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    powerpc: Adopt nvram module for PPC64 · 20e07af7
    Finn Thain authored
    Adopt nvram module to reduce code duplication. This means CONFIG_NVRAM
    becomes available to PPC64 builds. Previously it was only available to
    PPC32 builds because it depended on CONFIG_GENERIC_NVRAM.
    
    The IOC_NVRAM_GET_OFFSET ioctl as implemented on PPC64 validates the
    offset returned by pmac_get_partition(). Do the same in the nvram module.
    
    Note that the old PPC32 generic_nvram module lacked this test.
    So when CONFIG_PPC32 && CONFIG_PPC_PMAC, the IOC_NVRAM_GET_OFFSET ioctl
    would have returned 0 (always). But when CONFIG_PPC64 && CONFIG_PPC_PMAC,
    the IOC_NVRAM_GET_OFFSET ioctl would have returned -1 (which is -EPERM)
    when the requested partition was not found.
    
    With this patch, the result is now -EINVAL on both PPC32 and PPC64 when
    the requested PowerMac NVRAM partition is not found. This is a userspace-
    visible change, in the non-existent partition case, which would be in
    an error path for an IOC_NVRAM_GET_OFFSET ioctl syscall.
    Tested-by: default avatarStan Johnson <userm57@yahoo.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFinn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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