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<title>fs/vfs/security: pass last path component to LSM on inode creation</title>
<updated>2011-02-01T16:12:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Paris</name>
<email>eparis@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-02-01T16:05:39+00:00</published>
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SELinux would like to implement a new labeling behavior of newly created
inodes.  We currently label new inodes based on the parent and the creating
process.  This new behavior would also take into account the name of the
new object when deciding the new label.  This is not the (supposed) full path,
just the last component of the path.

This is very useful because creating /etc/shadow is different than creating
/etc/passwd but the kernel hooks are unable to differentiate these
operations.  We currently require that userspace realize it is doing some
difficult operation like that and than userspace jumps through SELinux hoops
to get things set up correctly.  This patch does not implement new
behavior, that is obviously contained in a seperate SELinux patch, but it
does pass the needed name down to the correct LSM hook.  If no such name
exists it is fine to pass NULL.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
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SELinux would like to implement a new labeling behavior of newly created
inodes.  We currently label new inodes based on the parent and the creating
process.  This new behavior would also take into account the name of the
new object when deciding the new label.  This is not the (supposed) full path,
just the last component of the path.

This is very useful because creating /etc/shadow is different than creating
/etc/passwd but the kernel hooks are unable to differentiate these
operations.  We currently require that userspace realize it is doing some
difficult operation like that and than userspace jumps through SELinux hoops
to get things set up correctly.  This patch does not implement new
behavior, that is obviously contained in a seperate SELinux patch, but it
does pass the needed name down to the correct LSM hook.  If no such name
exists it is fine to pass NULL.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h</title>
<updated>2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-24T08:04:11+00:00</published>
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[JFFS2] Track parent inode for directories (for NFS export)</title>
<updated>2008-05-01T17:47:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Woodhouse</name>
<email>dwmw2@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-05-01T17:47:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=27c72b040c0be8f3704ed0b6b84c12cbba24a7e8'/>
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To support NFS export, we need to know the parent inode of directories.
Rather than growing the jffs2_inode_cache structure, share space with
the nlink field -- which was always set to 1 for directories anyway.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
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To support NFS export, we need to know the parent inode of directories.
Rather than growing the jffs2_inode_cache structure, share space with
the nlink field -- which was always set to 1 for directories anyway.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[JFFS2] Quiet lockdep false positive.</title>
<updated>2008-05-01T14:53:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Woodhouse</name>
<email>dwmw2@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-05-01T14:53:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=590fe34c47cb5c2d836ac76fabc5f160bf31a3f1'/>
<id>590fe34c47cb5c2d836ac76fabc5f160bf31a3f1</id>
<content type='text'>
Don't hold f-&gt;sem while calling into jffs2_do_create(). It makes lockdep
unhappy, and we don't really need it -- the _reason_ it's a false
positive is because nobody else can see this inode yet and so nobody
will be trying to lock it anyway.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
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Don't hold f-&gt;sem while calling into jffs2_do_create(). It makes lockdep
unhappy, and we don't really need it -- the _reason_ it's a false
positive is because nobody else can see this inode yet and so nobody
will be trying to lock it anyway.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[JFFS2] semaphore-&gt;mutex conversion</title>
<updated>2008-04-22T14:13:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Woodhouse</name>
<email>dwmw2@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-22T14:13:40+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ced22070363ef50e4a47aadd003a81ebeaa3f917'/>
<id>ced22070363ef50e4a47aadd003a81ebeaa3f917</id>
<content type='text'>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[JFFS2] fix sparse warning in write.c</title>
<updated>2008-04-22T11:35:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Harvey Harrison</name>
<email>harvey.harrison@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-18T20:44:14+00:00</published>
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fs/jffs2/write.c:585:28: warning: symbol 'fd' shadows an earlier one
fs/jffs2/write.c:536:27: originally declared here

No need to redeclare fd, use the original one, after this point,
fd is always reassigned before it used again.

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison &lt;harvey.harrison@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
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fs/jffs2/write.c:585:28: warning: symbol 'fd' shadows an earlier one
fs/jffs2/write.c:536:27: originally declared here

No need to redeclare fd, use the original one, after this point,
fd is always reassigned before it used again.

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison &lt;harvey.harrison@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6</title>
<updated>2008-02-07T18:20:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-07T18:20:31+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (120 commits)
  [MTD] Fix mtdoops.c compilation
  [MTD] [NOR] fix startup lock when using multiple nor flash chips
  [MTD] [DOC200x] eccbuf is statically defined and always evaluate to true
  [MTD] Fix maps/physmap.c compilation with CONFIG_PM
  [MTD] onenand: Add panic_write function to the onenand driver
  [MTD] mtdoops: Use the panic_write function when present
  [MTD] Add mtd panic_write function pointer
  [MTD] [NAND] Freescale enhanced Local Bus Controller FCM NAND support.
  [MTD] physmap.c: Add support for multiple resources
  [MTD] [NAND] Fix misparenthesization introduced by commit 78b65179...
  [MTD] [NAND] Fix Blackfin NFC ECC calculating bug with page size 512 bytes
  [MTD] [NAND] Remove wrong operation in PM function of the BF54x NFC driver
  [MTD] [NAND] Remove unused variable in plat_nand_remove
  [MTD] Unlocking all Intel flash that is locked on power up.
  [MTD] [NAND] at91_nand: Make mtdparts option can override board info
  [MTD] mtdoops: Various minor cleanups
  [MTD] mtdoops: Ensure sequential write to the buffer
  [MTD] mtdoops: Perform write operations in a workqueue
  [MTD] mtdoops: Add further error return code checking
  [MTD] [NOR] Test devtype, not definition in flash_probe(), drivers/mtd/devices/lart.c
  ...
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* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (120 commits)
  [MTD] Fix mtdoops.c compilation
  [MTD] [NOR] fix startup lock when using multiple nor flash chips
  [MTD] [DOC200x] eccbuf is statically defined and always evaluate to true
  [MTD] Fix maps/physmap.c compilation with CONFIG_PM
  [MTD] onenand: Add panic_write function to the onenand driver
  [MTD] mtdoops: Use the panic_write function when present
  [MTD] Add mtd panic_write function pointer
  [MTD] [NAND] Freescale enhanced Local Bus Controller FCM NAND support.
  [MTD] physmap.c: Add support for multiple resources
  [MTD] [NAND] Fix misparenthesization introduced by commit 78b65179...
  [MTD] [NAND] Fix Blackfin NFC ECC calculating bug with page size 512 bytes
  [MTD] [NAND] Remove wrong operation in PM function of the BF54x NFC driver
  [MTD] [NAND] Remove unused variable in plat_nand_remove
  [MTD] Unlocking all Intel flash that is locked on power up.
  [MTD] [NAND] at91_nand: Make mtdparts option can override board info
  [MTD] mtdoops: Various minor cleanups
  [MTD] mtdoops: Ensure sequential write to the buffer
  [MTD] mtdoops: Perform write operations in a workqueue
  [MTD] mtdoops: Add further error return code checking
  [MTD] [NOR] Test devtype, not definition in flash_probe(), drivers/mtd/devices/lart.c
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(p)) instances to ERR_CAST(p)</title>
<updated>2008-02-07T16:42:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-07T08:15:26+00:00</published>
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Convert instances of ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(p)) to ERR_CAST(p) using:

perl -spi -e 's/ERR_PTR[(]PTR_ERR[(](.*)[)][)]/ERR_CAST(\1)/' `grep -rl 'ERR_PTR[(]*PTR_ERR' fs crypto net security`

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Convert instances of ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(p)) to ERR_CAST(p) using:

perl -spi -e 's/ERR_PTR[(]PTR_ERR[(](.*)[)][)]/ERR_CAST(\1)/' `grep -rl 'ERR_PTR[(]*PTR_ERR' fs crypto net security`

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[JFFS2] Fix misapplied patch causing compile breakage</title>
<updated>2007-11-06T08:29:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Woodhouse</name>
<email>dwmw2@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-11-06T08:29:59+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=6d88202e3985afc5ac62733b7673c7e815cda698'/>
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<content type='text'>
Somehow, the patch in commit 15953580e79b58caefb107e77f218e009b9992e6
was misapplied and part of the old list-traversal remained. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
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<pre>
Somehow, the patch in commit 15953580e79b58caefb107e77f218e009b9992e6
was misapplied and part of the old list-traversal remained. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[JFFS2] Improve getdents vs. f_pos handling on NOR flash.</title>
<updated>2007-11-01T20:25:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Woodhouse</name>
<email>dwmw2@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-11-01T20:25:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=15953580e79b58caefb107e77f218e009b9992e6'/>
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Commit a491486a2087ac3dfc00efb4f838c8d684afaf54 started obliterating
dirents directly on the medium, when jffs2_can_mark_obsolete(). Removing
them immediately from the f-&gt;dents list, however, screws up handling of
f_pos within a directory -- because the offset is equivalent to the
number of entries through the list we are, and the existence of
deletion dirents served to provide 'placeholders' for unlinked
entries. Now, 'rm -r' doesn't even manage to unlink everything in the
directory.

Revert to keeping 'deletion' dirents in the list, at least in memory
even though we no longer write anything to the medium.

Spotted, debugged and mostly fixed by Joakim Tjernlund

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
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Commit a491486a2087ac3dfc00efb4f838c8d684afaf54 started obliterating
dirents directly on the medium, when jffs2_can_mark_obsolete(). Removing
them immediately from the f-&gt;dents list, however, screws up handling of
f_pos within a directory -- because the offset is equivalent to the
number of entries through the list we are, and the existence of
deletion dirents served to provide 'placeholders' for unlinked
entries. Now, 'rm -r' doesn't even manage to unlink everything in the
directory.

Revert to keeping 'deletion' dirents in the list, at least in memory
even though we no longer write anything to the medium.

Spotted, debugged and mostly fixed by Joakim Tjernlund

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
</pre>
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