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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>debugfs: Make automount point inodes permanently empty</title>
<updated>2016-04-12T22:01:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Seth Forshee</name>
<email>seth.forshee@canonical.com</email>
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<published>2016-03-09T15:18:07+00:00</published>
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Starting with 4.1 the tracing subsystem has its own filesystem
which is automounted in the tracing subdirectory of debugfs.
Prior to this debugfs could be bind mounted in a cloned mount
namespace, but if tracefs has been mounted under debugfs this
now fails because there is a locked child mount. This creates
a regression for container software which bind mounts debugfs
to satisfy the assumption of some userspace software.

In other pseudo filesystems such as proc and sysfs we're already
creating mountpoints like this in such a way that no dirents can
be created in the directories, allowing them to be exceptions to
some MNT_LOCKED tests. In fact we're already do this for the
tracefs mountpoint in sysfs.

Do the same in debugfs_create_automount(), since the intention
here is clearly to create a mountpoint. This fixes the regression,
as locked child mounts on permanently empty directories do not
cause a bind mount to fail.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.1+
Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee &lt;seth.forshee@canonical.com&gt;
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge.hallyn@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Starting with 4.1 the tracing subsystem has its own filesystem
which is automounted in the tracing subdirectory of debugfs.
Prior to this debugfs could be bind mounted in a cloned mount
namespace, but if tracefs has been mounted under debugfs this
now fails because there is a locked child mount. This creates
a regression for container software which bind mounts debugfs
to satisfy the assumption of some userspace software.

In other pseudo filesystems such as proc and sysfs we're already
creating mountpoints like this in such a way that no dirents can
be created in the directories, allowing them to be exceptions to
some MNT_LOCKED tests. In fact we're already do this for the
tracefs mountpoint in sysfs.

Do the same in debugfs_create_automount(), since the intention
here is clearly to create a mountpoint. This fixes the regression,
as locked child mounts on permanently empty directories do not
cause a bind mount to fail.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.1+
Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee &lt;seth.forshee@canonical.com&gt;
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge.hallyn@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>wrappers for -&gt;i_mutex access</title>
<updated>2016-01-22T23:04:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-22T20:40:57+00:00</published>
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parallel to mutex_{lock,unlock,trylock,is_locked,lock_nested},
inode_foo(inode) being mutex_foo(&amp;inode-&gt;i_mutex).

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

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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parallel to mutex_{lock,unlock,trylock,is_locked,lock_nested},
inode_foo(inode) being mutex_foo(&amp;inode-&gt;i_mutex).

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

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>debugfs: fix refcount imbalance in start_creating</title>
<updated>2015-11-11T07:04:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-04T23:01:51+00:00</published>
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In debugfs' start_creating(), we pin the file system to safely access
its root. When we failed to create a file, we unpin the file system via
failed_creating() to release the mount count and eventually the reference
of the vfsmount.

However, when we run into an error during lookup_one_len() when still
in start_creating(), we only release the parent's mutex but not so the
reference on the mount. Looks like it was done in the past, but after
splitting portions of __create_file() into start_creating() and
end_creating() via 190afd81e4a5 ("debugfs: split the beginning and the
end of __create_file() off"), this seemed missed. Noticed during code
review.

Fixes: 190afd81e4a5 ("debugfs: split the beginning and the end of __create_file() off")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.0+
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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In debugfs' start_creating(), we pin the file system to safely access
its root. When we failed to create a file, we unpin the file system via
failed_creating() to release the mount count and eventually the reference
of the vfsmount.

However, when we run into an error during lookup_one_len() when still
in start_creating(), we only release the parent's mutex but not so the
reference on the mount. Looks like it was done in the past, but after
splitting portions of __create_file() into start_creating() and
end_creating() via 190afd81e4a5 ("debugfs: split the beginning and the
end of __create_file() off"), this seemed missed. Noticed during code
review.

Fixes: 190afd81e4a5 ("debugfs: split the beginning and the end of __create_file() off")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.0+
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>debugfs: Add debugfs_create_ulong()</title>
<updated>2015-10-18T17:14:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Viresh Kumar</name>
<email>viresh.kumar@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-18T17:13:19+00:00</published>
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Add debugfs_create_ulong() for the users of type 'unsigned long'. These
will be 32 bits long on a 32 bit machine and 64 bits long on a 64 bit
machine.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Add debugfs_create_ulong() for the users of type 'unsigned long'. These
will be 32 bits long on a 32 bit machine and 64 bits long on a 64 bit
machine.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>debugfs: Add read-only/write-only bool file ops</title>
<updated>2015-10-18T05:09:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Boyd</name>
<email>sboyd@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-13T01:09:12+00:00</published>
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There aren't any read-only or write-only bool file ops, but there
is a caller of debugfs_create_bool() that calls it with mode
equal to 0400. This leads to the possibility of userspace
modifying the file, so let's use the newly created
debugfs_create_mode() helper here to fix this.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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There aren't any read-only or write-only bool file ops, but there
is a caller of debugfs_create_bool() that calls it with mode
equal to 0400. This leads to the possibility of userspace
modifying the file, so let's use the newly created
debugfs_create_mode() helper here to fix this.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>debugfs: Add read-only/write-only size_t file ops</title>
<updated>2015-10-18T05:09:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Boyd</name>
<email>sboyd@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-13T01:09:11+00:00</published>
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There aren't any read-only or write-only size_t file ops, but there
is a caller of debugfs_create_size_t() that calls it with mode
equal to 0400. This leads to the possibility of userspace
modifying the file, so let's use the newly created
debugfs_create_mode() helper here to fix this.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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There aren't any read-only or write-only size_t file ops, but there
is a caller of debugfs_create_size_t() that calls it with mode
equal to 0400. This leads to the possibility of userspace
modifying the file, so let's use the newly created
debugfs_create_mode() helper here to fix this.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>debugfs: Add read-only/write-only x64 file ops</title>
<updated>2015-10-18T05:09:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Boyd</name>
<email>sboyd@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-13T01:09:10+00:00</published>
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There aren't any read-only or write-only x64 file ops, but there
is a caller of debugfs_create_x64() that calls it with mode equal
to S_IRUGO. This leads to the possibility of userspace modifying
the file, so let's use the newly created debugfs_create_mode()
helper here to fix this.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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There aren't any read-only or write-only x64 file ops, but there
is a caller of debugfs_create_x64() that calls it with mode equal
to S_IRUGO. This leads to the possibility of userspace modifying
the file, so let's use the newly created debugfs_create_mode()
helper here to fix this.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>debugfs: Consolidate file mode checks in debugfs_create_*()</title>
<updated>2015-10-18T05:09:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Boyd</name>
<email>sboyd@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-13T01:09:09+00:00</published>
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The code that creates debugfs file with different file ops based
on the file mode is duplicated in each debugfs_create_*() API.
Consolidate that code into debugfs_create_mode(), that takes
three file ops structures so that we don't have to keep
copy/pasting that logic.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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The code that creates debugfs file with different file ops based
on the file mode is duplicated in each debugfs_create_*() API.
Consolidate that code into debugfs_create_mode(), that takes
three file ops structures so that we don't have to keep
copy/pasting that logic.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>debugfs: document that debugfs_remove*() accepts NULL and error values</title>
<updated>2015-10-04T10:36:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ulf Magnusson</name>
<email>ulfalizer@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-07T17:03:15+00:00</published>
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According to commit a59d6293e537 ("debugfs: change parameter check in
debugfs_remove() functions"), this is meant to make cleanup easier for
callers. In that case it ought to be documented.

Signed-off-by: Ulf Magnusson &lt;ulfalizer@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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According to commit a59d6293e537 ("debugfs: change parameter check in
debugfs_remove() functions"), this is meant to make cleanup easier for
callers. In that case it ought to be documented.

Signed-off-by: Ulf Magnusson &lt;ulfalizer@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>debugfs: Pass bool pointer to debugfs_create_bool()</title>
<updated>2015-10-04T10:36:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Viresh Kumar</name>
<email>viresh.kumar@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-26T22:04:07+00:00</published>
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Its a bit odd that debugfs_create_bool() takes 'u32 *' as an argument,
when all it needs is a boolean pointer.

It would be better to update this API to make it accept 'bool *'
instead, as that will make it more consistent and often more convenient.
Over that bool takes just a byte.

That required updates to all user sites as well, in the same commit
updating the API. regmap core was also using
debugfs_{read|write}_file_bool(), directly and variable types were
updated for that to be bool as well.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Charles Keepax &lt;ckeepax@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Its a bit odd that debugfs_create_bool() takes 'u32 *' as an argument,
when all it needs is a boolean pointer.

It would be better to update this API to make it accept 'bool *'
instead, as that will make it more consistent and often more convenient.
Over that bool takes just a byte.

That required updates to all user sites as well, in the same commit
updating the API. regmap core was also using
debugfs_{read|write}_file_bool(), directly and variable types were
updated for that to be bool as well.

Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Charles Keepax &lt;ckeepax@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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