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2022-06-25random: credit cpu and bootloader seeds by defaultJason A. Donenfeld
[ Upstream commit 846bb97e131d7938847963cca00657c995b1fce1 ] This commit changes the default Kconfig values of RANDOM_TRUST_CPU and RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER to be Y by default. It does not change any existing configs or change any kernel behavior. The reason for this is several fold. As background, I recently had an email thread with the kernel maintainers of Fedora/RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Arch, NixOS, Alpine, SUSE, and Void as recipients. I noted that some distros trust RDRAND, some trust EFI, and some trust both, and I asked why or why not. There wasn't really much of a "debate" but rather an interesting discussion of what the historical reasons have been for this, and it came up that some distros just missed the introduction of the bootloader Kconfig knob, while another didn't want to enable it until there was a boot time switch to turn it off for more concerned users (which has since been added). The result of the rather uneventful discussion is that every major Linux distro enables these two options by default. While I didn't have really too strong of an opinion going into this thread -- and I mostly wanted to learn what the distros' thinking was one way or another -- ultimately I think their choice was a decent enough one for a default option (which can be disabled at boot time). I'll try to summarize the pros and cons: Pros: - The RNG machinery gets initialized super quickly, and there's no messing around with subsequent blocking behavior. - The bootloader mechanism is used by kexec in order for the prior kernel to initialize the RNG of the next kernel, which increases the entropy available to early boot daemons of the next kernel. - Previous objections related to backdoors centered around Dual_EC_DRBG-like kleptographic systems, in which observing some amount of the output stream enables an adversary holding the right key to determine the entire output stream. This used to be a partially justified concern, because RDRAND output was mixed into the output stream in varying ways, some of which may have lacked pre-image resistance (e.g. XOR or an LFSR). But this is no longer the case. Now, all usage of RDRAND and bootloader seeds go through a cryptographic hash function. This means that the CPU would have to compute a hash pre-image, which is not considered to be feasible (otherwise the hash function would be terribly broken). - More generally, if the CPU is backdoored, the RNG is probably not the realistic vector of choice for an attacker. - These CPU or bootloader seeds are far from being the only source of entropy. Rather, there is generally a pretty huge amount of entropy, not all of which is credited, especially on CPUs that support instructions like RDRAND. In other words, assuming RDRAND outputs all zeros, an attacker would *still* have to accurately model every single other entropy source also in use. - The RNG now reseeds itself quite rapidly during boot, starting at 2 seconds, then 4, then 8, then 16, and so forth, so that other sources of entropy get used without much delay. - Paranoid users can set random.trust_{cpu,bootloader}=no in the kernel command line, and paranoid system builders can set the Kconfig options to N, so there's no reduction or restriction of optionality. - It's a practical default. - All the distros have it set this way. Microsoft and Apple trust it too. Bandwagon. Cons: - RDRAND *could* still be backdoored with something like a fixed key or limited space serial number seed or another indexable scheme like that. (However, it's hard to imagine threat models where the CPU is backdoored like this, yet people are still okay making *any* computations with it or connecting it to networks, etc.) - RDRAND *could* be defective, rather than backdoored, and produce garbage that is in one way or another insufficient for crypto. - Suggesting a *reduction* in paranoia, as this commit effectively does, may cause some to question my personal integrity as a "security person". - Bootloader seeds and RDRAND are generally very difficult if not all together impossible to audit. Keep in mind that this doesn't actually change any behavior. This is just a change in the default Kconfig value. The distros already are shipping kernels that set things this way. Ard made an additional argument in [1]: We're at the mercy of firmware and micro-architecture anyway, given that we are also relying on it to ensure that every instruction in the kernel's executable image has been faithfully copied to memory, and that the CPU implements those instructions as documented. So I don't think firmware or ISA bugs related to RNGs deserve special treatment - if they are broken, we should quirk around them like we usually do. So enabling these by default is a step in the right direction IMHO. In [2], Phil pointed out that having this disabled masked a bug that CI otherwise would have caught: A clean 5.15.45 boots cleanly, whereas a downstream kernel shows the static key warning (but it does go on to boot). The significant difference is that our defconfigs set CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER=y defining that on top of multi_v7_defconfig demonstrates the issue on a clean 5.15.45. Conversely, not setting that option in a downstream kernel build avoids the warning [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAMj1kXGi+ieviFjXv9zQBSaGyyzeGW_VpMpTLJK8PJb2QHEQ-w@mail.gmail.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/c47c42e3-1d56-5859-a6ad-976a1a3381c6@raspberrypi.com/ Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2022-06-25random: treat bootloader trust toggle the same way as cpu trust toggleJason A. Donenfeld
commit d97c68d178fbf8aaaf21b69b446f2dfb13909316 upstream. If CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU is set, the RNG initializes using RDRAND. But, the user can disable (or enable) this behavior by setting `random.trust_cpu=0/1` on the kernel command line. This allows system builders to do reasonable things while avoiding howls from tinfoil hatters. (Or vice versa.) CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER is basically the same thing, but regards the seed passed via EFI or device tree, which might come from RDRAND or a TPM or somewhere else. In order to allow distros to more easily enable this while avoiding those same howls (or vice versa), this commit adds the corresponding `random.trust_bootloader=0/1` toggle. Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Graham Christensen <graham@grahamc.com> Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Link: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/165355 Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-06-25fdt: add support for rng-seedHsin-Yi Wang
commit 428826f5358c922dc378830a1717b682c0823160 upstream. Introducing a chosen node, rng-seed, which is an entropy that can be passed to kernel called very early to increase initial device randomness. Bootloader should provide this entropy and the value is read from /chosen/rng-seed in DT. Obtain of_fdt_crc32 for CRC check after early_init_dt_scan_nodes(), since early_init_dt_scan_chosen() would modify fdt to erase rng-seed. Add a new interface add_bootloader_randomness() for rng-seed use case. Depends on whether the seed is trustworthy, rng seed would be passed to add_hwgenerator_randomness(). Otherwise it would be passed to add_device_randomness(). Decision is controlled by kernel config RANDOM_TRUST_BOOTLOADER. Signed-off-by: Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> # drivers/char/random.c Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-04-17tty: mark Siemens R3964 line discipline as BROKENGreg Kroah-Hartman
commit c7084edc3f6d67750f50d4183134c4fb5712a5c8 upstream. The n_r3964 line discipline driver was written in a different time, when SMP machines were rare, and users were trusted to do the right thing. Since then, the world has moved on but not this code, it has stayed rooted in the past with its lovely hand-crafted list structures and loads of "interesting" race conditions all over the place. After attempting to clean up most of the issues, I just gave up and am now marking the driver as BROKEN so that hopefully someone who has this hardware will show up out of the woodwork (I know you are out there!) and will help with debugging a raft of changes that I had laying around for the code, but was too afraid to commit as odds are they would break things. Many thanks to Jann and Linus for pointing out the initial problems in this codebase, as well as many reviews of my attempts to fix the issues. It was a case of whack-a-mole, and as you can see, the mole won. Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-09-01random: make CPU trust a boot parameterKees Cook
Instead of forcing a distro or other system builder to choose at build time whether the CPU is trusted for CRNG seeding via CONFIG_RANDOM_TRUST_CPU, provide a boot-time parameter for end users to control the choice. The CONFIG will set the default state instead. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2018-07-24random: add a config option to trust the CPU's hwrngTheodore Ts'o
This gives the user building their own kernel (or a Linux distribution) the option of deciding whether or not to trust the CPU's hardware random number generator (e.g., RDRAND for x86 CPU's) as being correctly implemented and not having a back door introduced (perhaps courtesy of a Nation State's law enforcement or intelligence agencies). This will prevent getrandom(2) from blocking, if there is a willingness to trust the CPU manufacturer. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2018-06-15docs: Fix some broken referencesMauro Carvalho Chehab
As we move stuff around, some doc references are broken. Fix some of them via this script: ./scripts/documentation-file-ref-check --fix Manually checked if the produced result is valid, removing a few false-positives. Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Acked-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org> Acked-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Acked-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-06-05char: sparc64: Add privileged ADI driverTom Hromatka
SPARC M7 and newer processors utilize ADI to version and protect memory. This driver is capable of reading/writing ADI/MCD versions from privileged user space processes. Addresses in the adi file are mapped linearly to physical memory at a ratio of 1:adi_blksz. Thus, a read (or write) of offset K in the file operates upon the ADI version at physical address K * adi_blksz. The version information is encoded as one version per byte. Intended consumers are makedumpfile and crash. Signed-off-by: Tom Hromatka <tom.hromatka@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Anthony Yznaga <anthony.yznaga@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-04-04Merge tag 'char-misc-4.17-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc Pull char/misc updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big set of char/misc driver patches for 4.17-rc1. There are a lot of little things in here, nothing huge, but all important to the different hardware types involved: - thunderbolt driver updates - parport updates (people still care...) - nvmem driver updates - mei updates (as always) - hwtracing driver updates - hyperv driver updates - extcon driver updates - ... and a handful of even smaller driver subsystem and individual driver updates All of these have been in linux-next with no reported issues" * tag 'char-misc-4.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (149 commits) hwtracing: Add HW tracing support menu intel_th: Add ACPI glue layer intel_th: Allow forcing host mode through drvdata intel_th: Pick up irq number from resources intel_th: Don't touch switch routing in host mode intel_th: Use correct method of finding hub intel_th: Add SPDX GPL-2.0 header to replace GPLv2 boilerplate stm class: Make dummy's master/channel ranges configurable stm class: Add SPDX GPL-2.0 header to replace GPLv2 boilerplate MAINTAINERS: Bestow upon myself the care for drivers/hwtracing hv: add SPDX license id to Kconfig hv: add SPDX license to trace Drivers: hv: vmbus: do not mark HV_PCIE as perf_device Drivers: hv: vmbus: respect what we get from hv_get_synint_state() /dev/mem: Avoid overwriting "err" in read_mem() eeprom: at24: use SPDX identifier instead of GPL boiler-plate eeprom: at24: simplify the i2c functionality checking eeprom: at24: fix a line break eeprom: at24: tweak newlines eeprom: at24: refactor at24_probe() ...
2018-03-26char: remove blackfin OTP driverArnd Bergmann
The blackfin architecture is getting removed, so we don't need this driver any more. Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Acked-by: Aaron Wu <aaron.wu@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2018-03-26char: remove tile-srom.cArnd Bergmann
The tile architecture is being removed, so we no longer need this driver. Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2018-03-26char: remove obsolete ds1302 rtc driverArnd Bergmann
The m32r architecture was the only user of the old-style rtc driver for ds1302. The architecture is getting removed now, and we have a modern driver for the same hardware in drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1302.c, so this one won't be missed. Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2018-03-15char: nvram: disable on ARMAlexandre Belloni
/dev/nvram was never meant to be used alongside the RTC CMOS driver from drivers/rtc as it already expose the NVRAM through another interface.. Anyway, the last defconfig to enable it properly was removed in 2010 so prevent ARM users from selecting it. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-11-02License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no licenseGreg Kroah-Hartman
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-08-24x86/lguest: Remove lguest supportJuergen Gross
Lguest seems to be rather unused these days. It has seen only patches ensuring it still builds the last two years and its official state is "Odd Fixes". Remove it in order to be able to clean up the paravirt code. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com Cc: lguest@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170816173157.8633-3-jgross@suse.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-07-05Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux 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 ...
2017-06-20drivers/char: kmem: disable on arm64Ard Biesheuvel
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 <mark.rutland@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2017-05-26mmtimer: Remove the SGI SN2 mmtimer driverChristoph Hellwig
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 <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Mike Travis <mike.travis@hpe.com> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@hpe.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170526090311.3377-2-hch@lst.de
2017-02-22Merge tag 'tty-4.11-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty 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 ...
2017-02-03serdev: Introduce new bus for serial attached devicesRob Herring
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 <robh@kernel.org> Reviewed-By: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> Tested-By: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-01-11char: lack of bool string made CONFIG_DEVPORT always onMax Bires
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 <jbires@google.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-12-13Merge tag 'char-misc-4.10-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc 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() ...
2016-11-16posix-timers: Make them configurableNicolas Pitre
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 <nico@linaro.org> Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com> Cc: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478841010-28605-7-git-send-email-nicolas.pitre@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-11-10tile-srom: allow the driver to be built as a moduleChris Metcalf
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 <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-10-28Move CONFIG_DEVKMEM default to nDave Young
Kconfig comment suggests setting it as "n" if in doubt thus move the default value to 'n'. Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-08-05Merge tag 'rtc-4.8' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/abelloni/linux Pull RTC updates from Alexandre Belloni: "RTC for 4.8 Cleanups: - huge cleanup of rtc-generic and char/genrtc this allowed to cleanup rtc-cmos, rtc-sh, rtc-m68k, rtc-powerpc and rtc-parisc - move mn10300 to rtc-cmos Subsystem: - fix wakealarms after hibernate - multiples fixes for rctest - simplify implementations of .read_alarm New drivers: - Maxim MAX6916 Drivers: - ds1307: fix weekday - m41t80: add wakeup support - pcf85063: add support for PCF85063A variant - rv8803: extend i2c fix and other fixes - s35390a: fix alarm reading, this fixes instant reboot after shutdown for QNAP TS-41x - s3c: clock fixes" * tag 'rtc-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/abelloni/linux: (65 commits) rtc: rv8803: Clear V1F when setting the time rtc: rv8803: Stop the clock while setting the time rtc: rv8803: Always apply the I²C workaround rtc: rv8803: Fix read day of week rtc: rv8803: Remove the check for valid time rtc: rv8803: Kconfig: Indicate rx8900 support rtc: asm9260: remove .owner field for driver rtc: at91sam9: Fix missing spin_lock_init() rtc: m41t80: add suspend handlers for alarm IRQ rtc: m41t80: make it a real error message rtc: pcf85063: Add support for the PCF85063A device rtc: pcf85063: fix year range rtc: hym8563: in .read_alarm set .tm_sec to 0 to signal minute accuracy rtc: explicitly set tm_sec = 0 for drivers with minute accurancy rtc: s3c: Add s3c_rtc_{enable/disable}_clk in s3c_rtc_setfreq() rtc: s3c: Remove unnecessary call to disable already disabled clock rtc: abx80x: use devm_add_action_or_reset() rtc: m41t80: use devm_add_action_or_reset() rtc: fix a typo and reduce three empty lines to one rtc: s35390a: improve two comments in .set_alarm ...
2016-06-29powerpc/powernv: Add driver for operator panel on FSP machinesSuraj Jitindar Singh
Implement new character device driver to allow access from user space to the operator panel display present on IBM Power Systems machines with FSPs. This will allow status information to be presented on the display which is visible to a user. The driver implements a character buffer which a user can read/write by accessing the device (/dev/op_panel). This buffer is then displayed on the operator panel display. Any attempt to write past the last character position will have no effect and attempts to write more characters than the size of the display will be truncated. The device may only be accessed by a single process at a time. Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-06-26mn10300: use RTC_DRV_CMOS instead of CONFIG_RTCArnd Bergmann
nn10300 has a dependency on mc146818_get_time/mc146818_set_time, which we want to move from the mc146818rtc.h header into the rtc subsystem, which in turn is not usable on mn10300. This changes mn10300 to use the modern rtc-cmos driver instead of the old RTC driver, and that in turn lets us completely remove the read_persistent_clock/update_persistent_clock callbacks. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
2016-06-04char/genrtc: remove the rest of the driverArnd Bergmann
No architecture uses the genrtc driver any more, so let's kill it off for good. This now also includes asm-generic/rtc.h, which is otherwise completely unused. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
2016-06-04char/genrtc: remove powerpc supportArnd Bergmann
PowerPC is the last architecture using the GEN_RTC driver on some machines, but we can migrate them all to using the RTC_DRV_GENERIC driver instead now. This moves over the CONFIG_GEN_RTC option from drivers/char into arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig and makes it just select the replacement driver instead, for the only reason of not breaking existing defconfig and .config files that users may have. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
2016-06-04char/genrtc: remove m68k supportArnd Bergmann
The asm/rtc.h header is only used for the old gen_rtc driver that has been replaced by rtc-generic. According to Geert Uytterhoeven, nobody has used the old driver on m68k for a long time, so we can now just remove the header file and disallow the driver in Kconfig. All files that used to include asm/rtc.h are now changed so they include the headers that were used implicitly through asm/rtc.h. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
2016-06-04char/genrtc: remove parisc supportArnd Bergmann
This architecture selects RTC_CLASS unconditionally, so the GEN_RTC has not worked here for a long time. Now we can remove both the asm/rtc.h header and the Kconfig dependency for CONFIG_GEN_RTC. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
2016-06-04char/genrtc: remove mn10300 supportArnd Bergmann
The genrtc driver serves no purpose on mn10300 because it drives the same hardware as the original rtc.c driver, and the newer rtc-generic.c or rtc-cmos.c drivers on architectures that use the asm-generic/rtc.h header. I assume it was initially only added for completeness when the mn10300 port was done, but the older rtc.c driver was always used instead. We can also stop include asm-generic/rtc.h now, because we just call mc146818_set_time() directly. It would be nice to change the architecture to use the rtc-cmos driver next, and remove support for the old rtc driver as well. [linux@roeck-us.net: Add missing include file to proc-init.c] Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
2016-06-04char/genrtc: remove alpha supportArnd Bergmann
The genrtc driver serves no purpose on Alpha because it drives the same hardware as the original rtc.c driver, and the newer rtc-generic.c or rtc-cmos.c drivers on architectures that use the asm-generic/rtc.h header. The defconfig uses CONFIG_RTC=y, so this driver is not used by default. At one point it was used to abstract a quirk for the "Marvel" platform, but it does not do this any more after the code was moved into yet another driver in arch/alpha/kernel/rtc.c. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
2016-06-04char/genrtc: x86: remove remnants of asm/rtc.hArnd Bergmann
Commit 3195ef59cb42 ("x86: Do full rtc synchronization with ntp") had the side-effect of unconditionally enabling the RTC_LIB symbol on x86, which in turn disables the selection of the CONFIG_RTC and CONFIG_GEN_RTC drivers that contain a two older implementations of the CONFIG_RTC_DRV_CMOS driver. This removes x86 from the list for genrtc, and changes all references to the asm/rtc.h header to instead point to the interfaces from linux/mc146818rtc.h. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
2016-05-01char: Drop bogus dependency of DEVPORT on !M68KGeert Uytterhoeven
According to full-history-linux commit d3794f4fa7c3edc3 ("[PATCH] M68k update (part 25)"), port operations are allowed on m68k if CONFIG_ISA is defined. However, commit 153dcc54df826d2f ("[PATCH] mem driver: fix conditional on isa i/o support") accidentally changed an "||" into an "&&", disabling it completely on m68k. This logic was retained when introducing the DEVPORT symbol in commit 4f911d64e04a44c4 ("Make /dev/port conditional on config symbol"). Drop the bogus dependency on !M68K to fix this. Fixes: 153dcc54df826d2f ("[PATCH] mem driver: fix conditional on isa i/o support") Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Tested-by: Al Stone <ahs3@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-05-01char/rtc: replace blacklist with whitelistArnd Bergmann
Every new architecture has to add itself to the growing list of those that do not support the legacy PC RTC driver. This replaces the long list of architectures that don't support it with a shorter list of those that do. The list is taken from those architectures that have a non-empty asm/mc146818rtc.h header file and were not explicitly blacklisted or select RTC_LIB. Alpha and Loongson64 can already choose between this driver and an rtc-class based one. mn10300 is actually the only architecture now that still requires this driver, and that should be fairly easy to change to use rtc-cmos if we want to kill off rtc.ko for good. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-03-05char: genrtc: replace blacklist with whitelistArnd Bergmann
Every new architecture has to add itself to the growing list of those that do not support the old "generic" RTC driver. This replaces the long list of architectures that don't support it with a shorter list of those that do. The list is taken from those architectures that have a non-empty asm/rtc.h header file and were not explicitly blacklisted. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-05-24drivers/char: Remove msm_smd_pkt driverStephen Boyd
This code is no longer used now that mach-msm has been removed. Delete it. Cc: David Brown <davidb@codeaurora.org> Cc: Bryan Huntsman <bryanh@codeaurora.org> Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-01-12drivers: char: mem: Make /dev/mem an optional deviceRob Ward
Adds Kconfig option CONFIG_DEVMEM that allows the /dev/mem device to be disabled. Option defaults to /dev/mem enabled. Signed-off-by: Rob Ward <robert.ward114@googlemail.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-09-23xillybus: Move out of stagingEli Billauer
This driver has been functional and stable throughout the year it has spent in the staging area. It has been patched for minor bugs, coding style issues and improvements during this period. This is the second submission of this move-out, after making several style improvements, as suggested by Dan Carpenter. Signed-off-by: Eli Billauer <eli.billauer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-04-16ttyprintk: Allow built as a moduleTakashi Iwai
The driver is well written to be used as a module, just the exit call is missing. Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-04-06sonypi: Simplify dependenciesJean Delvare
X86 && !64BIT is better expressed as X86_32. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
2014-02-07raw: set range for MAX_RAW_DEVSPaul Bolle
The Kconfig symbol MAX_RAW_DEVS is meant to be between 1 and 65536. But those boundaries are not enforced by its Kconfig entry. Note that MAX_RAW_DEVS is used to set MAX_RAW_MINORS in drivers/char/raw.c. If one would accidentally set MAX_RAW_DEVS to an invalid value, that invalid value will actually end up being used in raw_init(). So add an appropriate range to this Kconfig entry. Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-11-13drivers/char/hpet.c: allow user controlled mmap for user processesPrarit Bhargava
The CONFIG_HPET_MMAP Kconfig option exposes the memory map of the HPET registers to userspace. The Kconfig help points out that in some cases this can be a security risk as some systems may erroneously configure the map such that additional data is exposed to userspace. This is a problem for distributions -- some users want the MMAP functionality but it comes with a significant security risk. In an effort to mitigate this risk, and due to the low number of users of the MMAP functionality, I've introduced a kernel parameter, hpet_mmap_enable, that is required in order to actually have the HPET MMAP exposed. Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Acked-by: Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com> Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-06-03stallion: final cleanupPaul Bolle
Support for the Stallion multiport serial drivers was removed in v3.1. Clean up their last references in the tree: mainly an outdated Kconfig entry and unneeded documentation. Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-18tty: Added a CONFIG_TTY option to allow removal of TTYJoe Millenbach
The option allows you to remove TTY and compile without errors. This saves space on systems that won't support TTY interfaces anyway. bloat-o-meter output is below. The bulk of this patch consists of Kconfig changes adding "depends on TTY" to various serial devices and similar drivers that require the TTY layer. Ideally, these dependencies would occur on a common intermediate symbol such as SERIO, but most drivers "select SERIO" rather than "depends on SERIO", and "select" does not respect dependencies. bloat-o-meter output comparing our previous minimal to new minimal by removing TTY. The list is filtered to not show removed entries with awk '$3 != "-"' as the list was very long. add/remove: 0/226 grow/shrink: 2/14 up/down: 6/-35356 (-35350) function old new delta chr_dev_init 166 170 +4 allow_signal 80 82 +2 static.__warned 143 142 -1 disallow_signal 63 62 -1 __set_special_pids 95 94 -1 unregister_console 126 121 -5 start_kernel 546 541 -5 register_console 593 588 -5 copy_from_user 45 40 -5 sys_setsid 128 120 -8 sys_vhangup 32 19 -13 do_exit 1543 1526 -17 bitmap_zero 60 40 -20 arch_local_irq_save 137 117 -20 release_task 674 652 -22 static.spin_unlock_irqrestore 308 260 -48 Signed-off-by: Joe Millenbach <jmillenbach@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jamey Sharp <jamey@minilop.net> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-09-18char/misc: remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL dependenciesGreg Kroah-Hartman
As discussed at the kernel summit this year, CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL means nothing, so let's get rid of it. Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-05-16ramoops: Move to fs/pstore/ram.cAnton Vorontsov
Since ramoops was converted to pstore, it has nothing to do with character devices nowadays. Instead, today it is just a RAM backend for pstore. The patch just moves things around. There are a few changes were needed because of the move: 1. Kconfig and Makefiles fixups, of course. 2. In pstore/ram.c we have to play a bit with MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX, this is needed to keep user experience the same as with ramoops driver (i.e. so that ramoops.foo kernel command line arguments would still work). Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Acked-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-05-16ramoops: use pstore interfaceKees Cook
Instead of using /dev/mem directly and forcing userspace to know (or extract) where the platform has defined persistent memory, how many slots it has, the sizes, etc, use the common pstore infrastructure to handle Oops gathering and extraction. This presents a much easier to use filesystem-based view to the memory region. This also means that any other tools that are written to understand pstore will automatically be able to process ramoops too. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>