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<title>fix multiplication overflow in copy_fdtable()</title>
<updated>2020-05-27T14:40:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-19T21:48:52+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 4e89b7210403fa4a8acafe7c602b6212b7af6c3b ]

cpy and set really should be size_t; we won't get an overflow on that,
since sysctl_nr_open can't be set above ~(size_t)0 / sizeof(void *),
so nr that would've managed to overflow size_t on that multiplication
won't get anywhere near copy_fdtable() - we'll fail with EMFILE
before that.

Cc: stable@kernel.org # v2.6.25+
Fixes: 9cfe015aa424 (get rid of NR_OPEN and introduce a sysctl_nr_open)
Reported-by: Thiago Macieira &lt;thiago.macieira@intel.com&gt;
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 4e89b7210403fa4a8acafe7c602b6212b7af6c3b ]

cpy and set really should be size_t; we won't get an overflow on that,
since sysctl_nr_open can't be set above ~(size_t)0 / sizeof(void *),
so nr that would've managed to overflow size_t on that multiplication
won't get anywhere near copy_fdtable() - we'll fail with EMFILE
before that.

Cc: stable@kernel.org # v2.6.25+
Fixes: 9cfe015aa424 (get rid of NR_OPEN and introduce a sysctl_nr_open)
Reported-by: Thiago Macieira &lt;thiago.macieira@intel.com&gt;
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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<entry>
<title>fs/file.c: initialize init_files.resize_wait</title>
<updated>2019-04-27T07:33:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shuriyc Chu</name>
<email>sureeju@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-05T23:41:56+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 5704a06810682683355624923547b41540e2801a ]

(Taken from https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200647)

'get_unused_fd_flags' in kthread cause kernel crash.  It works fine on
4.1, but causes crash after get 64 fds.  It also cause crash on
ubuntu1404/1604/1804, centos7.5, and the crash messages are almost the
same.

The crash message on centos7.5 shows below:

  start fd 61
  start fd 62
  start fd 63
  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at           (null)
  IP: __wake_up_common+0x2e/0x90
  PGD 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
  Modules linked in: test(OE) xt_CHECKSUM iptable_mangle ipt_MASQUERADE nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4 iptable_nat nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_conntrack nf_conntrack ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 tun bridge stp llc ebtable_filter ebtables ip6table_filter ip6_tables iptable_filter devlink sunrpc kvm_intel kvm irqbypass crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel lrw gf128mul glue_helper ablk_helper cryptd sg ppdev pcspkr virtio_balloon parport_pc parport i2c_piix4 joydev ip_tables xfs libcrc32c sr_mod cdrom sd_mod crc_t10dif crct10dif_generic ata_generic pata_acpi virtio_scsi virtio_console virtio_net cirrus drm_kms_helper syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt fb_sys_fops ttm crct10dif_pclmul crct10dif_common crc32c_intel drm ata_piix serio_raw libata virtio_pci virtio_ring i2c_core
   virtio floppy dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod
  CPU: 2 PID: 1820 Comm: test_fd Kdump: loaded Tainted: G           OE  ------------   3.10.0-862.3.3.el7.x86_64 #1
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.10.2-0-g5f4c7b1-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014
  task: ffff8e92b9431fa0 ti: ffff8e94247a0000 task.ti: ffff8e94247a0000
  RIP: 0010:__wake_up_common+0x2e/0x90
  RSP: 0018:ffff8e94247a2d18  EFLAGS: 00010086
  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff9d09daa0 RCX: 0000000000000000
  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI: ffffffff9d09daa0
  RBP: ffff8e94247a2d50 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff8e92b95dfda8
  R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff9d09daa8
  R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000003
  FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8e9434e80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000017c686000 CR4: 00000000000207e0
  Call Trace:
    __wake_up+0x39/0x50
    expand_files+0x131/0x250
    __alloc_fd+0x47/0x170
    get_unused_fd_flags+0x30/0x40
    test_fd+0x12a/0x1c0 [test]
    kthread+0xd1/0xe0
    ret_from_fork_nospec_begin+0x21/0x21
  Code: 66 90 55 48 89 e5 41 57 41 89 f7 41 56 41 89 ce 41 55 41 54 49 89 fc 49 83 c4 08 53 48 83 ec 10 48 8b 47 08 89 55 cc 4c 89 45 d0 &lt;48&gt; 8b 08 49 39 c4 48 8d 78 e8 4c 8d 69 e8 75 08 eb 3b 4c 89 ef
  RIP   __wake_up_common+0x2e/0x90
   RSP &lt;ffff8e94247a2d18&gt;
  CR2: 0000000000000000

This issue exists since CentOS 7.5 3.10.0-862 and CentOS 7.4
(3.10.0-693.21.1 ) is ok.  Root cause: the item 'resize_wait' is not
initialized before being used.

Reported-by: Richard Zhang &lt;zhang.zijian@h3c.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 5704a06810682683355624923547b41540e2801a ]

(Taken from https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200647)

'get_unused_fd_flags' in kthread cause kernel crash.  It works fine on
4.1, but causes crash after get 64 fds.  It also cause crash on
ubuntu1404/1604/1804, centos7.5, and the crash messages are almost the
same.

The crash message on centos7.5 shows below:

  start fd 61
  start fd 62
  start fd 63
  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at           (null)
  IP: __wake_up_common+0x2e/0x90
  PGD 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
  Modules linked in: test(OE) xt_CHECKSUM iptable_mangle ipt_MASQUERADE nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4 iptable_nat nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_conntrack nf_conntrack ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 tun bridge stp llc ebtable_filter ebtables ip6table_filter ip6_tables iptable_filter devlink sunrpc kvm_intel kvm irqbypass crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel lrw gf128mul glue_helper ablk_helper cryptd sg ppdev pcspkr virtio_balloon parport_pc parport i2c_piix4 joydev ip_tables xfs libcrc32c sr_mod cdrom sd_mod crc_t10dif crct10dif_generic ata_generic pata_acpi virtio_scsi virtio_console virtio_net cirrus drm_kms_helper syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt fb_sys_fops ttm crct10dif_pclmul crct10dif_common crc32c_intel drm ata_piix serio_raw libata virtio_pci virtio_ring i2c_core
   virtio floppy dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod
  CPU: 2 PID: 1820 Comm: test_fd Kdump: loaded Tainted: G           OE  ------------   3.10.0-862.3.3.el7.x86_64 #1
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.10.2-0-g5f4c7b1-prebuilt.qemu-project.org 04/01/2014
  task: ffff8e92b9431fa0 ti: ffff8e94247a0000 task.ti: ffff8e94247a0000
  RIP: 0010:__wake_up_common+0x2e/0x90
  RSP: 0018:ffff8e94247a2d18  EFLAGS: 00010086
  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff9d09daa0 RCX: 0000000000000000
  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI: ffffffff9d09daa0
  RBP: ffff8e94247a2d50 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff8e92b95dfda8
  R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffffff9d09daa8
  R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000003
  FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8e9434e80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000017c686000 CR4: 00000000000207e0
  Call Trace:
    __wake_up+0x39/0x50
    expand_files+0x131/0x250
    __alloc_fd+0x47/0x170
    get_unused_fd_flags+0x30/0x40
    test_fd+0x12a/0x1c0 [test]
    kthread+0xd1/0xe0
    ret_from_fork_nospec_begin+0x21/0x21
  Code: 66 90 55 48 89 e5 41 57 41 89 f7 41 56 41 89 ce 41 55 41 54 49 89 fc 49 83 c4 08 53 48 83 ec 10 48 8b 47 08 89 55 cc 4c 89 45 d0 &lt;48&gt; 8b 08 49 39 c4 48 8d 78 e8 4c 8d 69 e8 75 08 eb 3b 4c 89 ef
  RIP   __wake_up_common+0x2e/0x90
   RSP &lt;ffff8e94247a2d18&gt;
  CR2: 0000000000000000

This issue exists since CentOS 7.5 3.10.0-862 and CentOS 7.4
(3.10.0-693.21.1 ) is ok.  Root cause: the item 'resize_wait' is not
initialized before being used.

Reported-by: Richard Zhang &lt;zhang.zijian@h3c.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: clear remainder of 'full_fds_bits' in dup_fd()</title>
<updated>2015-11-06T07:05:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers3@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-06T06:32:04+00:00</published>
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This fixes a bug from commit f3f86e33dc3d ("vfs: Fix pathological
performance case for __alloc_fd()").

v2: refactor to share fd bitmap copying code
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers3@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This fixes a bug from commit f3f86e33dc3d ("vfs: Fix pathological
performance case for __alloc_fd()").

v2: refactor to share fd bitmap copying code
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers3@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: conditionally clear close-on-exec flag</title>
<updated>2015-10-31T23:14:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-31T23:06:40+00:00</published>
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We clear the close-on-exec flag when opening and closing files, and the
bit was almost always already clear before.  Avoid dirtying the
cacheline if the clearning isn't necessary.  That avoids unnecessary
cacheline dirtying and bouncing in multi-socket environments.

Eric Dumazet has a file descriptor benchmark that goes 4% faster from
this on his two-socket machine.  It's probably partly superlinear
improvement due to getting slightly less spinlock contention on the
file_lock spinlock due to less work in the critical section.

Tested-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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We clear the close-on-exec flag when opening and closing files, and the
bit was almost always already clear before.  Avoid dirtying the
cacheline if the clearning isn't necessary.  That avoids unnecessary
cacheline dirtying and bouncing in multi-socket environments.

Eric Dumazet has a file descriptor benchmark that goes 4% faster from
this on his two-socket machine.  It's probably partly superlinear
improvement due to getting slightly less spinlock contention on the
file_lock spinlock due to less work in the critical section.

Tested-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: Fix pathological performance case for __alloc_fd()</title>
<updated>2015-10-31T23:12:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-30T23:53:57+00:00</published>
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Al Viro points out that:
&gt; &gt;     * [Linux-specific aside] our __alloc_fd() can degrade quite badly
&gt; &gt; with some use patterns.  The cacheline pingpong in the bitmap is probably
&gt; &gt; inevitable, unless we accept considerably heavier memory footprint,
&gt; &gt; but we also have a case when alloc_fd() takes O(n) and it's _not_ hard
&gt; &gt; to trigger - close(3);open(...); will have the next open() after that
&gt; &gt; scanning the entire in-use bitmap.

And Eric Dumazet has a somewhat realistic multithreaded microbenchmark
that opens and closes a lot of sockets with minimal work per socket.

This patch largely fixes it.  We keep a 2nd-level bitmap of the open
file bitmaps, showing which words are already full.  So then we can
traverse that second-level bitmap to efficiently skip already allocated
file descriptors.

On his benchmark, this improves performance by up to an order of
magnitude, by avoiding the excessive open file bitmap scanning.

Tested-and-acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Al Viro points out that:
&gt; &gt;     * [Linux-specific aside] our __alloc_fd() can degrade quite badly
&gt; &gt; with some use patterns.  The cacheline pingpong in the bitmap is probably
&gt; &gt; inevitable, unless we accept considerably heavier memory footprint,
&gt; &gt; but we also have a case when alloc_fd() takes O(n) and it's _not_ hard
&gt; &gt; to trigger - close(3);open(...); will have the next open() after that
&gt; &gt; scanning the entire in-use bitmap.

And Eric Dumazet has a somewhat realistic multithreaded microbenchmark
that opens and closes a lot of sockets with minimal work per socket.

This patch largely fixes it.  We keep a 2nd-level bitmap of the open
file bitmaps, showing which words are already full.  So then we can
traverse that second-level bitmap to efficiently skip already allocated
file descriptors.

On his benchmark, this improves performance by up to an order of
magnitude, by avoiding the excessive open file bitmap scanning.

Tested-and-acked-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs/file.c: __fget() and dup2() atomicity rules</title>
<updated>2015-07-01T06:31:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-29T15:10:30+00:00</published>
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__fget() does lockless fetch of pointer from the descriptor
table, attempts to grab a reference and treats "it was already
zero" as "it's already gone from the table, we just hadn't
seen the store, let's fail".  Unfortunately, that breaks the
atomicity of dup2() - __fget() might see the old pointer,
notice that it's been already dropped and treat that as
"it's closed".  What we should be getting is either the
old file or new one, depending whether we come before or after
dup2().

Dmitry had following test failing sometimes :

int fd;
void *Thread(void *x) {
  char buf;
  int n = read(fd, &amp;buf, 1);
  if (n != 1)
    exit(printf("read failed: n=%d errno=%d\n", n, errno));
  return 0;
}

int main()
{
  fd = open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY);
  int fd2 = open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY);
  if (fd == -1 || fd2 == -1)
    exit(printf("open failed\n"));
  pthread_t th;
  pthread_create(&amp;th, 0, Thread, 0);
  if (dup2(fd2, fd) == -1)
    exit(printf("dup2 failed\n"));
  pthread_join(th, 0);
  if (close(fd) == -1)
    exit(printf("close failed\n"));
  if (close(fd2) == -1)
    exit(printf("close failed\n"));
  printf("DONE\n");
  return 0;
}

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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__fget() does lockless fetch of pointer from the descriptor
table, attempts to grab a reference and treats "it was already
zero" as "it's already gone from the table, we just hadn't
seen the store, let's fail".  Unfortunately, that breaks the
atomicity of dup2() - __fget() might see the old pointer,
notice that it's been already dropped and treat that as
"it's closed".  What we should be getting is either the
old file or new one, depending whether we come before or after
dup2().

Dmitry had following test failing sometimes :

int fd;
void *Thread(void *x) {
  char buf;
  int n = read(fd, &amp;buf, 1);
  if (n != 1)
    exit(printf("read failed: n=%d errno=%d\n", n, errno));
  return 0;
}

int main()
{
  fd = open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY);
  int fd2 = open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY);
  if (fd == -1 || fd2 == -1)
    exit(printf("open failed\n"));
  pthread_t th;
  pthread_create(&amp;th, 0, Thread, 0);
  if (dup2(fd2, fd) == -1)
    exit(printf("dup2 failed\n"));
  pthread_join(th, 0);
  if (close(fd) == -1)
    exit(printf("close failed\n"));
  if (close(fd2) == -1)
    exit(printf("close failed\n"));
  printf("DONE\n");
  return 0;
}

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs/file.c: don't acquire files-&gt;file_lock in fd_install()</title>
<updated>2015-07-01T06:30:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Dumazet</name>
<email>edumazet@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-30T13:54:08+00:00</published>
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Mateusz Guzik reported :

 Currently obtaining a new file descriptor results in locking fdtable
 twice - once in order to reserve a slot and second time to fill it.

Holding the spinlock in __fd_install() is needed in case a resize is
done, or to prevent a resize.

Mateusz provided an RFC patch and a micro benchmark :
  http://people.redhat.com/~mguzik/pipebench.c

A resize is an unlikely operation in a process lifetime,
as table size is at least doubled at every resize.

We can use RCU instead of the spinlock.

__fd_install() must wait if a resize is in progress.

The resize must block new __fd_install() callers from starting,
and wait that ongoing install are finished (synchronize_sched())

resize should be attempted by a single thread to not waste resources.

rcu_sched variant is used, as __fd_install() and expand_fdtable() run
from process context.

It gives us a ~30% speedup using pipebench on a dual Intel(R) Xeon(R)
CPU E5-2696 v2 @ 2.50GHz

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mguzik@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mguzik@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mguzik@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Mateusz Guzik reported :

 Currently obtaining a new file descriptor results in locking fdtable
 twice - once in order to reserve a slot and second time to fill it.

Holding the spinlock in __fd_install() is needed in case a resize is
done, or to prevent a resize.

Mateusz provided an RFC patch and a micro benchmark :
  http://people.redhat.com/~mguzik/pipebench.c

A resize is an unlikely operation in a process lifetime,
as table size is at least doubled at every resize.

We can use RCU instead of the spinlock.

__fd_install() must wait if a resize is in progress.

The resize must block new __fd_install() callers from starting,
and wait that ongoing install are finished (synchronize_sched())

resize should be attempted by a single thread to not waste resources.

rcu_sched variant is used, as __fd_install() and expand_fdtable() run
from process context.

It gives us a ~30% speedup using pipebench on a dual Intel(R) Xeon(R)
CPU E5-2696 v2 @ 2.50GHz

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mguzik@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mguzik@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mateusz Guzik &lt;mguzik@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>mm: rcu-protected get_mm_exe_file()</title>
<updated>2015-04-17T13:04:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konstantin Khlebnikov</name>
<email>khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-16T19:47:56+00:00</published>
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This patch removes mm-&gt;mmap_sem from mm-&gt;exe_file read side.
Also it kills dup_mm_exe_file() and moves exe_file duplication into
dup_mmap() where both mmap_sems are locked.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment typo]
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dbueso@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This patch removes mm-&gt;mmap_sem from mm-&gt;exe_file read side.
Also it kills dup_mm_exe_file() and moves exe_file duplication into
dup_mmap() where both mmap_sems are locked.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment typo]
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dbueso@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs/file.c: replace get_unused_fd() with get_unused_fd_flags(0)</title>
<updated>2014-12-11T01:41:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yann Droneaud</name>
<email>ydroneaud@opteya.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-10T23:45:44+00:00</published>
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This patch replaces calls to get_unused_fd() with equivalent call to
get_unused_fd_flags(0) to preserve current behavor for existing code.

In a further patch, get_unused_fd() will be removed so that new code
start using get_unused_fd_flags(), with the hope O_CLOEXEC could be
used, either by default or choosen by userspace.

Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud &lt;ydroneaud@opteya.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This patch replaces calls to get_unused_fd() with equivalent call to
get_unused_fd_flags(0) to preserve current behavor for existing code.

In a further patch, get_unused_fd() will be removed so that new code
start using get_unused_fd_flags(), with the hope O_CLOEXEC could be
used, either by default or choosen by userspace.

Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud &lt;ydroneaud@opteya.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2014-10-13T13:44:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-13T13:44:12+00:00</published>
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Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - changes related to No-CBs CPUs and NO_HZ_FULL

   - RCU-tasks implementation

   - torture-test updates

   - miscellaneous fixes

   - locktorture updates

   - RCU documentation updates"

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (81 commits)
  workqueue: Use cond_resched_rcu_qs macro
  workqueue: Add quiescent state between work items
  locktorture: Cleanup header usage
  locktorture: Cannot hold read and write lock
  locktorture: Fix __acquire annotation for spinlock irq
  locktorture: Support rwlocks
  rcu: Eliminate deadlock between CPU hotplug and expedited grace periods
  locktorture: Document boot/module parameters
  rcutorture: Rename rcutorture_runnable parameter
  locktorture: Add test scenario for rwsem_lock
  locktorture: Add test scenario for mutex_lock
  locktorture: Make torture scripting account for new _runnable name
  locktorture: Introduce torture context
  locktorture: Support rwsems
  locktorture: Add infrastructure for torturing read locks
  torture: Address race in module cleanup
  locktorture: Make statistics generic
  locktorture: Teach about lock debugging
  locktorture: Support mutexes
  locktorture: Add documentation
  ...
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Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - changes related to No-CBs CPUs and NO_HZ_FULL

   - RCU-tasks implementation

   - torture-test updates

   - miscellaneous fixes

   - locktorture updates

   - RCU documentation updates"

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (81 commits)
  workqueue: Use cond_resched_rcu_qs macro
  workqueue: Add quiescent state between work items
  locktorture: Cleanup header usage
  locktorture: Cannot hold read and write lock
  locktorture: Fix __acquire annotation for spinlock irq
  locktorture: Support rwlocks
  rcu: Eliminate deadlock between CPU hotplug and expedited grace periods
  locktorture: Document boot/module parameters
  rcutorture: Rename rcutorture_runnable parameter
  locktorture: Add test scenario for rwsem_lock
  locktorture: Add test scenario for mutex_lock
  locktorture: Make torture scripting account for new _runnable name
  locktorture: Introduce torture context
  locktorture: Support rwsems
  locktorture: Add infrastructure for torturing read locks
  torture: Address race in module cleanup
  locktorture: Make statistics generic
  locktorture: Teach about lock debugging
  locktorture: Support mutexes
  locktorture: Add documentation
  ...
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