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<title>linux.git/drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c, branch v5.10.258</title>
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<entry>
<title>scsi: pmcraid: Fix missing resource cleanup in error case</title>
<updated>2022-06-22T12:13:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chengguang Xu</name>
<email>cgxu519@mykernel.net</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-29T15:34:55+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit ec1e8adcbdf661c57c395bca342945f4f815add7 ]

Fix missing resource cleanup (when '(--i) == 0') for error case in
pmcraid_register_interrupt_handler().

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220529153456.4183738-6-cgxu519@mykernel.net
Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu &lt;cgxu519@mykernel.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit ec1e8adcbdf661c57c395bca342945f4f815add7 ]

Fix missing resource cleanup (when '(--i) == 0') for error case in
pmcraid_register_interrupt_handler().

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220529153456.4183738-6-cgxu519@mykernel.net
Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu &lt;cgxu519@mykernel.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>scsi: pmcraid: Remove set but not used 'res'</title>
<updated>2020-09-10T02:40:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ye Bin</name>
<email>yebin10@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-09T08:26:27+00:00</published>
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This addresses the following gcc warning with "make W=1":

 drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c: In function ‘pmcraid_abort_cmd’:
 drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c:2863:33: warning: variable ‘res’ set but not
 used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
   struct pmcraid_resource_entry *res;
                                    ^

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200909082627.101984-2-yebin10@huawei.com
Reported-by: Hulk Robot &lt;hulkci@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ye Bin &lt;yebin10@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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This addresses the following gcc warning with "make W=1":

 drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c: In function ‘pmcraid_abort_cmd’:
 drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c:2863:33: warning: variable ‘res’ set but not
 used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
   struct pmcraid_resource_entry *res;
                                    ^

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200909082627.101984-2-yebin10@huawei.com
Reported-by: Hulk Robot &lt;hulkci@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ye Bin &lt;yebin10@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>scsi: pmcraid: Remove superfluous memset()</title>
<updated>2020-08-21T03:25:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Li Heng</name>
<email>liheng40@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-30T03:31:56+00:00</published>
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Fixes coccicheck warning:

./drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c:4709:3-21: WARNING: dma_alloc_coherent use in pinstance -&gt; hrrq_start [ i ] already zeroes out memory,  so memset is not needed

dma_alloc_coherent() already zeroes out memory so memset() is not needed.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1596079918-41115-2-git-send-email-liheng40@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Li Heng &lt;liheng40@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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Fixes coccicheck warning:

./drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c:4709:3-21: WARNING: dma_alloc_coherent use in pinstance -&gt; hrrq_start [ i ] already zeroes out memory,  so memset is not needed

dma_alloc_coherent() already zeroes out memory so memset() is not needed.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1596079918-41115-2-git-send-email-liheng40@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Li Heng &lt;liheng40@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>scsi: pmcraid: Replace dma_pool_malloc with dma_pool_zalloc</title>
<updated>2020-04-24T22:21:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wu Bo</name>
<email>wubo40@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-18T08:07:21+00:00</published>
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Replace dma_pool_malloc with dma_pool_zalloc to make the code more concise
in pmcraid_allocate_control_blocks() function.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1587197241-274646-1-git-send-email-wubo40@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Wu Bo &lt;wubo40@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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Replace dma_pool_malloc with dma_pool_zalloc to make the code more concise
in pmcraid_allocate_control_blocks() function.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1587197241-274646-1-git-send-email-wubo40@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Wu Bo &lt;wubo40@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>compat_ioctl: move more drivers to compat_ptr_ioctl</title>
<updated>2019-10-23T15:23:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-11T19:59:08+00:00</published>
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The .ioctl and .compat_ioctl file operations have the same prototype so
they can both point to the same function, which works great almost all
the time when all the commands are compatible.

One exception is the s390 architecture, where a compat pointer is only
31 bit wide, and converting it into a 64-bit pointer requires calling
compat_ptr(). Most drivers here will never run in s390, but since we now
have a generic helper for it, it's easy enough to use it consistently.

I double-checked all these drivers to ensure that all ioctl arguments
are used as pointers or are ignored, but are not interpreted as integer
values.

Acked-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@mellanox.com&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch&gt;
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+samsung@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Darren Hart (VMware) &lt;dvhart@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron &lt;Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Bjorn Andersson &lt;bjorn.andersson@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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The .ioctl and .compat_ioctl file operations have the same prototype so
they can both point to the same function, which works great almost all
the time when all the commands are compatible.

One exception is the s390 architecture, where a compat pointer is only
31 bit wide, and converting it into a 64-bit pointer requires calling
compat_ptr(). Most drivers here will never run in s390, but since we now
have a generic helper for it, it's easy enough to use it consistently.

I double-checked all these drivers to ensure that all ioctl arguments
are used as pointers or are ignored, but are not interpreted as integer
values.

Acked-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@mellanox.com&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch&gt;
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab+samsung@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Darren Hart (VMware) &lt;dvhart@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron &lt;Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Bjorn Andersson &lt;bjorn.andersson@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>scsi: pmcraid: Fix a typo - pcmraid --&gt; pmcraid</title>
<updated>2019-08-13T01:57:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe JAILLET</name>
<email>christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-09T15:02:14+00:00</published>
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This should be 'pmcraid', not 'pcmraid'

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET &lt;christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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This should be 'pmcraid', not 'pcmraid'

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET &lt;christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'scsi-sg' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi</title>
<updated>2019-07-11T22:17:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-11T22:17:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=1f7563f743d7081710a9d186a8b203997d09f383'/>
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Pull SCSI scatter-gather list updates from James Bottomley:
 "This topic branch covers a fundamental change in how our sg lists are
  allocated to make mq more efficient by reducing the size of the
  preallocated sg list.

  This necessitates a large number of driver changes because the
  previous guarantee that if a driver specified SG_ALL as the size of
  its scatter list, it would get a non-chained list and didn't need to
  bother with scatterlist iterators is now broken and every driver
  *must* use scatterlist iterators.

  This was broken out as a separate topic because we need to convert all
  the drivers before pulling the trigger and unconverted drivers kept
  being found, necessitating a rebase"

* tag 'scsi-sg' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (21 commits)
  scsi: core: don't preallocate small SGL in case of NO_SG_CHAIN
  scsi: lib/sg_pool.c: clear 'first_chunk' in case of no preallocation
  scsi: core: avoid preallocating big SGL for data
  scsi: core: avoid preallocating big SGL for protection information
  scsi: lib/sg_pool.c: improve APIs for allocating sg pool
  scsi: esp: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: NCR5380: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: wd33c93: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: ppa: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: pcmcia: nsp_cs: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: imm: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: aha152x: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: s390: zfcp_fc: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: staging: unisys: visorhba: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: usb: image: microtek: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: pmcraid: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: ipr: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: mvumi: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: lpfc: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: advansys: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  ...
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Pull SCSI scatter-gather list updates from James Bottomley:
 "This topic branch covers a fundamental change in how our sg lists are
  allocated to make mq more efficient by reducing the size of the
  preallocated sg list.

  This necessitates a large number of driver changes because the
  previous guarantee that if a driver specified SG_ALL as the size of
  its scatter list, it would get a non-chained list and didn't need to
  bother with scatterlist iterators is now broken and every driver
  *must* use scatterlist iterators.

  This was broken out as a separate topic because we need to convert all
  the drivers before pulling the trigger and unconverted drivers kept
  being found, necessitating a rebase"

* tag 'scsi-sg' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (21 commits)
  scsi: core: don't preallocate small SGL in case of NO_SG_CHAIN
  scsi: lib/sg_pool.c: clear 'first_chunk' in case of no preallocation
  scsi: core: avoid preallocating big SGL for data
  scsi: core: avoid preallocating big SGL for protection information
  scsi: lib/sg_pool.c: improve APIs for allocating sg pool
  scsi: esp: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: NCR5380: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: wd33c93: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: ppa: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: pcmcia: nsp_cs: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: imm: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: aha152x: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: s390: zfcp_fc: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: staging: unisys: visorhba: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: usb: image: microtek: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: pmcraid: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: ipr: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: mvumi: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: lpfc: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  scsi: advansys: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>scsi: pmcraid: use sg helper to iterate over scatterlist</title>
<updated>2019-06-20T19:21:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ming Lei</name>
<email>ming.lei@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-18T01:37:47+00:00</published>
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Unlike the legacy I/O path, scsi-mq preallocates a large array to hold
the scatterlist for each request. This static allocation can consume
substantial amounts of memory on modern controllers which support a
large number of concurrently outstanding requests.

To facilitate a switch to a smaller static allocation combined with a
dynamic allocation for requests that need it, we need to make sure all
SCSI drivers handle chained scatterlists correctly.

Convert remaining drivers that directly dereference the scatterlist
array to using the iterator functions.

[mkp: clarified commit message]

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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Unlike the legacy I/O path, scsi-mq preallocates a large array to hold
the scatterlist for each request. This static allocation can consume
substantial amounts of memory on modern controllers which support a
large number of concurrently outstanding requests.

To facilitate a switch to a smaller static allocation combined with a
dynamic allocation for requests that need it, we need to make sure all
SCSI drivers handle chained scatterlists correctly.

Convert remaining drivers that directly dereference the scatterlist
array to using the iterator functions.

[mkp: clarified commit message]

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bvanassche@acm.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 156</title>
<updated>2019-05-30T18:26:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-27T06:55:05+00:00</published>
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version this program is distributed in the
  hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even
  the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
  purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you
  should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along
  with this program if not write to the free software foundation inc
  59 temple place suite 330 boston ma 02111 1307 usa

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 1334 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana &lt;rfontana@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070033.113240726@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version this program is distributed in the
  hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even
  the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
  purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you
  should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along
  with this program if not write to the free software foundation inc
  59 temple place suite 330 boston ma 02111 1307 usa

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 1334 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana &lt;rfontana@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070033.113240726@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function</title>
<updated>2019-01-04T02:57:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-04T02:57:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=96d4f267e40f9509e8a66e2b39e8b95655617693'/>
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Nobody has actually used the type (VERIFY_READ vs VERIFY_WRITE) argument
of the user address range verification function since we got rid of the
old racy i386-only code to walk page tables by hand.

It existed because the original 80386 would not honor the write protect
bit when in kernel mode, so you had to do COW by hand before doing any
user access.  But we haven't supported that in a long time, and these
days the 'type' argument is a purely historical artifact.

A discussion about extending 'user_access_begin()' to do the range
checking resulted this patch, because there is no way we're going to
move the old VERIFY_xyz interface to that model.  And it's best done at
the end of the merge window when I've done most of my merges, so let's
just get this done once and for all.

This patch was mostly done with a sed-script, with manual fix-ups for
the cases that weren't of the trivial 'access_ok(VERIFY_xyz' form.

There were a couple of notable cases:

 - csky still had the old "verify_area()" name as an alias.

 - the iter_iov code had magical hardcoded knowledge of the actual
   values of VERIFY_{READ,WRITE} (not that they mattered, since nothing
   really used it)

 - microblaze used the type argument for a debug printout

but other than those oddities this should be a total no-op patch.

I tried to fix up all architectures, did fairly extensive grepping for
access_ok() uses, and the changes are trivial, but I may have missed
something.  Any missed conversion should be trivially fixable, though.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Nobody has actually used the type (VERIFY_READ vs VERIFY_WRITE) argument
of the user address range verification function since we got rid of the
old racy i386-only code to walk page tables by hand.

It existed because the original 80386 would not honor the write protect
bit when in kernel mode, so you had to do COW by hand before doing any
user access.  But we haven't supported that in a long time, and these
days the 'type' argument is a purely historical artifact.

A discussion about extending 'user_access_begin()' to do the range
checking resulted this patch, because there is no way we're going to
move the old VERIFY_xyz interface to that model.  And it's best done at
the end of the merge window when I've done most of my merges, so let's
just get this done once and for all.

This patch was mostly done with a sed-script, with manual fix-ups for
the cases that weren't of the trivial 'access_ok(VERIFY_xyz' form.

There were a couple of notable cases:

 - csky still had the old "verify_area()" name as an alias.

 - the iter_iov code had magical hardcoded knowledge of the actual
   values of VERIFY_{READ,WRITE} (not that they mattered, since nothing
   really used it)

 - microblaze used the type argument for a debug printout

but other than those oddities this should be a total no-op patch.

I tried to fix up all architectures, did fairly extensive grepping for
access_ok() uses, and the changes are trivial, but I may have missed
something.  Any missed conversion should be trivially fixable, though.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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