All kinds of misc stuff, without any unifying topic,
from various people. Neil's d_anon patch, several bugfixes,
introduction of kvmalloc analogue of kmemdup_user(), extending
bitfield.h to deal with fixed-endians, assorted cleanups all
over the place...
The following changes since commit 4fbd8d194f06c8a3fd2af1ce560ddb31f7ec8323:
Linux 4.15-rc1 (2017-11-26 16:01:47 -0800)
are available in the git repository at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git work.misc
for you to fetch changes up to ce4c253573ad184603e0fa77876ba155b0cde46d:
alpha: osf_sys.c: use timespec64 where appropriate (2018-01-25 19:34:31 -0500)
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Al Viro (14):
fs/file.c: trim includes
Add primitives for manipulating bitfields both in host- and fixed-endian.
r128: don't open-code memdup_user()
usx2y: don't bother with access_ok() in ->dsp_load()
snd_hwdep_dsp_load(): don't bother with access_ok()
usx2y: don't bother with memdup_user() for 16-byte structure
vme_user: don't use __copy_..._user()
uvc_v4l2: clean copyin/copyout up
nfs4file: get rid of pointless include of btrfs.h
memdup_user(): switch to GFP_USER
new primitive: vmemdup_user()
replace_user_tlv(): switch to vmemdup_user()
snd_ctl_elem_init_enum_names(): switch to vmemdup_user()
sctp: use vmemdup_user() rather than badly open-coding memdup_user()
Alexey Dobriyan (2):
dcache: subtract d_hash_shift from 32 in advance
dcache: delete unused d_hash_mask
Arnd Bergmann (2):
alpha: osf_sys.c: fix put_tv32 regression
alpha: osf_sys.c: use timespec64 where appropriate
Christophe Leroy (1):
Fix misannotated out-of-line _copy_to_user()
Eric Biggers (5):
eventfd: convert to use anon_inode_getfd()
eventfd: fold eventfd_ctx_read() into eventfd_read()
eventfd: fold eventfd_ctx_get() into eventfd_ctx_fileget()
fs: fold __inode_permission() into inode_permission()
fs/buffer.c: fold init_buffer() into init_page_buffers()
Jake Daryll Obina (1):
jffs2: Fix use-after-free bug in jffs2_iget()'s error handling path
Jürg Billeter (1):
fs: add RWF_APPEND
NeilBrown (1):
VFS: don't keep disconnected dentries on d_anon
Yang Shi (1):
vfs: remove unused hardirq.h
Documentation/filesystems/nfs/Exporting | 27 +++--
arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c | 72 ++++++------
drivers/gpu/drm/r128/r128_state.c | 23 +---
drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c | 55 ++++-----
.../staging/lustre/lustre/llite/llite_internal.h | 10 +-
drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c | 8 +-
fs/buffer.c | 10 +-
fs/dcache.c | 32 +++---
fs/eventfd.c | 127 +++++----------------
fs/file.c | 5 -
fs/file_table.c | 1 -
fs/jffs2/fs.c | 1 -
fs/namei.c | 71 +++++-------
fs/nfs/nfs4file.c | 1 -
fs/super.c | 2 +-
include/linux/bitfield.h | 46 ++++++++
include/linux/buffer_head.h | 1 -
include/linux/eventfd.h | 14 +--
include/linux/fs.h | 5 +-
include/linux/string.h | 1 +
include/uapi/linux/fs.h | 6 +-
lib/usercopy.c | 2 +-
mm/util.c | 36 ++++--
net/sctp/socket.c | 59 ++--------
sound/core/control.c | 15 +--
sound/core/hwdep.c | 2 -
sound/usb/usx2y/us122l.c | 43 +++----
sound/usb/usx2y/usX2Yhwdep.c | 28 +++--
28 files changed, 298 insertions(+), 405 deletions(-)
