linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] pstore updates for v4.13-rc1

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Message-ID: <20170705042946.GA71633@beast>
Date:   Tue, 4 Jul 2017 21:29:46 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Ankit Kumar <ankit@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Anton Blanchard <anton@....ibm.com>,
        Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
        Geliang Tang <geliangtang@...il.com>,
        Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [GIT PULL] pstore updates for v4.13-rc1

Hi,

Please pull these pstore changes for v4.13-rc1.

Thanks!

-Kees

The following changes since commit 5ed02dbb497422bf225783f46e6eadd237d23d6b:

  Linux 4.12-rc3 (2017-05-28 17:20:53 -0700)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git tags/pstore-v4.13-rc1

for you to fetch changes up to 0752e4028c003fba1e2b44c4b3cf6a4482e931b6:

  powerpc/nvram: use memdup_user (2017-06-27 17:02:50 -0700)

----------------------------------------------------------------
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

----------------------------------------------------------------
Ankit Kumar (1):
      pstore: Don't warn if data is uncompressed and type is not PSTORE_TYPE_DMESG

Douglas Anderson (1):
      pstore: Fix leaked pstore_record in pstore_get_backend_records()

Geliang Tang (2):
      pstore: use memdup_user
      powerpc/nvram: use memdup_user

Kees Cook (5):
      pstore: Avoid potential infinite loop
      efi-pstore: Refactor erase routine
      pstore: Create common record initializer
      pstore: Populate pstore record->time field
      pstore: Fix format string to use %u for record id

 arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c    | 14 +++----
 drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c | 87 +++++++++++++++++----------------------
 fs/pstore/inode.c                 | 22 +++++-----
 fs/pstore/internal.h              |  2 +
 fs/pstore/platform.c              | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 fs/pstore/pmsg.c                  | 10 ++---
 fs/pstore/ram.c                   | 16 +++----
 include/linux/pstore.h            |  5 ++-
 8 files changed, 114 insertions(+), 111 deletions(-)

-- 
Kees Cook
Pixel Security