linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] pstore updates for v6.2-rc1

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Message-ID: <202212051623.33FD7D5@keescook>
Date:   Mon, 5 Dec 2022 16:24:44 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Anton Vorontsov <anton@...msg.org>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        Brian Geffon <bgeffon@...gle.com>,
        Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>,
        "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@...lia.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>,
        Paramjit Oberoi <pso@...omium.org>,
        Qiujun Huang <hqjagain@...il.com>,
        Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Wang Yufen <wangyufen@...wei.com>,
        WeiXiong Liao <gmpy.liaowx@...il.com>
Subject: [GIT PULL] pstore updates for v6.2-rc1

Hi Linus,

Please pull these pstore updates for v6.2-rc1. It's a small collection
of bug fixes, refactorings, and general improvements noted below.

Thanks!

-Kees

The following changes since commit 9abf2313adc1ca1b6180c508c25f22f9395cc780:

  Linux 6.1-rc1 (2022-10-16 15:36:24 -0700)

are available in the Git repository at:

  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git tags/pstore-v6.2-rc1

for you to fetch changes up to e6b842741b4f39007215fd7e545cb55aa3d358a2:

  pstore: Avoid kcore oops by vmap()ing with VM_IOREMAP (2022-12-05 16:15:09 -0800)

----------------------------------------------------------------
pstore updates for v6.2-rc1

- Reporting improvements and return path fixes (Guilherme G. Piccoli,
  Wang Yufen, Kees Cook).

- Clean up kmsg_bytes module parameter usage (Guilherme G. Piccoli).

- Add Guilherme to pstore MAINTAINERS entry.

- Choose friendlier allocation flags (Qiujun Huang, Stephen Boyd).

----------------------------------------------------------------
Guilherme G. Piccoli (5):
      pstore: Improve error reporting in case of backend overlap
      pstore: Expose kmsg_bytes as a module parameter
      pstore: Inform unregistered backend names as well
      efi: pstore: Follow convention for the efi-pstore backend name
      pstore: Alert on backend write error

Kees Cook (5):
      pstore/ram: Consolidate kfree() paths
      pstore/ram: Move pmsg init earlier
      pstore/ram: Move internal definitions out of kernel-wide include
      pstore/ram: Set freed addresses to NULL
      MAINTAINERS: Update pstore maintainers

Qiujun Huang (1):
      pstore/zone: Use GFP_ATOMIC to allocate zone buffer

Stephen Boyd (1):
      pstore: Avoid kcore oops by vmap()ing with VM_IOREMAP

Wang Yufen (1):
      pstore/ram: Fix error return code in ramoops_probe()

 MAINTAINERS                       |  8 ++--
 drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c |  2 +-
 fs/pstore/platform.c              | 25 ++++++++--
 fs/pstore/ram.c                   | 44 +++++++++--------
 fs/pstore/ram_core.c              | 20 ++++++--
 fs/pstore/ram_internal.h          | 98 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 fs/pstore/zone.c                  |  2 +-
 include/linux/pstore_ram.h        | 99 ---------------------------------------
 8 files changed, 165 insertions(+), 133 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 fs/pstore/ram_internal.h

-- 
Kees Cook