lwn.git/init, branch docs-5.6

fs: remove ksys_dup()

2019-12-12T18:00:36+00:00

ksys_dup() is used only at one place in the kernel, namely to duplicate fd 0 of /dev/console to stdout and stderr. The same functionality can be achieved by using functions already available within the kernel namespace. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski

init: unify opening /dev/console as stdin/stdout/stderr

2019-12-12T17:58:24+00:00

Merge the two instances where /dev/console is opened as stdin/stdout/stderr. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski

init: use do_mount() instead of ksys_mount()

2019-12-12T13:50:05+00:00

In prepare_namespace(), do_mount() can be used instead of ksys_mount() as the first and third argument are const strings in the kernel, the second and fourth argument are passed through anyway, and the fifth argument is NULL. In do_mount_root(), ksys_mount() is called with the first and third argument being already kernelspace strings, which do not need to be copied over from userspace to kernelspace (again). The second and fourth arguments are passed through to do_mount() anyway. The fifth argument, while already residing in kernelspace, needs to be put into a page of its own. Then, do_mount() can be used instead of ksys_mount(). Once this is done, there are no in-kernel users to ksys_mount() left, which can therefore be removed. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski

initrd: use do_mount() instead of ksys_mount()

2019-12-12T13:50:03+00:00

All three calls to ksys_mount() in initrd-related kernel code can be switched over to do_mount(): - the first and third arguments are const strings in the kernel, and do not need to be copied over from userspace; - the fifth argument is NULL, and therefore no page needs to be, copied over from userspace; - the second and fourth argument are passed through anyway. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski

devtmpfs: use do_mount() instead of ksys_mount()

2019-12-12T13:49:57+00:00

In devtmpfs, do_mount() can be called directly instead of complex wrapping by ksys_mount(): - the first and third arguments are const strings in the kernel, and do not need to be copied over from userspace; - the fifth argument is NULL, and therefore no page needs to be copied over from userspace; - the second and fourth argument are passed through anyway. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski

init/Kconfig: fix indentation

2019-12-05T03:44:13+00:00

Adjust indentation from spaces to tab (+optional two spaces) as in coding style with command like: $ sed -e 's/^ / /' -i */Kconfig Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1574306670-30234-1-git-send-email-krzk@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Masahiro Yamada Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: David Hildenbrand Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

2019-12-03T01:35:04+00:00

Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - remove unneeded asm headers from hexagon, ia64 - add 'dir-pkg' target, which works like 'tar-pkg' but skips archiving - add 'helpnewconfig' target, which shows help for new CONFIG options - support 'make nsdeps' for external modules - make rebuilds faster by deleting $(wildcard $^) checks - remove compile tests for kernel-space headers - refactor modpost to simplify modversion handling - make single target builds faster - optimize and clean up scripts/kallsyms.c - refactor various Makefiles and scripts * tag 'kbuild-v5.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (59 commits) MAINTAINERS: update Kbuild/Kconfig maintainer's email address scripts/kallsyms: remove redundant initializers scripts/kallsyms: put check_symbol_range() calls close together scripts/kallsyms: make check_symbol_range() void function scripts/kallsyms: move ignored symbol types to is_ignored_symbol() scripts/kallsyms: move more patterns to the ignored_prefixes array scripts/kallsyms: skip ignored symbols very early scripts/kallsyms: add const qualifiers where possible scripts/kallsyms: make find_token() return (unsigned char *) scripts/kallsyms: replace prefix_underscores_count() with strspn() scripts/kallsyms: add sym_name() to mitigate cast ugliness scripts/kallsyms: remove unneeded length check for prefix matching scripts/kallsyms: remove redundant is_arm_mapping_symbol() scripts/kallsyms: set relative_base more effectively scripts/kallsyms: shrink table before sorting it scripts/kallsyms: fix definitely-lost memory leak scripts/kallsyms: remove unneeded #ifndef ARRAY_SIZE kbuild: make single target builds even faster modpost: respect the previous export when 'exported twice' is warned modpost: do not set ->preloaded for symbols from Module.symvers ...

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace

2019-12-01T21:26:18+00:00

Pull sysctl system call removal from Eric Biederman: "As far as I can tell we have reached the point where no one enables the sysctl system call anymore. It still is enabled in a few defconfigs but they are mostly the rarely used one and in asking people about that it was more cut & paste enabled than anything else. This is single commit that just deletes code. Leaving just enough code so that the deprecated sysctl warning continues to be printed. If my analysis turns out to be wrong and someone actually cares it will be easy to revert this commit and have the system call again. There was one new xtensa defconfig in linux-next that enabled the system call this cycle and when asked about it the maintainer of the code replied that it was not enabled on purpose. As of today's linux-next tree that defconfig no longer enables the system call. What we saw in the review discussion was that if we go a step farther than my patch and mess with uapi headers there are pieces of code that won't compile, but nothing minds the system call actually disappearing from the kernel" Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/201910011140.EA0181F13@keescook/ * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: sysctl: Remove the sysctl system call

sysctl: Remove the sysctl system call

2019-11-26T19:03:56+00:00

This system call has been deprecated almost since it was introduced, and in a survey of the linux distributions I can no longer find any of them that enable CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL. The only indication that I can find that anyone might care is that a few of the defconfigs in the kernel enable CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL. However this appears in only 31 of 414 defconfigs in the kernel, so I suspect this symbols presence is simply because it is harmless to include rather than because it is necessary. As there appear to be no users of the sysctl system call, remove the code. As this removes one of the few uses of the internal kernel mount of proc I hope this allows for even more simplifications of the proc filesystem. Cc: Alex Smith Cc: Anders Berg Cc: Apelete Seketeli Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Chee Nouk Phoon Cc: Chris Zankel Cc: Christian Ruppert Cc: Greg Ungerer Cc: Harvey Hunt Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Hongliang Tao Cc: Hua Yan Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: John Crispin Cc: Jonas Jensen Cc: Josh Boyer Cc: Jun Nie Cc: Kevin Hilman Cc: Kevin Wells Cc: Kumar Gala Cc: Lars-Peter Clausen Cc: Ley Foon Tan Cc: Linus Walleij Cc: Markos Chandras Cc: Max Filippov Cc: Noam Camus Cc: Olof Johansson Cc: Paul Burton Cc: Paul Mundt Cc: Phil Edworthy Cc: Pierrick Hascoet Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: Roland Stigge Cc: Santosh Shilimkar Cc: Scott Telford Cc: Stephen Boyd Cc: Steven J. Hill Cc: Tanmay Inamdar Cc: Vineet Gupta Cc: Wolfram Sang Acked-by: Andi Kleen Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

2019-11-26T04:02:57+00:00

Pull networking updates from David Miller: "Another merge window, another pull full of stuff: 1) Support alternative names for network devices, from Jiri Pirko. 2) Introduce per-netns netdev notifiers, also from Jiri Pirko. 3) Support MSG_PEEK in vsock/virtio, from Matias Ezequiel Vara Larsen. 4) Allow compiling out the TLS TOE code, from Jakub Kicinski. 5) Add several new tracepoints to the kTLS code, also from Jakub. 6) Support set channels ethtool callback in ena driver, from Sameeh Jubran. 7) New SCTP events SCTP_ADDR_ADDED, SCTP_ADDR_REMOVED, SCTP_ADDR_MADE_PRIM, and SCTP_SEND_FAILED_EVENT. From Xin Long. 8) Add XDP support to mvneta driver, from Lorenzo Bianconi. 9) Lots of netfilter hw offload fixes, cleanups and enhancements, from Pablo Neira Ayuso. 10) PTP support for aquantia chips, from Egor Pomozov. 11) Add UDP segmentation offload support to igb, ixgbe, and i40e. From Josh Hunt. 12) Add smart nagle to tipc, from Jon Maloy. 13) Support L2 field rewrite by TC offloads in bnxt_en, from Venkat Duvvuru. 14) Add a flow mask cache to OVS, from Tonghao Zhang. 15) Add XDP support to ice driver, from Maciej Fijalkowski. 16) Add AF_XDP support to ice driver, from Krzysztof Kazimierczak. 17) Support UDP GSO offload in atlantic driver, from Igor Russkikh. 18) Support it in stmmac driver too, from Jose Abreu. 19) Support TIPC encryption and auth, from Tuong Lien. 20) Introduce BPF trampolines, from Alexei Starovoitov. 21) Make page_pool API more numa friendly, from Saeed Mahameed. 22) Introduce route hints to ipv4 and ipv6, from Paolo Abeni. 23) Add UDP segmentation offload to cxgb4, Rahul Lakkireddy" * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1857 commits) libbpf: Fix usage of u32 in userspace code mm: Implement no-MMU variant of vmalloc_user_node_flags slip: Fix use-after-free Read in slip_open net: dsa: sja1105: fix sja1105_parse_rgmii_delays() macvlan: schedule bc_work even if error enetc: add support Credit Based Shaper(CBS) for hardware offload net: phy: add helpers phy_(un)lock_mdio_bus mdio_bus: don't use managed reset-controller ax88179_178a: add ethtool_op_get_ts_info() mlxsw: spectrum_router: Fix use of uninitialized adjacency index mlxsw: spectrum_router: After underlay moves, demote conflicting tunnels bpf: Simplify __bpf_arch_text_poke poke type handling bpf: Introduce BPF_TRACE_x helper for the tracing tests bpf: Add bpf_jit_blinding_enabled for !CONFIG_BPF_JIT bpf, testing: Add various tail call test cases bpf, x86: Emit patchable direct jump as tail call bpf: Constant map key tracking for prog array pokes bpf: Add poke dependency tracking for prog array maps bpf: Add initial poke descriptor table for jit images bpf: Move owner type, jited info into array auxiliary data ...