kernel/git/stable/linux.git/drivers/char/Kconfig, branch linux-4.13.y

Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux

2017-07-06T00:09:27+00:00

Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon: - RAS reporting via GHES/APEI (ACPI) - Indirect ftrace trampolines for modules - Improvements to kernel fault reporting - Page poisoning - Sigframe cleanups and preparation for SVE context - Core dump fixes - Sparse fixes (mainly relating to endianness) - xgene SoC PMU v3 driver - Misc cleanups and non-critical fixes * tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (75 commits) arm64: fix endianness annotation for 'struct jit_ctx' and friends arm64: cpuinfo: constify attribute_group structures. arm64: ptrace: Fix incorrect get_user() use in compat_vfp_set() arm64: ptrace: Remove redundant overrun check from compat_vfp_set() arm64: ptrace: Avoid setting compat FP[SC]R to garbage if get_user fails arm64: fix endianness annotation for __apply_alternatives()/get_alt_insn() arm64: fix endianness annotation in get_kaslr_seed() arm64: add missing conversion to __wsum in ip_fast_csum() arm64: fix endianness annotation in acpi_parking_protocol.c arm64: use readq() instead of readl() to read 64bit entry_point arm64: fix endianness annotation for reloc_insn_movw() & reloc_insn_imm() arm64: fix endianness annotation for aarch64_insn_write() arm64: fix endianness annotation in aarch64_insn_read() arm64: fix endianness annotation in call_undef_hook() arm64: fix endianness annotation for debug-monitors.c ras: mark stub functions as 'inline' arm64: pass endianness info to sparse arm64: ftrace: fix !CONFIG_ARM64_MODULE_PLTS kernels arm64: signal: Allow expansion of the signal frame acpi: apei: check for pending errors when probing GHES entries ...

drivers/char: kmem: disable on arm64

2017-06-20T11:42:42+00:00

As it turns out, arm64 deviates from other architectures in the way it maps the VMALLOC region: on most (all?) other architectures, it resides strictly above the kernel's direct mapping of DRAM, but on arm64, this is the other way around. For instance, for a 48-bit VA configuration, we have modules : 0xffff000000000000 - 0xffff000008000000 ( 128 MB) vmalloc : 0xffff000008000000 - 0xffff7dffbfff0000 (129022 GB) ... vmemmap : 0xffff7e0000000000 - 0xffff800000000000 ( 2048 GB maximum) 0xffff7e0000000000 - 0xffff7e0003ff0000 ( 63 MB actual) memory : 0xffff800000000000 - 0xffff8000ffc00000 ( 4092 MB) This has mostly gone unnoticed until now, but it does appear that it breaks an assumption in the kmem read/write code, which does something like if (p < (unsigned long) high_memory) { ... use straight copy_[to|from]_user() using p as virtual address ... } ... if (count > 0) { ... use vread/vwrite for accesses past high_memory ... } The first condition will inadvertently hold for the VMALLOC region if VMALLOC_START < PAGE_OFFSET [which is the case on arm64], but the read or write will subsequently fail the virt_addr_valid() check, resulting in a -ENXIO return value. Given how kmem seems to be living in borrowed time anyway, and given the fact that nobody noticed that the read/write interface is broken on arm64 in the first place, let's not bother trying to fix it, but simply disable the /dev/kmem interface entirely for arm64. Acked-by: Mark Rutland Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

mmtimer: Remove the SGI SN2 mmtimer driver

2017-05-26T10:52:19+00:00

This driver supports direct system clock access on the ancient SGI SN2 IA64 systems, and implement the only non-builtin k_clock instance. Remove it as any remaining IA64 altix user will be running just as old distros anyway. Dimitri Sivanich stated: "Since this is SN2 specific, this can be removed." Note that this does not affect the never uv_mmtimer driver for x86-based Altix systems. [ tglx: Added comment to CLOCK_SGI_CYCLE ] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Mike Travis Cc: Dimitri Sivanich Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170526090311.3377-2-hch@lst.de

Merge tag 'tty-4.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty

2017-02-22T20:17:25+00:00

Pull tty/serial driver updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big tty/serial driver patchset for 4.11-rc1. Not much here, but a lot of little fixes and individual serial driver updates all over the subsystem. Majority are for the sh-sci driver and platform (the arch-specific changes have acks from the maintainer). The start of the "serial bus" code is here as well, but nothing is converted to use it yet. That work is still ongoing, hopefully will start to show up across different subsystems for 4.12 (bluetooth is one major place that will be used.) All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'tty-4.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (109 commits) tty: pl011: Work around QDF2400 E44 stuck BUSY bit atmel_serial: Use the fractional divider when possible tty: Remove extra include in HVC console tty framework serial: exar: Enable MSI support serial: exar: Move register defines from uapi header to consumer site serial: pci: Remove unused pci_boards entries serial: exar: Move Commtech adapters to 8250_exar as well serial: exar: Fix feature control register constants serial: exar: Fix initialization of EXAR registers for ports > 0 serial: exar: Fix mapping of port I/O resources serial: sh-sci: fix hardware RX trigger level setting tty/serial: atmel: ensure state is restored after suspending serial: 8250_dw: Avoid "too much work" from bogus rx timeout interrupt serdev: ttyport: check whether tty_init_dev() fails serial: 8250_pci: make pciserial_detach_ports() static ARM: dts: STiH410-b2260: Enable HW flow-control ARM: dts: STiH407-family: Use new Pinctrl groups ARM: dts: STiH407-pinctrl: Add Pinctrl group for HW flow-control ARM: dts: STiH410-b2260: Identify the UART RTS line dt-bindings: serial: Update 'uart-has-rtscts' description ...

serdev: Introduce new bus for serial attached devices

2017-02-03T09:17:02+00:00

The serdev bus is designed for devices such as Bluetooth, WiFi, GPS and NFC connected to UARTs on host processors. Tradionally these have been handled with tty line disciplines, rfkill, and userspace glue such as hciattach. This approach has many drawbacks since it doesn't fit into the Linux driver model. Handling of sideband signals, power control and firmware loading are the main issues. This creates a serdev bus with controllers (i.e. host serial ports) and attached devices. Typically, these are point to point connections, but some devices have muxing protocols or a h/w mux is conceivable. Any muxing is not yet supported with the serdev bus. Signed-off-by: Rob Herring Reviewed-By: Sebastian Reichel Tested-By: Sebastian Reichel Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

char: lack of bool string made CONFIG_DEVPORT always on

2017-01-11T07:28:52+00:00

Without a bool string present, using "# CONFIG_DEVPORT is not set" in defconfig files would not actually unset devport. This esnured that /dev/port was always on, but there are reasons a user may wish to disable it (smaller kernel, attack surface reduction) if it's not being used. Adding a message here in order to make this user visible. Signed-off-by: Max Bires Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'char-misc-4.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc

2016-12-13T20:11:01+00:00

Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH: "Here's the big char/misc driver patches for 4.10-rc1. Lots of tiny changes over lots of "minor" driver subsystems, the largest being some new FPGA drivers. Other than that, a few other new drivers, but no new driver subsystems added for this kernel cycle, a nice change. All of these have been in linux-next with no reported issues" * tag 'char-misc-4.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (107 commits) uio-hv-generic: store physical addresses instead of virtual Tools: hv: kvp: configurable external scripts path uio-hv-generic: new userspace i/o driver for VMBus vmbus: add support for dynamic device id's hv: change clockevents unbind tactics hv: acquire vmbus_connection.channel_mutex in vmbus_free_channels() hyperv: Fix spelling of HV_UNKOWN mei: bus: enable non-blocking RX mei: fix the back to back interrupt handling mei: synchronize irq before initiating a reset. VME: Remove shutdown entry from vme_driver auxdisplay: ht16k33: select framebuffer helper modules MAINTAINERS: add git url for fpga fpga: Clarify how write_init works streaming modes fpga zynq: Fix incorrect ISR state on bootup fpga zynq: Remove priv->dev fpga zynq: Add missing \n to messages fpga: Add COMPILE_TEST to all drivers uio: pruss: add clk_disable() char/pcmcia: add some error checking in scr24x_read() ...

posix-timers: Make them configurable

2016-11-16T08:26:35+00:00

Some embedded systems have no use for them. This removes about 25KB from the kernel binary size when configured out. Corresponding syscalls are routed to a stub logging the attempt to use those syscalls which should be enough of a clue if they were disabled without proper consideration. They are: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, setitimer, getitimer, alarm. The clock_settime, clock_gettime, clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls are replaced by simple wrappers compatible with CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only which should cover the vast majority of use cases with very little code. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre Acked-by: Richard Cochran Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: John Stultz Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett Cc: Paul Bolle Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: Michal Marek Cc: Edward Cree Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478841010-28605-7-git-send-email-nicolas.pitre@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

tile-srom: allow the driver to be built as a module

2016-11-10T14:18:56+00:00

The code was already configured that way, but the Kconfig file didn't support requesting it. A buglet caused a null pointer deref when unloading the module, but this commit also corrects that issue. Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Move CONFIG_DEVKMEM default to n

2016-10-28T12:23:03+00:00

Kconfig comment suggests setting it as "n" if in doubt thus move the default value to 'n'. Signed-off-by: Dave Young Suggested-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman