- 21 Jan, 2019 2 commits
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Federico Vaga authored
It aligns the italian translation with the latest changes: ae67ee6c docs: fix Co-Developed-by docs 3fe5dbfe Documentation/process/coding-style.rst: don't use "extern" with function prototypes Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Federico Vaga authored
The link referred by the note can't be retrieved: this patch just remove that old note. Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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- 16 Jan, 2019 4 commits
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Jonathan Corbet authored
The ability to add kerneldoc comments for fields in embedded structures is useful, but it brought along a whole bunch of warnings for fields that could not be described before. In many cases, there's little value in adding docs for these nested fields, and in cases like: struct a { struct b { int c; } d, e; }; "c" would have to be described twice (as d.c and e.c) to make the warnings go away. We can no doubt do something smarter, but simply suppressing the warnings for this case removes about 70 warnings from the docs build, freeing us to focus on the ones that matter more. So make kerneldoc be silent about missing descriptions for any field containing a ".". Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Thomas Gleixner authored
The SuperH boot code files use a magic format for the SPDX identifier comment: LIST "SPDX-License-Identifier: .... " The trailing quotation mark is not stripped before the token parser is invoked and causes the scan to fail. Handle it gracefully. Fixes: 6a0abce4 ("sh: include: convert to SPDX identifiers") Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com> Cc: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Thomas Gleixner authored
A recent commit added SPDX identifiers to the SuperH low level library code which originates from GCC. This code is licensed under the GPL 2.0 or later with the GCC runtime library exception. Unfortunately the authors did not bother to add the exception text to the LICENSES directory so spdxcheck fails with: arch/sh/lib/ashiftrt.S: 1:42 Invalid Exception ID: GCC-exception-2.0 arch/sh/lib/ashlsi3.S: 1:42 Invalid Exception ID: GCC-exception-2.0 arch/sh/lib/ashrsi3.S: 1:42 Invalid Exception ID: GCC-exception-2.0 arch/sh/lib/lshrsi3.S: 1:42 Invalid Exception ID: GCC-exception-2.0 arch/sh/lib/movmem.S: 1:42 Invalid Exception ID: GCC-exception-2.0 arch/sh/lib/udiv_qrnnd.S: 1:42 Invalid Exception ID: GCC-exception-2.0 arch/sh/lib/udivsi3.S: 1:42 Invalid Exception ID: GCC-exception-2.0 arch/sh/lib/udivsi3_i4i-Os.S: 1:42 Invalid Exception ID: GCC-exception-2.0 arch/sh/lib/udivsi3_i4i.S: 1:42 Invalid Exception ID: GCC-exception-2.0 Add the exception text along with the required tags which allow automated checking. Fixes: 4494ce4f ("sh: lib: convert to SPDX identifiers") Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com> Cc: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Yang Shi authored
We don't do page cache reparent anymore when offlining memcg, so update force empty related content accordingly. Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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- 15 Jan, 2019 8 commits
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Jonathan Corbet authored
Neither file contains any kerneldoc comments, so including them generates these warnings in the docs build: ./include/linux/rcupdate_wait.h:1: warning: no structured comments found ./include/linux/rcutree.h:1: warning: no structured comments found Remove them and make life a little quieter. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Joel Nider authored
While using this guide to learn the new documentation method, I saw a few phrases that I felt could be improved. These small changes improve the grammar and choice of words to further enhance the installation instructions. Signed-off-by: Joel Nider <joeln@il.ibm.com> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Mike Rapoport authored
Fix the mismatch between "Useful GFP flag combinations" section naming in the DOC: section in include/linux/gfp.h and Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst. This brings in the documentation, and eliminates one warning: ./include/linux/gfp.h:1: warning: no structured comments found Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> [jc: tweaked changelog] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Mike Rapoport authored
Mention that when a part of a slab cache might be exported to the userspace, the cache should be created using kmem_cache_create_usercopy() Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Sebastian Andrzej Siewior authored
svn commit 231296 matches commit d29e939c63b71 ("Add fuzzing coverage support") in the gcc git. The change is part of gcc 6.1.0. Replace the svn commit number with a gcc version which everyone can easily compare. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Vincent Whitchurch authored
Bits are usually numbered starting from zero, so 4 should be bit 2, not bit 3. Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Vincent Whitchurch <vincent.whitchurch@axis.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Christian Brauner authored
This adds a simple sample program mounting binderfs and adding, then removing a binder device. Hopefully, it will be helpful to users who want to know how binderfs is supposed to be used. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Christian Brauner authored
This documents the Android binderfs filesystem used to dynamically add and remove binder devices that are private to each instance. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> [jc: tweaked markup and added to filesystems/index.rst] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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- 14 Jan, 2019 2 commits
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Randy Dunlap authored
Fix Sphinx warnings in ibmvmc.rst, add an index.rst file in Documentation/misc-devices/, and insert that index file into the top-level index file. Documentation/misc-devices/ibmvmc.rst:2: WARNING: Explicit markup ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. Documentation/misc-devices/ibmvmc.rst:: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Royer <seroyer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Randy Dunlap authored
Fix Sphinx warning in coding-style.rst: Documentation/process/coding-style.rst:446: WARNING: Inline interpreted text or phrase reference start-string without end-string. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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- 08 Jan, 2019 3 commits
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Jonathan Corbet authored
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Thorsten Leemhuis authored
Add a section about decoding /proc/sys/kernel/tainted, create a more understandable intro and a hopefully explain better the tainted flags in bugs, oops or panics messages. Only thing missing then is a table that quickly describes the various bits and taint flags before going into more detail, so add that as well. That table is partly based on a section from Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt, but a bit more compact. To avoid confusion I added the shortened version to kernel.txt; the same table is used in three different places now: ./tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint, Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst and Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt During review of v1 (see above) a number of existing issues with the text were raised, like outdated usages as well as incomplete or missing descriptions. Address most of those as well. Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info> [jc: tightened up changelog] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Thorsten Leemhuis authored
Add a script to the tools/ directory that shows if or why the running kernel was tainted. The script was mostly written by Randy Dunlap; I enhanced the script a bit. There does not appear to be a good home for this script. so create tools/debugging for tools of this nature. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info> [ jc: fixed conflicts, rewrote changelog ] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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- 07 Jan, 2019 12 commits
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Chengguang Xu authored
Just fix a typo in Documentation/hwmon/f71882fg. Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@gmx.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Federico Vaga authored
It translats the document process/submitting-patches.rst. Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Laurent Gauthier authored
Signed-off-by: Laurent Gauthier <laurent.gauthier@soccasys.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Bart Van Assche authored
In emacs 23.1 support for directory-local variables was added (see also https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu-emacs/2009-07/msg00000.html). Simplify the settings in coding-style.rst by using that feature. Additionally, do not inherit any settings from emacs' linux coding style to minimize dependencies on the version of emacs that is being used. I have verified with several large and nontrivial kernel source files that the new settings format code according to what checkpatch expects. Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alison Chaiken <alison@she-devel.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> Cc: Geyslan G. Bem <geyslan@gmail.com> Cc: Tiago Natel de Moura <tiago4orion@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Otto Sabart authored
This patch just adds references to offload documents into main table of contents in network documentation. Signed-off-by: Otto Sabart <ottosabart@seberm.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Otto Sabart authored
The titles do not look very nice in the table of contents generated by Sphinx. I also think it is obvious that the documents are describing offloads in the Linux Networking Stack. Signed-off-by: Otto Sabart <ottosabart@seberm.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Otto Sabart authored
This patch renames offload files. This is necessary for Sphinx. Also update reference to checksum-offloads.rst file. Whole kernel code was grepped for references using: $ grep -r "\(segmentation\|checksum\)-offloads.txt" . There should be no other references to {segmentation,checksum}-offloads.txt files. Signed-off-by: Otto Sabart <ottosabart@seberm.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Otto Sabart authored
Add small number of markups which are sufficient for conversion into reStructuredText. Unfortunately there was necessary to restructure all sections in checksum-offloads.txt file and create paragraphs separated by newline. There also must not be a space at the beginning of paragpraph. There are no semantic changes. Signed-off-by: Otto Sabart <ottosabart@seberm.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Randy Dunlap authored
Fix Sphinx warnings in path-lookup.rst: Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst:347: WARNING: Title underline too short. Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst:358: WARNING: Title underline too short. [...] Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Linus Torvalds authored
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuildLinus Torvalds authored
Pull more Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - improve boolinit.cocci and use_after_iter.cocci semantic patches - fix alignment for kallsyms - move 'asm goto' compiler test to Kconfig and clean up jump_label CONFIG option - generate asm-generic wrappers automatically if arch does not implement mandatory UAPI headers - remove redundant generic-y defines - misc cleanups * tag 'kbuild-v4.21-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: kconfig: rename generated .*conf-cfg to *conf-cfg kbuild: remove unnecessary stubs for archheader and archscripts kbuild: use assignment instead of define ... endef for filechk_* rules arch: remove redundant UAPI generic-y defines kbuild: generate asm-generic wrappers if mandatory headers are missing arch: remove stale comments "UAPI Header export list" riscv: remove redundant kernel-space generic-y kbuild: change filechk to surround the given command with { } kbuild: remove redundant target cleaning on failure kbuild: clean up rule_dtc_dt_yaml kbuild: remove UIMAGE_IN and UIMAGE_OUT jump_label: move 'asm goto' support test to Kconfig kallsyms: lower alignment on ARM scripts: coccinelle: boolinit: drop warnings on named constants scripts: coccinelle: check for redeclaration kconfig: remove unused "file" field of yylval union nds32: remove redundant kernel-space generic-y nios2: remove unneeded HAS_DMA define
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds authored
Pull perf tooling updates form Ingo Molnar: "A final batch of perf tooling changes: mostly fixes and small improvements" * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (29 commits) perf session: Add comment for perf_session__register_idle_thread() perf thread-stack: Fix thread stack processing for the idle task perf thread-stack: Allocate an array of thread stacks perf thread-stack: Factor out thread_stack__init() perf thread-stack: Allow for a thread stack array perf thread-stack: Avoid direct reference to the thread's stack perf thread-stack: Tidy thread_stack__bottom() usage perf thread-stack: Simplify some code in thread_stack__process() tools gpio: Allow overriding CFLAGS tools power turbostat: Override CFLAGS assignments and add LDFLAGS to build command tools thermal tmon: Allow overriding CFLAGS assignments tools power x86_energy_perf_policy: Override CFLAGS assignments and add LDFLAGS to build command perf c2c: Increase the HITM ratio limit for displayed cachelines perf c2c: Change the default coalesce setup perf trace beauty ioctl: Beautify USBDEVFS_ commands perf trace beauty: Export function to get the files for a thread perf trace: Wire up ioctl's USBDEBFS_ cmd table generator perf beauty ioctl: Add generator for USBDEVFS_ ioctl commands tools headers uapi: Grab a copy of usbdevice_fs.h perf trace: Store the major number for a file when storing its pathname ...
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- 06 Jan, 2019 9 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
The semantics of what "in core" means for the mincore() system call are somewhat unclear, but Linux has always (since 2.3.52, which is when mincore() was initially done) treated it as "page is available in page cache" rather than "page is mapped in the mapping". The problem with that traditional semantic is that it exposes a lot of system cache state that it really probably shouldn't, and that users shouldn't really even care about. So let's try to avoid that information leak by simply changing the semantics to be that mincore() counts actual mapped pages, not pages that might be cheaply mapped if they were faulted (note the "might be" part of the old semantics: being in the cache doesn't actually guarantee that you can access them without IO anyway, since things like network filesystems may have to revalidate the cache before use). In many ways the old semantics were somewhat insane even aside from the information leak issue. From the very beginning (and that beginning is a long time ago: 2.3.52 was released in March 2000, I think), the code had a comment saying Later we can get more picky about what "in core" means precisely. and this is that "later". Admittedly it is much later than is really comfortable. NOTE! This is a real semantic change, and it is for example known to change the output of "fincore", since that program literally does a mmmap without populating it, and then doing "mincore()" on that mapping that doesn't actually have any pages in it. I'm hoping that nobody actually has any workflow that cares, and the info leak is real. We may have to do something different if it turns out that people have valid reasons to want the old semantics, and if we can limit the information leak sanely. Cc: Kevin Easton <kevin@guarana.org> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> Cc: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Commit 594cc251 ("make 'user_access_begin()' do 'access_ok()'") broke both alpha and SH booting in qemu, as noticed by Guenter Roeck. It turns out that the bug wasn't actually in that commit itself (which would have been surprising: it was mostly a no-op), but in how the addition of access_ok() to the strncpy_from_user() and strnlen_user() functions now triggered the case where those functions would test the access of the very last byte of the user address space. The string functions actually did that user range test before too, but they did it manually by just comparing against user_addr_max(). But with user_access_begin() doing the check (using "access_ok()"), it now exposed problems in the architecture implementations of that function. For example, on alpha, the access_ok() helper macro looked like this: #define __access_ok(addr, size) \ ((get_fs().seg & (addr | size | (addr+size))) == 0) and what it basically tests is of any of the high bits get set (the USER_DS masking value is 0xfffffc0000000000). And that's completely wrong for the "addr+size" check. Because it's off-by-one for the case where we check to the very end of the user address space, which is exactly what the strn*_user() functions do. Why? Because "addr+size" will be exactly the size of the address space, so trying to access the last byte of the user address space will fail the __access_ok() check, even though it shouldn't. As a result, the user string accessor functions failed consistently - because they literally don't know how long the string is going to be, and the max access is going to be that last byte of the user address space. Side note: that alpha macro is buggy for another reason too - it re-uses the arguments twice. And SH has another version of almost the exact same bug: #define __addr_ok(addr) \ ((unsigned long __force)(addr) < current_thread_info()->addr_limit.seg) so far so good: yes, a user address must be below the limit. But then: #define __access_ok(addr, size) \ (__addr_ok((addr) + (size))) is wrong with the exact same off-by-one case: the case when "addr+size" is exactly _equal_ to the limit is actually perfectly fine (think "one byte access at the last address of the user address space") The SH version is actually seriously buggy in another way: it doesn't actually check for overflow, even though it did copy the _comment_ that talks about overflow. So it turns out that both SH and alpha actually have completely buggy implementations of access_ok(), but they happened to work in practice (although the SH overflow one is a serious serious security bug, not that anybody likely cares about SH security). This fixes the problems by using a similar macro on both alpha and SH. It isn't trying to be clever, the end address is based on this logic: unsigned long __ao_end = __ao_a + __ao_b - !!__ao_b; which basically says "add start and length, and then subtract one unless the length was zero". We can't subtract one for a zero length, or we'd just hit an underflow instead. For a lot of access_ok() users the length is a constant, so this isn't actually as expensive as it initially looks. Reported-and-tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/fscryptLinus Torvalds authored
Pull fscrypt updates from Ted Ts'o: "Add Adiantum support for fscrypt" * tag 'fscrypt_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/fscrypt: fscrypt: add Adiantum support
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4Linus Torvalds authored
Pull ext4 bug fixes from Ted Ts'o: "Fix a number of ext4 bugs" * tag 'ext4_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: ext4: fix special inode number checks in __ext4_iget() ext4: track writeback errors using the generic tracking infrastructure ext4: use ext4_write_inode() when fsyncing w/o a journal ext4: avoid kernel warning when writing the superblock to a dead device ext4: fix a potential fiemap/page fault deadlock w/ inline_data ext4: make sure enough credits are reserved for dioread_nolock writes
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git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mappingLinus Torvalds authored
Pull dma-mapping fixes from Christoph Hellwig: "Fix various regressions introduced in this cycles: - fix dma-debug tracking for the map_page / map_single consolidatation - properly stub out DMA mapping symbols for !HAS_DMA builds to avoid link failures - fix AMD Gart direct mappings - setup the dma address for no kernel mappings using the remap allocator" * tag 'dma-mapping-4.21-1' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping: dma-direct: fix DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING for remapped allocations x86/amd_gart: fix unmapping of non-GART mappings dma-mapping: remove a few unused exports dma-mapping: properly stub out the DMA API for !CONFIG_HAS_DMA dma-mapping: remove dmam_{declare,release}_coherent_memory dma-mapping: implement dmam_alloc_coherent using dmam_alloc_attrs dma-mapping: implement dma_map_single_attrs using dma_map_page_attrs
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge tag 'tag-chrome-platform-for-v4.21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bleung/chrome-platform Pull chrome platform updates from Benson Leung: - Changes for EC_MKBP_EVENT_SENSOR_FIFO handling. - Also, maintainership changes. Olofj out, Enric balletbo in. * tag 'tag-chrome-platform-for-v4.21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bleung/chrome-platform: MAINTAINERS: add maintainers for ChromeOS EC sub-drivers MAINTAINERS: platform/chrome: Add Enric as a maintainer MAINTAINERS: platform/chrome: remove myself as maintainer platform/chrome: don't report EC_MKBP_EVENT_SENSOR_FIFO as wakeup platform/chrome: straighten out cros_ec_get_{next,host}_event() error codes
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git://github.com/andersson/remoteprocLinus Torvalds authored
Pull hwspinlock updates from Bjorn Andersson: "This adds support for the hardware semaphores found in STM32MP1" * tag 'hwlock-v4.21' of git://github.com/andersson/remoteproc: hwspinlock: fix return value check in stm32_hwspinlock_probe() hwspinlock: add STM32 hwspinlock device dt-bindings: hwlock: Document STM32 hwspinlock bindings
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Eric Biggers authored
Add support for the Adiantum encryption mode to fscrypt. Adiantum is a tweakable, length-preserving encryption mode with security provably reducible to that of XChaCha12 and AES-256, subject to a security bound. It's also a true wide-block mode, unlike XTS. See the paper "Adiantum: length-preserving encryption for entry-level processors" (https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/720.pdf) for more details. Also see commit 059c2a4d ("crypto: adiantum - add Adiantum support"). On sufficiently long messages, Adiantum's bottlenecks are XChaCha12 and the NH hash function. These algorithms are fast even on processors without dedicated crypto instructions. Adiantum makes it feasible to enable storage encryption on low-end mobile devices that lack AES instructions; currently such devices are unencrypted. On ARM Cortex-A7, on 4096-byte messages Adiantum encryption is about 4 times faster than AES-256-XTS encryption; decryption is about 5 times faster. In fscrypt, Adiantum is suitable for encrypting both file contents and names. With filenames, it fixes a known weakness: when two filenames in a directory share a common prefix of >= 16 bytes, with CTS-CBC their encrypted filenames share a common prefix too, leaking information. Adiantum does not have this problem. Since Adiantum also accepts long tweaks (IVs), it's also safe to use the master key directly for Adiantum encryption rather than deriving per-file keys, provided that the per-file nonce is included in the IVs and the master key isn't used for any other encryption mode. This configuration saves memory and improves performance. A new fscrypt policy flag is added to allow users to opt-in to this configuration. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet: "A handful of late-arriving documentation fixes" * tag 'docs-5.0-fixes' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: doc: filesystems: fix bad references to nonexistent ext4.rst file Documentation/admin-guide: update URL of LKML information link Docs/kernel-api.rst: Remove blk-tag.c reference
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