Commit 87fb4b7b (net: more
accurate skb truesize) changed the alignment of size. This
can cause problems at least on some machines with NFS root:

Unhandled fault: alignment exception (0x801) at 0xc183a43a
Internal error: : 801 [#1] PREEMPT
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0    Not tainted  (3.1.0-08784-g5eeee4a #733)
pc : [<c02fbba0>]    lr : [<c02fbb9c>]    psr: 60000013
sp : c180fef8  ip : 00000000  fp : c181f580
r10: 00000000  r9 : c044b28c  r8 : 00000001
r7 : c183a3a0  r6 : c1835be0  r5 : c183a412  r4 : 000001f2
r3 : 00000000  r2 : 00000000  r1 : ffffffe6  r0 : c183a43a
Flags: nZCv  IRQs on  FIQs on  Mode SVC_32  ISA ARM  Segment kernel
Control: 0005317f  Table: 10004000  DAC: 00000017
Process swapper (pid: 1, stack limit = 0xc180e270)
Stack: (0xc180fef8 to 0xc1810000)
fee0:                                                       00000024 00000000
ff00: 00000000 c183b9c0 c183b8e0 c044b28c c0507ccc c019dfc4 c180ff2c c0503cf8
ff20: c180ff4c c180ff4c 00000000 c1835420 c182c740 c18349c0 c05233c0 00000000
ff40: 00000000 c00e6bb8 c180e000 00000000 c04dd82c c0507e7c c050cc18 c183b9c0
ff60: c05233c0 00000000 00000000 c01f34f4 c0430d70 c019d364 c04dd898 c04dd898
ff80: c04dd82c c0507e7c c180e000 00000000 c04c584c c01f4918 c04dd898 c04dd82c
ffa0: c04ddd28 c180e000 00000000 c0008758 c181fa60 3231d82c 00000037 00000000
ffc0: 00000000 c04dd898 c04dd82c c04ddd28 00000013 00000000 00000000 00000000
ffe0: 00000000 c04b2224 00000000 c04b21a0 c001056c c001056c 00000000 00000000
Function entered at [<c02fbba0>] from [<c019dfc4>]
Function entered at [<c019dfc4>] from [<c01f34f4>]
Function entered at [<c01f34f4>] from [<c01f4918>]
Function entered at [<c01f4918>] from [<c0008758>]
Function entered at [<c0008758>] from [<c04b2224>]
Function entered at [<c04b2224>] from [<c001056c>]
Code: e1a00005 e3a01028 ebfa7cb0 e35a0000 (e5858028)

Here PC is at __alloc_skb and &shinfo->dataref is unaligned because
skb->end can be unaligned without this patch.

As explained by Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>, this happens
only with SLOB, and not with SLAB or SLUB:

* Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> [111102 15:56]:
>
> Your patch is absolutely needed, I completely forgot about SLOB :(
>
> since, kmalloc(386) on SLOB gives exactly ksize=386 bytes, not nearest
> power of two.
>
> [   60.305763] malloc(size=385)->ffff880112c11e38 ksize=386 -> nsize=2
> [   60.305921] malloc(size=385)->ffff88007c92ce28 ksize=386 -> nsize=2
> [   60.306898] malloc(size=656)->ffff88007c44ad28 ksize=656 -> nsize=272
> [   60.325385] malloc(size=656)->ffff88007c575868 ksize=656 -> nsize=272
> [   60.325531] malloc(size=656)->ffff88011c777230 ksize=656 -> nsize=272
> [   60.325701] malloc(size=656)->ffff880114011008 ksize=656 -> nsize=272
> [   60.346716] malloc(size=385)->ffff880114142008 ksize=386 -> nsize=2
> [   60.346900] malloc(size=385)->ffff88011c777690 ksize=386 -> nsize=2
Signed-off-by: NTony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Acked-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Simon Kirby reported lockdep warnings and following messages :

[104661.897577] huh, entered softirq 3 NET_RX ffffffff81613740
preempt_count 00000101, exited with 00000102?

[104661.923653] huh, entered softirq 3 NET_RX ffffffff81613740
preempt_count 00000101, exited with 00000102?

Problem comes from commit 0e734419
(ipv4: Use inet_csk_route_child_sock() in DCCP and TCP.)

If inet_csk_route_child_sock() returns NULL, we should release socket
lock before freeing it.

Another lock imbalance exists if __inet_inherit_port() returns an error
since commit 093d2823 ( tproxy: fix hash locking issue when using
port redirection in __inet_inherit_port()) a backport is also needed for
>= 2.6.37 kernels.
Reported-by: NSimon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca>
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Tested-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Balazs Scheidler <bazsi@balabit.hu>
CC: KOVACS Krisztian <hidden@balabit.hu>
Reviewed-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: NSimon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Misha Labjuk reported panics occurring in l2tp_recv_dequeue()

If we release reorder_q.lock, we must not keep a dangling pointer (tmp),
since another thread could manipulate reorder_q.

Instead we must restart the scan at beginning of list.
Reported-by: NMisha Labjuk <spiked.yar@gmail.com>
Tested-by: NMisha Labjuk <spiked.yar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Commit 9e903e08 ("net: add skb frag size accessors") used frag_size
instead of skb_frag_size in this file.

Fixes this build error:

drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/ll_temac_main.c: In function 'temac_start_xmit':
drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/ll_temac_main.c:717:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'frag_size' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
Signed-off-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

udp_queue_rcv_skb() has a possible race in encap_rcv handling, since
this pointer can be changed anytime.

We should use ACCESS_ONCE() to close the race.
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

commit cb101ed2 in 3.0 introduced a bug in x25_recvmsg()
When passed bogus junk from userspace, x25->neighbour can be NULL,
as shown in this oops..

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000001c
IP: [<ffffffffa05482bd>] x25_recvmsg+0x4d/0x280 [x25]
PGD 1015f3067 PUD 105072067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
CPU 0
Pid: 27928, comm: iknowthis Not tainted 3.1.0+ #2 Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. GA-MA78GM-S2H/GA-MA78GM-S2H
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa05482bd>]  [<ffffffffa05482bd>] x25_recvmsg+0x4d/0x280 [x25]
RSP: 0018:ffff88010c0b7cc8  EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88010c0b7d78 RCX: 0000000000000c02
RDX: ffff88010c0b7d78 RSI: ffff88011c93dc00 RDI: ffff880103f667b0
RBP: ffff88010c0b7d18 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff880103f667b0
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  00007f479ce7f700(0000) GS:ffff88012a600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 000000000000001c CR3: 000000010529e000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process iknowthis (pid: 27928, threadinfo ffff88010c0b6000, task ffff880103faa4f0)
Stack:
 0000000000000c02 0000000000000c02 ffff88010c0b7d18 ffffff958153cb37
 ffffffff8153cb60 0000000000000c02 ffff88011c93dc00 0000000000000000
 0000000000000c02 ffff88010c0b7e10 ffff88010c0b7de8 ffffffff815372c2
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8153cb60>] ? sock_update_classid+0xb0/0x180
 [<ffffffff815372c2>] sock_aio_read.part.10+0x142/0x150
 [<ffffffff812d6752>] ? inode_has_perm+0x62/0xa0
 [<ffffffff815372fd>] sock_aio_read+0x2d/0x40
 [<ffffffff811b05e2>] do_sync_read+0xd2/0x110
 [<ffffffff812d3796>] ? security_file_permission+0x96/0xb0
 [<ffffffff811b0a91>] ? rw_verify_area+0x61/0x100
 [<ffffffff811b103d>] vfs_read+0x16d/0x180
 [<ffffffff811b109d>] sys_read+0x4d/0x90
 [<ffffffff81657282>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Code: 8b 66 20 4c 8b 32 48 89 d3 48 89 4d b8 45 89 c7 c7 45 cc 95 ff ff ff 4d 85 e4 0f 84 ed 01 00 00 49 8b 84 24 18 05 00 00 4c 89 e7
 78 1c 01 45 19 ed 31 f6 e8 d5 37 ff e0 41 0f b6 44 24 0e 41
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Macintosh CS89x0 based ethernet cards use a Crystal Semiconductor (Now
Cirrus Logic) CS89x0 chip, so the mac89x0 driver should be in
drivers/net/ethernet/cirrus instead of drivers/net/ethernet/apple.

This also fixes a build problem, as the driver needs a header file from the
cirrus directory:

drivers/net/ethernet/apple/mac89x0.c:107:20: error: cs89x0.h: No such file or directory
Signed-off-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

While the SC92031 could be found on fake "Realtek" NICs, it has no
relationship to Realtek, and is actually from Silan.

Create a new subdirectory for silan and move sc92031 there.
Signed-off-by: NCesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@cesarb.net>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

That should probably be 'CONFIG_DE_AOC'.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

the tcp and udp code creates a set of struct file_operations at runtime
while it can also be done at compile time, with the added benefit of then
having these file operations be const.

the trickiest part was to get the "THIS_MODULE" reference right; the naive
method of declaring a struct in the place of registration would not work
for this reason.
Signed-off-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Zheng Liang(lzheng@redhat.com) found a bug that if we config bonding with
arp monitor, sometimes bonding driver cannot get the speed and duplex from
its slaves, it will assume them to be 100Mb/sec and Full, please see
/proc/net/bonding/bond0.
But there is no such problem when uses miimon.

(Take igb for example)
I find that the reason is that after dev_open() in bond_enslave(),
bond_update_speed_duplex() will call igb_get_settings()
, but in that function,
it runs ethtool_cmd_speed_set(ecmd, -1); ecmd->duplex = -1;
because igb get an error value of status.
So even dev_open() is called, but the device is not really ready to get its
settings.

Maybe it is safe for us to call igb_get_settings() only after
this message shows up, that is "igb: p4p1 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex,
Flow Control: RX".

So I prefer to update the speed and duplex for a slave when reseices
NETDEV_CHANGE/NETDEV_UP event.

Changelog
V2:
1 remove the "fake 100/Full" logic in bond_update_speed_duplex(),
  set speed and duplex to -1 when it gets error value of speed and duplex.
2 delete the warning in bond_enslave() if bond_update_speed_duplex() returns
  error.
3 make bond_info_show_slave() handle bad values of speed and duplex.
Signed-off-by: NWeiping Pan <wpan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

When (de)configuring a vlan interface, the IFF_ALLMULTI ans IFF_PROMISC
flags are cleared or set on the underlying interface. So, if these flags
are changed on a vlan interface that is not up, the flags underlying
interface might be set or cleared twice.

Only propagating flag changes when a device is up makes sure this does
not happen. It also makes sure that an underlying device is not set to
promiscuous or allmulti mode for a vlan device that is down.
Signed-off-by: NMatthijs Kooijman <matthijs@stdin.nl>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Whatever situations make this state legitimate when SMP
also would be legitimate when !SMP and f.e. preemption is
enabled.

This is dubious enough that we should just delete it entirely.  If we
want to add debugging for neigh timer races, better more thorough
mechanisms are needed.
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

commit f1585086
(netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: return error number to caller)
erronously assigns the return value of nf_queue() to the "ret" value.

This can cause bogus return values if we encounter QUEUE verdict
when bypassing is enabled, the listener does not exist and the
next hook returns NF_STOLEN.

In this case nf_hook_slow returned -ESRCH instead of 0.
Signed-off-by: NFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: NPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

Marc Boucher, James Morris and Rusty Russell were crucial in the
early netfilter days. We thank them all!

However, they are not actively maintaining netfilter anymore.

This patch adds myself as netfilter maintainer.
Signed-off-by: NPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

Several callers (h323 conntrack, xt_addrtype) assume that the
returned **dst only needs to be released if the function returns 0.

This is true for the ipv4 implementation, but not for the ipv6 one.

Instead of changing the users, change the ipv6 implementation
to behave like the ipv4 version by only providing the dst_entry result
in the success case.
Signed-off-by: NFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: NPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

This is to address the following error during the compilation:

  In file included from kernel/sysctl_binary.c:6:
  include/net/ip_vs.h:1406: error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘{’ token
  make[1]: *** [kernel/sysctl_binary.o] Error 1
  make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

That manifests itself when CONFIG_IP_VS_NFCT is undefined in .config file.
Signed-off-by: NKrzysztof Wilczynski <krzysztof.wilczynski@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: NSimon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>

This is to address the following warning during compilation time:

  net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c: In function ‘ip_vs_leave’:
  net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c:532: warning: unused variable ‘cs’

This variable is indeed no longer in use.
Signed-off-by: NKrzysztof Wilczynski <krzysztof.wilczynski@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: NSimon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>

This patch exports several definitions that used to live under
include/net/netfilter/nf_nat.h. These definitions, although not
exported, have been used by iptables and other userspace
applications like miniupnpd since long time. Basically, these
userspace tools included some internal definition of the required
structures and they assume no changes in the binary representation
(which is OK indeed).

To resolve this situation, this patch makes public the required
structure and install them in INSTALL_HDR_PATH.

See: https://bugs.gentoo.org/376873, for more information.

This patch is heavily based on the initial patch sent by:

Anthony G. Basile <blueness@gentoo.org>

Which was entitled:

netfilter: export sanitized nf_nat.h to INSTALL_HDR_PATH
Signed-off-by: NPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

Site specific OOM messages are duplications of a generic MM
out of memory message and aren't really useful, so just
delete them.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: NPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

Reported-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: NSimon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: NPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

Also reword the test to make it read more easily (to me)
Signed-off-by: NSimon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: NPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

ipvs is not used in ip_vs_genl_set_cmd() or ip_vs_genl_get_cmd()
Acked-by: NJulian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Acked-by Hans Schillstrom <hans@schillstrom.com>
Signed-off-by: NSimon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: NPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

Acked-by: NJulian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Acked-by Hans Schillstrom <hans@schillstrom.com>
Signed-off-by: NSimon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: NPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

Acked-by: NJulian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Acked-by Hans Schillstrom <hans@schillstrom.com>
Signed-off-by: NSimon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: NPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

Add missing documentation for conntrack, snat_reroute and sync_version.

Also fix up a typo, IPVS_DEBUG should be IP_VS_DEBUG.
Acked-by: NJulian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Acked-by Hans Schillstrom <hans@schillstrom.com>
Signed-off-by: NSimon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: NPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

This is to expose "ports" parameter via sysfs so it can be read
at any time in order to determine what port or ports were passed
to the module at the point when it was loaded.
Signed-off-by: NKrzysztof Wilczynski <krzysztof.wilczynski@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: NSimon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: NPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

Fixes parameter name of skb_frag_dmamap function to silence warning on
make htmldocs.
Signed-off-by: NMarcos Paulo de Souza <marcos.mage@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The `#define filename' screws up the expansion of
DEFINE_DYNAMIC_DEBUG_METADATA:

drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/3c505.c: In function 'send_pcb':
drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/3c505.c:390: error: expected identifier before string constant
drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/3c505.c:390: error: expected '}' before '.' token
drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/3c505.c:436: error: expected identifier before string constant
drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/3c505.c:435: error: expected '}' before '.' token
drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/3c505.c: In function 'start_receive':
drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/3c505.c:557: error: expected identifier before string constant
drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/3c505.c:557: error: expected '}' before '.' token
drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/3c505.c: In function 'receive_packet':
drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/3c505.c:629: error: expected identifier before string constant

etc

So remove that #define and "open-code" it.

Cc: Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Quoth Andrew:

 - Most of MM.  Still waiting for the poweroc guys to get off their
   butts and review some threaded hugepages patches.

 - alpha

 - vfs bits

 - drivers/misc

 - a few core kerenl tweaks

 - printk() features

 - MAINTAINERS updates

 - backlight merge

 - leds merge

 - various lib/ updates

 - checkpatch updates

* akpm: (127 commits)
  epoll: fix spurious lockdep warnings
  checkpatch: add a --strict check for utf-8 in commit logs
  kernel.h/checkpatch: mark strict_strto<foo> and simple_strto<foo> as obsolete
  llist-return-whether-list-is-empty-before-adding-in-llist_add-fix
  wireless: at76c50x: follow rename pack_hex_byte to hex_byte_pack
  fat: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
  security: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
  kgdb: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
  lib: rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
  lib/string.c: fix strim() semantics for strings that have only blanks
  lib/idr.c: fix comment for ida_get_new_above()
  lib/percpu_counter.c: enclose hotplug only variables in hotplug ifdef
  lib/bitmap.c: quiet sparse noise about address space
  lib/spinlock_debug.c: print owner on spinlock lockup
  lib/kstrtox: common code between kstrto*() and simple_strto*() functions
  drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c: check if reset is successful
  leds: turn the blink_timer off before starting to blink
  leds: save the delay values after a successful call to blink_set()
  drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c: use gpio_get_value_cansleep() when initializing
  drivers/leds/leds-lm3530.c: add __devexit_p where needed
  ...

epoll can acquire recursively acquire ep->mtx on multiple "struct
eventpoll"s at once in the case where one epoll fd is monitoring another
epoll fd.  This is perfectly OK, since we're careful about the lock
ordering, but it causes spurious lockdep warnings.  Annotate the recursion
using mutex_lock_nested, and add a comment explaining the nesting rules
for good measure.

Recent versions of systemd are triggering this, and it can also be
demonstrated with the following trivial test program:

--------------------8<--------------------

int main(void) {
   int e1, e2;
   struct epoll_event evt = {
       .events = EPOLLIN
   };

   e1 = epoll_create1(0);
   e2 = epoll_create1(0);
   epoll_ctl(e1, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, e2, &evt);
   return 0;
}
--------------------8<--------------------
Reported-by: NPaul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Tested-by: NPaul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: NNelson Elhage <nelhage@nelhage.com>
Acked-by: NJason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Some find using utf-8 in commit logs inappropriate.

Some patch commit logs contain unintended utf-8 characters when doing
things like copy/pasting compilation output.

Look for the start of any commit log by skipping initial lines that look
like email headers and "From: " lines.

Stop looking for utf-8 at the first signature line.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Mark obsolete/deprecated strict_strto<foo> and simple_strto<foo> functions
and macros as obsolete.

Update checkpatch to warn about their use.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

clarify comment

Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

There is no functional change.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: NJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

There is no functional change.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: NOGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

There is no functional change.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

There is no functional change.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: NJesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

As suggested by Andrew Morton in [1] there is better to have most
significant part first in the function name.

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/9/20/22

There is no functional change.
Signed-off-by: NAndy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Commit 84c95c9a ("string: on strstrip(), first remove leading spaces
before running over str") improved the performance of the strim()
function.

Unfortunately this changed the semantics of strim() and broke my code.
Before the patch it was possible to use strim() without using the return
value for removing trailing spaces from strings that had either only
blanks or only trailing blanks.

Now this does not work any longer for strings that *only* have blanks.

Before patch: "   " -> ""    (empty string)
After patch:  "   " -> "   " (no change)

I think we should remove your patch to restore the old behavior.

The description (lib/string.c):

 * Note that the first trailing whitespace is replaced with a %NUL-terminator

=> The first trailing whitespace of a string that only has whitespace
   characters is the first whitespace

The patch restores the old strim() semantics.
Signed-off-by: NMichael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andre Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>