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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2017-07-13T19:38:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-13T19:38:49+00:00</published>
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Merge yet more updates from Andrew Morton:

- various misc things

- kexec updates

- sysctl core updates

- scripts/gdb udpates

- checkpoint-restart updates

- ipc updates

- kernel/watchdog updates

- Kees's "rough equivalent to the glibc _FORTIFY_SOURCE=1 feature"

- "stackprotector: ascii armor the stack canary"

- more MM bits

- checkpatch updates

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (96 commits)
  writeback: rework wb_[dec|inc]_stat family of functions
  ARM: samsung: usb-ohci: move inline before return type
  video: fbdev: omap: move inline before return type
  video: fbdev: intelfb: move inline before return type
  USB: serial: safe_serial: move __inline__ before return type
  drivers: tty: serial: move inline before return type
  drivers: s390: move static and inline before return type
  x86/efi: move asmlinkage before return type
  sh: move inline before return type
  MIPS: SMP: move asmlinkage before return type
  m68k: coldfire: move inline before return type
  ia64: sn: pci: move inline before type
  ia64: move inline before return type
  FRV: tlbflush: move asmlinkage before return type
  CRIS: gpio: move inline before return type
  ARM: HP Jornada 7XX: move inline before return type
  ARM: KVM: move asmlinkage before type
  checkpatch: improve the STORAGE_CLASS test
  mm, migration: do not trigger OOM killer when migrating memory
  drm/i915: use __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL
  ...
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Merge yet more updates from Andrew Morton:

- various misc things

- kexec updates

- sysctl core updates

- scripts/gdb udpates

- checkpoint-restart updates

- ipc updates

- kernel/watchdog updates

- Kees's "rough equivalent to the glibc _FORTIFY_SOURCE=1 feature"

- "stackprotector: ascii armor the stack canary"

- more MM bits

- checkpatch updates

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (96 commits)
  writeback: rework wb_[dec|inc]_stat family of functions
  ARM: samsung: usb-ohci: move inline before return type
  video: fbdev: omap: move inline before return type
  video: fbdev: intelfb: move inline before return type
  USB: serial: safe_serial: move __inline__ before return type
  drivers: tty: serial: move inline before return type
  drivers: s390: move static and inline before return type
  x86/efi: move asmlinkage before return type
  sh: move inline before return type
  MIPS: SMP: move asmlinkage before return type
  m68k: coldfire: move inline before return type
  ia64: sn: pci: move inline before type
  ia64: move inline before return type
  FRV: tlbflush: move asmlinkage before return type
  CRIS: gpio: move inline before return type
  ARM: HP Jornada 7XX: move inline before return type
  ARM: KVM: move asmlinkage before type
  checkpatch: improve the STORAGE_CLASS test
  mm, migration: do not trigger OOM killer when migrating memory
  drm/i915: use __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysctl: add unsigned int range support</title>
<updated>2017-07-12T23:26:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luis R. Rodriguez</name>
<email>mcgrof@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-12T21:33:40+00:00</published>
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To keep parity with regular int interfaces provide the an unsigned int
proc_douintvec_minmax() which allows you to specify a range of allowed
valid numbers.

Adding proc_douintvec_minmax_sysadmin() is easy but we can wait for an
actual user for that.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170519033554.18592-6-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan &lt;subashab@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt &lt;xypron.glpk@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.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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To keep parity with regular int interfaces provide the an unsigned int
proc_douintvec_minmax() which allows you to specify a range of allowed
valid numbers.

Adding proc_douintvec_minmax_sysadmin() is easy but we can wait for an
actual user for that.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170519033554.18592-6-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan &lt;subashab@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt &lt;xypron.glpk@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysctl: simplify unsigned int support</title>
<updated>2017-07-12T23:26:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luis R. Rodriguez</name>
<email>mcgrof@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-12T21:33:36+00:00</published>
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Commit e7d316a02f68 ("sysctl: handle error writing UINT_MAX to u32
fields") added proc_douintvec() to start help adding support for
unsigned int, this however was only half the work needed.  Two fixes
have come in since then for the following issues:

  o Printing the values shows a negative value, this happens since
    do_proc_dointvec() and this uses proc_put_long()

This was fixed by commit 5380e5644afbba9 ("sysctl: don't print negative
flag for proc_douintvec").

  o We can easily wrap around the int values: UINT_MAX is 4294967295, if
    we echo in 4294967295 + 1 we end up with 0, using 4294967295 + 2 we
    end up with 1.
  o We echo negative values in and they are accepted

This was fixed by commit 425fffd886ba ("sysctl: report EINVAL if value
is larger than UINT_MAX for proc_douintvec").

It still also failed to be added to sysctl_check_table()...  instead of
adding it with the current implementation just provide a proper and
simplified unsigned int support without any array unsigned int support
with no negative support at all.

Historically sysctl proc helpers have supported arrays, due to the
complexity this adds though we've taken a step back to evaluate array
users to determine if its worth upkeeping for unsigned int.  An
evaluation using Coccinelle has been done to perform a grammatical
search to ask ourselves:

  o How many sysctl proc_dointvec() (int) users exist which likely
    should be moved over to proc_douintvec() (unsigned int) ?
	Answer: about 8
	- Of these how many are array users ?
		Answer: Probably only 1
  o How many sysctl array users exist ?
	Answer: about 12

This last question gives us an idea just how popular arrays: they are not.
Array support should probably just be kept for strings.

The identified uint ports are:

  drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c - max_backlog
  drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c - default_backlog
  net/core/sysctl_net_core.c - rps_sock_flow_sysctl()
  net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_timestamp.c - nf_conntrack_timestamp -- bool
  net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_acct.c nf_conntrack_acct -- bool
  net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ecache.c - nf_conntrack_events -- bool
  net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.c - nf_conntrack_helper -- bool
  net/phonet/sysctl.c proc_local_port_range()

The only possible array users is proc_local_port_range() but it does not
seem worth it to add array support just for this given the range support
works just as well.  Unsigned int support should be desirable more for
when you *need* more than INT_MAX or using int min/max support then does
not suffice for your ranges.

If you forget and by mistake happen to register an unsigned int proc
entry with an array, the driver will fail and you will get something as
follows:

sysctl table check failed: debug/test_sysctl//uint_0002 array now allowed
CPU: 2 PID: 1342 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G        W   E &lt;etc&gt;
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS &lt;etc&gt;
Call Trace:
 dump_stack+0x63/0x81
 __register_sysctl_table+0x350/0x650
 ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x107/0x240
 __register_sysctl_paths+0x1b3/0x1e0
 ? 0xffffffffc005f000
 register_sysctl_table+0x1f/0x30
 test_sysctl_init+0x10/0x1000 [test_sysctl]
 do_one_initcall+0x52/0x1a0
 ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x107/0x240
 do_init_module+0x5f/0x200
 load_module+0x1867/0x1bd0
 ? __symbol_put+0x60/0x60
 SYSC_finit_module+0xdf/0x110
 SyS_finit_module+0xe/0x10
 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1e/0xad
RIP: 0033:0x7f042b22d119
&lt;etc&gt;

Fixes: e7d316a02f68 ("sysctl: handle error writing UINT_MAX to u32 fields")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170519033554.18592-5-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan &lt;subashab@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Liping Zhang &lt;zlpnobody@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt &lt;xypron.glpk@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.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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Commit e7d316a02f68 ("sysctl: handle error writing UINT_MAX to u32
fields") added proc_douintvec() to start help adding support for
unsigned int, this however was only half the work needed.  Two fixes
have come in since then for the following issues:

  o Printing the values shows a negative value, this happens since
    do_proc_dointvec() and this uses proc_put_long()

This was fixed by commit 5380e5644afbba9 ("sysctl: don't print negative
flag for proc_douintvec").

  o We can easily wrap around the int values: UINT_MAX is 4294967295, if
    we echo in 4294967295 + 1 we end up with 0, using 4294967295 + 2 we
    end up with 1.
  o We echo negative values in and they are accepted

This was fixed by commit 425fffd886ba ("sysctl: report EINVAL if value
is larger than UINT_MAX for proc_douintvec").

It still also failed to be added to sysctl_check_table()...  instead of
adding it with the current implementation just provide a proper and
simplified unsigned int support without any array unsigned int support
with no negative support at all.

Historically sysctl proc helpers have supported arrays, due to the
complexity this adds though we've taken a step back to evaluate array
users to determine if its worth upkeeping for unsigned int.  An
evaluation using Coccinelle has been done to perform a grammatical
search to ask ourselves:

  o How many sysctl proc_dointvec() (int) users exist which likely
    should be moved over to proc_douintvec() (unsigned int) ?
	Answer: about 8
	- Of these how many are array users ?
		Answer: Probably only 1
  o How many sysctl array users exist ?
	Answer: about 12

This last question gives us an idea just how popular arrays: they are not.
Array support should probably just be kept for strings.

The identified uint ports are:

  drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c - max_backlog
  drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c - default_backlog
  net/core/sysctl_net_core.c - rps_sock_flow_sysctl()
  net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_timestamp.c - nf_conntrack_timestamp -- bool
  net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_acct.c nf_conntrack_acct -- bool
  net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_ecache.c - nf_conntrack_events -- bool
  net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_helper.c - nf_conntrack_helper -- bool
  net/phonet/sysctl.c proc_local_port_range()

The only possible array users is proc_local_port_range() but it does not
seem worth it to add array support just for this given the range support
works just as well.  Unsigned int support should be desirable more for
when you *need* more than INT_MAX or using int min/max support then does
not suffice for your ranges.

If you forget and by mistake happen to register an unsigned int proc
entry with an array, the driver will fail and you will get something as
follows:

sysctl table check failed: debug/test_sysctl//uint_0002 array now allowed
CPU: 2 PID: 1342 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G        W   E &lt;etc&gt;
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS &lt;etc&gt;
Call Trace:
 dump_stack+0x63/0x81
 __register_sysctl_table+0x350/0x650
 ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x107/0x240
 __register_sysctl_paths+0x1b3/0x1e0
 ? 0xffffffffc005f000
 register_sysctl_table+0x1f/0x30
 test_sysctl_init+0x10/0x1000 [test_sysctl]
 do_one_initcall+0x52/0x1a0
 ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x107/0x240
 do_init_module+0x5f/0x200
 load_module+0x1867/0x1bd0
 ? __symbol_put+0x60/0x60
 SYSC_finit_module+0xdf/0x110
 SyS_finit_module+0xe/0x10
 entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1e/0xad
RIP: 0033:0x7f042b22d119
&lt;etc&gt;

Fixes: e7d316a02f68 ("sysctl: handle error writing UINT_MAX to u32 fields")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170519033554.18592-5-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan &lt;subashab@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Liping Zhang &lt;zlpnobody@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt &lt;xypron.glpk@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysctl: fix lax sysctl_check_table() sanity check</title>
<updated>2017-07-12T23:26:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luis R. Rodriguez</name>
<email>mcgrof@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-12T21:33:27+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=89c5b53b16bf577079d4f0311406dbea3c71202c'/>
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Patch series "sysctl: few fixes", v5.

I've been working on making kmod more deterministic, and as I did that I
couldn't help but notice a few issues with sysctl.  My end goal was just
to fix unsigned int support, which back then was completely broken.
Liping Zhang has sent up small atomic fixes, however it still missed yet
one more fix and Alexey Dobriyan had also suggested to just drop array
support given its complexity.

I have inspected array support using Coccinelle and indeed its not that
popular, so if in fact we can avoid it for new interfaces, I agree its
best.

I did develop a sysctl stress driver but will hold that off for another
series.

This patch (of 5):

Commit 7c60c48f58a7 ("sysctl: Improve the sysctl sanity checks")
improved sanity checks considerbly, however the enhancements on
sysctl_check_table() meant adding a functional change so that only the
last table entry's sanity error is propagated.  It also changed the way
errors were propagated so that each new check reset the err value, this
means only last sanity check computed is used for an error.  This has
been in the kernel since v3.4 days.

Fix this by carrying on errors from previous checks and iterations as we
traverse the table and ensuring we keep any error from previous checks.
We keep iterating on the table even if an error is found so we can
complain for all errors found in one shot.  This works as -EINVAL is
always returned on error anyway, and the check for error is any non-zero
value.

Fixes: 7c60c48f58a7 ("sysctl: Improve the sysctl sanity checks")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170519033554.18592-2-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.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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<pre>
Patch series "sysctl: few fixes", v5.

I've been working on making kmod more deterministic, and as I did that I
couldn't help but notice a few issues with sysctl.  My end goal was just
to fix unsigned int support, which back then was completely broken.
Liping Zhang has sent up small atomic fixes, however it still missed yet
one more fix and Alexey Dobriyan had also suggested to just drop array
support given its complexity.

I have inspected array support using Coccinelle and indeed its not that
popular, so if in fact we can avoid it for new interfaces, I agree its
best.

I did develop a sysctl stress driver but will hold that off for another
series.

This patch (of 5):

Commit 7c60c48f58a7 ("sysctl: Improve the sysctl sanity checks")
improved sanity checks considerbly, however the enhancements on
sysctl_check_table() meant adding a functional change so that only the
last table entry's sanity error is propagated.  It also changed the way
errors were propagated so that each new check reset the err value, this
means only last sanity check computed is used for an error.  This has
been in the kernel since v3.4 days.

Fix this by carrying on errors from previous checks and iterations as we
traverse the table and ensuring we keep any error from previous checks.
We keep iterating on the table even if an error is found so we can
complain for all errors found in one shot.  This works as -EINVAL is
always returned on error anyway, and the check for error is any non-zero
value.

Fixes: 7c60c48f58a7 ("sysctl: Improve the sysctl sanity checks")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170519033554.18592-2-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&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>proc: Fix proc_sys_prune_dcache to hold a sb reference</title>
<updated>2017-07-11T16:01:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-06T13:41:06+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=2fd1d2c4ceb2248a727696962cf3370dc9f5a0a4'/>
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<content type='text'>
Andrei Vagin writes:
FYI: This bug has been reproduced on 4.11.7
&gt; BUG: Dentry ffff895a3dd01240{i=4e7c09a,n=lo}  still in use (1) [unmount of proc proc]
&gt; ------------[ cut here ]------------
&gt; WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 13588 at fs/dcache.c:1445 umount_check+0x6e/0x80
&gt; CPU: 1 PID: 13588 Comm: kworker/1:1 Not tainted 4.11.7-200.fc25.x86_64 #1
&gt; Hardware name: CompuLab sbc-flt1/fitlet, BIOS SBCFLT_0.08.04 06/27/2015
&gt; Workqueue: events proc_cleanup_work
&gt; Call Trace:
&gt;  dump_stack+0x63/0x86
&gt;  __warn+0xcb/0xf0
&gt;  warn_slowpath_null+0x1d/0x20
&gt;  umount_check+0x6e/0x80
&gt;  d_walk+0xc6/0x270
&gt;  ? dentry_free+0x80/0x80
&gt;  do_one_tree+0x26/0x40
&gt;  shrink_dcache_for_umount+0x2d/0x90
&gt;  generic_shutdown_super+0x1f/0xf0
&gt;  kill_anon_super+0x12/0x20
&gt;  proc_kill_sb+0x40/0x50
&gt;  deactivate_locked_super+0x43/0x70
&gt;  deactivate_super+0x5a/0x60
&gt;  cleanup_mnt+0x3f/0x90
&gt;  mntput_no_expire+0x13b/0x190
&gt;  kern_unmount+0x3e/0x50
&gt;  pid_ns_release_proc+0x15/0x20
&gt;  proc_cleanup_work+0x15/0x20
&gt;  process_one_work+0x197/0x450
&gt;  worker_thread+0x4e/0x4a0
&gt;  kthread+0x109/0x140
&gt;  ? process_one_work+0x450/0x450
&gt;  ? kthread_park+0x90/0x90
&gt;  ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x40
&gt; ---[ end trace e1c109611e5d0b41 ]---
&gt; VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of proc. Self-destruct in 5 seconds.  Have a nice day...
&gt; BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at           (null)
&gt; IP: _raw_spin_lock+0xc/0x30
&gt; PGD 0

Fix this by taking a reference to the super block in proc_sys_prune_dcache.

The superblock reference is the core of the fix however the sysctl_inodes
list is converted to a hlist so that hlist_del_init_rcu may be used.  This
allows proc_sys_prune_dache to remove inodes the sysctl_inodes list, while
not causing problems for proc_sys_evict_inode when if it later choses to
remove the inode from the sysctl_inodes list.  Removing inodes from the
sysctl_inodes list allows proc_sys_prune_dcache to have a progress
guarantee, while still being able to drop all locks.  The fact that
head-&gt;unregistering is set in start_unregistering ensures that no more
inodes will be added to the the sysctl_inodes list.

Previously the code did a dance where it delayed calling iput until the
next entry in the list was being considered to ensure the inode remained on
the sysctl_inodes list until the next entry was walked to.  The structure
of the loop in this patch does not need that so is much easier to
understand and maintain.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@openvz.org&gt;
Fixes: ace0c791e6c3 ("proc/sysctl: Don't grab i_lock under sysctl_lock.")
Fixes: d6cffbbe9a7e ("proc/sysctl: prune stale dentries during unregistering")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Andrei Vagin writes:
FYI: This bug has been reproduced on 4.11.7
&gt; BUG: Dentry ffff895a3dd01240{i=4e7c09a,n=lo}  still in use (1) [unmount of proc proc]
&gt; ------------[ cut here ]------------
&gt; WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 13588 at fs/dcache.c:1445 umount_check+0x6e/0x80
&gt; CPU: 1 PID: 13588 Comm: kworker/1:1 Not tainted 4.11.7-200.fc25.x86_64 #1
&gt; Hardware name: CompuLab sbc-flt1/fitlet, BIOS SBCFLT_0.08.04 06/27/2015
&gt; Workqueue: events proc_cleanup_work
&gt; Call Trace:
&gt;  dump_stack+0x63/0x86
&gt;  __warn+0xcb/0xf0
&gt;  warn_slowpath_null+0x1d/0x20
&gt;  umount_check+0x6e/0x80
&gt;  d_walk+0xc6/0x270
&gt;  ? dentry_free+0x80/0x80
&gt;  do_one_tree+0x26/0x40
&gt;  shrink_dcache_for_umount+0x2d/0x90
&gt;  generic_shutdown_super+0x1f/0xf0
&gt;  kill_anon_super+0x12/0x20
&gt;  proc_kill_sb+0x40/0x50
&gt;  deactivate_locked_super+0x43/0x70
&gt;  deactivate_super+0x5a/0x60
&gt;  cleanup_mnt+0x3f/0x90
&gt;  mntput_no_expire+0x13b/0x190
&gt;  kern_unmount+0x3e/0x50
&gt;  pid_ns_release_proc+0x15/0x20
&gt;  proc_cleanup_work+0x15/0x20
&gt;  process_one_work+0x197/0x450
&gt;  worker_thread+0x4e/0x4a0
&gt;  kthread+0x109/0x140
&gt;  ? process_one_work+0x450/0x450
&gt;  ? kthread_park+0x90/0x90
&gt;  ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x40
&gt; ---[ end trace e1c109611e5d0b41 ]---
&gt; VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of proc. Self-destruct in 5 seconds.  Have a nice day...
&gt; BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at           (null)
&gt; IP: _raw_spin_lock+0xc/0x30
&gt; PGD 0

Fix this by taking a reference to the super block in proc_sys_prune_dcache.

The superblock reference is the core of the fix however the sysctl_inodes
list is converted to a hlist so that hlist_del_init_rcu may be used.  This
allows proc_sys_prune_dache to remove inodes the sysctl_inodes list, while
not causing problems for proc_sys_evict_inode when if it later choses to
remove the inode from the sysctl_inodes list.  Removing inodes from the
sysctl_inodes list allows proc_sys_prune_dcache to have a progress
guarantee, while still being able to drop all locks.  The fact that
head-&gt;unregistering is set in start_unregistering ensures that no more
inodes will be added to the the sysctl_inodes list.

Previously the code did a dance where it delayed calling iput until the
next entry in the list was being considered to ensure the inode remained on
the sysctl_inodes list until the next entry was walked to.  The structure
of the loop in this patch does not need that so is much easier to
understand and maintain.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@openvz.org&gt;
Fixes: ace0c791e6c3 ("proc/sysctl: Don't grab i_lock under sysctl_lock.")
Fixes: d6cffbbe9a7e ("proc/sysctl: prune stale dentries during unregistering")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2017-05-05T18:08:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-05T18:08:43+00:00</published>
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Pull namespace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "This is a set of small fixes that were mostly stumbled over during
  more significant development. This proc fix and the fix to
  posix-timers are the most significant of the lot.

  There is a lot of good development going on but unfortunately it
  didn't quite make the merge window"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  proc: Fix unbalanced hard link numbers
  signal: Make kill_proc_info static
  rlimit: Properly call security_task_setrlimit
  signal: Remove unused definition of sig_user_definied
  ia64: Remove unused IA64_TASK_SIGHAND_OFFSET and IA64_SIGHAND_SIGLOCK_OFFSET
  ipc: Remove unused declaration of recompute_msgmni
  posix-timers: Correct sanity check in posix_cpu_nsleep
  sysctl: Remove dead register_sysctl_root
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Pull namespace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "This is a set of small fixes that were mostly stumbled over during
  more significant development. This proc fix and the fix to
  posix-timers are the most significant of the lot.

  There is a lot of good development going on but unfortunately it
  didn't quite make the merge window"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  proc: Fix unbalanced hard link numbers
  signal: Make kill_proc_info static
  rlimit: Properly call security_task_setrlimit
  signal: Remove unused definition of sig_user_definied
  ia64: Remove unused IA64_TASK_SIGHAND_OFFSET and IA64_SIGHAND_SIGLOCK_OFFSET
  ipc: Remove unused declaration of recompute_msgmni
  posix-timers: Correct sanity check in posix_cpu_nsleep
  sysctl: Remove dead register_sysctl_root
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysctl: Remove dead register_sysctl_root</title>
<updated>2017-04-17T04:42:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-24T13:38:20+00:00</published>
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The function no longer does anything.  The is only a single caller of
register_sysctl_root when semantically there should be two.  Remove
this function so that if someone decides this functionality is needed
again it will be obvious all of the callers of setup_sysctl_set need
to be audited and modified appropriately.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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The function no longer does anything.  The is only a single caller of
register_sysctl_root when semantically there should be two.  Remove
this function so that if someone decides this functionality is needed
again it will be obvious all of the callers of setup_sysctl_set need
to be audited and modified appropriately.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysctl: add sanity check for proc_douintvec</title>
<updated>2017-04-07T16:46:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Liping Zhang</name>
<email>zlpnobody@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-07T15:51:05+00:00</published>
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Commit e7d316a02f68 ("sysctl: handle error writing UINT_MAX to u32
fields") introduced the proc_douintvec helper function, but it forgot to
add the related sanity check when doing register_sysctl_table.  So add
it now.

Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang &lt;zlpnobody@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan &lt;subashab@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Commit e7d316a02f68 ("sysctl: handle error writing UINT_MAX to u32
fields") introduced the proc_douintvec helper function, but it forgot to
add the related sanity check when doing register_sysctl_table.  So add
it now.

Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang &lt;zlpnobody@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan &lt;subashab@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: 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>Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2017-03-03T19:38:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-03T19:38:56+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs 'statx()' update from Al Viro.

This adds the new extended stat() interface that internally subsumes our
previous stat interfaces, and allows user mode to specify in more detail
what kind of information it wants.

It also allows for some explicit synchronization information to be
passed to the filesystem, which can be relevant for network filesystems:
is the cached value ok, or do you need open/close consistency, or what?

From David Howells.

Andreas Dilger points out that the first version of the extended statx
interface was posted June 29, 2010:

    https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg33831.html

* 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available
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Pull vfs 'statx()' update from Al Viro.

This adds the new extended stat() interface that internally subsumes our
previous stat interfaces, and allows user mode to specify in more detail
what kind of information it wants.

It also allows for some explicit synchronization information to be
passed to the filesystem, which can be relevant for network filesystems:
is the cached value ok, or do you need open/close consistency, or what?

From David Howells.

Andreas Dilger points out that the first version of the extended statx
interface was posted June 29, 2010:

    https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg33831.html

* 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available</title>
<updated>2017-03-03T01:51:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-01-31T16:46:22+00:00</published>
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Add a system call to make extended file information available, including
file creation and some attribute flags where available through the
underlying filesystem.

The getattr inode operation is altered to take two additional arguments: a
u32 request_mask and an unsigned int flags that indicate the
synchronisation mode.  This change is propagated to the vfs_getattr*()
function.

Functions like vfs_stat() are now inline wrappers around new functions
vfs_statx() and vfs_statx_fd() to reduce stack usage.

========
OVERVIEW
========

The idea was initially proposed as a set of xattrs that could be retrieved
with getxattr(), but the general preference proved to be for a new syscall
with an extended stat structure.

A number of requests were gathered for features to be included.  The
following have been included:

 (1) Make the fields a consistent size on all arches and make them large.

 (2) Spare space, request flags and information flags are provided for
     future expansion.

 (3) Better support for the y2038 problem [Arnd Bergmann] (tv_sec is an
     __s64).

 (4) Creation time: The SMB protocol carries the creation time, which could
     be exported by Samba, which will in turn help CIFS make use of
     FS-Cache as that can be used for coherency data (stx_btime).

     This is also specified in NFSv4 as a recommended attribute and could
     be exported by NFSD [Steve French].

 (5) Lightweight stat: Ask for just those details of interest, and allow a
     netfs (such as NFS) to approximate anything not of interest, possibly
     without going to the server [Trond Myklebust, Ulrich Drepper, Andreas
     Dilger] (AT_STATX_DONT_SYNC).

 (6) Heavyweight stat: Force a netfs to go to the server, even if it thinks
     its cached attributes are up to date [Trond Myklebust]
     (AT_STATX_FORCE_SYNC).

And the following have been left out for future extension:

 (7) Data version number: Could be used by userspace NFS servers [Aneesh
     Kumar].

     Can also be used to modify fill_post_wcc() in NFSD which retrieves
     i_version directly, but has just called vfs_getattr().  It could get
     it from the kstat struct if it used vfs_xgetattr() instead.

     (There's disagreement on the exact semantics of a single field, since
     not all filesystems do this the same way).

 (8) BSD stat compatibility: Including more fields from the BSD stat such
     as creation time (st_btime) and inode generation number (st_gen)
     [Jeremy Allison, Bernd Schubert].

 (9) Inode generation number: Useful for FUSE and userspace NFS servers
     [Bernd Schubert].

     (This was asked for but later deemed unnecessary with the
     open-by-handle capability available and caused disagreement as to
     whether it's a security hole or not).

(10) Extra coherency data may be useful in making backups [Andreas Dilger].

     (No particular data were offered, but things like last backup
     timestamp, the data version number and the DOS archive bit would come
     into this category).

(11) Allow the filesystem to indicate what it can/cannot provide: A
     filesystem can now say it doesn't support a standard stat feature if
     that isn't available, so if, for instance, inode numbers or UIDs don't
     exist or are fabricated locally...

     (This requires a separate system call - I have an fsinfo() call idea
     for this).

(12) Store a 16-byte volume ID in the superblock that can be returned in
     struct xstat [Steve French].

     (Deferred to fsinfo).

(13) Include granularity fields in the time data to indicate the
     granularity of each of the times (NFSv4 time_delta) [Steve French].

     (Deferred to fsinfo).

(14) FS_IOC_GETFLAGS value.  These could be translated to BSD's st_flags.
     Note that the Linux IOC flags are a mess and filesystems such as Ext4
     define flags that aren't in linux/fs.h, so translation in the kernel
     may be a necessity (or, possibly, we provide the filesystem type too).

     (Some attributes are made available in stx_attributes, but the general
     feeling was that the IOC flags were to ext[234]-specific and shouldn't
     be exposed through statx this way).

(15) Mask of features available on file (eg: ACLs, seclabel) [Brad Boyer,
     Michael Kerrisk].

     (Deferred, probably to fsinfo.  Finding out if there's an ACL or
     seclabal might require extra filesystem operations).

(16) Femtosecond-resolution timestamps [Dave Chinner].

     (A __reserved field has been left in the statx_timestamp struct for
     this - if there proves to be a need).

(17) A set multiple attributes syscall to go with this.

===============
NEW SYSTEM CALL
===============

The new system call is:

	int ret = statx(int dfd,
			const char *filename,
			unsigned int flags,
			unsigned int mask,
			struct statx *buffer);

The dfd, filename and flags parameters indicate the file to query, in a
similar way to fstatat().  There is no equivalent of lstat() as that can be
emulated with statx() by passing AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW in flags.  There is
also no equivalent of fstat() as that can be emulated by passing a NULL
filename to statx() with the fd of interest in dfd.

Whether or not statx() synchronises the attributes with the backing store
can be controlled by OR'ing a value into the flags argument (this typically
only affects network filesystems):

 (1) AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT tells statx() to behave as stat() does in this
     respect.

 (2) AT_STATX_FORCE_SYNC will require a network filesystem to synchronise
     its attributes with the server - which might require data writeback to
     occur to get the timestamps correct.

 (3) AT_STATX_DONT_SYNC will suppress synchronisation with the server in a
     network filesystem.  The resulting values should be considered
     approximate.

mask is a bitmask indicating the fields in struct statx that are of
interest to the caller.  The user should set this to STATX_BASIC_STATS to
get the basic set returned by stat().  It should be noted that asking for
more information may entail extra I/O operations.

buffer points to the destination for the data.  This must be 256 bytes in
size.

======================
MAIN ATTRIBUTES RECORD
======================

The following structures are defined in which to return the main attribute
set:

	struct statx_timestamp {
		__s64	tv_sec;
		__s32	tv_nsec;
		__s32	__reserved;
	};

	struct statx {
		__u32	stx_mask;
		__u32	stx_blksize;
		__u64	stx_attributes;
		__u32	stx_nlink;
		__u32	stx_uid;
		__u32	stx_gid;
		__u16	stx_mode;
		__u16	__spare0[1];
		__u64	stx_ino;
		__u64	stx_size;
		__u64	stx_blocks;
		__u64	__spare1[1];
		struct statx_timestamp	stx_atime;
		struct statx_timestamp	stx_btime;
		struct statx_timestamp	stx_ctime;
		struct statx_timestamp	stx_mtime;
		__u32	stx_rdev_major;
		__u32	stx_rdev_minor;
		__u32	stx_dev_major;
		__u32	stx_dev_minor;
		__u64	__spare2[14];
	};

The defined bits in request_mask and stx_mask are:

	STATX_TYPE		Want/got stx_mode &amp; S_IFMT
	STATX_MODE		Want/got stx_mode &amp; ~S_IFMT
	STATX_NLINK		Want/got stx_nlink
	STATX_UID		Want/got stx_uid
	STATX_GID		Want/got stx_gid
	STATX_ATIME		Want/got stx_atime{,_ns}
	STATX_MTIME		Want/got stx_mtime{,_ns}
	STATX_CTIME		Want/got stx_ctime{,_ns}
	STATX_INO		Want/got stx_ino
	STATX_SIZE		Want/got stx_size
	STATX_BLOCKS		Want/got stx_blocks
	STATX_BASIC_STATS	[The stuff in the normal stat struct]
	STATX_BTIME		Want/got stx_btime{,_ns}
	STATX_ALL		[All currently available stuff]

stx_btime is the file creation time, stx_mask is a bitmask indicating the
data provided and __spares*[] are where as-yet undefined fields can be
placed.

Time fields are structures with separate seconds and nanoseconds fields
plus a reserved field in case we want to add even finer resolution.  Note
that times will be negative if before 1970; in such a case, the nanosecond
fields will also be negative if not zero.

The bits defined in the stx_attributes field convey information about a
file, how it is accessed, where it is and what it does.  The following
attributes map to FS_*_FL flags and are the same numerical value:

	STATX_ATTR_COMPRESSED		File is compressed by the fs
	STATX_ATTR_IMMUTABLE		File is marked immutable
	STATX_ATTR_APPEND		File is append-only
	STATX_ATTR_NODUMP		File is not to be dumped
	STATX_ATTR_ENCRYPTED		File requires key to decrypt in fs

Within the kernel, the supported flags are listed by:

	KSTAT_ATTR_FS_IOC_FLAGS

[Are any other IOC flags of sufficient general interest to be exposed
through this interface?]

New flags include:

	STATX_ATTR_AUTOMOUNT		Object is an automount trigger

These are for the use of GUI tools that might want to mark files specially,
depending on what they are.

Fields in struct statx come in a number of classes:

 (0) stx_dev_*, stx_blksize.

     These are local system information and are always available.

 (1) stx_mode, stx_nlinks, stx_uid, stx_gid, stx_[amc]time, stx_ino,
     stx_size, stx_blocks.

     These will be returned whether the caller asks for them or not.  The
     corresponding bits in stx_mask will be set to indicate whether they
     actually have valid values.

     If the caller didn't ask for them, then they may be approximated.  For
     example, NFS won't waste any time updating them from the server,
     unless as a byproduct of updating something requested.

     If the values don't actually exist for the underlying object (such as
     UID or GID on a DOS file), then the bit won't be set in the stx_mask,
     even if the caller asked for the value.  In such a case, the returned
     value will be a fabrication.

     Note that there are instances where the type might not be valid, for
     instance Windows reparse points.

 (2) stx_rdev_*.

     This will be set only if stx_mode indicates we're looking at a
     blockdev or a chardev, otherwise will be 0.

 (3) stx_btime.

     Similar to (1), except this will be set to 0 if it doesn't exist.

=======
TESTING
=======

The following test program can be used to test the statx system call:

	samples/statx/test-statx.c

Just compile and run, passing it paths to the files you want to examine.
The file is built automatically if CONFIG_SAMPLES is enabled.

Here's some example output.  Firstly, an NFS directory that crosses to
another FSID.  Note that the AUTOMOUNT attribute is set because transiting
this directory will cause d_automount to be invoked by the VFS.

	[root@andromeda ~]# /tmp/test-statx -A /warthog/data
	statx(/warthog/data) = 0
	results=7ff
	  Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 1048576  directory
	Device: 00:26           Inode: 1703937     Links: 125
	Access: (3777/drwxrwxrwx)  Uid:     0   Gid:  4041
	Access: 2016-11-24 09:02:12.219699527+0000
	Modify: 2016-11-17 10:44:36.225653653+0000
	Change: 2016-11-17 10:44:36.225653653+0000
	Attributes: 0000000000001000 (-------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- ---m---- --------)

Secondly, the result of automounting on that directory.

	[root@andromeda ~]# /tmp/test-statx /warthog/data
	statx(/warthog/data) = 0
	results=7ff
	  Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 1048576  directory
	Device: 00:27           Inode: 2           Links: 125
	Access: (3777/drwxrwxrwx)  Uid:     0   Gid:  4041
	Access: 2016-11-24 09:02:12.219699527+0000
	Modify: 2016-11-17 10:44:36.225653653+0000
	Change: 2016-11-17 10:44:36.225653653+0000

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Add a system call to make extended file information available, including
file creation and some attribute flags where available through the
underlying filesystem.

The getattr inode operation is altered to take two additional arguments: a
u32 request_mask and an unsigned int flags that indicate the
synchronisation mode.  This change is propagated to the vfs_getattr*()
function.

Functions like vfs_stat() are now inline wrappers around new functions
vfs_statx() and vfs_statx_fd() to reduce stack usage.

========
OVERVIEW
========

The idea was initially proposed as a set of xattrs that could be retrieved
with getxattr(), but the general preference proved to be for a new syscall
with an extended stat structure.

A number of requests were gathered for features to be included.  The
following have been included:

 (1) Make the fields a consistent size on all arches and make them large.

 (2) Spare space, request flags and information flags are provided for
     future expansion.

 (3) Better support for the y2038 problem [Arnd Bergmann] (tv_sec is an
     __s64).

 (4) Creation time: The SMB protocol carries the creation time, which could
     be exported by Samba, which will in turn help CIFS make use of
     FS-Cache as that can be used for coherency data (stx_btime).

     This is also specified in NFSv4 as a recommended attribute and could
     be exported by NFSD [Steve French].

 (5) Lightweight stat: Ask for just those details of interest, and allow a
     netfs (such as NFS) to approximate anything not of interest, possibly
     without going to the server [Trond Myklebust, Ulrich Drepper, Andreas
     Dilger] (AT_STATX_DONT_SYNC).

 (6) Heavyweight stat: Force a netfs to go to the server, even if it thinks
     its cached attributes are up to date [Trond Myklebust]
     (AT_STATX_FORCE_SYNC).

And the following have been left out for future extension:

 (7) Data version number: Could be used by userspace NFS servers [Aneesh
     Kumar].

     Can also be used to modify fill_post_wcc() in NFSD which retrieves
     i_version directly, but has just called vfs_getattr().  It could get
     it from the kstat struct if it used vfs_xgetattr() instead.

     (There's disagreement on the exact semantics of a single field, since
     not all filesystems do this the same way).

 (8) BSD stat compatibility: Including more fields from the BSD stat such
     as creation time (st_btime) and inode generation number (st_gen)
     [Jeremy Allison, Bernd Schubert].

 (9) Inode generation number: Useful for FUSE and userspace NFS servers
     [Bernd Schubert].

     (This was asked for but later deemed unnecessary with the
     open-by-handle capability available and caused disagreement as to
     whether it's a security hole or not).

(10) Extra coherency data may be useful in making backups [Andreas Dilger].

     (No particular data were offered, but things like last backup
     timestamp, the data version number and the DOS archive bit would come
     into this category).

(11) Allow the filesystem to indicate what it can/cannot provide: A
     filesystem can now say it doesn't support a standard stat feature if
     that isn't available, so if, for instance, inode numbers or UIDs don't
     exist or are fabricated locally...

     (This requires a separate system call - I have an fsinfo() call idea
     for this).

(12) Store a 16-byte volume ID in the superblock that can be returned in
     struct xstat [Steve French].

     (Deferred to fsinfo).

(13) Include granularity fields in the time data to indicate the
     granularity of each of the times (NFSv4 time_delta) [Steve French].

     (Deferred to fsinfo).

(14) FS_IOC_GETFLAGS value.  These could be translated to BSD's st_flags.
     Note that the Linux IOC flags are a mess and filesystems such as Ext4
     define flags that aren't in linux/fs.h, so translation in the kernel
     may be a necessity (or, possibly, we provide the filesystem type too).

     (Some attributes are made available in stx_attributes, but the general
     feeling was that the IOC flags were to ext[234]-specific and shouldn't
     be exposed through statx this way).

(15) Mask of features available on file (eg: ACLs, seclabel) [Brad Boyer,
     Michael Kerrisk].

     (Deferred, probably to fsinfo.  Finding out if there's an ACL or
     seclabal might require extra filesystem operations).

(16) Femtosecond-resolution timestamps [Dave Chinner].

     (A __reserved field has been left in the statx_timestamp struct for
     this - if there proves to be a need).

(17) A set multiple attributes syscall to go with this.

===============
NEW SYSTEM CALL
===============

The new system call is:

	int ret = statx(int dfd,
			const char *filename,
			unsigned int flags,
			unsigned int mask,
			struct statx *buffer);

The dfd, filename and flags parameters indicate the file to query, in a
similar way to fstatat().  There is no equivalent of lstat() as that can be
emulated with statx() by passing AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW in flags.  There is
also no equivalent of fstat() as that can be emulated by passing a NULL
filename to statx() with the fd of interest in dfd.

Whether or not statx() synchronises the attributes with the backing store
can be controlled by OR'ing a value into the flags argument (this typically
only affects network filesystems):

 (1) AT_STATX_SYNC_AS_STAT tells statx() to behave as stat() does in this
     respect.

 (2) AT_STATX_FORCE_SYNC will require a network filesystem to synchronise
     its attributes with the server - which might require data writeback to
     occur to get the timestamps correct.

 (3) AT_STATX_DONT_SYNC will suppress synchronisation with the server in a
     network filesystem.  The resulting values should be considered
     approximate.

mask is a bitmask indicating the fields in struct statx that are of
interest to the caller.  The user should set this to STATX_BASIC_STATS to
get the basic set returned by stat().  It should be noted that asking for
more information may entail extra I/O operations.

buffer points to the destination for the data.  This must be 256 bytes in
size.

======================
MAIN ATTRIBUTES RECORD
======================

The following structures are defined in which to return the main attribute
set:

	struct statx_timestamp {
		__s64	tv_sec;
		__s32	tv_nsec;
		__s32	__reserved;
	};

	struct statx {
		__u32	stx_mask;
		__u32	stx_blksize;
		__u64	stx_attributes;
		__u32	stx_nlink;
		__u32	stx_uid;
		__u32	stx_gid;
		__u16	stx_mode;
		__u16	__spare0[1];
		__u64	stx_ino;
		__u64	stx_size;
		__u64	stx_blocks;
		__u64	__spare1[1];
		struct statx_timestamp	stx_atime;
		struct statx_timestamp	stx_btime;
		struct statx_timestamp	stx_ctime;
		struct statx_timestamp	stx_mtime;
		__u32	stx_rdev_major;
		__u32	stx_rdev_minor;
		__u32	stx_dev_major;
		__u32	stx_dev_minor;
		__u64	__spare2[14];
	};

The defined bits in request_mask and stx_mask are:

	STATX_TYPE		Want/got stx_mode &amp; S_IFMT
	STATX_MODE		Want/got stx_mode &amp; ~S_IFMT
	STATX_NLINK		Want/got stx_nlink
	STATX_UID		Want/got stx_uid
	STATX_GID		Want/got stx_gid
	STATX_ATIME		Want/got stx_atime{,_ns}
	STATX_MTIME		Want/got stx_mtime{,_ns}
	STATX_CTIME		Want/got stx_ctime{,_ns}
	STATX_INO		Want/got stx_ino
	STATX_SIZE		Want/got stx_size
	STATX_BLOCKS		Want/got stx_blocks
	STATX_BASIC_STATS	[The stuff in the normal stat struct]
	STATX_BTIME		Want/got stx_btime{,_ns}
	STATX_ALL		[All currently available stuff]

stx_btime is the file creation time, stx_mask is a bitmask indicating the
data provided and __spares*[] are where as-yet undefined fields can be
placed.

Time fields are structures with separate seconds and nanoseconds fields
plus a reserved field in case we want to add even finer resolution.  Note
that times will be negative if before 1970; in such a case, the nanosecond
fields will also be negative if not zero.

The bits defined in the stx_attributes field convey information about a
file, how it is accessed, where it is and what it does.  The following
attributes map to FS_*_FL flags and are the same numerical value:

	STATX_ATTR_COMPRESSED		File is compressed by the fs
	STATX_ATTR_IMMUTABLE		File is marked immutable
	STATX_ATTR_APPEND		File is append-only
	STATX_ATTR_NODUMP		File is not to be dumped
	STATX_ATTR_ENCRYPTED		File requires key to decrypt in fs

Within the kernel, the supported flags are listed by:

	KSTAT_ATTR_FS_IOC_FLAGS

[Are any other IOC flags of sufficient general interest to be exposed
through this interface?]

New flags include:

	STATX_ATTR_AUTOMOUNT		Object is an automount trigger

These are for the use of GUI tools that might want to mark files specially,
depending on what they are.

Fields in struct statx come in a number of classes:

 (0) stx_dev_*, stx_blksize.

     These are local system information and are always available.

 (1) stx_mode, stx_nlinks, stx_uid, stx_gid, stx_[amc]time, stx_ino,
     stx_size, stx_blocks.

     These will be returned whether the caller asks for them or not.  The
     corresponding bits in stx_mask will be set to indicate whether they
     actually have valid values.

     If the caller didn't ask for them, then they may be approximated.  For
     example, NFS won't waste any time updating them from the server,
     unless as a byproduct of updating something requested.

     If the values don't actually exist for the underlying object (such as
     UID or GID on a DOS file), then the bit won't be set in the stx_mask,
     even if the caller asked for the value.  In such a case, the returned
     value will be a fabrication.

     Note that there are instances where the type might not be valid, for
     instance Windows reparse points.

 (2) stx_rdev_*.

     This will be set only if stx_mode indicates we're looking at a
     blockdev or a chardev, otherwise will be 0.

 (3) stx_btime.

     Similar to (1), except this will be set to 0 if it doesn't exist.

=======
TESTING
=======

The following test program can be used to test the statx system call:

	samples/statx/test-statx.c

Just compile and run, passing it paths to the files you want to examine.
The file is built automatically if CONFIG_SAMPLES is enabled.

Here's some example output.  Firstly, an NFS directory that crosses to
another FSID.  Note that the AUTOMOUNT attribute is set because transiting
this directory will cause d_automount to be invoked by the VFS.

	[root@andromeda ~]# /tmp/test-statx -A /warthog/data
	statx(/warthog/data) = 0
	results=7ff
	  Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 1048576  directory
	Device: 00:26           Inode: 1703937     Links: 125
	Access: (3777/drwxrwxrwx)  Uid:     0   Gid:  4041
	Access: 2016-11-24 09:02:12.219699527+0000
	Modify: 2016-11-17 10:44:36.225653653+0000
	Change: 2016-11-17 10:44:36.225653653+0000
	Attributes: 0000000000001000 (-------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- ---m---- --------)

Secondly, the result of automounting on that directory.

	[root@andromeda ~]# /tmp/test-statx /warthog/data
	statx(/warthog/data) = 0
	results=7ff
	  Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 1048576  directory
	Device: 00:27           Inode: 2           Links: 125
	Access: (3777/drwxrwxrwx)  Uid:     0   Gid:  4041
	Access: 2016-11-24 09:02:12.219699527+0000
	Modify: 2016-11-17 10:44:36.225653653+0000
	Change: 2016-11-17 10:44:36.225653653+0000

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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