init: flush async file closing

When unpacking the initramfs or when mounting block devices we need to
ensure that any delayed fput() finished to prevent spurious errors.
The init process can be a pr

init: flush async file closing

When unpacking the initramfs or when mounting block devices we need to
ensure that any delayed fput() finished to prevent spurious errors.
The init process can be a proper kernel thread or a user mode helper.
In the latter case PF_KTHREAD isn't set. So we need to do both
flush_delayed_work() and task_work_run().

Since we'll port block device opening and closing to regular file open
and closing we need to ensure the same as for the initramfs. So just
make that a little helper.

Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Srikanth Aithal <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CA+G9fYttTwsbFuVq10igbSvP5xC6bf_XijM=mpUqrJV=uvUirQ@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>

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init: pass root_device_name explicitly

Instead of declaring root_device_name as a global variable pass it as an
argument to the functions using it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Lin

init: pass root_device_name explicitly

Instead of declaring root_device_name as a global variable pass it as an
argument to the functions using it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>

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init: rename mount_block_root to mount_root_generic

mount_block_root is also used to mount non-block file systems, so give
it a better name.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Link: http

init: rename mount_block_root to mount_root_generic

mount_block_root is also used to mount non-block file systems, so give
it a better name.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>

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init: add an init_mknod helper

Add a simple helper to mknod with a kernel space file name and switch
the early init code over to it. Remove the now unused ksys_mknod.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hell

init: add an init_mknod helper

Add a simple helper to mknod with a kernel space file name and switch
the early init code over to it. Remove the now unused ksys_mknod.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>

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init: add an init_unlink helper

Add a simple helper to unlink with a kernel space file name and switch
the early init code over to it. Remove the now unused ksys_unlink.

Signed-off-by: Christoph H

init: add an init_unlink helper

Add a simple helper to unlink with a kernel space file name and switch
the early init code over to it. Remove the now unused ksys_unlink.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>

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init: add an init_mount helper

Like do_mount, but takes a kernel pointer for the destination path.
Switch over the mounts in the init code and devtmpfs to it, which
just happen to work due to the im

init: add an init_mount helper

Like do_mount, but takes a kernel pointer for the destination path.
Switch over the mounts in the init code and devtmpfs to it, which
just happen to work due to the implicit set_fs(KERNEL_DS) during early
init right now.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>

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init: mark create_dev as __init

This helper is only used for the early init code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>

initrd: remove support for multiple floppies

Remove the special handling for multiple floppies in the initrd code.
No one should be using floppies for booting these days. (famous last
words..)

Incl

initrd: remove support for multiple floppies

Remove the special handling for multiple floppies in the initrd code.
No one should be using floppies for booting these days. (famous last
words..)

Includes a spelling fix from Colin Ian King <[email protected]>.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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md: move the early init autodetect code to drivers/md/

Just like the NFS and CIFS root code this better lives with the
driver it is tightly integrated with.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@ls

md: move the early init autodetect code to drivers/md/

Just like the NFS and CIFS root code this better lives with the
driver it is tightly integrated with.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Song Liu <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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init: remove the bstat helper

The only caller of the bstat function becomes cleaner and simpler when
open coding the function.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <

init: remove the bstat helper

The only caller of the bstat function becomes cleaner and simpler when
open coding the function.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Song Liu <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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fs: add do_mknodat() helper and ksys_mknod() wrapper; remove in-kernel calls to syscall

Using the fs-internal do_mknodat() helper allows us to get rid of
fs-internal calls to the sys_mknodat() sysca

fs: add do_mknodat() helper and ksys_mknod() wrapper; remove in-kernel calls to syscall

Using the fs-internal do_mknodat() helper allows us to get rid of
fs-internal calls to the sys_mknodat() syscall.

Introducing the ksys_mknod() wrapper allows us to avoid the in-kernel
calls to sys_mknod() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function
is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses
the same calling convention as sys_mknod().

This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <[email protected]>

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fs: add ksys_unlink() wrapper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_unlink()

Using this wrapper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the
sys_unlink() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this functi

fs: add ksys_unlink() wrapper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_unlink()

Using this wrapper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the
sys_unlink() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function is meant
s a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it uses the same
calling convention as sys_unlink().

In the near future, all callers of ksys_unlink() should be converted to
call do_unlinkat() directly or, at least, to operate on regular kernel
pointers.

This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <[email protected]>

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License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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initramfs: use vfs_stat/lstat directly

sys_newlstat is a system call implementation that is meant for user
space, and that copies kernel-internal data structure to the user
format, which is not need

initramfs: use vfs_stat/lstat directly

sys_newlstat is a system call implementation that is meant for user
space, and that copies kernel-internal data structure to the user
format, which is not needed for in-kernel users.

Further, as we rearrange the system call implementation so we can extend
it with 64-bit time_t, the prototype for sys_newlstat changes.

This changes the initramfs code to use vfs_lstat directly, to get it out
of the way of the time_t changes, and make it slightly more efficient in
the process. Along the same lines we also replace sys_stat and
sys_stat64 with vfs_stat.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Viro <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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init/do_mounts: initrd_load() can be boolean

Make initrd_load() return bool due to this particular function only using
either one or zero as its return value.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by:

init/do_mounts: initrd_load() can be boolean

Make initrd_load() return bool due to this particular function only using
either one or zero as its return value.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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md: move lots of #include lines out of .h files and into .c

This makes the includes more explicit, and is preparation for moving
md_k.h to drivers/md/md.h

Remove include/raid/md.h as its only remai

md: move lots of #include lines out of .h files and into .c

This makes the includes more explicit, and is preparation for moving
md_k.h to drivers/md/md.h

Remove include/raid/md.h as its only remaining use was to #include
other files.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <[email protected]>

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make init/do_mounts.c:root_device_name static

This patch makes the needlessly global root_device_name static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-f

make init/do_mounts.c:root_device_name static

This patch makes the needlessly global root_device_name static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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Remove all inclusions of <linux/config.h>
kbuild explicitly includes this at build time.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <[email protected]>

[PATCH] devfs: Remove the devfs_fs_kernel.h file from the tree

Also fixes up all files that #include it.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the init code

This patch removes the devfs code from the init/ directory.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

[PATCH] name_to_dev_t warning fix

kernel/power/disk.c needs a declaration of name_to_dev_t() in scope. mount.h
seems like an appropriate choice.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed

[PATCH] name_to_dev_t warning fix

kernel/power/disk.c needs a declaration of name_to_dev_t() in scope. mount.h
seems like an appropriate choice.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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Linux-2.6.12-rc2

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in

Linux-2.6.12-rc2

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!

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