linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] strscpy powerpc fix for 4.3

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Date:	Thu, 8 Oct 2015 15:47:31 -0400
From:	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...hip.com>
To:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	<linux-next@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] strscpy powerpc fix for 4.3 - not 3.4 :-)

On 10/08/2015 02:45 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 08:27:38PM -0400, Chris Metcalf wrote:
>> On 10/7/2015 6:44 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>>> Hi Linus,
>>>
>>> After merging Linus' tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
>>> ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:
>>>
>>> lib/string.c: In function 'strscpy':
>>> lib/string.c:209:4: error: implicit declaration of function 'zero_bytemask' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
>>>      *(unsigned long *)(dest+res) = c & zero_bytemask(data);
>>>      ^
>>>
>>> Caused by commit
>>>
>>>    30035e45753b ("string: provide strscpy()")
>> I posted a change equivalent to yours earlier today:
>>
>> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1444229188-19640-1-git-send-email-cmetcalf@ezchip.com
>>
>> I also did no testing, but since the rest of the PPC code is similar to the
>> asm-generic version, I believe the zero_bytemask() definition should be OK.
>>
>> It probably should go through Linus' tree, like the previous set of patches.
>> I just pushed it up to the linux-tile tree for Linus to grab as:
>>
> Wonder if Linus is going to realize that you meant 4.3 in your subject line,
> not 3.4.

Oops, good catch :-)

I updated the subject line of this reply so it will catch on Linus's mail
filters better, if that helps!

>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile.git strscpy
>>
>> Chris Metcalf (1):
>>        arch/powerpc: provide zero_bytemask() for big-endian
>>
>>   arch/powerpc/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h | 5 +++++
>>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>>
>> -- 
>> Chris Metcalf, EZChip Semiconductor
>> http://www.ezchip.com
>>
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