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<subtitle>Clone of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>fs/coredump: prevent fsuid=0 dumps into user-controlled directories</title>
<updated>2016-04-18T12:49:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jann Horn</name>
<email>jann@thejh.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-22T21:25:36+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 378c6520e7d29280f400ef2ceaf155c86f05a71a ]

This commit fixes the following security hole affecting systems where
all of the following conditions are fulfilled:

 - The fs.suid_dumpable sysctl is set to 2.
 - The kernel.core_pattern sysctl's value starts with "/". (Systems
   where kernel.core_pattern starts with "|/" are not affected.)
 - Unprivileged user namespace creation is permitted. (This is
   true on Linux &gt;=3.8, but some distributions disallow it by
   default using a distro patch.)

Under these conditions, if a program executes under secure exec rules,
causing it to run with the SUID_DUMP_ROOT flag, then unshares its user
namespace, changes its root directory and crashes, the coredump will be
written using fsuid=0 and a path derived from kernel.core_pattern - but
this path is interpreted relative to the root directory of the process,
allowing the attacker to control where a coredump will be written with
root privileges.

To fix the security issue, always interpret core_pattern for dumps that
are written under SUID_DUMP_ROOT relative to the root directory of init.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jann@thejh.net&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 378c6520e7d29280f400ef2ceaf155c86f05a71a ]

This commit fixes the following security hole affecting systems where
all of the following conditions are fulfilled:

 - The fs.suid_dumpable sysctl is set to 2.
 - The kernel.core_pattern sysctl's value starts with "/". (Systems
   where kernel.core_pattern starts with "|/" are not affected.)
 - Unprivileged user namespace creation is permitted. (This is
   true on Linux &gt;=3.8, but some distributions disallow it by
   default using a distro patch.)

Under these conditions, if a program executes under secure exec rules,
causing it to run with the SUID_DUMP_ROOT flag, then unshares its user
namespace, changes its root directory and crashes, the coredump will be
written using fsuid=0 and a path derived from kernel.core_pattern - but
this path is interpreted relative to the root directory of the process,
allowing the attacker to control where a coredump will be written with
root privileges.

To fix the security issue, always interpret core_pattern for dumps that
are written under SUID_DUMP_ROOT relative to the root directory of init.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jann@thejh.net&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml</title>
<updated>2014-10-14T01:49:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-14T01:49:02+00:00</published>
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Pull UML update from Richard Weinberger:
 "Besides of fixes this contains also support for CONFIG_STACKTRACE by
  Daniel Walter"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml:
  um: net: Eliminate NULL test after alloc_bootmem
  um: Add support for CONFIG_STACKTRACE
  um: ubd: Fix for processes stuck in D state forever
  um: delete unnecessary bootmem struct page array
  um: remove csum_partial_copy_generic_i386 to clean up exception table
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Pull UML update from Richard Weinberger:
 "Besides of fixes this contains also support for CONFIG_STACKTRACE by
  Daniel Walter"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml:
  um: net: Eliminate NULL test after alloc_bootmem
  um: Add support for CONFIG_STACKTRACE
  um: ubd: Fix for processes stuck in D state forever
  um: delete unnecessary bootmem struct page array
  um: remove csum_partial_copy_generic_i386 to clean up exception table
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>um: net: Eliminate NULL test after alloc_bootmem</title>
<updated>2014-10-13T19:46:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Himangi Saraogi</name>
<email>himangi774@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-19T11:34:05+00:00</published>
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alloc_bootmem and related functions never return NULL. Thus a NULL
test or memset after calls to these functions is unnecessary.

The following Coccinelle semantic patch was used for making the change:

@@
expression E;
statement S;
@@

E = \(alloc_bootmem\|alloc_bootmem_low\|alloc_bootmem_pages\|alloc_bootmem_low_pages\)(...)
... when != E
- if (E == NULL) S

Signed-off-by: Himangi Saraogi &lt;himangi774@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Julia Lawall &lt;julia.lawall@lip6.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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alloc_bootmem and related functions never return NULL. Thus a NULL
test or memset after calls to these functions is unnecessary.

The following Coccinelle semantic patch was used for making the change:

@@
expression E;
statement S;
@@

E = \(alloc_bootmem\|alloc_bootmem_low\|alloc_bootmem_pages\|alloc_bootmem_low_pages\)(...)
... when != E
- if (E == NULL) S

Signed-off-by: Himangi Saraogi &lt;himangi774@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Julia Lawall &lt;julia.lawall@lip6.fr&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>um: ubd: Fix for processes stuck in D state forever</title>
<updated>2014-10-13T19:45:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thorsten Knabe</name>
<email>linux@thorsten-knabe.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-23T13:47:38+00:00</published>
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Starting with Linux 3.12 processes get stuck in D state forever in
UserModeLinux under sync heavy workloads. This bug was introduced by
commit 805f11a0d5 (um: ubd: Add REQ_FLUSH suppport).
Fix bug by adding a check if FLUSH request was successfully submitted to
the I/O thread and keeping the FLUSH request on the request queue on
submission failures.

Fixes: 805f11a0d5 (um: ubd: Add REQ_FLUSH suppport)
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Knabe &lt;linux@thorsten-knabe.de&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org # &gt;= 3.12
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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Starting with Linux 3.12 processes get stuck in D state forever in
UserModeLinux under sync heavy workloads. This bug was introduced by
commit 805f11a0d5 (um: ubd: Add REQ_FLUSH suppport).
Fix bug by adding a check if FLUSH request was successfully submitted to
the I/O thread and keeping the FLUSH request on the request queue on
submission failures.

Fixes: 805f11a0d5 (um: ubd: Add REQ_FLUSH suppport)
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Knabe &lt;linux@thorsten-knabe.de&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org # &gt;= 3.12
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched, cleanup, treewide: Remove set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING) after schedule()</title>
<updated>2014-09-19T10:35:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill Tkhai</name>
<email>ktkhai@parallels.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-12T13:40:54+00:00</published>
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schedule(), io_schedule() and schedule_timeout() always return
with TASK_RUNNING state set, so one more setting is unnecessary.

(All places in patch are visible good, only exception is
 kiblnd_scheduler() from:

      drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/o2iblnd/o2iblnd_cb.c

 Its schedule() is one line above standard 3 lines of unified diff)

No places where set_current_state() is used for mb().

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai &lt;ktkhai@parallels.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410529254.3569.23.camel@tkhai
Cc: Alasdair Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Anil Belur &lt;askb23@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Kleikamp &lt;shaggy@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Airlie &lt;airlied@linux.ie&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Eremin &lt;dmitry.eremin@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Frank Blaschka &lt;blaschka@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Isaac Huang &lt;he.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@fieldses.org&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Laura Abbott &lt;lauraa@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Liang Zhen &lt;liang.zhen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Masaru Nomura &lt;massa.nomura@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Opdenacker &lt;michael.opdenacker@free-electrons.com&gt;
Cc: Mikael Starvik &lt;starvik@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Oleg Drokin &lt;green@linuxhacker.ru&gt;
Cc: Peng Tao &lt;bergwolf@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Robert Love &lt;robert.w.love@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@primarydata.com&gt;
Cc: Ursula Braun &lt;ursula.braun@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Zi Shen Lim &lt;zlim.lnx@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: fcoe-devel@open-fcoe.org
Cc: jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-cris-kernel@axis.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: qla2xxx-upstream@qlogic.com
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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schedule(), io_schedule() and schedule_timeout() always return
with TASK_RUNNING state set, so one more setting is unnecessary.

(All places in patch are visible good, only exception is
 kiblnd_scheduler() from:

      drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/klnds/o2iblnd/o2iblnd_cb.c

 Its schedule() is one line above standard 3 lines of unified diff)

No places where set_current_state() is used for mb().

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai &lt;ktkhai@parallels.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410529254.3569.23.camel@tkhai
Cc: Alasdair Kergon &lt;agk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Anil Belur &lt;askb23@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Dave Kleikamp &lt;shaggy@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Airlie &lt;airlied@linux.ie&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Eremin &lt;dmitry.eremin@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Frank Blaschka &lt;blaschka@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Isaac Huang &lt;he.huang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@parallels.com&gt;
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@fieldses.org&gt;
Cc: Jeff Dike &lt;jdike@addtoit.com&gt;
Cc: Jesper Nilsson &lt;jesper.nilsson@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Laura Abbott &lt;lauraa@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Liang Zhen &lt;liang.zhen@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Masaru Nomura &lt;massa.nomura@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Opdenacker &lt;michael.opdenacker@free-electrons.com&gt;
Cc: Mikael Starvik &lt;starvik@axis.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Neil Brown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Oleg Drokin &lt;green@linuxhacker.ru&gt;
Cc: Peng Tao &lt;bergwolf@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
Cc: Robert Love &lt;robert.w.love@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@primarydata.com&gt;
Cc: Ursula Braun &lt;ursula.braun@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Zi Shen Lim &lt;zlim.lnx@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: fcoe-devel@open-fcoe.org
Cc: jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-cris-kernel@axis.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: qla2xxx-upstream@qlogic.com
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>uml/net_kern: Call dev_consume_skb_any instead of dev_kfree_skb.</title>
<updated>2014-03-24T22:13:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-15T22:27:14+00:00</published>
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Replace dev_kfree_skb with dev_consume_skb_any in uml_net_start_xmit
as it can be called in hard irq and other contexts.

dev_consume_skb_any is used as uml_net_start_xmit typically
consumes (not drops) packets.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Replace dev_kfree_skb with dev_consume_skb_any in uml_net_start_xmit
as it can be called in hard irq and other contexts.

dev_consume_skb_any is used as uml_net_start_xmit typically
consumes (not drops) packets.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>um: Get rid of thread_struct-&gt;saved_task</title>
<updated>2013-11-17T10:27:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-23T15:38:03+00:00</published>
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As we have a sane show_stack() now, we can drop
the -&gt;saved_task hack.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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As we have a sane show_stack() now, we can drop
the -&gt;saved_task hack.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>um: Cleanup SIGTERM handling</title>
<updated>2013-09-07T08:56:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-18T11:30:08+00:00</published>
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Richard reported that some UML processes survive if the UML
main process receives a SIGTERM.
This issue was caused by a wrongly placed signal(SIGTERM, SIG_DFL)
in init_new_thread_signals().
It disabled the UML exit handler accidently for some processes.
The correct solution is to disable the fatal handler for all
UML helper threads/processes.
Such that last_ditch_exit() does not get called multiple times
and all processes can exit due to SIGTERM.

Reported-and-tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones &lt;rjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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Richard reported that some UML processes survive if the UML
main process receives a SIGTERM.
This issue was caused by a wrongly placed signal(SIGTERM, SIG_DFL)
in init_new_thread_signals().
It disabled the UML exit handler accidently for some processes.
The correct solution is to disable the fatal handler for all
UML helper threads/processes.
Such that last_ditch_exit() does not get called multiple times
and all processes can exit due to SIGTERM.

Reported-and-tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones &lt;rjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>um: ubd: Introduce submit_request()</title>
<updated>2013-09-07T08:56:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-18T11:30:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=bc1d72e73be63a7c4a07eb10cf51e91f20bf6076'/>
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Just a clean-up patch to remove the open coded
variants and to ensure that all requests are submitted the
same way.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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Just a clean-up patch to remove the open coded
variants and to ensure that all requests are submitted the
same way.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<title>um: ubd: Add REQ_FLUSH suppport</title>
<updated>2013-09-07T08:56:49+00:00</updated>
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<name>Richard Weinberger</name>
<email>richard@nod.at</email>
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<published>2013-08-18T11:30:06+00:00</published>
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UML's block device driver does not support write barriers,
to support this this patch adds REQ_FLUSH suppport.
Every time the block layer sends a REQ_FLUSH we fsync() now
our backing file to guarantee data consistency.

Reported-and-tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones &lt;rjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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UML's block device driver does not support write barriers,
to support this this patch adds REQ_FLUSH suppport.
Every time the block layer sends a REQ_FLUSH we fsync() now
our backing file to guarantee data consistency.

Reported-and-tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones &lt;rjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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