user/sven/linux.git/Documentation/ioctl, branch v4.9.313

doc: ioctl: Add some clarifications to botching-up-ioctls

2016-09-06T12:00:22Z

- The guide currently says to pad the structure to a multiple of 64-bits. This is not necessary in cases where the structure contains no 64-bit types. Clarify this concept to avoid unnecessary padding. - When using __u64 to hold user pointers, blindly trying to do a cast to a void __user * may generate a warning on 32-bit systems about a cast from an integer to a pointer of different size. There is a macro to deal with this which hides an ugly double cast. Add a reference to this macro. Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

nilfs2: move ioctl interface and disk layout to uapi separately

2016-08-02T23:35:21Z

The header file "include/linux/nilfs2_fs.h" is composed of parts for ioctl and disk format, and both are intended to be shared with user space programs. This moves them to the uapi directory "include/uapi/linux" splitting the file to "nilfs2_api.h" and "nilfs2_ondisk.h". The following minor changes are accompanied by this migration: - nilfs_direct_node struct in nilfs2/direct.h is converged to nilfs2_ondisk.h because it's an on-disk structure. - inline functions nilfs_rec_len_from_disk() and nilfs_rec_len_to_disk() are moved to nilfs2/dir.c. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1465825507-3407-4-git-send-email-konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security

2016-07-30T00:38:46Z

Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris: "Highlights: - TPM core and driver updates/fixes - IPv6 security labeling (CALIPSO) - Lots of Apparmor fixes - Seccomp: remove 2-phase API, close hole where ptrace can change syscall #" * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (156 commits) apparmor: fix SECURITY_APPARMOR_HASH_DEFAULT parameter handling tpm: Add TPM 2.0 support to the Nuvoton i2c driver (NPCT6xx family) tpm: Factor out common startup code tpm: use devm_add_action_or_reset tpm2_i2c_nuvoton: add irq validity check tpm: read burstcount from TPM_STS in one 32-bit transaction tpm: fix byte-order for the value read by tpm2_get_tpm_pt tpm_tis_core: convert max timeouts from msec to jiffies apparmor: fix arg_size computation for when setprocattr is null terminated apparmor: fix oops, validate buffer size in apparmor_setprocattr() apparmor: do not expose kernel stack apparmor: fix module parameters can be changed after policy is locked apparmor: fix oops in profile_unpack() when policy_db is not present apparmor: don't check for vmalloc_addr if kvzalloc() failed apparmor: add missing id bounds check on dfa verification apparmor: allow SYS_CAP_RESOURCE to be sufficient to prlimit another task apparmor: use list_next_entry instead of list_entry_next apparmor: fix refcount race when finding a child profile apparmor: fix ref count leak when profile sha1 hash is read apparmor: check that xindex is in trans_table bounds ...

cdrom: support read sub-channel command in LBA format

2016-07-12T15:24:50Z

userspace application can send READ_SUB_CHANNEL command with time bit enabled and disabled. The time bit allows selection of address reporting format. If the time bit is disabled the response is in logical block address(CDROM_LBA) format, represented as a 32-bit integer with ms-byte first. If the time bit is enabled the response is in time format i.e., minutes, second, frame (CDROM_MSF) format. Signed-off-by: vchannaiah Signed-off-by: Mahendran Kuppusamy [veeraiyan.chidambaram@in.bosch.com: updated Documentation/ioctl/cdrom.txt] Signed-off-by: Veeraiyan Chidambaram Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

tpm: Add documentation for the tpm_vtpm_proxy device driver

2016-06-25T14:26:35Z

Add documentation for the tpm_vtpm device driver that implements support for providing TPM functionality to Linux containers. Parts of this documentation were recycled from the Xen vTPM device driver documentation. Update the documentation for the ioctl numbers. Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org CC: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Tested-by: Jarkko Sakkinen Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen

gpio: uapi: use 0xB4 as ioctl() major

2016-03-10T09:02:52Z

The previous 'o' is in conflict and not very orderly assigned. We want to select an ioctl() major that does not conflict with the existining ones. Add the new reserved major (0xB4) to Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt Fixes: 3c702e9987e2 ("gpio: add a userspace chardev ABI for GPIOs") Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij

Doc: ioctl: Fix typos in Documentation/ioctl

2015-11-20T23:52:50Z

This patch fix some spelling typos in Documentation/ioctl. Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Merge tag 'char-misc-4.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc

2015-11-05T06:15:15Z

Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big char/misc driver update for 4.4-rc1. Lots of different driver and subsystem updates, hwtracing being the largest with the addition of some new platforms that are now supported. Full details in the shortlog. All of these have been in linux-next for a long time with no reported issues" * tag 'char-misc-4.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (181 commits) fpga: socfpga: Fix check of return value of devm_request_irq lkdtm: fix ACCESS_USERSPACE test mcb: Destroy IDA on module unload mcb: Do not return zero on error path in mcb_pci_probe() mei: bus: set the device name before running fixup mei: bus: use correct lock ordering mei: Fix debugfs filename in error output char: ipmi: ipmi_ssif: Replace timeval with timespec64 fpga: zynq-fpga: Fix issue with drvdata being overwritten. fpga manager: remove unnecessary null pointer checks fpga manager: ensure lifetime with of_fpga_mgr_get fpga: zynq-fpga: Change fw format to handle bin instead of bit. fpga: zynq-fpga: Fix unbalanced clock handling misc: sram: partition base address belongs to __iomem space coresight: etm3x: adding documentation for sysFS's cpu interface vme: 8-bit status/id takes 256 values, not 255 fpga manager: Adding FPGA Manager support for Xilinx Zynq 7000 ARM: zynq: dt: Updated devicetree for Zynq 7000 platform. ARM: dt: fpga: Added binding docs for Xilinx Zynq FPGA manager. ver_linux: proc/modules, limit text processing to 'sed' ...

lightnvm: Support for Open-Channel SSDs

2015-10-29T07:21:42Z

Open-channel SSDs are devices that share responsibilities with the host in order to implement and maintain features that typical SSDs keep strictly in firmware. These include (i) the Flash Translation Layer (FTL), (ii) bad block management, and (iii) hardware units such as the flash controller, the interface controller, and large amounts of flash chips. In this way, Open-channels SSDs exposes direct access to their physical flash storage, while keeping a subset of the internal features of SSDs. LightNVM is a specification that gives support to Open-channel SSDs LightNVM allows the host to manage data placement, garbage collection, and parallelism. Device specific responsibilities such as bad block management, FTL extensions to support atomic IOs, or metadata persistence are still handled by the device. The implementation of LightNVM consists of two parts: core and (multiple) targets. The core implements functionality shared across targets. This is initialization, teardown and statistics. The targets implement the interface that exposes physical flash to user-space applications. Examples of such targets include key-value store, object-store, as well as traditional block devices, which can be application-specific. Contributions in this patch from: Javier Gonzalez Dongsheng Yang Jesper Madsen Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

stm class: Introduce an abstraction for System Trace Module devices

2015-10-04T19:28:58Z

A System Trace Module (STM) is a device exporting data in System Trace Protocol (STP) format as defined by MIPI STP standards. Examples of such devices are Intel(R) Trace Hub and Coresight STM. This abstraction provides a unified interface for software trace sources to send their data over an STM device to a debug host. In order to do that, such a trace source needs to be assigned a pair of master/channel identifiers that all the data from this source will be tagged with. The STP decoder on the debug host side will use these master/channel tags to distinguish different trace streams from one another inside one STP stream. This abstraction provides a configfs-based policy management mechanism for dynamic allocation of these master/channel pairs based on trace source-supplied string identifier. It has the flexibility of being defined at runtime and at the same time (provided that the policy definition is aligned with the decoding end) consistency. For userspace trace sources, this abstraction provides write()-based and mmap()-based (if the underlying stm device allows this) output mechanism. For kernel-side trace sources, we provide "stm_source" device class that can be connected to an stm device at run time. Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman