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<title>fuse: Fix parameter for FS_IOC_{GET,SET}FLAGS</title>
<updated>2020-07-22T07:10:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chirantan Ekbote</name>
<email>chirantan@chromium.org</email>
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<published>2020-07-14T10:26:39+00:00</published>
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commit 31070f6ccec09f3bd4f1e28cd1e592fa4f3ba0b6 upstream.

The ioctl encoding for this parameter is a long but the documentation says
it should be an int and the kernel drivers expect it to be an int.  If the
fuse driver treats this as a long it might end up scribbling over the stack
of a userspace process that only allocated enough space for an int.

This was previously discussed in [1] and a patch for fuse was proposed in
[2].  From what I can tell the patch in [2] was nacked in favor of adding
new, "fixed" ioctls and using those from userspace.  However there is still
no "fixed" version of these ioctls and the fact is that it's sometimes
infeasible to change all userspace to use the new one.

Handling the ioctls specially in the fuse driver seems like the most
pragmatic way for fuse servers to support them without causing crashes in
userspace applications that call them.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20131126200559.GH20559@hall.aurel32.net/T/
[2]: https://sourceforge.net/p/fuse/mailman/message/31771759/

Signed-off-by: Chirantan Ekbote &lt;chirantan@chromium.org&gt;
Fixes: 59efec7b9039 ("fuse: implement ioctl support")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 31070f6ccec09f3bd4f1e28cd1e592fa4f3ba0b6 upstream.

The ioctl encoding for this parameter is a long but the documentation says
it should be an int and the kernel drivers expect it to be an int.  If the
fuse driver treats this as a long it might end up scribbling over the stack
of a userspace process that only allocated enough space for an int.

This was previously discussed in [1] and a patch for fuse was proposed in
[2].  From what I can tell the patch in [2] was nacked in favor of adding
new, "fixed" ioctls and using those from userspace.  However there is still
no "fixed" version of these ioctls and the fact is that it's sometimes
infeasible to change all userspace to use the new one.

Handling the ioctls specially in the fuse driver seems like the most
pragmatic way for fuse servers to support them without causing crashes in
userspace applications that call them.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20131126200559.GH20559@hall.aurel32.net/T/
[2]: https://sourceforge.net/p/fuse/mailman/message/31771759/

Signed-off-by: Chirantan Ekbote &lt;chirantan@chromium.org&gt;
Fixes: 59efec7b9039 ("fuse: implement ioctl support")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>fuse: fix possibly missed wake-up after abort</title>
<updated>2020-05-02T15:23:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-09T14:52:16+00:00</published>
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commit 2d84a2d19b6150c6dbac1e6ebad9c82e4c123772 upstream.

In current fuse_drop_waiting() implementation it's possible that
fuse_wait_aborted() will not be woken up in the unlikely case that
fuse_abort_conn() + fuse_wait_aborted() runs in between checking
fc-&gt;connected and calling atomic_dec(&amp;fc-&gt;num_waiting).

Do the atomic_dec_and_test() unconditionally, which also provides the
necessary barrier against reordering with the fc-&gt;connected check.

The explicit smp_mb() in fuse_wait_aborted() is not actually needed, since
the spin_unlock() in fuse_abort_conn() provides the necessary RELEASE
barrier after resetting fc-&gt;connected.  However, this is not a performance
sensitive path, and adding the explicit barrier makes it easier to
document.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: b8f95e5d13f5 ("fuse: umount should wait for all requests")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; #v4.19
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 2d84a2d19b6150c6dbac1e6ebad9c82e4c123772 upstream.

In current fuse_drop_waiting() implementation it's possible that
fuse_wait_aborted() will not be woken up in the unlikely case that
fuse_abort_conn() + fuse_wait_aborted() runs in between checking
fc-&gt;connected and calling atomic_dec(&amp;fc-&gt;num_waiting).

Do the atomic_dec_and_test() unconditionally, which also provides the
necessary barrier against reordering with the fc-&gt;connected check.

The explicit smp_mb() in fuse_wait_aborted() is not actually needed, since
the spin_unlock() in fuse_abort_conn() provides the necessary RELEASE
barrier after resetting fc-&gt;connected.  However, this is not a performance
sensitive path, and adding the explicit barrier makes it easier to
document.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: b8f95e5d13f5 ("fuse: umount should wait for all requests")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; #v4.19
Cc: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>fuse: verify attributes</title>
<updated>2019-12-21T09:41:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-12T10:49:04+00:00</published>
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commit eb59bd17d2fa6e5e84fba61a5ebdea984222e6d5 upstream.

If a filesystem returns negative inode sizes, future reads on the file were
causing the cpu to spin on truncate_pagecache.

Create a helper to validate the attributes.  This now does two things:

 - check the file mode
 - check if the file size fits in i_size without overflowing

Reported-by: Arijit Banerjee &lt;arijit@rubrik.com&gt;
Fixes: d8a5ba45457e ("[PATCH] FUSE - core")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v2.6.14
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit eb59bd17d2fa6e5e84fba61a5ebdea984222e6d5 upstream.

If a filesystem returns negative inode sizes, future reads on the file were
causing the cpu to spin on truncate_pagecache.

Create a helper to validate the attributes.  This now does two things:

 - check the file mode
 - check if the file size fits in i_size without overflowing

Reported-by: Arijit Banerjee &lt;arijit@rubrik.com&gt;
Fixes: d8a5ba45457e ("[PATCH] FUSE - core")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v2.6.14
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>fuse: verify nlink</title>
<updated>2019-12-21T09:41:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-12T10:49:04+00:00</published>
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commit c634da718db9b2fac201df2ae1b1b095344ce5eb upstream.

When adding a new hard link, make sure that i_nlink doesn't overflow.

Fixes: ac45d61357e8 ("fuse: fix nlink after unlink")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v3.4
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit c634da718db9b2fac201df2ae1b1b095344ce5eb upstream.

When adding a new hard link, make sure that i_nlink doesn't overflow.

Fixes: ac45d61357e8 ("fuse: fix nlink after unlink")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v3.4
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>fuse: use READ_ONCE on congestion_threshold and max_background</title>
<updated>2019-11-25T08:53:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill Tkhai</name>
<email>ktkhai@virtuozzo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-27T15:29:29+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 2a23f2b8adbe4bd584f936f7ac17a99750eed9d7 ]

Since they are of unsigned int type, it's allowed to read them
unlocked during reporting to userspace. Let's underline this fact
with READ_ONCE() macroses.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai &lt;ktkhai@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 2a23f2b8adbe4bd584f936f7ac17a99750eed9d7 ]

Since they are of unsigned int type, it's allowed to read them
unlocked during reporting to userspace. Let's underline this fact
with READ_ONCE() macroses.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai &lt;ktkhai@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fuse: truncate pending writes on O_TRUNC</title>
<updated>2019-11-06T11:18:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-23T12:26:37+00:00</published>
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commit e4648309b85a78f8c787457832269a8712a8673e upstream.

Make sure cached writes are not reordered around open(..., O_TRUNC), with
the obvious wrong results.

Fixes: 4d99ff8f12eb ("fuse: Turn writeback cache on")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v3.15+
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit e4648309b85a78f8c787457832269a8712a8673e upstream.

Make sure cached writes are not reordered around open(..., O_TRUNC), with
the obvious wrong results.

Fixes: 4d99ff8f12eb ("fuse: Turn writeback cache on")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v3.15+
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>fuse: flush dirty data/metadata before non-truncate setattr</title>
<updated>2019-11-06T11:18:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-23T12:26:37+00:00</published>
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commit b24e7598db62386a95a3c8b9c75630c5d56fe077 upstream.

If writeback cache is enabled, then writes might get reordered with
chmod/chown/utimes.  The problem with this is that performing the write in
the fuse daemon might itself change some of these attributes.  In such case
the following sequence of operations will result in file ending up with the
wrong mode, for example:

  int fd = open ("suid", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL);
  write (fd, "1", 1);
  fchown (fd, 0, 0);
  fchmod (fd, 04755);
  close (fd);

This patch fixes this by flushing pending writes before performing
chown/chmod/utimes.

Reported-by: Giuseppe Scrivano &lt;gscrivan@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Giuseppe Scrivano &lt;gscrivan@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: 4d99ff8f12eb ("fuse: Turn writeback cache on")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v3.15+
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit b24e7598db62386a95a3c8b9c75630c5d56fe077 upstream.

If writeback cache is enabled, then writes might get reordered with
chmod/chown/utimes.  The problem with this is that performing the write in
the fuse daemon might itself change some of these attributes.  In such case
the following sequence of operations will result in file ending up with the
wrong mode, for example:

  int fd = open ("suid", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL);
  write (fd, "1", 1);
  fchown (fd, 0, 0);
  fchmod (fd, 04755);
  close (fd);

This patch fixes this by flushing pending writes before performing
chown/chmod/utimes.

Reported-by: Giuseppe Scrivano &lt;gscrivan@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Giuseppe Scrivano &lt;gscrivan@redhat.com&gt;
Fixes: 4d99ff8f12eb ("fuse: Turn writeback cache on")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v3.15+
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>fuse: fix memleak in cuse_channel_open</title>
<updated>2019-10-17T20:42:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>zhengbin</name>
<email>zhengbin13@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-14T07:59:09+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 9ad09b1976c562061636ff1e01bfc3a57aebe56b ]

If cuse_send_init fails, need to fuse_conn_put cc-&gt;fc.

cuse_channel_open-&gt;fuse_conn_init-&gt;refcount_set(&amp;fc-&gt;count, 1)
                 -&gt;fuse_dev_alloc-&gt;fuse_conn_get
                 -&gt;fuse_dev_free-&gt;fuse_conn_put

Fixes: cc080e9e9be1 ("fuse: introduce per-instance fuse_dev structure")
Reported-by: Hulk Robot &lt;hulkci@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: zhengbin &lt;zhengbin13@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 9ad09b1976c562061636ff1e01bfc3a57aebe56b ]

If cuse_send_init fails, need to fuse_conn_put cc-&gt;fc.

cuse_channel_open-&gt;fuse_conn_init-&gt;refcount_set(&amp;fc-&gt;count, 1)
                 -&gt;fuse_dev_alloc-&gt;fuse_conn_get
                 -&gt;fuse_dev_free-&gt;fuse_conn_put

Fixes: cc080e9e9be1 ("fuse: introduce per-instance fuse_dev structure")
Reported-by: Hulk Robot &lt;hulkci@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: zhengbin &lt;zhengbin13@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fuse: fix missing unlock_page in fuse_writepage()</title>
<updated>2019-10-05T10:30:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vasily Averin</name>
<email>vvs@virtuozzo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-09-13T15:17:11+00:00</published>
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commit d5880c7a8620290a6c90ced7a0e8bd0ad9419601 upstream.

unlock_page() was missing in case of an already in-flight write against the
same page.

Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin &lt;vvs@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Fixes: ff17be086477 ("fuse: writepage: skip already in flight")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v3.13
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit d5880c7a8620290a6c90ced7a0e8bd0ad9419601 upstream.

unlock_page() was missing in case of an already in-flight write against the
same page.

Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin &lt;vvs@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Fixes: ff17be086477 ("fuse: writepage: skip already in flight")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v3.13
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>fuse: retrieve: cap requested size to negotiated max_write</title>
<updated>2019-06-22T06:17:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill Smelkov</name>
<email>kirr@nexedi.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-27T10:15:19+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 7640682e67b33cab8628729afec8ca92b851394f ]

FUSE filesystem server and kernel client negotiate during initialization
phase, what should be the maximum write size the client will ever issue.
Correspondingly the filesystem server then queues sys_read calls to read
requests with buffer capacity large enough to carry request header + that
max_write bytes. A filesystem server is free to set its max_write in
anywhere in the range between [1*page, fc-&gt;max_pages*page]. In particular
go-fuse[2] sets max_write by default as 64K, wheres default fc-&gt;max_pages
corresponds to 128K. Libfuse also allows users to configure max_write, but
by default presets it to possible maximum.

If max_write is &lt; fc-&gt;max_pages*page, and in NOTIFY_RETRIEVE handler we
allow to retrieve more than max_write bytes, corresponding prepared
NOTIFY_REPLY will be thrown away by fuse_dev_do_read, because the
filesystem server, in full correspondence with server/client contract, will
be only queuing sys_read with ~max_write buffer capacity, and
fuse_dev_do_read throws away requests that cannot fit into server request
buffer. In turn the filesystem server could get stuck waiting indefinitely
for NOTIFY_REPLY since NOTIFY_RETRIEVE handler returned OK which is
understood by clients as that NOTIFY_REPLY was queued and will be sent
back.

Cap requested size to negotiate max_write to avoid the problem.  This
aligns with the way NOTIFY_RETRIEVE handler works, which already
unconditionally caps requested retrieve size to fuse_conn-&gt;max_pages.  This
way it should not hurt NOTIFY_RETRIEVE semantic if we return less data than
was originally requested.

Please see [1] for context where the problem of stuck filesystem was hit
for real, how the situation was traced and for more involving patch that
did not make it into the tree.

[1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&amp;m=155057023600853&amp;w=2
[2] https://github.com/hanwen/go-fuse

Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov &lt;kirr@nexedi.com&gt;
Cc: Han-Wen Nienhuys &lt;hanwen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jakob Unterwurzacher &lt;jakobunt@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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FUSE filesystem server and kernel client negotiate during initialization
phase, what should be the maximum write size the client will ever issue.
Correspondingly the filesystem server then queues sys_read calls to read
requests with buffer capacity large enough to carry request header + that
max_write bytes. A filesystem server is free to set its max_write in
anywhere in the range between [1*page, fc-&gt;max_pages*page]. In particular
go-fuse[2] sets max_write by default as 64K, wheres default fc-&gt;max_pages
corresponds to 128K. Libfuse also allows users to configure max_write, but
by default presets it to possible maximum.

If max_write is &lt; fc-&gt;max_pages*page, and in NOTIFY_RETRIEVE handler we
allow to retrieve more than max_write bytes, corresponding prepared
NOTIFY_REPLY will be thrown away by fuse_dev_do_read, because the
filesystem server, in full correspondence with server/client contract, will
be only queuing sys_read with ~max_write buffer capacity, and
fuse_dev_do_read throws away requests that cannot fit into server request
buffer. In turn the filesystem server could get stuck waiting indefinitely
for NOTIFY_REPLY since NOTIFY_RETRIEVE handler returned OK which is
understood by clients as that NOTIFY_REPLY was queued and will be sent
back.

Cap requested size to negotiate max_write to avoid the problem.  This
aligns with the way NOTIFY_RETRIEVE handler works, which already
unconditionally caps requested retrieve size to fuse_conn-&gt;max_pages.  This
way it should not hurt NOTIFY_RETRIEVE semantic if we return less data than
was originally requested.

Please see [1] for context where the problem of stuck filesystem was hit
for real, how the situation was traced and for more involving patch that
did not make it into the tree.

[1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&amp;m=155057023600853&amp;w=2
[2] https://github.com/hanwen/go-fuse

Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov &lt;kirr@nexedi.com&gt;
Cc: Han-Wen Nienhuys &lt;hanwen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jakob Unterwurzacher &lt;jakobunt@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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