Fix MAP_PRIVATE mmap() of files and devices where the data in the backing store
might be mapped directly.  Use the BDI_CAP_MAP_DIRECT capability flag to govern
whether or not we should be trying to map a file directly.  This can be used to
determine whether or not a region has been filled in at the point where we call
do_mmap_shared() or do_mmap_private().

The BDI_CAP_MAP_DIRECT capability flag is cleared by validate_mmap_request() if
there's any reason we can't use it.  It's also cleared in do_mmap_pgoff() if
f_op->get_unmapped_area() fails.

Without this fix, attempting to run a program from a RomFS image on a
non-mappable MTD partition results in a BUG as the kernel attempts XIP, and
this can be caught in gdb:

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0xc005dce8 in add_nommu_region (region=<value optimized out>) at mm/nommu.c:547
(gdb) bt
#0  0xc005dce8 in add_nommu_region (region=<value optimized out>) at mm/nommu.c:547
#1  0xc005f168 in do_mmap_pgoff (file=0xc31a6620, addr=<value optimized out>, len=3808, prot=3, flags=6146, pgoff=0) at mm/nommu.c:1373
#2  0xc00a96b8 in elf_fdpic_map_file (params=0xc33fbbec, file=0xc31a6620, mm=0xc31bef60, what=0xc0213144 "executable") at mm.h:1145
#3  0xc00aa8b4 in load_elf_fdpic_binary (bprm=0xc316cb00, regs=<value optimized out>) at fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c:343
#4  0xc006b588 in search_binary_handler (bprm=0x6, regs=0xc33fbce0) at fs/exec.c:1234
#5  0xc006c648 in do_execve (filename=<value optimized out>, argv=0xc3ad14cc, envp=0xc3ad1460, regs=0xc33fbce0) at fs/exec.c:1356
#6  0xc0008cf0 in sys_execve (name=<value optimized out>, argv=0xc3ad14cc, envp=0xc3ad1460) at arch/frv/kernel/process.c:263
#7  0xc00075dc in __syscall_call () at arch/frv/kernel/entry.S:897

Note that this fix does the following commit differently:

	commit a190887b
	Author: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
	Date:   Sat Sep 5 11:17:07 2009 -0700
	nommu: fix error handling in do_mmap_pgoff()
Reported-by: Graff Yang <graff.yang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Flash mappings for the MB93090-MB00 evaluation motherboard.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Note that .data.page_aligned and .data.cacheline_aligned are now after
_data; it was probably a bug that they were before it.

Also, some explicit ALIGN(8)'s between various initcall sections were
removed; this should be harmless as the implicit alignment of
initcall_t was already 8.
Signed-off-by: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@ksplice.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

alpha is the only architecture that uses the section name
.data.init_thread instead of .data.init_task.  So convert alpha to use
.data.init_task like everything else.

.data.init_task does not need a separate output section; this change
also moves it into the .data output section.
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
Cc: uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This patch has the (likely harmless) side effect of moving
.data.init_task inside the _edata.

It also changes the alignment of .data.init_task from 16384 to
THREAD_SIZE, which can in some configurations be larger than 16384.  I
believe that this change fixes a potential bug on those
configurations.
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The old RW_DATA_SECTION had INIT_TASK_DATA (which was
more-than-PAGE_SIZE-aligned), followed by a bunch of small alignment
stuff, followed by more PAGE_SIZE-aligned stuff, so you wasted memory
in the middle of .data re-aligning back up to PAGE_SIZE.

This patch sorts the sections by alignment requirements, which should
pack them essentially optimally.
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Why macros are always wrong:

  mm/mmap.c: In function 'do_mmap_pgoff':
  mm/mmap.c:953: warning: unused variable 'user'

also, move a couple of struct forward-decls outside `#ifdef
CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE' - it's pointless and frequently harmful to make these
conditional (eg, this patch needed `struct user_struct').

Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com>
Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

It needs walk_page_range().
Reported-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Tested-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ecryptfs/ecryptfs-2.6:
  eCryptfs: Prevent lower dentry from going negative during unlink
  eCryptfs: Propagate vfs_read and vfs_write return codes
  eCryptfs: Validate global auth tok keys
  eCryptfs: Filename encryption only supports password auth tokens
  eCryptfs: Check for O_RDONLY lower inodes when opening lower files
  eCryptfs: Handle unrecognized tag 3 cipher codes
  ecryptfs: improved dependency checking and reporting
  eCryptfs: Fix lockdep-reported AB-BA mutex issue
  ecryptfs: Remove unneeded locking that triggers lockdep false positives

* 'for-linus' of git://repo.or.cz/cris-mirror:
  CRIS: Cleanup linker script using new linker script macros.
  ARRAY_SIZE changes
  CRIS: convert to asm-generic/hardirq.h
  CRISv10: Don't autonegotiate if autonegotiation is off
  CRIS: fix defconfig build failure
  CRIS: add pgprot_noncached

* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (103 commits)
  ARM: 5719/1: [AT91] Fix AC97 breakage
  ARM: 5721/1: MMCI enable the use of a regulator
  ARM: 5720/1: Move MMCI header to amba include dir
  ARM: 5718/1: Sane busids for RealView board components
  ARM: 5715/1: Make kprobes unregistration SMP safe
  ARM: 5711/1: locomo.c: CodingStyle cleanups
  ARM: 5710/1: at91: add AC97 support to at91sam9rl and at91sam9rlek board
  ARM: 5709/1: at91: add AC97 support to at91sam9g45 series and at91sam9m10g45ek board
  ARM: 5621/1: at91/dmaengine: integration of at_hdmac driver in at91sam9g45 series
  ARM: 5620/1: at91/dmaengine: integration of at_hdmac driver in at91sam9rl
  ARM: Add support for checking access permissions on prefetch aborts
  ARM: Separate out access error checking
  ARM: Ensure correct might_sleep() check in pagefault path
  ARM: Update page fault handling for new OOM techniques
  ARM: Provide definitions and helpers for decoding the FSR register
  ARM: 5712/1: SA1100: initialise spinlock in DMA code
  ARM: s3c: fix check of index into s3c_gpios[]
  ARM: spitz: fix touchscreen max presure
  ARM: STMP3xxx: deallocation with negative index of descriptors[]
  Thumb-2: Correctly handle undefined instructions in the kernel
  ...

* 'bugfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6:
  nfs[23] tcp breakage in mount with binary options
  net: fix htmldocs sunrpc, clnt.c

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband:
  IPoIB: Don't turn on carrier for a non-active port
  IB/mthca: Fix access to freed memory in catastrophic event handling
  mlx4_core: Pass cache line size to device FW
  RDMA/nes: Remove duplicate .ndo_set_mac_address field initialization
  IB/mad: Fix lock-lock-timer deadlock in RMPP code

Conflicts:
	MAINTAINERS

Multicast joins can succeed even if the IB port is down.  This happens
when the SM runs on the same port with the requesting port.  However,
IPoIB calls netif_carrier_on() when the join of the broadcast group
succeeds, without caring about the state of the IB port.  The result
is an IPoIB interface in RUNNING state but without an active IB port
to support it.

If a bonding interface uses this IPoIB interface as a slave it might
not detect that this slave is almost useless and failover
functionality will be damaged.  The fix checks the state of the IB
port in the carrier_task before calling netif_carrier_on().

Adresses: https://bugs.openfabrics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1726Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua <monis@voltaire.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>

We forget to set nfs_server.protocol in tcp case when old-style binary
options are passed to mount.  The thing remains zero and never validated
afterwards.  As the result, we hit BUG in fs/nfs/client.c:588.

Breakage has been introduced in NFS: Add nfs_alloc_parsed_mount_data
merged yesterday...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

  DOCPROC Documentation/DocBook/networking.xml
  Warning(net/sunrpc/clnt.c:647): No description found for parameter 'req'
  Warning(net/sunrpc/clnt.c:647): No description found for parameter 'tk_ops'
  Warning(net/sunrpc/clnt.c:647): Excess function parameter 'ops' description in 'rpc_run_bc_task'
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Ricardo Labiaga <Ricardo.Labiaga@netapp.com>
Cc: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Cc: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

catas_reset() uses a pointer to mthca_dev, but mthca_dev is not valid
after the call to __mthca_restart_one().

Based on a similar patch for mlx4 (634354d7, "mlx4: Fix access to
freed memory") by Vitaliy Gusev <vgusev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>

ConnectX can work more efficiently if the CPU cache line size is passed
to it with the INIT_HCA firmware command.
Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>

The definition of nes_netdev_ops has initializations of a local function
and eth_mac_addr for its ndo_set_mac_address field.  This change uses only
the local function.

The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@r@
identifier I, s, fld;
position p0,p;
expression E;
@@

struct I s =@p0 { ... .fld@p = E, ...};

@s@
identifier I, s, r.fld;
position r.p0,p;
expression E;
@@

struct I s =@p0 { ... .fld@p = E, ...};

@script:python@
p0 << r.p0;
fld << r.fld;
ps << s.p;
pr << r.p;
@@

if int(ps[0].line)!=int(pr[0].line) or int(ps[0].column)!=int(pr[0].column):
  cocci.print_main(fld,p0)
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>

* 'drm-intel-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel: (57 commits)
  drm/i915: Handle ERESTARTSYS during page fault
  drm/i915: Warn before mmaping a purgeable buffer.
  drm/i915: Track purged state.
  drm/i915: Remove eviction debug spam
  drm/i915: Immediately discard any backing storage for uneeded objects
  drm/i915: Do not mis-classify clean objects as purgeable
  drm/i915: Whitespace correction for madv
  drm/i915: BUG_ON page refleak during unbind
  drm/i915: Search harder for a reusable object
  drm/i915: Clean up evict from list.
  drm/i915: Add tracepoints
  drm/i915: framebuffer compression for GM45+
  drm/i915: split display functions by chip type
  drm/i915: Skip the sanity checks if the current relocation is valid
  drm/i915: Check that the relocation points to within the target
  drm/i915: correct FBC update when pipe base update occurs
  drm/i915: blacklist Acer AspireOne lid status
  ACPI: make ACPI button funcs no-ops if not built in
  drm/i915: prevent FIFO calculation overflows on 32 bits with high dotclocks
  drm/i915: intel_display.c handle latency variable efficiently
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in drivers/gpu/drm/i915/{i915_dma.c|i915_drv.h}

* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (21 commits)
  x86/PCI: make 32 bit NUMA node array int, not unsigned char
  x86/PCI: default pcibus cpumask to all cpus if it lacks affinity
  MAINTAINTERS: remove hotplug driver entries
  PCI: pciehp: remove slot capabilities definitions
  PCI: pciehp: remove error message definitions
  PCI: pciehp: remove number field
  PCI: pciehp: remove hpc_ops
  PCI: pciehp: remove pci_dev field
  PCI: pciehp: remove crit_sect mutex
  PCI: pciehp: remove slot_bus field
  PCI: pciehp: remove first_slot field
  PCI: pciehp: remove slot_device_offset field
  PCI: pciehp: remove hp_slot field
  PCI: pciehp: remove device field
  PCI: pciehp: remove bus field
  PCI: pciehp: remove slot_num_inc field
  PCI: pciehp: remove num_slots field
  PCI: pciehp: remove slot_list field
  PCI: fix VGA arbiter header file
  PCI: Disable AER with pci=nomsi
  ...

Fixed up trivial conflicts in MAINTAINERS

* 'cputime' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6:
  [PATCH] Fix idle time field in /proc/uptime

* 'for-linus' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze: (24 commits)
  microblaze: Disable heartbeat/enable emaclite in defconfigs
  microblaze: Support simpleImage.dts make target
  microblaze: Fix _start symbol to physical address
  microblaze: Use LOAD_OFFSET macro to get correct LMA for all sections
  microblaze: Create the LOAD_OFFSET macro used to compute VMA vs LMA offsets
  microblaze: Copy ppc asm-compat.h for clean handling of constants in asm and C
  microblaze: Actually show KiB rather than pages in "Freeing initrd memory:"
  microblaze: Support ptrace syscall tracing.
  microblaze: Updated CPU version and FPGA family codes in PVR
  microblaze: Generate correct signal and siginfo for integer div-by-zero
  microblaze: Don't be noisy when userspace causes hardware exceptions
  microblaze: Remove ipc.h file which points to non-existing asm-generic file
  microblaze: Clear sticky FSR register after generating exception signals
  microblaze: Ensure CPU usermode is set on new userspace processes
  microblaze: Use correct kbuild variable KBUILD_CFLAGS
  microblaze: Save and restore msr in hw exception
  microblaze: Add architectural support for USB EHCI host controllers
  microblaze: Implement include/asm/syscall.h.
  microblaze: Improve checking mechanism for MSR instruction
  microblaze: Add checking mechanism for MSR instruction
  ...

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
  module: don't call percpu_modfree on NULL pointer.
  module: fix memory leak when load fails after srcversion/version allocated
  module: preferred way to use MODULE_AUTHOR
  param: allow whitespace as kernel parameter separator
  module: reduce string table for loaded modules (v2)
  module: reduce symbol table for loaded modules (v2)

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable: (42 commits)
  Btrfs: hash the btree inode during  fill_super
  Btrfs: relocate file extents in clusters
  Btrfs: don't rename file into dummy directory
  Btrfs: check size of inode backref before adding hardlink
  Btrfs: fix releasepage to avoid unlocking extents we haven't locked
  Btrfs: Fix test_range_bit for whole file extents
  Btrfs: fix errors handling cached state in set/clear_extent_bit
  Btrfs: fix early enospc during balancing
  Btrfs: deal with NULL space info
  Btrfs: account for space used by the super mirrors
  Btrfs: fix extent entry threshold calculation
  Btrfs: remove dead code
  Btrfs: fix bitmap size tracking
  Btrfs: don't keep retrying a block group if we fail to allocate a cluster
  Btrfs: make balance code choose more wisely when relocating
  Btrfs: fix arithmetic error in clone ioctl
  Btrfs: add snapshot/subvolume destroy ioctl
  Btrfs: change how subvolumes are organized
  Btrfs: do not reuse objectid of deleted snapshot/subvol
  Btrfs: speed up snapshot dropping
  ...

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
  truncate: use new helpers
  truncate: new helpers
  fs: fix overflow in sys_mount() for in-kernel calls
  fs: Make unload_nls() NULL pointer safe
  freeze_bdev: grab active reference to frozen superblocks
  freeze_bdev: kill bd_mount_sem
  exofs: remove BKL from super operations
  fs/romfs: correct error-handling code
  vfs: seq_file: add helpers for data filling
  vfs: remove redundant position check in do_sendfile
  vfs: change sb->s_maxbytes to a loff_t
  vfs: explicitly cast s_maxbytes in fiemap_check_ranges
  libfs: return error code on failed attr set
  seq_file: return a negative error code when seq_path_root() fails.
  vfs: optimize touch_time() too
  vfs: optimization for touch_atime()
  vfs: split generic_forget_inode() so that hugetlbfs does not have to copy it
  fs/inode.c: add dev-id and inode number for debugging in init_special_inode()
  libfs: make simple_read_from_buffer conventional

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current:
  lsm: Use a compressed IPv6 string format in audit events
  Audit: send signal info if selinux is disabled
  Audit: rearrange audit_context to save 16 bytes per struct
  Audit: reorganize struct audit_watch to save 8 bytes

The general one handles NULL, the static obsolescent
(CONFIG_HAVE_LEGACY_PER_CPU_AREA) one in module.c doesn't; Eric's
commit 720eba31 assumed it did, and various frobbings since then kept
that assumption.

All other callers in module.c all protect it with an if; this effectively
does the same as free_init is only goto if we fail percpu_modalloc().
Reported-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Normally the twisty paths of sysfs will free the attributes, but not if
we fail before we hook it into sysfs (which is the last thing we do in
load_module).

(This sysfs code is a turd, no doubt there are other issues lurking too).
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>

For the longest time now we've been using multiple MODULE_AUTHOR()
statements when a module has more than one author, but the comment here
disagrees.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Some boot mechanisms require that kernel parameters are stored in a
separate file which is loaded to memory without further processing
(e.g. the "Load from FTP" method on s390). When such a file contains
newline characters, the kernel parameter preceding the newline might
not be correctly parsed (due to the newline being stuck to the end of
the actual parameter value) which can lead to boot failures.

This patch improves kernel command line usability in such a situation
by allowing generic whitespace characters as separators between kernel
parameters.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>