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<title>Merge tag 'pull-persistency' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-12-05T22:36:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2025-12-05T22:36:21+00:00</published>
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Pull persistent dentry infrastructure and conversion from Al Viro:
 "Some filesystems use a kinda-sorta controlled dentry refcount leak to
  pin dentries of created objects in dcache (and undo it when removing
  those). A reference is grabbed and not released, but it's not actually
  _stored_ anywhere.

  That works, but it's hard to follow and verify; among other things, we
  have no way to tell _which_ of the increments is intended to be an
  unpaired one. Worse, on removal we need to decide whether the
  reference had already been dropped, which can be non-trivial if that
  removal is on umount and we need to figure out if this dentry is
  pinned due to e.g. unlink() not done. Usually that is handled by using
  kill_litter_super() as -&gt;kill_sb(), but there are open-coded special
  cases of the same (consider e.g. /proc/self).

  Things get simpler if we introduce a new dentry flag
  (DCACHE_PERSISTENT) marking those "leaked" dentries. Having it set
  claims responsibility for +1 in refcount.

  The end result this series is aiming for:

   - get these unbalanced dget() and dput() replaced with new primitives
     that would, in addition to adjusting refcount, set and clear
     persistency flag.

   - instead of having kill_litter_super() mess with removing the
     remaining "leaked" references (e.g. for all tmpfs files that hadn't
     been removed prior to umount), have the regular
     shrink_dcache_for_umount() strip DCACHE_PERSISTENT of all dentries,
     dropping the corresponding reference if it had been set. After that
     kill_litter_super() becomes an equivalent of kill_anon_super().

  Doing that in a single step is not feasible - it would affect too many
  places in too many filesystems. It has to be split into a series.

  This work has really started early in 2024; quite a few preliminary
  pieces have already gone into mainline. This chunk is finally getting
  to the meat of that stuff - infrastructure and most of the conversions
  to it.

  Some pieces are still sitting in the local branches, but the bulk of
  that stuff is here"

* tag 'pull-persistency' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (54 commits)
  d_make_discardable(): warn if given a non-persistent dentry
  kill securityfs_recursive_remove()
  convert securityfs
  get rid of kill_litter_super()
  convert rust_binderfs
  convert nfsctl
  convert rpc_pipefs
  convert hypfs
  hypfs: swich hypfs_create_u64() to returning int
  hypfs: switch hypfs_create_str() to returning int
  hypfs: don't pin dentries twice
  convert gadgetfs
  gadgetfs: switch to simple_remove_by_name()
  convert functionfs
  functionfs: switch to simple_remove_by_name()
  functionfs: fix the open/removal races
  functionfs: need to cancel -&gt;reset_work in -&gt;kill_sb()
  functionfs: don't bother with ffs-&gt;ref in ffs_data_{opened,closed}()
  functionfs: don't abuse ffs_data_closed() on fs shutdown
  convert selinuxfs
  ...
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Pull persistent dentry infrastructure and conversion from Al Viro:
 "Some filesystems use a kinda-sorta controlled dentry refcount leak to
  pin dentries of created objects in dcache (and undo it when removing
  those). A reference is grabbed and not released, but it's not actually
  _stored_ anywhere.

  That works, but it's hard to follow and verify; among other things, we
  have no way to tell _which_ of the increments is intended to be an
  unpaired one. Worse, on removal we need to decide whether the
  reference had already been dropped, which can be non-trivial if that
  removal is on umount and we need to figure out if this dentry is
  pinned due to e.g. unlink() not done. Usually that is handled by using
  kill_litter_super() as -&gt;kill_sb(), but there are open-coded special
  cases of the same (consider e.g. /proc/self).

  Things get simpler if we introduce a new dentry flag
  (DCACHE_PERSISTENT) marking those "leaked" dentries. Having it set
  claims responsibility for +1 in refcount.

  The end result this series is aiming for:

   - get these unbalanced dget() and dput() replaced with new primitives
     that would, in addition to adjusting refcount, set and clear
     persistency flag.

   - instead of having kill_litter_super() mess with removing the
     remaining "leaked" references (e.g. for all tmpfs files that hadn't
     been removed prior to umount), have the regular
     shrink_dcache_for_umount() strip DCACHE_PERSISTENT of all dentries,
     dropping the corresponding reference if it had been set. After that
     kill_litter_super() becomes an equivalent of kill_anon_super().

  Doing that in a single step is not feasible - it would affect too many
  places in too many filesystems. It has to be split into a series.

  This work has really started early in 2024; quite a few preliminary
  pieces have already gone into mainline. This chunk is finally getting
  to the meat of that stuff - infrastructure and most of the conversions
  to it.

  Some pieces are still sitting in the local branches, but the bulk of
  that stuff is here"

* tag 'pull-persistency' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (54 commits)
  d_make_discardable(): warn if given a non-persistent dentry
  kill securityfs_recursive_remove()
  convert securityfs
  get rid of kill_litter_super()
  convert rust_binderfs
  convert nfsctl
  convert rpc_pipefs
  convert hypfs
  hypfs: swich hypfs_create_u64() to returning int
  hypfs: switch hypfs_create_str() to returning int
  hypfs: don't pin dentries twice
  convert gadgetfs
  gadgetfs: switch to simple_remove_by_name()
  convert functionfs
  functionfs: switch to simple_remove_by_name()
  functionfs: fix the open/removal races
  functionfs: need to cancel -&gt;reset_work in -&gt;kill_sb()
  functionfs: don't bother with ffs-&gt;ref in ffs_data_{opened,closed}()
  functionfs: don't abuse ffs_data_closed() on fs shutdown
  convert selinuxfs
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'lsm-pr-20251201' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm</title>
<updated>2025-12-03T17:53:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-03T17:53:48+00:00</published>
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Pull LSM updates from Paul Moore:

 - Rework the LSM initialization code

   What started as a "quick" patch to enable a notification event once
   all of the individual LSMs were initialized, snowballed a bit into a
   30+ patch patchset when everything was done. Most of the patches, and
   diffstat, is due to splitting out the initialization code into
   security/lsm_init.c and cleaning up some of the mess that was there.
   While not strictly necessary, it does cleanup the code signficantly,
   and hopefully makes the upkeep a bit easier in the future.

   Aside from the new LSM_STARTED_ALL notification, these changes also
   ensure that individual LSM initcalls are only called when the LSM is
   enabled at boot time. There should be a minor reduction in boot times
   for those who build multiple LSMs into their kernels, but only enable
   a subset at boot.

   It is worth mentioning that nothing at present makes use of the
   LSM_STARTED_ALL notification, but there is work in progress which is
   dependent upon LSM_STARTED_ALL.

 - Make better use of the seq_put*() helpers in device_cgroup

* tag 'lsm-pr-20251201' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm: (36 commits)
  lsm: use unrcu_pointer() for current-&gt;cred in security_init()
  device_cgroup: Refactor devcgroup_seq_show to use seq_put* helpers
  lsm: add a LSM_STARTED_ALL notification event
  lsm: consolidate all of the LSM framework initcalls
  selinux: move initcalls to the LSM framework
  ima,evm: move initcalls to the LSM framework
  lockdown: move initcalls to the LSM framework
  apparmor: move initcalls to the LSM framework
  safesetid: move initcalls to the LSM framework
  tomoyo: move initcalls to the LSM framework
  smack: move initcalls to the LSM framework
  ipe: move initcalls to the LSM framework
  loadpin: move initcalls to the LSM framework
  lsm: introduce an initcall mechanism into the LSM framework
  lsm: group lsm_order_parse() with the other lsm_order_*() functions
  lsm: output available LSMs when debugging
  lsm: cleanup the debug and console output in lsm_init.c
  lsm: add/tweak function header comment blocks in lsm_init.c
  lsm: fold lsm_init_ordered() into security_init()
  lsm: cleanup initialize_lsm() and rename to lsm_init_single()
  ...
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Pull LSM updates from Paul Moore:

 - Rework the LSM initialization code

   What started as a "quick" patch to enable a notification event once
   all of the individual LSMs were initialized, snowballed a bit into a
   30+ patch patchset when everything was done. Most of the patches, and
   diffstat, is due to splitting out the initialization code into
   security/lsm_init.c and cleaning up some of the mess that was there.
   While not strictly necessary, it does cleanup the code signficantly,
   and hopefully makes the upkeep a bit easier in the future.

   Aside from the new LSM_STARTED_ALL notification, these changes also
   ensure that individual LSM initcalls are only called when the LSM is
   enabled at boot time. There should be a minor reduction in boot times
   for those who build multiple LSMs into their kernels, but only enable
   a subset at boot.

   It is worth mentioning that nothing at present makes use of the
   LSM_STARTED_ALL notification, but there is work in progress which is
   dependent upon LSM_STARTED_ALL.

 - Make better use of the seq_put*() helpers in device_cgroup

* tag 'lsm-pr-20251201' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm: (36 commits)
  lsm: use unrcu_pointer() for current-&gt;cred in security_init()
  device_cgroup: Refactor devcgroup_seq_show to use seq_put* helpers
  lsm: add a LSM_STARTED_ALL notification event
  lsm: consolidate all of the LSM framework initcalls
  selinux: move initcalls to the LSM framework
  ima,evm: move initcalls to the LSM framework
  lockdown: move initcalls to the LSM framework
  apparmor: move initcalls to the LSM framework
  safesetid: move initcalls to the LSM framework
  tomoyo: move initcalls to the LSM framework
  smack: move initcalls to the LSM framework
  ipe: move initcalls to the LSM framework
  loadpin: move initcalls to the LSM framework
  lsm: introduce an initcall mechanism into the LSM framework
  lsm: group lsm_order_parse() with the other lsm_order_*() functions
  lsm: output available LSMs when debugging
  lsm: cleanup the debug and console output in lsm_init.c
  lsm: add/tweak function header comment blocks in lsm_init.c
  lsm: fold lsm_init_ordered() into security_init()
  lsm: cleanup initialize_lsm() and rename to lsm_init_single()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>d_make_discardable(): warn if given a non-persistent dentry</title>
<updated>2025-11-18T04:59:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-27T22:32:21+00:00</published>
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At this point there are very few call chains that might lead to
d_make_discardable() on a dentry that hadn't been made persistent:
calls of simple_unlink() and simple_rmdir() in configfs and
apparmorfs.

Both filesystems do pin (part of) their contents in dcache, but
they are currently playing very unusual games with that.  Converting
them to more usual patterns might be possible, but it's definitely
going to be a long series of changes in both cases.

For now the easiest solution is to have both stop using simple_unlink()
and simple_rmdir() - that allows to make d_make_discardable() warn
when given a non-persistent dentry.

Rather than giving them full-blown private copies (with calls of
d_make_discardable() replaced with dput()), let's pull the parts of
simple_unlink() and simple_rmdir() that deal with timestamps and link
counts into separate helpers (__simple_unlink() and __simple_rmdir()
resp.) and have those used by configfs and apparmorfs.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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At this point there are very few call chains that might lead to
d_make_discardable() on a dentry that hadn't been made persistent:
calls of simple_unlink() and simple_rmdir() in configfs and
apparmorfs.

Both filesystems do pin (part of) their contents in dcache, but
they are currently playing very unusual games with that.  Converting
them to more usual patterns might be possible, but it's definitely
going to be a long series of changes in both cases.

For now the easiest solution is to have both stop using simple_unlink()
and simple_rmdir() - that allows to make d_make_discardable() warn
when given a non-persistent dentry.

Rather than giving them full-blown private copies (with calls of
d_make_discardable() replaced with dput()), let's pull the parts of
simple_unlink() and simple_rmdir() that deal with timestamps and link
counts into separate helpers (__simple_unlink() and __simple_rmdir()
resp.) and have those used by configfs and apparmorfs.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>VFS: introduce start_removing_dentry()</title>
<updated>2025-11-14T12:15:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neil@brown.name</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-13T00:18:31+00:00</published>
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start_removing_dentry() is similar to start_removing() but instead of
providing a name for lookup, the target dentry is given.

start_removing_dentry() checks that the dentry is still hashed and in
the parent, and if so it locks and increases the refcount so that
end_removing() can be used to finish the operation.

This is used in cachefiles, overlayfs, smb/server, and apparmor.

There will be other users including ecryptfs.

As start_removing_dentry() takes an extra reference to the dentry (to be
put by end_removing()), there is no need to explicitly take an extra
reference to stop d_delete() from using dentry_unlink_inode() to negate
the dentry - as in cachefiles_delete_object(), and ksmbd_vfs_unlink().

cachefiles_bury_object() now gets an extra ref to the victim, which is
drops.  As it includes the needed end_removing() calls, the caller
doesn't need them.

Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon &lt;linkinjeon@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neil@brown.name&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251113002050.676694-9-neilb@ownmail.net
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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start_removing_dentry() is similar to start_removing() but instead of
providing a name for lookup, the target dentry is given.

start_removing_dentry() checks that the dentry is still hashed and in
the parent, and if so it locks and increases the refcount so that
end_removing() can be used to finish the operation.

This is used in cachefiles, overlayfs, smb/server, and apparmor.

There will be other users including ecryptfs.

As start_removing_dentry() takes an extra reference to the dentry (to be
put by end_removing()), there is no need to explicitly take an extra
reference to stop d_delete() from using dentry_unlink_inode() to negate
the dentry - as in cachefiles_delete_object(), and ksmbd_vfs_unlink().

cachefiles_bury_object() now gets an extra ref to the victim, which is
drops.  As it includes the needed end_removing() calls, the caller
doesn't need them.

Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon &lt;linkinjeon@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neil@brown.name&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251113002050.676694-9-neilb@ownmail.net
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>apparmor: move initcalls to the LSM framework</title>
<updated>2025-10-22T23:24:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Moore</name>
<email>paul@paul-moore.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-18T22:23:40+00:00</published>
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Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>lsm: replace the name field with a pointer to the lsm_id struct</title>
<updated>2025-10-22T23:24:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Moore</name>
<email>paul@paul-moore.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-12T19:45:06+00:00</published>
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Reduce the duplication between the lsm_id struct and the DEFINE_LSM()
definition by linking the lsm_id struct directly into the individual
LSM's DEFINE_LSM() instance.

Linking the lsm_id into the LSM definition also allows us to simplify
the security_add_hooks() function by removing the code which populates
the lsm_idlist[] array and moving it into the normal LSM startup code
where the LSM list is parsed and the individual LSMs are enabled,
making for a cleaner implementation with less overhead at boot.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar &lt;zohar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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Reduce the duplication between the lsm_id struct and the DEFINE_LSM()
definition by linking the lsm_id struct directly into the individual
LSM's DEFINE_LSM() instance.

Linking the lsm_id into the LSM definition also allows us to simplify
the security_add_hooks() function by removing the code which populates
the lsm_idlist[] array and moving it into the normal LSM startup code
where the LSM list is parsed and the individual LSMs are enabled,
making for a cleaner implementation with less overhead at boot.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar &lt;zohar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pull-f_path' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-10-03T23:32:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-03T23:32:36+00:00</published>
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Pull file-&gt;f_path constification from Al Viro:
 "Only one thing was modifying -&gt;f_path of an opened file - acct(2).

  Massaging that away and constifying a bunch of struct path * arguments
  in functions that might be given &amp;file-&gt;f_path ends up with the
  situation where we can turn -&gt;f_path into an anon union of const
  struct path f_path and struct path __f_path, the latter modified only
  in a few places in fs/{file_table,open,namei}.c, all for struct file
  instances that are yet to be opened"

* tag 'pull-f_path' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (23 commits)
  Have cc(1) catch attempts to modify -&gt;f_path
  kernel/acct.c: saner struct file treatment
  configfs:get_target() - release path as soon as we grab configfs_item reference
  apparmor/af_unix: constify struct path * arguments
  ovl_is_real_file: constify realpath argument
  ovl_sync_file(): constify path argument
  ovl_lower_dir(): constify path argument
  ovl_get_verity_digest(): constify path argument
  ovl_validate_verity(): constify {meta,data}path arguments
  ovl_ensure_verity_loaded(): constify datapath argument
  ksmbd_vfs_set_init_posix_acl(): constify path argument
  ksmbd_vfs_inherit_posix_acl(): constify path argument
  ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_unlock(): constify path argument
  ksmbd_vfs_path_lookup_locked(): root_share_path can be const struct path *
  check_export(): constify path argument
  export_operations-&gt;open(): constify path argument
  rqst_exp_get_by_name(): constify path argument
  nfs: constify path argument of __vfs_getattr()
  bpf...d_path(): constify path argument
  done_path_create(): constify path argument
  ...
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Pull file-&gt;f_path constification from Al Viro:
 "Only one thing was modifying -&gt;f_path of an opened file - acct(2).

  Massaging that away and constifying a bunch of struct path * arguments
  in functions that might be given &amp;file-&gt;f_path ends up with the
  situation where we can turn -&gt;f_path into an anon union of const
  struct path f_path and struct path __f_path, the latter modified only
  in a few places in fs/{file_table,open,namei}.c, all for struct file
  instances that are yet to be opened"

* tag 'pull-f_path' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (23 commits)
  Have cc(1) catch attempts to modify -&gt;f_path
  kernel/acct.c: saner struct file treatment
  configfs:get_target() - release path as soon as we grab configfs_item reference
  apparmor/af_unix: constify struct path * arguments
  ovl_is_real_file: constify realpath argument
  ovl_sync_file(): constify path argument
  ovl_lower_dir(): constify path argument
  ovl_get_verity_digest(): constify path argument
  ovl_validate_verity(): constify {meta,data}path arguments
  ovl_ensure_verity_loaded(): constify datapath argument
  ksmbd_vfs_set_init_posix_acl(): constify path argument
  ksmbd_vfs_inherit_posix_acl(): constify path argument
  ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_unlock(): constify path argument
  ksmbd_vfs_path_lookup_locked(): root_share_path can be const struct path *
  check_export(): constify path argument
  export_operations-&gt;open(): constify path argument
  rqst_exp_get_by_name(): constify path argument
  nfs: constify path argument of __vfs_getattr()
  bpf...d_path(): constify path argument
  done_path_create(): constify path argument
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'audit-pr-20250926' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit</title>
<updated>2025-09-30T15:22:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-30T15:22:16+00:00</published>
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Pull audit updates from Paul Moore:

 - Proper audit support for multiple LSMs

   As the audit subsystem predated the work to enable multiple LSMs,
   some additional work was needed to support logging the different LSM
   labels for the subjects/tasks and objects on the system. Casey's
   patches add new auxillary records for subjects and objects that
   convey the additional labels.

 - Ensure fanotify audit events are always generated

   Generally speaking security relevant subsystems always generate audit
   events, unless explicitly ignored. However, up to this point fanotify
   events had been ignored by default, but starting with this pull
   request fanotify follows convention and generates audit events by
   default.

 - Replace an instance of strcpy() with strscpy()

 - Minor indentation, style, and comment fixes

* tag 'audit-pr-20250926' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit:
  audit: fix skb leak when audit rate limit is exceeded
  audit: init ab-&gt;skb_list earlier in audit_buffer_alloc()
  audit: add record for multiple object contexts
  audit: add record for multiple task security contexts
  lsm: security_lsmblob_to_secctx module selection
  audit: create audit_stamp structure
  audit: add a missing tab
  audit: record fanotify event regardless of presence of rules
  audit: fix typo in auditfilter.c comment
  audit: Replace deprecated strcpy() with strscpy()
  audit: fix indentation in audit_log_exit()
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Pull audit updates from Paul Moore:

 - Proper audit support for multiple LSMs

   As the audit subsystem predated the work to enable multiple LSMs,
   some additional work was needed to support logging the different LSM
   labels for the subjects/tasks and objects on the system. Casey's
   patches add new auxillary records for subjects and objects that
   convey the additional labels.

 - Ensure fanotify audit events are always generated

   Generally speaking security relevant subsystems always generate audit
   events, unless explicitly ignored. However, up to this point fanotify
   events had been ignored by default, but starting with this pull
   request fanotify follows convention and generates audit events by
   default.

 - Replace an instance of strcpy() with strscpy()

 - Minor indentation, style, and comment fixes

* tag 'audit-pr-20250926' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit:
  audit: fix skb leak when audit rate limit is exceeded
  audit: init ab-&gt;skb_list earlier in audit_buffer_alloc()
  audit: add record for multiple object contexts
  audit: add record for multiple task security contexts
  lsm: security_lsmblob_to_secctx module selection
  audit: create audit_stamp structure
  audit: add a missing tab
  audit: record fanotify event regardless of presence of rules
  audit: fix typo in auditfilter.c comment
  audit: Replace deprecated strcpy() with strscpy()
  audit: fix indentation in audit_log_exit()
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>apparmor/af_unix: constify struct path * arguments</title>
<updated>2025-09-16T01:17:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-05T01:27:32+00:00</published>
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unix_sk(sock)-&gt;path should never be modified, least of all by LSM...

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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unix_sk(sock)-&gt;path should never be modified, least of all by LSM...

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>copy_process: pass clone_flags as u64 across calltree</title>
<updated>2025-09-01T13:31:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Simon Schuster</name>
<email>schuster.simon@siemens-energy.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-01T13:09:51+00:00</published>
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With the introduction of clone3 in commit 7f192e3cd316 ("fork: add
clone3") the effective bit width of clone_flags on all architectures was
increased from 32-bit to 64-bit, with a new type of u64 for the flags.
However, for most consumers of clone_flags the interface was not
changed from the previous type of unsigned long.

While this works fine as long as none of the new 64-bit flag bits
(CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND and CLONE_INTO_CGROUP) are evaluated, this is still
undesirable in terms of the principle of least surprise.

Thus, this commit fixes all relevant interfaces of callees to
sys_clone3/copy_process (excluding the architecture-specific
copy_thread) to consistently pass clone_flags as u64, so that
no truncation to 32-bit integers occurs on 32-bit architectures.

Signed-off-by: Simon Schuster &lt;schuster.simon@siemens-energy.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250901-nios2-implement-clone3-v2-2-53fcf5577d57@siemens-energy.com
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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With the introduction of clone3 in commit 7f192e3cd316 ("fork: add
clone3") the effective bit width of clone_flags on all architectures was
increased from 32-bit to 64-bit, with a new type of u64 for the flags.
However, for most consumers of clone_flags the interface was not
changed from the previous type of unsigned long.

While this works fine as long as none of the new 64-bit flag bits
(CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND and CLONE_INTO_CGROUP) are evaluated, this is still
undesirable in terms of the principle of least surprise.

Thus, this commit fixes all relevant interfaces of callees to
sys_clone3/copy_process (excluding the architecture-specific
copy_thread) to consistently pass clone_flags as u64, so that
no truncation to 32-bit integers occurs on 32-bit architectures.

Signed-off-by: Simon Schuster &lt;schuster.simon@siemens-energy.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250901-nios2-implement-clone3-v2-2-53fcf5577d57@siemens-energy.com
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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