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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.autofs' into for-linus</title>
<updated>2016-12-16T21:34:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-16T21:34:52+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>namespace.c: constify struct path passed to a bunch of primitives</title>
<updated>2016-12-06T00:03:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-21T00:45:28+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: add path_is_mountpoint() helper</title>
<updated>2016-12-04T01:51:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ian Kent</name>
<email>ikent@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-23T21:03:41+00:00</published>
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d_mountpoint() can only be used reliably to establish if a dentry is
not mounted in any namespace. It isn't aware of the possibility there
may be multiple mounts using a given dentry that may be in a different
namespace.

Add helper functions, path_is_mountpoint(), that checks if a struct path
is a mountpoint for this case.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161011053358.27645.9729.stgit@pluto.themaw.net
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Omar Sandoval &lt;osandov@osandov.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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d_mountpoint() can only be used reliably to establish if a dentry is
not mounted in any namespace. It isn't aware of the possibility there
may be multiple mounts using a given dentry that may be in a different
namespace.

Add helper functions, path_is_mountpoint(), that checks if a struct path
is a mountpoint for this case.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161011053358.27645.9729.stgit@pluto.themaw.net
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Omar Sandoval &lt;osandov@osandov.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mnt: Add a per mount namespace limit on the number of mounts</title>
<updated>2016-09-30T17:46:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-28T05:27:17+00:00</published>
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CAI Qian &lt;caiqian@redhat.com&gt; pointed out that the semantics
of shared subtrees make it possible to create an exponentially
increasing number of mounts in a mount namespace.

    mkdir /tmp/1 /tmp/2
    mount --make-rshared /
    for i in $(seq 1 20) ; do mount --bind /tmp/1 /tmp/2 ; done

Will create create 2^20 or 1048576 mounts, which is a practical problem
as some people have managed to hit this by accident.

As such CVE-2016-6213 was assigned.

Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt; described the situation for autofs users
as follows:

&gt; The number of mounts for direct mount maps is usually not very large because of
&gt; the way they are implemented, large direct mount maps can have performance
&gt; problems. There can be anywhere from a few (likely case a few hundred) to less
&gt; than 10000, plus mounts that have been triggered and not yet expired.
&gt;
&gt; Indirect mounts have one autofs mount at the root plus the number of mounts that
&gt; have been triggered and not yet expired.
&gt;
&gt; The number of autofs indirect map entries can range from a few to the common
&gt; case of several thousand and in rare cases up to between 30000 and 50000. I've
&gt; not heard of people with maps larger than 50000 entries.
&gt;
&gt; The larger the number of map entries the greater the possibility for a large
&gt; number of active mounts so it's not hard to expect cases of a 1000 or somewhat
&gt; more active mounts.

So I am setting the default number of mounts allowed per mount
namespace at 100,000.  This is more than enough for any use case I
know of, but small enough to quickly stop an exponential increase
in mounts.  Which should be perfect to catch misconfigurations and
malfunctioning programs.

For anyone who needs a higher limit this can be changed by writing
to the new /proc/sys/fs/mount-max sysctl.

Tested-by: CAI Qian &lt;caiqian@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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CAI Qian &lt;caiqian@redhat.com&gt; pointed out that the semantics
of shared subtrees make it possible to create an exponentially
increasing number of mounts in a mount namespace.

    mkdir /tmp/1 /tmp/2
    mount --make-rshared /
    for i in $(seq 1 20) ; do mount --bind /tmp/1 /tmp/2 ; done

Will create create 2^20 or 1048576 mounts, which is a practical problem
as some people have managed to hit this by accident.

As such CVE-2016-6213 was assigned.

Ian Kent &lt;raven@themaw.net&gt; described the situation for autofs users
as follows:

&gt; The number of mounts for direct mount maps is usually not very large because of
&gt; the way they are implemented, large direct mount maps can have performance
&gt; problems. There can be anywhere from a few (likely case a few hundred) to less
&gt; than 10000, plus mounts that have been triggered and not yet expired.
&gt;
&gt; Indirect mounts have one autofs mount at the root plus the number of mounts that
&gt; have been triggered and not yet expired.
&gt;
&gt; The number of autofs indirect map entries can range from a few to the common
&gt; case of several thousand and in rare cases up to between 30000 and 50000. I've
&gt; not heard of people with maps larger than 50000 entries.
&gt;
&gt; The larger the number of map entries the greater the possibility for a large
&gt; number of active mounts so it's not hard to expect cases of a 1000 or somewhat
&gt; more active mounts.

So I am setting the default number of mounts allowed per mount
namespace at 100,000.  This is more than enough for any use case I
know of, but small enough to quickly stop an exponential increase
in mounts.  Which should be perfect to catch misconfigurations and
malfunctioning programs.

For anyone who needs a higher limit this can be changed by writing
to the new /proc/sys/fs/mount-max sysctl.

Tested-by: CAI Qian &lt;caiqian@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: Treat foreign mounts as nosuid</title>
<updated>2016-06-24T15:40:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@amacapital.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-23T21:41:05+00:00</published>
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If a process gets access to a mount from a different user
namespace, that process should not be able to take advantage of
setuid files or selinux entrypoints from that filesystem.  Prevent
this by treating mounts from other mount namespaces and those not
owned by current_user_ns() or an ancestor as nosuid.

This will make it safer to allow more complex filesystems to be
mounted in non-root user namespaces.

This does not remove the need for MNT_LOCK_NOSUID.  The setuid,
setgid, and file capability bits can no longer be abused if code in
a user namespace were to clear nosuid on an untrusted filesystem,
but this patch, by itself, is insufficient to protect the system
from abuse of files that, when execed, would increase MAC privilege.

As a more concrete explanation, any task that can manipulate a
vfsmount associated with a given user namespace already has
capabilities in that namespace and all of its descendents.  If they
can cause a malicious setuid, setgid, or file-caps executable to
appear in that mount, then that executable will only allow them to
elevate privileges in exactly the set of namespaces in which they
are already privileges.

On the other hand, if they can cause a malicious executable to
appear with a dangerous MAC label, running it could change the
caller's security context in a way that should not have been
possible, even inside the namespace in which the task is confined.

As a hardening measure, this would have made CVE-2014-5207 much
more difficult to exploit.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee &lt;seth.forshee@canonical.com&gt;
Acked-by: James Morris &lt;james.l.morris@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge.hallyn@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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If a process gets access to a mount from a different user
namespace, that process should not be able to take advantage of
setuid files or selinux entrypoints from that filesystem.  Prevent
this by treating mounts from other mount namespaces and those not
owned by current_user_ns() or an ancestor as nosuid.

This will make it safer to allow more complex filesystems to be
mounted in non-root user namespaces.

This does not remove the need for MNT_LOCK_NOSUID.  The setuid,
setgid, and file capability bits can no longer be abused if code in
a user namespace were to clear nosuid on an untrusted filesystem,
but this patch, by itself, is insufficient to protect the system
from abuse of files that, when execed, would increase MAC privilege.

As a more concrete explanation, any task that can manipulate a
vfsmount associated with a given user namespace already has
capabilities in that namespace and all of its descendents.  If they
can cause a malicious setuid, setgid, or file-caps executable to
appear in that mount, then that executable will only allow them to
elevate privileges in exactly the set of namespaces in which they
are already privileges.

On the other hand, if they can cause a malicious executable to
appear with a dangerous MAC label, running it could change the
caller's security context in a way that should not have been
possible, even inside the namespace in which the task is confined.

As a hardening measure, this would have made CVE-2014-5207 much
more difficult to exploit.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee &lt;seth.forshee@canonical.com&gt;
Acked-by: James Morris &lt;james.l.morris@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge.hallyn@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2015-04-18T15:20:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-18T15:20:31+00:00</published>
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Pull usernamespace mount fixes from Eric Biederman:
 "Way back in October Andrey Vagin reported that umount(MNT_DETACH)
  could be used to defeat MNT_LOCKED.  As I worked to fix this I
  discovered that combined with mount propagation and an appropriate
  selection of shared subtrees a reference to a directory on an
  unmounted filesystem is not necessary.

  That MNT_DETACH is allowed in user namespace in a form that can break
  MNT_LOCKED comes from my early misunderstanding what MNT_DETACH does.

  To avoid breaking existing userspace the conflict between MNT_DETACH
  and MNT_LOCKED is fixed by leaving mounts that are locked to their
  parents in the mount hash table until the last reference goes away.

  While investigating this issue I also found an issue with
  __detach_mounts.  The code was unnecessarily and incorrectly
  triggering mount propagation.  Resulting in too many mounts going away
  when a directory is deleted, and too many cpu cycles are burned while
  doing that.

  Looking some more I realized that __detach_mounts by only keeping
  mounts connected that were MNT_LOCKED it had the potential to still
  leak information so I tweaked the code to keep everything locked
  together that possibly could be.

  This code was almost ready last cycle but Al invented fs_pin which
  slightly simplifies this code but required rewrites and retesting, and
  I have not been in top form for a while so it took me a while to get
  all of that done.  Similiarly this pull request is late because I have
  been feeling absolutely miserable all week.

  The issue of being able to escape a bind mount has not yet been
  addressed, as the fixes are not yet mature"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  mnt: Update detach_mounts to leave mounts connected
  mnt: Fix the error check in __detach_mounts
  mnt: Honor MNT_LOCKED when detaching mounts
  fs_pin: Allow for the possibility that m_list or s_list go unused.
  mnt: Factor umount_mnt from umount_tree
  mnt: Factor out unhash_mnt from detach_mnt and umount_tree
  mnt: Fail collect_mounts when applied to unmounted mounts
  mnt: Don't propagate unmounts to locked mounts
  mnt: On an unmount propagate clearing of MNT_LOCKED
  mnt: Delay removal from the mount hash.
  mnt: Add MNT_UMOUNT flag
  mnt: In umount_tree reuse mnt_list instead of mnt_hash
  mnt: Don't propagate umounts in __detach_mounts
  mnt: Improve the umount_tree flags
  mnt: Use hlist_move_list in namespace_unlock
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Pull usernamespace mount fixes from Eric Biederman:
 "Way back in October Andrey Vagin reported that umount(MNT_DETACH)
  could be used to defeat MNT_LOCKED.  As I worked to fix this I
  discovered that combined with mount propagation and an appropriate
  selection of shared subtrees a reference to a directory on an
  unmounted filesystem is not necessary.

  That MNT_DETACH is allowed in user namespace in a form that can break
  MNT_LOCKED comes from my early misunderstanding what MNT_DETACH does.

  To avoid breaking existing userspace the conflict between MNT_DETACH
  and MNT_LOCKED is fixed by leaving mounts that are locked to their
  parents in the mount hash table until the last reference goes away.

  While investigating this issue I also found an issue with
  __detach_mounts.  The code was unnecessarily and incorrectly
  triggering mount propagation.  Resulting in too many mounts going away
  when a directory is deleted, and too many cpu cycles are burned while
  doing that.

  Looking some more I realized that __detach_mounts by only keeping
  mounts connected that were MNT_LOCKED it had the potential to still
  leak information so I tweaked the code to keep everything locked
  together that possibly could be.

  This code was almost ready last cycle but Al invented fs_pin which
  slightly simplifies this code but required rewrites and retesting, and
  I have not been in top form for a while so it took me a while to get
  all of that done.  Similiarly this pull request is late because I have
  been feeling absolutely miserable all week.

  The issue of being able to escape a bind mount has not yet been
  addressed, as the fixes are not yet mature"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  mnt: Update detach_mounts to leave mounts connected
  mnt: Fix the error check in __detach_mounts
  mnt: Honor MNT_LOCKED when detaching mounts
  fs_pin: Allow for the possibility that m_list or s_list go unused.
  mnt: Factor umount_mnt from umount_tree
  mnt: Factor out unhash_mnt from detach_mnt and umount_tree
  mnt: Fail collect_mounts when applied to unmounted mounts
  mnt: Don't propagate unmounts to locked mounts
  mnt: On an unmount propagate clearing of MNT_LOCKED
  mnt: Delay removal from the mount hash.
  mnt: Add MNT_UMOUNT flag
  mnt: In umount_tree reuse mnt_list instead of mnt_hash
  mnt: Don't propagate umounts in __detach_mounts
  mnt: Improve the umount_tree flags
  mnt: Use hlist_move_list in namespace_unlock
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>init: export name_to_dev_t and mark name argument as const</title>
<updated>2015-04-15T16:10:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Ehrenberg</name>
<email>dehrenberg@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-10T23:20:49+00:00</published>
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DM will switch its device lookup code to using name_to_dev_t() so it
must be exported.  Also, the @name argument should be marked const.

Signed-off-by: Dan Ehrenberg &lt;dehrenberg@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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DM will switch its device lookup code to using name_to_dev_t() so it
must be exported.  Also, the @name argument should be marked const.

Signed-off-by: Dan Ehrenberg &lt;dehrenberg@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mnt: Add MNT_UMOUNT flag</title>
<updated>2015-04-03T01:34:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-23T00:30:08+00:00</published>
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In some instances it is necessary to know if the the unmounting
process has begun on a mount.  Add MNT_UMOUNT to make that reliably
testable.

This fix gets used in fixing locked mounts in MNT_DETACH

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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In some instances it is necessary to know if the the unmounting
process has begun on a mount.  Add MNT_UMOUNT to make that reliably
testable.

This fix gets used in fixing locked mounts in MNT_DETACH

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: introduce clone_private_mount()</title>
<updated>2014-10-23T22:14:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-23T22:14:36+00:00</published>
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Overlayfs needs a private clone of the mount, so create a function for
this and export to modules.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
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Overlayfs needs a private clone of the mount, so create a function for
this and export to modules.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2014-08-11T18:44:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-11T18:44:11+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "Stuff in here:

   - acct.c fixes and general rework of mnt_pin mechanism.  That allows
     to go for delayed-mntput stuff, which will permit mntput() on deep
     stack without worrying about stack overflows - fs shutdown will
     happen on shallow stack.  IOW, we can do Eric's umount-on-rmdir
     series without introducing tons of stack overflows on new mntput()
     call chains it introduces.
   - Bruce's d_splice_alias() patches
   - more Miklos' rename() stuff.
   - a couple of regression fixes (stable fodder, in the end of branch)
     and a fix for API idiocy in iov_iter.c.

  There definitely will be another pile, maybe even two.  I'd like to
  get Eric's series in this time, but even if we miss it, it'll go right
  in the beginning of for-next in the next cycle - the tricky part of
  prereqs is in this pile"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (40 commits)
  fix copy_tree() regression
  __generic_file_write_iter(): fix handling of sync error after DIO
  switch iov_iter_get_pages() to passing maximal number of pages
  fs: mark __d_obtain_alias static
  dcache: d_splice_alias should detect loops
  exportfs: update Exporting documentation
  dcache: d_find_alias needn't recheck IS_ROOT &amp;&amp; DCACHE_DISCONNECTED
  dcache: remove unused d_find_alias parameter
  dcache: d_obtain_alias callers don't all want DISCONNECTED
  dcache: d_splice_alias should ignore DCACHE_DISCONNECTED
  dcache: d_splice_alias mustn't create directory aliases
  dcache: close d_move race in d_splice_alias
  dcache: move d_splice_alias
  namei: trivial fix to vfs_rename_dir comment
  VFS: allow -&gt;d_manage() to declare -EISDIR in rcu_walk mode.
  cifs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE
  hostfs: support rename flags
  shmem: support RENAME_EXCHANGE
  shmem: support RENAME_NOREPLACE
  btrfs: add RENAME_NOREPLACE
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Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "Stuff in here:

   - acct.c fixes and general rework of mnt_pin mechanism.  That allows
     to go for delayed-mntput stuff, which will permit mntput() on deep
     stack without worrying about stack overflows - fs shutdown will
     happen on shallow stack.  IOW, we can do Eric's umount-on-rmdir
     series without introducing tons of stack overflows on new mntput()
     call chains it introduces.
   - Bruce's d_splice_alias() patches
   - more Miklos' rename() stuff.
   - a couple of regression fixes (stable fodder, in the end of branch)
     and a fix for API idiocy in iov_iter.c.

  There definitely will be another pile, maybe even two.  I'd like to
  get Eric's series in this time, but even if we miss it, it'll go right
  in the beginning of for-next in the next cycle - the tricky part of
  prereqs is in this pile"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (40 commits)
  fix copy_tree() regression
  __generic_file_write_iter(): fix handling of sync error after DIO
  switch iov_iter_get_pages() to passing maximal number of pages
  fs: mark __d_obtain_alias static
  dcache: d_splice_alias should detect loops
  exportfs: update Exporting documentation
  dcache: d_find_alias needn't recheck IS_ROOT &amp;&amp; DCACHE_DISCONNECTED
  dcache: remove unused d_find_alias parameter
  dcache: d_obtain_alias callers don't all want DISCONNECTED
  dcache: d_splice_alias should ignore DCACHE_DISCONNECTED
  dcache: d_splice_alias mustn't create directory aliases
  dcache: close d_move race in d_splice_alias
  dcache: move d_splice_alias
  namei: trivial fix to vfs_rename_dir comment
  VFS: allow -&gt;d_manage() to declare -EISDIR in rcu_walk mode.
  cifs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE
  hostfs: support rename flags
  shmem: support RENAME_EXCHANGE
  shmem: support RENAME_NOREPLACE
  btrfs: add RENAME_NOREPLACE
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