10 Oct, 2014

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05 Jun, 2014

1 commit


08 Apr, 2014

1 commit

  • - Convert spinlock/static array to va_format (inspired by Joe Perches
    help on previous logging patches).

    - Convert printk(KERN_ERR to pr_warn in __ntfs_warning.

    - Convert printk(KERN_ERR to pr_err in __ntfs_error.

    - Convert printk(KERN_DEBUG to pr_debug in __ntfs_debug. (Note that
    __ntfs_debug is still guarded by #if DEBUG)

    - Improve !DEBUG to parse all arguments (Joe Perches).

    - Sparse pr_foo() conversions in super.c

    NTFS, NTFS-fs prefixes as well as 'warning' and 'error' were removed :
    pr_foo() automatically adds module name and error level is already
    specified.

    Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick
    Cc: Anton Altaparmakov
    Cc: Joe Perches
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Fabian Frederick
     

13 Mar, 2014

1 commit

  • Previously, the no-op "mount -o mount /dev/xxx" operation when the
    file system is already mounted read-write causes an implied,
    unconditional syncfs(). This seems pretty stupid, and it's certainly
    documented or guaraunteed to do this, nor is it particularly useful,
    except in the case where the file system was mounted rw and is getting
    remounted read-only.

    However, it's possible that there might be some file systems that are
    actually depending on this behavior. In most file systems, it's
    probably fine to only call sync_filesystem() when transitioning from
    read-write to read-only, and there are some file systems where this is
    not needed at all (for example, for a pseudo-filesystem or something
    like romfs).

    Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"
    Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: Christoph Hellwig
    Cc: Artem Bityutskiy
    Cc: Adrian Hunter
    Cc: Evgeniy Dushistov
    Cc: Jan Kara
    Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi
    Cc: Anders Larsen
    Cc: Phillip Lougher
    Cc: Kees Cook
    Cc: Mikulas Patocka
    Cc: Petr Vandrovec
    Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
    Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: samba-technical@lists.samba.org
    Cc: codalist@coda.cs.cmu.edu
    Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
    Cc: fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
    Cc: cluster-devel@redhat.com
    Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
    Cc: jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net
    Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: linux-nilfs@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
    Cc: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
    Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org

    Theodore Ts'o
     

04 Mar, 2013

1 commit

  • Modify the request_module to prefix the file system type with "fs-"
    and add aliases to all of the filesystems that can be built as modules
    to match.

    A common practice is to build all of the kernel code and leave code
    that is not commonly needed as modules, with the result that many
    users are exposed to any bug anywhere in the kernel.

    Looking for filesystems with a fs- prefix limits the pool of possible
    modules that can be loaded by mount to just filesystems trivially
    making things safer with no real cost.

    Using aliases means user space can control the policy of which
    filesystem modules are auto-loaded by editing /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf
    with blacklist and alias directives. Allowing simple, safe,
    well understood work-arounds to known problematic software.

    This also addresses a rare but unfortunate problem where the filesystem
    name is not the same as it's module name and module auto-loading
    would not work. While writing this patch I saw a handful of such
    cases. The most significant being autofs that lives in the module
    autofs4.

    This is relevant to user namespaces because we can reach the request
    module in get_fs_type() without having any special permissions, and
    people get uncomfortable when a user specified string (in this case
    the filesystem type) goes all of the way to request_module.

    After having looked at this issue I don't think there is any
    particular reason to perform any filtering or permission checks beyond
    making it clear in the module request that we want a filesystem
    module. The common pattern in the kernel is to call request_module()
    without regards to the users permissions. In general all a filesystem
    module does once loaded is call register_filesystem() and go to sleep.
    Which means there is not much attack surface exposed by loading a
    filesytem module unless the filesystem is mounted. In a user
    namespace filesystems are not mounted unless .fs_flags = FS_USERNS_MOUNT,
    which most filesystems do not set today.

    Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
    Acked-by: Kees Cook
    Reported-by: Kees Cook
    Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

    Eric W. Biederman
     

03 Oct, 2012

2 commits

  • 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 stuff that got entangled into
    that work; _not_ all of it, just the initial move to fs/proc/fd.c and
    switch of fdinfo to seq_file.

    - Alex's fs/coredump.c spiltoff - the same story, had been easier to
    take that commit than mess with conflicts. The rest is a separate
    pile, this was just a mechanical code movement.

    - a few misc patches all over the place. Not all for this cycle,
    there'll be more (and quite a few currently sit in akpm's tree)."

    Fix up trivial conflicts in the android binder driver, and some fairly
    simple conflicts due to two different changes to the sock_alloc_file()
    interface ("take descriptor handling from sock_alloc_file() to callers"
    vs "net: Providing protocol type via system.sockprotoname xattr of
    /proc/PID/fd entries" adding a dentry name to the socket)

    * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (72 commits)
    MAX_LFS_FILESIZE should be a loff_t
    compat: fs: Generic compat_sys_sendfile implementation
    fs: push rcu_barrier() from deactivate_locked_super() to filesystems
    btrfs: reada_extent doesn't need kref for refcount
    coredump: move core dump functionality into its own file
    coredump: prevent double-free on an error path in core dumper
    usb/gadget: fix misannotations
    fcntl: fix misannotations
    ceph: don't abuse d_delete() on failure exits
    hypfs: ->d_parent is never NULL or negative
    vfs: delete surplus inode NULL check
    switch simple cases of fget_light to fdget
    new helpers: fdget()/fdput()
    switch o2hb_region_dev_write() to fget_light()
    proc_map_files_readdir(): don't bother with grabbing files
    make get_file() return its argument
    vhost_set_vring(): turn pollstart/pollstop into bool
    switch prctl_set_mm_exe_file() to fget_light()
    switch xfs_find_handle() to fget_light()
    switch xfs_swapext() to fget_light()
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     
  • There's no reason to call rcu_barrier() on every
    deactivate_locked_super(). We only need to make sure that all delayed rcu
    free inodes are flushed before we destroy related cache.

    Removing rcu_barrier() from deactivate_locked_super() affects some fast
    paths. E.g. on my machine exit_group() of a last process in IPC
    namespace takes 0.07538s. rcu_barrier() takes 0.05188s of that time.

    Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov
    Cc: Al Viro
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Kirill A. Shutemov
     

21 Sep, 2012

1 commit


31 Jul, 2012

1 commit


22 Mar, 2012

1 commit

  • Pull vfs pile 1 from Al Viro:
    "This is _not_ all; in particular, Miklos' and Jan's stuff is not there
    yet."

    * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (64 commits)
    ext4: initialization of ext4_li_mtx needs to be done earlier
    debugfs-related mode_t whack-a-mole
    hfsplus: add an ioctl to bless files
    hfsplus: change finder_info to u32
    hfsplus: initialise userflags
    qnx4: new helper - try_extent()
    qnx4: get rid of qnx4_bread/qnx4_getblk
    take removal of PF_FORKNOEXEC to flush_old_exec()
    trim includes in inode.c
    um: uml_dup_mmap() relies on ->mmap_sem being held, but activate_mm() doesn't hold it
    um: embed ->stub_pages[] into mmu_context
    gadgetfs: list_for_each_safe() misuse
    ocfs2: fix leaks on failure exits in module_init
    ecryptfs: make register_filesystem() the last potential failure exit
    ntfs: forgets to unregister sysctls on register_filesystem() failure
    logfs: missing cleanup on register_filesystem() failure
    jfs: mising cleanup on register_filesystem() failure
    make configfs_pin_fs() return root dentry on success
    configfs: configfs_create_dir() has parent dentry in dentry->d_parent
    configfs: sanitize configfs_create()
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

21 Mar, 2012

2 commits


20 Mar, 2012

1 commit


22 Feb, 2012

1 commit


13 Jan, 2012

1 commit

  • For historical reasons, we allow module_param(bool) to take an int (or
    an unsigned int). That's going away.

    A few drivers really want an int: they set it to -1 and a parameter
    will set it to 0 or 1. This sucks: reading them from sysfs will give
    'Y' for both -1 and 1, but if we change it to an int, then the users
    might be broken (if they did "param" instead of "param=1").

    Use a new 'bint' parser for them.

    (ntfs has a different problem: it needs an int for debug_msgs because
    it's also exposed via sysctl.)

    Cc: Steve Glendinning
    Cc: Jean Delvare
    Cc: Guenter Roeck
    Cc: Hoang-Nam Nguyen
    Cc: Christoph Raisch
    Cc: Roland Dreier
    Cc: Sean Hefty
    Cc: Hal Rosenstock
    Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
    Cc: Anton Altaparmakov
    Cc: Jaroslav Kysela
    Cc: Takashi Iwai
    Cc: lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org
    Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
    Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
    Acked-by: Takashi Iwai (For the sound part)
    Acked-by: Guenter Roeck (For the hwmon driver)
    Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

    Rusty Russell
     

04 Jan, 2012

1 commit


31 Mar, 2011

1 commit


13 Jan, 2011

1 commit


29 Oct, 2010

1 commit


26 Oct, 2010

2 commits


05 Oct, 2010

2 commits

  • The BKL is only used in put_super, fill_super and remount_fs that are all
    three protected by the superblocks s_umount rw_semaphore. Therefore it is
    safe to remove the BKL entirely.

    Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck
    Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

    Jan Blunck
     
  • This patch is a preparation necessary to remove the BKL from do_new_mount().
    It explicitly adds calls to lock_kernel()/unlock_kernel() around
    get_sb/fill_super operations for filesystems that still uses the BKL.

    I've read through all the code formerly covered by the BKL inside
    do_kern_mount() and have satisfied myself that it doesn't need the BKL
    any more.

    do_kern_mount() is already called without the BKL when mounting the rootfs
    and in nfsctl. do_kern_mount() calls vfs_kern_mount(), which is called
    from various places without BKL: simple_pin_fs(), nfs_do_clone_mount()
    through nfs_follow_mountpoint(), afs_mntpt_do_automount() through
    afs_mntpt_follow_link(). Both later functions are actually the filesystems
    follow_link inode operation. vfs_kern_mount() is calling the specified
    get_sb function and lets the filesystem do its job by calling the given
    fill_super function.

    Therefore I think it is safe to push down the BKL from the VFS to the
    low-level filesystems get_sb/fill_super operation.

    [arnd: do not add the BKL to those file systems that already
    don't use it elsewhere]

    Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck
    Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox
    Cc: Christoph Hellwig

    Jan Blunck
     

10 Aug, 2010

1 commit


18 Mar, 2010

1 commit

  • Use bitmap_weight() instead of doing hweight32() for each u32 element in
    the page.

    Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita
    Cc: Anton Altaparmakov
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Akinobu Mita
     

06 Mar, 2010

1 commit

  • This gives the filesystem more information about the writeback that
    is happening. Trond requested this for the NFS unstable write handling,
    and other filesystems might benefit from this too by beeing able to
    distinguish between the different callers in more detail.

    Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Christoph Hellwig
     

24 Sep, 2009

1 commit

  • Most call sites of unload_nls() do:
    if (nls)
    unload_nls(nls);

    Check the pointer inside unload_nls() like we do in kfree() and
    simplify the call sites.

    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: Steve French
    Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi
    Cc: Roman Zippel
    Cc: Dave Kleikamp
    Cc: Petr Vandrovec
    Cc: Anton Altaparmakov
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Thomas Gleixner
     

12 Jun, 2009

3 commits

  • [xfs, btrfs, capifs, shmem don't need BKL, exempt]

    Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Alessio Igor Bogani
     
  • This should not trigger anymore, so kill it.

    Acked-by: Anton Altaparmakov
    Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Jens Axboe
     
  • Move BKL into ->put_super from the only caller. A couple of
    filesystems had trivial enough ->put_super (only kfree and NULLing of
    s_fs_info + stuff in there) to not get any locking: coda, cramfs, efs,
    hugetlbfs, omfs, qnx4, shmem, all others got the full treatment. Most
    of them probably don't need it, but I'd rather sort that out individually.
    Preferably after all the other BKL pushdowns in that area.

    [AV: original used to move lock_super() down as well; these changes are
    removed since we don't do lock_super() at all in generic_shutdown_super()
    now]
    [AV: fuse, btrfs and xfs are known to need no damn BKL, exempt]

    Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Christoph Hellwig
     

23 May, 2009

1 commit

  • Until now we have had a 1:1 mapping between storage device physical
    block size and the logical block sized used when addressing the device.
    With SATA 4KB drives coming out that will no longer be the case. The
    sector size will be 4KB but the logical block size will remain
    512-bytes. Hence we need to distinguish between the physical block size
    and the logical ditto.

    This patch renames hardsect_size to logical_block_size.

    Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen
    Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

    Martin K. Petersen
     

01 Apr, 2009

1 commit


27 Jul, 2008

1 commit

  • Kmem cache passed to constructor is only needed for constructors that are
    themselves multiplexeres. Nobody uses this "feature", nor does anybody uses
    passed kmem cache in non-trivial way, so pass only pointer to object.

    Non-trivial places are:
    arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
    arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c

    This is flag day, yes.

    Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
    Acked-by: Pekka Enberg
    Acked-by: Christoph Lameter
    Cc: Jon Tollefson
    Cc: Nick Piggin
    Cc: Matt Mackall
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c]
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/slab.c]
    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ubifs]
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Alexey Dobriyan
     

17 Oct, 2007

2 commits

  • NTFS's if-condition on dirty inodes is not complete. Fix it with
    sb_has_dirty_inodes().

    Cc: Anton Altaparmakov
    Cc: Ken Chen
    Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Fengguang Wu
     
  • Slab constructors currently have a flags parameter that is never used. And
    the order of the arguments is opposite to other slab functions. The object
    pointer is placed before the kmem_cache pointer.

    Convert

    ctor(void *object, struct kmem_cache *s, unsigned long flags)

    to

    ctor(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object)

    throughout the kernel

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coupla fixes]
    Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Christoph Lameter
     

20 Jul, 2007

1 commit

  • Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's
    c59def9f222d44bb7e2f0a559f2906191a0862d7 change. They've been
    BUGs for both slab and slub, and slob never supported them
    either.

    This rips out support for the dtor pointer from kmem_cache_create()
    completely and fixes up every single callsite in the kernel (there were
    about 224, not including the slab allocator definitions themselves,
    or the documentation references).

    Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt

    Paul Mundt
     

17 May, 2007

1 commit

  • SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR is always specified. No point in checking it.

    Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
    Cc: David Howells
    Cc: Jens Axboe
    Cc: Steven French
    Cc: Michael Halcrow
    Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi
    Cc: Miklos Szeredi
    Cc: Steven Whitehouse
    Cc: Roman Zippel
    Cc: David Woodhouse
    Cc: Dave Kleikamp
    Cc: Trond Myklebust
    Cc: "J. Bruce Fields"
    Cc: Anton Altaparmakov
    Cc: Mark Fasheh
    Cc: Paul Mackerras
    Cc: Christoph Hellwig
    Cc: Jan Kara
    Cc: David Chinner
    Cc: "David S. Miller"
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Christoph Lameter
     

08 May, 2007

2 commits

  • I have never seen a use of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL. It is only supported by
    SLAB.

    I think its purpose was to have a callback after an object has been freed
    to verify that the state is the constructor state again? The callback is
    performed before each freeing of an object.

    I would think that it is much easier to check the object state manually
    before the free. That also places the check near the code object
    manipulation of the object.

    Also the SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL callback is only performed if the kernel was
    compiled with SLAB debugging on. If there would be code in a constructor
    handling SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL then it would have to be conditional on
    SLAB_DEBUG otherwise it would just be dead code. But there is no such code
    in the kernel. I think SLUB_DEBUG_INITIAL is too problematic to make real
    use of, difficult to understand and there are easier ways to accomplish the
    same effect (i.e. add debug code before kfree).

    There is a related flag SLAB_CTOR_VERIFY that is frequently checked to be
    clear in fs inode caches. Remove the pointless checks (they would even be
    pointless without removeal of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL) from the fs constructors.

    This is the last slab flag that SLUB did not support. Remove the check for
    unimplemented flags from SLUB.

    Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Christoph Lameter
     
  • Ensure pages are uptodate after returning from read_cache_page, which allows
    us to cut out most of the filesystem-internal PageUptodate calls.

    I didn't have a great look down the call chains, but this appears to fixes 7
    possible use-before uptodate in hfs, 2 in hfsplus, 1 in jfs, a few in
    ecryptfs, 1 in jffs2, and a possible cleared data overwritten with readpage in
    block2mtd. All depending on whether the filler is async and/or can return
    with a !uptodate page.

    Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
    Cc: Hugh Dickins
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Nick Piggin
     

13 Feb, 2007

1 commit