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    Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs · aab174f0
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull vfs update from Al Viro:
    
     - big one - consolidation of descriptor-related logics; almost all of
       that is moved to fs/file.c
    
       (BTW, I'm seriously tempted to rename the result to fd.c.  As it is,
       we have a situation when file_table.c is about handling of struct
       file and file.c is about handling of descriptor tables; the reasons
       are historical - file_table.c used to be about a static array of
       struct file we used to have way back).
    
       A lot of stray ends got cleaned up and converted to saner primitives,
       disgusting mess in android/binder.c is still disgusting, but at least
       doesn't poke so much in descriptor table guts anymore.  A bunch of
       relatively minor races got fixed in process, plus an ext4 struct file
       leak.
    
     - related thing - fget_light() partially unuglified; see fdget() in
       there (and yes, it generates the code as good as we used to have).
    
     - also related - bits of Cyrill's procfs ...
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