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<title>Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux</title>
<updated>2012-10-14T20:39:34Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2012-10-14T20:39:34Z</published>
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Pull module signing support from Rusty Russell:
 "module signing is the highlight, but it's an all-over David Howells frenzy..."

Hmm "Magrathea: Glacier signing key". Somebody has been reading too much HHGTTG.

* 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (37 commits)
  X.509: Fix indefinite length element skip error handling
  X.509: Convert some printk calls to pr_devel
  asymmetric keys: fix printk format warning
  MODSIGN: Fix 32-bit overflow in X.509 certificate validity date checking
  MODSIGN: Make mrproper should remove generated files.
  MODSIGN: Use utf8 strings in signer's name in autogenerated X.509 certs
  MODSIGN: Use the same digest for the autogen key sig as for the module sig
  MODSIGN: Sign modules during the build process
  MODSIGN: Provide a script for generating a key ID from an X.509 cert
  MODSIGN: Implement module signature checking
  MODSIGN: Provide module signing public keys to the kernel
  MODSIGN: Automatically generate module signing keys if missing
  MODSIGN: Provide Kconfig options
  MODSIGN: Provide gitignore and make clean rules for extra files
  MODSIGN: Add FIPS policy
  module: signature checking hook
  X.509: Add a crypto key parser for binary (DER) X.509 certificates
  MPILIB: Provide a function to read raw data into an MPI
  X.509: Add an ASN.1 decoder
  X.509: Add simple ASN.1 grammar compiler
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'nfs-for-3.7-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs</title>
<updated>2012-10-10T14:52:35Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-10T14:52:35Z</published>
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Pull NFS client updates from Trond Myklebust:
 "Features include:

   - Remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL dependency from NFSv4.1
     Aside from the issues discussed at the LKS, distros are shipping
     NFSv4.1 with all the trimmings.
   - Fix fdatasync()/fsync() for the corner case of a server reboot.
   - NFSv4 OPEN access fix: finally distinguish correctly between
     open-for-read and open-for-execute permissions in all situations.
   - Ensure that the TCP socket is closed when we're in CLOSE_WAIT
   - More idmapper bugfixes
   - Lots of pNFS bugfixes and cleanups to remove unnecessary state and
     make the code easier to read.
   - In cases where a pNFS read or write fails, allow the client to
     resume trying layoutgets after two minutes of read/write-
     through-mds.
   - More net namespace fixes to the NFSv4 callback code.
   - More net namespace fixes to the NFSv3 locking code.
   - More NFSv4 migration preparatory patches.
     Including patches to detect network trunking in both NFSv4 and
     NFSv4.1
   - pNFS block updates to optimise LAYOUTGET calls."

* tag 'nfs-for-3.7-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs: (113 commits)
  pnfsblock: cleanup nfs4_blkdev_get
  NFS41: send real read size in layoutget
  NFS41: send real write size in layoutget
  NFS: track direct IO left bytes
  NFSv4.1: Cleanup ugliness in pnfs_layoutgets_blocked()
  NFSv4.1: Ensure that the layout sequence id stays 'close' to the current
  NFSv4.1: Deal with seqid wraparound in the pNFS return-on-close code
  NFSv4 set open access operation call flag in nfs4_init_opendata_res
  NFSv4.1: Remove the dependency on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
  NFSv4 reduce attribute requests for open reclaim
  NFSv4: nfs4_open_done first must check that GETATTR decoded a file type
  NFSv4.1: Deal with wraparound when updating the layout "barrier" seqid
  NFSv4.1: Deal with wraparound issues when updating the layout stateid
  NFSv4.1: Always set the layout stateid if this is the first layoutget
  NFSv4.1: Fix another refcount issue in pnfs_find_alloc_layout
  NFSv4: don't put ACCESS in OPEN compound if O_EXCL
  NFSv4: don't check MAY_WRITE access bit in OPEN
  NFS: Set key construction data for the legacy upcall
  NFSv4.1: don't do two EXCHANGE_IDs on mount
  NFS: nfs41_walk_client_list(): re-lock before iterating
  ...
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<title>module: signature checking hook</title>
<updated>2012-10-10T09:30:55Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-26T09:09:40Z</published>
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We do a very simple search for a particular string appended to the module
(which is cache-hot and about to be SHA'd anyway).  There's both a config
option and a boot parameter which control whether we accept or fail with
unsigned modules and modules that are signed with an unknown key.

If module signing is enabled, the kernel will be tainted if a module is
loaded that is unsigned or has a signature for which we don't have the
key.

(Useful feedback and tweaks by David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;)

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security</title>
<updated>2012-10-03T04:38:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-03T04:38:48Z</published>
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Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
 "Highlights:

   - Integrity: add local fs integrity verification to detect offline
     attacks
   - Integrity: add digital signature verification
   - Simple stacking of Yama with other LSMs (per LSS discussions)
   - IBM vTPM support on ppc64
   - Add new driver for Infineon I2C TIS TPM
   - Smack: add rule revocation for subject labels"

Fixed conflicts with the user namespace support in kernel/auditsc.c and
security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c.

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (39 commits)
  Documentation: Update git repository URL for Smack userland tools
  ima: change flags container data type
  Smack: setprocattr memory leak fix
  Smack: implement revoking all rules for a subject label
  Smack: remove task_wait() hook.
  ima: audit log hashes
  ima: generic IMA action flag handling
  ima: rename ima_must_appraise_or_measure
  audit: export audit_log_task_info
  tpm: fix tpm_acpi sparse warning on different address spaces
  samples/seccomp: fix 31 bit build on s390
  ima: digital signature verification support
  ima: add support for different security.ima data types
  ima: add ima_inode_setxattr/removexattr function and calls
  ima: add inode_post_setattr call
  ima: replace iint spinblock with rwlock/read_lock
  ima: allocating iint improvements
  ima: add appraise action keywords and default rules
  ima: integrity appraisal extension
  vfs: move ima_file_free before releasing the file
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'scsi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi</title>
<updated>2012-10-03T02:01:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-03T02:01:32Z</published>
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Pull first round of SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
 "This is a large set of updates, mostly for drivers (qla2xxx [including
  support for new 83xx based card], qla4xxx, mpt2sas, bfa, zfcp, hpsa,
  be2iscsi, isci, lpfc, ipr, ibmvfc, ibmvscsi, megaraid_sas).

  There's also a rework for tape adding virtually unlimited numbers of
  tape drives plus a set of dif fixes for sd and a fix for a live lock
  on hot remove of SCSI devices.

  This round includes a signed tag pull of isci-for-3.6

  Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Parallels.com&gt;"

Fix up trivial conflict in drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_nx.c due to new PCI
helper function use in a function that was removed by this pull.

* tag 'scsi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (198 commits)
  [SCSI] st: remove st_mutex
  [SCSI] sd: Ensure we correctly disable devices with unknown protection type
  [SCSI] hpsa: gen8plus Smart Array IDs
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Update driver version to 5.03.00-k1
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Disable generating pause frames for ISP83XX
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Fix double clearing of risc_intr for ISP83XX
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: IDC implementation for Loopback
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: update copyrights in LICENSE.qla4xxx
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Fix panic while rmmod
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Fail probe_adapter if IRQ allocation fails
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Prevent MSI/MSI-X falling back to INTx for ISP82XX
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Update idc reg in case of PCI AER
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Fix double IDC locking in qla4_8xxx_error_recovery
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Clear interrupt while unloading driver for ISP83XX
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Print correct IDC version
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Added new mbox cmd to pass driver version to FW
  [SCSI] scsi_dh_alua: Enable STPG for unavailable ports
  [SCSI] scsi_remove_target: fix softlockup regression on hot remove
  [SCSI] ibmvscsi: Fix host config length field overflow
  [SCSI] ibmvscsi: Remove backend abstraction
  ...
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<entry>
<title>NFS: Add nfs4_unique_id boot parameter</title>
<updated>2012-10-01T22:33:33Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Chuck Lever</name>
<email>chuck.lever@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-14T21:24:41Z</published>
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An optional boot parameter is introduced to allow client
administrators to specify a string that the Linux NFS client can
insert into its nfs_client_id4 id string, to make it both more
globally unique, and to ensure that it doesn't change even if the
client's nodename changes.

If this boot parameter is not specified, the client's nodename is
used, as before.

Client installation procedures can create a unique string (typically,
a UUID) which remains unchanged during the lifetime of that client
instance.  This works just like creating a UUID for the label of the
system's root and boot volumes.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust &lt;Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-smap-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2012-10-01T20:59:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-01T20:59:17Z</published>
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Pull x86/smap support from Ingo Molnar:
 "This adds support for the SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) CPU
  feature on Intel CPUs: a hardware feature that prevents unintended
  user-space data access from kernel privileged code.

  It's turned on automatically when possible.

  This, in combination with SMEP, makes it even harder to exploit kernel
  bugs such as NULL pointer dereferences."

Fix up trivial conflict in arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S due to newly added
includes right next to each other.

* 'x86-smap-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, smep, smap: Make the switching functions one-way
  x86, suspend: On wakeup always initialize cr4 and EFER
  x86-32: Start out eflags and cr4 clean
  x86, smap: Do not abuse the [f][x]rstor_checking() functions for user space
  x86-32, smap: Add STAC/CLAC instructions to 32-bit kernel entry
  x86, smap: Reduce the SMAP overhead for signal handling
  x86, smap: A page fault due to SMAP is an oops
  x86, smap: Turn on Supervisor Mode Access Prevention
  x86, smap: Add STAC and CLAC instructions to control user space access
  x86, uaccess: Merge prototypes for clear_user/__clear_user
  x86, smap: Add a header file with macros for STAC/CLAC
  x86, alternative: Add header guards to &lt;asm/alternative-asm.h&gt;
  x86, alternative: Use .pushsection/.popsection
  x86, smap: Add CR4 bit for SMAP
  x86-32, mm: The WP test should be done on a kernel page
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<title>Merge branch 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2012-10-01T18:10:52Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-01T18:10:52Z</published>
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Pull x86/fpu update from Ingo Molnar:
 "The biggest change is the addition of the non-lazy (eager) FPU saving
  support model and enabling it on CPUs with optimized xsaveopt/xrstor
  FPU state saving instructions.

  There are also various Sparse fixes"

Fix up trivial add-add conflict in arch/x86/kernel/traps.c

* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, kvm: fix kvm's usage of kernel_fpu_begin/end()
  x86, fpu: remove cpu_has_xmm check in the fx_finit()
  x86, fpu: make eagerfpu= boot param tri-state
  x86, fpu: enable eagerfpu by default for xsaveopt
  x86, fpu: decouple non-lazy/eager fpu restore from xsave
  x86, fpu: use non-lazy fpu restore for processors supporting xsave
  lguest, x86: handle guest TS bit for lazy/non-lazy fpu host models
  x86, fpu: always use kernel_fpu_begin/end() for in-kernel FPU usage
  x86, kvm: use kernel_fpu_begin/end() in kvm_load/put_guest_fpu()
  x86, fpu: remove unnecessary user_fpu_end() in save_xstate_sig()
  x86, fpu: drop_fpu() before restoring new state from sigframe
  x86, fpu: Unify signal handling code paths for x86 and x86_64 kernels
  x86, fpu: Consolidate inline asm routines for saving/restoring fpu state
  x86, signal: Cleanup ifdefs and is_ia32, is_x32
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<title>Merge branch 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2012-10-01T17:46:27Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-01T17:46:27Z</published>
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Pull x86/asm changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "The one change that stands out is the alternatives patching change
  that prevents us from ever patching back instructions from SMP to UP:
  this simplifies things and speeds up CPU hotplug.

  Other than that it's smaller fixes, cleanups and improvements."

* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86: Unspaghettize do_trap()
  x86_64: Work around old GAS bug
  x86: Use REP BSF unconditionally
  x86: Prefer TZCNT over BFS
  x86/64: Adjust types of temporaries used by ffs()/fls()/fls64()
  x86: Drop unnecessary kernel_eflags variable on 64-bit
  x86/smp: Don't ever patch back to UP if we unplug cpus
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<title>rcu: Control grace-period duration from sysfs</title>
<updated>2012-09-23T14:41:54Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paul.mckenney@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-27T03:45:57Z</published>
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Although almost everyone is well-served by the defaults, some uses of RCU
benefit from shorter grace periods, while others benefit more from the
greater efficiency provided by longer grace periods.  Situations requiring
a large number of grace periods to elapse (and wireshark startup has
been called out as an example of this) are helped by lower-latency
grace periods.  Furthermore, in some embedded applications, people are
willing to accept a small degradation in update efficiency (due to there
being more of the shorter grace-period operations) in order to gain the
lower latency.

In contrast, those few systems with thousands of CPUs need longer grace
periods because the CPU overhead of a grace period rises roughly
linearly with the number of CPUs.  Such systems normally do not make
much use of facilities that require large numbers of grace periods to
elapse, so this is a good tradeoff.

Therefore, this commit allows the durations to be controlled from sysfs.
There are two sysfs parameters, one named "jiffies_till_first_fqs" that
specifies the delay in jiffies from the end of grace-period initialization
until the first attempt to force quiescent states, and the other named
"jiffies_till_next_fqs" that specifies the delay (again in jiffies)
between subsequent attempts to force quiescent states.  They both default
to three jiffies, which is compatible with the old hard-coded behavior.

At some future time, it may be possible to automatically increase the
grace-period length with the number of CPUs, but we do not yet have
sufficient data to do a good job.  Preliminary data indicates that we
should add an addiitonal jiffy to each of the delays for every 200 CPUs
in the system, but more experimentation is needed.  For now, the number
of systems with more than 1,000 CPUs is small enough that this can be
relegated to boot-time hand tuning.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paul.mckenney@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
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