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<title>delta/linux.git/include/linux/sysfs.h, branch proc-cmdline</title>
<subtitle>git.kernel.org: pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>sysfs.h: Use octal permissions</title>
<updated>2018-01-09T15:27:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Perches</name>
<email>joe@perches.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-19T18:15:06+00:00</published>
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Use the more common and preferred octal directly.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Use the more common and preferred octal directly.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>efi: Move some sysfs files to be read-only by root</title>
<updated>2017-12-06T18:31:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-12-06T09:50:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://git.baserock.org/cgit/delta/linux.git/commit/?id=af97a77bc01ce49a466f9d4c0125479e2e2230b6'/>
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Thanks to the scripts/leaking_addresses.pl script, it was found that
some EFI values should not be readable by non-root users.

So make them root-only, and to do that, add a __ATTR_RO_MODE() macro to
make this easier, and use it in other places at the same time.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Tested-by: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171206095010.24170-2-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Thanks to the scripts/leaking_addresses.pl script, it was found that
some EFI values should not be readable by non-root users.

So make them root-only, and to do that, add a __ATTR_RO_MODE() macro to
make this easier, and use it in other places at the same time.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Tested-by: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171206095010.24170-2-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://git.baserock.org/cgit/delta/linux.git/commit/?id=b24413180f5600bcb3bb70fbed5cf186b60864bd'/>
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<content type='text'>
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysfs: remove signedness from sysfs_get_dirent</title>
<updated>2017-05-25T16:30:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Desaulniers</name>
<email>nick.desaulniers@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-21T08:58:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://git.baserock.org/cgit/delta/linux.git/commit/?id=89cf2a20c3f13dbb4c15a0c6d2e390e700992173'/>
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<content type='text'>
sysfs_get_dirent is usually invoked with a string literal, which
have the type char[].  While the toplevel Makefile
disables -Wpointer-sign, other Makefiles like

arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile

redefine KBUILD_CFLAGS. Fixes the warning:

In file included from arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c:17:
In file included from ./include/linux/module.h:17:
In file included from ./include/linux/kobject.h:21:
./include/linux/sysfs.h:517:37: warning: passing 'const unsigned char *'
to parameter of
      type 'const char *' converts between pointers to integer types
with different sign
      [-Wpointer-sign]
        return kernfs_find_and_get(parent, name);
                                           ^~~~
./include/linux/kernfs.h:462:57: note: passing argument to parameter
'name' here
kernfs_find_and_get(struct kernfs_node *kn, const char *name)
                                                        ^

Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;nick.desaulniers@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
sysfs_get_dirent is usually invoked with a string literal, which
have the type char[].  While the toplevel Makefile
disables -Wpointer-sign, other Makefiles like

arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile

redefine KBUILD_CFLAGS. Fixes the warning:

In file included from arch/x86/boot/compressed/kaslr.c:17:
In file included from ./include/linux/module.h:17:
In file included from ./include/linux/kobject.h:21:
./include/linux/sysfs.h:517:37: warning: passing 'const unsigned char *'
to parameter of
      type 'const char *' converts between pointers to integer types
with different sign
      [-Wpointer-sign]
        return kernfs_find_and_get(parent, name);
                                           ^~~~
./include/linux/kernfs.h:462:57: note: passing argument to parameter
'name' here
kernfs_find_and_get(struct kernfs_node *kn, const char *name)
                                                        ^

Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers &lt;nick.desaulniers@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'chrome-platform-4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/olof/chrome-platform</title>
<updated>2015-11-14T05:53:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-14T05:53:18+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Pull chrome platform updates from Olof Johansson:
 "Here's the branch of chrome platform changes for v4.4.  Some have been
  queued up for the full 4.3 release cycle since I forgot to send them
  in for that round (rebased early on to deal with fixes conflicts).

  Most of these enable EC communication stuff -- Pixel 2015 support,
  enabling building for ARM64 platforms, and a few fixes for memory
  leaks.

  There's also a patch in here to allow reading/writing the verified
  boot context, which depends on a sysfs patch acked by Greg"

* tag 'chrome-platform-4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/olof/chrome-platform:
  platform/chrome: Fix i2c-designware adapter name
  platform/chrome: Support reading/writing the vboot context
  sysfs: Support is_visible() on binary attributes
  platform/chrome: cros_ec: Fix possible leak in led_rgb_store()
  platform/chrome: cros_ec: Fix leak in sequence_store()
  platform/chrome: Enable Chrome platforms on 64-bit ARM
  platform/chrome: cros_ec_dev - Add a platform device ID table
  platform/chrome: cros_ec_lpc - Add support for Google Pixel 2
  platform/chrome: cros_ec_lpc - Use existing function to check EC result
  platform/chrome: Make depends on MFD_CROS_EC instead CROS_EC_PROTO
  Revert "platform/chrome: Don't make CHROME_PLATFORMS depends on X86 || ARM"
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull chrome platform updates from Olof Johansson:
 "Here's the branch of chrome platform changes for v4.4.  Some have been
  queued up for the full 4.3 release cycle since I forgot to send them
  in for that round (rebased early on to deal with fixes conflicts).

  Most of these enable EC communication stuff -- Pixel 2015 support,
  enabling building for ARM64 platforms, and a few fixes for memory
  leaks.

  There's also a patch in here to allow reading/writing the verified
  boot context, which depends on a sysfs patch acked by Greg"

* tag 'chrome-platform-4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/olof/chrome-platform:
  platform/chrome: Fix i2c-designware adapter name
  platform/chrome: Support reading/writing the vboot context
  sysfs: Support is_visible() on binary attributes
  platform/chrome: cros_ec: Fix possible leak in led_rgb_store()
  platform/chrome: cros_ec: Fix leak in sequence_store()
  platform/chrome: Enable Chrome platforms on 64-bit ARM
  platform/chrome: cros_ec_dev - Add a platform device ID table
  platform/chrome: cros_ec_lpc - Add support for Google Pixel 2
  platform/chrome: cros_ec_lpc - Use existing function to check EC result
  platform/chrome: Make depends on MFD_CROS_EC instead CROS_EC_PROTO
  Revert "platform/chrome: Don't make CHROME_PLATFORMS depends on X86 || ARM"
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysfs: added __compat_only_sysfs_link_entry_to_kobj()</title>
<updated>2015-10-18T23:01:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jarkko Sakkinen</name>
<email>jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-22T16:36:06+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://git.baserock.org/cgit/delta/linux.git/commit/?id=37c1c04cca920de8a68285751b2c7b3d937ad50c'/>
<id>37c1c04cca920de8a68285751b2c7b3d937ad50c</id>
<content type='text'>
Added a new function __compat_only_sysfs_link_group_to_kobj() that adds
a symlink from attribute or group to a kobject. This needed for
maintaining backwards compatibility with PPI attributes in the TPM
driver.

Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe &lt;peterhuewe@gmx.de&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Added a new function __compat_only_sysfs_link_group_to_kobj() that adds
a symlink from attribute or group to a kobject. This needed for
maintaining backwards compatibility with PPI attributes in the TPM
driver.

Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe &lt;peterhuewe@gmx.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysfs: Support is_visible() on binary attributes</title>
<updated>2015-10-07T22:05:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Emilio López</name>
<email>emilio.lopez@collabora.co.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-21T13:38:20+00:00</published>
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According to the sysfs header file:

    "The returned value will replace static permissions defined in
     struct attribute or struct bin_attribute."

but this isn't the case, as is_visible is only called on struct attribute
only. This patch introduces a new is_bin_visible() function to implement
the same functionality for binary attributes, and updates documentation
accordingly.

Note that to keep functionality and code similar to that of normal
attributes, the mode is now checked as well to ensure it contains only
read/write permissions or SYSFS_PREALLOC.

Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Emilio López &lt;emilio.lopez@collabora.co.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
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According to the sysfs header file:

    "The returned value will replace static permissions defined in
     struct attribute or struct bin_attribute."

but this isn't the case, as is_visible is only called on struct attribute
only. This patch introduces a new is_bin_visible() function to implement
the same functionality for binary attributes, and updates documentation
accordingly.

Note that to keep functionality and code similar to that of normal
attributes, the mode is now checked as well to ensure it contains only
read/write permissions or SYSFS_PREALLOC.

Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Emilio López &lt;emilio.lopez@collabora.co.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sysfs: Add support for permanently empty directories to serve as mount points.</title>
<updated>2015-07-01T15:36:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-13T21:31:40+00:00</published>
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Add two functions sysfs_create_mount_point and
sysfs_remove_mount_point that hang a permanently empty directory off
of a kobject or remove a permanently emptpy directory hanging from a
kobject.  Export these new functions so modular filesystems can use
them.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Add two functions sysfs_create_mount_point and
sysfs_remove_mount_point that hang a permanently empty directory off
of a kobject or remove a permanently emptpy directory hanging from a
kobject.  Export these new functions so modular filesystems can use
them.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sysfs: Document struct attribute_group</title>
<updated>2015-03-25T12:28:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guenter Roeck</name>
<email>linux@roeck-us.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-12T13:58:28+00:00</published>
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Document variables defined in struct attribute_group to ensure
correct usage.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot &lt;vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Document variables defined in struct attribute_group to ensure
correct usage.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot &lt;vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sysfs/kernfs: allow attributes to request write buffer be pre-allocated.</title>
<updated>2014-11-07T18:53:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-13T05:41:28+00:00</published>
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md/raid allows metadata management to be performed in user-space.
A various times, particularly on device failure, the metadata needs
to be updated before further writes can be permitted.
This means that the user-space program which updates metadata much
not block on writeout, and so must not allocate memory.

mlockall(MCL_CURRENT|MCL_FUTURE) and pre-allocation can avoid all
memory allocation issues for user-memory, but that does not help
kernel memory.
Several kernel objects can be pre-allocated.  e.g. files opened before
any writes to the array are permitted.
However some kernel allocation happens in places that cannot be
pre-allocated.
In particular, writes to sysfs files (to tell md that it can now
allow writes to the array) allocate a buffer using GFP_KERNEL.

This patch allows attributes to be marked as "PREALLOC".  In that case
the maximal buffer is allocated when the file is opened, and then used
on each write instead of allocating a new buffer.

As the same buffer is now shared for all writes on the same file
description, the mutex is extended to cover full use of the buffer
including the copy_from_user().

The new __ATTR_PREALLOC() 'or's a new flag in to the 'mode', which is
inspected by sysfs_add_file_mode_ns() to determine if the file should be
marked as requiring prealloc.

Despite the comment, we *do* use -&gt;seq_show together with -&gt;prealloc
in this patch.  The next patch fixes that.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown  &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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md/raid allows metadata management to be performed in user-space.
A various times, particularly on device failure, the metadata needs
to be updated before further writes can be permitted.
This means that the user-space program which updates metadata much
not block on writeout, and so must not allocate memory.

mlockall(MCL_CURRENT|MCL_FUTURE) and pre-allocation can avoid all
memory allocation issues for user-memory, but that does not help
kernel memory.
Several kernel objects can be pre-allocated.  e.g. files opened before
any writes to the array are permitted.
However some kernel allocation happens in places that cannot be
pre-allocated.
In particular, writes to sysfs files (to tell md that it can now
allow writes to the array) allocate a buffer using GFP_KERNEL.

This patch allows attributes to be marked as "PREALLOC".  In that case
the maximal buffer is allocated when the file is opened, and then used
on each write instead of allocating a new buffer.

As the same buffer is now shared for all writes on the same file
description, the mutex is extended to cover full use of the buffer
including the copy_from_user().

The new __ATTR_PREALLOC() 'or's a new flag in to the 'mode', which is
inspected by sysfs_add_file_mode_ns() to determine if the file should be
marked as requiring prealloc.

Despite the comment, we *do* use -&gt;seq_show together with -&gt;prealloc
in this patch.  The next patch fixes that.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown  &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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