[PATCH] inode_diet: Replace inode.u.generic_ip with inode.i_private

The following patches reduce the size of the VFS inode structure by 28 bytes
on a UP x86. (It would be more on an x86_64 system).

[PATCH] inode_diet: Replace inode.u.generic_ip with inode.i_private

The following patches reduce the size of the VFS inode structure by 28 bytes
on a UP x86. (It would be more on an x86_64 system). This is a 10% reduction
in the inode size on a UP kernel that is configured in a production mode
(i.e., with no spinlock or other debugging functions enabled; if you want to
save memory taken up by in-core inodes, the first thing you should do is
disable the debugging options; they are responsible for a huge amount of bloat
in the VFS inode structure).

This patch:

The filesystem or device-specific pointer in the inode is inside a union,
which is pretty pointless given that all 30+ users of this field have been
using the void pointer. Get rid of the union and rename it to i_private, with
a comment to explain who is allowed to use the void pointer. This is just a
cleanup, but it allows us to reuse the union 'u' for something something where
the union will actually be used.

[judith@osdl.org: powerpc build fix]
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Judith Lebzelter <judith@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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[PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount

Extend the get_sb() filesystem operation to take an extra argument that
permits the VFS to pass in the target vfsmount that defines th

[PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount

Extend the get_sb() filesystem operation to take an extra argument that
permits the VFS to pass in the target vfsmount that defines the mountpoint.

The filesystem is then required to manually set the superblock and root dentry
pointers. For most filesystems, this should be done with simple_set_mnt()
which will set the superblock pointer and then set the root dentry to the
superblock's s_root (as per the old default behaviour).

The get_sb() op now returns an integer as there's now no need to return the
superblock pointer.

This patch permits a superblock to be implicitly shared amongst several mount
points, such as can be done with NFS to avoid potential inode aliasing. In
such a case, simple_set_mnt() would not be called, and instead the mnt_root
and mnt_sb would be set directly.

The patch also makes the following changes:

(*) the get_sb_*() convenience functions in the core kernel now take a vfsmount
pointer argument and return an integer, so most filesystems have to change
very little.

(*) If one of the convenience function is not used, then get_sb() should
normally call simple_set_mnt() to instantiate the vfsmount. This will
always return 0, and so can be tail-called from get_sb().

(*) generic_shutdown_super() now calls shrink_dcache_sb() to clean up the
dcache upon superblock destruction rather than shrink_dcache_anon().

This is required because the superblock may now have multiple trees that
aren't actually bound to s_root, but that still need to be cleaned up. The
currently called functions assume that the whole tree is rooted at s_root,
and that anonymous dentries are not the roots of trees which results in
dentries being left unculled.

However, with the way NFS superblock sharing are currently set to be
implemented, these assumptions are violated: the root of the filesystem is
simply a dummy dentry and inode (the real inode for '/' may well be
inaccessible), and all the vfsmounts are rooted on anonymous[*] dentries
with child trees.

[*] Anonymous until discovered from another tree.

(*) The documentation has been adjusted, including the additional bit of
changing ext2_* into foo_* in the documentation.

[akpm@osdl.org: convert ipath_fs, do other stuff]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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[PATCH] devpts: use lib/parser.c for parsing mount options

Item from "2.6 should fix" list.

Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Sig

[PATCH] devpts: use lib/parser.c for parsing mount options

Item from "2.6 should fix" list.

Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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[PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem

This patch converts the inode semaphore to a mutex. I have tested it on
XFS and compiled as much as one can consider on an ia64. Anyway your

[PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_sem

This patch converts the inode semaphore to a mutex. I have tested it on
XFS and compiled as much as one can consider on an ia64. Anyway your
luck with it might be different.

Modified-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

(finished the conversion)

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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[PATCH] Generic VFS fallback for security xattrs

This patch modifies the VFS setxattr, getxattr, and listxattr code to fall
back to the security module for security xattrs if the filesystem does not

[PATCH] Generic VFS fallback for security xattrs

This patch modifies the VFS setxattr, getxattr, and listxattr code to fall
back to the security module for security xattrs if the filesystem does not
support xattrs natively. This allows security modules to export the incore
inode security label information to userspace even if the filesystem does
not provide xattr storage, and eliminates the need to individually patch
various pseudo filesystem types to provide such access. The patch removes
the existing xattr code from devpts and tmpfs as it is then no longer
needed.

The patch restructures the code flow slightly to reduce duplication between
the normal path and the fallback path, but this should only have one
user-visible side effect - a program may get -EACCES rather than
-EOPNOTSUPP if policy denied access but the filesystem didn't support the
operation anyway. Note that the post_setxattr hook call is not needed in
the fallback case, as the inode_setsecurity hook call handles the incore
inode security state update directly. In contrast, we do call fsnotify in
both cases.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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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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devpts_pty_kill(): don't bother with d_delete()

we are not retaining dentries there anyway (simple_dentry_operations),
so d_delete()+dput() == d_drop()+dput()

Signed-off-by: Al

devpts_pty_kill(): don't bother with d_delete()

we are not retaining dentries there anyway (simple_dentry_operations),
so d_delete()+dput() == d_drop()+dput()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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devpts: call fsnotify_unlink() hook

This will allow generating fsnotify delete events after the
fsnotify_nameremove() hook is removed from d_delete().

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldst

devpts: call fsnotify_unlink() hook

This will allow generating fsnotify delete events after the
fsnotify_nameremove() hook is removed from d_delete().

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

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treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 83

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

this file is part of the linux kernel and is made available under
the ter

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 83

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

this file is part of the linux kernel and is made available under
the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 or at your
option any later version incorporated herein by reference

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 18 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Reviewed-by: Armijn Hemel <armijn@tjaldur.nl>
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190520075211.321157221@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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fs/devpts: always delete dcache dentry-s in dput()

d_delete only unhashes an entry if it is reached with
dentry->d_lockref.count != 1. Prior to commit 8ead9dd54716 ("devpts:
more pty

fs/devpts: always delete dcache dentry-s in dput()

d_delete only unhashes an entry if it is reached with
dentry->d_lockref.count != 1. Prior to commit 8ead9dd54716 ("devpts:
more pty driver interface cleanups"), d_delete was called on a dentry
from devpts_pty_kill with two references held, which would trigger the
unhashing, and the subsequent dputs would release it.

Commit 8ead9dd54716 reworked devpts_pty_kill to stop acquiring the second
reference from d_find_alias, and the d_delete call left the dentries
still on the hashed list without actually ever being dropped from dcache
before explicit cleanup. This causes the number of negative dentries for
devpts to pile up, and an `ls /dev/pts` invocation can take seconds to
return.

Provide always_delete_dentry() from simple_dentry_operations
as .d_delete for devpts, to make the dentry be dropped from dcache.

Without this cleanup, the number of dentries in /dev/pts/ can be grown
arbitrarily as:

`python -c 'import pty; pty.spawn(["ls", "/dev/pts"])'`

A systemtap probe on dcache_readdir to count d_subdirs shows this count
to increase with each pty spawn invocation above:

probe kernel.function("dcache_readdir") {
subdirs = &@cast($file->f_path->dentry, "dentry")->d_subdirs;
p = subdirs;
p = @cast(p, "list_head")->next;
i = 0
while (p != subdirs) {
p = @cast(p, "list_head")->next;
i = i+1;
}
printf("number of dentries: %d\n", i);
}

Fixes: 8ead9dd54716 ("devpts: more pty driver interface cleanups")
Signed-off-by: Varad Gautam <vrd@amazon.de>
Reported-by: Zheng Wang <wanz@amazon.de>
Reported-by: Brandon Schwartz <bsschwar@amazon.de>
Root-caused-by: Maximilian Heyne <mheyne@amazon.de>
Root-caused-by: Nicolas Pernas Maradei <npernas@amazon.de>
CC: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
CC: Maximilian Heyne <mheyne@amazon.de>
CC: Stefan Nuernberger <snu@amazon.de>
CC: Amit Shah <aams@amazon.de>
CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
CC: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
CC: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
CC: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
CC: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
CC: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.9+
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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devpts: Convert to new IDA API

ida_alloc_max() matches what this driver wants to do. Also removes a
call to ida_pre_get(). We no longer need the protection of the mutex,
so convert

devpts: Convert to new IDA API

ida_alloc_max() matches what this driver wants to do. Also removes a
call to ida_pre_get(). We no longer need the protection of the mutex,
so convert pty_count to an atomic_t and remove the mutex entirely.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>

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devpts: comment devpts_mntget()

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torval

devpts: comment devpts_mntget()

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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devpts: resolve devpts bind-mounts

Most libcs will still look at /dev/ptmx when opening the master fd of a pty
device. When /dev/ptmx is a bind-mount of /dev/pts/ptmx and the TIOCGPTPEER

devpts: resolve devpts bind-mounts

Most libcs will still look at /dev/ptmx when opening the master fd of a pty
device. When /dev/ptmx is a bind-mount of /dev/pts/ptmx and the TIOCGPTPEER
ioctl() is used to safely retrieve a file descriptor for the slave side of
the pty based on the master fd, the /proc/self/fd/{0,1,2} symlinks will
point to /. A very simply reproducer for this issue presupposing a libc
that uses TIOCGPTPEER in its openpty() implementation is:

unshare --mount
mount --bind /dev/pts/ptmx /dev/ptmx
chmod 666 /dev/ptmx
script
ls -al /proc/self/fd/0

Having bind-mounts of /dev/pts/ptmx to /dev/ptmx not working correctly is a
regression. In addition, it is also a fairly common scenario in containers
employing user namespaces.

The reason for the current failure is that the kernel tries to verify the
useability of the devpts filesystem without resolving the /dev/ptmx
bind-mount first. This will lead it to detect that the dentry is escaping
its bind-mount. The reason is that while the devpts filesystem mounted at
/dev/pts has the devtmpfs mounted at /dev as its parent mount:

21 -- -- / /dev
-- 21 -- / /dev/pts

devtmpfs and devpts are on different devices

-- -- 0:6 / /dev
-- -- 0:20 / /dev/pts

This has the consequence that the pathname of the parent directory of the
devpts filesystem mount at /dev/pts is /. So if /dev/ptmx is a bind-mount
of /dev/pts/ptmx then the /dev/ptmx bind-mount and the devpts mount at
/dev/pts will end up being located on the same device which is recorded in
the superblock of their vfsmount. This means the parent directory of the
/dev/ptmx bind-mount will be /ptmx:

-- -- ---- /ptmx /dev/ptmx

Without the bind-mount resolution patch the kernel will now perform the
bind-mount escape check directly on /dev/ptmx. The function responsible for
this is devpts_ptmx_path() which calls pts_path() which in turn calls
path_parent_directory(). Based on the above explanation,
path_parent_directory() will yield / as the parent directory for the
/dev/ptmx bind-mount and not the expected /dev. Thus, the kernel detects
that /dev/ptmx is escaping its bind-mount and will set /proc/<pid>/fd/<nr>
to /.

This patch changes the logic to first resolve any bind-mounts. After the
bind-mounts have been resolved (i.e. we have traced it back to the
associated devpts mount) devpts_ptmx_path() can be called. In order to
guarantee correct path generation for the slave file descriptor the kernel
now requires that a pts directory is found in the parent directory of the
ptmx bind-mount. This implies that when doing bind-mounts the ptmx
bind-mount and the devpts mount should have a common parent directory. A
valid example is:

mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts
mount --bind /dev/pts/ptmx /dev/ptmx

an invalid example is:

mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts
mount --bind /dev/pts/ptmx /ptmx

This allows us to support:
- calling open on ptmx devices located inside non-standard devpts mounts:
mount -t devpts devpts /mnt
master = open("/mnt/ptmx", ...);
slave = ioctl(master, TIOCGPTPEER, ...);
- calling open on ptmx devices located outside the devpts mount with a
common ancestor directory:
mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts
mount --bind /dev/pts/ptmx /dev/ptmx
master = open("/dev/ptmx", ...);
slave = ioctl(master, TIOCGPTPEER, ...);

while failing on ptmx devices located outside the devpts mount without a
common ancestor directory:
mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts
mount --bind /dev/pts/ptmx /ptmx
master = open("/ptmx", ...);
slave = ioctl(master, TIOCGPTPEER, ...);

in which case save path generation cannot be guaranteed.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Suggested-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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devpts: hoist out check for DEVPTS_SUPER_MAGIC

Hoist the check whether we have already found a suitable devpts filesystem
out of devpts_ptmx_path() in preparation for the devpts bind-mou

devpts: hoist out check for DEVPTS_SUPER_MAGIC

Hoist the check whether we have already found a suitable devpts filesystem
out of devpts_ptmx_path() in preparation for the devpts bind-mount
resolution patch. This is a non-functional change.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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devpts: fix error handling in devpts_mntget()

If devpts_ptmx_path() returns an error code, then devpts_mntget()
dereferences an ERR_PTR():

BUG: unable to handle kernel pagin

devpts: fix error handling in devpts_mntget()

If devpts_ptmx_path() returns an error code, then devpts_mntget()
dereferences an ERR_PTR():

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at fffffffffffffff5
IP: devpts_mntget+0x13f/0x280 fs/devpts/inode.c:173

Fix it by returning early in the error paths.

Reproducer:

#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sched.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#define TIOCGPTPEER _IO('T', 0x41)

int main()
{
for (;;) {
int fd = open("/dev/ptmx", 0);
unshare(CLONE_NEWNS);
ioctl(fd, TIOCGPTPEER, 0);
}
}

Fixes: 311fc65c9fb9 ("pty: Repair TIOCGPTPEER")
Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.13+
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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pty: Repair TIOCGPTPEER

The implementation of TIOCGPTPEER has two issues.

When /dev/ptmx (as opposed to /dev/pts/ptmx) is opened the wrong
vfsmount is passed to dentry_open. Wh

pty: Repair TIOCGPTPEER

The implementation of TIOCGPTPEER has two issues.

When /dev/ptmx (as opposed to /dev/pts/ptmx) is opened the wrong
vfsmount is passed to dentry_open. Which results in the kernel displaying
the wrong pathname for the peer.

The second is simply by caching the vfsmount and dentry of the peer it leaves
them open, in a way they were not previously Which because of the inreased
reference counts can cause unnecessary behaviour differences resulting in
regressions.

To fix these move the ioctl into tty_io.c at a generic level allowing
the ioctl to have access to the struct file on which the ioctl is
being called. This allows the path of the slave to be derived when
opening the slave through TIOCGPTPEER instead of requiring the path to
the slave be cached. Thus removing the need for caching the path.

A new function devpts_ptmx_path is factored out of devpts_acquire and
used to implement a function devpts_mntget. The new function devpts_mntget
takes a filp to perform the lookup on and fsi so that it can confirm
that the superblock that is found by devpts_ptmx_path is the proper superblock.

v2: Lots of fixes to make the code actually work
v3: Suggestions by Linus
- Removed the unnecessary initialization of filp in ptm_open_peer
- Simplified devpts_ptmx_path as gotos are no longer required

[ This is the fix for the issue that was reverted in commit
143c97cc6529, but this time without breaking 'pbuilder' due to
increased reference counts - Linus ]

Fixes: 54ebbfb16034 ("tty: add TIOCGPTPEER ioctl")
Reported-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@canonical.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Revert "pty: fix the cached path of the pty slave file descriptor in the master"

This reverts commit c8c03f1858331e85d397bacccd34ef409aae993c.

It turns out that while fixing the ptm

Revert "pty: fix the cached path of the pty slave file descriptor in the master"

This reverts commit c8c03f1858331e85d397bacccd34ef409aae993c.

It turns out that while fixing the ptmx file descriptor to have the
correct 'struct path' to the associated slave pty is a really good
thing, it breaks some user space tools for a very annoying reason.

The problem is that /dev/ptmx and its associated slave pty (/dev/pts/X)
are on different mounts. That was what caused us to have the wrong path
in the first place (we would mix up the vfsmount of the 'ptmx' node,
with the dentry of the pty slave node), but it also means that now while
we use the right vfsmount, having the pty master open also keeps the pts
mount busy.

And it turn sout that that makes 'pbuilder' very unhappy, as noted by
Stefan Lippers-Hollmann:

"This patch introduces a regression for me when using pbuilder
0.228.7[2] (a helper to build Debian packages in a chroot and to
create and update its chroots) when trying to umount /dev/ptmx (inside
the chroot) on Debian/ unstable (full log and pbuilder configuration
file[3] attached).

[...]
Setting up build-essential (12.3) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-15) ...
I: unmounting dev/ptmx filesystem
W: Could not unmount dev/ptmx: umount: /var/cache/pbuilder/build/1340/dev/ptmx: target is busy
(In some cases useful info about processes that
use the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1).)"

apparently pbuilder tries to unmount the /dev/pts filesystem while still
holding at least one master node open, which is arguably not very nice,
but we don't break user space even when fixing other bugs.

So this commit has to be reverted.

I'll try to figure out a way to avoid caching the path to the slave pty
in the master pty. The only thing that actually wants that slave pty
path is the "TIOCGPTPEER" ioctl, and I think we could just recreate the
path at that time.

Reported-by: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h@gmx.de>
Cc: Eric W Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@canonical.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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pty: fix the cached path of the pty slave file descriptor in the master

Christian Brauner reported that if you use the TIOCGPTPEER ioctl() to
get a slave pty file descriptor, the resulti

pty: fix the cached path of the pty slave file descriptor in the master

Christian Brauner reported that if you use the TIOCGPTPEER ioctl() to
get a slave pty file descriptor, the resulting file descriptor doesn't
look right in /proc/<pid>/fd/<fd>. In particular, he wanted to use
readlink() on /proc/self/fd/<fd> to get the pathname of the slave pty
(basically implementing "ptsname{_r}()").

The reason for that was that we had generated the wrong 'struct path'
when we create the pty in ptmx_open().

In particular, the dentry was correct, but the vfsmount pointed to the
mount of the ptmx node. That _can_ be correct - in case you use
"/dev/pts/ptmx" to open the master - but usually is not. The normal
case is to use /dev/ptmx, which then looks up the pts/ directory, and
then the vfsmount of the ptmx node is obviously the /dev directory, not
the /dev/pts/ directory.

We actually did have the right vfsmount available, but in the wrong
place (it gets looked up in 'devpts_acquire()' when we get a reference
to the pts filesystem), and so ptmx_open() used the wrong mnt pointer.

The end result of this confusion was that the pty worked fine, but when
if you did TIOCGPTPEER to get the slave side of the pty, end end result
would also work, but have that dodgy 'struct path'.

And then when doing "d_path()" on to get the pathname, the vfsmount
would not match the root of the pts directory, and d_path() would return
an empty pathname thinking that the entry had escaped a bind mount into
another mount.

This fixes the problem by making devpts_acquire() return the vfsmount
for the pts filesystem, allowing ptmx_open() to trivially just use the
right mount for the pts dentry, and create the proper 'struct path'.

Reported-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro:
">rename2() work from Miklos + current_time() from Deepa"

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro:
">rename2() work from Miklos + current_time() from Deepa"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
fs: Replace current_fs_time() with current_time()
fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME_SEC with current_time() for inode timestamps
fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME with current_time() for inode timestamps
fs: proc: Delete inode time initializations in proc_alloc_inode()
vfs: Add current_time() api
vfs: add note about i_op->rename changes to porting
fs: rename "rename2" i_op to "rename"
vfs: remove unused i_op->rename
fs: make remaining filesystems use .rename2
libfs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE in simple_rename()
fs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE for local filesystems
ncpfs: fix unused variable warning

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fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME with current_time() for inode timestamps

CURRENT_TIME macro is not appropriate for filesystems as it
doesn't use the right granularity for filesystem timestamps.

fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME with current_time() for inode timestamps

CURRENT_TIME macro is not appropriate for filesystems as it
doesn't use the right granularity for filesystem timestamps.
Use current_time() instead.

CURRENT_TIME is also not y2038 safe.

This is also in preparation for the patch that transitions
vfs timestamps to use 64 bit time and hence make them
y2038 safe. As part of the effort current_time() will be
extended to do range checks. Hence, it is necessary for all
file system timestamps to use current_time(). Also,
current_time() will be transitioned along with vfs to be
y2038 safe.

Note that whenever a single call to current_time() is used
to change timestamps in different inodes, it is because they
share the same time granularity.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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devpts: Change the owner of /dev/pts/ptmx to the mounter of /dev/pts

In 99.99% of the cases only root in a user namespace can mount /dev/pts
and in those cases the owner of /dev/pts/ptmx

devpts: Change the owner of /dev/pts/ptmx to the mounter of /dev/pts

In 99.99% of the cases only root in a user namespace can mount /dev/pts
and in those cases the owner of /dev/pts/ptmx will remain root.root

In the oddball case where someone else has CAP_SYS_ADMIN this code
modifies the /dev/pts mount code to use current_fsuid and current_fsgid
as the values to use when creating the /dev/ptmx inode. As is done
when any other file is created.

This is a code simplification, and it allows running without a root
user entirely.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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devpts: Remove sync_filesystems

devpts does not and never will have anything to sync
so don't bother calling sync_filesystems on remount.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebi

devpts: Remove sync_filesystems

devpts does not and never will have anything to sync
so don't bother calling sync_filesystems on remount.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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devpts: Make devpts_kill_sb safe if fsi is NULL

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

devpts: Simplify devpts_mount by using mount_nodev

Now that all of the work of setting up a superblock has been moved to
devpts_fill_super simplify devpts_mount by calling mount_nodev in

devpts: Simplify devpts_mount by using mount_nodev

Now that all of the work of setting up a superblock has been moved to
devpts_fill_super simplify devpts_mount by calling mount_nodev instead
of rolling mount_nodev by hand.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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devpts: Move the creation of /dev/pts/ptmx into fill_super

The code makes more sense here and things are just clearer.

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

devpts: Move the creation of /dev/pts/ptmx into fill_super

The code makes more sense here and things are just clearer.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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