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<title>linux-toradex.git/fs/afs/proc.c, branch v2.6.35.1</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>seq_file: constify seq_operations</title>
<updated>2009-09-23T14:39:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Morris</name>
<email>jmorris@namei.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-22T23:43:43+00:00</published>
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Make all seq_operations structs const, to help mitigate against
revectoring user-triggerable function pointers.

This is derived from the grsecurity patch, although generated from scratch
because it's simpler than extracting the changes from there.

Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serue@us.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Make all seq_operations structs const, to help mitigate against
revectoring user-triggerable function pointers.

This is derived from the grsecurity patch, although generated from scratch
because it's simpler than extracting the changes from there.

Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serue@us.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>proc 2/2: remove struct proc_dir_entry::owner</title>
<updated>2009-03-30T21:14:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-03-25T19:48:06+00:00</published>
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Setting -&gt;owner as done currently (pde-&gt;owner = THIS_MODULE) is racy
as correctly noted at bug #12454. Someone can lookup entry with NULL
-&gt;owner, thus not pinning enything, and release it later resulting
in module refcount underflow.

We can keep -&gt;owner and supply it at registration time like -&gt;proc_fops
and -&gt;data.

But this leaves -&gt;owner as easy-manipulative field (just one C assignment)
and somebody will forget to unpin previous/pin current module when
switching -&gt;owner. -&gt;proc_fops is declared as "const" which should give
some thoughts.

-&gt;read_proc/-&gt;write_proc were just fixed to not require -&gt;owner for
protection.

rmmod'ed directories will be empty and return "." and ".." -- no harm.
And directories with tricky enough readdir and lookup shouldn't be modular.
We definitely don't want such modular code.

Removing -&gt;owner will also make PDE smaller.

So, let's nuke it.

Kudos to Jeff Layton for reminding about this, let's say, oversight.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12454

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
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Setting -&gt;owner as done currently (pde-&gt;owner = THIS_MODULE) is racy
as correctly noted at bug #12454. Someone can lookup entry with NULL
-&gt;owner, thus not pinning enything, and release it later resulting
in module refcount underflow.

We can keep -&gt;owner and supply it at registration time like -&gt;proc_fops
and -&gt;data.

But this leaves -&gt;owner as easy-manipulative field (just one C assignment)
and somebody will forget to unpin previous/pin current module when
switching -&gt;owner. -&gt;proc_fops is declared as "const" which should give
some thoughts.

-&gt;read_proc/-&gt;write_proc were just fixed to not require -&gt;owner for
protection.

rmmod'ed directories will be empty and return "." and ".." -- no harm.
And directories with tricky enough readdir and lookup shouldn't be modular.
We definitely don't want such modular code.

Removing -&gt;owner will also make PDE smaller.

So, let's nuke it.

Kudos to Jeff Layton for reminding about this, let's say, oversight.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12454

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs: replace NIPQUAD()</title>
<updated>2008-10-31T07:56:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Harvey Harrison</name>
<email>harvey.harrison@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-10-31T07:56:28+00:00</published>
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Using NIPQUAD() with NIPQUAD_FMT, %d.%d.%d.%d or %u.%u.%u.%u
can be replaced with %pI4

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison &lt;harvey.harrison@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Using NIPQUAD() with NIPQUAD_FMT, %d.%d.%d.%d or %u.%u.%u.%u
can be replaced with %pI4

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison &lt;harvey.harrison@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>afs: use non-racy method for proc entries creation</title>
<updated>2008-04-29T15:06:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Denis V. Lunev</name>
<email>den@openvz.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-29T08:02:07+00:00</published>
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Use proc_create()/proc_create_data() to make sure that -&gt;proc_fops and -&gt;data
be setup before gluing PDE to main tree.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev &lt;den@openvz.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Use proc_create()/proc_create_data() to make sure that -&gt;proc_fops and -&gt;data
be setup before gluing PDE to main tree.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev &lt;den@openvz.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs/afs/: possible cleanups</title>
<updated>2007-10-17T15:42:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adrian Bunk</name>
<email>bunk@stusta.de</email>
</author>
<published>2007-10-17T06:26:41+00:00</published>
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This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
- make the following needlessly global functions static:
  - rxrpc.c: afs_send_pages()
  - vlocation.c: afs_vlocation_queue_for_updates()
  - write.c: afs_writepages_region()
- make the following needlessly global variables static:
  - mntpt.c: afs_mntpt_expiry_timeout
  - proc.c: afs_vlocation_states[]
  - server.c: afs_server_timeout
  - vlocation.c: afs_vlocation_timeout
  - vlocation.c: afs_vlocation_update_timeout
- #if 0 the following unused function:
  - cell.c: afs_get_cell_maybe()
- #if 0 the following unused variables:
  - callback.c: afs_vnode_update_timeout
  - cmservice.c: struct afs_cm_workqueue

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@stusta.de&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
- make the following needlessly global functions static:
  - rxrpc.c: afs_send_pages()
  - vlocation.c: afs_vlocation_queue_for_updates()
  - write.c: afs_writepages_region()
- make the following needlessly global variables static:
  - mntpt.c: afs_mntpt_expiry_timeout
  - proc.c: afs_vlocation_states[]
  - server.c: afs_server_timeout
  - vlocation.c: afs_vlocation_timeout
  - vlocation.c: afs_vlocation_update_timeout
- #if 0 the following unused function:
  - cell.c: afs_get_cell_maybe()
- #if 0 the following unused variables:
  - callback.c: afs_vnode_update_timeout
  - cmservice.c: struct afs_cm_workqueue

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@stusta.de&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Make AFS use seq_list_xxx helpers</title>
<updated>2007-07-16T16:05:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Emelianov</name>
<email>xemul@sw.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2007-07-16T06:39:52+00:00</published>
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These proc files show some header before dumping the list, so the
seq_list_start_head() is used.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov &lt;xemul@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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These proc files show some header before dumping the list, so the
seq_list_start_head() is used.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov &lt;xemul@openvz.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Detach sched.h from mm.h</title>
<updated>2007-05-21T16:18:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-05-20T21:22:52+00:00</published>
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First thing mm.h does is including sched.h solely for can_do_mlock() inline
function which has "current" dereference inside. By dealing with can_do_mlock()
mm.h can be detached from sched.h which is good. See below, why.

This patch
a) removes unconditional inclusion of sched.h from mm.h
b) makes can_do_mlock() normal function in mm/mlock.c
c) exports can_do_mlock() to not break compilation
d) adds sched.h inclusions back to files that were getting it indirectly.
e) adds less bloated headers to some files (asm/signal.h, jiffies.h) that were
   getting them indirectly

Net result is:
a) mm.h users would get less code to open, read, preprocess, parse, ... if
   they don't need sched.h
b) sched.h stops being dependency for significant number of files:
   on x86_64 allmodconfig touching sched.h results in recompile of 4083 files,
   after patch it's only 3744 (-8.3%).

Cross-compile tested on

	all arm defconfigs, all mips defconfigs, all powerpc defconfigs,
	alpha alpha-up
	arm
	i386 i386-up i386-defconfig i386-allnoconfig
	ia64 ia64-up
	m68k
	mips
	parisc parisc-up
	powerpc powerpc-up
	s390 s390-up
	sparc sparc-up
	sparc64 sparc64-up
	um-x86_64
	x86_64 x86_64-up x86_64-defconfig x86_64-allnoconfig

as well as my two usual configs.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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First thing mm.h does is including sched.h solely for can_do_mlock() inline
function which has "current" dereference inside. By dealing with can_do_mlock()
mm.h can be detached from sched.h which is good. See below, why.

This patch
a) removes unconditional inclusion of sched.h from mm.h
b) makes can_do_mlock() normal function in mm/mlock.c
c) exports can_do_mlock() to not break compilation
d) adds sched.h inclusions back to files that were getting it indirectly.
e) adds less bloated headers to some files (asm/signal.h, jiffies.h) that were
   getting them indirectly

Net result is:
a) mm.h users would get less code to open, read, preprocess, parse, ... if
   they don't need sched.h
b) sched.h stops being dependency for significant number of files:
   on x86_64 allmodconfig touching sched.h results in recompile of 4083 files,
   after patch it's only 3744 (-8.3%).

Cross-compile tested on

	all arm defconfigs, all mips defconfigs, all powerpc defconfigs,
	alpha alpha-up
	arm
	i386 i386-up i386-defconfig i386-allnoconfig
	ia64 ia64-up
	m68k
	mips
	parisc parisc-up
	powerpc powerpc-up
	s390 s390-up
	sparc sparc-up
	sparc64 sparc64-up
	um-x86_64
	x86_64 x86_64-up x86_64-defconfig x86_64-allnoconfig

as well as my two usual configs.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[AF_RXRPC]: Make the in-kernel AFS filesystem use AF_RXRPC.</title>
<updated>2007-04-26T22:55:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-04-26T22:55:03+00:00</published>
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Make the in-kernel AFS filesystem use AF_RXRPC instead of the old RxRPC code.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Make the in-kernel AFS filesystem use AF_RXRPC instead of the old RxRPC code.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[AFS]: Clean up the AFS sources</title>
<updated>2007-04-26T22:49:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-04-26T22:49:28+00:00</published>
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Clean up the AFS sources.

Also remove references to AFS keys.  RxRPC keys are used instead.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Clean up the AFS sources.

Also remove references to AFS keys.  RxRPC keys are used instead.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h</title>
<updated>2007-02-14T16:09:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tim Schmielau</name>
<email>tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de</email>
</author>
<published>2007-02-14T08:33:14+00:00</published>
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After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h
recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes.
There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need
anything defined in there.  Presumably these includes were once needed for
macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the
course of cleaning it up.

To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only
removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble.

Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha,
arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig,
allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all
configs in arch/arm/configs on arm.  I also checked that no new warnings were
introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted
by unnecessarily included header files).

Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau &lt;tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de&gt;
Acked-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h
recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes.
There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need
anything defined in there.  Presumably these includes were once needed for
macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the
course of cleaning it up.

To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only
removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble.

Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha,
arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig,
allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all
configs in arch/arm/configs on arm.  I also checked that no new warnings were
introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted
by unnecessarily included header files).

Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau &lt;tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de&gt;
Acked-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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