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Pull libnvdimm fixes from Dan Williams:
"I debated holding this back for the v5.2 merge window due to the size
of the "zero-key" changes, but affected users would benefit from
having the fixes sooner. It did not make sense to change the zero-key
semantic in isolation for the "secure-erase" command, but instead
include it for all security commands.
The short background on the need for these changes is that some NVDIMM
platforms enable security with a default zero-key rather than let the
OS specify the initial key. This makes the security enabling that
landed in v5.0 unusable for some users.
Summary:
- Compatibility fix for nvdimm-security implementations with a
default zero-key.
- Miscellaneous small fixes for out-of-bound accesses, cleanup after
initialization failures, and missing debug messages"
* tag 'libnvdimm-fixes-5.1-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
tools/testing/nvdimm: Retain security state after overwrite
libnvdimm/pmem: fix a possible OOB access when read and write pmem
libnvdimm/security, acpi/nfit: unify zero-key for all security commands
libnvdimm/security: provide fix for secure-erase to use zero-key
libnvdimm/btt: Fix a kmemdup failure check
libnvdimm/namespace: Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference
acpi/nfit: Always dump _DSM output payload
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