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<title>linux.git/arch/parisc/include/uapi, branch v4.13</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>tty: Fix TIOCGPTPEER ioctl definition</title>
<updated>2017-07-17T15:04:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy</name>
<email>glebfm@altlinux.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-17T13:29:46+00:00</published>
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This ioctl does nothing to justify an _IOC_READ or _IOC_WRITE flag
because it doesn't copy anything from/to userspace to access the
argument.

Fixes: 54ebbfb16034 ("tty: add TIOCGPTPEER ioctl")
Signed-off-by: Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy &lt;glebfm@altlinux.org&gt;
Acked-by: Aleksa Sarai &lt;asarai@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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This ioctl does nothing to justify an _IOC_READ or _IOC_WRITE flag
because it doesn't copy anything from/to userspace to access the
argument.

Fixes: 54ebbfb16034 ("tty: add TIOCGPTPEER ioctl")
Signed-off-by: Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy &lt;glebfm@altlinux.org&gt;
Acked-by: Aleksa Sarai &lt;asarai@suse.de&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: move generic-y of exported headers to uapi/asm/Kbuild</title>
<updated>2017-07-11T12:33:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-09T18:32:52+00:00</published>
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Since commit fcc8487d477a ("uapi: export all headers under uapi
directories"), all (and only) headers under uapi directories are
exported, but asm-generic wrappers are still exceptions.

To complete de-coupling the uapi from kernel headers, move generic-y
of exported headers to uapi/asm/Kbuild.

With this change, "make headers_install" will just need to parse
uapi/asm/Kbuild to build up exported headers.

Also, move "generic-y += kprobes.h" up in order to keep the entries
sorted.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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<pre>
Since commit fcc8487d477a ("uapi: export all headers under uapi
directories"), all (and only) headers under uapi directories are
exported, but asm-generic wrappers are still exceptions.

To complete de-coupling the uapi from kernel headers, move generic-y
of exported headers to uapi/asm/Kbuild.

With this change, "make headers_install" will just need to parse
uapi/asm/Kbuild to build up exported headers.

Also, move "generic-y += kprobes.h" up in order to keep the entries
sorted.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next</title>
<updated>2017-07-05T19:31:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-05T19:31:59+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Reasonably busy this cycle, but perhaps not as busy as in the 4.12
  merge window:

   1) Several optimizations for UDP processing under high load from
      Paolo Abeni.

   2) Support pacing internally in TCP when using the sch_fq packet
      scheduler for this is not practical. From Eric Dumazet.

   3) Support mutliple filter chains per qdisc, from Jiri Pirko.

   4) Move to 1ms TCP timestamp clock, from Eric Dumazet.

   5) Add batch dequeueing to vhost_net, from Jason Wang.

   6) Flesh out more completely SCTP checksum offload support, from
      Davide Caratti.

   7) More plumbing of extended netlink ACKs, from David Ahern, Pablo
      Neira Ayuso, and Matthias Schiffer.

   8) Add devlink support to nfp driver, from Simon Horman.

   9) Add RTM_F_FIB_MATCH flag to RTM_GETROUTE queries, from Roopa
      Prabhu.

  10) Add stack depth tracking to BPF verifier and use this information
      in the various eBPF JITs. From Alexei Starovoitov.

  11) Support XDP on qed device VFs, from Yuval Mintz.

  12) Introduce BPF PROG ID for better introspection of installed BPF
      programs. From Martin KaFai Lau.

  13) Add bpf_set_hash helper for TC bpf programs, from Daniel Borkmann.

  14) For loads, allow narrower accesses in bpf verifier checking, from
      Yonghong Song.

  15) Support MIPS in the BPF selftests and samples infrastructure, the
      MIPS eBPF JIT will be merged in via the MIPS GIT tree. From David
      Daney.

  16) Support kernel based TLS, from Dave Watson and others.

  17) Remove completely DST garbage collection, from Wei Wang.

  18) Allow installing TCP MD5 rules using prefixes, from Ivan
      Delalande.

  19) Add XDP support to Intel i40e driver, from Björn Töpel

  20) Add support for TC flower offload in nfp driver, from Simon
      Horman, Pieter Jansen van Vuuren, Benjamin LaHaise, Jakub
      Kicinski, and Bert van Leeuwen.

  21) IPSEC offloading support in mlx5, from Ilan Tayari.

  22) Add HW PTP support to macb driver, from Rafal Ozieblo.

  23) Networking refcount_t conversions, From Elena Reshetova.

  24) Add sock_ops support to BPF, from Lawrence Brako. This is useful
      for tuning the TCP sockopt settings of a group of applications,
      currently via CGROUPs"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1899 commits)
  net: phy: dp83867: add workaround for incorrect RX_CTRL pin strap
  dt-bindings: phy: dp83867: provide a workaround for incorrect RX_CTRL pin strap
  cxgb4: Support for get_ts_info ethtool method
  cxgb4: Add PTP Hardware Clock (PHC) support
  cxgb4: time stamping interface for PTP
  nfp: default to chained metadata prepend format
  nfp: remove legacy MAC address lookup
  nfp: improve order of interfaces in breakout mode
  net: macb: remove extraneous return when MACB_EXT_DESC is defined
  bpf: add missing break in for the TCP_BPF_SNDCWND_CLAMP case
  bpf: fix return in load_bpf_file
  mpls: fix rtm policy in mpls_getroute
  net, ax25: convert ax25_cb.refcount from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, ax25: convert ax25_route.refcount from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, ax25: convert ax25_uid_assoc.refcount from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, sctp: convert sctp_ep_common.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, sctp: convert sctp_transport.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, sctp: convert sctp_chunk.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, sctp: convert sctp_datamsg.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, sctp: convert sctp_auth_bytes.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  ...
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<pre>
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Reasonably busy this cycle, but perhaps not as busy as in the 4.12
  merge window:

   1) Several optimizations for UDP processing under high load from
      Paolo Abeni.

   2) Support pacing internally in TCP when using the sch_fq packet
      scheduler for this is not practical. From Eric Dumazet.

   3) Support mutliple filter chains per qdisc, from Jiri Pirko.

   4) Move to 1ms TCP timestamp clock, from Eric Dumazet.

   5) Add batch dequeueing to vhost_net, from Jason Wang.

   6) Flesh out more completely SCTP checksum offload support, from
      Davide Caratti.

   7) More plumbing of extended netlink ACKs, from David Ahern, Pablo
      Neira Ayuso, and Matthias Schiffer.

   8) Add devlink support to nfp driver, from Simon Horman.

   9) Add RTM_F_FIB_MATCH flag to RTM_GETROUTE queries, from Roopa
      Prabhu.

  10) Add stack depth tracking to BPF verifier and use this information
      in the various eBPF JITs. From Alexei Starovoitov.

  11) Support XDP on qed device VFs, from Yuval Mintz.

  12) Introduce BPF PROG ID for better introspection of installed BPF
      programs. From Martin KaFai Lau.

  13) Add bpf_set_hash helper for TC bpf programs, from Daniel Borkmann.

  14) For loads, allow narrower accesses in bpf verifier checking, from
      Yonghong Song.

  15) Support MIPS in the BPF selftests and samples infrastructure, the
      MIPS eBPF JIT will be merged in via the MIPS GIT tree. From David
      Daney.

  16) Support kernel based TLS, from Dave Watson and others.

  17) Remove completely DST garbage collection, from Wei Wang.

  18) Allow installing TCP MD5 rules using prefixes, from Ivan
      Delalande.

  19) Add XDP support to Intel i40e driver, from Björn Töpel

  20) Add support for TC flower offload in nfp driver, from Simon
      Horman, Pieter Jansen van Vuuren, Benjamin LaHaise, Jakub
      Kicinski, and Bert van Leeuwen.

  21) IPSEC offloading support in mlx5, from Ilan Tayari.

  22) Add HW PTP support to macb driver, from Rafal Ozieblo.

  23) Networking refcount_t conversions, From Elena Reshetova.

  24) Add sock_ops support to BPF, from Lawrence Brako. This is useful
      for tuning the TCP sockopt settings of a group of applications,
      currently via CGROUPs"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1899 commits)
  net: phy: dp83867: add workaround for incorrect RX_CTRL pin strap
  dt-bindings: phy: dp83867: provide a workaround for incorrect RX_CTRL pin strap
  cxgb4: Support for get_ts_info ethtool method
  cxgb4: Add PTP Hardware Clock (PHC) support
  cxgb4: time stamping interface for PTP
  nfp: default to chained metadata prepend format
  nfp: remove legacy MAC address lookup
  nfp: improve order of interfaces in breakout mode
  net: macb: remove extraneous return when MACB_EXT_DESC is defined
  bpf: add missing break in for the TCP_BPF_SNDCWND_CLAMP case
  bpf: fix return in load_bpf_file
  mpls: fix rtm policy in mpls_getroute
  net, ax25: convert ax25_cb.refcount from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, ax25: convert ax25_route.refcount from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, ax25: convert ax25_uid_assoc.refcount from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, sctp: convert sctp_ep_common.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, sctp: convert sctp_transport.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, sctp: convert sctp_chunk.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, sctp: convert sctp_datamsg.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  net, sctp: convert sctp_auth_bytes.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'tty-4.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty</title>
<updated>2017-07-04T03:04:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-04T03:04:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=9a715cd54347948e74f1a597da22884af287727d'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull tty/serial updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the large tty/serial patchset for 4.13-rc1.

  A lot of tty and serial driver updates are in here, along with some
  fixups for some __get/put_user usages that were reported. Nothing
  huge, just lots of development by a number of different developers,
  full details in the shortlog.

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while"

* tag 'tty-4.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (71 commits)
  tty: serial: lpuart: add a more accurate baud rate calculation method
  tty: serial: lpuart: add earlycon support for imx7ulp
  tty: serial: lpuart: add imx7ulp support
  dt-bindings: serial: fsl-lpuart: add i.MX7ULP support
  tty: serial: lpuart: add little endian 32 bit register support
  tty: serial: lpuart: refactor lpuart32_{read|write} prototype
  tty: serial: lpuart: introduce lpuart_soc_data to represent SoC property
  serial: imx-serial - move DMA buffer configuration to DT
  serial: imx: Enable RTSD only when needed
  serial: imx: Remove unused members from imx_port struct
  serial: 8250: 8250_omap: Fix race b/w dma completion and RX timeout
  serial: 8250: Fix THRE flag usage for CAP_MINI
  tty/serial: meson_uart: update to stable bindings
  dt-bindings: serial: Add bindings for the Amlogic Meson UARTs
  serial: Delete dead code for CIR serial ports
  serial: sirf: make of_device_ids const
  serial/mpsc: switch to dma_alloc_attrs
  tty: serial: Add Actions Semi Owl UART earlycon
  dt-bindings: serial: Document Actions Semi Owl UARTs
  tty/serial: atmel: make the driver DT only
  ...
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<pre>
Pull tty/serial updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the large tty/serial patchset for 4.13-rc1.

  A lot of tty and serial driver updates are in here, along with some
  fixups for some __get/put_user usages that were reported. Nothing
  huge, just lots of development by a number of different developers,
  full details in the shortlog.

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while"

* tag 'tty-4.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (71 commits)
  tty: serial: lpuart: add a more accurate baud rate calculation method
  tty: serial: lpuart: add earlycon support for imx7ulp
  tty: serial: lpuart: add imx7ulp support
  dt-bindings: serial: fsl-lpuart: add i.MX7ULP support
  tty: serial: lpuart: add little endian 32 bit register support
  tty: serial: lpuart: refactor lpuart32_{read|write} prototype
  tty: serial: lpuart: introduce lpuart_soc_data to represent SoC property
  serial: imx-serial - move DMA buffer configuration to DT
  serial: imx: Enable RTSD only when needed
  serial: imx: Remove unused members from imx_port struct
  serial: 8250: 8250_omap: Fix race b/w dma completion and RX timeout
  serial: 8250: Fix THRE flag usage for CAP_MINI
  tty/serial: meson_uart: update to stable bindings
  dt-bindings: serial: Add bindings for the Amlogic Meson UARTs
  serial: Delete dead code for CIR serial ports
  serial: sirf: make of_device_ids const
  serial/mpsc: switch to dma_alloc_attrs
  tty: serial: Add Actions Semi Owl UART earlycon
  dt-bindings: serial: Document Actions Semi Owl UARTs
  tty/serial: atmel: make the driver DT only
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'parisc-4.13-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux</title>
<updated>2017-07-03T22:27:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-03T22:27:58+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=e5859eb84576ce7a0d95be6224d2e269c8daa741'/>
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Pull parisc updates from Helge Deller:
 "Main changes are:

   - Added support to the parisc dma functions to return DMA_ERROR_CODE
     if DMA isn't possible. This fixes a long standing kernel crash if
     parport_pc is enabled (by Thomas Bogendoerfer, marked for stable
     series).

   - Use the compat_sys_keyctl() in compat mode (by Eric Biggers, marked
     for stable series).

   - Initial support for the Page Deallocation Table (PDT) which is
     maintained by firmware and holds the list of memory addresses which
     had physical errors. By checking that list we can prevent Linux to
     use those broken memory areas.

   - Ensure IRQs are off in switch_mm().

   - Report SIGSEGV instead of SIGBUS when running out of stack.

   - Mark the cr16 clocksource stable on single-socket and single-core
     machines"

* 'parisc-4.13-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
  parisc: DMA API: return error instead of BUG_ON for dma ops on non dma devs
  parisc: Report SIGSEGV instead of SIGBUS when running out of stack
  parisc: use compat_sys_keyctl()
  parisc: Don't hardcode PSW values in hpmc code
  parisc: Don't hardcode PSW values in gsc_*() functions
  parisc: Avoid zeroing gr[0] in fixup_exception()
  parisc/mm: Ensure IRQs are off in switch_mm()
  parisc: Add Page Deallocation Table (PDT) support
  parisc: Enhance detection of synchronous cr16 clocksources
  parisc: Drop per_cpu uaccess related exception_data struct
  parisc: Inline trivial exception code in lusercopy.S
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<pre>
Pull parisc updates from Helge Deller:
 "Main changes are:

   - Added support to the parisc dma functions to return DMA_ERROR_CODE
     if DMA isn't possible. This fixes a long standing kernel crash if
     parport_pc is enabled (by Thomas Bogendoerfer, marked for stable
     series).

   - Use the compat_sys_keyctl() in compat mode (by Eric Biggers, marked
     for stable series).

   - Initial support for the Page Deallocation Table (PDT) which is
     maintained by firmware and holds the list of memory addresses which
     had physical errors. By checking that list we can prevent Linux to
     use those broken memory areas.

   - Ensure IRQs are off in switch_mm().

   - Report SIGSEGV instead of SIGBUS when running out of stack.

   - Mark the cr16 clocksource stable on single-socket and single-core
     machines"

* 'parisc-4.13-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
  parisc: DMA API: return error instead of BUG_ON for dma ops on non dma devs
  parisc: Report SIGSEGV instead of SIGBUS when running out of stack
  parisc: use compat_sys_keyctl()
  parisc: Don't hardcode PSW values in hpmc code
  parisc: Don't hardcode PSW values in gsc_*() functions
  parisc: Avoid zeroing gr[0] in fixup_exception()
  parisc/mm: Ensure IRQs are off in switch_mm()
  parisc: Add Page Deallocation Table (PDT) support
  parisc: Enhance detection of synchronous cr16 clocksources
  parisc: Drop per_cpu uaccess related exception_data struct
  parisc: Inline trivial exception code in lusercopy.S
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: introduce SO_PEERGROUPS getsockopt</title>
<updated>2017-06-21T15:38:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Herrmann</name>
<email>dh.herrmann@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-21T08:47:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=28b5ba2aa0f55d80adb2624564ed2b170c19519e'/>
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This adds the new getsockopt(2) option SO_PEERGROUPS on SOL_SOCKET to
retrieve the auxiliary groups of the remote peer. It is designed to
naturally extend SO_PEERCRED. That is, the underlying data is from the
same credentials. Regarding its syntax, it is based on SO_PEERSEC. That
is, if the provided buffer is too small, ERANGE is returned and @optlen
is updated. Otherwise, the information is copied, @optlen is set to the
actual size, and 0 is returned.

While SO_PEERCRED (and thus `struct ucred') already returns the primary
group, it lacks the auxiliary group vector. However, nearly all access
controls (including kernel side VFS and SYSVIPC, but also user-space
polkit, DBus, ...) consider the entire set of groups, rather than just
the primary group. But this is currently not possible with pure
SO_PEERCRED. Instead, user-space has to work around this and query the
system database for the auxiliary groups of a UID retrieved via
SO_PEERCRED.

Unfortunately, there is no race-free way to query the auxiliary groups
of the PID/UID retrieved via SO_PEERCRED. Hence, the current user-space
solution is to use getgrouplist(3p), which itself falls back to NSS and
whatever is configured in nsswitch.conf(3). This effectively checks
which groups we *would* assign to the user if it logged in *now*. On
normal systems it is as easy as reading /etc/group, but with NSS it can
resort to quering network databases (eg., LDAP), using IPC or network
communication.

Long story short: Whenever we want to use auxiliary groups for access
checks on IPC, we need further IPC to talk to the user/group databases,
rather than just relying on SO_PEERCRED and the incoming socket. This
is unfortunate, and might even result in dead-locks if the database
query uses the same IPC as the original request.

So far, those recursions / dead-locks have been avoided by using
primitive IPC for all crucial NSS modules. However, we want to avoid
re-inventing the wheel for each NSS module that might be involved in
user/group queries. Hence, we would preferably make DBus (and other IPC
that supports access-management based on groups) work without resorting
to the user/group database. This new SO_PEERGROUPS ioctl would allow us
to make dbus-daemon work without ever calling into NSS.

Cc: Michal Sekletar &lt;msekleta@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Simon McVittie &lt;simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tom Gundersen &lt;teg@jklm.no&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann &lt;dh.herrmann@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
This adds the new getsockopt(2) option SO_PEERGROUPS on SOL_SOCKET to
retrieve the auxiliary groups of the remote peer. It is designed to
naturally extend SO_PEERCRED. That is, the underlying data is from the
same credentials. Regarding its syntax, it is based on SO_PEERSEC. That
is, if the provided buffer is too small, ERANGE is returned and @optlen
is updated. Otherwise, the information is copied, @optlen is set to the
actual size, and 0 is returned.

While SO_PEERCRED (and thus `struct ucred') already returns the primary
group, it lacks the auxiliary group vector. However, nearly all access
controls (including kernel side VFS and SYSVIPC, but also user-space
polkit, DBus, ...) consider the entire set of groups, rather than just
the primary group. But this is currently not possible with pure
SO_PEERCRED. Instead, user-space has to work around this and query the
system database for the auxiliary groups of a UID retrieved via
SO_PEERCRED.

Unfortunately, there is no race-free way to query the auxiliary groups
of the PID/UID retrieved via SO_PEERCRED. Hence, the current user-space
solution is to use getgrouplist(3p), which itself falls back to NSS and
whatever is configured in nsswitch.conf(3). This effectively checks
which groups we *would* assign to the user if it logged in *now*. On
normal systems it is as easy as reading /etc/group, but with NSS it can
resort to quering network databases (eg., LDAP), using IPC or network
communication.

Long story short: Whenever we want to use auxiliary groups for access
checks on IPC, we need further IPC to talk to the user/group databases,
rather than just relying on SO_PEERCRED and the incoming socket. This
is unfortunate, and might even result in dead-locks if the database
query uses the same IPC as the original request.

So far, those recursions / dead-locks have been avoided by using
primitive IPC for all crucial NSS modules. However, we want to avoid
re-inventing the wheel for each NSS module that might be involved in
user/group queries. Hence, we would preferably make DBus (and other IPC
that supports access-management based on groups) work without resorting
to the user/group database. This new SO_PEERGROUPS ioctl would allow us
to make dbus-daemon work without ever calling into NSS.

Cc: Michal Sekletar &lt;msekleta@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Simon McVittie &lt;simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tom Gundersen &lt;teg@jklm.no&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann &lt;dh.herrmann@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tty: add TIOCGPTPEER ioctl</title>
<updated>2017-06-09T10:27:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Aleksa Sarai</name>
<email>asarai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-06-03T14:15:15+00:00</published>
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When opening the slave end of a PTY, it is not possible for userspace to
safely ensure that /dev/pts/$num is actually a slave (in cases where the
mount namespace in which devpts was mounted is controlled by an
untrusted process). In addition, there are several unresolvable
race conditions if userspace were to attempt to detect attacks through
stat(2) and other similar methods [in addition it is not clear how
userspace could detect attacks involving FUSE].

Resolve this by providing an interface for userpace to safely open the
"peer" end of a PTY file descriptor by using the dentry cached by
devpts. Since it is not possible to have an open master PTY without
having its slave exposed in /dev/pts this interface is safe. This
interface currently does not provide a way to get the master pty (since
it is not clear whether such an interface is safe or even useful).

Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Cc: Valentin Rothberg &lt;vrothberg@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai &lt;asarai@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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When opening the slave end of a PTY, it is not possible for userspace to
safely ensure that /dev/pts/$num is actually a slave (in cases where the
mount namespace in which devpts was mounted is controlled by an
untrusted process). In addition, there are several unresolvable
race conditions if userspace were to attempt to detect attacks through
stat(2) and other similar methods [in addition it is not clear how
userspace could detect attacks involving FUSE].

Resolve this by providing an interface for userpace to safely open the
"peer" end of a PTY file descriptor by using the dentry cached by
devpts. Since it is not possible to have an open master PTY without
having its slave exposed in /dev/pts this interface is safe. This
interface currently does not provide a way to get the master pty (since
it is not clear whether such an interface is safe or even useful).

Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Cc: Valentin Rothberg &lt;vrothberg@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai &lt;asarai@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Fix parisc SCM_TIMESTAMPING_PKTINFO value.</title>
<updated>2017-05-22T14:26:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-22T14:26:24+00:00</published>
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Needs to follow the existing sequence.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Needs to follow the existing sequence.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>net: Define SCM_TIMESTAMPING_PKTINFO on all architectures.</title>
<updated>2017-05-22T03:13:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-22T03:13:37+00:00</published>
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A definition was only provided for asm-generic/socket.h
using platforms, define it for the others as well

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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A definition was only provided for asm-generic/socket.h
using platforms, define it for the others as well

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: Add Page Deallocation Table (PDT) support</title>
<updated>2017-05-12T07:14:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-11T20:24:15+00:00</published>
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The firmare in most parisc machines maintains a Page Deallocation Table (PDT)
which holds a list of physical memory addresses where hardware detected memory
errors (single bit and double bit errors).

This patch adds the missing PDC firmware calls and the logic to read the PDT
from firmware, report all current PDT entries and exclude the reported bad
memory from being used by Linux.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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The firmare in most parisc machines maintains a Page Deallocation Table (PDT)
which holds a list of physical memory addresses where hardware detected memory
errors (single bit and double bit errors).

This patch adds the missing PDC firmware calls and the logic to read the PDT
from firmware, report all current PDT entries and exclude the reported bad
memory from being used by Linux.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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