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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>splice: don't merge into linked buffers</title>
<updated>2019-07-09T21:03:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jann Horn</name>
<email>jannh@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-23T14:19:17+00:00</published>
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commit a0ce2f0aa6ad97c3d4927bf2ca54bcebdf062d55 upstream.

Before this patch, it was possible for two pipes to affect each other after
data had been transferred between them with tee():

============
$ cat tee_test.c

int main(void) {
  int pipe_a[2];
  if (pipe(pipe_a)) err(1, "pipe");
  int pipe_b[2];
  if (pipe(pipe_b)) err(1, "pipe");
  if (write(pipe_a[1], "abcd", 4) != 4) err(1, "write");
  if (tee(pipe_a[0], pipe_b[1], 2, 0) != 2) err(1, "tee");
  if (write(pipe_b[1], "xx", 2) != 2) err(1, "write");

  char buf[5];
  if (read(pipe_a[0], buf, 4) != 4) err(1, "read");
  buf[4] = 0;
  printf("got back: '%s'\n", buf);
}
$ gcc -o tee_test tee_test.c
$ ./tee_test
got back: 'abxx'
$
============

As suggested by Al Viro, fix it by creating a separate type for
non-mergeable pipe buffers, then changing the types of buffers in
splice_pipe_to_pipe() and link_pipe().

Fixes: 7c77f0b3f920 ("splice: implement pipe to pipe splicing")
Fixes: 70524490ee2e ("[PATCH] splice: add support for sys_tee()")
Suggested-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: Use generic_pipe_buf_steal(), as for other pipe
 types, since anon_pipe_buf_steal() does not exist here]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit a0ce2f0aa6ad97c3d4927bf2ca54bcebdf062d55 upstream.

Before this patch, it was possible for two pipes to affect each other after
data had been transferred between them with tee():

============
$ cat tee_test.c

int main(void) {
  int pipe_a[2];
  if (pipe(pipe_a)) err(1, "pipe");
  int pipe_b[2];
  if (pipe(pipe_b)) err(1, "pipe");
  if (write(pipe_a[1], "abcd", 4) != 4) err(1, "write");
  if (tee(pipe_a[0], pipe_b[1], 2, 0) != 2) err(1, "tee");
  if (write(pipe_b[1], "xx", 2) != 2) err(1, "write");

  char buf[5];
  if (read(pipe_a[0], buf, 4) != 4) err(1, "read");
  buf[4] = 0;
  printf("got back: '%s'\n", buf);
}
$ gcc -o tee_test tee_test.c
$ ./tee_test
got back: 'abxx'
$
============

As suggested by Al Viro, fix it by creating a separate type for
non-mergeable pipe buffers, then changing the types of buffers in
splice_pipe_to_pipe() and link_pipe().

Fixes: 7c77f0b3f920 ("splice: implement pipe to pipe splicing")
Fixes: 70524490ee2e ("[PATCH] splice: add support for sys_tee()")
Suggested-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: Use generic_pipe_buf_steal(), as for other pipe
 types, since anon_pipe_buf_steal() does not exist here]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: fix uninitialized flags in splice_to_pipe()</title>
<updated>2017-03-16T02:27:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-16T16:49:02+00:00</published>
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commit 5a81e6a171cdbd1fa8bc1fdd80c23d3d71816fac upstream.

Flags (PIPE_BUF_FLAG_PACKET, PIPE_BUF_FLAG_GIFT) could remain on the
unused part of the pipe ring buffer.  Previously splice_to_pipe() left
the flags value alone, which could result in incorrect behavior.

Uninitialized flags appears to have been there from the introduction of
the splice syscall.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context, indentation]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 5a81e6a171cdbd1fa8bc1fdd80c23d3d71816fac upstream.

Flags (PIPE_BUF_FLAG_PACKET, PIPE_BUF_FLAG_GIFT) could remain on the
unused part of the pipe ring buffer.  Previously splice_to_pipe() left
the flags value alone, which could result in incorrect behavior.

Uninitialized flags appears to have been there from the introduction of
the splice syscall.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context, indentation]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>splice: handle zero nr_pages in splice_to_pipe()</title>
<updated>2016-04-30T22:06:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rabin Vincent</name>
<email>rabin@rab.in</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-10T20:19:06+00:00</published>
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commit d6785d9152147596f60234157da2b02540c3e60f upstream.

Running the following command:

 busybox cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe &gt; /dev/null

with any tracing enabled pretty very quickly leads to various NULL
pointer dereferences and VM BUG_ON()s, such as these:

 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000020
 IP: [&lt;ffffffff8119df6c&gt;] generic_pipe_buf_release+0xc/0x40
 Call Trace:
  [&lt;ffffffff811c48a3&gt;] splice_direct_to_actor+0x143/0x1e0
  [&lt;ffffffff811c42e0&gt;] ? generic_pipe_buf_nosteal+0x10/0x10
  [&lt;ffffffff811c49cf&gt;] do_splice_direct+0x8f/0xb0
  [&lt;ffffffff81196869&gt;] do_sendfile+0x199/0x380
  [&lt;ffffffff81197600&gt;] SyS_sendfile64+0x90/0xa0
  [&lt;ffffffff8192cbee&gt;] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x6d

 page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(atomic_read(&amp;page-&gt;_count) == 0)
 kernel BUG at include/linux/mm.h:367!
 invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
 RIP: [&lt;ffffffff8119df9c&gt;] generic_pipe_buf_release+0x3c/0x40
 Call Trace:
  [&lt;ffffffff811c48a3&gt;] splice_direct_to_actor+0x143/0x1e0
  [&lt;ffffffff811c42e0&gt;] ? generic_pipe_buf_nosteal+0x10/0x10
  [&lt;ffffffff811c49cf&gt;] do_splice_direct+0x8f/0xb0
  [&lt;ffffffff81196869&gt;] do_sendfile+0x199/0x380
  [&lt;ffffffff81197600&gt;] SyS_sendfile64+0x90/0xa0
  [&lt;ffffffff8192cd1e&gt;] tracesys_phase2+0x84/0x89

(busybox's cat uses sendfile(2), unlike the coreutils version)

This is because tracing_splice_read_pipe() can call splice_to_pipe()
with spd-&gt;nr_pages == 0.  spd_pages underflows in splice_to_pipe() and
we fill the page pointers and the other fields of the pipe_buffers with
garbage.

All other callers of splice_to_pipe() avoid calling it when nr_pages ==
0, and we could make tracing_splice_read_pipe() do that too, but it
seems reasonable to have splice_to_page() handle this condition
gracefully.

Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent &lt;rabin@rab.in&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit d6785d9152147596f60234157da2b02540c3e60f upstream.

Running the following command:

 busybox cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe &gt; /dev/null

with any tracing enabled pretty very quickly leads to various NULL
pointer dereferences and VM BUG_ON()s, such as these:

 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000020
 IP: [&lt;ffffffff8119df6c&gt;] generic_pipe_buf_release+0xc/0x40
 Call Trace:
  [&lt;ffffffff811c48a3&gt;] splice_direct_to_actor+0x143/0x1e0
  [&lt;ffffffff811c42e0&gt;] ? generic_pipe_buf_nosteal+0x10/0x10
  [&lt;ffffffff811c49cf&gt;] do_splice_direct+0x8f/0xb0
  [&lt;ffffffff81196869&gt;] do_sendfile+0x199/0x380
  [&lt;ffffffff81197600&gt;] SyS_sendfile64+0x90/0xa0
  [&lt;ffffffff8192cbee&gt;] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x6d

 page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(atomic_read(&amp;page-&gt;_count) == 0)
 kernel BUG at include/linux/mm.h:367!
 invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
 RIP: [&lt;ffffffff8119df9c&gt;] generic_pipe_buf_release+0x3c/0x40
 Call Trace:
  [&lt;ffffffff811c48a3&gt;] splice_direct_to_actor+0x143/0x1e0
  [&lt;ffffffff811c42e0&gt;] ? generic_pipe_buf_nosteal+0x10/0x10
  [&lt;ffffffff811c49cf&gt;] do_splice_direct+0x8f/0xb0
  [&lt;ffffffff81196869&gt;] do_sendfile+0x199/0x380
  [&lt;ffffffff81197600&gt;] SyS_sendfile64+0x90/0xa0
  [&lt;ffffffff8192cd1e&gt;] tracesys_phase2+0x84/0x89

(busybox's cat uses sendfile(2), unlike the coreutils version)

This is because tracing_splice_read_pipe() can call splice_to_pipe()
with spd-&gt;nr_pages == 0.  spd_pages underflows in splice_to_pipe() and
we fill the page pointers and the other fields of the pipe_buffers with
garbage.

All other callers of splice_to_pipe() avoid calling it when nr_pages ==
0, and we could make tracing_splice_read_pipe() do that too, but it
seems reasonable to have splice_to_page() handle this condition
gracefully.

Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent &lt;rabin@rab.in&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: Avoid softlockups with sendfile(2)</title>
<updated>2015-12-18T16:06:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-23T12:09:51+00:00</published>
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commit c2489e07c0a71a56fb2c84bc0ee66cddfca7d068 upstream.

The following test program from Dmitry can cause softlockups or RCU
stalls as it copies 1GB from tmpfs into eventfd and we don't have any
scheduling point at that path in sendfile(2) implementation:

        int r1 = eventfd(0, 0);
        int r2 = memfd_create("", 0);
        unsigned long n = 1&lt;&lt;30;
        fallocate(r2, 0, 0, n);
        sendfile(r1, r2, 0, n);

Add cond_resched() into __splice_from_pipe() to fix the problem.

CC: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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commit c2489e07c0a71a56fb2c84bc0ee66cddfca7d068 upstream.

The following test program from Dmitry can cause softlockups or RCU
stalls as it copies 1GB from tmpfs into eventfd and we don't have any
scheduling point at that path in sendfile(2) implementation:

        int r1 = eventfd(0, 0);
        int r2 = memfd_create("", 0);
        unsigned long n = 1&lt;&lt;30;
        fallocate(r2, 0, 0, n);
        sendfile(r1, r2, 0, n);

Add cond_resched() into __splice_from_pipe() to fix the problem.

CC: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: Make sendfile(2) killable even better</title>
<updated>2015-12-18T16:06:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Kara</name>
<email>jack@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-23T12:09:50+00:00</published>
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commit c725bfce7968009756ed2836a8cd7ba4dc163011 upstream.

Commit 296291cdd162 (mm: make sendfile(2) killable) fixed an issue where
sendfile(2) was doing a lot of tiny writes into a filesystem and thus
was unkillable for a long time. However sendfile(2) can be (mis)used to
issue lots of writes into arbitrary file descriptor such as evenfd or
similar special file descriptors which never hit the standard filesystem
write path and thus are still unkillable. E.g. the following example
from Dmitry burns CPU for ~16s on my test system without possibility to
be killed:

        int r1 = eventfd(0, 0);
        int r2 = memfd_create("", 0);
        unsigned long n = 1&lt;&lt;30;
        fallocate(r2, 0, 0, n);
        sendfile(r1, r2, 0, n);

There are actually quite a few tests for pending signals in sendfile
code however we data to write is always available none of them seems to
trigger. So fix the problem by adding a test for pending signal into
splice_from_pipe_next() also before the loop waiting for pipe buffers to
be available. This should fix all the lockup issues with sendfile of the
do-ton-of-tiny-writes nature.

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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commit c725bfce7968009756ed2836a8cd7ba4dc163011 upstream.

Commit 296291cdd162 (mm: make sendfile(2) killable) fixed an issue where
sendfile(2) was doing a lot of tiny writes into a filesystem and thus
was unkillable for a long time. However sendfile(2) can be (mis)used to
issue lots of writes into arbitrary file descriptor such as evenfd or
similar special file descriptors which never hit the standard filesystem
write path and thus are still unkillable. E.g. the following example
from Dmitry burns CPU for ~16s on my test system without possibility to
be killed:

        int r1 = eventfd(0, 0);
        int r2 = memfd_create("", 0);
        unsigned long n = 1&lt;&lt;30;
        fallocate(r2, 0, 0, n);
        sendfile(r1, r2, 0, n);

There are actually quite a few tests for pending signals in sendfile
code however we data to write is always available none of them seems to
trigger. So fix the problem by adding a test for pending signal into
splice_from_pipe_next() also before the loop waiting for pipe buffers to
be available. This should fix all the lockup issues with sendfile of the
do-ton-of-tiny-writes nature.

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>splice: sendfile() at once fails for big files</title>
<updated>2015-12-13T17:49:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christophe Leroy</name>
<email>christophe.leroy@c-s.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-06T15:26:47+00:00</published>
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commit 0ff28d9f4674d781e492bcff6f32f0fe48cf0fed upstream.

Using sendfile with below small program to get MD5 sums of some files,
it appear that big files (over 64kbytes with 4k pages system) get a
wrong MD5 sum while small files get the correct sum.
This program uses sendfile() to send a file to an AF_ALG socket
for hashing.

/* md5sum2.c */

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
	int sk = socket(AF_ALG, SOCK_SEQPACKET, 0);
	struct stat st;
	struct sockaddr_alg sa = {
		.salg_family = AF_ALG,
		.salg_type = "hash",
		.salg_name = "md5",
	};
	int n;

	bind(sk, (struct sockaddr*)&amp;sa, sizeof(sa));

	for (n = 1; n &lt; argc; n++) {
		int size;
		int offset = 0;
		char buf[4096];
		int fd;
		int sko;
		int i;

		fd = open(argv[n], O_RDONLY);
		sko = accept(sk, NULL, 0);
		fstat(fd, &amp;st);
		size = st.st_size;
		sendfile(sko, fd, &amp;offset, size);
		size = read(sko, buf, sizeof(buf));
		for (i = 0; i &lt; size; i++)
			printf("%2.2x", buf[i]);
		printf("  %s\n", argv[n]);
		close(fd);
		close(sko);
	}
	exit(0);
}

Test below is done using official linux patch files. First result is
with a software based md5sum. Second result is with the program above.

root@vgoip:~# ls -l patch-3.6.*
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         64011 Aug 24 12:01 patch-3.6.2.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         94131 Aug 24 12:01 patch-3.6.3.gz

root@vgoip:~# md5sum patch-3.6.*
b3ffb9848196846f31b2ff133d2d6443  patch-3.6.2.gz
c5e8f687878457db77cb7158c38a7e43  patch-3.6.3.gz

root@vgoip:~# ./md5sum2 patch-3.6.*
b3ffb9848196846f31b2ff133d2d6443  patch-3.6.2.gz
5fd77b24e68bb24dcc72d6e57c64790e  patch-3.6.3.gz

After investivation, it appears that sendfile() sends the files by blocks
of 64kbytes (16 times PAGE_SIZE). The problem is that at the end of each
block, the SPLICE_F_MORE flag is missing, therefore the hashing operation
is reset as if it was the end of the file.

This patch adds SPLICE_F_MORE to the flags when more data is pending.

With the patch applied, we get the correct sums:

root@vgoip:~# md5sum patch-3.6.*
b3ffb9848196846f31b2ff133d2d6443  patch-3.6.2.gz
c5e8f687878457db77cb7158c38a7e43  patch-3.6.3.gz

root@vgoip:~# ./md5sum2 patch-3.6.*
b3ffb9848196846f31b2ff133d2d6443  patch-3.6.2.gz
c5e8f687878457db77cb7158c38a7e43  patch-3.6.3.gz

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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commit 0ff28d9f4674d781e492bcff6f32f0fe48cf0fed upstream.

Using sendfile with below small program to get MD5 sums of some files,
it appear that big files (over 64kbytes with 4k pages system) get a
wrong MD5 sum while small files get the correct sum.
This program uses sendfile() to send a file to an AF_ALG socket
for hashing.

/* md5sum2.c */

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
	int sk = socket(AF_ALG, SOCK_SEQPACKET, 0);
	struct stat st;
	struct sockaddr_alg sa = {
		.salg_family = AF_ALG,
		.salg_type = "hash",
		.salg_name = "md5",
	};
	int n;

	bind(sk, (struct sockaddr*)&amp;sa, sizeof(sa));

	for (n = 1; n &lt; argc; n++) {
		int size;
		int offset = 0;
		char buf[4096];
		int fd;
		int sko;
		int i;

		fd = open(argv[n], O_RDONLY);
		sko = accept(sk, NULL, 0);
		fstat(fd, &amp;st);
		size = st.st_size;
		sendfile(sko, fd, &amp;offset, size);
		size = read(sko, buf, sizeof(buf));
		for (i = 0; i &lt; size; i++)
			printf("%2.2x", buf[i]);
		printf("  %s\n", argv[n]);
		close(fd);
		close(sko);
	}
	exit(0);
}

Test below is done using official linux patch files. First result is
with a software based md5sum. Second result is with the program above.

root@vgoip:~# ls -l patch-3.6.*
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         64011 Aug 24 12:01 patch-3.6.2.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         94131 Aug 24 12:01 patch-3.6.3.gz

root@vgoip:~# md5sum patch-3.6.*
b3ffb9848196846f31b2ff133d2d6443  patch-3.6.2.gz
c5e8f687878457db77cb7158c38a7e43  patch-3.6.3.gz

root@vgoip:~# ./md5sum2 patch-3.6.*
b3ffb9848196846f31b2ff133d2d6443  patch-3.6.2.gz
5fd77b24e68bb24dcc72d6e57c64790e  patch-3.6.3.gz

After investivation, it appears that sendfile() sends the files by blocks
of 64kbytes (16 times PAGE_SIZE). The problem is that at the end of each
block, the SPLICE_F_MORE flag is missing, therefore the hashing operation
is reset as if it was the end of the file.

This patch adds SPLICE_F_MORE to the flags when more data is pending.

With the patch applied, we get the correct sums:

root@vgoip:~# md5sum patch-3.6.*
b3ffb9848196846f31b2ff133d2d6443  patch-3.6.2.gz
c5e8f687878457db77cb7158c38a7e43  patch-3.6.3.gz

root@vgoip:~# ./md5sum2 patch-3.6.*
b3ffb9848196846f31b2ff133d2d6443  patch-3.6.2.gz
c5e8f687878457db77cb7158c38a7e43  patch-3.6.3.gz

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy &lt;christophe.leroy@c-s.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques &lt;luis.henriques@canonical.com&gt;
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<title>Merge commit '9f12600fe425bc28f0ccba034a77783c09c15af4' into for-linus</title>
<updated>2014-06-12T04:28:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-12T04:27:11+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9c1d5284c79fea050f115eadeec1dd1758e5c630'/>
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Backmerge of dcache.c changes from mainline.  It's that, or complete
rebase...

Conflicts:
	fs/splice.c

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Backmerge of dcache.c changes from mainline.  It's that, or complete
rebase...

Conflicts:
	fs/splice.c

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kill generic_file_splice_write()</title>
<updated>2014-06-12T04:21:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-05T17:31:50+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=5f073850602084fbcbb987948ff3e70ae273f7d2'/>
<id>5f073850602084fbcbb987948ff3e70ae273f7d2</id>
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no callers left

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no callers left

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<entry>
<title>fs/splice.c: remove unneeded exports</title>
<updated>2014-06-12T04:21:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-05T08:35:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=96f9bc8fbc2440d90e15f02398e1de43f674b433'/>
<id>96f9bc8fbc2440d90e15f02398e1de43f674b433</id>
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ocfs2 was using a bunch of splice.c guts...

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ocfs2 was using a bunch of splice.c guts...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>-&gt;splice_write() via -&gt;write_iter()</title>
<updated>2014-06-12T04:18:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-05T08:27:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8d0207652cbe27d1f962050737848e5ad4671958'/>
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iter_file_splice_write() - a -&gt;splice_write() instance that gathers the
pipe buffers, builds a bio_vec-based iov_iter covering those and feeds
it to -&gt;write_iter().  A bunch of simple cases coverted to that...

[AV: fixed the braino spotted by Cyrill]

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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iter_file_splice_write() - a -&gt;splice_write() instance that gathers the
pipe buffers, builds a bio_vec-based iov_iter covering those and feeds
it to -&gt;write_iter().  A bunch of simple cases coverted to that...

[AV: fixed the braino spotted by Cyrill]

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