03 Oct, 2012

1 commit

  • Pull user namespace changes from Eric Biederman:
    "This is a mostly modest set of changes to enable basic user namespace
    support. This allows the code to code to compile with user namespaces
    enabled and removes the assumption there is only the initial user
    namespace. Everything is converted except for the most complex of the
    filesystems: autofs4, 9p, afs, ceph, cifs, coda, fuse, gfs2, ncpfs,
    nfs, ocfs2 and xfs as those patches need a bit more review.

    The strategy is to push kuid_t and kgid_t values are far down into
    subsystems and filesystems as reasonable. Leaving the make_kuid and
    from_kuid operations to happen at the edge of userspace, as the values
    come off the disk, and as the values come in from the network.
    Letting compile type incompatible compile errors (present when user
    namespaces are enabled) guide me to find the issues.

    The most tricky areas have been the places where we had an implicit
    union of uid and gid values and were storing them in an unsigned int.
    Those places were converted into explicit unions. I made certain to
    handle those places with simple trivial patches.

    Out of that work I discovered we have generic interfaces for storing
    quota by projid. I had never heard of the project identifiers before.
    Adding full user namespace support for project identifiers accounts
    for most of the code size growth in my git tree.

    Ultimately there will be work to relax privlige checks from
    "capable(FOO)" to "ns_capable(user_ns, FOO)" where it is safe allowing
    root in a user names to do those things that today we only forbid to
    non-root users because it will confuse suid root applications.

    While I was pushing kuid_t and kgid_t changes deep into the audit code
    I made a few other cleanups. I capitalized on the fact we process
    netlink messages in the context of the message sender. I removed
    usage of NETLINK_CRED, and started directly using current->tty.

    Some of these patches have also made it into maintainer trees, with no
    problems from identical code from different trees showing up in
    linux-next.

    After reading through all of this code I feel like I might be able to
    win a game of kernel trivial pursuit."

    Fix up some fairly trivial conflicts in netfilter uid/git logging code.

    * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (107 commits)
    userns: Convert the ufs filesystem to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
    userns: Convert the udf filesystem to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
    userns: Convert ubifs to use kuid/kgid
    userns: Convert squashfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
    userns: Convert reiserfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
    userns: Convert jfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
    userns: Convert jffs2 to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
    userns: Convert hpfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
    userns: Convert btrfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
    userns: Convert bfs to use kuid/kgid where appropriate
    userns: Convert affs to use kuid/kgid wherwe appropriate
    userns: On alpha modify linux_to_osf_stat to use convert from kuids and kgids
    userns: On ia64 deal with current_uid and current_gid being kuid and kgid
    userns: On ppc convert current_uid from a kuid before printing.
    userns: Convert s390 getting uid and gid system calls to use kuid and kgid
    userns: Convert s390 hypfs to use kuid and kgid where appropriate
    userns: Convert binder ipc to use kuids
    userns: Teach security_path_chown to take kuids and kgids
    userns: Add user namespace support to IMA
    userns: Convert EVM to deal with kuids and kgids in it's hmac computation
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

02 Oct, 2012

1 commit

  • Pull driver core merge from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
    "Here is the big driver core update for 3.7-rc1.

    A number of firmware_class.c updates (as you saw a month or so ago),
    and some hyper-v updates and some printk fixes as well. All patches
    that are outside of the drivers/base area have been acked by the
    respective maintainers, and have all been in the linux-next tree for a
    while.

    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman "

    * tag 'driver-core-3.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (95 commits)
    memory: tegra{20,30}-mc: Fix reading incorrect register in mc_readl()
    device.h: Add missing inline to #ifndef CONFIG_PRINTK dev_vprintk_emit
    memory: emif: Add ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS guard for emif_debugfs_[init|exit]
    Documentation: Fixes some translation error in Documentation/zh_CN/gpio.txt
    Documentation: Remove 3 byte redundant code at the head of the Documentation/zh_CN/arm/booting
    Documentation: Chinese translation of Documentation/video4linux/omap3isp.txt
    device and dynamic_debug: Use dev_vprintk_emit and dev_printk_emit
    dev: Add dev_vprintk_emit and dev_printk_emit
    netdev_printk/netif_printk: Remove a superfluous logging colon
    netdev_printk/dynamic_netdev_dbg: Directly call printk_emit
    dev_dbg/dynamic_debug: Update to use printk_emit, optimize stack
    driver-core: Shut up dev_dbg_reatelimited() without DEBUG
    tools/hv: Parse /etc/os-release
    tools/hv: Check for read/write errors
    tools/hv: Fix exit() error code
    tools/hv: Fix file handle leak
    Tools: hv: Implement the KVP verb - KVP_OP_GET_IP_INFO
    Tools: hv: Rename the function kvp_get_ip_address()
    Tools: hv: Implement the KVP verb - KVP_OP_SET_IP_INFO
    Tools: hv: Add an example script to configure an interface
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

22 Sep, 2012

2 commits

  • The format_array_alloc() function is fundamentally racy, in that it
    prints the array twice: once to figure out how much space to allocate
    for the buffer, and the second time to actually print out the data.

    If any of the array contents changes in between, the allocation size may
    be wrong, and the end result may be truncated in odd ways.

    Just don't do it. Allocate a maximum-sized array up-front, and just
    format the array contents once. The only user of the u32_array
    interfaces is the Xen spinlock statistics code, and it has 31 entries in
    the arrays, so the maximum size really isn't that big, and the end
    result is much simpler code without the bug.

    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • u32_array_open() is racy when multiple threads read from a file with a
    seek position of zero, i.e. when two or more simultaneous reads are
    occurring after the non-seekable files are created. It is possible that
    file->private_data is double-freed because the threads races between

    kfree(file->private-data);

    and

    file->private_data = NULL;

    The fix is to only do format_array_alloc() when the file is opened and
    free it when it is closed.

    Note that because the file has always been non-seekable, you can't open
    it and read it multiple times anyway, so the data has always been
    generated just once. The difference is that now it is generated at open
    time rather than at the time of the first read, and that avoids the
    race.

    Reported-by: Dave Jones
    Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
    Tested-by: Raghavendra
    Signed-off-by: David Rientjes
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    David Rientjes
     

07 Sep, 2012

1 commit


28 Aug, 2012

1 commit


17 Aug, 2012

1 commit


27 Jul, 2012

1 commit

  • Pull driver core changes from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
    "Here's the big driver core pull request for 3.6-rc1.

    Unlike 3.5, this kernel should be a lot tamer, with the printk changes
    now settled down. All we have here is some extcon driver updates, w1
    driver updates, a few printk cleanups that weren't needed for 3.5, but
    are good to have now, and some other minor fixes/changes in the driver
    core.

    All of these have been in the linux-next releases for a while now.

    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman "

    * tag 'driver-core-3.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (38 commits)
    printk: Export struct log size and member offsets through vmcoreinfo
    Drivers: hv: Change the hex constant to a decimal constant
    driver core: don't trigger uevent after failure
    extcon: MAX77693: Add extcon-max77693 driver to support Maxim MAX77693 MUIC device
    sysfs: fail dentry revalidation after namespace change fix
    sysfs: fail dentry revalidation after namespace change
    extcon: spelling of detach in function doc
    extcon: arizona: Stop microphone detection if we give up on it
    extcon: arizona: Update cable reporting calls and split headset
    PM / Runtime: Do not increment device usage counts before probing
    kmsg - do not flush partial lines when the console is busy
    kmsg - export "continuation record" flag to /dev/kmsg
    kmsg - avoid warning for CONFIG_PRINTK=n compilations
    kmsg - properly print over-long continuation lines
    driver-core: Use kobj_to_dev instead of re-implementing it
    driver-core: Move kobj_to_dev from genhd.h to device.h
    driver core: Move deferred devices to the end of dpm_list before probing
    driver core: move uevent call to driver_register
    driver core: fix shutdown races with probe/remove(v3)
    Extcon: Arizona: Add driver for Wolfson Arizona class devices
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

14 Jul, 2012

3 commits


14 Jun, 2012

1 commit


17 Apr, 2012

1 commit


06 Apr, 2012

1 commit

  • Many users of debugfs copy the implementation of default_open() when
    they want to support a custom read/write function op. This leads to a
    proliferation of the default_open() implementation across the entire
    tree.

    Now that the common implementation has been consolidated into libfs we
    can replace all the users of this function with simple_open().

    This replacement was done with the following semantic patch:

    @ open @
    identifier open_f != simple_open;
    identifier i, f;
    @@
    -int open_f(struct inode *i, struct file *f)
    -{
    (
    -if (i->i_private)
    -f->private_data = i->i_private;
    |
    -f->private_data = i->i_private;
    )
    -return 0;
    -}

    @ has_open depends on open @
    identifier fops;
    identifier open.open_f;
    @@
    struct file_operations fops = {
    ...
    -.open = open_f,
    +.open = simple_open,
    ...
    };

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes]
    Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd
    Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman
    Cc: Al Viro
    Cc: Julia Lawall
    Acked-by: Ingo Molnar
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Stephen Boyd
     

22 Mar, 2012

1 commit

  • Pull vfs pile 1 from Al Viro:
    "This is _not_ all; in particular, Miklos' and Jan's stuff is not there
    yet."

    * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (64 commits)
    ext4: initialization of ext4_li_mtx needs to be done earlier
    debugfs-related mode_t whack-a-mole
    hfsplus: add an ioctl to bless files
    hfsplus: change finder_info to u32
    hfsplus: initialise userflags
    qnx4: new helper - try_extent()
    qnx4: get rid of qnx4_bread/qnx4_getblk
    take removal of PF_FORKNOEXEC to flush_old_exec()
    trim includes in inode.c
    um: uml_dup_mmap() relies on ->mmap_sem being held, but activate_mm() doesn't hold it
    um: embed ->stub_pages[] into mmu_context
    gadgetfs: list_for_each_safe() misuse
    ocfs2: fix leaks on failure exits in module_init
    ecryptfs: make register_filesystem() the last potential failure exit
    ntfs: forgets to unregister sysctls on register_filesystem() failure
    logfs: missing cleanup on register_filesystem() failure
    jfs: mising cleanup on register_filesystem() failure
    make configfs_pin_fs() return root dentry on success
    configfs: configfs_create_dir() has parent dentry in dentry->d_parent
    configfs: sanitize configfs_create()
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

21 Mar, 2012

1 commit


03 Feb, 2012

1 commit


27 Jan, 2012

1 commit

  • Cautious admins may want to restrict access to debugfs. Currently a
    manual chown/chmod e.g. in an init script is needed to achieve that.
    Distributions that want to make the mount options configurable need
    to add extra config files. By allowing to set the root inode's uid,
    gid and mode via mount options no such hacks are needed anymore.
    Instead configuration becomes straight forward via fstab.

    Signed-off-by: Ludwig Nussel
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

    Ludwig Nussel
     

24 Jan, 2012

1 commit

  • Fix new kernel-doc warnings:

    Warning(fs/debugfs/file.c:556): No description found for parameter 'nregs'
    Warning(fs/debugfs/file.c:556): Excess function parameter 'mregs' description in 'debugfs_print_regs32'

    Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
    Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Randy Dunlap
     

09 Jan, 2012

1 commit

  • * 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (165 commits)
    reiserfs: Properly display mount options in /proc/mounts
    vfs: prevent remount read-only if pending removes
    vfs: count unlinked inodes
    vfs: protect remounting superblock read-only
    vfs: keep list of mounts for each superblock
    vfs: switch ->show_options() to struct dentry *
    vfs: switch ->show_path() to struct dentry *
    vfs: switch ->show_devname() to struct dentry *
    vfs: switch ->show_stats to struct dentry *
    switch security_path_chmod() to struct path *
    vfs: prefer ->dentry->d_sb to ->mnt->mnt_sb
    vfs: trim includes a bit
    switch mnt_namespace ->root to struct mount
    vfs: take /proc/*/mounts and friends to fs/proc_namespace.c
    vfs: opencode mntget() mnt_set_mountpoint()
    vfs: spread struct mount - remaining argument of next_mnt()
    vfs: move fsnotify junk to struct mount
    vfs: move mnt_devname
    vfs: move mnt_list to struct mount
    vfs: switch pnode.h macros to struct mount *
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

04 Jan, 2012

3 commits


27 Nov, 2011

1 commit

  • The cast here causes a Sparse warning:
    fs/debugfs/file.c:561:42: warning: cast removes address space of expression
    fs/debugfs/file.c:561:42: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)
    fs/debugfs/file.c:561:42: expected void const volatile [noderef] *addr
    fs/debugfs/file.c:561:42: got void *

    It's redundant to cast it to a (void *) anyway when it is already a
    (void __iomem *).

    Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

    Dan Carpenter
     

23 Nov, 2011

1 commit


19 Nov, 2011

2 commits


23 Aug, 2011

1 commit


14 May, 2011

1 commit

  • Enabling DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS causes the following
    warning:

    In file included from arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h:573,
    from include/linux/uaccess.h:5,
    from include/linux/highmem.h:7,
    from include/linux/pagemap.h:10,
    from fs/debugfs/file.c:18:
    In function 'copy_from_user',
    inlined from 'write_file_bool' at fs/debugfs/file.c:435:
    arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h:65: warning: call to
    'copy_from_user_overflow' declared with attribute warning:
    copy_from_user() buffer size is not provably correct

    presumably due to buf_size being signed causing GCC to fail to
    see that buf_size can't become negative.

    Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

    Stephen Boyd
     

26 Apr, 2011

1 commit

  • No functional changes requires that we eat errors from strtobool.
    If people want to not do this, then it should be fixed at a later date.

    V2: Simplification suggested by Rusty Russell removes the need for
    additional variable ret.

    Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

    Jonathan Cameron
     

19 Feb, 2011

1 commit


04 Feb, 2011

1 commit


29 Oct, 2010

1 commit


26 Oct, 2010

1 commit

  • Instead of always assigning an increasing inode number in new_inode
    move the call to assign it into those callers that actually need it.
    For now callers that need it is estimated conservatively, that is
    the call is added to all filesystems that do not assign an i_ino
    by themselves. For a few more filesystems we can avoid assigning
    any inode number given that they aren't user visible, and for others
    it could be done lazily when an inode number is actually needed,
    but that's left for later patches.

    Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
    Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Christoph Hellwig
     

15 Oct, 2010

1 commit

  • All file_operations should get a .llseek operation so we can make
    nonseekable_open the default for future file operations without a
    .llseek pointer.

    The three cases that we can automatically detect are no_llseek, seq_lseek
    and default_llseek. For cases where we can we can automatically prove that
    the file offset is always ignored, we use noop_llseek, which maintains
    the current behavior of not returning an error from a seek.

    New drivers should normally not use noop_llseek but instead use no_llseek
    and call nonseekable_open at open time. Existing drivers can be converted
    to do the same when the maintainer knows for certain that no user code
    relies on calling seek on the device file.

    The generated code is often incorrectly indented and right now contains
    comments that clarify for each added line why a specific variant was
    chosen. In the version that gets submitted upstream, the comments will
    be gone and I will manually fix the indentation, because there does not
    seem to be a way to do that using coccinelle.

    Some amount of new code is currently sitting in linux-next that should get
    the same modifications, which I will do at the end of the merge window.

    Many thanks to Julia Lawall for helping me learn to write a semantic
    patch that does all this.

    ===== begin semantic patch =====
    // This adds an llseek= method to all file operations,
    // as a preparation for making no_llseek the default.
    //
    // The rules are
    // - use no_llseek explicitly if we do nonseekable_open
    // - use seq_lseek for sequential files
    // - use default_llseek if we know we access f_pos
    // - use noop_llseek if we know we don't access f_pos,
    // but we still want to allow users to call lseek
    //
    @ open1 exists @
    identifier nested_open;
    @@
    nested_open(...)
    {

    }

    @ open exists@
    identifier open_f;
    identifier i, f;
    identifier open1.nested_open;
    @@
    int open_f(struct inode *i, struct file *f)
    {

    }

    @ read disable optional_qualifier exists @
    identifier read_f;
    identifier f, p, s, off;
    type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
    expression E;
    identifier func;
    @@
    ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
    {

    }

    @ read_no_fpos disable optional_qualifier exists @
    identifier read_f;
    identifier f, p, s, off;
    type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
    @@
    ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
    {
    ... when != off
    }

    @ write @
    identifier write_f;
    identifier f, p, s, off;
    type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
    expression E;
    identifier func;
    @@
    ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
    {

    }

    @ write_no_fpos @
    identifier write_f;
    identifier f, p, s, off;
    type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
    @@
    ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
    {
    ... when != off
    }

    @ fops0 @
    identifier fops;
    @@
    struct file_operations fops = {
    ...
    };

    @ has_llseek depends on fops0 @
    identifier fops0.fops;
    identifier llseek_f;
    @@
    struct file_operations fops = {
    ...
    .llseek = llseek_f,
    ...
    };

    @ has_read depends on fops0 @
    identifier fops0.fops;
    identifier read_f;
    @@
    struct file_operations fops = {
    ...
    .read = read_f,
    ...
    };

    @ has_write depends on fops0 @
    identifier fops0.fops;
    identifier write_f;
    @@
    struct file_operations fops = {
    ...
    .write = write_f,
    ...
    };

    @ has_open depends on fops0 @
    identifier fops0.fops;
    identifier open_f;
    @@
    struct file_operations fops = {
    ...
    .open = open_f,
    ...
    };

    // use no_llseek if we call nonseekable_open
    ////////////////////////////////////////////
    @ nonseekable1 depends on !has_llseek && has_open @
    identifier fops0.fops;
    identifier nso ~= "nonseekable_open";
    @@
    struct file_operations fops = {
    ... .open = nso, ...
    +.llseek = no_llseek, /* nonseekable */
    };

    @ nonseekable2 depends on !has_llseek @
    identifier fops0.fops;
    identifier open.open_f;
    @@
    struct file_operations fops = {
    ... .open = open_f, ...
    +.llseek = no_llseek, /* open uses nonseekable */
    };

    // use seq_lseek for sequential files
    /////////////////////////////////////
    @ seq depends on !has_llseek @
    identifier fops0.fops;
    identifier sr ~= "seq_read";
    @@
    struct file_operations fops = {
    ... .read = sr, ...
    +.llseek = seq_lseek, /* we have seq_read */
    };

    // use default_llseek if there is a readdir
    ///////////////////////////////////////////
    @ fops1 depends on !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
    identifier fops0.fops;
    identifier readdir_e;
    @@
    // any other fop is used that changes pos
    struct file_operations fops = {
    ... .readdir = readdir_e, ...
    +.llseek = default_llseek, /* readdir is present */
    };

    // use default_llseek if at least one of read/write touches f_pos
    /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    @ fops2 depends on !fops1 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
    identifier fops0.fops;
    identifier read.read_f;
    @@
    // read fops use offset
    struct file_operations fops = {
    ... .read = read_f, ...
    +.llseek = default_llseek, /* read accesses f_pos */
    };

    @ fops3 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
    identifier fops0.fops;
    identifier write.write_f;
    @@
    // write fops use offset
    struct file_operations fops = {
    ... .write = write_f, ...
    + .llseek = default_llseek, /* write accesses f_pos */
    };

    // Use noop_llseek if neither read nor write accesses f_pos
    ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

    @ fops4 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !fops3 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
    identifier fops0.fops;
    identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
    identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
    @@
    // write fops use offset
    struct file_operations fops = {
    ...
    .write = write_f,
    .read = read_f,
    ...
    +.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read and write both use no f_pos */
    };

    @ depends on has_write && !has_read && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
    identifier fops0.fops;
    identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
    @@
    struct file_operations fops = {
    ... .write = write_f, ...
    +.llseek = noop_llseek, /* write uses no f_pos */
    };

    @ depends on has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
    identifier fops0.fops;
    identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
    @@
    struct file_operations fops = {
    ... .read = read_f, ...
    +.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read uses no f_pos */
    };

    @ depends on !has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
    identifier fops0.fops;
    @@
    struct file_operations fops = {
    ...
    +.llseek = noop_llseek, /* no read or write fn */
    };
    ===== End semantic patch =====

    Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
    Cc: Julia Lawall
    Cc: Christoph Hellwig

    Arnd Bergmann
     

20 May, 2010

1 commit

  • Add debugfs_create_x64. This is needed by ACPI APEI EINJ parameters support.

    Signed-off-by: Huang Ying
    Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
    Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
    Signed-off-by: Len Brown

    Huang Ying
     

30 Mar, 2010

1 commit

  • …it slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

    percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
    included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
    in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
    universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

    percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
    this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
    headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
    needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
    used as the basis of conversion.

    http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

    The script does the followings.

    * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
    only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
    gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

    * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
    blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
    to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
    core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
    alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
    doesn't seem to be any matching order.

    * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
    because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
    an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
    file.

    The conversion was done in the following steps.

    1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
    over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
    and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
    files.

    2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
    some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
    embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
    inclusions to around 150 files.

    3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
    from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

    4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
    e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
    APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

    5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
    editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
    files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
    inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
    wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
    slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
    necessary.

    6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

    7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
    were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
    distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
    more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
    build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

    * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
    * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
    * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
    * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
    * s390 SMP allmodconfig
    * alpha SMP allmodconfig
    * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

    8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
    a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

    Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
    6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
    If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
    headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
    the specific arch.

    Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
    Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>

    Tejun Heo
     

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  • Setting fops and private data outside of the mutex at debugfs file
    creation introduces a race where the files can be opened with the wrong
    file operations and private data. It is easy to trigger with a process
    waiting on file creation notification.

    Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Cc: stable
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

    Mathieu Desnoyers