[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] add securityfs for all LSMs to use

Here's a small patch against 2.6.13-rc2 that adds securityfs, a virtual
fs that all LSMs can use instead of creating their own. The fs should
be mounted a

[PATCH] add securityfs for all LSMs to use

Here's a small patch against 2.6.13-rc2 that adds securityfs, a virtual
fs that all LSMs can use instead of creating their own. The fs should
be mounted at /sys/kernel/security, and the fs creates that mount point.
This will make the LSB people happy that we aren't creating a new
/my_lsm_fs directory in the root for every different LSM.

It has changed a bit since the last version, thanks to comments from
Mike Waychison.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>

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Merge branch 'work.mount0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

Pull vfs mount updates from Al Viro:
"The first part of mount updates.

Convert filesystem

Merge branch 'work.mount0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

Pull vfs mount updates from Al Viro:
"The first part of mount updates.

Convert filesystems to use the new mount API"

* 'work.mount0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
mnt_init(): call shmem_init() unconditionally
constify ksys_mount() string arguments
don't bother with registering rootfs
init_rootfs(): don't bother with init_ramfs_fs()
vfs: Convert smackfs to use the new mount API
vfs: Convert selinuxfs to use the new mount API
vfs: Convert securityfs to use the new mount API
vfs: Convert apparmorfs to use the new mount API
vfs: Convert openpromfs to use the new mount API
vfs: Convert xenfs to use the new mount API
vfs: Convert gadgetfs to use the new mount API
vfs: Convert oprofilefs to use the new mount API
vfs: Convert ibmasmfs to use the new mount API
vfs: Convert qib_fs/ipathfs to use the new mount API
vfs: Convert efivarfs to use the new mount API
vfs: Convert configfs to use the new mount API
vfs: Convert binfmt_misc to use the new mount API
convenience helper: get_tree_single()
convenience helper get_tree_nodev()
vfs: Kill sget_userns()
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vfs: Convert securityfs to use the new mount API

Convert the securityfs filesystem to the new internal mount API as the old
one will be obsoleted and removed. This allows greater flexib

vfs: Convert securityfs to use the new mount API

Convert the securityfs filesystem to the new internal mount API as the old
one will be obsoleted and removed. This allows greater flexibility in
communication of mount parameters between userspace, the VFS and the
filesystem.

See Documentation/filesystems/mount_api.txt for more information.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500

Based on 2 normalized pattern(s):

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it u

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500

Based on 2 normalized pattern(s):

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
published by the free software foundation

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
published by the free software foundation #

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 4122 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt <info@metux.net>
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604081206.933168790@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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securityfs: switch to ->free_inode()

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

securityfs: fix use-after-free on symlink traversal

symlink body shouldn't be freed without an RCU delay. Switch securityfs
to ->destroy_inode() and use of call_rcu(); free both the ino

securityfs: fix use-after-free on symlink traversal

symlink body shouldn't be freed without an RCU delay. Switch securityfs
to ->destroy_inode() and use of call_rcu(); free both the inode and symlink
body in the callback.

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

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security: fs: make inode explicitly non-modular

The Makefile/Kconfig entry controlling compilation of this code is:

security/Makefile:obj-$(CONFIG_SECURITYFS) += inod

security: fs: make inode explicitly non-modular

The Makefile/Kconfig entry controlling compilation of this code is:

security/Makefile:obj-$(CONFIG_SECURITYFS) += inode.o

security/Kconfig:config SECURITYFS
security/Kconfig: bool "Enable the securityfs filesystem"

...meaning that it currently is not being built as a module by anyone.

Lets remove the couple traces of modular infrastructure use, so that
when reading the driver there is no doubt it is builtin-only.

We also delete the MODULE_LICENSE tag etc. since all that information
is already contained at the top of the file in the comments.

The removal of module.h uncovered a couple previously hidden implicit
header requirements which are now included explicitly.

Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.morris@microsoft.com>

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securityfs: add the ability to support symlinks

Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Seth Arnold <seth.arnold@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <k

securityfs: add the ability to support symlinks

Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Seth Arnold <seth.arnold@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

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fs: constify tree_descr arrays passed to simple_fill_super()

simple_fill_super() is passed an array of tree_descr structures which
describe the files to create in the filesystem's root d

fs: constify tree_descr arrays passed to simple_fill_super()

simple_fill_super() is passed an array of tree_descr structures which
describe the files to create in the filesystem's root directory. Since
these arrays are never modified intentionally, they should be 'const' so
that they are placed in .rodata and benefit from memory protection.
This patch updates the function signature and all users, and also
constifies tree_descr.name.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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LSM: Add /sys/kernel/security/lsm

I am still tired of having to find indirect ways to determine
what security modules are active on a system. I have added
/sys/kernel/security/lsm, w

LSM: Add /sys/kernel/security/lsm

I am still tired of having to find indirect ways to determine
what security modules are active on a system. I have added
/sys/kernel/security/lsm, which contains a comma separated
list of the active security modules. No more groping around
in /proc/filesystems or other clever hacks.

Unchanged from previous versions except for being updated
to the latest security next branch.

Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Acked-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>

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

Pull trivial updates from Jiri Kosina:
"The usual rocket science from the trivial tree"

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

Pull trivial updates from Jiri Kosina:
"The usual rocket science from the trivial tree"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial:
tracing/syscalls: fix multiline in error message text
lib/Kconfig.debug: fix DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH description
doc: vfs: fix fadvise() sycall name
x86/entry: spell EBX register correctly in documentation
securityfs: fix securityfs_create_dir comment
irq: Fix typo in tracepoint.xml

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securityfs: fix securityfs_create_dir comment

If there is an error creating a directory with securityfs_create_dir,
the error is propagated via ERR_PTR but the function comment claims th

securityfs: fix securityfs_create_dir comment

If there is an error creating a directory with securityfs_create_dir,
the error is propagated via ERR_PTR but the function comment claims that
NULL is returned.

This is a similar commit to 88e6c94cda322ff2b32f72bb8d96f9675cdad8aa
("fix long-broken securityfs_create_file comment") that did not fix
securityfs_create_dir comment at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Georget <laurent.georget@supelec.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

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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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securityfs: ->d_parent is never NULL or negative

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

drbd: ->d_parent is never NULL or negative

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

wrappers for ->i_mutex access

parallel to mutex_{lock,unlock,trylock,is_locked,lock_nested},
inode_foo(inode) being mutex_foo(&inode->i_mutex).

Please, use those for access to -

wrappers for ->i_mutex access

parallel to mutex_{lock,unlock,trylock,is_locked,lock_nested},
inode_foo(inode) being mutex_foo(&inode->i_mutex).

Please, use those for access to ->i_mutex; over the coming cycle
->i_mutex will become rwsem, with ->lookup() done with it held
only shared.

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

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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:
"Assorted VFS fixes and related cleanups (IMO the most interesting

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

Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro:
"Assorted VFS fixes and related cleanups (IMO the most interesting in
that part are f_path-related things and Eric's descriptor-related
stuff). UFS regression fixes (it got broken last cycle). 9P fixes.
fs-cache series, DAX patches, Jan's file_remove_suid() work"

[ I'd say this is much more than "fixes and related cleanups". The
file_table locking rule change by Eric Dumazet is a rather big and
fundamental update even if the patch isn't huge. - Linus ]

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (49 commits)
9p: cope with bogus responses from server in p9_client_{read,write}
p9_client_write(): avoid double p9_free_req()
9p: forgetting to cancel request on interrupted zero-copy RPC
dax: bdev_direct_access() may sleep
block: Add support for DAX reads/writes to block devices
dax: Use copy_from_iter_nocache
dax: Add block size note to documentation
fs/file.c: __fget() and dup2() atomicity rules
fs/file.c: don't acquire files->file_lock in fd_install()
fs:super:get_anon_bdev: fix race condition could cause dev exceed its upper limitation
vfs: avoid creation of inode number 0 in get_next_ino
namei: make set_root_rcu() return void
make simple_positive() public
ufs: use dir_pages instead of ufs_dir_pages()
pagemap.h: move dir_pages() over there
remove the pointless include of lglock.h
fs: cleanup slight list_entry abuse
xfs: Correctly lock inode when removing suid and file capabilities
fs: Call security_ops->inode_killpriv on truncate
fs: Provide function telling whether file_remove_privs() will do anything
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sysfs: Create mountpoints with sysfs_create_mount_point

This allows for better documentation in the code and
it allows for a simpler and fully correct version of
fs_fully_visible to

sysfs: Create mountpoints with sysfs_create_mount_point

This allows for better documentation in the code and
it allows for a simpler and fully correct version of
fs_fully_visible to be written.

The mount points converted and their filesystems are:
/sys/hypervisor/s390/ s390_hypfs
/sys/kernel/config/ configfs
/sys/kernel/debug/ debugfs
/sys/firmware/efi/efivars/ efivarfs
/sys/fs/fuse/connections/ fusectl
/sys/fs/pstore/ pstore
/sys/kernel/tracing/ tracefs
/sys/fs/cgroup/ cgroup
/sys/kernel/security/ securityfs
/sys/fs/selinux/ selinuxfs
/sys/fs/smackfs/ smackfs

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

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make simple_positive() public

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

VFS: security/: d_inode() annotations

... except where that code acts as a filesystem driver, rather than
working with dentries given to it.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowel

VFS: security/: d_inode() annotations

... except where that code acts as a filesystem driver, rather than
working with dentries given to it.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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VFS: (Scripted) Convert S_ISLNK/DIR/REG(dentry->d_inode) to d_is_*(dentry)

Convert the following where appropriate:

(1) S_ISLNK(dentry->d_inode) to d_is_symlink(dentry).

VFS: (Scripted) Convert S_ISLNK/DIR/REG(dentry->d_inode) to d_is_*(dentry)

Convert the following where appropriate:

(1) S_ISLNK(dentry->d_inode) to d_is_symlink(dentry).

(2) S_ISREG(dentry->d_inode) to d_is_reg(dentry).

(3) S_ISDIR(dentry->d_inode) to d_is_dir(dentry). This is actually more
complicated than it appears as some calls should be converted to
d_can_lookup() instead. The difference is whether the directory in
question is a real dir with a ->lookup op or whether it's a fake dir with
a ->d_automount op.

In some circumstances, we can subsume checks for dentry->d_inode not being
NULL into this, provided we the code isn't in a filesystem that expects
d_inode to be NULL if the dirent really *is* negative (ie. if we're going to
use d_inode() rather than d_backing_inode() to get the inode pointer).

Note that the dentry type field may be set to something other than
DCACHE_MISS_TYPE when d_inode is NULL in the case of unionmount, where the VFS
manages the fall-through from a negative dentry to a lower layer. In such a
case, the dentry type of the negative union dentry is set to the same as the
type of the lower dentry.

However, if you know d_inode is not NULL at the call site, then you can use
the d_is_xxx() functions even in a filesystem.

There is one further complication: a 0,0 chardev dentry may be labelled
DCACHE_WHITEOUT_TYPE rather than DCACHE_SPECIAL_TYPE. Strictly, this was
intended for special directory entry types that don't have attached inodes.

The following perl+coccinelle script was used:

use strict;

my @callers;
open($fd, 'git grep -l \'S_IS[A-Z].*->d_inode\' |') ||
die "Can't grep for S_ISDIR and co. callers";
@callers = <$fd>;
close($fd);
unless (@callers) {
print "No matches\n";
exit(0);
}

my @cocci = (
'@@',
'expression E;',
'@@',
'',
'- S_ISLNK(E->d_inode->i_mode)',
'+ d_is_symlink(E)',
'',
'@@',
'expression E;',
'@@',
'',
'- S_ISDIR(E->d_inode->i_mode)',
'+ d_is_dir(E)',
'',
'@@',
'expression E;',
'@@',
'',
'- S_ISREG(E->d_inode->i_mode)',
'+ d_is_reg(E)' );

my $coccifile = "tmp.sp.cocci";
open($fd, ">$coccifile") || die $coccifile;
print($fd "$_\n") || die $coccifile foreach (@cocci);
close($fd);

foreach my $file (@callers) {
chomp $file;
print "Processing ", $file, "\n";
system("spatch", "--sp-file", $coccifile, $file, "--in-place", "--no-show-diff") == 0 ||
die "spatch failed";
}

[AV: overlayfs parts skipped]

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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Documentation: Docbook: Fix generated DocBook/kernel-api.xml

This patch fix spelling typo found in DocBook/kernel-api.xml.
It is because the file is generated from the source comments,

Documentation: Docbook: Fix generated DocBook/kernel-api.xml

This patch fix spelling typo found in DocBook/kernel-api.xml.
It is because the file is generated from the source comments,
I have to fix the comments in source codes.

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

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securityfs: fix object creation races

inode needs to be fully set up before we feed it to d_instantiate().
securityfs_create_file() does *not* do so; it sets ->i_fop and
->i_private

securityfs: fix object creation races

inode needs to be fully set up before we feed it to d_instantiate().
securityfs_create_file() does *not* do so; it sets ->i_fop and
->i_private only after we'd exposed the inode. Unfortunately,
that's done fairly deep in call chain, so the amount of churn
is considerable. Helper functions killed by substituting into
their solitary call sites, dead code removed. We finally can
bury default_file_ops, now that the final value of ->i_fop is
available (and assigned) at the point where inode is allocated.

Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

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