linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] rslib updates for v4.18-rc1

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Date:   Sun, 3 Jun 2018 21:49:02 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alasdair Kergon <agk@...hat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Anton Vorontsov <anton@...msg.org>,
        Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...tlin.com>,
        Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Mike Snitzer <snitzer@...hat.com>, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
Subject: [GIT PULL] rslib updates for v4.18-rc1

Hi Linus,

Please pull these rslib changes for v4.18-rc1. Thomas asked me to carry
this series since I've been coordinating VLA removal, and he's got enough
trees to worry about. :) This has been in -next for a while now.

Thanks!

-Kees

The following changes since commit 6d08b06e67cd117f6992c46611dfb4ce267cd71e:

  Linux 4.17-rc2 (2018-04-22 19:20:09 -0700)

are available in the Git repository at:

  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git tags/rslib-v4.18-rc1

for you to fetch changes up to 45888b40d2a6221d46bb69959e2600ddba71cc1f:

  rslib: Allocate decoder buffers to avoid VLAs (2018-04-24 19:50:10 -0700)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Refactors rslib and callers to provide a per-instance allocation area
instead of performing VLAs on the stack.

----------------------------------------------------------------
Thomas Gleixner (10):
      rslib: Add GFP aware init function
      dm/verity_fec: Use GFP aware reed solomon init
      rslib: Cleanup whitespace damage
      rslib: Cleanup top level comments
      rslib: Add SPDX identifiers
      rslib: Remove GPL boilerplate
      rslib: Simplify error path
      rslib: Split rs control struct
      mtd: rawnand: diskonchip: Allocate rs control per instance
      rslib: Allocate decoder buffers to avoid VLAs

 drivers/md/dm-verity-fec.c        |   2 +-
 drivers/mtd/nand/raw/cafe_nand.c  |   7 +-
 drivers/mtd/nand/raw/diskonchip.c |  67 +++++------
 include/linux/rslib.h             |  74 +++++++-----
 lib/reed_solomon/decode_rs.c      |  34 +++---
 lib/reed_solomon/encode_rs.c      |  15 +--
 lib/reed_solomon/reed_solomon.c   | 240 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 7 files changed, 243 insertions(+), 196 deletions(-)

-- 
Kees Cook
Pixel Security