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Pull AFS updates from Al Viro:
"Assorted AFS stuff - ended up in vfs.git since most of that consists
of David's AFS-related followups to Christoph's procfs series"
* 'afs-proc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
afs: Optimise callback breaking by not repeating volume lookup
afs: Display manually added cells in dynamic root mount
afs: Enable IPv6 DNS lookups
afs: Show all of a server's addresses in /proc/fs/afs/servers
afs: Handle CONFIG_PROC_FS=n
proc: Make inline name size calculation automatic
afs: Implement network namespacing
afs: Mark afs_net::ws_cell as __rcu and set using rcu functions
afs: Fix a Sparse warning in xdr_decode_AFSFetchStatus()
proc: Add a way to make network proc files writable
afs: Rearrange fs/afs/proc.c to remove remaining predeclarations.
afs: Rearrange fs/afs/proc.c to move the show routines up
afs: Rearrange fs/afs/proc.c by moving fops and open functions down
afs: Move /proc management functions to the end of the file
Pull compat updates from Al Viro:
"Some biarch patches - getting rid of assorted (mis)uses of
compat_alloc_user_space().
Not much in that area this cycle..."
* 'work.compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
orangefs: simplify compat ioctl handling
signalfd: lift sigmask copyin and size checks to callers of do_signalfd4()
vmsplice(): lift importing iovec into vmsplice(2) and compat counterpart
At the moment, afs_break_callbacks calls afs_break_one_callback() for each
separate FID it was given, and the latter looks up the volume individually
for each one.
However, this is inefficient if two or more FIDs have the same vid as we
could reuse the volume. This is complicated by cell aliasing whereby we
may have multiple cells sharing a volume and can therefore have multiple
callback interests for any particular volume ID.
At the moment afs_break_one_callback() scans the entire list of volumes
we're getting from a server and breaks the appropriate callback in every
matching volume, regardless of cell. This scan is done for every FID.
Optimise callback breaking by the following means:
(1) Sort the FID list by vid so that all FIDs belonging to the same volume
are clumped together.
This is done through the use of an indirection table as we cannot do
an insertion sort on the afs_callback_break array as we decode FIDs
into it as we subsequently also have to decode callback info into it
that corresponds by array index only.
We also don't really want to bubblesort afterwards if we can avoid it.
(2) Sort the server->cb_interests array by vid so that all the matching
volumes are grouped together. This permits the scan to stop after
finding a record that has a higher vid.
(3) When breaking FIDs, we try to keep server->cb_break_lock as long as
possible, caching the start point in the array for that volume group
as long as possible.
It might make sense to add another layer in that list and have a
refcounted volume ID anchor that has the matching interests attached
to it rather than being in the list. This would allow the lock to be
dropped without losing the cursor.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Pull aio fixes from Al Viro:
"Assorted AIO followups and fixes"
* 'work.aio' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
eventpoll: switch to ->poll_mask
aio: only return events requested in poll_mask() for IOCB_CMD_POLL
eventfd: only return events requested in poll_mask()
aio: mark __aio_sigset::sigmask const
no need to mess with copy_in_user(), etc...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Alter the dynroot mount so that cells created by manipulation of
/proc/fs/afs/cells and /proc/fs/afs/rootcell and by specification of a root
cell as a module parameter will cause directories for those cells to be
created in the dynamic root superblock for the network namespace[*].
To this end:
(1) Only one dynamic root superblock is now created per network namespace
and this is shared between all attempts to mount it. This makes it
easier to find the superblock to modify.
(2) When a dynamic root superblock is created, the list of cells is walked
and directories created for each cell already defined.
(3) When a new cell is added, if a dynamic root superblock exists, a
directory is created for it.
(4) When a cell is destroyed, the directory is removed.
(5) These directories are created by calling lookup_one_len() on the root
dir which automatically creates them if they don't exist.
[*] Inasmuch as network namespaces are currently supported here.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
1) Various netfilter fixlets from Pablo and the netfilter team.
2) Fix regression in IPVS caused by lack of PMTU exceptions on local
routes in ipv6, from Julian Anastasov.
3) Check pskb_trim_rcsum for failure in DSA, from Zhouyang Jia.
4) Don't crash on poll in TLS, from Daniel Borkmann.
5) Revert SO_REUSE{ADDR,PORT} change, it regresses various things
including Avahi mDNS. From Bart Van Assche.
6) Missing of_node_put in qcom/emac driver, from Yue Haibing.
7) We lack checking of the TCP checking in one special case during SYN
receive, from Frank van der Linden.
8) Fix module init error paths of mac80211 hwsim, from Johannes Berg.
9) Handle 802.1ad properly in stmmac driver, from Elad Nachman.
10) Must grab HW caps before doing quirk checks in stmmac driver, from
Jose Abreu.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (81 commits)
net: stmmac: Run HWIF Quirks after getting HW caps
neighbour: skip NTF_EXT_LEARNED entries during forced gc
net: cxgb3: add error handling for sysfs_create_group
tls: fix waitall behavior in tls_sw_recvmsg
tls: fix use-after-free in tls_push_record
l2tp: filter out non-PPP sessions in pppol2tp_tunnel_ioctl()
l2tp: reject creation of non-PPP sessions on L2TPv2 tunnels
mlxsw: spectrum_switchdev: Fix port_vlan refcounting
mlxsw: spectrum_router: Align with new route replace logic
mlxsw: spectrum_router: Allow appending to dev-only routes
ipv6: Only emit append events for appended routes
stmmac: added support for 802.1ad vlan stripping
cfg80211: fix rcu in cfg80211_unregister_wdev
mac80211: Move up init of TXQs
mac80211_hwsim: fix module init error paths
cfg80211: initialize sinfo in cfg80211_get_station
nl80211: fix some kernel doc tag mistakes
hv_netvsc: Fix the variable sizes in ipsecv2 and rsc offload
rds: avoid unenecessary cong_update in loop transport
l2tp: clean up stale tunnel or session in pppol2tp_connect's error path
...
Signed-off-by: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Remove the restriction on DNS lookup upcalls that prevents ipv6 addresses
from being looked up.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Pull module updates from Jessica Yu:
"Minor code cleanup and also allow sig_enforce param to be shown in
sysfs with CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE"
* tag 'modules-for-v4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeyu/linux:
module: Allow to always show the status of modsign
module: Do not access sig_enforce directly
Currently we were running HWIF quirks before getting HW capabilities.
This is not right because some HWIF callbacks depend on HW caps.
Lets save the quirks callback and use it in a later stage.
This fixes Altera socfpga.
Signed-off-by: Jose Abreu <joabreu@synopsys.com>
Fixes: 5f0456b43140 ("net: stmmac: Implement logic to automatically select HW Interface")
Reported-by: Dinh Nguyen <dinh.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Joao Pinto <jpinto@synopsys.com>
Cc: Vitor Soares <soares@synopsys.com>
Cc: Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@st.com>
Cc: Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@st.com>
Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinh.linux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The ->poll_mask() operation has a mask of events that the caller
is interested in, but not all implementations might take it into
account. Mask the return value to only the requested events,
similar to what the poll and epoll code does.
Reported-by: Avi Kivity <avi@scylladb.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
... getting rid of transformations in the latter - just use
compat_import_iovec().
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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