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Date:	Fri, 22 Apr 2016 02:46:18 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Kees Cook <tipbot@...or.com>
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Subject: [tip:x86/boot] x86/boot: Clean up things used by decompressors

Commit-ID:  1f208de37d10bb9067f3b061d281363be0cd1805
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/1f208de37d10bb9067f3b061d281363be0cd1805
Author:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
AuthorDate: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 13:55:44 -0700
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 10:00:50 +0200

x86/boot: Clean up things used by decompressors

This rearranges the pieces needed to include the decompressor code
in misc.c. It wasn't obvious why things were there, so a comment was
added and definitions consolidated.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@...il.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461185746-8017-4-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
index e96829b..0381e25 100644
--- a/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
+++ b/arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c
@@ -21,19 +21,19 @@
  * it is not safe to place pointers in static structures.
  */
 
+/* Macros used by the included decompressor code below. */
 #define STATIC		static
 
-#undef memcpy
-
 /*
- * Use a normal definition of memset() from string.c. There are already
+ * Use normal definitions of mem*() from string.c. There are already
  * included header files which expect a definition of memset() and by
  * the time we define memset macro, it is too late.
  */
+#undef memcpy
 #undef memset
 #define memzero(s, n)	memset((s), 0, (n))
 
-
+/* Functions used by the included decompressor code below. */
 static void error(char *m);
 
 /*