Hi Linus, Please pull these pstore changes for v4.21-rc1.
Thanks! -Kees The following changes since commit ccda4af0f4b92f7b4c308d3acc262f4a7e3affad: Linux 4.20-rc2 (2018-11-11 17:12:31 -0600) are available in the Git repository at: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git tags/pstore-v4.21-rc1 for you to fetch changes up to 8665569e97dd52920713b95675409648986b5b0d: pstore/ram: Avoid NULL deref in ftrace merging failure path (2018-12-03 17:11:02 -0800) ---------------------------------------------------------------- pstore improvements and refactorings - Improve compression handling - Refactor argument handling during initialization - Avoid needless locking for saner EFI backend handling - Add more kern-doc and improve debugging output ---------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Fernandes (Google) (3): pstore: Map PSTORE_TYPE_* to strings pstore/ram: Simplify ramoops_get_next_prz() arguments pstore/ram: Do not treat empty buffers as valid Kees Cook (11): pstore/ram: Correctly calculate usable PRZ bytes Merge branch 'for-linus/pstore' into for-next/pstore pstore: Do not use crash buffer for decompression pstore: Remove needless lock during console writes pstore/ram: Standardize module name in ramoops pstore/ram: Report backend assignments with finer granularity pstore/ram: Add kern-doc for struct persistent_ram_zone pstore: Improve and update some comments and status output pstore: Replace open-coded << with BIT() pstore: Convert buf_lock to semaphore pstore/ram: Avoid NULL deref in ftrace merging failure path Peng Wang (1): pstore: Avoid duplicate call of persistent_ram_zap() Thomas Meyer (1): pstore: Fix bool initialization/comparison arch/powerpc/kernel/nvram_64.c | 2 - drivers/acpi/apei/erst.c | 3 +- drivers/firmware/efi/efi-pstore.c | 4 +- fs/pstore/ftrace.c | 2 +- fs/pstore/inode.c | 51 +---------- fs/pstore/platform.c | 173 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------- fs/pstore/ram.c | 78 +++++++---------- fs/pstore/ram_core.c | 45 ++++++++-- include/linux/pstore.h | 39 ++++++--- include/linux/pstore_ram.h | 50 ++++++++++- 10 files changed, 241 insertions(+), 206 deletions(-) -- Kees Cook