linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] pstore fixes for v4.8-rc1

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Date:	Fri, 5 Aug 2016 11:28:42 -0700
From:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@...achi.com>,
	Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <nobuhiro.iwamatsu.kw@...achi.com>,
	Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] pstore fixes for v4.8-rc1

Hi,

Please pull these pstore fixes for v4.8-rc1.

This includes an adjustment to the DT bindings ramoops uses, as suggested
by Rob Herring, and fixes load failure memory clean up, from Hiraku Toyooka.

Thanks!

-Kees

The following changes since commit f38d2e5313f0af9d9b66c02a5d49c71deb994b85:

  Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 (2016-08-01 14:28:42 -0400)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git tags/pstore-v4.8-rc1

for you to fetch changes up to e976e56423dc1cc01686861fc3e0c6c0ec8cd8b7:

  ramoops: use persistent_ram_free() instead of kfree() for freeing prz (2016-08-05 11:21:46 -0700)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Fixes for pstore ramoops driver to catch bad kfree() and to use better DT
bindings.

----------------------------------------------------------------
Hiraku Toyooka (1):
      ramoops: use persistent_ram_free() instead of kfree() for freeing prz

Kees Cook (1):
      ramoops: use DT reserved-memory bindings

 .../bindings/{misc => reserved-memory}/ramoops.txt |  8 ++---
 Documentation/ramoops.txt                          | 38 +++++++++++++++-------
 drivers/of/platform.c                              | 20 ++++++++++--
 fs/pstore/ram.c                                    | 29 ++++++-----------
 4 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
 rename Documentation/devicetree/bindings/{misc => reserved-memory}/ramoops.txt (86%)

-- 
Kees Cook
Brillo & Chrome OS Security