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<title>fs/proc: do_task_stat: use sig-&gt;stats_lock to gather the threads/children stats</title>
<updated>2024-02-08T05:20:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2024-01-23T15:33:57+00:00</published>
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lock_task_sighand() can trigger a hard lockup.  If NR_CPUS threads call
do_task_stat() at the same time and the process has NR_THREADS, it will
spin with irqs disabled O(NR_CPUS * NR_THREADS) time.

Change do_task_stat() to use sig-&gt;stats_lock to gather the statistics
outside of -&gt;siglock protected section, in the likely case this code will
run lockless.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240123153357.GA21857@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dylan Hatch &lt;dylanbhatch@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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lock_task_sighand() can trigger a hard lockup.  If NR_CPUS threads call
do_task_stat() at the same time and the process has NR_THREADS, it will
spin with irqs disabled O(NR_CPUS * NR_THREADS) time.

Change do_task_stat() to use sig-&gt;stats_lock to gather the statistics
outside of -&gt;siglock protected section, in the likely case this code will
run lockless.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240123153357.GA21857@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dylan Hatch &lt;dylanbhatch@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>fs/proc: do_task_stat: move thread_group_cputime_adjusted() outside of lock_task_sighand()</title>
<updated>2024-02-08T05:20:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-23T15:33:55+00:00</published>
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Patch series "fs/proc: do_task_stat: use sig-&gt;stats_".

do_task_stat() has the same problem as getrusage() had before "getrusage:
use sig-&gt;stats_lock rather than lock_task_sighand()": a hard lockup.  If
NR_CPUS threads call lock_task_sighand() at the same time and the process
has NR_THREADS, spin_lock_irq will spin with irqs disabled O(NR_CPUS *
NR_THREADS) time.


This patch (of 3):

thread_group_cputime() does its own locking, we can safely shift
thread_group_cputime_adjusted() which does another for_each_thread loop
outside of -&gt;siglock protected section.

Not only this removes for_each_thread() from the critical section with
irqs disabled, this removes another case when stats_lock is taken with
siglock held.  We want to remove this dependency, then we can change the
users of stats_lock to not disable irqs.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240123153313.GA21832@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240123153355.GA21854@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dylan Hatch &lt;dylanbhatch@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Patch series "fs/proc: do_task_stat: use sig-&gt;stats_".

do_task_stat() has the same problem as getrusage() had before "getrusage:
use sig-&gt;stats_lock rather than lock_task_sighand()": a hard lockup.  If
NR_CPUS threads call lock_task_sighand() at the same time and the process
has NR_THREADS, spin_lock_irq will spin with irqs disabled O(NR_CPUS *
NR_THREADS) time.


This patch (of 3):

thread_group_cputime() does its own locking, we can safely shift
thread_group_cputime_adjusted() which does another for_each_thread loop
outside of -&gt;siglock protected section.

Not only this removes for_each_thread() from the critical section with
irqs disabled, this removes another case when stats_lock is taken with
siglock held.  We want to remove this dependency, then we can change the
users of stats_lock to not disable irqs.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240123153313.GA21832@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240123153355.GA21854@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dylan Hatch &lt;dylanbhatch@google.com&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'master' into mm-hotfixes-stable</title>
<updated>2024-01-17T20:58:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Morton</name>
<email>akpm@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-17T20:58:28+00:00</published>
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<title>fs/proc/task_mmu: move mmu notification mechanism inside mm lock</title>
<updated>2024-01-12T23:20:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Muhammad Usama Anjum</name>
<email>usama.anjum@collabora.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-09T11:24:42+00:00</published>
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Move mmu notification mechanism inside mm lock to prevent race condition
in other components which depend on it.  The notifier will invalidate
memory range.  Depending upon the number of iterations, different memory
ranges would be invalidated.

The following warning would be removed by this patch:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5067 at arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:734 kvm_mmu_notifier_change_pte+0x860/0x960 arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:734

There is no behavioural and performance change with this patch when
there is no component registered with the mmu notifier.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: narrow the scope of `range', per Sean]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240109112445.590736-1-usama.anjum@collabora.com
Fixes: 52526ca7fdb9 ("fs/proc/task_mmu: implement IOCTL to get and optionally clear info about PTEs")
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum &lt;usama.anjum@collabora.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+81227d2bd69e9dedb802@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/000000000000f6d051060c6785bc@google.com/
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@google.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Michał Mirosław &lt;mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Move mmu notification mechanism inside mm lock to prevent race condition
in other components which depend on it.  The notifier will invalidate
memory range.  Depending upon the number of iterations, different memory
ranges would be invalidated.

The following warning would be removed by this patch:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5067 at arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:734 kvm_mmu_notifier_change_pte+0x860/0x960 arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:734

There is no behavioural and performance change with this patch when
there is no component registered with the mmu notifier.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: narrow the scope of `range', per Sean]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240109112445.590736-1-usama.anjum@collabora.com
Fixes: 52526ca7fdb9 ("fs/proc/task_mmu: implement IOCTL to get and optionally clear info about PTEs")
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum &lt;usama.anjum@collabora.com&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+81227d2bd69e9dedb802@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/000000000000f6d051060c6785bc@google.com/
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@google.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kefeng Wang &lt;wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Michał Mirosław &lt;mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl&gt;
Cc: Peter Xu &lt;peterx@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ryan Roberts &lt;ryan.roberts@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pull-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2024-01-12T04:23:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-12T04:23:50+00:00</published>
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Pull misc filesystem updates from Al Viro:
 "Misc cleanups (the part that hadn't been picked by individual fs
  trees)"

* tag 'pull-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  apparmorfs: don't duplicate kfree_link()
  orangefs: saner arguments passing in readdir guts
  ocfs2_find_match(): there's no such thing as NULL or negative -&gt;d_parent
  reiserfs_add_entry(): get rid of pointless namelen checks
  __ocfs2_add_entry(), ocfs2_prepare_dir_for_insert(): namelen checks
  ext4_add_entry(): -&gt;d_name.len is never 0
  befs: d_obtain_alias(ERR_PTR(...)) will do the right thing
  affs: d_obtain_alias(ERR_PTR(...)) will do the right thing
  /proc/sys: use d_splice_alias() calling conventions to simplify failure exits
  hostfs: use d_splice_alias() calling conventions to simplify failure exits
  udf_fiiter_add_entry(): check for zero -&gt;d_name.len is bogus...
  udf: d_obtain_alias(ERR_PTR(...)) will do the right thing...
  udf: d_splice_alias() will do the right thing on ERR_PTR() inode
  nfsd: kill stale comment about simple_fill_super() requirements
  bfs_add_entry(): get rid of pointless -&gt;d_name.len checks
  nilfs2: d_obtain_alias(ERR_PTR(...)) will do the right thing...
  zonefs: d_splice_alias() will do the right thing on ERR_PTR() inode
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Pull misc filesystem updates from Al Viro:
 "Misc cleanups (the part that hadn't been picked by individual fs
  trees)"

* tag 'pull-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  apparmorfs: don't duplicate kfree_link()
  orangefs: saner arguments passing in readdir guts
  ocfs2_find_match(): there's no such thing as NULL or negative -&gt;d_parent
  reiserfs_add_entry(): get rid of pointless namelen checks
  __ocfs2_add_entry(), ocfs2_prepare_dir_for_insert(): namelen checks
  ext4_add_entry(): -&gt;d_name.len is never 0
  befs: d_obtain_alias(ERR_PTR(...)) will do the right thing
  affs: d_obtain_alias(ERR_PTR(...)) will do the right thing
  /proc/sys: use d_splice_alias() calling conventions to simplify failure exits
  hostfs: use d_splice_alias() calling conventions to simplify failure exits
  udf_fiiter_add_entry(): check for zero -&gt;d_name.len is bogus...
  udf: d_obtain_alias(ERR_PTR(...)) will do the right thing...
  udf: d_splice_alias() will do the right thing on ERR_PTR() inode
  nfsd: kill stale comment about simple_fill_super() requirements
  bfs_add_entry(): get rid of pointless -&gt;d_name.len checks
  nilfs2: d_obtain_alias(ERR_PTR(...)) will do the right thing...
  zonefs: d_splice_alias() will do the right thing on ERR_PTR() inode
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sysctl-6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux</title>
<updated>2024-01-11T01:44:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-11T01:44:36+00:00</published>
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Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "To help make the move of sysctls out of kernel/sysctl.c not incur a
  size penalty sysctl has been changed to allow us to not require the
  sentinel, the final empty element on the sysctl array. Joel Granados
  has been doing all this work.

  In the v6.6 kernel we got the major infrastructure changes required to
  support this. For v6.7 we had all arch/ and drivers/ modified to
  remove the sentinel. For v6.8-rc1 we get a few more updates for fs/
  directory only.

  The kernel/ directory is left but we'll save that for v6.9-rc1 as
  those patches are still being reviewed. After that we then can expect
  also the removal of the no longer needed check for procname == NULL.

  Let us recap the purpose of this work:

   - this helps reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run
     time memory consumed by the kernel by about ~64 bytes per array

   - the extra 64-byte penalty is no longer inncurred now when we move
     sysctls out from kernel/sysctl.c to their own files

  Thomas Weißschuh also sent a few cleanups, for v6.9-rc1 we expect to
  see further work by Thomas Weißschuh with the constificatin of the
  struct ctl_table.

  Due to Joel Granados's work, and to help bring in new blood, I have
  suggested for him to become a maintainer and he's accepted. So for
  v6.9-rc1 I look forward to seeing him sent you a pull request for
  further sysctl changes. This also removes Iurii Zaikin as a maintainer
  as he has moved on to other projects and has had no time to help at
  all"

* tag 'sysctl-6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux:
  sysctl: remove struct ctl_path
  sysctl: delete unused define SYSCTL_PERM_EMPTY_DIR
  coda: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  sysctl: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  fs: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  cachefiles: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  sysclt: Clarify the results of selftest run
  sysctl: Add a selftest for handling empty dirs
  sysctl: Fix out of bounds access for empty sysctl registers
  MAINTAINERS: Add Joel Granados as co-maintainer for proc sysctl
  MAINTAINERS: remove Iurii Zaikin from proc sysctl
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Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain:
 "To help make the move of sysctls out of kernel/sysctl.c not incur a
  size penalty sysctl has been changed to allow us to not require the
  sentinel, the final empty element on the sysctl array. Joel Granados
  has been doing all this work.

  In the v6.6 kernel we got the major infrastructure changes required to
  support this. For v6.7 we had all arch/ and drivers/ modified to
  remove the sentinel. For v6.8-rc1 we get a few more updates for fs/
  directory only.

  The kernel/ directory is left but we'll save that for v6.9-rc1 as
  those patches are still being reviewed. After that we then can expect
  also the removal of the no longer needed check for procname == NULL.

  Let us recap the purpose of this work:

   - this helps reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run
     time memory consumed by the kernel by about ~64 bytes per array

   - the extra 64-byte penalty is no longer inncurred now when we move
     sysctls out from kernel/sysctl.c to their own files

  Thomas Weißschuh also sent a few cleanups, for v6.9-rc1 we expect to
  see further work by Thomas Weißschuh with the constificatin of the
  struct ctl_table.

  Due to Joel Granados's work, and to help bring in new blood, I have
  suggested for him to become a maintainer and he's accepted. So for
  v6.9-rc1 I look forward to seeing him sent you a pull request for
  further sysctl changes. This also removes Iurii Zaikin as a maintainer
  as he has moved on to other projects and has had no time to help at
  all"

* tag 'sysctl-6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux:
  sysctl: remove struct ctl_path
  sysctl: delete unused define SYSCTL_PERM_EMPTY_DIR
  coda: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  sysctl: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  fs: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
  cachefiles: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
  sysclt: Clarify the results of selftest run
  sysctl: Add a selftest for handling empty dirs
  sysctl: Fix out of bounds access for empty sysctl registers
  MAINTAINERS: Add Joel Granados as co-maintainer for proc sysctl
  MAINTAINERS: remove Iurii Zaikin from proc sysctl
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'lsm-pr-20240105' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm</title>
<updated>2024-01-09T20:57:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-09T20:57:46+00:00</published>
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Pull security module updates from Paul Moore:

 - Add three new syscalls: lsm_list_modules(), lsm_get_self_attr(), and
   lsm_set_self_attr().

   The first syscall simply lists the LSMs enabled, while the second and
   third get and set the current process' LSM attributes. Yes, these
   syscalls may provide similar functionality to what can be found under
   /proc or /sys, but they were designed to support multiple,
   simultaneaous (stacked) LSMs from the start as opposed to the current
   /proc based solutions which were created at a time when only one LSM
   was allowed to be active at a given time.

   We have spent considerable time discussing ways to extend the
   existing /proc interfaces to support multiple, simultaneaous LSMs and
   even our best ideas have been far too ugly to support as a kernel
   API; after +20 years in the kernel, I felt the LSM layer had
   established itself enough to justify a handful of syscalls.

   Support amongst the individual LSM developers has been nearly
   unanimous, with a single objection coming from Tetsuo (TOMOYO) as he
   is worried that the LSM_ID_XXX token concept will make it more
   difficult for out-of-tree LSMs to survive. Several members of the LSM
   community have demonstrated the ability for out-of-tree LSMs to
   continue to exist by picking high/unused LSM_ID values as well as
   pointing out that many kernel APIs rely on integer identifiers, e.g.
   syscalls (!), but unfortunately Tetsuo's objections remain.

   My personal opinion is that while I have no interest in penalizing
   out-of-tree LSMs, I'm not going to penalize in-tree development to
   support out-of-tree development, and I view this as a necessary step
   forward to support the push for expanded LSM stacking and reduce our
   reliance on /proc and /sys which has occassionally been problematic
   for some container users. Finally, we have included the linux-api
   folks on (all?) recent revisions of the patchset and addressed all of
   their concerns.

 - Add a new security_file_ioctl_compat() LSM hook to handle the 32-bit
   ioctls on 64-bit systems problem.

   This patch includes support for all of the existing LSMs which
   provide ioctl hooks, although it turns out only SELinux actually
   cares about the individual ioctls. It is worth noting that while
   Casey (Smack) and Tetsuo (TOMOYO) did not give explicit ACKs to this
   patch, they did both indicate they are okay with the changes.

 - Fix a potential memory leak in the CALIPSO code when IPv6 is disabled
   at boot.

   While it's good that we are fixing this, I doubt this is something
   users are seeing in the wild as you need to both disable IPv6 and
   then attempt to configure IPv6 labeled networking via
   NetLabel/CALIPSO; that just doesn't make much sense.

   Normally this would go through netdev, but Jakub asked me to take
   this patch and of all the trees I maintain, the LSM tree seemed like
   the best fit.

 - Update the LSM MAINTAINERS entry with additional information about
   our process docs, patchwork, bug reporting, etc.

   I also noticed that the Lockdown LSM is missing a dedicated
   MAINTAINERS entry so I've added that to the pull request. I've been
   working with one of the major Lockdown authors/contributors to see if
   they are willing to step up and assume a Lockdown maintainer role;
   hopefully that will happen soon, but in the meantime I'll continue to
   look after it.

 - Add a handful of mailmap entries for Serge Hallyn and myself.

* tag 'lsm-pr-20240105' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm: (27 commits)
  lsm: new security_file_ioctl_compat() hook
  lsm: Add a __counted_by() annotation to lsm_ctx.ctx
  calipso: fix memory leak in netlbl_calipso_add_pass()
  selftests: remove the LSM_ID_IMA check in lsm/lsm_list_modules_test
  MAINTAINERS: add an entry for the lockdown LSM
  MAINTAINERS: update the LSM entry
  mailmap: add entries for Serge Hallyn's dead accounts
  mailmap: update/replace my old email addresses
  lsm: mark the lsm_id variables are marked as static
  lsm: convert security_setselfattr() to use memdup_user()
  lsm: align based on pointer length in lsm_fill_user_ctx()
  lsm: consolidate buffer size handling into lsm_fill_user_ctx()
  lsm: correct error codes in security_getselfattr()
  lsm: cleanup the size counters in security_getselfattr()
  lsm: don't yet account for IMA in LSM_CONFIG_COUNT calculation
  lsm: drop LSM_ID_IMA
  LSM: selftests for Linux Security Module syscalls
  SELinux: Add selfattr hooks
  AppArmor: Add selfattr hooks
  Smack: implement setselfattr and getselfattr hooks
  ...
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Pull security module updates from Paul Moore:

 - Add three new syscalls: lsm_list_modules(), lsm_get_self_attr(), and
   lsm_set_self_attr().

   The first syscall simply lists the LSMs enabled, while the second and
   third get and set the current process' LSM attributes. Yes, these
   syscalls may provide similar functionality to what can be found under
   /proc or /sys, but they were designed to support multiple,
   simultaneaous (stacked) LSMs from the start as opposed to the current
   /proc based solutions which were created at a time when only one LSM
   was allowed to be active at a given time.

   We have spent considerable time discussing ways to extend the
   existing /proc interfaces to support multiple, simultaneaous LSMs and
   even our best ideas have been far too ugly to support as a kernel
   API; after +20 years in the kernel, I felt the LSM layer had
   established itself enough to justify a handful of syscalls.

   Support amongst the individual LSM developers has been nearly
   unanimous, with a single objection coming from Tetsuo (TOMOYO) as he
   is worried that the LSM_ID_XXX token concept will make it more
   difficult for out-of-tree LSMs to survive. Several members of the LSM
   community have demonstrated the ability for out-of-tree LSMs to
   continue to exist by picking high/unused LSM_ID values as well as
   pointing out that many kernel APIs rely on integer identifiers, e.g.
   syscalls (!), but unfortunately Tetsuo's objections remain.

   My personal opinion is that while I have no interest in penalizing
   out-of-tree LSMs, I'm not going to penalize in-tree development to
   support out-of-tree development, and I view this as a necessary step
   forward to support the push for expanded LSM stacking and reduce our
   reliance on /proc and /sys which has occassionally been problematic
   for some container users. Finally, we have included the linux-api
   folks on (all?) recent revisions of the patchset and addressed all of
   their concerns.

 - Add a new security_file_ioctl_compat() LSM hook to handle the 32-bit
   ioctls on 64-bit systems problem.

   This patch includes support for all of the existing LSMs which
   provide ioctl hooks, although it turns out only SELinux actually
   cares about the individual ioctls. It is worth noting that while
   Casey (Smack) and Tetsuo (TOMOYO) did not give explicit ACKs to this
   patch, they did both indicate they are okay with the changes.

 - Fix a potential memory leak in the CALIPSO code when IPv6 is disabled
   at boot.

   While it's good that we are fixing this, I doubt this is something
   users are seeing in the wild as you need to both disable IPv6 and
   then attempt to configure IPv6 labeled networking via
   NetLabel/CALIPSO; that just doesn't make much sense.

   Normally this would go through netdev, but Jakub asked me to take
   this patch and of all the trees I maintain, the LSM tree seemed like
   the best fit.

 - Update the LSM MAINTAINERS entry with additional information about
   our process docs, patchwork, bug reporting, etc.

   I also noticed that the Lockdown LSM is missing a dedicated
   MAINTAINERS entry so I've added that to the pull request. I've been
   working with one of the major Lockdown authors/contributors to see if
   they are willing to step up and assume a Lockdown maintainer role;
   hopefully that will happen soon, but in the meantime I'll continue to
   look after it.

 - Add a handful of mailmap entries for Serge Hallyn and myself.

* tag 'lsm-pr-20240105' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm: (27 commits)
  lsm: new security_file_ioctl_compat() hook
  lsm: Add a __counted_by() annotation to lsm_ctx.ctx
  calipso: fix memory leak in netlbl_calipso_add_pass()
  selftests: remove the LSM_ID_IMA check in lsm/lsm_list_modules_test
  MAINTAINERS: add an entry for the lockdown LSM
  MAINTAINERS: update the LSM entry
  mailmap: add entries for Serge Hallyn's dead accounts
  mailmap: update/replace my old email addresses
  lsm: mark the lsm_id variables are marked as static
  lsm: convert security_setselfattr() to use memdup_user()
  lsm: align based on pointer length in lsm_fill_user_ctx()
  lsm: consolidate buffer size handling into lsm_fill_user_ctx()
  lsm: correct error codes in security_getselfattr()
  lsm: cleanup the size counters in security_getselfattr()
  lsm: don't yet account for IMA in LSM_CONFIG_COUNT calculation
  lsm: drop LSM_ID_IMA
  LSM: selftests for Linux Security Module syscalls
  SELinux: Add selfattr hooks
  AppArmor: Add selfattr hooks
  Smack: implement setselfattr and getselfattr hooks
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-01-08-15-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2024-01-09T19:18:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-09T19:18:47+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are
  included in this merge do the following:

   - Peng Zhang has done some mapletree maintainance work in the series

	'maple_tree: add mt_free_one() and mt_attr() helpers'
	'Some cleanups of maple tree'

   - In the series 'mm: use memmap_on_memory semantics for dax/kmem'
     Vishal Verma has altered the interworking between memory-hotplug
     and dax/kmem so that newly added 'device memory' can more easily
     have its memmap placed within that newly added memory.

   - Matthew Wilcox continues folio-related work (including a few fixes)
     in the patch series

	'Add folio_zero_tail() and folio_fill_tail()'
	'Make folio_start_writeback return void'
	'Fix fault handler's handling of poisoned tail pages'
	'Convert aops-&gt;error_remove_page to -&gt;error_remove_folio'
	'Finish two folio conversions'
	'More swap folio conversions'

   - Kefeng Wang has also contributed folio-related work in the series

	'mm: cleanup and use more folio in page fault'

   - Jim Cromie has improved the kmemleak reporting output in the series
     'tweak kmemleak report format'.

   - In the series 'stackdepot: allow evicting stack traces' Andrey
     Konovalov to permits clients (in this case KASAN) to cause eviction
     of no longer needed stack traces.

   - Charan Teja Kalla has fixed some accounting issues in the page
     allocator's atomic reserve calculations in the series 'mm:
     page_alloc: fixes for high atomic reserve caluculations'.

   - Dmitry Rokosov has added to the samples/ dorectory some sample code
     for a userspace memcg event listener application. See the series
     'samples: introduce cgroup events listeners'.

   - Some mapletree maintanance work from Liam Howlett in the series
     'maple_tree: iterator state changes'.

   - Nhat Pham has improved zswap's approach to writeback in the series
     'workload-specific and memory pressure-driven zswap writeback'.

   - DAMON/DAMOS feature and maintenance work from SeongJae Park in the
     series

	'mm/damon: let users feed and tame/auto-tune DAMOS'
	'selftests/damon: add Python-written DAMON functionality tests'
	'mm/damon: misc updates for 6.8'

   - Yosry Ahmed has improved memcg's stats flushing in the series 'mm:
     memcg: subtree stats flushing and thresholds'.

   - In the series 'Multi-size THP for anonymous memory' Ryan Roberts
     has added a runtime opt-in feature to transparent hugepages which
     improves performance by allocating larger chunks of memory during
     anonymous page faults.

   - Matthew Wilcox has also contributed some cleanup and maintenance
     work against eh buffer_head code int he series 'More buffer_head
     cleanups'.

   - Suren Baghdasaryan has done work on Andrea Arcangeli's series
     'userfaultfd move option'. UFFDIO_MOVE permits userspace heap
     compaction algorithms to move userspace's pages around rather than
     UFFDIO_COPY'a alloc/copy/free.

   - Stefan Roesch has developed a 'KSM Advisor', in the series 'mm/ksm:
     Add ksm advisor'. This is a governor which tunes KSM's scanning
     aggressiveness in response to userspace's current needs.

   - Chengming Zhou has optimized zswap's temporary working memory use
     in the series 'mm/zswap: dstmem reuse optimizations and cleanups'.

   - Matthew Wilcox has performed some maintenance work on the writeback
     code, both code and within filesystems. The series is 'Clean up the
     writeback paths'.

   - Andrey Konovalov has optimized KASAN's handling of alloc and free
     stack traces for secondary-level allocators, in the series 'kasan:
     save mempool stack traces'.

   - Andrey also performed some KASAN maintenance work in the series
     'kasan: assorted clean-ups'.

   - David Hildenbrand has gone to town on the rmap code. Cleanups, more
     pte batching, folio conversions and more. See the series 'mm/rmap:
     interface overhaul'.

   - Kinsey Ho has contributed some maintenance work on the MGLRU code
     in the series 'mm/mglru: Kconfig cleanup'.

   - Matthew Wilcox has contributed lruvec page accounting code cleanups
     in the series 'Remove some lruvec page accounting functions'"

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-01-08-15-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (361 commits)
  mm, treewide: rename MAX_ORDER to MAX_PAGE_ORDER
  mm, treewide: introduce NR_PAGE_ORDERS
  selftests/mm: add separate UFFDIO_MOVE test for PMD splitting
  selftests/mm: skip test if application doesn't has root privileges
  selftests/mm: conform test to TAP format output
  selftests: mm: hugepage-mmap: conform to TAP format output
  selftests/mm: gup_test: conform test to TAP format output
  mm/selftests: hugepage-mremap: conform test to TAP format output
  mm/vmstat: move pgdemote_* out of CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
  mm: zsmalloc: return -ENOSPC rather than -EINVAL in zs_malloc while size is too large
  mm/memcontrol: remove __mod_lruvec_page_state()
  mm/khugepaged: use a folio more in collapse_file()
  slub: use a folio in __kmalloc_large_node
  slub: use folio APIs in free_large_kmalloc()
  slub: use alloc_pages_node() in alloc_slab_page()
  mm: remove inc/dec lruvec page state functions
  mm: ratelimit stat flush from workingset shrinker
  kasan: stop leaking stack trace handles
  mm/mglru: remove CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
  mm/mglru: add dummy pmd_dirty()
  ...
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<pre>
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are
  included in this merge do the following:

   - Peng Zhang has done some mapletree maintainance work in the series

	'maple_tree: add mt_free_one() and mt_attr() helpers'
	'Some cleanups of maple tree'

   - In the series 'mm: use memmap_on_memory semantics for dax/kmem'
     Vishal Verma has altered the interworking between memory-hotplug
     and dax/kmem so that newly added 'device memory' can more easily
     have its memmap placed within that newly added memory.

   - Matthew Wilcox continues folio-related work (including a few fixes)
     in the patch series

	'Add folio_zero_tail() and folio_fill_tail()'
	'Make folio_start_writeback return void'
	'Fix fault handler's handling of poisoned tail pages'
	'Convert aops-&gt;error_remove_page to -&gt;error_remove_folio'
	'Finish two folio conversions'
	'More swap folio conversions'

   - Kefeng Wang has also contributed folio-related work in the series

	'mm: cleanup and use more folio in page fault'

   - Jim Cromie has improved the kmemleak reporting output in the series
     'tweak kmemleak report format'.

   - In the series 'stackdepot: allow evicting stack traces' Andrey
     Konovalov to permits clients (in this case KASAN) to cause eviction
     of no longer needed stack traces.

   - Charan Teja Kalla has fixed some accounting issues in the page
     allocator's atomic reserve calculations in the series 'mm:
     page_alloc: fixes for high atomic reserve caluculations'.

   - Dmitry Rokosov has added to the samples/ dorectory some sample code
     for a userspace memcg event listener application. See the series
     'samples: introduce cgroup events listeners'.

   - Some mapletree maintanance work from Liam Howlett in the series
     'maple_tree: iterator state changes'.

   - Nhat Pham has improved zswap's approach to writeback in the series
     'workload-specific and memory pressure-driven zswap writeback'.

   - DAMON/DAMOS feature and maintenance work from SeongJae Park in the
     series

	'mm/damon: let users feed and tame/auto-tune DAMOS'
	'selftests/damon: add Python-written DAMON functionality tests'
	'mm/damon: misc updates for 6.8'

   - Yosry Ahmed has improved memcg's stats flushing in the series 'mm:
     memcg: subtree stats flushing and thresholds'.

   - In the series 'Multi-size THP for anonymous memory' Ryan Roberts
     has added a runtime opt-in feature to transparent hugepages which
     improves performance by allocating larger chunks of memory during
     anonymous page faults.

   - Matthew Wilcox has also contributed some cleanup and maintenance
     work against eh buffer_head code int he series 'More buffer_head
     cleanups'.

   - Suren Baghdasaryan has done work on Andrea Arcangeli's series
     'userfaultfd move option'. UFFDIO_MOVE permits userspace heap
     compaction algorithms to move userspace's pages around rather than
     UFFDIO_COPY'a alloc/copy/free.

   - Stefan Roesch has developed a 'KSM Advisor', in the series 'mm/ksm:
     Add ksm advisor'. This is a governor which tunes KSM's scanning
     aggressiveness in response to userspace's current needs.

   - Chengming Zhou has optimized zswap's temporary working memory use
     in the series 'mm/zswap: dstmem reuse optimizations and cleanups'.

   - Matthew Wilcox has performed some maintenance work on the writeback
     code, both code and within filesystems. The series is 'Clean up the
     writeback paths'.

   - Andrey Konovalov has optimized KASAN's handling of alloc and free
     stack traces for secondary-level allocators, in the series 'kasan:
     save mempool stack traces'.

   - Andrey also performed some KASAN maintenance work in the series
     'kasan: assorted clean-ups'.

   - David Hildenbrand has gone to town on the rmap code. Cleanups, more
     pte batching, folio conversions and more. See the series 'mm/rmap:
     interface overhaul'.

   - Kinsey Ho has contributed some maintenance work on the MGLRU code
     in the series 'mm/mglru: Kconfig cleanup'.

   - Matthew Wilcox has contributed lruvec page accounting code cleanups
     in the series 'Remove some lruvec page accounting functions'"

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-01-08-15-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (361 commits)
  mm, treewide: rename MAX_ORDER to MAX_PAGE_ORDER
  mm, treewide: introduce NR_PAGE_ORDERS
  selftests/mm: add separate UFFDIO_MOVE test for PMD splitting
  selftests/mm: skip test if application doesn't has root privileges
  selftests/mm: conform test to TAP format output
  selftests: mm: hugepage-mmap: conform to TAP format output
  selftests/mm: gup_test: conform test to TAP format output
  mm/selftests: hugepage-mremap: conform test to TAP format output
  mm/vmstat: move pgdemote_* out of CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
  mm: zsmalloc: return -ENOSPC rather than -EINVAL in zs_malloc while size is too large
  mm/memcontrol: remove __mod_lruvec_page_state()
  mm/khugepaged: use a folio more in collapse_file()
  slub: use a folio in __kmalloc_large_node
  slub: use folio APIs in free_large_kmalloc()
  slub: use alloc_pages_node() in alloc_slab_page()
  mm: remove inc/dec lruvec page state functions
  mm: ratelimit stat flush from workingset shrinker
  kasan: stop leaking stack trace handles
  mm/mglru: remove CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
  mm/mglru: add dummy pmd_dirty()
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.8.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2024-01-08T18:26:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-08T18:26:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=c604110e662a54568073a03176402b624e740310'/>
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Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the usual miscellaneous features, cleanups, and fixes
  for vfs and individual fses.

  Features:

   - Add Jan Kara as VFS reviewer

   - Show correct device and inode numbers in proc/&lt;pid&gt;/maps for vma
     files on stacked filesystems. This is now easily doable thanks to
     the backing file work from the last cycles. This comes with
     selftests

  Cleanups:

   - Remove a redundant might_sleep() from wait_on_inode()

   - Initialize pointer with NULL, not 0

   - Clarify comment on access_override_creds()

   - Rework and simplify eventfd_signal() and eventfd_signal_mask()
     helpers

   - Process aio completions in batches to avoid needless wakeups

   - Completely decouple struct mnt_idmap from namespaces. We now only
     keep the actual idmapping around and don't stash references to
     namespaces

   - Reformat maintainer entries to indicate that a given subsystem
     belongs to fs/

   - Simplify fput() for files that were never opened

   - Get rid of various pointless file helpers

   - Rename various file helpers

   - Rename struct file members after SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU switch from
     last cycle

   - Make relatime_need_update() return bool

   - Use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_USER when allocating superblocks

   - Replace deprecated ida_simple_*() calls with their current ida_*()
     counterparts

  Fixes:

   - Fix comments on user namespace id mapping helpers. They aren't
     kernel doc comments so they shouldn't be using /**

   - s/Retuns/Returns/g in various places

   - Add missing parameter documentation on can_move_mount_beneath()

   - Rename i_mapping-&gt;private_data to i_mapping-&gt;i_private_data

   - Fix a false-positive lockdep warning in pipe_write() for watch
     queues

   - Improve __fget_files_rcu() code generation to improve performance

   - Only notify writer that pipe resizing has finished after setting
     pipe-&gt;max_usage otherwise writers are never notified that the pipe
     has been resized and hang

   - Fix some kernel docs in hfsplus

   - s/passs/pass/g in various places

   - Fix kernel docs in ntfs

   - Fix kcalloc() arguments order reported by gcc 14

   - Fix uninitialized value in reiserfs"

* tag 'vfs-6.8.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (36 commits)
  reiserfs: fix uninit-value in comp_keys
  watch_queue: fix kcalloc() arguments order
  ntfs: dir.c: fix kernel-doc function parameter warnings
  fs: fix doc comment typo fs tree wide
  selftests/overlayfs: verify device and inode numbers in /proc/pid/maps
  fs/proc: show correct device and inode numbers in /proc/pid/maps
  eventfd: Remove usage of the deprecated ida_simple_xx() API
  fs: super: use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_USER for super block allocation
  fs/hfsplus: wrapper.c: fix kernel-doc warnings
  fs: add Jan Kara as reviewer
  fs/inode: Make relatime_need_update return bool
  pipe: wakeup wr_wait after setting max_usage
  file: remove __receive_fd()
  file: stop exposing receive_fd_user()
  fs: replace f_rcuhead with f_task_work
  file: remove pointless wrapper
  file: s/close_fd_get_file()/file_close_fd()/g
  Improve __fget_files_rcu() code generation (and thus __fget_light())
  file: massage cleanup of files that failed to open
  fs/pipe: Fix lockdep false-positive in watchqueue pipe_write()
  ...
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<pre>
Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the usual miscellaneous features, cleanups, and fixes
  for vfs and individual fses.

  Features:

   - Add Jan Kara as VFS reviewer

   - Show correct device and inode numbers in proc/&lt;pid&gt;/maps for vma
     files on stacked filesystems. This is now easily doable thanks to
     the backing file work from the last cycles. This comes with
     selftests

  Cleanups:

   - Remove a redundant might_sleep() from wait_on_inode()

   - Initialize pointer with NULL, not 0

   - Clarify comment on access_override_creds()

   - Rework and simplify eventfd_signal() and eventfd_signal_mask()
     helpers

   - Process aio completions in batches to avoid needless wakeups

   - Completely decouple struct mnt_idmap from namespaces. We now only
     keep the actual idmapping around and don't stash references to
     namespaces

   - Reformat maintainer entries to indicate that a given subsystem
     belongs to fs/

   - Simplify fput() for files that were never opened

   - Get rid of various pointless file helpers

   - Rename various file helpers

   - Rename struct file members after SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU switch from
     last cycle

   - Make relatime_need_update() return bool

   - Use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_USER when allocating superblocks

   - Replace deprecated ida_simple_*() calls with their current ida_*()
     counterparts

  Fixes:

   - Fix comments on user namespace id mapping helpers. They aren't
     kernel doc comments so they shouldn't be using /**

   - s/Retuns/Returns/g in various places

   - Add missing parameter documentation on can_move_mount_beneath()

   - Rename i_mapping-&gt;private_data to i_mapping-&gt;i_private_data

   - Fix a false-positive lockdep warning in pipe_write() for watch
     queues

   - Improve __fget_files_rcu() code generation to improve performance

   - Only notify writer that pipe resizing has finished after setting
     pipe-&gt;max_usage otherwise writers are never notified that the pipe
     has been resized and hang

   - Fix some kernel docs in hfsplus

   - s/passs/pass/g in various places

   - Fix kernel docs in ntfs

   - Fix kcalloc() arguments order reported by gcc 14

   - Fix uninitialized value in reiserfs"

* tag 'vfs-6.8.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (36 commits)
  reiserfs: fix uninit-value in comp_keys
  watch_queue: fix kcalloc() arguments order
  ntfs: dir.c: fix kernel-doc function parameter warnings
  fs: fix doc comment typo fs tree wide
  selftests/overlayfs: verify device and inode numbers in /proc/pid/maps
  fs/proc: show correct device and inode numbers in /proc/pid/maps
  eventfd: Remove usage of the deprecated ida_simple_xx() API
  fs: super: use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_USER for super block allocation
  fs/hfsplus: wrapper.c: fix kernel-doc warnings
  fs: add Jan Kara as reviewer
  fs/inode: Make relatime_need_update return bool
  pipe: wakeup wr_wait after setting max_usage
  file: remove __receive_fd()
  file: stop exposing receive_fd_user()
  fs: replace f_rcuhead with f_task_work
  file: remove pointless wrapper
  file: s/close_fd_get_file()/file_close_fd()/g
  Improve __fget_files_rcu() code generation (and thus __fget_light())
  file: massage cleanup of files that failed to open
  fs/pipe: Fix lockdep false-positive in watchqueue pipe_write()
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array</title>
<updated>2023-12-28T12:57:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joel Granados</name>
<email>j.granados@samsung.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-21T11:35:12+00:00</published>
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This commit comes at the tail end of a greater effort to remove the
empty elements at the end of the ctl_table arrays (sentinels) which
will reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run time
memory bloat by ~64 bytes per sentinel (further information Link :
https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZO5Yx5JFogGi%2FcBo@bombadil.infradead.org/)

Remove sentinel elements ctl_table struct. Special attention was placed in
making sure that an empty directory for fs/verity was created when
CONFIG_FS_VERITY_BUILTIN_SIGNATURES is not defined. In this case we use the
register sysctl call that expects a size.

Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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This commit comes at the tail end of a greater effort to remove the
empty elements at the end of the ctl_table arrays (sentinels) which
will reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run time
memory bloat by ~64 bytes per sentinel (further information Link :
https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZO5Yx5JFogGi%2FcBo@bombadil.infradead.org/)

Remove sentinel elements ctl_table struct. Special attention was placed in
making sure that an empty directory for fs/verity was created when
CONFIG_FS_VERITY_BUILTIN_SIGNATURES is not defined. In this case we use the
register sysctl call that expects a size.

Signed-off-by: Joel Granados &lt;j.granados@samsung.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
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