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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/linux/kobject.h, branch v5.1-rc1</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'driver-core-4.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core</title>
<updated>2018-08-18T18:44:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-18T18:44:53+00:00</published>
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Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here are all of the driver core and related patches for 4.19-rc1.

  Nothing huge here, just a number of small cleanups and the ability to
  now stop the deferred probing after init happens.

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with only a merge
  issue reported"

* tag 'driver-core-4.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (21 commits)
  base: core: Remove WARN_ON from link dependencies check
  drivers/base: stop new probing during shutdown
  drivers: core: Remove glue dirs from sysfs earlier
  driver core: remove unnecessary function extern declare
  sysfs.h: fix non-kernel-doc comment
  PM / Domains: Stop deferring probe at the end of initcall
  iommu: Remove IOMMU_OF_DECLARE
  iommu: Stop deferring probe at end of initcalls
  pinctrl: Support stopping deferred probe after initcalls
  dt-bindings: pinctrl: add a 'pinctrl-use-default' property
  driver core: allow stopping deferred probe after init
  driver core: add a debugfs entry to show deferred devices
  sysfs: Fix internal_create_group() for named group updates
  base: fix order of OF initialization
  linux/device.h: fix kernel-doc notation warning
  Documentation: update firmware loader fallback reference
  kobject: Replace strncpy with memcpy
  drivers: base: cacheinfo: use OF property_read_u32 instead of get_property,read_number
  kernfs: Replace strncpy with memcpy
  device: Add #define dev_fmt similar to #define pr_fmt
  ...
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Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here are all of the driver core and related patches for 4.19-rc1.

  Nothing huge here, just a number of small cleanups and the ability to
  now stop the deferred probing after init happens.

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with only a merge
  issue reported"

* tag 'driver-core-4.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (21 commits)
  base: core: Remove WARN_ON from link dependencies check
  drivers/base: stop new probing during shutdown
  drivers: core: Remove glue dirs from sysfs earlier
  driver core: remove unnecessary function extern declare
  sysfs.h: fix non-kernel-doc comment
  PM / Domains: Stop deferring probe at the end of initcall
  iommu: Remove IOMMU_OF_DECLARE
  iommu: Stop deferring probe at end of initcalls
  pinctrl: Support stopping deferred probe after initcalls
  dt-bindings: pinctrl: add a 'pinctrl-use-default' property
  driver core: allow stopping deferred probe after init
  driver core: add a debugfs entry to show deferred devices
  sysfs: Fix internal_create_group() for named group updates
  base: fix order of OF initialization
  linux/device.h: fix kernel-doc notation warning
  Documentation: update firmware loader fallback reference
  kobject: Replace strncpy with memcpy
  drivers: base: cacheinfo: use OF property_read_u32 instead of get_property,read_number
  kernfs: Replace strncpy with memcpy
  device: Add #define dev_fmt similar to #define pr_fmt
  ...
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<title>sysfs, kobject: allow creating kobject belonging to arbitrary users</title>
<updated>2018-07-21T06:44:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Torokhov</name>
<email>dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-20T21:56:48+00:00</published>
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Normally kobjects and their sysfs representation belong to global root,
however it is not necessarily the case for objects in separate namespaces.
For example, objects in separate network namespace logically belong to the
container's root and not global root.

This change lays groundwork for allowing network namespace objects
ownership to be transferred to container's root user by defining
get_ownership() callback in ktype structure and using it in sysfs code to
retrieve desired uid/gid when creating sysfs objects for given kobject.

Co-Developed-by: Tyler Hicks &lt;tyhicks@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks &lt;tyhicks@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Normally kobjects and their sysfs representation belong to global root,
however it is not necessarily the case for objects in separate namespaces.
For example, objects in separate network namespace logically belong to the
container's root and not global root.

This change lays groundwork for allowing network namespace objects
ownership to be transferred to container's root user by defining
get_ownership() callback in ktype structure and using it in sysfs code to
retrieve desired uid/gid when creating sysfs objects for given kobject.

Co-Developed-by: Tyler Hicks &lt;tyhicks@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks &lt;tyhicks@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>drivers: core: Remove glue dirs from sysfs earlier</title>
<updated>2018-07-16T11:42:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-10T00:29:10+00:00</published>
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For devices with a class, we create a "glue" directory between
the parent device and the new device with the class name.

This directory is never "explicitely" removed when empty however,
this is left to the implicit sysfs removal done by kobject_release()
when the object loses its last reference via kobject_put().

This is problematic because as long as it's not been removed from
sysfs, it is still present in the class kset and in sysfs directory
structure.

The presence in the class kset exposes a use after free bug fixed
by the previous patch, but the presence in sysfs means that until
the kobject is released, which can take a while (especially with
kobject debugging), any attempt at re-creating such as binding a
new device for that class/parent pair, will result in a sysfs
duplicate file name error.

This fixes it by instead doing an explicit kobject_del() when
the glue dir is empty, by keeping track of the number of
child devices of the gluedir.

This is made easy by the fact that all glue dir operations are
done with a global mutex, and there's already a function
(cleanup_glue_dir) called in all the right places taking that
mutex that can be enhanced for this. It appears that this was
in fact the intent of the function, but the implementation was
wrong.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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For devices with a class, we create a "glue" directory between
the parent device and the new device with the class name.

This directory is never "explicitely" removed when empty however,
this is left to the implicit sysfs removal done by kobject_release()
when the object loses its last reference via kobject_put().

This is problematic because as long as it's not been removed from
sysfs, it is still present in the class kset and in sysfs directory
structure.

The presence in the class kset exposes a use after free bug fixed
by the previous patch, but the presence in sysfs means that until
the kobject is released, which can take a while (especially with
kobject debugging), any attempt at re-creating such as binding a
new device for that class/parent pair, will result in a sysfs
duplicate file name error.

This fixes it by instead doing an explicit kobject_del() when
the glue dir is empty, by keeping track of the number of
child devices of the gluedir.

This is made easy by the fact that all glue dir operations are
done with a global mutex, and there's already a function
(cleanup_glue_dir) called in all the right places taking that
mutex that can be enhanced for this. It appears that this was
in fact the intent of the function, but the implementation was
wrong.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kobject: Remove redundant license text</title>
<updated>2017-12-07T17:36:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-07T16:30:06+00:00</published>
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Now that the SPDX tag is in all kobject files, that identifies the
license in a specific and legally-defined manner.  So the extra GPL text
wording can be removed as it is no longer needed at all.

This is done on a quest to remove the 700+ different ways that files in
the kernel describe the GPL license text.  And there's unneeded stuff
like the address (sometimes incorrect) for the FSF which is never
needed.

No copyright headers or other non-license-description text was removed.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Now that the SPDX tag is in all kobject files, that identifies the
license in a specific and legally-defined manner.  So the extra GPL text
wording can be removed as it is no longer needed at all.

This is done on a quest to remove the 700+ different ways that files in
the kernel describe the GPL license text.  And there's unneeded stuff
like the address (sometimes incorrect) for the FSF which is never
needed.

No copyright headers or other non-license-description text was removed.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>kobject: add SPDX identifiers to all kobject files</title>
<updated>2017-12-07T17:36:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-07T16:30:05+00:00</published>
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It's good to have SPDX identifiers in all files to make it easier to
audit the kernel tree for correct licenses.

Update the kobject files files with the correct SPDX license identifier
based on the license text in the file itself.  The SPDX identifier is a
legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler
plate text.

This work is based on a script and data from Thomas Gleixner, Philippe
Ombredanne, and Kate Stewart.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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It's good to have SPDX identifiers in all files to make it easier to
audit the kernel tree for correct licenses.

Update the kobject files files with the correct SPDX license identifier
based on the license text in the file itself.  The SPDX identifier is a
legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler
plate text.

This work is based on a script and data from Thomas Gleixner, Philippe
Ombredanne, and Kate Stewart.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge 4.13-rc5 into driver-core-next</title>
<updated>2017-08-14T20:33:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-14T20:33:39+00:00</published>
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We want the fixes in here as well for testing.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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We want the fixes in here as well for testing.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'bind_unbind' into driver-core-next</title>
<updated>2017-07-22T10:00:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-22T10:00:15+00:00</published>
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This merges the bind_unbind driver core feature into the
driver-core-next branch.  bind_unbind is a branch so that others can
pull and work off of it safely.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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This merges the bind_unbind driver core feature into the
driver-core-next branch.  bind_unbind is a branch so that others can
pull and work off of it safely.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>driver core: emit uevents when device is bound to a driver</title>
<updated>2017-07-22T09:59:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Torokhov</name>
<email>dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-20T00:24:30+00:00</published>
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There are certain touch controllers that may come up in either normal
(application) or boot mode, depending on whether firmware/configuration is
corrupted when they are powered on. In boot mode the kernel does not create
input device instance (because it does not necessarily know the
characteristics of the input device in question).

Another number of controllers does not store firmware in a non-volatile
memory, and they similarly need to have firmware loaded before input device
instance is created. There are also other types of devices with similar
behavior.

There is a desire to be able to trigger firmware loading via udev, but it
has to happen only when driver is bound to a physical device (i2c or spi).
These udev actions can not use ADD events, as those happen too early, so we
are introducing BIND and UNBIND events that are emitted at the right
moment.

Also, many drivers create additional driver-specific device attributes
when binding to the device, to provide userspace with additional controls.
The new events allow userspace to adjust these driver-specific attributes
without worrying that they are not there yet.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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There are certain touch controllers that may come up in either normal
(application) or boot mode, depending on whether firmware/configuration is
corrupted when they are powered on. In boot mode the kernel does not create
input device instance (because it does not necessarily know the
characteristics of the input device in question).

Another number of controllers does not store firmware in a non-volatile
memory, and they similarly need to have firmware loaded before input device
instance is created. There are also other types of devices with similar
behavior.

There is a desire to be able to trigger firmware loading via udev, but it
has to happen only when driver is bound to a physical device (i2c or spi).
These udev actions can not use ADD events, as those happen too early, so we
are introducing BIND and UNBIND events that are emitted at the right
moment.

Also, many drivers create additional driver-specific device attributes
when binding to the device, to provide userspace with additional controls.
The new events allow userspace to adjust these driver-specific attributes
without worrying that they are not there yet.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.13-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux</title>
<updated>2017-07-19T15:55:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-19T15:55:18+00:00</published>
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Pull structure randomization updates from Kees Cook:
 "Now that IPC and other changes have landed, enable manual markings for
  randstruct plugin, including the task_struct.

  This is the rest of what was staged in -next for the gcc-plugins, and
  comes in three patches, largest first:

   - mark "easy" structs with __randomize_layout

   - mark task_struct with an optional anonymous struct to isolate the
     __randomize_layout section

   - mark structs to opt _out_ of automated marking (which will come
     later)

  And, FWIW, this continues to pass allmodconfig (normal and patched to
  enable gcc-plugins) builds of x86_64, i386, arm64, arm, powerpc, and
  s390 for me"

* tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.13-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  randstruct: opt-out externally exposed function pointer structs
  task_struct: Allow randomized layout
  randstruct: Mark various structs for randomization
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Pull structure randomization updates from Kees Cook:
 "Now that IPC and other changes have landed, enable manual markings for
  randstruct plugin, including the task_struct.

  This is the rest of what was staged in -next for the gcc-plugins, and
  comes in three patches, largest first:

   - mark "easy" structs with __randomize_layout

   - mark task_struct with an optional anonymous struct to isolate the
     __randomize_layout section

   - mark structs to opt _out_ of automated marking (which will come
     later)

  And, FWIW, this continues to pass allmodconfig (normal and patched to
  enable gcc-plugins) builds of x86_64, i386, arm64, arm, powerpc, and
  s390 for me"

* tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.13-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  randstruct: opt-out externally exposed function pointer structs
  task_struct: Allow randomized layout
  randstruct: Mark various structs for randomization
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>randstruct: Mark various structs for randomization</title>
<updated>2017-06-30T19:00:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-28T08:22:25+00:00</published>
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This marks many critical kernel structures for randomization. These are
structures that have been targeted in the past in security exploits, or
contain functions pointers, pointers to function pointer tables, lists,
workqueues, ref-counters, credentials, permissions, or are otherwise
sensitive. This initial list was extracted from Brad Spengler/PaX Team's
code in the last public patch of grsecurity/PaX based on my understanding
of the code. Changes or omissions from the original code are mine and
don't reflect the original grsecurity/PaX code.

Left out of this list is task_struct, which requires special handling
and will be covered in a subsequent patch.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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This marks many critical kernel structures for randomization. These are
structures that have been targeted in the past in security exploits, or
contain functions pointers, pointers to function pointer tables, lists,
workqueues, ref-counters, credentials, permissions, or are otherwise
sensitive. This initial list was extracted from Brad Spengler/PaX Team's
code in the last public patch of grsecurity/PaX based on my understanding
of the code. Changes or omissions from the original code are mine and
don't reflect the original grsecurity/PaX code.

Left out of this list is task_struct, which requires special handling
and will be covered in a subsequent patch.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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