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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux 4.3-rc4 · 049e6dde
      Linus Torvalds authored
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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile · 30c44659
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull strscpy string copy function implementation from Chris Metcalf.

Chris sent this during the merge window, but I waffled back and forth on
the pull request, which is why it's going in only now.

The new "strscpy()" function is definitely easier to use and more secure
than either strncpy() or strlcpy(), both of which are horrible nasty
interfaces that have serious and irredeemable problems.

strncpy() has a useless return value, and doesn't NUL-terminate an
overlong result.  To make matters worse, it pads a short result with
zeroes, which is a performance disaster if you have big buffers.

strlcpy(), by contrast, is a mis-designed "fix" for strlcpy(), lacking
the insane NUL padding, but having a differently broken return value
which returns the original length of the source string.  Which means
that it will read characters past the count from the source buffer, and
you have to trust the source to be properly terminated.  It also makes
error handling fragile, since the test for overflow is unnecessarily
subtle.

strscpy() avoids both these problems, guaranteeing the NUL termination
(but not excessive padding) if the destination size wasn't zero, and
making the overflow condition very obvious by returning -E2BIG.  It also
doesn't read past the size of the source, and can thus be used for
untrusted source data too.

So why did I waffle about this for so long?

Every time we introduce a new-and-improved interface, people start doing
these interminable series of trivial conversion patches.

And every time that happens, somebody does some silly mistake, and the
conversion patch to the improved interface actually makes things worse.
Because the patch is mindnumbing and trivial, nobody has the attention
span to look at it carefully, and it's usually done over large swatches
of source code which means that not every conversion gets tested.

So I'm pulling the strscpy() support because it *is* a better interface.
But I will refuse to pull mindless conversion patches.  Use this in
places where it makes sense, but don't do trivial patches to fix things
that aren't actually known to be broken.

* 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
  tile: use global strscpy() rather than private copy
  string: provide strscpy()
  Make asm/word-at-a-time.h available on all architectures
      30c44659
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'md/4.3-fixes' of git://neil.brown.name/md · 15ecf9a9
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull md fixes from Neil Brown:
 "Assorted fixes for md in 4.3-rc.

  Two tagged for -stable, and one is really a cleanup to match and
  improve kmemcache interface.

* tag 'md/4.3-fixes' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md/bitmap: don't pass -1 to bitmap_storage_alloc.
  md/raid1: Avoid raid1 resync getting stuck
  md: drop null test before destroy functions
  md: clear CHANGE_PENDING in readonly array
  md/raid0: apply base queue limits *before* disk_stack_limits
  md/raid5: don't index beyond end of array in need_this_block().
  raid5: update analysis state for failed stripe
  md: wait for pending superblock updates before switching to read-only
      15ecf9a9
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus · 0d877081
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle:
 "This week's round of MIPS fixes:
   - Fix JZ4740 build
   - Fix fallback to GFP_DMA
   - FP seccomp in case of ENOSYS
   - Fix bootmem panic
   - A number of FP and CPS fixes
   - Wire up new syscalls
   - Make sure BPF assembler objects can properly be disassembled
   - Fix BPF assembler code for MIPS I"

* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus:
  MIPS: scall: Always run the seccomp syscall filters
  MIPS: Octeon: Fix kernel panic on startup from memory corruption
  MIPS: Fix R2300 FP context switch handling
  MIPS: Fix octeon FP context switch handling
  MIPS: BPF: Fix load delay slots.
  MIPS: BPF: Do all exports of symbols with FEXPORT().
  MIPS: Fix the build on jz4740 after removing the custom gpio.h
  MIPS: CPS: #ifdef on CONFIG_MIPS_MT_SMP rather than CONFIG_MIPS_MT
  MIPS: CPS: Don't include MT code in non-MT kernels.
  MIPS: CPS: Stop dangling delay slot from has_mt.
  MIPS: dma-default: Fix 32-bit fall back to GFP_DMA
  MIPS: Wire up userfaultfd and membarrier syscalls.
      0d877081
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · 3e519dde
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull irq fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This update contains:

   - Fix for a long standing race affecting /proc/irq/NNN

   - One line fix for ARM GICV3-ITS counting the wrong data

   - Warning silencing in ARM GICV3-ITS.  Another GCC trying to be
     overly clever issue"

* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  irqchip/gic-v3-its: Count additional LPIs for the aliased devices
  irqchip/gic-v3-its: Silence warning when its_lpi_alloc_chunks gets inlined
  genirq: Fix race in register_irq_proc()
      3e519dde
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