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NeilBrown
ef5825e3cf NFSD: move filehandle format declarations out of "uapi".
A small part of the declaration concerning filehandle format are
currently in the "uapi" include directory:
   include/uapi/linux/nfsd/nfsfh.h

There is a lot more to the filehandle format, including "enum fid_type"
and "enum nfsd_fsid" which are not exported via "uapi".

This small part of the filehandle definition is of minimal use outside
of the kernel, and I can find no evidence that an other code is using
it. Certainly nfs-utils and wireshark (The most likely candidates) do not
use these declarations.

So move it out of "uapi" by copying the content from
  include/uapi/linux/nfsd/nfsfh.h
into
  fs/nfsd/nfsfh.h

A few unnecessary "#include" directives are not copied, and neither is
the #define of fh_auth, which is annotated as being for userspace only.

The copyright claims in the uapi file are identical to those in the nfsd
file, so there is no need to copy those.

The "__u32" style integer types are only needed in "uapi".  In
kernel-only code we can use the more familiar "u32" style.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
2021-10-02 15:50:45 -04:00
NeilBrown
ea49dc7900 NFSD: remove vanity comments
Including one's name in copyright claims is appropriate.  Including it
in random comments is just vanity.  After 2 decades, it is time for
these to be gone.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
2021-08-17 11:47:53 -04:00
Gustavo A. R. Silva
c0a744dcaa UAPI: nfsfh.h: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member
There is a regular need in the kernel to provide a way to declare having
a dynamically sized set of trailing elements in a structure. Kernel code
should always use “flexible array members”[1] for these cases. The older
style of one-element or zero-length arrays should no longer be used[2].

Use an anonymous union with a couple of anonymous structs in order to
keep userspace unchanged:

$ pahole -C nfs_fhbase_new fs/nfsd/nfsfh.o
struct nfs_fhbase_new {
        union {
                struct {
                        __u8       fb_version_aux;       /*     0     1 */
                        __u8       fb_auth_type_aux;     /*     1     1 */
                        __u8       fb_fsid_type_aux;     /*     2     1 */
                        __u8       fb_fileid_type_aux;   /*     3     1 */
                        __u32      fb_auth[1];           /*     4     4 */
                };                                       /*     0     8 */
                struct {
                        __u8       fb_version;           /*     0     1 */
                        __u8       fb_auth_type;         /*     1     1 */
                        __u8       fb_fsid_type;         /*     2     1 */
                        __u8       fb_fileid_type;       /*     3     1 */
                        __u32      fb_auth_flex[0];      /*     4     0 */
                };                                       /*     0     4 */
        };                                               /*     0     8 */

        /* size: 8, cachelines: 1, members: 1 */
        /* last cacheline: 8 bytes */
};

Also, this helps with the ongoing efforts to enable -Warray-bounds by
fixing the following warnings:

fs/nfsd/nfsfh.c: In function ‘nfsd_set_fh_dentry’:
fs/nfsd/nfsfh.c:191:41: warning: array subscript 1 is above array bounds of ‘__u32[1]’ {aka ‘unsigned int[1]’} [-Warray-bounds]
  191 |        ntohl((__force __be32)fh->fh_fsid[1])));
      |                              ~~~~~~~~~~~^~~
./include/linux/kdev_t.h:12:46: note: in definition of macro ‘MKDEV’
   12 | #define MKDEV(ma,mi) (((ma) << MINORBITS) | (mi))
      |                                              ^~
./include/uapi/linux/byteorder/little_endian.h:40:26: note: in expansion of macro ‘__swab32’
   40 | #define __be32_to_cpu(x) __swab32((__force __u32)(__be32)(x))
      |                          ^~~~~~~~
./include/linux/byteorder/generic.h:136:21: note: in expansion of macro ‘__be32_to_cpu’
  136 | #define ___ntohl(x) __be32_to_cpu(x)
      |                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
./include/linux/byteorder/generic.h:140:18: note: in expansion of macro ‘___ntohl’
  140 | #define ntohl(x) ___ntohl(x)
      |                  ^~~~~~~~
fs/nfsd/nfsfh.c:191:8: note: in expansion of macro ‘ntohl’
  191 |        ntohl((__force __be32)fh->fh_fsid[1])));
      |        ^~~~~
fs/nfsd/nfsfh.c:192:32: warning: array subscript 2 is above array bounds of ‘__u32[1]’ {aka ‘unsigned int[1]’} [-Warray-bounds]
  192 |    fh->fh_fsid[1] = fh->fh_fsid[2];
      |                     ~~~~~~~~~~~^~~
fs/nfsd/nfsfh.c:192:15: warning: array subscript 1 is above array bounds of ‘__u32[1]’ {aka ‘unsigned int[1]’} [-Warray-bounds]
  192 |    fh->fh_fsid[1] = fh->fh_fsid[2];
      |    ~~~~~~~~~~~^~~

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_array_member
[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.10/process/deprecated.html#zero-length-and-one-element-arrays

Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/79
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/109
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
2021-03-31 15:59:14 -04:00
Scott Mayhew
6ee95d1c89 nfsd: add support for upcall version 2
Version 2 upcalls will allow the nfsd to include a hash of the kerberos
principal string in the Cld_Create upcall.  If a principal is present in
the svc_cred, then the hash will be included in the Cld_Create upcall.
We attempt to use the svc_cred.cr_raw_principal (which is returned by
gssproxy) first, and then fall back to using the svc_cred.cr_principal
(which is returned by both gssproxy and rpc.svcgssd).  Upon a subsequent
restart, the hash will be returned in the Cld_Gracestart downcall and
stored in the reclaim_str_hashtbl so it can be used when handling
reclaim opens.

Signed-off-by: Scott Mayhew <smayhew@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
2019-09-10 09:26:33 -04:00
Scott Mayhew
11a60d1592 nfsd: add a "GetVersion" upcall for nfsdcld
Add a "GetVersion" upcall to allow nfsd to determine the maximum upcall
version that the nfsdcld userspace daemon supports.  If the daemon
responds with -EOPNOTSUPP, then we know it only supports v1.

Signed-off-by: Scott Mayhew <smayhew@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
2019-09-10 09:26:33 -04:00
Scott Mayhew
74725959c3 nfsd: un-deprecate nfsdcld
When nfsdcld was released, it was quickly deprecated in favor of the
nfsdcltrack usermodehelper, so as to not require another running daemon.
That prevents NFSv4 clients from reclaiming locks from nfsd's running in
containers, since neither nfsdcltrack nor the legacy client tracking
code work in containers.

This commit un-deprecates the use of nfsdcld, with one twist: we will
populate the reclaim_str_hashtbl on startup.

During client tracking initialization, do an upcall ("GraceStart") to
nfsdcld to get a list of clients from the database.  nfsdcld will do
one downcall with a status of -EINPROGRESS for each client record in
the database, which in turn will cause an nfs4_client_reclaim to be
added to the reclaim_str_hashtbl.  When complete, nfsdcld will do a
final downcall with a status of 0.

This will save nfsd from having to do an upcall to the daemon during
nfs4_check_open_reclaim() processing.

Even though nfsdcld was quickly deprecated, there is a very small chance
of old nfsdcld daemons running in the wild.  These will respond to the
new "GraceStart" upcall with -EOPNOTSUPP, in which case we will log a
message and fall back to the original nfsdcld tracking ops (now called
nfsd4_cld_tracking_ops_v0).

Signed-off-by: Scott Mayhew <smayhew@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
2019-04-24 09:46:34 -04:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
e2be04c7f9 License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with a license
Many user space API headers have licensing information, which is either
incomplete, badly formatted or just a shorthand for referring to the
license under which the file is supposed to be.  This makes it hard for
compliance tools to determine the correct license.

Update these files with an SPDX license identifier.  The identifier was
chosen based on the license information in the file.

GPL/LGPL licensed headers get the matching GPL/LGPL SPDX license
identifier with the added 'WITH Linux-syscall-note' exception, which is
the officially assigned exception identifier for the kernel syscall
exception:

   NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
   services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
   of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".

This exception makes it possible to include GPL headers into non GPL
code, without confusing license compliance tools.

Headers which have either explicit dual licensing or are just licensed
under a non GPL license are updated with the corresponding SPDX
identifier and the GPLv2 with syscall exception identifier.  The format
is:
        ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR SPDX-ID-OF-OTHER-LICENSE)

SPDX license identifiers are a legally binding shorthand, which can be
used instead of the full boiler plate text.  The update does not remove
existing license information as this has to be done on a case by case
basis and the copyright holders might have to be consulted. This will
happen in a separate step.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.  See the previous patch in this series for the
methodology of how this patch was researched.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-11-02 11:20:11 +01:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
6f52b16c5b License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license
Many user space API headers are missing licensing information, which
makes it hard for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default are files without license information under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPLV2.  Marking them GPLV2 would exclude
them from being included in non GPLV2 code, which is obviously not
intended. The user space API headers fall under the syscall exception
which is in the kernels COPYING file:

   NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
   services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
   of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".

otherwise syscall usage would not be possible.

Update the files which contain no license information with an SPDX
license identifier.  The chosen identifier is 'GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note' which is the officially assigned identifier for the
Linux syscall exception.  SPDX license identifiers are 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.  See the previous patch in this series for the
methodology of how this patch was researched.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-11-02 11:19:54 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
791a9a666d Kbuild UAPI header export updates for v4.12
Improvement of headers_install by Nicolas Dichtel.
 
 It has been long since the introduction of uapi directories,
 but the de-coupling of exported headers has not been completed.
 Headers listed in header-y are exported whether they exist in
 uapi directories or not.  His work fixes this inconsistency.
 
 All (and only) headers under uapi directories are now exported.
 The asm-generic wrappers are still exceptions, but this is a big
 step forward.
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Merge tag 'kbuild-uapi-v4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

Pull Kbuild UAPI updates from Masahiro Yamada:
 "Improvement of headers_install by Nicolas Dichtel.

  It has been long since the introduction of uapi directories, but the
  de-coupling of exported headers has not been completed. Headers listed
  in header-y are exported whether they exist in uapi directories or
  not. His work fixes this inconsistency.

  All (and only) headers under uapi directories are now exported. The
  asm-generic wrappers are still exceptions, but this is a big step
  forward"

* tag 'kbuild-uapi-v4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  arch/include: remove empty Kbuild files
  uapi: export all arch specifics directories
  uapi: export all headers under uapi directories
  smc_diag.h: fix include from userland
  btrfs_tree.h: fix include from userland
  uapi: includes linux/types.h before exporting files
  Makefile.headersinst: remove destination-y option
  Makefile.headersinst: cleanup input files
  x86: stop exporting msr-index.h to userland
  nios2: put setup.h in uapi
  h8300: put bitsperlong.h in uapi
2017-05-10 20:45:36 -07:00
Nicolas Dichtel
fcc8487d47 uapi: export all headers under uapi directories
Regularly, when a new header is created in include/uapi/, the developer
forgets to add it in the corresponding Kbuild file. This error is usually
detected after the release is out.

In fact, all headers under uapi directories should be exported, thus it's
useless to have an exhaustive list.

After this patch, the following files, which were not exported, are now
exported (with make headers_install_all):
asm-arc/kvm_para.h
asm-arc/ucontext.h
asm-blackfin/shmparam.h
asm-blackfin/ucontext.h
asm-c6x/shmparam.h
asm-c6x/ucontext.h
asm-cris/kvm_para.h
asm-h8300/shmparam.h
asm-h8300/ucontext.h
asm-hexagon/shmparam.h
asm-m32r/kvm_para.h
asm-m68k/kvm_para.h
asm-m68k/shmparam.h
asm-metag/kvm_para.h
asm-metag/shmparam.h
asm-metag/ucontext.h
asm-mips/hwcap.h
asm-mips/reg.h
asm-mips/ucontext.h
asm-nios2/kvm_para.h
asm-nios2/ucontext.h
asm-openrisc/shmparam.h
asm-parisc/kvm_para.h
asm-powerpc/perf_regs.h
asm-sh/kvm_para.h
asm-sh/ucontext.h
asm-tile/shmparam.h
asm-unicore32/shmparam.h
asm-unicore32/ucontext.h
asm-x86/hwcap2.h
asm-xtensa/kvm_para.h
drm/armada_drm.h
drm/etnaviv_drm.h
drm/vgem_drm.h
linux/aspeed-lpc-ctrl.h
linux/auto_dev-ioctl.h
linux/bcache.h
linux/btrfs_tree.h
linux/can/vxcan.h
linux/cifs/cifs_mount.h
linux/coresight-stm.h
linux/cryptouser.h
linux/fsmap.h
linux/genwqe/genwqe_card.h
linux/hash_info.h
linux/kcm.h
linux/kcov.h
linux/kfd_ioctl.h
linux/lightnvm.h
linux/module.h
linux/nbd-netlink.h
linux/nilfs2_api.h
linux/nilfs2_ondisk.h
linux/nsfs.h
linux/pr.h
linux/qrtr.h
linux/rpmsg.h
linux/sched/types.h
linux/sed-opal.h
linux/smc.h
linux/smc_diag.h
linux/stm.h
linux/switchtec_ioctl.h
linux/vfio_ccw.h
linux/wil6210_uapi.h
rdma/bnxt_re-abi.h

Note that I have removed from this list the files which are generated in every
exported directories (like .install or .install.cmd).

Thanks to Julien Floret <julien.floret@6wind.com> for the tip to get all
subdirs with a pure makefile command.

For the record, note that exported files for asm directories are a mix of
files listed by:
 - include/uapi/asm-generic/Kbuild.asm;
 - arch/<arch>/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild;
 - arch/<arch>/include/asm/Kbuild.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2017-05-11 00:21:54 +09:00
Dmitry V. Levin
16719199a4 uapi: fix linux/nfsd/cld.h userspace compilation errors
Include <linux/types.h> and consistently use types it provides
to fix the following linux/nfsd/cld.h userspace compilation errors:

/usr/include/linux/nfsd/cld.h:40:2: error: unknown type name 'uint16_t'
  uint16_t cn_len;    /* length of cm_id */
/usr/include/linux/nfsd/cld.h:46:2: error: unknown type name 'uint8_t'
  uint8_t  cm_vers;  /* upcall version */
/usr/include/linux/nfsd/cld.h:47:2: error: unknown type name 'uint8_t'
  uint8_t  cm_cmd;   /* upcall command */
/usr/include/linux/nfsd/cld.h:48:2: error: unknown type name 'int16_t'
  int16_t  cm_status;  /* return code */
/usr/include/linux/nfsd/cld.h:49:2: error: unknown type name 'uint32_t'
  uint32_t cm_xid;   /* transaction id */
/usr/include/linux/nfsd/cld.h:51:3: error: unknown type name 'int64_t'
   int64_t  cm_gracetime; /* grace period start time */

Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
2017-04-25 17:25:54 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields
32ddd944a0 nfsd: opt in to labeled nfs per export
Currently turning on NFSv4.2 results in 4.2 clients suddenly seeing the
individual file labels as they're set on the server.  This is not what
they've previously seen, and not appropriate in may cases.  (In
particular, if clients have heterogenous security policies then one
client's labels may not even make sense to another.)  Labeled NFS should
be opted in only in those cases when the administrator knows it makes
sense.

It's helpful to be able to turn 4.2 on by default, and otherwise the
protocol upgrade seems free of regressions.  So, default labeled NFS to
off and provide an export flag to reenable it.

Users wanting labeled NFS support on an export will henceforth need to:

	- make sure 4.2 support is enabled on client and server (as
	  before), and
	- upgrade the server nfs-utils to a version supporting the new
	  "security_label" export flag.
	- set that "security_label" flag on the export.

This is commit may be seen as a regression to anyone currently depending
on security labels.  We believe those cases are currently rare.

Reported-by: tibbs@math.uh.edu
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
2017-01-31 12:31:54 -05:00
Mark Salter
135dd002c2 nfsd: eliminate NFSD_DEBUG
Commit f895b252d4 ("sunrpc: eliminate RPC_DEBUG") introduced
use of IS_ENABLED() in a uapi header which leads to a build
failure for userspace apps trying to use <linux/nfsd/debug.h>:

   linux/nfsd/debug.h:18:15: error: missing binary operator before token "("
  #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SUNRPC_DEBUG)
                ^

Since this was only used to define NFSD_DEBUG if CONFIG_SUNRPC_DEBUG
is enabled, replace instances of NFSD_DEBUG with CONFIG_SUNRPC_DEBUG.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: f895b252d4 "sunrpc: eliminate RPC_DEBUG"
Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
2015-04-21 16:16:02 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
9b3075c59f nfsd: add NFSEXP_PNFS to the exflags array
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
2015-04-03 10:00:59 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
f3f03330de nfsd: require an explicit option to enable pNFS
Turns out sending out layouts to any client is a bad idea if they
can't get at the storage device, so require explicit admin action
to enable pNFS.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
2015-03-30 16:05:26 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
9cf514ccfa nfsd: implement pNFS operations
Add support for the GETDEVICEINFO, LAYOUTGET, LAYOUTCOMMIT and
LAYOUTRETURN NFSv4.1 operations, as well as backing code to manage
outstanding layouts and devices.

Layout management is very straight forward, with a nfs4_layout_stateid
structure that extends nfs4_stid to manage layout stateids as the
top-level structure.  It is linked into the nfs4_file and nfs4_client
structures like the other stateids, and contains a linked list of
layouts that hang of the stateid.  The actual layout operations are
implemented in layout drivers that are not part of this commit, but
will be added later.

The worst part of this commit is the management of the pNFS device IDs,
which suffers from a specification that is not sanely implementable due
to the fact that the device-IDs are global and not bound to an export,
and have a small enough size so that we can't store the fsid portion of
a file handle, and must never be reused.  As we still do need perform all
export authentication and validation checks on a device ID passed to
GETDEVICEINFO we are caught between a rock and a hard place.  To work
around this issue we add a new hash that maps from a 64-bit integer to a
fsid so that we can look up the export to authenticate against it,
a 32-bit integer as a generation that we can bump when changing the device,
and a currently unused 32-bit integer that could be used in the future
to handle more than a single device per export.  Entries in this hash
table are never deleted as we can't reuse the ids anyway, and would have
a severe lifetime problem anyway as Linux export structures are temporary
structures that can go away under load.

Parts of the XDR data, structures and marshaling/unmarshaling code, as
well as many concepts are derived from the old pNFS server implementation
from Andy Adamson, Benny Halevy, Dean Hildebrand, Marc Eshel, Fred Isaman,
Mike Sager, Ricardo Labiaga and many others.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2015-02-02 18:09:42 +01:00
Jeff Layton
f895b252d4 sunrpc: eliminate RPC_DEBUG
It's always set to whatever CONFIG_SUNRPC_DEBUG is, so just use that.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
2014-11-24 17:31:46 -05:00
Rajesh Ghanekar
18c01ab302 nfsd: allow turning off nfsv3 readdir_plus
One of our customer's application only needs file names, not file
attributes. With directories having 10K+ inodes (assuming buffer cache
has directory blocks cached having file names, but inode cache is
limited and hence need eviction of older cached inodes), older inodes
are evicted periodically. So if they keep on doing readdir(2) from NSF
client on multiple directories, some directory's files are periodically
removed from inode cache and hence new readdir(2) on same directory
requires disk access to bring back inodes again to inode cache.

As READDIRPLUS request fetches attributes also, doing getattr on each
file on server, it causes unnecessary disk accesses. If READDIRPLUS on
NFS client is returned with -ENOTSUPP, NFS client uses READDIR request
which just gets the names of the files in a directory, not attributes,
hence avoiding disk accesses on server.

There's already a corresponding client-side mount option, but an export
option reduces the need for configuration across multiple clients.

This flag affects NFSv3 only.  If it turns out it's needed for NFSv4 as
well then we may have to figure out how to extend the behavior to NFSv4,
but it's not currently obvious how to do that.

Signed-off-by: Rajesh Ghanekar <rajesh_ghanekar@symantec.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
2014-08-18 15:12:14 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
5409e46f1b nfsd: clean up fh_auth usage
Use fh_fsid when reffering to the fsid part of the filehandle.  The
variable length auth field envisioned in nfsfh wasn't ever implemented.
Also clean up some lose ends around this and document the file handle
format better.

Btw, why do we even export nfsfh.h to userspace?  The file handle very
much is kernel private, and nothing in nfs-utils include the header
either.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
2014-05-08 12:43:03 -04:00
David Howells
616d1ca5d7 UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux/nfsd
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2012-10-09 09:49:02 +01:00
David Howells
4413e16d9d UAPI: (Scripted) Set up UAPI Kbuild files
Set up empty UAPI Kbuild files to be populated by the header splitter.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2012-10-02 18:01:35 +01:00