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From: James Hogan <james.hogan-1AXoQHu6uovQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: Linus Torvalds
	<torvalds-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
Cc: linux-metag-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	Al Viro <viro-3bDd1+5oDREiFSDQTTA3OLVCufUGDwFn@public.gmane.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] Metag usercopy fault handling fixes for rc6
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 10:13:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170407091325.GX31606@jhogan-linux.le.imgtec.org> (raw)

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Hi Linus,

Here are some metag usercopy fixes for 4.11-rc6. Please consider
pulling.

The following changes since commit c1ae3cfa0e89fa1a7ecc4c99031f5e9ae99d9201:

  Linux 4.11-rc1 (2017-03-05 12:59:56 -0800)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag.git tags/metag-for-v4.11-rc6

for you to fetch changes up to b884a190afcecdbef34ca508ea5ee88bb7c77861:

  metag/usercopy: Add missing fixups (2017-04-05 15:25:07 +0100)

Thanks
James

----------------------------------------------------------------
metag/usercopy: Fault handling fixes

These patches fix a bunch of longstanding (some over a decade old) metag
user copy fault handling bugs. Thanks go to Al Viro for spotting some of
the questionable code in the first place.

----------------------------------------------------------------
James Hogan (7):
      metag/usercopy: Drop unused macros
      metag/usercopy: Fix alignment error checking
      metag/usercopy: Add early abort to copy_to_user
      metag/usercopy: Zero rest of buffer from copy_from_user
      metag/usercopy: Set flags before ADDZ
      metag/usercopy: Fix src fixup in from user rapf loops
      metag/usercopy: Add missing fixups

 arch/metag/include/asm/uaccess.h |  15 +-
 arch/metag/lib/usercopy.c        | 324 +++++++++++++++------------------------
 2 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 205 deletions(-)

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