[GIT PULL] strscpy powerpc fix for 3.4

[Guenter Roeck]

On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 08:27:38PM -0400, Chris Metcalf wrote:
> On 10/7/2015 6:44 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> >Hi Linus,
> >
> >After merging Linus' tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> >ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:
> >
> >lib/string.c: In function 'strscpy':
> >lib/string.c:209:4: error: implicit declaration of function 'zero_bytemask' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
> >     *(unsigned long *)(dest+res) = c & zero_bytemask(data);
> >     ^
> >
> >Caused by commit
> >
> >   30035e45753b ("string: provide strscpy()")
> 
> I posted a change equivalent to yours earlier today:
> 
> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1444229188-19640-1-git-send-email-cmetcalf@ezchip.com
> 
> I also did no testing, but since the rest of the PPC code is similar to the
> asm-generic version, I believe the zero_bytemask() definition should be OK.
> 
> It probably should go through Linus' tree, like the previous set of patches.
> I just pushed it up to the linux-tile tree for Linus to grab as:
> 
Wonder if Linus is going to realize that you meant 4.3 in your subject line,
not 3.4.

Guenter

> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile.git strscpy
> 
> Chris Metcalf (1):
>       arch/powerpc: provide zero_bytemask() for big-endian
> 
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/word-at-a-time.h | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
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> Chris Metcalf, EZChip Semiconductor
> http://www.ezchip.com
> 
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