Merge tag 'pstore-v4.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux

Pull pstore updates from Kees Cook:
 "Various fixes and tweaks for the pstore subsystem.

  Highlights:

   - use memdup_user() instead of open-coded copies (Geliang Tang)

   - fix record memory leak during initialization (Douglas Anderson)

   - avoid confused compressed record warning (Ankit Kumar)

   - prepopulate record timestamp and remove redundant logic from
     backends"

* tag 'pstore-v4.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  powerpc/nvram: use memdup_user
  pstore: use memdup_user
  pstore: Fix format string to use %u for record id
  pstore: Populate pstore record->time field
  pstore: Create common record initializer
  efi-pstore: Refactor erase routine
  pstore: Avoid potential infinite loop
  pstore: Fix leaked pstore_record in pstore_get_backend_records()
  pstore: Don't warn if data is uncompressed and type is not PSTORE_TYPE_DMESG

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/pstore.h b/include/linux/pstore.h
index e2233f50f428..61f806a7fe29 100644
--- a/include/linux/pstore.h
+++ b/include/linux/pstore.h
@@ -138,7 +138,10 @@ struct pstore_record {
  *		memory allocation may be broken during an Oops. Regardless,
  *		@buf must be proccesed or copied before returning. The
  *		backend is also expected to write @id with something that
- 8		can help identify this record to a future @erase callback.
+ *		can help identify this record to a future @erase callback.
+ *		The @time field will be prepopulated with the current time,
+ *		when available. The @size field will have the size of data
+ *		in @buf.
  *
  *	Returns 0 on success, and non-zero on error.
  *