Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton:

 - A few y2038 fixes which missed the merge window while dependencies
   in NFS were being sorted out.

 - A bunch of fixes. Some minor, some not.

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>:
  MAINTAINERS: use tabs for SAFESETID
  lib/stackdepot.c: fix global out-of-bounds in stack_slabs
  mm/sparsemem: pfn_to_page is not valid yet on SPARSEMEM
  mm/vmscan.c: don't round up scan size for online memory cgroup
  lib/string.c: update match_string() doc-strings with correct behavior
  mm/memcontrol.c: lost css_put in memcg_expand_shrinker_maps()
  mm/swapfile.c: fix a comment in sys_swapon()
  scripts/get_maintainer.pl: deprioritize old Fixes: addresses
  get_maintainer: remove uses of P: for maintainer name
  selftests/vm: add missed tests in run_vmtests
  include/uapi/linux/swab.h: fix userspace breakage, use __BITS_PER_LONG for swap
  Revert "ipc,sem: remove uneeded sem_undo_list lock usage in exit_sem()"
  y2038: hide timeval/timespec/itimerval/itimerspec types
  y2038: remove unused time32 interfaces
  y2038: remove ktime to/from timespec/timeval conversion

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
index f607b967d978..6012c385fb31 100644
--- a/lib/string.c
+++ b/lib/string.c
@@ -699,6 +699,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(sysfs_streq);
  * @n:		number of strings in the array or -1 for NULL terminated arrays
  * @string:	string to match with
  *
+ * This routine will look for a string in an array of strings up to the
+ * n-th element in the array or until the first NULL element.
+ *
+ * Historically the value of -1 for @n, was used to search in arrays that
+ * are NULL terminated. However, the function does not make a distinction
+ * when finishing the search: either @n elements have been compared OR
+ * the first NULL element was found.
+ *
  * Return:
  * index of a @string in the @array if matches, or %-EINVAL otherwise.
  */
@@ -727,6 +735,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(match_string);
  *
  * Returns index of @str in the @array or -EINVAL, just like match_string().
  * Uses sysfs_streq instead of strcmp for matching.
+ *
+ * This routine will look for a string in an array of strings up to the
+ * n-th element in the array or until the first NULL element.
+ *
+ * Historically the value of -1 for @n, was used to search in arrays that
+ * are NULL terminated. However, the function does not make a distinction
+ * when finishing the search: either @n elements have been compared OR
+ * the first NULL element was found.
  */
 int __sysfs_match_string(const char * const *array, size_t n, const char *str)
 {