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<title>linux-stable.git/fs/debugfs/inode.c, branch v4.19.78</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>debugfs: fix use-after-free on symlink traversal</title>
<updated>2019-05-08T05:21:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-26T01:43:37+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 93b919da64c15b90953f96a536e5e61df896ca57 ]

symlink body shouldn't be freed without an RCU delay.  Switch debugfs to
-&gt;destroy_inode() and use of call_rcu(); free both the inode and symlink
body in the callback.  Similar to solution for bpf, only here it's even
more obvious that -&gt;evict_inode() can be dropped.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 93b919da64c15b90953f96a536e5e61df896ca57 ]

symlink body shouldn't be freed without an RCU delay.  Switch debugfs to
-&gt;destroy_inode() and use of call_rcu(); free both the inode and symlink
body in the callback.  Similar to solution for bpf, only here it's even
more obvious that -&gt;evict_inode() can be dropped.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>debugfs: fix debugfs_rename parameter checking</title>
<updated>2019-02-15T07:10:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-23T10:27:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c619140d4843e1e54b32fadadc79e0fba909f55d'/>
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commit d88c93f090f708c18195553b352b9f205e65418f upstream.

debugfs_rename() needs to check that the dentries passed into it really
are valid, as sometimes they are not (i.e. if the return value of
another debugfs call is passed into this one.)  So fix this up by
properly checking if the two parent directories are errors (they are
allowed to be NULL), and if the dentry to rename is not NULL or an
error.

Cc: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit d88c93f090f708c18195553b352b9f205e65418f upstream.

debugfs_rename() needs to check that the dentries passed into it really
are valid, as sometimes they are not (i.e. if the return value of
another debugfs call is passed into this one.)  So fix this up by
properly checking if the two parent directories are errors (they are
allowed to be NULL), and if the dentry to rename is not NULL or an
error.

Cc: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert "debugfs: inode: debugfs_create_dir uses mode permission from parent"</title>
<updated>2018-06-13T03:52:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-13T03:52:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=f5b7769eb0400ec5217a47e41148a9f816ca1f9f'/>
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This reverts commit 95cde3c59966f6371b6bcd9e4e2da2ba64ee9775.

The commit had good intentions, but it breaks kvm-tool and qemu-kvm.

With it in place, "lkvm run" just fails with

  Error: KVM_CREATE_VM ioctl
  Warning: Failed init: kvm__init

which isn't a wonderful error message, but bisection pinpointed the
problematic commit.

The problem is almost certainly due to the special kvm debugfs entries
created dynamically by kvm under /sys/kernel/debug/kvm/.  See
kvm_create_vm_debugfs()

Bisected-and-reported-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Wanpeng Li &lt;kernellwp@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This reverts commit 95cde3c59966f6371b6bcd9e4e2da2ba64ee9775.

The commit had good intentions, but it breaks kvm-tool and qemu-kvm.

With it in place, "lkvm run" just fails with

  Error: KVM_CREATE_VM ioctl
  Warning: Failed init: kvm__init

which isn't a wonderful error message, but bisection pinpointed the
problematic commit.

The problem is almost certainly due to the special kvm debugfs entries
created dynamically by kvm under /sys/kernel/debug/kvm/.  See
kvm_create_vm_debugfs()

Bisected-and-reported-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Wanpeng Li &lt;kernellwp@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>debugfs: inode: debugfs_create_dir uses mode permission from parent</title>
<updated>2018-05-14T14:48:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Richter</name>
<email>tmricht@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-27T12:35:47+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=95cde3c59966f6371b6bcd9e4e2da2ba64ee9775'/>
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Currently function debugfs_create_dir() creates a new
directory in the debugfs (usually mounted /sys/kernel/debug)
with permission rwxr-xr-x. This is hard coded.

Change this to use the parent directory permission.

Output before the patch:
root@s8360047 ~]# tree -dp -L 1 /sys/kernel/debug/
/sys/kernel/debug/
├── [drwxr-xr-x]  bdi
├── [drwxr-xr-x]  block
├── [drwxr-xr-x]  dasd
├── [drwxr-xr-x]  device_component
├── [drwxr-xr-x]  extfrag
├── [drwxr-xr-x]  hid
├── [drwxr-xr-x]  kprobes
├── [drwxr-xr-x]  kvm
├── [drwxr-xr-x]  memblock
├── [drwxr-xr-x]  pm_qos
├── [drwxr-xr-x]  qdio
├── [drwxr-xr-x]  s390
├── [drwxr-xr-x]  s390dbf
└── [drwx------]  tracing

14 directories
[root@s8360047 linux]#

Output after the patch:
[root@s8360047 ~]# tree -dp -L 1 /sys/kernel/debug/
sys/kernel/debug/
├── [drwx------]  bdi
├── [drwx------]  block
├── [drwx------]  dasd
├── [drwx------]  device_component
├── [drwx------]  extfrag
├── [drwx------]  hid
├── [drwx------]  kprobes
├── [drwx------]  kvm
├── [drwx------]  memblock
├── [drwx------]  pm_qos
├── [drwx------]  qdio
├── [drwx------]  s390
├── [drwx------]  s390dbf
└── [drwx------]  tracing

14 directories
[root@s8360047 linux]#

Here is the full diff output done with:
[root@s8360047 ~]# diff -u treefull.before treefull.after |
	sed 's-^- # -' &gt; treefull.diff
 # --- treefull.before	2018-04-27 13:22:04.532824564 +0200
 # +++ treefull.after	2018-04-27 13:24:12.106182062 +0200
 # @@ -1,55 +1,55 @@
 #  /sys/kernel/debug/
 # -├── [drwxr-xr-x]  bdi
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  1:0
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  1:1
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  1:10
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  1:11
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  1:12
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  1:13
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  1:14
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  1:15
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  1:2
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  1:3
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  1:4
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  1:5
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  1:6
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  1:7
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  1:8
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  1:9
 # -│   └── [drwxr-xr-x]  94:0
 # -├── [drwxr-xr-x]  block
 # -├── [drwxr-xr-x]  dasd
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  0.0.e18a
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  dasda
 # -│   └── [drwxr-xr-x]  global
 # -├── [drwxr-xr-x]  device_component
 # -├── [drwxr-xr-x]  extfrag
 # -├── [drwxr-xr-x]  hid
 # -├── [drwxr-xr-x]  kprobes
 # -├── [drwxr-xr-x]  kvm
 # -├── [drwxr-xr-x]  memblock
 # -├── [drwxr-xr-x]  pm_qos
 # -├── [drwxr-xr-x]  qdio
 # -│   └── [drwxr-xr-x]  0.0.f5f2
 # -├── [drwxr-xr-x]  s390
 # -│   └── [drwxr-xr-x]  stsi
 # -├── [drwxr-xr-x]  s390dbf
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  0.0.e18a
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  cio_crw
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  cio_msg
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  cio_trace
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  dasd
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  kvm-trace
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  lgr
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  qdio_0.0.f5f2
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  qdio_error
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  qdio_setup
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  qeth_card_0.0.f5f0
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  qeth_control
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  qeth_msg
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  qeth_setup
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  vmcp
 # -│   └── [drwxr-xr-x]  vmur
 # +├── [drwx------]  bdi
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  1:0
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  1:1
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  1:10
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  1:11
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  1:12
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  1:13
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  1:14
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  1:15
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  1:2
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  1:3
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  1:4
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  1:5
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  1:6
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  1:7
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  1:8
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  1:9
 # +│   └── [drwx------]  94:0
 # +├── [drwx------]  block
 # +├── [drwx------]  dasd
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  0.0.e18a
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  dasda
 # +│   └── [drwx------]  global
 # +├── [drwx------]  device_component
 # +├── [drwx------]  extfrag
 # +├── [drwx------]  hid
 # +├── [drwx------]  kprobes
 # +├── [drwx------]  kvm
 # +├── [drwx------]  memblock
 # +├── [drwx------]  pm_qos
 # +├── [drwx------]  qdio
 # +│   └── [drwx------]  0.0.f5f2
 # +├── [drwx------]  s390
 # +│   └── [drwx------]  stsi
 # +├── [drwx------]  s390dbf
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  0.0.e18a
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  cio_crw
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  cio_msg
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  cio_trace
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  dasd
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  kvm-trace
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  lgr
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  qdio_0.0.f5f2
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  qdio_error
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  qdio_setup
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  qeth_card_0.0.f5f0
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  qeth_control
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  qeth_msg
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  qeth_setup
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  vmcp
 # +│   └── [drwx------]  vmur
 #  └── [drwx------]  tracing
 #      ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  events
 #      │   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  alarmtimer

Fixes: edac65eaf8d5c ("debugfs: take mode-dependent parts of debugfs_get_inode() into callers")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Currently function debugfs_create_dir() creates a new
directory in the debugfs (usually mounted /sys/kernel/debug)
with permission rwxr-xr-x. This is hard coded.

Change this to use the parent directory permission.

Output before the patch:
root@s8360047 ~]# tree -dp -L 1 /sys/kernel/debug/
/sys/kernel/debug/
├── [drwxr-xr-x]  bdi
├── [drwxr-xr-x]  block
├── [drwxr-xr-x]  dasd
├── [drwxr-xr-x]  device_component
├── [drwxr-xr-x]  extfrag
├── [drwxr-xr-x]  hid
├── [drwxr-xr-x]  kprobes
├── [drwxr-xr-x]  kvm
├── [drwxr-xr-x]  memblock
├── [drwxr-xr-x]  pm_qos
├── [drwxr-xr-x]  qdio
├── [drwxr-xr-x]  s390
├── [drwxr-xr-x]  s390dbf
└── [drwx------]  tracing

14 directories
[root@s8360047 linux]#

Output after the patch:
[root@s8360047 ~]# tree -dp -L 1 /sys/kernel/debug/
sys/kernel/debug/
├── [drwx------]  bdi
├── [drwx------]  block
├── [drwx------]  dasd
├── [drwx------]  device_component
├── [drwx------]  extfrag
├── [drwx------]  hid
├── [drwx------]  kprobes
├── [drwx------]  kvm
├── [drwx------]  memblock
├── [drwx------]  pm_qos
├── [drwx------]  qdio
├── [drwx------]  s390
├── [drwx------]  s390dbf
└── [drwx------]  tracing

14 directories
[root@s8360047 linux]#

Here is the full diff output done with:
[root@s8360047 ~]# diff -u treefull.before treefull.after |
	sed 's-^- # -' &gt; treefull.diff
 # --- treefull.before	2018-04-27 13:22:04.532824564 +0200
 # +++ treefull.after	2018-04-27 13:24:12.106182062 +0200
 # @@ -1,55 +1,55 @@
 #  /sys/kernel/debug/
 # -├── [drwxr-xr-x]  bdi
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  1:0
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  1:1
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  1:10
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  1:11
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  1:12
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  1:13
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  1:14
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  1:15
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  1:2
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  1:3
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  1:4
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  1:5
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  1:6
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  1:7
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  1:8
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  1:9
 # -│   └── [drwxr-xr-x]  94:0
 # -├── [drwxr-xr-x]  block
 # -├── [drwxr-xr-x]  dasd
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  0.0.e18a
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  dasda
 # -│   └── [drwxr-xr-x]  global
 # -├── [drwxr-xr-x]  device_component
 # -├── [drwxr-xr-x]  extfrag
 # -├── [drwxr-xr-x]  hid
 # -├── [drwxr-xr-x]  kprobes
 # -├── [drwxr-xr-x]  kvm
 # -├── [drwxr-xr-x]  memblock
 # -├── [drwxr-xr-x]  pm_qos
 # -├── [drwxr-xr-x]  qdio
 # -│   └── [drwxr-xr-x]  0.0.f5f2
 # -├── [drwxr-xr-x]  s390
 # -│   └── [drwxr-xr-x]  stsi
 # -├── [drwxr-xr-x]  s390dbf
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  0.0.e18a
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  cio_crw
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  cio_msg
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  cio_trace
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  dasd
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  kvm-trace
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  lgr
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  qdio_0.0.f5f2
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  qdio_error
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  qdio_setup
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  qeth_card_0.0.f5f0
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  qeth_control
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  qeth_msg
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  qeth_setup
 # -│   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  vmcp
 # -│   └── [drwxr-xr-x]  vmur
 # +├── [drwx------]  bdi
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  1:0
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  1:1
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  1:10
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  1:11
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  1:12
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  1:13
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  1:14
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  1:15
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  1:2
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  1:3
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  1:4
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  1:5
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  1:6
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  1:7
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  1:8
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  1:9
 # +│   └── [drwx------]  94:0
 # +├── [drwx------]  block
 # +├── [drwx------]  dasd
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  0.0.e18a
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  dasda
 # +│   └── [drwx------]  global
 # +├── [drwx------]  device_component
 # +├── [drwx------]  extfrag
 # +├── [drwx------]  hid
 # +├── [drwx------]  kprobes
 # +├── [drwx------]  kvm
 # +├── [drwx------]  memblock
 # +├── [drwx------]  pm_qos
 # +├── [drwx------]  qdio
 # +│   └── [drwx------]  0.0.f5f2
 # +├── [drwx------]  s390
 # +│   └── [drwx------]  stsi
 # +├── [drwx------]  s390dbf
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  0.0.e18a
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  cio_crw
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  cio_msg
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  cio_trace
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  dasd
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  kvm-trace
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  lgr
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  qdio_0.0.f5f2
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  qdio_error
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  qdio_setup
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  qeth_card_0.0.f5f0
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  qeth_control
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  qeth_msg
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  qeth_setup
 # +│   ├── [drwx------]  vmcp
 # +│   └── [drwx------]  vmur
 #  └── [drwx------]  tracing
 #      ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  events
 #      │   ├── [drwxr-xr-x]  alarmtimer

Fixes: edac65eaf8d5c ("debugfs: take mode-dependent parts of debugfs_get_inode() into callers")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>debugfs_lookup(): switch to lookup_one_len_unlocked()</title>
<updated>2018-03-29T19:07:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-08T16:01:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=cd1c0c9321999737073dcfc3364e194e02604bce'/>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>debugfs: Remove redundant license text</title>
<updated>2017-11-07T19:25:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-07T16:01:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=2b2d8788dd565cbe1ab22da6a1bc63d0934a80eb'/>
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Now that the SPDX tag is in all debugfs files, that identifies the
license in a specific and legally-defined manner.  So the extra GPL text
wording can be removed as it is no longer needed at all.

This is done on a quest to remove the 700+ different ways that files in
the kernel describe the GPL license text.  And there's unneeded stuff
like the address (sometimes incorrect) for the FSF which is never
needed.

No copyright headers or other non-license-description text was removed.

Cc: Nicolai Stange &lt;nicstange@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Now that the SPDX tag is in all debugfs files, that identifies the
license in a specific and legally-defined manner.  So the extra GPL text
wording can be removed as it is no longer needed at all.

This is done on a quest to remove the 700+ different ways that files in
the kernel describe the GPL license text.  And there's unneeded stuff
like the address (sometimes incorrect) for the FSF which is never
needed.

No copyright headers or other non-license-description text was removed.

Cc: Nicolai Stange &lt;nicstange@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>debugfs: add SPDX identifiers to all debugfs files</title>
<updated>2017-11-07T19:25:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-07T15:59:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=3bce94fd5f4c05337dedbe218501fb9f8789fc40'/>
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It's good to have SPDX identifiers in all files to make it easier to
audit the kernel tree for correct licenses.

Update the debugfs files files with the correct SPDX license identifier
based on the license text in the file itself.  The SPDX identifier is a
legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler
plate text.

This work is based on a script and data from Thomas Gleixner, Philippe
Ombredanne, and Kate Stewart.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Cc: Nicolai Stange &lt;nicstange@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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It's good to have SPDX identifiers in all files to make it easier to
audit the kernel tree for correct licenses.

Update the debugfs files files with the correct SPDX license identifier
based on the license text in the file itself.  The SPDX identifier is a
legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler
plate text.

This work is based on a script and data from Thomas Gleixner, Philippe
Ombredanne, and Kate Stewart.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Cc: Nicolai Stange &lt;nicstange@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>debugfs: defer debugfs_fsdata allocation to first usage</title>
<updated>2017-11-07T19:25:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolai Stange</name>
<email>nicstange@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-30T23:15:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=7d39bc50c47b3f8ed0e1a9d671ecb9ec02f10a2d'/>
<id>7d39bc50c47b3f8ed0e1a9d671ecb9ec02f10a2d</id>
<content type='text'>
Currently, __debugfs_create_file allocates one struct debugfs_fsdata
instance for every file created. However, there are potentially many
debugfs file around, most of which are never touched by userspace.

Thus, defer the allocations to the first usage, i.e. to the first
debugfs_file_get().

A dentry's -&gt;d_fsdata starts out to point to the "real", user provided
fops. After a debugfs_fsdata instance has been allocated (and the real
fops pointer has been moved over into its -&gt;real_fops member),
-&gt;d_fsdata is changed to point to it from then on. The two cases are
distinguished by setting BIT(0) for the real fops case.

struct debugfs_fsdata's foremost purpose is to track active users and to
make debugfs_remove() block until they are done. Since no debugfs_fsdata
instance means no active users, make debugfs_remove() return immediately
in this case.

Take care of possible races between debugfs_file_get() and
debugfs_remove(): either debugfs_remove() must see a debugfs_fsdata
instance and thus wait for possible active users or debugfs_file_get() must
see a dead dentry and return immediately.

Make a dentry's -&gt;d_release(), i.e. debugfs_release_dentry(), check whether
-&gt;d_fsdata is actually a debugfs_fsdata instance before kfree()ing it.

Similarly, make debugfs_real_fops() check whether -&gt;d_fsdata is actually
a debugfs_fsdata instance before returning it, otherwise emit a warning.

The set of possible error codes returned from debugfs_file_get() has grown
from -EIO to -EIO and -ENOMEM. Make open_proxy_open() and full_proxy_open()
pass the -ENOMEM onwards to their callers.

Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange &lt;nicstange@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Currently, __debugfs_create_file allocates one struct debugfs_fsdata
instance for every file created. However, there are potentially many
debugfs file around, most of which are never touched by userspace.

Thus, defer the allocations to the first usage, i.e. to the first
debugfs_file_get().

A dentry's -&gt;d_fsdata starts out to point to the "real", user provided
fops. After a debugfs_fsdata instance has been allocated (and the real
fops pointer has been moved over into its -&gt;real_fops member),
-&gt;d_fsdata is changed to point to it from then on. The two cases are
distinguished by setting BIT(0) for the real fops case.

struct debugfs_fsdata's foremost purpose is to track active users and to
make debugfs_remove() block until they are done. Since no debugfs_fsdata
instance means no active users, make debugfs_remove() return immediately
in this case.

Take care of possible races between debugfs_file_get() and
debugfs_remove(): either debugfs_remove() must see a debugfs_fsdata
instance and thus wait for possible active users or debugfs_file_get() must
see a dead dentry and return immediately.

Make a dentry's -&gt;d_release(), i.e. debugfs_release_dentry(), check whether
-&gt;d_fsdata is actually a debugfs_fsdata instance before kfree()ing it.

Similarly, make debugfs_real_fops() check whether -&gt;d_fsdata is actually
a debugfs_fsdata instance before returning it, otherwise emit a warning.

The set of possible error codes returned from debugfs_file_get() has grown
from -EIO to -EIO and -ENOMEM. Make open_proxy_open() and full_proxy_open()
pass the -ENOMEM onwards to their callers.

Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange &lt;nicstange@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>debugfs: purge obsolete SRCU based removal protection</title>
<updated>2017-11-07T19:25:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolai Stange</name>
<email>nicstange@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-30T23:15:52+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c9afbec27089cd6b4e621b639f41c7fc726c3bf1'/>
<id>c9afbec27089cd6b4e621b639f41c7fc726c3bf1</id>
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Purge the SRCU based file removal race protection in favour of the new,
refcount based debugfs_file_get()/debugfs_file_put() API.

Fixes: 49d200deaa68 ("debugfs: prevent access to removed files' private data")
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange &lt;nicstange@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Purge the SRCU based file removal race protection in favour of the new,
refcount based debugfs_file_get()/debugfs_file_put() API.

Fixes: 49d200deaa68 ("debugfs: prevent access to removed files' private data")
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange &lt;nicstange@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>debugfs: implement per-file removal protection</title>
<updated>2017-11-07T19:25:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolai Stange</name>
<email>nicstange@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-10-30T23:15:48+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=e9117a5a4bf65d8e99f060d356a04d27a60b436d'/>
<id>e9117a5a4bf65d8e99f060d356a04d27a60b436d</id>
<content type='text'>
Since commit 49d200deaa68 ("debugfs: prevent access to removed files'
private data"), accesses to a file's private data are protected from
concurrent removal by covering all file_operations with a SRCU read section
and sychronizing with those before returning from debugfs_remove() by means
of synchronize_srcu().

As pointed out by Johannes Berg, there are debugfs files with forever
blocking file_operations. Their corresponding SRCU read side sections would
block any debugfs_remove() forever as well, even unrelated ones. This
results in a livelock. Because a remover can't cancel any indefinite
blocking within foreign files, this is a problem.

Resolve this by introducing support for more granular protection on a
per-file basis.

This is implemented by introducing an  'active_users' refcount_t to the
per-file struct debugfs_fsdata state. At file creation time, it is set to
one and a debugfs_remove() will drop that initial reference. The new
debugfs_file_get() and debugfs_file_put(), intended to be used in place of
former debugfs_use_file_start() and debugfs_use_file_finish(), increment
and decrement it respectively. Once the count drops to zero,
debugfs_file_put() will signal a completion which is possibly being waited
for from debugfs_remove().
Thus, as long as there is a debugfs_file_get() not yet matched by a
corresponding debugfs_file_put() around, debugfs_remove() will block.

Actual users of debugfs_use_file_start() and -finish() will get converted
to the new debugfs_file_get() and debugfs_file_put() by followup patches.

Fixes: 49d200deaa68 ("debugfs: prevent access to removed files' private data")
Reported-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange &lt;nicstange@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
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Since commit 49d200deaa68 ("debugfs: prevent access to removed files'
private data"), accesses to a file's private data are protected from
concurrent removal by covering all file_operations with a SRCU read section
and sychronizing with those before returning from debugfs_remove() by means
of synchronize_srcu().

As pointed out by Johannes Berg, there are debugfs files with forever
blocking file_operations. Their corresponding SRCU read side sections would
block any debugfs_remove() forever as well, even unrelated ones. This
results in a livelock. Because a remover can't cancel any indefinite
blocking within foreign files, this is a problem.

Resolve this by introducing support for more granular protection on a
per-file basis.

This is implemented by introducing an  'active_users' refcount_t to the
per-file struct debugfs_fsdata state. At file creation time, it is set to
one and a debugfs_remove() will drop that initial reference. The new
debugfs_file_get() and debugfs_file_put(), intended to be used in place of
former debugfs_use_file_start() and debugfs_use_file_finish(), increment
and decrement it respectively. Once the count drops to zero,
debugfs_file_put() will signal a completion which is possibly being waited
for from debugfs_remove().
Thus, as long as there is a debugfs_file_get() not yet matched by a
corresponding debugfs_file_put() around, debugfs_remove() will block.

Actual users of debugfs_use_file_start() and -finish() will get converted
to the new debugfs_file_get() and debugfs_file_put() by followup patches.

Fixes: 49d200deaa68 ("debugfs: prevent access to removed files' private data")
Reported-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Stange &lt;nicstange@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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