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<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'getname2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2015-02-17T23:27:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-17T23:27:47+00:00</published>
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Pull getname/putname updates from Al Viro:
 "Rework of getname/getname_kernel/etc., mostly from Paul Moore.  Gets
  rid of quite a pile of kludges between namei and audit..."

* 'getname2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  audit: replace getname()/putname() hacks with reference counters
  audit: fix filename matching in __audit_inode() and __audit_inode_child()
  audit: enable filename recording via getname_kernel()
  simpler calling conventions for filename_mountpoint()
  fs: create proper filename objects using getname_kernel()
  fs: rework getname_kernel to handle up to PATH_MAX sized filenames
  cut down the number of do_path_lookup() callers
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Pull getname/putname updates from Al Viro:
 "Rework of getname/getname_kernel/etc., mostly from Paul Moore.  Gets
  rid of quite a pile of kludges between namei and audit..."

* 'getname2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  audit: replace getname()/putname() hacks with reference counters
  audit: fix filename matching in __audit_inode() and __audit_inode_child()
  audit: enable filename recording via getname_kernel()
  simpler calling conventions for filename_mountpoint()
  fs: create proper filename objects using getname_kernel()
  fs: rework getname_kernel to handle up to PATH_MAX sized filenames
  cut down the number of do_path_lookup() callers
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: remove get_xip_mem</title>
<updated>2015-02-17T01:56:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox</name>
<email>matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-16T23:59:12+00:00</published>
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All callers of get_xip_mem() are now gone.  Remove checks for it,
initialisers of it, documentation of it and the only implementation of it.
 Also remove mm/filemap_xip.c as it is now empty.  Also remove
documentation of the long-gone get_xip_page().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andreas Dilger &lt;andreas.dilger@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Boaz Harrosh &lt;boaz@plexistor.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&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 callers of get_xip_mem() are now gone.  Remove checks for it,
initialisers of it, documentation of it and the only implementation of it.
 Also remove mm/filemap_xip.c as it is now empty.  Also remove
documentation of the long-gone get_xip_page().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andreas Dilger &lt;andreas.dilger@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Boaz Harrosh &lt;boaz@plexistor.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: create proper filename objects using getname_kernel()</title>
<updated>2015-01-23T05:22:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Moore</name>
<email>pmoore@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-22T05:00:03+00:00</published>
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There are several areas in the kernel that create temporary filename
objects using the following pattern:

	int func(const char *name)
	{
		struct filename *file = { .name = name };
		...
		return 0;
	}

... which for the most part works okay, but it causes havoc within the
audit subsystem as the filename object does not persist beyond the
lifetime of the function.  This patch converts all of these temporary
filename objects into proper filename objects using getname_kernel()
and putname() which ensure that the filename object persists until the
audit subsystem is finished with it.

Also, a special thanks to Al Viro, Guenter Roeck, and Sabrina Dubroca
for helping resolve a difficult kernel panic on boot related to a
use-after-free problem in kern_path_create(); the thread can be seen
at the link below:

 * https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/20/710

This patch includes code that was either based on, or directly written
by Al in the above thread.

CC: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
CC: linux@roeck-us.net
CC: sd@queasysnail.net
CC: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;pmoore@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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There are several areas in the kernel that create temporary filename
objects using the following pattern:

	int func(const char *name)
	{
		struct filename *file = { .name = name };
		...
		return 0;
	}

... which for the most part works okay, but it causes havoc within the
audit subsystem as the filename object does not persist beyond the
lifetime of the function.  This patch converts all of these temporary
filename objects into proper filename objects using getname_kernel()
and putname() which ensure that the filename object persists until the
audit subsystem is finished with it.

Also, a special thanks to Al Viro, Guenter Roeck, and Sabrina Dubroca
for helping resolve a difficult kernel panic on boot related to a
use-after-free problem in kern_path_create(); the thread can be seen
at the link below:

 * https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/20/710

This patch includes code that was either based on, or directly written
by Al in the above thread.

CC: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
CC: linux@roeck-us.net
CC: sd@queasysnail.net
CC: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;pmoore@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-3.19' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux</title>
<updated>2014-12-16T23:25:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-16T23:25:31+00:00</published>
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Pull nfsd updates from Bruce Fields:
 "A comparatively quieter cycle for nfsd this time, but still with two
  larger changes:

   - RPC server scalability improvements from Jeff Layton (using RCU
     instead of a spinlock to find idle threads).

   - server-side NFSv4.2 ALLOCATE/DEALLOCATE support from Anna
     Schumaker, enabling fallocate on new clients"

* 'for-3.19' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (32 commits)
  nfsd4: fix xdr4 count of server in fs_location4
  nfsd4: fix xdr4 inclusion of escaped char
  sunrpc/cache: convert to use string_escape_str()
  sunrpc: only call test_bit once in svc_xprt_received
  fs: nfsd: Fix signedness bug in compare_blob
  sunrpc: add some tracepoints around enqueue and dequeue of svc_xprt
  sunrpc: convert to lockless lookup of queued server threads
  sunrpc: fix potential races in pool_stats collection
  sunrpc: add a rcu_head to svc_rqst and use kfree_rcu to free it
  sunrpc: require svc_create callers to pass in meaningful shutdown routine
  sunrpc: have svc_wake_up only deal with pool 0
  sunrpc: convert sp_task_pending flag to use atomic bitops
  sunrpc: move rq_cachetype field to better optimize space
  sunrpc: move rq_splice_ok flag into rq_flags
  sunrpc: move rq_dropme flag into rq_flags
  sunrpc: move rq_usedeferral flag to rq_flags
  sunrpc: move rq_local field to rq_flags
  sunrpc: add a generic rq_flags field to svc_rqst and move rq_secure to it
  nfsd: minor off by one checks in __write_versions()
  sunrpc: release svc_pool_map reference when serv allocation fails
  ...
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<pre>
Pull nfsd updates from Bruce Fields:
 "A comparatively quieter cycle for nfsd this time, but still with two
  larger changes:

   - RPC server scalability improvements from Jeff Layton (using RCU
     instead of a spinlock to find idle threads).

   - server-side NFSv4.2 ALLOCATE/DEALLOCATE support from Anna
     Schumaker, enabling fallocate on new clients"

* 'for-3.19' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (32 commits)
  nfsd4: fix xdr4 count of server in fs_location4
  nfsd4: fix xdr4 inclusion of escaped char
  sunrpc/cache: convert to use string_escape_str()
  sunrpc: only call test_bit once in svc_xprt_received
  fs: nfsd: Fix signedness bug in compare_blob
  sunrpc: add some tracepoints around enqueue and dequeue of svc_xprt
  sunrpc: convert to lockless lookup of queued server threads
  sunrpc: fix potential races in pool_stats collection
  sunrpc: add a rcu_head to svc_rqst and use kfree_rcu to free it
  sunrpc: require svc_create callers to pass in meaningful shutdown routine
  sunrpc: have svc_wake_up only deal with pool 0
  sunrpc: convert sp_task_pending flag to use atomic bitops
  sunrpc: move rq_cachetype field to better optimize space
  sunrpc: move rq_splice_ok flag into rq_flags
  sunrpc: move rq_dropme flag into rq_flags
  sunrpc: move rq_usedeferral flag to rq_flags
  sunrpc: move rq_local field to rq_flags
  sunrpc: add a generic rq_flags field to svc_rqst and move rq_secure to it
  nfsd: minor off by one checks in __write_versions()
  sunrpc: release svc_pool_map reference when serv allocation fails
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fallocate: create FAN_MODIFY and IN_MODIFY events</title>
<updated>2014-12-13T20:42:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Heinrich Schuchardt</name>
<email>xypron.glpk@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-13T00:58:34+00:00</published>
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The fanotify and the inotify API can be used to monitor changes of the
file system.  System call fallocate() modifies files.  Hence it should
trigger the corresponding fanotify (FAN_MODIFY) and inotify (IN_MODIFY)
events.  The most interesting case is FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE because
this value allows to create arbitrary file content from random data.

This patch adds the missing call to fsnotify_modify().

The FAN_MODIFY and IN_MODIFY event will be created when fallocate()
succeeds.  It will even be created if the file length remains unchanged,
e.g.  when calling fanotify with flag FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE.

This logic was primarily chosen to keep the coding simple.

It resembles the logic of the write() system call.

When we call write() we always create a FAN_MODIFY event, even in the case
of overwriting with identical data.

Events FAN_MODIFY and IN_MODIFY do not provide any guarantee that data was
actually changed.

Furthermore even if if the filesize remains unchanged, fallocate() may
influence whether a subsequent write() will succeed and hence the
fallocate() call may be considered a modification.

The fallocate(2) man page teaches: After a successful call, subsequent
writes into the range specified by offset and len are guaranteed not to
fail because of lack of disk space.

So calling fallocate(fd, FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE, offset, len) may result in
different outcomes of a subsequent write depending on the values of offset
and len.

Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt &lt;xypron.glpk@gmx.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@parisplace.org&gt;
Cc: John McCutchan &lt;john@johnmccutchan.com&gt;
Cc: Robert Love &lt;rlove@rlove.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.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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The fanotify and the inotify API can be used to monitor changes of the
file system.  System call fallocate() modifies files.  Hence it should
trigger the corresponding fanotify (FAN_MODIFY) and inotify (IN_MODIFY)
events.  The most interesting case is FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE because
this value allows to create arbitrary file content from random data.

This patch adds the missing call to fsnotify_modify().

The FAN_MODIFY and IN_MODIFY event will be created when fallocate()
succeeds.  It will even be created if the file length remains unchanged,
e.g.  when calling fanotify with flag FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE.

This logic was primarily chosen to keep the coding simple.

It resembles the logic of the write() system call.

When we call write() we always create a FAN_MODIFY event, even in the case
of overwriting with identical data.

Events FAN_MODIFY and IN_MODIFY do not provide any guarantee that data was
actually changed.

Furthermore even if if the filesize remains unchanged, fallocate() may
influence whether a subsequent write() will succeed and hence the
fallocate() call may be considered a modification.

The fallocate(2) man page teaches: After a successful call, subsequent
writes into the range specified by offset and len are guaranteed not to
fail because of lack of disk space.

So calling fallocate(fd, FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE, offset, len) may result in
different outcomes of a subsequent write depending on the values of offset
and len.

Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt &lt;xypron.glpk@gmx.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@parisplace.org&gt;
Cc: John McCutchan &lt;john@johnmccutchan.com&gt;
Cc: Robert Love &lt;rlove@rlove.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.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>new helper: audit_file()</title>
<updated>2014-11-19T18:01:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-31T21:44:57+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
... for situations when we don't have any candidate in pathnames - basically,
in descriptor-based syscalls.

[Folded the build fix for !CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL configs from Chen Gang]

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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... for situations when we don't have any candidate in pathnames - basically,
in descriptor-based syscalls.

[Folded the build fix for !CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL configs from Chen Gang]

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>merge nfs bugfixes into nfsd for-3.19 branch</title>
<updated>2014-11-19T17:06:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>J. Bruce Fields</name>
<email>bfields@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-19T17:06:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=56429e9b3be567a173bd05f5594faf8522c34d3a'/>
<id>56429e9b3be567a173bd05f5594faf8522c34d3a</id>
<content type='text'>
In addition to nfsd bugfixes, there are some fixes in -rc5 for client
bugs that can interfere with my testing.
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In addition to nfsd bugfixes, there are some fixes in -rc5 for client
bugs that can interfere with my testing.
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>VFS: Rename do_fallocate() to vfs_fallocate()</title>
<updated>2014-11-07T21:17:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anna Schumaker</name>
<email>Anna.Schumaker@netapp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-07T19:44:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=72c72bdf7bf53353d2d8e055194d27f0128be92b'/>
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<content type='text'>
This function needs to be exported so it can be used by the NFSD module
when responding to the new ALLOCATE and DEALLOCATE operations in NFS
v4.2.  Christoph Hellwig suggested renaming the function to stay
consistent with how other vfs functions are named.

Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker &lt;Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
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<pre>
This function needs to be exported so it can be used by the NFSD module
when responding to the new ALLOCATE and DEALLOCATE operations in NFS
v4.2.  Christoph Hellwig suggested renaming the function to stay
consistent with how other vfs functions are named.

Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker &lt;Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: add i_op-&gt;dentry_open()</title>
<updated>2014-10-23T22:14:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-23T22:14:35+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=4aa7c6346be395bdf776f82bbb2e3e2bc60bdd2b'/>
<id>4aa7c6346be395bdf776f82bbb2e3e2bc60bdd2b</id>
<content type='text'>
Add a new inode operation i_op-&gt;dentry_open().  This is for stacked filesystems
that want to return a struct file from a different filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Add a new inode operation i_op-&gt;dentry_open().  This is for stacked filesystems
that want to return a struct file from a different filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: fix check for fallocate on active swapfile</title>
<updated>2014-08-01T06:36:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers3@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-25T04:45:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=6d2b6170c8914c6c69256b687651fb16d7ec3e18'/>
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<content type='text'>
Fix the broken check for calling sys_fallocate() on an active swapfile,
introduced by commit 0790b31b69374ddadefe ("fs: disallow all fallocate
operation on active swapfile").

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers3@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Fix the broken check for calling sys_fallocate() on an active swapfile,
introduced by commit 0790b31b69374ddadefe ("fs: disallow all fallocate
operation on active swapfile").

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers3@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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