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This dev_info() statement is not needed since drivers need to be quiet
under normal operation and its not a good idea to print addresses in
kernel log.
Signed-off-by: Prathu Baronia <prathubaronia2011@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20230616152602.33232-2-prathubaronia2011@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Use ieee80211_channel_to_freq_khz() to calculate channel to frequency to
omit proprietary code.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <c3a94a403d04ba810cffff8afa734a94a218a4e9.1686166624.git.philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Use ieee80211_freq_khz_to_channel() to calculate frequency to channel to
omit proprietary code.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <fc332e81f6677965e9e51f1fcef9815997effcb5.1686166624.git.philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Add cfg80211 and remove defined variables rfc1042_header and
bridge_tunnel_header as they are then already defined. Usage of cfg80211
is required to merge driver into wireless subsystem.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20230603085251.GA20230@matrix-ESPRIMO-P710>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Removed new line in else and else if,
this warning was given by checkpatch.pl
Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Message-ID: <20230530135120.37637-1-kartikey406@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Clean a checkpatch.pl warning of type "braces {} are not necessary for
single statement blocks" on r8192E_phy.c file.
Signed-off-by: David Tadokoro <davidbtadokoro@usp.br>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230528154010.3068-1-davidbtadokoro@usp.br
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
There is no gpiod_export() and gpiod_unexport() looks pretty much stray.
If user space tools somehow belong to that, they should be fixed, the
gpiod_export() and gpiod_unexport() shouldn't be used in a new code,
GPIO sysfs is deprecated. That said, and taking into account staging
state of the driver, simply drop the stray call.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230528140147.32427-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
After commit b8a1a4cd5a98 ("i2c: Provide a temporary .probe_new()
call-back type"), all drivers being converted to .probe_new() and then
03c835f498b5 ("i2c: Switch .probe() to not take an id parameter") convert
back to (the new) .probe() to be able to eventually drop .probe_new() from
struct i2c_driver.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230524151646.486847-6-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
After commit b8a1a4cd5a98 ("i2c: Provide a temporary .probe_new()
call-back type"), all drivers being converted to .probe_new() and then
03c835f498b5 ("i2c: Switch .probe() to not take an id parameter") convert
back to (the new) .probe() to be able to eventually drop .probe_new() from
struct i2c_driver.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230524151646.486847-5-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Remove the license boilerplate as there is already SPDX license
identifier added in b24413180f5600 ("License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0
license identifier to files with no license") which fulfills the same
intention as the boilerplate.
Cc: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com>
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230517090418.1093091-4-bagasdotme@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This function has no callers from other files, and the declaration
was removed a while ago, causing a W=1 warning:
drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c:465:5: error: no previous prototype for 'vchiq_platform_init'
Marking it static solves this problem but introduces a new warning
since gcc determines that 'g_fragments_base' is never initialized
in some kernel configurations:
In file included from include/linux/string.h:254,
from include/linux/bitmap.h:11,
from include/linux/cpumask.h:12,
from include/linux/mm_types_task.h:14,
from include/linux/mm_types.h:5,
from include/linux/buildid.h:5,
from include/linux/module.h:14,
from drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c:8:
In function 'memcpy_to_page',
inlined from 'free_pagelist' at drivers/staging/vc04_services/interface/vchiq_arm/vchiq_arm.c:433:4:
include/linux/fortify-string.h:57:33: error: argument 2 null where non-null expected [-Werror=nonnull]
include/linux/highmem.h:427:9: note: in expansion of macro 'memcpy'
427 | memcpy(to + offset, from, len);
| ^~~~~~
Add a NULL pointer check for this in addition to the static annotation
to avoid both.
Fixes: 89cc4218f640 ("staging: vchiq_arm: drop unnecessary declarations")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Umang Jain <umang.jain@ideasonboard.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230516202603.560554-1-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
On start of rtllib_wx_set_scan lock was taken with
mutex_lock(&ieee->wx_mutex). Unlocking was done at the end of
schedule_work(&ieee->wx_sync_scan_wq) which lead to the error "lock held
when returning to user space!". Pushing lock to beginning of
ieee->wx_sync_scan_wq to improve overview. Removed lock from
rtllib_wx_set_scan as ieee->state, ieee->iw_mode and ieee->proto_started
are not protected in many other places.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230516192206.GA7710@matrix-ESPRIMO-P710
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Exclude scan_mutex from cancel_delayed_work_sync(&ieee->softmac_scan_wq) as
ieee->softmac_scan_wq takes scan_mutex as well.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230514204033.GA20187@matrix-ESPRIMO-P710
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
replace the ternary operator used for assignment of pHalData->ant_path
with an if-else block for better readability
Signed-off-by: Atin Bainada <hi@atinb.me>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230513214338.79833-1-hi@atinb.me
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
In a future patch HAS_IOPORT=n will result in inb()/outb() and friends
not being declared. We thus need to add HAS_IOPORT as dependency for
those drivers using them.
Co-developed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230522105049.1467313-35-schnelle@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Rename variable tmpCCK20Mindex to tmp_cck_20m_index and
tmpCCK40Mindex to tmp_cck_40m_index to avoid CamelCase which
is not accepted by checkpatch.
Signed-off-by: Yogesh Hegde <yogi.kernel@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3e8b6cd85e6e4fcc934cc1d813f5f594cef8ff92.1683730854.git.yogi.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Rename variable tmpOFDMindex to tmp_ofdm_index and
tmpCCKindex to tmp_cck_index to avoid CamelCase which
is not accepted by checkpatch.
Signed-off-by: Yogesh Hegde <yogi.kernel@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/48098479094e4562fe196cbce813476041a664df.1683730854.git.yogi.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Use tabs for indentation to conform to styleguide.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Watson <ozzloy@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZEyAaC0riuuBJO14@trent-reznor
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel coding-style suggests to not use mixed-case names. Fix
checkpatch issue by changing the variable name from camel case to snake
case.
Signed-off-by: John Grace <johnmgrace1@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZEcjdUR/bnln7Z1J@iris
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The 'sens' and 'max_sens' fields in the 'r8192_priv' structure are no
longer used by the driver. This commit removes these fields.
Suggested-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yogesh Hegde <yogi.kernel@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e117e958ada5695975deecfcd442703fd11bba3f.1682358035.git.yogi.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
After removal of rf_set_sens variable, the _rtl92e_wx_set_sens function
always returns an error code.
This commit removes the unused function and the respective ioctl.
Suggested-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yogesh Hegde <yogi.kernel@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/439386d2940fe70ec2092e87211df5e7946aab82.1682358035.git.yogi.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
After removal of rf_set_sens variable, the _rtl92e_wx_get_sens function
always returns an error code.
This commit removes the unused function and the respective ioctl.
Suggested-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yogesh Hegde <yogi.kernel@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/eae80c4e2ac7f386c853cf824135b988c3666031.1682358035.git.yogi.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The rf_set_sens variable is declared but never set, so it is always NULL.
This commit cleans up the unused rf_set_sens variable and removes the
associated code that relied on it.
Specifically, the following changes have been made:
- Removed the `range->sensitivity` assignment, which was never used.
- Removed the sensitivity level get implementation, which always returns
an error code.
- Removed the sensitivity level set implementation, which always returns
an error code.
- Removed the `rf_set_sens` variable.
Suggested-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yogesh Hegde <yogi.kernel@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5a9767fab76b1836ea7881994ffb3593c1ab12bf.1682358035.git.yogi.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Add missing braces to if/else statements to adhere to the
Linux kernel coding-style guidelines.
These issues were reported by checkpatch.pl
"CHECK: braces {} should be used on all arms of this statement"
Signed-off-by: Stephan Snyman <rooiratel@tinyglitch.net>
Tested-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230420133209.4661-1-rooiratel@tinyglitch.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Change p80211msg_dot11req_scan_results rate members to struct arrays
instead of individually numbered member structs.
Replace macros to set rates with loops to avoid checkpatch warning
and adhere to linux coding style.
Reported by checkpatch:
CHECK: Macro argument reuse 'N' - possible side-effects?
Signed-off-by: Luke Koch <lu.ale.koch@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZEFtOH83frrrireN@kernelhacking.kernelhacking.example.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The summary of the changes for this pull requests is:
* Song Liu's new struct module_memory replacement
* Nick Alcock's MODULE_LICENSE() removal for non-modules
* My cleanups and enhancements to reduce the areas where we vmalloc
module memory for duplicates, and the respective debug code which
proves the remaining vmalloc pressure comes from userspace.
Most of the changes have been in linux-next for quite some time except
the minor fixes I made to check if a module was already loaded
prior to allocating the final module memory with vmalloc and the
respective debug code it introduces to help clarify the issue. Although
the functional change is small it is rather safe as it can only *help*
reduce vmalloc space for duplicates and is confirmed to fix a bootup
issue with over 400 CPUs with KASAN enabled. I don't expect stable
kernels to pick up that fix as the cleanups would have also had to have
been picked up. Folks on larger CPU systems with modules will want to
just upgrade if vmalloc space has been an issue on bootup.
Given the size of this request, here's some more elaborate details
on this pull request.
The functional change change in this pull request is the very first
patch from Song Liu which replaces the struct module_layout with a new
struct module memory. The old data structure tried to put together all
types of supported module memory types in one data structure, the new
one abstracts the differences in memory types in a module to allow each
one to provide their own set of details. This paves the way in the
future so we can deal with them in a cleaner way. If you look at changes
they also provide a nice cleanup of how we handle these different memory
areas in a module. This change has been in linux-next since before the
merge window opened for v6.3 so to provide more than a full kernel cycle
of testing. It's a good thing as quite a bit of fixes have been found
for it.
Jason Baron then made dynamic debug a first class citizen module user by
using module notifier callbacks to allocate / remove module specific
dynamic debug information.
Nick Alcock has done quite a bit of work cross-tree to remove module
license tags from things which cannot possibly be module at my request
so to:
a) help him with his longer term tooling goals which require a
deterministic evaluation if a piece a symbol code could ever be
part of a module or not. But quite recently it is has been made
clear that tooling is not the only one that would benefit.
Disambiguating symbols also helps efforts such as live patching,
kprobes and BPF, but for other reasons and R&D on this area
is active with no clear solution in sight.
b) help us inch closer to the now generally accepted long term goal
of automating all the MODULE_LICENSE() tags from SPDX license tags
In so far as a) is concerned, although module license tags are a no-op
for non-modules, tools which would want create a mapping of possible
modules can only rely on the module license tag after the commit
8b41fc4454e ("kbuild: create modules.builtin without Makefile.modbuiltin
or tristate.conf"). Nick has been working on this *for years* and
AFAICT I was the only one to suggest two alternatives to this approach
for tooling. The complexity in one of my suggested approaches lies in
that we'd need a possible-obj-m and a could-be-module which would check
if the object being built is part of any kconfig build which could ever
lead to it being part of a module, and if so define a new define
-DPOSSIBLE_MODULE [0]. A more obvious yet theoretical approach I've
suggested would be to have a tristate in kconfig imply the same new
-DPOSSIBLE_MODULE as well but that means getting kconfig symbol names
mapping to modules always, and I don't think that's the case today. I am
not aware of Nick or anyone exploring either of these options. Quite
recently Josh Poimboeuf has pointed out that live patching, kprobes and
BPF would benefit from resolving some part of the disambiguation as
well but for other reasons. The function granularity KASLR (fgkaslr)
patches were mentioned but Joe Lawrence has clarified this effort has
been dropped with no clear solution in sight [1].
In the meantime removing module license tags from code which could never
be modules is welcomed for both objectives mentioned above. Some
developers have also welcomed these changes as it has helped clarify
when a module was never possible and they forgot to clean this up,
and so you'll see quite a bit of Nick's patches in other pull
requests for this merge window. I just picked up the stragglers after
rc3. LWN has good coverage on the motivation behind this work [2] and
the typical cross-tree issues he ran into along the way. The only
concrete blocker issue he ran into was that we should not remove the
MODULE_LICENSE() tags from files which have no SPDX tags yet, even if
they can never be modules. Nick ended up giving up on his efforts due
to having to do this vetting and backlash he ran into from folks who
really did *not understand* the core of the issue nor were providing
any alternative / guidance. I've gone through his changes and dropped
the patches which dropped the module license tags where an SPDX
license tag was missing, it only consisted of 11 drivers. To see
if a pull request deals with a file which lacks SPDX tags you
can just use:
./scripts/spdxcheck.py -f \
$(git diff --name-only commid-id | xargs echo)
You'll see a core module file in this pull request for the above,
but that's not related to his changes. WE just need to add the SPDX
license tag for the kernel/module/kmod.c file in the future but
it demonstrates the effectiveness of the script.
Most of Nick's changes were spread out through different trees,
and I just picked up the slack after rc3 for the last kernel was out.
Those changes have been in linux-next for over two weeks.
The cleanups, debug code I added and final fix I added for modules
were motivated by David Hildenbrand's report of boot failing on
a systems with over 400 CPUs when KASAN was enabled due to running
out of virtual memory space. Although the functional change only
consists of 3 lines in the patch "module: avoid allocation if module is
already present and ready", proving that this was the best we can
do on the modules side took quite a bit of effort and new debug code.
The initial cleanups I did on the modules side of things has been
in linux-next since around rc3 of the last kernel, the actual final
fix for and debug code however have only been in linux-next for about a
week or so but I think it is worth getting that code in for this merge
window as it does help fix / prove / evaluate the issues reported
with larger number of CPUs. Userspace is not yet fixed as it is taking
a bit of time for folks to understand the crux of the issue and find a
proper resolution. Worst come to worst, I have a kludge-of-concept [3]
of how to make kernel_read*() calls for modules unique / converge them,
but I'm currently inclined to just see if userspace can fix this
instead.
[0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y/kXDqW+7d71C4wz@bombadil.infradead.org/
[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/025f2151-ce7c-5630-9b90-98742c97ac65@redhat.com
[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/927569/
[3] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230414052840.1994456-3-mcgrof@kernel.org
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Merge tag 'modules-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux
Pull module updates from Luis Chamberlain:
"The summary of the changes for this pull requests is:
- Song Liu's new struct module_memory replacement
- Nick Alcock's MODULE_LICENSE() removal for non-modules
- My cleanups and enhancements to reduce the areas where we vmalloc
module memory for duplicates, and the respective debug code which
proves the remaining vmalloc pressure comes from userspace.
Most of the changes have been in linux-next for quite some time except
the minor fixes I made to check if a module was already loaded prior
to allocating the final module memory with vmalloc and the respective
debug code it introduces to help clarify the issue. Although the
functional change is small it is rather safe as it can only *help*
reduce vmalloc space for duplicates and is confirmed to fix a bootup
issue with over 400 CPUs with KASAN enabled. I don't expect stable
kernels to pick up that fix as the cleanups would have also had to
have been picked up. Folks on larger CPU systems with modules will
want to just upgrade if vmalloc space has been an issue on bootup.
Given the size of this request, here's some more elaborate details:
The functional change change in this pull request is the very first
patch from Song Liu which replaces the 'struct module_layout' with a
new 'struct module_memory'. The old data structure tried to put
together all types of supported module memory types in one data
structure, the new one abstracts the differences in memory types in a
module to allow each one to provide their own set of details. This
paves the way in the future so we can deal with them in a cleaner way.
If you look at changes they also provide a nice cleanup of how we
handle these different memory areas in a module. This change has been
in linux-next since before the merge window opened for v6.3 so to
provide more than a full kernel cycle of testing. It's a good thing as
quite a bit of fixes have been found for it.
Jason Baron then made dynamic debug a first class citizen module user
by using module notifier callbacks to allocate / remove module
specific dynamic debug information.
Nick Alcock has done quite a bit of work cross-tree to remove module
license tags from things which cannot possibly be module at my request
so to:
a) help him with his longer term tooling goals which require a
deterministic evaluation if a piece a symbol code could ever be
part of a module or not. But quite recently it is has been made
clear that tooling is not the only one that would benefit.
Disambiguating symbols also helps efforts such as live patching,
kprobes and BPF, but for other reasons and R&D on this area is
active with no clear solution in sight.
b) help us inch closer to the now generally accepted long term goal
of automating all the MODULE_LICENSE() tags from SPDX license tags
In so far as a) is concerned, although module license tags are a no-op
for non-modules, tools which would want create a mapping of possible
modules can only rely on the module license tag after the commit
8b41fc4454e ("kbuild: create modules.builtin without
Makefile.modbuiltin or tristate.conf").
Nick has been working on this *for years* and AFAICT I was the only
one to suggest two alternatives to this approach for tooling. The
complexity in one of my suggested approaches lies in that we'd need a
possible-obj-m and a could-be-module which would check if the object
being built is part of any kconfig build which could ever lead to it
being part of a module, and if so define a new define
-DPOSSIBLE_MODULE [0].
A more obvious yet theoretical approach I've suggested would be to
have a tristate in kconfig imply the same new -DPOSSIBLE_MODULE as
well but that means getting kconfig symbol names mapping to modules
always, and I don't think that's the case today. I am not aware of
Nick or anyone exploring either of these options. Quite recently Josh
Poimboeuf has pointed out that live patching, kprobes and BPF would
benefit from resolving some part of the disambiguation as well but for
other reasons. The function granularity KASLR (fgkaslr) patches were
mentioned but Joe Lawrence has clarified this effort has been dropped
with no clear solution in sight [1].
In the meantime removing module license tags from code which could
never be modules is welcomed for both objectives mentioned above. Some
developers have also welcomed these changes as it has helped clarify
when a module was never possible and they forgot to clean this up, and
so you'll see quite a bit of Nick's patches in other pull requests for
this merge window. I just picked up the stragglers after rc3. LWN has
good coverage on the motivation behind this work [2] and the typical
cross-tree issues he ran into along the way. The only concrete blocker
issue he ran into was that we should not remove the MODULE_LICENSE()
tags from files which have no SPDX tags yet, even if they can never be
modules. Nick ended up giving up on his efforts due to having to do
this vetting and backlash he ran into from folks who really did *not
understand* the core of the issue nor were providing any alternative /
guidance. I've gone through his changes and dropped the patches which
dropped the module license tags where an SPDX license tag was missing,
it only consisted of 11 drivers. To see if a pull request deals with a
file which lacks SPDX tags you can just use:
./scripts/spdxcheck.py -f \
$(git diff --name-only commid-id | xargs echo)
You'll see a core module file in this pull request for the above, but
that's not related to his changes. WE just need to add the SPDX
license tag for the kernel/module/kmod.c file in the future but it
demonstrates the effectiveness of the script.
Most of Nick's changes were spread out through different trees, and I
just picked up the slack after rc3 for the last kernel was out. Those
changes have been in linux-next for over two weeks.
The cleanups, debug code I added and final fix I added for modules
were motivated by David Hildenbrand's report of boot failing on a
systems with over 400 CPUs when KASAN was enabled due to running out
of virtual memory space. Although the functional change only consists
of 3 lines in the patch "module: avoid allocation if module is already
present and ready", proving that this was the best we can do on the
modules side took quite a bit of effort and new debug code.
The initial cleanups I did on the modules side of things has been in
linux-next since around rc3 of the last kernel, the actual final fix
for and debug code however have only been in linux-next for about a
week or so but I think it is worth getting that code in for this merge
window as it does help fix / prove / evaluate the issues reported with
larger number of CPUs. Userspace is not yet fixed as it is taking a
bit of time for folks to understand the crux of the issue and find a
proper resolution. Worst come to worst, I have a kludge-of-concept [3]
of how to make kernel_read*() calls for modules unique / converge
them, but I'm currently inclined to just see if userspace can fix this
instead"
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/Y/kXDqW+7d71C4wz@bombadil.infradead.org/ [0]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/025f2151-ce7c-5630-9b90-98742c97ac65@redhat.com [1]
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/927569/ [2]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230414052840.1994456-3-mcgrof@kernel.org [3]
* tag 'modules-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux: (121 commits)
module: add debugging auto-load duplicate module support
module: stats: fix invalid_mod_bytes typo
module: remove use of uninitialized variable len
module: fix building stats for 32-bit targets
module: stats: include uapi/linux/module.h
module: avoid allocation if module is already present and ready
module: add debug stats to help identify memory pressure
module: extract patient module check into helper
modules/kmod: replace implementation with a semaphore
Change DEFINE_SEMAPHORE() to take a number argument
module: fix kmemleak annotations for non init ELF sections
module: Ignore L0 and rename is_arm_mapping_symbol()
module: Move is_arm_mapping_symbol() to module_symbol.h
module: Sync code of is_arm_mapping_symbol()
scripts/gdb: use mem instead of core_layout to get the module address
interconnect: remove module-related code
interconnect: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
zswap: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
zpool: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
x86/mm/dump_pagetables: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules
...
Here is the "big" set of char/misc and other driver subsystems for
6.4-rc1.
It's pretty big, but due to the removal of pcmcia drivers, almost breaks
even for number of lines added vs. removed, a nice change.
Included in here are:
- removal of unused PCMCIA drivers (finally!)
- Interconnect driver updates and additions
- Lots of IIO driver updates and additions
- MHI driver updates
- Coresight driver updates
- NVMEM driver updates, which required some OF updates
- W1 driver updates and a new maintainer to manage the subsystem
- FPGA driver updates
- New driver subsystem, CDX, for AMD systems
- lots of other small driver updates and additions
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'char-misc-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc
Pull char/misc drivers updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the "big" set of char/misc and other driver subsystems for
6.4-rc1.
It's pretty big, but due to the removal of pcmcia drivers, almost
breaks even for number of lines added vs. removed, a nice change.
Included in here are:
- removal of unused PCMCIA drivers (finally!)
- Interconnect driver updates and additions
- Lots of IIO driver updates and additions
- MHI driver updates
- Coresight driver updates
- NVMEM driver updates, which required some OF updates
- W1 driver updates and a new maintainer to manage the subsystem
- FPGA driver updates
- New driver subsystem, CDX, for AMD systems
- lots of other small driver updates and additions
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"
* tag 'char-misc-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (196 commits)
mcb-lpc: Reallocate memory region to avoid memory overlapping
mcb-pci: Reallocate memory region to avoid memory overlapping
mcb: Return actual parsed size when reading chameleon table
kernel/configs: Drop Android config fragments
virt: acrn: Replace obsolete memalign() with posix_memalign()
spmi: Add a check for remove callback when removing a SPMI driver
spmi: fix W=1 kernel-doc warnings
spmi: mtk-pmif: Drop of_match_ptr for ID table
spmi: pmic-arb: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
spmi: mtk-pmif: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
spmi: hisi-spmi-controller: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
w1: gpio: remove unnecessary ENOMEM messages
w1: omap-hdq: remove unnecessary ENOMEM messages
w1: omap-hdq: add SPDX tag
w1: omap-hdq: allow compile testing
w1: matrox: remove unnecessary ENOMEM messages
w1: matrox: use inline over __inline__
w1: matrox: switch from asm to linux header
w1: ds2482: do not use assignment in if condition
w1: ds2482: drop unnecessary header
...
Here is the large set of driver core changes for 6.4-rc1.
Once again, a busy development cycle, with lots of changes happening in
the driver core in the quest to be able to move "struct bus" and "struct
class" into read-only memory, a task now complete with these changes.
This will make the future rust interactions with the driver core more
"provably correct" as well as providing more obvious lifetime rules for
all busses and classes in the kernel.
The changes required for this did touch many individual classes and
busses as many callbacks were changed to take const * parameters
instead. All of these changes have been submitted to the various
subsystem maintainers, giving them plenty of time to review, and most of
them actually did so.
Other than those changes, included in here are a small set of other
things:
- kobject logging improvements
- cacheinfo improvements and updates
- obligatory fw_devlink updates and fixes
- documentation updates
- device property cleanups and const * changes
- firwmare loader dependency fixes.
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
problems.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'driver-core-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the large set of driver core changes for 6.4-rc1.
Once again, a busy development cycle, with lots of changes happening
in the driver core in the quest to be able to move "struct bus" and
"struct class" into read-only memory, a task now complete with these
changes.
This will make the future rust interactions with the driver core more
"provably correct" as well as providing more obvious lifetime rules
for all busses and classes in the kernel.
The changes required for this did touch many individual classes and
busses as many callbacks were changed to take const * parameters
instead. All of these changes have been submitted to the various
subsystem maintainers, giving them plenty of time to review, and most
of them actually did so.
Other than those changes, included in here are a small set of other
things:
- kobject logging improvements
- cacheinfo improvements and updates
- obligatory fw_devlink updates and fixes
- documentation updates
- device property cleanups and const * changes
- firwmare loader dependency fixes.
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
problems"
* tag 'driver-core-6.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (120 commits)
device property: make device_property functions take const device *
driver core: update comments in device_rename()
driver core: Don't require dynamic_debug for initcall_debug probe timing
firmware_loader: rework crypto dependencies
firmware_loader: Strip off \n from customized path
zram: fix up permission for the hot_add sysfs file
cacheinfo: Add use_arch[|_cache]_info field/function
arch_topology: Remove early cacheinfo error message if -ENOENT
cacheinfo: Check cache properties are present in DT
cacheinfo: Check sib_leaf in cache_leaves_are_shared()
cacheinfo: Allow early level detection when DT/ACPI info is missing/broken
cacheinfo: Add arm64 early level initializer implementation
cacheinfo: Add arch specific early level initializer
tty: make tty_class a static const structure
driver core: class: remove struct class_interface * from callbacks
driver core: class: mark the struct class in struct class_interface constant
driver core: class: make class_register() take a const *
driver core: class: mark class_release() as taking a const *
driver core: remove incorrect comment for device_create*
MIPS: vpe-cmp: remove module owner pointer from struct class usage.
...
