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Merge tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.nsfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

Pull namespace updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains namespace updates. This time specifically for nsfs:

   - Userspace heavily relies on the root inode numbers for namespaces
     to identify the initial namespaces. That's already a hard
     dependency. So we cannot change that anymore. Move the initial
     inode numbers to a public header and align the only two namespaces
     that currently don't do that with all the other namespaces.

   - The root inode of /proc having a fixed inode number has been part
     of the core kernel ABI since its inception, and recently some
     userspace programs (mainly container runtimes) have started to
     explicitly depend on this behaviour.

     The main reason this is useful to userspace is that by checking
     that a suspect /proc handle has fstype PROC_SUPER_MAGIC and is
     PROCFS_ROOT_INO, they can then use openat2() together with
     RESOLVE_{NO_{XDEV,MAGICLINK},BENEATH} to ensure that there isn't a
     bind-mount that replaces some procfs file with a different one.

     This kind of attack has lead to security issues in container
     runtimes in the past (such as CVE-2019-19921) and libraries like
     libpathrs[1] use this feature of procfs to provide safe procfs
     handling functions"

* tag 'vfs-6.17-rc1.nsfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  uapi: export PROCFS_ROOT_INO
  mntns: use stable inode number for initial mount ns
  netns: use stable inode number for initial mount ns
  nsfs: move root inode number to uapi
2025-07-28 12:50:56 -07:00
arch Removing subtrees of kernel filesystems is done in quite a few 2025-07-28 09:43:51 -07:00
block vfs-6.17-rc1.misc 2025-07-28 11:22:56 -07:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: wp512 - Use API partial block handling 2025-06-23 16:56:56 +08:00
Documentation vfs-6.17-rc1.coredump 2025-07-28 11:50:36 -07:00
drivers vfs-6.17-rc1.coredump 2025-07-28 11:50:36 -07:00
fs vfs-6.17-rc1.nsfs 2025-07-28 12:50:56 -07:00
include vfs-6.17-rc1.nsfs 2025-07-28 12:50:56 -07:00
init futex: Temporary disable FUTEX_PRIVATE_HASH 2025-07-01 15:02:05 +02:00
io_uring vfs-6.17-rc1.misc 2025-07-28 11:22:56 -07:00
ipc mount changes. I've got more stuff in the local tree, but 2025-07-28 10:49:38 -07:00
kernel vfs-6.17-rc1.coredump 2025-07-28 11:50:36 -07:00
lib maple_tree: fix mt_destroy_walk() on root leaf node 2025-07-09 21:07:52 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add CC0-1.0 license text 2025-05-21 14:54:17 +02:00
mm vfs-6.17-rc1.misc 2025-07-28 11:22:56 -07:00
net vfs-6.17-rc1.nsfs 2025-07-28 12:50:56 -07:00
rust Rust fixes for v6.16 (2nd) 2025-07-19 09:22:26 -07:00
samples samples/damon: fix damon sample mtier for start failure 2025-07-09 21:07:55 -07:00
scripts Rust fixes for v6.16 (2nd) 2025-07-19 09:22:26 -07:00
security VFS-related cleanups in various places (mostly of the "that really can't 2025-07-28 10:32:20 -07:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v6.16 2025-07-24 08:45:13 +02:00
tools vfs-6.17-rc1.coredump 2025-07-28 11:50:36 -07:00
usr usr/include: openrisc: don't HDRTEST bpf_perf_event.h 2025-05-12 15:03:17 +09:00
virt KVM: Allow CPU to reschedule while setting per-page memory attributes 2025-06-24 12:20:17 -07:00
.clang-format Linux 6.15-rc5 2025-05-06 16:39:25 +10:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: Retire Ralf Baechle 2024-11-12 15:48:59 +01:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore Python compiled bytecode 2025-04-24 10:12:46 -06:00
.mailmap 11 hotfixes. 9 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.15 issues 2025-07-24 19:13:30 -07:00
.pylintrc docs: add a .pylintrc file with sys path for docs scripts 2025-04-09 12:10:33 -06:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS mm: update MAINTAINERS entry for HMM 2025-07-19 19:26:16 -07:00
Kbuild drm: ensure drm headers are self-contained and pass kernel-doc 2025-02-12 10:44:43 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS 11 hotfixes. 9 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.15 issues 2025-07-24 19:13:30 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.16 2025-07-27 14:26:38 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -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 reStructuredText markup notation.

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.