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<title>linux-toradex.git/fs/debugfs/inode.c, branch v5.12-rc7</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'driver-core-5.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core</title>
<updated>2021-02-24T18:13:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-24T18:13:55+00:00</published>
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Pull driver core / debugfs update from Greg KH:
 "Here is the "big" driver core and debugfs update for 5.12-rc1

  This set of driver core patches caused a bunch of problems in
  linux-next for the past few weeks, when Saravana tried to set
  fw_devlink=on as the default functionality. This caused a number of
  systems to stop booting, and lots of bugs were fixed in this area for
  almost all of the reported systems, but this option is not ready to be
  turned on just yet for the default operation based on this testing, so
  I've reverted that change at the very end so we don't have to worry
  about regressions in 5.12

  We will try to turn this on for 5.13 if testing goes better over the
  next few months.

  Other than the fixes caused by the fw_devlink testing in here, there's
  not much more:

   - debugfs fixes for invalid input into debugfs_lookup()

   - kerneldoc cleanups

   - warn message if platform drivers return an error on their remove
     callback (a futile effort, but good to catch).

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while now, and the
  regressions have gone away with the revert of the fw_devlink change"

* tag 'driver-core-5.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (35 commits)
  Revert "driver core: Set fw_devlink=on by default"
  of: property: fw_devlink: Ignore interrupts property for some configs
  debugfs: do not attempt to create a new file before the filesystem is initalized
  debugfs: be more robust at handling improper input in debugfs_lookup()
  driver core: auxiliary bus: Fix calling stage for auxiliary bus init
  of: irq: Fix the return value for of_irq_parse_one() stub
  of: irq: make a stub for of_irq_parse_one()
  clk: Mark fwnodes when their clock provider is added/removed
  PM: domains: Mark fwnodes when their powerdomain is added/removed
  irqdomain: Mark fwnodes when their irqdomain is added/removed
  driver core: fw_devlink: Handle suppliers that don't use driver core
  of: property: Add fw_devlink support for optional properties
  driver core: Add fw_devlink.strict kernel param
  of: property: Don't add links to absent suppliers
  driver core: fw_devlink: Detect supplier devices that will never be added
  driver core: platform: Emit a warning if a remove callback returned non-zero
  of: property: Fix fw_devlink handling of interrupts/interrupts-extended
  gpiolib: Don't probe gpio_device if it's not the primary device
  device.h: Remove bogus "the" in kerneldoc
  gpiolib: Bind gpio_device to a driver to enable fw_devlink=on by default
  ...
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Pull driver core / debugfs update from Greg KH:
 "Here is the "big" driver core and debugfs update for 5.12-rc1

  This set of driver core patches caused a bunch of problems in
  linux-next for the past few weeks, when Saravana tried to set
  fw_devlink=on as the default functionality. This caused a number of
  systems to stop booting, and lots of bugs were fixed in this area for
  almost all of the reported systems, but this option is not ready to be
  turned on just yet for the default operation based on this testing, so
  I've reverted that change at the very end so we don't have to worry
  about regressions in 5.12

  We will try to turn this on for 5.13 if testing goes better over the
  next few months.

  Other than the fixes caused by the fw_devlink testing in here, there's
  not much more:

   - debugfs fixes for invalid input into debugfs_lookup()

   - kerneldoc cleanups

   - warn message if platform drivers return an error on their remove
     callback (a futile effort, but good to catch).

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while now, and the
  regressions have gone away with the revert of the fw_devlink change"

* tag 'driver-core-5.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (35 commits)
  Revert "driver core: Set fw_devlink=on by default"
  of: property: fw_devlink: Ignore interrupts property for some configs
  debugfs: do not attempt to create a new file before the filesystem is initalized
  debugfs: be more robust at handling improper input in debugfs_lookup()
  driver core: auxiliary bus: Fix calling stage for auxiliary bus init
  of: irq: Fix the return value for of_irq_parse_one() stub
  of: irq: make a stub for of_irq_parse_one()
  clk: Mark fwnodes when their clock provider is added/removed
  PM: domains: Mark fwnodes when their powerdomain is added/removed
  irqdomain: Mark fwnodes when their irqdomain is added/removed
  driver core: fw_devlink: Handle suppliers that don't use driver core
  of: property: Add fw_devlink support for optional properties
  driver core: Add fw_devlink.strict kernel param
  of: property: Don't add links to absent suppliers
  driver core: fw_devlink: Detect supplier devices that will never be added
  driver core: platform: Emit a warning if a remove callback returned non-zero
  of: property: Fix fw_devlink handling of interrupts/interrupts-extended
  gpiolib: Don't probe gpio_device if it's not the primary device
  device.h: Remove bogus "the" in kerneldoc
  gpiolib: Bind gpio_device to a driver to enable fw_devlink=on by default
  ...
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<title>debugfs: do not attempt to create a new file before the filesystem is initalized</title>
<updated>2021-02-18T15:23:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-18T10:08:18+00:00</published>
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Some subsystems want to add debugfs files at early boot, way before
debugfs is initialized.  This seems to work somehow as the vfs layer
will not allow it to happen, but let's be explicit and test to ensure we
are properly up and running before allowing files to be created.

Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Michael Walle &lt;michael@walle.cc&gt;
Reported-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210218100818.3622317-2-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Some subsystems want to add debugfs files at early boot, way before
debugfs is initialized.  This seems to work somehow as the vfs layer
will not allow it to happen, but let's be explicit and test to ensure we
are properly up and running before allowing files to be created.

Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Michael Walle &lt;michael@walle.cc&gt;
Reported-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210218100818.3622317-2-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>debugfs: be more robust at handling improper input in debugfs_lookup()</title>
<updated>2021-02-18T15:23:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-18T10:08:17+00:00</published>
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debugfs_lookup() doesn't like it if it is passed an illegal name
pointer, or if the filesystem isn't even initialized yet.  If either of
these happen, it will crash the system, so fix it up by properly testing
for valid input and that we are up and running before trying to find a
file in the filesystem.

Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Michael Walle &lt;michael@walle.cc&gt;
Tested-by: Michael Walle &lt;michael@walle.cc&gt;
Tested-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210218100818.3622317-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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debugfs_lookup() doesn't like it if it is passed an illegal name
pointer, or if the filesystem isn't even initialized yet.  If either of
these happen, it will crash the system, so fix it up by properly testing
for valid input and that we are up and running before trying to find a
file in the filesystem.

Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Michael Walle &lt;michael@walle.cc&gt;
Tested-by: Michael Walle &lt;michael@walle.cc&gt;
Tested-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210218100818.3622317-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: make helpers idmap mount aware</title>
<updated>2021-01-24T13:27:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>christian.brauner@ubuntu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-21T13:19:43+00:00</published>
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Extend some inode methods with an additional user namespace argument. A
filesystem that is aware of idmapped mounts will receive the user
namespace the mount has been marked with. This can be used for
additional permission checking and also to enable filesystems to
translate between uids and gids if they need to. We have implemented all
relevant helpers in earlier patches.

As requested we simply extend the exisiting inode method instead of
introducing new ones. This is a little more code churn but it's mostly
mechanical and doesnt't leave us with additional inode methods.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-25-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
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Extend some inode methods with an additional user namespace argument. A
filesystem that is aware of idmapped mounts will receive the user
namespace the mount has been marked with. This can be used for
additional permission checking and also to enable filesystems to
translate between uids and gids if they need to. We have implemented all
relevant helpers in earlier patches.

As requested we simply extend the exisiting inode method instead of
introducing new ones. This is a little more code churn but it's mostly
mechanical and doesnt't leave us with additional inode methods.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-25-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>debugfs: Add access restriction option</title>
<updated>2020-07-23T15:10:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Enderborg</name>
<email>peter.enderborg@sony.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-16T07:15:11+00:00</published>
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Since debugfs include sensitive information it need to be treated
carefully. But it also has many very useful debug functions for userspace.
With this option we can have same configuration for system with
need of debugfs and a way to turn it off. This gives a extra protection
for exposure on systems where user-space services with system
access are attacked.

It is controlled by a configurable default value that can be override
with a kernel command line parameter. (debugfs=)

It can be on or off, but also internally on but not seen from user-space.
This no-mount mode do not register a debugfs as filesystem, but client can
register their parts in the internal structures. This data can be readed
with a debugger or saved with a crashkernel. When it is off clients
get EPERM error when accessing the functions for registering their
components.

Signed-off-by: Peter Enderborg &lt;peter.enderborg@sony.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200716071511.26864-3-peter.enderborg@sony.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Since debugfs include sensitive information it need to be treated
carefully. But it also has many very useful debug functions for userspace.
With this option we can have same configuration for system with
need of debugfs and a way to turn it off. This gives a extra protection
for exposure on systems where user-space services with system
access are attacked.

It is controlled by a configurable default value that can be override
with a kernel command line parameter. (debugfs=)

It can be on or off, but also internally on but not seen from user-space.
This no-mount mode do not register a debugfs as filesystem, but client can
register their parts in the internal structures. This data can be readed
with a debugger or saved with a crashkernel. When it is off clients
get EPERM error when accessing the functions for registering their
components.

Signed-off-by: Peter Enderborg &lt;peter.enderborg@sony.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200716071511.26864-3-peter.enderborg@sony.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>debugfs: remove return value of debugfs_create_file_size()</title>
<updated>2020-03-18T12:35:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-09T16:36:40+00:00</published>
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No one checks the return value of debugfs_create_file_size, as it's not
needed, so make the return value void, so that no one tries to do so in
the future.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200309163640.237984-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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No one checks the return value of debugfs_create_file_size, as it's not
needed, so make the return value void, so that no one tries to do so in
the future.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200309163640.237984-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.recursive_removal' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2020-02-05T05:09:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-05T05:09:46+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs recursive removal updates from Al Viro:
 "We have quite a few places where synthetic filesystems do an
  equivalent of 'rm -rf', with varying amounts of code duplication,
  wrong locking, etc. That really ought to be a library helper.

  Only debugfs (and very similar tracefs) are converted here - I have
  more conversions, but they'd never been in -next, so they'll have to
  wait"

* 'work.recursive_removal' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  simple_recursive_removal(): kernel-side rm -rf for ramfs-style filesystems
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Pull vfs recursive removal updates from Al Viro:
 "We have quite a few places where synthetic filesystems do an
  equivalent of 'rm -rf', with varying amounts of code duplication,
  wrong locking, etc. That really ought to be a library helper.

  Only debugfs (and very similar tracefs) are converted here - I have
  more conversions, but they'd never been in -next, so they'll have to
  wait"

* 'work.recursive_removal' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  simple_recursive_removal(): kernel-side rm -rf for ramfs-style filesystems
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>debugfs: Fix warnings when building documentation</title>
<updated>2020-01-06T19:35:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel W. S. Almeida</name>
<email>dwlsalmeida@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-27T01:00:33+00:00</published>
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Fix the following warnings:

fs/debugfs/inode.c:423: WARNING: Inline literal start-string without end-string.
fs/debugfs/inode.c:502: WARNING: Inline literal start-string without end-string.
fs/debugfs/inode.c:534: WARNING: Inline literal start-string without end-string.
fs/debugfs/inode.c:627: WARNING: Inline literal start-string without end-string.
fs/debugfs/file.c:496: WARNING: Inline literal start-string without end-string.
fs/debugfs/file.c:502: WARNING: Inline literal start-string without end-string.
fs/debugfs/file.c:581: WARNING: Inline literal start-string without end-string.
fs/debugfs/file.c:587: WARNING: Inline literal start-string without end-string.
fs/debugfs/file.c:846: WARNING: Inline literal start-string without end-string.
fs/debugfs/file.c:852: WARNING: Inline literal start-string without end-string.
fs/debugfs/file.c:899: WARNING: Inline literal start-string without end-string.
fs/debugfs/file.c:905: WARNING: Inline literal start-string without end-string.
fs/debugfs/file.c:1091: WARNING: Inline literal start-string without end-string.
fs/debugfs/file.c:1097: WARNING: Inline literal start-string without end-string

By replacing %ERR_PTR with ERR_PTR.

Signed-off-by: Daniel W. S. Almeida &lt;dwlsalmeida@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191227010035.854913-1-dwlsalmeida@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Fix the following warnings:

fs/debugfs/inode.c:423: WARNING: Inline literal start-string without end-string.
fs/debugfs/inode.c:502: WARNING: Inline literal start-string without end-string.
fs/debugfs/inode.c:534: WARNING: Inline literal start-string without end-string.
fs/debugfs/inode.c:627: WARNING: Inline literal start-string without end-string.
fs/debugfs/file.c:496: WARNING: Inline literal start-string without end-string.
fs/debugfs/file.c:502: WARNING: Inline literal start-string without end-string.
fs/debugfs/file.c:581: WARNING: Inline literal start-string without end-string.
fs/debugfs/file.c:587: WARNING: Inline literal start-string without end-string.
fs/debugfs/file.c:846: WARNING: Inline literal start-string without end-string.
fs/debugfs/file.c:852: WARNING: Inline literal start-string without end-string.
fs/debugfs/file.c:899: WARNING: Inline literal start-string without end-string.
fs/debugfs/file.c:905: WARNING: Inline literal start-string without end-string.
fs/debugfs/file.c:1091: WARNING: Inline literal start-string without end-string.
fs/debugfs/file.c:1097: WARNING: Inline literal start-string without end-string

By replacing %ERR_PTR with ERR_PTR.

Signed-off-by: Daniel W. S. Almeida &lt;dwlsalmeida@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191227010035.854913-1-dwlsalmeida@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>simple_recursive_removal(): kernel-side rm -rf for ramfs-style filesystems</title>
<updated>2019-12-11T03:29:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-18T14:43:10+00:00</published>
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two requirements: no file creations in IS_DEADDIR and no cross-directory
renames whatsoever.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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two requirements: no file creations in IS_DEADDIR and no cross-directory
renames whatsoever.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>new helper: lookup_positive_unlocked()</title>
<updated>2019-11-15T18:49:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2019-10-31T05:21:58+00:00</published>
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Most of the callers of lookup_one_len_unlocked() treat negatives are
ERR_PTR(-ENOENT).  Provide a helper that would do just that.  Note
that a pinned positive dentry remains positive - it's -&gt;d_inode is
stable, etc.; a pinned _negative_ dentry can become positive at any
point as long as you are not holding its parent at least shared.
So using lookup_one_len_unlocked() needs to be careful;
lookup_positive_unlocked() is safer and that's what the callers
end up open-coding anyway.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Most of the callers of lookup_one_len_unlocked() treat negatives are
ERR_PTR(-ENOENT).  Provide a helper that would do just that.  Note
that a pinned positive dentry remains positive - it's -&gt;d_inode is
stable, etc.; a pinned _negative_ dentry can become positive at any
point as long as you are not holding its parent at least shared.
So using lookup_one_len_unlocked() needs to be careful;
lookup_positive_unlocked() is safer and that's what the callers
end up open-coding anyway.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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