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<title>linux-toradex.git/fs/hfsplus/super.c, branch v3.18.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>fs/hfsplus: fix pr_foo() and hfs_dbg formats</title>
<updated>2014-06-06T23:08:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fabian Frederick</name>
<email>fabf@skynet.be</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-06T21:36:31+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick &lt;fabf@skynet.be&gt;
Suggested-By: Vyacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.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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Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick &lt;fabf@skynet.be&gt;
Suggested-By: Vyacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4</title>
<updated>2014-04-04T22:39:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-04T22:39:39+00:00</published>
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Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Major changes for 3.14 include support for the newly added ZERO_RANGE
  and COLLAPSE_RANGE fallocate operations, and scalability improvements
  in the jbd2 layer and in xattr handling when the extended attributes
  spill over into an external block.

  Other than that, the usual clean ups and minor bug fixes"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (42 commits)
  ext4: fix premature freeing of partial clusters split across leaf blocks
  ext4: remove unneeded test of ret variable
  ext4: fix comment typo
  ext4: make ext4_block_zero_page_range static
  ext4: atomically set inode-&gt;i_flags in ext4_set_inode_flags()
  ext4: optimize Hurd tests when reading/writing inodes
  ext4: kill i_version support for Hurd-castrated file systems
  ext4: each filesystem creates and uses its own mb_cache
  fs/mbcache.c: doucple the locking of local from global data
  fs/mbcache.c: change block and index hash chain to hlist_bl_node
  ext4: Introduce FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE flag for fallocate
  ext4: refactor ext4_fallocate code
  ext4: Update inode i_size after the preallocation
  ext4: fix partial cluster handling for bigalloc file systems
  ext4: delete path dealloc code in ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents
  ext4: only call sync_filesystm() when remounting read-only
  fs: push sync_filesystem() down to the file system's remount_fs()
  jbd2: improve error messages for inconsistent journal heads
  jbd2: minimize region locked by j_list_lock in jbd2_journal_forget()
  jbd2: minimize region locked by j_list_lock in journal_get_create_access()
  ...
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Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Major changes for 3.14 include support for the newly added ZERO_RANGE
  and COLLAPSE_RANGE fallocate operations, and scalability improvements
  in the jbd2 layer and in xattr handling when the extended attributes
  spill over into an external block.

  Other than that, the usual clean ups and minor bug fixes"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (42 commits)
  ext4: fix premature freeing of partial clusters split across leaf blocks
  ext4: remove unneeded test of ret variable
  ext4: fix comment typo
  ext4: make ext4_block_zero_page_range static
  ext4: atomically set inode-&gt;i_flags in ext4_set_inode_flags()
  ext4: optimize Hurd tests when reading/writing inodes
  ext4: kill i_version support for Hurd-castrated file systems
  ext4: each filesystem creates and uses its own mb_cache
  fs/mbcache.c: doucple the locking of local from global data
  fs/mbcache.c: change block and index hash chain to hlist_bl_node
  ext4: Introduce FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE flag for fallocate
  ext4: refactor ext4_fallocate code
  ext4: Update inode i_size after the preallocation
  ext4: fix partial cluster handling for bigalloc file systems
  ext4: delete path dealloc code in ext4_ext_handle_uninitialized_extents
  ext4: only call sync_filesystm() when remounting read-only
  fs: push sync_filesystem() down to the file system's remount_fs()
  jbd2: improve error messages for inconsistent journal heads
  jbd2: minimize region locked by j_list_lock in jbd2_journal_forget()
  jbd2: minimize region locked by j_list_lock in journal_get_create_access()
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm + fs: store shadow entries in page cache</title>
<updated>2014-04-03T23:21:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Weiner</name>
<email>hannes@cmpxchg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-03T21:47:49+00:00</published>
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Reclaim will be leaving shadow entries in the page cache radix tree upon
evicting the real page.  As those pages are found from the LRU, an
iput() can lead to the inode being freed concurrently.  At this point,
reclaim must no longer install shadow pages because the inode freeing
code needs to ensure the page tree is really empty.

Add an address_space flag, AS_EXITING, that the inode freeing code sets
under the tree lock before doing the final truncate.  Reclaim will check
for this flag before installing shadow pages.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Bob Liu &lt;bob.liu@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Thelen &lt;gthelen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Luigi Semenzato &lt;semenzato@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Metin Doslu &lt;metin@citusdata.com&gt;
Cc: Michel Lespinasse &lt;walken@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ozgun Erdogan &lt;ozgun@citusdata.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;klamm@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Cc: Ryan Mallon &lt;rmallon@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&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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Reclaim will be leaving shadow entries in the page cache radix tree upon
evicting the real page.  As those pages are found from the LRU, an
iput() can lead to the inode being freed concurrently.  At this point,
reclaim must no longer install shadow pages because the inode freeing
code needs to ensure the page tree is really empty.

Add an address_space flag, AS_EXITING, that the inode freeing code sets
under the tree lock before doing the final truncate.  Reclaim will check
for this flag before installing shadow pages.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Bob Liu &lt;bob.liu@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Thelen &lt;gthelen@google.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Luigi Semenzato &lt;semenzato@google.com&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Metin Doslu &lt;metin@citusdata.com&gt;
Cc: Michel Lespinasse &lt;walken@google.com&gt;
Cc: Ozgun Erdogan &lt;ozgun@citusdata.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;klamm@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Cc: Ryan Mallon &lt;rmallon@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&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>fs: push sync_filesystem() down to the file system's remount_fs()</title>
<updated>2014-03-13T14:14:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-13T14:14:33+00:00</published>
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Previously, the no-op "mount -o mount /dev/xxx" operation when the
file system is already mounted read-write causes an implied,
unconditional syncfs().  This seems pretty stupid, and it's certainly
documented or guaraunteed to do this, nor is it particularly useful,
except in the case where the file system was mounted rw and is getting
remounted read-only.

However, it's possible that there might be some file systems that are
actually depending on this behavior.  In most file systems, it's
probably fine to only call sync_filesystem() when transitioning from
read-write to read-only, and there are some file systems where this is
not needed at all (for example, for a pseudo-filesystem or something
like romfs).

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;dedekind1@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Evgeniy Dushistov &lt;dushistov@mail.ru&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi &lt;hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Anders Larsen &lt;al@alarsen.net&gt;
Cc: Phillip Lougher &lt;phillip@squashfs.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz&gt;
Cc: Petr Vandrovec &lt;petr@vandrovec.name&gt;
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: samba-technical@lists.samba.org
Cc: codalist@coda.cs.cmu.edu
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: cluster-devel@redhat.com
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Cc: jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-nilfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org
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Previously, the no-op "mount -o mount /dev/xxx" operation when the
file system is already mounted read-write causes an implied,
unconditional syncfs().  This seems pretty stupid, and it's certainly
documented or guaraunteed to do this, nor is it particularly useful,
except in the case where the file system was mounted rw and is getting
remounted read-only.

However, it's possible that there might be some file systems that are
actually depending on this behavior.  In most file systems, it's
probably fine to only call sync_filesystem() when transitioning from
read-write to read-only, and there are some file systems where this is
not needed at all (for example, for a pseudo-filesystem or something
like romfs).

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;dedekind1@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Adrian Hunter &lt;adrian.hunter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Evgeniy Dushistov &lt;dushistov@mail.ru&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi &lt;hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Anders Larsen &lt;al@alarsen.net&gt;
Cc: Phillip Lougher &lt;phillip@squashfs.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Mikulas Patocka &lt;mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz&gt;
Cc: Petr Vandrovec &lt;petr@vandrovec.name&gt;
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: samba-technical@lists.samba.org
Cc: codalist@coda.cs.cmu.edu
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: cluster-devel@redhat.com
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Cc: jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-nilfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>hfsplus: implement attributes file creation functionality</title>
<updated>2013-11-13T03:09:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vyacheslav Dubeyko</name>
<email>slava@dubeyko.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-12T23:11:09+00:00</published>
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Implement functionality of creation AttributesFile metadata file on HFS+
volume in the case of absence of it.

It makes trying to open AttributesFile's B-tree during mount of HFS+
volume.  If HFS+ volume hasn't AttributesFile then a pointer on
AttributesFile's B-tree keeps as NULL.  Thereby, when it is discovered
absence of AttributesFile on HFS+ volume in the begin of xattr creation
operation then AttributesFile will be created.

The creation of AttributesFile will have success in the case of
availability (2 * clump) free blocks on HFS+ volume.  Otherwise,
creation operation is ended with error (-ENOSPC).

Signed-off-by: Vyacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Hin-Tak Leung &lt;htl10@users.sourceforge.net&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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Implement functionality of creation AttributesFile metadata file on HFS+
volume in the case of absence of it.

It makes trying to open AttributesFile's B-tree during mount of HFS+
volume.  If HFS+ volume hasn't AttributesFile then a pointer on
AttributesFile's B-tree keeps as NULL.  Thereby, when it is discovered
absence of AttributesFile on HFS+ volume in the begin of xattr creation
operation then AttributesFile will be created.

The creation of AttributesFile will have success in the case of
availability (2 * clump) free blocks on HFS+ volume.  Otherwise,
creation operation is ended with error (-ENOSPC).

Signed-off-by: Vyacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Hin-Tak Leung &lt;htl10@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>hfs/hfsplus: convert printks to pr_&lt;level&gt;</title>
<updated>2013-05-01T00:04:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Perches</name>
<email>joe@perches.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-30T22:27:55+00:00</published>
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Use a more current logging style.

Add #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
hfsplus now uses "hfsplus: " for all messages.
Coalesce formats.
Prefix debugging messages too.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Vyacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
Cc: Hin-Tak Leung &lt;htl10@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.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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Use a more current logging style.

Add #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
hfsplus now uses "hfsplus: " for all messages.
Coalesce formats.
Prefix debugging messages too.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Vyacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
Cc: Hin-Tak Leung &lt;htl10@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>hfs/hfsplus: convert dprint to hfs_dbg</title>
<updated>2013-05-01T00:04:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Perches</name>
<email>joe@perches.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-04-30T22:27:54+00:00</published>
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Use a more current logging style.

Rename macro and uses.
Add do {} while (0) to macro.
Add DBG_ to macro.
Add and use hfs_dbg_cont variant where appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Vyacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
Cc: Hin-Tak Leung &lt;htl10@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.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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Use a more current logging style.

Rename macro and uses.
Add do {} while (0) to macro.
Add DBG_ to macro.
Add and use hfs_dbg_cont variant where appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Cc: Vyacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
Cc: Hin-Tak Leung &lt;htl10@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules.</title>
<updated>2013-03-04T03:36:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-03T03:39:14+00:00</published>
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Modify the request_module to prefix the file system type with "fs-"
and add aliases to all of the filesystems that can be built as modules
to match.

A common practice is to build all of the kernel code and leave code
that is not commonly needed as modules, with the result that many
users are exposed to any bug anywhere in the kernel.

Looking for filesystems with a fs- prefix limits the pool of possible
modules that can be loaded by mount to just filesystems trivially
making things safer with no real cost.

Using aliases means user space can control the policy of which
filesystem modules are auto-loaded by editing /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf
with blacklist and alias directives.  Allowing simple, safe,
well understood work-arounds to known problematic software.

This also addresses a rare but unfortunate problem where the filesystem
name is not the same as it's module name and module auto-loading
would not work.  While writing this patch I saw a handful of such
cases.  The most significant being autofs that lives in the module
autofs4.

This is relevant to user namespaces because we can reach the request
module in get_fs_type() without having any special permissions, and
people get uncomfortable when a user specified string (in this case
the filesystem type) goes all of the way to request_module.

After having looked at this issue I don't think there is any
particular reason to perform any filtering or permission checks beyond
making it clear in the module request that we want a filesystem
module.  The common pattern in the kernel is to call request_module()
without regards to the users permissions.  In general all a filesystem
module does once loaded is call register_filesystem() and go to sleep.
Which means there is not much attack surface exposed by loading a
filesytem module unless the filesystem is mounted.  In a user
namespace filesystems are not mounted unless .fs_flags = FS_USERNS_MOUNT,
which most filesystems do not set today.

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge.hallyn@canonical.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reported-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Modify the request_module to prefix the file system type with "fs-"
and add aliases to all of the filesystems that can be built as modules
to match.

A common practice is to build all of the kernel code and leave code
that is not commonly needed as modules, with the result that many
users are exposed to any bug anywhere in the kernel.

Looking for filesystems with a fs- prefix limits the pool of possible
modules that can be loaded by mount to just filesystems trivially
making things safer with no real cost.

Using aliases means user space can control the policy of which
filesystem modules are auto-loaded by editing /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf
with blacklist and alias directives.  Allowing simple, safe,
well understood work-arounds to known problematic software.

This also addresses a rare but unfortunate problem where the filesystem
name is not the same as it's module name and module auto-loading
would not work.  While writing this patch I saw a handful of such
cases.  The most significant being autofs that lives in the module
autofs4.

This is relevant to user namespaces because we can reach the request
module in get_fs_type() without having any special permissions, and
people get uncomfortable when a user specified string (in this case
the filesystem type) goes all of the way to request_module.

After having looked at this issue I don't think there is any
particular reason to perform any filtering or permission checks beyond
making it clear in the module request that we want a filesystem
module.  The common pattern in the kernel is to call request_module()
without regards to the users permissions.  In general all a filesystem
module does once loaded is call register_filesystem() and go to sleep.
Which means there is not much attack surface exposed by loading a
filesytem module unless the filesystem is mounted.  In a user
namespace filesystems are not mounted unless .fs_flags = FS_USERNS_MOUNT,
which most filesystems do not set today.

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge.hallyn@canonical.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reported-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<title>hfsplus: add support of manipulation by attributes file</title>
<updated>2013-02-28T03:10:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vyacheslav Dubeyko</name>
<email>slava@dubeyko.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-28T01:03:04+00:00</published>
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Add support of manipulation by attributes file.

Signed-off-by: Vyacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
Reported-by: Hin-Tak Leung &lt;htl10@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&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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Add support of manipulation by attributes file.

Signed-off-by: Vyacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
Reported-by: Hin-Tak Leung &lt;htl10@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>hfsplus: add error message for the case of failure of sync fs in delayed_sync_fs() method</title>
<updated>2012-12-21T01:40:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vyacheslav Dubeyko</name>
<email>slava@dubeyko.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-12-20T23:05:29+00:00</published>
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Add an error message for the case of failure of sync fs in
delayed_sync_fs() method.

Signed-off-by: Vyacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Hin-Tak Leung &lt;htl10@users.sourceforge.net&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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Add an error message for the case of failure of sync fs in
delayed_sync_fs() method.

Signed-off-by: Vyacheslav Dubeyko &lt;slava@dubeyko.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Hin-Tak Leung &lt;htl10@users.sourceforge.net&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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