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<title>Merge tag 'net-next-6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next</title>
<updated>2023-06-28T23:43:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-28T23:43:10+00:00</published>
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Pull networking changes from Jakub Kicinski:
 "WiFi 7 and sendpage changes are the biggest pieces of work for this
  release. The latter will definitely require fixes but I think that we
  got it to a reasonable point.

  Core:

   - Rework the sendpage &amp; splice implementations

     Instead of feeding data into sockets page by page extend sendmsg
     handlers to support taking a reference on the data, controlled by a
     new flag called MSG_SPLICE_PAGES

     Rework the handling of unexpected-end-of-file to invoke an
     additional callback instead of trying to predict what the right
     combination of MORE/NOTLAST flags is

     Remove the MSG_SENDPAGE_NOTLAST flag completely

   - Implement SCM_PIDFD, a new type of CMSG type analogous to
     SCM_CREDENTIALS, but it contains pidfd instead of plain pid

   - Enable socket busy polling with CONFIG_RT

   - Improve reliability and efficiency of reporting for ref_tracker

   - Auto-generate a user space C library for various Netlink families

  Protocols:

   - Allow TCP to shrink the advertised window when necessary, prevent
     sk_rcvbuf auto-tuning from growing the window all the way up to
     tcp_rmem[2]

   - Use per-VMA locking for "page-flipping" TCP receive zerocopy

   - Prepare TCP for device-to-device data transfers, by making sure
     that payloads are always attached to skbs as page frags

   - Make the backoff time for the first N TCP SYN retransmissions
     linear. Exponential backoff is unnecessarily conservative

   - Create a new MPTCP getsockopt to retrieve all info
     (MPTCP_FULL_INFO)

   - Avoid waking up applications using TLS sockets until we have a full
     record

   - Allow using kernel memory for protocol ioctl callbacks, paving the
     way to issuing ioctls over io_uring

   - Add nolocalbypass option to VxLAN, forcing packets to be fully
     encapsulated even if they are destined for a local IP address

   - Make TCPv4 use consistent hash in TIME_WAIT and SYN_RECV. Ensure
     in-kernel ECMP implementation (e.g. Open vSwitch) select the same
     link for all packets. Support L4 symmetric hashing in Open vSwitch

   - PPPoE: make number of hash bits configurable

   - Allow DNS to be overwritten by DHCPACK in the in-kernel DHCP client
     (ipconfig)

   - Add layer 2 miss indication and filtering, allowing higher layers
     (e.g. ACL filters) to make forwarding decisions based on whether
     packet matched forwarding state in lower devices (bridge)

   - Support matching on Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) packets

   - Hide the "link becomes ready" IPv6 messages by demoting their
     printk level to debug

   - HSR: don't enable promiscuous mode if device offloads the proto

   - Support active scanning in IEEE 802.15.4

   - Continue work on Multi-Link Operation for WiFi 7

  BPF:

   - Add precision propagation for subprogs and callbacks. This allows
     maintaining verification efficiency when subprograms are used, or
     in fact passing the verifier at all for complex programs,
     especially those using open-coded iterators

   - Improve BPF's {g,s}setsockopt() length handling. Previously BPF
     assumed the length is always equal to the amount of written data.
     But some protos allow passing a NULL buffer to discover what the
     output buffer *should* be, without writing anything

   - Accept dynptr memory as memory arguments passed to helpers

   - Add routing table ID to bpf_fib_lookup BPF helper

   - Support O_PATH FDs in BPF_OBJ_PIN and BPF_OBJ_GET commands

   - Drop bpf_capable() check in BPF_MAP_FREEZE command (used to mark
     maps as read-only)

   - Show target_{obj,btf}_id in tracing link fdinfo

   - Addition of several new kfuncs (most of the names are
     self-explanatory):
      - Add a set of new dynptr kfuncs: bpf_dynptr_adjust(),
        bpf_dynptr_is_null(), bpf_dynptr_is_rdonly(), bpf_dynptr_size()
        and bpf_dynptr_clone().
      - bpf_task_under_cgroup()
      - bpf_sock_destroy() - force closing sockets
      - bpf_cpumask_first_and(), rework bpf_cpumask_any*() kfuncs

  Netfilter:

   - Relax set/map validation checks in nf_tables. Allow checking
     presence of an entry in a map without using the value

   - Increase ip_vs_conn_tab_bits range for 64BIT builds

   - Allow updating size of a set

   - Improve NAT tuple selection when connection is closing

  Driver API:

   - Integrate netdev with LED subsystem, to allow configuring HW
     "offloaded" blinking of LEDs based on link state and activity
     (i.e. packets coming in and out)

   - Support configuring rate selection pins of SFP modules

   - Factor Clause 73 auto-negotiation code out of the drivers, provide
     common helper routines

   - Add more fool-proof helpers for managing lifetime of MDIO devices
     associated with the PCS layer

   - Allow drivers to report advanced statistics related to Time Aware
     scheduler offload (taprio)

   - Allow opting out of VF statistics in link dump, to allow more VFs
     to fit into the message

   - Split devlink instance and devlink port operations

  New hardware / drivers:

   - Ethernet:
      - Synopsys EMAC4 IP support (stmmac)
      - Marvell 88E6361 8 port (5x1GE + 3x2.5GE) switches
      - Marvell 88E6250 7 port switches
      - Microchip LAN8650/1 Rev.B0 PHYs
      - MediaTek MT7981/MT7988 built-in 1GE PHY driver

   - WiFi:
      - Realtek RTL8192FU, 2.4 GHz, b/g/n mode, 2T2R, 300 Mbps
      - Realtek RTL8723DS (SDIO variant)
      - Realtek RTL8851BE

   - CAN:
      - Fintek F81604

  Drivers:

   - Ethernet NICs:
      - Intel (100G, ice):
         - support dynamic interrupt allocation
         - use meta data match instead of VF MAC addr on slow-path
      - nVidia/Mellanox:
         - extend link aggregation to handle 4, rather than just 2 ports
         - spawn sub-functions without any features by default
      - OcteonTX2:
         - support HTB (Tx scheduling/QoS) offload
         - make RSS hash generation configurable
         - support selecting Rx queue using TC filters
      - Wangxun (ngbe/txgbe):
         - add basic Tx/Rx packet offloads
         - add phylink support (SFP/PCS control)
      - Freescale/NXP (enetc):
         - report TAPRIO packet statistics
      - Solarflare/AMD:
         - support matching on IP ToS and UDP source port of outer
           header
         - VxLAN and GENEVE tunnel encapsulation over IPv4 or IPv6
         - add devlink dev info support for EF10

   - Virtual NICs:
      - Microsoft vNIC:
         - size the Rx indirection table based on requested
           configuration
         - support VLAN tagging
      - Amazon vNIC:
         - try to reuse Rx buffers if not fully consumed, useful for ARM
           servers running with 16kB pages
      - Google vNIC:
         - support TCP segmentation of &gt;64kB frames

   - Ethernet embedded switches:
      - Marvell (mv88e6xxx):
         - enable USXGMII (88E6191X)
      - Microchip:
         - lan966x: add support for Egress Stage 0 ACL engine
         - lan966x: support mapping packet priority to internal switch
           priority (based on PCP or DSCP)

   - Ethernet PHYs:
      - Broadcom PHYs:
         - support for Wake-on-LAN for BCM54210E/B50212E
         - report LPI counter
      - Microsemi PHYs: support RGMII delay configuration (VSC85xx)
      - Micrel PHYs: receive timestamp in the frame (LAN8841)
      - Realtek PHYs: support optional external PHY clock
      - Altera TSE PCS: merge the driver into Lynx PCS which it is a
        variant of

   - CAN: Kvaser PCIEcan:
      - support packet timestamping

   - WiFi:
      - Intel (iwlwifi):
         - major update for new firmware and Multi-Link Operation (MLO)
         - configuration rework to drop test devices and split the
           different families
         - support for segmented PNVM images and power tables
         - new vendor entries for PPAG (platform antenna gain) feature
      - Qualcomm 802.11ax (ath11k):
         - Multiple Basic Service Set Identifier (MBSSID) and Enhanced
           MBSSID Advertisement (EMA) support in AP mode
         - support factory test mode
      - RealTek (rtw89):
         - add RSSI based antenna diversity
         - support U-NII-4 channels on 5 GHz band
      - RealTek (rtl8xxxu):
         - AP mode support for 8188f
         - support USB RX aggregation for the newer chips"

* tag 'net-next-6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1602 commits)
  net: scm: introduce and use scm_recv_unix helper
  af_unix: Skip SCM_PIDFD if scm-&gt;pid is NULL.
  net: lan743x: Simplify comparison
  netlink: Add __sock_i_ino() for __netlink_diag_dump().
  net: dsa: avoid suspicious RCU usage for synced VLAN-aware MAC addresses
  Revert "af_unix: Call scm_recv() only after scm_set_cred()."
  phylink: ReST-ify the phylink_pcs_neg_mode() kdoc
  libceph: Partially revert changes to support MSG_SPLICE_PAGES
  net: phy: mscc: fix packet loss due to RGMII delays
  net: mana: use vmalloc_array and vcalloc
  net: enetc: use vmalloc_array and vcalloc
  ionic: use vmalloc_array and vcalloc
  pds_core: use vmalloc_array and vcalloc
  gve: use vmalloc_array and vcalloc
  octeon_ep: use vmalloc_array and vcalloc
  net: usb: qmi_wwan: add u-blox 0x1312 composition
  perf trace: fix MSG_SPLICE_PAGES build error
  ipvlan: Fix return value of ipvlan_queue_xmit()
  netfilter: nf_tables: fix underflow in chain reference counter
  netfilter: nf_tables: unbind non-anonymous set if rule construction fails
  ...
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<entry>
<title>splice, net: Add a splice_eof op to file-ops and socket-ops</title>
<updated>2023-06-09T02:40:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-07T18:19:10+00:00</published>
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Add an optional method, -&gt;splice_eof(), to allow splice to indicate the
premature termination of a splice to struct file_operations and struct
proto_ops.

This is called if sendfile() or splice() encounters all of the following
conditions inside splice_direct_to_actor():

 (1) the user did not set SPLICE_F_MORE (splice only), and

 (2) an EOF condition occurred (-&gt;splice_read() returned 0), and

 (3) we haven't read enough to fulfill the request (ie. len &gt; 0 still), and

 (4) we have already spliced at least one byte.

A further patch will modify the behaviour of SPLICE_F_MORE to always be
passed to the actor if either the user set it or we haven't yet read
sufficient data to fulfill the request.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wh=V579PDYvkpnTobCLGczbgxpMgGmmhqiTyE34Cpi5Gg@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
cc: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt;
cc: Boris Pismenny &lt;borisp@nvidia.com&gt;
cc: John Fastabend &lt;john.fastabend@gmail.com&gt;
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>splice, net: Use sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES) rather than -&gt;sendpage()</title>
<updated>2023-06-09T02:40:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-07T18:19:09+00:00</published>
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Replace generic_splice_sendpage() + splice_from_pipe + pipe_to_sendpage()
with a net-specific handler, splice_to_socket(), that calls sendmsg() with
MSG_SPLICE_PAGES set instead of calling -&gt;sendpage().

MSG_MORE is used to indicate if the sendmsg() is expected to be followed
with more data.

This allows multiple pipe-buffer pages to be passed in a single call in a
BVEC iterator, allowing the processing to be pushed down to a loop in the
protocol driver.  This helps pave the way for passing multipage folios down
too.

Protocols that haven't been converted to handle MSG_SPLICE_PAGES yet should
just ignore it and do a normal sendmsg() for now - although that may be a
bit slower as it may copy everything.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>splice: Make do_splice_to() generic and export it</title>
<updated>2023-05-24T14:42:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-22T13:49:52+00:00</published>
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Rename do_splice_to() to vfs_splice_read() and export it so that it can be
used as a helper when calling down to a lower layer filesystem as it
performs all the necessary checks[1].

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
cc: Miklos Szeredi &lt;miklos@szeredi.hu&gt;
cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
cc: John Hubbard &lt;jhubbard@nvidia.com&gt;
cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
cc: linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAJfpeguGksS3sCigmRi9hJdUec8qtM9f+_9jC1rJhsXT+dV01w@mail.gmail.com/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230522135018.2742245-6-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>splice: change exported internal do_splice() helper to take kernel offset</title>
<updated>2020-10-22T20:15:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-22T20:15:51+00:00</published>
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With the set_fs change, we can no longer rely on copy_{to,from}_user()
accepting a kernel pointer, and it was bad form to do so anyway. Clean
this up and change the internal helper that io_uring uses to deal with
kernel pointers instead. This puts the offset copy in/out in __do_splice()
instead, which just calls the same helper.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>splice: export do_tee()</title>
<updated>2020-05-17T20:10:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Begunkov</name>
<email>asml.silence@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-17T11:18:05+00:00</published>
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export do_tee() for use in io_uring

Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov &lt;asml.silence@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>splice: make do_splice public</title>
<updated>2020-03-02T21:04:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Begunkov</name>
<email>asml.silence@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-24T08:32:43+00:00</published>
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Make do_splice(), so other kernel parts can reuse it

Signed-off-by: Pavel Begunkov &lt;asml.silence@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license</title>
<updated>2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-01T14:07:57+00:00</published>
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode &amp; Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained &gt;5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if &lt;5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne &lt;pombredanne@nexb.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>splice/tee/vmsplice: validate flags</title>
<updated>2016-12-27T04:53:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-10T18:17:32+00:00</published>
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Long overdue...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>splice_pipe_desc: kill -&gt;flags</title>
<updated>2016-12-27T04:53:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-31T20:47:15+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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