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Tweak the Kconfig description to mention support for NSP and make the
default on for iProc based platforms.
Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jon.mason@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com>
Add a missing character in this description for a function.
Acked-by: Keerthy <j-keerthy@ti.com>
Tested-by: Keerthy <j-keerthy@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com>
The script "checkpatch.pl" pointed information out like the following.
WARNING: Possible unnecessary 'out of memory' message
Thus remove such statements here.
Link: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/LCJ16-Refactor_Strings-WSang_0.pdf
Acked-by: Keerthy <j-keerthy@ti.com>
Tested-by: Keerthy <j-keerthy@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com>
A multiplication for the size determination of a memory allocation
indicated that an array data structure should be processed.
Thus use the corresponding function "devm_kcalloc".
This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
Acked-by: Keerthy <j-keerthy@ti.com>
Tested-by: Keerthy <j-keerthy@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com>
Making thermal_emergency_poweroff static fixes sparse warning:
drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c:6: warning: symbol
'thermal_emergency_poweroff' was not declared. Should it be static?
Fixes: ef1d87e06ab4 ("thermal: core: Add a back up thermal shutdown mechanism")
Acked-by: Keerthy <j-keerthy@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com>
Building this driver with W=1 reports:
warning: variable 'trip' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
The call for of_thermal_get_trip_points() is useless.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com>
The code to fetch a 64-bit value from user space was entirely buggered,
and has been since the code was merged in early 2016 in commit
b2f680380ddf ("x86/mm/32: Add support for 64-bit __get_user() on 32-bit
kernels").
Happily the buggered routine is almost certainly entirely unused, since
the normal way to access user space memory is just with the non-inlined
"get_user()", and the inlined version didn't even historically exist.
The normal "get_user()" case is handled by external hand-written asm in
arch/x86/lib/getuser.S that doesn't have either of these issues.
There were two independent bugs in __get_user_asm_u64():
- it still did the STAC/CLAC user space access marking, even though
that is now done by the wrapper macros, see commit 11f1a4b9755f
("x86: reorganize SMAP handling in user space accesses").
This didn't result in a semantic error, it just means that the
inlined optimized version was hugely less efficient than the
allegedly slower standard version, since the CLAC/STAC overhead is
quite high on modern Intel CPU's.
- the double register %eax/%edx was marked as an output, but the %eax
part of it was touched early in the asm, and could thus clobber other
inputs to the asm that gcc didn't expect it to touch.
In particular, that meant that the generated code could look like
this:
mov (%eax),%eax
mov 0x4(%eax),%edx
where the load of %edx obviously was _supposed_ to be from the 32-bit
word that followed the source of %eax, but because %eax was
overwritten by the first instruction, the source of %edx was
basically random garbage.
The fixes are trivial: remove the extraneous STAC/CLAC entries, and mark
the 64-bit output as early-clobber to let gcc know that no inputs should
alias with the output register.
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # v4.8+
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Al noticed that unsafe_put_user() had type problems, and fixed them in
commit a7cc722fff0b ("fix unsafe_put_user()"), which made me look more
at those functions.
It turns out that unsafe_get_user() had a type issue too: it limited the
largest size of the type it could handle to "unsigned long". Which is
fine with the current users, but doesn't match our existing normal
get_user() semantics, which can also handle "u64" even when that does
not fit in a long.
While at it, also clean up the type cast in unsafe_put_user(). We
actually want to just make it an assignment to the expected type of the
pointer, because we actually do want warnings from types that don't
convert silently. And it makes the code more readable by not having
that one very long and complex line.
[ This patch might become stable material if we ever end up back-porting
any new users of the unsafe uaccess code, but as things stand now this
doesn't matter for any current existing uses. ]
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull misc uaccess fixes from Al Viro:
"Fix for unsafe_put_user() (no callers currently in mainline, but
anyone starting to use it will step into that) + alpha osf_wait4()
infoleak fix"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
osf_wait4(): fix infoleak
fix unsafe_put_user()
Pull scheduler fix from Thomas Gleixner:
"A single scheduler fix:
Prevent idle task from ever being preempted. That makes sure that
synchronize_rcu_tasks() which is ignoring idle task does not pretend
that no task is stuck in preempted state. If that happens and idle was
preempted on a ftrace trampoline the machine crashes due to
inconsistent state"
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched/core: Call __schedule() from do_idle() without enabling preemption
failing sys_wait4() won't fill struct rusage...
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Pull irq fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A set of small fixes for the irq subsystem:
- Cure a data ordering problem with chained interrupts
- Three small fixlets for the mbigen irq chip"
* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
genirq: Fix chained interrupt data ordering
irqchip/mbigen: Fix the clear register offset calculation
irqchip/mbigen: Fix potential NULL dereferencing
irqchip/mbigen: Fix memory mapping code
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