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<title>linux.git/include/linux, branch v3.9-rc2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2013-03-10T00:51:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-10T00:51:13+00:00</published>
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Pull namespace bugfixes from Eric Biederman:
 "This is three simple fixes against 3.9-rc1.  I have tested each of
  these fixes and verified they work correctly.

  The userns oops in key_change_session_keyring and the BUG_ON triggered
  by proc_ns_follow_link were found by Dave Jones.

  I am including the enhancement for mount to only trigger requests of
  filesystem modules here instead of delaying this for the 3.10 merge
  window because it is both trivial and the kind of change that tends to
  bit-rot if left untouched for two months."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  proc: Use nd_jump_link in proc_ns_follow_link
  fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules (Part 2).
  fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules.
  userns: Stop oopsing in key_change_session_keyring
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Pull namespace bugfixes from Eric Biederman:
 "This is three simple fixes against 3.9-rc1.  I have tested each of
  these fixes and verified they work correctly.

  The userns oops in key_change_session_keyring and the BUG_ON triggered
  by proc_ns_follow_link were found by Dave Jones.

  I am including the enhancement for mount to only trigger requests of
  filesystem modules here instead of delaying this for the 3.10 merge
  window because it is both trivial and the kind of change that tends to
  bit-rot if left untouched for two months."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  proc: Use nd_jump_link in proc_ns_follow_link
  fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules (Part 2).
  fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules.
  userns: Stop oopsing in key_change_session_keyring
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Input: atmel_mxt_ts - Support for touchpad variant</title>
<updated>2013-03-09T00:03:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Kurtz</name>
<email>djkurtz@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-08T03:43:33+00:00</published>
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This same driver can be used by atmel based touchscreens and touchpads
(buttonpads). Platform data may specify a device is a touchpad
using the is_tp flag.

This will cause the driver to perform some touchpad specific
initializations, such as:
  * register input device name "Atmel maXTouch Touchpad" instead of
  Touchscreen.
  * register BTN_LEFT &amp; BTN_TOOL_* event types.
  * register axis resolution (as a fixed constant, for now)
  * register BUTTONPAD property
  * process GPIO buttons using reportid T19

Input event GPIO mapping is done by the platform data key_map array.

key_map[x] should contain the KEY or BTN code to send when processing
GPIOx from T19. To specify a GPIO as not an input source, populate
with KEY_RESERVED, or 0.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Kurtz &lt;djkurtz@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benson Leung &lt;bleung@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nick Dyer &lt;nick.dyer@itdev.co.uk&gt;
Tested-by: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This same driver can be used by atmel based touchscreens and touchpads
(buttonpads). Platform data may specify a device is a touchpad
using the is_tp flag.

This will cause the driver to perform some touchpad specific
initializations, such as:
  * register input device name "Atmel maXTouch Touchpad" instead of
  Touchscreen.
  * register BTN_LEFT &amp; BTN_TOOL_* event types.
  * register axis resolution (as a fixed constant, for now)
  * register BUTTONPAD property
  * process GPIO buttons using reportid T19

Input event GPIO mapping is done by the platform data key_map array.

key_map[x] should contain the KEY or BTN code to send when processing
GPIOx from T19. To specify a GPIO as not an input source, populate
with KEY_RESERVED, or 0.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Kurtz &lt;djkurtz@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Benson Leung &lt;bleung@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nick Dyer &lt;nick.dyer@itdev.co.uk&gt;
Tested-by: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'regulator-3.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regulator</title>
<updated>2013-03-07T21:07:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-07T21:07:10+00:00</published>
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Pull regulator fixes from Mark Brown:
 "A few small things here and there, nothing major here really.  The
  conversion of twl4030ldo_ops to get_voltage_sel is a fix, as covered
  in the commit log it fixes inconsistency in handling of the IS_UNSUP()
  feature in the driver."

* tag 'regulator-3.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regulator:
  regulator: fixed regulator_bulk_enable unwinding code
  regulator: twl: Convert twl4030ldo_ops to get_voltage_sel
  regulator: palmas: fix number of SMPS voltages
  regulator: core: fix documentation error in regulator_allow_bypass
  regulator: core: update kernel documentation for regulator_desc
  regulator: db8500-prcmu - remove incorrect __exit markup
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Pull regulator fixes from Mark Brown:
 "A few small things here and there, nothing major here really.  The
  conversion of twl4030ldo_ops to get_voltage_sel is a fix, as covered
  in the commit log it fixes inconsistency in handling of the IS_UNSUP()
  feature in the driver."

* tag 'regulator-3.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regulator:
  regulator: fixed regulator_bulk_enable unwinding code
  regulator: twl: Convert twl4030ldo_ops to get_voltage_sel
  regulator: palmas: fix number of SMPS voltages
  regulator: core: fix documentation error in regulator_allow_bypass
  regulator: core: update kernel documentation for regulator_desc
  regulator: db8500-prcmu - remove incorrect __exit markup
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ecryptfs-3.9-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tyhicks/ecryptfs</title>
<updated>2013-03-07T20:47:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-07T20:47:24+00:00</published>
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Pull ecryptfs fixes from Tyler Hicks:
 "Minor code cleanups and new Kconfig option to disable /dev/ecryptfs

  The code cleanups fix up W=1 compiler warnings and some unnecessary
  checks.  The new Kconfig option, defaulting to N, allows the rarely
  used eCryptfs kernel to userspace communication channel to be compiled
  out.  This may be the first step in it being eventually removed."

Hmm.  I'm not sure whether these should be called "fixes", and it
probably should have gone in the merge window.  But I'll let it slide.

* tag 'ecryptfs-3.9-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tyhicks/ecryptfs:
  eCryptfs: allow userspace messaging to be disabled
  eCryptfs: Fix redundant error check on ecryptfs_find_daemon_by_euid()
  ecryptfs: ecryptfs_msg_ctx_alloc_to_free(): remove kfree() redundant null check
  eCryptfs: decrypt_pki_encrypted_session_key(): remove kfree() redundant null check
  eCryptfs: remove unneeded checks in virt_to_scatterlist()
  eCryptfs: Fix -Wmissing-prototypes warnings
  eCryptfs: Fix -Wunused-but-set-variable warnings
  eCryptfs: initialize payload_len in keystore.c
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Pull ecryptfs fixes from Tyler Hicks:
 "Minor code cleanups and new Kconfig option to disable /dev/ecryptfs

  The code cleanups fix up W=1 compiler warnings and some unnecessary
  checks.  The new Kconfig option, defaulting to N, allows the rarely
  used eCryptfs kernel to userspace communication channel to be compiled
  out.  This may be the first step in it being eventually removed."

Hmm.  I'm not sure whether these should be called "fixes", and it
probably should have gone in the merge window.  But I'll let it slide.

* tag 'ecryptfs-3.9-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tyhicks/ecryptfs:
  eCryptfs: allow userspace messaging to be disabled
  eCryptfs: Fix redundant error check on ecryptfs_find_daemon_by_euid()
  ecryptfs: ecryptfs_msg_ctx_alloc_to_free(): remove kfree() redundant null check
  eCryptfs: decrypt_pki_encrypted_session_key(): remove kfree() redundant null check
  eCryptfs: remove unneeded checks in virt_to_scatterlist()
  eCryptfs: Fix -Wmissing-prototypes warnings
  eCryptfs: Fix -Wunused-but-set-variable warnings
  eCryptfs: initialize payload_len in keystore.c
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2013-03-06T02:42:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-06T02:42:29+00:00</published>
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
 "A moderately sized pile of fixes, some specifically for merge window
  introduced regressions although others are for longer standing items
  and have been queued up for -stable.

  I'm kind of tired of all the RDS protocol bugs over the years, to be
  honest, it's way out of proportion to the number of people who
  actually use it.

   1) Fix missing range initialization in netfilter IPSET, from Jozsef
      Kadlecsik.

   2) ieee80211_local-&gt;tim_lock needs to use BH disabling, from Johannes
      Berg.

   3) Fix DMA syncing in SFC driver, from Ben Hutchings.

   4) Fix regression in BOND device MAC address setting, from Jiri
      Pirko.

   5) Missing usb_free_urb in ISDN Hisax driver, from Marina Makienko.

   6) Fix UDP checksumming in bnx2x driver for 57710 and 57711 chips,
      fix from Dmitry Kravkov.

   7) Missing cfgspace_lock initialization in BCMA driver.

   8) Validate parameter size for SCTP assoc stats getsockopt(), from
      Guenter Roeck.

   9) Fix SCTP association hangs, from Lee A Roberts.

  10) Fix jumbo frame handling in r8169, from Francois Romieu.

  11) Fix phy_device memory leak, from Petr Malat.

  12) Omit trailing FCS from frames received in BGMAC driver, from Hauke
      Mehrtens.

  13) Missing socket refcount release in L2TP, from Guillaume Nault.

  14) sctp_endpoint_init should respect passed in gfp_t, rather than use
      GFP_KERNEL unconditionally.  From Dan Carpenter.

  15) Add AISX AX88179 USB driver, from Freddy Xin.

  16) Remove MAINTAINERS entries for drivers deleted during the merge
      window, from Cesar Eduardo Barros.

  17) RDS protocol can try to allocate huge amounts of memory, check
      that the user's request length makes sense, from Cong Wang.

  18) SCTP should use the provided KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE instead of it's own,
      bogus, definition.  From Cong Wang.

  19) Fix deadlocks in FEC driver by moving TX reclaim into NAPI poll,
      from Frank Li.  Also, fix a build error introduced in the merge
      window.

  20) Fix bogus purging of default routes in ipv6, from Lorenzo Colitti.

  21) Don't double count RTT measurements when we leave the TCP receive
      fast path, from Neal Cardwell."

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (61 commits)
  tcp: fix double-counted receiver RTT when leaving receiver fast path
  CAIF: fix sparse warning for caif_usb
  rds: simplify a warning message
  net: fec: fix build error in no MXC platform
  net: ipv6: Don't purge default router if accept_ra=2
  net: fec: put tx to napi poll function to fix dead lock
  sctp: use KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE instead of its own MAX_KMALLOC_SIZE
  rds: limit the size allocated by rds_message_alloc()
  MAINTAINERS: remove eexpress
  MAINTAINERS: remove drivers/net/wan/cycx*
  MAINTAINERS: remove 3c505
  caif_dev: fix sparse warnings for caif_flow_cb
  ax88179_178a: ASIX AX88179_178A USB 3.0/2.0 to gigabit ethernet adapter driver
  sctp: use the passed in gfp flags instead GFP_KERNEL
  ipv[4|6]: correct dropwatch false positive in local_deliver_finish
  l2tp: Restore socket refcount when sendmsg succeeds
  net/phy: micrel: Disable asymmetric pause for KSZ9021
  bgmac: omit the fcs
  phy: Fix phy_device_free memory leak
  bnx2x: Fix KR2 work-around condition
  ...
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
 "A moderately sized pile of fixes, some specifically for merge window
  introduced regressions although others are for longer standing items
  and have been queued up for -stable.

  I'm kind of tired of all the RDS protocol bugs over the years, to be
  honest, it's way out of proportion to the number of people who
  actually use it.

   1) Fix missing range initialization in netfilter IPSET, from Jozsef
      Kadlecsik.

   2) ieee80211_local-&gt;tim_lock needs to use BH disabling, from Johannes
      Berg.

   3) Fix DMA syncing in SFC driver, from Ben Hutchings.

   4) Fix regression in BOND device MAC address setting, from Jiri
      Pirko.

   5) Missing usb_free_urb in ISDN Hisax driver, from Marina Makienko.

   6) Fix UDP checksumming in bnx2x driver for 57710 and 57711 chips,
      fix from Dmitry Kravkov.

   7) Missing cfgspace_lock initialization in BCMA driver.

   8) Validate parameter size for SCTP assoc stats getsockopt(), from
      Guenter Roeck.

   9) Fix SCTP association hangs, from Lee A Roberts.

  10) Fix jumbo frame handling in r8169, from Francois Romieu.

  11) Fix phy_device memory leak, from Petr Malat.

  12) Omit trailing FCS from frames received in BGMAC driver, from Hauke
      Mehrtens.

  13) Missing socket refcount release in L2TP, from Guillaume Nault.

  14) sctp_endpoint_init should respect passed in gfp_t, rather than use
      GFP_KERNEL unconditionally.  From Dan Carpenter.

  15) Add AISX AX88179 USB driver, from Freddy Xin.

  16) Remove MAINTAINERS entries for drivers deleted during the merge
      window, from Cesar Eduardo Barros.

  17) RDS protocol can try to allocate huge amounts of memory, check
      that the user's request length makes sense, from Cong Wang.

  18) SCTP should use the provided KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE instead of it's own,
      bogus, definition.  From Cong Wang.

  19) Fix deadlocks in FEC driver by moving TX reclaim into NAPI poll,
      from Frank Li.  Also, fix a build error introduced in the merge
      window.

  20) Fix bogus purging of default routes in ipv6, from Lorenzo Colitti.

  21) Don't double count RTT measurements when we leave the TCP receive
      fast path, from Neal Cardwell."

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (61 commits)
  tcp: fix double-counted receiver RTT when leaving receiver fast path
  CAIF: fix sparse warning for caif_usb
  rds: simplify a warning message
  net: fec: fix build error in no MXC platform
  net: ipv6: Don't purge default router if accept_ra=2
  net: fec: put tx to napi poll function to fix dead lock
  sctp: use KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE instead of its own MAX_KMALLOC_SIZE
  rds: limit the size allocated by rds_message_alloc()
  MAINTAINERS: remove eexpress
  MAINTAINERS: remove drivers/net/wan/cycx*
  MAINTAINERS: remove 3c505
  caif_dev: fix sparse warnings for caif_flow_cb
  ax88179_178a: ASIX AX88179_178A USB 3.0/2.0 to gigabit ethernet adapter driver
  sctp: use the passed in gfp flags instead GFP_KERNEL
  ipv[4|6]: correct dropwatch false positive in local_deliver_finish
  l2tp: Restore socket refcount when sendmsg succeeds
  net/phy: micrel: Disable asymmetric pause for KSZ9021
  bgmac: omit the fcs
  phy: Fix phy_device_free memory leak
  bnx2x: Fix KR2 work-around condition
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-03-06T02:10:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-06T02:10:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=e3b59518c10e08eeb06215abf06f50e8f83b51dc'/>
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Pull irq fixes and cleanups from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Commit e5ab012c3271 ("nohz: Make tick_nohz_irq_exit() irq safe") is
  the first commit in the series and the minimal necessary bugfix, which
  needs to go back into stable.

  The remanining commits enforce irq disabling in irq_exit(), sanitize
  the hardirq/softirq preempt count transition and remove a bunch of no
  longer necessary conditionals."

I personally love getting rid of the very subtle and confusing
IRQ_EXIT_OFFSET thing.  Even apart from the whole "more lines removed
than added" thing.

* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  irq: Don't re-enable interrupts at the end of irq_exit
  irq: Remove IRQ_EXIT_OFFSET workaround
  Revert "nohz: Make tick_nohz_irq_exit() irq safe"
  irq: Sanitize invoke_softirq
  irq: Ensure irq_exit() code runs with interrupts disabled
  nohz: Make tick_nohz_irq_exit() irq safe
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Pull irq fixes and cleanups from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Commit e5ab012c3271 ("nohz: Make tick_nohz_irq_exit() irq safe") is
  the first commit in the series and the minimal necessary bugfix, which
  needs to go back into stable.

  The remanining commits enforce irq disabling in irq_exit(), sanitize
  the hardirq/softirq preempt count transition and remove a bunch of no
  longer necessary conditionals."

I personally love getting rid of the very subtle and confusing
IRQ_EXIT_OFFSET thing.  Even apart from the whole "more lines removed
than added" thing.

* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  irq: Don't re-enable interrupts at the end of irq_exit
  irq: Remove IRQ_EXIT_OFFSET workaround
  Revert "nohz: Make tick_nohz_irq_exit() irq safe"
  irq: Sanitize invoke_softirq
  irq: Ensure irq_exit() code runs with interrupts disabled
  nohz: Make tick_nohz_irq_exit() irq safe
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-03-06T02:07:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-06T02:07:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=6516ab6fdffbda656253d4e1231660c3f87f7889'/>
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Pull smpboot bugfix from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A single bugfix for a regression introduced with the conversion of the
  stop machine threads to the generic smpboot thread management
  facility"

* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  stop_machine: Mark per cpu stopper enabled early
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Pull smpboot bugfix from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A single bugfix for a regression introduced with the conversion of the
  stop machine threads to the generic smpboot thread management
  facility"

* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  stop_machine: Mark per cpu stopper enabled early
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge remote-tracking branch 'regulator/fix/doc' into tmp</title>
<updated>2013-03-05T02:12:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mark Brown</name>
<email>broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-05T02:12:39+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=6d62768468d5ff96b3977a04045dd80d6710be5d'/>
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<entry>
<title>eCryptfs: allow userspace messaging to be disabled</title>
<updated>2013-03-04T07:59:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-28T08:39:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=290502bee239062499297916bb7d21d205e99d62'/>
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When the userspace messaging (for the less common case of userspace key
wrap/unwrap via ecryptfsd) is not needed, allow eCryptfs to build with
it removed. This saves on kernel code size and reduces potential attack
surface by removing the /dev/ecryptfs node.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks &lt;tyhicks@canonical.com&gt;
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When the userspace messaging (for the less common case of userspace key
wrap/unwrap via ecryptfsd) is not needed, allow eCryptfs to build with
it removed. This saves on kernel code size and reduces potential attack
surface by removing the /dev/ecryptfs node.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks &lt;tyhicks@canonical.com&gt;
</pre>
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<title>fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules.</title>
<updated>2013-03-04T03:36:31+00:00</updated>
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<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
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<published>2013-03-03T03:39:14+00:00</published>
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Modify the request_module to prefix the file system type with "fs-"
and add aliases to all of the filesystems that can be built as modules
to match.

A common practice is to build all of the kernel code and leave code
that is not commonly needed as modules, with the result that many
users are exposed to any bug anywhere in the kernel.

Looking for filesystems with a fs- prefix limits the pool of possible
modules that can be loaded by mount to just filesystems trivially
making things safer with no real cost.

Using aliases means user space can control the policy of which
filesystem modules are auto-loaded by editing /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf
with blacklist and alias directives.  Allowing simple, safe,
well understood work-arounds to known problematic software.

This also addresses a rare but unfortunate problem where the filesystem
name is not the same as it's module name and module auto-loading
would not work.  While writing this patch I saw a handful of such
cases.  The most significant being autofs that lives in the module
autofs4.

This is relevant to user namespaces because we can reach the request
module in get_fs_type() without having any special permissions, and
people get uncomfortable when a user specified string (in this case
the filesystem type) goes all of the way to request_module.

After having looked at this issue I don't think there is any
particular reason to perform any filtering or permission checks beyond
making it clear in the module request that we want a filesystem
module.  The common pattern in the kernel is to call request_module()
without regards to the users permissions.  In general all a filesystem
module does once loaded is call register_filesystem() and go to sleep.
Which means there is not much attack surface exposed by loading a
filesytem module unless the filesystem is mounted.  In a user
namespace filesystems are not mounted unless .fs_flags = FS_USERNS_MOUNT,
which most filesystems do not set today.

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge.hallyn@canonical.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reported-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Modify the request_module to prefix the file system type with "fs-"
and add aliases to all of the filesystems that can be built as modules
to match.

A common practice is to build all of the kernel code and leave code
that is not commonly needed as modules, with the result that many
users are exposed to any bug anywhere in the kernel.

Looking for filesystems with a fs- prefix limits the pool of possible
modules that can be loaded by mount to just filesystems trivially
making things safer with no real cost.

Using aliases means user space can control the policy of which
filesystem modules are auto-loaded by editing /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf
with blacklist and alias directives.  Allowing simple, safe,
well understood work-arounds to known problematic software.

This also addresses a rare but unfortunate problem where the filesystem
name is not the same as it's module name and module auto-loading
would not work.  While writing this patch I saw a handful of such
cases.  The most significant being autofs that lives in the module
autofs4.

This is relevant to user namespaces because we can reach the request
module in get_fs_type() without having any special permissions, and
people get uncomfortable when a user specified string (in this case
the filesystem type) goes all of the way to request_module.

After having looked at this issue I don't think there is any
particular reason to perform any filtering or permission checks beyond
making it clear in the module request that we want a filesystem
module.  The common pattern in the kernel is to call request_module()
without regards to the users permissions.  In general all a filesystem
module does once loaded is call register_filesystem() and go to sleep.
Which means there is not much attack surface exposed by loading a
filesytem module unless the filesystem is mounted.  In a user
namespace filesystems are not mounted unless .fs_flags = FS_USERNS_MOUNT,
which most filesystems do not set today.

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge.hallyn@canonical.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reported-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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