[PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to perform statfs with a known root dentry

Give the statfs superblock operation a dentry pointer rather than a superblock
pointer.

This complements the get_sb() patch

[PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to perform statfs with a known root dentry

Give the statfs superblock operation a dentry pointer rather than a superblock
pointer.

This complements the get_sb() patch. That reduced the significance of
sb->s_root, allowing NFS to place a fake root there. However, NFS does
require a dentry to use as a target for the statfs operation. This permits
the root in the vfsmount to be used instead.

linux/mount.h has been added where necessary to make allyesconfig build
successfully.

Interest has also been expressed for use with the FUSE and XFS filesystems.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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[PATCH] consolidate sys32/compat_adjtimex

Create compat_sys_adjtimex and use it an all appropriate places.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
A

[PATCH] consolidate sys32/compat_adjtimex

Create compat_sys_adjtimex and use it an all appropriate places.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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[PATCH] vfs: *at functions: core

Here is a series of patches which introduce in total 13 new system calls
which take a file descriptor/filename pair instead of a single file
name. These functions,

[PATCH] vfs: *at functions: core

Here is a series of patches which introduce in total 13 new system calls
which take a file descriptor/filename pair instead of a single file
name. These functions, openat etc, have been discussed on numerous
occasions. They are needed to implement race-free filesystem traversal,
they are necessary to implement a virtual per-thread current working
directory (think multi-threaded backup software), etc.

We have in glibc today implementations of the interfaces which use the
/proc/self/fd magic. But this code is rather expensive. Here are some
results (similar to what Jim Meyering posted before).

The test creates a deep directory hierarchy on a tmpfs filesystem. Then
rm -fr is used to remove all directories. Without syscall support I get
this:

real 0m31.921s
user 0m0.688s
sys 0m31.234s

With syscall support the results are much better:

real 0m20.699s
user 0m0.536s
sys 0m20.149s

The interfaces are for obvious reasons currently not much used. But they'll
be used. coreutils (and Jeff's posixutils) are already using them.
Furthermore, code like ftw/fts in libc (maybe even glob) will also start using
them. I expect a patch to make follow soon. Every program which is walking
the filesystem tree will benefit.

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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[PATCH] files: fix preemption issues

With the new fdtable locking rules, you have to protect fdtable with either
->file_lock or rcu_read_lock/unlock(). There are some places where we
aren't doing e

[PATCH] files: fix preemption issues

With the new fdtable locking rules, you have to protect fdtable with either
->file_lock or rcu_read_lock/unlock(). There are some places where we
aren't doing either. This patch fixes those places.

Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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[PATCH] alpha: fix-up schedule_timeout() usage

Use schedule_timeout_interruptible() instead of
set_current_state()/schedule_timeout() to reduce kernel size.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc

[PATCH] alpha: fix-up schedule_timeout() usage

Use schedule_timeout_interruptible() instead of
set_current_state()/schedule_timeout() to reduce kernel size.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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[PATCH] files: break up files struct

In order for the RCU to work, the file table array, sets and their sizes must
be updated atomically. Instead of ensuring this through too many memory
barriers,

[PATCH] files: break up files struct

In order for the RCU to work, the file table array, sets and their sizes must
be updated atomically. Instead of ensuring this through too many memory
barriers, we put the arrays and their sizes in a separate structure. This
patch takes the first step of putting the file table elements in a separate
structure fdtable that is embedded withing files_struct. It also changes all
the users to refer to the file table using files_fdtable() macro. Subsequent
applciation of RCU becomes easier after this.

Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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[PATCH] alpha/osf_sys: use helper functions to convert between tv and jiffies

Use helper functions to convert between timeval structure and jiffies
rather than custom logic.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth

[PATCH] alpha/osf_sys: use helper functions to convert between tv and jiffies

Use helper functions to convert between timeval structure and jiffies
rather than custom logic.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Acked-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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[PATCH] consolidate sys_shmat

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Linux-2.6.12-rc2

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in

Linux-2.6.12-rc2

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!

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alpha: remove unneeded semicolon in osf_sys.c

Fix the following coccicheck warning:

arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c:680:2-3: Unneeded semicolon

Signed-off-by: Jason Yan <yanaij

alpha: remove unneeded semicolon in osf_sys.c

Fix the following coccicheck warning:

arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c:680:2-3: Unneeded semicolon

Signed-off-by: Jason Yan <yanaijie@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>

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y2038: use compat_{get,set}_itimer on alpha

The itimer handling for the old alpha osf_setitimer/osf_getitimer
system calls is identical to the compat version of getitimer/setitimer,

y2038: use compat_{get,set}_itimer on alpha

The itimer handling for the old alpha osf_setitimer/osf_getitimer
system calls is identical to the compat version of getitimer/setitimer,
so just use those directly.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

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y2038: rusage: use __kernel_old_timeval

There are two 'struct timeval' fields in 'struct rusage'.

Unfortunately the definition of timeval is now ambiguous when used in
user spac

y2038: rusage: use __kernel_old_timeval

There are two 'struct timeval' fields in 'struct rusage'.

Unfortunately the definition of timeval is now ambiguous when used in
user space with a libc that has a 64-bit time_t, and this also changes
the 'rusage' definition in user space in a way that is incompatible with
the system call interface.

While there is no good solution to avoid all ambiguity here, change
the definition in the kernel headers to be compatible with the kernel
ABI, using __kernel_old_timeval as an unambiguous base type.

In previous discussions, there was also a plan to add a replacement
for rusage based on 64-bit timestamps and nanosecond resolution,
i.e. 'struct __kernel_timespec'. I have patches for that as well,
if anyone thinks we should do that.

Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

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timex: use __kernel_timex internally

struct timex is not y2038 safe.
Replace all uses of timex with y2038 safe __kernel_timex.

Note that struct __kernel_timex is an ABI interfac

timex: use __kernel_timex internally

struct timex is not y2038 safe.
Replace all uses of timex with y2038 safe __kernel_timex.

Note that struct __kernel_timex is an ABI interface definition.
We could define a new structure based on __kernel_timex that
is only available internally instead. Right now, there isn't
a strong motivation for this as the structure is isolated to
a few defined struct timex interfaces and such a structure would
be exactly the same as struct timex.

The patch was generated by the following coccinelle script:

virtual patch

@depends on patch forall@
identifier ts;
expression e;
@@
(
- struct timex ts;
+ struct __kernel_timex ts;
|
- struct timex ts = {};
+ struct __kernel_timex ts = {};
|
- struct timex ts = e;
+ struct __kernel_timex ts = e;
|
- struct timex *ts;
+ struct __kernel_timex *ts;
|
(memset \| copy_from_user \| copy_to_user \)(...,
- sizeof(struct timex))
+ sizeof(struct __kernel_timex))
)

@depends on patch forall@
identifier ts;
identifier fn;
@@
fn(...,
- struct timex *ts,
+ struct __kernel_timex *ts,
...) {
...
}

@depends on patch forall@
identifier ts;
identifier fn;
@@
fn(...,
- struct timex *ts) {
+ struct __kernel_timex *ts) {
...
}

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

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alpha: Remove some unused variables

Fixes: 42a0cc347858 ("sys: don't hold uts_sem while accessing userspace memory")
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>

alpha: remove CONFIG_OSF4_COMPAT flag from syscall table

Remove CONFIG_OSF4_COMPAT config flag from system call
table - systbls.S and to keep the same feature, add the
flag in osf_sy

alpha: remove CONFIG_OSF4_COMPAT flag from syscall table

Remove CONFIG_OSF4_COMPAT config flag from system call
table - systbls.S and to keep the same feature, add the
flag in osf_sys.c.

One of the patch in this patch series will generate the
system call table file. In order to come up with a common
implementation across all architecture, we need this change.

Signed-off-by: Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>

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Merge branch 'userns-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace

Pull namespace fixes from Eric Biederman:
"This is a set of four fairly obvious bug

Merge branch 'userns-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace

Pull namespace fixes from Eric Biederman:
"This is a set of four fairly obvious bug fixes:

- a switch from d_find_alias to d_find_any_alias because the xattr
code perversely takes a dentry

- two mutex vs copy_to_user fixes from Jann Horn

- a fix to use a sanitized size not the size userspace passed in from
Christian Brauner"

* 'userns-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
getxattr: use correct xattr length
sys: don't hold uts_sem while accessing userspace memory
userns: move user access out of the mutex
cap_inode_getsecurity: use d_find_any_alias() instead of d_find_alias()

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sys: don't hold uts_sem while accessing userspace memory

Holding uts_sem as a writer while accessing userspace memory allows a
namespace admin to stall all processes that attempt to take

sys: don't hold uts_sem while accessing userspace memory

Holding uts_sem as a writer while accessing userspace memory allows a
namespace admin to stall all processes that attempt to take uts_sem.
Instead, move data through stack buffers and don't access userspace memory
while uts_sem is held.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

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alpha: fix osf_wait4() breakage

kernel_wait4() expects a userland address for status - it's only
rusage that goes as a kernel one (and needs a copyout afterwards)

[ Also, fix th

alpha: fix osf_wait4() breakage

kernel_wait4() expects a userland address for status - it's only
rusage that goes as a kernel one (and needs a copyout afterwards)

[ Also, fix the prototype of kernel_wait4() to have that __user
annotation - Linus ]

Fixes: 92ebce5ac55d ("osf_wait4: switch to kernel_wait4()")
Cc: stable@kernel.org # v4.13+
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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signal/alpha: Use send_sig_fault where appropriate

Filling in struct siginfo before calling send_sig_info a tedious and
error prone process, where once in a great while the wrong fields

signal/alpha: Use send_sig_fault where appropriate

Filling in struct siginfo before calling send_sig_info a tedious and
error prone process, where once in a great while the wrong fields
are filled out, and siginfo has been inconsistently cleared.

Simplify this process by using the helper send_sig_fault. Which
takes as a parameters all of the information it needs, ensures
all of the fiddly bits of filling in struct siginfo are done properly
and then calls send_sig_info.

In short about a 5 line reduction in code for every time send_sig_info
is called, which makes the calling function clearer.

Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

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signal/alpha: Replace FPE_FIXME with FPE_FLTUNK

Using an si_code of 0 that aliases with SI_USER is clearly the wrong
thing todo, and causes problems in interesting ways.

The new

signal/alpha: Replace FPE_FIXME with FPE_FLTUNK

Using an si_code of 0 that aliases with SI_USER is clearly the wrong
thing todo, and causes problems in interesting ways.

The newly defined FPE_FLTUNK semantically appears to fit the bill so
use it instead.

Given recent experience in this area odds are it will not break
anything. Fixing it removes a hazard to kernel maintenance.

Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
History Tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git
Fixes: 0a635c7a84cf ("Fill in siginfo_t.")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

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signal: Ensure every siginfo we send has all bits initialized

Call clear_siginfo to ensure every stack allocated siginfo is properly
initialized before being passed to the signal sending

signal: Ensure every siginfo we send has all bits initialized

Call clear_siginfo to ensure every stack allocated siginfo is properly
initialized before being passed to the signal sending functions.

Note: It is not safe to depend on C initializers to initialize struct
siginfo on the stack because C is allowed to skip holes when
initializing a structure.

The initialization of struct siginfo in tracehook_report_syscall_exit
was moved from the helper user_single_step_siginfo into
tracehook_report_syscall_exit itself, to make it clear that the local
variable siginfo gets fully initialized.

In a few cases the scope of struct siginfo has been reduced to make it
clear that siginfo siginfo is not used on other paths in the function
in which it is declared.

Instances of using memset to initialize siginfo have been replaced
with calls clear_siginfo for clarity.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

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signal/alpha: Document a conflict with SI_USER for SIGFPE

Setting si_code to 0 is the same as setting si_code to SI_USER. This
is the same si_code as SI_USER. Posix and common sense re

signal/alpha: Document a conflict with SI_USER for SIGFPE

Setting si_code to 0 is the same as setting si_code to SI_USER. This
is the same si_code as SI_USER. Posix and common sense requires that
SI_USER not be a signal specific si_code. As such this use of 0 for
the si_code is a pretty horribly broken ABI.

Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
History Tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git
Ref: 0a635c7a84cf ("Fill in siginfo_t.")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

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mm: add ksys_mmap_pgoff() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_mmap_pgoff()

Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the
sys_mmap_pgoff() syscall. The ksys_ prefix de

mm: add ksys_mmap_pgoff() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_mmap_pgoff()

Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the
sys_mmap_pgoff() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function is
meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses the
same calling convention as sys_mmap_pgoff().

This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>

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alpha: osf_sys.c: use timespec64 where appropriate

Some of the syscall helper functions (do_utimes, poll_select_set_timeout,
core_sys_select) have changed over the past year or two to us

alpha: osf_sys.c: use timespec64 where appropriate

Some of the syscall helper functions (do_utimes, poll_select_set_timeout,
core_sys_select) have changed over the past year or two to use
'timespec64' pointers rather than 'timespec'. This was fine on alpha,
since 64-bit architectures treat the two as the same type.

However, I'd like to change that behavior and make 'timespec64' a proper
type of its own even on 64-bit architectures, and that will introduce
harmless type mismatch warnings here.

Also, I'm trying to kill off the do_gettimeofday() helper in favor of
ktime_get() and related interfaces throughout the kernel.

This changes the get_tv32/put_tv32 helper functions to also take a
timespec64 argument rather than timeval, which allows us to simplify
some of the syscall helpers a bit and avoid the type warnings.

For the moment, wait4 and adjtimex are still better off with the old
behavior, so I'm adding a special put_tv_to_tv32() helper for those.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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alpha: osf_sys.c: fix put_tv32 regression

There was a typo in the new version of put_tv32() that caused an unguarded
access of a user space pointer, and failed to return the correct resu

alpha: osf_sys.c: fix put_tv32 regression

There was a typo in the new version of put_tv32() that caused an unguarded
access of a user space pointer, and failed to return the correct result in
gettimeofday(), wait4(), usleep_thread() and old_adjtimex().

This fixes it to give the correct behavior again.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 1cc6c4635e9f ("osf_sys.c: switch handling of timeval32/itimerval32 to copy_{to,from}_user()")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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