linux-stable.git/Documentation/filesystems, branch linux-3.12.y

efi: Make efivarfs entries immutable by default

2016-03-14T22:10:35+00:00

commit ed8b0de5a33d2a2557dce7f9429dca8cb5bc5879 upstream.

"rm -rf" is bricking some peoples' laptops because of variables being
used to store non-reinitializable firmware driver data that's required
to POST the hardware.

These are 100% bugs, and they need to be fixed, but in the mean time it
shouldn't be easy to *accidentally* brick machines.

We have to have delete working, and picking which variables do and don't
work for deletion is quite intractable, so instead make everything
immutable by default (except for a whitelist), and make tools that
aren't quite so broad-spectrum unset the immutable flag.

Signed-off-by: Peter Jones 
Tested-by: Lee, Chun-Yi 
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett 
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby

mm, oom: base root bonus on current usage

2014-02-13T21:50:19+00:00

commit 778c14affaf94a9e4953179d3e13a544ccce7707 upstream.

A 3% of system memory bonus is sometimes too excessive in comparison to
other processes.

With commit a63d83f427fb ("oom: badness heuristic rewrite"), the OOM
killer tries to avoid killing privileged tasks by subtracting 3% of
overall memory (system or cgroup) from their per-task consumption.  But
as a result, all root tasks that consume less than 3% of overall memory
are considered equal, and so it only takes 33+ privileged tasks pushing
the system out of memory for the OOM killer to do something stupid and
kill dhclient or other root-owned processes.  For example, on a 32G
machine it can't tell the difference between the 1M agetty and the 10G
fork bomb member.

The changelog describes this 3% boost as the equivalent to the global
overcommit limit being 3% higher for privileged tasks, but this is not
the same as discounting 3% of overall memory from _every privileged task
individually_ during OOM selection.

Replace the 3% of system memory bonus with a 3% of current memory usage
bonus.

By giving root tasks a bonus that is proportional to their actual size,
they remain comparable even when relatively small.  In the example
above, the OOM killer will discount the 1M agetty's 256 badness points
down to 179, and the 10G fork bomb's 262144 points down to 183500 points
and make the right choice, instead of discounting both to 0 and killing
agetty because it's first in the task list.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes 
Reported-by: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2013-09-19T00:22:22+00:00

Pull vfs fixes from Al Viro:
 "atomic_open-related fixes (Miklos' series, with EEXIST-related parts
  replaced with fix in fs/namei.c:atomic_open() instead of messing with
  the instances) + race fix in autofs + leak on failure exit in 9p"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  9p: don't forget to destroy inode cache if fscache registration fails
  atomic_open: take care of EEXIST in no-open case with O_CREAT|O_EXCL in fs/namei.c
  vfs: don't set FILE_CREATED before calling ->atomic_open()
  nfs: set FILE_CREATED
  gfs2: set FILE_CREATED
  cifs: fix filp leak in cifs_atomic_open()
  vfs: improve i_op->atomic_open() documentation
  autofs4: close the races around autofs4_notify_daemon()

vfs: improve i_op->atomic_open() documentation

2013-09-16T23:17:24+00:00

Fix documentation of ->atomic_open() and related functions: finish_open()
and finish_no_open().  Also add details that seem to be unclear and a
source of bugs (some of which are fixed in the following series).

Cc-ing maintainers of all filesystems implementing ->atomic_open().

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen 
Cc: Sage Weil 
Cc: Steve French 
Cc: Steven Whitehouse 
Cc: Trond Myklebust 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

cifs: update cifs.txt and remove some outdated infos

2013-09-13T21:29:58+00:00

Acked-by: Jeff Layton 
Signed-off-by: Björn JACKE 
Signed-off-by: Steve French

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2013-09-12T22:01:38+00:00

Pull vfs pile 4 from Al Viro:
 "list_lru pile, mostly"

This came out of Andrew's pile, Al ended up doing the merge work so that
Andrew didn't have to.

Additionally, a few fixes.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (42 commits)
  super: fix for destroy lrus
  list_lru: dynamically adjust node arrays
  shrinker: Kill old ->shrink API.
  shrinker: convert remaining shrinkers to count/scan API
  staging/lustre/libcfs: cleanup linux-mem.h
  staging/lustre/ptlrpc: convert to new shrinker API
  staging/lustre/obdclass: convert lu_object shrinker to count/scan API
  staging/lustre/ldlm: convert to shrinkers to count/scan API
  hugepage: convert huge zero page shrinker to new shrinker API
  i915: bail out earlier when shrinker cannot acquire mutex
  drivers: convert shrinkers to new count/scan API
  fs: convert fs shrinkers to new scan/count API
  xfs: fix dquot isolation hang
  xfs-convert-dquot-cache-lru-to-list_lru-fix
  xfs: convert dquot cache lru to list_lru
  xfs: rework buffer dispose list tracking
  xfs-convert-buftarg-lru-to-generic-code-fix
  xfs: convert buftarg LRU to generic code
  fs: convert inode and dentry shrinking to be node aware
  vmscan: per-node deferred work
  ...

Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6

2013-09-12T14:41:12+00:00

Pull CIFS fixes from Steve French:
 "CIFS update including case insensitive file name matching improvements
  for UTF-8 to Unicode, various small cifs fixes, SMB2/SMB3 leasing
  improvements, support for following SMB2 symlinks, SMB3 packet signing
  improvements"

* 'for-next' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6: (25 commits)
  CIFS: Respect epoch value from create lease context v2
  CIFS: Add create lease v2 context for SMB3
  CIFS: Move parsing lease buffer to ops struct
  CIFS: Move creating lease buffer to ops struct
  CIFS: Store lease state itself rather than a mapped oplock value
  CIFS: Replace clientCanCache* bools with an integer
  [CIFS] quiet sparse compile warning
  cifs: Start using per session key for smb2/3 for signature generation
  cifs: Add a variable specific to NTLMSSP for key exchange.
  cifs: Process post session setup code in respective dialect functions.
  CIFS: convert to use le32_add_cpu()
  CIFS: Fix missing lease break
  CIFS: Fix a memory leak when a lease break comes
  cifs: add winucase_convert.pl to Documentation/ directory
  cifs: convert case-insensitive dentry ops to use new case conversion routines
  cifs: add new case-insensitive conversion routines that are based on wchar_t's
  [CIFS] Add Scott to list of cifs contributors
  cifs: Move and expand MAX_SERVER_SIZE definition
  cifs: Expand max share name length to 256
  cifs: Move string length definitions to uapi
  ...

initmpfs: use initramfs if rootfstype= or root= specified

2013-09-11T22:59:38+00:00

Command line option rootfstype=ramfs to obtain old initramfs behavior, and
use ramfs instead of tmpfs for stub when root= defined (for cosmetic
reasons).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley 
Cc: Jeff Layton 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Stephen Warren 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Jim Cromie 
Cc: Sam Ravnborg 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: fix mistake in the description of Committed_AS

2013-09-11T22:59:03+00:00

Fix mistake in the description of Committed_AS in kernel documentation.

Signed-off-by: Minto Joseph 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs: remove vfs_follow_link

2013-09-10T21:06:45+00:00

For a long time no filesystem has been using vfs_follow_link, and as seen
by recent filesystem submissions any new use is accidental as well.

Remove vfs_follow_link, document the replacement in
Documentation/filesystems/porting and also rename __vfs_follow_link
to match its only caller better.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro