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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>HID: validate HID report id size</title>
<updated>2013-09-27T00:21:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-28T20:29:55+00:00</published>
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commit 43622021d2e2b82ea03d883926605bdd0525e1d1 upstream.

The "Report ID" field of a HID report is used to build indexes of
reports. The kernel's index of these is limited to 256 entries, so any
malicious device that sets a Report ID greater than 255 will trigger
memory corruption on the host:

[ 1347.156239] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff88094958a878
[ 1347.156261] IP: [&lt;ffffffff813e4da0&gt;] hid_register_report+0x2a/0x8b

CVE-2013-2888

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 43622021d2e2b82ea03d883926605bdd0525e1d1 upstream.

The "Report ID" field of a HID report is used to build indexes of
reports. The kernel's index of these is limited to 256 entries, so any
malicious device that sets a Report ID greater than 255 will trigger
memory corruption on the host:

[ 1347.156239] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff88094958a878
[ 1347.156261] IP: [&lt;ffffffff813e4da0&gt;] hid_register_report+0x2a/0x8b

CVE-2013-2888

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>pci_ids: Add PCI device ID functions 3 and 4 for newer F15h models.</title>
<updated>2013-09-27T00:21:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aravind Gopalakrishnan</name>
<email>Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-02T22:43:02+00:00</published>
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commit 6bdaa63c2957ac04e8d596880f732b79f9c06c3c upstream.

Add PCI device IDs for AMD F15h, model 30h. They will be used in
amd_nb.c and amd64_edac.c

Signed-off-by: Aravind Gopalakrishnan &lt;Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 6bdaa63c2957ac04e8d596880f732b79f9c06c3c upstream.

Add PCI device IDs for AMD F15h, model 30h. They will be used in
amd_nb.c and amd64_edac.c

Signed-off-by: Aravind Gopalakrishnan &lt;Aravind.Gopalakrishnan@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Introduce [compat_]save_altstack_ex() to unbreak x86 SMAP</title>
<updated>2013-09-27T00:21:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-01T19:35:01+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=462a44f4919fc83a948ce5c88c2c1d216d8b5bf4'/>
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commit bd1c149aa9915b9abb6d83d0f01dfd2ace0680b5 upstream.

For performance reasons, when SMAP is in use, SMAP is left open for an
entire put_user_try { ... } put_user_catch(); block, however, calling
__put_user() in the middle of that block will close SMAP as the
STAC..CLAC constructs intentionally do not nest.

Furthermore, using __put_user() rather than put_user_ex() here is bad
for performance.

Thus, introduce new [compat_]save_altstack_ex() helpers that replace
__[compat_]save_altstack() for x86, being currently the only
architecture which supports put_user_try { ... } put_user_catch().

Reported-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-es5p6y64if71k8p5u08agv9n@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit bd1c149aa9915b9abb6d83d0f01dfd2ace0680b5 upstream.

For performance reasons, when SMAP is in use, SMAP is left open for an
entire put_user_try { ... } put_user_catch(); block, however, calling
__put_user() in the middle of that block will close SMAP as the
STAC..CLAC constructs intentionally do not nest.

Furthermore, using __put_user() rather than put_user_ex() here is bad
for performance.

Thus, introduce new [compat_]save_altstack_ex() helpers that replace
__[compat_]save_altstack() for x86, being currently the only
architecture which supports put_user_try { ... } put_user_catch().

Reported-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-es5p6y64if71k8p5u08agv9n@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rculist: list_first_or_null_rcu() should use list_entry_rcu()</title>
<updated>2013-09-27T00:21:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-06-28T17:34:48+00:00</published>
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commit c34ac00caefbe49d40058ae7200bd58725cebb45 upstream.

list_first_or_null() should test whether the list is empty and return
pointer to the first entry if not in a RCU safe manner.  It's broken
in several ways.

* It compares __kernel @__ptr with __rcu @__next triggering the
  following sparse warning.

  net/core/dev.c:4331:17: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces)

* It doesn't perform rcu_dereference*() and computes the entry address
  using container_of() directly from the __rcu pointer which is
  inconsitent with other rculist interface.  As a result, all three
  in-kernel users - net/core/dev.c, macvlan, cgroup - are buggy.  They
  dereference the pointer w/o going through read barrier.

* While -&gt;next dereference passes through list_next_rcu(), the
  compiler is still free to fetch -&gt;next more than once and thus
  nullify the "__ptr != __next" condition check.

Fix it by making list_first_or_null_rcu() dereference -&gt;next directly
using ACCESS_ONCE() and then use list_entry_rcu() on it like other
rculist accessors.

v2: Paul pointed out that the compiler may fetch the pointer more than
    once nullifying the condition check.  ACCESS_ONCE() added on
    -&gt;next dereference.

v3: Restored () around macro param which was accidentally removed.
    Spotted by Paul.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dipankar Sarma &lt;dipankar@in.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Li Zefan &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit c34ac00caefbe49d40058ae7200bd58725cebb45 upstream.

list_first_or_null() should test whether the list is empty and return
pointer to the first entry if not in a RCU safe manner.  It's broken
in several ways.

* It compares __kernel @__ptr with __rcu @__next triggering the
  following sparse warning.

  net/core/dev.c:4331:17: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces)

* It doesn't perform rcu_dereference*() and computes the entry address
  using container_of() directly from the __rcu pointer which is
  inconsitent with other rculist interface.  As a result, all three
  in-kernel users - net/core/dev.c, macvlan, cgroup - are buggy.  They
  dereference the pointer w/o going through read barrier.

* While -&gt;next dereference passes through list_next_rcu(), the
  compiler is still free to fetch -&gt;next more than once and thus
  nullify the "__ptr != __next" condition check.

Fix it by making list_first_or_null_rcu() dereference -&gt;next directly
using ACCESS_ONCE() and then use list_entry_rcu() on it like other
rculist accessors.

v2: Paul pointed out that the compiler may fetch the pointer more than
    once nullifying the condition check.  ACCESS_ONCE() added on
    -&gt;next dereference.

v3: Restored () around macro param which was accidentally removed.
    Spotted by Paul.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dipankar Sarma &lt;dipankar@in.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Li Zefan &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Patrick McHardy &lt;kaber@trash.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>USB: fix build error when CONFIG_PM_SLEEP isn't enabled</title>
<updated>2013-09-27T00:21:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Stern</name>
<email>stern@rowland.harvard.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-30T14:46:00+00:00</published>
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commit 9d8924297cd9c256c23c02abae40202563452453 upstream.

This patch fixes a build error that occurs when CONFIG_PM is enabled
and CONFIG_PM_SLEEP isn't:

&gt;&gt; drivers/usb/host/ohci-pci.c:294:10: error: 'usb_hcd_pci_pm_ops' undeclared here (not in a function)
      .pm = &amp;usb_hcd_pci_pm_ops

Since the usb_hcd_pci_pm_ops structure is defined and used when
CONFIG_PM is enabled, its declaration should not be protected by
CONFIG_PM_SLEEP.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 9d8924297cd9c256c23c02abae40202563452453 upstream.

This patch fixes a build error that occurs when CONFIG_PM is enabled
and CONFIG_PM_SLEEP isn't:

&gt;&gt; drivers/usb/host/ohci-pci.c:294:10: error: 'usb_hcd_pci_pm_ops' undeclared here (not in a function)
      .pm = &amp;usb_hcd_pci_pm_ops

Since the usb_hcd_pci_pm_ops structure is defined and used when
CONFIG_PM is enabled, its declaration should not be protected by
CONFIG_PM_SLEEP.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2013-08-31T00:43:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-31T00:43:17+00:00</published>
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

 1) There was a simplification in the ipv6 ndisc packet sending
    attempted here, which avoided using memory accounting on the
    per-netns ndisc socket for sending NDISC packets.  It did fix some
    important issues, but it causes regressions so it gets reverted here
    too.  Specifically, the problem with this change is that the IPV6
    output path really depends upon there being a valid skb-&gt;sk
    attached.

    The reason we want to do this change in some form when we figure out
    how to do it right, is that if a device goes down the ndisc_sk
    socket send queue will fill up and block NDISC packets that we want
    to send to other devices too.  That's really bad behavior.

    Hopefully Thomas can come up with a better version of this change.

 2) Fix a severe TCP performance regression by reverting a change made
    to dev_pick_tx() quite some time ago.  From Eric Dumazet.

 3) TIPC returns wrongly signed error codes, fix from Erik Hugne.

 4) Fix OOPS when doing IPSEC over ipv4 tunnels due to orphaning the
    skb-&gt;sk too early.  Fix from Li Hongjun.

 5) RAW ipv4 sockets can use the wrong routing key during lookup, from
    Chris Clark.

 6) Similar to #1 revert an older change that tried to use plain
    alloc_skb() for SYN/ACK TCP packets, this broke the netfilter owner
    mark which needs to see the skb-&gt;sk for such frames.  From Phil
    Oester.

 7) BNX2x driver bug fixes from Ariel Elior and Yuval Mintz,
    specifically in the handling of virtual functions.

 8) IPSEC path error propagations to sockets is not done properly when
    we have v4 in v6, and v6 in v4 type rules.  Fix from Hannes Frederic
    Sowa.

 9) Fix missing channel context release in mac80211, from Johannes Berg.

10) Fix network namespace handing wrt.  SCM_RIGHTS, from Andy
    Lutomirski.

11) Fix usage of bogus NAPI weight in jme, netxen, and ps3_gelic
    drivers.  From Michal Schmidt.

12) Hopefully a complete and correct fix for the genetlink dump locking
    and module reference counting.  From Pravin B Shelar.

13) sk_busy_loop() must do a cpu_relax(), from Eliezer Tamir.

14) Fix handling of timestamp offset when restoring a snapshotted TCP
    socket.  From Andrew Vagin.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (44 commits)
  net: fec: fix time stamping logic after napi conversion
  net: bridge: convert MLDv2 Query MRC into msecs_to_jiffies for max_delay
  mISDN: return -EINVAL on error in dsp_control_req()
  net: revert 8728c544a9c ("net: dev_pick_tx() fix")
  Revert "ipv6: Don't depend on per socket memory for neighbour discovery messages"
  ipv4 tunnels: fix an oops when using ipip/sit with IPsec
  tipc: set sk_err correctly when connection fails
  tcp: tcp_make_synack() should use sock_wmalloc
  bridge: separate querier and query timer into IGMP/IPv4 and MLD/IPv6 ones
  ipv6: Don't depend on per socket memory for neighbour discovery messages
  ipv4: sendto/hdrincl: don't use destination address found in header
  tcp: don't apply tsoffset if rcv_tsecr is zero
  tcp: initialize rcv_tstamp for restored sockets
  net: xilinx: fix memleak
  net: usb: Add HP hs2434 device to ZLP exception table
  net: add cpu_relax to busy poll loop
  net: stmmac: fixed the pbl setting with DT
  genl: Hold reference on correct module while netlink-dump.
  genl: Fix genl dumpit() locking.
  xfrm: Fix potential null pointer dereference in xdst_queue_output
  ...
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

 1) There was a simplification in the ipv6 ndisc packet sending
    attempted here, which avoided using memory accounting on the
    per-netns ndisc socket for sending NDISC packets.  It did fix some
    important issues, but it causes regressions so it gets reverted here
    too.  Specifically, the problem with this change is that the IPV6
    output path really depends upon there being a valid skb-&gt;sk
    attached.

    The reason we want to do this change in some form when we figure out
    how to do it right, is that if a device goes down the ndisc_sk
    socket send queue will fill up and block NDISC packets that we want
    to send to other devices too.  That's really bad behavior.

    Hopefully Thomas can come up with a better version of this change.

 2) Fix a severe TCP performance regression by reverting a change made
    to dev_pick_tx() quite some time ago.  From Eric Dumazet.

 3) TIPC returns wrongly signed error codes, fix from Erik Hugne.

 4) Fix OOPS when doing IPSEC over ipv4 tunnels due to orphaning the
    skb-&gt;sk too early.  Fix from Li Hongjun.

 5) RAW ipv4 sockets can use the wrong routing key during lookup, from
    Chris Clark.

 6) Similar to #1 revert an older change that tried to use plain
    alloc_skb() for SYN/ACK TCP packets, this broke the netfilter owner
    mark which needs to see the skb-&gt;sk for such frames.  From Phil
    Oester.

 7) BNX2x driver bug fixes from Ariel Elior and Yuval Mintz,
    specifically in the handling of virtual functions.

 8) IPSEC path error propagations to sockets is not done properly when
    we have v4 in v6, and v6 in v4 type rules.  Fix from Hannes Frederic
    Sowa.

 9) Fix missing channel context release in mac80211, from Johannes Berg.

10) Fix network namespace handing wrt.  SCM_RIGHTS, from Andy
    Lutomirski.

11) Fix usage of bogus NAPI weight in jme, netxen, and ps3_gelic
    drivers.  From Michal Schmidt.

12) Hopefully a complete and correct fix for the genetlink dump locking
    and module reference counting.  From Pravin B Shelar.

13) sk_busy_loop() must do a cpu_relax(), from Eliezer Tamir.

14) Fix handling of timestamp offset when restoring a snapshotted TCP
    socket.  From Andrew Vagin.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (44 commits)
  net: fec: fix time stamping logic after napi conversion
  net: bridge: convert MLDv2 Query MRC into msecs_to_jiffies for max_delay
  mISDN: return -EINVAL on error in dsp_control_req()
  net: revert 8728c544a9c ("net: dev_pick_tx() fix")
  Revert "ipv6: Don't depend on per socket memory for neighbour discovery messages"
  ipv4 tunnels: fix an oops when using ipip/sit with IPsec
  tipc: set sk_err correctly when connection fails
  tcp: tcp_make_synack() should use sock_wmalloc
  bridge: separate querier and query timer into IGMP/IPv4 and MLD/IPv6 ones
  ipv6: Don't depend on per socket memory for neighbour discovery messages
  ipv4: sendto/hdrincl: don't use destination address found in header
  tcp: don't apply tsoffset if rcv_tsecr is zero
  tcp: initialize rcv_tstamp for restored sockets
  net: xilinx: fix memleak
  net: usb: Add HP hs2434 device to ZLP exception table
  net: add cpu_relax to busy poll loop
  net: stmmac: fixed the pbl setting with DT
  genl: Hold reference on correct module while netlink-dump.
  genl: Fix genl dumpit() locking.
  xfrm: Fix potential null pointer dereference in xdst_queue_output
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: make the dentry cache use the lockref infrastructure</title>
<updated>2013-08-29T01:24:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Waiman Long</name>
<email>Waiman.Long@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-29T01:24:59+00:00</published>
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This just replaces the dentry count/lock combination with the lockref
structure that contains both a count and a spinlock, and does the
mechanical conversion to use the lockref infrastructure.

There are no semantic changes here, it's purely syntactic.  The
reference lockref implementation uses the spinlock exactly the same way
that the old dcache code did, and the bulk of this patch is just
expanding the internal "d_count" use in the dcache code to use
"d_lockref.count" instead.

This is purely preparation for the real change to make the reference
count updates be lockless during the 3.12 merge window.

[ As with the previous commit, this is a rewritten version of a concept
  originally from Waiman, so credit goes to him, blame for any errors
  goes to me.

  Waiman's patch had some semantic differences for taking advantage of
  the lockless update in dget_parent(), while this patch is
  intentionally a pure search-and-replace change with no semantic
  changes.     - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long &lt;Waiman.Long@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This just replaces the dentry count/lock combination with the lockref
structure that contains both a count and a spinlock, and does the
mechanical conversion to use the lockref infrastructure.

There are no semantic changes here, it's purely syntactic.  The
reference lockref implementation uses the spinlock exactly the same way
that the old dcache code did, and the bulk of this patch is just
expanding the internal "d_count" use in the dcache code to use
"d_lockref.count" instead.

This is purely preparation for the real change to make the reference
count updates be lockless during the 3.12 merge window.

[ As with the previous commit, this is a rewritten version of a concept
  originally from Waiman, so credit goes to him, blame for any errors
  goes to me.

  Waiman's patch had some semantic differences for taking advantage of
  the lockless update in dget_parent(), while this patch is
  intentionally a pure search-and-replace change with no semantic
  changes.     - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long &lt;Waiman.Long@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
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<entry>
<title>Add new lockref infrastructure reference implementation</title>
<updated>2013-08-29T01:13:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Waiman Long</name>
<email>Waiman.Long@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-29T01:13:26+00:00</published>
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This introduces a new "lockref" structure that supports the concept of
lockless updates of reference counts that still honor an attached
spinlock.

NOTE! This reference implementation is not the optimized lockless
version, rather it is the fallback implementation using standard
spinlocks.  The actual optimized versions will be merged into 3.12, but
I wanted to get the infrastructure in place and document the new
interfaces.

[ Also note that this particular commit is drastically cut-down minimal
  version of the original patch by Waiman.  In order to properly credit
  the original author I'm marking Waiman as the author here, but in the
  end this patch bears little resemblance to the patch by Waiman.  So
  blame any errors on me editing things down to the point where I can
  introduce the infrastructure before the merge window for 3.12 actually
  opens.     - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long &lt;Waiman.Long@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This introduces a new "lockref" structure that supports the concept of
lockless updates of reference counts that still honor an attached
spinlock.

NOTE! This reference implementation is not the optimized lockless
version, rather it is the fallback implementation using standard
spinlocks.  The actual optimized versions will be merged into 3.12, but
I wanted to get the infrastructure in place and document the new
interfaces.

[ Also note that this particular commit is drastically cut-down minimal
  version of the original patch by Waiman.  In order to properly credit
  the original author I'm marking Waiman as the author here, but in the
  end this patch bears little resemblance to the patch by Waiman.  So
  blame any errors on me editing things down to the point where I can
  introduce the infrastructure before the merge window for 3.12 actually
  opens.     - Linus ]

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long &lt;Waiman.Long@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>Rename nsproxy.pid_ns to nsproxy.pid_ns_for_children</title>
<updated>2013-08-27T17:52:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@amacapital.net</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-22T18:39:16+00:00</published>
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nsproxy.pid_ns is *not* the task's pid namespace.  The name should clarify
that.

This makes it more obvious that setns on a pid namespace is weird --
it won't change the pid namespace shown in procfs.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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nsproxy.pid_ns is *not* the task's pid namespace.  The name should clarify
that.

This makes it more obvious that setns on a pid namespace is weird --
it won't change the pid namespace shown in procfs.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'regmap-v3.11-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regmap</title>
<updated>2013-08-27T17:10:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-27T17:10:30+00:00</published>
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Pull regmap fixes from Mark Brown:
 "Two changes here:

   - Fix a bug in the rbtree code which could cause it to create two
     different cache entries for the same register by adding a single
     register at a time to the cache.  This isn't awesome for
     performance but it's non-invasive which we need for this late in
     the release cycle and the I/O costs we're trying to avoid are high.

   - Add another header used in the !CONFIG_REGMAP stubs where we had
     been relying on implicit inclusion"

* tag 'regmap-v3.11-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regmap:
  regmap: rbtree: Fix overlapping rbnodes.
  regmap: Add another missing header for !CONFIG_REGMAP stubs
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Pull regmap fixes from Mark Brown:
 "Two changes here:

   - Fix a bug in the rbtree code which could cause it to create two
     different cache entries for the same register by adding a single
     register at a time to the cache.  This isn't awesome for
     performance but it's non-invasive which we need for this late in
     the release cycle and the I/O costs we're trying to avoid are high.

   - Add another header used in the !CONFIG_REGMAP stubs where we had
     been relying on implicit inclusion"

* tag 'regmap-v3.11-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regmap:
  regmap: rbtree: Fix overlapping rbnodes.
  regmap: Add another missing header for !CONFIG_REGMAP stubs
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