linux/drivers/firmware, branch v3.4

efivars: Improve variable validation

2012-05-04T00:19:19Z

Ben Hutchings pointed out that the validation in efivars was inadequate - most obviously, an entry with size 0 would server as a DoS against the kernel. Improve this based on his suggestions. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

efi: Validate UEFI boot variables

2012-04-30T22:30:18Z

A common flaw in UEFI systems is a refusal to POST triggered by a malformed boot variable. Once in this state, machines may only be restored by reflashing their firmware with an external hardware device. While this is obviously a firmware bug, the serious nature of the outcome suggests that operating systems should filter their variable writes in order to prevent a malicious user from rendering the machine unusable. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound

2012-01-12T16:00:30Z

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound: (526 commits) ASoC: twl6040 - Add method to query optimum PDM_DL1 gain ALSA: hda - Fix the lost power-setup of seconary pins after PM resume ALSA: usb-audio: add Yamaha MOX6/MOX8 support ALSA: virtuoso: add S/PDIF input support for all Xonars ALSA: ice1724 - Support for ooAoo SQ210a ALSA: ice1724 - Allow card info based on model only ALSA: ice1724 - Create capture pcm only for ADC-enabled configurations ALSA: hdspm - Provide unique driver id based on card serial ASoC: Dynamically allocate the rtd device for a non-empty release() ASoC: Fix recursive dependency due to select ATMEL_SSC in SND_ATMEL_SOC_SSC ALSA: hda - Fix the detection of "Loopback Mixing" control for VIA codecs ALSA: hda - Return the error from get_wcaps_type() for invalid NIDs ALSA: hda - Use auto-parser for HP laptops with cx20459 codec ALSA: asihpi - Fix potential Oops in snd_asihpi_cmode_info() ALSA: hdsp - Fix potential Oops in snd_hdsp_info_pref_sync_ref() ALSA: hda/cirrus - support for iMac12,2 model ASoC: cx20442: add bias control over a platform provided regulator ALSA: usb-audio - Avoid flood of frame-active debug messages ALSA: snd-usb-us122l: Delete calls to preempt_disable mfd: Put WM8994 into cache only mode when suspending ... Fix up trivial conflicts in: - arch/arm/mach-s3c64xx/mach-crag6410.c: renamed speyside_wm8962 to tobermory, added littlemill right next to it - drivers/base/regmap/{regcache.c,regmap.c}: duplicate diff that had already come in with other changes in the regmap tree

Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2012-01-08T20:19:57Z

* 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (165 commits) reiserfs: Properly display mount options in /proc/mounts vfs: prevent remount read-only if pending removes vfs: count unlinked inodes vfs: protect remounting superblock read-only vfs: keep list of mounts for each superblock vfs: switch ->show_options() to struct dentry * vfs: switch ->show_path() to struct dentry * vfs: switch ->show_devname() to struct dentry * vfs: switch ->show_stats to struct dentry * switch security_path_chmod() to struct path * vfs: prefer ->dentry->d_sb to ->mnt->mnt_sb vfs: trim includes a bit switch mnt_namespace ->root to struct mount vfs: take /proc/*/mounts and friends to fs/proc_namespace.c vfs: opencode mntget() mnt_set_mountpoint() vfs: spread struct mount - remaining argument of next_mnt() vfs: move fsnotify junk to struct mount vfs: move mnt_devname vfs: move mnt_list to struct mount vfs: switch pnode.h macros to struct mount * ...

Merge branch 'driver-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

2012-01-07T20:03:30Z

* 'driver-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (73 commits) arm: fix up some samsung merge sysdev conversion problems firmware: Fix an oops on reading fw_priv->fw in sysfs loading file Drivers:hv: Fix a bug in vmbus_driver_unregister() driver core: remove __must_check from device_create_file debugfs: add missing #ifdef HAS_IOMEM arm: time.h: remove device.h #include driver-core: remove sysdev.h usage. clockevents: remove sysdev.h arm: convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem arm: leds: convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem kobject: remove kset_find_obj_hinted() m86k: gpio - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem mips: txx9_sram - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem mips: 7segled - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem sh: dma - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem sh: intc - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem power: suspend - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem power: qe_ic - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem power: cmm - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem s390: time - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem ... Fix up conflicts with 'struct sysdev' removal from various platform drivers that got changed: - arch/arm/mach-exynos/cpu.c - arch/arm/mach-exynos/irq-eint.c - arch/arm/mach-s3c64xx/common.c - arch/arm/mach-s3c64xx/cpu.c - arch/arm/mach-s5p64x0/cpu.c - arch/arm/mach-s5pv210/common.c - arch/arm/plat-samsung/include/plat/cpu.h - arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c and fix up cpu_is_hotpluggable() as per Greg in include/linux/cpu.h

Merge branch 'pstore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux

2012-01-07T02:03:02Z

* 'pstore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux: pstore: gracefully handle NULL pstore_info functions pstore: pass reason to backend write callback

Merge branch 'driver-core-next' into Linux 3.2

2012-01-06T19:42:52Z

This resolves the conflict in the arch/arm/mach-s3c64xx/s3c6400.c file, and it fixes the build error in the arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c file, that the merge did not catch. The microcode_core.c patch was provided by Stephen Rothwell who was invaluable in the merge issues involved with the large sysdev removal process in the driver-core tree. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

switch ->is_visible() to returning umode_t

2012-01-04T03:54:55Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/ibft

2011-12-15T22:16:47Z

* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/ibft: ibft: Fix finding IBFT ACPI table on UEFI

ibft: Fix finding IBFT ACPI table on UEFI

2011-12-13T14:08:31Z

Found one system with UEFI/iBFT, kernel does not detect the iBFT during iscsi_ibft module loading. Root cause: on x86 (UEFI), we are calling of find_ibft_region() much earlier - specifically in setup_arch() before ACPI is enabled. Try to split acpi checking code out and call that later At that time ACPI iBFT already get permanent mapped with ioremap. So isa_virt_to_bus() will get wrong phys from right virt address. We could just skip that phys address printing. For legacy one, print the found address early. -v2: update comments and description according to Konrad. -v3: fix problem about module use case that is found by Konrad. -v4: use acpi_get_table() instead of acpi_table_parse() to handle module use case that is found by Konrad again.. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk