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Author SHA1 Message Date
Linus Torvalds
04a3389b35 Remove stale generated 'genheaders' file
This bogus stale file was added in commit 101971298b ("riscv: add a
warning when physical memory address overflows").  It's the old location
for what is now 'security/selinux/genheaders'.

It looks like it got incorrectly committed back when that file was in
the old location, and then rebasing kept the bogus file alive.

Reported-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20250201020003.GA77370@sol.localdomain/
Fixes: 101971298b ("riscv: add a  warning when physical memory address overflows")
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2025-01-31 19:49:17 -08:00
Yunhui Cui
101971298b riscv: add a warning when physical memory address overflows
The part of physical memory that exceeds the size of the linear mapping
will be discarded. When the system starts up normally, a warning message
will be printed to prevent confusion caused by the mismatch between the
system memory and the actual physical memory.

Signed-off-by: Yunhui Cui <cuiyunhui@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Tested-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240814062625.19794-1-cuiyunhui@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
2025-01-29 18:36:09 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
c01f664e4c Merge tag 'reiserfs_delete' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs
Pull reiserfs removal from Jan Kara:
 "The deprecation period of reiserfs is ending at the end of this year
  so it is time to remove it"

* tag 'reiserfs_delete' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
  reiserfs: The last commit
2024-11-21 09:50:18 -08:00
Jan Kara
fb6f20ecb1 reiserfs: The last commit
Deprecation period of reiserfs ends with the end of this year so it is
time to remove it from the kernel.

Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2024-10-21 16:29:38 +02:00
Masahiro Yamada
3b70b66e03 selinux: move genheaders to security/selinux/
This tool is only used in security/selinux/Makefile.

Move it to security/selinux/ so that 'make clean' can clean it up.

Please note 'make clean' does not clean scripts/ because tools under
scripts/ are often used for external module builds. Obviously, genheaders
is not the case here.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
2024-10-03 16:07:51 -04:00
Masahiro Yamada
541b57e313 selinux: do not include <linux/*.h> headers from host programs
The header, security/selinux/include/classmap.h, is included not only
from kernel space but also from host programs.

It includes <linux/capability.h> and <linux/socket.h>, which pull in
more <linux/*.h> headers. This makes the host programs less portable,
specifically causing build errors on macOS.

Those headers are included for the following purposes:

 - <linux/capability.h> for checking CAP_LAST_CAP
 - <linux/socket.h> for checking PF_MAX

These checks can be guarded by __KERNEL__ so they are skipped when
building host programs. Testing them when building the kernel should
be sufficient.

The header, security/selinux/include/initial_sid_to_string.h, includes
<linux/stddef.h> for the NULL definition, but this is not portable
either. Instead, <stddef.h> should be included for host programs.

Reported-by: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240807-macos-build-support-v1-6-4cd1ded85694@samsung.com/
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240807-macos-build-support-v1-7-4cd1ded85694@samsung.com/
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
2024-10-03 15:34:24 -04:00
Paul Moore
2fe2fb4ce6 selinux: remove runtime disable message in the install_policy.sh script
We are in the process of deprecating the runtime disable mechanism,
let's not reference it in the scripts.

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
2022-09-20 14:12:25 -04:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
c969bb8dba selinux: use "grep -E" instead of "egrep"
The latest version of grep claims that egrep is now obsolete so the build
now contains warnings that look like:
	egrep: warning: egrep is obsolescent; using grep -E
fix this by using "grep -E" instead.

Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>
Cc: selinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
[PM: tweak to remove vdso reference, cleanup subj line]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
2022-09-20 14:08:04 -04:00
Christian Göttsche
ded34574d4 selinux: declare data arrays const
The arrays for the policy capability names, the initial sid identifiers
and the class and permission names are not changed at runtime.  Declare
them const to avoid accidental modification.

Do not override the classmap and the initial sid list in the build time
script genheaders.

Check flose(3) is successful in genheaders.c, otherwise the written data
might be corrupted or incomplete.

Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@googlemail.com>
[PM: manual merge due to fuzz, minor style tweaks]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
2022-05-03 15:53:49 -04:00
Stephen Smalley
339949be25 scripts/selinux,selinux: update mdp to enable policy capabilities
Presently mdp does not enable any SELinux policy capabilities
in the dummy policy it generates. Thus, policies derived from
it will by default lack various features commonly used in modern
policies such as open permission, extended socket classes, network
peer controls, etc.  Split the policy capability definitions out into
their own headers so that we can include them into mdp without pulling in
other kernel headers and extend mdp generate policycap statements for the
policy capabilities known to the kernel.  Policy authors may wish to
selectively remove some of these from the generated policy.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
2020-08-17 20:42:00 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
fc80c51fd4 Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - run the checker (e.g. sparse) after the compiler

 - remove unneeded cc-option tests for old compiler flags

 - fix tar-pkg to install dtbs

 - introduce ccflags-remove-y and asflags-remove-y syntax

 - allow to trace functions in sub-directories of lib/

 - introduce hostprogs-always-y and userprogs-always-y syntax

 - various Makefile cleanups

* tag 'kbuild-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  kbuild: stop filtering out $(GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS) from cc-option base
  kbuild: include scripts/Makefile.* only when relevant CONFIG is enabled
  kbuild: introduce hostprogs-always-y and userprogs-always-y
  kbuild: sort hostprogs before passing it to ifneq
  kbuild: move host .so build rules to scripts/gcc-plugins/Makefile
  kbuild: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
  kbuild: trace functions in subdirectories of lib/
  kbuild: introduce ccflags-remove-y and asflags-remove-y
  kbuild: do not export LDFLAGS_vmlinux
  kbuild: always create directories of targets
  powerpc/boot: add DTB to 'targets'
  kbuild: buildtar: add dtbs support
  kbuild: remove cc-option test of -ffreestanding
  kbuild: remove cc-option test of -fno-stack-protector
  Revert "kbuild: Create directory for target DTB"
  kbuild: run the checker after the compiler
2020-08-09 14:10:26 -07:00
Masahiro Yamada
faabed295c kbuild: introduce hostprogs-always-y and userprogs-always-y
To build host programs, you need to add the program names to 'hostprogs'
to use the necessary build rule, but it is not enough to build them
because there is no dependency.

There are two types of host programs: built as the prerequisite of
another (e.g. gen_crc32table in lib/Makefile), or always built when
Kbuild visits the Makefile (e.g. genksyms in scripts/genksyms/Makefile).

The latter is typical in Makefiles under scripts/, which contains host
programs globally used during the kernel build. To build them, you need
to add them to both 'hostprogs' and 'always-y'.

This commit adds hostprogs-always-y as a shorthand.

The same applies to user programs. net/bpfilter/Makefile builds
bpfilter_umh on demand, hence always-y is unneeded. In contrast,
programs under samples/ are added to both 'userprogs' and 'always-y'
so they are always built when Kbuild visits the Makefiles.

userprogs-always-y works as a shorthand.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
2020-08-10 01:32:59 +09:00
Stephen Smalley
382c2b5d23 scripts/selinux/mdp: fix initial SID handling
commit e3e0b582c3 ("selinux: remove unused initial SIDs and improve
handling") broke scripts/selinux/mdp since the unused initial SID names
were removed and the corresponding generation of policy initial SID
definitions by mdp was not updated accordingly.  Fix it.  With latest
upstream checkpolicy it is no longer necessary to include the SID context
definitions for the unused initial SIDs but retain them for compatibility
with older checkpolicy.

Fixes: e3e0b582c3 ("selinux: remove unused initial SIDs and improve handling")
Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
2020-06-23 20:48:15 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
ff2ae607c6 Merge tag 'spdx-5.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/spdx
Pull SPDX updates from Greg KH:
 "Here are three SPDX patches for 5.7-rc1.

  One fixes up the SPDX tag for a single driver, while the other two go
  through the tree and add SPDX tags for all of the .gitignore files as
  needed.

  Nothing too complex, but you will get a merge conflict with your
  current tree, that should be trivial to handle (one file modified by
  two things, one file deleted.)

  All three of these have been in linux-next for a while, with no
  reported issues other than the merge conflict"

* tag 'spdx-5.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/spdx:
  ASoC: MT6660: make spdxcheck.py happy
  .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier
  .gitignore: remove too obvious comments
2020-04-03 13:12:26 -07:00
Masahiro Yamada
d198b34f38 .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier
Add SPDX License Identifier to all .gitignore files.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
Masahiro Yamada
2985bed680 .gitignore: remove too obvious comments
Some .gitignore files have comments like "Generated files",
"Ignore generated files" at the header part, but they are
too obvious.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-03-25 11:50:28 +01:00
Stephen Smalley
e3e0b582c3 selinux: remove unused initial SIDs and improve handling
Remove initial SIDs that have never been used or are no longer used by
the kernel from its string table, which is also used to generate the
SECINITSID_* symbols referenced in code.  Update the code to
gracefully handle the fact that these can now be NULL. Stop treating
it as an error if a policy defines additional initial SIDs unknown to
the kernel.  Do not load unused initial SID contexts into the sidtab.
Fix the incorrect usage of the name from the ocontext in error
messages when loading initial SIDs since these are not presently
written to the kernel policy and are therefore always NULL.

After this change, it is possible to safely reclaim and reuse some of
the unused initial SIDs without compatibility issues.  Specifically,
unused initial SIDs that were being assigned the same context as the
unlabeled initial SID in policies can be reclaimed and reused for
another purpose, with existing policies still treating them as having
the unlabeled context and future policies having the option of mapping
them to a more specific context.  For example, this could have been
used when the infiniband labeling support was introduced to define
initial SIDs for the default pkey and endport SIDs similar to the
handling of port/netif/node SIDs rather than always using
SECINITSID_UNLABELED as the default.

The set of safely reclaimable unused initial SIDs across all known
policies is igmp_packet (13), icmp_socket (14), tcp_socket (15), kmod
(24), policy (25), and scmp_packet (26); these initial SIDs were
assigned the same context as unlabeled in all known policies including
mls.  If only considering non-mls policies (i.e. assuming that mls
users always upgrade policy with their kernels), the set of safely
reclaimable unused initial SIDs further includes file_labels (6), init
(7), sysctl_modprobe (16), and sysctl_fs (18) through sysctl_dev (23).

Adding new initial SIDs beyond SECINITSID_NUM to policy unfortunately
became a fatal error in commit 24ed7fdae6 ("selinux: use separate
table for initial SID lookup") and even before that it could cause
problems on a policy reload (collision between the new initial SID and
one allocated at runtime) ever since commit 42596eafdd ("selinux:
load the initial SIDs upon every policy load") so we cannot safely
start adding new initial SIDs to policies beyond SECINITSID_NUM (27)
until such a time as all such kernels do not need to be supported and
only those that include this commit are relevant. That is not a big
deal since we haven't added a new initial SID since 2004 (v2.6.7) and
we have plenty of unused ones we can reclaim if we truly need one.

If we want to avoid the wasted storage in initial_sid_to_string[]
and/or sidtab->isids[] for the unused initial SIDs, we could introduce
an indirection between the kernel initial SID values and the policy
initial SID values and just map the policy SID values in the ocontexts
to the kernel values during policy_load_isids(). Originally I thought
we'd do this by preserving the initial SID names in the kernel policy
and creating a mapping at load time like we do for the security
classes and permissions but that would require a new kernel policy
format version and associated changes to libsepol/checkpolicy and I'm
not sure it is justified. Simpler approach is just to create a fixed
mapping table in the kernel from the existing fixed policy values to
the kernel values. Less flexible but probably sufficient.

A separate selinux userspace change was applied in
8677ce5e8f
to enable removal of most of the unused initial SID contexts from
policies, but there is no dependency between that change and this one.
That change permits removing all of the unused initial SID contexts
from policy except for the fs and sysctl SID contexts.  The initial
SID declarations themselves would remain in policy to preserve the
values of subsequent ones but the contexts can be dropped.  If/when
the kernel decides to reuse one of them, future policies can change
the name and start assigning a context again without breaking
compatibility.

Here is how I would envision staging changes to the initial SIDs in a
compatible manner after this commit is applied:

1. At any time after this commit is applied, the kernel could choose
to reclaim one of the safely reclaimable unused initial SIDs listed
above for a new purpose (i.e. replace its NULL entry in the
initial_sid_to_string[] table with a new name and start using the
newly generated SECINITSID_name symbol in code), and refpolicy could
at that time rename its declaration of that initial SID to reflect its
new purpose and start assigning it a context going
forward. Existing/old policies would map the reclaimed initial SID to
the unlabeled context, so that would be the initial default behavior
until policies are updated. This doesn't depend on the selinux
userspace change; it will work with existing policies and userspace.

2. In 6 months or so we'll have another SELinux userspace release that
will include the libsepol/checkpolicy support for omitting unused
initial SID contexts.

3. At any time after that release, refpolicy can make that release its
minimum build requirement and drop the sid context statements (but not
the sid declarations) for all of the unused initial SIDs except for
fs and sysctl, which must remain for compatibility on policy
reload with old kernels and for compatibility with kernels that were
still using SECINITSID_SYSCTL (< 2.6.39). This doesn't depend on this
kernel commit; it will work with previous kernels as well.

4. After N years for some value of N, refpolicy decides that it no
longer cares about policy reload compatibility for kernels that
predate this kernel commit, and refpolicy drops the fs and sysctl
SID contexts from policy too (but retains the declarations).

5. After M years for some value of M, the kernel decides that it no
longer cares about compatibility with refpolicies that predate step 4
(dropping the fs and sysctl SIDs), and those two SIDs also become
safely reclaimable.  This step is optional and need not ever occur unless
we decide that the need to reclaim those two SIDs outweighs the
compatibility cost.

6. After O years for some value of O, refpolicy decides that it no
longer cares about policy load (not just reload) compatibility for
kernels that predate this kernel commit, and both kernel and refpolicy
can then start adding and using new initial SIDs beyond 27. This does
not depend on the previous change (step 5) and can occur independent
of it.

Fixes: https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux-kernel/issues/12
Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
2020-02-27 19:34:24 -05:00
Masahiro Yamada
5f2fb52fac kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y
In old days, the "host-progs" syntax was used for specifying host
programs. It was renamed to the current "hostprogs-y" in 2004.

It is typically useful in scripts/Makefile because it allows Kbuild to
selectively compile host programs based on the kernel configuration.

This commit renames like follows:

  always       ->  always-y
  hostprogs-y  ->  hostprogs

So, scripts/Makefile will look like this:

  always-$(CONFIG_BUILD_BIN2C) += ...
  always-$(CONFIG_KALLSYMS)    += ...
      ...
  hostprogs := $(always-y) $(always-m)

I think this makes more sense because a host program is always a host
program, irrespective of the kernel configuration. We want to specify
which ones to compile by CONFIG options, so always-y will be handier.

The "always", "hostprogs-y", "hostprogs-m" will be kept for backward
compatibility for a while.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Thomas Gleixner
1a59d1b8e0 treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 156
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version this program is distributed in the
  hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even
  the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
  purpose see the gnu general public license for more details you
  should have received a copy of the gnu general public license along
  with this program if not write to the free software foundation inc
  59 temple place suite 330 boston ma 02111 1307 usa

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 1334 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070033.113240726@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-30 11:26:35 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
ec8f24b7fa treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig
Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:

 - Have no license information of any form

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

  GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
Stephen Smalley
ccd19d4caf scripts/selinux: fix build
We need to add the object tree include directory to the include path
for building mdp in order to pick up generated/autoconf.h. Otherwise,
make O=/path/to/objtree breaks.

Fixes: e37c1877ba ("scripts/selinux: modernize mdp")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
2019-03-19 12:29:04 -04:00
Paulo Alcantara
ff1bf4c071 selinux: use kernel linux/socket.h for genheaders and mdp
When compiling genheaders and mdp from a newer host kernel, the
following error happens:

    In file included from scripts/selinux/genheaders/genheaders.c:18:
    ./security/selinux/include/classmap.h:238:2: error: #error New
    address family defined, please update secclass_map.  #error New
    address family defined, please update secclass_map.  ^~~~~
    make[3]: *** [scripts/Makefile.host:107:
    scripts/selinux/genheaders/genheaders] Error 1 make[2]: ***
    [scripts/Makefile.build:599: scripts/selinux/genheaders] Error 2
    make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.build:599: scripts/selinux] Error 2
    make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

Instead of relying on the host definition, include linux/socket.h in
classmap.h to have PF_MAX.

Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara <paulo@paulo.ac>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
[PM: manually merge in mdp.c, subject line tweaks]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
2019-03-18 18:52:10 -04:00
Stephen Smalley
e37c1877ba scripts/selinux: modernize mdp
Derived in part from a patch by Dominick Grift.

The MDP example no longer works on modern systems.  Fix it.
While we are at it, add MLS support and enable it.

NB This still does not work on systems using dbus-daemon instead of
dbus-broker because dbus-daemon does not yet gracefully handle unknown
classes/permissions.  This appears to be a deficiency in libselinux's
selinux_set_mapping() interface and underlying implementation,
which was never fully updated to deal with unknown classes/permissions
unlike the kernel.  The same problem also occurs with XSELinux.
Programs that instead use selinux_check_access() like dbus-broker
should not have this problem.

Changes to mdp:
Add support for devtmpfs, required by modern Linux distributions.
Add MLS support, with sample sensitivities, categories, and constraints.
Generate fs_use and genfscon rules based on kernel configuration.
Update list of filesystem types for fs_use and genfscon rules.
Use object_r for object contexts.

Changes to install_policy.sh:
Bail immediately on any errors.
Provide more helpful error messages when unable to find userspace tools.
Refuse to run if SELinux is already enabled.
Unconditionally move aside /etc/selinux/config and create a new one.
Build policy with -U allow so that userspace object managers do not break.
Build policy with MLS enabled by default.
Create seusers, failsafe_context, and default_contexts for use by
pam_selinux / libselinux.
Create x_contexts for the SELinux X extension.
Create virtual_domain_context and virtual_image_context for libvirtd.
Set to permissive mode rather than enforcing to permit initial autorelabel.
Update the list of filesystem types to be relabeled.
Write -F to /.autorelabel to cause a forced autorelabel on reboot.
Drop broken attempt to relabel the /dev mountpoint directory.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: Dominick Grift <dominick.grift@defensec.nl>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
2019-03-18 18:38:28 -04:00
Al Viro
a40612ef0e genheaders: %-<width>s had been there since v6; %-*s - since v7
Please, use at least K&R C; printf had been able to left-adjust
a field for as long as stdio existed and use of '*' for variable
width had been there since v7.  Yes, the first edition of K&R
didn't cover the latter feature (it slightly predates v7), but
you are using a much later feature of the language than that -
in K&R C
static char *stoupperx(const char *s)
{
...
}
would've been spelled as
static char *stoupperx(s)
char *s;
{
...
}

While we are at it, the use of strstr() is bogus - it finds the
_first_ instance of substring, so it's a lousy fit for checking
if a string ends with given suffix...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-12-10 03:40:11 -05:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
be65f9ed26 staging: lustre: delete the filesystem from the tree.
The Lustre filesystem has been in the kernel tree for over 5 years now.
While it has been an endless source of enjoyment for new kernel
developers learning how to do basic codingstyle cleanups, as well as an
semi-entertaining source of bewilderment from the vfs developers any
time they have looked into the codebase to try to figure out how to port
their latest api changes to this filesystem, it has not really moved
forward into the "this is in shape to get out of staging" despite many
half-completed attempts.

And getting code out of staging is the main goal of that portion of the
kernel tree.  Code should not stagnate and it feels like having this
code in staging is only causing the development cycle of the filesystem
to take longer than it should.  There is a whole separate out-of-tree
copy of this codebase where the developers work on it, and then random
changes are thrown over the wall at staging at some later point in time.
This dual-tree development model has never worked, and the state of this
codebase is proof of that.

So, let's just delete the whole mess.  Now the lustre developers can go
off and work in their out-of-tree codebase and not have to worry about
providing valid changelog entries and breaking their patches up into
logical pieces.  They can take the time they have spend doing those
types of housekeeping chores and get the codebase into a much better
shape, and it can be submitted for inclusion into the real part of the
kernel tree when ready.

Cc: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com>
Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-06-05 19:22:35 +02:00