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Pull UBIFS updates from Richard Weinberger:
- Full filesystem authentication feature, UBIFS is now able to have the
whole filesystem structure authenticated plus user data encrypted and
authenticated.
- Minor cleanups
* tag 'tags/upstream-4.20-rc1' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-ubifs: (26 commits)
ubifs: Remove unneeded semicolon
Documentation: ubifs: Add authentication whitepaper
ubifs: Enable authentication support
ubifs: Do not update inode size in-place in authenticated mode
ubifs: Add hashes and HMACs to default filesystem
ubifs: authentication: Authenticate super block node
ubifs: Create hash for default LPT
ubfis: authentication: Authenticate master node
ubifs: authentication: Authenticate LPT
ubifs: Authenticate replayed journal
ubifs: Add auth nodes to garbage collector journal head
ubifs: Add authentication nodes to journal
ubifs: authentication: Add hashes to index nodes
ubifs: Add hashes to the tree node cache
ubifs: Create functions to embed a HMAC in a node
ubifs: Add helper functions for authentication support
ubifs: Add separate functions to init/crc a node
ubifs: Format changes for authentication support
ubifs: Store read superblock node
ubifs: Drop write_node
...
Pull NFS client bugfixes from Trond Myklebust:
"Highlights include:
Bugfix:
- Fix build issues on architectures that don't provide 64-bit cmpxchg
Cleanups:
- Fix a spelling mistake"
* tag 'nfs-for-4.20-2' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs:
NFS: fix spelling mistake, EACCESS -> EACCES
SUNRPC: Use atomic(64)_t for seq_send(64)
delete redundant semicolon
Signed-off-by: Ding Xiang <dingxiang@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Pull more timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"A set of commits for the new C-SKY architecture timers"
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
dt-bindings: timer: gx6605s SOC timer
clocksource/drivers/c-sky: Add gx6605s SOC system timer
dt-bindings: timer: C-SKY Multi-processor timer
clocksource/drivers/c-sky: Add C-SKY SMP timer
Trivial fix to a spelling mistake of the error access name EACCESS,
rename to EACCES
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Pull NTB updates from Jon Mason:
"Fairly minor changes and bug fixes:
NTB IDT thermal changes and hook into hwmon, ntb_netdev clean-up of
private struct, and a few bug fixes"
* tag 'ntb-4.20' of git://github.com/jonmason/ntb:
ntb: idt: Alter the driver info comments
ntb: idt: Discard temperature sensor IRQ handler
ntb: idt: Add basic hwmon sysfs interface
ntb: idt: Alter temperature read method
ntb_netdev: Simplify remove with client device drvdata
NTB: transport: Try harder to alloc an aligned MW buffer
ntb: ntb_transport: Mark expected switch fall-throughs
ntb: idt: Set PCIe bus address to BARLIMITx
NTB: ntb_hw_idt: replace IS_ERR_OR_NULL with regular NULL checks
ntb: intel: fix return value for ndev_vec_mask()
ntb_netdev: fix sleep time mismatch
Pull clockevent update from Daniel Lezcano:
- Add the per cpu timer for the c-sky architecture (Guo Ren)
- Add the global timer for the c-sky architecture (Guo Ren)
The seq_send & seq_send64 fields in struct krb5_ctx are used as
atomically incrementing counters. This is implemented using cmpxchg() &
cmpxchg64() to implement what amount to custom versions of
atomic_fetch_inc() & atomic64_fetch_inc().
Besides the duplication, using cmpxchg64() has another major drawback in
that some 32 bit architectures don't provide it. As such commit
571ed1fd2390 ("SUNRPC: Replace krb5_seq_lock with a lockless scheme")
resulted in build failures for some architectures.
Change seq_send to be an atomic_t and seq_send64 to be an atomic64_t,
then use atomic(64)_* functions to manipulate the values. The atomic64_t
type & associated functions are provided even on architectures which
lack real 64 bit atomic memory access via CONFIG_GENERIC_ATOMIC64 which
uses spinlocks to serialize access. This fixes the build failures for
architectures lacking cmpxchg64().
A potential alternative that was raised would be to provide cmpxchg64()
on the 32 bit architectures that currently lack it, using spinlocks.
However this would provide a version of cmpxchg64() with semantics a
little different to the implementations on architectures with real 64
bit atomics - the spinlock-based implementation would only work if all
access to the memory used with cmpxchg64() is *always* performed using
cmpxchg64(). That is not currently a requirement for users of
cmpxchg64(), and making it one seems questionable. As such avoiding
cmpxchg64() outside of architecture-specific code seems best,
particularly in cases where atomic64_t seems like a better fit anyway.
The CONFIG_GENERIC_ATOMIC64 implementation of atomic64_* functions will
use spinlocks & so faces the same issue, but with the key difference
that the memory backing an atomic64_t ought to always be accessed via
the atomic64_* functions anyway making the issue moot.
Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Fixes: 571ed1fd2390 ("SUNRPC: Replace krb5_seq_lock with a lockless scheme")
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Cc: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@netapp.com>
Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
With the preparations all being done this patch now enables authentication
support for UBIFS. Authentication is enabled when the newly introduced
auth_key and auth_hash_name mount options are passed. auth_key provides
the key which is used for authentication whereas auth_hash_name provides
the hashing algorithm used for this FS. Passing these options make
authentication mandatory and only UBIFS images that can be authenticated
with the given key are allowed.
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"A memory (under-)allocation fix and a comment fix"
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched/topology: Fix off by one bug
sched/rt: Update comment in pick_next_task_rt()
Since IDT PCIe-switch temperature sensor is now always available
irregardless of the EEPROM/BIOS settings, Kconfig and in-code
description should be properly altered. In addition lets update
the driver copyright lines.
Signed-off-by: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us>
Jens writes:
"Block fixes for 4.19-rc6
A set of fixes that should go into this release. This pull request
contains:
- A fix (hopefully) for the persistent grants for xen-blkfront. A
previous fix from this series wasn't complete, hence reverted, and
this one should hopefully be it. (Boris Ostrovsky)
- Fix for an elevator drain warning with SMR devices, which is
triggered when you switch schedulers (Damien)
- bcache deadlock fix (Guoju Fang)
- Fix for the block unplug tracepoint, which has had the
timer/explicit flag reverted since 4.11 (Ilya)
- Fix a regression in this series where the blk-mq timeout hook is
invoked with the RCU read lock held, hence preventing it from
blocking (Keith)
- NVMe pull from Christoph, with a single multipath fix (Susobhan Dey)"
* tag 'for-linus-20180929' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
xen/blkfront: correct purging of persistent grants
Revert "xen/blkfront: When purging persistent grants, keep them in the buffer"
blk-mq: I/O and timer unplugs are inverted in blktrace
bcache: add separate workqueue for journal_write to avoid deadlock
xen/blkfront: When purging persistent grants, keep them in the buffer
block: fix deadline elevator drain for zoned block devices
blk-mq: Allow blocking queue tag iter callbacks
nvme: properly propagate errors in nvme_mpath_init
Dt-bindings doc for gx6605s SOC's system timer.
Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <ren_guo@c-sky.com>
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
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