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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'iversion-v4.16-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlayton/linux</title>
<updated>2018-02-07T22:25:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-07T22:25:22+00:00</published>
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Pull inode-&gt;i_version cleanup from Jeff Layton:
 "Goffredo went ahead and sent a patch to rename this function, and
  reverse its sense, as we discussed last week.

  The patch is very straightforward and I figure it's probably best to
  go ahead and merge this to get the API as settled as possible"

* tag 'iversion-v4.16-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlayton/linux:
  iversion: Rename make inode_cmp_iversion{+raw} to inode_eq_iversion{+raw}
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<pre>
Pull inode-&gt;i_version cleanup from Jeff Layton:
 "Goffredo went ahead and sent a patch to rename this function, and
  reverse its sense, as we discussed last week.

  The patch is very straightforward and I figure it's probably best to
  go ahead and merge this to get the API as settled as possible"

* tag 'iversion-v4.16-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlayton/linux:
  iversion: Rename make inode_cmp_iversion{+raw} to inode_eq_iversion{+raw}
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs</title>
<updated>2018-02-07T22:23:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-07T22:23:06+00:00</published>
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Pull UDF and ext2 fixlets from Jan Kara:
 "A UDF fix and an ext2 cleanup"

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
  ext2: drop unneeded newline
  udf: Sanitize nanoseconds for time stamps
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<pre>
Pull UDF and ext2 fixlets from Jan Kara:
 "A UDF fix and an ext2 cleanup"

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
  ext2: drop unneeded newline
  udf: Sanitize nanoseconds for time stamps
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2018-02-06T18:41:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-06T18:41:33+00:00</published>
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Ross Zwisler:

 - Require struct page by default for filesystem DAX to remove a number
   of surprising failure cases. This includes failures with direct I/O,
   gdb and fork(2).

 - Add support for the new Platform Capabilities Structure added to the
   NFIT in ACPI 6.2a. This new table tells us whether the platform
   supports flushing of CPU and memory controller caches on unexpected
   power loss events.

 - Revamp vmem_altmap and dev_pagemap handling to clean up code and
   better support future future PCI P2P uses.

 - Deprecate the ND_IOCTL_SMART_THRESHOLD command whose payload has
   become out-of-sync with recent versions of the NVDIMM_FAMILY_INTEL
   spec, and instead rely on the generic ND_CMD_CALL approach used by
   the two other IOCTL families, NVDIMM_FAMILY_{HPE,MSFT}.

 - Enhance nfit_test so we can test some of the new things added in
   version 1.6 of the DSM specification. This includes testing firmware
   download and simulating the Last Shutdown State (LSS) status.

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (37 commits)
  libnvdimm, namespace: remove redundant initialization of 'nd_mapping'
  acpi, nfit: fix register dimm error handling
  libnvdimm, namespace: make min namespace size 4K
  tools/testing/nvdimm: force nfit_test to depend on instrumented modules
  libnvdimm/nfit_test: adding support for unit testing enable LSS status
  libnvdimm/nfit_test: add firmware download emulation
  nfit-test: Add platform cap support from ACPI 6.2a to test
  libnvdimm: expose platform persistence attribute for nd_region
  acpi: nfit: add persistent memory control flag for nd_region
  acpi: nfit: Add support for detect platform CPU cache flush on power loss
  device-dax: Fix trailing semicolon
  libnvdimm, btt: fix uninitialized err_lock
  dax: require 'struct page' by default for filesystem dax
  ext2: auto disable dax instead of failing mount
  ext4: auto disable dax instead of failing mount
  mm, dax: introduce pfn_t_special()
  mm: Fix devm_memremap_pages() collision handling
  mm: Fix memory size alignment in devm_memremap_pages_release()
  memremap: merge find_dev_pagemap into get_dev_pagemap
  memremap: change devm_memremap_pages interface to use struct dev_pagemap
  ...
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<pre>
Pull libnvdimm updates from Ross Zwisler:

 - Require struct page by default for filesystem DAX to remove a number
   of surprising failure cases. This includes failures with direct I/O,
   gdb and fork(2).

 - Add support for the new Platform Capabilities Structure added to the
   NFIT in ACPI 6.2a. This new table tells us whether the platform
   supports flushing of CPU and memory controller caches on unexpected
   power loss events.

 - Revamp vmem_altmap and dev_pagemap handling to clean up code and
   better support future future PCI P2P uses.

 - Deprecate the ND_IOCTL_SMART_THRESHOLD command whose payload has
   become out-of-sync with recent versions of the NVDIMM_FAMILY_INTEL
   spec, and instead rely on the generic ND_CMD_CALL approach used by
   the two other IOCTL families, NVDIMM_FAMILY_{HPE,MSFT}.

 - Enhance nfit_test so we can test some of the new things added in
   version 1.6 of the DSM specification. This includes testing firmware
   download and simulating the Last Shutdown State (LSS) status.

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (37 commits)
  libnvdimm, namespace: remove redundant initialization of 'nd_mapping'
  acpi, nfit: fix register dimm error handling
  libnvdimm, namespace: make min namespace size 4K
  tools/testing/nvdimm: force nfit_test to depend on instrumented modules
  libnvdimm/nfit_test: adding support for unit testing enable LSS status
  libnvdimm/nfit_test: add firmware download emulation
  nfit-test: Add platform cap support from ACPI 6.2a to test
  libnvdimm: expose platform persistence attribute for nd_region
  acpi: nfit: add persistent memory control flag for nd_region
  acpi: nfit: Add support for detect platform CPU cache flush on power loss
  device-dax: Fix trailing semicolon
  libnvdimm, btt: fix uninitialized err_lock
  dax: require 'struct page' by default for filesystem dax
  ext2: auto disable dax instead of failing mount
  ext4: auto disable dax instead of failing mount
  mm, dax: introduce pfn_t_special()
  mm: Fix devm_memremap_pages() collision handling
  mm: Fix memory size alignment in devm_memremap_pages_release()
  memremap: merge find_dev_pagemap into get_dev_pagemap
  memremap: change devm_memremap_pages interface to use struct dev_pagemap
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'usercopy-v4.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2018-02-04T00:25:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-04T00:25:42+00:00</published>
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Pull hardened usercopy whitelisting from Kees Cook:
 "Currently, hardened usercopy performs dynamic bounds checking on slab
  cache objects. This is good, but still leaves a lot of kernel memory
  available to be copied to/from userspace in the face of bugs.

  To further restrict what memory is available for copying, this creates
  a way to whitelist specific areas of a given slab cache object for
  copying to/from userspace, allowing much finer granularity of access
  control.

  Slab caches that are never exposed to userspace can declare no
  whitelist for their objects, thereby keeping them unavailable to
  userspace via dynamic copy operations. (Note, an implicit form of
  whitelisting is the use of constant sizes in usercopy operations and
  get_user()/put_user(); these bypass all hardened usercopy checks since
  these sizes cannot change at runtime.)

  This new check is WARN-by-default, so any mistakes can be found over
  the next several releases without breaking anyone's system.

  The series has roughly the following sections:
   - remove %p and improve reporting with offset
   - prepare infrastructure and whitelist kmalloc
   - update VFS subsystem with whitelists
   - update SCSI subsystem with whitelists
   - update network subsystem with whitelists
   - update process memory with whitelists
   - update per-architecture thread_struct with whitelists
   - update KVM with whitelists and fix ioctl bug
   - mark all other allocations as not whitelisted
   - update lkdtm for more sensible test overage"

* tag 'usercopy-v4.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (38 commits)
  lkdtm: Update usercopy tests for whitelisting
  usercopy: Restrict non-usercopy caches to size 0
  kvm: x86: fix KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG ioctl
  kvm: whitelist struct kvm_vcpu_arch
  arm: Implement thread_struct whitelist for hardened usercopy
  arm64: Implement thread_struct whitelist for hardened usercopy
  x86: Implement thread_struct whitelist for hardened usercopy
  fork: Provide usercopy whitelisting for task_struct
  fork: Define usercopy region in thread_stack slab caches
  fork: Define usercopy region in mm_struct slab caches
  net: Restrict unwhitelisted proto caches to size 0
  sctp: Copy struct sctp_sock.autoclose to userspace using put_user()
  sctp: Define usercopy region in SCTP proto slab cache
  caif: Define usercopy region in caif proto slab cache
  ip: Define usercopy region in IP proto slab cache
  net: Define usercopy region in struct proto slab cache
  scsi: Define usercopy region in scsi_sense_cache slab cache
  cifs: Define usercopy region in cifs_request slab cache
  vxfs: Define usercopy region in vxfs_inode slab cache
  ufs: Define usercopy region in ufs_inode_cache slab cache
  ...
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<pre>
Pull hardened usercopy whitelisting from Kees Cook:
 "Currently, hardened usercopy performs dynamic bounds checking on slab
  cache objects. This is good, but still leaves a lot of kernel memory
  available to be copied to/from userspace in the face of bugs.

  To further restrict what memory is available for copying, this creates
  a way to whitelist specific areas of a given slab cache object for
  copying to/from userspace, allowing much finer granularity of access
  control.

  Slab caches that are never exposed to userspace can declare no
  whitelist for their objects, thereby keeping them unavailable to
  userspace via dynamic copy operations. (Note, an implicit form of
  whitelisting is the use of constant sizes in usercopy operations and
  get_user()/put_user(); these bypass all hardened usercopy checks since
  these sizes cannot change at runtime.)

  This new check is WARN-by-default, so any mistakes can be found over
  the next several releases without breaking anyone's system.

  The series has roughly the following sections:
   - remove %p and improve reporting with offset
   - prepare infrastructure and whitelist kmalloc
   - update VFS subsystem with whitelists
   - update SCSI subsystem with whitelists
   - update network subsystem with whitelists
   - update process memory with whitelists
   - update per-architecture thread_struct with whitelists
   - update KVM with whitelists and fix ioctl bug
   - mark all other allocations as not whitelisted
   - update lkdtm for more sensible test overage"

* tag 'usercopy-v4.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (38 commits)
  lkdtm: Update usercopy tests for whitelisting
  usercopy: Restrict non-usercopy caches to size 0
  kvm: x86: fix KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG ioctl
  kvm: whitelist struct kvm_vcpu_arch
  arm: Implement thread_struct whitelist for hardened usercopy
  arm64: Implement thread_struct whitelist for hardened usercopy
  x86: Implement thread_struct whitelist for hardened usercopy
  fork: Provide usercopy whitelisting for task_struct
  fork: Define usercopy region in thread_stack slab caches
  fork: Define usercopy region in mm_struct slab caches
  net: Restrict unwhitelisted proto caches to size 0
  sctp: Copy struct sctp_sock.autoclose to userspace using put_user()
  sctp: Define usercopy region in SCTP proto slab cache
  caif: Define usercopy region in caif proto slab cache
  ip: Define usercopy region in IP proto slab cache
  net: Define usercopy region in struct proto slab cache
  scsi: Define usercopy region in scsi_sense_cache slab cache
  cifs: Define usercopy region in cifs_request slab cache
  vxfs: Define usercopy region in vxfs_inode slab cache
  ufs: Define usercopy region in ufs_inode_cache slab cache
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4</title>
<updated>2018-02-03T21:49:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-03T21:49:22+00:00</published>
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Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Only miscellaneous cleanups and bug fixes for ext4 this cycle"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: create ext4_kset dynamically
  ext4: create ext4_feat kobject dynamically
  ext4: release kobject/kset even when init/register fail
  ext4: fix incorrect indentation of if statement
  ext4: correct documentation for grpid mount option
  ext4: use 'sbi' instead of 'EXT4_SB(sb)'
  ext4: save error to disk in __ext4_grp_locked_error()
  jbd2: fix sphinx kernel-doc build warnings
  ext4: fix a race in the ext4 shutdown path
  mbcache: make sure c_entry_count is not decremented past zero
  ext4: no need flush workqueue before destroying it
  ext4: fixed alignment and minor code cleanup in ext4.h
  ext4: fix ENOSPC handling in DAX page fault handler
  dax: pass detailed error code from dax_iomap_fault()
  mbcache: revert "fs/mbcache.c: make count_objects() more robust"
  mbcache: initialize entry-&gt;e_referenced in mb_cache_entry_create()
  ext4: fix up remaining files with SPDX cleanups
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<pre>
Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Only miscellaneous cleanups and bug fixes for ext4 this cycle"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: create ext4_kset dynamically
  ext4: create ext4_feat kobject dynamically
  ext4: release kobject/kset even when init/register fail
  ext4: fix incorrect indentation of if statement
  ext4: correct documentation for grpid mount option
  ext4: use 'sbi' instead of 'EXT4_SB(sb)'
  ext4: save error to disk in __ext4_grp_locked_error()
  jbd2: fix sphinx kernel-doc build warnings
  ext4: fix a race in the ext4 shutdown path
  mbcache: make sure c_entry_count is not decremented past zero
  ext4: no need flush workqueue before destroying it
  ext4: fixed alignment and minor code cleanup in ext4.h
  ext4: fix ENOSPC handling in DAX page fault handler
  dax: pass detailed error code from dax_iomap_fault()
  mbcache: revert "fs/mbcache.c: make count_objects() more robust"
  mbcache: initialize entry-&gt;e_referenced in mb_cache_entry_create()
  ext4: fix up remaining files with SPDX cleanups
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>iversion: Rename make inode_cmp_iversion{+raw} to inode_eq_iversion{+raw}</title>
<updated>2018-02-01T13:15:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Goffredo Baroncelli</name>
<email>kreijack@inwind.it</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-01T13:15:25+00:00</published>
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The function inode_cmp_iversion{+raw} is counter-intuitive, because it
returns true when the counters are different and false when these are equal.

Rename it to inode_eq_iversion{+raw}, which will returns true when
the counters are equal and false otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Goffredo Baroncelli &lt;kreijack@inwind.it&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
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<pre>
The function inode_cmp_iversion{+raw} is counter-intuitive, because it
returns true when the counters are different and false when these are equal.

Rename it to inode_eq_iversion{+raw}, which will returns true when
the counters are equal and false otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Goffredo Baroncelli &lt;kreijack@inwind.it&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'docs-4.16' of git://git.lwn.net/linux</title>
<updated>2018-02-01T03:25:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-01T03:25:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=255442c93843f52b6891b21d0b485bf2c97f93c3'/>
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "Documentation updates for 4.16.

  New stuff includes refcount_t documentation, errseq documentation,
  kernel-doc support for nested structure definitions, the removal of
  lots of crufty kernel-doc support for unused formats, SPDX tag
  documentation, the beginnings of a manual for subsystem maintainers,
  and lots of fixes and updates.

  As usual, some of the changesets reach outside of Documentation/ to
  effect kerneldoc comment fixes. It also adds the new LICENSES
  directory, of which Thomas promises I do not need to be the
  maintainer"

* tag 'docs-4.16' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (65 commits)
  linux-next: docs-rst: Fix typos in kfigure.py
  linux-next: DOC: HWPOISON: Fix path to debugfs in hwpoison.txt
  Documentation: Fix misconversion of #if
  docs: add index entry for networking/msg_zerocopy
  Documentation: security/credentials.rst: explain need to sort group_list
  LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license
  LICENSES: Add the GPL 1.0 license
  LICENSES: Add Linux syscall note exception
  LICENSES: Add the MIT license
  LICENSES: Add the BSD-3-clause "Clear" license
  LICENSES: Add the BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
  LICENSES: Add the BSD 2-clause "Simplified" license
  LICENSES: Add the LGPL-2.1 license
  LICENSES: Add the LGPL 2.0 license
  LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license
  Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licenses
  scripts: kernel_doc: better handle show warnings logic
  fs/*/Kconfig: drop links to 404-compliant http://acl.bestbits.at
  doc: md: Fix a file name to md-fault.c in fault-injection.txt
  errseq: Add to documentation tree
  ...
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "Documentation updates for 4.16.

  New stuff includes refcount_t documentation, errseq documentation,
  kernel-doc support for nested structure definitions, the removal of
  lots of crufty kernel-doc support for unused formats, SPDX tag
  documentation, the beginnings of a manual for subsystem maintainers,
  and lots of fixes and updates.

  As usual, some of the changesets reach outside of Documentation/ to
  effect kerneldoc comment fixes. It also adds the new LICENSES
  directory, of which Thomas promises I do not need to be the
  maintainer"

* tag 'docs-4.16' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (65 commits)
  linux-next: docs-rst: Fix typos in kfigure.py
  linux-next: DOC: HWPOISON: Fix path to debugfs in hwpoison.txt
  Documentation: Fix misconversion of #if
  docs: add index entry for networking/msg_zerocopy
  Documentation: security/credentials.rst: explain need to sort group_list
  LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license
  LICENSES: Add the GPL 1.0 license
  LICENSES: Add Linux syscall note exception
  LICENSES: Add the MIT license
  LICENSES: Add the BSD-3-clause "Clear" license
  LICENSES: Add the BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
  LICENSES: Add the BSD 2-clause "Simplified" license
  LICENSES: Add the LGPL-2.1 license
  LICENSES: Add the LGPL 2.0 license
  LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license
  Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licenses
  scripts: kernel_doc: better handle show warnings logic
  fs/*/Kconfig: drop links to 404-compliant http://acl.bestbits.at
  doc: md: Fix a file name to md-fault.c in fault-injection.txt
  errseq: Add to documentation tree
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext2: convert to new i_version API</title>
<updated>2018-01-29T11:42:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jlayton@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-11T11:35:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=e1d747d9b6728cc01d5bcbe784a16ba726df4553'/>
<id>e1d747d9b6728cc01d5bcbe784a16ba726df4553</id>
<content type='text'>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext2: auto disable dax instead of failing mount</title>
<updated>2018-01-20T00:50:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-22T02:18:27+00:00</published>
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Bring the ext2 filesystem in line with xfs that only warns and continues
when the "-o dax" option is specified to mount and the backing device
does not support dax. This is in preparation for removing dax support
from devices that do not enable get_user_pages() operations on dax
mappings. In other words 'gup' support is required and configurations
that were using so called 'page-less' dax will be converted back to
using the page cache.

Removing the broken 'page-less' dax support is a pre-requisite for
removing the "EXPERIMENTAL" warning when mounting a filesystem in dax
mode.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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Bring the ext2 filesystem in line with xfs that only warns and continues
when the "-o dax" option is specified to mount and the backing device
does not support dax. This is in preparation for removing dax support
from devices that do not enable get_user_pages() operations on dax
mappings. In other words 'gup' support is required and configurations
that were using so called 'page-less' dax will be converted back to
using the page cache.

Removing the broken 'page-less' dax support is a pre-requisite for
removing the "EXPERIMENTAL" warning when mounting a filesystem in dax
mode.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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<title>ext2: Define usercopy region in ext2_inode_cache slab cache</title>
<updated>2018-01-15T20:07:53+00:00</updated>
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<name>David Windsor</name>
<email>dave@nullcore.net</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-11T02:50:35+00:00</published>
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The ext2 symlink pathnames, stored in struct ext2_inode_info.i_data and
therefore contained in the ext2_inode_cache slab cache, need to be copied
to/from userspace.

cache object allocation:
    fs/ext2/super.c:
        ext2_alloc_inode(...):
            struct ext2_inode_info *ei;
            ...
            ei = kmem_cache_alloc(ext2_inode_cachep, GFP_NOFS);
            ...
            return &amp;ei-&gt;vfs_inode;

    fs/ext2/ext2.h:
        EXT2_I(struct inode *inode):
            return container_of(inode, struct ext2_inode_info, vfs_inode);

    fs/ext2/namei.c:
        ext2_symlink(...):
            ...
            inode-&gt;i_link = (char *)&amp;EXT2_I(inode)-&gt;i_data;

example usage trace:
    readlink_copy+0x43/0x70
    vfs_readlink+0x62/0x110
    SyS_readlinkat+0x100/0x130

    fs/namei.c:
        readlink_copy(..., link):
            ...
            copy_to_user(..., link, len);

        (inlined into vfs_readlink)
        generic_readlink(dentry, ...):
            struct inode *inode = d_inode(dentry);
            const char *link = inode-&gt;i_link;
            ...
            readlink_copy(..., link);

In support of usercopy hardening, this patch defines a region in the
ext2_inode_cache slab cache in which userspace copy operations are
allowed.

This region is known as the slab cache's usercopy region. Slab caches
can now check that each dynamically sized copy operation involving
cache-managed memory falls entirely within the slab's usercopy region.

This patch is modified from Brad Spengler/PaX Team's PAX_USERCOPY
whitelisting code in the last public patch of grsecurity/PaX based on my
understanding of the code. Changes or omissions from the original code are
mine and don't reflect the original grsecurity/PaX code.

Signed-off-by: David Windsor &lt;dave@nullcore.net&gt;
[kees: adjust commit log, provide usage trace]
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.com&gt;
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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The ext2 symlink pathnames, stored in struct ext2_inode_info.i_data and
therefore contained in the ext2_inode_cache slab cache, need to be copied
to/from userspace.

cache object allocation:
    fs/ext2/super.c:
        ext2_alloc_inode(...):
            struct ext2_inode_info *ei;
            ...
            ei = kmem_cache_alloc(ext2_inode_cachep, GFP_NOFS);
            ...
            return &amp;ei-&gt;vfs_inode;

    fs/ext2/ext2.h:
        EXT2_I(struct inode *inode):
            return container_of(inode, struct ext2_inode_info, vfs_inode);

    fs/ext2/namei.c:
        ext2_symlink(...):
            ...
            inode-&gt;i_link = (char *)&amp;EXT2_I(inode)-&gt;i_data;

example usage trace:
    readlink_copy+0x43/0x70
    vfs_readlink+0x62/0x110
    SyS_readlinkat+0x100/0x130

    fs/namei.c:
        readlink_copy(..., link):
            ...
            copy_to_user(..., link, len);

        (inlined into vfs_readlink)
        generic_readlink(dentry, ...):
            struct inode *inode = d_inode(dentry);
            const char *link = inode-&gt;i_link;
            ...
            readlink_copy(..., link);

In support of usercopy hardening, this patch defines a region in the
ext2_inode_cache slab cache in which userspace copy operations are
allowed.

This region is known as the slab cache's usercopy region. Slab caches
can now check that each dynamically sized copy operation involving
cache-managed memory falls entirely within the slab's usercopy region.

This patch is modified from Brad Spengler/PaX Team's PAX_USERCOPY
whitelisting code in the last public patch of grsecurity/PaX based on my
understanding of the code. Changes or omissions from the original code are
mine and don't reflect the original grsecurity/PaX code.

Signed-off-by: David Windsor &lt;dave@nullcore.net&gt;
[kees: adjust commit log, provide usage trace]
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.com&gt;
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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