linux/include
Matthew R. Ochs cd34af40a0 scsi: cxlflash: Transition to application close model
Caching the adapter file descriptor and performing a close on behalf of
an application is a poor design. This is due to the fact that once a
file descriptor in installed, it is free to be altered without the
knowledge of the cxlflash driver. This can lead to inconsistencies
between the application and kernel. Furthermore, the nature of the
former design is more exploitable and thus should be abandoned.

To support applications performing a close on the adapter file that is
associated with a context, a new flag is introduced to the user API to
indicate to applications that they are responsible for the close
following the cleanup (detach) of a context. The documentation is also
updated to reflect this change in behavior.

Inspired-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Manoj N. Kumar <manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
2016-08-23 22:23:41 -04:00
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acpi treewide: replace obsolete _refok by __ref 2016-08-02 17:31:41 -04:00
asm-generic RTC for 4.8 2016-08-05 09:48:22 -04:00
clocksource
crypto A number of improvements for the /dev/random driver; the most 2016-07-27 15:11:55 -07:00
drm Merge branch 'generic-zpos-v8' of http://git.linaro.org/people/benjamin.gaignard/kernel into drm-next 2016-08-03 08:40:24 +10:00
dt-bindings ARM: DT updates for v4.8 2016-08-01 18:37:45 -04:00
keys
kvm KVM/ARM Changes for v4.8 - Take 2 2016-08-04 13:59:56 +02:00
linux block: rename bio bi_rw to bi_opf 2016-08-07 14:41:02 -06:00
math-emu
media dma-mapping: use unsigned long for dma_attrs 2016-08-04 08:50:07 -04:00
memory
misc
net virtio/vhost: new features for 4.8 2016-08-06 09:20:13 -04:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma Second round of merge items for 4.8 2016-08-04 20:26:31 -04:00
rxrpc
scsi Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending 2016-08-04 20:04:37 -04:00
soc ARM: SoC driver updates for v4.8 2016-08-01 18:36:01 -04:00
sound Merge tag 'drm-for-v4.8' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux 2016-08-01 21:44:08 -04:00
target target: Fix ordered task CHECK_CONDITION early exception handling 2016-07-20 00:58:40 -07:00
trace block: rename bio bi_rw to bi_opf 2016-08-07 14:41:02 -06:00
uapi scsi: cxlflash: Transition to application close model 2016-08-23 22:23:41 -04:00
video
xen dma-mapping: use unsigned long for dma_attrs 2016-08-04 08:50:07 -04:00
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