- 28 Apr, 2016 27 commits
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Soheil Hassas Yeganeh authored
The SKBTX_ACK_TSTAMP flag is set in skb_shinfo->tx_flags when the timestamp of the TCP acknowledgement should be reported on error queue. Since accessing skb_shinfo is likely to incur a cache-line miss at the time of receiving the ack, the txstamp_ack bit was added in tcp_skb_cb, which is set iff the SKBTX_ACK_TSTAMP flag is set for an skb. This makes SKBTX_ACK_TSTAMP flag redundant. Remove the SKBTX_ACK_TSTAMP and instead use the txstamp_ack bit everywhere. Note that this frees one bit in shinfo->tx_flags. Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> Suggested-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Soheil Hassas Yeganeh authored
Remove the redundant check for sk->sk_tsflags in tcp_tx_timestamp. tcp_tx_timestamp() receives the tsflags as a parameter. As a result the "sk->sk_tsflags || tsflags" is redundant, since tsflags already includes sk->sk_tsflags plus overrides from control messages. Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
I accidentally replaced BH disabling by preemption disabling in SNMP_ADD_STATS64() and SNMP_UPD_PO_STATS64() on 32bit builds. For 64bit stats on 32bit arch, we really need to disable BH, since the "struct u64_stats_sync syncp" might be manipulated both from process and BH contexts. Fixes: 6aef70a8 ("net: snmp: kill various STATS_USER() helpers") Reported-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Tested-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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David S. Miller authored
Eric Dumazet says: ==================== net: avoid some atomic ops when FASYNC is not used We can avoid some atomic operations on sockets not using FASYNC ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
SOCKWQ_ASYNC_WAITDATA is set/cleared in sk_wait_data() and equivalent functions, so that sock_wake_async() can send a SIGIO only when necessary. Since these atomic operations are really not needed unless socket expressed interest in FASYNC, we can omit them in most cases. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
SOCKWQ_ASYNC_NOSPACE is tested in sock_wake_async() so that a SIGIO signal is sent when needed. tcp_sendmsg() clears the bit. tcp_poll() sets the bit when stream is not writeable. We can avoid two atomic operations by first checking if socket is actually interested in the FASYNC business (most sockets in real applications do not use AIO, but select()/poll()/epoll()) This also removes one cache line miss to access sk->sk_wq->flags in tcp_sendmsg() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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David S. Miller authored
Eric Dumazet says: ==================== net: snmp: update SNMP methods In the old days (before linux-3.0), SNMP counters were duplicated, one set for user context, and anther one for BH context. After commit 8f0ea0fe ("snmp: reduce percpu needs by 50%") we have a single copy, and what really matters is preemption being enabled or disabled, since we use this_cpu_inc() or __this_cpu_inc() respectively. This patch series kills the obsolete STATS_USER() helpers, and rename all XXX_BH() helpers to __XXX() ones, to more closely match conventions used to update per cpu variables. This is probably going to hurt maintainers job for a while, since cherry-picks will not be clean, but this had to be cleaned at one point. I am so sorry guys. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
There is nothing related to BH in SNMP counters anymore, since linux-3.0. Rename helpers to use __ prefix instead of _BH prefix, for contexts where preemption is disabled. This more closely matches convention used to update percpu variables. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
IPv6 ICMP stats are atomics anyway. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
Rename IP6_UPD_PO_STATS_BH() to __IP6_UPD_PO_STATS() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
Rename IP6_INC_STATS_BH() to __IP6_INC_STATS() and IP6_ADD_STATS_BH() to __IP6_ADD_STATS() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
Rename NET_INC_STATS_BH() to __NET_INC_STATS() and NET_ADD_STATS_BH() to __NET_ADD_STATS() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
Rename IP_UPD_PO_STATS_BH() to __IP_UPD_PO_STATS() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
Rename IP_ADD_STATS_BH() to __IP_ADD_STATS() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
Rename ICMP6_INC_STATS_BH() to __ICMP6_INC_STATS() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
Rename IP_INC_STATS_BH() to __IP_INC_STATS(), to better express this is used in non preemptible context. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
Rename SCTP_INC_STATS_BH() to __SCTP_INC_STATS() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
Remove misleading _BH suffix. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
Rename TCP_INC_STATS_BH() to __TCP_INC_STATS() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
Not used anymore. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
Rename UDP_INC_STATS_BH() to __UDP_INC_STATS(), and UDP6_INC_STATS_BH() to __UDP6_INC_STATS() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
Rename ICMP_INC_STATS_BH() to __ICMP_INC_STATS() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
Rename DCCP_INC_STATS_BH() to __DCCP_INC_STATS() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
In the old days (before linux-3.0), SNMP counters were duplicated, one for user context, and one for BH context. After commit 8f0ea0fe ("snmp: reduce percpu needs by 50%") we have a single copy, and what really matters is preemption being enabled or disabled, since we use this_cpu_inc() or __this_cpu_inc() respectively. We therefore kill SNMP_INC_STATS_USER(), SNMP_ADD_STATS_USER(), NET_INC_STATS_USER(), NET_ADD_STATS_USER(), SCTP_INC_STATS_USER(), SNMP_INC_STATS64_USER(), SNMP_ADD_STATS64_USER(), TCP_ADD_STATS_USER(), UDP_INC_STATS_USER(), UDP6_INC_STATS_USER(), and XFRM_INC_STATS_USER() Following patches will rename __BH helpers to make clear their usage is not tied to BH being disabled. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/next-queueDavid S. Miller authored
Jeff Kirsher says: ==================== 40GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2016-04-27 This series contains updates to i40e and i40evf. Alex Duyck cleans up the feature flags since they are becoming pretty "massive", the primary change being that we now build our features list around hw_encap_features. Added support for IPIP and SIT offloads, which should improvement in throughput for IPIP and SIT tunnels with the offload enabled. Mitch adds support for configuring RSS on behalf of the VFs, which removes the burden of dealing with different hardware interfaces from the VF drivers and improves future compatibility. Fix to ensure that we do not panic by checking that the vsi_res pointer is valid before dereferencing it, after which we can drink beer and eat peanuts. Shannon does come housekeeping in i40e_add_fdir_ethtool() in preparation for more cloud filter work. Added flexibility to the nvmupdate facility by adding the ability to specify an AQ event opcode to wait on after Exec_AQ request. Michal adds device capability which defines if an update is available and if a security check is needed during the update process. Kamil just adds a device id to support X722 QSFP+ device. Greg fixes an issue where a mirror rule ID may be zero, so do not return invalid parameter when the user passes in a zero for a rule ID. Adds support to steer packets to VSIs by VLAN tag alone while being in promiscuous mode for multicast and unicast MAC addresses. Jesse fixes the driver from offloading the VLAN tag into the skb any time there was a VLAN tag and the hardware stripping was enabled, to making sure it is enabled before put_tag. v2: Dropped patch 8 ("i40e: Allow user to change input set mask for flow director") while Kiran reworks a more generalized solution based on feedback from David Miller. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
sd->input_queue_head is incremented for each processed packet in process_backlog(), and read from other cpus performing Out Of Order avoidance in get_rps_cpu() Moving this field in a separate cache line keeps it mostly hot for the cpu in process_backlog(), as other cpus will only read it. In a stress test, process_backlog() was consuming 6.80 % of cpu cycles, and the patch reduced the cost to 0.65 % Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Acked-by: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Akinobu Mita authored
This adds support for W5500 chip. W5500 has similar register and memory organization with W5100 and W5200. There are a few important differences listed below but it is still possible to share common code with W5100 and W5200. * W5500 register and memory are organized by multiple blocks. Each one is selected by 16bits offset address and 5bits block select bits. But the existing register access operations take u16 address. This change extends the addess by u32 address and put offset address to lower 16bits and block select bits to upper 16bits. This change also adds the offset addresses for socket register and TX/RX memory blocks to the driver private data structure in order to reduce conditional switches for each chip. * W5500 has the different register offset for socket interrupt mask register. Newly added internal functions w5100_enable_intr() and w5100_disable_intr() take care of the diffrence. * W5500 has the different register offset for retry time-value register. But this register is only used to verify that the reset value is correctly read at initialization. So move the verification to w5100_hw_reset() which already does different things for different chips. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Sinkovsky <msink@permonline.ru> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 27 Apr, 2016 10 commits
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Anjali Singhai Jain authored
Add necessary Linux Ethernet driver support for promiscuous mode operation. Add a flag so the VF knows it is in promiscuous mode and two state flags to discreetly track multicast and unicast promiscuous states. Change-Id: Ib2f2dc7a7582304fec90fc917ebb7ded21ba1de4 Signed-off-by: Anjali Singhai Jain <anjali.singhai@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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Anjali Singhai Jain authored
Add infrastructure for Network Function Virtualization VLAN tagged packet steering feature. Change-Id: I9b873d8fcc253858e6baba65ac68ec5b9363944e Signed-off-by: Anjali Singhai Jain <anjali.singhai@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com> Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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Greg Rose authored
NFV use cases require the ability to steer packets to VSIs by VLAN tag alone while being in promiscuous mode for multicast and unicast MAC addresses. These two new functions support that ability. Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com> Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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Jesse Brandeburg authored
The driver was offloading the VLAN tag into the skb any time there was a VLAN tag and the hardware stripping was enabled. Just check to make sure it's enabled before put_tag. Change-Id: Ife95290c06edd9a616393b38679923938b382241 Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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Greg Rose authored
A mirror rule ID may be zero so do not return invalid parameter when the user passes in a zero value for a rule ID. Change-ID: I261b8c24725ce2c6ed32f859da81093dfcbe2970 Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@intel.com> Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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Kamil Krawczyk authored
Change-ID: I1370fbc7774e815ac1ad56561e97488e829592fc Signed-off-by: Kamil Krawczyk <kamil.krawczyk@intel.com> Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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Michal Kosiarz authored
Add device capability which defines if update is available and security check is needed during update process. Change-ID: I380787c878275e1df18b39198df3ee3666342282 Signed-off-by: Michal Kosiarz <michal.kosiarz@intel.com> Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netDavid S. Miller authored
Minor overlapping changes in the conflicts. In the macsec case, the change of the default ID macro name overlapped with the 64-bit netlink attribute alignment fixes in net-next. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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David Ahern authored
Similar to 3bfd8472 ("net: Use passed in table for nexthop lookups") for IPv4, if the route spec contains a table id use that to lookup the next hop first and fall back to a full lookup if it fails (per the fix 4c9bcd11 ("net: Fix nexthop lookups")). Example: root@kenny:~# ip -6 ro ls table red local 2100:1::1 dev lo proto none metric 0 pref medium 2100:1::/120 dev eth1 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium local 2100:2::1 dev lo proto none metric 0 pref medium 2100:2::/120 dev eth2 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium local fe80::e0:f9ff:fe09:3cac dev lo proto none metric 0 pref medium local fe80::e0:f9ff:fe1c:b974 dev lo proto none metric 0 pref medium fe80::/64 dev eth1 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium fe80::/64 dev eth2 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium ff00::/8 dev red metric 256 pref medium ff00::/8 dev eth1 metric 256 pref medium ff00::/8 dev eth2 metric 256 pref medium unreachable default dev lo metric 240 error -113 pref medium root@kenny:~# ip -6 ro add table red 2100:3::/64 via 2100:1::64 RTNETLINK answers: No route to host Route add fails even though 2100:1::64 is a reachable next hop: root@kenny:~# ping6 -I red 2100:1::64 ping6: Warning: source address might be selected on device other than red. PING 2100:1::64(2100:1::64) from 2100:1::1 red: 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 2100:1::64: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.33 ms With this patch: root@kenny:~# ip -6 ro add table red 2100:3::/64 via 2100:1::64 root@kenny:~# ip -6 ro ls table red local 2100:1::1 dev lo proto none metric 0 pref medium 2100:1::/120 dev eth1 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium local 2100:2::1 dev lo proto none metric 0 pref medium 2100:2::/120 dev eth2 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium 2100:3::/64 via 2100:1::64 dev eth1 metric 1024 pref medium local fe80::e0:f9ff:fe09:3cac dev lo proto none metric 0 pref medium local fe80::e0:f9ff:fe1c:b974 dev lo proto none metric 0 pref medium fe80::/64 dev eth1 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium fe80::/64 dev eth2 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium ff00::/8 dev red metric 256 pref medium ff00::/8 dev eth1 metric 256 pref medium ff00::/8 dev eth2 metric 256 pref medium unreachable default dev lo metric 240 error -113 pref medium Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Nicolas Dichtel authored
The type TASKSTATS_TYPE_NULL should always be ignored. When jumping to the next attribute, only the length of the current attribute should be added, not the length of all nested attributes. This last bug was not visible before commit 80df5542, because the kernel didn't put more than two nested attributes. Fixes: a3baf649 ("[PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: documentation") Fixes: 80df5542 ("taskstats: use the libnl API to align nlattr on 64-bit") Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 26 Apr, 2016 3 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netLinus Torvalds authored
Pull networking fixes from David Miller: 1) Handle v4/v6 mixed sockets properly in soreuseport, from Craig Gallak. 2) Bug fixes for the new macsec facility (missing kmalloc NULL checks, missing locking around netdev list traversal, etc.) from Sabrina Dubroca. 3) Fix handling of host routes on ifdown in ipv6, from David Ahern. 4) Fix double-fdput in bpf verifier. From Jann Horn. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (31 commits) bpf: fix double-fdput in replace_map_fd_with_map_ptr() net: ipv6: Delete host routes on an ifdown Revert "ipv6: Revert optional address flusing on ifdown." net/mlx4_en: fix spurious timestamping callbacks net: dummy: remove note about being Y by default cxgbi: fix uninitialized flowi6 ipv6: Revert optional address flusing on ifdown. ipv4/fib: don't warn when primary address is missing if in_dev is dead net/mlx5: Add pci shutdown callback net/mlx5_core: Remove static from local variable net/mlx5e: Use vport MTU rather than physical port MTU net/mlx5e: Fix minimum MTU net/mlx5e: Device's mtu field is u16 and not int net/mlx5_core: Add ConnectX-5 to list of supported devices net/mlx5e: Fix MLX5E_100BASE_T define net/mlx5_core: Fix soft lockup in steering error flow qlcnic: Update version to 5.3.64 net: stmmac: socfpga: Remove re-registration of reset controller macsec: fix netlink attribute validation macsec: add missing macsec prefix in uapi ...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-socLinus Torvalds authored
Pull ARM SoC fixes from Arnd Bergmann: "Here are the latest bug fixes for ARM SoCs, mostly addressing recent regressions. Changes are across several platforms, so I'm listing every change separately here. Regressions since 4.5: - A correction of the psci firmware DT binding, to prevent users from relying on unintended semantics - Actually getting the newly merged clock driver for some OMAP platforms to work - A revert of patches for the Qualcomm BAM, these need to be reworked for 4.7 to avoid breaking boards other than the one they were intended for - A correction for the I2C device nodes on the Socionext Uniphier platform - i.MX SDHCI was broken for non-DT platforms due to a change with the setting of the DMA mask - A revert of a patch that accidentally added a nonexisting clock on the Rensas "Porter" board - A couple of OMAP fixes that are all related to suspend after the power domain changes for dra7 - On Mediatek, revert part of the power domain initialization changes that broke mt8173-evb Fixes for older bugs: - Workaround for an "external abort" in the omap34xx suspend/resume code. - The USB1/eSATA should not be listed as an excon device on am57xx-beagle-x15 (broken since v4.0) - A v4.5 regression in the TI AM33xx and AM43XX DT specifying incorrect DMA request lines for the GPMC - The jiffies calibration on Renesas platforms was incorrect for some modern CPU cores. - A hardware errata woraround for clockdomains on TI DRA7" * tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: drivers: firmware: psci: unify enable-method binding on ARM {64,32}-bit systems arm64: dts: uniphier: fix I2C nodes of PH1-LD20 ARM: shmobile: timer: Fix preset_lpj leading to too short delays Revert "ARM: dts: porter: Enable SCIF_CLK frequency and pins" ARM: dts: r8a7791: Don't disable referenced optional clocks Revert "ARM: OMAP: Catch callers of revision information prior to it being populated" ARM: OMAP3: Fix external abort on 36xx waking from off mode idle ARM: dts: am57xx-beagle-x15: remove extcon_usb1 ARM: dts: am437x: Fix GPMC dma properties ARM: dts: am33xx: Fix GPMC dma properties Revert "soc: mediatek: SCPSYS: Fix double enabling of regulators" ARM: mach-imx: sdhci-esdhc-imx: initialize DMA mask ARM: DRA7: clockdomain: Implement timer workaround for errata i874 ARM: OMAP: Catch callers of revision information prior to it being populated ARM: dts: dra7: Correct clock tree for sys_32k_ck ARM: OMAP: DRA7: Provide proper class to omap2_set_globals_tap ARM: OMAP: DRA7: wakeupgen: Skip SAR save for wakeupgen Revert "dts: msm8974: Add dma channels for blsp2_i2c1 node" Revert "dts: msm8974: Add blsp2_bam dma node" ARM: dts: Add clocks for dm814x ADPLL
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Linus Torvalds authored
This is more prep-work for the upcoming pty changes. Still just code cleanup with no actual semantic changes. This removes a bunch pointless complexity by just having the slave pty side remember the dentry associated with the devpts slave rather than the inode. That allows us to remove all the "look up the dentry" code for when we want to remove it again. Together with moving the tty pointer from "inode->i_private" to "dentry->d_fsdata" and getting rid of pointless inode locking, this removes about 30 lines of code. Not only is the end result smaller, it's simpler and easier to understand. The old code, for example, depended on the d_find_alias() to not just find the dentry, but also to check that it is still hashed, which in turn validated the tty pointer in the inode. That is a _very_ roundabout way to say "invalidate the cached tty pointer when the dentry is removed". The new code just does dentry->d_fsdata = NULL; in devpts_pty_kill() instead, invalidating the tty pointer rather more directly and obviously. Don't do something complex and subtle when the obvious straightforward approach will do. The rest of the patch (ie apart from code deletion and the above tty pointer clearing) is just switching the calling convention to pass the dentry or file pointer around instead of the inode. Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com> Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Cc: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> Cc: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com> Cc: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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