user/sven/linux.git/Documentation/filesystems, branch v4.9.296

locks: print a warning when mount fails due to lack of "mand" support

2021-08-26T12:37:29Z

[ Upstream commit df2474a22c42ce419b67067c52d71da06c385501 ] Since 9e8925b67a ("locks: Allow disabling mandatory locking at compile time"), attempts to mount filesystems with "-o mand" will fail. Unfortunately, there is no other indiciation of the reason for the failure. Change how the function is defined for better readability. When CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING is disabled, printk a warning when someone attempts to mount with -o mand. Also, add a blurb to the mandatory-locking.txt file to explain about the "mand" option, and the behavior one should expect when it is disabled. Reported-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

sysfs: Add sysfs_emit and sysfs_emit_at to format sysfs output

2021-03-07T10:25:58Z

commit 2efc459d06f1630001e3984854848a5647086232 upstream. Output defects can exist in sysfs content using sprintf and snprintf. sprintf does not know the PAGE_SIZE maximum of the temporary buffer used for outputting sysfs content and it's possible to overrun the PAGE_SIZE buffer length. Add a generic sysfs_emit function that knows that the size of the temporary buffer and ensures that no overrun is done. Add a generic sysfs_emit_at function that can be used in multiple call situations that also ensures that no overrun is done. Validate the output buffer argument to be page aligned. Validate the offset len argument to be within the PAGE_SIZE buf. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/884235202216d464d61ee975f7465332c86f76b2.1600285923.git.joe@perches.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

affs: fix basic permission bits to actually work

2020-09-12T09:47:39Z

[ Upstream commit d3a84a8d0dde4e26bc084b36ffcbdc5932ac85e2 ] The basic permission bits (protection bits in AmigaOS) have been broken in Linux' AFFS - it would only set bits, but never delete them. Also, contrary to the documentation, the Archived bit was not handled. Let's fix this for good, and set the bits such that Linux and classic AmigaOS can coexist in the most peaceful manner. Also, update the documentation to represent the current state of things. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Max Staudt Signed-off-by: David Sterba Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

cifs_atomic_open(): fix double-put on late allocation failure

2020-03-20T08:07:44Z

commit d9a9f4849fe0c9d560851ab22a85a666cddfdd24 upstream. several iterations of ->atomic_open() calling conventions ago, we used to need fput() if ->atomic_open() failed at some point after successful finish_open(). Now (since 2016) it's not needed - struct file carries enough state to make fput() work regardless of the point in struct file lifecycle and discarding it on failure exits in open() got unified. Unfortunately, I'd missed the fact that we had an instance of ->atomic_open() (cifs one) that used to need that fput(), as well as the stale comment in finish_open() demanding such late failure handling. Trivially fixed... Fixes: fe9ec8291fca "do_last(): take fput() on error after opening to out:" Cc: stable@kernel.org # v4.7+ Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm, proc: be more verbose about unstable VMA flags in /proc//smaps

2019-01-26T08:38:36Z

[ Upstream commit 7550c6079846a24f30d15ac75a941c8515dbedfb ] Patch series "THP eligibility reporting via proc". This series of three patches aims at making THP eligibility reporting much more robust and long term sustainable. The trigger for the change is a regression report [2] and the long follow up discussion. In short the specific application didn't have good API to query whether a particular mapping can be backed by THP so it has used VMA flags to workaround that. These flags represent a deep internal state of VMAs and as such they should be used by userspace with a great deal of caution. A similar has happened for [3] when users complained that VM_MIXEDMAP is no longer set on DAX mappings. Again a lack of a proper API led to an abuse. The first patch in the series tries to emphasise that that the semantic of flags might change and any application consuming those should be really careful. The remaining two patches provide a more suitable interface to address [2] and provide a consistent API to query the THP status both for each VMA and process wide as well. [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181120103515.25280-1-mhocko@kernel.org [2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.1809241054050.224429@chino.kir.corp.google.com [3] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181002100531.GC4135@quack2.suse.cz This patch (of 3): Even though vma flags exported via /proc//smaps are explicitly documented to be not guaranteed for future compatibility the warning doesn't go far enough because it doesn't mention semantic changes to those flags. And they are important as well because these flags are a deep implementation internal to the MM code and the semantic might change at any time. Let's consider two recent examples: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181002100531.GC4135@quack2.suse.cz : commit e1fb4a086495 "dax: remove VM_MIXEDMAP for fsdax and device dax" has : removed VM_MIXEDMAP flag from DAX VMAs. Now our testing shows that in the : mean time certain customer of ours started poking into /proc//smaps : and looks at VMA flags there and if VM_MIXEDMAP is missing among the VMA : flags, the application just fails to start complaining that DAX support is : missing in the kernel. http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.1809241054050.224429@chino.kir.corp.google.com : Commit 1860033237d4 ("mm: make PR_SET_THP_DISABLE immediately active") : introduced a regression in that userspace cannot always determine the set : of vmas where thp is ineligible. : Userspace relies on the "nh" flag being emitted as part of /proc/pid/smaps : to determine if a vma is eligible to be backed by hugepages. : Previous to this commit, prctl(PR_SET_THP_DISABLE, 1) would cause thp to : be disabled and emit "nh" as a flag for the corresponding vmas as part of : /proc/pid/smaps. After the commit, thp is disabled by means of an mm : flag and "nh" is not emitted. : This causes smaps parsing libraries to assume a vma is eligible for thp : and ends up puzzling the user on why its memory is not backed by thp. In both cases userspace was relying on a semantic of a specific VMA flag. The primary reason why that happened is a lack of a proper interface. While this has been worked on and it will be fixed properly, it seems that our wording could see some refinement and be more vocal about semantic aspect of these flags as well. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181211143641.3503-2-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Jan Kara Acked-by: Dan Williams Acked-by: David Rientjes Acked-by: Mike Rapoport Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Dan Williams Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Paul Oppenheimer Cc: William Kucharski Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ext4: correct documentation for grpid mount option

2018-02-22T14:43:48Z

commit 9f0372488cc9243018a812e8cfbf27de650b187b upstream. The grpid option is currently described as being the same as nogrpid. Signed-off-by: Ernesto A. Fernández Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fs: remove the never implemented aio_fsync file operation

2016-10-30T17:09:42Z

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

fs/proc: Stop trying to report thread stacks

2016-10-20T07:21:41Z

This reverts more of: b76437579d13 ("procfs: mark thread stack correctly in proc//maps") ... which was partially reverted by: 65376df58217 ("proc: revert /proc//maps [stack:TID] annotation") Originally, /proc/PID/task/TID/maps was the same as /proc/TID/maps. In current kernels, /proc/PID/maps (or /proc/TID/maps even for threads) shows "[stack]" for VMAs in the mm's stack address range. In contrast, /proc/PID/task/TID/maps uses KSTK_ESP to guess the target thread's stack's VMA. This is racy, probably returns garbage and, on arches with CONFIG_TASK_INFO_IN_THREAD=y, is also crash-prone: KSTK_ESP is not safe to use on tasks that aren't known to be running ordinary process-context kernel code. This patch removes the difference and just shows "[stack]" for VMAs in the mm's stack range. This is IMO much more sensible -- the actual "stack" address really is treated specially by the VM code, and the current thread stack isn't even well-defined for programs that frequently switch stacks on their own. Reported-by: Jann Horn Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Al Viro Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Linux API Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Tycho Andersen Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3e678474ec14e0a0ec34c611016753eea2e1b8ba.1475257877.git.luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge tag 'linux-kselftest-4.9-rc1-update' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest

2016-10-14T22:17:12Z

Pull kselftest updates from Shuah Khan: "This update consists of: - Fixes and improvements to existing tests - Moving code from Documentation to selftests, samples, and tools: * Moves dnotify_test, prctl, ptp, vDSO, ia64, watchdog, and networking tests from Documentation to selftests. * Moves mic/mpssd, misc-devices/mei, timers, watchdog, auxdisplay, and blackfin examples from Documentation to samples. * Moves accounting, laptops/dslm, and pcmcia/crc32hash tools from Documentation to tools. * Deletes BUILD_DOCSRC and its dependencies" * tag 'linux-kselftest-4.9-rc1-update' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest: (21 commits) selftests/futex: Check ANSI terminal color support Doc: update 00-INDEX files to reflect the runnable code move samples: move blackfin gptimers-example from Documentation tools: move pcmcia crc32hash tool from Documentation tools: move laptops dslm tool from Documentation tools: move accounting tool from Documentation samples: move auxdisplay example code from Documentation samples: move watchdog example code from Documentation samples: move timers example code from Documentation samples: move misc-devices/mei example code from Documentation samples: move mic/mpssd example code from Documentation selftests: Move networking/timestamping from Documentation selftests: move watchdog tests from Documentation/watchdog selftests: move ia64 tests from Documentation/ia64 selftests: move vDSO tests from Documentation/vDSO selftests: move ptp tests from Documentation/ptp selftests: move prctl tests from Documentation/prctl selftests: move dnotify_test from Documentation/filesystems selftests/timers: Add missing error code assignment before test selftests/zram: replace ZRAM_LZ4_COMPRESS ...

autofs: update struct autofs_dev_ioctl in Documentation

2016-10-11T22:06:31Z

Sync with changes made by commit 730c9eeca980 ("autofs4: improve parameter usage") which introduced an union for various ioctl commands instead of having statically named arg1,2. This commit simply replaces arg1,2 with the corresponding fields without changing semantics. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160812024831.12352.24667.stgit@pluto.themaw.net Signed-off-by: Tomohiro Kusumi Signed-off-by: Ian Kent Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds