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There are plenty of issues with the kernel documentation here:
- misspelled word "sequence"
- different style of returned value descriptions
- missed Return sections
- unaligned style of ASCII / NUL-terminated / etc
- wrong function references
Fix all these.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215152506.598340-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Update header inclusions to follow IWYU (Include What You Use)
principle.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215142255.400264-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Mark seq_buf_puts() which is part of the seq_buf API to be exported to
kernel loadable GPL modules.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b9e3737f66ec2450221b492048ce0d9c65c84953.1698861216.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Mark seq_buf_putc() which is part of the seq_buf API to be exported to
kernel loadable GPL modules.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5c9a5ed97ac37dbdcd9c1e7bcbdec9ac166e79be.1698861216.git.christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Solve two ergonomic issues with struct seq_buf;
1) Too much boilerplate is required to initialize:
struct seq_buf s;
char buf[32];
seq_buf_init(s, buf, sizeof(buf));
Instead, we can build this directly on the stack. Provide
DECLARE_SEQ_BUF() macro to do this:
DECLARE_SEQ_BUF(s, 32);
2) %NUL termination is fragile and requires 2 steps to get a valid
C String (and is a layering violation exposing the "internals" of
seq_buf):
seq_buf_terminate(s);
do_something(s->buffer);
Instead, we can just return s->buffer directly after terminating it in
the refactored seq_buf_terminate(), now known as seq_buf_str():
do_something(seq_buf_str(s));
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231027155634.make.260-kees@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231026194033.it.702-kees@kernel.org/
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Yun Zhou <yun.zhou@windriver.com>
Cc: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Cc: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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To make seq_buf more lightweight as a string buf, move the readpos member
from seq_buf to its container, trace_seq. That puts the responsibility
of maintaining the readpos entirely in the tracing code. If some future
users want to package up the readpos with a seq_buf, we can define a
new struct then.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231020033545.2587554-2-willy@infradead.org
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Sometimes we use seq_buf to format a string buffer, which
we then pass to printk(). However, in certain situations
the seq_buf string buffer can get too big, exceeding the
PRINTKRB_RECORD_MAX bytes limit, and causing printk() to
truncate the string.
Add a new seq_buf helper. This helper prints the seq_buf
string buffer line by line, using \n as a delimiter,
rather than passing the whole string buffer to printk()
at once.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230415100110.1419872-1-senozhatsky@chromium.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Fix some spelling mistakes in comments:
permanentely ==> permanently
wont ==> won't
remaning ==> remaining
succed ==> succeed
shouldnt ==> shouldn't
alpha-numeric ==> alphanumeric
storeing ==> storing
funtion ==> function
documenation ==> documentation
Determin ==> Determine
intepreted ==> interpreted
ammount ==> amount
obious ==> obvious
interupts ==> interrupts
occured ==> occurred
asssociated ==> associated
taking into acount ==> taking into account
squence ==> sequence
stil ==> still
contiguos ==> contiguous
matchs ==> matches
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210607072555.12416-1-thunder.leizhen@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Since the raw memory 'data' does not go forward, it will dump repeated
data if the data length is more than 8. If we want to dump longer data
blocks, we need to repeatedly call macro SEQ_PUT_HEX_FIELD. I think it
is a bit redundant, and multiple function calls also affect the performance.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210625122453.5e2fe304@oasis.local.home/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210626032156.47889-2-yun.zhou@windriver.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 6d2289f3faa7 ("tracing: Make trace_seq_putmem_hex() more robust")
Signed-off-by: Yun Zhou <yun.zhou@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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There's two variables being increased in that loop (i and j), and i
follows the raw data, and j follows what is being written into the buffer.
We should compare 'i' to MAX_MEMHEX_BYTES or compare 'j' to HEX_CHARS.
Otherwise, if 'j' goes bigger than HEX_CHARS, it will overflow the
destination buffer.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210625122453.5e2fe304@oasis.local.home/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210626032156.47889-1-yun.zhou@windriver.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 5e3ca0ec76fce ("ftrace: introduce the "hex" output method")
Signed-off-by: Yun Zhou <yun.zhou@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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'seq_buf' provides a very useful abstraction for writing to a string
buffer without needing to worry about it over-flowing. However even
though the API has been stable for couple of years now its still not
exported to kernel loadable modules limiting its usage.
Hence this patch proposes update to 'seq_buf.c' to mark
seq_buf_printf() which is part of the seq_buf API to be exported to
kernel loadable GPL modules. This symbol will be used in later parts
of this patch-set to simplify content creation for a sysfs attribute.
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Piotr Maziarz <piotrx.maziarz@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200615124407.32596-3-vaibhav@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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Provided function is an analogue of print_hex_dump().
Implementing this function in seq_buf allows using for multiple
purposes (e.g. for tracing) and therefore prevents from code duplication
in every layer that uses seq_buf.
print_hex_dump() is an essential part of logging data to dmesg. Adding
similar capability for other purposes is beneficial to all users.
Example usage:
seq_buf_hex_dump(seq, "", DUMP_PREFIX_OFFSET, 16, 4, buf,
ARRAY_SIZE(buf), true);
Example output:
00000000: 00000000 ffffff10 ffffff32 ffff3210 ........2....2..
00000010: ffff3210 83d00437 c0700000 00000000 .2..7.....p.....
00000020: 02010004 0000000f 0000000f 00004002 .............@..
00000030: 00000fff 00000000 ........
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1573130738-29390-1-git-send-email-piotrx.maziarz@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Piotr Maziarz <piotrx.maziarz@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Jann Horn points out that we're using unsigned int for len in
seq_buf_puts(), which could potentially overflow if we're passed a
UINT_MAX sized string.
The rest of the code already uses size_t, so we should also use that
in seq_buf_puts() to avoid any issues.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181019042109.8064-2-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Suggested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Currently seq_buf_puts() will happily create a non null-terminated
string for you in the buffer. This is particularly dangerous if the
buffer is on the stack.
For example:
char buf[8];
char secret = "secret";
struct seq_buf s;
seq_buf_init(&s, buf, sizeof(buf));
seq_buf_puts(&s, "foo");
printk("Message is %s\n", buf);
Can result in:
Message is fooªªªªªsecret
We could require all users to memset() their buffer to zero before
use. But that seems likely to be forgotten and lead to bugs.
Instead we can change seq_buf_puts() to always leave the buffer in a
null-terminated state.
The only downside is that this makes the buffer 1 character smaller
for seq_buf_puts(), but that seems like a good trade off.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181019042109.8064-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.
By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.
Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.
This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.
How this work was done:
Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,
Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.
The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.
The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).
All documentation files were explicitly excluded.
The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.
- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.
For non */uapi/* files that summary was:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139
and resulted in the first patch in this series.
If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930
and resulted in the second patch in this series.
- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1
and that resulted in the third patch in this series.
- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).
- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.
- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).
- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.
In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.
Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.
In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.
Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct
This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.
These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit 5ac48378414d ("tracing: Use trace_seq_used() and seq_buf_used()
instead of len") changed the tracing code to use trace_seq_used() and
seq_buf_used() instead of using the seq_buf len directly to avoid
overflow issues, but missed a spot in seq_buf_to_user() that makes use
of s->len.
Cleaned up the code a bit as well per suggestion of Steve Rostedt.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447703848-2951-1-git-send-email-jsnitsel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jerry Snitselaar <jsnitsel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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In seq_buf_bprintf(), bstr_printf() is used to copy the format into the
buffer remaining in the seq_buf structure. The return of bstr_printf()
is the amount of characters written to the buffer excluding the '\0',
unless the line was truncated!
If the line copied does not fit, it is truncated, and a '\0' is added
to the end of the buffer. But in this case, '\0' is included in the length
of the line written. To know if the buffer had overflowed, the return
length will be the same or greater than the length of the buffer passed in.
The check in seq_buf_bprintf() only checked if the length returned from
bstr_printf() would fit in the buffer, as the seq_buf_bprintf() is only
to be an all or nothing command. It either writes all the string into
the seq_buf, or none of it. If the string is truncated, the pointers
inside the seq_buf must be reset to what they were when the function was
called. This is not the case. On overflow, it copies only part of the string.
The fix is to change the overflow check to see if the length returned from
bstr_printf() is less than the length remaining in the seq_buf buffer, and not
if it is less than or equal to as it currently does. Then seq_buf_bprintf()
will know if the write from bstr_printf() was truncated or not.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1425500481.2712.27.camel@perches.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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In seq_buf_vprintf(), vsnprintf() is used to copy the format into the
buffer remaining in the seq_buf structure. The return of vsnprintf()
is the amount of characters written to the buffer excluding the '\0',
unless the line was truncated!
If the line copied does not fit, it is truncated, and a '\0' is added
to the end of the buffer. But in this case, '\0' is included in the length
of the line written. To know if the buffer had overflowed, the return
length will be the same as the length of the buffer passed in.
The check in seq_buf_vprintf() only checked if the length returned from
vsnprintf() would fit in the buffer, as the seq_buf_vprintf() is only
to be an all or nothing command. It either writes all the string into
the seq_buf, or none of it. If the string is truncated, the pointers
inside the seq_buf must be reset to what they were when the function was
called. This is not the case. On overflow, it copies only part of the string.
The fix is to change the overflow check to see if the length returned from
vsnprintf() is less than the length remaining in the seq_buf buffer, and not
if it is less than or equal to as it currently does. Then seq_buf_vprintf()
will know if the write from vsnpritnf() was truncated or not.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Now that all bitmap formatting usages have been converted to
'%*pb[l]', the separate formatting functions are unnecessary. The
following functions are removed.
* bitmap_scn[list]printf()
* cpumask_scnprintf(), cpulist_scnprintf()
* [__]nodemask_scnprintf(), [__]nodelist_scnprintf()
* seq_bitmap[_list](), seq_cpumask[_list](), seq_nodemask[_list]()
* seq_buf_bitmask()
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The seq_buf functions are rather useful outside of tracing. Instead
of having it be dependent on CONFIG_TRACING, move the code into lib/
and allow other users to have access to it even when tracing is not
configured.
The seq_buf utility is similar to the seq_file utility, but instead of
writing sending data back up to userland, it writes it into a buffer
defined at seq_buf_init(). This allows us to send a descriptor around
that writes printf() formatted strings into it that can be retrieved
later.
It is currently used by the tracing facility for such things like trace
events to convert its binary saved data in the ring buffer into an
ASCII human readable context to be displayed in /sys/kernel/debug/trace.
It can also be used for doing NMI prints safely from NMI context into
the seq_buf and retrieved later and dumped to printk() safely. Doing
printk() from an NMI context is dangerous because an NMI can preempt
a current printk() and deadlock on it.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/20140619213952.058255809@goodmis.org
Tested-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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