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<title>Merge tag 'pull-revalidate' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-01-30T17:13:35Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2025-01-30T17:13:35Z</published>
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Pull vfs d_revalidate updates from Al Viro:
 "Provide stable parent and name to -&gt;d_revalidate() instances

  Most of the filesystem methods where we care about dentry name and
  parent have their stability guaranteed by the callers;
  -&gt;d_revalidate() is the major exception.

  It's easy enough for callers to supply stable values for expected name
  and expected parent of the dentry being validated. That kills quite a
  bit of boilerplate in -&gt;d_revalidate() instances, along with a bunch
  of races where they used to access -&gt;d_name without sufficient
  precautions"

* tag 'pull-revalidate' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  9p: fix -&gt;rename_sem exclusion
  orangefs_d_revalidate(): use stable parent inode and name passed by caller
  ocfs2_dentry_revalidate(): use stable parent inode and name passed by caller
  nfs: fix -&gt;d_revalidate() UAF on -&gt;d_name accesses
  nfs{,4}_lookup_validate(): use stable parent inode passed by caller
  gfs2_drevalidate(): use stable parent inode and name passed by caller
  fuse_dentry_revalidate(): use stable parent inode and name passed by caller
  vfat_revalidate{,_ci}(): use stable parent inode passed by caller
  exfat_d_revalidate(): use stable parent inode passed by caller
  fscrypt_d_revalidate(): use stable parent inode passed by caller
  ceph_d_revalidate(): propagate stable name down into request encoding
  ceph_d_revalidate(): use stable parent inode passed by caller
  afs_d_revalidate(): use stable name and parent inode passed by caller
  Pass parent directory inode and expected name to -&gt;d_revalidate()
  generic_ci_d_compare(): use shortname_storage
  ext4 fast_commit: make use of name_snapshot primitives
  dissolve external_name.u into separate members
  make take_dentry_name_snapshot() lockless
  dcache: back inline names with a struct-wrapped array of unsigned long
  make sure that DNAME_INLINE_LEN is a multiple of word size
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<title>9p: fix -&gt;rename_sem exclusion</title>
<updated>2025-01-28T00:25:24Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-06T02:33:17Z</published>
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9p wants to be able to build a path from given dentry to fs root and keep
it valid over a blocking operation.

-&gt;s_vfs_rename_mutex would be a natural candidate, but there are places
where we need that and where we have no way to tell if -&gt;s_vfs_rename_mutex
is already held deeper in callchain.  Moreover, it's only held for
cross-directory renames; name changes within the same directory happen
without it.

Solution:
	* have d_move() done in -&gt;rename() rather than in its caller
	* maintain a 9p-private rwsem (per-filesystem)
	* hold it exclusive over the relevant part of -&gt;rename()
	* hold it shared over the places where we want the path.

That almost works.  FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE is enough to put all d_move()
and d_exchange() calls under filesystem's control.  However, there's
also __d_unalias(), which isn't covered by any of that.

If -&gt;lookup() hits a directory inode with preexisting dentry elsewhere
(due to e.g. rename done on server behind our back), d_splice_alias()
called by -&gt;lookup() will move/rename that alias.

Add a couple of optional methods, so that __d_unalias() would do
	if alias-&gt;d_op-&gt;d_unalias_trylock != NULL
		if (!alias-&gt;d_op-&gt;d_unalias_trylock(alias))
			fail (resulting in -ESTALE from lookup)
	__d_move(...)
	if alias-&gt;d_op-&gt;d_unalias_unlock != NULL
		alias-&gt;d_unalias_unlock(alias)
where it currently does __d_move().  9p instances do down_write_trylock()
and up_write() of -&gt;rename_mutex.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>Pass parent directory inode and expected name to -&gt;d_revalidate()</title>
<updated>2025-01-28T00:25:23Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-08T05:28:51Z</published>
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-&gt;d_revalidate() often needs to access dentry parent and name; that has
to be done carefully, since the locking environment varies from caller
to caller.  We are not guaranteed that dentry in question will not be
moved right under us - not unless the filesystem is such that nothing
on it ever gets renamed.

It can be dealt with, but that results in boilerplate code that isn't
even needed - the callers normally have just found the dentry via dcache
lookup and want to verify that it's in the right place; they already
have the values of -&gt;d_parent and -&gt;d_name stable.  There is a couple
of exceptions (overlayfs and, to less extent, ecryptfs), but for the
majority of calls that song and dance is not needed at all.

It's easier to make ecryptfs and overlayfs find and pass those values if
there's a -&gt;d_revalidate() instance to be called, rather than doing that
in the instances.

This commit only changes the calling conventions; making use of supplied
values is left to followups.

NOTE: some instances need more than just the parent - things like CIFS
may need to build an entire path from filesystem root, so they need
more precautions than the usual boilerplate.  This series doesn't
do anything to that need - these filesystems have to keep their locking
mechanisms (rename_lock loops, use of dentry_path_raw(), private rwsem
a-la v9fs).

One thing to keep in mind when using name is that name-&gt;name will normally
point into the pathname being resolved; the filename in question occupies
name-&gt;len bytes starting at name-&gt;name, and there is NUL somewhere after it,
but it the next byte might very well be '/' rather than '\0'.  Do not
ignore name-&gt;len.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi &lt;gabriel@krisman.be&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfs: Change the read result collector to only use one work item</title>
<updated>2024-12-20T21:34:08Z</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2024-12-16T20:41:17Z</published>
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Change the way netfslib collects read results to do all the collection for
a particular read request using a single work item that walks along the
subrequest queue as subrequests make progress or complete, unlocking folios
progressively rather than doing the unlock in parallel as parallel requests
come in.

The code is remodelled to be more like the write-side code, though only
using a single stream.  This makes it more directly comparable and thus
easier to duplicate fixes between the two sides.

This has a number of advantages:

 (1) It's simpler.  There doesn't need to be a complex donation mechanism
     to handle mismatches between the size and alignment of subrequests and
     folios.  The collector unlocks folios as the subrequests covering each
     complete.

 (2) It should cause less scheduler overhead as there's a single work item
     in play unlocking pages in parallel when a read gets split up into a
     lot of subrequests instead of one per subrequest.

     Whilst the parallellism is nice in theory, in practice, the vast
     majority of loads are sequential reads of the whole file, so
     committing a bunch of threads to unlocking folios out of order doesn't
     help in those cases.

 (3) It should make it easier to implement content decryption.  A folio
     cannot be decrypted until all the requests that contribute to it have
     completed - and, again, most loads are sequential and so, most of the
     time, we want to begin decryption sequentially (though it's great if
     the decryption can happen in parallel).

There is a disadvantage in that we're losing the ability to decrypt and
unlock things on an as-things-arrive basis which may affect some
applications.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216204124.3752367-28-dhowells@redhat.com
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfs: Drop the was_async arg from netfs_read_subreq_terminated()</title>
<updated>2024-12-20T21:34:03Z</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-16T20:40:59Z</published>
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Drop the was_async argument from netfs_read_subreq_terminated().  Almost
every caller is either in process context and passes false.  Some
filesystems delegate the call to a workqueue to avoid doing the work in
their network message queue parsing thread.

The only exception is netfs_cache_read_terminated() which handles
completion in the cache - which is usually a callback from the backing
filesystem in softirq context, though it can be from process context if an
error occurred.  In this case, delegate to a workqueue.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wiVC5Cgyz6QKXFu6fTaA6h4CjexDR-OV9kL6Vo5x9v8=A@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216204124.3752367-10-dhowells@redhat.com
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>netfs: Drop the error arg from netfs_read_subreq_terminated()</title>
<updated>2024-12-20T21:34:03Z</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-16T20:40:58Z</published>
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Drop the error argument from netfs_read_subreq_terminated() in favour of
passing the value in subreq-&gt;error.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241216204124.3752367-9-dhowells@redhat.com
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>netfs: Work around recursion by abandoning retry if nothing read</title>
<updated>2024-12-20T21:07:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-13T13:50:08Z</published>
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syzkaller reported recursion with a loop of three calls (netfs_rreq_assess,
netfs_retry_reads and netfs_rreq_terminated) hitting the limit of the stack
during an unbuffered or direct I/O read.

There are a number of issues:

 (1) There is no limit on the number of retries.

 (2) A subrequest is supposed to be abandoned if it does not transfer
     anything (NETFS_SREQ_NO_PROGRESS), but that isn't checked under all
     circumstances.

 (3) The actual root cause, which is this:

	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&amp;rreq-&gt;nr_outstanding))
		netfs_rreq_terminated(rreq, ...);

     When we do a retry, we bump the rreq-&gt;nr_outstanding counter to
     prevent the final cleanup phase running before we've finished
     dispatching the retries.  The problem is if we hit 0, we have to do
     the cleanup phase - but we're in the cleanup phase and end up
     repeating the retry cycle, hence the recursion.

Work around the problem by limiting the number of retries.  This is based
on Lizhi Xu's patch[1], and makes the following changes:

 (1) Replace NETFS_SREQ_NO_PROGRESS with NETFS_SREQ_MADE_PROGRESS and make
     the filesystem set it if it managed to read or write at least one byte
     of data.  Clear this bit before issuing a subrequest.

 (2) Add a -&gt;retry_count member to the subrequest and increment it any time
     we do a retry.

 (3) Remove the NETFS_SREQ_RETRYING flag as it is superfluous with
     -&gt;retry_count.  If the latter is non-zero, we're doing a retry.

 (4) Abandon a subrequest if retry_count is non-zero and we made no
     progress.

 (5) Use -&gt;retry_count in both the write-side and the read-size.

[?] Question: Should I set a hard limit on retry_count in both read and
    write?  Say it hits 50, we always abandon it.  The problem is that
    these changes only mitigate the issue.  As long as it made at least one
    byte of progress, the recursion is still an issue.  This patch
    mitigates the problem, but does not fix the underlying cause.  I have
    patches that will do that, but it's an intrusive fix that's currently
    pending for the next merge window.

The oops generated by KASAN looks something like:

   BUG: TASK stack guard page was hit at ffffc9000482ff48 (stack is ffffc90004830000..ffffc90004838000)
   Oops: stack guard page: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI
   ...
   RIP: 0010:mark_lock+0x25/0xc60 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4686
    ...
    mark_usage kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4646 [inline]
    __lock_acquire+0x906/0x3ce0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5156
    lock_acquire.part.0+0x11b/0x380 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5825
    local_lock_acquire include/linux/local_lock_internal.h:29 [inline]
    ___slab_alloc+0x123/0x1880 mm/slub.c:3695
    __slab_alloc.constprop.0+0x56/0xb0 mm/slub.c:3908
    __slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3961 [inline]
    slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4122 [inline]
    kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x2a7/0x2f0 mm/slub.c:4141
    radix_tree_node_alloc.constprop.0+0x1e8/0x350 lib/radix-tree.c:253
    idr_get_free+0x528/0xa40 lib/radix-tree.c:1506
    idr_alloc_u32+0x191/0x2f0 lib/idr.c:46
    idr_alloc+0xc1/0x130 lib/idr.c:87
    p9_tag_alloc+0x394/0x870 net/9p/client.c:321
    p9_client_prepare_req+0x19f/0x4d0 net/9p/client.c:644
    p9_client_zc_rpc.constprop.0+0x105/0x880 net/9p/client.c:793
    p9_client_read_once+0x443/0x820 net/9p/client.c:1570
    p9_client_read+0x13f/0x1b0 net/9p/client.c:1534
    v9fs_issue_read+0x115/0x310 fs/9p/vfs_addr.c:74
    netfs_retry_read_subrequests fs/netfs/read_retry.c:60 [inline]
    netfs_retry_reads+0x153a/0x1d00 fs/netfs/read_retry.c:232
    netfs_rreq_assess+0x5d3/0x870 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:371
    netfs_rreq_terminated+0xe5/0x110 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:407
    netfs_retry_reads+0x155e/0x1d00 fs/netfs/read_retry.c:235
    netfs_rreq_assess+0x5d3/0x870 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:371
    netfs_rreq_terminated+0xe5/0x110 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:407
    netfs_retry_reads+0x155e/0x1d00 fs/netfs/read_retry.c:235
    netfs_rreq_assess+0x5d3/0x870 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:371
    ...
    netfs_rreq_terminated+0xe5/0x110 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:407
    netfs_retry_reads+0x155e/0x1d00 fs/netfs/read_retry.c:235
    netfs_rreq_assess+0x5d3/0x870 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:371
    netfs_rreq_terminated+0xe5/0x110 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:407
    netfs_retry_reads+0x155e/0x1d00 fs/netfs/read_retry.c:235
    netfs_rreq_assess+0x5d3/0x870 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:371
    netfs_rreq_terminated+0xe5/0x110 fs/netfs/read_collect.c:407
    netfs_dispatch_unbuffered_reads fs/netfs/direct_read.c:103 [inline]
    netfs_unbuffered_read fs/netfs/direct_read.c:127 [inline]
    netfs_unbuffered_read_iter_locked+0x12f6/0x19b0 fs/netfs/direct_read.c:221
    netfs_unbuffered_read_iter+0xc5/0x100 fs/netfs/direct_read.c:256
    v9fs_file_read_iter+0xbf/0x100 fs/9p/vfs_file.c:361
    do_iter_readv_writev+0x614/0x7f0 fs/read_write.c:832
    vfs_readv+0x4cf/0x890 fs/read_write.c:1025
    do_preadv fs/read_write.c:1142 [inline]
    __do_sys_preadv fs/read_write.c:1192 [inline]
    __se_sys_preadv fs/read_write.c:1187 [inline]
    __x64_sys_preadv+0x22d/0x310 fs/read_write.c:1187
    do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
    do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x250 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83

Fixes: ee4cdf7ba857 ("netfs: Speed up buffered reading")
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=1fc6f64c40a9d143cfb6
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241108034020.3695718-1-lizhi.xu@windriver.com/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241213135013.2964079-9-dhowells@redhat.com
Tested-by: syzbot+885c03ad650731743489@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Suggested-by: Lizhi Xu &lt;lizhi.xu@windriver.com&gt;
cc: Dominique Martinet &lt;asmadeus@codewreck.org&gt;
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: v9fs@lists.linux.dev
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: syzbot+885c03ad650731743489@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs/9p: replace functions v9fs_cache_{register|unregister} with direct calls</title>
<updated>2024-11-16T08:23:19Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Colin Ian King</name>
<email>colin.i.king@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-07T09:57:56Z</published>
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The helper functions v9fs_cache_register and v9fs_cache_unregister are
trivial helper functions that don't offer any extra functionality and
are unncessary. Replace them with direct calls to v9fs_init_inode_cache
and v9fs_destroy_inode_cache respectively to simplify the code.

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.i.king@gmail.com&gt;
Message-ID: &lt;20241107095756.10261-1-colin.i.king@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet &lt;asmadeus@codewreck.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag '9p-for-6.12-rc5' of https://github.com/martinetd/linux</title>
<updated>2024-10-25T22:25:02Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-25T22:25:02Z</published>
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Pull more 9p reverts from Dominique Martinet:
 "Revert patches causing inode collision problems.

  The code simplification introduced significant regressions on servers
  that do not remap inode numbers when exporting multiple underlying
  filesystems with colliding inodes. See the top-most revert (commit
  be2ca3825372) for details.

  This problem had been ignored for too long and the reverts will also
  head to stable (6.9+).

  I'm confident this set of patches gets us back to previous behaviour
  (another related patch had already been reverted back in April and
  we're almost back to square 1, and the rest didn't touch inode
  lifecycle)"

* tag '9p-for-6.12-rc5' of https://github.com/martinetd/linux:
  Revert "fs/9p: simplify iget to remove unnecessary paths"
  Revert "fs/9p: fix uaf in in v9fs_stat2inode_dotl"
  Revert "fs/9p: remove redundant pointer v9ses"
  Revert " fs/9p: mitigate inode collisions"
</content>
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<entry>
<title>Revert "fs/9p: simplify iget to remove unnecessary paths"</title>
<updated>2024-10-24T21:26:09Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Dominique Martinet</name>
<email>asmadeus@codewreck.org</email>
</author>
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This reverts commit 724a08450f74b02bd89078a596fd24857827c012.

This code simplification introduced significant regressions on servers
that do not remap inode numbers when exporting multiple underlying
filesystems with colliding inodes, as can be illustrated with simple
tmpfs exports in qemu with remapping disabled:
```
# host side
cd /tmp/linux-test
mkdir m1 m2
mount -t tmpfs tmpfs m1
mount -t tmpfs tmpfs m2
mkdir m1/dir m2/dir
echo foo &gt; m1/dir/foo
echo bar &gt; m2/dir/bar

# guest side
# started with -virtfs local,path=/tmp/linux-test,mount_tag=tmp,security_model=mapped-file
mount -t 9p -o trans=virtio,debug=1 tmp /mnt/t

ls /mnt/t/m1/dir
# foo
ls /mnt/t/m2/dir
# bar (works ok if directry isn't open)

# cd to keep first dir's inode alive
cd /mnt/t/m1/dir
ls /mnt/t/m2/dir
# foo (should be bar)
```
Other examples can be crafted with regular files with fscache enabled,
in which case I/Os just happen to the wrong file leading to
corruptions, or guest failing to boot with:
  | VFS: Lookup of 'com.android.runtime' in 9p 9p would have caused loop

In theory, we'd want the servers to be smart enough and ensure they
never send us two different files with the same 'qid.path', but while
qemu has an option to remap that is recommended (and qemu prints a
warning if this case happens), there are many other servers which do
not (kvmtool, nfs-ganesha, probably diod...), we should at least ensure
we don't cause regressions on this:
- assume servers can't be trusted and operations that should get a 'new'
inode properly do so. commit d05dcfdf5e16 (" fs/9p: mitigate inode
collisions") attempted to do this, but v9fs_fid_iget_dotl() was not
called so some higher level of caching got in the way; this needs to be
fixed properly before we can re-apply the patches.
- if we ever want to really simplify this code, we will need to add some
negotiation with the server at mount time where the server could claim
they handle this properly, at which point we could optimize this out.
(but that might not be needed at all if we properly handle the 'new'
check?)

Fixes: 724a08450f74 ("fs/9p: simplify iget to remove unnecessary paths")
Reported-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240408141436.GA17022@redhat.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240923100508.GA32066@willie-the-truck
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.9+
Message-ID: &lt;20241024-revert_iget-v1-4-4cac63d25f72@codewreck.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet &lt;asmadeus@codewreck.org&gt;
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