Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/fslc/4.9-2.3.x-imx' into toradex_4.9-2.3.x-imx-next

Conflicts:
	sound/soc/codecs/sgtl5000.c
	sound/soc/fsl/imx-sgtl5000.c

1 files changed, 43 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index a6c6244f4993..e17cc79bd88a 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -380,6 +380,25 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(faccessat, int, dfd, const char __user *, filename, int, mode)
 				override_cred->cap_permitted;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * The new set of credentials can *only* be used in
+	 * task-synchronous circumstances, and does not need
+	 * RCU freeing, unless somebody then takes a separate
+	 * reference to it.
+	 *
+	 * NOTE! This is _only_ true because this credential
+	 * is used purely for override_creds() that installs
+	 * it as the subjective cred. Other threads will be
+	 * accessing ->real_cred, not the subjective cred.
+	 *
+	 * If somebody _does_ make a copy of this (using the
+	 * 'get_current_cred()' function), that will clear the
+	 * non_rcu field, because now that other user may be
+	 * expecting RCU freeing. But normal thread-synchronous
+	 * cred accesses will keep things non-RCY.
+	 */
+	override_cred->non_rcu = 1;
+
 	old_cred = override_creds(override_cred);
 retry:
 	res = user_path_at(dfd, filename, lookup_flags, &path);
@@ -717,6 +736,12 @@ static int do_dentry_open(struct file *f,
 		return 0;
 	}
 
+	/* Any file opened for execve()/uselib() has to be a regular file. */
+	if (unlikely(f->f_flags & FMODE_EXEC && !S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))) {
+		error = -EACCES;
+		goto cleanup_file;
+	}
+
 	if (f->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE && !special_file(inode->i_mode)) {
 		error = get_write_access(inode);
 		if (unlikely(error))
@@ -799,9 +824,6 @@ cleanup_file:
  * the return value of d_splice_alias(), then the caller needs to perform dput()
  * on it after finish_open().
  *
- * On successful return @file is a fully instantiated open file.  After this, if
- * an error occurs in ->atomic_open(), it needs to clean up with fput().
- *
  * Returns zero on success or -errno if the open failed.
  */
 int finish_open(struct file *file, struct dentry *dentry,
@@ -1186,3 +1208,21 @@ int nonseekable_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 }
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(nonseekable_open);
+
+/*
+ * stream_open is used by subsystems that want stream-like file descriptors.
+ * Such file descriptors are not seekable and don't have notion of position
+ * (file.f_pos is always 0). Contrary to file descriptors of other regular
+ * files, .read() and .write() can run simultaneously.
+ *
+ * stream_open never fails and is marked to return int so that it could be
+ * directly used as file_operations.open .
+ */
+int stream_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
+{
+	filp->f_mode &= ~(FMODE_LSEEK | FMODE_PREAD | FMODE_PWRITE | FMODE_ATOMIC_POS);
+	filp->f_mode |= FMODE_STREAM;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(stream_open);