Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:

 - most of the rest of MM

 - procfs

 - lib/ updates

 - printk updates

 - bitops infrastructure tweaks

 - checkpatch updates

 - nilfs2 update

 - signals

 - various other misc bits: coredump, seqfile, kexec, pidns, zlib, ipc,
   dma-debug, dma-mapping, ...

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (102 commits)
  ipc,msg: drop dst nil validation in copy_msg
  include/linux/zutil.h: fix usage example of zlib_adler32()
  panic: release stale console lock to always get the logbuf printed out
  dma-debug: check nents in dma_sync_sg*
  dma-mapping: tidy up dma_parms default handling
  pidns: fix set/getpriority and ioprio_set/get in PRIO_USER mode
  kexec: use file name as the output message prefix
  fs, seqfile: always allow oom killer
  seq_file: reuse string_escape_str()
  fs/seq_file: use seq_* helpers in seq_hex_dump()
  coredump: change zap_threads() and zap_process() to use for_each_thread()
  coredump: ensure all coredumping tasks have SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP
  signal: remove jffs2_garbage_collect_thread()->allow_signal(SIGCONT)
  signal: introduce kernel_signal_stop() to fix jffs2_garbage_collect_thread()
  signal: turn dequeue_signal_lock() into kernel_dequeue_signal()
  signals: kill block_all_signals() and unblock_all_signals()
  nilfs2: fix gcc uninitialized-variable warnings in powerpc build
  nilfs2: fix gcc unused-but-set-variable warnings
  MAINTAINERS: nilfs2: add header file for tracing
  nilfs2: add tracepoints for analyzing reading and writing metadata files
  ...

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/mm/zpool.c b/mm/zpool.c
index 8f670d3e8706..fd3ff719c32c 100644
--- a/mm/zpool.c
+++ b/mm/zpool.c
@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@
 #include <linux/zpool.h>
 
 struct zpool {
-	char *type;
-
 	struct zpool_driver *driver;
 	void *pool;
 	const struct zpool_ops *ops;
@@ -73,7 +71,8 @@ int zpool_unregister_driver(struct zpool_driver *driver)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(zpool_unregister_driver);
 
-static struct zpool_driver *zpool_get_driver(char *type)
+/* this assumes @type is null-terminated. */
+static struct zpool_driver *zpool_get_driver(const char *type)
 {
 	struct zpool_driver *driver;
 
@@ -113,6 +112,8 @@ static void zpool_put_driver(struct zpool_driver *driver)
  * not be loaded, and calling @zpool_create_pool() with the pool type will
  * fail.
  *
+ * The @type string must be null-terminated.
+ *
  * Returns: true if @type pool is available, false if not
  */
 bool zpool_has_pool(char *type)
@@ -145,9 +146,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(zpool_has_pool);
  *
  * Implementations must guarantee this to be thread-safe.
  *
+ * The @type and @name strings must be null-terminated.
+ *
  * Returns: New zpool on success, NULL on failure.
  */
-struct zpool *zpool_create_pool(char *type, char *name, gfp_t gfp,
+struct zpool *zpool_create_pool(const char *type, const char *name, gfp_t gfp,
 		const struct zpool_ops *ops)
 {
 	struct zpool_driver *driver;
@@ -174,7 +177,6 @@ struct zpool *zpool_create_pool(char *type, char *name, gfp_t gfp,
 		return NULL;
 	}
 
-	zpool->type = driver->type;
 	zpool->driver = driver;
 	zpool->pool = driver->create(name, gfp, ops, zpool);
 	zpool->ops = ops;
@@ -208,7 +210,7 @@ struct zpool *zpool_create_pool(char *type, char *name, gfp_t gfp,
  */
 void zpool_destroy_pool(struct zpool *zpool)
 {
-	pr_debug("destroying pool type %s\n", zpool->type);
+	pr_debug("destroying pool type %s\n", zpool->driver->type);
 
 	spin_lock(&pools_lock);
 	list_del(&zpool->list);
@@ -228,9 +230,9 @@ void zpool_destroy_pool(struct zpool *zpool)
  *
  * Returns: The type of zpool.
  */
-char *zpool_get_type(struct zpool *zpool)
+const char *zpool_get_type(struct zpool *zpool)
 {
-	return zpool->type;
+	return zpool->driver->type;
 }
 
 /**