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<updated>2013-11-22T18:52:03Z</updated>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending</title>
<updated>2013-11-22T18:52:03Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-22T18:52:03Z</published>
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Pull SCSI target updates from Nicholas Bellinger:
 "Things have been quiet this round with mostly bugfixes, percpu
  conversions, and other minor iscsi-target conformance testing changes.

  The highlights include:

   - Add demo_mode_discovery attribute for iscsi-target (Thomas)
   - Convert tcm_fc(FCoE) to use percpu-ida pre-allocation
   - Add send completion interrupt coalescing for ib_isert
   - Convert target-core to use percpu-refcounting for se_lun
   - Fix mutex_trylock usage bug in iscsit_increment_maxcmdsn
   - tcm_loop updates (Hannes)
   - target-core ALUA cleanups + prep for v3.14 SCSI Referrals support (Hannes)

  v3.14 is currently shaping to be a busy development cycle in target
  land, with initial support for T10 Referrals and T10 DIF currently on
  the roadmap"

* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending: (40 commits)
  iscsi-target: chap auth shouldn't match username with trailing garbage
  iscsi-target: fix extract_param to handle buffer length corner case
  iscsi-target: Expose default_erl as TPG attribute
  target_core_configfs: split up ALUA supported states
  target_core_alua: Make supported states configurable
  target_core_alua: Store supported ALUA states
  target_core_alua: Rename ALUA_ACCESS_STATE_OPTIMIZED
  target_core_alua: spellcheck
  target core: rename (ex,im)plict -&gt; (ex,im)plicit
  percpu-refcount: Add percpu-refcount.o to obj-y
  iscsi-target: Do not reject non-immediate CmdSNs exceeding MaxCmdSN
  iscsi-target: Convert iscsi_session statistics to atomic_long_t
  target: Convert se_device statistics to atomic_long_t
  target: Fix delayed Task Aborted Status (TAS) handling bug
  iscsi-target: Reject unsupported multi PDU text command sequence
  ib_isert: Avoid duplicate iscsit_increment_maxcmdsn call
  iscsi-target: Fix mutex_trylock usage in iscsit_increment_maxcmdsn
  target: Core does not need blkdev.h
  target: Pass through I/O topology for block backstores
  iser-target: Avoid using FRMR for single dma entry requests
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security</title>
<updated>2013-11-22T03:46:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-22T03:46:00Z</published>
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Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
 "In this patchset, we finally get an SELinux update, with Paul Moore
  taking over as maintainer of that code.

  Also a significant update for the Keys subsystem, as well as
  maintenance updates to Smack, IMA, TPM, and Apparmor"

and since I wanted to know more about the updates to key handling,
here's the explanation from David Howells on that:

 "Okay.  There are a number of separate bits.  I'll go over the big bits
  and the odd important other bit, most of the smaller bits are just
  fixes and cleanups.  If you want the small bits accounting for, I can
  do that too.

   (1) Keyring capacity expansion.

        KEYS: Consolidate the concept of an 'index key' for key access
        KEYS: Introduce a search context structure
        KEYS: Search for auth-key by name rather than target key ID
        Add a generic associative array implementation.
        KEYS: Expand the capacity of a keyring

     Several of the patches are providing an expansion of the capacity of a
     keyring.  Currently, the maximum size of a keyring payload is one page.
     Subtract a small header and then divide up into pointers, that only gives
     you ~500 pointers on an x86_64 box.  However, since the NFS idmapper uses
     a keyring to store ID mapping data, that has proven to be insufficient to
     the cause.

     Whatever data structure I use to handle the keyring payload, it can only
     store pointers to keys, not the keys themselves because several keyrings
     may point to a single key.  This precludes inserting, say, and rb_node
     struct into the key struct for this purpose.

     I could make an rbtree of records such that each record has an rb_node
     and a key pointer, but that would use four words of space per key stored
     in the keyring.  It would, however, be able to use much existing code.

     I selected instead a non-rebalancing radix-tree type approach as that
     could have a better space-used/key-pointer ratio.  I could have used the
     radix tree implementation that we already have and insert keys into it by
     their serial numbers, but that means any sort of search must iterate over
     the whole radix tree.  Further, its nodes are a bit on the capacious side
     for what I want - especially given that key serial numbers are randomly
     allocated, thus leaving a lot of empty space in the tree.

     So what I have is an associative array that internally is a radix-tree
     with 16 pointers per node where the index key is constructed from the key
     type pointer and the key description.  This means that an exact lookup by
     type+description is very fast as this tells us how to navigate directly to
     the target key.

     I made the data structure general in lib/assoc_array.c as far as it is
     concerned, its index key is just a sequence of bits that leads to a
     pointer.  It's possible that someone else will be able to make use of it
     also.  FS-Cache might, for example.

   (2) Mark keys as 'trusted' and keyrings as 'trusted only'.

        KEYS: verify a certificate is signed by a 'trusted' key
        KEYS: Make the system 'trusted' keyring viewable by userspace
        KEYS: Add a 'trusted' flag and a 'trusted only' flag
        KEYS: Separate the kernel signature checking keyring from module signing

     These patches allow keys carrying asymmetric public keys to be marked as
     being 'trusted' and allow keyrings to be marked as only permitting the
     addition or linkage of trusted keys.

     Keys loaded from hardware during kernel boot or compiled into the kernel
     during build are marked as being trusted automatically.  New keys can be
     loaded at runtime with add_key().  They are checked against the system
     keyring contents and if their signatures can be validated with keys that
     are already marked trusted, then they are marked trusted also and can
     thus be added into the master keyring.

     Patches from Mimi Zohar make this usable with the IMA keyrings also.

   (3) Remove the date checks on the key used to validate a module signature.

        X.509: Remove certificate date checks

     It's not reasonable to reject a signature just because the key that it was
     generated with is no longer valid datewise - especially if the kernel
     hasn't yet managed to set the system clock when the first module is
     loaded - so just remove those checks.

   (4) Make it simpler to deal with additional X.509 being loaded into the kernel.

        KEYS: Load *.x509 files into kernel keyring
        KEYS: Have make canonicalise the paths of the X.509 certs better to deduplicate

     The builder of the kernel now just places files with the extension ".x509"
     into the kernel source or build trees and they're concatenated by the
     kernel build and stuffed into the appropriate section.

   (5) Add support for userspace kerberos to use keyrings.

        KEYS: Add per-user_namespace registers for persistent per-UID kerberos caches
        KEYS: Implement a big key type that can save to tmpfs

     Fedora went to, by default, storing kerberos tickets and tokens in tmpfs.
     We looked at storing it in keyrings instead as that confers certain
     advantages such as tickets being automatically deleted after a certain
     amount of time and the ability for the kernel to get at these tokens more
     easily.

     To make this work, two things were needed:

     (a) A way for the tickets to persist beyond the lifetime of all a user's
         sessions so that cron-driven processes can still use them.

         The problem is that a user's session keyrings are deleted when the
         session that spawned them logs out and the user's user keyring is
         deleted when the UID is deleted (typically when the last log out
         happens), so neither of these places is suitable.

         I've added a system keyring into which a 'persistent' keyring is
         created for each UID on request.  Each time a user requests their
         persistent keyring, the expiry time on it is set anew.  If the user
         doesn't ask for it for, say, three days, the keyring is automatically
         expired and garbage collected using the existing gc.  All the kerberos
         tokens it held are then also gc'd.

     (b) A key type that can hold really big tickets (up to 1MB in size).

         The problem is that Active Directory can return huge tickets with lots
         of auxiliary data attached.  We don't, however, want to eat up huge
         tracts of unswappable kernel space for this, so if the ticket is
         greater than a certain size, we create a swappable shmem file and dump
         the contents in there and just live with the fact we then have an
         inode and a dentry overhead.  If the ticket is smaller than that, we
         slap it in a kmalloc()'d buffer"

* 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (121 commits)
  KEYS: Fix keyring content gc scanner
  KEYS: Fix error handling in big_key instantiation
  KEYS: Fix UID check in keyctl_get_persistent()
  KEYS: The RSA public key algorithm needs to select MPILIB
  ima: define '_ima' as a builtin 'trusted' keyring
  ima: extend the measurement list to include the file signature
  kernel/system_certificate.S: use real contents instead of macro GLOBAL()
  KEYS: fix error return code in big_key_instantiate()
  KEYS: Fix keyring quota misaccounting on key replacement and unlink
  KEYS: Fix a race between negating a key and reading the error set
  KEYS: Make BIG_KEYS boolean
  apparmor: remove the "task" arg from may_change_ptraced_domain()
  apparmor: remove parent task info from audit logging
  apparmor: remove tsk field from the apparmor_audit_struct
  apparmor: fix capability to not use the current task, during reporting
  Smack: Ptrace access check mode
  ima: provide hash algo info in the xattr
  ima: enable support for larger default filedata hash algorithms
  ima: define kernel parameter 'ima_template=' to change configured default
  ima: add Kconfig default measurement list template
  ...
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<title>percpu-refcount: Add percpu-refcount.o to obj-y</title>
<updated>2013-11-20T05:39:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>rdunlap@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-19T18:08:13Z</published>
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Drop percpu_ida.o from lib-y since it is also listed in obj-y
and it doesn't need to be listed in both places.

Move percpu-refcount.o from lib-y to obj-y to fix build errors
in target_core_mod:

ERROR: "percpu_ref_cancel_init" [drivers/target/target_core_mod.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "percpu_ref_kill_and_confirm" [drivers/target/target_core_mod.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "percpu_ref_init" [drivers/target/target_core_mod.ko] undefined!

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger &lt;nab@linux-iscsi.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2013-11-14T07:30:30Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-14T07:30:30Z</published>
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Pull core locking changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "The biggest changes:

   - add lockdep support for seqcount/seqlocks structures, this
     unearthed both bugs and required extra annotation.

   - move the various kernel locking primitives to the new
     kernel/locking/ directory"

* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits)
  block: Use u64_stats_init() to initialize seqcounts
  locking/lockdep: Mark __lockdep_count_forward_deps() as static
  lockdep/proc: Fix lock-time avg computation
  locking/doc: Update references to kernel/mutex.c
  ipv6: Fix possible ipv6 seqlock deadlock
  cpuset: Fix potential deadlock w/ set_mems_allowed
  seqcount: Add lockdep functionality to seqcount/seqlock structures
  net: Explicitly initialize u64_stats_sync structures for lockdep
  locking: Move the percpu-rwsem code to kernel/locking/
  locking: Move the lglocks code to kernel/locking/
  locking: Move the rwsem code to kernel/locking/
  locking: Move the rtmutex code to kernel/locking/
  locking: Move the semaphore core to kernel/locking/
  locking: Move the spinlock code to kernel/locking/
  locking: Move the lockdep code to kernel/locking/
  locking: Move the mutex code to kernel/locking/
  hung_task debugging: Add tracepoint to report the hang
  x86/locking/kconfig: Update paravirt spinlock Kconfig description
  lockstat: Report avg wait and hold times
  lockdep, x86/alternatives: Drop ancient lockdep fixup message
  ...
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<entry>
<title>percpu: add test module for various percpu operations</title>
<updated>2013-11-13T03:09:11Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Thelen</name>
<email>gthelen@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-12T23:08:34Z</published>
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Tests various percpu operations.

Enable with CONFIG_PERCPU_TEST=m.

Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen &lt;gthelen@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>locking: Move the percpu-rwsem code to kernel/locking/</title>
<updated>2013-11-06T08:24:22Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-04T17:05:09Z</published>
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Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-52bjmtty46we26hbfd9sc9iy@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking: Move the rwsem code to kernel/locking/</title>
<updated>2013-11-06T08:24:18Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-31T17:19:28Z</published>
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Notably: changed lib/rwsem* targets from lib- to obj-, no idea about
the ramifications of that.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-g0kynfh5feriwc6p3h6kpbw6@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking: Move the spinlock code to kernel/locking/</title>
<updated>2013-11-06T06:55:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-31T17:15:36Z</published>
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Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-b81ol0z3mon45m51o131yc9j@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>Add a generic associative array implementation.</title>
<updated>2013-09-24T09:35:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-24T09:35:17Z</published>
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Add a generic associative array implementation that can be used as the
container for keyrings, thereby massively increasing the capacity available
whilst also speeding up searching in keyrings that contain a lot of keys.

This may also be useful in FS-Cache for tracking cookies.

Documentation is added into Documentation/associative_array.txt

Some of the properties of the implementation are:

 (1) Objects are opaque pointers.  The implementation does not care where they
     point (if anywhere) or what they point to (if anything).

     [!] NOTE: Pointers to objects _must_ be zero in the two least significant
     	       bits.

 (2) Objects do not need to contain linkage blocks for use by the array.  This
     permits an object to be located in multiple arrays simultaneously.
     Rather, the array is made up of metadata blocks that point to objects.

 (3) Objects are labelled as being one of two types (the type is a bool value).
     This information is stored in the array, but has no consequence to the
     array itself or its algorithms.

 (4) Objects require index keys to locate them within the array.

 (5) Index keys must be unique.  Inserting an object with the same key as one
     already in the array will replace the old object.

 (6) Index keys can be of any length and can be of different lengths.

 (7) Index keys should encode the length early on, before any variation due to
     length is seen.

 (8) Index keys can include a hash to scatter objects throughout the array.

 (9) The array can iterated over.  The objects will not necessarily come out in
     key order.

(10) The array can be iterated whilst it is being modified, provided the RCU
     readlock is being held by the iterator.  Note, however, under these
     circumstances, some objects may be seen more than once.  If this is a
     problem, the iterator should lock against modification.  Objects will not
     be missed, however, unless deleted.

(11) Objects in the array can be looked up by means of their index key.

(12) Objects can be looked up whilst the array is being modified, provided the
     RCU readlock is being held by the thread doing the look up.

The implementation uses a tree of 16-pointer nodes internally that are indexed
on each level by nibbles from the index key.  To improve memory efficiency,
shortcuts can be emplaced to skip over what would otherwise be a series of
single-occupancy nodes.  Further, nodes pack leaf object pointers into spare
space in the node rather than making an extra branch until as such time an
object needs to be added to a full node.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending</title>
<updated>2013-09-12T23:11:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-12T23:11:45Z</published>
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Pull SCSI target updates from Nicholas Bellinger:
 "Lots of activity again this round for I/O performance optimizations
  (per-cpu IDA pre-allocation for vhost + iscsi/target), and the
  addition of new fabric independent features to target-core
  (COMPARE_AND_WRITE + EXTENDED_COPY).

  The main highlights include:

   - Support for iscsi-target login multiplexing across individual
     network portals
   - Generic Per-cpu IDA logic (kent + akpm + clameter)
   - Conversion of vhost to use per-cpu IDA pre-allocation for
     descriptors, SGLs and userspace page pointer list
   - Conversion of iscsi-target + iser-target to use per-cpu IDA
     pre-allocation for descriptors
   - Add support for generic COMPARE_AND_WRITE (AtomicTestandSet)
     emulation for virtual backend drivers
   - Add support for generic EXTENDED_COPY (CopyOffload) emulation for
     virtual backend drivers.
   - Add support for fast memory registration mode to iser-target (Vu)

  The patches to add COMPARE_AND_WRITE and EXTENDED_COPY support are of
  particular significance, which make us the first and only open source
  target to support the full set of VAAI primitives.

  Currently Linux clients are lacking upstream support to actually
  utilize these primitives.  However, with server side support now in
  place for folks like MKP + ZAB working on the client, this logic once
  reserved for the highest end of storage arrays, can now be run in VMs
  on their laptops"

* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending: (50 commits)
  target/iscsi: Bump versions to v4.1.0
  target: Update copyright ownership/year information to 2013
  iscsi-target: Bump default TCP listen backlog to 256
  target: Fix &gt;= v3.9+ regression in PR APTPL + ALUA metadata write-out
  iscsi-target; Bump default CmdSN Depth to 64
  iscsi-target: Remove unnecessary wait_for_completion in iscsi_get_thread_set
  iscsi-target: Add thread_set-&gt;ts_activate_sem + use common deallocate
  iscsi-target: Fix race with thread_pre_handler flush_signals + ISCSI_THREAD_SET_DIE
  target: remove unused including &lt;linux/version.h&gt;
  iser-target: introduce fast memory registration mode (FRWR)
  iser-target: generalize rdma memory registration and cleanup
  iser-target: move rdma wr processing to a shared function
  target: Enable global EXTENDED_COPY setup/release
  target: Add Third Party Copy (3PC) bit in INQUIRY response
  target: Enable EXTENDED_COPY setup in spc_parse_cdb
  target: Add support for EXTENDED_COPY copy offload emulation
  target: Avoid non-existent tg_pt_gp_mem in target_alua_state_check
  target: Add global device list for EXTENDED_COPY
  target: Make helpers non static for EXTENDED_COPY command setup
  target: Make spc_parse_naa_6h_vendor_specific non static
  ...
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