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Amir Goldstein a725356b66 vfs: swap names of {do,vfs}_clone_file_range()
Commit 031a072a0b ("vfs: call vfs_clone_file_range() under freeze
protection") created a wrapper do_clone_file_range() around
vfs_clone_file_range() moving the freeze protection to former, so
overlayfs could call the latter.

The more common vfs practice is to call do_xxx helpers from vfs_xxx
helpers, where freeze protecction is taken in the vfs_xxx helper, so
this anomality could be a source of confusion.

It seems that commit 8ede205541 ("ovl: add reflink/copyfile/dedup
support") may have fallen a victim to this confusion -
ovl_clone_file_range() calls the vfs_clone_file_range() helper in the
hope of getting freeze protection on upper fs, but in fact results in
overlayfs allowing to bypass upper fs freeze protection.

Swap the names of the two helpers to conform to common vfs practice
and call the correct helpers from overlayfs and nfsd.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
2018-09-24 10:54:01 +02:00
arch xen: fixes for 4.19-rc5 2018-09-23 13:32:19 +02:00
block block: use nanosecond resolution for iostat 2018-09-21 20:26:59 -06:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto DMAengine updates for v4.19-rc1 2018-08-18 15:55:59 -07:00
Documentation This pull request is slightly bigger than usual at this stage, but 2018-09-21 16:21:42 +02:00
drivers - Fix Dialog DA9063 regulator constraints issue causing failure in probe 2018-09-23 17:19:27 +02:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs vfs: swap names of {do,vfs}_clone_file_range() 2018-09-24 10:54:01 +02:00
include vfs: swap names of {do,vfs}_clone_file_range() 2018-09-24 10:54:01 +02:00
init Kbuild updates for v4.19 (2nd) 2018-08-25 13:40:38 -07:00
ipc ipc/shm: properly return EIDRM in shm_lock() 2018-09-04 16:45:02 -07:00
kernel kernel/sys.c: remove duplicated include 2018-09-20 22:01:11 +02:00
lib lib/Kconfig.debug: fix three typos in help text 2018-09-04 16:45:02 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add Linux-OpenIB license text 2018-04-27 16:41:53 -06:00
mm mm: slowly shrink slabs with a relatively small number of objects 2018-09-20 22:01:11 +02:00
net net/ipv6: do not copy dst flags on rt init 2018-09-17 19:42:14 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: all XDP samples should unload xdp/bpf prog on SIGTERM 2018-08-16 21:55:32 +02:00
scripts linux-kselftest-4.19-rc5 2018-09-17 07:24:28 +02:00
security Revert "x86/mm/legacy: Populate the user page-table with user pgd's" 2018-09-14 17:08:45 +02:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v4.19 2018-09-17 18:59:21 +02:00
tools Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-09-23 08:09:16 +02:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt KVM: Remove obsolete kvm_unmap_hva notifier backend 2018-09-07 15:06:02 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Set IndentWrappedFunctionNames false 2018-08-01 18:38:51 +02:00
.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore
.gitattributes
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap libnvdimm-for-4.19_misc 2018-08-25 18:13:10 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS 9p: remove Ron Minnich from MAINTAINERS 2018-08-17 16:20:26 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-09-23 08:10:12 +02:00
Makefile Linux 4.19-rc5 2018-09-23 19:15:18 +02:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.