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Linus Torvalds 30c44659f4 Merge branch 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile 
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
 		2015-10-04 16:31:13 +01:00
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bitops arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*() 2014-04-18 14:20:48 +02:00
4level-fixup.h mm, asm-generic: define PUD_SHIFT in <asm-generic/4level-fixup.h> 2015-02-11 17:06:03 -08:00
Kbuild.asm UAPI: Set up uapi/asm/Kbuild.asm 2012-10-02 18:01:56 +01:00
asm-offsets.h asm-generic: Add common asm-offsets.h 2015-06-23 13:35:49 +09:00
atomic-long.h locking, asm-generic: Add _{relaxed|acquire|release}() variants for 'atomic_long_t' 2015-08-12 11:59:01 +02:00
atomic.h atomic: Collapse all atomic_{set,clear}_mask definitions 2015-07-27 14:06:24 +02:00
atomic64.h atomic: Provide atomic_{or,xor,and} 2015-07-27 14:06:24 +02:00
audit_change_attr.h audit: Modify a set of system calls in audit class definitions 2014-01-17 17:01:46 -05:00
audit_dir_write.h audit: support the "standard" <asm-generic/unistd.h> 2011-05-04 14:41:28 -04:00
audit_read.h audit: support the "standard" <asm-generic/unistd.h> 2011-05-04 14:41:28 -04:00
audit_signal.h
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audit_write.h audit: Modify a set of system calls in audit class definitions 2014-01-17 17:01:46 -05:00
barrier.h locking, arch: use WRITE_ONCE()/READ_ONCE() in smp_store_release()/smp_load_acquire() 2015-08-03 10:59:30 +02:00
bitops.h arch: Prepare for smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic() 2014-04-18 11:40:30 +02:00
bitsperlong.h UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic 2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
bug.h bug: Make BUG() always stop the machine 2014-04-07 16:36:10 -07:00
bugs.h asm-generic: add generic versions of common headers 2009-06-11 21:02:37 +02:00
cache.h asm-generic: add generic NOMMU versions of some headers 2009-06-11 21:02:50 +02:00
cacheflush.h asm-generic/cacheflush.h: flush icache when copying to user pages 2011-05-25 08:39:37 -07:00
checksum.h asm-generic headers: Allow yet more arch overrides in checksum.h 2013-02-11 20:00:33 +05:30
clkdev.h asm-generic: COMMON_CLK defines __clk_{get,put} 2014-09-25 18:00:45 -07:00
cmpxchg-local.h LLVMLinux: Remove warning about returning an uninitialized variable 2014-04-09 13:44:35 -07:00
cmpxchg.h locking/rtmutex: Drop usage of __HAVE_ARCH_CMPXCHG 2015-05-13 10:51:28 +02:00
cputime.h cputime: Generic on-demand virtual cputime accounting 2013-01-27 19:23:27 +01:00
cputime_jiffies.h sched, time: Fix build error with 64 bit cputime_t on 32 bit systems 2014-10-03 05:46:55 +02:00
cputime_nsecs.h sched, time: Fix build error with 64 bit cputime_t on 32 bit systems 2014-10-03 05:46:55 +02:00
current.h asm-generic: add generic versions of common headers 2009-06-11 21:02:37 +02:00
delay.h asm-generic: delay.h fix udelay and ndelay for 8 bit args 2011-07-22 18:45:33 +02:00
device.h Driver Core: Add platform device arch data V3 2009-07-22 00:28:38 +02:00
div64.h
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dma-coherent.h DMA-API: Change dma_declare_coherent_memory() CPU address to phys_addr_t 2014-05-20 16:55:23 -06:00
dma-contiguous.h asm-generic: Add dma-contiguous.h 2014-09-22 13:35:51 +02:00
dma-mapping-broken.h asm-generic/dma-mapping-broken.h: Provide dma_alloc_attrs()/dma_free_attrs() 2012-12-25 20:14:54 +01:00
dma-mapping-common.h dma-mapping: consolidate dma_set_mask 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
dma.h asm-generic: add legacy I/O header files 2009-06-11 21:02:42 +02:00
early_ioremap.h Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2015-09-08 17:52:23 -07:00
emergency-restart.h
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exec.h Split arch_align_stack() out from asm-generic/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
fb.h asm-generic: add generic versions of common headers 2009-06-11 21:02:37 +02:00
fixmap.h mm: provide early_memremap_ro to establish read-only mapping 2015-08-20 12:24:22 +01:00
ftrace.h asm-generic headers: add ftrace.h 2011-03-17 09:19:04 +08:00
futex.h sched/preempt, futex: Disable preemption in UP futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() explicitly 2015-05-19 08:39:16 +02:00
getorder.h bitops: Add missing parentheses to new get_order macro 2012-02-24 10:39:27 -08:00
gpio.h gpio: remove gpiod_sysfs_set_active_low 2015-05-12 10:46:53 +02:00
hardirq.h Fix IRQ flag handling naming 2010-10-07 14:08:55 +01:00
hugetlb.h mm: Fix generic hugetlb pte check return type. 2013-10-02 20:02:35 -04:00
hw_irq.h asm-generic: add legacy I/O header files 2009-06-11 21:02:42 +02:00
ide_iops.h
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int-ll64.h UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic 2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
io-64-nonatomic-hi-lo.h readq/writeq: Add explicit lo_hi_[read|write]_q and hi_lo_[read|write]_q 2014-07-04 13:27:30 +02:00
io-64-nonatomic-lo-hi.h readq/writeq: Add explicit lo_hi_[read|write]_q and hi_lo_[read|write]_q 2014-07-04 13:27:30 +02:00
io.h x86/mm, asm-generic: Add IOMMU ioremap_uc() variant default 2015-07-21 10:47:03 +02:00
ioctl.h include/asm-generic/ioctl.h: fix _IOC_TYPECHECK sparse error 2014-06-06 16:08:13 -07:00
iomap.h x86/mm, asm-generic: Add ioremap_wt() for creating Write-Through mappings 2015-06-07 15:28:56 +02:00
irq.h asm-generic: add generic versions of common headers 2009-06-11 21:02:37 +02:00
irq_regs.h core: Replace __get_cpu_var with __this_cpu_read if not used for an address. 2010-12-17 15:07:19 +01:00
irq_work.h irq_work: Introduce arch_irq_work_has_interrupt() 2014-09-13 18:38:07 +02:00
irqflags.h Fix IRQ flag handling naming 2010-10-07 14:08:55 +01:00
kdebug.h asm-generic: kdebug.h: Checkpatch cleanup 2010-10-09 21:51:44 +02:00
kmap_types.h asm-generic: remove km_type definitions 2012-07-24 15:27:30 +08:00
kvm_para.h KVM: add kvm_para_available to asm-generic/kvm_para.h 2013-06-05 13:21:29 +03:00
libata-portmap.h
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linkage.h asm-generic: add generic versions of common headers 2009-06-11 21:02:37 +02:00
local.h atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
local64.h atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
mcs_spinlock.h locking/mcs: Allow architecture specific asm files to be used for contended case 2014-02-09 21:18:52 +01:00
memory_model.h mm: fix type cast in __pfn_to_phys() 2015-09-19 03:58:10 -04:00
mm-arch-hooks.h mm: clean up per architecture MM hook header files 2015-07-17 16:39:53 -07:00
mm_hooks.h mm: Make arch_unmap()/bprm_mm_init() available to all architectures 2014-11-19 11:54:13 +01:00
mmu.h asm-generic/mmu.h: Add support for FDPIC 2012-12-09 23:14:14 +01:00
mmu_context.h asm-generic: Remove asm-generic arch_bprm_mm_init() 2014-11-22 21:52:08 +01:00
module.h Make most arch asm/module.h files use asm-generic/module.h 2012-09-28 14:31:03 +09:30
msi.h asm-generic: Add msi.h 2014-11-23 13:01:47 +01:00
mutex-dec.h arch: Make __mutex_fastpath_lock_retval return whether fastpath succeeded or not 2013-06-26 12:10:55 +02:00
mutex-null.h arch: Make __mutex_fastpath_lock_retval return whether fastpath succeeded or not 2013-06-26 12:10:55 +02:00
mutex-xchg.h arch: Make __mutex_fastpath_lock_retval return whether fastpath succeeded or not 2013-06-26 12:10:55 +02:00
mutex.h asm-generic: add generic versions of common headers 2009-06-11 21:02:37 +02:00
page.h The following changes since commit 3ee72ca992 2012-01-10 17:39:40 -08:00
param.h UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic 2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
parport.h include: remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:16 -08:00
pci-bridge.h PCI: work around Stratus ftServer broken PCIe hierarchy 2012-04-30 15:21:02 -06:00
pci-dma-compat.h pci-dma-compat: add pci_zalloc_consistent helper 2014-08-08 15:57:28 -07:00
pci.h PCI: Remove unused pcibios_select_root() (again) 2015-06-08 07:56:21 -05:00
pci_iomap.h PCI: Add pci_iomap_wc() variants 2015-08-25 09:59:45 +02:00
percpu.h percpu: preffity percpu header files 2014-06-17 19:12:40 -04:00
pgalloc.h asm-generic: add generic NOMMU versions of some headers 2009-06-11 21:02:50 +02:00
pgtable-nopmd.h mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb() 2009-07-27 12:10:38 -07:00
pgtable-nopud.h mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb() 2009-07-27 12:10:38 -07:00
pgtable.h mm: clarify that the function operates on hugepage pte 2015-06-24 17:49:44 -07:00
preempt.h sched/preempt: Fix cond_resched_lock() and cond_resched_softirq() 2015-08-03 12:21:24 +02:00
ptrace.h asm-generic/ptrace.h: start a common low level ptrace helper 2011-05-26 17:12:36 -07:00
qrwlock.h locking/qrwlock: Make use of _{acquire|release|relaxed}() atomics 2015-08-12 11:59:06 +02:00
qrwlock_types.h locking/rwlocks: Introduce 'qrwlocks' - fair, queued rwlocks 2014-06-06 07:58:28 +02:00
qspinlock.h locking/qspinlock/x86: Fix performance regression under unaccelerated VMs 2015-09-11 07:49:42 +02:00
qspinlock_types.h locking/qspinlock: Optimize for smaller NR_CPUS 2015-05-08 12:36:48 +02:00
resource.h asm-generic: remove _STK_LIM_MAX 2014-05-15 00:32:09 +01:00
rtc.h rtc: cmos: century support 2015-09-05 13:19:09 +02:00
rwsem.h asm-generic: rwsem: de-PPCify rwsem.h 2014-03-14 18:02:08 +00:00
seccomp.h seccomp: allow COMPAT sigreturn overrides 2015-04-17 09:04:09 -04:00
sections.h nosave: consolidate __nosave_{begin,end} in <asm/sections.h> 2014-10-09 22:26:04 -04:00
segment.h asm-generic: add generic NOMMU versions of some headers 2009-06-11 21:02:50 +02:00
serial.h asm-generic: add legacy I/O header files 2009-06-11 21:02:42 +02:00
siginfo.h constify copy_siginfo_to_user{,32}() 2013-11-09 00:16:29 -05:00
signal.h unify default ptrace_signal_deliver 2012-11-29 00:01:23 -05:00
simd.h crypto: create generic version of ablk_helper 2013-09-24 06:02:24 +10:00
sizes.h ARM: 7430/1: sizes.h: move from asm-generic to <linux/sizes.h> 2012-06-28 17:14:34 +01:00
spinlock.h asm-generic: add generic versions of common headers 2009-06-11 21:02:37 +02:00
statfs.h UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic 2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
string.h asm-generic: add generic versions of common headers 2009-06-11 21:02:37 +02:00
switch_to.h Split the switch_to() wrapper out of asm-generic/system.h 2012-03-28 18:30:03 +01:00
syscall.h syscall.h: fix doc text for syscall_get_arch() 2014-09-23 16:20:00 -04:00
syscalls.h burying unused conditionals 2013-02-14 09:21:15 -05:00
termios-base.h asm-generic: rename termios.h, signal.h and mman.h 2009-06-11 21:01:52 +02:00
termios.h UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic 2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
timex.h asm-generic: add legacy I/O header files 2009-06-11 21:02:42 +02:00
tlb.h mm: mmu_gather: use tlb->end != 0 only for TLB invalidation 2015-01-13 15:20:40 +13:00
tlbflush.h BUG: headers with BUG/BUG_ON etc. need linux/bug.h 2012-03-04 17:54:34 -05:00
topology.h topology: alternate fix for ia64 tiger_defconfig build breakage 2010-08-09 20:44:57 -07:00
trace_clock.h tracing,x86: Add a TSC trace_clock 2012-11-13 15:48:27 -05:00
uaccess-unaligned.h asm-generic: rename page.h and uaccess.h 2009-06-11 21:02:17 +02:00
uaccess.h asm-generic: uaccess: Spelling s/a ny/any/ 2014-01-02 10:45:23 +01:00
unaligned.h asm-generic: allow generic unaligned access if the arch supports it 2014-05-08 10:22:23 +02:00
unistd.h We get rid of the general module prefix confusion with a binary config option, 2013-05-05 10:58:06 -07:00
user.h asm-generic/user.h: Fix spelling in comment 2011-03-01 15:49:39 +01:00
vga.h asm-generic: add legacy I/O header files 2009-06-11 21:02:42 +02:00
vmlinux.lds.h kbuild: Fix .text.unlikely placement 2015-08-20 14:55:54 +02:00
vtime.h include/asm-generic/vtime.h: avoid zero-length file 2013-09-30 14:31:02 -07:00
word-at-a-time.h Make asm/word-at-a-time.h available on all architectures 2015-07-08 16:41:55 -04:00
xor.h asm-generic: xor: mark static functions as __maybe_unused 2012-10-03 21:21:06 +02:00