- 25 Jan, 2019 16 commits
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Sara Sharon authored
Move to use the new mac80211 TXQs implementation. This has quite a few benefits for us. We can get rid of the awkward mapping of DQA to mac80211 queues. We can stop buffering traffic while waiting for the queue to be allocated. We can also use mac80211 AMSDUs instead of building it ourselves. The usage is pretty simple: Each ieee80211_txq contains iwl_mvm_txq. There is such a queue for each TID, and one for management frames. We keep having static AP queues for probes and non-bufferable MMPDUs, along with broadcast and multicast queues. Those are being used from the "old" TX invocation path - iwl_mvm_mac_tx. When there is a new frame in a TXQ, iwl_mvm_mac_wake_tx is being called, and either invokes the TX path, or allocates the queue if it does not exist. Most of the TX path is left untouched, although we can consider cleaning it up some more, for example get rid of the duplication of txq_id in both iwl_mvm_txq and iwl_mvm_dqa_txq_info. Signed-off-by: Sara Sharon <sara.sharon@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
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Johannes Berg authored
On any failure, including if we crash the firmware or get garbage data, we currently ignore this and pretend the OTP was empty. Clearly, this isn't typically the case. In cases other than the firmware saying it can't read the requested section, or the section having ended, make the access actually fail and trickle the error up through the layers to fail init. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
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Shahar S Matityahu authored
Add prph dump addresses to support prph dump in 22000 HW. Signed-off-by: Shahar S Matityahu <shahar.s.matityahu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
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Luca Coelho authored
We don't support 9000 A-step devices anymore, so we can remove the suspend/resume workaround. Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
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Luca Coelho authored
This function was only used by 9000 A-step devices, which we don't support anymore, so it can be removed. Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
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Luca Coelho authored
We don't support 9000 A-step devices anymore, so we can remove support for loading both the a0/a0 and a0/b0 FWs. Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
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Emmanuel Grumbach authored
The new (CDB) statistics API is used by non-CDB devices as well. Look at the right TLV flag to know which version of the statistics notification to use. To avoid confusion, remove the _cdb suffix from the structure name. While at it, remove a structure that was never used. Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Fixes: 678d9b6d ("iwlwifi: mvm: update rx statistics cmd api") Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
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Ihab Zhaika authored
add few PCI ID'S for 22560, 9260 and killer series. Signed-off-by: Ihab Zhaika <ihab.zhaika@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
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Ihab Zhaika authored
One of the cfg struct names is mistakenly "iwl22000", when it should be "iwl22560". Chage-Id: If9fbfa4bceef81d028c90c98d47115fbe39da547 Signed-off-by: Ihab Zhaika <ihab.zhaika@intel.com> Fixes: 2f7a3863 ("iwlwifi: rename the temporary name of A000 to the official 22000") Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
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Shaul Triebitz authored
When configuring TLC DCM flag: 1. check the peer's RX DCM capabilities (since we TX) 2. do not set DCM_NSS_2 since we do not support it Signed-off-by: Shaul Triebitz <shaul.triebitz@intel.com> Fixes: 423584dd ("iwlwifi: rs-fw: support dcm") Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
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Luca Coelho authored
Some devices with PCI ID 0x2723, which is supposed to be 22260, are actually not. So we need to differentiate them by checking the hw_rev and change the cfg accordingly. Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
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Luca Coelho authored
Add new structs and PCI IDs for 22260 devices. Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
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Emmanuel Grumbach authored
Mac80211 will check both the HE Capability IE and the Extended Capability IE, so set the TWT support bit when mac80211 tells us to. Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
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Emmanuel Grumbach authored
We want to advertise support for TWT in the Extended Capability IE. Since we don't want to set the bits for all the interface types, define an interface specific configuration. Signed-off-by: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
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Shahar S Matityahu authored
Add to the dump the number of lmacs, the error id of the umac and the error id of lmac1, if supported. In case the reason for the dump trigger is not an assert the error id is zero. Signed-off-by: Shahar S Matityahu <shahar.s.matityahu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
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Colin Ian King authored
Don't populate the array prop on the stack but instead make it static. Makes the object code smaller by 30 bytes: Before: text data bss dec hex filename 80138 15382 576 96096 17760 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.o After: text data bss dec hex filename 79948 15542 576 96066 17742 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/pcie/trans.o (gcc version 8.2.0 x86_64) Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>
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- 10 Jan, 2019 12 commits
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Hans de Goede authored
The linux-firmware brcmfmac firmware files contain an embedded table with per country allowed channels and strength info. For recent hardware these versions of the firmware are specially build for linux-firmware, the firmware files directly available from Cypress rely on a separate clm_blob file for this info. For some unknown reason Cypress refuses to provide the standard firmware files + clm_blob files it uses elsewhere for inclusion into linux-firmware, instead relying on these special builds with the clm_blob info embedded. This means that the linux-firmware firmware versions often lag behind, but I digress. The brcmfmac driver does support the separate clm_blob file and always tries to load this. Currently we use request_firmware for this. This means that on any standard install, using the standard combo of linux-kernel + linux-firmware, we will get a warning: "Direct firmware load for ... failed with error -2" On top of this, brcmfmac itself prints: "no clm_blob available (err=-2), device may have limited channels available". This commit switches to firmware_request_nowarn, fixing almost any brcmfmac device logging the warning (it leaves the brcmfmac info message in place). Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
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Lo-Hsiang Lo authored
There is a system warning message, warn_slowpath-fmt, during suspend while using supplicant join AP and enable wowl feature by IW command. It's caused by brcmf_pno_remove_request path can't find the reqid. This fix will not go to remove pno request function if there is no pno scan. Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Lo-Hsiang Lo <double.lo@cypress.com> Signed-off-by: Chi-Hsien Lin <chi-hsien.lin@cypress.com> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
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Rafał Miłecki authored
It provides more meaningful messages. Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
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Rafał Miłecki authored
Accessing struct device is pretty useful/common so having a direct pointer: 1) Simplifies some code 2) Makes bcma_bus_get_host_dev() unneeded 3) Allows further improvements like using dev_* printing helpers Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
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Prameela Rani Garnepudi authored
With the current approach of scanning, roaming delays are observed. Firmware has support for back ground scanning. To get this advantage, mac80211 hardware scan is implemented, which decides type of scan to do based on connected state. When station is in not connected, driver returns with special value 1 to trigger software scan in mac80211. In case of connected state, background scan will be triggered. Signed-off-by: Prameela Rani Garnepudi <prameela.j04cs@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Siva Rebbagondla <siva.rebbagondla@redpinesignals.com> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
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Kangjie Lu authored
usb_register() may fail, so let's check its status and issue an error message if it fails. Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@umn.edu> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
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Julia Lawall authored
Drop LIST_HEAD where the variable it declares has never been used. The semantic patch that fixes this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ identifier x; @@ - LIST_HEAD(x); ... when != x // </smpl> Fixes: a910e4a9 ("cw1200: add driver for the ST-E CW1100 & CW1200 WLAN chipsets") Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
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Wei Yongjun authored
Add the missing unlock before return from function cw1200_hw_scan() in the error handling case. Fixes: 4f68ef64 ("cw1200: Fix concurrency use-after-free bugs in cw1200_hw_scan()") Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com> Acked-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
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Hans de Goede authored
The Point of View TAB-P1006W-232 tablet contains quite generic names in the sys_vendor and product_name DMI strings, without this patch brcmfmac will try to load: brcmfmac43340-sdio.Insyde-BayTrail.txt as nvram file which is a bit too generic. Add a DMI quirk so that a unique and clearly identifiable nvram file name is used on the PoV TAB-P1006W-232 tablet. Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
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Colin Ian King authored
Currently array element org[3] is being accessed, however the array is only 3 elements in size, so this looks like an off-by-one out-of-bounds error. Fix this by using org[2], which I believe was the original intent. This issue has existed in the driver back in the pre-git days, so no idea when it was introduced. Detected by CoverityScan, CID#711344 ("Out-of-bounds read") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
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Zumeng Chen authored
Release fw_status, raw_fw_status, and tx_res_if when wl12xx_fetch_firmware failed instead of meaningless goto out to avoid the following memory leak reports(Only the last one listed): unreferenced object 0xc28a9a00 (size 512): comm "kworker/0:4", pid 31298, jiffies 2783204 (age 203.290s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<6624adab>] kmemleak_alloc+0x40/0x74 [<500ddb31>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x1ac/0x270 [<db4d731d>] wl12xx_chip_wakeup+0xc4/0x1fc [wlcore] [<76c5db53>] wl1271_op_add_interface+0x4a4/0x8f4 [wlcore] [<cbf30777>] drv_add_interface+0xa4/0x1a0 [mac80211] [<65bac325>] ieee80211_reconfig+0x9c0/0x1644 [mac80211] [<2817c80e>] ieee80211_restart_work+0x90/0xc8 [mac80211] [<7e1d425a>] process_one_work+0x284/0x42c [<55f9432e>] worker_thread+0x2fc/0x48c [<abb582c6>] kthread+0x148/0x160 [<63144b13>] ret_from_fork+0x14/0x2c [< (null)>] (null) [<1f6e7715>] 0xffffffff Signed-off-by: Zumeng Chen <zumeng.chen@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
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YueHaibing authored
Fixes gcc '-Wunused-but-set-variable' warning: drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/phy/phy_lcn.c:1202:5: warning: variable 'phybw40' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable] drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/phy/phy_lcn.c:4625:5: warning: variable 'phybw40' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable] drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/phy/phy_lcn.c:4834:5: warning: variable 'phybw40' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable] drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/phy/phy_lcn.c:3085:17: warning: variable 'maxtargetpwr' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable] drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/phy/phy_lcn.c:4215:17: warning: variable 'maxtargetpwr' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable] Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
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- 07 Jan, 2019 3 commits
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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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