Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew)

Merge third batch of fixes from Andrew Morton:
 "Most of the rest.  I still have two large patchsets against AIO and
  IPC, but they're a bit stuck behind other trees and I'm about to
  vanish for six days.

   - random fixlets
   - inotify
   - more of the MM queue
   - show_stack() cleanups
   - DMI update
   - kthread/workqueue things
   - compat cleanups
   - epoll udpates
   - binfmt updates
   - nilfs2
   - hfs
   - hfsplus
   - ptrace
   - kmod
   - coredump
   - kexec
   - rbtree
   - pids
   - pidns
   - pps
   - semaphore tweaks
   - some w1 patches
   - relay updates
   - core Kconfig changes
   - sysrq tweaks"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (109 commits)
  Documentation/sysrq: fix inconstistent help message of sysrq key
  ethernet/emac/sysrq: fix inconstistent help message of sysrq key
  sparc/sysrq: fix inconstistent help message of sysrq key
  powerpc/xmon/sysrq: fix inconstistent help message of sysrq key
  ARM/etm/sysrq: fix inconstistent help message of sysrq key
  power/sysrq: fix inconstistent help message of sysrq key
  kgdb/sysrq: fix inconstistent help message of sysrq key
  lib/decompress.c: fix initconst
  notifier-error-inject: fix module names in Kconfig
  kernel/sys.c: make prctl(PR_SET_MM) generally available
  UAPI: remove empty Kbuild files
  menuconfig: print more info for symbol without prompts
  init/Kconfig: re-order CONFIG_EXPERT options to fix menuconfig display
  kconfig menu: move Virtualization drivers near other virtualization options
  Kconfig: consolidate CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS
  relay: use macro PAGE_ALIGN instead of FIX_SIZE
  kernel/relay.c: move FIX_SIZE macro into relay.c
  kernel/relay.c: remove unused function argument actor
  drivers/w1/slaves/w1_ds2760.c: fix the error handling in w1_ds2760_add_slave()
  drivers/w1/slaves/w1_ds2781.c: fix the error handling in w1_ds2781_add_slave()
  ...

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diff --git a/include/linux/string_helpers.h b/include/linux/string_helpers.h
index a3eb2f65b65..3eeee9672a4 100644
--- a/include/linux/string_helpers.h
+++ b/include/linux/string_helpers.h
@@ -13,4 +13,62 @@ enum string_size_units {
 int string_get_size(u64 size, enum string_size_units units,
 		    char *buf, int len);
 
+#define UNESCAPE_SPACE		0x01
+#define UNESCAPE_OCTAL		0x02
+#define UNESCAPE_HEX		0x04
+#define UNESCAPE_SPECIAL	0x08
+#define UNESCAPE_ANY		\
+	(UNESCAPE_SPACE | UNESCAPE_OCTAL | UNESCAPE_HEX | UNESCAPE_SPECIAL)
+
+/**
+ * string_unescape - unquote characters in the given string
+ * @src:	source buffer (escaped)
+ * @dst:	destination buffer (unescaped)
+ * @size:	size of the destination buffer (0 to unlimit)
+ * @flags:	combination of the flags (bitwise OR):
+ *	%UNESCAPE_SPACE:
+ *		'\f' - form feed
+ *		'\n' - new line
+ *		'\r' - carriage return
+ *		'\t' - horizontal tab
+ *		'\v' - vertical tab
+ *	%UNESCAPE_OCTAL:
+ *		'\NNN' - byte with octal value NNN (1 to 3 digits)
+ *	%UNESCAPE_HEX:
+ *		'\xHH' - byte with hexadecimal value HH (1 to 2 digits)
+ *	%UNESCAPE_SPECIAL:
+ *		'\"' - double quote
+ *		'\\' - backslash
+ *		'\a' - alert (BEL)
+ *		'\e' - escape
+ *	%UNESCAPE_ANY:
+ *		all previous together
+ *
+ * Returns amount of characters processed to the destination buffer excluding
+ * trailing '\0'.
+ *
+ * Because the size of the output will be the same as or less than the size of
+ * the input, the transformation may be performed in place.
+ *
+ * Caller must provide valid source and destination pointers. Be aware that
+ * destination buffer will always be NULL-terminated. Source string must be
+ * NULL-terminated as well.
+ */
+int string_unescape(char *src, char *dst, size_t size, unsigned int flags);
+
+static inline int string_unescape_inplace(char *buf, unsigned int flags)
+{
+	return string_unescape(buf, buf, 0, flags);
+}
+
+static inline int string_unescape_any(char *src, char *dst, size_t size)
+{
+	return string_unescape(src, dst, size, UNESCAPE_ANY);
+}
+
+static inline int string_unescape_any_inplace(char *buf)
+{
+	return string_unescape_any(buf, buf, 0);
+}
+
 #endif