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<title>fix EBUSY on umount() from MNT_SHRINKABLE</title>
<updated>2014-08-30T22:32:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-30T22:32:05+00:00</published>
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We need the parents of victims alive until namespace_unlock() gets to
dput() of the (ex-)mountpoints.  However, that screws up the "is it
busy" checks in case when we have shrinkable mounts that need to be
killed.  Solution: go ahead and decrement refcounts of parents right
in umount_tree(), increment them again just before dropping rwsem in
namespace_unlock() (and let the loop in the end of namespace_unlock()
finally drop those references for good, as we do now).  Parents can't
get freed until we drop rwsem - at least one reference is kept until
then, both in case when parent is among the victims and when it is
not.  So they'll still be around when we get to namespace_unlock().

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.12+
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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We need the parents of victims alive until namespace_unlock() gets to
dput() of the (ex-)mountpoints.  However, that screws up the "is it
busy" checks in case when we have shrinkable mounts that need to be
killed.  Solution: go ahead and decrement refcounts of parents right
in umount_tree(), increment them again just before dropping rwsem in
namespace_unlock() (and let the loop in the end of namespace_unlock()
finally drop those references for good, as we do now).  Parents can't
get freed until we drop rwsem - at least one reference is kept until
then, both in case when parent is among the victims and when it is
not.  So they'll still be around when we get to namespace_unlock().

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.12+
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>get rid of propagate_umount() mistakenly treating slaves as busy.</title>
<updated>2014-08-30T22:31:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-18T19:09:26+00:00</published>
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The check in __propagate_umount() ("has somebody explicitly mounted
something on that slave?") is done *before* taking the already doomed
victims out of the child lists.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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The check in __propagate_umount() ("has somebody explicitly mounted
something on that slave?") is done *before* taking the already doomed
victims out of the child lists.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fix copy_tree() regression</title>
<updated>2014-08-11T16:28:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-10T07:44:55+00:00</published>
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Since 3.14 we had copy_tree() get the shadowing wrong - if we had one
vfsmount shadowing another (i.e. if A is a slave of B, C is mounted
on A/foo, then D got mounted on B/foo creating D' on A/foo shadowed
by C), copy_tree() of A would make a copy of D' shadow the the copy of
C, not the other way around.

It's easy to fix, fortunately - just make sure that mount follows
the one that shadows it in mnt_child as well as in mnt_hash, and when
copy_tree() decides to attach a new mount, check if the last child
it has added to the same parent should be shadowing the new one.
And if it should, just use the same logics commit_tree() has - put the
new mount into the hash and children lists right after the one that
should shadow it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [3.14 and later]
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Since 3.14 we had copy_tree() get the shadowing wrong - if we had one
vfsmount shadowing another (i.e. if A is a slave of B, C is mounted
on A/foo, then D got mounted on B/foo creating D' on A/foo shadowed
by C), copy_tree() of A would make a copy of D' shadow the the copy of
C, not the other way around.

It's easy to fix, fortunately - just make sure that mount follows
the one that shadows it in mnt_child as well as in mnt_hash, and when
copy_tree() decides to attach a new mount, check if the last child
it has added to the same parent should be shadowing the new one.
And if it should, just use the same logics commit_tree() has - put the
new mount into the hash and children lists right after the one that
should shadow it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [3.14 and later]
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&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>2014-08-10T00:10:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-10T00:10:41+00:00</published>
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Pull namespace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "This is a bunch of small changes built against 3.16-rc6.  The most
  significant change for users is the first patch which makes setns
  drmatically faster by removing unneded rcu handling.

  The next chunk of changes are so that "mount -o remount,.." will not
  allow the user namespace root to drop flags on a mount set by the
  system wide root.  Aks this forces read-only mounts to stay read-only,
  no-dev mounts to stay no-dev, no-suid mounts to stay no-suid, no-exec
  mounts to stay no exec and it prevents unprivileged users from messing
  with a mounts atime settings.  I have included my test case as the
  last patch in this series so people performing backports can verify
  this change works correctly.

  The next change fixes a bug in NFS that was discovered while auditing
  nsproxy users for the first optimization.  Today you can oops the
  kernel by reading /proc/fs/nfsfs/{servers,volumes} if you are clever
  with pid namespaces.  I rebased and fixed the build of the
  !CONFIG_NFS_FS case yesterday when a build bot caught my typo.  Given
  that no one to my knowledge bases anything on my tree fixing the typo
  in place seems more responsible that requiring a typo-fix to be
  backported as well.

  The last change is a small semantic cleanup introducing
  /proc/thread-self and pointing /proc/mounts and /proc/net at it.  This
  prevents several kinds of problemantic corner cases.  It is a
  user-visible change so it has a minute chance of causing regressions
  so the change to /proc/mounts and /proc/net are individual one line
  commits that can be trivially reverted.  Unfortunately I lost and
  could not find the email of the original reporter so he is not
  credited.  From at least one perspective this change to /proc/net is a
  refgression fix to allow pthread /proc/net uses that were broken by
  the introduction of the network namespace"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  proc: Point /proc/mounts at /proc/thread-self/mounts instead of /proc/self/mounts
  proc: Point /proc/net at /proc/thread-self/net instead of /proc/self/net
  proc: Implement /proc/thread-self to point at the directory of the current thread
  proc: Have net show up under /proc/&lt;tgid&gt;/task/&lt;tid&gt;
  NFS: Fix /proc/fs/nfsfs/servers and /proc/fs/nfsfs/volumes
  mnt: Add tests for unprivileged remount cases that have found to be faulty
  mnt: Change the default remount atime from relatime to the existing value
  mnt: Correct permission checks in do_remount
  mnt: Move the test for MNT_LOCK_READONLY from change_mount_flags into do_remount
  mnt: Only change user settable mount flags in remount
  namespaces: Use task_lock and not rcu to protect nsproxy
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Pull namespace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "This is a bunch of small changes built against 3.16-rc6.  The most
  significant change for users is the first patch which makes setns
  drmatically faster by removing unneded rcu handling.

  The next chunk of changes are so that "mount -o remount,.." will not
  allow the user namespace root to drop flags on a mount set by the
  system wide root.  Aks this forces read-only mounts to stay read-only,
  no-dev mounts to stay no-dev, no-suid mounts to stay no-suid, no-exec
  mounts to stay no exec and it prevents unprivileged users from messing
  with a mounts atime settings.  I have included my test case as the
  last patch in this series so people performing backports can verify
  this change works correctly.

  The next change fixes a bug in NFS that was discovered while auditing
  nsproxy users for the first optimization.  Today you can oops the
  kernel by reading /proc/fs/nfsfs/{servers,volumes} if you are clever
  with pid namespaces.  I rebased and fixed the build of the
  !CONFIG_NFS_FS case yesterday when a build bot caught my typo.  Given
  that no one to my knowledge bases anything on my tree fixing the typo
  in place seems more responsible that requiring a typo-fix to be
  backported as well.

  The last change is a small semantic cleanup introducing
  /proc/thread-self and pointing /proc/mounts and /proc/net at it.  This
  prevents several kinds of problemantic corner cases.  It is a
  user-visible change so it has a minute chance of causing regressions
  so the change to /proc/mounts and /proc/net are individual one line
  commits that can be trivially reverted.  Unfortunately I lost and
  could not find the email of the original reporter so he is not
  credited.  From at least one perspective this change to /proc/net is a
  refgression fix to allow pthread /proc/net uses that were broken by
  the introduction of the network namespace"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  proc: Point /proc/mounts at /proc/thread-self/mounts instead of /proc/self/mounts
  proc: Point /proc/net at /proc/thread-self/net instead of /proc/self/net
  proc: Implement /proc/thread-self to point at the directory of the current thread
  proc: Have net show up under /proc/&lt;tgid&gt;/task/&lt;tid&gt;
  NFS: Fix /proc/fs/nfsfs/servers and /proc/fs/nfsfs/volumes
  mnt: Add tests for unprivileged remount cases that have found to be faulty
  mnt: Change the default remount atime from relatime to the existing value
  mnt: Correct permission checks in do_remount
  mnt: Move the test for MNT_LOCK_READONLY from change_mount_flags into do_remount
  mnt: Only change user settable mount flags in remount
  namespaces: Use task_lock and not rcu to protect nsproxy
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>death to mnt_pinned</title>
<updated>2014-08-07T18:40:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-07T13:12:31+00:00</published>
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Rather than playing silly buggers with vfsmount refcounts, just have
acct_on() ask fs/namespace.c for internal clone of file-&gt;f_path.mnt
and replace it with said clone.  Then attach the pin to original
vfsmount.  Voila - the clone will be alive until the file gets closed,
making sure that underlying superblock remains active, etc., and
we can drop the original vfsmount, so that it's not kept busy.
If the file lives until the final mntput of the original vfsmount,
we'll notice that there's an fs_pin (one in bsd_acct_struct that
holds that file) and mnt_pin_kill() will take it out.  Since
-&gt;kill() is synchronous, we won't proceed past that point until
these files are closed (and private clones of our vfsmount are
gone), so we get the same ordering warranties we used to get.

mnt_pin()/mnt_unpin()/-&gt;mnt_pinned is gone now, and good riddance -
it never became usable outside of kernel/acct.c (and racy wrt
umount even there).

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Rather than playing silly buggers with vfsmount refcounts, just have
acct_on() ask fs/namespace.c for internal clone of file-&gt;f_path.mnt
and replace it with said clone.  Then attach the pin to original
vfsmount.  Voila - the clone will be alive until the file gets closed,
making sure that underlying superblock remains active, etc., and
we can drop the original vfsmount, so that it's not kept busy.
If the file lives until the final mntput of the original vfsmount,
we'll notice that there's an fs_pin (one in bsd_acct_struct that
holds that file) and mnt_pin_kill() will take it out.  Since
-&gt;kill() is synchronous, we won't proceed past that point until
these files are closed (and private clones of our vfsmount are
gone), so we get the same ordering warranties we used to get.

mnt_pin()/mnt_unpin()/-&gt;mnt_pinned is gone now, and good riddance -
it never became usable outside of kernel/acct.c (and racy wrt
umount even there).

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>make fs/{namespace,super}.c forget about acct.h</title>
<updated>2014-08-07T18:40:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-21T22:22:52+00:00</published>
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These externs belong in fs/internal.h.  Rename (they are not acct-specific
anymore) and move them over there.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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These externs belong in fs/internal.h.  Rename (they are not acct-specific
anymore) and move them over there.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>acct: get rid of acct_list</title>
<updated>2014-08-07T18:40:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-07T10:23:41+00:00</published>
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Put these suckers on per-vfsmount and per-superblock lists instead.
Note: right now it's still acct_lock for everything, but that's
going to change.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Put these suckers on per-vfsmount and per-superblock lists instead.
Note: right now it's still acct_lock for everything, but that's
going to change.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>list: fix order of arguments for hlist_add_after(_rcu)</title>
<updated>2014-08-07T01:01:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ken Helias</name>
<email>kenhelias@firemail.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-06T23:09:16+00:00</published>
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All other add functions for lists have the new item as first argument
and the position where it is added as second argument.  This was changed
for no good reason in this function and makes using it unnecessary
confusing.

The name was changed to hlist_add_behind() to cause unconverted code to
generate a compile error instead of using the wrong parameter order.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Ken Helias &lt;kenhelias@firemail.de&gt;
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher &lt;jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com&gt;	[intel driver bits]
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&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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All other add functions for lists have the new item as first argument
and the position where it is added as second argument.  This was changed
for no good reason in this function and makes using it unnecessary
confusing.

The name was changed to hlist_add_behind() to cause unconverted code to
generate a compile error instead of using the wrong parameter order.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Ken Helias &lt;kenhelias@firemail.de&gt;
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher &lt;jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com&gt;	[intel driver bits]
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&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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<title>mnt: Change the default remount atime from relatime to the existing value</title>
<updated>2014-08-01T00:12:59+00:00</updated>
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<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
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<published>2014-07-29T00:36:04+00:00</published>
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Since March 2009 the kernel has treated the state that if no
MS_..ATIME flags are passed then the kernel defaults to relatime.

Defaulting to relatime instead of the existing atime state during a
remount is silly, and causes problems in practice for people who don't
specify any MS_...ATIME flags and to get the default filesystem atime
setting.  Those users may encounter a permission error because the
default atime setting does not work.

A default that does not work and causes permission problems is
ridiculous, so preserve the existing value to have a default
atime setting that is always guaranteed to work.

Using the default atime setting in this way is particularly
interesting for applications built to run in restricted userspace
environments without /proc mounted, as the existing atime mount
options of a filesystem can not be read from /proc/mounts.

In practice this fixes user space that uses the default atime
setting on remount that are broken by the permission checks
keeping less privileged users from changing more privileged users
atime settings.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn &lt;serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Since March 2009 the kernel has treated the state that if no
MS_..ATIME flags are passed then the kernel defaults to relatime.

Defaulting to relatime instead of the existing atime state during a
remount is silly, and causes problems in practice for people who don't
specify any MS_...ATIME flags and to get the default filesystem atime
setting.  Those users may encounter a permission error because the
default atime setting does not work.

A default that does not work and causes permission problems is
ridiculous, so preserve the existing value to have a default
atime setting that is always guaranteed to work.

Using the default atime setting in this way is particularly
interesting for applications built to run in restricted userspace
environments without /proc mounted, as the existing atime mount
options of a filesystem can not be read from /proc/mounts.

In practice this fixes user space that uses the default atime
setting on remount that are broken by the permission checks
keeping less privileged users from changing more privileged users
atime settings.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn &lt;serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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