linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] pstore updates for v4.9-rc1

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Date:   Wed, 5 Oct 2016 14:43:58 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Aaron Durbin <adurbin@...omium.org>,
        Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@...omium.org>,
        Enric Balletbo Serra <enric.balletbo@...labora.com>,
        Furquan Shaikh <furquan@...omium.org>,
        Furquan Shaikh <furquan@...gle.com>,
        Geliang Tang <geliangtang@...il.com>,
        Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@...roid.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Olof Johansson <olofj@...omium.org>,
        Puneet Kumar <puneetster@...omium.org>,
        Rabin Vincent <rabinv@...s.com>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Subject: [GIT PULL] pstore updates for v4.9-rc1

Hi,

Please pull these pstore changes for v4.9-rc1.

Thanks!

-Kees

The following changes since commit d71f058617564750261b673ea9b3352382b9cde4:

  Merge branch 'for-rc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rzhang/linux (2016-09-07 21:28:26 -0700)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git tags/pstore-v4.9-rc1

for you to fetch changes up to f88baf68ebe5b2efced64725fd98548af9b8f510:

  ramoops: move spin_lock_init after kmalloc error checking (2016-09-08 15:01:13 -0700)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Fix bug in module unloading.
Switch to always using spinlock over cmpxchg.
Explicitly define pstore backend's supported modes.
Remove bounce buffer from pmsg.
Switch to using memcpy_to/fromio().
Error checking improvements.

----------------------------------------------------------------
Andrew Bresticker (1):
      pstore/ram: Use memcpy_fromio() to save old buffer

Furquan Shaikh (1):
      pstore/ram: Use memcpy_toio instead of memcpy

Geliang Tang (1):
      ramoops: move spin_lock_init after kmalloc error checking

Mark Salyzyn (1):
      pstore/pmsg: drop bounce buffer

Namhyung Kim (2):
      pstore: Split pstore fragile flags
      pstore/ram: Set pstore flags dynamically

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior (2):
      pstore/ramoops: fixup driver removal
      pstore/core: drop cmpxchg based updates

 drivers/acpi/apei/erst.c          |  2 +-
 drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c |  2 +-
 fs/pstore/platform.c              | 53 ++++++++++++++++++---
 fs/pstore/pmsg.c                  | 35 +++-----------
 fs/pstore/ram.c                   | 46 ++++++++++++++++---
 fs/pstore/ram_core.c              | 96 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 include/linux/pstore.h            | 17 +++++--
 include/linux/pstore_ram.h        |  7 ++-
 8 files changed, 162 insertions(+), 96 deletions(-)

-- 
Kees Cook
Nexus Security