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<title>litmus-rt-ext-res.git/arch/um/drivers, branch EXT-RES</title>
<subtitle>LITMUS^RT with extended reservations for Forbidden Zones paper @ RTAS'20</subtitle>
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<title>miscdevice: Use module_misc_device() macro</title>
<updated>2016-08-31T12:12:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>PrasannaKumar Muralidharan</name>
<email>prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-25T17:00:50+00:00</published>
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This patch removes module_init()/module_exit() from driver code by using
module_misc_device() macro. All modules in this patch has a print
statement which is removed when module_misc_device() macro is used.
If undesirable this patch can be dropped entirely, this is the only
purpose of making this as a separate patch.

Signed-off-by: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan &lt;prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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This patch removes module_init()/module_exit() from driver code by using
module_misc_device() macro. All modules in this patch has a print
statement which is removed when module_misc_device() macro is used.
If undesirable this patch can be dropped entirely, this is the only
purpose of making this as a separate patch.

Signed-off-by: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan &lt;prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>um: track 'parent' device in a local variable</title>
<updated>2016-06-22T17:19:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-20T17:44:32+00:00</published>
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In preparation for the removal of 'driverfs_dev' from 'struct gendisk'
use a local variable to track the parented vs un-parented case in
ubd_disk_register().

Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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In preparation for the removal of 'driverfs_dev' from 'struct gendisk'
use a local variable to track the parented vs un-parented case in
ubd_disk_register().

Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@sandisk.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>block, drivers: add REQ_OP_FLUSH operation</title>
<updated>2016-06-07T19:41:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Christie</name>
<email>mchristi@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-05T19:32:23+00:00</published>
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This adds a REQ_OP_FLUSH operation that is sent to request_fn
based drivers by the block layer's flush code, instead of
sending requests with the request-&gt;cmd_flags REQ_FLUSH bit set.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie &lt;mchristi@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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This adds a REQ_OP_FLUSH operation that is sent to request_fn
based drivers by the block layer's flush code, instead of
sending requests with the request-&gt;cmd_flags REQ_FLUSH bit set.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie &lt;mchristi@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke &lt;hare@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next</title>
<updated>2016-05-17T23:26:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-17T23:26:30+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Highlights:

   1) Support SPI based w5100 devices, from Akinobu Mita.

   2) Partial Segmentation Offload, from Alexander Duyck.

   3) Add GMAC4 support to stmmac driver, from Alexandre TORGUE.

   4) Allow cls_flower stats offload, from Amir Vadai.

   5) Implement bpf blinding, from Daniel Borkmann.

   6) Optimize _ASYNC_ bit twiddling on sockets, unless the socket is
      actually using FASYNC these atomics are superfluous.  From Eric
      Dumazet.

   7) Run TCP more preemptibly, also from Eric Dumazet.

   8) Support LED blinking, EEPROM dumps, and rxvlan offloading in mlx5e
      driver, from Gal Pressman.

   9) Allow creating ppp devices via rtnetlink, from Guillaume Nault.

  10) Improve BPF usage documentation, from Jesper Dangaard Brouer.

  11) Support tunneling offloads in qed, from Manish Chopra.

  12) aRFS offloading in mlx5e, from Maor Gottlieb.

  13) Add RFS and RPS support to SCTP protocol, from Marcelo Ricardo
      Leitner.

  14) Add MSG_EOR support to TCP, this allows controlling packet
      coalescing on application record boundaries for more accurate
      socket timestamp sampling.  From Martin KaFai Lau.

  15) Fix alignment of 64-bit netlink attributes across the board, from
      Nicolas Dichtel.

  16) Per-vlan stats in bridging, from Nikolay Aleksandrov.

  17) Several conversions of drivers to ethtool ksettings, from Philippe
      Reynes.

  18) Checksum neutral ILA in ipv6, from Tom Herbert.

  19) Factorize all of the various marvell dsa drivers into one, from
      Vivien Didelot

  20) Add VF support to qed driver, from Yuval Mintz"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1649 commits)
  Revert "phy dp83867: Fix compilation with CONFIG_OF_MDIO=m"
  Revert "phy dp83867: Make rgmii parameters optional"
  r8169: default to 64-bit DMA on recent PCIe chips
  phy dp83867: Make rgmii parameters optional
  phy dp83867: Fix compilation with CONFIG_OF_MDIO=m
  bpf: arm64: remove callee-save registers use for tmp registers
  asix: Fix offset calculation in asix_rx_fixup() causing slow transmissions
  switchdev: pass pointer to fib_info instead of copy
  net_sched: close another race condition in tcf_mirred_release()
  tipc: fix nametable publication field in nl compat
  drivers: net: Don't print unpopulated net_device name
  qed: add support for dcbx.
  ravb: Add missing free_irq() calls to ravb_close()
  qed: Remove a stray tab
  net: ethernet: fec-mpc52xx: use phy_ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings
  net: ethernet: fec-mpc52xx: use phydev from struct net_device
  bpf, doc: fix typo on bpf_asm descriptions
  stmmac: hardware TX COE doesn't work when force_thresh_dma_mode is set
  net: ethernet: fs-enet: use phy_ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings
  net: ethernet: fs-enet: use phydev from struct net_device
  ...
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Highlights:

   1) Support SPI based w5100 devices, from Akinobu Mita.

   2) Partial Segmentation Offload, from Alexander Duyck.

   3) Add GMAC4 support to stmmac driver, from Alexandre TORGUE.

   4) Allow cls_flower stats offload, from Amir Vadai.

   5) Implement bpf blinding, from Daniel Borkmann.

   6) Optimize _ASYNC_ bit twiddling on sockets, unless the socket is
      actually using FASYNC these atomics are superfluous.  From Eric
      Dumazet.

   7) Run TCP more preemptibly, also from Eric Dumazet.

   8) Support LED blinking, EEPROM dumps, and rxvlan offloading in mlx5e
      driver, from Gal Pressman.

   9) Allow creating ppp devices via rtnetlink, from Guillaume Nault.

  10) Improve BPF usage documentation, from Jesper Dangaard Brouer.

  11) Support tunneling offloads in qed, from Manish Chopra.

  12) aRFS offloading in mlx5e, from Maor Gottlieb.

  13) Add RFS and RPS support to SCTP protocol, from Marcelo Ricardo
      Leitner.

  14) Add MSG_EOR support to TCP, this allows controlling packet
      coalescing on application record boundaries for more accurate
      socket timestamp sampling.  From Martin KaFai Lau.

  15) Fix alignment of 64-bit netlink attributes across the board, from
      Nicolas Dichtel.

  16) Per-vlan stats in bridging, from Nikolay Aleksandrov.

  17) Several conversions of drivers to ethtool ksettings, from Philippe
      Reynes.

  18) Checksum neutral ILA in ipv6, from Tom Herbert.

  19) Factorize all of the various marvell dsa drivers into one, from
      Vivien Didelot

  20) Add VF support to qed driver, from Yuval Mintz"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1649 commits)
  Revert "phy dp83867: Fix compilation with CONFIG_OF_MDIO=m"
  Revert "phy dp83867: Make rgmii parameters optional"
  r8169: default to 64-bit DMA on recent PCIe chips
  phy dp83867: Make rgmii parameters optional
  phy dp83867: Fix compilation with CONFIG_OF_MDIO=m
  bpf: arm64: remove callee-save registers use for tmp registers
  asix: Fix offset calculation in asix_rx_fixup() causing slow transmissions
  switchdev: pass pointer to fib_info instead of copy
  net_sched: close another race condition in tcf_mirred_release()
  tipc: fix nametable publication field in nl compat
  drivers: net: Don't print unpopulated net_device name
  qed: add support for dcbx.
  ravb: Add missing free_irq() calls to ravb_close()
  qed: Remove a stray tab
  net: ethernet: fec-mpc52xx: use phy_ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings
  net: ethernet: fec-mpc52xx: use phydev from struct net_device
  bpf, doc: fix typo on bpf_asm descriptions
  stmmac: hardware TX COE doesn't work when force_thresh_dma_mode is set
  net: ethernet: fs-enet: use phy_ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings
  net: ethernet: fs-enet: use phydev from struct net_device
  ...
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<entry>
<title>treewide: replace dev-&gt;trans_start update with helper</title>
<updated>2016-05-04T18:16:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Westphal</name>
<email>fw@strlen.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-03T14:33:13+00:00</published>
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Replace all trans_start updates with netif_trans_update helper.
change was done via spatch:

struct net_device *d;
@@
- d-&gt;trans_start = jiffies
+ netif_trans_update(d)

Compile tested only.

Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@broadcom.com
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-can@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
Cc: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org
Cc: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Acked-by: Felipe Balbi &lt;felipe.balbi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mugunthan V N &lt;mugunthanvnm@ti.com&gt;
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli &lt;a@unstable.cc&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Replace all trans_start updates with netif_trans_update helper.
change was done via spatch:

struct net_device *d;
@@
- d-&gt;trans_start = jiffies
+ netif_trans_update(d)

Compile tested only.

Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@broadcom.com
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-can@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
Cc: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org
Cc: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Acked-by: Felipe Balbi &lt;felipe.balbi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mugunthan V N &lt;mugunthanvnm@ti.com&gt;
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli &lt;a@unstable.cc&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>um: switch to using blk_queue_write_cache()</title>
<updated>2016-04-12T22:00:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-30T16:19:17+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs/coredump: prevent fsuid=0 dumps into user-controlled directories</title>
<updated>2016-03-22T22:36:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jann Horn</name>
<email>jann@thejh.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-22T21:25:36+00:00</published>
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This commit fixes the following security hole affecting systems where
all of the following conditions are fulfilled:

 - The fs.suid_dumpable sysctl is set to 2.
 - The kernel.core_pattern sysctl's value starts with "/". (Systems
   where kernel.core_pattern starts with "|/" are not affected.)
 - Unprivileged user namespace creation is permitted. (This is
   true on Linux &gt;=3.8, but some distributions disallow it by
   default using a distro patch.)

Under these conditions, if a program executes under secure exec rules,
causing it to run with the SUID_DUMP_ROOT flag, then unshares its user
namespace, changes its root directory and crashes, the coredump will be
written using fsuid=0 and a path derived from kernel.core_pattern - but
this path is interpreted relative to the root directory of the process,
allowing the attacker to control where a coredump will be written with
root privileges.

To fix the security issue, always interpret core_pattern for dumps that
are written under SUID_DUMP_ROOT relative to the root directory of init.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jann@thejh.net&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.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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This commit fixes the following security hole affecting systems where
all of the following conditions are fulfilled:

 - The fs.suid_dumpable sysctl is set to 2.
 - The kernel.core_pattern sysctl's value starts with "/". (Systems
   where kernel.core_pattern starts with "|/" are not affected.)
 - Unprivileged user namespace creation is permitted. (This is
   true on Linux &gt;=3.8, but some distributions disallow it by
   default using a distro patch.)

Under these conditions, if a program executes under secure exec rules,
causing it to run with the SUID_DUMP_ROOT flag, then unshares its user
namespace, changes its root directory and crashes, the coredump will be
written using fsuid=0 and a path derived from kernel.core_pattern - but
this path is interpreted relative to the root directory of the process,
allowing the attacker to control where a coredump will be written with
root privileges.

To fix the security issue, always interpret core_pattern for dumps that
are written under SUID_DUMP_ROOT relative to the root directory of init.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jann@thejh.net&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2016-01-13T01:11:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-13T01:11:47+00:00</published>
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Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "All kinds of stuff.  That probably should've been 5 or 6 separate
  branches, but by the time I'd realized how large and mixed that bag
  had become it had been too close to -final to play with rebasing.

  Some fs/namei.c cleanups there, memdup_user_nul() introduction and
  switching open-coded instances, burying long-dead code, whack-a-mole
  of various kinds, several new helpers for -&gt;llseek(), assorted
  cleanups and fixes from various people, etc.

  One piece probably deserves special mention - Neil's
  lookup_one_len_unlocked().  Similar to lookup_one_len(), but gets
  called without -&gt;i_mutex and tries to avoid ever taking it.  That, of
  course, means that it's not useful for any directory modifications,
  but things like getting inode attributes in nfds readdirplus are fine
  with that.  I really should've asked for moratorium on lookup-related
  changes this cycle, but since I hadn't done that early enough...  I
  *am* asking for that for the coming cycle, though - I'm going to try
  and get conversion of i_mutex to rwsem with -&gt;lookup() done under lock
  taken shared.

  There will be a patch closer to the end of the window, along the lines
  of the one Linus had posted last May - mechanical conversion of
  -&gt;i_mutex accesses to inode_lock()/inode_unlock()/inode_trylock()/
  inode_is_locked()/inode_lock_nested().  To quote Linus back then:

    -----
    |    This is an automated patch using
    |
    |        sed 's/mutex_lock(&amp;\(.*\)-&gt;i_mutex)/inode_lock(\1)/'
    |        sed 's/mutex_unlock(&amp;\(.*\)-&gt;i_mutex)/inode_unlock(\1)/'
    |        sed 's/mutex_lock_nested(&amp;\(.*\)-&gt;i_mutex,[     ]*I_MUTEX_\([A-Z0-9_]*\))/inode_lock_nested(\1, I_MUTEX_\2)/'
    |        sed 's/mutex_is_locked(&amp;\(.*\)-&gt;i_mutex)/inode_is_locked(\1)/'
    |        sed 's/mutex_trylock(&amp;\(.*\)-&gt;i_mutex)/inode_trylock(\1)/'
    |
    |    with a very few manual fixups
    -----

  I'm going to send that once the -&gt;i_mutex-affecting stuff in -next
  gets mostly merged (or when Linus says he's about to stop taking
  merges)"

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
  nfsd: don't hold i_mutex over userspace upcalls
  fs:affs:Replace time_t with time64_t
  fs/9p: use fscache mutex rather than spinlock
  proc: add a reschedule point in proc_readfd_common()
  logfs: constify logfs_block_ops structures
  fcntl: allow to set O_DIRECT flag on pipe
  fs: __generic_file_splice_read retry lookup on AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE
  fs: xattr: Use kvfree()
  [s390] page_to_phys() always returns a multiple of PAGE_SIZE
  nbd: use -&gt;compat_ioctl()
  fs: use block_device name vsprintf helper
  lib/vsprintf: add %*pg format specifier
  fs: use gendisk-&gt;disk_name where possible
  poll: plug an unused argument to do_poll
  amdkfd: don't open-code memdup_user()
  cdrom: don't open-code memdup_user()
  rsxx: don't open-code memdup_user()
  mtip32xx: don't open-code memdup_user()
  [um] mconsole: don't open-code memdup_user_nul()
  [um] hostaudio: don't open-code memdup_user()
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Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "All kinds of stuff.  That probably should've been 5 or 6 separate
  branches, but by the time I'd realized how large and mixed that bag
  had become it had been too close to -final to play with rebasing.

  Some fs/namei.c cleanups there, memdup_user_nul() introduction and
  switching open-coded instances, burying long-dead code, whack-a-mole
  of various kinds, several new helpers for -&gt;llseek(), assorted
  cleanups and fixes from various people, etc.

  One piece probably deserves special mention - Neil's
  lookup_one_len_unlocked().  Similar to lookup_one_len(), but gets
  called without -&gt;i_mutex and tries to avoid ever taking it.  That, of
  course, means that it's not useful for any directory modifications,
  but things like getting inode attributes in nfds readdirplus are fine
  with that.  I really should've asked for moratorium on lookup-related
  changes this cycle, but since I hadn't done that early enough...  I
  *am* asking for that for the coming cycle, though - I'm going to try
  and get conversion of i_mutex to rwsem with -&gt;lookup() done under lock
  taken shared.

  There will be a patch closer to the end of the window, along the lines
  of the one Linus had posted last May - mechanical conversion of
  -&gt;i_mutex accesses to inode_lock()/inode_unlock()/inode_trylock()/
  inode_is_locked()/inode_lock_nested().  To quote Linus back then:

    -----
    |    This is an automated patch using
    |
    |        sed 's/mutex_lock(&amp;\(.*\)-&gt;i_mutex)/inode_lock(\1)/'
    |        sed 's/mutex_unlock(&amp;\(.*\)-&gt;i_mutex)/inode_unlock(\1)/'
    |        sed 's/mutex_lock_nested(&amp;\(.*\)-&gt;i_mutex,[     ]*I_MUTEX_\([A-Z0-9_]*\))/inode_lock_nested(\1, I_MUTEX_\2)/'
    |        sed 's/mutex_is_locked(&amp;\(.*\)-&gt;i_mutex)/inode_is_locked(\1)/'
    |        sed 's/mutex_trylock(&amp;\(.*\)-&gt;i_mutex)/inode_trylock(\1)/'
    |
    |    with a very few manual fixups
    -----

  I'm going to send that once the -&gt;i_mutex-affecting stuff in -next
  gets mostly merged (or when Linus says he's about to stop taking
  merges)"

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
  nfsd: don't hold i_mutex over userspace upcalls
  fs:affs:Replace time_t with time64_t
  fs/9p: use fscache mutex rather than spinlock
  proc: add a reschedule point in proc_readfd_common()
  logfs: constify logfs_block_ops structures
  fcntl: allow to set O_DIRECT flag on pipe
  fs: __generic_file_splice_read retry lookup on AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE
  fs: xattr: Use kvfree()
  [s390] page_to_phys() always returns a multiple of PAGE_SIZE
  nbd: use -&gt;compat_ioctl()
  fs: use block_device name vsprintf helper
  lib/vsprintf: add %*pg format specifier
  fs: use gendisk-&gt;disk_name where possible
  poll: plug an unused argument to do_poll
  amdkfd: don't open-code memdup_user()
  cdrom: don't open-code memdup_user()
  rsxx: don't open-code memdup_user()
  mtip32xx: don't open-code memdup_user()
  [um] mconsole: don't open-code memdup_user_nul()
  [um] hostaudio: don't open-code memdup_user()
  ...
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<title>um: Update UBD to use pread/pwrite family of functions</title>
<updated>2016-01-10T20:49:48+00:00</updated>
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<name>Anton Ivanov</name>
<email>aivanov@brocade.com</email>
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<published>2015-12-21T18:54:00+00:00</published>
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This decreases the number of syscalls per read/write by half.

Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov &lt;aivanov@brocade.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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This decreases the number of syscalls per read/write by half.

Signed-off-by: Anton Ivanov &lt;aivanov@brocade.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<title>[um] mconsole: don't open-code memdup_user_nul()</title>
<updated>2016-01-04T15:29:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-02T19:53:28+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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