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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2015-07-03T22:20:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-03T22:20:57+00:00</published>
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Pull user namespace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "Long ago and far away when user namespaces where young it was realized
  that allowing fresh mounts of proc and sysfs with only user namespace
  permissions could violate the basic rule that only root gets to decide
  if proc or sysfs should be mounted at all.

  Some hacks were put in place to reduce the worst of the damage could
  be done, and the common sense rule was adopted that fresh mounts of
  proc and sysfs should allow no more than bind mounts of proc and
  sysfs.  Unfortunately that rule has not been fully enforced.

  There are two kinds of gaps in that enforcement.  Only filesystems
  mounted on empty directories of proc and sysfs should be ignored but
  the test for empty directories was insufficient.  So in my tree
  directories on proc, sysctl and sysfs that will always be empty are
  created specially.  Every other technique is imperfect as an ordinary
  directory can have entries added even after a readdir returns and
  shows that the directory is empty.  Special creation of directories
  for mount points makes the code in the kernel a smidge clearer about
  it's purpose.  I asked container developers from the various container
  projects to help test this and no holes were found in the set of mount
  points on proc and sysfs that are created specially.

  This set of changes also starts enforcing the mount flags of fresh
  mounts of proc and sysfs are consistent with the existing mount of
  proc and sysfs.  I expected this to be the boring part of the work but
  unfortunately unprivileged userspace winds up mounting fresh copies of
  proc and sysfs with noexec and nosuid clear when root set those flags
  on the previous mount of proc and sysfs.  So for now only the atime,
  read-only and nodev attributes which userspace happens to keep
  consistent are enforced.  Dealing with the noexec and nosuid
  attributes remains for another time.

  This set of changes also addresses an issue with how open file
  descriptors from /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/ns/* are displayed.  Recently readlink of
  /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/fd has been triggering a WARN_ON that has not been
  meaningful since it was added (as all of the code in the kernel was
  converted) and is not now actively wrong.

  There is also a short list of issues that have not been fixed yet that
  I will mention briefly.

  It is possible to rename a directory from below to above a bind mount.
  At which point any directory pointers below the renamed directory can
  be walked up to the root directory of the filesystem.  With user
  namespaces enabled a bind mount of the bind mount can be created
  allowing the user to pick a directory whose children they can rename
  to outside of the bind mount.  This is challenging to fix and doubly
  so because all obvious solutions must touch code that is in the
  performance part of pathname resolution.

  As mentioned above there is also a question of how to ensure that
  developers by accident or with purpose do not introduce exectuable
  files on sysfs and proc and in doing so introduce security regressions
  in the current userspace that will not be immediately obvious and as
  such are likely to require breaking userspace in painful ways once
  they are recognized"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  vfs: Remove incorrect debugging WARN in prepend_path
  mnt: Update fs_fully_visible to test for permanently empty directories
  sysfs: Create mountpoints with sysfs_create_mount_point
  sysfs: Add support for permanently empty directories to serve as mount points.
  kernfs: Add support for always empty directories.
  proc: Allow creating permanently empty directories that serve as mount points
  sysctl: Allow creating permanently empty directories that serve as mountpoints.
  fs: Add helper functions for permanently empty directories.
  vfs: Ignore unlocked mounts in fs_fully_visible
  mnt: Modify fs_fully_visible to deal with locked ro nodev and atime
  mnt: Refactor the logic for mounting sysfs and proc in a user namespace
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Pull user namespace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "Long ago and far away when user namespaces where young it was realized
  that allowing fresh mounts of proc and sysfs with only user namespace
  permissions could violate the basic rule that only root gets to decide
  if proc or sysfs should be mounted at all.

  Some hacks were put in place to reduce the worst of the damage could
  be done, and the common sense rule was adopted that fresh mounts of
  proc and sysfs should allow no more than bind mounts of proc and
  sysfs.  Unfortunately that rule has not been fully enforced.

  There are two kinds of gaps in that enforcement.  Only filesystems
  mounted on empty directories of proc and sysfs should be ignored but
  the test for empty directories was insufficient.  So in my tree
  directories on proc, sysctl and sysfs that will always be empty are
  created specially.  Every other technique is imperfect as an ordinary
  directory can have entries added even after a readdir returns and
  shows that the directory is empty.  Special creation of directories
  for mount points makes the code in the kernel a smidge clearer about
  it's purpose.  I asked container developers from the various container
  projects to help test this and no holes were found in the set of mount
  points on proc and sysfs that are created specially.

  This set of changes also starts enforcing the mount flags of fresh
  mounts of proc and sysfs are consistent with the existing mount of
  proc and sysfs.  I expected this to be the boring part of the work but
  unfortunately unprivileged userspace winds up mounting fresh copies of
  proc and sysfs with noexec and nosuid clear when root set those flags
  on the previous mount of proc and sysfs.  So for now only the atime,
  read-only and nodev attributes which userspace happens to keep
  consistent are enforced.  Dealing with the noexec and nosuid
  attributes remains for another time.

  This set of changes also addresses an issue with how open file
  descriptors from /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/ns/* are displayed.  Recently readlink of
  /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/fd has been triggering a WARN_ON that has not been
  meaningful since it was added (as all of the code in the kernel was
  converted) and is not now actively wrong.

  There is also a short list of issues that have not been fixed yet that
  I will mention briefly.

  It is possible to rename a directory from below to above a bind mount.
  At which point any directory pointers below the renamed directory can
  be walked up to the root directory of the filesystem.  With user
  namespaces enabled a bind mount of the bind mount can be created
  allowing the user to pick a directory whose children they can rename
  to outside of the bind mount.  This is challenging to fix and doubly
  so because all obvious solutions must touch code that is in the
  performance part of pathname resolution.

  As mentioned above there is also a question of how to ensure that
  developers by accident or with purpose do not introduce exectuable
  files on sysfs and proc and in doing so introduce security regressions
  in the current userspace that will not be immediately obvious and as
  such are likely to require breaking userspace in painful ways once
  they are recognized"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  vfs: Remove incorrect debugging WARN in prepend_path
  mnt: Update fs_fully_visible to test for permanently empty directories
  sysfs: Create mountpoints with sysfs_create_mount_point
  sysfs: Add support for permanently empty directories to serve as mount points.
  kernfs: Add support for always empty directories.
  proc: Allow creating permanently empty directories that serve as mount points
  sysctl: Allow creating permanently empty directories that serve as mountpoints.
  fs: Add helper functions for permanently empty directories.
  vfs: Ignore unlocked mounts in fs_fully_visible
  mnt: Modify fs_fully_visible to deal with locked ro nodev and atime
  mnt: Refactor the logic for mounting sysfs and proc in a user namespace
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<entry>
<title>kernfs: Add support for always empty directories.</title>
<updated>2015-07-01T15:36:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-13T21:09:29+00:00</published>
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Add a new function kernfs_create_empty_dir that can be used to create
directory that can not be modified.

Update the code to use make_empty_dir_inode when reporting a
permanently empty directory to the vfs.

Update the code to not allow adding to permanently empty directories.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Add a new function kernfs_create_empty_dir that can be used to create
directory that can not be modified.

Update the code to use make_empty_dir_inode when reporting a
permanently empty directory to the vfs.

Update the code to not allow adding to permanently empty directories.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup</title>
<updated>2015-06-27T02:50:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-27T02:50:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=bbe179f88d39274630823a0dc07d2714fd19a103'/>
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Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:

 - threadgroup_lock got reorganized so that its users can pick the
   actual locking mechanism to use.  Its only user - cgroups - is
   updated to use a percpu_rwsem instead of per-process rwsem.

   This makes things a bit lighter on hot paths and allows cgroups to
   perform and fail multi-task (a process) migrations atomically.
   Multi-task migrations are used in several places including the
   unified hierarchy.

 - Delegation rule and documentation added to unified hierarchy.  This
   will likely be the last interface update from the cgroup core side
   for unified hierarchy before lifting the devel mask.

 - Some groundwork for the pids controller which is scheduled to be
   merged in the coming devel cycle.

* 'for-4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  cgroup: add delegation section to unified hierarchy documentation
  cgroup: require write perm on common ancestor when moving processes on the default hierarchy
  cgroup: separate out cgroup_procs_write_permission() from __cgroup_procs_write()
  kernfs: make kernfs_get_inode() public
  MAINTAINERS: add a cgroup core co-maintainer
  cgroup: fix uninitialised iterator in for_each_subsys_which
  cgroup: replace explicit ss_mask checking with for_each_subsys_which
  cgroup: use bitmask to filter for_each_subsys
  cgroup: add seq_file forward declaration for struct cftype
  cgroup: simplify threadgroup locking
  sched, cgroup: replace signal_struct-&gt;group_rwsem with a global percpu_rwsem
  sched, cgroup: reorganize threadgroup locking
  cgroup: switch to unsigned long for bitmasks
  cgroup: reorganize include/linux/cgroup.h
  cgroup: separate out include/linux/cgroup-defs.h
  cgroup: fix some comment typos
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<pre>
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:

 - threadgroup_lock got reorganized so that its users can pick the
   actual locking mechanism to use.  Its only user - cgroups - is
   updated to use a percpu_rwsem instead of per-process rwsem.

   This makes things a bit lighter on hot paths and allows cgroups to
   perform and fail multi-task (a process) migrations atomically.
   Multi-task migrations are used in several places including the
   unified hierarchy.

 - Delegation rule and documentation added to unified hierarchy.  This
   will likely be the last interface update from the cgroup core side
   for unified hierarchy before lifting the devel mask.

 - Some groundwork for the pids controller which is scheduled to be
   merged in the coming devel cycle.

* 'for-4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  cgroup: add delegation section to unified hierarchy documentation
  cgroup: require write perm on common ancestor when moving processes on the default hierarchy
  cgroup: separate out cgroup_procs_write_permission() from __cgroup_procs_write()
  kernfs: make kernfs_get_inode() public
  MAINTAINERS: add a cgroup core co-maintainer
  cgroup: fix uninitialised iterator in for_each_subsys_which
  cgroup: replace explicit ss_mask checking with for_each_subsys_which
  cgroup: use bitmask to filter for_each_subsys
  cgroup: add seq_file forward declaration for struct cftype
  cgroup: simplify threadgroup locking
  sched, cgroup: replace signal_struct-&gt;group_rwsem with a global percpu_rwsem
  sched, cgroup: reorganize threadgroup locking
  cgroup: switch to unsigned long for bitmasks
  cgroup: reorganize include/linux/cgroup.h
  cgroup: separate out include/linux/cgroup-defs.h
  cgroup: fix some comment typos
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'driver-core-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core</title>
<updated>2015-06-26T22:07:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-26T22:07:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8d7804a2f03dbd34940fcb426450c730adf29dae'/>
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Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the driver core / firmware changes for 4.2-rc1.

  A number of small changes all over the place in the driver core, and
  in the firmware subsystem.  Nothing really major, full details in the
  shortlog.  Some of it is a bit of churn, given that the platform
  driver probing changes was found to not work well, so they were
  reverted.

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'driver-core-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (31 commits)
  Revert "base/platform: Only insert MEM and IO resources"
  Revert "base/platform: Continue on insert_resource() error"
  Revert "of/platform: Use platform_device interface"
  Revert "base/platform: Remove code duplication"
  firmware: add missing kfree for work on async call
  fs: sysfs: don't pass count == 0 to bin file readers
  base:dd - Fix for typo in comment to function driver_deferred_probe_trigger().
  base/platform: Remove code duplication
  of/platform: Use platform_device interface
  base/platform: Continue on insert_resource() error
  base/platform: Only insert MEM and IO resources
  firmware: use const for remaining firmware names
  firmware: fix possible use after free on name on asynchronous request
  firmware: check for file truncation on direct firmware loading
  firmware: fix __getname() missing failure check
  drivers: of/base: move of_init to driver_init
  drivers/base: cacheinfo: fix annoying typo when DT nodes are absent
  sysfs: disambiguate between "error code" and "failure" in comments
  driver-core: fix build for !CONFIG_MODULES
  driver-core: make __device_attach() static
  ...
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Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the driver core / firmware changes for 4.2-rc1.

  A number of small changes all over the place in the driver core, and
  in the firmware subsystem.  Nothing really major, full details in the
  shortlog.  Some of it is a bit of churn, given that the platform
  driver probing changes was found to not work well, so they were
  reverted.

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'driver-core-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (31 commits)
  Revert "base/platform: Only insert MEM and IO resources"
  Revert "base/platform: Continue on insert_resource() error"
  Revert "of/platform: Use platform_device interface"
  Revert "base/platform: Remove code duplication"
  firmware: add missing kfree for work on async call
  fs: sysfs: don't pass count == 0 to bin file readers
  base:dd - Fix for typo in comment to function driver_deferred_probe_trigger().
  base/platform: Remove code duplication
  of/platform: Use platform_device interface
  base/platform: Continue on insert_resource() error
  base/platform: Only insert MEM and IO resources
  firmware: use const for remaining firmware names
  firmware: fix possible use after free on name on asynchronous request
  firmware: check for file truncation on direct firmware loading
  firmware: fix __getname() missing failure check
  drivers: of/base: move of_init to driver_init
  drivers/base: cacheinfo: fix annoying typo when DT nodes are absent
  sysfs: disambiguate between "error code" and "failure" in comments
  driver-core: fix build for !CONFIG_MODULES
  driver-core: make __device_attach() static
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2015-06-22T19:51:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-22T19:51:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=052b398a43a7de8c68c13e7fa05d6b3d16ce6801'/>
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Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "In this pile: pathname resolution rewrite.

   - recursion in link_path_walk() is gone.

   - nesting limits on symlinks are gone (the only limit remaining is
     that the total amount of symlinks is no more than 40, no matter how
     nested).

   - "fast" (inline) symlinks are handled without leaving rcuwalk mode.

   - stack footprint (independent of the nesting) is below kilobyte now,
     about on par with what it used to be with one level of nested
     symlinks and ~2.8 times lower than it used to be in the worst case.

   - struct nameidata is entirely private to fs/namei.c now (not even
     opaque pointers are being passed around).

   - -&gt;follow_link() and -&gt;put_link() calling conventions had been
     changed; all in-tree filesystems converted, out-of-tree should be
     able to follow reasonably easily.

     For out-of-tree conversions, see Documentation/filesystems/porting
     for details (and in-tree filesystems for examples of conversion).

  That has sat in -next since mid-May, seems to survive all testing
  without regressions and merges clean with v4.1"

* 'for-linus-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (131 commits)
  turn user_{path_at,path,lpath,path_dir}() into static inlines
  namei: move saved_nd pointer into struct nameidata
  inline user_path_create()
  inline user_path_parent()
  namei: trim do_last() arguments
  namei: stash dfd and name into nameidata
  namei: fold path_cleanup() into terminate_walk()
  namei: saner calling conventions for filename_parentat()
  namei: saner calling conventions for filename_create()
  namei: shift nameidata down into filename_parentat()
  namei: make filename_lookup() reject ERR_PTR() passed as name
  namei: shift nameidata inside filename_lookup()
  namei: move putname() call into filename_lookup()
  namei: pass the struct path to store the result down into path_lookupat()
  namei: uninline set_root{,_rcu}()
  namei: be careful with mountpoint crossings in follow_dotdot_rcu()
  Documentation: remove outdated information from automount-support.txt
  get rid of assorted nameidata-related debris
  lustre: kill unused helper
  lustre: kill unused macro (LOOKUP_CONTINUE)
  ...
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Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "In this pile: pathname resolution rewrite.

   - recursion in link_path_walk() is gone.

   - nesting limits on symlinks are gone (the only limit remaining is
     that the total amount of symlinks is no more than 40, no matter how
     nested).

   - "fast" (inline) symlinks are handled without leaving rcuwalk mode.

   - stack footprint (independent of the nesting) is below kilobyte now,
     about on par with what it used to be with one level of nested
     symlinks and ~2.8 times lower than it used to be in the worst case.

   - struct nameidata is entirely private to fs/namei.c now (not even
     opaque pointers are being passed around).

   - -&gt;follow_link() and -&gt;put_link() calling conventions had been
     changed; all in-tree filesystems converted, out-of-tree should be
     able to follow reasonably easily.

     For out-of-tree conversions, see Documentation/filesystems/porting
     for details (and in-tree filesystems for examples of conversion).

  That has sat in -next since mid-May, seems to survive all testing
  without regressions and merges clean with v4.1"

* 'for-linus-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (131 commits)
  turn user_{path_at,path,lpath,path_dir}() into static inlines
  namei: move saved_nd pointer into struct nameidata
  inline user_path_create()
  inline user_path_parent()
  namei: trim do_last() arguments
  namei: stash dfd and name into nameidata
  namei: fold path_cleanup() into terminate_walk()
  namei: saner calling conventions for filename_parentat()
  namei: saner calling conventions for filename_create()
  namei: shift nameidata down into filename_parentat()
  namei: make filename_lookup() reject ERR_PTR() passed as name
  namei: shift nameidata inside filename_lookup()
  namei: move putname() call into filename_lookup()
  namei: pass the struct path to store the result down into path_lookupat()
  namei: uninline set_root{,_rcu}()
  namei: be careful with mountpoint crossings in follow_dotdot_rcu()
  Documentation: remove outdated information from automount-support.txt
  get rid of assorted nameidata-related debris
  lustre: kill unused helper
  lustre: kill unused macro (LOOKUP_CONTINUE)
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernfs: make kernfs_get_inode() public</title>
<updated>2015-06-18T20:54:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-18T20:54:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=fb02915f47181e824339d91f8e385fd4bd746d6a'/>
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<content type='text'>
Move kernfs_get_inode() prototype from fs/kernfs/kernfs-internal.h to
include/linux/kernfs.h.  It obtains the matching inode for a
kernfs_node.

It will be used by cgroup for inode based permission checks for now
but is generally useful.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Move kernfs_get_inode() prototype from fs/kernfs/kernfs-internal.h to
include/linux/kernfs.h.  It obtains the matching inode for a
kernfs_node.

It will be used by cgroup for inode based permission checks for now
but is generally useful.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernfs: remove outdated and confusing comment</title>
<updated>2015-05-24T19:28:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wolfram Sang</name>
<email>wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-23T15:14:31+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=ba50150e80088e159ac80f0e71243ae2fa0c4901'/>
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<content type='text'>
Grabbing the parent is not happening anymore since 2010 (e72ceb8ccac5f7
"sysfs: Remove sysfs_get/put_active_two"). Remove this confusing
comment.

Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang &lt;wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Grabbing the parent is not happening anymore since 2010 (e72ceb8ccac5f7
"sysfs: Remove sysfs_get/put_active_two"). Remove this confusing
comment.

Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang &lt;wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kernfs: do not account ino_ida allocations to memcg</title>
<updated>2015-05-15T00:55:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vladimir Davydov</name>
<email>vdavydov@parallels.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-14T22:16:58+00:00</published>
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root-&gt;ino_ida is used for kernfs inode number allocations. Since IDA has
a layered structure, different IDs can reside on the same layer, which
is currently accounted to some memory cgroup. The problem is that each
kmem cache of a memory cgroup has its own directory on sysfs (under
/sys/fs/kernel/&lt;cache-name&gt;/cgroup). If the inode number of such a
directory or any file in it gets allocated from a layer accounted to the
cgroup which the cache is created for, the cgroup will get pinned for
good, because one has to free all kmem allocations accounted to a cgroup
in order to release it and destroy all its kmem caches. That said we
must not account layers of ino_ida to any memory cgroup.

Since per net init operations may create new sysfs entries directly
(e.g. lo device) or indirectly (nf_conntrack creates a new kmem cache
per each namespace, which, in turn, creates new sysfs entries), an easy
way to reproduce this issue is by creating network namespace(s) from
inside a kmem-active memory cgroup.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@parallels.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Thelen &lt;gthelen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[4.0.x]
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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root-&gt;ino_ida is used for kernfs inode number allocations. Since IDA has
a layered structure, different IDs can reside on the same layer, which
is currently accounted to some memory cgroup. The problem is that each
kmem cache of a memory cgroup has its own directory on sysfs (under
/sys/fs/kernel/&lt;cache-name&gt;/cgroup). If the inode number of such a
directory or any file in it gets allocated from a layer accounted to the
cgroup which the cache is created for, the cgroup will get pinned for
good, because one has to free all kmem allocations accounted to a cgroup
in order to release it and destroy all its kmem caches. That said we
must not account layers of ino_ida to any memory cgroup.

Since per net init operations may create new sysfs entries directly
(e.g. lo device) or indirectly (nf_conntrack creates a new kmem cache
per each namespace, which, in turn, creates new sysfs entries), an easy
way to reproduce this issue is by creating network namespace(s) from
inside a kmem-active memory cgroup.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov &lt;vdavydov@parallels.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Thelen &lt;gthelen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[4.0.x]
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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>new helper: free_page_put_link()</title>
<updated>2015-05-11T12:13:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-07T15:19:14+00:00</published>
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similar to kfree_put_link()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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similar to kfree_put_link()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>switch -&gt;put_link() from dentry to inode</title>
<updated>2015-05-11T12:13:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-07T15:14:26+00:00</published>
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only one instance looks at that argument at all; that sole
exception wants inode rather than dentry.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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only one instance looks at that argument at all; that sole
exception wants inode rather than dentry.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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