shared with struct siginfo can
  see the whole picture. Hopefully ensuring all future si_code
  assignments are arch independent.

  The design is to unify copy_siginfo_to_user32 and
  copy_siginfo_from_user32 so that those function are complete and cope
  with all of the different cases documented in signinfo_layout. I don't
  think there was a single implementation of either of those functions
  that was complete and correct before my changes unified them.

  The design is to introduce a series of helpers including
  force_siginfo_fault that take the values that are needed in struct
  siginfo and build the siginfo structure for their callers. Ensuring
  struct siginfo is built correctly.

  The remaining work for 4.17 (unless someone thinks it is post -rc1
  material) is to push usage of those helpers down into the
  architectures so that architecture specific code will not need to deal
  with the fiddly work of intializing struct siginfo, and then when
  struct siginfo is guaranteed to be fully initialized change copy
  siginfo_to_user into a simple wrapper around copy_to_user.

  Further there is work in progress on the issues that have been
  documented requires arch specific knowledge to sort out.

  The changes below fix or at least document all of the issues that have
  been found with siginfo generation. Then proceed to unify struct
  siginfo the 32 bit helpers that copy siginfo to and from userspace,
  and generally clean up anything that is not arch specific with regards
  to siginfo generation.

  It is a lot but with the unification you can of siginfo you can
  already see the code reduction in the kernel"

* 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (45 commits)
  signal/memory-failure: Use force_sig_mceerr and send_sig_mceerr
  mm/memory_failure: Remove unused trapno from memory_failure
  signal/ptrace: Add force_sig_ptrace_errno_trap and use it where needed
  signal/powerpc: Remove unnecessary signal_code parameter of do_send_trap
  signal: Helpers for faults with specialized siginfo layouts
  signal: Add send_sig_fault and force_sig_fault
  signal: Replace memset(info,...) with clear_siginfo for clarity
  signal: Don't use structure initializers for struct siginfo
  signal/arm64: Better isolate the COMPAT_TASK portion of ptrace_hbptriggered
  ptrace: Use copy_siginfo in setsiginfo and getsiginfo
  signal: Unify and correct copy_siginfo_to_user32
  signal: Remove the code to clear siginfo before calling copy_siginfo_from_user32
  signal: Unify and correct copy_siginfo_from_user32
  signal/blackfin: Remove pointless UID16_SIGINFO_COMPAT_NEEDED
  signal/blackfin: Move the blackfin specific si_codes to asm-generic/siginfo.h
  signal/tile: Move the tile specific si_codes to asm-generic/siginfo.h
  signal/frv: Move the frv specific si_codes to asm-generic/siginfo.h
  signal/ia64: Move the ia64 specific si_codes to asm-generic/siginfo.h
  signal/powerpc: Remove redefinition of NSIGTRAP on powerpc
  signal: Move addr_lsb into the _sigfault union for clarity
  ...
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Pull siginfo cleanups from Eric Biederman:
 "Long ago when 2.4 was just a testing release copy_siginfo_to_user was
  made to copy individual fields to userspace, possibly for efficiency
  and to ensure initialized values were not copied to userspace.

  Unfortunately the design was complex, it's assumptions unstated, and
  humans are fallible and so while it worked much of the time that
  design failed to ensure unitialized memory is not copied to userspace.

  This set of changes is part of a new design to clean up siginfo and
  simplify things, and hopefully make the siginfo handling robust enough
  that a simple inspection of the code can be made to ensure we don't
  copy any unitializied fields to userspace.

  The design is to unify struct siginfo and struct compat_siginfo into a
  single definition that is shared between all architectures so that
  anyone adding to the set of information shared with struct siginfo can
  see the whole picture. Hopefully ensuring all future si_code
  assignments are arch independent.

  The design is to unify copy_siginfo_to_user32 and
  copy_siginfo_from_user32 so that those function are complete and cope
  with all of the different cases documented in signinfo_layout. I don't
  think there was a single implementation of either of those functions
  that was complete and correct before my changes unified them.

  The design is to introduce a series of helpers including
  force_siginfo_fault that take the values that are needed in struct
  siginfo and build the siginfo structure for their callers. Ensuring
  struct siginfo is built correctly.

  The remaining work for 4.17 (unless someone thinks it is post -rc1
  material) is to push usage of those helpers down into the
  architectures so that architecture specific code will not need to deal
  with the fiddly work of intializing struct siginfo, and then when
  struct siginfo is guaranteed to be fully initialized change copy
  siginfo_to_user into a simple wrapper around copy_to_user.

  Further there is work in progress on the issues that have been
  documented requires arch specific knowledge to sort out.

  The changes below fix or at least document all of the issues that have
  been found with siginfo generation. Then proceed to unify struct
  siginfo the 32 bit helpers that copy siginfo to and from userspace,
  and generally clean up anything that is not arch specific with regards
  to siginfo generation.

  It is a lot but with the unification you can of siginfo you can
  already see the code reduction in the kernel"

* 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (45 commits)
  signal/memory-failure: Use force_sig_mceerr and send_sig_mceerr
  mm/memory_failure: Remove unused trapno from memory_failure
  signal/ptrace: Add force_sig_ptrace_errno_trap and use it where needed
  signal/powerpc: Remove unnecessary signal_code parameter of do_send_trap
  signal: Helpers for faults with specialized siginfo layouts
  signal: Add send_sig_fault and force_sig_fault
  signal: Replace memset(info,...) with clear_siginfo for clarity
  signal: Don't use structure initializers for struct siginfo
  signal/arm64: Better isolate the COMPAT_TASK portion of ptrace_hbptriggered
  ptrace: Use copy_siginfo in setsiginfo and getsiginfo
  signal: Unify and correct copy_siginfo_to_user32
  signal: Remove the code to clear siginfo before calling copy_siginfo_from_user32
  signal: Unify and correct copy_siginfo_from_user32
  signal/blackfin: Remove pointless UID16_SIGINFO_COMPAT_NEEDED
  signal/blackfin: Move the blackfin specific si_codes to asm-generic/siginfo.h
  signal/tile: Move the tile specific si_codes to asm-generic/siginfo.h
  signal/frv: Move the frv specific si_codes to asm-generic/siginfo.h
  signal/ia64: Move the ia64 specific si_codes to asm-generic/siginfo.h
  signal/powerpc: Remove redefinition of NSIGTRAP on powerpc
  signal: Move addr_lsb into the _sigfault union for clarity
  ...
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<entry>
<title>firmware: Drop FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL Kconfig option</title>
<updated>2018-01-25T11:46:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Gilbert</name>
<email>benjamin.gilbert@coreos.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-24T02:06:31+00:00</published>
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It doesn't actually do anything.  Merge its help text into
EXTRA_FIRMWARE.

Fixes: 5620a0d1aacd ("firmware: delete in-kernel firmware")
Fixes: 0946b2fb38fd ("firmware: cleanup FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL message")
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gilbert &lt;benjamin.gilbert@coreos.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson &lt;robbat2@gentoo.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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It doesn't actually do anything.  Merge its help text into
EXTRA_FIRMWARE.

Fixes: 5620a0d1aacd ("firmware: delete in-kernel firmware")
Fixes: 0946b2fb38fd ("firmware: cleanup FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL message")
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gilbert &lt;benjamin.gilbert@coreos.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson &lt;robbat2@gentoo.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>signal: Don't use structure initializers for struct siginfo</title>
<updated>2018-01-23T01:07:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-22T20:58:57+00:00</published>
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The siginfo structure has all manners of holes with the result that a
structure initializer is not guaranteed to initialize all of the bits.
As we have to copy the structure to userspace don't even try to use
a structure initializer.  Instead use clear_siginfo followed by initializing
selected fields.  This gives a guarantee that uninitialized kernel memory
is not copied to userspace.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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The siginfo structure has all manners of holes with the result that a
structure initializer is not guaranteed to initialize all of the bits.
As we have to copy the structure to userspace don't even try to use
a structure initializer.  Instead use clear_siginfo followed by initializing
selected fields.  This gives a guarantee that uninitialized kernel memory
is not copied to userspace.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>signal: Unify and correct copy_siginfo_to_user32</title>
<updated>2018-01-16T01:56:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-16T00:03:33+00:00</published>
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Among the existing architecture specific versions of
copy_siginfo_to_user32 there are several different implementation
problems.  Some architectures fail to handle all of the cases in in
the siginfo union.  Some architectures perform a blind copy of the
siginfo union when the si_code is negative.  A blind copy suggests the
data is expected to be in 32bit siginfo format, which means that
receiving such a signal via signalfd won't work, or that the data is
in 64bit siginfo and the code is copying nonsense to userspace.

Create a single instance of copy_siginfo_to_user32 that all of the
architectures can share, and teach it to handle all of the cases in
the siginfo union correctly, with the assumption that siginfo is
stored internally to the kernel is 64bit siginfo format.

A special case is made for x86 x32 format.  This is needed as presence
of both x32 and ia32 on x86_64 results in two different 32bit signal
formats.  By allowing this small special case there winds up being
exactly one code base that needs to be maintained between all of the
architectures.  Vastly increasing the testing base and the chances of
finding bugs.

As the x86 copy of copy_siginfo_to_user32 the call of the x86
signal_compat_build_tests were moved into sigaction_compat_abi, so
that they will keep running.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Among the existing architecture specific versions of
copy_siginfo_to_user32 there are several different implementation
problems.  Some architectures fail to handle all of the cases in in
the siginfo union.  Some architectures perform a blind copy of the
siginfo union when the si_code is negative.  A blind copy suggests the
data is expected to be in 32bit siginfo format, which means that
receiving such a signal via signalfd won't work, or that the data is
in 64bit siginfo and the code is copying nonsense to userspace.

Create a single instance of copy_siginfo_to_user32 that all of the
architectures can share, and teach it to handle all of the cases in
the siginfo union correctly, with the assumption that siginfo is
stored internally to the kernel is 64bit siginfo format.

A special case is made for x86 x32 format.  This is needed as presence
of both x32 and ia32 on x86_64 results in two different 32bit signal
formats.  By allowing this small special case there winds up being
exactly one code base that needs to be maintained between all of the
architectures.  Vastly increasing the testing base and the chances of
finding bugs.

As the x86 copy of copy_siginfo_to_user32 the call of the x86
signal_compat_build_tests were moved into sigaction_compat_abi, so
that they will keep running.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>signal: Unify and correct copy_siginfo_from_user32</title>
<updated>2018-01-15T23:55:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-31T22:15:31+00:00</published>
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The function copy_siginfo_from_user32 is used for two things, in ptrace
since the dawn of siginfo for arbirarily modifying a signal that
user space sees, and in sigqueueinfo to send a signal with arbirary
siginfo data.

Create a single copy of copy_siginfo_from_user32 that all architectures
share, and teach it to handle all of the cases in the siginfo union.

In the generic version of copy_siginfo_from_user32 ensure that all
of the fields in siginfo are initialized so that the siginfo structure
can be safely copied to userspace if necessary.

When copying the embedded sigval union copy the si_int member.  That
ensures the 32bit values passes through the kernel unchanged.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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The function copy_siginfo_from_user32 is used for two things, in ptrace
since the dawn of siginfo for arbirarily modifying a signal that
user space sees, and in sigqueueinfo to send a signal with arbirary
siginfo data.

Create a single copy of copy_siginfo_from_user32 that all architectures
share, and teach it to handle all of the cases in the siginfo union.

In the generic version of copy_siginfo_from_user32 ensure that all
of the fields in siginfo are initialized so that the siginfo structure
can be safely copied to userspace if necessary.

When copying the embedded sigval union copy the si_int member.  That
ensures the 32bit values passes through the kernel unchanged.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>signal/tile: Move the tile specific si_codes to asm-generic/siginfo.h</title>
<updated>2018-01-15T23:42:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-13T23:41:02+00:00</published>
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Having si_codes in many different files simply encourages duplicate definitions
that can cause problems later.  To avoid that merge the tile specific si_codes
into uapi/asm-generic/siginfo.h

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Having si_codes in many different files simply encourages duplicate definitions
that can cause problems later.  To avoid that merge the tile specific si_codes
into uapi/asm-generic/siginfo.h

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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