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<updated>2020-10-07T06:02:54+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>random32: Restore __latent_entropy attribute on net_rand_state</title>
<updated>2020-10-07T06:02:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thibaut Sautereau</name>
<email>thibaut.sautereau@ssi.gouv.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-02T15:16:11+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 09a6b0bc3be793ca8cba580b7992d73e9f68f15d ]

Commit f227e3ec3b5c ("random32: update the net random state on interrupt
and activity") broke compilation and was temporarily fixed by Linus in
83bdc7275e62 ("random32: remove net_rand_state from the latent entropy
gcc plugin") by entirely moving net_rand_state out of the things handled
by the latent_entropy GCC plugin.

From what I understand when reading the plugin code, using the
__latent_entropy attribute on a declaration was the wrong part and
simply keeping the __latent_entropy attribute on the variable definition
was the correct fix.

Fixes: 83bdc7275e62 ("random32: remove net_rand_state from the latent entropy gcc plugin")
Acked-by: Willy Tarreau &lt;w@1wt.eu&gt;
Cc: Emese Revfy &lt;re.emese@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thibaut Sautereau &lt;thibaut.sautereau@ssi.gouv.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>lib/bootconfig: Fix to remove tailing spaces after value</title>
<updated>2020-10-01T15:36:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-21T09:44:51+00:00</published>
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commit c7af4ecdffe1537ba8aeed0ac12c3326f908df43 upstream.

Fix to remove tailing spaces after value. If there is a space
after value, the bootconfig failed to remove it because it
applies strim() before replacing the delimiter with null.

For example,

foo = var    # comment

was parsed as below.

foo="var    "

but user will expect

foo="var"

This fixes it by applying strim() after removing the delimiter.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/160068149134.1088739.8868306567670058853.stgit@devnote2

Fixes: 76db5a27a827 ("bootconfig: Add Extra Boot Config support")
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>lib/bootconfig: Fix a bug of breaking existing tree nodes</title>
<updated>2020-10-01T15:36:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-21T09:44:42+00:00</published>
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commit ead1e19ad905b97261f0ad7a98bb64abb9323b2b upstream.

Fix a bug of breaking existing tree nodes by parsing the second
and subsequent braces. Since the bootconfig parser uses the
node.next field as a flag of current parent node, but this will
break the existing tree if the same key node is specified again
in the bootconfig.

For example, the following bootconfig should be foo.buz and bar.

foo
bar
foo { buz }

However, when parsing the brace "{", it breaks foo-&gt;bar link
by marking open-brace node. So the bootconfig unlinks bar
from the bootconfig internal tree.

This introduces a stack outside of the tree and record the
last open-brace on the stack instead of using node.next field.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/160068148267.1088739.8264704338030168660.stgit@devnote2

Fixes: 76db5a27a827 ("bootconfig: Add Extra Boot Config support")
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>lib/string.c: implement stpcpy</title>
<updated>2020-10-01T15:36:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Desaulniers</name>
<email>ndesaulniers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-26T04:19:18+00:00</published>
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commit 1e1b6d63d6340764e00356873e5794225a2a03ea upstream.

LLVM implemented a recent "libcall optimization" that lowers calls to
`sprintf(dest, "%s", str)` where the return value is used to
`stpcpy(dest, str) - dest`.

This generally avoids the machinery involved in parsing format strings.
`stpcpy` is just like `strcpy` except it returns the pointer to the new
tail of `dest`.  This optimization was introduced into clang-12.

Implement this so that we don't observe linkage failures due to missing
symbol definitions for `stpcpy`.

Similar to last year's fire drill with: commit 5f074f3e192f
("lib/string.c: implement a basic bcmp")

The kernel is somewhere between a "freestanding" environment (no full
libc) and "hosted" environment (many symbols from libc exist with the
same type, function signature, and semantics).

As Peter Anvin notes, there's not really a great way to inform the
compiler that you're targeting a freestanding environment but would like
to opt-in to some libcall optimizations (see pr/47280 below), rather
than opt-out.

Arvind notes, -fno-builtin-* behaves slightly differently between GCC
and Clang, and Clang is missing many __builtin_* definitions, which I
consider a bug in Clang and am working on fixing.

Masahiro summarizes the subtle distinction between compilers justly:
  To prevent transformation from foo() into bar(), there are two ways in
  Clang to do that; -fno-builtin-foo, and -fno-builtin-bar.  There is
  only one in GCC; -fno-buitin-foo.

(Any difference in that behavior in Clang is likely a bug from a missing
__builtin_* definition.)

Masahiro also notes:
  We want to disable optimization from foo() to bar(),
  but we may still benefit from the optimization from
  foo() into something else. If GCC implements the same transform, we
  would run into a problem because it is not -fno-builtin-bar, but
  -fno-builtin-foo that disables that optimization.

  In this regard, -fno-builtin-foo would be more future-proof than
  -fno-built-bar, but -fno-builtin-foo is still potentially overkill. We
  may want to prevent calls from foo() being optimized into calls to
  bar(), but we still may want other optimization on calls to foo().

It seems that compilers today don't quite provide the fine grain control
over which libcall optimizations pseudo-freestanding environments would
prefer.

Finally, Kees notes that this interface is unsafe, so we should not
encourage its use.  As such, I've removed the declaration from any
header, but it still needs to be exported to avoid linkage errors in
modules.

Reported-by: Sami Tolvanen &lt;samitolvanen@google.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Andy Lavr &lt;andy.lavr@gmail.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Arvind Sankar &lt;nivedita@alum.mit.edu&gt;
Suggested-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;masahiroy@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;ndesaulniers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor &lt;natechancellor@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200914161643.938408-1-ndesaulniers@google.com
Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47162
Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47280
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1126
Link: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/stpcpy.3.html
Link: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/stpcpy.html
Link: https://reviews.llvm.org/D85963
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>test_firmware: Test platform fw loading on non-EFI systems</title>
<updated>2020-09-17T11:55:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-09T22:53:54+00:00</published>
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commit baaabecfc80fad255f866563b53b8c7a3eec176e upstream.

On non-EFI systems, it wasn't possible to test the platform firmware
loader because it will have never set "checked_fw" during __init.
Instead, allow the test code to override this check. Additionally split
the declarations into a private symbol namespace so there is greater
enforcement of the symbol visibility.

Fixes: 548193cba2a7 ("test_firmware: add support for firmware_request_platform")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ardb@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200909225354.3118328-1-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</content>
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<entry>
<title>kobject: Restore old behaviour of kobject_del(NULL)</title>
<updated>2020-09-17T11:55:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Shevchenko</name>
<email>andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-03T08:27:06+00:00</published>
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commit 40b8b826a6998639dd1c26f0e127f18371e1058d upstream.

The commit 079ad2fb4bf9 ("kobject: Avoid premature parent object freeing in
kobject_cleanup()") inadvertently dropped a possibility to call kobject_del()
with NULL pointer. Restore the old behaviour.

Fixes: 079ad2fb4bf9 ("kobject: Avoid premature parent object freeing in kobject_cleanup()")
Cc: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Qu Wenruo &lt;quwenruo.btrfs@gmx.com&gt;
Cc: Heikki Krogerus &lt;heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo &lt;wqu@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200803082706.65347-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>test_kmod: avoid potential double free in trigger_config_run_type()</title>
<updated>2020-08-21T11:15:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tiezhu Yang</name>
<email>yangtiezhu@loongson.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-12T01:36:16+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 0776d1231bec0c7ab43baf440a3f5ef5f49dd795 ]

Reset the member "test_fs" of the test configuration after a call of the
function "kfree_const" to a null pointer so that a double memory release
will not be performed.

Fixes: d9c6a72d6fa2 ("kmod: add test driver to stress test the module loader")
Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang &lt;yangtiezhu@loongson.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Cc: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@fieldses.org&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Lars Ellenberg &lt;lars.ellenberg@linbit.com&gt;
Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com&gt;
Cc: Philipp Reisner &lt;philipp.reisner@linbit.com&gt;
Cc: Roopa Prabhu &lt;roopa@cumulusnetworks.com&gt;
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Cc: Sergei Trofimovich &lt;slyfox@gentoo.org&gt;
Cc: Sergey Kvachonok &lt;ravenexp@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Tony Vroon &lt;chainsaw@gentoo.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200610154923.27510-4-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>lib/test_lockup.c: fix return value of test_lockup_init()</title>
<updated>2020-08-21T11:15:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tiezhu Yang</name>
<email>yangtiezhu@loongson.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-12T01:34:47+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 3adf3bae0d612357da516d39e1584f1547eb6e86 ]

Since filp_open() returns an error pointer, we should use IS_ERR() to
check the return value and then return PTR_ERR() if failed to get the
actual return value instead of always -EINVAL.

E.g. without this patch:

[root@localhost loongson]# ls no_such_file
ls: cannot access no_such_file: No such file or directory
[root@localhost loongson]# modprobe test_lockup file_path=no_such_file lock_sb_umount time_secs=60 state=S
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'test_lockup': Invalid argument
[root@localhost loongson]# dmesg | tail -1
[  126.100596] test_lockup: cannot find file_path

With this patch:

[root@localhost loongson]# ls no_such_file
ls: cannot access no_such_file: No such file or directory
[root@localhost loongson]# modprobe test_lockup file_path=no_such_file lock_sb_umount time_secs=60 state=S
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'test_lockup': Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
[root@localhost loongson]# dmesg | tail -1
[   95.134362] test_lockup: failed to open no_such_file: -2

Fixes: aecd42df6d39 ("lib/test_lockup.c: add parameters for locking generic vfs locks")
Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang &lt;yangtiezhu@loongson.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1595555407-29875-2-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>devres: keep both device name and resource name in pretty name</title>
<updated>2020-08-21T11:15:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Oltean</name>
<email>vladimir.oltean@nxp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-01T09:58:26+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 35bd8c07db2ce8fd2834ef866240613a4ef982e7 ]

Sometimes debugging a device is easiest using devmem on its register
map, and that can be seen with /proc/iomem. But some device drivers have
many memory regions. Take for example a networking switch. Its memory
map used to look like this in /proc/iomem:

1fc000000-1fc3fffff : pcie@1f0000000
  1fc000000-1fc3fffff : 0000:00:00.5
    1fc010000-1fc01ffff : sys
    1fc030000-1fc03ffff : rew
    1fc060000-1fc0603ff : s2
    1fc070000-1fc0701ff : devcpu_gcb
    1fc080000-1fc0800ff : qs
    1fc090000-1fc0900cb : ptp
    1fc100000-1fc10ffff : port0
    1fc110000-1fc11ffff : port1
    1fc120000-1fc12ffff : port2
    1fc130000-1fc13ffff : port3
    1fc140000-1fc14ffff : port4
    1fc150000-1fc15ffff : port5
    1fc200000-1fc21ffff : qsys
    1fc280000-1fc28ffff : ana

But after the patch in Fixes: was applied, the information is now
presented in a much more opaque way:

1fc000000-1fc3fffff : pcie@1f0000000
  1fc000000-1fc3fffff : 0000:00:00.5
    1fc010000-1fc01ffff : 0000:00:00.5
    1fc030000-1fc03ffff : 0000:00:00.5
    1fc060000-1fc0603ff : 0000:00:00.5
    1fc070000-1fc0701ff : 0000:00:00.5
    1fc080000-1fc0800ff : 0000:00:00.5
    1fc090000-1fc0900cb : 0000:00:00.5
    1fc100000-1fc10ffff : 0000:00:00.5
    1fc110000-1fc11ffff : 0000:00:00.5
    1fc120000-1fc12ffff : 0000:00:00.5
    1fc130000-1fc13ffff : 0000:00:00.5
    1fc140000-1fc14ffff : 0000:00:00.5
    1fc150000-1fc15ffff : 0000:00:00.5
    1fc200000-1fc21ffff : 0000:00:00.5
    1fc280000-1fc28ffff : 0000:00:00.5

That patch made a fair comment that /proc/iomem might be confusing when
it shows resources without an associated device, but we can do better
than just hide the resource name altogether. Namely, we can print the
device name _and_ the resource name. Like this:

1fc000000-1fc3fffff : pcie@1f0000000
  1fc000000-1fc3fffff : 0000:00:00.5
    1fc010000-1fc01ffff : 0000:00:00.5 sys
    1fc030000-1fc03ffff : 0000:00:00.5 rew
    1fc060000-1fc0603ff : 0000:00:00.5 s2
    1fc070000-1fc0701ff : 0000:00:00.5 devcpu_gcb
    1fc080000-1fc0800ff : 0000:00:00.5 qs
    1fc090000-1fc0900cb : 0000:00:00.5 ptp
    1fc100000-1fc10ffff : 0000:00:00.5 port0
    1fc110000-1fc11ffff : 0000:00:00.5 port1
    1fc120000-1fc12ffff : 0000:00:00.5 port2
    1fc130000-1fc13ffff : 0000:00:00.5 port3
    1fc140000-1fc14ffff : 0000:00:00.5 port4
    1fc150000-1fc15ffff : 0000:00:00.5 port5
    1fc200000-1fc21ffff : 0000:00:00.5 qsys
    1fc280000-1fc28ffff : 0000:00:00.5 ana

Fixes: 8d84b18f5678 ("devres: always use dev_name() in devm_ioremap_resource()")
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean &lt;vladimir.oltean@nxp.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200601095826.1757621-1-olteanv@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kobject: Avoid premature parent object freeing in kobject_cleanup()</title>
<updated>2020-08-19T06:26:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heikki Krogerus</name>
<email>heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-04T17:46:46+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 079ad2fb4bf9eba8a0aaab014b49705cd7f07c66 ]

If kobject_del() is invoked by kobject_cleanup() to delete the
target kobject, it may cause its parent kobject to be freed
before invoking the target kobject's -&gt;release() method, which
effectively means freeing the parent before dealing with the
child entirely.

That is confusing at best and it may also lead to functional
issues if the callers of kobject_cleanup() are not careful enough
about the order in which these calls are made, so avoid the
problem by making kobject_cleanup() drop the last reference to
the target kobject's parent at the end, after invoking the target
kobject's -&gt;release() method.

[ rjw: Rewrite the subject and changelog, make kobject_cleanup()
  drop the parent reference only when __kobject_del() has been
  called. ]

Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju &lt;naresh.kamboju@linaro.org&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;rong.a.chen@intel.com&gt;
Fixes: 7589238a8cf3 ("Revert "software node: Simplify software_node_release() function"")
Suggested-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Heikki Krogerus &lt;heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1908555.IiAGLGrh1Z@kreacher
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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